International Biometric Society
International Biometric Society (IBS) |
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founding | 1947 |
Seat | Washington, DC |
purpose | Society for biometrics |
Chair | Geert Verbeke |
Members | about 6000 |
Website | biometricsociety.org |
The International Biometric Society (IBS) (German Internationale Biometric Gesellschaft ) is an international professional and academic society . It is dedicated to the development and application of statistical and mathematical theories and methods in the life sciences . The company was founded in Massachusetts in 1947 . Its first president was Ronald Fisher .
Regions
The society is organized in numerous regions , which usually organize regular meetings of their own. The Austria-Switzerland region as well as the German and Polish regions founded the higher-level Central European Network (CEN) in 2008 , to which other regions now belong.
Meetings
The International Biometric Conference (IBC) takes place every two years . The annual conference of the German region (IBS-DR) is the biometric colloquium , which is held every 3 years as a joint DAGStat conference and (with a delay) as a CEN conference.
Publications
IBS is the publisher of Biometrics and Biometrical Journal . It also publishes the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES) in collaboration with the American Statistical Association .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jonas H. Ellenberg, Geert Molenberghs: International Biometric Society . In: Encyclopedia of Biostatistics . John Wiley and Sons, 2005, doi : 10.1002 / 0470011815.b2a17072 .
- ^ The International Biometric Society / About IBS. Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
- ↑ International regions. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
- ^ The Central European Network (CEN). Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
- ^ International Biometric Conferences. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Biometric Colloquia. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
Web links
- International Biometric Society (IBS)
- German region (IBS-DR) of the International Biometric Society
- Austria-Switzerland region (ROeS) of the International Biometric Society