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The International Statistical Institute (ISI)is a professional association of statisticians which seeks to "develop and improve statistical methods and their application through the promotion of international activity and co-operation". It publishes a variety of books and journals, and holds an international conference every two years. Its permanent office is located in Voorburg (near The Hague), in The Netherlands.
It serves as an umbrella group for a number of specialized sections:
- Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (BS)
- International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)
- International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)
- International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)
- International Association for Statistics Education (IASE)
- International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)
- Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC, ISI transitional Section)
- Standing Committee of Regional and Urban Statistics (SCORUS) is a sub-committee of the IAOS.
The Institute was established in 1885, and has about 2,000 elected members from government, academia and the private sector.
Journals
ISI publishes the following journals:
- International Statistical Review
- Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts - Zentralblatt
- Bernoulli
- Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
- ISI Newsletter
- Statistics Education Research Journal
- Statistics Surveys
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