News

October

• 19 October

  Virtual Statistics Career Series for Students

  If you are a graduate student interested in meeting leading statisticians from industry, academia, or government and personally asking them career-related questions, these events are for you!

• 18 October

  SAE Award given to Partha Lahiri and Wayne A. Fuller

  The awardees were given the prize at the SAE 2021 Conference on Big Data and Small Area Estimation in September 2021.

• 18 October

  IASS Webinar: Making Inferences from Non-probability Samples through Data Integration

  The free webinar will be held on 26 January 2022 at 14:00 -15:30 CET and will be presented by Jean-François Beaumont from Statistics Canada.

• 18 October

  IASC-LARS Webinars on Computational Statistics and Data Science

  After the success of the webinar on machine learning held in September, IASC-LARS organizes a second webinar on “Data Visualization: Theory and Applications” scheduled on 22–24 November 2021.

• 15 October

  SJIAOS and Official Statistics Platform

  Join our latest discussions on the Fundamental Principles for Official Statistics and other topics.

• 15 October

  Takwimu Young Statisticians Programme

  Launched in July 2021 under the leadership of the African Centre for Statistics and the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the programme is dedicated to the development of young statisticians in Africa.

• 15 October

  Highlights from the ISI WSC 2021

  The videos of the President’s Invited Speaker presentation, the International Prize in Statistics Lecture, the Opening and Closing ceremonies are now available to watch online.

• 14 October

  IASS Webinar: Positioning Household Surveys for the Next Decade

  The free webinar will be held on 23 November 2021 at 12:00 -13:30 CET and will be presented by Haoyi Chen, Intersecretariat Working Group on Household Surveys, UN.

• 14 October

  11th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of IASC

  The conference will be held on 21-24 February 2022 in Kyoto, Japan in hybrid format. Abstract submission of contributed talks/e-posters and early bird registration are open until 31 October 2021.

• 13 October

  11th International Conference on Teaching Statistics

  The conference will be held on 11 - 16 September 2022 in hybrid format in Rosario, Argentina. The deadline for full session proposals and main topic papers is 31 October 2021.

• 13 October

  Online Workshop “Using simulations to make sense of the world: The pandemic”

  Registrations are now possible for this free IASE workshop be held on 8 November 2021.

• 12 October

  ISI WSC 2021 – Post-Congress Report

  The first-ever virtual ISI World Statistics Congress took place from 11–16 July 2021. This report contains the highlights of the Congress.

• 11 October

  Announcing new IASS webinar

  Everyone interested in the topic is invited to participate in the free webinar entitled “Robust analysis of linked sample data”.

• 11 October

  Latest news from ISLP

  ISLP invites contributions for its upcoming newsletter and calls for submissions for the 2022 statistical literacy competitions.

• 11 October

  Call for action by the Fiji government on the position of its Government Statistician

  ISI and IAOS have sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Fiji calling on him to act urgently to provide vindication of its actions to rebuild trust in Fiji statistics.

• 8 October

  Ongoing legal proceedings against Andreas Georgiou

  The leaders of ISI, ASA and RSS call for an end to the 10-year persecution of Andreas Georgiou in their letter to the Prime Minister of Greece.

• 7 October

  IASS Webinar: Theory and Practice of Adaptive Survey Design at Statistics Netherlands

  The free webinar will be held on 28 October 2021 at 14:00-15:30 CEST. The presenters are Barry Schouten and Kees van Berkel from Statistics Netherlands.

• 7 October

  IASS nominations sought for the 2023 Waksberg Award

  The journal Survey Methodology has established an annual invited paper series in honor of the late Joseph Waksberg to recognize his outstanding contributions to survey statistics and methodology.

• 5 October

  3rd Conference on Statistics and Data Science (CSDS 2021)

  The conference will be held virtually on 28–30 October 2021. Registration is now open and is free of charge.

• 1 October

  Committee on the History of Statistics: Call for nominations for a new Chair

  ISI calls for nominations of ISI members who may be interested and qualified for serving as Chair of the committee. Self-nominations are acceptable.