News

16 April

Stats+Stories: A podcast about the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics

Listen to the latest episodes with Walter W. Piegorsch and Claire McKay Bowen & Joshua Snoke.

15 April

International Statistical Review – April 2021 Issue

The latest issue of the International Statistical Review including an open access article on statistical analysis of social media data by Martina Patone & Li‐Chun Zhang is now available to read online.

15 April

Stat Virtual Issue on COVID-19

Stat has published a virtual issue compiling recent articles in the journal on COVID-19. Statistical Research on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) presents new statistical models, data analysis, and research findings on COVID-19.

15 April

Call for proposals for the layout of possible ISI magazine

ISI is exploring the possibility of launching an easy-to-read but smart and entertaining ISI magazine. We invite interested ISI members to submit proposals for the layout of the magazine.

15 April

In Memoriam: Swee Hock Saw

We regret to announce the passing of ISI Elected Member Professor Professor Swee Hock Saw on 16 February 2021.

14 April

IASC Data Analysis Competition 2021: Submissions due by 30 April

The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) invites submissions for the Data Analysis Competition. The focus of the 2021 competition is the analysis of quality-of-life related data.

13 April

New date for 2020 COMO Spring Course

The postponed 2020 Spring Course on “Robust Statistics: Foundations and Recent Developments” organized by Francesca Greselin, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, will take place on 4-8 October 2021. The new registration deadline is 2 September 2021.

13 April

2021 COMPSTAT Conference in Bologna Postponed

The 24th International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2021) at the University of Bologna, Italy has been rescheduled to 23-26 August 2022.

13 April

News from the IASC Executive Committee

Read about the latest news from the IASC EC including updates on upcoming EC elections, events, use of donations and more.

13 April

Webinar: An Introduction to Functional Data Analysis for Density Functions in Bayes Spaces

PhD and Master students, researchers in statistics and data analysis are invited to participate in this webinar taking place on 29-30 April 2021, 14.00-17.00 CEST.

12 April

New ISI Elected Members from IASC

The IASC-ISI Nomination Committee congratulates IASC members Marcelo Bourguignon (Brazil) and Fumio Ishioka (Japan) on becoming ISI Elected members in the first election round of 2021.

12 April

DSSV 2021: IASC scholarship for young researchers

The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) welcomes applications of young researchers for scholarships to support their participation in the DSSV 2021 Conference.

12 April

News from the Statistical Journal of the IAOS

Read the latest news from the Statistical Journal of the IAOS including updates on the most recent issue and more.

12 April

IAOS 2022 Conference

The first Information Note for the 2022 IAOS Conference to be held in Krakow from 26-28 April 2022 in collaboration with Statistics Poland is available here.

10 April

New! Significance - Volume 18, Issue 2

Significance is a bimonthly magazine for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. The April 2021 issue is now available to read online.

9 April

ISI Membership Elections 2021 – First round results

Congratulations to our new Elected Members who joined ISI in the first round of 2021 membership elections!

9 April

International Conference on Statistics for Sustainable Finance

The conference, jointly organised by the Banque de France, the Deutsche Bundesbank, and the Irving Fisher Committee (IFC) on Central Bank Statistics of the Bank for International Settlements, will take place in Paris from 14 to 15 September 2021.

6 April

ISLP Newsletter: Call for submissions

The International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) team welcomes article submissions for the next newsletter.

1 April

ISI Short Courses 2021 – Registration now open!

The ISI pre-WSC short courses programme, organized in cooperation with the ISI Associations, will run from 6 May – 1 July 2021. We invite ISI members as well as the broader statistical community to participate in the programme.

31 March

ISI and IAOS express call for an end to the persecuting of Andreas Georgiou

The ISI and IAOS have followed the persecution of Andreas Georgiou, former Head of the Greek Statistical Office, ELSTAT, and restate their concern that the continued prosecutions have damaged the scientific integrity of highly regarded work addressing Greece’s problematic fiscal statistical reporting from the 2000s.