ISI Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
The Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration between ISBA and ISI is effective from 1 May 2018. More »
Published 7 May 2018
Andreas Georgiou’s Acquittal Annulled for the Second Time!
On 16 May 2018, the Greek Supreme Court annulled Andreas Georgiou’s acquittal by the Appeals Court Council for the alleged felony crime of inflating the 2009 fiscal deficit figures. This is the second time the Supreme Court has annulled an acquittal decision of the Appeals Court Council, which is unprecedented in the view of many legal experts. The International Statistical Institute calls upon the Greek State to stop this injustice. More »
Published 22 May 2018
Member News
Ola Awad and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) awarded with the Gold Order of Merit and Excellence. More »
Published 17 May 2018
ISI’s Updated Privacy Policy
In order to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect on 25 May 2018, the ISI and Associations Privacy Policy has been reviewed and updated. The new version of the Privacy Policy, including the Policy for the protection of data of the ISI and Associations members, can be found here.
Published 17 May 2018
Campaign in Support of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics (PRIS)
The American Statistical Association has initiated a sign-on campaign in support of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics (PRIS) facing the threat of government reorganization that would weaken PRIS independence. The ISI and many other scientific organizations and professional societies signed the letter addressed to to Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello. See the press release.
Published 17 May 2018
IASS News May 2018
- ISI WSC 2019: Submission of proposals for Special Topic Sessions (STS)
- The IASS journal The Survey Statistician (TSS)
- Information on IASS supported conferences in 2018
- Conferences on survey statistics and related areas in 2018
- Upcoming courses on Survey Statistics in 2018
- The Survey Research Methods Section of the ASA
- IASS Twitter account @iass_isi
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Published 17 May 2018
IAOS News May 2018
- IAOS-OECD 2018 Conference, 19-21 September 2018, Paris
- SJIAOS March 2018 issue
- ISI WSC 2019: Submission of proposals for Special Topic Sessions (STS)
- Support for Andreas Georgiou
- European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics
- Big Surv18 Big Data Meets Survey Science
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Published 17 May 2018
Stats+Stories
Episode 56 of Stats+Stories, “Are communities helped by terraforming food deserts?” is now available and features a conversation with Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, senior statistician and Director of the Statistics Advisory Center at RAND Corporation. To listen now, please visit http://www.statsandstories.net/.
Published 15 May 2018
NEWS FROM ESRI
Esri launches Official Statistics Modernization Program for countries in need of tech resources. More »
Published 7 May 2018
SCORUS News May 2018
The 2018 SCORUS-GUS Conference, jointly organized by Statistics Poland (GUS), the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) Standing Committee of Regional and Urban Statistics (SCORUS) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has identified the following three themes for the Conference: “New Scale – New Needs – New Statistics”. Conference registration will stay open until 23 May 2018. More »
Published 7 May 2018
9th Biennial IFC Conference: Are Post-crisis Statistical Initiatives Completed?
The 9th biennial conference of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) titled “Are post-crisis statistical initiatives completed?” will take place at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel on 30-31 August 2018. The conference sessions envisaged are: the completion of post-crisis statistical initiatives; statistics for policy evaluation; additional data needs; related implications for the national accounts framework; impact of financial technology; big data issues and the use of artificial intelligence; data-sharing arrangements and techniques. More »
Published 7 May 2018
ISBIS News May 2018
- ISBIS 2018: International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics
- ISBIS 2019 Satellite Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- ASMBI: Special issue on Energy Networks and Stochastic Optimization
- A Post-Workshop Report
- Open Challenges in Industrial Statistics
- ISBIS Newsletter
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Published 7 May 2018
IASC News May 2018
- Joint Summer School on Clustering, Data Analysis and Visualization of Complex Data
- European Conference on Data Analysis
- Conference of Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation (DSSV 2018)
- 23rd International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2018)
- IASC-ARS 25th Anniversary Conference & CASC 2nd Annual Conference
- IASC-ARS 2019
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Published 17 May 2018