International Statistical Institute

International Statistical Institute
The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. It was founded in 1885, although there had been international statistical congresses since 1853. The institute has about 4,000 elected members from government, academia, and the private sector. The affiliated associations have membership open to any professional statistician.
The institute publishes a variety of books and journals, and holds an international conference every two years. The biennial convention was commonly known as the ISI Session; however, since 2011, it is now referred to as the ISI World Statistics Congress. The permanent office of the institute is located in the Statistics Netherlands building in the Leidschenveen-Ypenburg district of The Hague, in the Netherlands. The ISI does not disclose its membership fees until an applicant has created an account.
Specialized associations
ISI serves as an umbrella for seven specialized Associations:
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 Statistical Education (IASE)
International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)
The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)
Committees
ISI Committees fall under one of three categories: operational, special interest, and outreach.
Current Special Interest Groups are:
Agricultural sciences
Astrostatistics
History of statistics
Professional ethics
Promotion of statistics in the life sciences
Risk analysis
Sports statistics
Statistics of travel and tourism
Women in statistics
Journals
ISI publishes the following journals:
Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute
International Statistical Review
Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts
Bernoulli
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Statistics Education Research Journal
Statistics Surveys
Karl Pearson Prize
The Karl Pearson Prize was commenced by the ISI in 2013 to acknowledge contributions, which must be a research article or book published within the last three decades, on statistical theory, methodology, practice, or applications. The prize was named after English statistician Karl Pearson. It is bestowed biennially at the ISI World Statistics Congress. The winner of the prize receives 5,000 euros and gives the Karl Pearson Lecture.
Peter McCullagh and John Nelder were the winners of the inaugural Karl Pearson Prize "for their monograph Generalized Linear Models (1983)".
Presidents of ISI
The organization has had thirty-seven presidents.
The current president is Steve Penneck.
1885 – 1899: Sir Rawson W. Rawson
1899 – 1908:
1909 – 1920: Luigi Bodio
1923 – 1931:
1931 – 1936: (//)
1936 – 1947: Armand Julin
1947 – 1947: Walter Francis Willcox
1947 – 1953: Stuart A. Rice
1953 – 1960: Georges Darmois
1960 – 1963: Marcello Boldrini
1963 – 1967: Sir Harry Campion
1967 – 1971: William Gemmell Cochran
1971 – 1975: Petter Jakob Bjerve
1975 – 1977: Milos Macura
1977 – 1979: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
1979 – 1981: Edmond Malinvaud
1981 – 1983: Enrique Cansado
1983 – 1985: James Durbin
1985 – 1987: Sigeiti Moriguti
1987 – 1989: Ivan P. Fellegi
1989 – 1991: Gunnar Kulldorff
1991 – 1993: Frederick Mosteller
1993 – 1995: Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
1995 – 1997: Sir David R. Cox
1997 – 1999: Willem R. van Zwet
1999 – 2001: Jean-Louis Bodin
2001 – 2003: Dennis Trewin
2003 – 2005: Stephen M. Stigler
2005 – 2007: Niels Keiding
2007 – 2009: Denise A. Lievesley
2009 – 2011: Jozef L. Teugels
2011 – 2013: Jae Chang Lee
2013 – 2015: Vijayan Nair
2015 – 2017: Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva
2017 – 2019: Helen MacGillivray
2019 – 2021: A. John Bailer
2021 – 2023: Steve Penneck
Notable members
Horatio C. Burchard
R. G. D. Allen
See also
Royal Statistical Society of Belgium
Pablo Ferrari
United Nations Statistical Commission
World Health Organization
Beatrix of the Netherlands
References
External links
International Statistical Institute
History. Stephen Stigler, International Statistical Institute.
International Statistical Institute, YouTube.
International learned societies
Organizations established in 1885