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The Norwegian Statistical Association (Norsk statistisk forening, NSF) has three local societies located respectively in
Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
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Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
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Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
. The NSF has its own magazine called Tilfeldig Gang (Random Walk). The Society is one of the four organisations responsible for the journal Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (SJS). The NSF was founded on January 7, 1919. The main goal of the Association was to act as a connection between Norwegian statisticians and to promote their research and professional interests. The Association also aims to make the relationship between statisticians from the Nordic countries stronger and to increase contact with the international statistical society. In 2007, the Association set up the
Sverdrup Prize The Sverdrup Prize (''Sverdrupprisen'') is a Norwegian honorary award concerning the fields of theoretical and applied statistics. History It was established in the memory of Erling Sverdrup (1917–1994) who was professor of mathematical statist ...
, to be awarded eminent representatives of the statistics profession. The Sverdrup Prizes are awarded every second year, most often in connection with the Association's biennial conferences. The Association works strongly to promote and increase interest for statistics in the school system as well as in the rest of the society.


Publications

The NSF publishes Tilfeldig Gang and co-publishes
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics The ''Scandinavian Journal of Statistics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal of statistics. It was established in 1974 by four Scandinavian statistical learned societies. It is published by John Wiley & Sons and the editors-in-chief a ...


See also

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European Mathematical Society The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current ...
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List of Mathematical Societies This article provides a list of mathematical societies by country. International mathematical societies * African Mathematical Union * Circolo Matematico di Palermo * European Mathematical Society * Foundations of Computational Mathematics * Inter ...


External links


The NSF websiteScandinavian Journal of Statistics
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