The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) is a society with the goal of promoting

Bayesian analysis Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available. Bayesian inference is an important technique in statistics, and e ...

for solving problems in the sciences and government. It was formally incorporated as a not for profit corporation by economist

Arnold Zellner Arnold Zellner (January 2, 1927 – August 11, 2010) was an American economist and statistician specializing in the fields of Bayesian probability and econometrics. Zellner contributed pioneering work in the field of Bayesian analysis and econome ...

and statisticians

Gordon M. Kaufman Gordon M. Kaufman is Morris A. Adelman Professor of Management, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2014. The International Association for Mathematical Geoscience ...

and

Thomas H. Leonard Thomas Hoskyns Leonard (1948 – 18 December 2023) was a British statistician. He obtained a doctorate in Statistics at the University of London and worked at the University of Warwick and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before taking up ...

on 10 November 1992. It publishes the electronic journal ''

Bayesian Analysis Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available. Bayesian inference is an important technique in statistics, and e ...

'' and organizes world meetings every other year. ISBA is an "official partner" of the

Joint Statistical Meetings The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is a professional conference/academic conference for statisticians held annually every year since 1840 (usually in August). Billed as "the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America", JSM has attr ...

List of presidents

The president of ISBA is elected annually. Service typically lasts three years, since the offices of President Elect and Past President are also official positions. * 1992–1996

(founding co-president) * 1992–1996 Jose Bernardo (founding co-president) * 1996–1997 Stephen Fienberg * 1998 Susie Bayarri * 1999

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* 2000 Philip Dawid * 2001 Alicia Carriquiry * 2002

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* 2003 Edward George * 2004 Jim Berger * 2005

Sylvia Richardson Sylvia Therese Richardson is a French/British Bayesian statistician and is currently Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. In 2021 she became the president of the Royal Statistical ...

* 2006

Alan Gelfand Alan "Ollie" Gelfand (born 1963 in New York City) is an American skateboarder and the inventor of the ollie, a skateboarding trick. Life and career Gelfand moved from New York City to Hollywood, Florida with his family in 1972. He started skateb ...

* 2007 Peter Green * 2008 Christian Robert * 2009 Mike West * 2010 Peter Müller * 2011

Michael I. Jordan Michael Irwin Jordan (born February 25, 1956) is an American scientist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and researcher in machine learning, statistics, and artificial intelligence. Jordan was elected a member of the Nat ...

* 2012

Fabrizio Ruggeri Fabrizio Ruggeri is an Italian statistician. He is Research Director at the National Research Council Istituto di matematica applicata e tecnologie informatiche (CNR-IMATI) in Milan, Italy. His work focusses on Bayesian methods, specifically robus ...

* 2013 Merlise Clyde * 2014 Sonia Petrone * 2015 Alexandra Schmidt * 2016 Steven MacEachern * 2017

Kerrie Mengersen Kerrie Mengersen (born 1962) is an Australian statistician. Since 2016, she has been Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty. She earned BA (Hons I) and PhD degrees in ...

* 2018

Marina Vannucci Marina Vannucci (born 1966)Birthdate froWorldcat/ref> is an Italian statistician, the Noah Harding Professor and Chair of Statistics at Rice University, the past president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the former editor-in- ...

* 2019 Raquel Prado * 2020 Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter * 2021 Igor Pruenster * 2022

Sudipto Banerjee Sudipto Banerjee (born October 23, 1972) is an Indian-American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian hierarchical modeling and inference for spatial data analysis. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the ...

References

External links

The Official Website of the ISBA
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