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 Leidschenveen (

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Specialized Associations

ISI serves as an umbrella for seven specialized Associations: * Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (BS) *

International Association for Statistical Computing The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) was founded during the 41st Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1977, as a Section of the ISI. The objectives of the association are to foster worldwide interes ...

(IASC) *

International Association for Official Statistics The International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) is an association founded in 1985. It is an international non-governmental organization (NGO), which was created and developed as a specialized section of the International Statistical I ...

(IAOS) *

International Association of Survey Statisticians International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

(IASS) *

International Association for Statistical Education The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) is a section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), a professional association of statisticians, devoted to statistics education. It was founded in 1991 as an outgrowth of t ...

(IASE) *

International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

(ISBIS) *

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(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 ''Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute'' (''Bulletin de l'Institut international de statistique'') is a journal published with the proceedings of the biennial meeting of the International Statistical Institute. It first appeared in ...

'' *''International Statistical Review'' *''

Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts Statistics (from German: ''Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industri ...

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Bernoulli Bernoulli can refer to: People *Bernoulli family of 17th and 18th century Swiss mathematicians: ** Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), developer of Bernoulli's principle **Jacob Bernoulli (1654–1705), also known as Jacques, after whom Bernoulli numbe ...

'' *''

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis ''Computational Statistics & Data Analysis'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on and applications of computational statistics and data analysis. The journal was established in 1983 and is the official journal of the I ...

'' *''

Statistics Education Research Journal Statistics (from German: ''Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industri ...

'' *'' 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 Peter McCullagh (born 8 January 1952) is a Northern Irish-born American statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Education McCullagh is from Plumbridge ...

and

John Nelder John Ashworth Nelder (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. Contributions Nelder's work was inf ...

were the winners of the inaugural Karl Pearson Prize "for their monograph Generalized Linear Models (1983)".

Presidents of ISI

The organization has had thirty-six presidents. The current president is Steve Penneck. *1885 - 1899 Sir Rawson W. Rawson (England) *1899 - 1908 (Austria) *1909 - 1920

Luigi Bodio Luigi Bodio (born 12 October 1840 in Milan–2 November 1920 in Rome) was an Italian economist and statistician, among the founders of Italian Statistics. He was the first General Secretary of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and am ...

(Italy) *1923 - 1931 (France) *1931 - 1936 (Germany) *1936 - 1947

Armand Julin Armand refer to: People * Armand (name), list of people with this name *Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer *Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer *Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player *Armand, ...

(Belgium) *1947 - 1947

Walter Francis Willcox Walter Francis Willcox (March 22, 1861 – October 30, 1964) was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts, to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880, from ...

(USA) *1947 - 1953

Stuart A. Rice Stuart Alan Rice (born January 6, 1932) is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist.Georges Darmois Georges Darmois (24 June 1888 – 3 January 1960) was a French mathematician and statistician. He pioneered in the theory of sufficiency, in stellar statistics, and in factor analysis. He was also one of the first French mathematicians to teach ...

(France) *1960 - 1963

Marcello Boldrini Marcello Boldrini (9 February 1890, in Matelica – 5 March 1969, in Milan) was an Italian statistician. Biography Beginning in 1922, he taught courses in statistics, biometry, and demography at Bocconi University of Milan, and then at the Unive ...

(Italy) *1963 - 1967 Sir

Harry Campion Sir Harry Campion, KCB, CBE (20 May 1905 – 24 May 1996) was a British statistician and the first director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom. He was also first director of the United Nations Statistical Office. ...

(England) *1967 - 1971

William Gemmell Cochran William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States. Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cam ...

(USA) *1971 - 1975

Petter Jakob Bjerve Petter Jakob Bjerve (27 September 1913 – 12 January 2004) was a Norwegian economist, statistician and politician for the Labour Party. Prominent positions include director of Statistics Norway from 1949 to 1980, Norwegian Minister of Finance ...

(Norway) *1975 - 1977 Milos Macura (Yugoslavia) *1977 - 1979

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS (born 10 September 1920), commonly known as C. R. Rao, is an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the Un ...

(India) *1979 - 1981

Edmond Malinvaud Edmond Malinvaud (25 April 1923 – 7 March 2015) was a French economist. He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Trained at the École Polytechnique and at the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Adminis ...

(France) *1981 - 1983

Enrique Cansado Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk (Du ...

(Chile) *1983 - 1985

James Durbin __NOTOC__ James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation. Education The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...

(England) *1985 - 1987 Sigeiti Moriguti (Japan) *1987 - 1989 Ivan P. Fellegi (Canada) *1989 - 1991

Gunnar Kulldorff Gunnar Kulldorff (6 December 1927 – 25 June 2015) was a Swedish statistician, specializing in estimation theory, survey sampling and order statistics. From 1989 to 1991, he was the president of the International Statistical Institute. Biograp ...

(Sweden) *1991 - 1993

Frederick Mosteller Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006) was an American mathematician, considered one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department from 19 ...

(USA) *1993 - 1995

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, 23 May 1937 – 30 September 2017) was an Indian statistician, an emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University. ...

(India) *1995 - 1997 Sir

David R. Cox Sir David Roxbee Cox (15 July 1924 – 18 January 2022) was a British statistician and educator. His wide-ranging contributions to the field of statistics included introducing logistic regression, the proportional hazards model and the Cox pr ...

(England) *1997 - 1999 Willem R. van Zwet (Netherlands) *1999 - 2001 Jean-Louis Bodin (France) *2001 - 2003

Dennis Trewin Dennis John Trewin (born 14 August 1946) is an Australian former public servant, who was the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between July 2000 and January 2007. Trewin joined the ABS in 1966 as a stati ...

(Australia) *2003 - 2005 Stephen M. Stigler (USA) *2005 - 2007

Niels Keiding Niels Keiding (14 May 1944 – 3 March 2022) was a renowned and influential Danish Biostatistician. Biography Education Keiding studied at the University of Copenhagen, graduating with a Candidate (degree), cand.stat. degree (roughly equivalent ...

(Denmark) *2007 - 2009 Denise A. Lievesley (England) *2009 - 2011 Jef L. Teugels (Belgium) *2011 - 2013 Jae Chang Lee (Korea) *2013 - 2015

Vijayan Nair Vijayan (Vijay) N. Nair is currently Head of the Statistical Learning and Advanced Computing Group in Corporate Model Risk at Wells Fargo. He was Donald A. Darling Collegiate Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Operations Eng ...

(USA) *2015 - 2017 Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva (Brazil) *2017 - 2019

Helen MacGillivray Helen Louise MacGillivray is an Australian statistician and statistics educator. She is the former president of the International Statistical Institute, the International Association for Statistical Education, and the Statistical Society of A ...

(Australia) *2019 - 2021 A. John Bailer (USA) *2021 - 2023 Steve Penneck (UK)

Notable members

Horatio C. Burchard Horatio Chapin Burchard (September 22, 1825 – May 14, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, 15th Director of the United States Mint, member of the International Statistical Institute, and father of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). ...

R. G. D. Allen Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA (3 June 1906 – 29 September 1983) was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute. Life Allen was born in Worcester and educated at t ...

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