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Important Notices
Call for action by the Fiji government on the position of its Government Statistician
ISI and IAOS have sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Fiji calling on him to act urgently to provide vindication of its actions to rebuild trust in Fiji statistics.
The videos of the President’s Invited Speaker’s presentation, the International Prize in Statistics lecture, the Opening and Closing ceremonies are now available to watch online.
IASS nominations sought for the 2023 Waksberg Award
The journal Survey Methodology has established an annual invited paper series in honor of the late Joseph Waksberg to recognize his outstanding contributions to survey statistics and methodology.
Environmetrics has published a special issue on “Joint Outcome Modeling in Environmetrics” guest edited by Charmaine B. Dean and Elizabeth M. Renouf, examining the benefits of using joint outcome modeling in environmental contexts.
The world statistical community mourns the loss of Dr. Lai K. Chan, an accomplished statistician and Elected Member of the ISI who died on 23 December 2020.
IASC-LARS Webinars on Computational Statistics and Data Science
After the success of the webinar on machine learning held in September, IASC-LARS organizes a second webinar on “Data Visualization: Theory and Applications” scheduled on 22–24 November 2021.
Launched in July 2021 under the leadership of the African Centre for Statistics and the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the programme is dedicated to the development of young statisticians in Africa.
IASS Webinar: Positioning Household Surveys for the Next Decade
The free webinar will be held on 23 November 2021 at 12:00 -13:30 CET and will be presented by Haoyi Chen, Intersecretariat Working Group on Household Surveys, UN.
11th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of IASC
The conference will be held on 21-24 February 2022 in Kyoto, Japan in hybrid format. Abstract submission of contributed talks/e-posters and early bird registration are open until 31 October 2021.
11th International Conference on Teaching Statistics
The conference will be held on 11 - 16 September 2022 in hybrid format in Rosario, Argentina. The deadline for full session proposals and main topic papers is 31 October 2021.
IASS Webinar: Theory and Practice of Adaptive Survey Design at Statistics Netherlands
The free webinar will be held on 28 October 2021 at 14:00-15:30 CEST. The presenters are Barry Schouten and Kees van Berkel from Statistics Netherlands.
The colloquium will be held on 20 October 2021 and will provide a forum for a distinguished statistician to share and disseminate their unique perspective and work in the theory and/or application of statistics.
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