国际统计学会是开展国际统计学家的合作交流活动，以致力于发展和改进统计方法及其应用的国际性学术团体。1885年6月成立于英国伦敦，1887年在罗马召开第一次会议。它的宗旨和学术活动是： 鼓励统计学家的国际协作，交流其专业知识，培养统计兴趣，提高统计水平；协助对促进国际统计发展有兴趣的统计团体与统计组织建立协作关系，培养能胜任工作的统计专家；研究统计理论，评论统计方法和统计实践，鼓励统计研究工作，并推动统计方法在各个领域中的应用; 促进各国采用最有效的统计方法；提高国际间统计数字的可比性; 奖励公众评定优良的统计实践和有效的统计方法。
Robert Tibshirani gives an overview of one of David Cox's most widely applied ideas, for which he was awarded the International Prize in Statistics in 2017
The sinking of the Titanic has inspired books, movies and documentaries. But it has also motivated data visualisation designers to tell the story of the tragedy in new ways. Michael Friendly, Jürgen Symanzik and Ortac Onder review the first graph of the disaster and some recent history
I consider the situation in the history of probability and statistics which is almost the same, as I presume, in the history of mathematics and perhaps in the history of science in general. The main circumstances are: the estimation of the work of scientists is based on wrong premise; the imposed standardization of scientific work is useless and very harmful; and neither the scientific community nor governments properly understand the great importance of information. All this seriously and negatively influence scientific work, and a disgrace on science is readily seen. Below, in § 2, I consider these circumstances and apply appropriate examples of mistakes made by some authors.
This article has no abstract. Keywords: association (coefficient of); degree of dependence
