Library Guides: Statistics (Mathematical): Professional Organizations

The Importance of Professional Organizations

Networking with one's fellow scientists and engineers is extremely important for personal and professional development. Professional organizations sponsor conferences, publish journals, and serve as reviewers or editors. They set professional and educational standards and provide job and career services for their members.

Professional Associations

American Statistical Association (ASA)
the largest society of statisticians in the world holds conferences, supports careers and publishes journals and books.
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
this international society is a publisher of journals and books, but also sponsors conferences and awards. Career resources are also available.
International Statistical Institute (ISI)
an organization of national associations, government agencies, and academic institutions focused on statistical sciences

Specialized Professional Societies

International Biometric Society
an international society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including agriculture, biomedical science and public health, ecology, environmental sciences, forestry, and allied disciplines.
The Econometric Society
an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics.
International Environmetrics Society
a non-profit organization aimed to foster the development and use of statistical and other quantitative methods in the environmental sciences, environmental engineering and environmental monitoring and protection.
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Largest professional society in the world focused on operations research, management science and analytics.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SIAM is the foremost applied mathematics focused professional society
Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
a Section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) for the sciences of probability (including stochastic processes) and mathematical statistics and their applications
International Association for Statistical Computing
a Section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) for statistical computing including computer programs and techniques
Royal Statistical Society
based in the United Kingdom (UK) the RSS is an international professional society focused on statistics and data
Statistical Society of Australia
a national “umbrella” organisation to support and further the work of state statistical societies in Australia
Statistical Society of Canada
the professional society of Canada for statistics professionals and educators