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
The Institute was established in 1885, and has about 4,000 elected members from government, academia and the private sector. The Associations also have members.
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Famous quotes containing the word committees:
“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)
“When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)
“What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)