Mission
The organization's mission is to broadly promote good application of statistical science, specifically to:
- support excellence in statistical practice, research, journals, and meetings
- work for the improvement of statistical education at all levels
- promote the proper application of statistics
- anticipate and meet member needs
- use the discipline of statistics to enhance human welfare
- seek opportunities to advance the statistics profession
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“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
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