Institute of Statisticians

The Institute of Statisticians was a British professional organization founded in 1948 to protect the interests of professional statisticians.[1] It was originally named The Association of Incorporated Statisticians Limited, but this was later changed.[2] The institute was formed after the Royal Economic Society prevented a 1947 extension to the royal charter of the Royal Statistical Society which would have allowed it to carry out examinations.[1]

The Institute of Statisticians attempted to obtain a royal charter of its own in 1978 and this led to discussions with the Royal Statistical Society about a possible merger. Talks foundered over disagreement on how to arrange the various membership categories. Within a few years, however, the talks were revisited, and on 1 January 1993, the two organisations merged, becoming simply the Royal Statistical Society.[1]

From 1950 the institute published a journal, first called The Incorporated Statistician (ISSN 14669404) then renamed The Statistician (ISSN 0039-0526) in 1962, before being subsumed into the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society as Series D upon the merger in 1993.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b c "History of the Royal Statistical Society". Archived from the original on 6 January 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  2. ^ Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education description Archived 20 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Princeton University library record of the Institute's publishing". Archived from the original on 30 November 2005. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
  4. ^ JSTOR history of the Institute's journal