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A4 -FINAL Report of the ISI Executive Committee to The INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Report of the ISI Executive Committee 2001-2003 to the General Assembly ISI Executive Committee 2001-2003: President: Dennis Trewin President-Elect: Stephen Stigler Vice Presidents: Denise Lievesley Jef Teugels Jae Chang Lee Director of the ISI Permanent Office: Marcel P.R. Van den Broecke Contents: Activities..................................................................................................................................................................................187 Meetings and Conferences ..................................................................................................................................................187 Publications ............................................................................................................................................................................189 Strengthening the ties between statistical disciplines .....................................................................................................190 Improving the quality of statistics ........................................................................................................................................190 Membership matters .............................................................................................................................................................191 The Future of the ISI .............................................................................................................................................................192 In Memoriam ..........................................................................................................................................................................193 Executive Committee............................................................................................................................................................193 Council....................................................................................................................................................................................193 ISI Committees ......................................................................................................................................................................194 ISI Permanent Office.............................................................................................................................................................196 ISI Sections ............................................................................................................................................................................196 Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability.........................................................................................196 International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) Activities, 2001–2003.............................................................197 International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) President's Report ..........................................................199 International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) Report, 2001–2003...........................................................202 International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS).................................................................................................204 Finances .................................................................................................................................................................................205 Appendices ............................................................................................................................................................................206 Appendix 1..............................................................................................................................................................................207 Appendix 2a ...........................................................................................................................................................................208 Appendix 2b ...........................................................................................................................................................................209 Appendix 3..............................................................................................................................................................................210 Appendix 4..............................................................................................................................................................................211 Appendix 5..............................................................................................................................................................................212 Appendix 6..............................................................................................................................................................................213 Appendix 7..............................................................................................................................................................................214 Appendix 8..............................................................................................................................................................................215 Report of Activities and Financial Report of the ISI Executive Committee over the period August 2001 to 2003 to the ISI General Assembly convening for the 54th ISI Session in Berlin, Germany (August 2003). Activities The ISI is an autonomous Society that aims to develop and improve statistical methods and their applications by providing forums for the exchange of ideas and facilitating international co-operation among individuals as well as professional societies and other related organisations. The ISI is concerned with facilitating the transfer of knowledge and technology pertinent to statistical theory and practice across national boundaries. The specific tasks of ISI may be summarised as organising meetings, producing statistical publications, strengthening the ties between the various branches of statistics, and helping to improve the quality of statistics, including statistical education, good practices in statistics and statistical literacy. These tasks are implemented in the first place by about 2,000 individual elected members, next to 165 ex officio members and 63 corporate members of ISI. They are guided by the Executive Committee, the Council and the various Committees of ISI as specified below, and executed by the Permanent Office. In specific statistical disciplines, the five ISI Sections with some 4,000 members, including about 1,400 individuals who are also members of ISI, are equally instrumental in carrying out these tasks. Four of the Sections are supported in their tasks and administration by the ISI Permanent Office. The period of August 2001 to August 2003 is characterised by the development of new activities, in addition to the continuation of existing ones, which will be discussed in terms of the tasks previously outlined. This will be followed by a financial report covering this period. Meetings and Conferences Sessions The 53rd Session of ISI, which took place from August 22 to 29, 2001 in Seoul, Korea was a successful one with a record attendance of 2,439 participants (and an additional 164 accompanying persons) coming from all five continents, including 1,097 local participants. The wide-ranging scientific programme was prepared by the Chairman of the Programme Committee, Richard Gill, Substitute-Chair Jef Teugels, Vice-Chair Jae Chang Lee, and members Fred Vogel, Bo Bergman, Murray Cameron, Anil Gore and Tom Louis . Jointly responsible for the development of the scientific programme was the ISI Programme Co-ordinating Committee, also chaired by Richard Gill, with the support of Substitute-Chair Jef Teugels, and Vice-Chairman Jae Chang Lee, including the participation of David Binder (IASS), Ada Van Krimpen (IAOS), Nick Fisher (Bernoulli Society), Carey Priebe (IASC) and Lionel Pereira-Mendoza (IASE). With 84 topics, no less than 205 invited papers and 733 contributed papers were presented on a very wide range of statistical subjects. Special Keynote Addresses by the two Nobel Prize Laureates in Economics for 2000 were held as plenary invited paper meetings in the largest auditorium which was filled with 1,050 people. First James Heckman presented the paper “Causality Parameters, Structural Equations, Treatment Effects and Randomized Evaluations of Social Programs”. Then Daniel McFadden presented the paper “Statistical Simulation”. Three volumes of Proceedings and three volumes of Contributed Papers were produced, totalling 3,019 pages. These volumes were also produced on CD-ROM and displayed on the web. There was also an electronic bulletin board and electronic daily bulletins next to the printed ones. Marius van Nieuwkerk of the Netherlands Bank presented the Jan Tinbergen Awards to the following winner: • M. Bhattacharjee (India), title of paper: “Inference for Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes: Models for Repairable Systems”. This award is named in honour of the world-renowned econometrician and late ISI member Jan Tinbergen. President Bodin thanked the “Stichting Internationaal Statistisch Studiefonds” for providing the winner with a five thousand Dutch Guilders prize in addition to an all
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