The International Association for Statistical ComputingAbout IASC was founded during the 41st Session of the International Statistical Institute in 1977, as a section of the ISI. Books 1–3 Invited papers. 4 v. Articles in English and French.
The objectives of the association are to foster worldwide interest in effective statistical computing and to exchange technical knowledge through international contacts and meetings between statisticians, computing professionals, organizations, institutions, governments and the general public.
The association is affiliated with the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It publishes the journal called Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (CSDA)Computational Statistics & Data Analysis journal home page). and Statistical Software Newsletter (CSDA SSN).CSDA Statistical Software Newsletter .
Past presidents Mervin E. Muller (USA) 1977–1979 Sir Maurice Kendall (UK) and Wilfried J. Dixon (USA) 1979–1981 Ramanathan Gnanadesikan (India) 1981–1983 Svein Nordbotten (Norway) 1983–1985 Klaus Neumann (GDR) 1985–1987 Masashi Okamoto (Japan) 1987–1989 John M. Chambers (USA) 1989–1991 Norbert Victor (Germany) 1991–1993 Natale Carlo Lauro (Italy) 1993–1995 Murray A. Cameron (Australia) 1995–1997 Edward J. Wegman (USA) 1997–1999 Lutz Edler (Germany) 1999–2001 Jae C. Lee (Korea) 2001–2003 Stanley P. Azen (USA) 2003–2005 Gilbert Saporta (France) 2005–2007 Jaromir Antoch (France) 2007–2009 Yutaka Tanaka (Japan) 2009–2011 Karen Kafadar (USA) 2011–2013 Paula Brito (Portugal) 2013–2015 Patrick Groenen (Netherlands) 2015–2017 Wing Kam Fung (Hong Kong) 2017–2019 Jürgen Symanzik (USA) 2019-2021 Christophe Croux (France) 2021-2023
Current president Chun-houh Chen (Taiwan) 2023-2025
Data Analysis Competition +Results of previous competitionsYearResult2013Winner 1: Authors: Kim, C., and Choi, S. (University of Florida) Title: Marginal Structural Models for Causal effects of Higher Education Rates on Cancer Mortality Rates: Should we make our society highly educated?
Winner 2:
Authors: Takagishi, M., Hirotsuru, K., Mitsuhiro, M., Kusaka, T., and Yadohisa, H. (Doshisha University) Title: Educational feature extraction across nations using UNdata2014Winner:
Authors: David Kepplinger (Vienna University of Technology, Austria and United Nations Industrial Development Organization), Valentin Todorov (United Nations Industrial Development Organization), and Shyam Upadhyaya (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) Title: How industrial development effects the well-being of population: A detailed analysis to reveal the underlying mechanics2015Winner:
Authors: Seungwon Lee, Chengxing Zhai, Lei Pan, Benyang Tang and Jonathan Jiang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) Title: Climate Model Diagnostic Analysis with Conditional Sampling20211st Place:
Authors: J. Sousa Pimentel (Federal University of Bahia, Federal University of Pernambuco), R. Bulhoes (Federal University of Bahia, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), V. Mesquita (Federal University of Bahia, University of São Paulo), P. Canas Rodrigues (Federal University of Bahia) Title: Spatio-temporal modelling of Brazilian wildfires
2nd Place:
Author: G. Zammarchi Title: Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on Italy’s country reputation: a sentiment analysis approach
3rd Place:
Author: S. A Kharroubi Title: A Bayesian nonparametric approach for modelling health-related quality of life data
Honorable Mention:
Chih-Ling Chen, Qian-Wu Liao, H. Dahmani: HIV with antiretroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa S. Gurria, A. Brito, J. Esteban Borja, J. Fullaondo, Y. Abdel Nasser: Factors that influence the GPA of high school students20231st Place:
Authors: Zoë-Mae Adams and Johané Nienkemper-Swanepoel (Stellenbosch University) Title: Visualising opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic
2nd Place:
Authors: Cheng, Weilin; Liu, Hengyuan; Mo, Kathy (University of California, Davis); Tian, Sida and Yuan, Li (University of Michigan) Title: 2022-2023 H5N1 bird flu modeling and prediction in the United States
3rd Place:
Authors: Marcelo Bourguignon (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte), Diego I. Gallardo (University of Atacama) and Helton Saulo (University of Brasília) Title: A parametric quantile beta regression for modeling case fatality rates of COVID-19
Honorable Mention:
Stefanie Bienert and Christopher Patzanovsky (Hasselt University): New York City shooting incidents, a wicked challenge Olalekan J. Akintande (University of Ibadan): Japa Syndrome: The new normal of abnormality in Nigeria
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