Water, food, energy, climate change, financial systems and urbanisation are all sources of substantial global challenges. Statistics is central to the understanding of these challenges and to the development of productive responses to them.
The World Statistics Congress – the biennial meeting of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) - is unique in bringing together statisticians and probabilists from across the disciplinary spectrum – official statistics, surveying and sampling, computational & mathematical statistics, probability and stochastic modelling and education. Moreover, it brings together statisticians from developing nations and from developed nations to share experiences, expertise and challenges.
The 2011 meeting is an opportunity for this broad community to demonstrate its relevance to addressing global challenges and the directions and quality of its research. It will include presentations on recent research and applications, training for statisticians on key topics and a forum to discuss opportunities for work on important topics. It will also be an opportunity for statisticians and probabilists to identify new research topics and possible new collaborators.
An innovation in 2011 meeting will be a special Theme Day, during which all papers will address, from various statistical perspectives, “Water, quality and quantity”.

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