Objectives and activitiesOverviewSince almost one hundred years the German Statistical Society (founded in 1911) assembles statisticians across all fields of science and practice, offering them a forum for transfer of knowledge and for individual exchange of ideas. In this rich tradition, the Society is one of the grand German Scientific Associations. The spectrum of its individual and corporate members is broad. Half of them are researchers and academic teachers, the other half practitioners, most of them working in official statistics. Thus the Society fosters the direct exchange between statistics in academia on one side and statistics in business and administration on the other side. The German Statistical Society aims at promoting scientific brokers in the development of statistical methods and their practical application. The Society’s activities bring up statistics within its different tasks – i.e. development of methodology, data collection, data compiling and data analysis – as well as their mutual interaction. The German Statistical Society thus considers itself as a link between producers and users of statistical methods and data. The Society organises scientific meetings and training events. It publishes two scientific journals. Besides scientific exchange, it has a focus on education in statistics and in the forming of the informational infrastructure. The Society comments on basic and topical questions, which are related to its area of expertise, and contributes to the „Statistische Beirat“ in considering German Official Statistics. The Society is founding member of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik (German Working Group in Statistics), where other statistics related societies act in combination. The Society takes part in the joint national meetings of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik, starting with the conference „Statistics under one umbrella“, held in Bielefeld, 2007. Events: |