FENStatS Newsletter - Q4/2024

FENStatS Announcements

FENStatS opens two calls for funding for 2025

Funding for National Statistical Societies organising FENStatS-specific sessions at national and international conferences.

FENStatS offers funding for National Statistical Societies organizing FENStatS-specific sessions at national or international conferences. Eligible societies, affiliated with FENStatS and with 2024 membership fees paid, can receive up to €2,000 in travel funding. Proposals must include a detailed budget and abstract, and be submitted by February 1, 2025, to administration@fenstats.eu.

 Travel grants to young statisticians to attend international conferences

Additionally, FENStatS provides travel grants of up to 1,000 euros to young statisticians from smaller National Statistical Societies in Eastern or Southern Europe to attend international conferences, with priority given to PhD students. Applications should include a motivation letter, CV, budget, proof of academic achievements, and must be submitted by February 1, 2025, to administration@fenstats.eu.

 For more information about grants, please click here.

Slovakia endorses FENStatS Ethical Code

The FENStatS Ethical Code, approved by the 2024 General Assembly, was endorsed by the Slovak Statistical and Demographic Society on Saint Nicholas Eve, 5 Dec 2024, to be a set of ethical guidelines for members of the society and professional statisticians across Slovakia. The Committee of the Slovak Statistical and Demographic Society voted unanimously in favor of the framework. The FENStatS Ethical Code mirrors the system of values and ethical principles incorporated in the Declaration of Professional Ethics by the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and its adoption in Slovakia sets a remarkable example to assure promotion of professional statistical ethics across Europe.

For more information, please click here.

News from National Statistical Societies

Spanish Society for Statistics and Operation Research (SEIO)

The Spanish Society for Statistics and Operation Research has launched a Manifesto promoting improved Statistical Literacy in Society. The Manifesto is available for your reference here. SEIO invites all FENStatS members to endorse this important initiative. To join the list of supporters, please send an email to the SEIO Vice Presidency of Statistics (vpe@seio.es) with the following information:
full name of your society, your role in your society,  optionally, your society logo. More info here.
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Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE)

The Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (SPE) marked the centenary of Professor Bento José Ferreira Murteira on November 15, 2024, at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) in Lisbon. The event celebrated his substantial contributions to Probability and Statistics in Portugal, culminating in the reissue of his influential book Estatística: Inferência e Decisão, now available as open access. More info here.
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Romanian Society of Statistics (ROSS)

The Romanian Statistical Society held the OCTAV ONICESCU National Scientific Seminar on November 4, 2024, to honor the late Professor Constantin Anghelache, the society’s first vice-president.  Additionally, the society, in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics, published two issues of the Romanian Statistical Review Supplement in October and November 2024, contributing to ongoing discourse in the field. More info here. 

Statistical Society of Slovenia (SSS)

The Statistical Society of Slovenia organized several significant events in 2024, including Statistical Day 2024 on October 11, where the focus was on the labor market and the societal impact of statistics. They also awarded the Statistical Society Award to Maja Pohar Perme for her research and journalist Marko Milenković for his statistical reporting.  Moreover, the society hosted the 20th Applied Statistics Conference in September 2024, featuring keynotes on hierarchical multilevel analysis and subdistribution hazard models, alongside a roundtable on statistical literacy.  Finally, the society will support the European Young Statisticians Meetings (EYSM), with the 24th edition set to take place in Turin, Italy, in 2025. More info here. 
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Royal Statistical Society (RSS)

The Royal Statistical Society , as part of its Statistics Under Pressure initiative, published a set of five key principles aimed at empowering statisticians to make informed trade-offs in high-pressure situations. These principles, developed from eight case studies, guide statisticians in balancing competing demands when feeding data into decision-making processes, with an emphasis on prioritization, risk mitigation, and transparent communication. More info here. 

­Conferences / Workshops

ICSA 2025: Measuring Change for a Resilient Future, Florence (Italy), January 9-11, 2025

DSSR 2025: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Society: Bridging Social Sciences, Statistics and Computational Sciences, Pescara (Italy), February 19-21, 2025

New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics Conference (NTTS 2025), Brussels (Belgium), March 11-13, 2025

7th Joint Statistical Meeting of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik, March 24-28, 2025

SDS 2025: Statistical Methods for Data Analysis and Decision Sciences, Milan (Italy), April 2-3, 2025

SIS 2025, SIS Intermediate Meeting: Statistics for Innovation, Genoa (Italy), June 16-18, 2025

Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione – PopDays 2025, Cagliari (Italy), June 4-6, 2025

XLI Spanish National Congress of Statistics and Operational Research and XV Public Statistics Conference, June 10-13, 2025

JdS2025: 56es Journées de Statistique de la SFdS, June 2-6, 2025

Joint Statistical Meeting 2025, Nashville (Tennessee), August 2-7 2025

65 th ISI World Statistics Congress, The Hague (Netherlands), October 5-9 2025

Views / Insights

 Statistics and the Nobel Prize: partners in excellence?

By Miguel de Carvalho

Statistical ideas are linked to various Nobel Prizes, but are too rarely acknowledged. It’s time to highlight statistics as a leading driving force behind scientific breakthroughs. Read the complete text at the Significance Magazine here.