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Professional Societies

• American Mathematical Society.
• American Risk and Insurance Association. Professional association of insurance scholars and risk management professionals. Includes the Risk Theory Society.
• American Statistical Association. Probably the best online site of any statistical society.
  • Statistical Computing Section. An extensive and well designed site.
  • Statistical Graphics Section. Graham Wills, Bell Laboratories.
• Association for Survey Computing. United Kingdom. Includes a register of software for social survey analysis.
• Australian Academy of Science: National Committee for the Mathematical Sciences.
• Australian Mathematical Society.
• Australasia's Young Statisticians. Hosted by Data Analysis Australia.
• Bernoulli Society. See International Statistical Institute.
• Classification Society of North America. Classification and clustering. University of Pittsburgh.
• Dansk Selskab for Teoretisk Statistik. The Danish society for theoretical statistics.
• Eurostat. Statistical Office of the European Communities.
• European Mathematical Information Service. Online search available of Mathematical Abstracts and Mathematical Didactics. European Mathematical Society.
• European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics.
• Finnish Statistical Society.
• German Statistical Society.
• INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Merger of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS).
• Institute of Actuaries and Faculty of Actuaries. United Kingdom.
• Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
• IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
• Interface Foundation of North America. Has organized the annual 3.5 day Interface Symposia on the interface between computer science and statistics since 1967. George Mason University.
• International Actuarial Association. Includes a comprehensive list of regional actuarial associations around the world.
• International Biometric Society.
  • Australasian Region
  • Eastern North American Region.
  • Nordic Region
  • Western North American Region.
• International Environmetric Society (TIES). National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment, University of Washington.
• International Institute of Forecasters.
• International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
• International Society for Clinical Biostatistics.
• International Statistical Institute.
  • Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. See also the separate Bernoulli Society Homepage maintained by Wilfrid Kendall at the University of Warwick.
  • International Association of Survey Statisticians
  • International Association for Statistical Computing. There is also a separate IASC Homepage maintained by Gianfranco Galmacci, University of Perugia, which includes editorial information about most statistical computing journals, including those not affiliated with the ISI.
  • International Association for Official Statistics
  • International Association for Statistical Education.
  • International Statistical Review
• Italian Society of Statistics. In Italian.
• Japan Statistical Society. In Japanese.
• L'Association des Statisticiennes et Statisticiens du Québec.
• Mathematical Association of America. Collegiate and expository mathematics.
• Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. An affiliate of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS). Includes members from many disciplines, but especially economics.
• National Institute of Statistical Sciences. Created by the US professional statistical communities to promote and develop cross-disciplinary statistical research.
• New Zealand Statistical Society.
• Operational Research Society. Based in the UK, this is the world's oldest learned society catering to the OR profession, and the largest outside the USA.
• Operational Research Society of New Zealand. Pages maintained by Andrew Mason, University of Auckland.
• Royal Society of New Zealand: Mathematical and Information Sciences. Marston Conder, Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Royal Statistical Society.
• Société Française de la Statistique.
• Society for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. A non-profit organization based in New Jersey to facilitate interaction between researchers in AI and statistics. Has no general membership.
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The broad interests of this society include statistics.
• Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. Promoting the use of nonlinear methods in economics and finance. Bruce Mizrach and Robert McClelland, Rutgers State University of New Jersey.
• Society of Actuaries. United States.
• Society for Risk Analysis. An international society based in the USA. Specialty groups include dose-response, ecological risk assessment, engineering, exposure assessment, food safety and risk science and the law.
• South African Statistical Association. Bettie Basson, Vista University.
• Statistical Society of Australia.
• Statistical Society of Canada.
• Statistikersamfundets. The Swedish statistical society.
• Swiss Statistical Association. Pages maintained by Werner Stahel, Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
• Young Mathematician's Network.

Other Lists of Associations

• More Associations. IASC's list of professional organizations in statistical computing.
• More Associations. See "Statistical Research Groups, Institutes, and Associations", Virtual Library: Statistics.
• More Associations. SIAM's list of professional organizations in applied mathematics.
• Marketing Research Associations. Tilburg University.