Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability

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The Bernoulli Society is a professional association which aims to further the progress of probability and mathematical statistics, founded as part of the International Statistical Institute in 1975. [1] It is named after the Bernoulli family of mathematicians and scientists whose researchers covered "most areas of scientific knowledge". [2]

The society publishes two journals, Bernoulli and Stochastic Processes and their Applications , and a newsletter, Bernoulli News . Additionally, it co-sponsors several other journals including Electronic Communications in Probability , Electronic Journal of Probability , Electronic Journal of Statistics , Probability Surveys , and Statistics Surveys . [3]

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References

  1. Upton, Graham; Cook, Ian (2008), A Dictionary of Statistics (2nd rev. ed.), ISBN   9780199541454
  2. Why the name? In History of the Bernoulli Society, retrieved 2014-06-23.
  3. About the Bernoulli Society, retrieved 2014-06-23.