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Statistics in the Low Countries [and down under]
email:
A. A. Jagers

. the International Statistical Institute
. the "CBS"
. the Dutch Statistical Society, VVS-OR :

Statistica Neerlandica

. its new electronic problem section [pdf]


Jan de Witt
Dutch statesman (1625-1672)
author of a pioneering work
in life assurance mathematics

Jan de Witt
Quetelet

Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, meteorologist, but foremost statistician, the first one in history to use the normal distribution in demography

Science Education
The International Statistical Institute, ISI, resides at the CBS in Voorburg (the Hague) and gathers its members biannually for a world conference. The 39th [1973] and 40th [1975] conferences were held in Vienna and Warsaw, respectively. In 1853 Quetelet organized the first international statistical congress ever.

40th ISI conference 39th ISI conference