A Brief History of the French Statistical Society (SFdS)

[摘要] The French Statistical Society was founded in 1997through the merger of two associations of statisticians:the Statistical Society of Paris (SSP) and the Associationfor Statistics and its Applications (ASU).Formed in 1860, the main goal of the SSP was to“popularise statistical research through its work andpublications”. From the beginning, the group evolved ina way that stayed close to economists, while also beingattuned to demographers, actuaries and doctors, not tomention politicians. In order to underpin its projects, theSSP published – since the year it was created – the Journal of the Statistical Society of Paris and did so regularlyfor nearly 140 years. This journal was then succeeded bythe Journal of the French Statistical Society in the contextof the merger mentioned above.