Sections

Sections of the Society have been formed to promote particular branches and applications of statistics. They each hold a number of meetings a year, usually based around a presented paper or talk.

The sections and their principal interests are:

• Applied Probability
  Foster research in applied probability, bring together a community of researchers in applied probability within the RSS and support the outreach of applied probability research into both statistical science and wider application areas, both established and novel.
• Business & Industrial
  Statistical methods in industry and commerce.
• Environmental Statistics
  Application of statistics to environmental issues.
• General Applications
  Exposition, study, informal debate and discussion of statistical subjects
• Medical
  Statistical problems arising in all branches of medicine.
• Official Statistics
  Government and national statistics.
• Quality Improvement
  Contribution of statistical methods to quality improvement and good management.
• Research
  The theory of statistics, the development and application of statistical methods.
• Social Statistics
  Social applications of statistics with a particular emphasis on survey methodology.
• Statistical Computing
  The interface, including computational aspects of statistical methods and developments in software.
• Statistics in Sport
  Foster research in statistics in sports, defined as modelling and analysis inspired by, or applied to, a problem in sport; bring together a community of researchers interested in statistics in sport; support the communication of statistical research into the wider community
• Young Statisticians
  For students and those in the first 10 years of their career