International Year of Statistics 2013

The International Year of Statistics is a global celebration that seeks to recognize the contributions of statistical science on all levels of society. The objectives of this international year include:

• to increase public awareness of the power and impact of statistics
• to promote statistics as a profession, especially among young people
• and ensure the development of creativity and science of probability and statistics

Idescat has joined the International Year of Statistics as official statistical body of Catalonia and will promote several activities throughout 2013 to support the objectives of this celebration. All of them will be properly collected and published on this website.

On April 10, 2013 the Parliament of Catalonia fully supports the celebration of the International Year of Statistics and has joined the aim of promoting public awareness of the impact of statistics in all aspects of life and society, in an institutional declaration signed by all groups, which you can see and hear in the video the Parliament Channel.

1. Activities

Celebration of the International Year of Statistics in Parliament

Day: October 18, 2013

Venue: Parliament of Catalonia

Programme:

• Opening
  • The Right Honourable Núria de Gispert, president of the Parliament of Catalonia
  • Mr Frederic Udina, director of Idescat and statistics lecturer at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics - Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) (PDF)
  • Mrs Guadalupe Gómez, professor in the Department of Statistics and Operative Research at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and president of the Catalan Statistical Society (SCE) (PDF)
• Conference on "The Applied Statistical Scientist in a High-profile Professional and Societal Environment" (PDF), chaired by Mr Geert Molenberghs, professor of Biostatistics and University of Hasselt and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
  • Presentation by Guadalupe Gómez, professor in the Department of Statistics and Operative Research at the UPC and president of the SCE
  • Coffee break
• Round table debate on: "Four views of statistics" (PDF)
  • Mrs Montse Guillén, professor in the Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Spanish Economics at the University of Barcelona (PDF)
  • Mrs Rosa Lamarca, head of Clinical Statistics at Laboratoris Almirall (PDF)
  • Mr Pere Puig, professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (PDF)
  • Mr Frederic Udina, director of Idescat and statistics lecturer at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics - UPF (PDF)
• Close of day
  • His Honour Mr Andreu Mas-Colell, minister of Economy and Knowledge
  • Mrs Anna Cabré, president of the Catalan Statistical Council
  • Mr Joandomènec Ros, president of the Institute of Catalan Studies

International Seminar

Title: Spectral clustering and high-dim stochastic block model for undirected and directed graphs

Speaker: Bin Yu (University of California at Berkeley)

Date: Thursday 21st March 2013. Time: 6 pm

Location: Pompeu Fabra University, Ciutadella Campus, Mercè Rodoreda Building, Conference Room 23.S05. Carrer Ramon Trias Fargas, 25–27. Barcelona

Organizers: Department of Economics and Business of Pompeu Fabra University and Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat)

Further information: Statistics and Operational Research Seminar Series

International days

Idescat offers the International days section to commemorate the International Year of Statistics 2013. This section disseminates results of statistical activities produced by Idescat, coinciding with the celebrations of the international days of the United Nations. Users who want can embed this tool for free on their websites by the widget provided by Idescat.

e2013 blog

The Statistical Institute of Catalonia and the Catalan Society of Statistics, both participating organizations of Statistics2013, jointly promote the blog e2013. The blog's aim is promoting the statistical way of looking at things of ordinary life. How are things around us when we look at them with statistic glasses? Enter the blog, choose the post you like best and have your say!

2. Press and TV

3. Further information