Today, on 27 September, the international conference “New Trends in Statistics” of the Estonian Statistical Society will begin, which marks the 20th year from the foundation of the Society.
The two-day conference focuses on new tasks and big databases related to them, the analysing and processing of which were impossible and complicated some decades ago and which characterise the present science and especially statistics.
“The bulk of data are collected in the course of astronomic and meteorological observations, from the sea and on the land,” Ms Ene-Margit Tiit, a member of the Board of the Society and a Senior Methodologist of Statistics Estonia said. The anniversary topics discuss the population, genetics, life sciences and economy, as well as the future trends of statistics.
“The Society was established 20 years ago to join the statisticians of different subject areas all over Estonia, providing them with the possibilities of communication,” remarked Ms Ene-Margit Tiit and added that the aims set at the establishment of the Estonian Statistical Society are still actual, maybe even more actual than 20 years ago. “During the 20 years the importance of statistics has continuously increased, as the present science-based world provides more data for analysing,” explained Ms Tiit.
See the programme of the conference
On 27 September at 11.00–12.40 the opening of the conference can be watched live
http://www.uttv.ee
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