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| Brazilian Statistical Association | |
|---|---|
| Name | Brazilian Statistical Association |
| Native name | Associação Brasileira de Estatística |
| Abbreviation | ABre? |
| Formation | 1975 |
| Type | Professional society |
| Headquarters | São Paulo |
| Region served | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Leader title | President |
Brazilian Statistical Association is a national professional society linking statisticians, demographers, actuaries, econometricians, data scientists, survey methodologists, and biostatisticians across Brazil. Founded to promote statistical science, the association interacts with universities, research institutes, regulatory agencies, national laboratories, and international organizations to advance methodology, applications, and public policy analysis.
The association emerged amid expansions in Brazilian higher education and research in the 1970s, influenced by developments at University of São Paulo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Campinas, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and Federal University of Minas Gerais. Early collaborators included researchers who trained at Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley. Its formative events referenced methodologies from Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman, Andrey Kolmogorov, John Tukey, and drew comparative models from American Statistical Association, Royal Statistical Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Statistical Institute, and regional bodies such as Sociedad Argentina de Estadística. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the association connected with national projects at Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Ministry of Health (Brazil), National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, and contributors from Fiocruz, Embrapa, and Petrobras. Landmark moments include symposia inspired by work at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, collaborations tied to World Bank missions, and methodological workshops responding to census operations like those of Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística.
Governance follows statutes modeled after associations such as American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society. Leadership comprises an elected president, vice-presidents, a secretary, treasurer, scientific committee chairs, regional representatives from states like São Paulo (state), Rio de Janeiro (state), Minas Gerais, Bahia (state), and liaison officers to institutions including CAPES, CNPq, and regulatory bodies such as Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar. Advisory boards have included academics from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Federal University of Pernambuco, State University of Campinas, and research directors from Fiocruz, Embrapa, and national laboratories tied to Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory. Committees oversee ethics, publications, conferences, continuing education, and partnerships with entities like International Biometric Society, Società Italiana di Statistica, and Australian Statistical Conference organizers.
Members include faculty from University of São Paulo, doctoral candidates from University of Brasília, applied statisticians at Petrobras, clinical statisticians at Hospital das Clínicas, survey experts at IBGE, actuarial professionals at SUSEP, consultants in firms such as Accenture and Deloitte, and researchers at Fiocruz and Embrapa. Professional activities encompass accreditation initiatives similar to Royal Statistical Society Chartered Statistician models, continuing professional development courses referencing curricula from Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (USP), mentorship programs linking early-career scholars from Federal University of Santa Catarina with senior researchers who previously worked at World Health Organization or Pan American Health Organization. The association issues position statements on topics overlapping with agencies like ANVISA, Ministry of Education (Brazil), and collaborates with think tanks such as Fundação Getulio Vargas.
Annual and regional meetings draw speakers who have lectured at International Statistical Institute fora, Joint Statistical Meetings, and European Meeting of Statisticians. Proceedings have featured contributions paralleling journals like Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and specialist outlets such as Biometrical Journal, Statistics in Medicine, and Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. The association publishes bulletins, conference proceedings, and special issues in partnership with university presses at University of São Paulo Press and research centers at Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, and has hosted satellite meetings alongside NeurIPS, ICML, and KDD tracks addressing statistical learning and data mining.
Training programs connect with graduate programs at University of São Paulo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, State University of Campinas, and international exchange with University of Oxford and University of California, Berkeley. Certification efforts borrow elements from Royal Statistical Society accreditation and link to professional development frameworks used by Institute of Actuaries and American Statistical Association. Outreach initiatives include public seminars at cultural institutions like Museu de Arte de São Paulo and policy briefings to legislators in Brasília working with committees modeled on those of Brazilian Congress technical advisory bodies.
The association confers honors recognizing lifetime achievement, young researcher awards, and best-paper prizes; these echo awards like the Copernicus Prize, R.A. Fisher Award, and Guy Medal traditions. Recipients have included statisticians affiliated with University of São Paulo, Federal University of Pernambuco, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, and international collaborators who previously won distinctions from International Statistical Institute and Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Partnerships span bilateral ties with Sociedad Española de Estadística, Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft, Statistical Society of Canada, and programmatic links to World Bank, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, and networks such as Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. Joint projects have involved methodology exchange with groups at Imperial College London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, and collaborative grants coordinated with European Commission initiatives and multilateral development banks like the Inter-American Development Bank.
Category:Statistical organizations Category:Professional associations based in Brazil