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I N S T I T U T E O F
M A T H E M A T I C A L S C I E N C E S
The 3rd ISM International Statistical
Conference (ISM-III)
“ B R I N G I N G P R O F E S S I O N A L I S M A N D P R E S T I G E I N S T A T I S T I C S ”
The ISM conference is an iconic bi-annual event The keynote speech were given by Professor
jointly organized by Malaysian Institute of Statistics Emeritus Dr. Bovas Abraham from University of
and local universities in Malaysia. The first series of Waterloo, Canada, who is also the former
the conference ISM-I held at Universiti Teknologi president of the Statistical Society of
Malaysia(UTM) in 2012, followed by ISM-II by Canada,Professor Shahjahan Khan ,Professor Dr.
Universiti Malaysia Pahang(UMP) in 2014, and ISM-III Abdul Ghapor Hussin from Universiti Pertahanan
in the Faculty of Science, University of Malaya on 9 Negara Malaysia, Prof. Ibrahim bin Mohamed.
to 11 August 2016. The special session 'ISMUM-ISM Japan Joint
Session On Statistical Science' was jointly
The Organizing chair is Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Mohamed. organized with The Institute of Statistical
and the theme for ISM-III was “Bringing Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan. An invited session on
Professionalism and Prestige in Statistics”. The aim is the topic 'Open Economies and the Role of
to assemble local and international statisticians Foreign Direct Investment – Malaysia’s Experience'
from different disciplines, and statistic users was organised with representatives from Bank
especially in the public and private sectors with the Negara Malaysia
intention to further flourish the knowledge of
statistics. Two pre-conference workshops were conducted
,
on 8 August 2016 with the topics on 'Time Series
A total of 136 participants came from around the Modelling with Financial Applications' conducted
world has gathered here, 102 (75%) from Malaysia by Professor Emeritus Dr. Bovas Abraham, and the
and 34 (25%) from other countries, including USA, 'Evidence Based Decision and Statistical Meta
Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, France, Australia, Saudi Analysis with Applications' by Professor Dr.
Arabia, Sri Lanka, India and Taiwan. Shahjahan Khan.
B Y D R K O H Y O U B E N G
