ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY

The 'Royal Statistical Society (RSS)' is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK. It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, in the same week that the Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced (see ''History of Teaching Statistics''). Among the RSS's most famous former members is Florence Nightingale, who became the society's first female member in 1858. Other notable former presidents of the Society are William Beveridge and Harold Wilson.
It became the Royal Statistical Society by Royal Charter in 1887, and merged with the Institute of Statisticians in 1993. Today the society has 7,200 members in the UK and the rest of the world, only around 1,500 of whom are professionally qualified.
The Society has been particularly engaged with the passage of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, having long argued for legislation on statistics.
The RSS team reached the finals of ''University Challenge: The Professionals 2006''. They were beaten 230 to 125 by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. They had previously beaten the Granta team in the first round (first broadcast on 24 July) before going on to beat the team from Prospect Magazine 280 points to 115 in the semi-final, broadcast on 31 July.
The RSS organises an annual conference, the most recent being at the University of York in July 2007, and awards Guy Medals in Gold, Silver and Bronze, in honour of William Guy,

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See also

★ President of the Royal Statistical Society

★ Council for the Mathematical Sciences

★ Guy Medal

External links

★ Official website

★ The Story of the Society

★ Past Presidents

★ Honours and Awards

★ Journals

★ MacTutor: The Royal Statistical Society

★ Scholarly Societies Project: RSS

★ RSS Conference 2007