About Royal Statistical Society

About company

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is one of the world’s most distinguished statistical societies. It is a learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London (LSS) and became the RSS (Royal Statistical Society) by Royal Charter in 1887. In 1993 the RSS merged with the Institute of Statisticians. Today the society has around 6,500 members around the world, of whom some 1,500 are professionally qualified with the status of Chartered Statistician.