The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK. Founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, it became the Royal Statistical Society in 1887. In 1993 the Institute of Statisticians merged with it. 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. A learned society is a society that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. ... A graph of a bell curve in a normal distribution showing statistics used in educational assessment, comparing various grading methods. ... A professional body or professional organization is an organisation, usually non-profit, that exists to further a particular profession, to protect both the public interest and the interests of professionals. ... For Wikipedia statistics, see m:Statistics Statistics is the science and practice of developing human knowledge through the use of empirical data expressed in quantitative form. ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Institute of Statisticians was a British professional organization founded in 1948 to protect the interests of professional statisticians1. ... Professional qualifications in the UK are generally awarded by professional bodies in line with their charters. ...
The course leads to the Ordinary Certificate in Statistics of the RoyalStatisticalSociety, which is the recognised professional society for statisticians in the UK.
It is a National Award from the RoyalStatisticalSociety, the recognised professional society for statisticians in the UK.
The RoyalStatisticalSociety's qualifications are also held in high esteem in a large number of overseas countries.
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