Motto: Statistics, a vaccine to protect democracy and combat the virus of disinformation. The European Democracy Action Plan 2019-2024, presented by the European Commission, highlighted the need to empower citizens and build more resilient democracies across the EU. Democracies worldwide face the proliferation, similar to that of a virus, of false or biased information that […]
The Cyprus Statistical Society (CSS) gives great importance to the quality and independence of official statistics. It, therefore, shares the concerns of other Statistical Associations (e.g. International Statistical Institute (ISI), European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC), International Association for Official Statistics, American Statistical Association (ASA) etc.) regarding the legal proceedings against the former President of the […]
European Statistics Competition video winners We are excited to announce the results of the European Statistics Competition (ESC) 2021, which was held in the school year 2020-2021. Over 11 000 students from 16 countries signed up for the fourth edition of this statistical literacy contest. After a tough national phase, the winning teams in each […]
The Statistical Service, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth, the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Statistical Society announce the completion of the National Phase of the European Statistical Competition 2020-21. Participation in the national phase of the competition was open to all secondary-age students who were studying at any officially recognized educational […]
On 20th October 2020 the Cyprus Statistical Society joined statisticians around the world to celebrate the World Statistics Day. The celebration was culminated in an online event with topic “The Statistical Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic”. The talks given at the event are available on our YouTube Channel: Keynote talk 1 “Modelling of the COVID-19 […]