Welcome to the Manchester Statistical Society Website
 

Manchester Statistical Society is a forum for the discussion of social and economic issues.

During the winter months the Society meets regularly to hear an invited speaker talk on a topical issue. Afterwards there is discussion and members are free to question and challenge the speaker. Papers read to the Society are normally published in the Society’s journal: the Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society.

The Society was founded in 1833 at a time when Manchester was expanding rapidly and faced many social problems. Few of the founders were statisticians in the modern sense. They were keen to improve conditions for ordinary people and the work of the Society was influential in bringing about social reform in the 19th century.

Today the Society remains an influential forum where a wide range of topics of concern to contemporary society can be discussed, free from party politics