Department of Mathematical Sciences organised Institut Statistik Malaysia flagship biennial event, the 5th ISM International Statistical Conference (ISM-V 2021) from 17th to 19th August 2021. Institut Statistik Malaysia (ISMy) is a leading statistical society in the country, whose mission is to promote proper practice, propagation, and dissemination of statistical knowledge for the benefit of society in the country.
This virtual event was conducted at Microsoft Teams. ISM-V is part of a collocated event under MYHIMS-C.Two channels were created in the Teams platform so that ISM-V participants can access programs at MYHIM-C and ISM-V seamlessly.
At the ISM-V plenary session, participants had the opportunity to listen to Prof. Christian Hennig from University of Bologna, as well as other events such as Forums and Plenary Seesions from academics and industries.
There were special topics session hosted by Prof. Ibrahim Mohamed from Universiti Malaya (Recent Developments in Directional Statistics), Prof. Habshah Midi from Universiti Putra Malaysia (Robust Methods for Issues in High Dimensional Data), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liong Cheung Yeun from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Web Analytics for User Profiling and Prediction) and Dr. Norhaiza Ahmad from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Clusters and Predictions).