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The International Astrostatistics Association (IAA) is the first global professional association for astrostatisticians, composed of statisticians, astronomers/astrophysicists, physicists, computer-information scientists, and others having an interest in the statistical analysis of astronomical data. The IAA was founded in August 2012 from the ISI Astrostatistics Committee and Network, which was approved at the 2009 winter meeting of the ISI Executive Committee. The ISI is the International Statistical Institute, the world association of statisticians with headquarters in The Hauge, The Netherlands.

The IAA is associated with the ISI through the ISI Astrostatistics Committee and will be associated with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) through the IAU Astrostatistics Working Group. The IAA seeks to provide collaboration between astronomers, statisticians and information scientists with the aim of developing new and enhanced research methods for the analysis of astronomical and cosmological data. The huge amounts of data now being collected, and which will be generated, in coming years by the new data-gathering technologies is particularly challenging for current statistical methodologies.

The IAA website is a component of the Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal, an interactive site sponsored by Pennsylvania State University. Aside from sponsoring collaboration among statisticians and astrophysicists, the IAA fosters the creation of interdisciplinary degree programs in astrostatistics at major universities throughout the world, and will be establishing several awards to researchers who make major contributons to the discipline. The IAA publishes an electronic Newletter every other month, which is available on the Portal.

The IAA is managed by the IAA Council, comprised of 17 astrostatisticians from around the world. Officers include the President, four Vice-Presidents, including VP-statistical sciences, VP-astronomy/astrophysics, VP-astroinformatics, and an at-large Vice President. Officer positons also include the Treasurer, (immediate) past-president, and Secretary General, but will not be filled until the 2015 elections. Committees chairs are appointed by the Council given the recommendaton of the President.

IAA Presidents and terms (Presidents and President-elects)
 * 2012-2015 Joseph Hilbe (USA)
 * 2016-2017 Jogesh Babu (USA)
 * 2018-2019 Jean-luc Starck (France)