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IMS Individual Membership

The IMS is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts of the world.

Membership benefits include:

  • free electronic access to past issues of all our journals.
  • discounts at our sponsored meetings.  The IMS sponsors a series of meetings: an Annual Meeting (usually held during the summer), regional meetings, and special topics meetings.  Many of these are joint meetings with other societies.
  • reduced membership rates for the Bernoulli Society and International Statistical Institute. For more information see IMS/BS and ISI/BS/IMS joint memberships.
  • reduced subscription rates to our journals and cosponsored journals.  Our journals are world leaders in their fields for research and review articles.
  • reduced rates on other publications and journals.
  • reduced rates for designated countries.

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Types of Membership

Student membership is available to (i) full-time students.

Reduced membership dues are available to (ii) retired individuals who are IMS members of 10+ years, and (iii) permanent residents of countries designated by the IMS Council.

New Graduates are those who have graduated (any level, undergraduate through doctorate) (iv) in the last 2 years.

Life membership & subscriptions are available to any IMS member at the rates indicated (v).

(i) Full-time students are not charged membership dues. Evidence of full-time student status must be provided each year when membership dues are paid. Student memberships are ordinarily available for a maximum of four years. If you are still eligible for student membership, please provide the usual letter from your thesis advisor, department chair, or appropriate university official certifying your full-time student status.

(ii) Reduced membership dues are available to individuals who have been IMS members for the preceding ten years and are retired from gainful employment. Retired members may elect to receive the Bulletin only for basic membership dues of $30.

(iii) Permanent residents of countries designated by the IMS Council may pay reduced membership dues.

(iv) The first year out of school New Graduates dues will be $25 and the second year dues will be $50. The third year, the New Graduate will become a Regular Individual Member.

(v) Life members are not required to elect a journal. Retired Life members must be 65 year of age or older.

(vi) The joint IMS/Bernoulli Society membership is applicable to Regular or Life Members only.  You must sign up on line at https://www.imstat.org/secure/orders/MemberJointBSIMS.asp

How to Become an Individual Member

It takes only a few minutes to join the IMS. Use our online form here: https://www.imstat.org/secure/orders/IndMember.asp

See 2008 prices.

How to Order IMS Publications

Order all items in the prepaid from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Dues and Subscriptions Office.

The Institute accepts VISA, MasterCard, American Express or Discover Card payments for subscriptions to its journals and purchases of its other publications. Provide the following information to use your VISA, MasterCard, American Express or Discover Card to purchase IMS publications: complete account number, expiration date, name on card, telephone/fax/email, and authorized signature.

VISA, MasterCard, American Express or Discover information or a U.S. dollar check or draft payable through a U.S. bank in U.S. Funds must accompany your order. Do not send cash, purchase orders or postal coupons. Prices include surface mail postage. Airmail postage is available at customer's expense.