The International Biometric Society (IBS) is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including biostatistics.
[1][2] It sponsors the International Biometric Conference (IBC), held every two years.
[3] The society was founded on September 6, 1947, at the First International Biometric Conference at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, US.
Its first president was Ronald Fisher and its first secretary was Chester Ittner Bliss.
The society is organized into (mostly national) regions and (international) networks, many of which also hold their own conferences.