The Sociaal-wetenschappelijke Sectie van de Vereniging Voor Statistiek en Operations Research (SWS-VVS; Netherlands Statistical Society; Social Sciences Division) promote the use of new and sound statistical methods in the social and behavioral sciences. The SWS-VVS appeal to both statisticians working in the social and behavioral sciences and applied researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. The SWS-VVS organize two annual meetings on a statistical topic, and contribute to the Dag voor Statistiek en Besliskunde.
Members of the SWS-VVS receive the ISI journal Statistica Neerlandica, the VVS newsletter (in Dutch), and the non-specialist journal StatOr (in Dutch). Members have free entrance to all meetings organized by the VVS. Moreover, members of the SWS-VVS allow the preservation of the only professional association for methodologists and statisticians working in the social and behavioral sciences.
Board
- Andries van der Ark (Chair; Tilburg University) a.vdark@uvt.nl
- Samantha Bouwmeester (Erasmus University Rotterdam) bouwmeester@fsw.eur.nl
- Marijtje van Duijn (University of Groningen) m.a.j.van.duijn@rug.nl
- Jules Ellis (Radboud University Nijmegen) julese@socsci.ru.nl
- Jean-Paul Fox (University of Twente) Fox@edte.utwente.nl
- Joost van Ginkel (University of Leiden) JGinkel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- Irene Klugkist (Treasurer; Utrecht University) i.klugkist@uu.nl
- Frans Tan (Maastricht University) frans.tan@stat.unimaas
- Ton de Waal (Statistics Netherlands) twal@cbs.nl
- Jelte Wicherts (Secretary; University of Amsterdam) J.M.Wicherts@uva.nl