|year=1977|___location=New Delhi|author=International Statistical Institute, Congress| series=Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MyIdHQAACAAJ|publisher=ISI|ref=harv|}} Books 1–3 Invited papers. 4 v. Articles in English and French.</ref>
The objectives of the Associationassociation are to foster world-wideworldwide interest in effective statistical computing and to exchange technical knowledge through international contacts and meetings between statisticians, computing professionals, organizations, institutions, governments and the general public.
The Associationassociation is affiliated with the [[International Federation for Information Processing]] (IFIP). It publishes the journal called ''[[Computational Statistics & Data Analysis]]'' (CSDA)<ref>[http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computational-statistics-and-data-analysis/#description Computational Statistics & Data Analysis journal home page).]</ref> and ''Statistical Software Newsletter (CSDA SSN).''<ref>[http://www.csdassn.org/softlist.cfm CSDA Statistical Software Newsletter].</ref>
