INSTITUTO DE ESTADISTICA IESTA UDELAR

What INSTITUTO DE ESTADISTICA IESTA UDELAR does

The Instituto de Estadística (IESTA) is a government-funded academic research institute within the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración at Universidad de la República (UDELAR), Uruguay's largest public university. Founded circa 1945 (80 years as of 2025), IESTA operates as a unified academic research center for statistical methods, applied statistics, econometrics, Bayesian analysis, machine learning, and mathematical modeling. It is the academic home of the only undergraduate Statistics degree program (Licenciatura en Estadística, launched in 1998) in Uruguay.

The institute's core outputs are academic rather than commercial: research projects, scholarly publications (working papers, journal articles, preprints, books, COVID-19 research notes), recurring academic events (SIMQ, SIESTA, Coloquio del IESTA), tutoring for undergraduate theses, a GitLab-hosted data and computational project repository, price index publications (Índice de Precios), and formal technical-assistance agreements (Convenios) with external institutions. Distribution occurs through academic seminars, journals, social channels (Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube), and international collaborations including with ANII, Uruguay's national research funding agency.

Its business model is non-commercial: IESTA is funded through university budgets and research grants rather than selling products or services. Primary customer segments are university students, academic researchers, peer universities, and government agencies requiring statistical consulting. There is no disclosed commercial pricing model and revenue is not reported.

Name

INSTITUTO DE ESTADISTICA IESTA UDELAR

Legal name

Instituto de Estadística de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República

Website

https://iesta.fcea.udelar.edu.uy

Company type

Private

Founded year

1945

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

IESTA is the statistics research and teaching institute within Universidad de la República (UDELAR) in Uruguay. Founded ~1945, it runs the country's only undergraduate Statistics degree and produces applied research, publications, seminars, and consulting for academics and public agencies.

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Headquarters

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Montevideo

HQ country

Uruguay

HQ region

Latin America

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Core offering

IESTA is a public academic research institute that conducts statistical research across economics, health, tourism, finance, and environmental studies, delivers the only undergraduate Statistics degree program in Uruguay, runs academic seminars and conferences, produces scholarly publications and a Price Index, and provides statistical consulting and academic assistance to other institutions via cooperation agreements.

Product overview

The Instituto de Estadística (IESTA) is a university research institute within the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Administration at Universidad de la República, Uruguay. It operates as a unified academic research center focused on statistics, offering research projects, scholarly publications, academic events, educational support, and data repositories. The institute does not offer commercial software products but provides public good research outputs including journal articles, preprints, working papers, seminars, and specialized courses in statistical methods. The institute celebrates 80 years of operation and maintains active engagement through various academic seminars, research projects, and publication channels.

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Products and services

• Licenciatura en Estad\u00edstica Undergraduate Statistics degree program offered by IESTA at the Facultad de Ciencias Econ\u00f3micas y de Administraci\u00f3n, Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica; the only undergraduate Statistics program in Uruguay. Includes thesis supervision via Trabajos Finales de Grado (TFG) tutorials.
• Convenios y Asistencia Acad\u00e9mica Academic cooperation agreements and technical assistance work delivered to external institutions (government agencies, research bodies, and partner organizations), providing statistical consulting, data analysis, and applied methodology support.
• \u00cdndice de Precios Price Index (\u00cdndice de Precios) produced by IESTA: ongoing publication and analysis of price indices for the Uruguayan context, serving government, researchers, and the public.
• Investigaci\u00f3n y Proyectos de Investigaci\u00f3n Academic research service in statistics covering Bayesian analysis, clustering methods, predictive modeling, and applied statistics across economics, health, tourism, finance, and social sciences; delivered through research projects, working documents, and journal publications.

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ANII (Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017ANII is Uruguay's national research funding agency. IESTA has collaborated with ANII on research projects, including the Fondo Sectorial project 'Modelado de temperaturas extremas en Uruguay' (2017), demonstrating significant research partnership for statistical modeling and data analysis initiatives.

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Direct peers

• Departamento de Estadística, Universidad Nacional de Colombia: Statistics department at Colombia's largest public university, offering statistics education and applied research. Comparable as a regional Latin American university statistics unit with a similar mandate to train statisticians and serve public-sector data needs.
• Departamento de Estadística, Universidad de Buenos Aires: Statistics department at Argentina's largest public university, providing statistics education, applied research, and consulting to government agencies. Directly comparable as a regional public-university statistics unit with similar mission, faculty-publication model, and government-facing work.
• Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT): Mexican public research center focused on mathematics, statistics, and computer science with a strong academic research output. Comparable as a publicly funded Latin American research center conducting applied statistical research, graduate training, and methodological consulting.
• Departamento de Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República: Sister statistics department within the same Universidad de la República that also trains statisticians and conducts applied research. Comparable as an in-country peer offering statistics education and a potential collaborator or competitor for student talent.

Others

• Sociedad Estadística de Latinoamérica (SELE) / International Statistical Institute: Regional and global professional associations of statisticians that organize the Latin American statistics congress hosted by IESTA. Comparable as institutional counterparts that convene the same research community and publish in adjacent venues.

Regional players

• Oficina Nacional de Estadística de Cuba (ONEI): Cuba's national statistics office producing official statistics for the country. Comparable as a regional Latin American public institution applying statistical methods to national data systems, though primarily a producer of statistics rather than a research-and-education institute.

Broad incumbents

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE Uruguay): Uruguay's national statistics agency that produces official statistics including the Consumer Price Index. Overlaps with IESTA in statistical methodology and price index work and is also a key collaborator and potential client of the institute.

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