VARIANCE: Journal of Statistics and its Applications Sponsored by the University of Pattimura and the Forum Pendidikan Tinggi Statistika (FORSTAT).

VARIANCE: The Journal of Statistics and its Applications published by the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Pattimura University has signed a collaboration with the Statistics Higher Education Forum (FORSTAT). FORSTAT is a communication forum with the aim of improving the quality of the implementation of the Statistics Study Program. Membership of FORSTAT is regulated in the Articles of Association of FORSTAT 2021, specifically Article 7. That which becomes a member is the institution providing Higher Education Statistics, in the form of departments/fields and/or study programs.

VARIANCE: Journal of Statistics and its Applications, has collaborated with FORSTAT, in order to improve the quality of scientific publications and to build networking in the fields of statistics. Collaboration established between VARIANCE: Journal of Statistics and its Applications and FORSTAT was marked by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Chairman (Editor in Chief) of Journal VARIANCE (Norisca Lewaherilla, S.T., M.Si.) and President of FORSTAT Period 2018-2020 (Dr. Suhartono, M.Sc.) took place at the joint lecture hall in Pattimura University, on September 7th, 2019.  (Link of MoU between VARIANCE with FORSTAT)