期刊名称:AMERICAN STATISTICIAN
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The American Statistican (TAS), published quarterly by the American Statistical Association. contains timely articles organized into the following sections: Statistical Practice, General, Teacher's Corner, Statistical Computing and Graphics, Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials, and Letters.
The American Statistician is indexed by MathSci Online, the SRM Database, and Current Index to Statistics; it is also reviewed in Mathematical Reviews and abstracted in Research into Higher Education Abstracts and Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts, as well as by Information Access Group.
The American Statistician - ISSN 0003-1305
Instructions to Authors
The American Statistician strives to publish articles of general interest to the statistical profession. Articles should be clearly written, address topics that are important for a broad group of statisticians, and ordinarily not be highly technical. The journal is organized into the following sections: Statistical Practice, General, Teacher's Corner, Statistical Computing and Graphics, Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials, and Letters.
Submission procedures and the manuscript review process are described in the last part of this policy (below). To help defray the costs of publication, articles published are subject to a page charge of $65 per printed page to be billed to the institution or granting agency supporting the research. This charge represents only a portion of the cost per page. If the charge is honored, 100 free reprints will be supplied. The corresponding author will receive page proofs. The following paragraphs describe the types of articles appropriate for each section.
This section contains articles that are interesting or useful with regard to the practice of statistics, such as
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Case studies illustrating important lessons and issues involved in the practice of statistics, or that deal with applications having broad appeal;
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Discussions and comparisons of modern statistical methods, focusing on their usefulness in practice;
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Articles that address practical problems at the interface between statistical methodology and areas of application;
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Articles that present statistical solutions to current industrial problems, with emphasis on methodology.
The following list illustrates examples of topics for articles in this section:
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National and international statistical problems and programs, and public policy matters of direct interest to the statistical profession;
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The history of statistics and probability;
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Commentaries, or informative essays, that provide viewpoints and perspective on statistical topics of general interest (these are similar in spirit to Letters to the Editor but involve longer discussions of background, issues, and perspective);
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Methodological developments that are both of broad interest to statisticians and generally not highly technical;
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Expository or tutorial state-of-the-art surveys of the discipline.
The editorial board particularly desires to attract expository articles written for a general statistical audience on topics of current importance in areas including, but not limited to, the preceding list.
In this section The American Statistician publishes articles, notes, and discussions of interest to statistics teachers covering a variety of different courses and settings. The range includes
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Statistics and probability topics for high school students, including Advanced Placement Statistics;
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Introductory college courses in statistics for all audiences;
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Applied statistics courses at all levels;
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Industrial and continuing education outside the framework of standard academic courses;
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Mathematical statistics courses at the undergraduate and first-year graduate level.
An article for this section should state clearly the type of course in which the material is useful and discuss student reactions to the ideas presented.
This section includes articles about statistical computing and statistical graphics that are of broad interest to statisticians. For example, topics can include new graphical procedures or comparisons and evaluations of existing procedures; proposals of computational algorithms or assessments in terms of speed or numerical stability; and computational methods for simulation and approximation. This section also includes a special component, Statistical Computing Software Reviews, which contains reports in the style of book reviews, generally extensive and comparative, on selected computer software systems.
Software developers who wish to have their products reviewed should contact:
Joseph Hilbe, SW Reviews Editor 1453 E. Bartlett Way Chandler, AZ 85249 Email: jhilbe@aol.com
Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
The American Statistician publishes reviews of materials related to the teaching of undergraduate and service courses in statistics. This includes textbooks for such courses; special volumes and conference proceedings concerning statistical education; software, videotapes, organized sources of data, and internet resources intended for purposes of statistical education; and other similar items. All such reviews are coordinated with the Journal of the American Statistical Association through the Reviews Editor, who handles both The American Statistician and JASA and selects reviews for The American Statistician according to the above criteria. Items are not reviewed in both journals.
Book publishers and developers of other items who wish to have their products reviewed in this section should contact:
Russ Lenth, Editor JASA/TAS Reviews 311 Calvin Hall The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242
319/335-1917 FAX 319/335-3017 jasa-reviews@uiowa.edu http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/JASA-Reviews/
Letters to the editor are confined to discussions of papers that have appeared recently in The American Statistician and to discussions of important issues facing the statistical community. Letters discussing papers must be received within three months of publication of the paper; the author of the paper will then be given an opportunity to reply, and the letters and reply will be published together. All letters to the editor are refereed.
Submission Procedures and Review Process
The American Statistician welcomes the submission of manuscripts for possible publication. Authors should indicate the section of the journal for which their contribution is intended in the cover letter sent with their submission; final placement of accepted articles among the sections, however, is at the editor's discretion. Manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial board for quality and compatibility with the preceding Publication Policy.
Manuscripts are refereed by a double-blind process, which means that referees do not know authors' names or affiliations just as authors do not know the names of referees or the associate editor. (The associate editor must know authors' names, however, to enable choosing appropriate referees.)
Submitting Articles to The American Statistician
The preferred format for article submissions is PDF or PS files (printable on 8.5 x 11 paper). Please submit a blinded, as well as an unblinded version. Send files by email to the editorial office or send an email message with a pointer to an ftp or http site from where these files can be downloaded.
Email submissions to the editorial office. Contact information is at http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/board.html
A condition of submission is that the manuscript has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. A condition of publication is a copyright transfer to the American Statistical Association, unless the manuscript is in the public domain because it was prepared by a U.S. government employee as part of his or her official duties.
.All manuscripts should follow the style published in the ASA Style Guide. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Book publishers and others who wish to have items reviewed should communicate directly with the editors of either Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials or Statistical Computing Software Reviews, as appropriate, at the addresses listed above.
Editorial Board
Editor
James Albert Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 Phone: (419) 372-7456 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~albert
Editorial Coordinator
Cyndi Patterson Phone: (419) 372-2638 Fax: (419) 372-6092
Editor of Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
Russell V. Lenth JASA/TAS Reviews 311 Calvin Hall The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Tel (319)335-0814 FAX (319)335-3017
Editorial Assistant
Linda Yanney Tel (319) 335-1917 http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/JASA-Reviews/
Editor for Software Reviews
Dr. Joseph Hilbe 1453 E. Bartlett Way Chandler, AZ 85249
Associate Editors
John Borkowski, Montana State University
John Boyer, Kansas State University
Siddhartha Chib, Washington University - St. Louis
Cindy Christiansen, Boston University School of Public Health
Charles Davis, Elan Pharmaceuticals
John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
Timothy A. Green, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bert Gunter, Merck and Company
Ian Harris, Southern Methodist University
Jane Harvill, Mississippi State University
Joseph Hilbe, Arizona State University
Peter John, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Lumley, University of Washington
Steve MacEachern, Ohio State University
Michael Minnotte, Utah State University
Mary Mulry, U. S. Bureau of the Census
Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Nalini Ravishanker, University of Connecticut
Robert Rodriguez, SAS Institute
Fritz Scheuren, National Opinion Research Center
Doug Timmer, University of Texas - Pan American
Stephen Vardeman, Iowa State University
Raja Velu, Syracuse University
John H. Walker, California Polytechnic State University
Peter Westfall, Texas Tech University
Tommy Wright, U. S. Census Bureau
Arthur Yeh, Bowling Green State University
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