John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of Stat,
the new online-only, rapid communication research journal of the
International Statistical Institute (ISI), publishing articles in all
facets of statistics and related interdisciplinary areas.
Stat publishes short articles within four weeks of submission,
using a streamlined submission and review system. Allowing readers to
access and connect with content in novel ways, emphasis is placed on the
online delivery of articles and innovative forms of supplementary
material including data, graphs, images, video, software, and code. It
will have an associated moderated online discussion, Statblog, to
facilitate immediate discussion of published articles.
“We are very excited to extend our publishing relationship with the ISI
by collaborating with them on this new venture. Developments in a
growing number of subject areas rely upon the early publication of
research results and access to the underlying data. Stat is
launched with this in mind,” said Kathryn Sharples, Publisher,
Statistics & Mathematics, Wiley. “The journal’s novel rapid review
process, coupled with fast publication will enable authors to
disseminate their findings and associated data within very short time
frames, aiding interdisciplinary collaboration.”
Stat provides a means of rapid sharing of important new
theoretical, methodological, and applied research for the international
community of statisticians, researchers, and practitioners. Paper types
include original articles, letters to the editor, discussion papers, and
author responses, with a maximum article length of ten pages of text.
One recently published study, “Aligning
Some Nicholson Sheep-Blowfly Data Sets with System Input Periods” by
David R. Brillinger of the Department of Statistics, University of
California, Berkeley concerns Alexander Nicholson, former Chief of the
Division of Entomology in the Commonwealth Scientific Research
Organization. Nicholson carried out laboratory experiments on evolving
insect populations. Brillinger notes, “The results motivated many
studies, particularly ones concerned with density-dependent
competition.” This important new article addresses the question: how to
estimate a permutation, thereby providing a correspondence between the
known set of periods and the list of data sets. The results will be used
in developing specific dynamical system models for the experiments
involving inputs. Other recent Stat articles of interest
include:
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Enhanced
security checks at airports: minimizing time to detection or
probability of escape? By Xiao-Li Meng
Motivated by
security screening at airports, this article shows that under very
natural conditions, the influence of a prior does not go to zero as
the sample size increases. The result is important and
counterintuitive.
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Large
complex data: divide and recombine (D&R) with RHIPE By
Saptarshi Guha, Ryan Hafen, Jeremiah Rounds, Jin Xia, Jianfu Li, Bowei
Xi, and William S. Cleveland
This article described a method,
Divide and Recombine, that allows the data analyst to apply almost any
statistical or visualization method to large complex data (so-called
Big Data), when direct application of most analytic methods to the
entire data set is either infeasible, or impractical. D&R enables deep
analysis that minimizes the risk of losing important information.
“We want Stat to be a research journal for the 21st
century,” notes Dr. Nicholas Fisher, Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
“What that means is that we want to take advantage of current and
emerging developments in information and communication technology to
enhance the way researchers can announce their results and comment on
others’ results.” To view the full video interview with Dr. Fisher,
please visit http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/stat.
“The International Statistical Institute is pleased to offer Stat,
an online research journal with many innovative features,” said Vijay
Nair, President-Elect of ISI . “It is designed to fill an important
niche, providing a fast and efficient review process and timely
publication of important and concise statistical results. We hope the
international statistics community will support Statand make
it a high-quality research journal.”
Discover Stat at www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/stat.
Complimentary online access is available until end of 2013. Librarians
please visit www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/newjournals-optin for
more information.
