Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)

Published on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society

Edited by:
S. Day and A. Fielding

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 23/92 Statistics & Probability; 10/37 Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), publishes papers that demonstrate how statistical thinking, design and analyses play a vital role in all walks of life and benefit society in general. There is no restriction on subject matter. For example, medicine, business and commerce, industry, economics and finance, education and teaching, physical and biomedical sciences, the environment, the law, government and politics, demography, psychology, sociology and sport, all fall within its remit.

The journal's emphasis is on clearly written quantitative approaches to problems in the real world rather than the exposition of technical detail. Of particular interest are papers on topical or contentious statistical issues, papers which give reviews or exposés of current statistical concerns and papers contributing to our understanding of important substantive questions. Such papers are reviewed and published more rapidly. Historical, professional and biographical contributions are also published, as are discussions of methods of data collection and of ethical issues.

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Call for Papers
Anchoring Vignettes in Social Sciences, 17 November 2010
The organisers of the meeting are soliciting submissions that address this theme from its statistical foundations to its various applications in all sciences. For further details click here.

Themed issues
172:3 Recent Advances in Multilevel Modelling Methodology and Applications
Guest edited by William J. Browne and Fiona Steele

Special issues
170:2 Census present and future
Guest edited by D. J. Martin

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TopHighlights

The giants of excess: a challenge to the nation's health
Julian Le Grand

Modern statistics: the myth and the magic
D. J. Hand

Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference
K. Imai, G King and E. A. Stuart

Joint projections of temperature and precipitation change from multiple climate models: a hierarchical Bayesian approach
Claudia Tebaldi and Bruno Sansó

A re-evaluation of random-effects meta-analysis
J.P.T. Higgins, S.G. Thompson and D.J. Spiegelhalter

Bias modelling in evidence synthesis
R.M. Turner, D.J. Spiegelhalter, G.C.S. Smith and S.G. Thompson

Hierarchical related regression for combining aggregate and individual data in studies of socio-economic disease risk factors
C. Jackson, N. Best and S. Richardson

Understanding the 2001 UK census migration and commuting data: the effect of small cell adjustment and problems of comparison with 1991
J. Stillwell and O. Duke-Williams

The 'heuristics and biases' bias in expert elicitation
M. Kynn

Discussion papers
Series A also publishes papers which have been presented for discussion at meeting of the society. Forthcoming discussion papers are available from the society's web pages. For recently published discussion papers, please browse the Series A online table of contents. Below are a selection that you can read for free.

Calculating compensation for loss of future earnings: estimating and using work life expectancy
Z. Butt, S. Haberman, R. Verrall and V. Wass

Research prioritization based on expected value of partial perfect information: a case-study on interventions to increase uptake of breast cancer screening
N. J. Welton, A. E. Ades, D. M. Caldwell and T. J. Peters

Highly accessed papers
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Highly cited papers
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