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''Biometrika'' begins with a clear statement of purpose: It is intended that Its contents were to include: :(a) memoirs on Variation , Inheritance , and Selection in Animals and Plants , based upon the examination of statistically large numbers of specimens ...; :(b) those developments of statistical theory which are applicable to Biological problems; :(c) numerical tables and graphical solutions tending to reduce the labour of statistical arithmetic; :(d) abstracts of Memoirs , dealing with these subjects, which are published elsewhere; and :(e) notes on current biometric work and unsolved problems. Early volumes contained many memoirs on biological topics, but over the twentieth century ''Biometrika'' became a "journal of statistics in which emphasis is placed on papers containing original theoretical contributions of direct or potential value in applications." Thus, of the five types of contents envisaged by its founders, only (b) and to a lesser extent (c) remain, largely shorn of their biological roots. In his centenary tribute to Karl Pearson J. B. S. Haldane likened him to Columbus who "set out for China, and discovered America." (Karl Pearson, 1857-1957, Biometrika, 44, (1957), p. 303.) The same might be said of Pearson's journal. HISTORY To mark the centenary of "one of the world's leading academic journals in statistical theory and methodology" a commemorative volume was produced
Part 1 consists of articles that had appeared in a special issue of the journal and Part 2 of a selection of classic papers published in the journal from the years 1939-71. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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