Study methodologies journals

Study methodologies journals:

1. The American Statistitian:
- How do statisticians perceive statistics journals? p115, May 2003
- Statistics and Ethics: Some Advice for young statisticians, p21, Feb 2003
- Statistical Research: some advice for beginers, p93, May 2004
- Courses in statistical computing and computational statistics, Feb 2003

Main Journal List

http://www.statsci.org/jourlist.html
The following is a nearly comprehensive list of journals which publish articles in statistics. It includes a complete list of journals which published six or more statistics articles or book reviews listed in the Current Index to Statistics for 1994. More recent journals have been added manually.
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ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Association for Computing Machinery (New York)
Advances in Applied Probability, Applied Probability Trust (Sheffield)
Aligarh Journal of Statistics, The.
Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft, distributed by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht (Göttingen)
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2007 E. Monument St, Baltimore, MD 21205
Analytical Chemistry, American Chemical Society (Washington)
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare, Section B, Calcul des Probabilities et Statistique, Gauther-Villars, distributed by Dunod-Gauthier-Villars (Montrouge)
Annals of Applied Probability, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Hayward)
Annals of Operations Research, Baltzer (Basel)
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo)
Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Applied Psychological Measurement, N657 Elliott Hall, University of Minnesota, 75 E. River Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0344
Applied Statistics, Royal Statistical Society (London)
Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, Wiley (New York). Now renamed as Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry with a new editor.
Astin Bulletin. A Journal of the International Actuarial Association, Centerick s.a., Brusselsestraat 153, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. See also the casact Astin Bulletin site which includes online articles.
Bernoulli, Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. First issue March 1995. See also the Kluwer Press journal page.
Biometrical Journal. Journal of Mathematical Methods in Biosciences, Wiley-VCH (Berlin)
Biometrics, Biometric Society (Alexandria, VA)
Biometrika, Oxford University Press in association with Biometrika Trust, Oxford, UK
Biostatistics, Oxford University Press in association with Biometrika Trust, Oxford, UK. Volume 1 in 2000.
Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, c/o Department of Statistics, Calcutta University, New Science Bldg, 35, Ballygunge Circular Rd, Calcutta 700019 India
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Canadian Govt Publ Centre, Supply and Services Canada, Hull, Quebec K1A OS9 Canada. Full text online in PDF format.
Chance, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA)
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam). See also the editor's Chemometrics site at Texas A&M.
Communications in Statistics, Part A - Theory and Methods, Marcel Dekker (New York)
Communications in Statistics, Part B--Simulation and Computation, Marcel Dekker (New York)
Communications in Statistics--Stochastic Models, Marcel Dekker (New York)
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Computational Statistics, Physica-Verlag (Heidelberg). Editor's www page.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Controlled Clinical Trials, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Kluwer Press. Four issues per year starting 1997.
Decision Sciences, Decision Sciences Institute, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Stochastics, Institute of Mathematics, Technical University of Zielona Góra, Poland.
Ecological Modelling, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Ecology, Ecological Society of America (Tempe, AZ)
Econometric Reviews, Marcel Dekker (New York)
Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK)
Econometrica, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Sage Publications (Thousand Oaks)
Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Kluwer Press. First issue 1994.
EnvironMetrics, Wiley (New York)
Epidemiology, Blackwell Scientific (Oxford)
Extremes, Kluwer Press. Four issues per year starting 1998.
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Health Services and Outcomes Research, Kluwer Press. Four issues per year starting 1999.
IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New York)
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New York)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New York)
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New York)
IIE Transactions, American Institute of Industrial Engineers (Atlanta)
Insurance Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
International Journal of Climatology, Wiley (New York)
International Journal of Epidemiology, Oxford University Press (Oxford)
International Journal of Forecasting, North-Holland/Elsevier (Amsterdam; New York)
International Statistical Review, International Statistical Institute (Voorburg, The Netherlands)
Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, American Statistical Association and International Biometric Society. First published 1996.
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Wiley (New York)
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Science, Massey University. Treats practical problems of Mathematics, Operations Research, and Statistics. First issue dated July 1997. The full text of articles is available free in PS or DVI formats for a limited time.
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, North Atlantic Science Publishing Company, Melbourne, Florida. A cross-disciplinary journal of mathematics and probability. First issue was 1988. Not included in Current Index to Statistics.
Journal of Applied Meteorology, American Meteorological Society (Boston). Full text online.
Journal of Applied Probability, Applied Probability Trust (Sheffield)
Journal of Applied Statistical Science, Nova Science (Commack, NY)
Journal of Applied Statistics, Carfax (Dunnellon, FL)
Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Marcel Dekker (New York)
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA)
Journal of Chemometrics, Wiley (New York)
Journal of Classification, Classification Society of North America (St. Johns). See also JOC at Springer-Verlag
Journal of Combinatorial Theory-Series A, Academic (New York; London)
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA) Abstracts and Data Sets.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association (Washington)
Journal of Data Science. New journal starting January 2003. Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan).
Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, American Educational Research Association (Washington)
Journal of Forecasting, Wiley (New York)
Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Academic Forum, Analytic Publishing Co., Delhi, India. Includes some probability and statistics. Volume 1 Number 1 is 1998.
Journal of Marketing Research, American Marketing Association (Chicago)
Journal of Microscopy, Blackwell Scientific (Oxford)
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Academic (New York; London)
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Gordon and Breach Science (New York)
Journal of Official Statistics, SCB-Distribution, S-701 89 Oerebro, Sweden
Journal of Quality Technology, American Society for Quality Control (Milwaukee)
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Gordon and Breach Science (New York). See also the editor's JSCS page at Virginia Tech.
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Journal of Statistics and Management Systems. Taru Publications.
Journal of Statistics Education, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8203 (e-mail: listserv@jse.stat.ncsu.edu)
Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA) (Data Archive)
Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery (New York)
Journal of the Japan Statistical Society, Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo)
Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, Korean Statistical Society (Seoul)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), Royal Statistical Society (London)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Methodological, Royal Statistical Society (London)
Journal of Theoretical Probability, Kluwer Academic (Dordrecht). See also the Editor's Journal Homepage at the University of South Florida
Journal of Time Series Analysis, Basil Blackwell (Oxford)
Korean Journal of Applied Statistics, Korean Statistical Society (Seoul)
Lifetime Data Analysis, Kluwer Academic (Dordrecht). Statistical science in the various applied fields that deal with lifetime data. Since 1995.
Mathematical Biosciences, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Mathematical Methods of Statistics, Allerton Press (New York)
Mathematics of Operations Research, Institute of Management Science and Operations Research Society of America (Providence)
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Kluwer Press. Quarterly journal starting publication in 1999.
Metrika, Physica-Verlag (Heidelberg)
Metron. Università deli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Dipartimento di Statistica, Probabilità e Statistiche Applicate.
Monthly Weather Review, American Meteorological Society (Boston)
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, NJ 07642
Pakistan Journal of Statistics, Series A, Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences (Lahore)
Perceptual and Motor Skills, Box 9229, Missoula, MT 59807
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Math and Physical Science, The Royal Society (London)
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK)
Probability Theory and Related Fields, Springer-Verlag (Berlin; New York)
Psychological Bulletin, American Psychological Association (Washington)
Psychometrika, Psychometric Society, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, P. O. Box 26171 Greensboro, NC 27402-6171
Quaderni di Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Economico-Sociali, Istituto di Statistica e R.O., University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Quality Engineering, American Society for Quality Control (Milwaukee)
Quality Progress, American Society for Quality Control (Milwaukee)
Random Structures and Algorithms, Wiley (New York)
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Revista Brasileira de Probabilidade e Estatistica (The Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics), Brazilian Statistical Association (Sao Paulo)
Revue de Statistique Appliquee - CERESTA, Inst de Stat des Universitée de Paris, Tour 45-55 (E.2), 4 Place Jussieu, 75230 Paris Cedex 05 France
Risk Analysis, Plenum (New York; London). See also the Society for Risk Analysis Journal Page.
Sankhya, The Indian Statistical Institute
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, Scandinavian University Press (Oslo)
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. Blackwell Scientific (Oxford)
Sequential Analysis, Marcel Dekker (New York)
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Philadelphia)
SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Philadelphia)
SIAM Review, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Philadelphia)
Sociological Methods and Research, Sage (Newbury Park, CA; London)
South African Statistical Journal, Box 27321, Sunnyside, Pretoria 0132 Republic of South Africa
Statistica Applicata, Rocco Curto Editore (Naples)
Statistica Neerlandica, Vereniging voor Statistiek, c/o CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Statistica Sinica, Institute of Statistical Science (Taiwan)
Statistica, Via Belle Arti, 41, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Bepress. Electronic journal starting 2002.
Statistics Education Research Journal, International Association for Statistical Education. Electronic journal starting 2002.
Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Kluwer Press. Three issues per year starting 1998.
Statistical Methodology, Elsevier. First issue in 2004.
Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Edward Arnold (London; Baltimore)
Statistical Modelling, Arnold Publishing. Volume 1 in 2001.
Statistical Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Hayward)
Statistics and Computing, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Statistics and Decisions, R. Oldenbourg (Munich)
Statistics and Probability Letters, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Statistics Education Research Journal, International Association for Statistical Education and the International Statistical Institute.
Statistics in Medicine, Wiley (New York)
Statistics, Gordon and Breach Science (New York)
Stats. The Magazine for Students of Statistics, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA)
Stochastic Analysis and Applications, Marcel Dekker (New York)
Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam)
Stochastics, Gordon and Breach Science (New York)
Structural Equation Modeling, Lawrence Erlbaum (Hillsdale, NJ)
Student. First issue February 1995. A statistical journal publishing the thoughts of graduate students. University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, MIT Press. Articles available in PDF and Postscript formats. Since April 1996.
Survey Methodology, Statistics Canada (Ottawa)
Teaching Statistics, Blackwell Scientific (Oxford)
Technometrics, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA). See also the editor's Technometrics page and the ASQ Technometrics page.
Test, Spanish Statistical and Operations Research Society (Madrid)
The American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematical Association of America (Washington)
The American Statistician, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA). 50 year searchable index.
The Annals of Probability, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Hayward)
The Annals of Statistics, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Hayward)
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Blackwell Scientific (Oxford)
The British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, British Pyschological Society, c/o The Distribution Centre, Blackhorse Rd, Letchworth, Herts SG6 1HN UK
The Canadian Journal of Statistics, Statistical Society of Canada, Department of Mathematics, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6 Canada
The Econometrics Journal. Full text available online for members of the Royal Economic Society. No issues published as at June 1999. Blackwell Publishers.
The Egyptian Statistical Journal, Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, University of Cairo (Giza, Egypt)
The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society, Pergamon (New York; Oxford)
The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics (in Korean), Korean Statistical Society (Seoul)
The Mathematical Scientist, Applied Probability Trust (Sheffield)
The Proceedings of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, Elsevier/North-Holland (New York; Amsterdam) (MIT Press since 1996)
The Statistician, Royal Statistical Society (London)
Theoretical Population Biology, Academic (New York; London)
Theory of Probability and its Applications (Transl of Teorija Verojatnostei i ee Primenenija), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Philadelphia)
Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Transl of Teorija Verojatnostei i Matematiceskaja Statistika), American Mathematical Society (Providence)
Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union (Washington)
Zastosowania Matematyki Applicationes Mathematicae, Polish Scientific (Warsaw)

Stanford Statistics Links

Professors may sometimes ask you to do a literature search. They will likely give you a specific topic and ask you to find out what has been published on it. This can be done using Socrates but Socrates does not search journal articles, and this will likely be the most important part of your search. There are several places to search journal articles, usually classified by subject. Here is a partial list of some of the more important ones:
For statistics articles try:
SciSearch: http://scisearch2.lanl.gov/stanford/sci.html
ResearchIndex: http://www.researchindex.com/. This has many online articles and will often search the web for you as well. It can also search for citations, a very valuable tool.
JStor: http://www.jstor.org/. JStor is also a good place to search for economics articles. Their articles are all online but are at least two years old.
For mathematics articles try MathSciNet: http://ams.rice.edu/mathscinet/. This allows a full-text search so again you can search for citations.
For engineering articles try INSPEC: http://inspec/lanl/gov/stanford/. This allows a full-text search also.
For medical or biostat articles try Medline: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/catdb/help/medac.html/.
In general: The Stanford library system lists a large number of searchable databases at http://www-sul.stanford.edu/cadb/alldata.html (linkable from the main library page by clicking on Databases). Usually you can find what you are looking for here. Occasionally you may need to search from a Stanford IP address and the Stanford subscriptions only work for Stanford IP addesses. This can easily be done in any of the departmental computers.
Don't forget that a simple websearch can often lead you right to the author's homepage where you might be able to download the article!

Minitab tutorial

http://www.thiel.edu/academics/math/UsflLnk/Mintb/Default.htm

Concept - Cross Tabulation

Cross tabs (or cross tabulations) display the joint distribution of two or more variables. They are usually presented in a matrix, called a contingency table. Whereas a frequency distribution table describes the distribution of one variable, a contingency table describes the distribution of two or more variables simultaneously. It merges two or more frequency distribution tables into one. Each cell gives the number of respondents that gave that combination of responses, that is, each cell contains a single cross tabulation.

The following is an example of a 2 × 3 contingency table. The variable “Wikipedia usuage” has three categories: heavy user, light user, and non user. These categories are all inclusive so the columns sum to 100%. The other variable “intelligence” has two categories: smart, and air head. These categories are not all inclusive so the rows need not sum to 100%. Each cell gives the percentage of subjects that share that combination of traits.

smart air head
heavy Wiki user 70% 5%
light Wiki user 25% 35%
non Wiki user 5% 60%




Cross tabs are frequently used because:

They are easy to understand. They appeal to people that do not understand the more sophisticated measures.
They can be used with any level of data: nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio - cross tabs treat all data as if it is nominal
A table can provide greater insight than single statistics
It solves the problem of empty or sparse cells



The statistics associated with cross tabs are:

Chi-squared - This tests the statistical significance of the cross tabulations. Chi-squared should not be calculated for percentages. The cross tabs must be converted back to absolute counts (numbers) before calculating chi-squared. Chi-squared is also problematic when any cell has a joint frequency of less than five.
Contingency Coefficient - This tests the strength of association of the cross tabulations. It is a variant of the phi coefficient that adjusts for statistical significance. Values range from 0 (no association) to 1 (the theoretical maximum possible association).
Cramer’s V - This tests the strength of association of the cross tabulations. It is a variant of the phi coefficient that adjusts for the number of rows and columns. Values range from 0 (no association) to 1 (the theoretical maximum possible association).
Lambda Coefficient - This tests the strength of association of the cross tabulations when the variables are measured at the nominal level. Values range from 0 (no association) to 1 (the theoretical maximum possible association). Asymmetric lambda measures the percentage improvement in predicting the dependent variable. Symmetric lambda measures the percentage improvement when prediction is done in both directions.
Tau b - This tests the strength of association of the cross tabulations when both variables are measured at the ordinal level. It makes adjustments for ties and is most suitable for square tables. Values range from -1 (no association) to +1 (the theoretical maximum possible association).
Tau c - This tests the strength of association of the cross tabulations when both variables are measured at the ordinal level. It makes adjustments for ties and is most suitable for rectangular tables. Values range from -1 (no association) to +1 (the theoretical maximum possible association).
Gamma - This tests the strength of association of the cross tabulations when both variables are measured at the ordinal level. It makes no adjustment for either table size or ties. Values range from -1 (no association) to +1 (the theoretical maximum possible association).