| Biometrika | |
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| Discipline | Statistics |
| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Biometrika Trust Oxford University Press (United Kingdom) |
| Publication history | 1901 to present |
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| ISSN | 0006-3444 (print) 1464-3510 (web) |
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Biometrika is a scientific journal principally covering theoretical statistics. An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of Knowledge which is taught or Researched at the college or university level Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection analysis interpretation or explanation and presentation of Data. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An International Standard Serial Number ( ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic Periodical publication. For a broader class of publications which include scientific journals see Academic journal. Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection analysis interpretation or explanation and presentation of Data.
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History
Biometrika was established in 1901 by Francis Galton, Karl Pearson and W. F. R. Weldon to promote the study of biometrics, the statistical analysis of hereditary phenomena; the name was chosen by Pearson, although Edgeworth insisted that it be spelt with a k and not a c. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Sir Francis Galton FRS ( 16 February 1822 &ndash 17 January 1911) half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an Karl Pearson FRS ( March 27 1857 &ndash April 27 1936) established the disciplineof Mathematical statistics. Walter Frank Raphael Weldon FRS ( 15 March 1860, Highgate, London &ndash 13 April 1906) Oxford Biometrics ( ancient Greek: bios life metron measure refers to two very different fields of study and application Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (8 February 1845 &ndash 13 February 1926 made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s Since the 1930s however it has been a journal for statistical theory and methodology. Galton's role in the journal was essentially that of a patron and the journal was run by Pearson and Weldon and after Weldon's death in 1906 by Pearson alone until he died in 1936. In the early days the American biologists C. B. Davenport and Raymond Pearl were nominally involved but they dropped out. Charles Benedict Davenport ( June 1, 1866 &ndash February 18, 1944) was a prominent American biologist and eugenicist Raymond Pearl ( 3 June 1879 &ndash 17 November 1940) was an American Biologist, regarded as one of the founders of On Pearson's death his son Egon Pearson became editor and remained in this position until 1966. Egon Sharpe Pearson ( Hampstead, 11 August 1895 – London, 12 June 1980) was the only son of Karl Pearson, and David Cox was editor for the next 25 years. Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS (born 1924 in Birmingham England) is an English Statistician. In its first 65 years Biometrika had essentially two editors and in its first 90 years only three.
Biometrika begins with a clear statement of purpose:
- It is intended that Biometrika shall serve as a means not only of collecting or publishing under one title biological data of a kind not systematically collected or published elsewhere in any other periodical, but also of spreading a knowledge of such statistical theory as may be requisite for their scientific treatment.
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 . "Heir" and "Heiress" redirect here For the men and women fragrances endorsed by Paris Hilton see Heiress (fragrance. In the context of Evolution, certain traits or Alleles of a Species may be subject to selection Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. . . ;
- (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. Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles for other uses see Memoir (disambiguation As a literary Genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire
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. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS ( 5 November 1892 &ndash 1 December 1964) known as Jack (but who used 'J " (Karl Pearson, 1857-1957, Biometrika, 44, (1957), p. 303. ) The same might be said of Pearson's journal.
Historical Reference
To mark the centenary of "one of the world's leading academic journals in statistical theory and methodology" a commemorative volume was produced
- Biometrika One Hundred Years, edited D. M. Titterington and Sir David Cox, Oxford University Press 2001. ISBN 0-19-850993-6
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.
- David Cox, "Biometrika Centenary," Bernoulli News (Newsletter of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability), Vol. David Cox may refer to David Cox (Australian politician, former member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Kingston David Cox 8, No. 1, May 2001.
Notable contributors to Biometrika
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See also
External links
- Biometrika
- Biometrika archived at JSTOR
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