The ''Journal of Statistical Software'' is a

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that publishes papers related to

statistical software The following is a list of statistical software. Open-source * ADaMSoft – a generalized statistical software with data mining algorithms and methods for data management * ADMB – a software suite for non-linear statistical modeling based on C+ ...

. The ''Journal of Statistical Software'' was founded in 1996 by Jan de Leeuw of the Department of Statistics at the

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. Its current editors-in-chief are Achim Zeileis, Bettina Grün, Edzer Pebesma, and Torsten Hothorn. It is published by the Foundation for Open Access Statistics. The journal charges no author fees or subscription fees. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles about statistical software, together with the

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. It also publishes reviews of statistical software and books (by invitation only). Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, while the

s distributed with articles are licensed under the

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. Articles are often about

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and coverage includes packages for the

R programming language R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It has been widely adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, data analysis, and data science. The core R language is extended by a large number of so ...

Abstracting and indexing

The ''Journal of Statistical Software'' is indexed in the

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and the

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. Its 2018 Impact Factor in

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is 11.655. The journal was named a ''Rising Star'' by Science Watch in 2011.

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Foundation for Open Access Statistics
Computational statistics journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals R (programming language)

Statistical Software The following is a list of statistical software. Open-source * ADaMSoft – a generalized statistical software with data mining algorithms and methods for data management * ADMB – a software suite for non-linear statistical modeling based on C+ ...

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