The ''Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)'' is the primary

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published by the American Statistical Association, the main

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for

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in the

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. It is published four times a year in March, June, September and December by Taylor & Francis, Ltd on behalf of the American Statistical Association. As a statistics journal it publishes articles primarily focused on the application of statistics, statistical theory and methods in

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, and

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sciences. The journal also includes reviews of academic books which are important to the advancement of the field. It had an

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of 2.063 in 2010, tenth highest in the "Statistics and Probability" category of '' Journal Citation Reports''. In a 2003 survey of statisticians, the ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'' was ranked first, among all journals, for "Applications of Statistics" and second (after '' Annals of Statistics'') for "Mathematical Statistics". The predecessor of this journal started in 1888 with the name ''Publications of the American Statistical Association''. It became ''Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association'' in 1912, and ''JASA'' in 1922.Journal of the American Statistical Association: Publication History
at Taylor & Francis site

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