Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

The Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods (JMASM) was incorporated in 2000 and published its first issue in 2002. The founding editor is Shlomo S. Sawilowsky of the College of Education at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

The appearance of JMASM continues a long tradition of journal activity in Sawilowsky's academic genealogy. Excluding copious ad hoc editorial reviews, some examples include Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), cofounder of Acta Eruditorum in 1682 and founding editor of Monatliche Auszug in 1700; Joseph Liouville (1809–1882), founding editor of Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliqués in 1836; Eugène Catalan (1814–1894), founding editor of Nouvelle Correspondance Mathématique in 1874; Jules Tannery (1848–1910), coeditor of [Page 501]Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques beginning in 1876; and David Lee Hanson, associate editor of Annals of Mathematical Statistics/Annals of Statistics beginning in 1967 and the Annals of Probability in 1973.

JMASM is an independent journal. It is not supported by any professional or scholarly society or organization. It is a peer-reviewed print and “open access” electronic journal (http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm). Open access means the journal is based on a funding model that does not charge readers or institutions for electronic access, and the electronic version is released simultaneously with the print version. It is published twice a year (May and November). Each issue contains about 295 pages. There have been more than 5,750 downloads for each of the first nine issues of the journal.

More than 250 universities and colleges worldwide receive the print journal, and more than 350 list the electronic version in their library. JMASM is a core journal in the Current Index to Statistics and is also indexed in Elsevier Bibliographic Database, EMBASE, Compendex, Geobase, Scopus, and ScienceDirect.

The inaugural editorial team of JMASM includes associate editors Bruno D. Zumbo of the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Harvey J. Keselman of the University of Manitoba, Canada, and assistant editors Alan Klockars of the University of Washington, Todd C. Headrick of the University of Southern Illinois–Carbondale, and Vance W. Berger of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. The international editorial board represents about 50 universities and institutions, with about 85% of the members from the United States or Canada and the remaining from Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom.

The primary purposes of JMASM are to promote the following:

• 1.
  The development or study of new statistical tests or procedures, or the comparison of existing statistical tests or procedures, using computer-intensive Monte Carlo, bootstrap, jackknife, or resampling methods
• 2.
  The development or study of nonparametric, robust, permutation, exact, and approximate randomization methods
• 3.
  Applications of computer programming related to statistical algorithms, pseudorandom number generators, simulation techniques, and self-contained executable code (e.g., Fortran) to carry out new or interesting statistical methods
• 4.
  Applied problems in statistics and data analysis; experimental and nonexperimental research design; psychometry, testing, and measurement; and quantitative or qualitative evaluation in all disciplines of systematic inquiry

Articles from renowned scholars appear in the Invited section. To date, these authors include Ralph D'Agostino, Sr.; James Algina; Peter Bentler; R. Clifford Blair; Robert Boik; Walt Brainerd; William J. Conover; C. Mitchell Dayton; Philip I. Good; Gregory R. Hancock; Harvey J. Keselman; Thomas R. Knapp; George Marsaglia; S. James Press; Pranab K. Sen; Ronald C. Serlin; Juliet P. Shaffer; Judith M. Tanur; Neil H. Timm; and Rand R. Wilcox.

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