Statistics, Politics, and Policy -- New Journal

[Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva <denisebritz@gmail.com>]

Caros,

 

para conhecer.

 

Denise

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June 07, 2011

 

New Journal

Statistics, Politics, and Policy

 

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Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce a new peer-reviewed journal, Statistics, Politics, and Policy. Statistics, Politics, and Policy studies the ways in which statistical analysis drives public policy decisions, and publishes significant research on the application of statistical ideas to problems that relate to policy implementation. In addition to applied research articles, the journal includes engaging commentary pieces and innovative policy ideas on the public issues of the day where statistical thinking influences decisions that affect many aspects of public life. Articles Using a Density-Variation/Compactness Measure to Evaluate Redistricting Plans for Partisan Bias and Electoral Responsiveness Thomas R. Belin, Heidi J. Fischer, and Corwin M. Zigler The Spread of Evidence-Poor Medicine via Flawed Social-Network Analysis Russell Lyons Assessing the Early Aberration Reporting System’s Ability to Locally Detect the 2009 Influenza Pandemic Katie S. Hagen, Ronald D. Fricker Jr., Krista D. Hanni, Susan Barnes, and Kristy Michie Measuring Elusive Populations with Bayesian Model Averaging for Multiple Systems Estimation: A Case Study on Lethal Violations in Casanare, 1998-2007 Kristian Lum, Megan Price, Tamy Guberek, and Patrick Ball Atmospheric Circulations Do Not Explain the Temperature-Industrialization Correlation Ross McKitrick Commentary and Ideas Reproducible Research: A Range of Response David Banks A Snapshot of the 2008 Election Andrew Gelman, Daniel Lee, and Yair Ghitza About this journal Statistics, Politics, and Policy (SPP) studies the ways in which statistical analysis drives public policy decisions, and publishes significant research on the application of statistical ideas to problems that relate to policy implementation. In addition to applied research articles, the peer-reviewed journal includes timely and engaging commentaries about public issues where statistics plays a role. The journal will appeal to statisticians, policy analysts, and anyone interested in the implicit yet powerful ways that statistical thinking influences decisions that affect many aspects of public life. Editors come from highly regarded statistics and public policy programs such as UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and the University of Southern California. Statistics, Politics, and Policy is indexed in Current Index to Statistics, and WorldCat.

Edited by David Banks Duke University Daniel McCaffrey RAND Sally Morton University of Pittsburgh John Rolph University of Southern California Contributing Editor: Andrew Gelman Columbia University Most Popular Papers Sign Up for Alerts Tell a Colleague Recommend to Your Library

 

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