The Annals of Statistics
Last updated ISSN 0090-5364
The Annals of Statistics is published by Institute of Mathematical Statistics in mathematics. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Annals of Statistics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Statistical Methods and Inference
- Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
- Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling
- Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring
- Optimal Experimental Design Methods
- Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Random Matrices and Applications
Key facts
| Publisher | Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0090-5364, 2168-8966 |
| Subject area | Mathematics |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 6,415 |
| Publishing since | 1973 |
| Journal website | www.imstat.org/aos/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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