The ''British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology'' is a British

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founded in 1947. It covers the fields of

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

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mathematical psychology Mathematical psychology is an approach to psychological research that is based on mathematical modeling of perceptual, thought, cognitive and motor processes, and on the establishment of law-like rules that relate quantifiable stimulus characte ...

. It was established as the ''British Journal of Psychology (Statistical Section)'', was renamed the ''British Journal of Statistical Psychology'' in 1953, and was renamed again to its current title in 1965.

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