''Significance'', established in 2004, is a bimonthly
magazine
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published by
Wiley-Blackwell
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on behalf of the
Royal Statistical Society
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...
(RSS), the
Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) and the
American Statistical Association
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(ASA).
[ It publishes articles on topics of statistical interest presented at a level suited for a general audience. Articles are reviewed by an editorial board of statistics experts drawn from the three societies. The founding ]editor-in-chief
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was Helen Joyce
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. The current editor is Brian Tarran. ''Significance'' replaced the RSS's journal, ''The Statistician''.
In addition to ordinary articles in the magazine, additional "virtual issues" (collections of articles on a particular subject area) are made available online. In November 2010 the magazine launched its website. Having been launched as a quarterly magazine, ''Significance'' changed to a bimonthly frequency in 2011. In 2020, the regular column 'Dr Fisher's Casebook' was renamed 'the secret statistician', a review prompted by concern about Fisher's views on eugenics (and supported by the lack of salience of the homage to ''Dr Finlay's Casebook
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'').
Members of either the RSS or the ASA receive the magazine as part of their membership.
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External links
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