The ''Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)'' is the primary

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, the main

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for

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in the

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. It is published four times a year in March, June, September and December by Taylor & Francis, Ltd on behalf of the American Statistical Association. As a statistics journal it publishes articles primarily focused on the application of statistics, statistical theory and methods in

economic An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...

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, and

health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

sciences. The journal also includes reviews of academic books which are important to the advancement of the field. It had an

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of 2.063 in 2010, tenth highest in the "Statistics and Probability" category of ''

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''. In a 2003 survey of statisticians, the ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'' was ranked first, among all journals, for "Applications of Statistics" and second (after ''

Annals of Statistics The ''Annals of Statistics'' is a peer-reviewed statistics journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It was started in 1973 as a continuation in part of the '' Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1930)'', which was split into th ...

'') for "Mathematical Statistics". The predecessor of this journal started in 1888 with the name ''Publications of the American Statistical Association''. It became ''Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association'' in 1912, and ''JASA'' in 1922.Journal of the American Statistical Association: Publication History
at Taylor & Francis site

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