''Statistica'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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open access
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scientific journal
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dealing with methodological and technical aspects of
statistics
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and statistical analyses in the various scientific fields.
It was established in 1931 as the ''Supplemento statistico ai nuovi problemi di Politica, Storia ed Economia'' (English: ''Statistical Supplement to the New Problems of Politics, History and Economics'') and obtained its current title in 1941. It is published by the
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna (, abbreviated Unibo) is a Public university, public research university in Bologna, Italy. Teaching began around 1088, with the university becoming organised as guilds of students () by the late 12th century. It is the ...
and is an historical Italian journal in the field of statistics. The founding
editor-in-chief
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was
Paolo Fortunati and Italo Scardovi was editor from 1981 till 2004. The current editor-in-chief is
Christian Hennig (
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna (, abbreviated Unibo) is a Public university, public research university in Bologna, Italy. Teaching began around 1088, with the university becoming organised as guilds of students () by the late 12th century. It is the ...
).
Famous scholars collaborated to ''Statistica'' as members of Scientific Board or simply as authors of papers. Among them there are
Corrado Gini
Corrado Gini (23 May 1884 – 13 March 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of organicism and applied it to nat ...
,
Bruno De Finetti
Bruno de Finetti (13 June 1906 – 20 July 1985) was an Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability. The classic exposition of his distinctive theory is the 1937 , which discuss ...
,
Carlo E. Bonferroni, Marcel Fréchet,
Samuel Kotz
Samuel Kotz (; August 30, 1930, Harbin, China – March 16, 2010, Kemp Mill, Maryland) was a professor and research scholar in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science at The ...
, Camilo Dagum,
Estelle Bee Dagum, Italo Scardovi.
Abstracting and indexing
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Emerging Sources Citation Index
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, a
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database and
Repec
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.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/
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