Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)

期刊简介：Series B (Statistical Methodology) aims to publish high quality papers on the methodological aspects of statistics and data science more broadly. The objective of papers should be to contribute to the understanding of statistical methodology and/or to develop and improve statistical methods; any mathematical theory should be directed towards these aims. The kinds of contribution considered include descriptions of new methods of collecting or analysing data, with the underlying theory, an indication of the scope of application and preferably a real example. Also considered are comparisons, critical evaluations and new applications of existing methods, contributions to probability theory which have a clear practical bearing (including the formulation and analysis of stochastic models), statistical computation or simulation where original methodology is involved and original contributions to the foundations of statistical science. Reviews of methodological techniques are also considered. A paper, even if correct and well presented, is likely to be rejected if it only presents straightforward special cases of previously published work, if it is of mathematical interest only, if it is too long in relation to the importance of the new material that it contains or if it is dominated by computations or simulations of a routine nature.

【译文】《系列B（统计方法论）》旨在发表关于统计学和数据科学方法论方面的高质量论文。论文的目标应该是为了增进对统计方法论的认知，或开发并改进统计方法；任何数学理论都应该服务于这些目标。考虑的贡献包括描述新的数据收集或分析方法及其基础理论，指明应用范围，并最好提供一个实际例子。还包括对现有方法的比较、批判性评估和新应用，对概率理论贡献，这些贡献有明确的实际应用（包括随机模型的制定和分析），涉及原创方法论的统计计算或模拟，以及对统计科学基础的原创贡献。也考虑方法论技术的综述。即使论文正确且表述良好，如果它只呈现先前发表工作的简单特殊情况，如果它只有数学兴趣，如果它相对于所包含的新材料的的重要性来说过长，或者如果它主要由常规性质的计算或模拟主导，那么这篇论文很可能会被拒绝。