The Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods is a biannual peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 open access journal

Open access journal

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. It was established in 2002 by Shlomo Sawilowsky

Shlomo Sawilowsky

Shlomo S. Sawilowsky is professor of educational statistics and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he has received teaching, mentoring, and research awards.- Academic career :...

. The Current Index to Statistics classifies it as one of over 160 core statistics journals. The journal appears both as a print and electronic journal. It publishes work pertaining to new statistical tests

Statistical hypothesis testing

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 and the comparison of existing statistical tests, Monte Carlo

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; bootstrap

Bootstrapping

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, Jackknife, and resampling

Resampling

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 methods; nonparametric

Non-parametric statistics

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, robust, permutation

Permutation

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, exact, and approximate randomization

Randomization

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 methods; and statistical algorithm

Algorithm

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s, pseudorandom number generator

Pseudorandom number generator

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s, and simulation techniques. The journal is indexed in the Elsevier Bibliographic Database, EMBASE

EMBASE

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, Compendex

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, Geobase, PsychInfo, ScienceDirect

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, and Scopus

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. It is also listed in the Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statisticsand Cabells.

Rankings

The meaning and utility of impact factors and related statistics in ranking journals has been questioned in mathematics and statistics, and hence should be interpreted with caution. In 2008, the journal was ranked by SCImago Journal Rank

SCImago Journal Rank

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  as follows:

"Mathematics," N = 735 journals:
SJR=tied for 623rd,
H index=tied for 515th,
Citable documents=tied for 237th.

“Statistics and Probability Category," N =91 journals:
SJR= 83rd, H index= 68th,
Citable documents=15th.

“Statistics, Probability, and Uncertainty Category," N=23 journals:
SJR=21st,
H index=15th,
Citable documents=10th.

, the journal was ranked as a "Class B" journal in the Excellence in Research for Australia

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journal list. For comparison, out of 195 journals, 14 were ranked A*, 28 were ranked A, 54 were ranked B, and 96 were ranked C.