The Journal of Statistical Software is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 open access scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 that publishes papers related to statistical software. It is edited by UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 statistician

Statistics

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 Jan de Leeuw

Jan de Leeuw

Jan de Leeuw was born December 19, 1945, Voorburg, The Netherlands; he currently resides in Cuddy Valley, California.-Background:Jan de Leeuw is Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Founding Chair of the Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles He is the founding...

 and published by the American Statistical Association

American Statistical Association

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The journal publishes user's guides and other forms of description of statistical software, together with the source code

Source code

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 of the actual software in human-readable form. It also publishes reviews of statistical software and books (by invitation only). Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License

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, while the source code

Source code

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s distributed with articles are licensed under the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

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Articles are often about free statistical software

Free statistical software

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 and coverage includes packages for the R programming language

R (programming language)

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians for developing statistical software, and R is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis....

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Abstracting and indexing

The Journal of Statistical Software is indexed in the Current Index to Statistics

Current Index to Statistics

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 and the Science Citation Index Expanded

Science Citation Index

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