Biometrika
Biometrika is a scientific journal established in 1901 by the British statistician Francis Galton and his protégé Karl Pearson concerning biometrics; statistical analysis of hereditary phenomena.
Biometrika begins with a clear statement of purpose:
- It is intended that Biometrika shall serve as a means not only of collecting or publishing under one title biological data of a kind not systematically collected or published elsewhere in any other periodical, but also of spreading a knowledge of such statistical theory as may be requisite for their scientific treatment.
Its contents were to include:
- (a) memoirs on variation, inheritance, and selection in Animals and Plants, based upon the examination of statistically large numbers of specimens ...;
- (b) those developments of statistical theory which are applicable to biological problems;
- (c) numerical tables and graphical solutions tending to reduce the labour of statistical arithmetic;
- (d) abstracts of memoirs, dealing with these subjects, which are published elsewhere; and
- (e) notes on current biometric work and unsolved problems.
Early volumes contained many memoirs on biological topics, but over the twentieth century Biometrika became a "journal of statistics in which emphasis is placed on papers containing original theoretical contributions of direct or potential value in applications." Thus, of the five types of contents envisaged by its founders, only (b) and to a lesser extent (c) remain, largely shorn of their biological roots.
External links
- Biometrika
- Biometrika archived at JSTOR