If a reader submits a problem, a comment or a question, he should state how much of the
substantive detail can be revealed in the Notes, and give also a paraphrase, suitable for …

To prepare a good statistical textbook, aimed primarily at the academic biologist, which
proceeds from an elementary introduction through to the advanced methods necessary for …

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETIES in the UK have been aware
for some time that statistical testing and data presentation in our journals can fall short of the …

We find standards useful in everyday life and in science, although we do not always follow
them. Adopting new standards can be expensive, so there may be a strong incentive to …

DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. BIOMETRY AND BIOMETRIKA. TO THE EDITOR
OF SCIENCE: May I as one of the editors of the above journal make a personal appeal to the …

An inauspicious start to 2009, unfortunately. This issue may seem a little thinner than others
we've recently published, as 4 articles that were previously accepted and scheduled for …

The" biometric school" founded by K. Pearson, F. Galton, and WFR Weldon was concerned
especially with heredity and variation, and between the wars" biometry" was not widely used …

Mathematical advances reached their zenith in the seventeenth century. Pierre-Simon
Laplace and Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis, among others, advocated that probability …

The following topics extend the statistical concepts presented in the previous sections,
presenting more advanced topics in the areas of design and analysis of clinical trials. This …