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Beginning in September, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA) will join forces to co-publish Significance.

“In this age of data proliferation and its impact on all aspects of society, everyone benefits from an understanding of statistics and data analysis,” said Sastry Pantula, ASA President. “ASA believes that a publication like Significance, which has developed a significant following since its inception, can help deliver that understanding to all its readers, statisticians and non-statisticians alike, and can provide better perspective of the impact that data, analytics, and the proper use of statistical methodology have on each of our lives. In addition, the collaboration between ASA and the RSS will help raise the visibility of each society, the statistics profession and statisticians.”

“The Royal Statistical Society is delighted to be working with the American Statistical Association in co-publishing Significance, and with the opportunity this co-publication provides for bringing statistics to wider public audiences,” said David Hand, RSS President. “This is an exciting venture for both our organisations. As well as greatly increasing the readership of the magazine, our partnership means we can work to establish Significance as the pre-eminent global statistical outreach magazine. We will be complementing the printed magazine with a new dedicated website. This will allow printed articles to be linked to further details on the web, provide additional online-only articles, and allow readers to discuss the issues through web based forums.”

Editorial board

The co-published version of Significance will have a joint UK-US editorial board, appointed by the RSS and ASA, which will make decisions on articles to publish and other relevant matters.

RSS appointed: Daniela De Angelis, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge; Deborah Anileloye, Department of Health, London; Mario Cortina Borja, Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University College, London; Simon Briscoe, Statistics Editor, Financial Times; Frank Duckworth; Jon Forster, Professor, University of Southampton; Laura Gray, Medical Statistician, University of Leicester; Tony O’Hagan, Professor, University of Sheffield; Oliver Ratmann, Duke University, North Carolina; and Philip Woodward, Pfizer Research.

ASA appointed: Sharon Begley, Science Editor, Newsweek; Connie Citro, National Academies of Science, Senior Program Officer, Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT); Martha Gardner, Global Quality Leader at General Electric Global Research; Wendy Martinez, Dept. of Defense, JSM 2009 Program Chair; Len Stefanski, Professor, Dept. of Statistics, NCSU, current editor, JASA Theory & Methods; Terry Speed, Professor, Dept. of Statistics, UC-Berkeley; Howard Wainer, Distinguished Research Scientist for the National Board of Medical Examiners and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School, UPenn; Scott Zeger, Vice Provost for Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

• Individuals interested in submitting an article to Significance can contact the editor, Julian Champkin at significance@rss.org.uk