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Springer StatProb, the encyclopaedia sponsored by Statistics and Probability Societies, has been launched.

StatProb is a free encyclopaedia that combines the advantages of traditional wikis (rapid and up-to-date publication, user-generated development, hyperlinking and a saved history) with traditional publishing (quality assurance, review, credit to authors and a structured information display). All contributions have been approved by an editorial board.

StatProb is hosted by Springer and sponsored by these societies:

• American Society for Quality Statistics Division
• American Statistical Association
• Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• International Biometric Society
• International Chinese Statistical Association
• International Society for Bayesian Analysis
• International Statistical Institute
• Royal Statistical Society
• Statistical Society of Canada/Société statistique du Canada

All encyclopaedia entries are written in LaTeX. All of the entries are automatically cross-referenced and the entire corpus is kept updated in realtime. StatProb articles must be approved by the appropriate member of the editorial board. Each published article has an owner, which is its author if that person is available. Owners must approve changes to published articles.

The editorial board will approve articles that are authoritative, concise, focused and reasonably complete discussions of specific topics in statistics and probability. The focus is on the synthesis of existing knowledge and we encourage short review articles that summarize information from a wide variety of sources. StatProb is not a journal and it does not publish original research results.

For details on members of the Editorial and Advisory Boards and a description of what types of articles are wanted, please go to the StatProb.com "About" page .