General (Review Section)
As of January 1, 2005, Professor Robert Lund will be the
Review Editor of JASA.  Contact Professor Lund at
lund@stat.uga.edu


Statement of Purpose
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The General Section of the Journal of the American Statistical Association
includes:

Book Reviews:
   Publishers submit books to the review editor, who then solicits
   reviews for books judged to be of sufficient interest for JASA readers.

Special Topics:
   Special topics sections will appear frequently.  Each section will have
   as a theme a specialized area of statistical application, theory, or
   methodology.  Inclusion of such special topics will permit JASA to focus
   attention on specific areas of application, including ones not traditionally
   represented in JASA, as well as new and developing areas of statistical 
   research. Suggestions about such papers should be sent to the review editor.

Review papers:
   Review papers may be a review of an area of applied statistics or a review
   of statistical methodology or theory.  Suggestions about such papers
   should be sent to the review editor.

Letters to the Editors
   Concise expressions of fact and interpretation pertinent to contributions
   published in JASA (not including book reviews or comments on published
   articles) will be considered for publication if they are received by
   the coordinating editor within three months of publication of the
   contribution.  Exceptions to this time limit will be granted if there are
   extenuating circumstances.

Corrections:
   Readers are urged to send to the coordinating editor notices of errors
   found in JASA publications.  Corrections will appear in the "Letters
   to the Editors" section.