8/10/10: New Editor
We are delighted to report that Professor Russell Millar has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2011, replacing Professor David Zucker whose term will end December 31, 2010. Russell Millar is Associate Professor in Statistics at the University of Auckland. He graduated BSc Hons (1st class) in Mathematics (1981), and MSc (with Distinction) in Mathematics (1982) from the University of Auckland. Professor Millar received a PhD (Statistics) in 1989 from the University of Washington, Seattle, on the topic of the estimation of mixing and mixture distributions. The PhD topic was motivated by the mixing of regional salmon populations on the high seas, and his research has maintained a strong marine element ever since. After his PhD, Professor Millar had a 3-year appointment as a fisheries research scientist with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in St John's, Newfoundland. He returned to New Zealand in 1992, spending four years at the University of Otago, before moving to the University of Auckland in 1996. He has published extensively with an emphasis on developing relevant and pragmatic statistical methodology. His research is usually motivated by marine and ecological applications, but the resulting methodology is often relevant far more widely. His research covers a broad range, including the development of fishing gears to minimize discards, modeling polyspermic fertilization, nonlinear canonical analysis of principle co-ordinates, local sensitivity of Bayesian models to prior and model specification, and the behaviour of DIC in hierarchical models. In 2009, Professor Millar was a National Research Council Senior Research Fellow with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, developing integrated structural models of salmon population dynamics. He has been on the Editorial Board of the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research (2001-2005) and the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science (2002-2006). He was a co-Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics from 2001 to 2005, and has been an Associate Editor of Biometrics since 2006.
1/1/10: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Geert Verbeke begins his duties as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2010, replacing Geert Molenberghs whose term ended at the end of 2009. Geert Verbeke is Professor of Biostatistics at the Biostatistical Centre of the Katholieke Universiteit (K.U) Leuven in Belgium. He received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics (1989) from K.U. Leuven, the M.Sc. in biostatistics (1992) from the Limburgs Universitair Centrum, and the Ph.D. in biostatistics from K.U. Leuven in 1995. He has published extensively on longitudinal data analysis, and is internationally recognized for his books on linear mixed effects models and modeling of discrete longitudinal data. Geert is Past President of the Belgian Region of the IBS, was the International Program Chair for the International Biometric Conference in Montreal in 2006, and is a Board member of the American Statistical Association. He is past Joint Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (2005-8) and is currently Director of the Leuven Center for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (L-BioStat) and vice-Director of the Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), a joint initiative of the Hasselt and K.U. Leuven universities. We welcome Professor Verbeke as Co-Editor and look forward to working with him.
3/10/09: Translations of Abstracts
As of the March 2009 issue, translations of the abstracts will be available under the Paper Information link.
11/6/08: New Editor
We are delighted to announce that Professor Thomas A. Louis of the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, has been selected to serve as Co-Editor of Biometrics for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2009. Professor Louis will succeed current Co-Editor Naisyin Wang of the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. Professor Louis has served the IBS in many roles, most recently as President in 2006-2007 and Vice President in 2005 and 2008. He also has a wealth of editorial experience, including service as Coordinating Editor and Editor of the Application and Case Studies section of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Professor Louis is co-author of the best-selling book "Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis," now in its third edition, and has expertise in a broad range of methodological and application areas, including Bayesian design and analysis, multi-level models, longitudinal and other correlated data models, risk assessment, and research synthesis. We welcome Professor Louis as Co-Editor and look forward to working with him.
9/4/08: Biometrics Now Archiving Articles Subject to the US NIH Public Access Policy
Our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, will now archive articles subject to the US National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy accepted after September 8, 2008, to PubMed Central (see the Information for Authors link for details).
4/3/08: US NIH Public Access Policy
Biometrics authors whose work is supported by funds from the US National Institutes of Health are subject to the NIH Public Access Policy as of April 7, 2008. Please visit the "Information for Authors" link and click on "Information for Authors Subject to the US NIH Public Access Policy" for details.
10/29/07: Descriptions of Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors sections Updated
The descriptions for the Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors section have been updated. Visit the "Information for Authors" link and click on "Types of Submissions Accepted" for details.
8/28/07: New Editor
We are delighted to announce that Professor David M. Zucker has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2008. Professor Zucker will replace Laurence Freedman whose term concludes December 31st. David Zucker is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He served as Associate Editor for Controlled Clinical Trials during the period 1998-1999, and has been serving as Associate Editor of Biometrics since 2003. He is currently president of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the IBS. Professor Zucker has done both methodological and applied work. On the methodological side, his main interests are survival analysis, repeated measures analysis (continuous and discrete), clinical trial design, and nonlinear regression models with covariate error. On the applications side, his main interests are clinical trials and epidemiology. We are pleased to welcome Professor Zucker as Co-Editor.
8/28/07: New Sections in Biometrics
In response to feedback from members of the International Biometric Society and readers of and authors in Biometrics, the sections of the journal have been reformulated, effective with the March 2008 issue! The following sections of Biometrics were approved by the IBS Council: The Regular Communications section will be renamed Biometric Methodology. The Consultant's Forum section will be reformulated as Biometric Practice, with somewhat different criteria and scope. The Reader Reaction and Letters to the Editors sections will remain the same. Updated descriptions of these sections are available under the Information for Authors link under TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED.
4/19/07: New LaTeX Document Class
We are pleased to announce that a new LaTeX document class for Biometrics is now ready for use by authors. The entire distribution has been posted under the "Information for Authors" link, and includes a User Guide, sample LaTeX source documents, and a source document that may be used as a template by authors. A bibliography style file for use with BibTeX will be added shortly.
10/27/2006: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Geert Molenberghs has been chosen to serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2007, replacing Mike Kenward who steps down at the end of 2006. Professor Molenberghs is Professor in the Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, and Director of Censtat. He has had a long history of service to the IBS, serving in several elective offices, including as IBS President in 2004-2005. He was also a Biometrics Associate Editor from 1997-2001, and was Joint Editor of Applied Statistics (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C) 2001-2004. He is an expert on longitudinal, clustered, and incomplete data and has published several best-selling books on these topics. We are very pleased to have Professor Molenberghs on the editorial board.
3/31/2006: Biometrics Now Accepting Submission of Supplementary Materials!
In light of increasing pressure on journal space, Biometrics is now using the Journal's website at http://www.biometrics.tibs.org to post supplementary material for published papers. Examples of supplementary materials are appendices containing detailed mathematical derivations too extensive for inclusion in the main paper, results of extensive simulation studies, and additional tables and figures. These materials should be included at the time of submission of the main paper and will be subject to peer review.
Supplementary materials may also result from a request by the Co-Editor during the review process to reformulate portions of the main paper as supplementary material.
For full details on the Biometrics policy on supplementary materials and for instructions for submission, visit the "Information for Authors" link (click on "Instructions for Submitting a Paper") at http://www.biometrics.tibs.org.
1/19/2006: Paid Advertisements in Biometrics
Many scientific journals sponsored by professional societies accept paid advertisements as a way of bringing information of interest to the attention of members and enhancing society revenues. In early 2005, the IBS Council approved a formal policy regarding paid advertisements in Biometrics. The policy allows no more than 5% of the total pages of any single issue to contain paid advertisements that are "consistent with the scientific standards and mission of the journal, the mission statement of the Society, and the interests of members of the Society."
As a result, beginning with the June 2006 issue, paid advertisements will appear in the back matter of Biometrics. As per the policy, advertisements submitted for publication will be subject to approval by the Executive Editor based on the standards noted above. Accepted advertisements will appear in the earliest upcoming issue in which space is available.
Parties interested in submitting advertisements should contact Ben Harkinson, Advertising Sales Coordinator, Blackwell Publishing, at +1 781-388-8532 or journaladsUSA@bos.blackwellpublishing.com.
11/11/2005: Executive Editor
We are delighted to report that Professor Marie Davidian of the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, will begin the new post of Executive Editor of Biometrics on January 1, 2006. Professor Davidian has been selected by the search committee to act as the first Executive Editor of Biometrics. The responsibilities of the Executive Editor are administrative and will include assigning new manuscripts to the three co-editors based on the co-editors' research backgrounds (but not to handle manuscripts thereafter), coordinating activities among the editors, coordinating editorial board activities, preparing reports, and communicating with the co-editors, central office, publisher and IBS Office. Professor Davidian is uniquely qualified for this job, as she has been a co-editor of Biometrics in the recent past, and has since stayed actively involved with the journal’s operations through chairing the IBS Editorial Advisory Committee. We are looking forward to her joining the editorial team and expect that we will all benefit from her involvement.
11/11/2005: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Naisyin Wang will serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2006, replacing Xihong Lin who steps down at the end of 2005. Professor Wang is a professor in the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University. She has served on the editorial board for Biometrics for many years, and we are very pleased to have Professor Wang on the editorial board.
2/14/2005: Change of Email and Website
The Biometrics email address has changed. The new e-mail address is biometrics@tibs.org. We encourage authors to now use the new email address. If you send a message to the old address, the message will be forwarded to the new e-mail address.
The Biometrics website has also changed. The new location is http//www.biometrics.tibs.org. The old website location will now automatically reroute users to the new location.
1/4/2005: Online Early
We are pleased to announce that in January 2005, Biometrics will launch a new online early process for accepted papers, which allows an accepted paper to be published shortly after its acceptance at the Biometrics website of Blackwell Synergy http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/, much earlier than the following printed version in the Journal. This online initiative will help increase citation and impact of accepted Biometrics papers. This process will begin with papers scheduled for publication in the June 2005 issue. To coordinate the online early process, authors are required to return pageproofs to Blackwell within 48 hours after receiving them. Please make appropriate arrangements. French abstract translations will not be placed at the end of each article but will placed together at the end of each issue, indexed in the table of contents. We will provide detailed information on how to cite electronically published papers on the Biometrics website soon.
11/16/2004: New Editor
We are pleased to announce that Professor Larry Freedman will serve as the new Co-Editor, beginning January 1, 2005, replacing Brian Cullis who steps down at the end of 2004. Professor Freedman is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel, and Director, Biostatistics Unit, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer, Israel. He has served on the editorial board for Biometrics and was a co-editor of Statistics in Medicine between 1981 and 1993. You can find more information about Professor Freedman at http://www.math.biu.ac.il/~freedml. We are very pleased to have Professor Freedman on the editorial board.
11/16/2004: Voluntary Page Charge
To help defray the rising costs of publication and to support online initiatives of the journal, such as online early of accepted manuscripts, we would like to ask authors to pay a voluntary page charge for the publication of manuscripts of $55 per printed journal page. The page charge is fully voluntary, and reflects only a portion of the actual cost involved in publishing a paper and these online initiatives. This support will enhance a further success of the journal. The form will be provided when authors receive their pageproofs. If an author elects to pay the voluntary charge, 100 free offprints will be provided.
9/14/04: The past five year issues (1999-2004) of Biometrics are now online at Blackwell Synergy.