JSS anouncement

[udina]

Hi there,

Jan De Leeuw (UCLA Stat) is leading a prposal of Journal of
Statistical Software and ask us to diseminate the proposal over all
computational statistics related mailing list.

Please simply trash this message if it does not concern you.


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                  Journal of Statistical Software
                     (proposals and reactions)

On 

ftp://ftp.stat.ucla.edu/pub/JSS

and

http://www.stat.ucla.edu/develop/JSS/

you will find a proposal to establish an electronic journal that
documents, distributes, demonstrates, and describes computerized
statistical techniques. The journal will be freely available on
the WWW, and, wherever appropriate, the source code will be both
available for downloading and available for executing interactively
using WWW forms and scripts.

There are four files in the directories mentioned above
      = jss.txt  (the original proposal)
      = jss.mail (email reactions from sci.stat.xxx and allstat)
      = jss.core (core group working on the plans)
      = jss.disc (extended proposal)

Reactions, suggestions, donations all welcome.

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Jan de Leeuw; UCLA Department of Statistics; UCLA Statistical Consulting
US mail: 8118 Math Sciences, 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: address@hidden