The Revista Colombiana de Estadistica (English: Colombian Journal of Statistics) is a biannual peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 on statistics

Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....

 published by the National University of Colombia

National University of Colombia

The Universidad Nacional de Colombia , also called UNAL or just UN, is a public, national, coeducational, research university, located primarily in Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira, Colombia...

. It covers research on statistics, including applications, statistics education, and the history of statistics

History of statistics

The history of statistics can be said to start around 1749 although, over time, there have been changes to the interpretation of what the word statistics means. In early times, the meaning was restricted to information about states...

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History

The Revista Colombiana de Estadística was established in 1968. During the first years, the journal only published papers in Spanish but since 1985 it also publishes papers in English.. The journal stopped publication between 1969 to 1979. In 1979, is was relaunched by Luis Thorin and since 1981 the publication has been continuous with two issues per year.

Abstracting and indexing

The Revista Colombiana de Estadística is abstracted and indexed in Scopus

Scopus

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, Science Citation Index Expanded

Science Citation Index

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, SciELO

SciElo

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, Current Index to Statistics

Current Index to Statistics

The Current Index to Statistics is an online database published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association that contains bibliographic data of articles in statistics, probability, and related fields....

, Mathematical Reviews

Mathematical Reviews

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, Zentralblatt MATH

Zentralblatt MATH

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, Redalyc, Latindex

Latindex

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, and Publindex (category A1). According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 0.056.

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