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- From: charlie@ernie.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
- Subject: Re: Journal prices (was: Gordon & Breach suit against AMS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.035003.21755@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Univ of Wash , Stat Dept.
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:50:03 GMT
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- In article <92211.214342U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> <U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
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- >You know, there is the small matter here of there being more Statisticians
- >than applied analysts (yes, I know that Stats can be viewed as a branch of
- >applied measure theory, but that doesn't change the fact that more people will
- >be interested in the material covered in J. American Statistical Association
- >than in Applicable Analysis). I don't think that comparisons between the two
- >Journals can tell one much.
-
- We have the same problem in statistics. The best journals are affiliated
- with professional societies and are relatively cheap. Some of the worst
- journals come from commercial publishers and are outrageously expensive.
-
- --
- Charles Geyer
- School of Statistics
- University of Minnesota
- charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
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