The ISR is widely circulated and subscribed to by individuals and institutions in all parts of the world. The main aim of the ISR is to publish papers of an expository, review, or tutorial nature that will be of wide interest to readers. Such papers may or may not contain strictly original material.
All papers are refereed.
The ISR has two Editors, in order to demonstrate its commitment to the whole field of statistics, widely interpreted. Elja Arjas of the University of Helsinki, Finland, is primarily responsible for papers in the broad area of mathematical and theoretical statistics and probability, as well as computational statistics, statistics as applied in the physical, biological, medical and environmental sciences, industry and commerce, history of statistics and the teaching of statistics. Asta Manninen of the City of Helsinki, Urban Facts, Finland, is primarily responsible for the areas of official and government statistics and public policy, demography and population studies, banking and finance, the social sciences, survey statistics, as well as for papers of broad public interest. Review papers are the main raison d' tre of the ISR , but the kind of review that the Editors would wish to encourage is not purely bibliographic. Readers of the ISR will find 'critical reviews' far more useful and these are very strongly encouraged.