Biometrika is a scientific journal established in 1901 by Francis Galton, Karl Pearson and W. F. R. Weldon to promote the study of biometrics, the statistical analysis of hereditary phenomena. Galton's role was essentially that of a patron and the journal was run by Pearson and Weldon and after Weldon's death in 1906 by Pearson until he died in 1936. In the early days the American biologists C. B. Davenport and Raymond Pearl were nominally involved but they dropped out. On Pearson's death his son Egon Pearson became editor and remained in this position until 1966. David Cox was editor for the next 25 years. In its first 65 years Biometrika had essentially two editors and in its first 90 years only three! Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was a Victorian polymath, British anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. ... Karl Pearson (pencil sketch in notebook; there is some see-through of writing on next page) Karl Pearson (March 27, 1857 – April 27, 1936) was a major contributor to the early development of statistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. ... Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (15 March 1860 — 13 April 1906) was an English evolutionary zoologist and biometrician. ... At Disney World, biometric measurements are taken from the fingers of multi-day pass users to ensure that the pass is used by the same person from day to day. ... Charles B. Davenport at a 1921 eugenics conference. ... Raymond Pearl (1880-1941) was an American biologist, who spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. ... Egon Sharpe Pearson (11 August 1895 — 12 June 1980) a son of Karl Pearson, was like his father, a British statistician, and succeeded him as professor of statistics at University College London. ... David Roxbee Cox (born Birmingham, England, 1924) is a British statistician. ...

Biometrika begins with a clear statement of purpose:

It is intended that Biometrika shall serve as a means not only of collecting or publishing under one title biological data of a kind not systematically collected or published elsewhere in any other periodical, but also of spreading a knowledge of such statistical theory as may be requisite for their scientific treatment.

Its contents were to include:

(a) memoirs on variation, inheritance, and selection in animals and plants, based upon the examination of statistically large numbers of specimens ...;

(b) those developments of statistical theory which are applicable to biological problems;

(c) numerical tables and graphical solutions tending to reduce the labour of statistical arithmetic;

(d) abstracts of memoirs, dealing with these subjects, which are published elsewhere; and

(e) notes on current biometric work and unsolved problems.

Early volumes contained many memoirs on biological topics, but over the twentieth century Biometrika became a "journal of statistics in which emphasis is placed on papers containing original theoretical contributions of direct or potential value in applications." Thus, of the five types of contents envisaged by its founders, only (b) and to a lesser extent (c) remain, largely shorn of their biological roots. In music, variation is a formal technique where material is altered during repetition; reiteration with changes. ... For other uses, see inheritance (disambiguation). ... Selection is hierachically classified into natural and artificial selection. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... u fuck in ua ... Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ... A memoir, as a literary genre, forms a sub-class of autobiography. ...

History

To mark the centenary of "one of the world's leading academic journals in statistical theory and methodology" a commemorative volume was produced

• Biometrika One Hundred Years, edited D.M. Titterington and Sir David Cox, Oxford University Press 2001.

Part 1 consists of articles that had appeared in a special issue of the journal and Part 2 of a selection of classic papers published in the journal from the years 1939-71.

External links

• Biometrika
• Biometrika archived at JSTOR