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Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ15708818 ↗
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The Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics (Portuguese: Revista Brasileira de Probabilidade e Estatística) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistics. It is published four times a year by the Brazilian Statistical Association with the support of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The journal was established in 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.