[ABE-L] Call for papers: Entropy Special Issue on Inductive Statistical Methods

[Adriano Polpo de Campos]

Call for papers:

Special Issue on "Inductive Statistical Methods" for Entropy
(ISSN 1099-4300; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy).

A short prospectus is given at the volume website:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/inductive-statistical.

This special issue will be fully Open Access. More information is
available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

Entropy is an open access journal which maintains a rigorous and fast  
peer-review system and accepted papers are immediately published  
online. Because it is an online and open access journal, papers  
published in Entropy will receive high publicity. It is fully covered  
by the leading indexing and abstracting services, including Google  
Scholar, MathSciNet, Scopus and Science Citation Index Expanded (Web  
of Science). The Impact Factor for Entropy is 1.564 (2013).

The importance of using statistical methods in the development of  
research is widely recognized by the general scientific community.  
This special issue focuses on foundations of statistics and their  
proper application in practical problems.

Interest in foundations of inductive Statistics has been growing  
together with the increasing availability of new Bayesian  
methodological alternatives. Scientists need to deal with the increase  
difficulty in the choice of optimal methods to be applied to their  
research problems that each day becomes closer to reality. The  
examination and discussion on foundations prevent the mere ad-hoc  
application of Bayesian methods to scientific problems.

Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Formal applications of Inductive Statistical methods to novel  
applied problems.
* Philosophical accounts of Inductive Statistical methods (including  
contributions arguing for or against those).
* Methodological developments of Inductive Statistics (taking in  
account the practical usability of them).
* Surveys of the state of the art in one of the above areas.

The official deadline for submission is 31 May 2015. However, you may  
send your manuscript at any time before the deadline. We can organize  
a very fast peer-review, if accepted, the paper will be published  
immediately.

The special issue editors:

Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto De Bragança Pereira
University of São Paulo, cpereira em ime.usp.br

Prof. Dr. Adriano Polpo
Federal University of Sao Carlos, polpo em ufscar.br


Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.