Statistical Methods & Applications《统计方法与应用》(一年5期). Statistical Methods & Applications (SMA) is the official journal of the Italian Statistical Society. This international journal fosters the development of statistical methodology and statistical learning, and their applications in biological, ecological, demographic, economic, engineering, financial, medical, epidemiological, social, psychometric and other scientific domains. The journal especially welcomes new methods that have broad applications. It also welcomes well-developed applications in the area of data science and non-heuristic developments in the area of machine learning.