《斯堪的納維亞統計雜志》是國際公認的世界領先的統計期刊之一。它是由四個斯堪的納維亞統計學會于1974年建立的。今天，超過80%的手稿來自斯堪的納維亞半島以外的國家。它是一份國際期刊，致力于報道統計方法的重要和創新的原始貢獻，包括理論和應用。該雜志專門研究統計模型，顯示出對潛在實質性研究問題的特別重視。分析縱向和空間數據的專門方法的出現只是重要方法發展領域的一個例子，《斯堪的納維亞統計雜志》在這個領域具有特殊的地位。

The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics is internationally recognised as one of the leading statistical journals in the world. It was founded in 1974 by four Scandinavian statistical societies. Today more than eighty per cent of the manuscripts are submitted from outside Scandinavia.It is an international journal devoted to reporting significant and innovative original contributions to statistical methodology, both theory and applications.The journal specializes in statistical modelling showing particular appreciation of the underlying substantive research problems.The emergence of specialized methods for analysing longitudinal and spatial data is just one example of an area of important methodological development in which the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics has a particular niche.