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In praise of the referee

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Abstract

There has been a lively debate in many fields, including statistics and related applied fields such as psychology and biomedical research, on possible reforms of the scholarly publishing system. Currently, referees contribute so much to improve scientific papers, both directly through constructive criticism and indirectly through the threat of rejection. We discuss ways in which new approaches to journal publication could continue to make use of the valuable efforts of peer reviewers.

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@article{arxiv.1205.4304,
  title  = {In praise of the referee},
  author = {Nicolas Chopin and Andrew Gelman and Kerrie L. Mengersen and Christian P. Robert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4304},
  year   = {2012}
}

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13 pages

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