1 INTRODUCTION

Biometrical Journal (BIMJ) publishes papers on statistical methods and their applications in life sciences including medicine, environmental sciences, and agriculture. Methodological developments should be motivated by an interesting and relevant problem from these areas. Ideally, the manuscript should include a description of the problem and a section detailing the application of the new methodology to the problem. Case studies, review articles, and letters to the editors are also welcome. Biometrical Journal is edited in cooperation with the German (http://www.biometrische‐gesellschaft.de/) and the Austro‐Swiss (https://www.ibs‐roes.org/) Regions of the International Biometric Society (IBS, see also http://www.biometricsociety.org/). Starting with January 2020, the Journal is published also in cooperation with the Italian region of the IBS (https://ibs‐italy.org/) and the current coeditors will leave the place to the new editors, Arne Bathke (Salzburg) and Matthias Schmid (Bonn). Arne and Matthias will handle all the new submissions; we wish them all the best for this new role, and to the Journal to continue its current path of growth. We need to say something here about the people who collaborated with us. First, we would like to thank once again Danielle Flemming, our Wiley contact of the Journal, and Monika Kortenjann who is the responsible for the Editorial Office of BIMJ. Without both of them, BIMJ would have never been the lovely place it is. We also wish to thank our Reproducible Research Editor, Dr. Fabian Scheipl, who has always worked with great skill, organization, and dedication to this increasingly important issue. To him and his groupmates Fabian Raters (Göttingen, Germany), Annika Hoyer (Düsseldorf, Germany) we express our sincerest gratitude. Last, but not least, we deeply thank our Coordinating Editor, Antonello Maruotti (LUMSA, Rome) who has always given us his full support during these wonderful 5 years we spent working together. It was an honor and a pleasure to serve with all of you for the Journal. To the new Coordinating Editor Georg Zimmerman (Salzburg) and the new Reproducible Research Editor Michel Lang (Dortmund), who join the team, our best wishes for a fruitful collaboration.

中文翻译：

---

社论：2019年年度报告

1引言

Biometrical Journal（BIMJ）发表有关统计方法及其在包括医学，环境科学和农业在内的生命科学中的应用的论文。这些领域的一个有趣且相关的问题应促使方法学的发展。理想情况下，手稿应包括对问题的描述和详细说明将新方法应用于问题的章节。还欢迎进行案例研究，评论文章和致编辑的信。《生物识别期刊》是与国际生物识别学会（IBS ）的德国（http://www.biometrische-gesellschaft.de/）和奥瑞士（https://www.ibs-roes.org/）地区合作编辑的， 也可以看看http://www.biometricsociety.org/）。从2020年1月开始，《日刊》也与IBS的意大利地区合作出版（https://ibs‐italy.org/），而现任合编将由新编辑Arne Bathke（萨尔茨堡）和Matthias Schmid（波恩）离开。Arne和Matthias将处理所有新提交的内容；我们祝愿他们在新的职位上一切顺利，并祝《华尔街日报》继续保持目前的增长道路。我们需要在这里谈谈与我们合作的人。首先，我们要再次感谢《华尔街日报》的威利联络人丹尼尔·弗莱明，以及BIMJ编辑部负责人莫妮卡·科滕詹。没有它们，BIMJ永远不会是它的美好地方。我们也要感谢我们的可复制研究编辑Fabian Scheipl博士，他一直以出色的技能，组织和奉献精神致力于这一日益重要的问题。对于他和他的队友Fabian Ratingrs（德国哥廷根），Annika Hoyer（德国杜塞尔多夫）我们表示最诚挚的谢意。最后但并非最不重要的一点是，我们非常感谢协调编辑Antonello Maruotti（罗马LUMSA），在我们共同努力的这5年中，他一直给予我们全力支持。与大家一起为《日刊》服务是一种荣幸和荣幸。对于加入团队的新的协调编辑Georg Zimmerman（萨尔茨堡）和新的可复制研究编辑Michel Lang（多特蒙德），我们衷心祝愿合作取得圆满成功。