CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

Publication Ethics Statement

The CBN-JAS has zero-tolerance for fraudulent research and publication. That is why all submissions are screened, and if authors have violated any standards of publication, the consequences can be severe. Depending on the nature of the violation, corrective actions can range from a three-year to lifetime suspension of publication privileges, public notice of the violation in the publishing journal and referral to CBN-JAS Ethics sub-committee.

Fraud is publishing data or conclusions that were not generated by experiments or observations, but by data manipulation or invention. Changing the data measurements to conveniently fit the desired end result is fraud, but excluding inconvenient results is deliberate research error, which, in effect, is the same end result – fraud. Where referees or readers brings a complaint to the Secretariat or the Editor that certain laboratories do not have the facilities to conduct the research they published; the analysis/research results look manipulated; the data used for the study do not exists; the authors has plagiarized an or some existing study(ies); a contributor as not been credited as such or a person has been named as an author who actually is is not etc, then the possibility of fraud needs to be considered