The British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology publishes articles relating to areas of psychology which have a greater mathematical or statistical aspect of their argument than is usually acceptable to other journals including:? mathematical psychology? statistics? psychometrics? decision making? psychophysics? classification? relevant areas of mathematics, computing and computer softwareThese include articles that address substantitive psychological issues or that develop and extend techniques useful to psychologists. New models for psychological processes, new approaches to existing data, critiques of existing models and improved algorithms for estimating the parameters of a model are examples of articles which may be favoured.

《英國數(shù)學(xué)與統(tǒng)計心理學(xué)雜志》發(fā)表的文章與心理學(xué)領(lǐng)域有關(guān)，這些文章在數(shù)學(xué)或統(tǒng)計方面的論述比其他期刊通常能接受的更有說服力，包括:?數(shù)學(xué)心理學(xué)?統(tǒng)計?心理測驗學(xué)?決策?心理物理學(xué)?分類?數(shù)學(xué)、計算和計算機(jī)軟件相關(guān)領(lǐng)域這些文章涉及實質(zhì)性的心理問題，或開發(fā)和擴(kuò)展對心理學(xué)家有用的技術(shù)。心理過程的新模型、現(xiàn)有數(shù)據(jù)的新方法、對現(xiàn)有模型的批評以及估計模型參數(shù)的改進(jìn)算法，都是可能受到歡迎的文章的例子。