About the Journal

Focus and Scope
To publish recent advances in Statistics, Applied Statistics, Statistical Education, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Mathematical Education. The "applied" Mathematics and Statistics is considered for any area of knowledge, such as Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Economics, Actuary Science, and so on.

Objectives
To contribute to increasing the scientific knowledge of academic communities, and professionals in the fields of mathematics, statistics, and other areas of knowledge and contribute to the development of the community.

Target Audience
Undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, professors, and lecturers.

Submission Policy
Full papers, essays, technical bulletins, or any other form of scientific paper must be submitted online only through the Sigmae journal website.

Frequency
Sigmae journal aims to publish one issue per semester, including thematic issues.

Manuscript format
LaTeX (recommended) and Word/LibreOffice (allowed) formats, according to the templates available for download (see the topic Guidelines for Authors). **Send all the source files (main file, figure files, etc)**

Manuscript language
English (recommended), Portuguese (allowed), and Spanish (allowed).

Peer Review Process
The evaluation of papers submitted to Sigmae journal will be done by peers, in a blind review system, with an average of 2 referees per paper.
Those items will be evaluated: clarity, originality, scientific rigor, compliance with the rules, objectivity, coherence between objectives, methodology, results and conclusions, and correction.

Sponsors
"The issues of this journal, throughout the years 2024 and 2025, received financial support from the Minas Gerais Research Support Foundation (FAPEMIG), through the notice No. 008/2023 - Support Program for Scientific and Technological Publications” .
If you wish to make a donation, so that Sigmae magazine remains free, write to sigmae@unifal-mg.edu.br.

Journal History
Sigmae was launched in the first quarter of 2012, at the initiative of a group of teachers from the Institute of Exact Sciences of the Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil (Unifal-MG): Eric B Ferreira, Jose Claudinei Ferreira, Evandro Monteiro, and Cátia R. O. Quiles.
This was the first electronic journal of Unifal-MG online on June 21, 2012, via OJS (Open Journal Systems) platform.
It was registered at the Brazilian National Library under the corporate publisher Unifal-MG, which paid the costs of getting its ISSN (2317-0840).