The Special Article in this issue by DerSimonian et al. on "Reporting on Methods in Clinical Trials" is the first in a new series of articles on biostatistics that the Journal plans to publish over the next year or two. This series is the fruit of an educational research project undertaken by Frederick Mosteller and John C. Bailar and their colleagues in the Department of Biostatistics of the Harvard University School of Public Health, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. With the cooperation of the editors of the Journal, Professors Mosteller and Bailar and their associates have been . . .