理论和方法系列打算发表论文，使理论和方法的进步概率和统计。还将考虑出版统计和概率方法的新应用。此外，本系列还将定期出版专门讨论当前感兴趣的特定主题的特刊，为读者提供有关该主题的详尽和最新的评论。
The Theory and Methods series intends to publish papers that make theoretical and methodological advances in Probability and Statistics. New applications of statistical and probabilistic methods will also be considered for publication. In addition, special issues dedicated to a specific topic of current interest will also be published in this series periodically, providing an exhaustive and up-to-date review of that topic to the readership.