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John W. Tukey Question 4: Infinite observations . . . 17--18
John W. Tukey Memorandum on statistics in the Federal
Government, Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 6--17
John W. Tukey Memorandum on statistics in the Federal
Government, Part II . . . . . . . . . . 12--16
John W. Tukey Answer to question 21: Maximum
likelihood estimates, efficiency . . . . 12--12
N. F. Laubscher Interpolation in $F$-tables . . . . . . 28, 40
John W. Tukey The technical tools of statistics . . . 23--28
I. J. Good Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
J. E. Freund Puzzle or Paradox? . . . . . . . . . . . 29--44
I. J. Good How random are random numbers? . . . . . 42--45
Daniel B. Rathbun and
W. Allen Wallis and
Frederick Mosteller and
Ansley J. Coale and
Paul M. Densen and
Solomon Fabricant and
Robert D. Fisher and
W. Braddock Hickman and
William Kruskal and
Stanley Lebergott and
Richard M. Scammon and
William H. Shaw and
Frank D. Stella and
James A. Suffridge and
John W. Tukey The Report of the President's Commission
on Federal Statistics . . . . . . . . . 15--18
D. Lurie and
H. O. Hartley Machine-generation of order statistics
for Monte Carlo computations . . . . . . 26--27
W. Abranovic and
R. Ageloff and
D. Frederick Time-sharing computer systems as a
teaching tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38
Hal R. Varian Letter to the Editor: Benford's Law . . 65--66
Donald W. Marquardt and
Ronald D. Snee Ridge Regression in Practice . . . . . . 3--20
W. Edwards Deming On Probability As a Basis For Action . . 146--152
Burt S. Barnow The use of proxy variables when one or
two independent variables are measured
with error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121
A. C. Harvey An alternative proof and generalization
of a test for structural change . . . . 122--123
M. E. Tarter and
R. A. Kronmal An introduction to the implementation
and theory of nonparametric density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--112
D. V. Lindley and
L. D. Phillips Inference for a Bernoulli process (a
Bayesian view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--119
S. Maghsoodloo and
J. N. Hool On response surface methodology and its
computer-assisted teaching . . . . . . . 140--144
James R. Beniger and
Dorothy L. Robyn Quantitative graphics in statistics: A
brief history . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
R. McGill and
John W. Tukey and
W. A. Larsen Variations of Box plots . . . . . . . . 12--16
Robert D. Tortora A note on sample size estimation for
multinomial populations . . . . . . . . 100--102
P. W. Eaton Yarnold's criterion and minimum sample
size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Gary O. Zerbe On Fieller's theorem and the general
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Ralph A. Bradley and
Sushil S. Srivastava Correlation in Polynomial Regression . . 11--14
F. M. Speed and
Charles J. Monlezun Exact $f$ tests for the method of
unweighted means in a $2^k$ experiment 15--18
James H. Goodnight A Tutorial on the SWEEP Operator . . . . 149--158
William C. Guenther The use of noncentral $F$ approximations
for calculation of power and sample size 209--210
Churchill Eisenhart On the transition from ``Student's'' $z$
to ``Student's'' $t$ . . . . . . . . . . 6--10
Russell F. Kappenman On the use of a certain conditional
distribution to obtain unconditional
distributional results . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Charles J. Monlezun Two-dimensional plots for interpreting
interactions in the three-factor
analysis of variance model . . . . . . . 63--69
Hans U. Gerber A characteristic property of the Poisson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Robert V. Hogg Statistical robustness: one view of its
use in applications today . . . . . . . 108--115
Henry Wolkowicz and
George P. H. Styan Extensions of Samuelson's inequality . . 143--144
Chien Pai Han Alternative methods of estimating the
likelihood ratio in classification of
multivariate normal observations . . . . 204--206
Richard A. Kronmal and
Arthur V. Peterson, Jr. On the alias method for generating
random variables from a discrete
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--218
John W. Tukey We need both exploratory and
confirmatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--25
H. Wolkowicz and
G. P. H. Styan A history of Samuelson's inequality . . 250
Joan Fisher Box R. A. Fisher and the design of
experiments, 1922--1926 . . . . . . . . 1--7
David G. Herr On the history of the use of geometry in
the general linear model . . . . . . . . 43--47
Robert J. Monroe and
Francis E. McVay Gertrude Mary Cox (1900--1978) . . . . . 48--48
Wayne A. Fuller Balkrishna V. Sukhatme (1924--1979) . . 49--49
Dorian Feldman and
Martin Fox Three simple inductive proofs in
probability and statistics . . . . . . . 50--51
Anne S. Davis Use of the likelihood ratio test on the
inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 108--110
H. Leon Harter Modified asymptotic formulas for
critical values of the Kolmogorov test
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
David A. Pierce A survey of recent developments in
seasonal adjustment . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
Colin R. Blyth Expected absolute error of the usual
estimator of the binomial parameter . . 155--157
C. Asok A note on the comparison between simple
mean and mean based on distinct units in
sampling with replacement . . . . . . . 158--158
S. R. Searle and
F. M. Speed and
G. A. Milliken Population marginal means in the linear
model: an alternative to least squares
means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--221
E. L. Lehmann Efficient likelihood estimators . . . . 233--235
M. M. Desu and
Norman C. Severo Sidney Addelman (1932--1979) . . . . . . 39--39
Richard M. Heiberger The specification of experimental
designs to ANOVA programs . . . . . . . 98--108
Robert C. Schmitt Early Hawaiian statistics . . . . . . . 1--3
S. R. Searle and
F. M. Speed and
H. V. Henderson Some computational and model
equivalences in analyses of variance of
unequal-subclass-numbers data . . . . . 16--33
Ram C. Dahiya An improved method of estimating an
integer-parameter by maximum likelihood 34--37
A. P. Dempster and
Frederick Mosteller In memoriam: William Gemmell Cochran,
1909--1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Salwa Fahmy and
Frank Proschan Bounds on Differences of Order
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Joan Fisher Box Gosset, Fisher, and the $t$ distribution 61--66
Herbert A. David Egon S. Pearson, 1895--1980 . . . . . . 94--95
David Berengut Some small-sample properties of the
Student $t$ confidence intervals . . . . 144--147
Noel Cressie and
Anne S. Davis and
J. Leroy Folks and
George E. Policello II The moment-generating function and
negative integer moments . . . . . . . . 148--150
Louis-Paul Rivest On the sum of contaminated normals . . . 155--156
Jerome L. Paul A Bayes theorem urn model optimization
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
R. W. Potter and
G. W. Sturm The power of Jonckheere's test . . . . . 249--250
John Aitchison and
John Bacon-Shone Bayesian risk ratio analysis . . . . . . 254--257
J. Mandel Use of the singular value decomposition
in regression analysis . . . . . . . . . 15--24
Arnold Zellner Is Jeffreys a ``necessarist'' . . . . . 28--30
Stanley H. Shapiro Collapsing contingency tables---a
geometric approach . . . . . . . . . . . 43--46
Lionel Weiss Jacob Wolfowitz (1910--1981) . . . . . . 126--127
E. L. Lehmann and
Constance Reid Jerzy Neyman, 1894--1981 . . . . . . . . 161--162
T. M. Smith and
B. Iglewicz An effective classroom technique for
comparison of robust estimators . . . . 163--168
Donald R. Plane and
Kenneth R. Gordon A simple proof of the nonapplicability
of the central limit theorem to finite
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
Jonathan J. Shuster Nonparametric optimality of the sample
mean and sample variance . . . . . . . . 176--178
Arthur V. Peterson, Jr. and
Richard A. Kronmal On mixture methods for the computer
generation of random variables . . . . . 184--191
Robert Bechhofer Jack Carl Kiefer, 1924--1981 . . . . . . 356--357
Bradley Efron and
Gail Gong A leisurely look at the bootstrap, the
jackknife, and cross-validation . . . . 36--48
Luis Carlos Silva and
Antonio Rubi On the estimation of proportions using
complete cluster sampling . . . . . . . 53--54
J. C. Beatty Raster graphics and color . . . . . . . 60--75
Daniel H. Freeman, Jr. and
María Elena González and
David C. Hoaglin and
Beth A. Kilss Presenting Statistical Papers . . . . . 106--110
Brian L. Joiner and
David L. Hall The ubiquitous role of $f^{\prime} /f$
in efficient estimation of location . . 128--133
David A. Freedman A note on screening regression equations 152--155
S. N. U. A. Kirmani and
E. Mirhakkak Esfahani A note on the moment generating function 161--161
Robert Chen and
Larry A. Shepp On the sum of symmetric random variables 237--237
Tony F. Chan and
Gene H. Golub and
Randall J. LeVeque Algorithms for computing the sample
variance: Analysis and recommendations 242--247
Yosef Hochberg and
Ajit C. Tamhane Multiple comparisons in a mixed model 305--307
Russell V. Lenth Some properties of ${U}$ statistics . . 311--313
D. A. Belsley Demeaning Conditioning Diagnostics
Through Centering . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Gottfried E. Noether Nonparametrics: The early years ---
impressions and recollections . . . . . 173--178
Philip J. Boland A biographical glimpse of William Sealy
Gosset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
G. S. Fishman and
L. R. Moore Sampling from a Discrete Distribution
while Preserving Monotonicity . . . . . 219--223
Keith Ord In memoriam: Maurice George Kendall,
1907--1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Max D. Morris and
Sherwood F. Ebey An interesting property of the sample
mean under a first-order autoregressive
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
John G. Saw and
Mark C. K. Yang and
Tse Chin Mo Chebyshev inequality with estimated mean
and variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
John E. Angus and
Ray E. Schafer Improved confidence statements for the
binomial parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Steven J. Schwager Bonferroni sometimes loses . . . . . . . 192--197
Gerald S. Rogers Kronecker products in ANOVA---a first
step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
Samy Suissa and
Jonathan J. Shuster Are uniformly most powerful unbiased
tests really best . . . . . . . . . . . 204--206
Shey Shiung Sheu The Poisson approximation to the
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 206--207
R. James Tomkins Another proof of Borel's strong law of
large numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
Seymour Geisser On prior distributions for binary
trials. With comments by Jose M.
Bernardo, Melvin R. Novick and Arnold
Zellner and a reply by the author . . . 244--251
Christopher Cox An elementary introduction to maximum
likelihood estimation for multinomial
models: Birch's theorem and the delta
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--287
S. M. Tam On covariances from overlapping samples 288--289
G. G. Hamedani Nonnormality of linear combinations of
normal random variables . . . . . . . . 295--296
David K. Hildebrand Lord's MAD paradox and Jensen's
inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
George A. Milliken and
Mohammed Albohali On necessary and sufficient conditions
for ordinary least squares estimators to
be best linear unbiased estimators . . . 298--299
John W. Tukey Discussion: Projection Pursuit . . . . . 517--518
John W. Tukey Comments on \em More intelligent
statistical software and statistical
expert systems: Future directions . . . 12--14
Adi Raveh On the use of the inverse of the
correlation matrix in multivariate data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
C. H. Spiegelman Jensen's inequality for general location
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Craig F. Ansley Quick proofs of some regression theorems
via the ${\rm QR}$ algorithm . . . . . . 55--59
Walter W. Piegorsch and
George Casella The existence of the first negative
moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
R. L. Eubank and
J. T. Webster The singular-value decomposition as a
tool for solving estimability problems 64--66
George Casella An introduction to empirical Bayes data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--87
Harry M. Schey A geometric description of orthogonal
contrasts in one-way analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
Robert M. Norton and
Steven Arnold A theorem on moments . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Arnold Zellner Correction: ``On prior distributions for
binary trials'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 38
(1984), no. 4, 244--251, MR 87c:62004a]
by S. Geisser . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
James W. Vaupel and
Anatoli I. Yashin Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising
effects of selection on population
dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--185
Roger W. Hoerl Ridge analysis 25 years later . . . . . 186--192
Norman Keith Womer Identification and least squares in
simultaneous equations . . . . . . . . . 295--297
Shyamal Das Peddada A short note on Pitman's measure of
nearness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
Shayle R. Searle and
Friedrich Pukelsheim Establishing $\chi^2$ properties of sums
of squares using induction . . . . . . . 301--303
K. X. Karakostas On minimum variance unbiased estimators 303--305
Ronald Christensen and
Michael D. Huffman Bayesian point estimation using the
predictive distribution . . . . . . . . 319--321
B. Dennis and
B. E. Brown and
A. R. Stage and
H. E. Burkhart and
S. Clark Problems of modeling growth and yield of
renewable resources . . . . . . . . . . 374--383
John W. Tukey Sunset salvo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
Grant W. Somes The generalized Mantel--Haenszel
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Walter H. Carter, Jr. and
Vernon M. Chinchilli and
John D. Wilson and
Eleanor D. Campbell and
Fay K. Kessler and
Richard A. Carchman An asymptotic confidence region for the
$ED\sb{100p}$ from the logistic response
surface for a combination of agents . . 124--128
B. Efron Why isn't everyone a Bayesian? With
discussion and a reply by the author . . 1--11
M. A. Hidiroglou The construction of a self-representing
stratum of large units in survey design 27--31
Victor Aguirre-Torres A note on teaching infinite moving
averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Glen Meeden Sufficiency and partitions of the class
of all possible discrete distributions 42--44
David J. Groggel and
John H. Skillings Distribution-free tests for main effects
in multifactor designs . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Shayle R. Searle and
Friedrich Pukelsheim Effects of intraclass correlation on
weighted averages . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
A. W. F. Edwards Is the reference in Hartley (1749) to
Bayesian inference . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Stephen M. Stigler Estimating serial correlation by visual
inspection of diagnostic plots . . . . . 111--116
Adi Raveh On measures of monotone association . . 117--123
William M. Bolstad Harrison-Stevens forecasting and the
multiprocess dynamic linear model . . . 129--135
Lawrence M. Leemis Relationships among common univariate
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--146
N. Balakrishnan and
Henrick J. Malik A note on moments of order statistics 147--148
James R. Abernathy and
Pranab K. Sen In memoriam: Bernard George Greenberg,
1919--1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Amanda L. Golbeck Probabilistic approaches to current life
table estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--190
Phillip S. Kott When a mean-of-ratios is the best linear
unbiased estimator under a model . . . . 202--204
Bernhard K. Flury On sums of random variables and
independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Peter M. Burrows Extreme statistics from the sine
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
Marcia Feingold and
P. E. Korsog The correlation and dependence between
two ${F}$ statistics with the same
denominator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
John S. de Cani and
Robert A. Stine A note on deriving the information
matrix for a logistic distribution . . . 220--222
Clifford H. Spiegelman Two pitfalls of using standard
regression diagnostics when both ${X}$
and ${Y}$ have measurement error . . . . 245--248
Ronald Christensen and
Michael D. Huffman Correction to: ``Bayesian point
estimation using the predictive
distribution'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 39
(1985), no. 4, part 1, 319--321] . . . . 258--258
K. X. Karakostas Correction to: ``On minimum variance
unbiased estimators'' [Amer.\ Statist.
\bf 39 (1985), no. 4, part 1, 303--305,
MR 87b:62031] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258
David G. Herr On the history of ANOVA in unbalanced,
factorial designs: the first 30 years 265--270
Gunnar Blom and
Lars Holst Random walks of ordered elements with
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
E. Carlstein Simultaneous confidence regions for
predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279
Christian Genest and
Jock MacKay The joy of copulas: bivariate
distributions with uniform marginals . . 280--283
Jean-Marie Dufour Bias of ${S}^2$ in linear regressions
with dependent errors . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Jerry Nedelman and
Ted Wallenius Bernoulli trials, Poisson trials,
surprising variances, and Jensen's
inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--289
Leigh W. Murray Estimation of missing cells in
randomized block and Latin square
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--293
Leon J. Gleser Some notes on refereeing . . . . . . . . 310--312
William Kruskal Relative importance by averaging over
orderings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--10
Edward R. Mansfield and
Michael D. Conerly Diagnostic value of residual and partial
residual plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
David Ruppert What is kurtosis? An influence function
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Hendrik S. Konijn Distribution-free and other prediction
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Trevor Hastie A closer look at the deviance . . . . . 16--20
W. D. Kaigh and
Michael F. Driscoll Numerical and graphical data summary
using ${O}$-statistics . . . . . . . . . 25--32
William D. Kahn A cautionary note for Bayesian
estimation of the binomial parameter $n$ 38--40
Steven K. Thompson Sample size for estimating multinomial
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--46
James R. Waters and
Alexander J. Chester Optimal allocation in multivariate,
two-stage sampling designs . . . . . . . 46--50
William C. Guenther Statistical inferences for two
one-parameter families . . . . . . . . . 50--52
Bennett Eisenberg and
B. K. Ghosh Independent events in a discrete uniform
probability space . . . . . . . . . . . 52--56
Siddhartha Chib and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Ram C. Tiwari Another look at some results on the
recursive estimation in the general
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--58
K. X. Karakostas Correction: ``On minimum variance
unbiased estimators'' [Amer.\ Statist.
\bf 39 (1985), no. 4, part 1, 303--305,
MR 87b:62031] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Clifford H. Spiegelman Correction: ``Two pitfalls of using
standard regression diagnostics when
both $X$ and $Y$ have measurement
error'' [Amer. Statist. 40 (1986), no.
3, 245--248] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Bruce M. Hill The validity of the likelihood principle 95--100
Richard J. Meinhold and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla A Kalman-filter smoothing approach for
extrapolations in certain dose-response,
damage-assessment, and
accelerated-life-testing studies . . . . 101--106
Donald A. Berry Interim analysis in clinical trials. The
role of the likelihood principle . . . . 117--122
Stephen M. Scariano and
James M. Davenport The effects of violations of
independence assumptions in the one-way
ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129
David Hamilton Sometimes ${R}^2>r^2_{yx_1}+r^2_{yx_2}$.
Correlated variables are not always
redundant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
William M. Alley A note on stagewise regression . . . . . 132--134
Glen Meeden Estimation when using a statistic that
is not sufficient . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Wayne A. Fuller and
Oscar Kempthorne In memoriam: Theodore Alfonso Bancroft,
1907--1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Shaul K. Bar-Lev Nonestimable parametric functions for
some discrete distributions . . . . . . 199--200
Robyn M. Dawes and
Joseph B. Kadane Partial round-robin comparisons with
perfect rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Charles C. Thigpen A sample size problem in simple linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
John P. Buonaccorsi A note on confidence intervals for
proportions in finite populations . . . 215--218
Daniel Q. Naiman Characterization of risk sets for simple
versus simple hypothesis testing . . . . 218--220
D. R. Bellhouse Model-based estimation in finite
population sampling . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
Wolfgang J. Bühler and
Joachim Sehr Some remarks on exponential families . . 279--280
G. A. Whitmore and
V. Seshadri A heuristic derivation of the inverse
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Norman R. Draper and
Agnes M. Herzberg A ridge-regression sidelight . . . . . . 282--283
Richard A. Rode and
Vernon M. Chinchilli The use of Box--Cox transformations in
the development of multivariate
tolerance regions with applications to
clinical chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
Helena Chmura Kraemer Assessment of $2\times 2$ associations:
generalization of signal-detection
methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--49
Daniel A. Bloch and
Lincoln E. Moses Nonoptimally weighted least squares . . 50--53
Edward B. Rockower Integral identities for random variables 68--72
Robert E. McCulloch Information and the likelihood function
in exponential families . . . . . . . . 73--75
Edward B. Manoukian and
Pierre Nadeau A note on the hyperbolic-secant
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Ronald E. Shiffler Maximum ${Z}$ scores and outliers . . . 79--80
P. J. Bickel and
C. L. Mallows A note on unbiased Bayes estimates . . . 132--134
John G. Saw and
Mark C. K. Yang and
Tse Chin Correction to: ``Chebyshev inequality
with estimated mean Mo and variance''
[Amer. Statist. \bf 38 (1984), no. 2,
130--132, MR 85b:62019] . . . . . . . . 166--166
Robert Pavur Type ${\rm I}$ error rates for multiple
comparison procedures with dependent
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--173
M. C. Agrawal and
Nirmal Jain Predictive estimation in double sampling
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--186
E. L. Lehmann and
Juliet Popper Shaffer Inverted distributions . . . . . . . . . 191--194
Shie-Shien Yang A central limit theorem for the
bootstrap mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
D. R. Shier The monotonicity of power means using
entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Jerzy K. Baksalary and
Adrian C. van Eijnsbergen A comparison of two criteria for
ordinary-least-squares estimators to be
best linear unbiased estimators . . . . 205--208
John P. Mullooly The variance of left-truncated
continuous nonnegative distributions . . 208--210
Henri Theil and
Ching-Fan Chung Information-theoretic measures of fit
for univariate and multivariate linear
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252
Ronald W. Helms Manipulating statistical hypotheses and
tests as Boolean functions . . . . . . . 253--256
Arnold Zellner Optimal information processing and
Bayes's theorem. With comments and a
reply by the author . . . . . . . . . . 278--284
Raymond J. Carroll and
A. H. Welsh A note on asymmetry and robustness in
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
Karim F. Hirji and
Anastasios A. Tsiatis and
Cyrus R. Mehta Median unbiased estimation for binary
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--11
Malay Ghosh and
Gauri Sankar Datta Uniformly minimum variance unbiased
estimation for discrete distributions
with support depending on the parameter 17--19
Ikuo Arizono and
Hiroshi Ohta A test for normality based on
Kullback--Leibler information . . . . . 20--22
Jacques Benichou and
Mitchell H. Gail A delta method for implicitly defined
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--44
Gaoxiong Gan and
Shie-Shien Yang An elementary proof of the
order-statistics characterization of the
Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Nicholas R. Farnum An alternate proof of Samuelson's
inequality and its extensions . . . . . 46--47
James L. Kepner and
James D. Harper and
Sandra Z. Keith A note on evaluating a certain orthant
probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Claude Angers Note on quick simultaneous confidence
intervals for multinomial proportions 91--91
Leon Jay Gleser The gamma distribution as a mixture of
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 115--117
W. N. Venables and
K. W. Morris A connection between minimum variance
unbiased estimation and maximum
likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Simo Puntanen and
George P. H. Styan The equality of the ordinary least
squares estimator and the best linear
unbiased estimator. With comments by
Oscar Kempthorne and Shayle R. Searle
and a reply by the authors . . . . . . . 153--164
Marcia Gumpertz and
Sastry G. Pantula A simple approach to inference in random
coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 203--210
Richard L. Scheaffer Toward a More Quantitatively Literate
Citizenry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
James R. Lackritz Salary Evaluation for Professional
Baseball Players . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Julia Lane and
Russ Ray and
Dennis Glennon Work Profiles of Research Statisticians 9
Joseph M. Strayhorn Estimating the Errors Remaining in a
Data Set: Techniques for Quality Control 14
Therese A. Stukel A General Model for Estimating EDsub100p
for Binary Response Dose-Response Data 19
Kuang-Kuo Gordon Lan and
Janet Wittes Linear Rank Tests for Survival Data:
Equivalence of Two Formulations . . . . 23
Julio L. Peixoto A property of well-formulated polynomial
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Peter H. Peskun A Note on a General Method for Obtaining
Confidence Intervals From Samples From
Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 31--35
Roy T. St. Laurent The Equivalence of the Milliken-Graybill
Procedure and the Score Test . . . . . . 36--37
Neil C. Schwertman and
A. J. Gilks and
J. Cameron A Simple Noncalculus Proof That the
Median Minimizes the Sum of the Absolute
Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Paul D. Valz and
Ian A. McLeod A Simplified Derivation of the Variance
of Kendall's Rank Correlation
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Tommy Wright When Zero Defectives Appear in a Sample:
Upper Bounds on Confidence Coefficients
of Upper Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
William M. Makuch and
Gerald J. Hahn and
William T. Tucker A Statistical Computing Curriculum To
Meet Industrial Needs . . . . . . . . . 42
Claude Angers Correction: ``Note on quick simultaneous
confidence intervals for multinomial
proportions'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 43
(1989), no. 2, 91] . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Gaoxiong Gan and
Shie-Shien Yang Correction: ``An elementary proof of the
order-statistics characterization of the
Poisson process'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 43
(1989), no. 1, 45--46] . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Janet L. Norwood ASA Sesquicentennial . . . . . . . . . . 67
R. L. Mason and
J. D. McKenzie, Jr. and
S. J. Ruberg A brief history of the American
Statistical Association, 1839--1989 . . 68--73
Sandra Stinnett and
others Women in statistics: sesquicentennial
activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
John J. Wiorkowski A lightly annotated bibliography of the
publications of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--113
Anonymous ASA's Sesquicentennial Celebration . . . 113
Vincent P. Barabba What does the future hold for
statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Hans Riedwyl Rudolf Wolf's Contribution to the Buffon
Needle Problem (an Early Monte Carlo
Experiment) and Application of Least
Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Richard R. Picard and
Kenneth N. Berk Data Splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Gunter Lorenzen A Unified Approach to the Calculation of
Growth Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--150
Gunnar Blom and
Daniel Thorburn and
Theodore A. Vessey The Distribution of the Record Position
and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . 151--153
Marie D. Eldridge The Status of Advisory Committees to the
Federal Statistical Agencies . . . . . . 154
David Birkes Generalized Likelihood Ratio Tests and
Uniformly Most Powerful Tests . . . . . 163--166
Kosmas K. Ferentinos Shortest Confidence Intervals for
Families of Distributions Involving
Truncation Parameters . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Frank R. Lichtenberg Aggregation of Variables in
Least-Squares Regression . . . . . . . . 169
Steve Verrill and
Michael Axelrod and
Mark Durst We've Got the Positive Correlation BLUEs 171
D. J. Saville Multiple Comparison Procedures: The
Practical Solution . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Stephen Senn Regression: A New Mode for an Old
Meaning? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
A. S. C. Ehrenberg A Hope for the Future of Statistics:
MSOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Gerald J. Hahn and
Thomas J. Boardman and
David Fluharty History of the section on quality and
productivity of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Anonymous ASA's Sesquicentennial Celebration . . . 200
Richard F. Fawcett The Alignment Method for Displaying and
Analyzing Treatments in Blocking Designs 204
Jean D. Gibbons U.S. Institutional Representation on
Editorial Boards of U.S Statistics
Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Clifford M. Hurvich and
Chih-Ling Tsai The Impact of Model Selection on
Inference in Linear Regression . . . . . 214
Javad Behboodian Examples of Uncorrelated Dependent
Random Variables Using a Bivariate
Mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
David Edelman A Note on Uniformly Most Powerful
Two-Sided Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
J. A. Nelder Nearly Parallel Lines in Residual Plots 221
Judith D. Singer and
John B. Willett Improving the Teaching of Applied
Statistics: Putting the Data Back Into
Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Robert W. Stephenson A Study of Student Reaction to the Use
of Minitab in an Introductory Statistics
Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 236
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz Randomly Weighted Averages: Some Aspects
and Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Lonnie Magee $R^2$ Measures Based on Wald and
Likelihood Ratio Joint Significance
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Gerard E. Dallal Statistical Computing Packages: Dare We
Abandon Their Teaching to Others? . . . 265
Eric R. Ziegel and
J. Stuart Hunter American Statistical Association's
Section on Physical and Engineering
Sciences: Past, Present, and Future . . 267
Edward L. Korn and
Barry I. Graubard Simultaneous Testing of Regression
Coefficients With Complex Survey Data:
Use of Bonferroni $t$ Statistics . . . . 270
Richard A. Groeneveld Ranking Teams in a League With Two
Divisions of $t$ Teams . . . . . . . . . 277
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Raj S. Chhikara On the Ratio and Regression Estimation
in Finite Population Sampling . . . . . 282
David Edelman A Confidence Interval for the Center of
an Unknown Unimodal Distribution Based
on a Sample of Size 1 . . . . . . . . . 285
Nicholas R. Farnum Improving the Relative Error of
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Edward L. Korn Projecting Power From a Previous Study:
Maximum Likelihood Estimation . . . . . 290
Colm Art O'Cinneide The Mean Is Within One Standard
Deviation of Any Median . . . . . . . . 292
Richard J. Pulskamp A Note on the Estimation of Binomial
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Donald T. Searls and
Pichai Intarapanich A Note on an Estimator for the Variance
That Utilizes the Kurtosis . . . . . . . 295
Bulent Uyar and
Orhan Erdem Regression Procedures in SAS: Problems? 296
Harry O. Posten Review of Audio Tape: The Statistician
at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Herbert F. Spirer Statistical Software Teaching Package:
Statistix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Peter H. Westfall Graphical Presentation of a Basketball
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
John Sall Leverage Plots for General Linear
Hypothese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Ralph B. D'Agostino and
Albert Belanger A Suggestion for Using Powerful and
Informative Tests of Normality . . . . . 316
Carol A. Markowski and
Edward P. Markowski Conditions for the Effectiveness of a
Preliminary Test of Variance . . . . . . 322
Anonymous William R. Schucany . . . . . . . . . . 1
Benjamin J. Tepping and
Joseph Waksberg Morris H. Hansen, 1910--1990 . . . . . . 2--3
Ralph Penner and
Donald G. Watts Mining Information . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Ronald L. Wasserstein and
John E. Boyer Bounds on the Power of Linear Rank Tests
for Scale Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 10
F. F. Gan and
Kenneth J. Koehler and
John C. Thompson Probability Plots and Distribution
Curves for Assessing the Fit of
Probability Models . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Stephan Arndt and
Robert F. Woolson Establishing a Biostatistical Care Unit
in a Clinical Research Center . . . . . 22
Roger E. Kirk Statistical Consulting in a University:
Dealing With People and Other Challenges 28
Neil C. Schwertman and
Thomas A. McCready and
Lesley Howard Probability Models for the NCAA Regional
Basketball Tournaments . . . . . . . . . 35
Robert W. Mee and
Tin Chiu Chua Regression Toward the Mean and the
Paired Sample $t$ Test . . . . . . . . . 39
Víctor Pérez-Abreu Poisson Approximation to Power Series
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Michael H. Ames and
John T. Webster On Estimating Approximate Degrees of
Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
R. K. Elswick and
Chris Gennings and
Vernon M. Chinchilli and
Kathryn S. Dawson A Simple Approach for Finding Estimable
Functions in Linear Models . . . . . . . 51
Robert A. McLean and
William L. Sanders and
Walter W. Stroup A Unified Approach to Mixed Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 64
K. G. Russell Estimating the Value of e by Simulation 66
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 68
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Brian Dawkins Siobhan's Problem: The Coupon Collector
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Paul D. Sampson and
Peter Guttorp Power Transformations and Tests of
Environmental Impact as Interaction
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Albert Chevan and
Michael Sutherland Hierarchical Partitioning . . . . . . . 90
Richard A. Groeneveld An Influence Function Approach to
Describing the Skewness of a
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
Edna Schechtman On Estimating the Asymptotic Variance of
a Function of $U$ Statistics . . . . . . 103--106
Phillip S. Kott A Model-Based Look at Linear Regression
With Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
Siddhartha Chib and
Ram C. Tiwari Extreme Bounds Analysis in the Kalman
Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
Marie Gaudard and
Gerald J. Hahn An Undergraduate Concentration in
Applied Statistics for Mathematics
Majors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Peter W. Zehna On Proving That simX and $S^2$ are
Independent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Jonathan J. Shuster The Statistician in a Reverse Cocaine
Sting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Andrew Gelman and
Xiao-Li Meng A Note on Bivariate Distributions That
Are Conditionally Normal . . . . . . . . 125
Alastair Scott and
Chris Wild Transformations and $R^2$ . . . . . . . 127
M. J. Goddard Constructing Some Categorical Anomalies 129--134
Gilbert W. Bassett Equivariant, Monotonic, 50% Breakdown
Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Robert Bartels and
Denzil G. Fiebig A Simple Characterization of Seemingly
Unrelated Regressions Models in Which
OLS Is BLUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 141
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 146
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Gordon Rae and
John E. Spencer Average Spearman's Rho, Concordance, and
the Matching Problem: Some Relationships 161
Marie D. Wann A. Ross Eckler, 1901--1991 . . . . . . . 173--173
Rhonda Cockerill and
Bruce Fried Increasing Public Awareness of
Statistics as a Science and a Profession
--- Reinforcing the Message in
Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Hal Stern On the Probability of Winning a Football
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
L. Robert Hill and
William G. Hammond and
John R. Benfield Logistic Regression Analysis in
Experimental Bronchial Carcinogenesis 184
Thomas W. O'Gorman and
Robert F. Woolson Variable Selection to Discriminate
Between Two Groups: Stepwise Logistic
Regression or Stepwise Discriminant
Analysis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
W. W. Stroup and
D. K. Mulitze Nearest Neighbor Adjusted Best Linear
Unbiased Prediction . . . . . . . . . . 194
Edward L. Korn and
Richard Simon Explained Residual Variation, Explained
Risk, and Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . 201
Charles L. Dunn Precise Simulated Percentiles in a Pinch 207
Daniel Peña and
George C. Tiao A Note on Likelihood Estimation of
Missing Values in Time Series . . . . . 212--213
Richard Madsen On the Probability of a Perfect
Progression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Adrienne W. Kemp and
C. David Kemp Weldon's Dice Data Revisited . . . . . . 216
Carl J. Schwarz and
M. Samanta An Inductive Proof of the Sampling
Distributions for the MLE's of the
Parameters in an Inverse Gaussian
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--225
Ayala Cohen Dummy Variables in Stepwise Regression 226
E. H. Oksanen A Simple Approach to Teaching
Generalized Least Squares Theory . . . . 229
John Haslett and
Ronan Bradley and
Peter Craig and
Antony Unwin and
Graham Wills Dynamic Graphics for Exploring Spatial
Data With Application to Locating Global
and Local Anomalies . . . . . . . . . . 234
Jonathan D. Cryer TIMESLAB: A Times Series Laboratory . . 243
Sander Greenland On the Logical Justification of
Conditional Tests for Two-by-Two
Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Deanna B. Haunsperger and
Donald G. Saari The Lack of Consistency for Statistical
Decision Procedures . . . . . . . . . . 252
Anonymous William R. Schucany . . . . . . . . . . 263
Sunil K. Sapra A Connection Between the Logit Model,
Normal Discriminant Analysis, and
Multivariate Normal Mixtures . . . . . . 265
Juliet Popper Shaffer The Gauss--Markov Theorem and Random
Regressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
Sòren Bisgaard Teaching Statistics to Engineers . . . . 274
J. P. Morgan and
N. R. Chaganty and
R. C. Dahiya and
M. J. Doviak Let's Make a Deal: The Player's Dilemma 284--287
Richard G. Seymann Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
J. P. Morgan and
N. R. Chaganty and
R. C. Dahiya and
M. J. Doviak Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Donald G. Watts Why Is Introductory Statistics Difficult
to Learn? And What Can We Do to Make It
Easier? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Norean Radke-Sharpe Writing As a Component of Statistics
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
H. J. Khamis Manual Computations --- A Tool for
Reinforcing Concepts and Techniques . . 294
Arvind K. Shah Relationship Between the Coefficients of
Determination of Algebraically Related
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Lawrence J. Emrich and
Marion R. Piedmonte A Method for Generating High-Dimensional
Multivariate Binary Variates . . . . . . 302
Robert V. Hogg Statistical Education: Improvements Are
Badly Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Myra L. Samuels Statistical Reversion Toward the Mean:
More Universal Than Regression Toward
the Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
D. R. Cox and
Nanny Wermuth A Comment on the Coefficient of
Determination for Binary Responses . . . 1
Lance A. Waller and
Bruce W. Turnbull Probability Plotting With Censored Data 5
Anne I. Goldman EVENTCHARTS: Visualizing Survival and
Other Timed-Events Data . . . . . . . . 13
Barry K. Moser and
Gary R. Stevens Homogeneity of Variance in the
Two-Sample Means Test . . . . . . . . . 19
Thomas L. Boullion and
John W. Seaman, Jr. and
Dean M. Young Moments of Discrete Probability
Distributions Derived Using a
Differential Operator . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Barry C. Arnold and
Patrick L. Brockett On distributions whose component ratios
are Cauchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Gary W. Oehlert A Note on the Delta Method . . . . . . . 27--29
Dennis L. Clason and
Leigh W. Murray Exponential Families and Variance
Component Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Bernard D. Flury and
A. Narayanan A Mixture Approach to Multivariate
Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dale A. Kopas and
Paul R. McAllister Process Improvement Exercises for the
Chemical Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 34
H. F. Martz and
W. J. Zimmer The Risk of Catastrophic Failure of the
Solid Rocket Boosters on the Space
Shuttle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Charles Hallahan DBMS/COPY and DBMS/COPY Plus ---
(Version 2.0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Robert F. Ling Just Say No to Binomial (and Other
Discrete Distributions) Tables . . . . . 53
Joseph L. Gastwirth Statistical Reasoning in the Legal
Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Thomas P. Hettmansperger and
Simon J. Sheather A Cautionary Note on the Method of Least
Median Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
A. F. M. Smith and
A. E. Gelfand Bayesian Statistics Without Tears: A
Sampling--Resampling Perspective . . . . 84--88
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Alexandros A. Arabatzis and
Marion R. Reynolds Mean Squared Error Performance of Simple
Linear Regression Conditional Upon the
Outcome of Pretesting the Intercept . . 89
Walter W. Piegorsch Complementary Log Regression for
Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . 94
Steven B. Cohen and
Ayah E. Johnson Address Sample Effects in the National
Medical Expenditure Survey . . . . . . . 100
Tommy Wright Lagrange's Identity Reveals Correlation
Coefficient and Straight-Line Connection 106
Francisco J. Samaniego Elementary Derivations of Geometric
Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Leonard A. Stefanski Monotone Likelihood Ratio of a
``Faulty-Inspection'' Distribution . . . 110
John E. Angus Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator of
the Probability of an Odd Number of
Successes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Ralph W. Bailey Distributional Identities of Beta and
Chi-Squared Variates: A Geometrical
Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Inchi Hu An Elementary Solution to a Traffic
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Barry Kurt Moser and
Yuh-Ren Lin Equivalence of the Corrected $F$ Test
and the Weighted Least Squares Procedure 122--124
Bruce L. Bowerman and
Richard T. O'Connell Integrating Quality Control Concepts
Into the Introductory Business
Statistics Course . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 129
Raymond H. Myers and
Andre I. Khuri and
Geoffrey Vining Response Surface Alternatives to the
Taguchi Robust Parameter Design Approach 131
M. C. Jones and
John A. Rice Displaying the Important Features of
Large Collections of Similar Curves . . 140
Cyrus R. Mehta and
Stephen J. Walsh Comparison of Exact, Mid-$p$, and
Mantel--Haenszel Confidence Intervals
for the Common Odds Ratio Across Several
$2 \times 2$ Contingency Tables . . . . 146
David A. Larson Analysis of Variance With Just Summary
Statistics as Input . . . . . . . . . . 151
Walter T. Federer and
Michael P. Meredith Covariance Analysis for Split-Plot and
Split-Block Designs . . . . . . . . . . 155
George Casella and
Edward I. George Explaining the Gibbs Sampler . . . . . . 167--174
N. S. Altman An Introduction to Kernel and
Nearest-Neighbor Nonparametric
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--185
J. R. M. Hosking Moments or $L$ Moments? An Example
Comparing Two Measures of Distributional
Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
David J. Hand On Comparing Two Treatments . . . . . . 190
Stephen B. Vardeman What About the Other Intervals? . . . . 193
James A. Hanley Jumping to Coincidences: Defying Odds in
the Realm of the Preposterous . . . . . 197
Richard A. Paulson Using Lottery Games to Illustrate
Statistical Concepts and Abuses . . . . 202
Ingram Olkin A Matrix Formulation on How Deviant an
Observation Can Be . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209
Nabendu Pal and
J. Calvin Berry On Invariance and Maximum Likelihood
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--212
Shashikala Sukhatme Powers of Two-Sample Rank Tests Under
the Lehmann Alternatives . . . . . . . . 212--214
Ravindra Khattree Comparing Estimators for Population
Variance Using Pitman Nearness . . . . . 214
Alvin C. Rencher Interpretation of Canonical Discriminant
Functions, Canonical Variates, and
Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 217
Myra L. Samuels and
Tai-Fang C. Lu Sample Size Requirements for the
Back-of-the-Envelope Binomial Confidence
Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Ted C. Chang and
Sharon L. Lohr and
C. Graham McLaren Teaching Survey Sampling Using
Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
James Albert A Bayesian analysis of a Poisson random
effects model for home run hitters . . . 246--253
Peter J. Danaher Some Statistical Modeling Problems in
the Advertising Industry: A Look at
Media Exposure Distributions . . . . . . 254
Howard Hogan The 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey: An
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Thomas S. Nunnikhoven A Birthday Problem Solution for
Nonuniform Birth Frequencies . . . . . . 270
Ronald Christensen and
Jessica Utts Bayesian Resolution of the ``Exchange
Paradox'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--276
Marcel F. Neuts An invariance property of the Poisson
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--278
Roger L. Berger and
George Casella Deriving Generalized Means as Least
Squares and Maximum Likelihood Estimates 279
William Becker and
Peter Kennedy A Lesson in Least Squares and $R$
Squared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
LeRoy A. Franklin Graphical Insight Into Multiple
Regression Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 284
Sutaip L. C. Saw ANOVA Sums of Squares as Quadratic Forms 288
Robert W. Hayden and
Farid Kianifard Preparing High School Mathematics
Teachers to Teach Statistics . . . . . . 290
William J. Wilson Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship 295
Don McNeil On Graphing Paired Data . . . . . . . . 307
John C. Nash Statistical Shareware: Illustrations
From Regression Techniques . . . . . . . 312
David Strauss The Many Faces of Logistic Regression 321
Dennis D. Boos On Generalized Score Tests . . . . . . . 327
Gerald J. Hahn and
William Q. Meeker Assumptions for Statistical Inference 1
Ian Spence and
Robert F. Garrison A Remarkable Scatterplot . . . . . . . . 12
Maureen Tingley and
Chunhui Li A Note on Obtaining Confidence Intervals
for Discrete Parameters . . . . . . . . 20--23
Joel R. Levin An Improved Modification of a
Regression-Toward-the-Mean Demonstration 24
Harry M. Schey The Relationship Between the Magnitudes
of SSR($x_2$) and SSR($x_2 \vert x_1$):
A Geometric Description . . . . . . . . 26
Guy Thomas and
John O'Quigley A Geometric Interpretation of Partial
Correlation Using Spherical Triangles 30
T. W. Epps Characteristic Functions and Their
Empirical Counterparts: Geometrical
Interpretations and Applications to
Statistical Inference . . . . . . . . . 33
David Oakes A Note on the Kaplan--Meier Estimator 39
J. B. Douglas Confidence Regions for Parameter Pairs 43
Carl J. Schwarz The Mixed-Model ANOVA: The Truth, the
Computer Packages, the Books. Part I:
Balance Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Joseph M. Hilbe Generalized Additive Models Software . . 59
Paul F. Velleman and
Leland Wilkinson Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio
Typologies Are Misleading . . . . . . . 65
Colin R. Blyth Restrict Estimates to the Possible
Values? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Cyrus R. Mehta and
Joan F. Hilton Exact Power of Conditional and
Unconditional Tests: Going Beyond the $2
\times 2$ Contingency Table . . . . . . 91
Janice Derr Biostatistics Cores: Improving the
Chances for Funding . . . . . . . . . . 99
T. P. Hutchinson The Seventh-Root Formula for a
Trivariate Normal Probability . . . . . 102
E. Jacquelin Dietz A Cooperative Learning Activity on
Methods of Selecting a Sample . . . . . 104
Cynthia A. Coyle and
Chamont Wang Wanna Bet? On Gambling Strategies That
May or May Not Work in a Casino . . . . 108
Y. H. Wang and
Jordan Stoyanov and
Qi Man Shao On Independence and Dependence
Properties of a Set of Random Events . . 112--115
Arvind K. Shah and
K. Krishnamoorthy Testing Means Using Hypothesis-Dependent
Variance Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 115
R. C. Juola More on Shortest Confidence Intervals 117--119
Richard M. Engeman Short Courses as Part of Statistical
Consulting in a Foreign Setting . . . . 122
D. A. Sprott and
V. T. Farewell The Difference Between Two Normal Means 126
Harry O. Posten An Effective Algorithm for the
Noncentral Beta Distribution Function 129
William A. Link Simulation Testing of Unbiasedness of
Variance Estimators . . . . . . . . . . 132
Robin H. Lock A Comparison of Five Student Versions of
Statistics Packages . . . . . . . . . . 136
James R. Boen and
Marcus O. Kjelsberg Career Information for Statistics
Graduate Students . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Ronald D. Snee What's Missing in Statistical Education? 149
Gerald van Belle and
Donald C. Martin Sample Size as a Function of Coefficient
of Variation and Ratio of Means . . . . 165
Roland D. Fisch and
Gunther A. Strehlau A Simplified Approach to Calibration
Confidence Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
David S. Moore The Place of Video in New Styles of
Teaching and Learning Statistics . . . . 172
André I. Khuri A note on Scheffé's confidence intervals 176--178
C. J. Wild and
G. A. F. Seber Comparing Two Proportions From the Same
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--181
James H. Albert Teaching Bayesian Statistics Using
Sampling Methods and MINITAB . . . . . . 182
Luis A. Escobar and
E. Barry Moser A Note on the Updating of Regression
Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Julio L. Peixoto Incorrect $F$ Formulas in Regression
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
H. A. David A Note on Order Statistics for Dependent
Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Lambert H. Koopmans A Note on Using the Moment Generating
Function to Teach the Laws of Large
Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
Jeffrey F. Bromaghin Sample Size Determination for Interval
Estimation of Multinomial Probabilities 203
Andrew R. Solow Estimating Record Inclusion Probability 206
A. J. Lee Generating Random Binary Deviates Having
Fixed Marginal Distributions and
Specified Degrees of Association . . . . 209
R. Murray Lindsay and
A. S. C. Ehrenberg The Design of Replicated Studies . . . . 217
Richard M. Engeman and
Stephen A. Shumake Animal Welfare and the Statistical
Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
William R. Schucany Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Jay Bennett Did Shoeless Joe Jackson Throw the 1919
World Series? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Lawrence D. Brown and
J. T. Gene Hwang How to Approximate a Histogram by a
Normal Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
Carles M. Cuadras Interpreting an Inequality in Multiple
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Adrian E. Raftery and
Tore Schweder Inference About the Ratio of Two
Parameters, With Application to Whale
Censusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Bert Gunter Through a Funnel Slowly With Ball
Bearing and Insight to Teach
Experimental Design . . . . . . . . . . 265
J. Wanzer Drane and
Su Hua Cao and
Lixia Wang and
T. Postelnicu Limiting Forms of Probability Mass
Functions via Recurrence Formulas . . . 269--274
Donald B. Percival Three Curious Properties of the Sample
Variance and Autocovariance for
Stationary Processes With Unknown Mean 274--276
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 277
Roger W. Hoerl and
Jeffrey H. Hooper and
Peter J. Jacobs and
James M. Lucas Skills for Industrial Statisticians to
Survive and Prosper in the Emerging
Quality Environment . . . . . . . . . . 280
Richard N. MacLennan Interrater Reliability With SPSS for
Windows 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 297
Albert K. Okunade and
Cyril F. Chang and
Richard D. Evans Comparative Analysis of Regression
Output Summary Statistics in Common
Statistical Packages . . . . . . . . . . 298
Bernard D. Flury and
Thaddeus Tarpey Representing a Large Collection of
Curves: A Case for Principal Points . . 304
Kinley Larntz Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Henry F. Inman Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher on
Statistical Tests: A 1935 Exchange from
Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--11
Maria Elena Gonzalez Improving Data Quality Awareness in the
United States Federal Statistical
Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Patricia S. Abel and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla To Survive or to Fail: That is the
Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
David A. Harville and
Michael H. Smith The Home-Court Advantage: How Large Is
It and Does It Vary From Team to Team? 22
Khoan T. Dinh and
Truc T. Nguyen Maximum Likelihood Estimators of
Binomial Parameters Under an Order
Restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Philip L. H. Yu A Simple Statistical Project: Image
Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Ester Samuel-Cahn Combining unbiased estimators . . . . . 34--36
Peter B. Imrey Statistical Values, Quality, and
Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
J. Stuart Hunter and
Stephen M. Stigler and
Stephen E. Fienberg and
James Boen and
Joseph B. Kadane Invited Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Peter B. Imrey Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Friedrich Pukelsheim The Three Sigma Rule . . . . . . . . . . 88--91
Wenjun Chen and
Tim Swartz Quantitative Aspects of Five-Pin Bowling 92
Tapan K. Nayak Pitman Nearness Comparison of Some
Estimators of Population Variance . . . 99--102
R. L. Eubank A Simple Smoothing Spline . . . . . . . 103--106
Woollcott Smith and
Milton Parnes Mean Streets: The Median of a
Size-Biased Sample and the Population
Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
J. Brian Gray and
William H. Woodall The Maximum Size of Standardized and
Internally Studentized Residuals in
Regression Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 111
Richard Anderson-Sprecher Model Comparisons and $R^2$ . . . . . . 113
Gregory Samsa and
Eugene Z. Oddone Integrating Scientific Writing Into a
Statistics Curriculum: A Course in
Statistically Based Scientific Writing 117
David M. Nickerson Construction of a Conservative
Confidence Region From Projections of an
Exact Confidence Region in Multiple
Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
Michael Cain The Moment-Generating Function of the
Minimum of Bivariate Normal Random
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
Shaul K. Bar-Lev A Derivation of Conditional Cumulants in
Exponential Models . . . . . . . . . . . 126--129
Cuthbert Daniel Factorial One-Factor-at-a-Time
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Gary Tietjen Recursive Schemes for Calculating
Cumulative Binomial and Poisson
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Carlos G. Lazaro and
David DeLong and
Ming-Long Lam and
William H. Rogers and
Patrick J. Fleury Invited Responses to Dallal, G. E.
(1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
Factorial Experiments With Nested
Factors,'' The American Statistician,
46, 240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Shayle R. Searle Analysis of Variance Computing Package
Output for Unbalanced Data From
Fixed-Effects Models With Nested Factors 148
Anne Boomsma and
Ivo W. Molenaar Four Electronic Tables for Probability
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
C. J. Wild Embracing the ``Wider View'' of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Thomas J. Boardman The statistician who changed the world:
W. Edwards Deming, 1900--1993 . . . . . 179--187
Steven N. MacEachern and
L. Mark Berliner Subsampling the Gibbs Sampler . . . . . 188
Daniel L. Solomon and
J. Tim Arnold and
Bruce E. Trumbo and
Paul F. Velleman Electronic Publications in Statistics
--- Ready or Not, Here They Come . . . . 191
Howard S. Gitlow A Comparison of Japanese Total Quality
Control and Dr Deming's Theory of
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Harry J. Khamis and
Barbara L. Mann Outreach at a University Statistical
Consulting Center . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Peter McCullagh Does the Moment-Generating Function
Characterize a Distribution? . . . . . . 208--208
Johan Bring How to Standardize Regression
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Leo Knüsel The prediction problem as the dual form
of the two-sample problem with
applications to the Poisson and the
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 214--219
Joseph W. McKean and
Thomas J. Vidmar A Comparison of Two Rank-Based Methods
for the Analysis of Linear Models . . . 220
Murray A. Jorgensen Tail Functions and Iterative Weights in
Binary Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Brani Vidakovic All Roads Lead to Rome --- Even in the
Honeycomb World . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
Daniel R. Jeske Illustrating the Gauss--Markov Theorem 237
Lynn Roy LaMotte A Note on the Role of Independence in
$t$ Statistics Constructed From Linear
Statistics in Regression Models . . . . 238
Qi Zheng and
James H. Matis Correlation Coefficient Revisited . . . 240
Edsel A. Peña and
Vijay Rohatgi Some Comments About Sufficiency and
Unbiased Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Roman Viveros and
K. Balasubramanian and
N. Balakrishnan Binomial and Negative Binomial Analogues
Under Correlated Bernoulli Trials . . . 243
Jeffrey S. Pontius and
Rhoda M. Schantz Graphical Analyses of a Two-Period
Crossover Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Joseph M. Hilbe Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . 255
C. J. Wild and
G. A. F. Seber Correction: ``Comparing two proportions
from the same survey'' [Amer.\ Statist.
\bf 47 (1993), no. 3, 178--181] . . . . 269--269
Panagis Moschopoulos and
Joan G. Staniswalis Estimation Given Conditionals From an
Exponential Family . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Geert Molenberghs The Shape of Correlation Matrices . . . 276--279
David L. DeMets and
Dan Anbar and
William Fairweather and
Thomas A. Louis and
Robert T. O'Neill Training the Next Generation of
Biostatisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Robert V. Hogg A Core in Statistics for Engineering
Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Stephen L. Hillis and
Charles S. Davis A Simple Justification of the Iterative
Fitting Procedure for Generalized Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
Julian L. Simon What Some Puzzling Problems Teach About
the Theory of Simulation and the Use of
Resampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Joseph B. Keller A characterization of the Poisson
distribution and the probability of
winning a game . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--298
Dorothy D. Dunlop Regression for Longitudinal Data: A
Bridge From Least Squares Regression . . 299--303
Mark F. Schilling and
Ann E. Watkins A Suggestion for Sunflower Plots . . . . 303
A. C. Atkinson Transforming Both Sides of a Tree . . . 307
Joseph Gastwirth and
Abba Krieger and
Paul Rosenbaum How a Court Accepted an Impossible
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Thomas P. Lane and
William H. DuMouchel Simultaneous Confidence Intervals in
Multiple Regression . . . . . . . . . . 315
Ita G. G. Kreft and
Jan De Leeuw and
Rien Van Der Leeden Review of Five Multilevel Analysis
Programs: BMDP-5V, GENMOD, HLM, ML3, and
VARCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Junghun Kim and
Pravin K. Trivedi Econometric Time Series Analysis
Software: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . 336
K. T. Dinh and
Truc T. Nguyen Acknowledgement of priority: ``Maximum
likelihood estimators of binomial
parameters under an order restriction''
[Amer. Statist. \bf 48 (1994), no. 1,
29--30] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
Jon R. Kettenring What Industry Needs . . . . . . . . . . 2
Peter J. Bickel What Academia Needs . . . . . . . . . . 5
N. Phillip Ross What the Government Needs . . . . . . . 7
John C. Bailar III A Larger Perspective . . . . . . . . . . 10
John Lehoczky Modernizing Statistics Ph.D. Programs 12
Carl N. Morris Respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Robert L. Wardrop Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in
Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Edward E. Gbur, Jr. and
Bruce E. Trumbo Key Words and Phrases --- The Key to
Scholarly Visibility and Efficiency in
an Information Explosion . . . . . . . . 29
Barry C. Arnold and
Richard A. Groeneveld Measuring Skewness With Respect to the
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38
C. E. McCulloch and
S. R. Searle On an Identity Derived From Unbiasedness
in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
Douglas J. Taylor and
Keith E. Muller Computing Confidence Bounds for Power
and Sample Size of the General Linear
Univariate Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
William Q. Meeker and
Luis A. Escobar Teaching About Approximate Confidence
Regions Based on Maximum Likelihood
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Robert A. Stine Graphical Interpretation of Variance
Inflation Factors . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Neil C. Schwertman and
Terry L. Kiser The Role of Geometry in Pairwise and
Mutual Independence . . . . . . . . . . 56
Michael F. Driscoll and
Barbara Krasnicka An accessible proof of Craig's theorem
in the general case . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 62
Stephen W. Looney How to Use Tests for Univariate
Normality to Assess Multivariate
Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Peyton Cook and
Lyle D. Broemeling Bayesian Statistics Using Mathematica 70
E. Neely Atkinson Interactive Dynamic Graphics for
Exploratory Survival Analysis . . . . . 77
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 84
Jenny Baglivo Computer Algebra Systems: Maple and
Mathematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
John C. Nash Computer Algebra Systems: DERIVE(R) . . 93
Philip M. Lurie A Review of Five Statistical Packages
for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
T. D. Sterling and
W. L. Rosenbaum and
J. J. Weinkam Publication Decisions Revisited: The
Effect of the Outcome of Statistical
Tests on the Decision to Publish and
Vice Versa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
H. A. David First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in
Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . . 121
Stephen J. Gange Generating Multivariate Categorical
Variates Using the Iterative
Proportional Fitting Algorithm . . . . . 134
Martin L. Lesser and
Nina E. Kohn and
Barbara A. Napolitano and
Savita Pahwa The FU-PLOT: A Graphical Method for
Visualizing the Timing of Follow-Up in
Longitudinal Studies . . . . . . . . . . 139
Michael A. Proschan and
Dean A. Follmann Multiple Comparisons With Control in a
Single Experiment Versus Separate
Experiments: Why Do We Feel Differently? 144
Lance Waller Does the Characteristic Function
Numerically Distinguish Distribution? 150
Michael Friendly Conceptual and Visual Models for
Categorical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Richard D. Gelber and
Bernard F. Cole and
Shari Gelber and
Aron Goldhirsch Comparing Treatments Using
Quality-Adjusted Survival: The Q-TWiST
Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Kazem Kazempour Impact of Stratification Imbalance on
Probability of Type I Error . . . . . . 170
Thomas K. Philips and
Randolph Nelson The Moment Bound is Tighter Than
Chernoff's Bound for Positive Tail
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
Lewis H. Shoemaker Tests for Differences in Dispersion
Based on Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Joyce C. Niland and
Tamara L. Odom-Maryon and
Jennifer Lee and
Barbara C. Tilley A Survey of Biostatistical Consulting
Units Throughout North America . . . . . 183
Jeffrey B. Birch Ten Suggestions for Effectively Teaching
Short Courses to Heterogeneous Groups 190
John A. Cornell and
Ron H. Randles and
G. Geoff Vining Challenges in Teaching Short Courses by
an Academic Department: The University
of Florida Experience . . . . . . . . . 195
David G. Kleinbaum Teaching Short Courses in Biostatistics
and Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Clifford Konold Confessions of a Coin Flipper and
Would-Be Instructor . . . . . . . . . . 203
R. W. Oldford A Physical Device for Demonstrating
Confounding, Blocking, and the Role of
Randomization in Uncovering a Causal
Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Peter J. Smith A Recursive Formulation of the Old
Problem of Obtaining Moments From
Cumulants and Vice Versa . . . . . . . . 217--218
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 219
William O. Williford and
William F. Krol and
Stephen F. Bingham and
Joseph F. Collins and
David G. Weiss The Multicenter Clinical Trials
Coordination Center Statistician: ``More
Than a Consultant'' . . . . . . . . . . 221
Frank Y. Hsieh A Cautionary Note on the Analysis of
Extreme Data With Cox Regression . . . . 226
N. Balakrishnan and
R. A. Sandhu A Simple Simulational Algorithm for
Generating Progressive Type-II Censored
Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
R. Chattamvelli A Note on the Noncentral Beta
Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . 231
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 235
Joseph M. Cameron and
Joan R. Rosenblatt Churchill Eisenhart, 1913-1994 . . . . . 243
William J. Spencer and
Paul A. Tobias Statistics in the Semiconductor
Industry: A Competitive Necessity . . . 245
David S. Moore and
George W. Cobb and
Joan Garfield and
William Q. Meeker Statistics Education Fin de Si\`ecle . . 250
W. Scott Overton and
Stephen V. Stehman The Horvitz--Thompson Theorem as a
Unifying Perspective for Probability
Sampling: With Examples From Natural
Resource Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Ian T. Jolliffe Sample Sizes and the Central Limit
Theorem: The Poisson Distribution as an
Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Dennis P. Walsh Equating Poisson and Normal Probability
Functions to Derive Stirling's Formula 270
Paul R. Coe and
William Butterworth Optimal stopping in ``The showcase
showdown'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
David C. Hoaglin and
Paul F. Velleman A Critical Look at Some Analyses of
Major League Baseball Salaries . . . . . 277
Roger G. Johnston and
Shayla D. Schroder and
A. Rajika Mallawaaratchy Statistical Artifacts in the Ratio of
Discrete Quantities . . . . . . . . . . 285
Edward L. Korn and
Barry I. Graubard Examples of Differing Weighted and
Unweighted Estimates From a Sample
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Sharon-Lise T. Normand Meta-Analysis Software: A Comparative
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Paul A. Thompson Correspondence Analysis in Statistical
Package Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Paul Alper and
Robert L. Raymond Imposing Views, Imposing Shoes: A
Statistician as a Sole Model . . . . . . 316
Siddartha Chib and
Edward Greenberg Understanding the Metropolis--Hastings
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Gerald J. Hahn Deming's Impact on Industrial
Statistics: Some Reflections . . . . . . 336
Katherine L. Monti Folded Empirical Distribution Function
Curves --- Mountain Plots . . . . . . . 342
Lance A. Waller and
Bruce W. Turnbull and
J. Michael Hardin Obtaining Distribution Functions by
Numerical Inversion of Characteristic
Functions With Applications . . . . . . 346
Inge S. Helland Simple Counterexamples Against the
Conditionality Principle . . . . . . . . 351--356
Daniel Zelterman and
Ivan Siu-Fung Chan and
Paul W. Mielke, Jr. Exact Tests of Significance in Higher
Dimensional Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Charles E. Gates What Really Is Experimental Error in
Block Designs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Johannes Ledolter Projects in Introductory Statistics
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Alan T. Arnholt and
Jaimie L. Hebert Estimating the Mean With Known
Coefficient of Variation . . . . . . . . 367
Yoong-Sin Lee Graphical Demonstration of an Optimality
Property of the Median . . . . . . . . . 369
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 372
Sharon L. Lohr Hasse Diagrams in Statistical Consulting
and Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
John A. Nelder and
Peter W. Lane The Computer Analysis of Factorial
Experiments: In Memorian --- Frank Yates 382
John M. Charnes and
Howard S. Gitlow Using Control Charts to Corroborate
Bribery in Jai Alai . . . . . . . . . . 386
R. J. O'Hara Hines and
W. G. S. Hines Exploring Cook's Statistic Graphically 389
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 395
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 404
R. J. Carroll and
David Ruppert The Use and Misuse of Orthogonal
Regression in Linear Errors-in-Variables
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jean-Marc Bernard Bayesian Interpretation of Frequentist
Procedures for a Bernoulli Process . . . 7
Bruce R. Johnson and
Benjamin J. Tilly On the Construction of Independence
Counterexamples . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Ian T. Jolliffe and
Peter B. Hope Bounded Bivariate Distributions With
Nearly Normal Marginals . . . . . . . . 17
Mark G. Vangel Confidence Intervals for a Normal
Coefficient of Variation . . . . . . . . 21
Christopher T. Edwards Double-Elimination Tournaments: Counting
and Calculating . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Neil C. Schwertman and
Kathryn L. Schenk and
Brett C. Holbrook More Probability Models for the NCAA
Regional Basketball Tournaments . . . . 34
Bradley P. Carlin Improved NCAA Basketball Tournament
Modeling via Point Spread and Team
Strength Information . . . . . . . . . . 39
Richard F. Gunst and
Gary C. McDonald The Importance of Outcome Dynamics,
Simple Geometry, and Pragmatic
Statistical Arguments in Exposing
Deficiencies of Experimental Design
Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Rhonda C. Magel Increasing Student Participation in
Large Introductory Statistics Classes 51
Johan Bring A Geometric Approach to Compare
Variables in a Regression Model . . . . 57
Lawrence M. Leemis and
Kishor S. Trivedi A Comparison of Approximate Interval
Estimators for the Bernoulli Parameter 63
Thomas E. Bradstreet Teaching Introductory Statistics Courses
So That Nonstatisticians Experience
Statistical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 69
Johannes Ledolter and
K. S. Chan Evaluating the Impact of the 65 mph
Maximum Speed Limit on Iowa Rural
Interstates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 86
Keith Ord and
Sam Lowe Automatic Forecasting . . . . . . . . . 88
Howard Wainer Depicting Error . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Richard A. Becker and
Sallie Keller-McNulty Presentation Myths . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Sheldon M. Ross Bayesians Should Not Resample a Prior
Sample to Learn About the Posterior . . 116--116
Rollin Brant Digesting Logistic Regression Results 117
Rob J. Hyndman Computing and Graphing Highest Density
Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
W. G. S. Hines Pragmatics of Pooling in ANOVA Tables 127
Dayanand N. Naik and
Ravindra Khattree Revisiting Olympic Track Records: Some
Practical Considerations in the
Principal Component Analysis . . . . . . 140
D. R. Grimmett and
J. R. Ridenhour The Effect of a Variable Data Point on
Hypothesis Tests for Means . . . . . . . 145--150
Jeffrey H. Dorfman Pseudorandom Sampling Has a Real Effect
on Test Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
A. J. Lawrance A Design of Experiments Workshop as an
Introduction to Statistics . . . . . . . 156
Arnold J. Stromberg and
Subathra Ramanathan Easy Implementation of Writing in
Introductory Statistics Courses . . . . 159
Sander Greenland A Lower Bound for the Correlation of
Exponentiated Bivariate Normal Pairs . . 163--164
Renato Assuncao Likelihood Elasticity and Error Bounds 165
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 168
Richard J. Beckman Plotting $pk$ Factorial or $pn-k$
Fractional Factorial Data . . . . . . . 170
Ronald Christensen and
Aparna V. Huzurbazar A Note on Augmenting Resolution III
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
D. J. Murdoch and
E. D. Chow A Graphical Display of Large Correlation
Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Alan J. Miller The Convergence of Efroymson's Stepwise
Regression Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 180
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 182
Scott S. Emerson Statistical Packages for Group
Sequential Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Mark J. Schervish $P$ Values: What They Are and What They
Are Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
Daniel F. Heitjan and
Srabashi Basu Distinguishing ``missing at random'' and
``missing completely at random'' . . . . 207--213
S. Kunte and
K. S. Upadhya Estimating Multinomial Probabilities . . 214--216
Paul F. Velleman and
David S. Moore Multimedia for Teaching Statistics:
Promises and Pitfalls . . . . . . . . . 217
Thomas R. Fears and
Jacques Benichou and
Mitchell H. Gail A Reminder of the Fallibility of the
Wald Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Wendy A. Bergerud Displaying Factor Relationships in
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Jerry Sullivan Understanding the Degrees of Freedom
Concept by Computer Experiments . . . . 234
Paul H. Kvam Using Exam Scores to Estimate the
Prevalence of Classroom Cheating . . . . 238
Neil C. Schwertman A Connection Between Quadratic-Type
Confidence Limits and Fiducial Limits 242--243
Malay Ghosh Wishart Distribution via Induction . . . 243--246
L. A. Stefanski A Note on the
Arithmetic-Geometric-Harmonic Mean
Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Robert J. Mac and
G. Dawson How Many Light Bulbs Does it Take to
Generate a Data Set? . . . . . . . . . . 247
Steven C. Hillmer A Problem-Solving Approach to Teaching
Business Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 249
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 257
Michael D. Ernst and
Rudy Guerra and
William R. Schucany Scatterplots for Unordered Pairs . . . . 260
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 266
Joseph Hilbe Windows File Conversion Software . . . . 268
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher The Power of Replications and
Replications of Power . . . . . . . . . 271
Kinley Larntz Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Brad Warner and
Manavendra Misra Understanding Neural Networks as
Statistical Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Wilfried R. Vanhonacker Meta-Analysis and Response Surface
Extrapolation: A Least Squares Approach 294
Alexander von Eye and
Christiane Spiel Standard and Nonstandard Log-Linear
Symmetry Models for Measuring Change in
Categorical Variables . . . . . . . . . 300
Chul Gyu Park and
Taesung Park and
Dong Wan Shin A Simple Method for Generating
Correlated Binary Variates . . . . . . . 306--310
Eduardo Ley On the Peculiar Distribution of the U.S.
Stock Indexes' Digits . . . . . . . . . 311--313
Roger L. Berger More Powerful Tests From Confidence
Interval $p$ Values . . . . . . . . . . 314
D. K. Bhaumik and
P. M. Kulkarni A Simple and Exact Method of
Constructing Tolerance Intervals for the
One-Way ANOVA With Random Effects . . . 319
Ibrahim A. Ahmad A Class of Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon Type
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--327
Ronald S. Fesco and
William D. Kalsbeek and
Sharon L. Lohr and
Richard L. Scheaffer and
Fritz J. Scheuren and
Elizabeth A. Stasny Teaching Survey Sampling . . . . . . . . 328
David R. Appleton and
Joyce M. French and
Mark P. J. Vanderpump Ignoring a Covariate: An Example of
Simpson's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Mervyn G. Marasinghe and
William Q. Meeker and
Dianne Cook and
Tae-sung Shin Using Graphics and Simulation to Teach
Statistical Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 342
Bernard Rosner and
Frederick Mosteller and
Cleo Youtz Modeling Pitching Performance and the
Distribution of Runs per Inning in Major
League Baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Rob J. Hyndman and
Yanan Fan Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages 361
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu A Note on the Calculation of Pr$(X_1 <
X_2 \cdots{} < X_k)$ . . . . . . . . . . 365
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 366
John C. Nash and
Tony K. Quon Software for Modeling Kinetic Phenomena 368
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 390
James M. Landwehr Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Peter H. Westfall and
Russell D. Wolfinger Multiple Tests with Discrete
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
H. A. David and
Jason L. Gunnink The Paired $t$ Test Under Artificial
Pairing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
Heather Hammer Symbolic Exclusion in Statistical
Literature: The Impact of Gendered
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Shayle R. Searle Built-In Restrictions on Best Linear
Unbiased Predictors (BLUP) of Random
Effects in Mixed Models . . . . . . . . 19
Necip Doganaksoy and
N. Balakrishnan A Useful Property of Best Linear
Unbiased Predictors with Applications to
Life-Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
William Navidi A Graphical Illustration of the EM
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Edward A. Silver and
Daniel Costa A Property of Symmetric Distributions
and a Related Order Statistic Result . . 32--33
Thomas M. Sellke and
Sarah H. Sellke Chebyshev Inequalities for Unimodal
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
Philippe Naveau Comparison Between the Chernoff and
Factorial Moment Bounds for Discrete
Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Michael J. Rovine and
Alexander von Eye A 14th Way to Look at a Correlation
Coefficient: Correlation as the
Proportion of Matches . . . . . . . . . 42
N. Radke Sharpe and
R. A. Roberts The Relationship Among Sums of Squares,
Correlation Coefficients, and
Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Amy W. Lam Connections Between Two-Level Factorials
and Venn Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Michael Sherman Comparing the Sample Mean and the Sample
Median: An Exploration in the
Exponential Power Family . . . . . . . . 52
Justus F. Seely and
David Birkes and
Youngjo Lee Characterizing Sums of Squares by Their
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
M. P. Wand Data-Based Choice of Histogram Bin Width 59
Richard Goldstein Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 65
Philip G. Stein and
James R. Matey and
Karen Pitts A Review of Statistical Software for the
Apple Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Katherine L. Monti Making Statistical Tables in Windows: A
Comparison of Data Muncher and SAS (PROC
TABULATE and PROC REPORT) . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 93
Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. Robust Sports Ratings Based on Least
Absolute Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105
Robert Tibshirani Who is the Fastest Man in the World? . . 106
Charles Poole and
Sander Greenland How a Court Accepted a Possible
Explanation: A Comment on Gastwirth,
Krieger, and Rosenbaum . . . . . . . . . 112
Joseph L. Gastwirth and
Abba M. Krieger and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Reply: Unquestionably Impossible . . . . 115
Jim Mintz and
Wilfrid Dixon Objection Overruled: A Comment on
Gastwirth, Krieger, and Rosenbaum . . . 117
Joseph L. Gastwirth and
Abba M. Krieger and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Reply: Hypotheticals and Hypotheses . . 120
Matthew S. Mayo and
J. Brian Gray Elemental Subsets: The Building Blocks
of Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
V. C. Hombas Waiting Time and Expected Waiting Time:
Paradoxical Situations . . . . . . . . . 130--133
Jules I. Borack A Technique for Estimating the
Probability of Detecting a Nongaming
Drug User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
B. D. Jovanovic and
P. S. Levy A Look at the Rule of Three . . . . . . 137
Dawn M. VanLeeuwen A Note on the Covariance Structure in a
Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144
David L. Allen Hypothesis Testing Using an
${L1}$-Distance Bootstrap . . . . . . . 145--150
Michael R. Frey and
John C. Kern The Pitman Closeness of a Class of
Scaled Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 151--154
James R. Murphy How to Read the Statistical Methods
Literature: A Guide for Students . . . . 155
Franz Loosen A Concrete Strategy for Teaching
Hypothesis Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Prem K. Goel and
Mario Peruggia and
Baoshe An Computer-Aided Teaching of Probabilistic
Modeling for Biological Phenomena . . . 164
Danny W. Turner A Simple Example Illustrating a
Well-Known Property of the Correlation
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Candace Schau and
Nancy Mattern Use of Map Techniques in Teaching
Applied Statistics Courses . . . . . . . 171
Gemai Chen and
A. Adatia Independence and $t$ Distribution . . . 176
Mervyn J. Silvapulle A Curious Example Involving the
Likelihood Ratio Test Against One-Sided
Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
N. Balakrishnan and
C. R. Rao A Note on the Best Linear Unbiased
Estimation Based on Order Statistics . . 181--185
Xuming He Quantile Curves Without Crossing . . . . 186
Richard Goldstein Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 193
Dominique Houghton Packages for Estimating Finite Mixtures:
A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 206
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 210
Edward J. Bedrick and
Ronald Christensen and
Wesley Johnson Bayesian Binomial Regression: Predicting
Survival at a Trauma Center . . . . . . 211
Heng Li and
Hal S. Stern Bayesian Inference for Nested Designs
Based on Jeffreys' Prior . . . . . . . . 219--224
Andrew A. Neath and
Francisco J. Samaniego On the Efficacy of Bayesian Inference
for Nonidentifiable Models . . . . . . . 225--232
Alberto Luceno Further Evidence Supporting the
Numerical Usefulness of Characteristic
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
J. S. Buzas Fast Estimators of the Jackknife . . . . 235--240
Donald A. Berry Teaching Elementary Bayesian Statistics
with Real Applications in Science . . . 241
Jim Albert Teaching Bayes' Rule: A Data-Oriented
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
David S. Moore Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Jeffrey A. Witmer Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 262
Thomas H. Short Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 263
D. V. Lindley Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 265
David A. Freedman Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 266
Richard L. Scheaffer Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 268
Donald A. Berry Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 270
Jim Albert Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 271
David S. Moore Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 272
Kathryn S. Dawson and
Chris Gennings and
Walter H. Carter Two Graphical Techniques Useful in
Detecting Correlation Structure in
Repeated Measures Data . . . . . . . . . 275
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 284
Steven B. Cohen An Evaluation of Alternative PC-Based
Software Packages Developed for the
Analysis of Complex Survey Data . . . . 285
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 293
James A. Koziol and
Joel E. Alexander and
Lance O. Bauer and
Samuel Kuperman and
Sandra Morzorati and
Sean J. O'Connor and
John Rohrbaugh and
Bernice Porjesz and
Henri Begleiter and
John Polich A Graphical Technique for Displaying
Correlation Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 301
Frederick Mosteller Lessons from Sports Statistics . . . . . 305--310
W. Alan Nicewander and
James M. Price A Consonance Criterion for Choosing
Sample Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Bruce Levin A Lower Bound for the Mantel--Haenszel
One Degree of Freedom Chi-Squared
Statistic in $1\colon m$ Matched Samples 318
Don G. Wardell Small-Sample Interval Estimation of
Bernoulli and Poisson Parameters . . . . 321
Daniel Peña Combining Information in Statistical
Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--332
Joseph G. Ibrahim On Properties of Predictive Priors in
Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--337
Christopher H. Morrell and
Jay D. Pearson and
Larry J. Brant Linear Transformations of Linear
Mixed-Effects Models . . . . . . . . . . 338
Thomas Mathew and
Kenneth Nordström An Inequality for a Measure of Deviation
in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--349
Frederick Wiseman and
Sangit Chatterjee Major League Baseball Player Salaries:
Bringing Realism into Introductory
Statistics Courses . . . . . . . . . . . 350
J. Jack Lee and
Z. Nora Tu A Versatile One-Dimensional Distribution
Plot: The BLiP Plot . . . . . . . . . . 353
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 359
Frank E. Harrell, Jr. and
Richard Goldstein A Survey of Microcomputer Survival
Analysis Software: The Need for an
Integrated Framework . . . . . . . . . . 360
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 374
Anonymous 1997 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 376
Anonymous Index to Volume 51 . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews ??
Colin Mallows The Zeroth Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Jeffrey S. Simonoff Logistic Regression, Categorical
Predictors, and Goodness-of-Fit: It
Depends on Who You Ask . . . . . . . . . 10
Ali S. Hadi and
Robert F. Ling Some Cautionary Notes on the Use of
Principal Components Regression . . . . 15
Lonnie Magee Nonlocal Behavior in Polynomial
Regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Greg Piepel and
Trish Redgate A Mixture Experiment Analysis of the
Hald Cement Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Katherine K. Wallman Data on Race and Ethnicity: Revising the
Federal Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Hon. Thomas C. Sawyer Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Meeting
Public Policy Goals . . . . . . . . . . 33
H. A. David First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in
Probability and Statistics --- A Second
List, with Corrections . . . . . . . . . 36--40
A. S. Hedayat and
Weining Z. Robieson Exclusion of an Undesirable Sample from
the Support of a Simple Random Sample 41--43
G. R. Dargahi-Noubary and
Jo Anne S. Growney Risk --- A Motivating Theme for an
Introductory Statistics Course . . . . . 42
Gunnar Blom and
Jan-Eric Englund and
Dennis Sandell The Mississippi Problem . . . . . . . . 47
G. W. Bassett and
W. J. Hurley The Effects of Alternative HOME-AWAY
Sequences in a Best-of-Seven Playoff
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Barry Kurt Moser and
Julia K. Sawyer Algorithms for Sums of Squares and
Covariance Matrices Using Kronecker
Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Edward L. Korn and
Barry I. Graubard Scatterplots With Survey Data . . . . . 56
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 68
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 70
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 70
Walter T. Morgan A Review of Eight Statistics Software
Packages for General Use . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 80
Berton Gunter Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of
Fate and Deception from Napoleon
Bonaparte to Ross Perot . . . . . . . . 83
Malcolm J. Sherman A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco
and Vanzetti Evidence . . . . . . . . . 83
Roger Hoerl The Pocket Statistician: A Practical
Guide to Quality Improvement . . . . . . 84
William Kastner Statistical Quality Control Using the
SAS System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Deborah J. Rumsey Business Statistics: Decision Making
With Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Karen Kafadar Statistics and Public Policy . . . . . . 86
Larry Weldon Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions 86
Karl L. Wuensch Understanding Statistics: An
Introduction for the Social Sciences . . 87
J. Laurie Snell An Electronic Companion to Statistics
(CD-ROM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
J. Stuart Hunter Cuthbert Daniel: Industrial Statistician 89--92
Robert E. Kass and
Bradley P. Carlin and
Andrew Gelman and
Radford M. Neal Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice: A
Roundtable Discussion . . . . . . . . . 93--100
Colin R. Goodall and
Karen Kafadar and
John W. Tukey Computing and Using Rural versus Urban
Measures in Statistical Applications . . 101--111
David J. Hand Data Mining: Statistics and More? . . . 112
Alan Agresti and
Brent A. Coull Approximate is Better than ``Exact'' for
Interval Estimation of Binomial
Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126
John Ludbrook and
Hugh Dudley Why Permutation Tests are Superior to
$t$ and $F$ Tests in Biomedical Research 127 (or 126--??)
Barry C. Arnold and
Robert M. Shavelle Joint Confidence Sets for the Mean and
Variance of a Normal Distribution . . . 133--140
John W. Pratt and
Robert Schlaifer A New Interpretation of the F Statistic 140
John W. Pratt and
Robert Schlaifer A New Interpretation of the $F$
Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
C. Mitchell Dayton Information Criteria for the
Paired-Comparisons Problem . . . . . . . 143 (or 144--??)
Karen D. Rappaport and
Nouna Kettaneh and
Svante Wold Perspectives on Implementing Statistical
Modeling and Design (SMD) in an
Industrial/Chemical Environment . . . . 151 (or 152--??)
Andrew Gelman and
Deborah Nolan and
Anna Men and
Steve Warmerdam and
Michelle Bautista Student Projects on Statistical Literacy
and the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Andrew Gelman Some Class-Participation Demonstrations
for Decision Theory and Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 (or 167--??)
K. L. Q. Read A Lognormal Approximation for the
Collector's Problem . . . . . . . . . . 173 (or 175--??)
Jerry L. Hintze and
Ray D. Nelson Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace
Synergism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 (or 181--??)
A. Pedro Duarte Silva and
Antonie Stam Nonparametric Two-Group Classification:
Concepts and a SAS-Based Software
Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 (or 185--??)
A. Pedro Duarte Silva and
Antonie Stam Nonparametric Two-Group Classification:
Concepts and a SAS-Based Software
Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Elizabeth Low Book Review: \em Understanding Basic
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
Jonathan Nagler Book Review: \em Statistical Computing
Environments for Social Research . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
Tom Obremski Book Review: \em Statistics for
Management, 7th ed . . . . . . . . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
V. A. Samaranayake and
Jagdish K. Patel Book Review: \em Modern Engineering
Statistics and Elements of Engineering
Probability and Statistics . . . . . . . 199 (or 197--??)
Marjorie E. Bond Book Reviews: \em Applied Statistical
Methods for Business, Economics, and the
Social Sciences and \em Statistics for
Managers: Using Microsoft Excel . . . . 201 (or 199--??)
Thomas Wonnacott Book Review: \em The Ultimate Resource 2 202 (or 200--??)
Matthew Strand and
Duane Boes Statistical Practice --- Modeling Road
Racing Times of Competitive Recreational
Runners Using Extreme Value Theory . . . 205
Robert J. Perry Statistical Practice --- Estimating
Strength of the Williamsburg Bridge
Suspension Cables . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Dennis D. Boos and
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver General --- Applications of Basu's
Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Tue Tjur Nonlinear Regression, Quasi Likelihood,
and Overdispersion in Generalized Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Paul D. Berger and
Chen Wang and
James P. Monahan Quantifying a Statistical Aspect of
Segmented Selection/Quota Systems . . . 228
Russell R. Barton and
Craig A. Nowack A One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 233
Sòren Bisgaard Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 238
Veronica Czitrom Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 240
John D. Spurrier Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 241
Stephen Vardeman Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 242
Anonymous Teacher's Corner --- Reply --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 243
Richard A. Stone The Blind Paper Cutter: Teaching About
Variation, Bias, Stability, and Process
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Michael A. Proschan and
Brett Presnell Expect the Unexpected From Conditional
Expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Alan Madgett Some Uses for Distribution-Fitting
Software in Teaching Statistics . . . . 253
R. Webster West and
R. Todd Ogden and
A. J. Rossini Statistical Tools on the World Wide Web 257
Gary Tietjen Recursive Schemes for Calculating Common
Cumulative Distributions . . . . . . . . 263
Anonymous Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 266
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Five Statistical
Software Packages for Epidemiology . . . 267
Bernadette Russek Book Review: \em The Assessment
Challenge in Statistics Education . . . 281
Marlene Smith Book Reviews: \em Basic Business
Statistics: A Casebook and \em Business
Analysis Using Regression: A Casebook 281
Thomas H. Short Book Review: \em Elementary Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Robert N. Goldman Book Review: \em Interactive Statistics:
Preliminary Edition . . . . . . . . . . 283
William C. Parr Book Review: \em Practical Guide to
Experimental Design . . . . . . . . . . 283
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Reviews: \em Modern Elementary
Statistics (9th ed.), \em A First Course
in Statistics (6th ed.) . . . . . . . . 284
John C. Nash and
Chris Olsen Book Review: \em The Texas Instruments
TI-83 Graphing Calculator . . . . . . . 285
Anonymous The American Statistician Editor's
Report for 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Boris Iglewicz Selected Information on the Statistics
Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Carolyn Shettle and
Catherine Gaddy The Labor Market for Statisticians and
Other Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
David L. DeMets and
Robert Woolson and
Curtis Brooks and
Roger Qu Where the Jobs Are: A Study of \em
Amstat News Job Advertisements . . . . . 303
Don O. Loftsgaarden and
Ann E. Watkins Statistics Teaching in Colleges and
Universities: Courses, Instructors, and
Degrees in Fall 1995 . . . . . . . . . . 308
John A. Nelder The Selection of Terms in
Response-Surface Models: How Strong is
the Weak-Heredity Principle? . . . . . . 315
Lynne Billard The Role of Statistics and the
Statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Richard A. Groeneveld A Class of Quantile Measures for
Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
William C. Parr and
Marlene A. Smith Developing Case-Based Business
Statistics Courses . . . . . . . . . . . 330
C. M. Anderson-Cook Designing a First Experiment: A Project
for Design of Experiment Courses . . . . 338
Roger B. Nelsen Correlation, Regression Lines, and
Moments of Inertia . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Donald R. Barr and
Maj. Andrew G. Glen and
Harvey F. Graf The ``Straightforward'' Nature of
Arrival Rate Estimation? . . . . . . . . 346
H. A. David Stronger Opposition May Make It Easier
to Win . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
James G. Booth and
Somnath Sarkar Monte Carlo Approximation of Bootstrap
Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
B. D. McCulloch Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
Software: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Becki Bucher Bartelson Book Review: \em Workshop Statistics:
Discovery with Data and the Graphing
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Ann R. Cannon Book Review: \em Understanding Data:
Principles and Practice of Statistics 367
Bruce E. Ankenman Book Review: \em Introduction to the
Design and Analysis of Experiments . . . 368
John W. Cotton Book Review: \em Analyzing
Within-Subjects Experiments . . . . . . 368
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 370
Anonymous 1998 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 372
Anonymous Index to Volume 52 . . . . . . . . . . . 374
James J. Higgins Nonmathematical Statistics: A New
Direction for the Undergraduate
Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Robert V. Hogg Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics Programs 7
H. Joseph Newton Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
George W. Cobb Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
G. Rex Bryce Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Richard A. Groeneveld Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
James J. Higgins Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Robert V. Hogg Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
R. Dennis Cook and
Sanford Weisberg Graphs in Statistical Analysis: Is the
Medium the Message? . . . . . . . . . . 29
Steve Verrill When Good Confidence Intervals Go Bad:
Predictor Sort Experiments and ANOVA . . 38
Young H. Chun On the Information Economics Approach to
the Generalized Game Show Problem . . . 43
Dhammika Amaratunga Searching for the Right Sample Size . . 52
Jess S. Boronico Multi-Tiered Playoffs and Their Impact
on Professional Baseball . . . . . . . . 56
Bruce Levin and
Xun Chen Is the One-Half Continuity Correction
Used Once or Twice to Derive a
Well-Known Approximate Sample Size
Formula to Compare Two Independent
Binomial Distributions? . . . . . . . . 62
Jose Luis Palacios The Ruin Problem via Electric Networks 67
A. Ian McLeod Necessary and Sufficient Condition for
Nonsingular Fisher Information Matrix in
ARMA and Fractional ARIMA Models . . . . 71
John Chambers Computing With Data: Concepts and
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Jon Maatta Book Review: \em ActivStats 2.0 and \em
The Active Practice of Statistics . . . 85
Robert W. Hayden Book Review: \em Introduction to
Statistical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Karen Kafadar and
James R. Koehler Book Review: \em Modern Applied
Statistics with S-Plus, 2nd edition . . 86
David W. Macky Book Review: \em A Course in
Mathematical Statistics, 2nd edition . . 87
Brian L. Wiens When Log-Normal and Gamma Models Give
Different Results: A Case Study . . . . 89
Tyler Smith and
Neil C. Schwertman Can the NCAA Basketball Tournament
Seeding be Used to Predict Margin of
Victory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
M. C. Jones Distributional Relationships Arising
From Simple Trigonometric Formulas . . . 99
Alan J. Salzberg Removable Selection Bias in
Quasi-Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Richard J. Bolton and
Wojtek J. Krzanowski A Characterization of Principal
Components for Projection Pursuit . . . 108
Geert Molenberghs and
Els J. T. Goetghebeur and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael G. Kenward Nonrandom Missingness in Categorical
Data: Strengths and Limitations . . . . 110
Michael Lavine and
Mark J. Schervish Bayes Factors: What They Are and What
They Are Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Nicolas W. Hengartner A Note on Maximum Likelihood Estimation 123
Veronica Czitrom One-Factor-at-a-Time Versus Designed
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Jon E. Anderson and
Engin A. Sungur Community Service Statistics Projects 132
Peter K. Dunn Three Tools for Interactively
Visualizing Some Distribution Theory
Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Galit Shmueli and
Ayala Cohen Analysis and Display of Hierarchical
Life-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 147
B. D. McCullough Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
Software: Part II . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz Review of Software to Fit Generalized
Estimating Equation Regression Models 160
Becki Bucher Bartelson Book Review: \em Probability Without
Equations: Concepts for Clinicians . . . 170
James J. Higgins Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 170
John P. Holcomb Book Reviews: \em Applied Regression
Analysis, 3rd edition and \em Applied
Regression Analysis: A Research Tool,
2nd edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \em Against the Gods: The
Remarkable Story of Risk . . . . . . . . 170
Karen Kafadar Book Review: \em Statistics: Concepts
and Controversies, 4th edition . . . . . 170
Anonymous Editor's Report for 1998 . . . . . . . . 175
William DuMouchel Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
Tables, With an Application to the FDA
Spontaneous Reporting System . . . . . . 177
Robert T. O'Neill and
Ana Szarfman Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Thomas A. Louis and
Wei Shen Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
David Madigan Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Anonymous Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Gary C. McDonald Shaping Statistics for Success in the
21st Century: The Needs of Industry . . 203
Gerald J. Hahn and
William J. Hill and
Roger W. Hoerl and
Stephen A. Zinkgraf The Impact of Six Sigma Improvement---A
Glimpse Into the Future of Statistics 208
Constantino Goutis and
George Casella Explaining the Saddlepoint Approximation 216
S. Huzurbazar Practical Saddlepoint Approximations . . 225
Richard Tweedie and
Kerrie Mengersen Calculating Accuracy Rates From Multiple
Assessors With Limited Information . . . 233
James G. Kuczmarski and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Quantile Plots, Partial Orders, and
Financial Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Robert H. Lyles and
Lawrence L. Kupper A Note on Confidence Interval Estimation
in Measurement Error Adjustment . . . . 247
J. N. S. Matthews Effect of Prior Specification on
Bayesian Design for Two-Sample
Comparison of a Binary Outcome . . . . . 254
Sangit Chatterjee and
Mustafa R. Yilmaz The NBA as an Evolving Multivariate
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Stephen M. Stigler The Foundations of Statistics at
Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Yadolah Dodge and
Valentin Rousson The Complications of the Fourth Central
Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Chi Au and
Judy Tam Transforming Variables Using the Dirac
Generalized Function . . . . . . . . . . 270
Michael F. Driscoll An Improved Result Relating Quadratic
Forms and Chi-Square Distributions . . . 273
Leland Wilkinson Dot Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Anthony J. Perkins and
Siu L. Hui Comparisons of Software Packages for
Generalized Linear Multilevel Models . . 282
Douglas M. Andrews Statistical Reasoning and Methods . . . 291
Deborah J. Rumsey Exploring Statistics: A Modern
Introduction to Data Analysis and
Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Richard Cleary Statistical Methods for Engineers . . . 292
Roger W. Johnson Applied Regression Analysis and
Multivariable Methods, 3rd edition . . . 292
Clay Helberg Finding Statistics Online: How to Locate
the Elusive Numbers You Need . . . . . . 293
William P. Peterson Interpreting Basic Statistics: A Guide
and Workbook Based on Excerpts from
Journal Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
James M. Landwehr Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Traci Clemons and
Marcello Pagano Are Babies Normal? . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Rafe M. J. Donahue A Note on Information Seldom Reported
Via the $P$ Value . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Rosemary Roberts and
Richard Scheaffer and
Ann Watkins Advanced Placement Statistics---Past,
Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . 307
Abraham Okolo The Nigerian Census: Problems and
Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Harold Sackrowitz and
Ester Samuel-Cahn $P$ Values as Random
Variables---Expected $P$ Values . . . . 326
P. David Wilson and
Patricia Langenberg Usual and Shortest Confidence Intervals
on Odds Ratios From Logistic Regression 332
Shiva Gautam and
George Kimeldorf Some Results on the Maximal Correlation
in $2 \times k$ Contingency Tables . . . 336
Askar H. Choudhury and
Robert Hubata and
Robert D. St. Louis Understanding Time-Series Regression
Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Jyh-Cherng Jong and
Samuel Kotz On a Relation Between Principal
Components and Regression Analysis . . . 349
Daniel T. Voss Resolving the Mixed Models Controversy 352
Donald R. Barr and
E. Todd Sherrill Mean and Variance of Truncated Normal
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Alan M. Polansky Upper Bounds on the True Coverage of
Bootstrap Percentile Type Confidence
Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
D. Nolan and
T. P. Speed Teaching Statistics Theory Through
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Kevin Hayes and
John Haslett Simplifying General Least Squares . . . 376
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Ida Ruts and
John W. Tukey The Bagplot: A Bivariate Boxplot . . . . 382
Richard Cleary Book review: \em Workshop Statistics:
Discovery with Data and Minitab, Data
Analysis with Microsoft Excel, and
Statistical Laboratory Exercises Using
Excel: A Guide to Understanding Data . . 388
Sue B. Schou Book review: \em Data, Statistics, and
Decision Models with Excel . . . . . . . 389
Elliot A. Tanis Book review: \em Maple V Student
Version: Release 5 . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Richard Goldstein Book review: \em Statistics with Stata 5 392
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 393
Anonymous 1999 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 394
Anonymous Index of Volume 53 . . . . . . . . . . . 396
M. Aldrin Multivariate Prediction Using Softly
Shrunk Reduced-Rank Regression . . . . . ??
Reinhard Bergmann and
John Ludbrook and
Will P. J. M. Spooren Different Outcomes of the
Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney Test From
Different Statistics Packages . . . . . ??
Rebecca A. Betensky Alternative Derivations of a Rule for
Early Stopping in Favor of ${H}_0$ . . . ??
N. Elian Simple Forms of the Best Linear Unbiased
Predictor in the General Linear Model
Silvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jitendra Ganju and
James M. Lucas Analysis of Unbalanced Data From an
Experiment With Random Block Effects and
Unequally Spaced Factor Levels . . . . . ??
John P. Holcomb, Jr. and
Rochelle L. Ruffer Using a Term-Long Project Sequence in
Introductory Statistics . . . . . . . . ??
Ted Jaditz Are the Digits of Pi an iid Sequence? ??
J. Jack Lee and
Kenneth R. Hess and
Joel A. Dubin Extensions and Applications of Event
Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ramón V. León and
William C. Parr Use of Course Home Pages in Teaching
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Scott Menard Coefficients of Determination for
Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis ??
Christopher H. Morrell and
Larry J. Brant Lines in Random Effects Plots From the
Linear Mixed-Effects Model . . . . . . . ??
Yudi Pawitan A Reminder of the Fallibility of the
Wald Statistic: Likelihood Explanation ??
V. Solo A Simple Derivation of the Smoothing
Spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Russell G. Almond and
Charles Lewis and
John W. Tukey and
Duanli Yan Displays for Comparing a Given State to
Many Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Paramjit S. Gill Late-Game Reversals in Professional
Basketball, Football, and Hockey . . . . 94
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Sujuan Gao One-Sided Confidence Intervals for Means
of Positively Skewed Distributions . . . 100
Y. H. Wang Fiducial Intervals: What Are They? . . . 105
Graham J. G. Upton Conditional Independence,
Mantel--Haenszel Test, and the Yates
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Thaddeus Tarpey A Note on the Prediction Sum of Squares
Statistic for Restricted Least Squares 116
Anonymous The Point Process Paradox: Where Should
We Extend the Conversation? . . . . . . 119
Dennis D. Boos and
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver How Large Does $n$ Have to be for $Z$
and $t$ Intervals? . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Thaddeus Tarpey and
John Holcomb Spline Bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Paul H. Kvam The Effect of Active Learning Methods on
Student Retention in Engineering
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
M. Alvo and
P. Cabilio Calculation of Hypergeometric
Probabilities Using Chebyshev
Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Dennis K. J. Lin Random Number Generation for the New
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Richard A. Levine and
Juanjuan Fan Practical Statistics by Example Using
Microsoft Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Allan Rossman Statistics You Can't Trust: A Friendly
Guide to Clear Thinking About Statistics
in Everyday Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Edward C. Wallace A Basic Course in Statistics, 4th
edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Peter A. Lachenbruch A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using
Stata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Robert Stine Statistics with Mathematica . . . . . . 153
Anonymous Applied Multivariate Statistics with SAS
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Matthew A. Carlton Data Analysis: Statistical and
Computational Methods for Scientists and
Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 156
Boris Freidlin and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Should the Median Test Be Retired From
General Use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Diego Kuonen A Saddlepoint Approximation for the
Collector's Problem . . . . . . . . . . 165
Derek R. Bingham and
Tim B. Swartz Equitable Handicapping in Golf . . . . . 170
Li-Chun Zhang Post-Stratification and Calibration---A
Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Walter A. Rosenkrantz Confidence Bands for Quantile Functions:
A Parametric and Graphic Alternative for
Testing Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . . 185
Wei Pan and
Thomas A. Louis and
John E. Connett A Note on Marginal Linear Regression
With Correlated Response Data . . . . . 191
Marsha C. Lovett and
Joel B. Greenhouse Applying Cognitive Theory to Statistics
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Bernard Flury and
Alice Zoppe Exercises in EM . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Oliver Schabenberger and
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Fanzhi Kong Collections of Simple Effects and Their
Relationship to Main Effects and
Interactions in Factorials . . . . . . . 210
George D. Kesling The Mighty Bonus Point . . . . . . . . . 215
J. Scott Long and
Laurie H. Ervin Using Heteroscedasticity Consistent
Standard Errors in the Linear Regression
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Christine Franklin Intermediate Statistics: A Modern
Approach (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Andrew Schaffner Revealing Statistical Principles . . . . 225
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Statistical Distributions in Engineering 226
Syed N. U. A. Kirmani Engineering Statistics and Applied
Statistics and Probability for Engineers
(2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 227
Teddy Schall and
Gary Smith General Do Baseball Players Regress Toward the
Mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Lawrence M. Leemis and
Bruce W. Schmeiser and
Diane L. Evans Survival Distributions Satisfying
Benford's Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Helge Blaker and
Emil Spjotvoll Paradoxes and Improvements in Interval
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Bruce G. Lindsay and
Prasanta Basak Moments Determine the Tail of a
Distribution (But Not Much Else) . . . . 248
W. J. Owen and
D. Sinha and
M. H. Capozzoli A Paired-Data Analysis for a Lifetime
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Peter G. Bryant and
Olga I. Cordero-Brana Model Selection Using the Minimum
Description Length Principle . . . . . . 257
Denis G. Janky Teacher's Corner Sometimes Pooling for Analysis of
Variance Hypothesis Tests: A Review and
Study of a Split-Plot Model . . . . . . 269
Alan Agresti and
Brian Caffo Simple and Effective Confidence
Intervals for Proportions and
Differences of Proportions Result from
Adding Two Successes and Two Failures 280
David P. Doane and
Ronald L. Tracy Using Beam and Fulcrum Displays to
Explore Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Ross S. Sparks and
John B. F. Field Using Deming's Funnel Experiment to
Demonstrate Effects of Violating
Assumptions Underlying Shewhart's
Control Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Donald M. Waldman Estimation in Discrete Choice Models
With Choice-Based Samples . . . . . . . 303
Prashant Sansgiry and
Olcay Akman Statistical Computing and Graphics
Transformations of the Lognormal
Distribution as a Selection Model . . . 307
Dale L. Zimmerman Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
Viewing the Correlation Structure of
Longitudinal Data Through a PRISM . . . 310
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 319
James W. Hardin LogXact 4.1 for Windows . . . . . . . . 320
Richard Cleary How to Think About Statistics . . . . . 322
Robert M. Hamer Statistics in Psychiatry . . . . . . . . 322
Marcello Pagano StatConcepts: A Visual Tour of
Statistical Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Richard Cleary Statistics: An Introduction, 5th edition 324
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 325
Anonymous 2000 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 329
Anonymous Index of Volume 54 . . . . . . . . . . . 331
David S. Moore Undergraduate Programs and the Future of
Academic Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 1
G. Rex Bryce and
Robert Gould and
William I. Notz and
Roxy L. Peck Curriculum Guidelines for Bachelor of
Science Degrees in Statistical Science 7
Mary Ann Ritter and
Robert R. Starbuck and
Robert V. Hogg Advice From Prospective Employers on
Training BS Statisticians . . . . . . . 14
John M. Hoenig and
Dennis M. Heisey The Abuse of Power: The Pervasive
Fallacy of Power Calculations for Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Geert Verbeke and
Bart Spiessens and
Emmanuel Lesaffre Conditional Linear Mixed Models . . . . 25
Elizabeth A. Stasny How to Get a Job in Academics . . . . . 35
Jim Albert and
Patricia Williamson Using Model/Data Simulations to Detect
Streakiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Yadolah Dodge and
Valentin Rousson On Asymmetric Properties of the
Correlation Coefficient in the
Regression Setting . . . . . . . . . . . 51
John P. Wendell and
Josef Schmee Likelihood Confidence Intervals for
Proportions in Finite Populations . . . 55
Thomas Sellke and
M. J. Bayarri and
James O. Berger Calibration of $p$ Values for Testing
Precise Null Hypotheses . . . . . . . . 62
Rafael A. Irizarry Local Regression With Meaningful
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Russell V. Lenth Introduction to Design and Analysis of
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Walter W. Piegorsch Statistics and Experimental Design for
Toxicologists (3rd ed.) . . . . . . . . 81
W. Robert Stephenson Introduction to Probability and
Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
(2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Roger Nelsen Probability and Random Variables: A
Beginner's Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Ann Cannon Essential Statistics (3rd ed.) . . . . . 83
William B. Owen Introduction to Business Statistics: A
Computer Integrated, Data Analysis
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Richard Verrall Introduction Statistics With
Applications in General Insurance . . . 84
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 85
Lynne Stokes Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Zhen Chen and
Lynn Kuo Statistical Practice --- A Note on the
Estimation of the Multinomial Logit
Model With Random Effects . . . . . . . 89--95
Ronald H. Randles Statistical Practice --- On Neutral
Responses (Zeros) in the Sign Test and
Ties in the Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney Test 96--101
Melanie M. Wall and
James Boen and
Richard Tweedie General --- An Effective Confidence
Interval for the Mean With Samples of
Size One and Two . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--105
Kenneth E. McCue General --- The Statistical Foundations
of the EI Method . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--110
Boris Mirkin General --- Eleven Ways to Look at the
Chi-Squared Coefficient for Contingency
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120
Gwowen Shieh General --- The Inequality Between the
Coefficient of Determination and the Sum
of Squared Simple Correlation
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--124
Chi-tsung Wu and
Marcia L. Gumpertz and
Dennis D. Boos General --- Comparison of GEE, MINQUE,
ML, and REML Estimating Equations for
Normally Distributed Data . . . . . . . 125--130
Frank Lad and
Romano Scozzafava General --- Distributions Agreeing With
Exchangeable Sequential Forecasting . . 131--139
Beth L. Chance and
Allan J. Rossman Teacher's Corner --- Sequencing Topics
in Introductory Statistics: A Debate on
What to Teach When . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144
W. M. Bolstad and
Lyn A. Hunt and
Judith L. McWhirter Teacher's Corner --- Sex, Drugs, and
Rock & Roll Survey in a First-Year
Service Course in Statistics . . . . . . 145--149
James A. Hanley and
Lawrence Joseph and
Platt, Robert and
others Teacher's Corner --- Visualizing the
Median as the Minimum-Deviation Location 150--152
Mai Zhou Teacher's Corner --- Understanding the
Cox Regression Models With Time-Change
Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
Andrew G. Glen and
Diane L. Evans and
Lawrence M. Leemis Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
APPL: A Probability Programming Language 156--166
Richard J. Cleary Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Quantitative Investigations in the
Biosciences using MINITAB\TM . . . . . . 167--167
Paul Hyden Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistical Quality Assurance
Methods for Engineers . . . . . . . . . 167
Jacqueline B. Miller Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Electronic Companions to Statistics,
Biostatistics, and Business Statistics 168--168
Joseph Hilbe Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- XploRe: Learning Guide . . . . . . . 169--170
M. Hamada and
H. F. Martz and
C. S. Reese and
others Statistical Practice --- Finding
Near-Optimal Bayesian Experimental
Designs via Genetic Algorithms . . . . . 175--181
Nathaniel Schenker and
Jane F. Gentleman Statistical Practice --- On Judging the
Significance of Differences by Examining
the Overlap Between Confidence Intervals 182--186
Russell V. Lenth Statistical Practice --- Some Practical
Guidelines for Effective Sample Size
Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--193
Don Dawson and
Lonnie Magee General --- The National Hockey League
Entry Draft, 1969--1995: An Application
of a Weighted Pool-Adjacent-Violators
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--199
Robert G. Newcombe General --- Logit Confidence Intervals
and the Inverse Sinh Transformation . . 200--202
Sandy D. Balkin and
Colin L. Mallows General --- An Adjusted, Asymmetric
Two-Sample $t$ Test . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
Glen A. Satten and
Somnath Datta General --- The Kaplan--Meier Estimator
as an Inverse-Probability-of-Censoring
Weighted Average . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--210
Abram Kagan General --- Another Look at the
Cramer-Rao Inequality . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Nozer D. Singpurwalla and
Andrew Swift General --- Network Reliability and
Borel's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--218
Daniel R. Jeske and
Hoang Pham General --- On the Maximum Likelihood
Estimates for the Goel-Okumoto Software
Reliability Model . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
Paul R. Rosenbaum General --- Replicating Effects and
Biases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227
P. Cabilio and
P. J. Farrell Teacher's Corner --- A Computer-Based
Lab Supplement to Courses in
Introductory Statistics . . . . . . . . 228--232
N. I. Fisher and
P. Switzer Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Graphical Assessment of Dependence: Is a
Picture Worth 100 Tests? . . . . . . . . 233--239
Graham J. G. Upton Statistical Computing and Graphics --- A
Toroidal Scatter Diagram for Ternary
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--243
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Statistical Computing Software Reviews
--- Multiple Imputation in Practice:
Comparison of Software Packages for
Regression Models With Missing Variables 244--254
Margaret Mackisack Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Chance Encounters: A First Course in
Data Analysis and Inference . . . . . . 255--255
Deborah J. Rumsey Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistics and Data Analysis: From
Elementary to Intermediate . . . . . . . 255
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- \em So Much Data So Little Math: How
to Predict Data Trends, $5$ Easy
Profitable Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Jay Devore Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics
Through Applications . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
Patti B. Collings Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Fathom: Dynamic Systems Software . . 258--258
Ita G. G. Kreft Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistical Concepts: Education and
Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.) . . . . . 259--259
L. Denby and
J. M. Landwehr and
C. L. Mallows Statistical Practice --- An Exercise in
the Real World of Design and Analysis 263--271
Thomas A. McCready and
Neil C. Schwertman Statistical Practice --- The Statistical
Paleontology of Charles Lyell and the
Coupon Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--278
Lawrence Barker and
Henry Rolka and
Deborah Rolka and
Cedric Brown Statistical Practice --- Equivalence
Testing for Binomial Random Variables:
Which Test to Use? . . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
B. M. Cesana and
G. Reina and
E. Marubini Statistical Practice --- Sample Size for
Testing a Proportion in Clinical Trials:
A ``Two-Step'' Procedure Combining Power
and Confidence Interval Expected Width 288--292
Richard H. Browne Statistical Practice --- Using the
Sample Range as a Basis for Calculating
Sample Size in Power Calculations . . . 293--298
George Casella and
Michael Lavine and
Christian P. Robert General --- Explaining the Perfect
Sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--305
Jonathan Shuster General --- Dependence in Simulation: A
Case Study From the Game of Contract
Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--309
Gary L. Gadbury General --- Randomization Inference and
Bias of Standard Errors . . . . . . . . 310--313
Li Yang and
Anastasios A. Tsiatis General --- Efficiency Study of
Estimators for a Treatment Effect in a
Pretest-Posttest Trial . . . . . . . . . 314--321
Eric Langford and
Neil Schwertman and
Margaret Owens General --- Is the Property of Being
Positively Correlated Transitive? . . . 322--325
Rob Root and
Trisha Thorme Teacher's Corner --- Community-Based
Projects in Applied Statistics: Using
Service-Learning to Enhance Student
Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--331
Sterling C. Hilton and
Scott D. Grimshaw and
Genan T. Anderson Teacher's Corner --- Statistics in
Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--336
Michael Henderson and
Mary C. Meyer Teacher's Corner --- Exploring the
Confidence Interval for a Binomial
Parameter in a First Course in
Statistical Computing . . . . . . . . . 337--344
Philip Iversen and
Mervyn Marasinghe Teacher's Corner --- Dynamic Graphical
Tools for Teaching Experimental Design
and Analysis Concepts . . . . . . . . . 345--351
D. R. Bellhouse Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
The Central Limit Theorem Under Simple
Random Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--357
Enrique Del Castillo and
Suntara Cahya Statistical Computing and Graphics --- A
Tool for Computing Confidence Regions on
the Stationary Point of a Response
Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--365
J. G. Liao and
Ori Rosen Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Fast and Stable Algorithms for Computing
and Sampling From the Noncentral
Hypergeometric Distribution . . . . . . 366--369
Norean Radke Sharpe Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistics for Management and
Economics, Fifth Edition . . . . . . . . 370--370
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- A First Course in the Design of
Experiments: A Linear Models Approach 370
Namwon Hyung Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Elements of Forecasting, 2nd Edition 371--371
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--- The Nothing That Is: A Natural
History of Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
John Haigh Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Mathematics of Chance . . . . . . . 372
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistics in Psychology: An
Historical Perspective, Second Edition 372
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 377--377
Robert L. Winkler and
James E. Smith and
Dennis G. Fryback Statistical Practice --- The Role of
Informative Priors in Zero-Numerator
Problems: Being Conservative Versus
Being Candid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Michael P. Fay Statistical Practice --- Measuring a
Binary Response's Range of Influence in
Logistic Regression . . . . . . . . . . 5--9
Chris White and
Scott Berry General --- Tiered Polychotomous
Regression: Ranking NFL Quarterbacks . . 10--21
Kenneth C. Bessant and
Eric D. MacPherson General --- Thoughts on the Origins,
Concepts, and Pedagogy of Statistics as
a ``Separate Discipline'' . . . . . . . 22--28
Leonard A. Stefanski and
Dennis D. Boos General --- The Calculus of M-Estimation 29--38
R. L. Eubank and
Suojin Wang General --- The Equivalence Between the
Cholesky Decomposition and the Kalman
Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
Andre Khuri and
George Casella General --- The Existence of the First
Negative Moment Revisited . . . . . . . 44--47
John R. Michael and
William R. Schucany Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
The Mixture Approach for Simulating
Bivariate Distributions With Specified
Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--54
M. P. Wand Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Vector Differential Calculus in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
Michael P. Fay and
Dean A. Follmann Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Designing Monte Carlo Implementations of
Permutation or Bootstrap Hypothesis
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Joseph Hilbe Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Statistical Computing Software Reviews
--- Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . 71--71
Micah Altman Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Statistical Computing Software Reviews
--- A Review of JMP 4.03 With Special
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Bradley A. Warner Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Basic Engineering Data Collection
and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistics on the Table: The History
of Statistical Concepts and Methods . . 76
Kevin D. Rees Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Workshop Statistics: Discovery With
Data, A Bayesian Approach . . . . . . . 77--78
Mohsen Pourahmadi Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- A Course in Time Series Analysis . . 77
Pamela A. Ohman Strickland Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- SPSS for Windows: An Introduction to
Use and Interpretation in Research . . . 77
Lynne Stokes Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Lawrence Barker A Comparison of Nine Confidence
Intervals for a Poisson Parameter When
the Expected Number of Events is $5$ . . 85
J. René van Dorp and
Samuel Kotz The Standard Two-Sided Power
Distribution and its Properties: With
Applications in Financial Engineering 90
Malay Ghosh and
Bimal K. Sinha A Simple Derivation of the Wishart
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Tapan K. Nayak Rao--Cramer Type Inequalities for Mean
Squared Error of Prediction . . . . . . 102
Thomas E. Love and
David K. Hildebrand Statistics Education and the Making
Statistics More Effective in Schools of
Business Conferences . . . . . . . . . . 107
Thomas E. Bradstreet and
Milton N. Parnes Illustrating the Neyman--Pearson Lemma
With a Stopping Rule of Order $k$ . . . 113
Andrew Gelman and
Cristian Pasarica and
Rahul Dodhia Let's Practice What We Preach: Turning
Tables into Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Richard M. Heiberger and
Paulo Teles Displays for Direct Comparison of ARIMA
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Robert F. Bordley Representing Trees Using Microsoft
Doughnut Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 148
Michael R. Chernick and
Christine Y. Liu The Saw-Toothed Behavior of Power Versus
Sample Size and Software Solutions:
Single Binomial Proportion Using Exact
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 156
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 159
Elizabeth N. King and
Thomas P. Ryan A Preliminary Investigation of Maximum
Likelihood Logistic Regression versus
Exact Logistic Regression . . . . . . . 163
Wei Pan A Note on the Use of Marginal Likelihood
and Conditional Likelihood in Analyzing
Clustered Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Roger D. Peng and
Nicolas W. Hengartner Quantitative Analysis of Literary Styles 175
B. K. Ghosh Probability Inequalities Related to
Markov's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Chiara Sabatti Measuring Dependency With Volume Tests 191
Sandip Sinharay and
Hal S. Stern On the Sensitivity of Bayes Factors to
the Prior Distributions . . . . . . . . 196
Bhaskar Bhattacharya and
Desale Habtzghi Median of the $p$ Value Under the
Alternative Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . 202
M. J. Bayarri and
A. M. Mayoral Bayesian Design of ``Successful''
Replications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Jessica Thomson Hypothesis Testing About Proportions in
Two Finite Populations . . . . . . . . . 215
Mark F. Schilling and
Ann E. Watkins and
William Watkins Is Human Height Bimodal? . . . . . . . . 223
William M. Duckworth and
W. Robert Stephenson Beyond Traditional Statistical Methods 230
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 234
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Statistical Software
Packages for Categorical Data Analysis
Using Exact Methods . . . . . . . . . . 235
Jay Devore Book Review: \em A First Course in
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Stergios B. Fotopoulos Book Review: \em Applied Probability
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Ginger Holmes Rowell Book Review: \em Statistics for
Psychologists: An Intermediate Course 248
Calvin Williams Book Review: \em Applied Multivariate
Data Analysis (2nd Edition) . . . . . . 248
Ulric J. Lund Book Review: \em Understanding
Statistical Concepts Using S-Plus . . . 249
John H. Walker Book Review: \em Contemporary Business
Statistics with Microsoft Excel . . . . 250
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \em Applied Nonparametric
Statistical Methods, 3rd Edition . . . . 251
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 252
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Lynne Stokes and
James H. Albert Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Iain Pardoe and
R. Dennis Cook A Graphical Method for Assessing the Fit
of a Logistic Regression Model . . . . . 263
Elena A. Erosheva and
Patricia D. Kroboth and
Joel B. Greenhouse Characterizing the Diurnal Rhythm of
DHEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Jeremy Aldworth and
Wherly P. Hoffman Split-Plot Model With Covariate: A
Cautionary Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Gerald J. Hahn Deming and the Proactive Statistician 290
Maya Bar-Hillel and
Yigal Attali Seek Whence: Answer Sequences and Their
Consequences in Key-Balanced
Multiple-Choice Tests . . . . . . . . . 299
M. C. Jones On Khintchine's Theorem and its Place in
Random Variate Generation . . . . . . . 304
Andrew Gelman and
Deborah Nolan You Can Load a Die, But You Can't Bias a
Coin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
James E. Brady and
Theodore T. Allen Case Study Based Instruction of DOE and
SPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Michael Friendly Corrgrams: Exploratory Displays for
Correlation Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 316
Joseph Hilbe Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 325
Joseph M. Hilbe XPro 5.1: Exact Procedures for
Parametric Statistical Inference . . . . 326
James H. Albert Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling,
and Mathematical Modeling to Win . . . . 329
C. M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \em Statistical Consulting 329
Jessica Utts Book Review: \em News and Numbers: A
Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims
and Controversies in Health and Related
Fields, (2nd Ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Robert D. Abbott Book Review: \em Statistics at Square
Two: Understanding Modern Statistical
Applications in Medicine . . . . . . . . 331
Arthur Cohen Book Review: \em An Introduction to
Probability Theory and Mathematical
Statistics, (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . 331
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \em Mathematical
Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected
Topics (vol. 1, 2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . 332
Robert Lund Book Review: \em Stochastic Processes.
An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Elayne Reiss and
Lorrie L. Hoffman Book Review: \em The Elements of
Statistics: With Applications to
Economics and the Social Sciences . . . 333
Boxin Tang Book Review: \em Experimental Design
With Applications in Management,
Engineering, and the Sciences . . . . . 333
Ghanshyam Gupta Book Review: \em A Handbook of
Statistical Analyses using SAS, 2nd ed 334
Marjorie E. Bond Book Review: \em Teach/Me Data Analysis
CD: Single User Edition . . . . . . . . 335
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 337
Kirk Wolter and
Diana Jergovic and
Whitney Moore and
Joe Murphy and
Colm O'Muircheartaigh Reliability of the Uncertified Ballots
in the 2000 Presidential Election in
Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
John Lawson One-Step Screening and Process
Optimization Experiments . . . . . . . . 15
Stephen B. Vardeman and
Max D. Morris Statistics and Ethics: Some Advice for
Young Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . 21
Ronald Christensen Significantly Insignificant $F$ Tests 27
Rongrong Xie and
Paul I. Nelson Separation Among Distributions Related
by Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . 33
James H. Albert College Students' Conceptions of
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jürgen Symanzik and
Natascha Vukasinovic Teaching Experiences With a Course on
``Web-Based Statistics'' . . . . . . . . 46
Jeffrey D. Blume and
Richard M. Royall Illustrating the Law of Large Numbers
(and Confidence Intervals) . . . . . . . 51
Henry S. Lynn Suppression and Confounding in Action 58
Daniel R. Jeske and
Ashwin Sampath A Real Example That Illustrates
Interesting Properties of Bootstrap Bias
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \em Statistics with
Confidence (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . 66
Shaun S. Wulff Book Review: \em A First Course in
Design and Analysis of Experiments . . . 66
X. Joan Hu Book Review: \em Generalized Linear
Models: With Applications in Engineering
and the Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \em Introduction to Linear
Regression Analysis (3rd ed.) . . . . . 67
Richard Gonzalez Book Review: \em Applied Multivariate
Statistics for the Social Sciences (4th
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
John Haigh Book Review: \em Risk-Benefit Analysis
(2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
George Terrell Book Review: \em All the Mathematics You
Missed [But Need to Know for Graduate
School] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Robert Gentleman Book Review: \em Resampling Methods: A
Practical Guide to Data Analysis (2nd
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 71
Jessica Utts Special Section on Statistical Literacy:
How You Can Help . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Jessica Utts What Educated Citizens Should Know About
Statistics and Probability . . . . . . . 74
Iddo Gal Teaching for Statistical Literacy and
Services of Statistics Agencies . . . . 80
Philip J. Boland Promoting Statistical Thinking Among
Secondary School Students in the
National Context . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Eric R. Sowey The Getting of Wisdom: Educating
Statisticians to Enhance Their Clients'
Numeracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
James H. Albert A New Column in \em The American
Statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Fritz Scheuren Looking Back So We Can Look Forward . . 94
Peter C. Austin and
Lawrence J. Brunner Type I Error Inflation in the Presence
of a Ceiling Effect . . . . . . . . . . 97
Lewis H. Shoemaker Fixing the $F$ Test for Equal Variances 105
Vasilis Theoharakis and
Mary Skordia How Do Statisticians Perceive Statistics
Journals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
David J. Hand and
Veronica Vinciotti Local Versus Global Models for
Classification Problems: Fitting Models
Where it Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Paul R. Rosenbaum Exact Confidence Intervals for
Nonconstant Effects by Inverting the
Signed Rank Test . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Yosef Rinott and
Michael Tam Monotone Regrouping, Regression, and
Simpson's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \em Statistical Rules of
Thumb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \em The Practice of
Statistics: Putting the Pieces Together 142
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \em The First Measured
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Paul Roback Book Review: \em Weighing the Odds: A
Course in Probability and Statistics . . 144
Johannes Ledolter Book Review: \em The Statistical Sleuth
(2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Judith Manola Book Review: \em A Handbook of
Statistical Analyses using S-Plus (2nd
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 147
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
James H. Albert Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Havi Murad and
Anat Fleischman and
Siegal Sadetzki and
Orna Geyer and
Laurence S. Freedman Small Samples and Ordered Logistic
Regression: Does it Help to Collapse
Categories of Outcome? . . . . . . . . . 155
J. G. Liao and
Dan McGee Adjusted Coefficients of Determination
for Logistic Regression . . . . . . . . 161
Robert A. Parker and
Nancy G. Berman Sample Size: More Than Calculations . . 166
Raymond Hubbard and
M. J. Bayarri Confusion Over Measures of Evidence
($p$'s) Versus Errors ($\alpha$'s) in
Classical Statistical Testing . . . . . 171
Kenneth N. Berk Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Matthew A. Carlton Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Clifford Spiegelman and
Eun Sug Ark Nearly Nonparametric Multivariate
Density Estimates That Incorporate
Marginal Parametric Density Information 183
Anonymous Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Amanda Wachsmuth and
Leland Wilkinson and
Gerard E. Dallal Galton's Bend: A Previously Undiscovered
Nonlinearity in Galton's Family Stature
Regression Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Xiuhong Li and
Jennifer M. Buechner and
Patrick M. Tarwater and
Alvaro Muñoz A Diamond-Shaped Equiponderant Graphical
Display of the Effects of Two
Categorical Predictors on Continuous
Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 200
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Statistical Software
Packages for Categorical Data Analysis
Using Exact Methods --- Part II . . . . 201
Herman Callaert Comparing Statistical Software Packages:
The Case of the Logrank Test in StatXact 214
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book review: \em The A to Z of
Mathematics: A Basic Guide . . . . . . . 218
Richard J. Cleary Book Reviews: \em Duelling Idiots and
Other Probability Puzzlers and \em What
are the Chances? Voodoo Deaths and
Office Gossip and Other Adventures in
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \em Problems in Probability 218
Stephen J. Miller Book Reviews: \em Basic Statistics and
Data Analysis (with InfoTrac and CD-ROM)
(1st ed.), \em Introduction to
Probability and Statistics (11th ed.)
and \em Just the Essentials of
Elementary Statistics (3rd ed.) . . . . 219
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 221
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael Parzen A Potential for Bias When Rounding in
Multiple Imputation . . . . . . . . . . 229
Douglas G. Bonett and
Edith Seier Confidence Intervals for Mean Absolute
Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Daniel Y. T. Fong and
C. W. Kwan and
K. F. Lam and
Karen S. L. Lam Use of the Sign Test for the Median in
the Presence of Ties . . . . . . . . . . 237
David Mease A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Approach
for the Ranking of College Football
Teams Independent of Victory Margins . . 241
A. S. Hedayat and
Bikas K. Sinha On a Sampling Design for Estimation of
Negligible Accident Rates Involving
Electronic Toys . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
David B. Hitchcock A History of the Metropolis--Hastings
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Peter K. Dunn What Happens When a $1 \times 1 \times
r$ Die is Rolled? . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Timothy E. O'Brien and
Gerald M. Funk A Gentle Introduction to Optimal Design
for Regression Models . . . . . . . . . 265
Nicholas J. Barrowman and
Ransom A. Myers Raindrop Plots: A New Way to Display
Collections of Likelihoods and
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Christian Genest and
Jean-Claude Boies Detecting Dependence With Kendall Plots 275
Martin L. Hazelton A Graphical Tool for Assessing Normality 285
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 289
Dominique Haughton and
Joel Deichmann and
Abdolreza Eshghi and
Selin Sayek and
Nicholas Teebagy and
Heikki Topi A Review of Software Packages for Data
Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Current SPSS Products: SPSS
12, SigmaPlot 8.02, SigmaStat 3.0, Part
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: \em An R and S-PLUS
Companion to Applied Regression . . . . 316
Brian Jersky Book Review: \em Hyperstat (2nd ed.) . . 316
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Marcus M. Alley Book Review: \em Statistical Methods in
Agricultural and Experimental Biology
(3rd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 319
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 319
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
James H. Albert and
James E. Gentle Special Section: Teaching Computational
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
James E. Gentle Courses in Statistical Computing and
Computational Statistics . . . . . . . . 2
John Monahan Teaching Statistical Computing at North
Carolina State University . . . . . . . 6
Kenneth Lange Computational Statistics and
Optimization Theory at UCLA . . . . . . 9
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
C. Chandra Sekar and
W. Edwards Deming On a Method of Estimating Birth and
Death Rates and the Extent of
Registration (Excerpt) . . . . . . . . . 13
Xu Guo and
Bradley P. Carlin Separate and Joint Modeling of
Longitudinal and Event Time Data Using
Standard Computer Packages . . . . . . . 16
James F. Troendle and
Edward L. Korn and
Lisa M. McShane An Example of Slow Convergence of the
Bootstrap in High Dimensions . . . . . . 25
David R. Hunter and
Kenneth Lange A Tutorial on MM Algorithms . . . . . . 30
Reid Dorsey-Palmateer and
Gary Smith Bowlers' Hot Hands . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Samuel S. Wu and
Mark C. K. Yang Evaluation of the Current Decision Rule
in Figure Skating and Possible
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Justin L. Tobias Assessing Assessments of School
Performance: The Case of California . . 55
Ricardo J. Rodriguez First Significant Digit Patterns From
Mixtures of Uniform Distributions . . . 64--71
Daniel Gervini and
Valentin Rousson Criteria for Evaluating
Dimension-Reducing Components for
Multivariate Data . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Donna F. Stroup and
Richard A. Goodman and
Ralph Cordell and
Richard Scheaffer Teaching Statistical Principles Using
Epidemiology: Measuring the Health of
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 85
Elaine T. McDonald Intro Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Stephen J. Miller Book Review: Fifty Fathoms: Statistics
Demonstrations for Deeper Understanding 86
Stephen J. Miller Book Review: CAST (Computer-Assisted
Statistics Teaching) . . . . . . . . . . 87
Samantha C. Bates Book Review: Introductory Statistics
with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: Statistical Computing: An
Introduction to Data Analysis using
SPlus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: SAS for Linear Models (4th
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 90
James H. Albert Editor's Report for \em The American
Statistician, Volume 57 (2003) . . . . . 91--92
Joseph M. Hilbe Statistical Computing Software Reviews 92--92
Russell V. Lenth Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Michael Hamada and
Randy Sitter Statistical Research . . . . . . . . . . 93--101
Daniel Barry and
Philip J. Boland Debating the Use of Statistical Evidence
in Allegations of Age Discrimination . . 102--109
R. Dennis Cook and
Sanford Weisberg Partial One-Dimensional Regression
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--116
Howard Wainer and
Lisa M. Brown Two Statistical Paradoxes in the
Interpretation of Group Differences . . 117--123
Weiwen Miao and
Joseph L. Gastwirth The Effect of Dependence on Confidence
Intervals for a Population Proportion 124--130
Peter C. Austin and
Jack V. Tu Bootstrap Methods for Developing
Predictive Models . . . . . . . . . . . 131--137
Holger Dette and
Timothy E. O'Brien Efficient Experimental Design for the
Behrens--Fisher Problem With Application
to Bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Sharon L. Lohr Statistical Frontiers in Survey Sampling 145--149
Dimitris Hatzinikolaou and
Kosmas Ferentinos On the Role of Semielasticity in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Hwan Chung and
Eric Loken and
Joseph L. Schafer Difficulties in Drawing Inferences With
Finite-Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . 152--158
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Paul T. von Hippel Biases in SPSS 12.0 Missing Value
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--164
Willard C. Losinger A Review of the GUM Workbench . . . . . 165--167
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of SPSS 12.01, Part 2 . . . . . 168--171
Amy K. Ferketich Introductory Biostatistics for the
Health Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Regression and ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Carolyn Pillers Dobler 101 Special Practice Problems in
Probability and Statistics . . . . . . . 173--173
Robert B. Lund Elementary Probability Theory With
Stochastic Processes and an Introduction
to Mathematical Finance . . . . . . . . 173--174
Montserrat Rue Statistical Methods for the Analysis of
Biomedical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 175--175
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 176--177
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Hal S. Stern Statistics and the College Football
Championship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--185
Kenneth Massey Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 185--187
David A. Harville Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 187--189
Richard Billingsley Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Wes Colleys Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 191--192
David Mease Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Anonymous Reply: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 194--195
Donald B. Rubin On Advice for Beginners in Statistical
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Alan E. Gelfand Discussion of ``Statistical Research . . 197--198
Elizabeth Thompson The Importance of ``Why?'' . . . . . . . 198--198
Deepak B. Khatry Statistical Contributions in
Biotechnology and Nonclinical
Drug-Discovery Research . . . . . . . . 199--199
Willard C. Losinger How to do Statistical Research . . . . . 200--200
Elizabeth A. Stasny Some Random Thoughts on Doing Research 200--202
Michael Hamada and
Randy Sitter Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Patrick J. Cantwell and
Howard Hogan and
Kathleen M. Styles The Use of Statistical Methods in the
U.S. Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--212
Neil H. Timm Estimating Effect Sizes in Exploratory
Experimental Studies When Using a Linear
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--217
Scott Menard Six Approaches to Calculating
Standardized Logistic Regression
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--223
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Gábor J. Székely and
Donald St. P. Richards The St. Petersburg Paradox and the Crash
of High-Tech Stocks in 2000 . . . . . . 225--231
Michael J. Rovine and
Douglas R. Anderson Peirce and Bowditch . . . . . . . . . . 232--236
James A. Hanley ``Transmuting'' Women into Men . . . . . 237--243
Robert G. Easterling Teaching Experimental Design . . . . . . 244--252
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Jamie D. Mills and
Elisa L. Johnson An Evaluation of ActivStats for SPSS for
Teaching and Learning . . . . . . . . . 254--258
Kristin A. Duncan Grade Inflation: A Crisis in College
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Stephen J. Miller Statistics in Action: Understanding a
World of Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Grace Chan SAS Programming: The One-Day Course . . 260--260
Robert Lund Stochastic Processes and Their
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 262--263
Richard L. Scheaffer and
Elizabeth A. Stasny The State of Undergraduate Education in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
Marshall M. Joffe and
Thomas R. Ten Have and
Harold I. Feldman and
Stephen E. Kimmel Model Selection, Confounder Control, and
Marginal Structural Models . . . . . . . 272--279
H. Dean Johnson and
Dennis A. Warner Factors Relating to the Degree to Which
Statistical Consulting Clients Deem
Their Consulting Experiences to be a
Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--289
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Morris H. Hansen and
William N. Hurwitz The Problem of Nonresponse in Sample
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--294
Leslie Kish and
Irene Hess A ``Replacement'' Procedure for Reducing
the Bias of Nonresponse . . . . . . . . 295--297
Donald B. Rubin The Design of a General and Flexible
System for Handling Nonresponse in
Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--302
Michele DiPietro Bayesian Randomized Response as a Class
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--309
Lynn A. Fisher and
Donald St. P. Richards Random Walks as Motivational Material in
Introductory Statistics and Probability
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--316
Iain Pardoe Multidimensional Scaling for Selecting
Small Groups in College Courses . . . . 317--321
Daniel R. Jeske and
Todd Blessinger Tunable Approximations for the Mean and
Variance of the Maximum of Heterogeneous
Geometrically Distributed Random
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 328--329
Mary Kathryn Cowles Review of WinBUGS 1.4 . . . . . . . . . 330--336
Patrick J. Kelly A Review of Software Packages for
Analyzing Correlated Survival Data . . . 337--342
Nicholas J. Horton and
Elizabeth R. Brown and
Linjuan Qian Use of R as a Toolbox for Mathematical
Statistics Exploration . . . . . . . . . 343--357
Richard J. C. Leary Teaching Statistics Using Baseball. Jim
Albert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Common Errors in Statistics (and How to
Avoid Them) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Judith Schwartzbaum ActivEpi Companion Textbook: A
Supplement for Use with The ActivEpi
CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
D. Glass Proofs That Really Count: The Art of
Combinatorial Proof . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
Clyde H. Schoolfield, Jr. Elements of Stochastic Modeling . . . . 360--361
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous 2004 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 365--368
David S. Moore Preparing Graduate Students to Teach
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Andrew Gelman A Course on Teaching Statistics at the
University Level . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Amy G. Froelich and
William M. Duckworth and
W. Robert Stephenson Training Statistics Teachers at Iowa
State University . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
W. L. Harkness and
J. L. Rosenberger Training Graduate Students at Penn State
University in Teaching Statistics . . . 11--13
Jeffrey B. Birch and
J. P. Morgan TA Training at Virginia Tech . . . . . . 14--18
Javier Girón and
Josep Ginebra and
Alex Riba Bayesian Analysis of a Multinomial
Sequence and Homogeneity of Literary
Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
Martin A. Koschat A Case for Simple Tables . . . . . . . . 31--40
Stefan Niermann Optimizing the Ordering of Tables With
Evolutionary Computation . . . . . . . . 41--46
Richard N. McGrath and
Arthur B. Yeh A Quick, Compact, Two-Sample Dispersion
Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53
Abram Kagan and
Lawrence A. Shepp A Sufficiency Paradox . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
Allyn A. Young National Statistics in War and Peace . . 58--61
Carl Snyder The Problem of Prosperity . . . . . . . 62--67
Helen M. Walker The Role of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Mirjam Moerbeek Randomization of Clusters Versus
Randomization of Persons Within Clusters 72--78
Lurdes Y. T. Inoue and
Donald A. Berry and
Giovanni Parmigiani Relationship Between Bayesian and
Frequentist Sample Size Determination 79--87
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Angelique Davi and
Dominique Haughton and
Nada Nasr and
Gaurav Shah and
Maria Skaletsky and
Ruth Spack A Review of Two Text-Mining Packages . . 89--103
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Systat 11 . . . . . . . . . 104--110
Joseph M. Hilbe Review of SigmaPlot 9.0 . . . . . . . . 111--112
John. Hansen Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh:
Analyzing and Understanding Data . . . . 113--113
Daniel L. McGee An Introduction to Survival Analysis
Using Stata (rev.) . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 114--115
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 116--118
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Ronald Christensen Testing Fisher, Neyman, Pearson, and
Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--126
Lynn Friedman and
Melanie Wall Graphical Views of Suppression and
Multicollinearity in Multiple Linear
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
Paul W. Vos and
Suzanne Hudson Evaluation Criteria for Discrete
Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 137--142
Luc Duchateau and
Paul Janssen Understanding Heterogeneity in
Generalized Mixed and Frailty Models . . 143--146
Paul R. Rosenbaum Heterogeneity and Causality . . . . . . 147--152
Andrew R. Solow and
Woollcott Smith How Surprising is a New Record? . . . . 153--155
Jen\Ho Reiczigel and
Ildikó Zakariás and
Lajos Rózsa A Bootstrap Test of Stochastic Equality
of Two Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 156--161
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
John Ludbrook R. A. Fisher's Life and Death in
Australia, 1959--1962 . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Brian Bull Exemplar Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 166--172
Mirjam Moerbeek Randomization of Clusters Versus
Randomization of Persons Within Clusters 173--179
Matthew A. Carlton and
William D. Stansfield Making Babies by the Flip of a Coin? . . 180--182
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of SPSS, Part 3 . . . . . . . . 185--186
Joseph M. Hilbe SigmaStat 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--191
Klaus Langohr and
Guadalupe Gómez Likelihood Maximization Using Web-Based
Optimization Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 192--202
James J. Cochran The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong
Fascination with Statistics . . . . . . 203--203
Peter F. Craigmile All of Statistics: A Concise Course in
Statistical Inference . . . . . . . . . 203--204
James H. Albert Editor's Report for \em The American
Statistician, Volume 58 (2004) . . . . . 205--206
Jesse Frey A Ranking Method Based on Minimizing the
Number of In-Sample Errors . . . . . . . 207--216
Ian R. Harris and
Brent D. Burch Measuring Relative Importance of Sources
of Variation Without Using Variance . . 217--222
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Ian Spence and
Howard Wainer William Playfair and His Graphical
Inventions: An Excerpt From the
Introduction to the Republication of His
Atlas and Statistical Breviary . . . . . 224--229
G. A. McIntyre A Method for Unbiased Selective
Sampling, Using Ranked Sets . . . . . . 230--232
Susan Belden Discussion: Moving Beyond the St.
Petersburg Paradox to Understand Growth
Stock Valuation . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Gabor J. Székely and
Donald St. P. Richards Response: Remain Steadfast With the St.
Petersburg Paradox to Quantify
Irrational Exuberance . . . . . . . . . 235--239
Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns and
Gaea Leinhardt and
Javier Corredor Six Online Statistics Courses:
Examination and Review . . . . . . . . . 240--251
Mithat Gönen and
Wesley O. Johnson and
Yonggang Lu and
Peter H. Westfall The Bayesian Two-Sample $t$ Test . . . . 252--257
Jeff T. Terpstra Some Illustrative Classroom Examples
Regarding Sums of Discrete Random
Variables With Finite Support . . . . . 258--265
James J. Cochran Can You Really Learn Basic Probability
by Playing a Sports Board Game? . . . . 266--272
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Christine M. Anderson-Cook The Chicago Guide to Writing About
Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Christine M. Anderson-Cook More Damned Lies and Statistics: How
Numbers Confuse Public Issues and
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the
Stock Market, & Just About Everything
Else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Richard J. Cleary Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks . . 275--275
Samantha C. Bates Prins Statistical Analysis and Data Display:
An Intermediate Course with Examples in
S-Plus, R, and SAS . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Samantha C. Bates Prins Linear Models with R . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Dave H. Annis Probability and Statistics: The Science
of Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 278--278
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
James H. Albert Editor's Report for \em The American
Statistician, Volume 59 (2005) . . . . . 281--281
Peter J. Danaher and
Bruce G. S. Hardie Bacon With Your Eggs? Applications of a
New Bivariate Beta-Binomial Distribution 282--286
Steve Verrill and
Mark Durst The Decline and Fall of Type II Error
Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
Hans-Peter Piepho and
Katharina Emrich Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
Two Estimable Functions and Their Ratio
Under a Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . 292--300
Steven M. Snapinn and
Qi Jiang and
Boris Iglewicz Illustrating the Impact of a
Time-Varying Covariate With an Extended
Kaplan--Meier Estimator . . . . . . . . 301--307
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
Herbert A. David Tables Related to the Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--311
Joan Fisher Box A Reminiscence of R. A. Fisher . . . . . 312--314
Fritz Scheuren Multiple Imputation . . . . . . . . . . 315--319
David H. Annis Rethinking the Paper Helicopter . . . . 320--326
David R. Hunter Teaching Computing in Statistical Theory
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--333
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 334--334
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Stata 9.0 . . . . . . . . . 335--348
Richard J. Cleary Gauss: Titan of Science and Karl
Pearson: The Scientific Life in a
Statistical Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
Richard J. Cleary Gauss: Titan of Science and Karl
Pearson: The Scientific Life in a
Statistical Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
Izabela E. Annis PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS 350--350
E. David Ford A Primer of Ecological Statistics . . . 350--350
Alexandra Dlas Statistical Analysis of Financial Data
in S-Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Jeffrey Rosoff and
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 352--352
Raymond. Hubbard and
M. J. Bayarri Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Anonymous 2005 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 355--358
Peter Westfall Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Brian J. Reich and
James S. Hodges and
Bradley P. Carlin and
Adam M. Reich A Spatial Analysis of Basketball Shot
Chart Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
Gary A. Simon and
Jeffrey S. Simonoff ``Last Licks'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
Matthew J. Gurka Selecting the Best Linear Mixed Model
Under REML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--26
Donald A. Berry and
Gregory D. Ayers Symmetrized Percent Change for Treatment
Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
W. Edwards Deming On Errors in Surveys (An Excerpt) . . . 34--38
S. S. Wilks Undergraduate Statistical Education . . 39--45
Herbert A. David and
Donald F. Morrison Samuel Stanley Wilks (1906--1964) . . . 46--49
John F. Monahan Professor C. R. Mudgeon and the
``Order,'' or Writing Regression
Questions So That Students Do Not Need a
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
Dean P. Foster and
Robert A. Stine Being Warren Buffett . . . . . . . . . . 53--60
James A. Hanley and
Dana Teltsch The PDF of a Function of a Random
Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67
Jonathan J. Shuster Using a Two-Player Coin Game Paradox in
the Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70
Nitis Mukhopadhyay MVUE for the Mean With One Observation 71--74
Enrique R. Villa and
Luis A. Escobar Using Moment Generating Functions to
Derive Mixture Distributions . . . . . . 75--80
Philip L. H. Yu and
Jennifer S. K. Chan and
Wing K. Fung Statistical Exploration from SARS . . . 81--91
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 92--92
James W. Hardin and
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Scientific WorkPlace 5.5 . . 93--96
David H. Annis Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters: How
Statistics Can Level the Playing Field
and Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers:
Adjusted Batting Performance from
Strikeouts to Home Runs . . . . . . . . 97--97
Mark Schilling Understanding Probability: Chance Rules
in Everyday Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Mary Kathryn Cowles Probability and Statistics for Computer
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Deborah J. Rumsey Introduction to Bayesian Statistics . . 98--99
Christine M. Anderson-Cook The Challenge of Developing Statistical
Literacy, Reasoning and Thinking . . . . 99--99
Richard J. Cleary Innovations in Teaching Statistics and
Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An
Urgent Challenge for Higher Education 99--100
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 101--103
Ronald L. Iman and
Mark E. Johnson and
Charles C. Watson, Jr. Statistical Aspects of Forecasting and
Planning for Hurricanes . . . . . . . . 105--121
Fulvio De Santis Power Priors and Their Use in Clinical
Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--129
Christina M. Gullion and
Nancy Berman What Statistical Consultants Do . . . . 130--138
Brian Caffo and
Michael Griswold A User-Friendly Introduction to
Link-Probit-Normal Models . . . . . . . 139--145
Andrew Gelman The Boxer, the Wrestler, and the Coin
Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--150
David H. Annis and
Samuel S. Wu A Comparison of Potential Playoff
Systems for NCAA I-A Football . . . . . 151--157
Eric Loken and
Michael J. Rovine Peirce's 19th Century Mixture Model
Approach to Rater Agreement . . . . . . 158--161
H. A. David The Introduction of Matrix Algebra into
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Arnab Maity and
Michael Sherman The Two-Sample T Test With One Variance
Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--166
Dale J. Cohen and
Jon Cohen The Sectioned Density Plot . . . . . . . 167--174
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Joseph M. Hilbe Mathematica 5.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--186
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of LIMDEP 9.0 and NLOGIT 4.0 187--202
Richard J. Cleary Working with Numbers and Statistics: A
Handbook for Journalists . . . . . . . . 203--203
Linda Pickle Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk
and Other Visual Adventures . . . . . . 203--203
Christine M. Anderson-Cook The Chicago Guide to Writing About
Multivariate Analysis . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Rudy Guerra Dicing With Death: Chance, Risk, and
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Enno Mammen Statistical Models . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Steven F. Arnold Design of Experiments with MINITAB . . . 205--205
David Lane Statistics Without Math . . . . . . . . 205--206
Carter Cleveland Rakovski Regression With Social Data: Modeling
Continuous and Limited Response
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 207--207
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 208--211
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Roderick J. Little Calibrated Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--223
A. F. Karr and
C. N. Kohnen and
A. Oganian and
J. P. Reiter and
A. P. Sanil A Framework for Evaluating the Utility
of Data Altered to Protect
Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--232
N. D. Pearce and
M. P. Wand Penalized Splines and Reproducing Kernel
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--240
Valerie Hyde and
Wolfgang Jank and
Galit Shmueli Investigating Concurrency in Online
Auctions Through Visualization . . . . . 241--250
Yulei He and
Trivellore E. Raghunathan Tukey's $gh$ Distribution for Multiple
Imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--256
Torsten Hothorn and
Kurt Hornik and
Mark A. van de Wiel and
Achim Zeileis A Lego System for Conditional Inference 257--263
Sourish Das and
Dipak K. Dey On Bayesian Analysis of Generalized
Linear Models Using the Jacobian
Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--268
Spyros Missiakoulis Plutarch and Lucullus' Applied Sampling 269--270
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Dominique Haughton and
Arnold Kamis and
Patrick Scholten A Review of Three Directed Acyclic
Graphs Software Packages . . . . . . . . 272--286
J. C. Nash Spreadsheets in Statistical Practice ---
Another Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--289
Richard J. Cleary Probability is the Very Guide of Life:
The Philosophical Uses of Chance . . . . 290--290
Jay Devore Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Stanley Wasserman Analyzing Categorical Data . . . . . . . 291--292
Carolyn Pillers Dobler The Essence of Multivariate Thinking:
Basic Themes and Methods . . . . . . . . 292--292
Michael Kahn Data Matters: Conceptual Statistics for
a Random World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
Lawrence D. Ries Statistical Methods For Communication
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
Nicholas J. Horton Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling
Using Stata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Carolyn Pillers Dobler SAS Guide to Report Writing: Examples 294--294
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 295--297
David A. Freedman On The So-Called ``Huber Sandwich
Estimator'' and ``Robust Standard
Errors'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Monnie McGee and
Nora V. Bergasa Analysis of a Pilot Study for
Amelioration of Itching in Liver Disease 303--308
David J. Finney Calibration Guidelines Challenge Outlier
Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--314
Ralph deLaubenfels The Victory of Least Squares and
Orthogonality in Statistics . . . . . . 315--321
Avital Lann and
Ruma Falk Tell Me the Method, I'll Give You the
Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
Andrew Gelman and
Hal Stern The Difference Between ``Significant''
and ``Not Significant'' is not Itself
Statistically Significant . . . . . . . 328--331
Leland Wilkinson Revising the Pareto Chart . . . . . . . 332--334
Òyvind Langsrud Explaining Correlations by Plotting
Orthogonal Contrasts . . . . . . . . . . 335--339
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 340--340
David Berengut Statistics for Experimenters: Design,
Innovation, and Discovery . . . . . . . 341--342
Jay Devore Statistics for Business and Economics 342--343
Peter C. Kiessler Probability and Statistics for Engineers
and Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Jo Hardin Introduction to Statistics Through
Resampling Methods and R/S-PLUS . . . . 343--344
Jay Devore Essential Mathematics and Statistics for
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Izabela E. Annis Statistics in Market Research . . . . . 345--345
Ryan E. Wiegand Statistical Analysis of Medical Data
Using SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
George Cotsonis Sharpening Your SAS Skills . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 347--349
Anonymous 2006 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 350--353
D. Tim Holt The Official Statistics Olympic
Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Gordon Brackstone Discussion: The Official Statistics
Olympic Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
Janet L. Norwood Discussion: The Official Statistics
Olympic Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
Nancy K. Torrieri America is Changing, and So is the
Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
Geert Molenberghs and
Geert Verbeke Likelihood Ratio, Score, and Wald Tests
in a Constrained Parameter Space . . . . 22--27
Helmut Finner and
Markus Roters and
Thorsten Dickhaus Characterizing Density Crossing Points 28--33
Thaddeus Tarpey Linear Transformations and the $k$-Means
Clustering Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
Herbert A. David and
Wayne A. Fuller Sir Maurice Kendall (1907--1983) . . . . 41--46
Alexander M. Strasak and
Qamruz Zaman and
Gerhard Marinell and
Karl P. Pfeiffer and
Hanno Ulmer The Use of Statistics in Medical
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55
Bryan E. Shepherd and
Peter B. Gilbert and
Devan V. Mehrotra Eliciting a Counterfactual Sensitivity
Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Xiaomi Hu Multivariate Analysis Without ``vec''
and ``$\otimes$'' . . . . . . . . . . . 64--66
Gauri Sankar Datta and
Malay Ghosh Characteristic Functions Without Contour
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70
Cherié Alf and
Sharon Lohr Sampling Assumptions in Introductory
Statistics Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
Joseph M. Hilbe Statistical Computing Software Reviews 78--78
Nicholas J. Horton and
Ken P. Kleinman Much Ado About Nothing . . . . . . . . . 79--90
Joseph M. Hilbe STATISTICA 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
Joseph Cavanaugh Seeing Through Statistics and Mind on
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Mervyn Marasinghe A First Course in Statistical Methods 95--97
Jay Devore Introduction to Business Statistics . . 97--97
Joseph Cavanaugh Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis
of Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Jerry L. Moreno Investigating Statistical Concepts,
Applications, and Methods . . . . . . . 98--99
J. Wade Davis A Crash Course in SPSS for Windows:
Updated for Versions 10, 11, 12 And 13 99--99
Hadley Wickham and
Dianne Cook R Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Martin Mächler Statistics: An Introduction using R . . 100--101
John C. Kern II Introduction to Regression Analysis . . 101--101
Donald Richards and
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Alina Kline Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 102--102
Peter H. Westfall Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Jesse Frey Is an $.833$ Hitter Better Than a $.338$
Hitter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--111
S. A. Sisson Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--119
Richard E. Kennedy and
Sharon D. Yeatts and
Kellie J. Archer and
Chris Gennings and
Viswanathan Ramakrishnan Opportunities for Biostatistics Students 120--126
Lori E. Dodd and
Edward L. Korn The Bootstrap Variance of the Square of
a Sample Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
Andrea Capotorti and
Frank Lad and
Giuseppe Sanfilippo Reassessing Accuracy Rates of Median
Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--138
Ulrike Grömping Estimators of Relative Importance in
Linear Regression Based on Variance
Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
Jeroen de Mast Agreement and Kappa-Type Indices . . . . 148--153
Diamandopoulos A. Athanasios and
Goudas C. Pavlos and
Kassimatis I. Theodoros Early Evidence-Based Medicine . . . . . 154--158
Lingyun Zhang Sample Mean and Sample Variance . . . . 159--160
Andrew Rosalsky A Simple and Probabilistic Proof of the
Binomial Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Leonard A. Stefanski Residual (Sur)Realism . . . . . . . . . 163--177
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Joseph M. Hilbe ePrint 5 Professional Conversion Utility 179--180
Alan T. Arnholt Statistics: The Art and Science of
Learning From Data . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Yolande Tra Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide
for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Phillip Edwards Essentials of Statistics for Business
and Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Ying Zhang Fundamentals of Biostatistics . . . . . 183--183
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Quality By Experimental Design . . . . . 183--184
Michael Minnotte Book review: \em Introduction to Modern
Nonparametric Statistics. James J.
Higgins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Shaun S. Wulff SAS for Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Six Sigma Quality Improvement with
MINITAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 186--186
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Robert Lund Revenge of the White Swan . . . . . . . 189--192
Peter H. Westfall and
Joseph M. Hilbe The Black Swan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Aaron Brown Strong Language on Black Swans . . . . . 195--197
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Black Swans and the Domains of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--200
Jesse Frey Bayesian Inference on a Proportion
Believed to be a Simple Fraction . . . . 201--206
Lisa J. Strug and
Charles A. Rohde and
Paul N. Corey An Introduction to Evidential Sample
Size Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . 207--212
Christopher M. Rump Capital Growth and the St. Petersburg
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--217
Wendy K. Tam Cho and
Brian J. Gaines Breaking the (Benford) Law . . . . . . . 218--223
Hans-Peter Piepho and
Joseph Ochieng Ogutu Simple State-Space Models in a Mixed
Model Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--232
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael Parzen Approximate Median Regression via the
Box--Cox Transformation . . . . . . . . 233--238
Scott R. Kuindersma and
Brian S. Blais Teaching Bayesian Model Comparison With
the Three-Sided Coin . . . . . . . . . . 239--244
Nathaniel Schenker and
Katherine L. Monti and
George W. Cobb and
Ronald S. Fecso and
Joan S. Chmiel Combining Features of a Frequency Table
and a Stem-and-Leaf Plot to Summarize
the American Statistical Association's
Strategic Activities . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Sangit Chatterjee and
Aykut Firat Generating Data with Identical
Statistics but Dissimilar Graphics . . . 248--254
Thomas P. Turiel Quantum Random Bit Generators . . . . . 255--259
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 260--261
A. Talha Yalta The Numerical Reliability of GAUSS 8.0 262--268
Joseph M. Hilbe GenStat 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
Page C. Moore Statistics Explained: An Introductory
Guide for Life Scientists . . . . . . . 274--274
Bruce Weir Introduction to Statistics for Forensic
Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Timothy J. Robinson Design of Experiments for Agriculture
and the Natural Sciences . . . . . . . . 275--275
Sylvie Mrug Experimental Design And Statistics for
Psychology: A First Course . . . . . . . 275--276
David R. Bellhouse Sampling Methods: Exercises and
Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
John Haigh Probability: Modeling and Applications
to Random Processes . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Philip Dixon The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide
3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
Ulric J. Lund A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using
R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
M. Bridget Zimmerman SAS Programming and Data Analysis: A
Theory and Program-Driven Approach . . . 277--278
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with
Dynamic Interactive Graphics . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 279--279
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 280--284
B. J. T. Morgan and
K. J. Palmer and
M. S. Ridout Negative Score Test Statistic . . . . . 285--288
Geert Verbeke and
Geert Molenberghs What Can Go Wrong With the Score Test? 289--290
David A. Freedman How Can the Score Test Be Inconsistent? 291--295
Bruce E. Barrett Detecting Bias in Jury Selection . . . . 296--301
Andreas Krause and
José Pinheiro Modeling and Simulation to Adjust p
Values in Presence of a Regression to
the Mean Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--307
J. Keith Ord and
Harvey J. Iglarsh The Estimation of Conditional
Distributions From Large Databases . . . 308--314
Arthur Spirling ``Turning Points'' in the Iraq Conflict 315--320
Micha Mandel Censoring and Truncation ---
Highlighting the Differences . . . . . . 321--324
José R. Berrendero The Bagged Median and the Bragged Mean 325--330
S. Chakraborti and
J. Li Confidence Interval Estimation of a
Normal Percentile . . . . . . . . . . . 331--336
Christopher S. Withers and
Saralees Nadarajah A Recurrence Relation for Moments of the
Noncentral Chi Square . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Boris Iglewicz Einstein's First Published Paper . . . . 339--342
Stuart G. Baker and
Barnett S. Kramer Peirce, Youden, and Receiver Operating
Characteristic Curves . . . . . . . . . 343--346
Gregory K. Miller and
Stephanie L. Fridell A Forgotten Discrete Distribution?
Reviving the Negative Hypergeometric
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--350
Herbert K. H. Lee Chocolate Chip Cookies as a Teaching Aid 351--355
Lutz Dümbgen and
Hans Riedwyl On Fences and Asymmetry in
Box-and-Whiskers Plots . . . . . . . . . 356--359
Lin-Yee Hin and
Vincent J. Carey and
You-Gan Wang Criteria for
Working--Correlation--Structure
Selection in GEE . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--364
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Jay Devore Applied Regression Analysis: A Second
Course in Business and Economic
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Gary Simon Applied Regression Modeling: A Business
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Kerrie Nelson Introduction to Mixed Modelling: Beyond
Regression and Analysis of Variance . . 368--369
Jeffrey C. Sklar Understanding Business Statistics . . . 369--370
Brian Wiens Handbook of Statistical Distributions
with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Jay Devore Making Sense of Data: A Practical Guide
to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data
Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
David H. Annis Dyadic Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Timothy J. Robinson Introduction to Computer-Intensive
Methods of Data Analysis in Biology . . 371--371
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 372--372
Michael Sherman Probabilities: The Little Numbers That
Rule Our Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous 2007 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 374--379
William F. Christensen and
Lindsay W. Florence Predicting Presidential and Other
Multistage Election Outcomes Using
State-Level Pre-Election Polls . . . . . 1--10
John McCarthy and
Howard Stanislevic and
Mark Lindeman and
Arlene S. Ash and
Vittorio Addona and
Mary Batcher Percentage-Based versus
Statistical-Power-Based Vote Tabulation
Audits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16
Mary M. Whiteside and
Mark E. Eakin A Better Estimate of the Number of Valid
Signatures on a Petition . . . . . . . . 17--21
Russell A. Boyles The Role of Likelihood in Interval
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
David Afshartous Sample Size Determination for Binomial
Proportion Confidence Intervals . . . . 27--31
Denis Larocque and
Ronald H. Randles Confidence Intervals for a Discrete
Population Median . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Frank Tuyl and
Richard Gerlach and
Kerrie Mengersen A Comparison of Bayes--Laplace,
Jeffreys, and Other Priors . . . . . . . 40--44
Lawrence M. Leemis and
Jacquelyn T. McQueston Univariate Distribution Relationships 45--53
Mark L. Berenson and
Jessica Utts and
Karen A. Kinard and
Deborah J. Rumsey and
Albyn Jones and
Leonard M. Gaines Assessing Student Retention of Essential
Statistical Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Michael A. Proschan The Normal Approximation to the Binomial 62--63
James A. Hanley and
Marilyse Julien and
Erica E. M. Moodie Student's $z$, $t$, and $s$ . . . . . . 64--69
Herbert A. David The Beginnings of Randomization Tests 70--72
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Robert A. Oster and
Joseph M. Hilbe An Examination of Statistical Software
Packages for Parametric and
Nonparametric Data Analyses Using Exact
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
Joseph M. Hilbe Hawkes Learning Systems . . . . . . . . 85--89
Richard J. Cleary Fundamentals of Probability and
Statistics for Engineers, Statistical
Techniques for Data Analysis and
Statistics: An Introduction . . . . . . 90--91
Xiaogang Su Data Mining Methods and Models . . . . . 91--91
Phil Wood Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Charles L. Liss Multivariable Analysis: A Practical
Guide for Clinicians and Study Design
and Statistical Analysis: A Practical
Guide for Clinicians . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Gregory E. Gilbert A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 94--94
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Mu Zhu Kernels and Ensembles . . . . . . . . . 97--109
David A. Freedman Survival Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 110--119
Joshua Landon and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla Choosing a Coverage Probability for
Prediction Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
Recai M. Yucel and
Yulei He and
Alan M. Zaslavsky Using Calibration to Improve Rounding in
Imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
Leonard A. Stefanski The North Carolina Lottery Coincidence 130--134
Jesse Frey and
Osvaldo Marrero A Surprising MLE for Interval-Censored
Binomial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
José Luis Palacios On the Simple Symmetric Random Walk and
its Maximal Function . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
Gauri S. Datta and
Sanat K. Sarkar A General Proof of Some Known Results of
Independence Between Two Statistics . . 141--143
Robin Willink A Unique Property of the Normal
Distribution Associated With Perturbing
a General Random Variable . . . . . . . 144--146
Georgios Skoulakis A Recursive Formula for Computing
Central Moments of a Multivariate
Lognormal Distribution . . . . . . . . . 147--150
Jack Brimberg and
W. J. Hurley Is the Overtime Period in an NHL Game
Long Enough? An Example for Teaching
Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in the
Presence of Censored Data . . . . . . . 151--154
Richard C. Bell, Jr. and
Andrew G. Glen Experiences Teaching Probability and
Statistics with Personal Laptops in the
Classroom Daily . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--160
Nick J. Broers Helping Students to Build a Conceptual
Understanding of Elementary Statistics 161--166
Ching-Hui Chang and
Jyh-Jiuan Lin and
Nabendu Pal and
Miao-Chen Chiang A Note on Improved Approximation of the
Binomial Distribution by the Skew-Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--170
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Robert A. Oster and
Joseph M. Hilbe Rejoinder to \em ``An Examination of
Statistical Software Packages for
Parametric and Nonparametric Data
Analyses Using Exact Methods'' . . . . . 173--176
Joseph M. Hilbe Systat 12.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
Jane L. Harvill Fundamental Probability: A Computational
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Thomas E. Bradstreet Graphics of Large Datasets: Visualizing
a Million . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
Ralph P. Russo Intuitive Probability and Random
Processes using MATLAB . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Margie R. Gurwit Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's
Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Christine M. Anderson-Cook A Quick Course in Statistical Process
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Thomas E. Bradstreet Pharmaceutical Statistics Using SAS: A
Practical Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Richard J. Cleary Statistics: Informed Decisions Using
Data and An Introduction to Statistical
Analysis for Business and Industry: A
Problem Solving Approach . . . . . . . . 183--184
Lakshmi Padgett Variations on Split Plot and Split Block
Experiment Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 185--185
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 186--187
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Peter H. Westfall Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Byron J. Gajewski and
Stephen D. Simon A One-Hour Training Seminar on Bayesian
Statistics for Nursing Graduate Students 190--194
Greg M. Allenby and
Peter E. Rossi Teaching Bayesian Statistics to
Marketing and Business Students . . . . 195--198
Jessica Utts and
Wesley Johnson The Evolution of Teaching Bayesian
Statistics to Nonstatisticians . . . . . 199--201
Andrew Gelman Teaching Bayes to Graduate Students in
Political Science, Sociology, Public
Health, Education, Economics, \ldots . . 202--205
Stephen Senn A Note Concerning a Selection
``Paradox'' of Dawid's . . . . . . . . . 206--210
Lynn Roy LaMotte Sufficiency in Finite Parameter and
Sample Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
Xiaomi Hu A Three-Condition Characterization of
the Moore--Penrose Generalized Inverse 216--218
Áureo De Paula Conditional Moments and Independence . . 219--221
Deborah N. Peikes and
Lorenzo Moreno and
Sean Michael Orzol Propensity Score Matching . . . . . . . 222--231
Rajdeep Grewal and
James A. Dearden and
Gary L. Llilien The University Rankings Game . . . . . . 232--237
Chad R. Bhatti and
Jennifer L. Wightman Conditional Probability and HIV Testing 238--241
Duncan J. Murdoch and
Yu-Ling Tsai and
James Adcock $P$-Values are Random Variables . . . . 242--245
Stephen M. Stigler Statistics at Harvard? A Toast to the
Harvard Statistics Department . . . . . 246--250
Ronald D. Snee W. Edwards Deming's ``Making
AnotherWorld'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
David W. Scott and
Warren R. Scott Smoothed Histograms for Frequency Data
on Irregular Intervals . . . . . . . . . 256--261
Paul L. Speckman and
Jeffrey N. Rouder and
Richard D. Morey and
Michael S. Pratte Delta Plots and Coherent Distribution
Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--266
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 267--267
J. Wade Davis Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate
Data Analysis and Interpretation with
SPSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Samiran Sinha Introduction to Bayesian Statistics . . 268--268
Eric D. Foster Introduction to Bioinformatics . . . . . 268--269
Pallavi Chitturi Introduction to Business Statistics . . 269--269
JonDavid Sparks Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Modern Engineering Statistics . . . . . 270--271
J. Wade Davis Multidimensional Nonlinear Descriptive
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Matthew A. Carlton Probability and Statistics for Computer
Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Timothy J. Robinson The R Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 274--278
Daniel E. Ho and
Kevin M. Quinn Improving the Presentation and
Interpretation of Online Ratings Data
with Model-Based Figures . . . . . . . . 279--288
Patricia Grambsch Regression to the Mean, Murder Rates,
and Shall-Issue Laws . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
Ronald Christensen and
Timothy Hanson and
Alejandro Jara Parametric Nonparametric Statistics . . 296--306
Richard F. Potthoff and
Susan Halabi and
Joellen M. Schildkraut and
Beth Newman Flexible Frames and Control Sampling in
Case-Control Studies . . . . . . . . . . 307--313
Andrew J. Vickers Decision Analysis for the Evaluation of
Diagnostic Tests, Prediction Models, and
Molecular Markers . . . . . . . . . . . 314--320
Gillian Z. Heller and
Andrew B. Forbes and
Keith B. G. Dear and
Erica Jobling Biostatistics @ Distance . . . . . . . . 321--328
M. C. Busstra and
A. Geelen and
E. J. Feskens and
R. J. M. Hartog and
P. van 't Veer Design and Development of Digital
Learning Material for Applied Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--339
Christopher H. Jackson Displaying Uncertainty With Shading . . 340--347
Samuel Kotz and
Edith Seier Visualizing Peak and Tails to Introduce
Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--354
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Herbert K. H. Lee Bayesian Methods: A Social and
Behavioral Sciences Approach . . . . . . 356--356
Ryan E. Wiegand Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS 356--357
Jessica Chapman Elementary Statistics: Picturing the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
James Stamey Modern Mathematical Statistics with
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Frederick M. Pratter SAS Graphics for Java: Examples Using
SAS AppDev Studio and the Output
Delivery System . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Gideon (K. D.) Zamba Statistical Development of Quality in
Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Mario V. Wüthrich Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in
Actuarial Science . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
Gilbert W. Fellingham Statistical Thinking in Sports . . . . . 360--361
M. G. M. Khan Statistics for Real-Life Sample Surveys:
Non-Simple-Random Samples and Weighted
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
J. Wade Davis Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the
Health Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Daniel B. Hall Analyzing Receiver Operating
Characteristic Curves With SAS . . . . . 362--362
Raquel Prado Introduction to Design of Experiments 362--362
F. Michael Speed SAS Programming for Enterprise Guide
Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Jay Devore Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Carol A. Gotway Crawford Unlocking the Census with GIS . . . . . 363--363
Mary Richardson Workshop Statistics: Discovery With Data 363--363
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 364--365
Anonymous 2008 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 366--367
Anonymous Index to volume 62 . . . . . . . . . . . 368--370
Andrew Gelman and
David K. Park Splitting a Predictor at the Upper
Quarter or Third and the Lower Quarter
or Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Ming T. Tan and
Guo-Liang Tian and
Man-Lai Tang Sample Surveys With Sensitive Questions:
A Nonrandomized Response Approach . . . 9--16
Keming Yu and
Abdallah Ally Improving Prediction Intervals: Some
Elementary Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Roger Koenker The Median Is the Message: Wilson and
Hilfertys Experiments on the Law of
Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--25
R. M. Fewster A Simple Explanation of Benford's Law 26--32
Rebecca Graziani and
Piero Veronese How to Compute a Mean? The Chisini
Approach and Its Applications . . . . . 33--36
Charles Hagwood An Application of the Residue Calculus:
The Distribution of the Sum of
Nonhomogeneous Gamma Variates . . . . . 37--39
Lei Shi and
Gemai Chen Influence Measures for General Linear
Models With Correlated Errors . . . . . 40--42
Leng-Cheng Hwang A Simple Proof of the Binomial Theorem
Using Differential Calculus . . . . . . 43--44
Saralees Nadarajah PDFs and Dual PDFs . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
Jaechoul Lee A Reformulation of Weighted Least
Squares Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
Michael Friendly and
Ernest Kwan Where's Waldo? Visualizing Collinearity
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Martin S. Ridout Statistical Applications of the
Complex-Step Method of Numerical
Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--74
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 75--77
Chris Barker The Mean, Median, and Confidence
Intervals of the Kaplan--Meier Survival
Estimate --- Computations and
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
Dominique Haughton and
Pascal Legrand and
Sam Woolford Review of Three Latent Class Cluster
Analysis Packages: Latent Gold, poLCA,
and MCLUST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 92--101
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Emery N. Brown and
Robert E. Kass What Is Statistics? . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
Iain Johnstone Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 111--111
Alison Gibbs and
Nancy Reid Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 112--113
David Madigan and
Andrew Gelman Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 114--114
Samad Hedayat and
John Stufken Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 115--116
Deborah Nolan and
Duncan Temple Lang Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 117--121
Emery N. Brown and
Robert E. Kass Rejoinder: What Is Statistics? . . . . . 122--123
John W. Emerson and
Miki Seltzer and
David Lin Assessing Judging Bias: An Example From
the 2000 Olympic Games . . . . . . . . . 124--131
Kenneth J. Ryan Approximate Confidence Intervals for $p$
When Double Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 132--140
Jack G. Gambino Design Effect Caveats . . . . . . . . . 141--146
Carolyn Lauzon and
Brian Caffo Easy Multiplicity Control in Equivalence
Testing Using Two One-Sided Tests . . . 147--154
Elizabeth Koehler and
Elizabeth Brown and
Sebastien J.-P. A. Haneuse On the Assessment of Monte Carlo Error
in Simulation-Based Statistical Analyses 155--162
Reid D. Landes Passing on the Passion for the
Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux and
Benoit Liquet Understanding Convergence Concepts: A
Visual-Minded and Graphical
Simulation-Based Approach . . . . . . . 173--178
Leland Wilkinson and
Michael Friendly The History of the Cluster Heat Map . . 179--184
Herbert A. David A Historical Note on Zero Correlation
and Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Robert A. Oster Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 189--196
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
John Stufken An Invitation: Editor's Introduction to
``Desired and Feared --- What Do We Do
Now and Over the Next 50 Years?'' . . . 201--201
Xiao-Li Meng Desired and Feared --- What Do We Do Now
and Over the Next 50 Years? . . . . . . 202--210
Micha Mandel and
Yosef Rinott A Selection Bias Conflict and
Frequentist versus Bayesian Viewpoints 211--217
Aiyou Chen and
Thomas Bengtsson and
Tin Kam Ho A Regression Paradox for Linear Models:
Sufficient Conditions and Relation to
Simpson's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 218--225
Marios G. Pavlides and
Michael D. Perlman How Likely Is Simpson's Paradox? . . . . 226--233
Daniel J. Nordman and
Stephen B. Vardeman and
Melissa A. Bingham Uniformly Hyper-Efficient Bayes
Inference in a Class of Nonregular
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--238
Arne C. Bathke and
Oliver Schabenberger and
Randall D. Tobias and
Laurence V. Madden Greenhouse--Geisser Adjustment and the
ANOVA-Type Statistic: Cousins or Twins? 239--246
Carl N. Morris and
Kari F. Lock Unifying the Named Natural Exponential
Families and Their Relatives . . . . . . 247--253
Andrew R. Solow and
Woollcott K. Smith A Statistical Problem Concerning the Mar
Saba Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--257
Per Gösta Andersson A Simple Correlation Adjustment
Procedure Applied to Confidence Interval
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--262
Amy G. Froelich and
William M. Duckworth and
Jessica Culhane Does Your iPod Really Play Favorites? 263--268
Halvor Mehlum The Island Problem Revisited . . . . . . 269--273
Scott M. Lesch and
Daniel R. Jeske Some Suggestions for Teaching About
Normal Approximations to Poisson and
Binomial Distribution Functions . . . . 274--277
Anthony Y. C. Kuk A New Way to Derive Locally Most
Powerful Rank Tests . . . . . . . . . . 278--280
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 281--293
Frank Tuyl Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
G. G. Hamedani and
H. W. Volkmer Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Hua Zhou and
Kenneth Lange Rating Movies and Rating the Raters Who
Rate Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--307
Ulrike Grömping Variable Importance Assessment in
Regression: Linear Regression versus
Random Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--319
Robert H. Lyles and
Ying Guo and
Andrew N. Hill A Fresh Look at the Discriminant
Function Approach for Estimating Crude
or Adjusted Odds Ratios . . . . . . . . 320--327
Ceylan Yozgatligil and
William W. S. Wei Representation of Multiplicative
Seasonal Vector Autoregressive Moving
Average Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--334
Wayne A. Woodward and
Henry L. Gray and
James R. Haney and
Alan C. Elliott Examining Factors to Better Understand
Autoregressive Models . . . . . . . . . 335--342
Shonda Kuiper and
Linda Collins Guided Labs That Introduce Statistical
Techniques Used in Research From
Multiple Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
Marlene A. Smith and
Peter G. Bryant Managing Case Discussions in
Introductory Business Statistics
Classes: Practical Approaches for
Instructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--355
Patricia Pepple Williamson and
Darcy P. Mays and
Ghidewon Abay Asmerom and
Yingying Yang Revisiting the Classical Occupancy
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--360
Stefan H. Steiner and
R. Jock MacKay Teaching Variation Reduction Using a
Virtual Manufacturing Environment . . . 361--365
Tue Tjur Coefficients of Determination in
Logistic Regression Models---A New
Proposal: The Coefficient of
Discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--372
Björn Bornkamp and
Katja Ickstadt A Note on B-Splines for Semiparametric
Elicitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
Jan Serroyen and
Geert Molenberghs and
Geert Verbeke and
Marie Davidian Nonlinear Models for Longitudinal Data 378--388
Christel Faes and
Geert Molenberghs and
Marc Aerts and
Geert Verbeke and
Michael G. Kenward The Effective Sample Size and an
Alternative Small-Sample
Degrees-of-Freedom Method . . . . . . . 389--399
Robert A. Oster Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 401--405
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous 2009 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 407--408
Anonymous Index to Volume 63 . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411
Robert G. Easterling Passion-Driven Statistics . . . . . . . 1--5
David R. Fox Desired and Feared--- Quo vadis or Quid
agis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Roger W. Hoerl and
Ronald D. Snee Moving the Statistics Profession Forward
to the Next Level . . . . . . . . . . . 10--14
Brian C. Kotz Thoughts on the Importance of the
Undergraduate Statistics Experience to
the Discipline's (and Society's) Future 15--18
Frank P. Soler Who Is Teaching Introductory Statistics? 19--20
Rick Cleary and
Sam Woolford The Business of Desire and Fear . . . . 21--22
Elart von Collani Response to \em ``Desired and Feared ---
What Do We Do Now and Over the Next 50
Years'' by Xiao-Li Meng . . . . . . . . 23--25
Xiao-Li Meng Rejoinder: Better Training, Deeper
Thinking, and More Policing . . . . . . 26--29
Richard H. Browne The $t$-Test $p$ Value and Its
Relationship to the Effect Size and $P(X
> Y)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--33
Wolf Schwarz Comparing Continuous and Discrete
Birthday Coincidences: ``Same-Day''
versus ``Within 24 Hours'' . . . . . . . 34--36
Marios G. Pavlides and
Michael D. Perlman On Estimating the Face Probabilities of
Shaved Dice With Partial Data . . . . . 37--45
Stephen B. Vardeman and
Joanne R. Wendelberger and
Tom Burr and
Michael S. Hamada and
Leslie M. Moore and
J. Marcus Jobe and
Max D. Morris and
Huaiqing Wu Elementary Statistical Methods and
Measurement Error . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Christopher J. Malone and
John Gabrosek and
Phyllis Curtiss and
Matt Race Resequencing Topics in an Introductory
Applied Statistics Course . . . . . . . 52--58
Julie Legler and
Paul Roback and
Kathryn Ziegler-Graham and
James Scott and
Sharon Lane-Getaz and
Matthew Richey A Model for an Interdisciplinary
Undergraduate Research Program . . . . . 59--69
T. D. Stanley and
Stephen B. Jarrell and
Hristos Doucouliagos Could It Be Better to Discard 90% of the
Data? A Statistical Paradox . . . . . . 70--77
Michael A. Proschan and
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Beyond the Quintessential Quincunx . . . 78--82
Henry S. Lynn and
Zhanjian Dong and
Zhe Mu Comparison of Software Algorithms for
Calculating REML Wald Type Confidence
Limits for the Between-Group Variance
Component in a Small Sample One-Way
Random Effects Model Example . . . . . . 83--87
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 88--96
Deborah Nolan and
Duncan Temple Lang Computing in the Statistics Curricula 97--107
Paul Fearnhead and
Benjamin M. Taylor Calculating Strength of Schedule, and
Choosing Teams for March Madness . . . . 108--115
David H. Annis and
Peter C. Kiessler and
Robert Lund and
Tara L. Steuber Estimation in Reversible Markov Chains 116--120
Devan V. Mehrotra and
Xiaomin Lu and
Xiaoming Li Rank-Based Analyses of Stratified
Experiments: Alternatives to the van
Elteren Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
C. Lozada-Can and
A. C. Davison Three Examples of Accurate Likelihood
Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--139
J. T. Ormerod and
M. P. Wand Explaining Variational Approximations 140--153
Gunnar Taraldsen and
Bo Henry Lindqvist Improper Priors Are Not Improper . . . . 154--158
Xiang Zhou and
Jerome P. Reiter A Note on Bayesian Inference After
Multiple Imputation . . . . . . . . . . 159--163
Nicholas T. Longford Bayesian Decision Making About Small
Binomial Rates With Uncertainty About
the Prior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--169
Yijun Zuo Is the $t$ Confidence Interval $^-X \pm
t_\alpha ( n - 1) (s / \sqrt{\{n\}})$
Optimal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--173
Michael Friendly and
Pedro Valero-Mora and
Joaquín Ibáñez Ulargui The First (Known) Statistical Graph:
Michael Florent van Langren and the
``Secret'' of Longitude . . . . . . . . 185--191
Michael P. Cohen Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Martin Hogbin and
W. Nijdam Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
David Beaudoin and
Tim B. Swartz Strategies for Pulling the Goalie in
Hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204
Martin Wolkewitz and
Arthur Allignol and
Martin Schumacher and
Jan Beyersmann Two Pitfalls in Survival Analyses of
Time-Dependent Exposure: A Case Study in
a Cohort of Oscar Nominees . . . . . . . 205--211
Nancy S. Hall Ronald Fisher and Gertrude Cox: Two
Statistical Pioneers Sometimes Cooperate
and Sometimes Collide . . . . . . . . . 212--220
David Aldous and
Tung Phan When Can One Test an Explanation?
Compare and Contrast Benford's Law and
the Fuzzy CLT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227
Mark Inlow A Moment Generating Function Proof of
the Lindeberg--Lévy Central Limit Theorem 228--230
Nitis Mukhopadhyay When Finiteness Matters: Counterexamples
to Notions of Covariance,~Correlation,
and Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Joe Hirschberg and
Jenny Lye A Geometric Comparison of the Delta and
Fieller Confidence Intervals . . . . . . 234--241
Jesse Frey Fixed-Width Sequential Confidence
Intervals for a Proportion . . . . . . . 242--249
Hsiuying Wang Closed Form Prediction Intervals Applied
for Disease Counts . . . . . . . . . . . 250--256
Russell Y. Webb and
Peter J. Smith and
Abdulla Firag On the Probability of Improved Accuracy
With Increased Sample Size . . . . . . . 257--262
Ke-Hai Yuan and
Peter M. Bentler Consistency of Normal-Distribution-Based
Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Estimates When
Data Are Missing at Random . . . . . . . 263--267
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 268--275
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Stephen M. Stigler The Changing History of Robustness . . . 277--281
Joseph Blitzstein and
Xiao-Li Meng Nano-Project Qualifying Exam Process: An
Intensified Dialogue Between Students
and Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--290
Zhiguo Li and
Jeremy M. G. Taylor and
Bin Nan Construction of Confidence Intervals and
Regions for Ordered Binomial
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--298
Ruth Heller and
Paul R. Rosenbaum and
Dylan S. Small Using the Cross-Match Test to Appraise
Covariate Balance in Matched Pairs . . . 299--309
Michael J. Schell Identifying Key Statistical Papers From
1985 to 2002 Using Citation Data for
Applied Biostatisticians . . . . . . . . 310--317
Ariel Alonso and
Saskia Liti\`ere and
Annouschka Laenen A Note on the Indeterminacy of the
Random-Effects Distribution in
Hierarchical Models . . . . . . . . . . 318--324
James S. Hodges and
Brian J. Reich Adding Spatially-Correlated Errors Can
Mess Up the Fixed Effect You Love . . . 325--334
Henry W. Block and
Thomas H. Savits A General Example for Benford Data . . . 335--339
Sander Greenland Simpson's Paradox From Adding Constants
in Contingency Tables as an Example of
Bayesian Noncollapsibility . . . . . . . 340--344
Kenneth Rice A Decision-Theoretic Formulation of
Fisher's Approach to Testing . . . . . . 345--349
Elena Kulinskaya and
Stephan Morgenthaler and
Robert G. Staudte Variance Stabilizing the Difference of
Two Binomial Proportions . . . . . . . . 350--356
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 357--361
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Anonymous 2010 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 364--365
Anonymous Index to Volume 64 . . . . . . . . . . . 366--368
Joan Garfield and
Andrew Zieffler and
Daniel Kaplan and
George W. Cobb and
Beth L. Chance and
John P. Holcomb Rethinking Assessment of Student
Learning in Statistics Courses . . . . . 1--10
Dylan S. Small and
Kevin G. Volpp and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Structured Testing of $2 \times 2$
Factorial Effects: An Analytic Plan
Requiring Fewer Observations . . . . . . 11--15
Andrew J. Cron and
Mike West Efficient Classification-Based
Relabeling in Mixture Models . . . . . . 16--20
Bo Lu and
Robert Greevy and
Xinyi Xu and
Cole Beck Optimal Nonbipartite Matching and Its
Statistical Applications . . . . . . . . 21--30
Chan Zeng and
Zhaoxing Pan and
Samantha MaWhinney and
Anna E. Barón and
Gary O. Zerbe Permutation and $F$ Distribution of
Tests in the Multivariate General Linear
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--36
Herbert A. David Euler's Contributions to Mathematics
Useful in Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Robert A. Oster Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 43--43
William V. Harper and
Ted G. Eschenbach and
Thomas R. James Concerns About Maximum Likelihood
Estimation for the Three-Parameter
Weibull Distribution: Case Study of
Statistical Software . . . . . . . . . . 44--54
Yeting Du and
Christopher Hundt and
David B. Wolfson Previously Unrecognized Links Between
Statistical Dependence and Some Common
Modes of Convergence . . . . . . . . . . 55--60
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 61--68
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 69--69
Melissa D. Begg and
Roger D. Vaughan Are Biostatistics Students Prepared to
Succeed in the Era of Interdisciplinary
Science? (And How Will We Know ?) . . . 71--79
Jean-François Plante and
Nancy Reid Statistics in the News . . . . . . . . . 80--88
M. C. Jones and
J. F. Rosco and
Arthur Pewsey Skewness-Invariant Measures of Kurtosis 89--95
James B. McDonald and
Patrick Turley Distributional Characteristics: Just a
Few More Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
Hakan Demirtas and
Donald Hedeker A Practical Way for Computing
Approximate Lower and Upper Correlation
Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--109
Kevin Hayes A Geometrical Interpretation of an
Alternative Formula for the Sample
Covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Robert A. Oster Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 113--114
S. S. J. Wang and
M. P. Wand Using \tt Infer.NET for Statistical
Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
Li Zhu and
Liyun Ni and
Bin Yao Group Sequential Methods and Software
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--135
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 136--139
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Letter to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 141--141
John W. Emerson and
Taylor B. Arnold Statistical Sleuthing by Leveraging
Human Nature: A Study of Olympic Figure
Skating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--148
Dennis Gilliland and
Don Edwards Using Randomized Confidence Limits to
Balance Risk: An Application to Medicare
Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153
Hayley E. Jones and
David J. Spiegelhalter The Identification of ``Unusual''
Health-Care Providers From a
Hierarchical Model . . . . . . . . . . . 154--163
Nathan Morris and
Robert Elston A Note on Comparing the Power of Test
Statistics at Low Significance Levels 164--166
Carey E. Priebe Fisher's Conditionality Principle in
Statistical Pattern Recognition . . . . 167--169
G. D. I. Barr and
K. Dowie Swivelling Probabilities --- The Winning
Hand at Poker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--176
Christine Franklin and
Brad Hartlaub and
Roxy Peck and
Richard Scheaffer and
David Thiel and
Katherine Tranbarger Freier AP Statistics: Building Bridges Between
High School and College Statistics
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--182
Nicole A. Lazar and
Jaxk Reeves and
Christine Franklin A Capstone Course for Undergraduate
Statistics Majors . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
Marlene A. Smith Missteps in Multiple Regression Student
Projects: Beyond
Association-Not-Causation . . . . . . . 190--197
Yong Kong The Expectation of Sample Central
Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Robert A. Oster Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 200--200
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 201--208
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 209--211
Dennis D. Boos and
Leonard A. Stefanski $P$-Value Precision and Reproducibility 213--221
Colin Foster The Significance of a Square-Root Rule 222--222
Josue G. Martinez and
Raymond J. Carroll and
Samuel Müller and
Joshua N. Sampson and
Nilanjan Chatterjee Empirical Performance of
Cross-Validation With Oracle Methods in
a Genomics Context . . . . . . . . . . . 223--228
José R. Zubizarreta and
Caroline E. Reinke and
Rachel R. Kelz and
Jeffrey H. Silber and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Matching for Several Sparse Nominal
Variables in a Case-Control Study of
Readmission Following Surgery . . . . . 229--238
Yung-Pin Chen Do the Chi-Square Test and Fisher's
Exact Test Agree in Determining Extreme
for $2 \times 2$ Tables? . . . . . . . . 239--245
Prakash Gorroochurn Errors of Probability in Historical
Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--254
Lyle D. Broemeling An Account of Early Statistical
Inference in Arab Cryptology . . . . . . 255--257
Edith Seier and
Douglas G. Bonett A Polyplot for Visualizing Location,
Spread, Skewness, and Kurtosis . . . . . 258--261
Yves Nievergelt Increasing Data with a Negative Slope 262--262
Robert A. Oster Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 263--264
Kellie B. Keeling and
Robert J. Pavur Statistical Accuracy of Spreadsheet
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--273
Brady T. West and
Andrzej T. Galecki An Overview of Current Software
Procedures for Fitting Linear Mixed
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--282
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 283--297
Anonymous 2011 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 298--299