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David Byers and
James Davidson and
David Peel Modelling Political Popularity: An
Analysis of Long-Range Dependence in
Opinion Poll Series . . . . . . . . . . 471--490
W. Sauerbrei and
P. Royston Building Multivariable Prognostic and
Diagnostic Models: Transformation of the
Predictors by Using Fractional
Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--94
Dankmar Bohning and
Ekkehart Dietz and
Peter Schlattmann and
Lisette Mendonca and
Ursula Kirchner The Zero-Inflated Poisson Model and the
Decayed, Missing and Filled Teeth Index
in Dental Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . 195--209
Simon D. Day and
David J. Talbot Editorial: Statistical Guidelines for
Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
P. Williamson and
J. L. Hutton and
J. Bliss and
J. Blunt and
M. J. Campbell and
R. Nicholson Statistical Review by Research Ethics
Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--13
Colin B. Begg and
Denis H. Y. Leung On the Use of Surrogate End Points in
Randomized Trials . . . . . . . . . . . 15--28
Philip W. Lavori and
Ree Dawson A Design for Testing Clinical
Strategies: Biased Adaptive
within-Subject Randomization . . . . . . 29--38
G. J. Taylor and
S. I. McClean and
P. H. Millard Stochastic Models of Geriatric Patient
Bed Occupancy Behaviour . . . . . . . . 39--48
Min Yang and
Harvey Goldstein and
Anthony Heath Multilevel Models for Repeated Binary
Outcomes: Attitudes and Voting over the
Electoral Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62
Muriel Egerton Monitoring Contemporary Student Flows
and Characteristics: Secondary Analyses
Using the Labour Force Survey and the
General Household Survey . . . . . . . . 63--80
Stephen Pudney and
Derek Deadman and
David Pyle The Relationship between Crime,
Punishment and Economic Conditions: Is
Reliable Inference Possible When Crimes
Are Under-Recorded? . . . . . . . . . . 81--97
Andrew W. Evans Fatal Train Accidents on Britain's
Mainline Railways . . . . . . . . . . . 99--119
D. Böhning and
E. Dietz and
P. Schlattmann and
L. Mendonça and
U. Kirchner Corrigendum: The Zero-Inflated Poisson
Model and the Decayed, Missing and
Filled Teeth Index in Dental
Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Mike Murphy Editorial: Cohabitation in Britain . . . 123--126
Ann Berrington and
Ian Diamond Marriage or Cohabitation: A Competing
Risks Analysis of First-Partnership
Formation among the 1958 British Birth
Cohort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--151
John Ermisch and
Marco Francesconi Cohabitation in Great Britain: Not for
Long, But Here to Stay . . . . . . . . . 153--171
Chris Frost and
Simon G. Thompson Correcting for Regression Dilution Bias:
Comparison of Methods for a Single
Predictor Variable . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
Peter D. Sasieni and
Joanna Adams Analysis of Cervical Cancer Mortality
and Incidence Data from England and
Wales: Evidence of a Beneficial Effect
of Screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--209
Karl Claxton and
Larry F. Lacey and
Stephen G. Walker Selecting Treatments: A Decision
Theoretic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 211--225
Lei Li and
Karl Kim Estimating Driver Crash Risks Based on
the Extended Bradley--Terry Model: An
Induced Exposure Method . . . . . . . . 227--240
Wing K. Fung and
Yue-Qing Hu Interpreting Forensic DNA Mixtures:
Allowing for Uncertainty in Population
Substructure and Dependence . . . . . . 241--254
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Roger Tarling Editorial: Statistics on the Voluntary
Sector in the UK . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261
Francesca Dominici and
Jonathan M. Samet and
Scott L. Zeger Combining Evidence on Air Pollution and
Daily Mortality from the 20 Largest US
Cities: A Hierarchical Modelling
Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--302
Andrew Harvey and
Chia-Hui Chung Estimating the Underlying Change in
Unemployment in the UK . . . . . . . . . 303--339
Anthony Heath and
Dorren McMahon and
Jane Roberts Ethnic Differences in the Labour Market:
A Comparison of the Sample of Anonymized
Records and Labour Force Survey . . . . 341--361
Lindsay Paterson The Social Class of Catholics in
Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--379
Nicholas T. Longford and
Margaret Ely and
Rebecca Hardy and
Michael E. J. Wadsworth Handling Missing Data in Diaries of
Alcohol Consumption . . . . . . . . . . 381--402
J. L. Hutton Number Needed to Treat: Properties and
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--419
James R. Cuthbert Theoretical and Practical Issues in
Purchasing Power Parities Illustrated
with Reference to the 1993 Organization
for Economic Co-Operation and
Development Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--444
Irini Moustaki and
Martin Knott Weighting for Item Non-Response in
Attitude Scales by Using Latent Variable
Models with Covariates . . . . . . . . . 445--459
Anonymous Index of authors, volume 163, 2000 . . . 461--462
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 461--464
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Jon Wakefield and
Mike Quinn and
Gillian Raab Editorial: Disease Clusters and
Ecological Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Paul Elliott and
Jon Wakefield Disease Clusters: Should They Be
Investigated, and, If So, When and How? 3--12
Daniel Wartenberg Investigating Disease Clusters: Why,
When and How? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--22
C. E. Stein and
S. Bennett and
S. Crook and
F. Maddison The Cluster That Never Was: Germ Warfare
Experiments and Health Authority Reality
in Dorset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--27
John Steward and
Gareth John An Ecological Investigation of the
Incidence of Cancer in Welsh Children
for the Period 1985--1994 in Relation to
Residence Near the Coastline . . . . . . 29--43
Helen Dolk Comments on the Papers by Elliott and
Wakefield, Wartenberg, Stein et al. and
Steward and John . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
Joan R. Williams and
Freda E. Alexander and
Ray A. Cartwright and
Richard J. Q. McNally Methods for eliciting aetiological clues
from geographically clustered cases of
disease, with application to
leukaemia--lymphoma data . . . . . . . . 49--60
Martin Kulldorff Prospective Time Periodic Geographical
Disease Surveillance Using a Scan
Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--72
Leonhard Knorr-Held and
Nicola G. Best A Shared Component Model for Detecting
Joint and Selective Clustering of Two
Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--85
Peter A. Rogerson Monitoring point patterns for the
development of space--time clusters . . 87--96
Andrew Lawson Comments on the Papers by Williams et
al., Kulldorff, Knorr-Held and Best, and
Rogerson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Andrew Gelman and
David K. Park and
Stephen Ansolabehere and
Phillip N. Price and
Lorraine C. Minnite Models, Assumptions and Model Checking
in Ecological Regressions . . . . . . . 101--118
Jonathan Wakefield and
Ruth Salway A Statistical Framework for Ecological
and Aggregate Studies . . . . . . . . . 119--137
Lianne Sheppard Comments on the Papers by Gelman et al.
and Wakefield and Salway . . . . . . . . 139--139
Katherine A. Guthrie and
Lianne Sheppard Overcoming Biases and Misconceptions in
Ecological Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 141--154
Nicky Best and
Samantha Cockings and
James Bennett and
Jon Wakefield and
Paul Elliott Ecological Regression Analysis of
Environmental Benzene Exposure and
Childhood Leukaemia: Sensitivity to Data
Inaccuracies, Geographical Scale and
Ecological Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--174
R. L. Chambers and
D. G. Steel Simple Methods for Ecological Inference
in $ 2 \times 2 $ Tables . . . . . . . . 175--192
Sarah Darby and
Harz Deo and
Richard Doll and
Elise Whitley A Parallel Analysis of Individual and
Ecological Data on Residential Radon and
Lung Cancer in south-west England . . . 193--203
Ben Armstrong Comments on the Papers by Guthrie and
Sheppard, Best et al., Chambers and
Steel and Darby et al. . . . . . . . . . 205--207
Thomas Lumley and
Margaret S. Pepe and
Patrick J. Heagerty and
Robert Crouchley and
Richard Davies Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--212
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Lucy McKeever and
Mike Cuthbertson Editorial: The Growing Demands on the
European Statistical System . . . . . . 213--215
Peter C. Smith and
Nigel Rice and
Roy Carr-Hill Capitation Funding in the Public Sector 217--257
Nicholas T. Longford Simulation-Based Diagnostics in
Random-Coefficient Models . . . . . . . 259--273
Petros Dellaportas and
Adrian F. M. Smith and
Photis Stavropoulos Bayesian Analysis of Mortality Data . . 275--291
L. Biggeri and
M. Bini and
L. Grilli The Transition from University to Work:
A Multilevel Approach to the Analysis of
the Time to Obtain the First Job . . . . 293--305
Louisa Blackwell Women's Work in UK Official Statistics
and the 1980 Reclassification of
Occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--325
J. K. Lindsey and
P. J. Lindsey Detecting Covariates with Non-Random
Missing Values in a Survey of Primary
Education in Madagascar . . . . . . . . 327--338
Germán Rodríguez and
Noreen Goldman Improved Estimation Procedures for
Multilevel Models with Binary Response:
A Case-Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--355
Catrin Tudur and
Paula R. Williamson and
Saboor Khan and
Lesley Y. Best The Value of the Aggregate Data Approach
in Meta-Analysis with Time-to-Event
Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--370
Derek Leslie and
Joanne Lindley and
Leighton Thomas Decline and Fall: Unemployment among
Britain's Non-White Ethnic Communities
1960--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--387
Jeremy P. Smith and
Robin A. Naylor Dropping Out of University: A
Statistical Analysis of the Probability
of Withdrawal for UK University Students 389--405
V. Barnett and
J. Haworth and
T. M. F. Smith A Two-Phase Sampling Scheme with
Applications to Auditing or sed quis
custodiet ipsos custodies? . . . . . . . 407--422
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ludi Simpson Editorial: UK census 2001 --- progress
and promise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--425
Angela Dale and
Mark Elliot Proposals for 2001 Samples of Anonymized
Records: An Assessment of Disclosure
Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--447
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
John Williamson and
Neil Klar and
Joseph Ibrahim and
Michael Parzen A Simple Method for Estimating a
Regression Model for $ \kappa $ between
a Pair of Raters . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--465
Chris J. Lloyd and
Paul S. F. Yip A Comparison of Suicide Patterns in
Australia and Hong Kong . . . . . . . . 467--483
Denis Heng-Yan Leung Statistical Methods for Clinical Studies
in the Presence of Surrogate End Points 485--503
Mary Lou Thompson and
Steven D. Edland and
Laura E. Gibbons and
Susan M. McCurry Estimating Reference Ranges from
Stratified Two-Stage Samples . . . . . . 505--516
Martin Forster and
Andrew M. Jones The Role of Tobacco Taxes in Starting
and Quitting Smoking: Duration Analysis
of British Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--547
Mohamed M. Ali and
Tom Marshall and
Abdel G. Babiker Analysis of Incomplete Durations with
Application to Contraceptive Use . . . . 549--563
Nicholas T. Longford and
David Firth and
Michael Noble and
George Smith Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--566
Anonymous Index: Index of authors, volume 164,
2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--569
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 567--569
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bob Butcher Editorial: High Quality Evaluation in
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
J. Gershuny Editorial: Co-Ordinating Longitudinal
Survey Data in the UK: Towards a
National Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
Peter Dolton Evaluation of Economic and Social
Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--11
James A. Riccio and
Howard S. Bloom Extending the Reach of Randomized Social
Experiments: New Directions in
Evaluations of American Welfare-to-Work
and Employment Initiatives . . . . . . . 13--30
Ian Plewis Modelling Impact Heterogeneity . . . . . 31--38
Erich Battistin and
Enrico Rettore Testing for Programme Effects in a
Regression Discontinuity Design with
Imperfect Compliance . . . . . . . . . . 39--57
Michael Lechner Some Practical Issues in the Evaluation
of Heterogeneous Labour Market
Programmes by Matching Methods . . . . . 59--82
Michael White and
John Killeen The Effect of Careers Guidance for
Employed Adults on Continuing Education:
Assessing the Importance of Attitudinal
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95
Paul P. Biemer and
Christopher Wiesen Measurement Error Evaluation of
Self-Reported Drug Use: A Latent Class
Analysis of the US National Household
Survey on Drug Abuse . . . . . . . . . . 97--119
James Tilley Political Generations and Partisanship
in the UK, 1964--1997 . . . . . . . . . 121--135
Min Yang and
Harvey Goldstein and
William Browne and
Geoffrey Woodhouse Multivariate Multilevel Analyses of
Examination Results . . . . . . . . . . 137--153
N. Forcheh Ehrenberg Law-like Relationship and
Anthropometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--172
Sidney Rosenbaum Transactions of the Statistical Society
of London (1837) . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185
David Byers and
James Davidson and
David Peel Modelling Political Popularity: A
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--189
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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David J. Spiegelhalter and
Paul Aylin and
Nicola G. Best and
Stephen J. W. Evans and
Gordon D. Murray Commissioned Analysis of Surgical
Performance Using Routine Data: Lessons
from the Bristol Inquiry . . . . . . . . 191--221
R. N. Curnow Discussion on the paper by
Spiegelhalter, Aylin, Best, Evans and
Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--231
Peter M. Fayers and
David J. Hand Causal Variables, Indicator Variables
and Measurement Scales: An Example from
Quality of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--253
D. J. Bartholomew Discussion on the paper by Fayers and
Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--261
Gillian Lancaster and
Mick Green Deprivation, Ill-Health and the
Ecological Fallacy . . . . . . . . . . . 263--278
K. D. Patterson Modelling the Data Measurement Process
for the Index of Production . . . . . . 279--296
Gerry Nicolaas and
Peter Lynn Random-Digit Dialling in the UK:
Viability Revisited . . . . . . . . . . 297--316
Duncan McVicar and
Michael Anyadike-Danes Predicting Successful and Unsuccessful
Transitions from School to Work by Using
Sequence Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--334
Lisa Farrell and
Michael A. Shields Investigating the Economic and
Demographic Determinants of Sporting
Participation in England . . . . . . . . 335--348
Anthony C. Atkinson The Comparison of Designs for Sequential
Clinical Trials with Covariate
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--373
Makram Talih and
Ronald D. Fricker, Jr. Effects of Neighbourhood Demographic
Shifts on Findings of Environmental
Injustice: A New York City Case-Study 375--397
W. Sauerbrei and
P. Royston Corrigendum: Building Multivariable
Prognostic and Diagnostic Models:
Transformation of the Predictors by
Using Fractional Polynomials . . . . . . 399--400
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Greg Phillpotts Editorial: An Independent Statistical
Service? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--403
Peter C. Smith Discussion on the paper by Stone . . . . 405--434
M. Stone How Not to Measure the Efficiency of
Public Services (And How One Might) . . 405--434
M. Bell and
M. Blake and
P. Boyle and
O. Duke-Williams and
P. Rees and
J. Stillwell and
G. Hugo Cross-National Comparison of Internal
Migration: Issues and Measures . . . . . 435--464
Paul Boyle and
Thomas J. Cooke and
Keith Halfacree and
Darren Smith A Cross-National Study of the Effects of
Family Migration on Women's Labour
Market Status: Some Difficulties with
Integrating Microdata from Two Censuses 465--480
Kevin Denny New Methods for Comparing Literacy
across Populations: Insights from the
Measurement of Poverty . . . . . . . . . 481--493
Fiona Steele and
James Brown and
Ray Chambers A Controlled Donor Imputation System for
a One-Number Census . . . . . . . . . . 495--522
Mark S. Pearce and
Heather O. Dickinson and
Murray Aitkin and
Louise Parker Still-Births among the Offspring of Male
Radiation Workers at the Sellafield
Nuclear Reprocessing Plant: Detailed
Results and Statistical Aspects . . . . 523--548
Sylvia Richardson and
Laurent Leblond and
Isabelle Jaussent and
Peter J. Green Mixture Models in Measurement Error
Problems, with Reference to
Epidemiological Studies . . . . . . . . 549--566
Bernard L. Cohen Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--568
Bernard L. Cohen Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--568
Anonymous Index of Authors: volume 165, 2002 . . . 569--571
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 569--571
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Len Cook Editorial: The National Statistician: 2
Years On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Christian Sonesson and
David Bock A Review and Discussion of Prospective
Statistical Surveillance in Public
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--21
James P. Smith and
Duncan Thomas Remembrances of things past:
test--retest reliability of
retrospective migration histories . . . 23--49
Larry J. Brant and
Shan L. Sheng and
Christopher H. Morrell and
Geert N. Verbeke and
Emmanuel Lesaffre and
H. Ballentine Carter Screening for Prostate Cancer by Using
Random-Effects Models . . . . . . . . . 51--62
Jos A. G. Dessens and
Wim Jansen and
Harry B. G. Ganzeboom and
Peter G. M. Van Der Heijden Patterns and Trends in Occupational
Attainment of First Jobs in the
Netherlands, 1930--1995: Ordinary Least
Squares Regression versus Conditional
Multinomial Logistic Regression . . . . 63--84
Jim Malley and
Anton Muscatelli and
Ulrich Woitek Some New International Comparisons of
Productivity Performance at the Sectoral
Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--104
M. A. Jonker Estimation of Life Expectancy in the
Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117
V. Simonite and
W. J. Browne Estimation of a Large Cross-Classified
Multilevel Model to Study Academic
Achievement in a Modular Degree Course 119--133
Dennis Leech and
Erick Campos Is Comprehensive Education Really Free?:
A Case-Study of the Effects of Secondary
School Admissions Policies on House
Prices in One Local Area . . . . . . . . 135--154
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Ian J. Wilson and
Michael E. Weale and
David J. Balding Inferences from DNA Data: Population
Histories, Evolutionary Processes and
Forensic Match Probabilities . . . . . . 155--188
Anonymous Discussion on the Paper by Wilson, Weale
and Balding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--201
D. R. Cox and
S. C. Darby The Communication of Risk:
[Introduction] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Adrian Smith Foreword to the Papers on `The
Communication of Risk' . . . . . . . . . 205--206
John Richens and
John Imrie and
Helen Weiss Human Immunodeficiency Virus Risk: Is It
Possible to Dissuade People from Having
Unsafe Sex? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--215
Ian M. Graham and
Elizabeth Clavel Communicating Risk --- Coronary Risk
Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--223
Sarah C. Darby Tobacco --- The Importance of Relevant
Information on Risk . . . . . . . . . . 225--231
David Simpson and
Sue Lee Tobacco --- Public Perceptions and the
Role of the Industry . . . . . . . . . . 233--239
D. R. Cox Communication of Risk: Health Hazards
from Mobile Phones . . . . . . . . . . . 241--246
Paul Wiles and
Jon Simmons and
Ken Pease Crime Victimization: Its Extent and
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--252
Andrew W. Evans Accidental Fatalities in Transport . . . 253--260
Michael S. Rosenbaum and
Martin G. Culshaw Communicating the Risks Arising from
Geohazards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Stephen Senn and
Nicoletta Rosati Editorial: Pharmaceuticals, Patents and
Competition --- Some Statistical Issues 271--274
John Urquhart Editorial: How Long Do Pharmaceuticals
Stay in the Market-Place? . . . . . . . 274--277
Upali W. Jayasinghe and
Herbert W. Marsh and
Nigel Bond A Multilevel Cross-Classified Modelling
Approach to Peer Review of Grant
Proposals: The Effects of Assessor and
Researcher Attributes on Assessor
Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--300
Robert Andersen and
Anthony Heath Social Identities and Political
Cleavages: The Role of Political Context 301--327
Derek Leslie Using Success to Measure Quality in
British Higher Education: Which Subjects
Attract the Best-Qualified Students? . . 329--347
D. Holt The Need for New Statistical Legislation
for the UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--367
Stephen Martin and
Peter C. Smith Using Panel Methods to Model Waiting
Times for National Health Service
Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--387
Nicola J. Cooper and
Keith R. Abrams and
Alex J. Sutton and
David Turner and
Paul C. Lambert A Bayesian Approach to Markov Modelling
in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses:
Application to Taxane Use in Advanced
Breast Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--405
Fiona Steele Selection Effects of Source of
Contraceptive Supply in an Analysis of
Discontinuation of Contraception:
Multilevel Modelling When Random Effects
Are Correlated with an Explanatory
Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--423
Fabio Corradi and
Giampietro Lago and
Federico M. Stefanini The Evaluation of DNA Evidence in
Pedigrees Requiring Population Inference 425--440
Martin Forster and
Andrew M. Jones Corrigendum: The Role of Tobacco Taxes
in Starting and Quitting Smoking:
Duration Analysis of British Data . . . 441--442
Anonymous Index of Authors, volume 166, 2003 . . . 443--444
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Carol Fitz-Gibbon Editorial: The Need for Randomized
Trials in Social Research . . . . . . . 1--4
Philip Rees and
Paul Norman and
Dominic Brown A Framework for Progressively Improving
Small Area Population Estimates . . . . 5--36
Michael E. Sobel and
Nan Dirk De Graaf and
Anthony Heath and
Ying Zou Men Matter More: The Social Class
Identity of Married British Women,
1985--1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--52
Derek Deadman and
Ziggy MacDonald Offenders as Victims of Crime?: An
Investigation into the Relationship
between Criminal Behaviour and
Victimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--67
John Ermisch and
Marco Francesconi and
David J. Pevalin Parental Partnership and Joblessness in
Childhood and Their Influence on Young
People's Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . 69--101
Tomasz Burzykowski and
Geert Molenberghs and
Marc Buyse The Validation of Surrogate End Points
by Using Data from Randomized Clinical
Trials: A Case-Study in Advanced
Colorectal Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . 103--124
Tim Futing Liao Estimating Household Structure in
Ancient China by Using Historical Data:
A Latent Class Analysis of Partially
Missing Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139
Philip J. Smith and
David C. Hoaglin and
J. N. K. Rao and
Michael P. Battaglia and
Danni Daniels Evaluation of Adjustments for Partial
Non-Response Bias in the US National
Immunization Survey . . . . . . . . . . 141--156
Wiji Arulampalam and
Robin A. Naylor and
Jeremy P. Smith A Hazard Model of the Probability of
Medical School Drop-out in the UK . . . 157--178
Donald R. Taves and
Anthony C. Atkinson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--181
Donald R. Taves Correspondence: Faulty assumptions in
Atkinson's criteria for clinical trial
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--181
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Mark A. Best Book Review: \booktitleBioinformatics:
the Machine Learning Approach, 2nd edn 184--184
Quentin L. Burrell Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Rules
of Thumb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Lesley F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleInformation Gap
Decision Theory: Decisions under Severe
Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
M. C. Jones Book Review: \booktitleComponents of
Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleTime Series
Analysis by State Space Methods . . . . 187--188
Freda Kemp Book Review: \booktitleA Course in
Financial Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleModern Medical
Statistics: a Practical Guide . . . . . 189--190
Freda Kemp Book Review: \booktitleData Mining . . . 190--191
Ravi Sreenivasan Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Quantitative Finance: Theory and
Computational Tools . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Theofanis Sapatinas Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Theofanis Sapatinas Book Review: \booktitleThe Elements of
Statistical Learning . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
David Wooff Book Review: \booktitleLogistic
Regression: a Self-learning Text, 2nd
edn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Scott Sisson Book Review: \booktitleHidden Markov
Models for Bioinformatics . . . . . . . 194--195
Ruth King Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Ruth King Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Data from Marked Bird
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Dharmendra Lingaiah Book Review: \booktitleThe Estimation
and Tracking of Frequency . . . . . . . 195--196
Freda Kemp Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Statistics, Volume 21, Stochastic
Processes: Modeling and Simulation . . . 196--197
James Tighe Book Review: \booktitleHandbook for
Conducting Research on Human Sexuality 197--198
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Charlton Editorial: Evaluating Automatic Edit and
Imputation Methods, and the EUREDIT
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--207
Philip Redfern An Alternative View of the 2001 Census
and Future Census Taking . . . . . . . . 209--228
Anonymous Discussion on the meeting on `The 2001
census and beyond' . . . . . . . . . . . 229--248
George Petrakos and
Claudio Conversano and
Gregory Farmakis and
Francesco Mola and
Roberta Siciliano and
Photis Stavropoulos New Ways of Specifying Data Edits . . . 249--274
Cédric Béguin and
Beat Hulliger Multivariate Outlier Detection in
Incomplete Survey Data: The Epidemic
Algorithm and Transformed Rank
Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--294
Antonia Manzari Combining Editing and Imputation
Methods: An Experimental Application on
Population Census Data . . . . . . . . . 295--307
Marco Di Zio and
Mauro Scanu and
Lucia Coppola and
Orietta Luzi and
Alessandra Ponti Bayesian Networks for Imputation . . . . 309--322
Ray Chambers and
Adão Hentges and
Xinqiang Zhao Robust Automatic Methods for Outlier and
Error Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--339
Nicholas T. Longford Missing Data and Small Area Estimation
in the UK Labour Force Survey . . . . . 341--373
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Freda Kemp Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Freda Kemp Book Review: \booktitleEnvironmental
Foresight and Models: a Manifesto . . . 376--376
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleApplying the
Rasch Model: Fundamental Measurement in
the Human Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book reviews: \booktitleThe Oxford
Dictionary of Statistical Terms . . . . 377--377
Pia Veldt Larsen Book Review: \booktitleMaximum Penalized
Likelihood Estimation, Volume I, Density
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
Tim Auton Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Functional Data Analysis: Methods and
Case Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Gillian M. Arnold Book Review: \booktitleExperimental
Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement 379--379
Nick Sofroniou Book Review: \booktitleLarge-scale
Assessment Programs for All Students:
Validity, Technical Adequacy, and
Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379
Gillian M. Arnold Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sheila M. Bird Editorial: Performance Monitoring in the
Public Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383
Jon Wakefield Ecological inference for $ 2 \times 2 $
tables (with discussion) . . . . . . . . 385--425
Anonymous Discussion on the paper by Wakefield . . 425--445
Nicky Best and
Simon Day Foreword to the Papers on `Performance
Monitoring and Surveillance' . . . . . . 447--448
David Draper and
Mark Gittoes Statistical Analysis of Performance
Indicators in UK Higher Education . . . 449--474
Massimiliano Bratti and
Abigail McKnight and
Robin Naylor and
Jeremy Smith Higher Education Outcomes, Graduate
Employment and University Performance
Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--496
Anonymous Higher Education Performance Indicators:
Invited Comments on the Papers by Draper
and Gittoes and Bratti et al. . . . . . 497--499
Trevor C. Bailey and
Paul J. Hewson Simultaneous Modelling of Multiple
Traffic Safety Performance Indicators by
Using a Multivariate Generalized Linear
Mixed Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--517
Anonymous Monitoring Local Government Traffic
Safety Performance by Using Multiple
Indicators: Invited Comments on the
Paper by Bailey and Hewson . . . . . . . 519--521
O. Grigg and
V. Farewell An Overview of Risk-Adjusted Charts . . 523--539
Clare Marshall and
Nicky Best and
Alex Bottle and
Paul Aylin Statistical Issues in the Prospective
Monitoring of Health Outcomes across
Multiple Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--559
Anonymous Monitoring Clinical Performance: Invited
Comments on the Papers by Grigg and
Farewell and Marshall et al. . . . . . . 561--563
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--564
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--564
M. C. Jones Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--566
Scott Sisson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--567
Chris Chatfield Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--568
Les Huson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--568
Victor Moreno Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--569
Paul Hewson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--569
David Kemp Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--570
Andrew W. Roddam Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--571
Lesley Rushton Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--572
David Wooff Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--572
Mark A. Best Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--573
Anna Bartkowiak Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Peter Lynn Editorial: Measuring and Communicating
Survey Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--578
Andrew J. Copas and
Vern T. Farewell and
Catherine H. Mercer and
Guiqing Yao The Sensitivity of Estimates of the
Change in Population Behaviour to
Realistic Changes in Bias in Repeated
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--595
Paula L. Griffiths and
James J. Brown and
Peter W. F. Smith A Comparison of Univariate and
Multivariate Multilevel Models for
Repeated Measures of Use of Antenatal
Care in Uttar Pradesh . . . . . . . . . 597--611
Richard Dickens and
Alan Manning Has the National Minimum Wage Reduced UK
Wage Inequality? . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--626
Tae Young Yang Bayesian Binary Segmentation Procedure
for Detecting Streakiness in Sports . . 627--637
Gary Koop Modelling the Evolution of
Distributions: An Application to Major
League Baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--655
P. E. Allsopp and
Stephen R. Clarke Rating Teams and Analysing Outcomes in
One-Day and Test Cricket . . . . . . . . 657--667
Andy Grieve Report of the Council for the Session
2003--2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--756
Olav Bjerkholt and
Svein Longva Obituary: Petter Jakob Bjerve . . . . . 757--758
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--759
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--759
Quentin L. Burrell Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--760
Derek Robinson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--760
N. H. Bingham Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--762
Scott L. Hershberger Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--762
Jennifer Lyn Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--763
Mohamed Afzal Norat Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--764
Mark A. Best Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764--764
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764--764
Marian Scott Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764--765
Roger Harbord Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--766
Mohamed Afzal Norat Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--766
N. H. Bingham Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--768
Stuart Barber Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--768
Anonymous Index of Authors: volume 167, 2004 . . . 769--773
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 769--773
Anonymous Contents of volume 167, 2004 . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sheila M. Bird and
Sir David Cox and
Vern T. Farewell and
Harvey Goldstein and
Tim Holt and
Peter C. Smith Performance Indicators: Good, Bad, and
Ugly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
Mark Tranmer and
Andrew Pickles and
Ed Fieldhouse and
Mark Elliot and
Angela Dale and
Mark Brown and
David Martin and
David Steel and
Chris Gardiner The Case for Small Area Microdata . . . 29--49
H. Xie and
T. J. Chaussalet and
P. H. Millard A Continuous Time Markov Model for the
Length of Stay of Elderly People in
Institutional Long-Term Care . . . . . . 51--61
Ruth Hancock and
Geraldine Barker The Quality of Social Security Benefit
Data in the British Family Resources
Survey: Implications for Investigating
Income Support Take-up by Pensioners . . 63--82
Leonardo Grilli The Random-Effects Proportional Hazards
Model with Grouped Survival Data: A
Comparison between the Grouped
Continuous and Continuation Ratio
Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
Graham R. Wood and
David J. Saville The Ubiquitous Angle . . . . . . . . . . 95--107
Guido W. Imbens and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Robust, Accurate Confidence Intervals
with a Weak Instrument: Quarter of Birth
and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--126
Sylvain Lassarre and
Isabelle Thomas Exploring Road Mortality Ratios in
Europe: National versus Regional
Realities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--144
Göran Kauermann and
Gerhard Tutz and
Josef Brüderl The Survival of Newly Founded Firms: A
Case-Study into Varying-Coefficient
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
Antony Fielding and
Min Yang Generalized Linear Mixed Models for
Ordered Responses in Complex Multilevel
Structures: Effects beneath the School
or College in Education . . . . . . . . 159--183
Jerome P. Reiter Releasing Multiply Imputed, Synthetic
Public Use Microdata: An Illustration
and Empirical Study . . . . . . . . . . 185--205
Adriaan S. Kalwij and
Mary Gregory A Panel Data Analysis of the Effects of
Wages, Standard Hours and Unionization
on Paid Overtime Work in Britain . . . . 207--231
Paul S. F. Yip and
K. F. Lam and
Eric H. Y. Lau and
Pui-Hing Chau and
Kenneth W. Tsang and
Anne Chao A Comparison Study of Realtime Fatality
Rates: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Toronto
and Beijing, China . . . . . . . . . . . 233--243
Donald A. Berry Obituaries: Seymour Geisser, 1929--2004 245--246
Lord Croham Obituaries: Sir Donald Macdougall OBE,
1912--2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
M. C. Jones Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
M. C. Jones Book Review: \booktitleTools for
Constructing Chronologies; Crossing
Disciplinary Boundaries . . . . . . . . 250--250
René L. Schilling Book Review: \booktitleFinancial
Modelling with Jump Processes . . . . . 250--251
Anders Brix Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Data
Analysis, 2nd edn . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Sreenivasan Ravi Book Review: \booktitleMultilevel
Statistical Models, 3rd edn . . . . . . 252--253
Mohamed Afzal Norat Book Review: \booktitleAutomatic
Nonuniform Random Variate Generation . . 253--254
Paul Hewson Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Tools
for Nonlinear Regression: a Practical
Guide with S-PLUS and R Examples, 2nd
edn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Derek Robinson Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleForecast
Verification: a Practitioner's Guide in
Atmospheric Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Mohamed Afzal Norat Book Review: \booktitleDiagnostic Checks
in Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitlePolynomial
Parameter Estimations of Close to
Gaussian Random Variables . . . . . . . 256--256
Andrew W. Roddam Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Estimation of Epidemiological Risk . . . 256--257
Quentin L. Burrell Book Review: \booktitleRisk Analysis in
Finance and Insurance . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Scott A. Sisson Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference and Simulation for Spatial
Point Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Dennis Lindley Book Review: \booktitleKendall's
Advanced Theory of Statistics, volume
2B, Bayesian Inference, 2nd edn . . . . 259--260
Russell Ecob Book Review: \booktitleMeasures of
Interobserver Agreement . . . . . . . . 260--261
Stuart Barber Book Review: \booktitleAll of
Statistics: a Concise Course in
Statistical Inference . . . . . . . . . 261--261
Mark A. Best Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Approaches to Clinical Trials and
Health-Care Evaluation . . . . . . . . . 261--261
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleBiostatistics and
Epidemiology: a Primer for Biomedical
Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ron Brookmeyer Editorial: Biosecurity and the Role of
Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--266
Sander Greenland Multiple-Bias Modelling for Analysis of
Observational Data . . . . . . . . . . . 267--306
M. Saisana and
A. Saltelli and
S. Tarantola Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis
Techniques as Tools for the Quality
Assessment of Composite Indicators . . . 307--323
A. B. Atkinson Top Incomes in the UK over the 20th
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--343
S. Vansteelandt and
E. Goetghebeur and
I. Thomas and
E. Mathys and
F. Van Loock On the Viral Safety of Plasma Pools and
Plasma Derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . 345--363
Richard Dorsett Unemployed Couples: The Labour Market
Effects of Making Both Partners Search
for Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--385
Frederic Udina and
Pedro Delicado Estimating Parliamentary Composition
through Electoral Polls . . . . . . . . 387--399
Peter C. Smith and
Andrew Street Measuring the Efficiency of Public
Services: The Limits of Analysis . . . . 401--417
Ian N. Gregory and
Paul S. Ell Breaking the Boundaries: Geographical
Approaches to Integrating 200 Years of
the Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--437
Samuel Manda and
Renate Meyer Age at First Marriage in Malawi: A
Bayesian Multilevel Analysis Using a
Discrete Time-to-Event Model . . . . . . 439--455
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--457
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--457
Paul Hewson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Paul Hewson Book Review: \booktitleExploring
Multivariate Data with the Forward
Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleEnvironmental
Statistics: Methods and Applications . . 458--459
S. J. Maybank Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
S. J. Maybank Book Review: \booktitleProcrustes
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Len Thomas Book Review: \booktitleState Space and
Unobserved Component Models: Theory and
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460
Chris Chatfield Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis and Data Display . . . . . . . 460--461
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--461
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleConsumer Price
Index Manual: Theory and Practice . . . 461--461
Mark Broom Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Mathematical Methods in Bioinformatics 461--462
Andrew McCulloch Book Review: \booktitleSpatial
Evolutionary Modeling . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Peter Craig Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Field
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--463
Andrew W. Roddam Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing
Survival Data from Clinical Trials and
Observational Studies . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--464
Andrew W. Roddam Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Andrew W. Roddam Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
the Quality Control Chemistry Laboratory 464--464
Andrea Le Fevre Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Power
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465
Theofanis Sapatinas Book Review: \booktitleStatistics and
Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466
Andrew McCulloch Book Review: \booktitleSensitivity
Analysis in Practice: a Guide to
Assessing Scientific Models . . . . . . 466--466
Lesley F. Wright Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Lesley F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleRisk and
Financial Management . . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBiostatistics: a
Methodology for the Health Sciences . . 467--467
Ron Driver Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Anonymous Corrigendum: A Comparison Study of
Realtime Fatality Rates: Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong,
Singapore, Taiwan, Toronto and Beijing,
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--468
Paul S. F. Yip and
K. F. Lam and
Eric H. Y. Lau and
Pui-Hing Chau and
Kenneth W. Tsang and
Anne Chao Corrigendum: A comparison study of
realtime fatality rates: severe acute
respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong,
Singapore, Taiwan, Toronto and Beijing,
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
N. T. Longford Editorial: Model Selection and
Efficiency: Is `Which Model \ldots?' the
Right Question? . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--472
Richard Blundell and
Lorraine Dearden and
Barbara Sianesi Evaluating the Effect of Education on
Earnings: Models, Methods and Results
from the National Child Development
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--512
Michael A. Shields and
Stephen Wheatley Price Exploring the Economic and Social
Determinants of Psychological Well-Being
and Perceived Social Support in England 513--537
Marco Francesconi An Evaluation of the Childhood Family
Structure Measures from the Sixth Wave
of the British Household Panel Survey 539--566
Markku M. Nurminen and
Christopher R. Heathcote and
Brett A. Davis and
Borek D. Puza Working Life Expectancies: The Case of
Finland 1980--2006 . . . . . . . . . . . 567--581
Philip L. H. Yu and
K. F. Lam and
S. M. Lo Factor Analysis for Ranked Data with
Application to a Job Selection Attitude
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--597
W. J. Browne and
S. V. Subramanian and
K. Jones and
H. Goldstein Variance Partitioning in Multilevel
Logistic Models That Exhibit
Overdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--613
Adrian Rice and
Eugene Seneta De Morgan in the Prehistory of
Statistical Hypothesis Testing . . . . . 615--627
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--629
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--629
Jamie Griffin Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--630
Jamie Griffin Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Statistics, Volume 23, Advances in
Survival Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 630--630
John Smart Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Market Research . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--631
Andreas Karlsson Book Review: \booktitleTutorials in
Biostatistics, Volume 1, Statistical
Methods in Clinical Studies . . . . . . 631--632
Fernando Tusell Book Review: \booktitleLinear Models
with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--632
Chris Chatfield Book Review: \booktitlePeriodic Time
Series Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--633
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleApplied Bayesian
Modeling and Causal Inference from
Incomplete Data Perspectives . . . . . . 633--634
S. J. Maybank Book Review: \booktitleHighly Structured
Stochastic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 634--634
R. A. Bailey Book Review: \booktitleDesigning
Experiments and Analyzing Data: a Model
Comparison Perspective, 2nd edn . . . . 634--635
Theofanis Sapatinas Book Review: \booktitleDiscriminant
Analysis and Statistical Pattern
Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--636
Mark A. Best Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--636
Mark A. Best Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Process Control, 5th edn . . . . . . . . 636--636
Chris Cannings Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--636
Chris Cannings Book Review: \booktitleRandom Geometric
Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--636
Pamela Campanelli Book Review: \booktitleMethods for
Testing and Evaluating Survey
Questionnaires, by S. Presser; J. M.
Rothgeb; M. P. Couper; J. T. Lessler; E.
Martin; J. Martin; E. Singer . . . . . . 637--637
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleQuantifying the
World: UN Ideas and Statistics . . . . . 637--638
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Dr Andrew P. Grieve . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Andrew P. Grieve The Professionalization of the `Shoe
Clerk' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--656
Jane Warwick and
Stephen W. Duffy A Review of Cancer Screening Evaluation
Techniques, with Some Particular
Examples in Breast Cancer Screening . . 657--677
P. Congdon and
H. Southall Trends in Inequality in Infant Mortality
in the North of England, 1921--1973, and
Their Association with Urban and Social
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--700
Barry Trevelyan and
Matthew Smallman-Raynor and
Andrew D. Cliff The Spatial Structure of Epidemic
Emergence: Geographical Aspects of
Poliomyelitis in North-Eastern USA,
July--October 1916 . . . . . . . . . . . 701--722
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Geert Molenberghs and
Joseph G. Ibrahim A Protective Estimator for Longitudinal
Binary Data Subject to Non-Ignorable
Non-Monotone Missingness . . . . . . . . 723--735
Dan Jackson and
John Copas and
Alex J. Sutton Modelling Reporting Bias: The Operative
Mortality Rate for Ruptured Abdominal
Aortic Aneurysm Repair . . . . . . . . . 737--752
Stuart G. Baker and
Grant Izmirlian and
Victor Kipnis Resolving Paradoxes Involving Surrogate
End Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--762
Cheti Nicoletti and
Franco Peracchi Survey Response and Survey
Characteristics: Microlevel Evidence
from the European Community Household
Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--781
Andy Grieve Report of the Council for the Session
2004--2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--863
Peter Armitage Obituary: James Austin Heady, 1917--2004 865--867
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--869
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--869
Sreenivasan Ravi Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870--870
J. Roderick McCrorie Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870--871
Iain Lang Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--871
Dougal Hutchison Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--872
Charles M. Goldie Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872--872
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872--873
Anders Brix Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--874
Mark P. Little Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--875
Dougal Hutchison Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--875
Francesca Chappell Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--876
Alex Lewin and
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James V. Zidek Editorial: (Post-Normal) Statistical
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
A. E. Ades and
A. J. Sutton Multiparameter Evidence Synthesis in
Epidemiology and Medical
Decision-Making: Current Approaches . . 5--35
Eugene D. Hahn Re-Examining Informative Prior
Elicitation through the Lens of Markov
Chain Monte Carlo Methods . . . . . . . 37--48
Andris Abakuks A Statistical Study of the Triple-Link
Model in the Synoptic Problem . . . . . 49--60
B. Moerkerke and
E. Goetghebeur and
J. De Riek and
I. Roldán-Ruiz Significance and Impotence: Towards a
Balanced View of the Null and the
Alternative Hypotheses in Marker
Selection for Plant Breeding . . . . . . 61--79
Michael P. Fay and
Ji-Hyun Lee Measuring Agreement between Two
Statistics with Applications to Age
Standardization . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
A. N. Pettitt and
T. T. Tran and
M. A. Haynes and
J. L. Hay A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for
Categorical Longitudinal Data from a
Social Survey of Immigrants . . . . . . 97--114
Peter C. Austin and
Jack V. Tu Comparing Clinical Data with
Administrative Data for Producing Acute
Myocardial Infarction Report Cards . . . 115--126
Mark P. Taylor Tell Me Why I Don't like Mondays:
Investigating Day of the Week Effects on
Job Satisfaction and Psychological
Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--142
Mervyn Stone and
Jane Galbraith How Not to Fund Hospital and Community
Health Services in England . . . . . . . 143--164
Frank E. Whitehead Obituary: John Harold West, MBE . . . . 165--166
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Scott Sisson Book Review: \booktitleStatistics of
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Beirlant; Y. Goegebeur; J. Segers; J.
Teugels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--169
Isaac Dialsingh Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
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Mark Broom Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Bioinformatics: An
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Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
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N. H. Bingham Book Review: \booktitleProbability: A
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Tim Futing Liao Book Review: \booktitleEcological
Inference: New Methodological
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Mariano Ruiz Espejo and
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Design of Experiments with Engineering
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Susan Nunn Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Susan Nunn Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing
Environmental Data, by W. Piegorsch; A.
J. Bailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Andrew Robinson Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
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Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--175
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Richard William Farebrother and
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Roger D. Peng and
Francesca Dominici and
Thomas A. Louis Model Choice in Time Series Studies of
Air Pollution and Mortality . . . . . . 179--203
Andromachi Tseloni Multilevel Modelling of the Number of
Property Crimes: Household and Area
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--233
S. K. Sahu and
T. M. F. Smith A Bayesian Method of Sample Size
Determination with Practical
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--253
Stuart N. Soroka and
Christopher Wlezien and
Iain McLean Public Expenditure in the UK: How
Measures Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--271
Matthew J. Gurka and
Lloyd J. Edwards and
Keith E. Muller and
Lawrence L. Kupper Extending the Box--Cox Transformation to
the Linear Mixed Model . . . . . . . . . 273--288
Jong-Hyeon Jeong A New Parametric Family for Modelling
Cumulative Incidence Functions:
Application to Breast Cancer Data . . . 289--303
Gerty J. L. M. Lensvelt-Mulders and
Peter G. M. Van Der Heijden and
Olav Laudy and
Ger Van Gils A Validation of a Computer-Assisted
Randomized Response Survey to Estimate
the Prevalence of Fraud in Social
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--318
Jonathan Gardner and
Andrew J. Oswald Do Divorcing Couples Become Happier by
Breaking Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--336
Tarani Chandola and
Paul Clarke and
J. N. Morris and
David Blane Pathways between Education and Health: A
Causal Modelling Approach . . . . . . . 337--359
Isobel Claire Gormley and
Thomas Brendan Murphy Analysis of Irish Third-Level College
Applications Data . . . . . . . . . . . 361--379
Ed Swires-Hennessy Obituaries: Harold William George
Gearing, BSc, FIS, FCIS, FBCS,
1912--2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
Robin Lynch Obituaries: Sir Jack Hibbert, 1932--2005 382--383
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Anonymous Book reviews: Reviews in this issue . . 385--385
Sreenivasan Ravi Book Review: \booktitleAssociation
Schemes: Designed Experiments, Algebra
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Mark Whitlock Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Treatment of Analytical Data, by Z. B.
Alfassi; Z. Boger; Y. Ronen . . . . . . 386--386
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleQuality by
Experimental Design, by T. B. Barker . . 386--387
So Moon Tong Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Models
for Categorical Data, by P. Congdon . . 387--387
Ron Driver Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Multivariate Data Analysis, by T. R.
Cox; Multivariate Statistical Methods by
D. F. Morrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--389
David Bartholomew Book Review: \booktitleCelebrating
Statistics: Papers in Honour of Sir
David Cox on His 80th Birthday, by A. C.
Davison; Y. Dodge; N. Wermuth . . . . . 389--389
Shalabh Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Linear Models and Statistical Inference,
by S. J. Janke; F. C. Tinsley . . . . . 389--390
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Stochastic Processes in
Time, by J. K. Lindsey . . . . . . . . . 390--390
A. Hannachi Book Review: \booktitleExploratory Data
Analysis with MATLAB, by W. L. Martinez;
A. R. Martinez . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--391
Chris Cannings Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Molecular Evolution, by R.
Nielsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
Susan Nunn Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing
Categorical Data, by J. S. Simonoff . . 391--392
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Peter Lynn Editorial: Attrition and Non-Response 393--394
J. Haslett and
M. Whiley and
S. Bhattacharya and
M. Salter-Townshend and
Simon P. Wilson and
J. R. M. Allen and
B. Huntley and
F. J. G. Mitchell Bayesian Palaeoclimate Reconstruction 395--438
Robert M. Groves and
Steven G. Heeringa Responsive Design for Household Surveys:
Tools for Actively Controlling Survey
Errors and Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--457
Jonathan Burton and
Heather Laurie and
Peter Lynn The Long-Term Effectiveness of Refusal
Conversion Procedures on Longitudinal
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--478
Denise Hawkes and
Ian Plewis Modelling Non-Response in the National
Child Development Study . . . . . . . . 479--491
D. Nitsch and
B. L. DeStavola and
S. M. B. Morton and
D. A. Leon Linkage Bias in Estimating the
Association between Childhood Exposures
and Propensity to Become a Mother: An
Example of Simple Sensitivity Analyses 493--505
Nicholas T. Longford and
P. Tyrer and
U. A. M. Nur and
H. Seivewright Analysis of a Long-Term Study of
Neurotic Disorder, with Insights into
the Process of Non-Response . . . . . . 507--523
Angela M. Wood and
Ian R. White and
Matthew Hotopf Using Number of Failed Contact Attempts
to Adjust for Non-Ignorable Non-Response 525--542
Andrew M. Jones and
Xander Koolman and
Nigel Rice Health-Related Non-Response in the
British Household Panel Survey and
European Community Household Panel:
Using Inverse-Probability-Weighted
Estimators in Non-Linear Models . . . . 543--569
James R. Carpenter and
Michael G. Kenward and
Stijn Vansteelandt A Comparison of Multiple Imputation and
Doubly Robust Estimation for Analyses
with Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . 571--584
Gerard J. van den Berg and
Maarten Lindeboom and
Peter J. Dolton Survey Non-Response and the Duration of
Unemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--604
Gabriele B. Durrant and
Chris Skinner Using Data Augmentation to Correct for
Non-Ignorable Non-Response When
Surrogate Data Are Available: An
Application to the Distribution of
Hourly Pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--623
Cheti Nicoletti and
Franco Peracchi The Effects of Income Imputation on
Microanalyses: Evidence from the
European Community Household Panel . . . 625--646
N. T. Longford Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--648
N. T. Longford and
Dan Jackson and
John Copas and
Alex J. Sutton Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--649
Dan Jackson and
John Copas and
Alex J. Sutton Correspondence: Authors' response . . . 648--649
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--651
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--651
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleCombinatorial
Methods in Discrete Distributions, by C.
A. Charalambides . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--652
M. Dolores Ugarte Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Modelling in GLIM4, 2nd edn, by M.
Aitkin, B. Francis and J. Hinde . . . . 652--652
M. C. Jones Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Fission Track Analysis, by R. F.
Galbraith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--653
Philippe Castagliola Book Review: \booktitleComputational
Statistics, by G. H. Givens and J. A.
Hoeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--654
A. C. Brooms Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Approximation and Recursive Algorithms
with Applications, 2nd edn by H. J.
Kushner and G. G. Yin . . . . . . . . . 654--654
Iain Lang Book Review: \booktitleSpatial and
Syndromic Surveillance for Public
Health, by A. B. Lawson and K. Kleinman 655--655
Eugenia Stoimenova Book Review: \booktitleConstrained
Statistical Inference: Inequality, Order
and Shape Restrictions, by M. J.
Silvapulle and P. K. Sen . . . . . . . . 655--656
Derek Robinson Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Evaluation of Medical Tests for
Classification and Prediction, by M.
Sullivan Pepe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--656
Mariano Ruiz Espejo and
Miguel Delgado Pineda Book Review: \booktitleThe Total Survey
Error Approach: A Guide to the New
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Weisberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--657
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. B. Atkinson Editorial: Measurement of Government
Output and Productivity . . . . . . . . 659--662
John Hills From Beveridge to Turner: Demography,
Distribution and the Future of Pensions
in the UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--679
Gillian A. Lancaster and
Mick Green and
Steven Lane Reducing Bias in Ecological Studies: An
Evaluation of Different Methodologies 681--700
Stephen P. Jenkins and
Lorenzo Cappellari and
Peter Lynn and
Annette Jäckle and
Emanuela Sala Patterns of Consent: Evidence from a
General Household Survey . . . . . . . . 701--722
Hwan Chung and
Brian P. Flaherty and
Joseph L. Schafer Latent Class Logistic Regression:
Application to Marijuana Use and
Attitudes among High School Seniors . . 723--743
John M. Roberts, Jr. and
Devon D. Brewer Estimating the Prevalence of Male
Clients of Prostitute Women in Vancouver
with a Simple Capture-Recapture Method 745--756
Fiona Steele and
Constantinos Kallis and
Heather Joshi The Formation and Outcomes of Cohabiting
and Marital Partnerships in Early
Adulthood: The Role of Previous
Partnership Experience . . . . . . . . . 757--779
Arnstein Aassve and
Simon Burgess and
Carol Propper and
Matt Dickson Employment, Family Union and
Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain 781--804
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and
Anders Skrondal Multilevel Modelling of Complex Survey
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--827
Wiji Arulampalam and
Sonia Bhalotra Sibling Death Clustering in India: State
Dependence versus Unobserved
Heterogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--848
Sarah Brown and
Lisa Farrell and
Mark N. Harris and
John G. Sessions Risk Preference and Employment Contract
Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--863
Paul Gustafson Sample Size Implications When Biases Are
Modelled Rather than Ignored . . . . . . 865--881
James Brown and
Owen Abbott and
Ian Diamond Dependence in the 2001 One-Number Census
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--902
Trevor J. Ringrose Neutral Umpires and Leg before Wicket
Decisions in Test Cricket . . . . . . . 903--911
Tim Holt Report of the Council for the Session
2005--2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--1002
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1003
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1003
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in the
Pharmaceutical Industry, 3rd edn, by C.
R. Buncher and J. Y. Tsay (eds) . . . . 1004--1004
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Financial Data in S-Plus, by
R. A. Carmona . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004--1005
N. H. Bingham Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Tools
for Finance and Insurance, by P. Cizek,
W. Härdle and R. Weron (eds) . . . . . . 1005--1005
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Statistics in Clinical Oncology, 2nd
edn, by J. Crowley and D. P. Ankerst
(eds) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1006
Mark Broom Book Review: \booktitleComputational
Genome Analysis: an Introduction, by R.
C. Deonier, S. Tavaré and M. S. Waterman 1006--1007
Thomas Hochkirchen Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Modeling for Computer Experiments, by
K.-T. Fang, R. Li and A. Sudjianto . . . 1007--1008
T. Verbeke Book Review: \booktitleExtending the
Linear Model with R, by J. J. Faraway 1008--1008
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Discrete Data, by K. F. Hirji . . . . . 1009--1009
Shalabh Book Review: \booktitleExact Analysis of
Discrete Data, by K. F. Hirji . . . . . 1009--1009
Natalia Bochkina Book Review: \booktitleProbabilistic
Modeling in Bioinformatics and Medical
Informatics, by D. Husmeier, R. Dybowski
and S. Roberts (eds) . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1010
Niall Adams Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Parallel Computing and Statistics, by E.
J. Kontoghiorghes (ed.) . . . . . . . . 1010--1010
Mario Cortina-Borja Book Review: \booktitleBeyond Beta:
Other Continuous Families of
Distributions with Bounded Support and
Applications, by S. Kotz; J. R. van Dorp 1010--1011
Paul Hewson Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Statistics and Marketing, by P. E.
Rossi; G. M. Allenby; R. McCulloch . . . 1011--1011
Sarah Rhodes Book Review: \booktitlePublication Bias
in Meta-analysis, by H. R. Rothstein, A.
J. Sutton and M. Borenstein (eds) . . . 1012--1012
N. H. Bingham Book Review: \booktitleMeasures,
Integrals and Martingales, by R. L.
Schilling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012--1013
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Processes and Models, by D. Stirzaker;
\booktitleProbability, Statistics, and
Stochastic Processes, by P. Olofsson . . 1013--1014
Susan Nunn Book Review: \booktitleThe Hunt for the
Last Respondent, by I. Stoop . . . . . . 1014--1014
Thomas Hochkirchen Book Review: \booktitleEssentials of
Statistical Inference, by G. A. Young
and R. L. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014--1015
Anonymous Index of authors: volume 169, 2006 . . . 1017--1022
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1017--1022
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Simon Briscoe Editorial: House Price Indices . . . . . 1--3
Erich Battistin and
Enrico Rettore and
Ugo Trivellato Choosing between Alternative
Classification Criteria to Measure the
Labour Force State . . . . . . . . . . . 5--27
Thomas M. Loughin and
Mollie Poehlman Roediger and
George A. Milliken and
John P. Schmidt On the Analysis of Long-Term Experiments 29--42
Hendrik Jürges Unemployment, Life Satisfaction and
Retrospective Error . . . . . . . . . . 43--61
Robert G. Clark and
David G. Steel Sampling within Households in Household
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--82
Terence C. Mills Time Series Modelling of Two Millennia
of Northern Hemisphere Temperatures:
Long Memory or Shifting Trends? . . . . 83--94
Fulvio De Santis Using Historical Data for Bayesian
Sample Size Determination . . . . . . . 95--113
Francesco Bartolucci and
Fulvia Pennoni and
Brian Francis A Latent Markov Model for Detecting
Patterns of Criminal Activity . . . . . 115--132
Myoung-jae Lee and
Unto Häkkinen and
Gunnar Rosenqvist Finding the Best Treatment under Heavy
Censoring and Hidden Bias . . . . . . . 133--147
Michael T. Fahey and
Christopher W. Thane and
Gemma D. Bramwell and
W. Andy Coward Conditional Gaussian Mixture Modelling
for Dietary Pattern Analysis . . . . . . 149--166
Gary Pollock Holistic Trajectories: A Study of
Combined Employment, Housing and Family
Careers by Using Multiple-sequence
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--183
William K. Mountford and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and
Rickey E. Carter and
Jeremy B. Soule and
John A. Colwell and
Daniel T. Lackland Estimating the Variance of Estimated
Trends in Proportions When There Is No
Unique Subject Identifier . . . . . . . 185--193
C. J. Skinner The Probability of Identification:
Applying Ideas from Forensic Statistics
to Disclosure Risk Assessment . . . . . 195--212
Jorge F. Perez-Quezada and
Nicanor Z. Saliendra and
William E. Emmerich and
Emilio A. Laca Evaluation of Statistical Protocols for
Quality Control of Ecosystem Carbon
Dioxide Fluxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--230
Peter Dawson and
Stephen Dobson and
John Goddard and
John Wilson Are Football Referees Really Biased and
Inconsistent?: Evidence on the Incidence
of Disciplinary Sanction in the English
Premier League . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--250
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Ian Dryden Book Review: \booktitleStereology for
Statisticians, by A.Baddeley and E. B.
Vedel Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Ana F. Militino Book Review: \booktitleApplied Mixed
Models in Medicine, 2nd edn, by H. Brown
and R. Prescott . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Longitudinal Analysis, by G. M.
Fitzmaurice, N. M. Laird and J. H. Ware 253--253
David Bartholomew Book Review: \booktitleSelected
Statistical Papers of Sir David Cox,
Vols I and II, by D. J. Hand; A. M.
Herzberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Andreas Karlsson Book Review: \booktitleRobust
Statistical Methods with R, by J.
Jure\vcková and J. Picek . . . . . . . . 255--256
Andreas Karlsson Book Review: \booktitleQuantile
Regression, by R. Koenker . . . . . . . 256--256
A. C. Brooms Book Review: \booktitleThe Basics of
S-PLUS, by A. Krause; M. Olson . . . . . 256--257
Derek Robinson Book Review: \booktitleSAS for Mixed
Models, by R. C. Littell; G. A.
Milliken; W. W. Stroup; R. D. Wolfinger;
O. Schabenberger . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Statistical Inference, by N.
Mukhopadhyay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
J. Wade Davis Book Review: \booktitleR Graphics, by P.
Murrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleThe Internet as a
Large-scale Complex System, by K. Park
and W. Willinger . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
J. Wade Davis Book Review: \booktitleClinical Trials:
a Methodological Perspective, 2nd edn,
by S. Piantadosi . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Modelling for Systems Biology, by D. J.
Wilkinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
T. Verbeke Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
Additive Models: An Introduction with R,
by S. N. Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
D. J. Martin Editorial: Census Present and Future . . 263--266
Ross Taplin Enhancing Statistical Education by Using
Role-Plays of Consultations . . . . . . 267--300
Mark S. Handcock and
Adrian E. Raftery and
Jeremy M. Tantrum Model-Based Clustering for Social
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--354
David Briggs and
Daniela Fecht and
Kees De Hoogh Census Data Issues for Epidemiology and
Health Risk Assessment: Experiences from
the Small Area Health Statistics Unit 355--378
Dan Vickers and
Phil Rees Creating the UK National Statistics 2001
Output Area Classification . . . . . . . 379--403
Ludi Simpson Ghettos of the Mind: The Empirical
Behaviour of Indices of Segregation and
Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--424
John Stillwell and
Oliver Duke-Williams Understanding the 2001 UK Census
Migration and Commuting Data: The Effect
of Small Cell Adjustment and Problems of
Comparison with 1991 . . . . . . . . . . 425--445
Tony Champion and
Mike Coombes Using the 2001 Census to Study Human
Capital Movements Affecting Britain's
Larger Cities: Insights and Issues . . . 447--467
Mel Bartley and
Ian Plewis Increasing Social Mobility: An Effective
Policy to Reduce Health Inequalities . . 469--481
D. H. Judson Information Integration for Constructing
Social Statistics: History, Theory and
Ideas towards a Research Programme . . . 483--501
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleSampling Methods:
Exercises and Solutions, by P. Ardilly
and Y. Tillé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--504
Sreenivasan Ravi Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Random Variables, by G. P. Beaumont . . 504--504
Andrea Le Fevre Book Review: \booktitleData Monitoring
in Clinical Trials, by D. L. DeMets, C.
D. Furberg and L. M. Friedman . . . . . 504--505
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Real-life Sample Surveys, by S. Dorofeev
and P. Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
Byron J. T. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleA Kalman Filter
Primer, by R. L. Eubank . . . . . . . . 506--506
Thomas Hochkirchen Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Statistical Analysis using R, by B. S.
Everitt and T. Hothorn . . . . . . . . . 506--507
M. Dolores Ugarte Book Review: \booktitleDesign of
Experiments for Agriculture and the
Natural Sciences, 2nd edn, by A. R.
Hoshmand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleProbabilistic
Symmetries and Invariance Principles, by
O. Kallenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--508
Sreenivasan Ravi Book Review: \booktitleTesting
Statistical Hypotheses, 3rd edn, by E.
L. Lehmann and J. P. Romano . . . . . . 508--508
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Stochastic Analysis for Finance and
Insurance, by X. S. Lin . . . . . . . . 508--509
S. E. Lazic Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondence
Analysis and Data Coding with Java and
R, by F. Murtagh . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--509
Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Integrated and Cointegrated Time Series
with R, by B. Pfaff . . . . . . . . . . 509--510
N. H. Bingham Book Review: \booktitleEconomic Capital
and Financial Risk Management for
Financial Services Firms and
Conglomerates, by B. Porteous and P.
Tapadar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--510
Shalabh Book Review: \booktitleTheory of
Preliminary Test and Stein-Type
Estimation with Applications, by A. K.
E. Saleh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--511
Eugenia Stoimenova Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Nonparametric Regression, by K. Takezawa 511--511
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Cost-effectiveness Data, by
A. R. Willan and A. H. Briggs . . . . . 511--512
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleWHO Child Growth
Standards: Methods and Development, by
World Health Organization . . . . . . . 512--512
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book reviews: WHO Child Growth
Standards: Methods and Development . . . 512--512
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Scott L. Zeger Editorial: Knowledge from Information 513--516
Professor Stephen Senn and
Dr Dipti Amin and
Professor Rosemary A. Bailey and
Professor Sheila M. Bird and
Dr Barbara Bogacka and
Mr Peter Colman and
Dr Andrew Garrett and
Professor Andrew Grieve and
Professor Sir Peter Lachmann Statistical Issues in First-in-Man
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--579
T. M. F. Smith and
L. Staetsky The Teaching of Statistics in UK
Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--622
Giorgina Brown and
John Micklewright and
Sylke V. Schnepf and
Robert Waldmann International Surveys of Educational
Achievement: How Robust Are the
Findings? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--646
Mario Callegaro and
Charlotte Steeh and
Trent D. Buskirk and
Vasja Vehovar and
Vesa Kuusela and
Linda Piekarski Fitting Disposition Codes to Mobile
Phone Surveys: Experiences from Studies
in Finland, Slovenia and the USA . . . . 647--670
Cleridy E. Lennert-Cody and
Richard A. Berk Statistical Learning Procedures for
Monitoring Regulatory Compliance: An
Application to Fisheries Data . . . . . 671--689
C. A. Ferguson and
A. W. Bowman and
E. M. Scott and
L. Carvalho Model Comparison for a Complex
Ecological System . . . . . . . . . . . 691--711
Mark Pont Coverage and Non-Response Errors in the
UK New Earnings Survey . . . . . . . . . 713--733
Vladimir B. Bokov Theoretic and Empirical Data-Inclusive
Process Characterization . . . . . . . . 735--758
Richard J. Boys and
Peter J. Dolton and
Neil R. Walker Adapting the Optimal Job Search Model
for Active Labour Market Policy . . . . 759--779
Arnstein Aassve and
Gianni Betti and
Stefano Mazzuco and
Letizia Mencarini Marital Disruption and Economic
Well-Being: A Comparative Analysis . . . 781--799
Fiona Steele and
Anna Vignoles and
Andrew Jenkins The Effect of School Resources on Pupil
Attainment: A Multilevel Simultaneous
Equation Modelling Approach . . . . . . 801--824
I. B. J. Goudie and
M. Goudie Who Captures the Marks for the Petersen
Estimator? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--839
Andris Abakuks A modification of Honoré's triple-link
model in the synoptic problem . . . . . 841--850
F. E. Whitehead Obituary: William Frederick Fenn
Kemsley, MA, 1914--2006 . . . . . . . . 851--852
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--853
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--853
Richard Penny Book Review: \booktitleSurvey Sampling:
Theory and Methods, 2nd edn, by A.
Chaudhuri; H. Stenger . . . . . . . . . 854--854
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistics
and Pharmaceutical Statistical
Applications, 2nd edn, by J. E. De Muth 854--855
Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
Linear Models with Random Effects:
Unified Analysis via $H$-Likelihood, by
Y. Lee; J. A. Nelder; Y. Pawitan . . . . 855--856
Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleRandomization,
Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in
Biology, by B. F. J. Manly . . . . . . . 856--856
Andreas Karlsson Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Linear Regression Analysis, by D. C.
Montgomery; E. A. Peck; G. G. Vining . . 856--857
Z. Q. John Lu Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference Based on Divergence Measures,
by L. Pardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--858
Peter Congdon Book Review: \booktitleGaussian Markov
Random Fields: Theory and Applications,
by H. Rue; L. Held . . . . . . . . . . . 858--858
Gérard D'Aubigny Book Review: \booktitleData Analysis of
Asymmetric Structures, by T. Saito; H.
Yadohisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858--860
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Geert Molenberghs Editorial: What to Do with Missing Data? 861--863
David I. Ohlssen and
Linda D. Sharples and
David J. Spiegelhalter A Hierarchical Modelling Framework for
Identifying Unusual Performance in
Health Care Providers . . . . . . . . . 865--890
James Raymer and
Guy Abel and
Peter W. F. Smith Combining Census and Registration Data
to Estimate Detailed Elderly Migration
Flows in England and Wales . . . . . . . 891--908
Konstantinos Drakos The Size of Under-Reporting Bias in
Recorded Transnational Terrorist
Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--921
Di An and
Roderick J. A. Little Multiple Imputation: An Alternative to
Top Coding for Statistical Disclosure
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--940
Harvey Goldstein and
Simon Burgess and
Brendon McConnell Modelling the Effect of Pupil Mobility
on School Differences in Educational
Achievement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--954
Leonard J. Paas and
Jeroen K. Vermunt and
Tammo H. A. Bijmolt Discrete Time, Discrete State Latent
Markov Modelling for Assessing and
Predicting Household Acquisitions of
Financial Products . . . . . . . . . . . 955--974
Isabel Molina and
Ayoub Saei and
M. José Lombardía Small Area Estimates of Labour Force
Participation under a Multinomial Logit
Mixed Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--1000
Tom Brijs and
Dimitris Karlis and
Filip Van den Bossche and
Geert Wets A Bayesian Model for Ranking Hazardous
Road Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001--1017
Robert Haining and
Jane Law Combining Police Perceptions with Police
Records of Serious Crime Areas: A
Modelling Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1034
David Afshartous and
Michael Wolf Avoiding `Data Snooping' in Multilevel
and Mixed Effects Models . . . . . . . . 1035--1059
Raffaella Piccarreta and
Francesco C. Billari Clustering Work and Family Trajectories,
by Using a Divisive Algorithm . . . . . 1061--1078
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Session
2006--2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1175
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1177
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1177
P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Categorical Data Analysis, by A.
Agresti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1178--1178
Z. Q. John Lu Book Review: \booktitleDNA Microarrays
and Related Genomics Techniques: Design,
Analysis, and Interpretation of
Experiments, by D. B. Allison; G. P.
Page; T. M. Beasley; J. W. Edwards . . . 1178--1179
Judith Corbyn Book Review: \booktitleEssential
Statistics for Public Managers and
Policy Analysts; Exercising Essential
Statistics Workbook, by E. M. Berman . . 1179--1179
Angela Wade Book Review: \booktitleAdaptive Design
Methods in Clinical Trials, by S. C.
Chow; M. Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1180
Naguib Lallmahomed Book Review: \booktitleStatistique
Théorique et Appliquée, by P. Dagnelie . . 1180--1180
Steff Lewis Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Medical Data Using SAS, by
G. Der; B. S. Everitt . . . . . . . . . 1180--1181
Z. Q. John Lu Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Inference for Gene Expression and
Proteomics, by K.-A. Do; P. Müller; M.
Vannucci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1181
M. Dolores Ugarte Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems, by
B. Finkenstädt; L. Held; V. Isham . . . . 1182--1182
Sreenivasan Ravi Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Logical
Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences:
A Comparative Approach with
Mathematica$^\reg $ Support, by P. C.
Gregory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182--1183
Güldem Gökçek Book Review: \booktitleSPSS 14 Made
Simple, by P. R. Kinnear; C. D. Gray . . 1183--1183
Güldem Gökçek Book reviews: SPSS 14 Made Simple . . . 1183--1183
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Random Processes, by V. Krishnan . . . . 1183--1184
Emma Reed Book Review: \booktitleStarter Packs: A
Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing
Countries?, by S. Levy . . . . . . . . . 1184--1184
Gareth Peters Book Review: \booktitleUncertain
Judgements-Eliciting Experts'
Probabilities, by A. O. Hagan; C. E.
Buck; A. Daneshkhah; J. R. Eiser; P.
Garthwaite; D. Jenkinson; J. Oakley; T.
Rakow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1185
S. E. Lazic Book Review: \booktitlePresenting
Medical Statistics from Proposal to
Publication, by J. Peacock; S. Kerry . . 1185--1186
Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Distribution Theory, by T. A. Severini 1186--1187
L. F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Networks
and Probabilistic Inference in Forensic
Science, by F. Taroni; C. Aitken; P.
Garbolino; A. Biedermann . . . . . . . . 1187--1187
Anthony F. Gyles Book Review: \booktitleAsset Price
Dynamics, Volatility, and Prediction, by
S. J. Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187--1189
Iain A. Lang Book Review: \booktitleVisual
Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic
Interactive Graphics, by F. W. Young; P.
M. Valero-Mora; M. Friendly . . . . . . 1189--1189
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleModelling
Financial Time Series with S-PLUS, by E.
Zivot; J. Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189--1190
Anonymous Index of authors: volume 170, 2007 . . . 1191--1196
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1191--1196
Anonymous Contents of volume 170, 2007: Contents
of volume 170, 2007 . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1198
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Andrew Hinde Editorial: The Analysis of Panel Data 1--3
Fiona Steele Multilevel Models for Longitudinal Data 5--19
Stephen Pudney The Dynamics of Perception: Modelling
Subjective Wellbeing in a Short Panel 21--40
Steffi Pohl and
Rolf Steyer and
Katrin Kraus Modelling Method Effects as Individual
Causal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--63
Patrick Sturgis and
Louise Sullivan Exploring Social Mobility with Latent
Trajectory Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 65--88
Ann Berrington and
Yongjian Hu and
Peter W. F. Smith and
Patrick Sturgis A Graphical Chain Model for Reciprocal
Relationships between Women's Gender
Role Attitudes and Labour Force
Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108
Marc Kennedy and
Clive Anderson and
Anthony O'Hagan and
Mark Lomas and
Ian Woodward and
John Paul Gosling and
Andreas Heinemeyer Quantifying Uncertainty in the
Biospheric Carbon Flux for England and
Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--135
Mark de Rooij The Analysis of Change, Newton's Law of
Gravity and Association Models . . . . . 137--157
Christopher Jackson and
Nicky Best and
Sylvia Richardson Hierarchical Related Regression for
Combining Aggregate and Individual Data
in Studies of Socio-Economic Disease
Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178
Adam N. Glynn and
Jon Wakefield and
Mark S. Handcock and
Thomas S. Richardson Alleviating Linear Ecological Bias and
Optimal Design with Subsample Data . . . 179--202
Ehsan Khoman and
James Mitchell and
Martin Weale Incidence-Based Estimates of Life
Expectancy of the Healthy for the UK:
Coherence between Transition
Probabilities and Aggregate Life-Tables 203--222
William H. Woodall and
J. Brooke Marshall and
Michael D. Joner, Jr. and
Shannon E. Fraker and
Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam On the Use and Evaluation of Prospective
Scan Methods for Health-Related
Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--237
Mary Kynn The `Heuristics and Biases' Bias in
Expert Elicitation . . . . . . . . . . . 239--264
Frits Bijleveld and
Jacques Commandeur and
Phillip Gould and
Siem Jan Koopman Model-Based Measurement of Latent Risk
in Time Series with Applications . . . . 265--277
S. J. Richards Detecting Year-of-Birth Mortality
Patterns with Limited Data . . . . . . . 279--298
Francisca Galindo Garre and
Aeilko H. Zwinderman and
Ronald B. Geskus and
Yvo W. J. Sijpkens A Joint Latent Class Changepoint Model
to Improve the Prediction of Time to
Graft Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--308
J. I. Galbraith Obituary: Neil William Please,
1919--2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous [List of Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Naguib Lallmahomed Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Statistics for Computer Scientists, by
M. Baron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
Cedric E. Ginestet Book Review: \booktitleLatent Curve
Models: A Structural Equation
Perspective, by K. A. Bollen; P. J.
Curran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Philippe Castagliola Book Review: \booktitleResponse
Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses,
by G. E. P. Box; N. R. Draper . . . . . 313--313
R. M. Lark Book Review: \booktitleCompositional
Data Analysis in the Geosciences: From
Theory to Practice, by A. Buccianti; G.
Mateu-Figueras; V. Pawlowsky-Glahn . . . 313--314
Angela Wade Book Review: \booktitleAdaptive Design
Methods in Clinical Trials, by S.-C.
Chow; M. Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314
Venkata Putcha Book Review: \booktitleA Crash Course in
SPSS for Windows: Updated for Versions
10, 11, 12 and 13, by A. Colman; B.
Pulford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
Statistical Inference, by D. R. Cox . . 315--316
B. M. Golam Kibria Book Review: \booktitleBayes Linear
Statistics: Theory and Methods, by M.
Goldstein; D. Wooff . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Venkata Putcha Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Univariate and Multivariate Data
Analysis and Interpretation with SPSS,
by R. Ho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleBinomial Models
in Finance, by J. van der Hoek; R. J.
Elliott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
R. Allan Reese Book Review: \booktitleLinear Mixed
Models: A Practical Guide Using
Statistical Software, by B. T. West; K.
B. Welsh; A. T. Ga\lecki . . . . . . . . 318--318
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Tilmann Gneiting Editorial: Probabilistic Forecasting . . 319--321
D. Tim Holt Official Statistics, Public Policy and
Public Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--346
Ivy Jansen and
Geert Molenberghs A Flexible Marginal Modelling Strategy
for Non-Monotone Missing Data . . . . . 347--373
Iain Pardoe and
Dean K. Simonton Applying Discrete Choice Models to
Predict Academy Award Winners . . . . . 375--394
Louise Choo and
Stephen G. Walker A New Approach to Investigating Spatial
Variations of Disease . . . . . . . . . 395--405
Tee-Chin Chang Cumulative Sum Schemes for Surgical
Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . 407--432
W. W. Cooper and
Subhash C. Ray and
M. Stone A Response to M. Stone: `How Not to
Measure the Efficiency of Public
Services (And How One Might)' [with
Reply] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--448
Kaatje Bollaerts and
Marc Aerts and
Stefaan Ribbens and
Yves Van der Stede and
Ides Boone and
Koen Mintiens Identification of Salmonella High Risk
Pig-Herds in Belgium, by Using
Semiparametric Quantile Regression . . . 449--464
Robert T. Michael and
Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh Design Priorities and Disciplinary
Perspectives: The Case of the US
National Children's Study . . . . . . . 465--480
Kosuke Imai and
Gary King and
Elizabeth A. Stuart Misunderstandings between
Experimentalists and Observationalists
about Causal Inference . . . . . . . . . 481--502
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
Anonymous [List of Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
Z. Q. John Lu Book Review: \booktitleOptimum
Experimental Designs, with SAS, by A. C.
Atkinson; A. N. Donev; R. D. Tobias . . 504--504
Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Asymptotics: Case Studies in
Small-Sample Statistics, by A. R.
Brazzale; A. C. Davison; N. Reid . . . . 504--505
Andrew W. Roddam Book Review: \booktitleMeasurement Error
in Nonlinear Models: A Modern
Perspective, by R. J. Carroll; D.
Ruppert; L. A. Stefanski; C. M.
Crainiceanu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
Cedric E. Ginestet Book Review: \booktitleCombinatorics,
Complexity, and Chance: A Tribute to
Dominic Welsh, by G. Grimmett; C.
McDiarmid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
Matthew J. Gurka Book Review: \booktitleBasic Concepts in
Biostatistics and Epidemiology, by T. H.
MacDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--507
Lawrence Muthami Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Monitoring of Clinical Trials, by L. A.
Moye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Armando H. Seuc Book Review: \booktitleApproaching
Multivariate Analysis: An Introduction
for Psychology, by J. Todman; P. Dugard 507--508
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Curtice and
David Firth Exit Polling in a Cold Climate: The
BBC--ITV Experience in Britain in 2005
[with Discussion] . . . . . . . . . . . 509--539
A. Goubar and
A. E. Ades and
D. De Angelis and
C. A. McGarrigle and
C. H. Mercer and
P. A. Tookey and
K. Fenton and
O. N. Gill Estimates of Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Prevalence and Proportion
Diagnosed Based on Bayesian
Multiparameter Synthesis of Surveillance
Data [with Discussion] . . . . . . . . . 541--580
Jan A. van den Brakel Design-Based Analysis of Embedded
Experiments with Applications in the
Dutch Labour Force Survey . . . . . . . 581--613
Sarah Brown and
Karl Taylor Household Debt and Financial Assets:
Evidence from Germany, Great Britain and
the USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--643
Robert J. R. Elliott and
Joanne K. Lindley Immigrant Wage Differentials, Ethnicity
and Occupational Segregation . . . . . . 645--671
M. J. Andrews and
L. Gill and
T. Schank and
R. Upward High Wage Workers and Low Wage Firms:
Negative Assortative Matching or Limited
Mobility Bias? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--697
R. B. Garabed and
W. O. Johnson and
J. Gill and
A. M. Perez and
M. C. Thurmond Exploration of Associations between
Governance and Economics and Country
Level Foot-and-Mouth Disease Status by
Using Bayesian Model Averaging . . . . . 699--722
Frauke Kreuter and
Ting Yan and
Roger Tourangeau Good Item or Bad --- Can Latent Class
Analysis Tell?: The Utility of Latent
Class Analysis for the Evaluation of
Survey Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--738
Frank Rijmen and
Edward H. Ip and
Stephen Rapp and
Edward G. Shaw Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of
Symptoms in Patients with Primary and
Metastatic Brain Tumours . . . . . . . . 739--753
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--755
Anonymous [List of Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . 755--755
Ian White Book Review: \booktitleSample Size
Calculations in Clinical Research, by
S.-C. Chow; J. Shao; H. Wang . . . . . . 756--756
Fernando Tusell Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to State Space Time Series Analysis, by
J. J. F. Commandeur; S. J. Koopman . . . 756--757
Andreas Karlsson Book Review: \booktitleRandomization
Tests, by E. S. Edgington; P. Onghena 757--758
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Test
Theory for the Behavioral Sciences . . . 758--758
Shalabh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Test
Theory for the Behavioral Sciences, by
D. N. M. de Gruijter; L. J. Th. van der
Kamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758--758
Fiona McElduff Book Review: \booktitleNegative Binomial
Regression, by J. M. Hilbe . . . . . . . 758--759
Quentin L. Burrell Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Exponential and Related Distributions
for Engineers and Scientists, by N. Pal;
C. Jin; W. K. Lim . . . . . . . . . . . 759--760
Diane Berry Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Statistical Analyses Using Stata, by S.
Rabe-Hesketh; B. S. Everitt . . . . . . 760--760
Angie Wade Book Review: \booktitleMatched Sampling
for Causal Effects, by D. B. Rubin . . . 760--761
Naguib Lallmahomed Book Review: \booktitleElementary
Statistics Using JMP, by S. Schlotzhauer 761--761
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Bioinformatics, by A. Tramontano . . . . 761--762
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Zoltan Butt and
Steven Haberman and
Richard Verrall and
Victoria Wass Calculating Compensation for Loss of
Future Earnings: Estimating and Using
Work Life Expectancy [with Discussion] 763--805
N. J. Welton and
A. E. Ades and
D. M. Caldwell and
T. J. Peters Research Prioritization Based on
Expected Value of Partial Perfect
Information: A Case-Study on
Interventions to Increase Uptake of
Breast Cancer Screening [with
Discussion] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--841
Julian Le Grand The Giants of Excess: A Challenge to the
Nation's Health . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--856
Paul Gregg and
Jonathan Wadsworth Two Sides to Every Story: Measuring
Polarization and Inequality in the
Distribution of Work . . . . . . . . . . 857--875
Beth A. Reboussin and
Edward H. Ip and
Mark Wolfson Locally Dependent Latent Class Models
with Covariates: An Application to
Under-Age Drinking in the USA . . . . . 877--897
Guy P. Nason and
Daniel Bailey Estimating the Intensity of Conflict in
Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--914
A. M. Presanis and
D. De Angelis and
D. J. Spiegelhalter and
S. Seaman and
A. Goubar and
A. E. Ades Conflicting Evidence in a Bayesian
Synthesis of Surveillance Data to
Estimate Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Prevalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--937
D. Cooper and
W. D. McCausland and
I. Theodossiou Unemployed, Uneducated and Sick: The
Effects of Socio-Economic Status on
Health Duration in the European Union 939--952
Tom Grimes and
David Hand and
Sayer Vincent Report of the Council for July--December
2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--1028
Steffen Lauritzen Obituary: Professor Anders Hald,
1913--2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029--1030
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1031
Anonymous [List of Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1031
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleRandom Dynamical
Systems: Theory and Applications, by R.
Bhattacharya; M. Majumdar . . . . . . . 1032--1032
I. D. Hill Book Review: \booktitleMathematics and
Democracy: Designing Better Voting and
Fair-Division Procedures, by S. J. Brams 1032--1033
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleSaddlepoint
Approximations with Applications, by R.
W. Butler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1034
Judith Corbyn Book Review: \booktitlePoverty, Wealth
and Place in Britain, 1968--2005, by D.
Dorling; J. Rigby; B. Wheeler; D.
Ballas; B. Thomas; E. Fahmy; D. Gordon;
R. Lupton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034--1035
Usman I. Lula Book Review: \booktitleCompanion to
Advanced Mathematics and Statistics, by
S. Dudzic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1036
Alex Karagrigoriou Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing
Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
with SAS, by M. Gönen . . . . . . . . . . 1036--1036
N. T. Longford Book Review: \booktitleBioequivalence
Studies in Drug Development: Methods and
Applications, by D. Hauschke; V.
Steinijans; I. Pigeot . . . . . . . . . 1037--1037
Stephen Clark Book Review: \booktitlePlacing History:
How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are
Changing Historical Scholarship, by A.
K. Knowles; A. Hillier . . . . . . . . . 1037--1038
Thomas Hochkirchen Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Statistical Distributions with
Applications, by K. Krishnamoorthy . . . 1038--1039
Lallmahomed Naguib Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Statistics for Biology, 3rd edn, by R.
H. McCleery; T. A. Watt; T. Hart . . . . 1039--1039
Shalabh Book Review: \booktitleMissing Data in
Clinical Studies, by G. Molenberghs; M.
G. Kenward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1040
Ian Vaughan Book Review: \booktitleNiche Modeling:
Predictions from Statistical
Distributions, by D. R. B. Stockwell . . 1040--1041
Judith Corbyn Book Review: \booktitleIdentity in
Britain: A Cradle-to-Grave Atlas, by B.
Thomas; D. Dorling . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1042
Anonymous Corrigendum: How Not to Measure the
Efficiency of Public Services (And How
One Might) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1043
Anonymous Index of authors: volume 171, 2008 . . . 1045--1050
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Antony Fielding and
Simon Day Editorial: Built on Firm Foundations . . 1--2
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and
Joseph G. Ibrahim and
Debajyoti Sinha and
Michael Parzen and
Steven Lipshultz Joint Generalized Estimating Equations
for Multivariate Longitudinal Binary
Outcomes with Missing Data: An
Application to Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome Data . . . . . . . . 3--20
Rebecca M. Turner and
David J. Spiegelhalter and
Gordon C. S. Smith and
Simon G. Thompson Bias Modelling in Evidence Synthesis . . 21--47
O. A. Grigg and
D. J. Spiegelhalter and
H. E. Jones Local and Marginal Control Charts
Applied to Methicillin Resistant \em
Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
Reports in UK Acute National Health
Service Trusts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--66
D. James Greiner and
Kevin M. Quinn $ R \times C $ Ecological Inference:
Bounds, Correlations, Flexibility and
Transparency of Assumptions . . . . . . 67--81
Claudia Tebaldi and
Bruno Sansó Joint Projections of Temperature and
Precipitation Change from Multiple
Climate Models: A Hierarchical Bayesian
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--106
Terence C. Mills Forecasting Obesity Trends in England 107--117
N. J. Welton and
A. E. Ades and
J. B. Carlin and
D. G. Altman and
J. A. C. Sterne Models for Potentially Biased Evidence
in Meta-Analysis Using Empirically Based
Priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--136
Julian P. T. Higgins and
Simon G. Thompson and
David J. Spiegelhalter A Re-Evaluation of Random-Effects
Meta-Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--159
Gwyn Bevan and
Richard Hamblin Hitting and Missing Targets, by
Ambulance Services for Emergency Calls:
Effects of Different Systems of
Performance Measurement within the UK 161--190
Richard Berk and
Lawrence Sherman and
Geoffrey Barnes and
Ellen Kurtz and
Lindsay Ahlman Forecasting Murder within a Population
of Probationers and Parolees: A High
Stakes Application of Statistical
Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--211
Mounia N. Hocine and
Patrick Musonda and
Nick J. Andrews and
C. Paddy Farrington Sequential Case Series Analysis for
Pharmaco-vigilance . . . . . . . . . . . 213--236
Annouschka Laenen and
Ariel Alonso and
Geert Molenberghs and
Tony Vangeneugden A Family of Measures to Evaluate Scale
Reliability in a Longitudinal Setting 237--253
Stefano Mazzuco Another Look into the Effect of
Premarital Cohabitation on Duration of
Marriage: An Approach Based on Matching 255--273
Geoffrey Grimmett Obituary: David George Kendall,
1918--2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--278
Joe Gani Obituary: C. C. Heyde, 1939--2008 . . . 278--280
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
Anonymous List of Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
Thomas Hochkirchen and
Aachen Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Experiments, vol. I,
Introduction to Experimental Designs, by
K. Hinkelmann; O. Kempthorne . . . . . . 282--282
David Woods Book Review: \booktitleComputational
Pharmacokinetics, by A. Kallen . . . . . 282--283
Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \booktitleTime Series
Analysis, by H. Madsen . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Deven D. Patel Book Review: \booktitleData Analysis and
Graphics Using R: An Example-Based
Approach, by J. Maindonald; W. J. Braun 283--284
Fiona McElduff Book Review: \booktitleDigital Dice:
Computational Solutions to Practical
Probability Problems, by P. J. Nahin . . 284--284
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitlePutting People
and Health Needs on the Map, by K.
O'Neill; J. P. Meert . . . . . . . . . . 285--285
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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David J. Hand Modern Statistics: The Myth and the
Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--306
Arnaud Chevalier and
Joanne Lindley Overeducation and the Skills of UK
Graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--337
David J. McKenzie and
Johan Mistiaen Surveying Migrant Households: A
Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball and
Intercept Point Surveys . . . . . . . . 339--360
Gabriele B. Durrant and
Fiona Steele Multilevel Modelling of Refusal and
Non-Contact in Household Surveys:
Evidence from Six UK Government Surveys 361--381
Christopher H. Jackson and
Simon G. Thompson and
Linda D. Sharples Accounting for Uncertainty in Health
Economic Decision Models, by Using Model
Averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--404
Binbing Yu and
Lan Huang and
Ram C. Tiwari and
Eric J. Feuer and
Karen A. Johnson Modelling Population-Based Cancer
Survival Trends by Using Join Point
Models for Grouped Survival Data . . . . 405--425
Mich\`ele Belot and
John Ermisch Friendship Ties and Geographical
Mobility: Evidence from Great Britain 427--442
Michael Rosenblum and
Nicholas P. Jewell and
Mark van der Laan and
Stephen Shiboski and
Ariane van der Straten and
Nancy Padian Analysing Direct Effects in Randomized
Trials with Secondary Interventions: An
Application to Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Prevention Trials . . . . . . . . 443--465
David J. Bartholomew and
Ian J. Deary and
Martin Lawn Sir Godfrey Thomson: A Statistical
Pioneer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--482
D. R. Cox and
Michelle Jackson and
Shiwei Lu On Square Ordinal Contingency Tables: A
Comparison of Social Class and Income
Mobility for the Same Individuals . . . 483--493
Casey Olives and
Marcello Pagano and
Megan Deitchler and
Bethany L. Hedt and
Kari Egge and
Joseph J. Valadez Cluster Designs to Assess the Prevalence
of Acute Malnutrition by Lot Quality
Assurance Sampling: A Validation Study
by Computer Simulation . . . . . . . . . 495--510
Christine N. Kohnen and
Jerome P. Reiter Multiple Imputation for Combining
Confidential Data Owned by Two Agencies 511--528
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--529
Niall Adams Book Review: \booktitleSemi-Supervised
Learning, by O. Chappelle; B. Schölkopf;
A. Zien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--530
Sreenivasan Ravi Book Review: \booktitleStatistical and
Probabilistic Methods in Actuarial
Science, by P. J. Boland . . . . . . . . 530--530
Alex Karagrigoriou Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistics
Using SAS Enterprise Guide, a Primer, by
G. Der; B. S. Everitt . . . . . . . . . 530--531
Eirini Koutoumanou Book Review: \booktitleMedical
Biostatistics, by A. Indrayan . . . . . 531--532
Shalabh Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--532
Shalabh Book Review: \booktitleA Primer on
Linear Models, by J. F. Monahan . . . . 532--532
Phil Woodward Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Issues in Drug Development, by S. Senn 532--533
A. C. Brooms Book Review: \booktitleExperimental
Statistics Using Minitab, by C.
Weatherup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--534
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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William J. Browne and
Fiona Steele Editorial: Recent Advances in Multilevel
Modelling Methodology and Applications 535--536
George Leckie The Complexity of School and
Neighbourhood Effects and Movements of
Pupils on School Differences in Models
of Educational Achievement . . . . . . . 537--554
Alastair H. Leyland and
Òyvind Næss The Effect of Area of Residence over the
Life Course on Subsequent Mortality . . 555--578
William J. Browne and
Fiona Steele and
Mousa Golalizadeh and
Martin J. Green The Use of Simple Reparameterizations to
Improve the Efficiency of Markov Chain
Monte Carlo Estimation for Multilevel
Models with Applications to Discrete
Time Survival Models . . . . . . . . . . 579--598
Harvey Goldstein and
Daphne Kounali Multilevel Multivariate Modelling of
Childhood Growth, Numbers of Growth
Measurements and Adult Characteristics 599--613
Nuoo-Ting Molitor and
Nicky Best and
Chris Jackson and
Sylvia Richardson Using Bayesian Graphical Models to Model
Biases in Observational Studies and to
Combine Multiple Sources of Data:
Application to Low Birth Weight and
Water Disinfection By-Products . . . . . 615--637
Bengt Muthén and
Tihomir Asparouhov Multilevel regression mixture analysis 639--657
Anders Skrondal and
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh Prediction in multilevel generalized
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--687
P. Armitage and
J. F. Bithell Obituaries: Norman Thomas John Bailey,
1923--2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--690
Antonio Possolo Obituaries: John Mandel, 1914--2007 . . 691--692
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--693
Cedric Ginestet Book Review: \booktitleSemisupervised
Learning for Computational Linguistics,
by S. Abney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--694
George Leckie Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Multilevel Analysis, by J. De Leeuw; E.
Meijer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--695
Mario Cortina Borja Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Generalized Linear Models, by A. J.
Dobson; A. G. Barnett . . . . . . . . . 695--696
Diane Berry Book Review: \booktitleR Programming for
Bioinformatics, by R. Gentleman . . . . 696--696
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Stochastic Calculus Applied to Finance,
by D. Lamberton; B. Lapeyere . . . . . . 697--697
R. Allan Reese Book Review: \booktitleR for SAS and
SPSS Users, by R. A. Muenchen . . . . . 697--698
Lesley F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleReliability and
Risk --- a Bayesian Perspective, by N.
D. Singpurwalla . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--698
Mario Cortina Borja Book Review: \booktitleData Manipulation
in R, by P. Spector . . . . . . . . . . 699--699
S. E. Lazic Book Review: \booktitleDNA Methylation
Microarrays: Experimental Design and
Statistical Analysis, by S.-C. Wang; A.
Petronis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--700
R. Allan Reese Book Review: \booktitleGeostatistics for
Environmental Scientists, by R. Webster;
M. A. Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--700
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Wolfgang Lutz Editorial: Towards a World of 2--6
Billion Well-Educated and Therefore
Healthy and Wealthy People . . . . . . . 701--705
Gillian A. Lancaster Statistical Issues in the Assessment of
Health Outcomes in Children: A
Methodological Review . . . . . . . . . 707--727
Stuart G. Baker and
Nancy R. Cook and
Andrew Vickers and
Barnett S. Kramer Using Relative Utility Curves to
Evaluate Risk Prediction . . . . . . . . 729--748
John Ermisch and
Diego Gambetta and
Heather Laurie and
Thomas Siedler and
S. C. Noah Uhrig Measuring People's Trust . . . . . . . . 749--769
Gerard Keogh and
Patrick Quill The Construction and Analysis of a
Consistent Set of Input-Output Tables
for the Irish Economy . . . . . . . . . 771--788
Richard D. Riley Multivariate Meta-Analysis: The Effect
of Ignoring Within-Study Correlation . . 789--811
R. D. Baker and
I. G. McHale Modelling the Probability Distribution
of Prize Winnings in the UK National
Lottery: Consequences of Conscious
Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813--834
George Leckie and
Harvey Goldstein The Limitations of Using School League
Tables to Inform School Choice . . . . . 835--851
David Hand and
Martin Dougherty and
Sarah Simpson and
Sheila Bird and
Andrew Garratt and
Colin Aitken and
Paul Gentry and
Adrian Bowman and
Nicola Emmerson and
Andy Garrett and
Gerald Goodall and
Susan Starkings and
Debra Hurcomb and
Robin Henderson and
Martin Owen and
Rob Henderson and
Keith Dugmore and
Jenny Church Report of the Council for 2008 . . . . . 853--931
Gad Nathan Obituary: Hendrik Salomon Konijn,
1918--2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--933
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934--934
Shalabh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Learning from a Regression Perspective,
by R. A. Berk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--935
Phil Woodward Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Methods
for Data Analysis, by B. P. Carlin; T.
A. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--936
Shalabh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Design, by G. Casella . . . . . . . . . 936--936
Cedric E. Ginestet Book Review: \booktitleModel Selection
and Model Averaging, by G. Claeskens; N.
L. Hjort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--937
Z. Q. John Lu Book Review: \booktitleMorphometrics
with R, by J. Claude . . . . . . . . . . 937--938
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Practice in Business and Industry, by S.
Coleman; T. Greenfield; D. Stewardson;
D. D. Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . 938--939
Derek Robinson Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Statistics with R, by P. Dalgaard . . . 939--939
Badi H. Baltagi Book Review: \booktitleLongitudinal Data
Analysis, by G. Fitzmaurice; M.
Davidian; G. Verbeke; G. Molenberghs . . 939--940
Sreenivasan Ravi Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear Time
Series: Semiparametric and Nonparametric
Methods, by J. Gao . . . . . . . . . . . 940--941
Morteza Aalabaf-Sabaghi Book Review: \booktitleCredit Risk
Management: Basic Concepts, Financial
Risk Components, Rating Analysis,
Models, Economic and Regulatory Capital,
by T. van Gestel; B. Baesens . . . . . . 941--941
Paul Hewson Book Review: \booktitleApplied Multiway
Data Analysis, by P. M. Kroonenberg . . 941--942
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitlePolya Urn Models,
by H. M. Mahmoud . . . . . . . . . . . . 942--942
Varinder Jain Book Review: \booktitleComputational
Statistics Handbook with MATLAB, by W.
L. Martinez; A. R. Martinez . . . . . . 942--943
Judith Corbyn Book Review: \booktitleEstimating Market
Power and Strategies, by J. M. Perloff;
L. S. Karp; A. Golan . . . . . . . . . . 943--944
Giorgio Bedogni Book Review: \booktitleClinical
Prediction Models --- a Practical
Approach to Development, Validation and
Updating, by E. W. Steyerberg . . . . . 944--944
P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Nonparametric Estimation, by A. B.
Tsybakov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944--945
Mark A. Best Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Development of Quality in Medicine, by
P. Winkel; N. F. Zhang . . . . . . . . . 945--946
Anonymous Index of authors: volume 172, 2009 . . . 947--951
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