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N. F. Laubscher Interpolation in $F$-tables . . . . . . 28, 40
J. E. Freund Puzzle or Paradox? . . . . . . . . . . . 29--44
D. Lurie and
H. O. Hartley Machine-generation of order statistics
for Monte Carlo computations . . . . . . 26--27
W. Abranovic and
R. Ageloff and
D. Frederick Time-sharing computer systems as a
teaching tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38
W. Edwards Deming On Probability As a Basis For Action . . 146--152
Donald W. Marquardt and
Ronald D. Snee Ridge Regression in Practice . . . . . . 3--20
M. E. Tarter and
R. A. Kronmal An introduction to the implementation
and theory of nonparametric density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--112
D. V. Lindley and
L. D. Phillips Inference for a Bernoulli process (a
Bayesian view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--119
S. Maghsoodloo and
J. N. Hool On response surface methodology and its
computer-assisted teaching . . . . . . . 140--144
Burt S. Barnow The use of proxy variables when one or
two independent variables are measured
with error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121
A. C. Harvey An alternative proof and generalization
of a test for structural change . . . . 122--123
Robert D. Tortora A note on sample size estimation for
multinomial populations . . . . . . . . 100--102
P. W. Eaton Yarnold's criterion and minimum sample
size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Gary O. Zerbe On Fieller's theorem and the general
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
James R. Beniger and
Dorothy L. Robyn Quantitative graphics in statistics: A
brief history . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Churchill Eisenhart On the transition from ``Student's'' $z$
to ``Student's'' $t$ . . . . . . . . . . 6--10
Russell F. Kappenman On the use of a certain conditional
distribution to obtain unconditional
distributional results . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Charles J. Monlezun Two-dimensional plots for interpreting
interactions in the three-factor
analysis of variance model . . . . . . . 63--69
Hans U. Gerber A characteristic property of the Poisson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Robert V. Hogg Statistical robustness: one view of its
use in applications today . . . . . . . 108--115
Henry Wolkowicz and
George P. H. Styan Extensions of Samuelson's inequality . . 143--144
Chien Pai Han Alternative methods of estimating the
likelihood ratio in classification of
multivariate normal observations . . . . 204--206
Richard A. Kronmal and
Arthur V. Peterson, Jr. On the alias method for generating
random variables from a discrete
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--218
Ralph A. Bradley and
Sushil S. Srivastava Correlation in Polynomial Regression . . 11--14
F. M. Speed and
Charles J. Monlezun Exact $f$ tests for the method of
unweighted means in a $2^k$ experiment 15--18
James H. Goodnight A Tutorial on the SWEEP Operator . . . . 149--158
William C. Guenther The use of noncentral $F$ approximations
for calculation of power and sample size 209--210
Joan Fisher Box R. A. Fisher and the design of
experiments, 1922--1926 . . . . . . . . 1--7
David G. Herr On the history of the use of geometry in
the general linear model . . . . . . . . 43--47
Robert J. Monroe and
Francis E. McVay Gertrude Mary Cox (1900--1978) . . . . . 48--48
Wayne A. Fuller Balkrishna V. Sukhatme (1924--1979) . . 49--49
Dorian Feldman and
Martin Fox Three simple inductive proofs in
probability and statistics . . . . . . . 50--51
Anne S. Davis Use of the likelihood ratio test on the
inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 108--110
H. Leon Harter Modified asymptotic formulas for
critical values of the Kolmogorov test
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
David A. Pierce A survey of recent developments in
seasonal adjustment . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
Colin R. Blyth Expected absolute error of the usual
estimator of the binomial parameter . . 155--157
C. Asok A note on the comparison between simple
mean and mean based on distinct units in
sampling with replacement . . . . . . . 158--158
S. R. Searle and
F. M. Speed and
G. A. Milliken Population marginal means in the linear
model: an alternative to least squares
means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--221
E. L. Lehmann Efficient likelihood estimators . . . . 233--235
Robert C. Schmitt Early Hawaiian statistics . . . . . . . 1--3
S. R. Searle and
F. M. Speed and
H. V. Henderson Some computational and model
equivalences in analyses of variance of
unequal-subclass-numbers data . . . . . 16--33
Ram C. Dahiya An improved method of estimating an
integer-parameter by maximum likelihood 34--37
A. P. Dempster and
Frederick Mosteller In memoriam: William Gemmell Cochran,
1909--1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Salwa Fahmy and
Frank Proschan Bounds on Differences of Order
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Joan Fisher Box Gosset, Fisher, and the $t$ distribution 61--66
Herbert A. David Egon S. Pearson, 1895--1980 . . . . . . 94--95
David Berengut Some small-sample properties of the
Student $t$ confidence intervals . . . . 144--147
Noel Cressie and
Anne S. Davis and
J. Leroy Folks and
George E. Policello II The moment-generating function and
negative integer moments . . . . . . . . 148--150
Louis-Paul Rivest On the sum of contaminated normals . . . 155--156
Jerome L. Paul A Bayes theorem urn model optimization
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
R. W. Potter and
G. W. Sturm The power of Jonckheere's test . . . . . 249--250
John Aitchison and
John Bacon-Shone Bayesian risk ratio analysis . . . . . . 254--257
M. M. Desu and
Norman C. Severo Sidney Addelman (1932--1979) . . . . . . 39--39
Richard M. Heiberger The specification of experimental
designs to ANOVA programs . . . . . . . 98--108
Arnold Zellner Is Jeffreys a ``necessarist'' . . . . . 28--30
Stanley H. Shapiro Collapsing contingency tables---a
geometric approach . . . . . . . . . . . 43--46
Lionel Weiss Jacob Wolfowitz (1910--1981) . . . . . . 126--127
E. L. Lehmann and
Constance Reid Jerzy Neyman, 1894--1981 . . . . . . . . 161--162
T. M. Smith and
B. Iglewicz An effective classroom technique for
comparison of robust estimators . . . . 163--168
Donald R. Plane and
Kenneth R. Gordon A simple proof of the nonapplicability
of the central limit theorem to finite
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
Jonathan J. Shuster Nonparametric optimality of the sample
mean and sample variance . . . . . . . . 176--178
Arthur V. Peterson, Jr. and
Richard A. Kronmal On mixture methods for the computer
generation of random variables . . . . . 184--191
Robert Bechhofer Jack Carl Kiefer, 1924--1981 . . . . . . 356--357
Bradley Efron and
Gail Gong A leisurely look at the bootstrap, the
jackknife, and cross-validation . . . . 36--48
Luis Carlos Silva and
Antonio Rubi On the estimation of proportions using
complete cluster sampling . . . . . . . 53--54
J. C. Beatty Raster graphics and color . . . . . . . 60--75
Brian L. Joiner and
David L. Hall The ubiquitous role of $f^{\prime} /f$
in efficient estimation of location . . 128--133
David A. Freedman A note on screening regression equations 152--155
S. N. U. A. Kirmani and
E. Mirhakkak Esfahani A note on the moment generating function 161--161
Robert Chen and
Larry A. Shepp On the sum of symmetric random variables 237--237
Tony F. Chan and
Gene H. Golub and
Randall J. LeVeque Algorithms for computing the sample
variance: Analysis and recommendations 242--247
Yosef Hochberg and
Ajit C. Tamhane Multiple comparisons in a mixed model 305--307
Russell V. Lenth Some properties of ${U}$ statistics . . 311--313
Keith Ord In memoriam: Maurice George Kendall,
1907--1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Max D. Morris and
Sherwood F. Ebey An interesting property of the sample
mean under a first-order autoregressive
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
John G. Saw and
Mark C. K. Yang and
Tse Chin Mo Chebyshev inequality with estimated mean
and variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
John E. Angus and
Ray E. Schafer Improved confidence statements for the
binomial parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Steven J. Schwager Bonferroni sometimes loses . . . . . . . 192--197
Gerald S. Rogers Kronecker products in ANOVA---a first
step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
Samy Suissa and
Jonathan J. Shuster Are uniformly most powerful unbiased
tests really best . . . . . . . . . . . 204--206
Shey Shiung Sheu The Poisson approximation to the
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 206--207
R. James Tomkins Another proof of Borel's strong law of
large numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
Seymour Geisser On prior distributions for binary
trials. With comments by Jose M.
Bernardo, Melvin R. Novick and Arnold
Zellner and a reply by the author . . . 244--251
Christopher Cox An elementary introduction to maximum
likelihood estimation for multinomial
models: Birch's theorem and the delta
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--287
S. M. Tam On covariances from overlapping samples 288--289
G. G. Hamedani Nonnormality of linear combinations of
normal random variables . . . . . . . . 295--296
David K. Hildebrand Lord's MAD paradox and Jensen's
inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
George A. Milliken and
Mohammed Albohali On necessary and sufficient conditions
for ordinary least squares estimators to
be best linear unbiased estimators . . . 298--299
D. A. Belsley Demeaning Conditioning Diagnostics
Through Centering . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Gottfried E. Noether Nonparametrics: The early years ---
impressions and recollections . . . . . 173--178
Philip J. Boland A biographical glimpse of William Sealy
Gosset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
Adi Raveh On the use of the inverse of the
correlation matrix in multivariate data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
C. H. Spiegelman Jensen's inequality for general location
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Craig F. Ansley Quick proofs of some regression theorems
via the ${\rm QR}$ algorithm . . . . . . 55--59
Walter W. Piegorsch and
George Casella The existence of the first negative
moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
R. L. Eubank and
J. T. Webster The singular-value decomposition as a
tool for solving estimability problems 64--66
George Casella An introduction to empirical Bayes data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--87
Harry M. Schey A geometric description of orthogonal
contrasts in one-way analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
Robert M. Norton and
Steven Arnold A theorem on moments . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Arnold Zellner Correction: ``On prior distributions for
binary trials'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 38
(1984), no. 4, 244--251, MR 87c:62004a]
by S. Geisser . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
James W. Vaupel and
Anatoli I. Yashin Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising
effects of selection on population
dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--185
Roger W. Hoerl Ridge analysis 25 years later . . . . . 186--192
Norman Keith Womer Identification and least squares in
simultaneous equations . . . . . . . . . 295--297
Shyamal Das Peddada A short note on Pitman's measure of
nearness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
Shayle R. Searle and
Friedrich Pukelsheim Establishing $\chi^2$ properties of sums
of squares using induction . . . . . . . 301--303
K. X. Karakostas On minimum variance unbiased estimators 303--305
Ronald Christensen and
Michael D. Huffman Bayesian point estimation using the
predictive distribution . . . . . . . . 319--321
B. Dennis and
B. E. Brown and
A. R. Stage and
H. E. Burkhart and
S. Clark Problems of modeling growth and yield of
renewable resources . . . . . . . . . . 374--383
B. Efron Why isn't everyone a Bayesian? With
discussion and a reply by the author . . 1--11
M. A. Hidiroglou The construction of a self-representing
stratum of large units in survey design 27--31
Victor Aguirre-Torres A note on teaching infinite moving
averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Glen Meeden Sufficiency and partitions of the class
of all possible discrete distributions 42--44
David J. Groggel and
John H. Skillings Distribution-free tests for main effects
in multifactor designs . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Shayle R. Searle and
Friedrich Pukelsheim Effects of intraclass correlation on
weighted averages . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
A. W. F. Edwards Is the reference in Hartley (1749) to
Bayesian inference . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Stephen M. Stigler Estimating serial correlation by visual
inspection of diagnostic plots . . . . . 111--116
Adi Raveh On measures of monotone association . . 117--123
William M. Bolstad Harrison-Stevens forecasting and the
multiprocess dynamic linear model . . . 129--135
Lawrence M. Leemis Relationships among common univariate
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--146
N. Balakrishnan and
Henrick J. Malik A note on moments of order statistics 147--148
James R. Abernathy and
Pranab K. Sen In memoriam: Bernard George Greenberg,
1919--1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Amanda L. Golbeck Probabilistic approaches to current life
table estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--190
Phillip S. Kott When a mean-of-ratios is the best linear
unbiased estimator under a model . . . . 202--204
Bernhard K. Flury On sums of random variables and
independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Peter M. Burrows Extreme statistics from the sine
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
Marcia Feingold and
P. E. Korsog The correlation and dependence between
two ${F}$ statistics with the same
denominator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
John S. de Cani and
Robert A. Stine A note on deriving the information
matrix for a logistic distribution . . . 220--222
Clifford H. Spiegelman Two pitfalls of using standard
regression diagnostics when both ${X}$
and ${Y}$ have measurement error . . . . 245--248
Ronald Christensen and
Michael D. Huffman Correction to: ``Bayesian point
estimation using the predictive
distribution'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 39
(1985), no. 4, part 1, 319--321] . . . . 258--258
K. X. Karakostas Correction to: ``On minimum variance
unbiased estimators'' [Amer.\ Statist.
\bf 39 (1985), no. 4, part 1, 303--305,
MR 87b:62031] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258
David G. Herr On the history of ANOVA in unbalanced,
factorial designs: the first 30 years 265--270
Gunnar Blom and
Lars Holst Random walks of ordered elements with
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
E. Carlstein Simultaneous confidence regions for
predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279
Christian Genest and
Jock MacKay The joy of copulas: bivariate
distributions with uniform marginals . . 280--283
Jean-Marie Dufour Bias of ${S}^2$ in linear regressions
with dependent errors . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Jerry Nedelman and
Ted Wallenius Bernoulli trials, Poisson trials,
surprising variances, and Jensen's
inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--289
Leigh W. Murray Estimation of missing cells in
randomized block and Latin square
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--293
Grant W. Somes The generalized Mantel-Haenszel
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Walter H. Carter, Jr. and
Vernon M. Chinchilli and
John D. Wilson and
Eleanor D. Campbell and
Fay K. Kessler and
Richard A. Carchman An asymptotic confidence region for the
$ED\sb{100p}$ from the logistic response
surface for a combination of agents . . 124--128
David Ruppert What is kurtosis? An influence function
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Hendrik S. Konijn Distribution-free and other prediction
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Trevor Hastie A closer look at the deviance . . . . . 16--20
W. D. Kaigh and
Michael F. Driscoll Numerical and graphical data summary
using ${O}$-statistics . . . . . . . . . 25--32
William D. Kahn A cautionary note for Bayesian
estimation of the binomial parameter $n$ 38--40
Steven K. Thompson Sample size for estimating multinomial
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--46
James R. Waters and
Alexander J. Chester Optimal allocation in multivariate,
two-stage sampling designs . . . . . . . 46--50
William C. Guenther Statistical inferences for two
one-parameter families . . . . . . . . . 50--52
Bennett Eisenberg and
B. K. Ghosh Independent events in a discrete uniform
probability space . . . . . . . . . . . 52--56
Siddhartha Chib and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Ram C. Tiwari Another look at some results on the
recursive estimation in the general
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--58
K. X. Karakostas Correction: ``On minimum variance
unbiased estimators'' [Amer.\ Statist.
\bf 39 (1985), no. 4, part 1, 303--305,
MR 87b:62031] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Clifford H. Spiegelman Correction: ``Two pitfalls of using
standard regression diagnostics when
both $X$ and $Y$ have measurement
error'' [Amer. Statist. 40 (1986), no.
3, 245--248] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Bruce M. Hill The validity of the likelihood principle 95--100
Richard J. Meinhold and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla A Kalman-filter smoothing approach for
extrapolations in certain dose-response,
damage-assessment, and
accelerated-life-testing studies . . . . 101--106
Donald A. Berry Interim analysis in clinical trials. The
role of the likelihood principle . . . . 117--122
Stephen M. Scariano and
James M. Davenport The effects of violations of
independence assumptions in the one-way
ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129
David Hamilton Sometimes ${R}^2>r^2_{yx_1}+r^2_{yx_2}$.
Correlated variables are not always
redundant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
William M. Alley A note on stagewise regression . . . . . 132--134
Glen Meeden Estimation when using a statistic that
is not sufficient . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Wayne A. Fuller and
Oscar Kempthorne In memoriam: Theodore Alfonso Bancroft,
1907--1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Shaul K. Bar-Lev Nonestimable parametric functions for
some discrete distributions . . . . . . 199--200
Robyn M. Dawes and
Joseph B. Kadane Partial round-robin comparisons with
perfect rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Charles C. Thigpen A sample size problem in simple linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
John P. Buonaccorsi A note on confidence intervals for
proportions in finite populations . . . 215--218
Daniel Q. Naiman Characterization of risk sets for simple
versus simple hypothesis testing . . . . 218--220
D. R. Bellhouse Model-based estimation in finite
population sampling . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
Wolfgang J. Bühler and
Joachim Sehr Some remarks on exponential families . . 279--280
G. A. Whitmore and
V. Seshadri A heuristic derivation of the inverse
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Norman R. Draper and
Agnes M. Herzberg A ridge-regression sidelight . . . . . . 282--283
William Kruskal Relative importance by averaging over
orderings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--10
Edward R. Mansfield and
Michael D. Conerly Diagnostic value of residual and partial
residual plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
Richard A. Rode and
Vernon M. Chinchilli The use of Box-Cox transformations in
the development of multivariate
tolerance regions with applications to
clinical chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
Helena Chmura Kraemer Assessment of $2\times 2$ associations:
generalization of signal-detection
methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--49
Daniel A. Bloch and
Lincoln E. Moses Nonoptimally weighted least squares . . 50--53
Edward B. Rockower Integral identities for random variables 68--72
Robert E. McCulloch Information and the likelihood function
in exponential families . . . . . . . . 73--75
Edward B. Manoukian and
Pierre Nadeau A note on the hyperbolic-secant
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Ronald E. Shiffler Maximum ${Z}$ scores and outliers . . . 79--80
P. J. Bickel and
C. L. Mallows A note on unbiased Bayes estimates . . . 132--134
John G. Saw and
Mark C. K. Yang and
Tse Chin Correction to: ``Chebyshev inequality
with estimated mean Mo and variance''
[Amer. Statist. \bf 38 (1984), no. 2,
130--132, MR 85b:62019] . . . . . . . . 166--166
Robert Pavur Type ${\rm I}$ error rates for multiple
comparison procedures with dependent
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--173
M. C. Agrawal and
Nirmal Jain Predictive estimation in double sampling
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--186
E. L. Lehmann and
Juliet Popper Shaffer Inverted distributions . . . . . . . . . 191--194
Shie-Shien Yang A central limit theorem for the
bootstrap mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
D. R. Shier The monotonicity of power means using
entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Jerzy K. Baksalary and
Adrian C. van Eijnsbergen A comparison of two criteria for
ordinary-least-squares estimators to be
best linear unbiased estimators . . . . 205--208
John P. Mullooly The variance of left-truncated
continuous nonnegative distributions . . 208--210
Henri Theil and
Ching-Fan Chung Information-theoretic measures of fit
for univariate and multivariate linear
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252
Ronald W. Helms Manipulating statistical hypotheses and
tests as Boolean functions . . . . . . . 253--256
Arnold Zellner Optimal information processing and
Bayes's theorem. With comments and a
reply by the author . . . . . . . . . . 278--284
Raymond J. Carroll and
A. H. Welsh A note on asymmetry and robustness in
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
Karim F. Hirji and
Anastasios A. Tsiatis and
Cyrus R. Mehta Median unbiased estimation for binary
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--11
Malay Ghosh and
Gauri Sankar Datta Uniformly minimum variance unbiased
estimation for discrete distributions
with support depending on the parameter 17--19
Ikuo Arizono and
Hiroshi Ohta A test for normality based on
Kullback-Leibler information . . . . . . 20--22
Jacques Benichou and
Mitchell H. Gail A delta method for implicitly defined
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--44
Gaoxiong Gan and
Shie-Shien Yang An elementary proof of the
order-statistics characterization of the
Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Nicholas R. Farnum An alternate proof of Samuelson's
inequality and its extensions . . . . . 46--47
James L. Kepner and
James D. Harper and
Sandra Z. Keith A note on evaluating a certain orthant
probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Claude Angers Note on quick simultaneous confidence
intervals for multinomial proportions 91--91
Leon Jay Gleser The gamma distribution as a mixture of
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 115--117
W. N. Venables and
K. W. Morris A connection between minimum variance
unbiased estimation and maximum
likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Simo Puntanen and
George P. H. Styan The equality of the ordinary least
squares estimator and the best linear
unbiased estimator. With comments by
Oscar Kempthorne and Shayle R. Searle
and a reply by the authors . . . . . . . 153--164
Marcia Gumpertz and
Sastry G. Pantula A simple approach to inference in random
coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 203--210
Richard L. Scheaffer Toward a More Quantitatively Literate
Citizenry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
James R. Lackritz Salary Evaluation for Professional
Baseball Players . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Julia Lane and
Russ Ray and
Dennis Glennon Work Profiles of Research Statisticians 9
Joseph M. Strayhorn Estimating the Errors Remaining in a
Data Set: Techniques for Quality Control 14
Therese A. Stukel A General Model for Estimating EDsub100p
for Binary Response Dose-Response Data 19
Kuang-Kuo Gordon Lan and
Janet Wittes Linear Rank Tests for Survival Data:
Equivalence of Two Formulations . . . . 23
Julio L. Peixoto A property of well-formulated polynomial
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Peter H. Peskun A Note on a General Method for Obtaining
Confidence Intervals From Samples From
Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 31--35
Roy T. St. Laurent The Equivalence of the Milliken-Graybill
Procedure and the Score Test . . . . . . 36--37
Neil C. Schwertman and
A. J. Gilks and
J. Cameron A Simple Noncalculus Proof That the
Median Minimizes the Sum of the Absolute
Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Paul D. Valz and
Ian A. McLeod A Simplified Derivation of the Variance
of Kendall's Rank Correlation
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Tommy Wright When Zero Defectives Appear in a Sample:
Upper Bounds on Confidence Coefficients
of Upper Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
William M. Makuch and
Gerald J. Hahn and
William T. Tucker A Statistical Computing Curriculum To
Meet Industrial Needs . . . . . . . . . 42
Claude Angers Correction: ``Note on quick simultaneous
confidence intervals for multinomial
proportions'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 43
(1989), no. 2, 91] . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Gaoxiong Gan and
Shie-Shien Yang Correction: ``An elementary proof of the
order-statistics characterization of the
Poisson process'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 43
(1989), no. 1, 45--46] . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Janet L. Norwood ASA Sesquicentennial . . . . . . . . . . 67
R. L. Mason and
J. D. McKenzie, Jr. and
S. J. Ruberg A brief history of the American
Statistical Association, 1839--1989 . . 68--73
Sandra Stinnett and
others Women in statistics: sesquicentennial
activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
John J. Wiorkowski A lightly annotated bibliography of the
publications of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--113
Anonymous ASA's Sesquicentennial Celebration . . . 113
Vincent P. Barabba What does the future hold for
statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Hans Riedwyl Rudolf Wolf's Contribution to the Buffon
Needle Problem (an Early Monte Carlo
Experiment) and Application of Least
Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Richard R. Picard and
Kenneth N. Berk Data Splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Gunter Lorenzen A Unified Approach to the Calculation of
Growth Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--150
Gunnar Blom and
Daniel Thorburn and
Theodore A. Vessey The Distribution of the Record Position
and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . 151--153
Marie D. Eldridge The Status of Advisory Committees to the
Federal Statistical Agencies . . . . . . 154
David Birkes Generalized Likelihood Ratio Tests and
Uniformly Most Powerful Tests . . . . . 163--166
Kosmas K. Ferentinos Shortest Confidence Intervals for
Families of Distributions Involving
Truncation Parameters . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Frank R. Lichtenberg Aggregation of Variables in
Least-Squares Regression . . . . . . . . 169
Steve Verrill and
Michael Axelrod and
Mark Durst We've Got the Positive Correlation BLUEs 171
D. J. Saville Multiple Comparison Procedures: The
Practical Solution . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Stephen Senn Regression: A New Mode for an Old
Meaning? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
A. S. C. Ehrenberg A Hope for the Future of Statistics:
MSOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Gerald J. Hahn and
Thomas J. Boardman and
David Fluharty History of the section on quality and
productivity of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Anonymous ASA's Sesquicentennial Celebration . . . 200
Richard F. Fawcett The Alignment Method for Displaying and
Analyzing Treatments in Blocking Designs 204
Jean D. Gibbons U.S. Institutional Representation on
Editorial Boards of U.S Statistics
Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Clifford M. Hurvich and
Chih-Ling Tsai The Impact of Model Selection on
Inference in Linear Regression . . . . . 214
Javad Behboodian Examples of Uncorrelated Dependent
Random Variables Using a Bivariate
Mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
David Edelman A Note on Uniformly Most Powerful
Two-Sided Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
J. A. Nelder Nearly Parallel Lines in Residual Plots 221
Judith D. Singer and
John B. Willett Improving the Teaching of Applied
Statistics: Putting the Data Back Into
Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Robert W. Stephenson A Study of Student Reaction to the Use
of Minitab in an Introductory Statistics
Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 236
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz Randomly Weighted Averages: Some Aspects
and Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Lonnie Magee $R^2$ Measures Based on Wald and
Likelihood Ratio Joint Significance
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Gerard E. Dallal Statistical Computing Packages: Dare We
Abandon Their Teaching to Others? . . . 265
Eric R. Ziegel and
J. Stuart Hunter American Statistical Association's
Section on Physical and Engineering
Sciences: Past, Present, and Future . . 267
Edward L. Korn and
Barry I. Graubard Simultaneous Testing of Regression
Coefficients With Complex Survey Data:
Use of Bonferroni $t$ Statistics . . . . 270
Richard A. Groeneveld Ranking Teams in a League With Two
Divisions of $t$ Teams . . . . . . . . . 277
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Raj S. Chhikara On the Ratio and Regression Estimation
in Finite Population Sampling . . . . . 282
David Edelman A Confidence Interval for the Center of
an Unknown Unimodal Distribution Based
on a Sample of Size 1 . . . . . . . . . 285
Nicholas R. Farnum Improving the Relative Error of
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Edward L. Korn Projecting Power From a Previous Study:
Maximum Likelihood Estimation . . . . . 290
Colm Art O'Cinneide The Mean Is Within One Standard
Deviation of Any Median . . . . . . . . 292
Richard J. Pulskamp A Note on the Estimation of Binomial
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Donald T. Searls and
Pichai Intarapanich A Note on an Estimator for the Variance
That Utilizes the Kurtosis . . . . . . . 295
Bulent Uyar and
Orhan Erdem Regression Procedures in SAS: Problems? 296
Harry O. Posten Review of Audio Tape: The Statistician
at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Herbert F. Spirer Statistical Software Teaching Package:
Statistix 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Peter H. Westfall Graphical Presentation of a Basketball
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
John Sall Leverage Plots for General Linear
Hypothese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Ralph B. D'Agostino and
Albert Belanger A Suggestion for Using Powerful and
Informative Tests of Normality . . . . . 316
Carol A. Markowski and
Edward P. Markowski Conditions for the Effectiveness of a
Preliminary Test of Variance . . . . . . 322
Anonymous William R. Schucany . . . . . . . . . . 1
Benjamin J. Tepping and
Joseph Waksberg Morris H. Hansen, 1910--1990 . . . . . . 2--3
Ralph Penner and
Donald G. Watts Mining Information . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Ronald L. Wasserstein and
John E. Boyer Bounds on the Power of Linear Rank Tests
for Scale Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 10
F. F. Gan and
Kenneth J. Koehler and
John C. Thompson Probability Plots and Distribution
Curves for Assessing the Fit of
Probability Models . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Stephan Arndt and
Robert F. Woolson Establishing a Biostatistical Care Unit
in a Clinical Research Center . . . . . 22
Roger E. Kirk Statistical Consulting in a University:
Dealing With People and Other Challenges 28
Neil C. Schwertman and
Thomas A. McCready and
Lesley Howard Probability Models for the NCAA Regional
Basketball Tournaments . . . . . . . . . 35
Robert W. Mee and
Tin Chiu Chua Regression Toward the Mean and the
Paired Sample $t$ Test . . . . . . . . . 39
Víctor Pérez-Abreu Poisson Approximation to Power Series
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Michael H. Ames and
John T. Webster On Estimating Approximate Degrees of
Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
R. K. Elswick and
Chris Gennings and
Vernon M. Chinchilli and
Kathryn S. Dawson A Simple Approach for Finding Estimable
Functions in Linear Models . . . . . . . 51
Robert A. McLean and
William L. Sanders and
Walter W. Stroup A Unified Approach to Mixed Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 64
K. G. Russell Estimating the Value of e by Simulation 66
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 68
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Brian Dawkins Siobhan's Problem: The Coupon Collector
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Paul D. Sampson and
Peter Guttorp Power Transformations and Tests of
Environmental Impact as Interaction
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Albert Chevan and
Michael Sutherland Hierarchical Partitioning . . . . . . . 90
Richard A. Groeneveld An Influence Function Approach to
Describing the Skewness of a
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
Edna Schechtman On Estimating the Asymptotic Variance of
a Function of $U$ Statistics . . . . . . 103--106
Phillip S. Kott A Model-Based Look at Linear Regression
With Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
Siddhartha Chib and
Ram C. Tiwari Extreme Bounds Analysis in the Kalman
Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
Marie Gaudard and
Gerald J. Hahn An Undergraduate Concentration in
Applied Statistics for Mathematics
Majors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Peter W. Zehna On Proving That simX and $S^2$ are
Independent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Jonathan J. Shuster The Statistician in a Reverse Cocaine
Sting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Andrew Gelman and
Xiao-Li Meng A Note on Bivariate Distributions That
Are Conditionally Normal . . . . . . . . 125
Alastair Scott and
Chris Wild Transformations and $R^2$ . . . . . . . 127
M. J. Goddard Constructing Some Categorical Anomalies 129--134
Gilbert W. Bassett Equivariant, Monotonic, 50% Breakdown
Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Robert Bartels and
Denzil G. Fiebig A Simple Characterization of Seemingly
Unrelated Regressions Models in Which
OLS Is BLUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 141
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 146
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Gordon Rae and
John E. Spencer Average Spearman's Rho, Concordance, and
the Matching Problem: Some Relationships 161
Marie D. Wann A. Ross Eckler, 1901--1991 . . . . . . . 173--173
Rhonda Cockerill and
Bruce Fried Increasing Public Awareness of
Statistics as a Science and a Profession
--- Reinforcing the Message in
Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Hal Stern On the Probability of Winning a Football
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
L. Robert Hill and
William G. Hammond and
John R. Benfield Logistic Regression Analysis in
Experimental Bronchial Carcinogenesis 184
Thomas W. O'Gorman and
Robert F. Woolson Variable Selection to Discriminate
Between Two Groups: Stepwise Logistic
Regression or Stepwise Discriminant
Analysis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
W. W. Stroup and
D. K. Mulitze Nearest Neighbor Adjusted Best Linear
Unbiased Prediction . . . . . . . . . . 194
Edward L. Korn and
Richard Simon Explained Residual Variation, Explained
Risk, and Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . 201
Charles L. Dunn Precise Simulated Percentiles in a Pinch 207
Daniel Peña and
George C. Tiao A Note on Likelihood Estimation of
Missing Values in Time Series . . . . . 212--213
Richard Madsen On the Probability of a Perfect
Progression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Adrienne W. Kemp and
C. David Kemp Weldon's Dice Data Revisited . . . . . . 216
Carl J. Schwarz and
M. Samanta An Inductive Proof of the Sampling
Distributions for the MLE's of the
Parameters in an Inverse Gaussian
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--225
Ayala Cohen Dummy Variables in Stepwise Regression 226
E. H. Oksanen A Simple Approach to Teaching
Generalized Least Squares Theory . . . . 229
John Haslett and
Ronan Bradley and
Peter Craig and
Antony Unwin and
Graham Wills Dynamic Graphics for Exploring Spatial
Data With Application to Locating Global
and Local Anomalies . . . . . . . . . . 234
Jonathan D. Cryer TIMESLAB: A Times Series Laboratory . . 243
Sander Greenland On the Logical Justification of
Conditional Tests for Two-by-Two
Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Deanna B. Haunsperger and
Donald G. Saari The Lack of Consistency for Statistical
Decision Procedures . . . . . . . . . . 252
Anonymous William R. Schucany . . . . . . . . . . 263
Sunil K. Sapra A Connection Between the Logit Model,
Normal Discriminant Analysis, and
Multivariate Normal Mixtures . . . . . . 265
Juliet Popper Shaffer The Gauss-Markov Theorem and Random
Regressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
Sòren Bisgaard Teaching Statistics to Engineers . . . . 274
J. P. Morgan and
N. R. Chaganty and
R. C. Dahiya and
M. J. Doviak Let's Make a Deal: The Player's Dilemma 284--287
Richard G. Seymann Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
J. P. Morgan and
N. R. Chaganty and
R. C. Dahiya and
M. J. Doviak Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Donald G. Watts Why Is Introductory Statistics Difficult
to Learn? And What Can We Do to Make It
Easier? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Norean Radke-Sharpe Writing As a Component of Statistics
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
H. J. Khamis Manual Computations --- A Tool for
Reinforcing Concepts and Techniques . . 294
Arvind K. Shah Relationship Between the Coefficients of
Determination of Algebraically Related
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Lawrence J. Emrich and
Marion R. Piedmonte A Method for Generating High-Dimensional
Multivariate Binary Variates . . . . . . 302
Robert V. Hogg Statistical Education: Improvements Are
Badly Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Myra L. Samuels Statistical Reversion Toward the Mean:
More Universal Than Regression Toward
the Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
D. R. Cox and
Nanny Wermuth A Comment on the Coefficient of
Determination for Binary Responses . . . 1
Lance A. Waller and
Bruce W. Turnbull Probability Plotting With Censored Data 5
Anne I. Goldman EVENTCHARTS: Visualizing Survival and
Other Timed-Events Data . . . . . . . . 13
Barry K. Moser and
Gary R. Stevens Homogeneity of Variance in the
Two-Sample Means Test . . . . . . . . . 19
Thomas L. Boullion and
John W. Seaman, Jr. and
Dean M. Young Moments of Discrete Probability
Distributions Derived Using a
Differential Operator . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Barry C. Arnold and
Patrick L. Brockett On distributions whose component ratios
are Cauchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Gary W. Oehlert A Note on the Delta Method . . . . . . . 27--29
Dennis L. Clason and
Leigh W. Murray Exponential Families and Variance
Component Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Bernard D. Flury and
A. Narayanan A Mixture Approach to Multivariate
Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dale A. Kopas and
Paul R. McAllister Process Improvement Exercises for the
Chemical Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 34
H. F. Martz and
W. J. Zimmer The Risk of Catastrophic Failure of the
Solid Rocket Boosters on the Space
Shuttle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Charles Hallahan DBMS/COPY and DBMS/COPY Plus ---
(Version 2.0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Robert F. Ling Just Say No to Binomial (and Other
Discrete Distributions) Tables . . . . . 53
Joseph L. Gastwirth Statistical Reasoning in the Legal
Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Thomas P. Hettmansperger and
Simon J. Sheather A Cautionary Note on the Method of Least
Median Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
A. F. M. Smith and
A. E. Gelfand Bayesian Statistics Without Tears: A
Sampling--Resampling Perspective . . . . 84--88
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Alexandros A. Arabatzis and
Marion R. Reynolds Mean Squared Error Performance of Simple
Linear Regression Conditional Upon the
Outcome of Pretesting the Intercept . . 89
Walter W. Piegorsch Complementary Log Regression for
Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . 94
Steven B. Cohen and
Ayah E. Johnson Address Sample Effects in the National
Medical Expenditure Survey . . . . . . . 100
Tommy Wright Lagrange's Identity Reveals Correlation
Coefficient and Straight-Line Connection 106
Francisco J. Samaniego Elementary Derivations of Geometric
Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Leonard A. Stefanski Monotone Likelihood Ratio of a
``Faulty-Inspection'' Distribution . . . 110
John E. Angus Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator of
the Probability of an Odd Number of
Successes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Ralph W. Bailey Distributional Identities of Beta and
Chi-Squared Variates: A Geometrical
Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Inchi Hu An Elementary Solution to a Traffic
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Barry Kurt Moser and
Yuh-Ren Lin Equivalence of the Corrected $F$ Test
and the Weighted Least Squares Procedure 122--124
Bruce L. Bowerman and
Richard T. O'Connell Integrating Quality Control Concepts
Into the Introductory Business
Statistics Course . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 129
Raymond H. Myers and
Andre I. Khuri and
Geoffrey Vining Response Surface Alternatives to the
Taguchi Robust Parameter Design Approach 131
M. C. Jones and
John A. Rice Displaying the Important Features of
Large Collections of Similar Curves . . 140
Cyrus R. Mehta and
Stephen J. Walsh Comparison of Exact, Mid-$p$, and
Mantel-Haenszel Confidence Intervals for
the Common Odds Ratio Across Several $2
\times 2$ Contingency Tables . . . . . . 146
David A. Larson Analysis of Variance With Just Summary
Statistics as Input . . . . . . . . . . 151
Walter T. Federer and
Michael P. Meredith Covariance Analysis for Split-Plot and
Split-Block Designs . . . . . . . . . . 155
George Casella and
Edward I. George Explaining the Gibbs Sampler . . . . . . 167--174
N. S. Altman An Introduction to Kernel and
Nearest-Neighbor Nonparametric
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--185
J. R. M. Hosking Moments or $L$ Moments? An Example
Comparing Two Measures of Distributional
Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
David J. Hand On Comparing Two Treatments . . . . . . 190
Stephen B. Vardeman What About the Other Intervals? . . . . 193
James A. Hanley Jumping to Coincidences: Defying Odds in
the Realm of the Preposterous . . . . . 197
Richard A. Paulson Using Lottery Games to Illustrate
Statistical Concepts and Abuses . . . . 202
Ingram Olkin A Matrix Formulation on How Deviant an
Observation Can Be . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209
Nabendu Pal and
J. Calvin Berry On Invariance and Maximum Likelihood
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--212
Shashikala Sukhatme Powers of Two-Sample Rank Tests Under
the Lehmann Alternatives . . . . . . . . 212--214
Ravindra Khattree Comparing Estimators for Population
Variance Using Pitman Nearness . . . . . 214
Alvin C. Rencher Interpretation of Canonical Discriminant
Functions, Canonical Variates, and
Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 217
Myra L. Samuels and
Tai-Fang C. Lu Sample Size Requirements for the
Back-of-the-Envelope Binomial Confidence
Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Ted C. Chang and
Sharon L. Lohr and
C. Graham McLaren Teaching Survey Sampling Using
Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
James Albert A Bayesian analysis of a Poisson random
effects model for home run hitters . . . 246--253
Peter J. Danaher Some Statistical Modeling Problems in
the Advertising Industry: A Look at
Media Exposure Distributions . . . . . . 254
Howard Hogan The 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey: An
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Thomas S. Nunnikhoven A Birthday Problem Solution for
Nonuniform Birth Frequencies . . . . . . 270
Ronald Christensen and
Jessica Utts Bayesian Resolution of the ``Exchange
Paradox'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--276
Marcel F. Neuts An invariance property of the Poisson
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--278
Roger L. Berger and
George Casella Deriving Generalized Means as Least
Squares and Maximum Likelihood Estimates 279
William Becker and
Peter Kennedy A Lesson in Least Squares and $R$
Squared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
LeRoy A. Franklin Graphical Insight Into Multiple
Regression Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 284
Sutaip L. C. Saw ANOVA Sums of Squares as Quadratic Forms 288
Robert W. Hayden and
Farid Kianifard Preparing High School Mathematics
Teachers to Teach Statistics . . . . . . 290
William J. Wilson Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship 295
Don McNeil On Graphing Paired Data . . . . . . . . 307
John C. Nash Statistical Shareware: Illustrations
From Regression Techniques . . . . . . . 312
David Strauss The Many Faces of Logistic Regression 321
Dennis D. Boos On Generalized Score Tests . . . . . . . 327
Gerald J. Hahn and
William Q. Meeker Assumptions for Statistical Inference 1
Ian Spence and
Robert F. Garrison A Remarkable Scatterplot . . . . . . . . 12
Maureen Tingley and
Chunhui Li A Note on Obtaining Confidence Intervals
for Discrete Parameters . . . . . . . . 20--23
Joel R. Levin An Improved Modification of a
Regression-Toward-the-Mean Demonstration 24
Harry M. Schey The Relationship Between the Magnitudes
of SSR($x_2$) and SSR($x_2 \vert x_1$):
A Geometric Description . . . . . . . . 26
Guy Thomas and
John O'Quigley A Geometric Interpretation of Partial
Correlation Using Spherical Triangles 30
T. W. Epps Characteristic Functions and Their
Empirical Counterparts: Geometrical
Interpretations and Applications to
Statistical Inference . . . . . . . . . 33
David Oakes A Note on the Kaplan-Meier Estimator . . 39
J. B. Douglas Confidence Regions for Parameter Pairs 43
Carl J. Schwarz The Mixed-Model ANOVA: The Truth, the
Computer Packages, the Books. Part I:
Balance Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Joseph M. Hilbe Generalized Additive Models Software . . 59
Paul F. Velleman and
Leland Wilkinson Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio
Typologies Are Misleading . . . . . . . 65
Colin R. Blyth Restrict Estimates to the Possible
Values? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Cyrus R. Mehta and
Joan F. Hilton Exact Power of Conditional and
Unconditional Tests: Going Beyond the $2
\times 2$ Contingency Table . . . . . . 91
Janice Derr Biostatistics Cores: Improving the
Chances for Funding . . . . . . . . . . 99
T. P. Hutchinson The Seventh-Root Formula for a
Trivariate Normal Probability . . . . . 102
E. Jacquelin Dietz A Cooperative Learning Activity on
Methods of Selecting a Sample . . . . . 104
Cynthia A. Coyle and
Chamont Wang Wanna Bet? On Gambling Strategies That
May or May Not Work in a Casino . . . . 108
Y. H. Wang and
Jordan Stoyanov and
Qi Man Shao On Independence and Dependence
Properties of a Set of Random Events . . 112--115
Arvind K. Shah and
K. Krishnamoorthy Testing Means Using Hypothesis-Dependent
Variance Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 115
R. C. Juola More on Shortest Confidence Intervals 117--119
Richard M. Engeman Short Courses as Part of Statistical
Consulting in a Foreign Setting . . . . 122
D. A. Sprott and
V. T. Farewell The Difference Between Two Normal Means 126
Harry O. Posten An Effective Algorithm for the
Noncentral Beta Distribution Function 129
William A. Link Simulation Testing of Unbiasedness of
Variance Estimators . . . . . . . . . . 132
Robin H. Lock A Comparison of Five Student Versions of
Statistics Packages . . . . . . . . . . 136
James R. Boen and
Marcus O. Kjelsberg Career Information for Statistics
Graduate Students . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Ronald D. Snee What's Missing in Statistical Education? 149
Gerald van Belle and
Donald C. Martin Sample Size as a Function of Coefficient
of Variation and Ratio of Means . . . . 165
Roland D. Fisch and
Gunther A. Strehlau A Simplified Approach to Calibration
Confidence Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
David S. Moore The Place of Video in New Styles of
Teaching and Learning Statistics . . . . 172
André I. Khuri A note on Scheffé's confidence intervals 176--178
C. J. Wild and
G. A. F. Seber Comparing Two Proportions From the Same
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--181
James H. Albert Teaching Bayesian Statistics Using
Sampling Methods and MINITAB . . . . . . 182
Luis A. Escobar and
E. Barry Moser A Note on the Updating of Regression
Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Julio L. Peixoto Incorrect $F$ Formulas in Regression
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
H. A. David A Note on Order Statistics for Dependent
Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Lambert H. Koopmans A Note on Using the Moment Generating
Function to Teach the Laws of Large
Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
Jeffrey F. Bromaghin Sample Size Determination for Interval
Estimation of Multinomial Probabilities 203
Andrew R. Solow Estimating Record Inclusion Probability 206
A. J. Lee Generating Random Binary Deviates Having
Fixed Marginal Distributions and
Specified Degrees of Association . . . . 209
R. Murray Lindsay and
A. S. C. Ehrenberg The Design of Replicated Studies . . . . 217
Richard M. Engeman and
Stephen A. Shumake Animal Welfare and the Statistical
Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
William R. Schucany Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Jay Bennett Did Shoeless Joe Jackson Throw the 1919
World Series? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Lawrence D. Brown and
J. T. Gene Hwang How to Approximate a Histogram by a
Normal Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
Carles M. Cuadras Interpreting an Inequality in Multiple
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Adrian E. Raftery and
Tore Schweder Inference About the Ratio of Two
Parameters, With Application to Whale
Censusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Bert Gunter Through a Funnel Slowly With Ball
Bearing and Insight to Teach
Experimental Design . . . . . . . . . . 265
J. Wanzer Drane and
Su Hua Cao and
Lixia Wang and
T. Postelnicu Limiting Forms of Probability Mass
Functions via Recurrence Formulas . . . 269--274
Donald B. Percival Three Curious Properties of the Sample
Variance and Autocovariance for
Stationary Processes With Unknown Mean 274--276
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 277
Roger W. Hoerl and
Jeffrey H. Hooper and
Peter J. Jacobs and
James M. Lucas Skills for Industrial Statisticians to
Survive and Prosper in the Emerging
Quality Environment . . . . . . . . . . 280
Richard N. MacLennan Interrater Reliability With SPSS for
Windows 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 297
Albert K. Okunade and
Cyril F. Chang and
Richard D. Evans Comparative Analysis of Regression
Output Summary Statistics in Common
Statistical Packages . . . . . . . . . . 298
Bernard D. Flury and
Thaddeus Tarpey Representing a Large Collection of
Curves: A Case for Principal Points . . 304
Kinley Larntz Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Henry F. Inman Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher on
Statistical Tests: A 1935 Exchange from
Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--11
Maria Elena Gonzalez Improving Data Quality Awareness in the
United States Federal Statistical
Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Patricia S. Abel and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla To Survive or to Fail: That is the
Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
David A. Harville and
Michael H. Smith The Home-Court Advantage: How Large Is
It and Does It Vary From Team to Team? 22
Khoan T. Dinh and
Truc T. Nguyen Maximum Likelihood Estimators of
Binomial Parameters Under an Order
Restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Philip L. H. Yu A Simple Statistical Project: Image
Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Ester Samuel-Cahn Combining unbiased estimators . . . . . 34--36
Peter B. Imrey Statistical Values, Quality, and
Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
J. Stuart Hunter and
Stephen M. Stigler and
Stephen E. Fienberg and
James Boen and
Joseph B. Kadane Invited Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Peter B. Imrey Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Friedrich Pukelsheim The Three Sigma Rule . . . . . . . . . . 88--91
Wenjun Chen and
Tim Swartz Quantitative Aspects of Five-Pin Bowling 92
Tapan K. Nayak Pitman Nearness Comparison of Some
Estimators of Population Variance . . . 99--102
R. L. Eubank A Simple Smoothing Spline . . . . . . . 103--106
Woollcott Smith and
Milton Parnes Mean Streets: The Median of a
Size-Biased Sample and the Population
Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
J. Brian Gray and
William H. Woodall The Maximum Size of Standardized and
Internally Studentized Residuals in
Regression Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 111
Richard Anderson-Sprecher Model Comparisons and $R^2$ . . . . . . 113
Gregory Samsa and
Eugene Z. Oddone Integrating Scientific Writing Into a
Statistics Curriculum: A Course in
Statistically Based Scientific Writing 117
David M. Nickerson Construction of a Conservative
Confidence Region From Projections of an
Exact Confidence Region in Multiple
Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
Michael Cain The Moment-Generating Function of the
Minimum of Bivariate Normal Random
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
Shaul K. Bar-Lev A Derivation of Conditional Cumulants in
Exponential Models . . . . . . . . . . . 126--129
Cuthbert Daniel Factorial One-Factor-at-a-Time
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Gary Tietjen Recursive Schemes for Calculating
Cumulative Binomial and Poisson
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Carlos G. Lazaro and
David DeLong and
Ming-Long Lam and
William H. Rogers and
Patrick J. Fleury Invited Responses to Dallal, G. E.
(1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
Factorial Experiments With Nested
Factors,'' The American Statistician,
46, 240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Shayle R. Searle Analysis of Variance Computing Package
Output for Unbalanced Data From
Fixed-Effects Models With Nested Factors 148
Anne Boomsma and
Ivo W. Molenaar Four Electronic Tables for Probability
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
C. J. Wild Embracing the ``Wider View'' of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Thomas J. Boardman The statistician who changed the world:
W. Edwards Deming, 1900--1993 . . . . . 179--187
Steven N. MacEachern and
L. Mark Berliner Subsampling the Gibbs Sampler . . . . . 188
Daniel L. Solomon and
J. Tim Arnold and
Bruce E. Trumbo and
Paul F. Velleman Electronic Publications in Statistics
--- Ready or Not, Here They Come . . . . 191
Howard S. Gitlow A Comparison of Japanese Total Quality
Control and Dr Deming's Theory of
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Harry J. Khamis and
Barbara L. Mann Outreach at a University Statistical
Consulting Center . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Peter McCullagh Does the Moment-Generating Function
Characterize a Distribution? . . . . . . 208--208
Johan Bring How to Standardize Regression
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Leo Knüsel The prediction problem as the dual form
of the two-sample problem with
applications to the Poisson and the
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 214--219
Joseph W. McKean and
Thomas J. Vidmar A Comparison of Two Rank-Based Methods
for the Analysis of Linear Models . . . 220
Murray A. Jorgensen Tail Functions and Iterative Weights in
Binary Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Brani Vidakovic All Roads Lead to Rome --- Even in the
Honeycomb World . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
Daniel R. Jeske Illustrating the Gauss-Markov Theorem 237
Lynn Roy LaMotte A Note on the Role of Independence in
$t$ Statistics Constructed From Linear
Statistics in Regression Models . . . . 238
Qi Zheng and
James H. Matis Correlation Coefficient Revisited . . . 240
Edsel A. Peña and
Vijay Rohatgi Some Comments About Sufficiency and
Unbiased Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Roman Viveros and
K. Balasubramanian and
N. Balakrishnan Binomial and Negative Binomial Analogues
Under Correlated Bernoulli Trials . . . 243
Jeffrey S. Pontius and
Rhoda M. Schantz Graphical Analyses of a Two-Period
Crossover Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Joseph M. Hilbe Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . 255
C. J. Wild and
G. A. F. Seber Correction: ``Comparing two proportions
from the same survey'' [Amer.\ Statist.
\bf 47 (1993), no. 3, 178--181] . . . . 269--269
Panagis Moschopoulos and
Joan G. Staniswalis Estimation Given Conditionals From an
Exponential Family . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Geert Molenberghs The Shape of Correlation Matrices . . . 276--279
David L. DeMets and
Dan Anbar and
William Fairweather and
Thomas A. Louis and
Robert T. O'Neill Training the Next Generation of
Biostatisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Robert V. Hogg A Core in Statistics for Engineering
Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Stephen L. Hillis and
Charles S. Davis A Simple Justification of the Iterative
Fitting Procedure for Generalized Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
Julian L. Simon What Some Puzzling Problems Teach About
the Theory of Simulation and the Use of
Resampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Joseph B. Keller A characterization of the Poisson
distribution and the probability of
winning a game . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--298
Dorothy D. Dunlop Regression for Longitudinal Data: A
Bridge From Least Squares Regression . . 299--303
Mark F. Schilling and
Ann E. Watkins A Suggestion for Sunflower Plots . . . . 303
A. C. Atkinson Transforming Both Sides of a Tree . . . 307
Joseph Gastwirth and
Abba Krieger and
Paul Rosenbaum How a Court Accepted an Impossible
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Thomas P. Lane and
William H. DuMouchel Simultaneous Confidence Intervals in
Multiple Regression . . . . . . . . . . 315
Ita G. G. Kreft and
Jan De Leeuw and
Rien Van Der Leeden Review of Five Multilevel Analysis
Programs: BMDP-5V, GENMOD, HLM, ML3, and
VARCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Junghun Kim and
Pravin K. Trivedi Econometric Time Series Analysis
Software: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . 336
K. T. Dinh and
Truc T. Nguyen Acknowledgement of priority: ``Maximum
likelihood estimators of binomial
parameters under an order restriction''
[Amer. Statist. \bf 48 (1994), no. 1,
29--30] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
Jon R. Kettenring What Industry Needs . . . . . . . . . . 2
Peter J. Bickel What Academia Needs . . . . . . . . . . 5
N. Phillip Ross What the Government Needs . . . . . . . 7
John C. Bailar III A Larger Perspective . . . . . . . . . . 10
John Lehoczky Modernizing Statistics Ph.D. Programs 12
Carl N. Morris Respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Robert L. Wardrop Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in
Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Edward E. Gbur, Jr. and
Bruce E. Trumbo Key Words and Phrases --- The Key to
Scholarly Visibility and Efficiency in
an Information Explosion . . . . . . . . 29
Barry C. Arnold and
Richard A. Groeneveld Measuring Skewness With Respect to the
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38
C. E. McCulloch and
S. R. Searle On an Identity Derived From Unbiasedness
in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
Douglas J. Taylor and
Keith E. Muller Computing Confidence Bounds for Power
and Sample Size of the General Linear
Univariate Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
William Q. Meeker and
Luis A. Escobar Teaching About Approximate Confidence
Regions Based on Maximum Likelihood
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Robert A. Stine Graphical Interpretation of Variance
Inflation Factors . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Neil C. Schwertman and
Terry L. Kiser The Role of Geometry in Pairwise and
Mutual Independence . . . . . . . . . . 56
Michael F. Driscoll and
Barbara Krasnicka An accessible proof of Craig's theorem
in the general case . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 62
Stephen W. Looney How to Use Tests for Univariate
Normality to Assess Multivariate
Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Peyton Cook and
Lyle D. Broemeling Bayesian Statistics Using Mathematica 70
E. Neely Atkinson Interactive Dynamic Graphics for
Exploratory Survival Analysis . . . . . 77
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 84
Jenny Baglivo Computer Algebra Systems: Maple and
Mathematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
John C. Nash Computer Algebra Systems: DERIVE(R) . . 93
Philip M. Lurie A Review of Five Statistical Packages
for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
T. D. Sterling and
W. L. Rosenbaum and
J. J. Weinkam Publication Decisions Revisited: The
Effect of the Outcome of Statistical
Tests on the Decision to Publish and
Vice Versa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
H. A. David First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in
Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . . 121
Stephen J. Gange Generating Multivariate Categorical
Variates Using the Iterative
Proportional Fitting Algorithm . . . . . 134
Martin L. Lesser and
Nina E. Kohn and
Barbara A. Napolitano and
Savita Pahwa The FU-PLOT: A Graphical Method for
Visualizing the Timing of Follow-Up in
Longitudinal Studies . . . . . . . . . . 139
Michael A. Proschan and
Dean A. Follmann Multiple Comparisons With Control in a
Single Experiment Versus Separate
Experiments: Why Do We Feel Differently? 144
Lance Waller Does the Characteristic Function
Numerically Distinguish Distribution? 150
Michael Friendly Conceptual and Visual Models for
Categorical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Richard D. Gelber and
Bernard F. Cole and
Shari Gelber and
Aron Goldhirsch Comparing Treatments Using
Quality-Adjusted Survival: The Q-TWiST
Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Kazem Kazempour Impact of Stratification Imbalance on
Probability of Type I Error . . . . . . 170
Thomas K. Philips and
Randolph Nelson The Moment Bound is Tighter Than
Chernoff's Bound for Positive Tail
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
Lewis H. Shoemaker Tests for Differences in Dispersion
Based on Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Joyce C. Niland and
Tamara L. Odom-Maryon and
Jennifer Lee and
Barbara C. Tilley A Survey of Biostatistical Consulting
Units Throughout North America . . . . . 183
Jeffrey B. Birch Ten Suggestions for Effectively Teaching
Short Courses to Heterogeneous Groups 190
John A. Cornell and
Ron H. Randles and
G. Geoff Vining Challenges in Teaching Short Courses by
an Academic Department: The University
of Florida Experience . . . . . . . . . 195
David G. Kleinbaum Teaching Short Courses in Biostatistics
and Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Clifford Konold Confessions of a Coin Flipper and
Would-Be Instructor . . . . . . . . . . 203
R. W. Oldford A Physical Device for Demonstrating
Confounding, Blocking, and the Role of
Randomization in Uncovering a Causal
Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Peter J. Smith A Recursive Formulation of the Old
Problem of Obtaining Moments From
Cumulants and Vice Versa . . . . . . . . 217--218
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 219
William O. Williford and
William F. Krol and
Stephen F. Bingham and
Joseph F. Collins and
David G. Weiss The Multicenter Clinical Trials
Coordination Center Statistician: ``More
Than a Consultant'' . . . . . . . . . . 221
Frank Y. Hsieh A Cautionary Note on the Analysis of
Extreme Data With Cox Regression . . . . 226
N. Balakrishnan and
R. A. Sandhu A Simple Simulational Algorithm for
Generating Progressive Type-II Censored
Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
R. Chattamvelli A Note on the Noncentral Beta
Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . 231
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 235
Joseph M. Cameron and
Joan R. Rosenblatt Churchill Eisenhart, 1913-1994 . . . . . 243
William J. Spencer and
Paul A. Tobias Statistics in the Semiconductor
Industry: A Competitive Necessity . . . 245
David S. Moore and
George W. Cobb and
Joan Garfield and
William Q. Meeker Statistics Education Fin de Si\`ecle . . 250
W. Scott Overton and
Stephen V. Stehman The Horvitz-Thompson Theorem as a
Unifying Perspective for Probability
Sampling: With Examples From Natural
Resource Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Ian T. Jolliffe Sample Sizes and the Central Limit
Theorem: The Poisson Distribution as an
Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Dennis P. Walsh Equating Poisson and Normal Probability
Functions to Derive Stirling's Formula 270
Paul R. Coe and
William Butterworth Optimal stopping in ``The showcase
showdown'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
David C. Hoaglin and
Paul F. Velleman A Critical Look at Some Analyses of
Major League Baseball Salaries . . . . . 277
Roger G. Johnston and
Shayla D. Schroder and
A. Rajika Mallawaaratchy Statistical Artifacts in the Ratio of
Discrete Quantities . . . . . . . . . . 285
Edward L. Korn and
Barry I. Graubard Examples of Differing Weighted and
Unweighted Estimates From a Sample
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Sharon-Lise T. Normand Meta-Analysis Software: A Comparative
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Paul A. Thompson Correspondence Analysis in Statistical
Package Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Paul Alper and
Robert L. Raymond Imposing Views, Imposing Shoes: A
Statistician as a Sole Model . . . . . . 316
Siddartha Chib and
Edward Greenberg Understanding the Metropolis-Hastings
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Gerald J. Hahn Deming's Impact on Industrial
Statistics: Some Reflections . . . . . . 336
Katherine L. Monti Folded Empirical Distribution Function
Curves --- Mountain Plots . . . . . . . 342
Lance A. Waller and
Bruce W. Turnbull and
J. Michael Hardin Obtaining Distribution Functions by
Numerical Inversion of Characteristic
Functions With Applications . . . . . . 346
Inge S. Helland Simple Counterexamples Against the
Conditionality Principle . . . . . . . . 351--356
Daniel Zelterman and
Ivan Siu-Fung Chan and
Paul W. Mielke, Jr. Exact Tests of Significance in Higher
Dimensional Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Charles E. Gates What Really Is Experimental Error in
Block Designs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Johannes Ledolter Projects in Introductory Statistics
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Alan T. Arnholt and
Jaimie L. Hebert Estimating the Mean With Known
Coefficient of Variation . . . . . . . . 367
Yoong-Sin Lee Graphical Demonstration of an Optimality
Property of the Median . . . . . . . . . 369
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 372
Sharon L. Lohr Hasse Diagrams in Statistical Consulting
and Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
John A. Nelder and
Peter W. Lane The Computer Analysis of Factorial
Experiments: In Memorian --- Frank Yates 382
John M. Charnes and
Howard S. Gitlow Using Control Charts to Corroborate
Bribery in Jai Alai . . . . . . . . . . 386
R. J. O'Hara Hines and
W. G. S. Hines Exploring Cook's Statistic Graphically 389
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 395
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 404
R. J. Carroll and
David Ruppert The Use and Misuse of Orthogonal
Regression in Linear Errors-in-Variables
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jean-Marc Bernard Bayesian Interpretation of Frequentist
Procedures for a Bernoulli Process . . . 7
Bruce R. Johnson and
Benjamin J. Tilly On the Construction of Independence
Counterexamples . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Ian T. Jolliffe and
Peter B. Hope Bounded Bivariate Distributions With
Nearly Normal Marginals . . . . . . . . 17
Mark G. Vangel Confidence Intervals for a Normal
Coefficient of Variation . . . . . . . . 21
Christopher T. Edwards Double-Elimination Tournaments: Counting
and Calculating . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Neil C. Schwertman and
Kathryn L. Schenk and
Brett C. Holbrook More Probability Models for the NCAA
Regional Basketball Tournaments . . . . 34
Bradley P. Carlin Improved NCAA Basketball Tournament
Modeling via Point Spread and Team
Strength Information . . . . . . . . . . 39
Richard F. Gunst and
Gary C. McDonald The Importance of Outcome Dynamics,
Simple Geometry, and Pragmatic
Statistical Arguments in Exposing
Deficiencies of Experimental Design
Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Rhonda C. Magel Increasing Student Participation in
Large Introductory Statistics Classes 51
Johan Bring A Geometric Approach to Compare
Variables in a Regression Model . . . . 57
Lawrence M. Leemis and
Kishor S. Trivedi A Comparison of Approximate Interval
Estimators for the Bernoulli Parameter 63
Thomas E. Bradstreet Teaching Introductory Statistics Courses
So That Nonstatisticians Experience
Statistical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 69
Johannes Ledolter and
K. S. Chan Evaluating the Impact of the 65 mph
Maximum Speed Limit on Iowa Rural
Interstates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 86
Keith Ord and
Sam Lowe Automatic Forecasting . . . . . . . . . 88
Howard Wainer Depicting Error . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Richard A. Becker and
Sallie Keller-McNulty Presentation Myths . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Sheldon M. Ross Bayesians Should Not Resample a Prior
Sample to Learn About the Posterior . . 116--116
Rollin Brant Digesting Logistic Regression Results 117
Rob J. Hyndman Computing and Graphing Highest Density
Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
W. G. S. Hines Pragmatics of Pooling in ANOVA Tables 127
Dayanand N. Naik and
Ravindra Khattree Revisiting Olympic Track Records: Some
Practical Considerations in the
Principal Component Analysis . . . . . . 140
D. R. Grimmett and
J. R. Ridenhour The Effect of a Variable Data Point on
Hypothesis Tests for Means . . . . . . . 145--150
Jeffrey H. Dorfman Pseudorandom Sampling Has a Real Effect
on Test Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
A. J. Lawrance A Design of Experiments Workshop as an
Introduction to Statistics . . . . . . . 156
Arnold J. Stromberg and
Subathra Ramanathan Easy Implementation of Writing in
Introductory Statistics Courses . . . . 159
Sander Greenland A Lower Bound for the Correlation of
Exponentiated Bivariate Normal Pairs . . 163--164
Renato Assuncao Likelihood Elasticity and Error Bounds 165
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 168
Richard J. Beckman Plotting $pk$ Factorial or $pn-k$
Fractional Factorial Data . . . . . . . 170
Ronald Christensen and
Aparna V. Huzurbazar A Note on Augmenting Resolution III
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
D. J. Murdoch and
E. D. Chow A Graphical Display of Large Correlation
Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Alan J. Miller The Convergence of Efroymson's Stepwise
Regression Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 180
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 182
Scott S. Emerson Statistical Packages for Group
Sequential Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Mark J. Schervish $P$ Values: What They Are and What They
Are Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
Daniel F. Heitjan and
Srabashi Basu Distinguishing ``missing at random'' and
``missing completely at random'' . . . . 207--213
S. Kunte and
K. S. Upadhya Estimating Multinomial Probabilities . . 214--216
Paul F. Velleman and
David S. Moore Multimedia for Teaching Statistics:
Promises and Pitfalls . . . . . . . . . 217
Thomas R. Fears and
Jacques Benichou and
Mitchell H. Gail A Reminder of the Fallibility of the
Wald Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Wendy A. Bergerud Displaying Factor Relationships in
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Jerry Sullivan Understanding the Degrees of Freedom
Concept by Computer Experiments . . . . 234
Paul H. Kvam Using Exam Scores to Estimate the
Prevalence of Classroom Cheating . . . . 238
Neil C. Schwertman A Connection Between Quadratic-Type
Confidence Limits and Fiducial Limits 242--243
Malay Ghosh Wishart Distribution via Induction . . . 243--246
L. A. Stefanski A Note on the
Arithmetic-Geometric-Harmonic Mean
Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Robert J. Mac and
G. Dawson How Many Light Bulbs Does it Take to
Generate a Data Set? . . . . . . . . . . 247
Steven C. Hillmer A Problem-Solving Approach to Teaching
Business Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 249
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 257
Michael D. Ernst and
Rudy Guerra and
William R. Schucany Scatterplots for Unordered Pairs . . . . 260
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 266
Joseph Hilbe Windows File Conversion Software . . . . 268
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher The Power of Replications and
Replications of Power . . . . . . . . . 271
Kinley Larntz Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Brad Warner and
Manavendra Misra Understanding Neural Networks as
Statistical Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Wilfried R. Vanhonacker Meta-Analysis and Response Surface
Extrapolation: A Least Squares Approach 294
Alexander von Eye and
Christiane Spiel Standard and Nonstandard Log-Linear
Symmetry Models for Measuring Change in
Categorical Variables . . . . . . . . . 300
Chul Gyu Park and
Taesung Park and
Dong Wan Shin A Simple Method for Generating
Correlated Binary Variates . . . . . . . 306--310
Eduardo Ley On the Peculiar Distribution of the U.S.
Stock Indexes' Digits . . . . . . . . . 311
Roger L. Berger More Powerful Tests From Confidence
Interval $p$ Values . . . . . . . . . . 314
D. K. Bhaumik and
P. M. Kulkarni A Simple and Exact Method of
Constructing Tolerance Intervals for the
One-Way ANOVA With Random Effects . . . 319
Ibrahim A. Ahmad A Class of Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon Type
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--327
Ronald S. Fesco and
William D. Kalsbeek and
Sharon L. Lohr and
Richard L. Scheaffer and
Fritz J. Scheuren and
Elizabeth A. Stasny Teaching Survey Sampling . . . . . . . . 328
David R. Appleton and
Joyce M. French and
Mark P. J. Vanderpump Ignoring a Covariate: An Example of
Simpson's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Mervyn G. Marasinghe and
William Q. Meeker and
Dianne Cook and
Tae-sung Shin Using Graphics and Simulation to Teach
Statistical Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 342
Bernard Rosner and
Frederick Mosteller and
Cleo Youtz Modeling Pitching Performance and the
Distribution of Runs per Inning in Major
League Baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Rob J. Hyndman and
Yanan Fan Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages 361
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu A Note on the Calculation of Pr$(X_1 <
X_2 \cdots{} < X_k)$ . . . . . . . . . . 365
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 366
John C. Nash and
Tony K. Quon Software for Modeling Kinetic Phenomena 368
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 390
James M. Landwehr Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Peter H. Westfall and
Russell D. Wolfinger Multiple Tests with Discrete
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
H. A. David and
Jason L. Gunnink The Paired $t$ Test Under Artificial
Pairing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
Heather Hammer Symbolic Exclusion in Statistical
Literature: The Impact of Gendered
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Shayle R. Searle Built-In Restrictions on Best Linear
Unbiased Predictors (BLUP) of Random
Effects in Mixed Models . . . . . . . . 19
Necip Doganaksoy and
N. Balakrishnan A Useful Property of Best Linear
Unbiased Predictors with Applications to
Life-Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
William Navidi A Graphical Illustration of the EM
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Edward A. Silver and
Daniel Costa A Property of Symmetric Distributions
and a Related Order Statistic Result . . 32--33
Thomas M. Sellke and
Sarah H. Sellke Chebyshev Inequalities for Unimodal
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
Philippe Naveau Comparison Between the Chernoff and
Factorial Moment Bounds for Discrete
Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Michael J. Rovine and
Alexander von Eye A 14th Way to Look at a Correlation
Coefficient: Correlation as the
Proportion of Matches . . . . . . . . . 42
N. Radke Sharpe and
R. A. Roberts The Relationship Among Sums of Squares,
Correlation Coefficients, and
Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Amy W. Lam Connections Between Two-Level Factorials
and Venn Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Michael Sherman Comparing the Sample Mean and the Sample
Median: An Exploration in the
Exponential Power Family . . . . . . . . 52
Justus F. Seely and
David Birkes and
Youngjo Lee Characterizing Sums of Squares by Their
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
M. P. Wand Data-Based Choice of Histogram Bin Width 59
Richard Goldstein Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 65
Philip G. Stein and
James R. Matey and
Karen Pitts A Review of Statistical Software for the
Apple Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Katherine L. Monti Making Statistical Tables in Windows: A
Comparison of Data Muncher and SAS (PROC
TABULATE and PROC REPORT) . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 93
Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. Robust Sports Ratings Based on Least
Absolute Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105
Robert Tibshirani Who is the Fastest Man in the World? . . 106
Charles Poole and
Sander Greenland How a Court Accepted a Possible
Explanation: A Comment on Gastwirth,
Krieger, and Rosenbaum . . . . . . . . . 112
Joseph L. Gastwirth and
Abba M. Krieger and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Reply: Unquestionably Impossible . . . . 115
Jim Mintz and
Wilfrid Dixon Objection Overruled: A Comment on
Gastwirth, Krieger, and Rosenbaum . . . 117
Joseph L. Gastwirth and
Abba M. Krieger and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Reply: Hypotheticals and Hypotheses . . 120
Matthew S. Mayo and
J. Brian Gray Elemental Subsets: The Building Blocks
of Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
V. C. Hombas Waiting Time and Expected Waiting Time:
Paradoxical Situations . . . . . . . . . 130--133
Jules I. Borack A Technique for Estimating the
Probability of Detecting a Nongaming
Drug User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
B. D. Jovanovic and
P. S. Levy A Look at the Rule of Three . . . . . . 137
Dawn M. VanLeeuwen A Note on the Covariance Structure in a
Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144
David L. Allen Hypothesis Testing Using an
${L1}$-Distance Bootstrap . . . . . . . 145--150
Michael R. Frey and
John C. Kern The Pitman Closeness of a Class of
Scaled Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 151--154
James R. Murphy How to Read the Statistical Methods
Literature: A Guide for Students . . . . 155
Franz Loosen A Concrete Strategy for Teaching
Hypothesis Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Prem K. Goel and
Mario Peruggia and
Baoshe An Computer-Aided Teaching of Probabilistic
Modeling for Biological Phenomena . . . 164
Danny W. Turner A Simple Example Illustrating a
Well-Known Property of the Correlation
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Candace Schau and
Nancy Mattern Use of Map Techniques in Teaching
Applied Statistics Courses . . . . . . . 171
Gemai Chen and
A. Adatia Independence and $t$ Distribution . . . 176
Mervyn J. Silvapulle A Curious Example Involving the
Likelihood Ratio Test Against One-Sided
Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
N. Balakrishnan and
C. R. Rao A Note on the Best Linear Unbiased
Estimation Based on Order Statistics . . 181--185
Xuming He Quantile Curves Without Crossing . . . . 186
Richard Goldstein Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 193
Dominique Houghton Packages for Estimating Finite Mixtures:
A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 206
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 210
Edward J. Bedrick and
Ronald Christensen and
Wesley Johnson Bayesian Binomial Regression: Predicting
Survival at a Trauma Center . . . . . . 211
Heng Li and
Hal S. Stern Bayesian Inference for Nested Designs
Based on Jeffreys' Prior . . . . . . . . 219--224
Andrew A. Neath and
Francisco J. Samaniego On the Efficacy of Bayesian Inference
for Nonidentifiable Models . . . . . . . 225--232
Alberto Luceno Further Evidence Supporting the
Numerical Usefulness of Characteristic
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
J. S. Buzas Fast Estimators of the Jackknife . . . . 235--240
Donald A. Berry Teaching Elementary Bayesian Statistics
with Real Applications in Science . . . 241
Jim Albert Teaching Bayes' Rule: A Data-Oriented
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
David S. Moore Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Jeffrey A. Witmer Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 262
Thomas H. Short Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 263
D. V. Lindley Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 265
David A. Freedman Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 266
Richard L. Scheaffer Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 268
Donald A. Berry Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 270
Jim Albert Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 271
David S. Moore Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 272
Kathryn S. Dawson and
Chris Gennings and
Walter H. Carter Two Graphical Techniques Useful in
Detecting Correlation Structure in
Repeated Measures Data . . . . . . . . . 275
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 284
Steven B. Cohen An Evaluation of Alternative PC-Based
Software Packages Developed for the
Analysis of Complex Survey Data . . . . 285
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 293
James A. Koziol and
Joel E. Alexander and
Lance O. Bauer and
Samuel Kuperman and
Sandra Morzorati and
Sean J. O'Connor and
John Rohrbaugh and
Bernice Porjesz and
Henri Begleiter and
John Polich A Graphical Technique for Displaying
Correlation Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 301
Frederick Mosteller Lessons from Sports Statistics . . . . . 305--310
W. Alan Nicewander and
James M. Price A Consonance Criterion for Choosing
Sample Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Bruce Levin A Lower Bound for the Mantel-Haenszel
One Degree of Freedom Chi-Squared
Statistic in $1\colon m$ Matched Samples 318
Don G. Wardell Small-Sample Interval Estimation of
Bernoulli and Poisson Parameters . . . . 321
Daniel Peña Combining Information in Statistical
Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--332
Joseph G. Ibrahim On Properties of Predictive Priors in
Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--337
Christopher H. Morrell and
Jay D. Pearson and
Larry J. Brant Linear Transformations of Linear
Mixed-Effects Models . . . . . . . . . . 338
Thomas Mathew and
Kenneth Nordström An Inequality for a Measure of Deviation
in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--349
Frederick Wiseman and
Sangit Chatterjee Major League Baseball Player Salaries:
Bringing Realism into Introductory
Statistics Courses . . . . . . . . . . . 350
J. Jack Lee and
Z. Nora Tu A Versatile One-Dimensional Distribution
Plot: The BLiP Plot . . . . . . . . . . 353
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 359
Frank E. Harrell, Jr. and
Richard Goldstein A Survey of Microcomputer Survival
Analysis Software: The Need for an
Integrated Framework . . . . . . . . . . 360
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 374
Anonymous 1997 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 376
Anonymous Index to Volume 51 . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews ??
Colin Mallows The Zeroth Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Jeffrey S. Simonoff Logistic Regression, Categorical
Predictors, and Goodness-of-Fit: It
Depends on Who You Ask . . . . . . . . . 10
Ali S. Hadi and
Robert F. Ling Some Cautionary Notes on the Use of
Principal Components Regression . . . . 15
Lonnie Magee Nonlocal Behavior in Polynomial
Regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Greg Piepel and
Trish Redgate A Mixture Experiment Analysis of the
Hald Cement Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Katherine K. Wallman Data on Race and Ethnicity: Revising the
Federal Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Hon. Thomas C. Sawyer Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Meeting
Public Policy Goals . . . . . . . . . . 33
H. A. David First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in
Probability and Statistics --- A Second
List, with Corrections . . . . . . . . . 36--40
A. S. Hedayat and
Weining Z. Robieson Exclusion of an Undesirable Sample from
the Support of a Simple Random Sample 41--43
G. R. Dargahi-Noubary and
Jo Anne S. Growney Risk --- A Motivating Theme for an
Introductory Statistics Course . . . . . 42
Gunnar Blom and
Jan-Eric Englund and
Dennis Sandell The Mississippi Problem . . . . . . . . 47
G. W. Bassett and
W. J. Hurley The Effects of Alternative HOME-AWAY
Sequences in a Best-of-Seven Playoff
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Barry Kurt Moser and
Julia K. Sawyer Algorithms for Sums of Squares and
Covariance Matrices Using Kronecker
Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Edward L. Korn and
Barry I. Graubard Scatterplots With Survey Data . . . . . 56
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 68
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 70
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 70
Walter T. Morgan A Review of Eight Statistics Software
Packages for General Use . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 80
Berton Gunter Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of
Fate and Deception from Napoleon
Bonaparte to Ross Perot . . . . . . . . 83
Malcolm J. Sherman A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco
and Vanzetti Evidence . . . . . . . . . 83
Roger Hoerl The Pocket Statistician: A Practical
Guide to Quality Improvement . . . . . . 84
William Kastner Statistical Quality Control Using the
SAS System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Deborah J. Rumsey Business Statistics: Decision Making
With Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Karen Kafadar Statistics and Public Policy . . . . . . 86
Larry Weldon Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions 86
Karl L. Wuensch Understanding Statistics: An
Introduction for the Social Sciences . . 87
J. Laurie Snell An Electronic Companion to Statistics
(CD-ROM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
J. Stuart Hunter Cuthbert Daniel: Industrial Statistician 89--92
Robert E. Kass and
Bradley P. Carlin and
Andrew Gelman and
Radford M. Neal Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice: A
Roundtable Discussion . . . . . . . . . 93--100
Colin R. Goodall and
Karen Kafadar and
John W. Tukey Computing and Using Rural versus Urban
Measures in Statistical Applications . . 101
David J. Hand Data Mining: Statistics and More? . . . 112
Alan Agresti and
Brent A. Coull Approximate is Better than ``Exact'' for
Interval Estimation of Binomial
Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126
John Ludbrook and
Hugh Dudley Why Permutation Tests are Superior to
$t$ and $F$ Tests in Biomedical Research 127 (or 126--??)
Barry C. Arnold and
Robert M. Shavelle Joint Confidence Sets for the Mean and
Variance of a Normal Distribution . . . 133--140
John W. Pratt and
Robert Schlaifer A New Interpretation of the F Statistic 140
John W. Pratt and
Robert Schlaifer A New Interpretation of the $F$
Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
C. Mitchell Dayton Information Criteria for the
Paired-Comparisons Problem . . . . . . . 143 (or 144--??)
Karen D. Rappaport and
Nouna Kettaneh and
Svante Wold Perspectives on Implementing Statistical
Modeling and Design (SMD) in an
Industrial/Chemical Environment . . . . 151 (or 152--??)
Andrew Gelman and
Deborah Nolan and
Anna Men and
Steve Warmerdam and
Michelle Bautista Student Projects on Statistical Literacy
and the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Andrew Gelman Some Class-Participation Demonstrations
for Decision Theory and Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 (or 167--??)
K. L. Q. Read A Lognormal Approximation for the
Collector's Problem . . . . . . . . . . 173 (or 175--??)
Jerry L. Hintze and
Ray D. Nelson Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace
Synergism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 (or 181--??)
A. Pedro Duarte Silva and
Antonie Stam Nonparametric Two-Group Classification:
Concepts and a SAS-Based Software
Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 (or 185--??)
Elizabeth Low Book Review: \em Understanding Basic
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
Jonathan Nagler Book Review: \em Statistical Computing
Environments for Social Research . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
Tom Obremski Book Review: \em Statistics for
Management, 7th ed . . . . . . . . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
V. A. Samaranayake and
Jagdish K. Patel Book Review: \em Modern Engineering
Statistics and Elements of Engineering
Probability and Statistics . . . . . . . 199 (or 197--??)
Marjorie E. Bond Book Reviews: \em Applied Statistical
Methods for Business, Economics, and the
Social Sciences and \em Statistics for
Managers: Using Microsoft Excel . . . . 201 (or 199--??)
Thomas Wonnacott Book Review: \em The Ultimate Resource 2 202 (or 200--??)
Matthew Strand and
Duane Boes Statistical Practice --- Modeling Road
Racing Times of Competitive Recreational
Runners Using Extreme Value Theory . . . 205
Robert J. Perry Statistical Practice --- Estimating
Strength of the Williamsburg Bridge
Suspension Cables . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Dennis D. Boos and
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver General --- Applications of Basu's
Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Tue Tjur Nonlinear Regression, Quasi Likelihood,
and Overdispersion in Generalized Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Paul D. Berger and
Chen Wang and
James P. Monahan Quantifying a Statistical Aspect of
Segmented Selection/Quota Systems . . . 228
Russell R. Barton and
Craig A. Nowack A One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 233
Sòren Bisgaard Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 238
Veronica Czitrom Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 240
John D. Spurrier Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 241
Stephen Vardeman Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 242
Anonymous Teacher's Corner --- Reply --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 243
Richard A. Stone The Blind Paper Cutter: Teaching About
Variation, Bias, Stability, and Process
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Michael A. Proschan and
Brett Presnell Expect the Unexpected From Conditional
Expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Alan Madgett Some Uses for Distribution-Fitting
Software in Teaching Statistics . . . . 253
R. Webster West and
R. Todd Ogden and
A. J. Rossini Statistical Tools on the World Wide Web 257
Gary Tietjen Recursive Schemes for Calculating Common
Cumulative Distributions . . . . . . . . 263
Anonymous Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 266
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Five Statistical
Software Packages for Epidemiology . . . 267
Bernadette Russek Book Review: \em The Assessment
Challenge in Statistics Education . . . 281
Marlene Smith Book Reviews: \em Basic Business
Statistics: A Casebook and \em Business
Analysis Using Regression: A Casebook 281
Thomas H. Short Book Review: \em Elementary Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Robert N. Goldman Book Review: \em Interactive Statistics:
Preliminary Edition . . . . . . . . . . 283
William C. Parr Book Review: \em Practical Guide to
Experimental Design . . . . . . . . . . 283
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Reviews: \em Modern Elementary
Statistics (9th ed.), \em A First Course
in Statistics (6th ed.) . . . . . . . . 284
John C. Nash and
Chris Olsen Book Review: \em The Texas Instruments
TI-83 Graphing Calculator . . . . . . . 285
Anonymous The American Statistician Editor's
Report for 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Boris Iglewicz Selected Information on the Statistics
Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Carolyn Shettle and
Catherine Gaddy The Labor Market for Statisticians and
Other Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
David L. DeMets and
Robert Woolson and
Curtis Brooks and
Roger Qu Where the Jobs Are: A Study of \em
Amstat News Job Advertisements . . . . . 303
Don O. Loftsgaarden and
Ann E. Watkins Statistics Teaching in Colleges and
Universities: Courses, Instructors, and
Degrees in Fall 1995 . . . . . . . . . . 308
John A. Nelder The Selection of Terms in
Response-Surface Models: How Strong is
the Weak-Heredity Principle? . . . . . . 315
Lynne Billard The Role of Statistics and the
Statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Richard A. Groeneveld A Class of Quantile Measures for
Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
William C. Parr and
Marlene A. Smith Developing Case-Based Business
Statistics Courses . . . . . . . . . . . 330
C. M. Anderson-Cook Designing a First Experiment: A Project
for Design of Experiment Courses . . . . 338
Roger B. Nelsen Correlation, Regression Lines, and
Moments of Inertia . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Donald R. Barr and
Maj. Andrew G. Glen and
Harvey F. Graf The ``Straightforward'' Nature of
Arrival Rate Estimation? . . . . . . . . 346
H. A. David Stronger Opposition May Make It Easier
to Win . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
James G. Booth and
Somnath Sarkar Monte Carlo Approximation of Bootstrap
Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
B. D. McCulloch Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
Software: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Becki Bucher Bartelson Book Review: \em Workshop Statistics:
Discovery with Data and the Graphing
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Ann R. Cannon Book Review: \em Understanding Data:
Principles and Practice of Statistics 367
Bruce E. Ankenman Book Review: \em Introduction to the
Design and Analysis of Experiments . . . 368
John W. Cotton Book Review: \em Analyzing
Within-Subjects Experiments . . . . . . 368
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 370
Anonymous 1998 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 372
Anonymous Index to Volume 52 . . . . . . . . . . . 374
James J. Higgins Nonmathematical Statistics: A New
Direction for the Undergraduate
Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Robert V. Hogg Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics Programs 7
H. Joseph Newton Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
George W. Cobb Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
G. Rex Bryce Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Richard A. Groeneveld Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
James J. Higgins Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Robert V. Hogg Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
R. Dennis Cook and
Sanford Weisberg Graphs in Statistical Analysis: Is the
Medium the Message? . . . . . . . . . . 29
Steve Verrill When Good Confidence Intervals Go Bad:
Predictor Sort Experiments and ANOVA . . 38
Young H. Chun On the Information Economics Approach to
the Generalized Game Show Problem . . . 43
Dhammika Amaratunga Searching for the Right Sample Size . . 52
Jess S. Boronico Multi-Tiered Playoffs and Their Impact
on Professional Baseball . . . . . . . . 56
Bruce Levin and
Xun Chen Is the One-Half Continuity Correction
Used Once or Twice to Derive a
Well-Known Approximate Sample Size
Formula to Compare Two Independent
Binomial Distributions? . . . . . . . . 62
Jose Luis Palacios The Ruin Problem via Electric Networks 67
A. Ian McLeod Necessary and Sufficient Condition for
Nonsingular Fisher Information Matrix in
ARMA and Fractional ARIMA Models . . . . 71
John Chambers Computing With Data: Concepts and
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Jon Maatta Book Review: \em ActivStats 2.0 and \em
The Active Practice of Statistics . . . 85
Robert W. Hayden Book Review: \em Introduction to
Statistical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Karen Kafadar and
James R. Koehler Book Review: \em Modern Applied
Statistics with S-Plus, 2nd edition . . 86
David W. Macky Book Review: \em A Course in
Mathematical Statistics, 2nd edition . . 87
Brian L. Wiens When Log-Normal and Gamma Models Give
Different Results: A Case Study . . . . 89
Tyler Smith and
Neil C. Schwertman Can the NCAA Basketball Tournament
Seeding be Used to Predict Margin of
Victory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
M. C. Jones Distributional Relationships Arising
From Simple Trigonometric Formulas . . . 99
Alan J. Salzberg Removable Selection Bias in
Quasi-Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Richard J. Bolton and
Wojtek J. Krzanowski A Characterization of Principal
Components for Projection Pursuit . . . 108
Geert Molenberghs and
Els J. T. Goetghebeur and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael G. Kenward Nonrandom Missingness in Categorical
Data: Strengths and Limitations . . . . 110
Michael Lavine and
Mark J. Schervish Bayes Factors: What They Are and What
They Are Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Nicolas W. Hengartner A Note on Maximum Likelihood Estimation 123
Veronica Czitrom One-Factor-at-a-Time Versus Designed
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Jon E. Anderson and
Engin A. Sungur Community Service Statistics Projects 132
Peter K. Dunn Three Tools for Interactively
Visualizing Some Distribution Theory
Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Galit Shmueli and
Ayala Cohen Analysis and Display of Hierarchical
Life-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 147
B. D. McCullough Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
Software: Part II . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz Review of Software to Fit Generalized
Estimating Equation Regression Models 160
Karen Kafadar Book Review: \em Statistics: Concepts
and Controversies, 4th edition . . . . . 170
John P. Holcomb Book Reviews: \em Applied Regression
Analysis, 3rd edition and \em Applied
Regression Analysis: A Research Tool,
2nd edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \em Against the Gods: The
Remarkable Story of Risk . . . . . . . . 170
Becki Bucher Bartelson Book Review: \em Probability Without
Equations: Concepts for Clinicians . . . 170
James J. Higgins Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 170
Anonymous Editor's Report for 1998 . . . . . . . . 175
William DuMouchel Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
Tables, With an Application to the FDA
Spontaneous Reporting System . . . . . . 177
Robert T. O'Neill and
Ana Szarfman Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Thomas A. Louis and
Wei Shen Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
David Madigan Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Anonymous Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Gary C. McDonald Shaping Statistics for Success in the
21st Century: The Needs of Industry . . 203
Gerald J. Hahn and
William J. Hill and
Roger W. Hoerl and
Stephen A. Zinkgraf The Impact of Six Sigma Improvement---A
Glimpse Into the Future of Statistics 208
Constantino Goutis and
George Casella Explaining the Saddlepoint Approximation 216
S. Huzurbazar Practical Saddlepoint Approximations . . 225
Richard Tweedie and
Kerrie Mengersen Calculating Accuracy Rates From Multiple
Assessors With Limited Information . . . 233
James G. Kuczmarski and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Quantile Plots, Partial Orders, and
Financial Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Robert H. Lyles and
Lawrence L. Kupper A Note on Confidence Interval Estimation
in Measurement Error Adjustment . . . . 247
J. N. S. Matthews Effect of Prior Specification on
Bayesian Design for Two-Sample
Comparison of a Binary Outcome . . . . . 254
Sangit Chatterjee and
Mustafa R. Yilmaz The NBA as an Evolving Multivariate
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Stephen M. Stigler The Foundations of Statistics at
Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Yadolah Dodge and
Valentin Rousson The Complications of the Fourth Central
Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Chi Au and
Judy Tam Transforming Variables Using the Dirac
Generalized Function . . . . . . . . . . 270
Michael F. Driscoll An Improved Result Relating Quadratic
Forms and Chi-Square Distributions . . . 273
Leland Wilkinson Dot Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Anthony J. Perkins and
Siu L. Hui Comparisons of Software Packages for
Generalized Linear Multilevel Models . . 282
Douglas M. Andrews Statistical Reasoning and Methods . . . 291
Deborah J. Rumsey Exploring Statistics: A Modern
Introduction to Data Analysis and
Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Richard Cleary Statistical Methods for Engineers . . . 292
Roger W. Johnson Applied Regression Analysis and
Multivariable Methods, 3rd edition . . . 292
Clay Helberg Finding Statistics Online: How to Locate
the Elusive Numbers You Need . . . . . . 293
William P. Peterson Interpreting Basic Statistics: A Guide
and Workbook Based on Excerpts from
Journal Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
James M. Landwehr Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Traci Clemons and
Marcello Pagano Are Babies Normal? . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Rafe M. J. Donahue A Note on Information Seldom Reported
Via the $P$ Value . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Rosemary Roberts and
Richard Scheaffer and
Ann Watkins Advanced Placement Statistics---Past,
Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . 307
Abraham Okolo The Nigerian Census: Problems and
Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Harold Sackrowitz and
Ester Samuel-Cahn $P$ Values as Random
Variables---Expected $P$ Values . . . . 326
P. David Wilson and
Patricia Langenberg Usual and Shortest Confidence Intervals
on Odds Ratios From Logistic Regression 332
Shiva Gautam and
George Kimeldorf Some Results on the Maximal Correlation
in $2 \times k$ Contingency Tables . . . 336
Askar H. Choudhury and
Robert Hubata and
Robert D. St. Louis Understanding Time-Series Regression
Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Jyh-Cherng Jong and
Samuel Kotz On a Relation Between Principal
Components and Regression Analysis . . . 349
Daniel T. Voss Resolving the Mixed Models Controversy 352
Donald R. Barr and
E. Todd Sherrill Mean and Variance of Truncated Normal
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Alan M. Polansky Upper Bounds on the True Coverage of
Bootstrap Percentile Type Confidence
Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
D. Nolan and
T. P. Speed Teaching Statistics Theory Through
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Kevin Hayes and
John Haslett Simplifying General Least Squares . . . 376
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Ida Ruts and
John W. Tukey The Bagplot: A Bivariate Boxplot . . . . 382
Richard Cleary Book review: \em Workshop Statistics:
Discovery with Data and Minitab, Data
Analysis with Microsoft Excel, and
Statistical Laboratory Exercises Using
Excel: A Guide to Understanding Data . . 388
Sue B. Schou Book review: \em Data, Statistics, and
Decision Models with Excel . . . . . . . 389
Elliot A. Tanis Book review: \em Maple V Student
Version: Release 5 . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Richard Goldstein Book review: \em Statistics with Stata 5 392
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 393
Anonymous 1999 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 394
Anonymous Index of Volume 53 . . . . . . . . . . . 396
M. Aldrin Multivariate Prediction Using Softly
Shrunk Reduced-Rank Regression . . . . . ??
Reinhard Bergmann and
John Ludbrook and
Will P. J. M. Spooren Different Outcomes of the
Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test From
Different Statistics Packages . . . . . ??
Rebecca A. Betensky Alternative Derivations of a Rule for
Early Stopping in Favor of ${H}_0$ . . . ??
N. Elian Simple Forms of the Best Linear Unbiased
Predictor in the General Linear Model
Silvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jitendra Ganju and
James M. Lucas Analysis of Unbalanced Data From an
Experiment With Random Block Effects and
Unequally Spaced Factor Levels . . . . . ??
John P. Holcomb, Jr. and
Rochelle L. Ruffer Using a Term-Long Project Sequence in
Introductory Statistics . . . . . . . . ??
Ted Jaditz Are the Digits of Pi an iid Sequence? ??
J. Jack Lee and
Kenneth R. Hess and
Joel A. Dubin Extensions and Applications of Event
Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ramón V. León and
William C. Parr Use of Course Home Pages in Teaching
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Scott Menard Coefficients of Determination for
Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis ??
Christopher H. Morrell and
Larry J. Brant Lines in Random Effects Plots From the
Linear Mixed-Effects Model . . . . . . . ??
Yudi Pawitan A Reminder of the Fallibility of the
Wald Statistic: Likelihood Explanation ??
V. Solo A Simple Derivation of the Smoothing
Spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Russell G. Almond and
Charles Lewis and
John W. Tukey and
Duanli Yan Displays for Comparing a Given State to
Many Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Paramjit S. Gill Late-Game Reversals in Professional
Basketball, Football, and Hockey . . . . 94
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Sujuan Gao One-Sided Confidence Intervals for Means
of Positively Skewed Distributions . . . 100
Y. H. Wang Fiducial Intervals: What Are They? . . . 105
Graham J. G. Upton Conditional Independence,
Mantel--Haenszel Test, and the Yates
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Thaddeus Tarpey A Note on the Prediction Sum of Squares
Statistic for Restricted Least Squares 116
Anonymous The Point Process Paradox: Where Should
We Extend the Conversation? . . . . . . 119
Dennis D. Boos and
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver How Large Does $n$ Have to be for $Z$
and $t$ Intervals? . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Thaddeus Tarpey and
John Holcomb Spline Bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Paul H. Kvam The Effect of Active Learning Methods on
Student Retention in Engineering
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
M. Alvo and
P. Cabilio Calculation of Hypergeometric
Probabilities Using Chebyshev
Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Dennis K. J. Lin Random Number Generation for the New
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Richard A. Levine and
Juanjuan Fan Practical Statistics by Example Using
Microsoft Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Allan Rossman Statistics You Can't Trust: A Friendly
Guide to Clear Thinking About Statistics
in Everyday Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Edward C. Wallace A Basic Course in Statistics, 4th
edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Peter A. Lachenbruch A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using
Stata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Robert Stine Statistics with Mathematica . . . . . . 153
Anonymous Applied Multivariate Statistics with SAS
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Matthew A. Carlton Data Analysis: Statistical and
Computational Methods for Scientists and
Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 156
Boris Freidlin and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Should the Median Test Be Retired From
General Use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Diego Kuonen A Saddlepoint Approximation for the
Collector's Problem . . . . . . . . . . 165
Derek R. Bingham and
Tim B. Swartz Equitable Handicapping in Golf . . . . . 170
Li-Chun Zhang Post-Stratification and Calibration---A
Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Walter A. Rosenkrantz Confidence Bands for Quantile Functions:
A Parametric and Graphic Alternative for
Testing Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . . 185
Wei Pan and
Thomas A. Louis and
John E. Connett A Note on Marginal Linear Regression
With Correlated Response Data . . . . . 191
Marsha C. Lovett and
Joel B. Greenhouse Applying Cognitive Theory to Statistics
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Bernard Flury and
Alice Zoppe Exercises in EM . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Oliver Schabenberger and
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Fanzhi Kong Collections of Simple Effects and Their
Relationship to Main Effects and
Interactions in Factorials . . . . . . . 210
George D. Kesling The Mighty Bonus Point . . . . . . . . . 215
J. Scott Long and
Laurie H. Ervin Using Heteroscedasticity Consistent
Standard Errors in the Linear Regression
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Christine Franklin Intermediate Statistics: A Modern
Approach (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Andrew Schaffner Revealing Statistical Principles . . . . 225
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Statistical Distributions in Engineering 226
Syed N. U. A. Kirmani Engineering Statistics and Applied
Statistics and Probability for Engineers
(2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 227
Teddy Schall and
Gary Smith General Do Baseball Players Regress Toward the
Mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Lawrence M. Leemis and
Bruce W. Schmeiser and
Diane L. Evans Survival Distributions Satisfying
Benford's Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Helge Blaker and
Emil Spjotvoll Paradoxes and Improvements in Interval
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Bruce G. Lindsay and
Prasanta Basak Moments Determine the Tail of a
Distribution (But Not Much Else) . . . . 248
W. J. Owen and
D. Sinha and
M. H. Capozzoli A Paired-Data Analysis for a Lifetime
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Peter G. Bryant and
Olga I. Cordero-Brana Model Selection Using the Minimum
Description Length Principle . . . . . . 257
Denis G. Janky Teacher's Corner Sometimes Pooling for Analysis of
Variance Hypothesis Tests: A Review and
Study of a Split-Plot Model . . . . . . 269
Alan Agresti and
Brian Caffo Simple and Effective Confidence
Intervals for Proportions and
Differences of Proportions Result from
Adding Two Successes and Two Failures 280
David P. Doane and
Ronald L. Tracy Using Beam and Fulcrum Displays to
Explore Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Ross S. Sparks and
John B. F. Field Using Deming's Funnel Experiment to
Demonstrate Effects of Violating
Assumptions Underlying Shewhart's
Control Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Donald M. Waldman Estimation in Discrete Choice Models
With Choice-Based Samples . . . . . . . 303
Prashant Sansgiry and
Olcay Akman Statistical Computing and Graphics
Transformations of the Lognormal
Distribution as a Selection Model . . . 307
Dale L. Zimmerman Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
Viewing the Correlation Structure of
Longitudinal Data Through a PRISM . . . 310
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 319
James W. Hardin LogXact 4.1 for Windows . . . . . . . . 320
Richard Cleary How to Think About Statistics . . . . . 322
Robert M. Hamer Statistics in Psychiatry . . . . . . . . 322
Marcello Pagano StatConcepts: A Visual Tour of
Statistical Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Richard Cleary Statistics: An Introduction, 5th edition 324
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 325
Anonymous 2000 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 329
Anonymous Index of Volume 54 . . . . . . . . . . . 331
David S. Moore Undergraduate Programs and the Future of
Academic Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 1
G. Rex Bryce and
Robert Gould and
William I. Notz and
Roxy L. Peck Curriculum Guidelines for Bachelor of
Science Degrees in Statistical Science 7
Mary Ann Ritter and
Robert R. Starbuck and
Robert V. Hogg Advice From Prospective Employers on
Training BS Statisticians . . . . . . . 14
John M. Hoenig and
Dennis M. Heisey The Abuse of Power: The Pervasive
Fallacy of Power Calculations for Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Geert Verbeke and
Bart Spiessens and
Emmanuel Lesaffre Conditional Linear Mixed Models . . . . 25
Elizabeth A. Stasny How to Get a Job in Academics . . . . . 35
Jim Albert and
Patricia Williamson Using Model/Data Simulations to Detect
Streakiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Yadolah Dodge and
Valentin Rousson On Asymmetric Properties of the
Correlation Coefficient in the
Regression Setting . . . . . . . . . . . 51
John P. Wendell and
Josef Schmee Likelihood Confidence Intervals for
Proportions in Finite Populations . . . 55
Thomas Sellke and
M. J. Bayarri and
James O. Berger Calibration of $p$ Values for Testing
Precise Null Hypotheses . . . . . . . . 62
Rafael A. Irizarry Local Regression With Meaningful
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Russell V. Lenth Introduction to Design and Analysis of
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Walter W. Piegorsch Statistics and Experimental Design for
Toxicologists (3rd ed.) . . . . . . . . 81
W. Robert Stephenson Introduction to Probability and
Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
(2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Roger Nelsen Probability and Random Variables: A
Beginner's Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Ann Cannon Essential Statistics (3rd ed.) . . . . . 83
William B. Owen Introduction to Business Statistics: A
Computer Integrated, Data Analysis
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Richard Verrall Introduction Statistics With
Applications in General Insurance . . . 84
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 85
Lynne Stokes Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Zhen Chen and
Lynn Kuo Statistical Practice --- A Note on the
Estimation of the Multinomial Logit
Model With Random Effects . . . . . . . 89--95
Ronald H. Randles Statistical Practice --- On Neutral
Responses (Zeros) in the Sign Test and
Ties in the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test 96--101
Melanie M. Wall and
James Boen and
Richard Tweedie General --- An Effective Confidence
Interval for the Mean With Samples of
Size One and Two . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--105
Kenneth E. McCue General --- The Statistical Foundations
of the EI Method . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--110
Boris Mirkin General --- Eleven Ways to Look at the
Chi-Squared Coefficient for Contingency
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120
Gwowen Shieh General --- The Inequality Between the
Coefficient of Determination and the Sum
of Squared Simple Correlation
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--124
Chi-tsung Wu and
Marcia L. Gumpertz and
Dennis D. Boos General --- Comparison of GEE, MINQUE,
ML, and REML Estimating Equations for
Normally Distributed Data . . . . . . . 125--130
Frank Lad and
Romano Scozzafava General --- Distributions Agreeing With
Exchangeable Sequential Forecasting . . 131--139
Beth L. Chance and
Allan J. Rossman Teacher's Corner --- Sequencing Topics
in Introductory Statistics: A Debate on
What to Teach When . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144
W. M. Bolstad and
Lyn A. Hunt and
Judith L. McWhirter Teacher's Corner --- Sex, Drugs, and
Rock & Roll Survey in a First-Year
Service Course in Statistics . . . . . . 145--149
James A. Hanley and
Lawrence Joseph and
Platt, Robert and
others Teacher's Corner --- Visualizing the
Median as the Minimum-Deviation Location 150--152
Mai Zhou Teacher's Corner --- Understanding the
Cox Regression Models With Time-Change
Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
Andrew G. Glen and
Diane L. Evans and
Lawrence M. Leemis Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
APPL: A Probability Programming Language 156--166
Richard J. Cleary Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Quantitative Investigations in the
Biosciences using MINITAB\TM . . . . . . 167--167
Paul Hyden Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistical Quality Assurance
Methods for Engineers . . . . . . . . . 167
Jacqueline B. Miller Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Electronic Companions to Statistics,
Biostatistics, and Business Statistics 168--168
Joseph Hilbe Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- XploRe: Learning Guide . . . . . . . 169--170
M. Hamada and
H. F. Martz and
C. S. Reese and
others Statistical Practice --- Finding
Near-Optimal Bayesian Experimental
Designs via Genetic Algorithms . . . . . 175--181
Nathaniel Schenker and
Jane F. Gentleman Statistical Practice --- On Judging the
Significance of Differences by Examining
the Overlap Between Confidence Intervals 182--186
Russell V. Lenth Statistical Practice --- Some Practical
Guidelines for Effective Sample Size
Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--193
Don Dawson and
Lonnie Magee General --- The National Hockey League
Entry Draft, 1969--1995: An Application
of a Weighted Pool-Adjacent-Violators
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--199
Robert G. Newcombe General --- Logit Confidence Intervals
and the Inverse Sinh Transformation . . 200--202
Sandy D. Balkin and
Colin L. Mallows General --- An Adjusted, Asymmetric
Two-Sample $t$ Test . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
Glen A. Satten and
Somnath Datta General --- The Kaplan-Meier Estimator
as an Inverse-Probability-of-Censoring
Weighted Average . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--210
Abram Kagan General --- Another Look at the
Cramer-Rao Inequality . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Nozer D. Singpurwalla and
Andrew Swift General --- Network Reliability and
Borel's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--218
Daniel R. Jeske and
Hoang Pham General --- On the Maximum Likelihood
Estimates for the Goel-Okumoto Software
Reliability Model . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
Paul R. Rosenbaum General --- Replicating Effects and
Biases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227
P. Cabilio and
P. J. Farrell Teacher's Corner --- A Computer-Based
Lab Supplement to Courses in
Introductory Statistics . . . . . . . . 228--232
N. I. Fisher and
P. Switzer Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Graphical Assessment of Dependence: Is a
Picture Worth 100 Tests? . . . . . . . . 233--239
Graham J. G. Upton Statistical Computing and Graphics --- A
Toroidal Scatter Diagram for Ternary
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--243
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Statistical Computing Software Reviews
--- Multiple Imputation in Practice:
Comparison of Software Packages for
Regression Models With Missing Variables 244--254
Margaret Mackisack Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Chance Encounters: A First Course in
Data Analysis and Inference . . . . . . 255--255
Deborah J. Rumsey Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistics and Data Analysis: From
Elementary to Intermediate . . . . . . . 255
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- \em So Much Data So Little Math: How
to Predict Data Trends, $5$ Easy
Profitable Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Jay Devore Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics
Through Applications . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
Patti B. Collings Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Fathom: Dynamic Systems Software . . 258--258
Ita G. G. Kreft Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistical Concepts: Education and
Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.) . . . . . 259--259
L. Denby and
J. M. Landwehr and
C. L. Mallows Statistical Practice --- An Exercise in
the Real World of Design and Analysis 263--271
Thomas A. McCready and
Neil C. Schwertman Statistical Practice --- The Statistical
Paleontology of Charles Lyell and the
Coupon Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--278
Lawrence Barker and
Henry Rolka and
Deborah Rolka and
others Statistical Practice --- Equivalence
Testing for Binomial Random Variables:
Which Test to Use? . . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
B. M. Cesana and
G. Reina and
E. Marubini Statistical Practice --- Sample Size for
Testing a Proportion in Clinical Trials:
A ``Two-Step'' Procedure Combining Power
and Confidence Interval Expected Width 288--292
Richard H. Browne Statistical Practice --- Using the
Sample Range as a Basis for Calculating
Sample Size in Power Calculations . . . 293--298
George Casella and
Michael Lavine and
Christian P. Robert General --- Explaining the Perfect
Sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--305
Jonathan Shuster General --- Dependence in Simulation: A
Case Study From the Game of Contract
Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--309
Gary L. Gadbury General --- Randomization Inference and
Bias of Standard Errors . . . . . . . . 310--313
Li Yang and
Anastasios A. Tsiatis General --- Efficiency Study of
Estimators for a Treatment Effect in a
Pretest-Posttest Trial . . . . . . . . . 314--321
Eric Langford and
Neil Schwertman and
Margaret Owens General --- Is the Property of Being
Positively Correlated Transitive? . . . 322--325
Rob Root and
Trisha Thorme Teacher's Corner --- Community-Based
Projects in Applied Statistics: Using
Service-Learning to Enhance Student
Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--331
Sterling C. Hilton and
Scott D. Grimshaw and
Genan T. Anderson Teacher's Corner --- Statistics in
Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--336
Michael Henderson and
Mary C. Meyer Teacher's Corner --- Exploring the
Confidence Interval for a Binomial
Parameter in a First Course in
Statistical Computing . . . . . . . . . 337--344
Philip Iversen and
Mervyn Marasinghe Teacher's Corner --- Dynamic Graphical
Tools for Teaching Experimental Design
and Analysis Concepts . . . . . . . . . 345--351
D. R. Bellhouse Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
The Central Limit Theorem Under Simple
Random Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--357
Enrique Del Castillo and
Suntara Cahya Statistical Computing and Graphics --- A
Tool for Computing Confidence Regions on
the Stationary Point of a Response
Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--365
J. G. Liao and
Ori Rosen Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Fast and Stable Algorithms for Computing
and Sampling From the Noncentral
Hypergeometric Distribution . . . . . . 366--369
Norean Radke Sharpe Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistics for Management and
Economics, Fifth Edition . . . . . . . . 370--370
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- A First Course in the Design of
Experiments: A Linear Models Approach 370
Namwon Hyung Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Elements of Forecasting, 2nd Edition 371--371
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- The Nothing That Is: A Natural
History of Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
John Haigh Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Mathematics of Chance . . . . . . . 372
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistics in Psychology: An
Historical Perspective, Second Edition 372
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 377--377
Robert L. Winkler and
James E. Smith and
Dennis G. Fryback Statistical Practice --- The Role of
Informative Priors in Zero-Numerator
Problems: Being Conservative Versus
Being Candid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Michael P. Fay Statistical Practice --- Measuring a
Binary Response's Range of Influence in
Logistic Regression . . . . . . . . . . 5--9
Chris White and
Scott Berry General --- Tiered Polychotomous
Regression: Ranking NFL Quarterbacks . . 10--21
Kenneth C. Bessant and
Eric D. MacPherson General --- Thoughts on the Origins,
Concepts, and Pedagogy of Statistics as
a ``Separate Discipline'' . . . . . . . 22--28
Leonard A. Stefanski and
Dennis D. Boos General --- The Calculus of M-Estimation 29--38
R. L. Eubank and
Suojin Wang General --- The Equivalence Between the
Cholesky Decomposition and the Kalman
Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
Andre Khuri and
George Casella General --- The Existence of the First
Negative Moment Revisited . . . . . . . 44--47
John R. Michael and
William R. Schucany Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
The Mixture Approach for Simulating
Bivariate Distributions With Specified
Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--54
M. P. Wand Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Vector Differential Calculus in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
Michael P. Fay and
Dean A. Follmann Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Designing Monte Carlo Implementations of
Permutation or Bootstrap Hypothesis
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Joseph Hilbe Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Statistical Computing Software Reviews
--- Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . 71--71
Micah Altman Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
Statistical Computing Software Reviews
--- A Review of JMP 4.03 With Special
Attention to its Numerical Accuracy . . 72--75
Bradley A. Warner Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Basic Engineering Data Collection
and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Statistics on the Table: The History
of Statistical Concepts and Methods . . 76
Kevin D. Rees Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- Workshop Statistics: Discovery With
Data, A Bayesian Approach . . . . . . . 77--78
Mohsen Pourahmadi Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- A Course in Time Series Analysis . . 77
Pamela A. Ohman Strickland Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
--- SPSS for Windows: An Introduction to
Use and Interpretation in Research . . . 77
Lynne Stokes Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Lawrence Barker A Comparison of Nine Confidence
Intervals for a Poisson Parameter When
the Expected Number of Events is $5$ . . 85
J. René van Dorp and
Samuel Kotz The Standard Two-Sided Power
Distribution and its Properties: With
Applications in Financial Engineering 90
Malay Ghosh and
Bimal K. Sinha A Simple Derivation of the Wishart
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Tapan K. Nayak Rao--Cramer Type Inequalities for Mean
Squared Error of Prediction . . . . . . 102
Thomas E. Love and
David K. Hildebrand Statistics Education and the Making
Statistics More Effective in Schools of
Business Conferences . . . . . . . . . . 107
Thomas E. Bradstreet and
Milton N. Parnes Illustrating the Neyman--Pearson Lemma
With a Stopping Rule of Order $k$ . . . 113
Andrew Gelman and
Cristian Pasarica and
Rahul Dodhia Let's Practice What We Preach: Turning
Tables into Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Richard M. Heiberger and
Paulo Teles Displays for Direct Comparison of ARIMA
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Robert F. Bordley Representing Trees Using Microsoft
Doughnut Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 148
Michael R. Chernick and
Christine Y. Liu The Saw-Toothed Behavior of Power Versus
Sample Size and Software Solutions:
Single Binomial Proportion Using Exact
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 156
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 159
Elizabeth N. King and
Thomas P. Ryan A Preliminary Investigation of Maximum
Likelihood Logistic Regression versus
Exact Logistic Regression . . . . . . . 163
Wei Pan A Note on the Use of Marginal Likelihood
and Conditional Likelihood in Analyzing
Clustered Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Roger D. Peng and
Nicolas W. Hengartner Quantitative Analysis of Literary Styles 175
B. K. Ghosh Probability Inequalities Related to
Markov's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Chiara Sabatti Measuring Dependency With Volume Tests 191
Sandip Sinharay and
Hal S. Stern On the Sensitivity of Bayes Factors to
the Prior Distributions . . . . . . . . 196
Bhaskar Bhattacharya and
Desale Habtzghi Median of the $p$ Value Under the
Alternative Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . 202
M. J. Bayarri and
A. M. Mayoral Bayesian Design of ``Successful''
Replications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Jessica Thomson Hypothesis Testing About Proportions in
Two Finite Populations . . . . . . . . . 215
Mark F. Schilling and
Ann E. Watkins and
William Watkins Is Human Height Bimodal? . . . . . . . . 223
William M. Duckworth and
W. Robert Stephenson Beyond Traditional Statistical Methods 230
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 234
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Statistical Software
Packages for Categorical Data Analysis
Using Exact Methods . . . . . . . . . . 235
Jay Devore Book Review: \em A First Course in
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Stergios B. Fotopoulos Book Review: \em Applied Probability
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Ginger Holmes Rowell Book Review: \em Statistics for
Psychologists: An Intermediate Course 248
Calvin Williams Book Review: \em Applied Multivariate
Data Analysis (2nd Edition) . . . . . . 248
Ulric J. Lund Book Review: \em Understanding
Statistical Concepts Using S-Plus . . . 249
John H. Walker Book Review: \em Contemporary Business
Statistics with Microsoft Excel . . . . 250
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \em Applied Nonparametric
Statistical Methods, 3rd Edition . . . . 251
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 252
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Lynne Stokes and
James H. Albert Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Iain Pardoe and
R. Dennis Cook A Graphical Method for Assessing the Fit
of a Logistic Regression Model . . . . . 263
Elena A. Erosheva and
Patricia D. Kroboth and
Joel B. Greenhouse Characterizing the Diurnal Rhythm of
DHEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Jeremy Aldworth and
Wherly P. Hoffman Split-Plot Model With Covariate: A
Cautionary Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Gerald J. Hahn Deming and the Proactive Statistician 290
Maya Bar-Hillel and
Yigal Attali Seek Whence: Answer Sequences and Their
Consequences in Key-Balanced
Multiple-Choice Tests . . . . . . . . . 299
M. C. Jones On Khintchine's Theorem and its Place in
Random Variate Generation . . . . . . . 304
Andrew Gelman and
Deborah Nolan You Can Load a Die, But You Can't Bias a
Coin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
James E. Brady and
Theodore T. Allen Case Study Based Instruction of DOE and
SPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Michael Friendly Corrgrams: Exploratory Displays for
Correlation Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 316
Joseph Hilbe Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 325
Joseph M. Hilbe XPro 5.1: Exact Procedures for
Parametric Statistical Inference . . . . 326
James H. Albert Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling,
and Mathematical Modeling to Win . . . . 329
C. M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \em Statistical Consulting 329
Jessica Utts Book Review: \em News and Numbers: A
Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims
and Controversies in Health and Related
Fields, (2nd Ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Robert D. Abbott Book Review: \em Statistics at Square
Two: Understanding Modern Statistical
Applications in Medicine . . . . . . . . 331
Arthur Cohen Book Review: \em An Introduction to
Probability Theory and Mathematical
Statistics, (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . 331
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \em Mathematical
Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected
Topics (vol. 1, 2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . 332
Robert Lund Book Review: \em Stochastic Processes.
An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Elayne Reiss and
Lorrie L. Hoffman Book Review: \em The Elements of
Statistics: With Applications to
Economics and the Social Sciences . . . 333
Boxin Tang Book Review: \em Experimental Design
With Applications in Management,
Engineering, and the Sciences . . . . . 333
Ghanshyam Gupta Book Review: \em A Handbook of
Statistical Analyses using SAS, 2nd ed 334
Marjorie E. Bond Book Review: \em Teach/Me Data Analysis
CD: Single User Edition . . . . . . . . 335
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 337
Kirk Wolter and
Diana Jergovic and
Whitney Moore and
Joe Murphy and
Colm O'Muircheartaigh Reliability of the Uncertified Ballots
in the 2000 Presidential Election in
Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
John Lawson One-Step Screening and Process
Optimization Experiments . . . . . . . . 15
Stephen B. Vardeman and
Max D. Morris Statistics and Ethics: Some Advice for
Young Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . 21
Ronald Christensen Significantly Insignificant $F$ Tests 27
Rongrong Xie and
Paul I. Nelson Separation Among Distributions Related
by Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . 33
James H. Albert College Students' Conceptions of
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jürgen Symanzik and
Natascha Vukasinovic Teaching Experiences With a Course on
``Web-Based Statistics'' . . . . . . . . 46
Jeffrey D. Blume and
Richard M. Royall Illustrating the Law of Large Numbers
(and Confidence Intervals) . . . . . . . 51
Henry S. Lynn Suppression and Confounding in Action 58
Daniel R. Jeske and
Ashwin Sampath A Real Example That Illustrates
Interesting Properties of Bootstrap Bias
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \em Statistics with
Confidence (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . 66
Shaun S. Wulff Book Review: \em A First Course in
Design and Analysis of Experiments . . . 66
X. Joan Hu Book Review: \em Generalized Linear
Models: With Applications in Engineering
and the Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \em Introduction to Linear
Regression Analysis (3rd ed.) . . . . . 67
Richard Gonzalez Book Review: \em Applied Multivariate
Statistics for the Social Sciences (4th
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
John Haigh Book Review: \em Risk-Benefit Analysis
(2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
George Terrell Book Review: \em All the Mathematics You
Missed [But Need to Know for Graduate
School] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Robert Gentleman Book Review: \em Resampling Methods: A
Practical Guide to Data Analysis (2nd
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 71
Jessica Utts Special Section on Statistical Literacy:
How You Can Help . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Jessica Utts What Educated Citizens Should Know About
Statistics and Probability . . . . . . . 74
Iddo Gal Teaching for Statistical Literacy and
Services of Statistics Agencies . . . . 80
Philip J. Boland Promoting Statistical Thinking Among
Secondary School Students in the
National Context . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Eric R. Sowey The Getting of Wisdom: Educating
Statisticians to Enhance Their Clients'
Numeracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
James H. Albert A New Column in \em The American
Statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Fritz Scheuren Looking Back So We Can Look Forward . . 94
Peter C. Austin and
Lawrence J. Brunner Type I Error Inflation in the Presence
of a Ceiling Effect . . . . . . . . . . 97
Lewis H. Shoemaker Fixing the $F$ Test for Equal Variances 105
Vasilis Theoharakis and
Mary Skordia How Do Statisticians Perceive Statistics
Journals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
David J. Hand and
Veronica Vinciotti Local Versus Global Models for
Classification Problems: Fitting Models
Where it Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Paul R. Rosenbaum Exact Confidence Intervals for
Nonconstant Effects by Inverting the
Signed Rank Test . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Yosef Rinott and
Michael Tam Monotone Regrouping, Regression, and
Simpson's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \em Statistical Rules of
Thumb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \em The Practice of
Statistics: Putting the Pieces Together 142
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \em The First Measured
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Paul Roback Book Review: \em Weighing the Odds: A
Course in Probability and Statistics . . 144
Johannes Ledolter Book Review: \em The Statistical Sleuth
(2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Judith Manola Book Review: \em A Handbook of
Statistical Analyses using S-Plus (2nd
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 147
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
James H. Albert Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Havi Murad and
Anat Fleischman and
Siegal Sadetzki and
Orna Geyer and
Laurence S. Freedman Small Samples and Ordered Logistic
Regression: Does it Help to Collapse
Categories of Outcome? . . . . . . . . . 155
J. G. Liao and
Dan McGee Adjusted Coefficients of Determination
for Logistic Regression . . . . . . . . 161
Robert A. Parker and
Nancy G. Berman Sample Size: More Than Calculations . . 166
Raymond Hubbard and
M. J. Bayarri Confusion Over Measures of Evidence
($p$'s) Versus Errors ($\alpha$'s) in
Classical Statistical Testing . . . . . 171
Kenneth N. Berk Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Matthew A. Carlton Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Anonymous Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Clifford Spiegelman and
Eun Sug Ark Nearly Nonparametric Multivariate
Density Estimates That Incorporate
Marginal Parametric Density Information 183
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Amanda Wachsmuth and
Leland Wilkinson and
Gerard E. Dallal Galton's Bend: A Previously Undiscovered
Nonlinearity in Galton's Family Stature
Regression Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Xiuhong Li and
Jennifer M. Buechner and
Patrick M. Tarwater and
Alvaro Muñoz A Diamond-Shaped Equiponderant Graphical
Display of the Effects of Two
Categorical Predictors on Continuous
Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 200
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Statistical Software
Packages for Categorical Data Analysis
Using Exact Methods --- Part II . . . . 201
Herman Callaert Comparing Statistical Software Packages:
The Case of the Logrank Test in StatXact 214
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book review: \em The A to Z of
Mathematics: A Basic Guide . . . . . . . 218
Richard J. Cleary Book Reviews: \em Duelling Idiots and
Other Probability Puzzlers and \em What
are the Chances? Voodoo Deaths and
Office Gossip and Other Adventures in
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \em Problems in Probability 218
Stephen J. Miller Book Reviews: \em Basic Statistics and
Data Analysis (with InfoTrac and CD-ROM)
(1st ed.), \em Introduction to
Probability and Statistics (11th ed.)
and \em Just the Essentials of
Elementary Statistics (3rd ed.) . . . . 219
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 221
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael Parzen A Potential for Bias When Rounding in
Multiple Imputation . . . . . . . . . . 229
Douglas G. Bonett and
Edith Seier Confidence Intervals for Mean Absolute
Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Daniel Y. T. Fong and
C. W. Kwan and
K. F. Lam and
Karen S. L. Lam Use of the Sign Test for the Median in
the Presence of Ties . . . . . . . . . . 237
David Mease A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Approach
for the Ranking of College Football
Teams Independent of Victory Margins . . 241
A. S. Hedayat and
Bikas K. Sinha On a Sampling Design for Estimation of
Negligible Accident Rates Involving
Electronic Toys . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
David B. Hitchcock A History of the Metropolis--Hastings
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Peter K. Dunn What Happens When a $1 \times 1 \times
r$ Die is Rolled? . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Timothy E. O'Brien and
Gerald M. Funk A Gentle Introduction to Optimal Design
for Regression Models . . . . . . . . . 265
Nicholas J. Barrowman and
Ransom A. Myers Raindrop Plots: A New Way to Display
Collections of Likelihoods and
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Christian Genest and
Jean-Claude Boies Detecting Dependence With Kendall Plots 275
Martin L. Hazelton A Graphical Tool for Assessing Normality 285
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 289
Dominique Haughton and
Joel Deichmann and
Abdolreza Eshghi and
Selin Sayek and
Nicholas Teebagy and
Heikki Topi A Review of Software Packages for Data
Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Current SPSS Products: SPSS
12, SigmaPlot 8.02, SigmaStat 3.0, Part
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: \em An R and S-PLUS
Companion to Applied Regression . . . . 316
Brian Jersky Book Review: \em Hyperstat (2nd ed.) . . 316
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Marcus M. Alley Book Review: \em Statistical Methods in
Agricultural and Experimental Biology
(3rd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 319
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 319
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
James H. Albert and
James E. Gentle Special Section: Teaching Computational
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
James E. Gentle Courses in Statistical Computing and
Computational Statistics . . . . . . . . 2
John Monahan Teaching Statistical Computing at North
Carolina State University . . . . . . . 6
Kenneth Lange Computational Statistics and
Optimization Theory at UCLA . . . . . . 9
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
C. Chandra Sekar and
W. Edwards Deming On a Method of Estimating Birth and
Death Rates and the Extent of
Registration (Excerpt) . . . . . . . . . 13
Xu Guo and
Bradley P. Carlin Separate and Joint Modeling of
Longitudinal and Event Time Data Using
Standard Computer Packages . . . . . . . 16
James F. Troendle and
Edward L. Korn and
Lisa M. McShane An Example of Slow Convergence of the
Bootstrap in High Dimensions . . . . . . 25
David R. Hunter and
Kenneth Lange A Tutorial on MM Algorithms . . . . . . 30
Reid Dorsey-Palmateer and
Gary Smith Bowlers' Hot Hands . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Samuel S. Wu and
Mark C. K. Yang Evaluation of the Current Decision Rule
in Figure Skating and Possible
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Justin L. Tobias Assessing Assessments of School
Performance: The Case of California . . 55
Ricardo J. Rodriguez First Significant Digit Patterns From
Mixtures of Uniform Distributions . . . 64
Daniel Gervini and
Valentin Rousson Criteria for Evaluating
Dimension-Reducing Components for
Multivariate Data . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Donna F. Stroup and
Richard A. Goodman and
Ralph Cordell and
Richard Scheaffer Teaching Statistical Principles Using
Epidemiology: Measuring the Health of
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 85
Elaine T. McDonald Intro Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Stephen J. Miller Book Review: Fifty Fathoms: Statistics
Demonstrations for Deeper Understanding 86
Stephen J. Miller Book Review: CAST (Computer-Assisted
Statistics Teaching) . . . . . . . . . . 87
Samantha C. Bates Book Review: Introductory Statistics
with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: Statistical Computing: An
Introduction to Data Analysis using
SPlus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: SAS for Linear Models (4th
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 90