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Volume 1, Number 3, 1947
Volume 3, Number 1, 1949
Volume 3, Number 2, 1949
Volume 3, Number 4, 1949
Volume 19, Number 1, 1965
Volume 19, Number 2, 1965
Volume 19, Number 3, June, 1965
Volume 19, Number 4, 1965
Volume 23, Number 4, October, 1969
Volume 26, Number 1, February, 1972
Volume 26, Number 3, June, 1972
Volume 29, Number ??, 1975
Volume 29, Number 4, November, 1975
Volume 30, Number ??, 1976
Volume 30, Number 3, August, 1976
Volume 32, Number ??, 1978
Volume 32, Number 3, 1978
Volume 33, Number ??, 1979
Volume 33, Number 1, 1979
Volume 33, Number 2, 1979
Volume 33, Number 3, 1979
Volume 33, Number 4, 1979
Volume 34, Number ??, 1980
Volume 34, Number 1, 1980
Volume 34, Number 2, 1980
Volume 34, Number 3, 1980
Volume 34, Number 4, 1980
Volume 35, Number ??, 1981
Volume 35, Number 1, 1981
Volume 35, Number 2, 1981
Volume 35, Number 3, 1981
Volume 35, Number 4, 1981
Volume 36, Number 1, 1982
Volume 36, Number 2, 1982
Volume 36, Number 3, 1982
Volume 36, Number 4, 1982
Volume 37, Number 1, 1983
Volume 37, Number 2, 1983
Volume 37, Number 3, 1983
Volume 37, Number 4, 1983
Volume 38, Number ??, 1984
Volume 38, Number 1, 1984
Volume 38, Number 2, 1984
Volume 38, Number 3, 1984
Volume 38, Number 4, 1984
Volume 39, Number 2, June, 1985
Volume 39, Number ??, 1985
Volume 39, Number 1, 1985
Volume 39, Number 2, 1985
Volume 39, Number 3, 1985
Volume 39, Number 4, 1985
Volume 40, Number ??, 1986
Volume 40, Number 1, 1986
Volume 40, Number 2, 1986
Volume 40, Number 3, 1986
Volume 40, Number 4, 1986
Volume 41, Number ??, 1987
Volume 41, Number 1, 1987
Volume 41, Number 2, 1987
Volume 41, Number 3, 1987
Volume 41, Number 4, 1987
Volume 42, Number 1, 1988
Volume 42, Number 2, 1988
Volume 42, Number 3, 1988
Volume 42, Number 4, 1988
Volume 43, Number 1, 1989
Volume 43, Number 2, 1989
Volume 43, Number 3, 1989
Volume 43, Number 4, 1989
Volume 44, Number 1, February, 1990
Volume 44, Number 2, May, 1990
Volume 44, Number 3, August, 1990
Volume 44, Number 4, November, 1990
Volume 45, Number 1, February, 1991
Volume 45, Number 2, May, 1991
Volume 45, Number 3, August, 1991
Volume 45, Number 4, November, 1991
Volume 46, Number 1, February, 1992
Volume 46, Number 2, May, 1992
Volume 46, Number 3, August, 1992
Volume 46, Number 4, November, 1992
Volume 47, Number 1, February, 1993
Volume 47, Number 2, May, 1993
Volume 47, Number 3, August, 1993
Volume 47, Number 4, November, 1993
Volume 48, Number 1, February, 1994
Volume 48, Number 2, May, 1994
Volume 48, Number 3, August, 1994
Volume 48, Number 4, November, 1994
Volume 49, Number 1, 1995
Volume 49, Number 2, 1995
Volume 49, Number 3, 1995
Volume 49, Number 4, 1995
Volume 50, Number 1, 1996
Volume 50, Number 2, 1996
Volume 50, Number 3, 1996
Volume 50, Number 4, November, 1996
Volume 51, Number 1, February, 1997
Volume 51, Number 2, May, 1997
Volume 51, Number 3, August, 1997
Volume 51, Number 4, November, 1997
Volume 52, Number 1, February, 1998
Volume 52, Number 2, May, 1998
Volume 52, Number 3, August, 1998
Volume 52, Number 4, November, 1998
Volume 53, Number 1, February, 1999
Volume 53, Number 2, 1999
Volume 53, Number 3, August, 1999
Volume 53, Number 4, November, 1999
Volume 54, Number 1, February, 2000
Volume 54, Number 2, May, 2000
Volume 54, Number 3, August, 2000
Volume 54, Number 4, November, 2000
Volume 55, Number 1, February, 2001
Volume 55, Number 2, 2001
Volume 55, Number 3, 2001
Volume 55, Number 4, 2001
Volume 56, Number 1, 2002
Volume 56, Number 2, May, 2002
Volume 56, Number 3, August, 2002
Volume 56, Number 4, November, 2002
Volume 57, Number 1, February, 2003
Volume 57, Number 2, May, 2003
Volume 57, Number 3, August, 2003
Volume 57, Number 4, November, 2003
Volume 58, Number 1, February, 2004
Volume 58, Number 2, May, 2004
Volume 58, Number 3, August, 2004
Volume 58, Number 4, November, 2004
Volume 59, Number 1, February, 2005
Volume 59, Number 2, May, 2005
Volume 59, Number 3, August, 2005
Volume 59, Number 4, November, 2005
Volume 60, Number 1, February, 2006
Volume 60, Number 2, May, 2006
Volume 60, Number 3, August, 2006
Volume 60, Number 4, November, 2006
Volume 61, Number 1, February, 2007
Volume 61, Number 2, May, 2007
Volume 61, Number 3, August, 2007
Volume 61, Number 4, November, 2007
Volume 62, Number 1, February, 2008
Volume 62, Number 2, May, 2008
Volume 62, Number 3, August, 2008
Volume 62, Number 4, November, 2008
Volume 63, Number 1, February, 2009
Volume 63, Number 2, May, 2009
Volume 63, Number 3, August, 2009
Volume 63, Number 4, November, 2009
Volume 64, Number 1, February, 2010
Volume 64, Number 2, May, 2010
Volume 64, Number 3, August, 2010
Volume 64, Number 4, November, 2010
Volume 65, Number 1, February, 2011
Volume 65, Number 2, May, 2011
Volume 65, Number 3, August, 2011
Volume 65, Number 4, November, 2011


The American Statistician
Volume 1, Number 3, 1947

                  John W. Tukey   Question 4: Infinite observations  . . . 17--18


The American Statistician
Volume 3, Number 1, 1949

                  John W. Tukey   Memorandum on statistics in the Federal
                                  Government, Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 6--17

The American Statistician
Volume 3, Number 2, 1949

                  John W. Tukey   Memorandum on statistics in the Federal
                                  Government, Part II  . . . . . . . . . . 12--16

The American Statistician
Volume 3, Number 4, 1949

                  John W. Tukey   Answer to question 21: Maximum
                                  likelihood estimates, efficiency . . . . 12--12


The American Statistician
Volume 19, Number 1, 1965

                N. F. Laubscher   Interpolation in $F$-tables  . . . . . . 28, 40

The American Statistician
Volume 19, Number 2, 1965

                  John W. Tukey   The technical tools of statistics  . . . 23--28

The American Statistician
Volume 19, Number 3, June, 1965

                     I. J. Good   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 43--43

The American Statistician
Volume 19, Number 4, 1965

                   J. E. Freund   Puzzle or Paradox? . . . . . . . . . . . 29--44


The American Statistician
Volume 23, Number 4, October, 1969

                     I. J. Good   How random are random numbers? . . . . . 42--45


The American Statistician
Volume 26, Number 1, February, 1972

          Daniel B. Rathbun and   
            W. Allen Wallis and   
        Frederick Mosteller and   
            Ansley J. Coale and   
             Paul M. Densen and   
          Solomon Fabricant and   
           Robert D. Fisher and   
        W. Braddock Hickman and   
            William Kruskal and   
          Stanley Lebergott and   
         Richard M. Scammon and   
            William H. Shaw and   
            Frank D. Stella and   
         James A. Suffridge and   
                  John W. Tukey   The Report of the President's Commission
                                  on Federal Statistics  . . . . . . . . . 15--18
                   D. Lurie and   
                  H. O. Hartley   Machine-generation of order statistics
                                  for Monte Carlo computations . . . . . . 26--27
               W. Abranovic and   
                 R. Ageloff and   
                   D. Frederick   Time-sharing computer systems as a
                                  teaching tool  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38

The American Statistician
Volume 26, Number 3, June, 1972

                  Hal R. Varian   Letter to the Editor: Benford's Law  . . 65--66


The American Statistician
Volume 29, Number ??, 1975

        Donald W. Marquardt and   
                 Ronald D. Snee   Ridge Regression in Practice . . . . . . 3--20

The American Statistician
Volume 29, Number 4, November, 1975

              W. Edwards Deming   On Probability As a Basis For Action . . 146--152


The American Statistician
Volume 30, Number ??, 1976

                 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

The American Statistician
Volume 30, Number 3, August, 1976

               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


The American Statistician
Volume 32, Number ??, 1978

           James R. Beniger and   
               Dorothy L. Robyn   Quantitative graphics in statistics: A
                                  brief history  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                  R. McGill and   
              John W. Tukey and   
                   W. A. Larsen   Variations of Box plots  . . . . . . . . 12--16

The American Statistician
Volume 32, Number 3, 1978

              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


The American Statistician
Volume 33, Number ??, 1979

           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

The American Statistician
Volume 33, Number 1, 1979

            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

The American Statistician
Volume 33, Number 2, 1979

            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

The American Statistician
Volume 33, Number 3, 1979

                 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

The American Statistician
Volume 33, Number 4, 1979

                  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


The American Statistician
Volume 34, Number ??, 1980

                  John W. Tukey   We need both exploratory and
                                  confirmatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--25
               H. Wolkowicz and   
                 G. P. H. Styan   A history of Samuelson's inequality  . . 250

The American Statistician
Volume 34, Number 1, 1980

                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

The American Statistician
Volume 34, Number 2, 1980

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 34, Number 3, 1980

                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

The American Statistician
Volume 34, Number 4, 1980

               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


The American Statistician
Volume 35, Number ??, 1981

                 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

The American Statistician
Volume 35, Number 1, 1981

              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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 35, Number 2, 1981

                Joan Fisher Box   Gosset, Fisher, and the $t$ distribution 61--66
               Herbert A. David   Egon S. Pearson, 1895--1980  . . . . . . 94--95

The American Statistician
Volume 35, Number 3, 1981

                 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

The American Statistician
Volume 35, Number 4, 1981

                 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


The American Statistician
Volume 36, Number 1, 1982

                      J. Mandel   Use of the singular value decomposition
                                  in regression analysis . . . . . . . . . 15--24
                 Arnold Zellner   Is Jeffreys a ``necessarist''  . . . . . 28--30
             Stanley H. Shapiro   Collapsing contingency tables---a
                                  geometric approach . . . . . . . . . . . 43--46

The American Statistician
Volume 36, Number 2, 1982

                   Lionel Weiss   Jacob Wolfowitz (1910--1981) . . . . . . 126--127

The American Statistician
Volume 36, Number 3, 1982

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 36, Number 4, 1982

               Robert Bechhofer   Jack Carl Kiefer, 1924--1981 . . . . . . 356--357


The American Statistician
Volume 37, Number 1, 1983

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 37, Number 2, 1983

     Daniel H. Freeman, Jr. and   
María Elena González and   
           David C. Hoaglin and   
                  Beth A. Kilss   Presenting Statistical Papers  . . . . . 106--110
            Brian L. Joiner and   
                  David L. Hall   The ubiquitous role of $f^{\prime} /f$
                                  in efficient estimation of location  . . 128--133
              David A. Freedman   A note on screening regression equations 152--155
        S. N. U. A. Kirmani and   
          E. Mirhakkak Esfahani   A note on the moment generating function 161--161

The American Statistician
Volume 37, Number 3, 1983

                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

The American Statistician
Volume 37, Number 4, 1983

             Yosef Hochberg and   
                Ajit C. Tamhane   Multiple comparisons in a mixed model    305--307
               Russell V. Lenth   Some properties of ${U}$ statistics  . . 311--313


The American Statistician
Volume 38, Number ??, 1984

                  D. A. Belsley   Demeaning Conditioning Diagnostics
                                  Through Centering  . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
           Gottfried E. Noether   Nonparametrics: The early years ---
                                  impressions and recollections  . . . . . 173--178
               Philip J. Boland   A biographical glimpse of William Sealy
                                  Gosset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
              G. S. Fishman and   
                    L. R. Moore   Sampling from a Discrete Distribution
                                  while Preserving Monotonicity  . . . . . 219--223

The American Statistician
Volume 38, Number 1, 1984

                      Keith Ord   In memoriam: Maurice George Kendall,
                                  1907--1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37

The American Statistician
Volume 38, Number 2, 1984

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 38, Number 3, 1984

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 38, Number 4, 1984

                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


The American Statistician
Volume 39, Number 2, June, 1985

                  John W. Tukey   Discussion: Projection Pursuit . . . . . 517--518

The American Statistician
Volume 39, Number ??, 1985

                  John W. Tukey   Comments on \em More intelligent
                                  statistical software and statistical
                                  expert systems: Future directions  . . . 12--14

The American Statistician
Volume 39, Number 1, 1985

                      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

The American Statistician
Volume 39, Number 2, 1985

                 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

The American Statistician
Volume 39, Number 3, 1985

            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

The American Statistician
Volume 39, Number 4, 1985

             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


The American Statistician
Volume 40, Number ??, 1986

                  John W. Tukey   Sunset salvo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
                 Grant W. Somes   The generalized Mantel--Haenszel
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
      Walter H. Carter, Jr. and   
       Vernon M. Chinchilli and   
             John D. Wilson and   
        Eleanor D. Campbell and   
             Fay K. Kessler and   
            Richard A. Carchman   An asymptotic confidence region for the
                                  $ED\sb{100p}$ from the logistic response
                                  surface for a combination of agents  . . 124--128

The American Statistician
Volume 40, Number 1, 1986

                       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

The American Statistician
Volume 40, Number 2, 1986

           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

The American Statistician
Volume 40, Number 3, 1986

         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

The American Statistician
Volume 40, Number 4, 1986

                  David G. Herr   On the history of ANOVA in unbalanced,
                                  factorial designs: the first 30 years    265--270
                Gunnar Blom and   
                     Lars Holst   Random walks of ordered elements with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
                   E. Carlstein   Simultaneous confidence regions for
                                  predictions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279
           Christian Genest and   
                    Jock MacKay   The joy of copulas: bivariate
                                  distributions with uniform marginals . . 280--283
              Jean-Marie Dufour   Bias of ${S}^2$ in linear regressions
                                  with dependent errors  . . . . . . . . . 284--285
             Jerry Nedelman and   
                  Ted Wallenius   Bernoulli trials, Poisson trials,
                                  surprising variances, and Jensen's
                                  inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--289
                Leigh W. Murray   Estimation of missing cells in
                                  randomized block and Latin square
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--293
                 Leon J. Gleser   Some notes on refereeing . . . . . . . . 310--312


The American Statistician
Volume 41, Number ??, 1987

                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

The American Statistician
Volume 41, Number 1, 1987

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 41, Number 2, 1987

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 41, Number 3, 1987

            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

The American Statistician
Volume 41, Number 4, 1987

                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


The American Statistician
Volume 42, Number 1, 1988

            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

The American Statistician
Volume 42, Number 2, 1988

               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

The American Statistician
Volume 42, Number 3, 1988

                   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

The American Statistician
Volume 42, Number 4, 1988

                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


The American Statistician
Volume 43, Number 1, 1989

             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

The American Statistician
Volume 43, Number 2, 1989

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 43, Number 3, 1989

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 43, Number 4, 1989

            Marcia Gumpertz and   
              Sastry G. Pantula   A simple approach to inference in random
                                  coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 203--210


The American Statistician
Volume 44, Number 1, February, 1990

           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

The American Statistician
Volume 44, Number 2, May, 1990

               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

The American Statistician
Volume 44, Number 3, August, 1990

             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

The American Statistician
Volume 44, Number 4, November, 1990

               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


The American Statistician
Volume 45, Number 1, February, 1991

                      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

The American Statistician
Volume 45, Number 2, May, 1991

            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

The American Statistician
Volume 45, Number 3, August, 1991

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 45, Number 4, November, 1991

                      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


The American Statistician
Volume 46, Number 1, February, 1992

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 46, Number 2, May, 1992

   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

The American Statistician
Volume 46, Number 3, August, 1992

             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

The American Statistician
Volume 46, Number 4, November, 1992

                   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


The American Statistician
Volume 47, Number 1, February, 1993

             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

The American Statistician
Volume 47, Number 2, May, 1993

             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

The American Statistician
Volume 47, Number 3, August, 1993

           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

The American Statistician
Volume 47, Number 4, November, 1993

            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


The American Statistician
Volume 48, Number 1, February, 1994

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 48, Number 2, May, 1994

                 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

The American Statistician
Volume 48, Number 3, August, 1994

             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

The American Statistician
Volume 48, Number 4, November, 1994

       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


The American Statistician
Volume 49, Number 1, 1995

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 49, Number 2, 1995

                    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

The American Statistician
Volume 49, Number 3, 1995

          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

The American Statistician
Volume 49, Number 4, 1995

             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


The American Statistician
Volume 50, Number 1, 1996

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 50, Number 2, 1996

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 50, Number 3, 1996

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 50, Number 4, November, 1996

                  Kinley Larntz   Editor's Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
                Brad Warner and   
               Manavendra Misra   Understanding Neural Networks as
                                  Statistical Tools  . . . . . . . . . . . 284
        Wilfried R. Vanhonacker   Meta-Analysis and Response Surface
                                  Extrapolation: A Least Squares Approach  294
          Alexander von Eye and   
               Christiane Spiel   Standard and Nonstandard Log-Linear
                                  Symmetry Models for Measuring Change in
                                  Categorical Variables  . . . . . . . . . 300
              Chul Gyu Park and   
               Taesung Park and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   A Simple Method for Generating
                                  Correlated Binary Variates . . . . . . . 306--310
                    Eduardo Ley   On the Peculiar Distribution of the U.S.
                                  Stock Indexes' Digits  . . . . . . . . . 311--313
                Roger L. Berger   More Powerful Tests From Confidence
                                  Interval $p$ Values  . . . . . . . . . . 314
              D. K. Bhaumik and   
                 P. M. Kulkarni   A Simple and Exact Method of
                                  Constructing Tolerance Intervals for the
                                  One-Way ANOVA With Random Effects  . . . 319
               Ibrahim A. Ahmad   A Class of Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon Type
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--327
            Ronald S. Fesco and   
        William D. Kalsbeek and   
             Sharon L. Lohr and   
       Richard L. Scheaffer and   
          Fritz J. Scheuren and   
            Elizabeth A. Stasny   Teaching Survey Sampling . . . . . . . . 328
          David R. Appleton and   
            Joyce M. French and   
          Mark P. J. Vanderpump   Ignoring a Covariate: An Example of
                                  Simpson's Paradox  . . . . . . . . . . . 340
       Mervyn G. Marasinghe and   
          William Q. Meeker and   
                Dianne Cook and   
                  Tae-sung Shin   Using Graphics and Simulation to Teach
                                  Statistical Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 342
             Bernard Rosner and   
        Frederick Mosteller and   
                     Cleo Youtz   Modeling Pitching Performance and the
                                  Distribution of Runs per Inning in Major
                                  League Baseball  . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
             Rob J. Hyndman and   
                      Yanan Fan   Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages 361
               A. J. Hayter and   
                         W. Liu   A Note on the Calculation of Pr$(X_1 <
                                  X_2 \cdots{} < X_k)$  . . . . . . . . . . 365
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   366
               John C. Nash and   
                   Tony K. Quon   Software for Modeling Kinetic Phenomena  368
                      Anonymous   Editorial Collaborators  . . . . . . . . 390


The American Statistician
Volume 51, Number 1, February, 1997

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 51, Number 2, May, 1997

        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

The American Statistician
Volume 51, Number 3, August, 1997

          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

The American Statistician
Volume 51, Number 4, November, 1997

            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   ??


The American Statistician
Volume 52, Number 1, February, 1998

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 52, Number 2, May, 1998

               J. Stuart Hunter   Cuthbert Daniel: Industrial Statistician 89--92
             Robert E. Kass and   
          Bradley P. Carlin and   
              Andrew Gelman and   
                Radford M. Neal   Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice: A
                                  Roundtable Discussion  . . . . . . . . . 93--100
           Colin R. Goodall and   
              Karen Kafadar and   
                  John W. Tukey   Computing and Using Rural versus Urban
                                  Measures in Statistical Applications . . 101--111
                  David J. Hand   Data Mining: Statistics and More?  . . . 112
               Alan Agresti and   
                 Brent A. Coull   Approximate is Better than ``Exact'' for
                                  Interval Estimation of Binomial
                                  Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126
              John Ludbrook and   
                    Hugh Dudley   Why Permutation Tests are Superior to
                                  $t$ and $F$ Tests in Biomedical Research 127 (or 126--??)
            Barry C. Arnold and   
             Robert M. Shavelle   Joint Confidence Sets for the Mean and
                                  Variance of a Normal Distribution  . . . 133--140
              John W. Pratt and   
               Robert Schlaifer   A New Interpretation of the F Statistic  140
              John W. Pratt and   
               Robert Schlaifer   A New Interpretation of the $F$
                                  Statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
             C. Mitchell Dayton   Information Criteria for the
                                  Paired-Comparisons Problem . . . . . . . 143 (or 144--??)
         Karen D. Rappaport and   
             Nouna Kettaneh and   
                    Svante Wold   Perspectives on Implementing Statistical
                                  Modeling and Design (SMD) in an
                                  Industrial/Chemical Environment  . . . . 151 (or 152--??)
              Andrew Gelman and   
              Deborah Nolan and   
                   Anna Men and   
            Steve Warmerdam and   
              Michelle Bautista   Student Projects on Statistical Literacy
                                  and the Media  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
                  Andrew Gelman   Some Class-Participation Demonstrations
                                  for Decision Theory and Bayesian
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 (or 167--??)
                  K. L. Q. Read   A Lognormal Approximation for the
                                  Collector's Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 173 (or 175--??)
            Jerry L. Hintze and   
                  Ray D. Nelson   Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace
                                  Synergism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 (or 181--??)
      A. Pedro Duarte Silva and   
                   Antonie Stam   Nonparametric Two-Group Classification:
                                  Concepts and a SAS-Based Software
                                  Package  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 (or 185--??)
      A. Pedro Duarte Silva and   
                   Antonie Stam   Nonparametric Two-Group Classification:
                                  Concepts and a SAS-Based Software
                                  Package  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
                  Elizabeth Low   Book Review: \em Understanding Basic
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
                Jonathan Nagler   Book Review: \em Statistical Computing
                                  Environments for Social Research . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
                   Tom Obremski   Book Review: \em Statistics for
                                  Management, 7th ed . . . . . . . . . . . 198 (or 196--196??)
         V. A. Samaranayake and   
               Jagdish K. Patel   Book Review: \em Modern Engineering
                                  Statistics and Elements of Engineering
                                  Probability and Statistics . . . . . . . 199 (or 197--??)
               Marjorie E. Bond   Book Reviews: \em Applied Statistical
                                  Methods for Business, Economics, and the
                                  Social Sciences and \em Statistics for
                                  Managers: Using Microsoft Excel  . . . . 201 (or 199--??)
               Thomas Wonnacott   Book Review: \em The Ultimate Resource 2 202 (or 200--??)

The American Statistician
Volume 52, Number 3, August, 1998

             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

The American Statistician
Volume 52, Number 4, November, 1998

                 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


The American Statistician
Volume 53, Number 1, February, 1999

               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

The American Statistician
Volume 53, Number 2, 1999

                 Brian L. Wiens   When Log-Normal and Gamma Models Give
                                  Different Results: A Case Study  . . . . 89
                Tyler Smith and   
             Neil C. Schwertman   Can the NCAA Basketball Tournament
                                  Seeding be Used to Predict Margin of
                                  Victory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
                    M. C. Jones   Distributional Relationships Arising
                                  From Simple Trigonometric Formulas . . . 99
               Alan J. Salzberg   Removable Selection Bias in
                                  Quasi-Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
          Richard J. Bolton and   
           Wojtek J. Krzanowski   A Characterization of Principal
                                  Components for Projection Pursuit  . . . 108
          Geert Molenberghs and   
      Els J. T. Goetghebeur and   
          Stuart R. Lipsitz and   
             Michael G. Kenward   Nonrandom Missingness in Categorical
                                  Data: Strengths and Limitations  . . . . 110
             Michael Lavine and   
              Mark J. Schervish   Bayes Factors: What They Are and What
                                  They Are Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
          Nicolas W. Hengartner   A Note on Maximum Likelihood Estimation  123
               Veronica Czitrom   One-Factor-at-a-Time Versus Designed
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
            Jon E. Anderson and   
                Engin A. Sungur   Community Service Statistics Projects    132
                  Peter K. Dunn   Three Tools for Interactively
                                  Visualizing Some Distribution Theory
                                  Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
              Galit Shmueli and   
                    Ayala Cohen   Analysis and Display of Hierarchical
                                  Life-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
                   Joseph Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 147
               B. D. McCullough   Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
                                  Software: Part II  . . . . . . . . . . . 149
         Nicholas J. Horton and   
              Stuart R. Lipsitz   Review of Software to Fit Generalized
                                  Estimating Equation Regression Models    160
         Becki Bucher Bartelson   Book Review: \em Probability Without
                                  Equations: Concepts for Clinicians . . . 170
               James J. Higgins   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 170
                John P. Holcomb   Book Reviews: \em Applied Regression
                                  Analysis, 3rd edition and \em Applied
                                  Regression Analysis: A Research Tool,
                                  2nd edition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
   Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka   Book Review: \em Against the Gods: The
                                  Remarkable Story of Risk . . . . . . . . 170
                  Karen Kafadar   Book Review: \em Statistics: Concepts
                                  and Controversies, 4th edition . . . . . 170
                      Anonymous   Editor's Report for 1998 . . . . . . . . 175

The American Statistician
Volume 53, Number 3, August, 1999

              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

The American Statistician
Volume 53, Number 4, November, 1999

              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


The American Statistician
Volume 54, Number 1, February, 2000

                      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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 54, Number 2, May, 2000

          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

The American Statistician
Volume 54, Number 3, August, 2000

             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

The American Statistician
Volume 54, Number 4, November, 2000

               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


The American Statistician
Volume 55, Number 1, February, 2001

                 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

The American Statistician
Volume 55, Number 2, 2001

                   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

The American Statistician
Volume 55, Number 3, 2001

                  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

The American Statistician
Volume 55, Number 4, 2001

                   L. Denby and   
             J. M. Landwehr and   
                  C. L. Mallows   Statistical Practice --- An Exercise in
                                  the Real World of Design and Analysis    263--271
         Thomas A. McCready and   
             Neil C. Schwertman   Statistical Practice --- The Statistical
                                  Paleontology of Charles Lyell and the
                                  Coupon Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--278
            Lawrence Barker and   
                Henry Rolka and   
              Deborah Rolka and   
                   Cedric Brown   Statistical Practice --- Equivalence
                                  Testing for Binomial Random Variables:
                                  Which Test to Use? . . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
               B. M. Cesana and   
                   G. Reina and   
                    E. Marubini   Statistical Practice --- Sample Size for
                                  Testing a Proportion in Clinical Trials:
                                  A ``Two-Step'' Procedure Combining Power
                                  and Confidence Interval Expected Width   288--292
              Richard H. Browne   Statistical Practice --- Using the
                                  Sample Range as a Basis for Calculating
                                  Sample Size in Power Calculations  . . . 293--298
             George Casella and   
             Michael Lavine and   
            Christian P. Robert   General --- Explaining the Perfect
                                  Sampler  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--305
               Jonathan Shuster   General --- Dependence in Simulation: A
                                  Case Study From the Game of Contract
                                  Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--309
                Gary L. Gadbury   General --- Randomization Inference and
                                  Bias of Standard Errors  . . . . . . . . 310--313
                    Li Yang and   
          Anastasios A. Tsiatis   General --- Efficiency Study of
                                  Estimators for a Treatment Effect in a
                                  Pretest-Posttest Trial . . . . . . . . . 314--321
              Eric Langford and   
            Neil Schwertman and   
                 Margaret Owens   General --- Is the Property of Being
                                  Positively Correlated Transitive?  . . . 322--325
                   Rob Root and   
                  Trisha Thorme   Teacher's Corner --- Community-Based
                                  Projects in Applied Statistics: Using
                                  Service-Learning to Enhance Student
                                  Understanding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--331
         Sterling C. Hilton and   
          Scott D. Grimshaw and   
              Genan T. Anderson   Teacher's Corner --- Statistics in
                                  Preschool  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--336
          Michael Henderson and   
                  Mary C. Meyer   Teacher's Corner --- Exploring the
                                  Confidence Interval for a Binomial
                                  Parameter in a First Course in
                                  Statistical Computing  . . . . . . . . . 337--344
             Philip Iversen and   
              Mervyn Marasinghe   Teacher's Corner --- Dynamic Graphical
                                  Tools for Teaching Experimental Design
                                  and Analysis Concepts  . . . . . . . . . 345--351
                D. R. Bellhouse   Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
                                  The Central Limit Theorem Under Simple
                                  Random Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--357
       Enrique Del Castillo and   
                  Suntara Cahya   Statistical Computing and Graphics --- A
                                  Tool for Computing Confidence Regions on
                                  the Stationary Point of a Response
                                  Surface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--365
                 J. G. Liao and   
                      Ori Rosen   Statistical Computing and Graphics ---
                                  Fast and Stable Algorithms for Computing
                                  and Sampling From the Noncentral
                                  Hypergeometric Distribution  . . . . . . 366--369
            Norean Radke Sharpe   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
                                  --- Statistics for Management and
                                  Economics, Fifth Edition . . . . . . . . 370--370
               Russell V. Lenth   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
                                  --- A First Course in the Design of
                                  Experiments: A Linear Models Approach    370
                   Namwon Hyung   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
                                  --- Elements of Forecasting, 2nd Edition 371--371
   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


The American Statistician
Volume 56, Number 1, 2002

          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

The American Statistician
Volume 56, Number 2, May, 2002

                   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

The American Statistician
Volume 56, Number 3, August, 2002

          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

The American Statistician
Volume 56, Number 4, November, 2002

               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


The American Statistician
Volume 57, Number 1, February, 2003

                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

The American Statistician
Volume 57, Number 2, May, 2003

                   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

The American Statistician
Volume 57, Number 3, August, 2003

                James H. Albert   Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
                 Havi Murad and   
            Anat Fleischman and   
            Siegal Sadetzki and   
                 Orna Geyer and   
           Laurence S. Freedman   Small Samples and Ordered Logistic
                                  Regression: Does it Help to Collapse
                                  Categories of Outcome? . . . . . . . . . 155
                 J. G. Liao and   
                      Dan McGee   Adjusted Coefficients of Determination
                                  for Logistic Regression  . . . . . . . . 161
           Robert A. Parker and   
                Nancy G. Berman   Sample Size: More Than Calculations  . . 166
            Raymond Hubbard and   
                  M. J. Bayarri   Confusion Over Measures of Evidence
                                  ($p$'s) Versus Errors ($\alpha$'s) in
                                  Classical Statistical Testing  . . . . . 171
                Kenneth N. Berk   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
             Matthew A. Carlton   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
        Clifford Spiegelman and   
                    Eun Sug Ark   Nearly Nonparametric Multivariate
                                  Density Estimates That Incorporate
                                  Marginal Parametric Density Information  183
                      Anonymous   Rejoinder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
           Amanda Wachsmuth and   
           Leland Wilkinson and   
               Gerard E. Dallal   Galton's Bend: A Previously Undiscovered
                                  Nonlinearity in Galton's Family Stature
                                  Regression Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
                 Xiuhong Li and   
       Jennifer M. Buechner and   
        Patrick M. Tarwater and   
            Alvaro Muñoz   A Diamond-Shaped Equiponderant Graphical
                                  Display of the Effects of Two
                                  Categorical Predictors on Continuous
                                  Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
                   Joseph Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 200
                Robert A. Oster   An Examination of Statistical Software
                                  Packages for Categorical Data Analysis
                                  Using Exact Methods --- Part II  . . . . 201
                Herman Callaert   Comparing Statistical Software Packages:
                                  The Case of the Logrank Test in StatXact 214
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Book review: \em The A to Z of
                                  Mathematics: A Basic Guide . . . . . . . 218
              Richard J. Cleary   Book Reviews: \em Duelling Idiots and
                                  Other Probability Puzzlers and \em What
                                  are the Chances? Voodoo Deaths and
                                  Office Gossip and Other Adventures in
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   Book Review: \em Problems in Probability 218
              Stephen J. Miller   Book Reviews: \em Basic Statistics and
                                  Data Analysis (with InfoTrac and CD-ROM)
                                  (1st ed.), \em Introduction to
                                  Probability and Statistics (11th ed.)
                                  and \em Just the Essentials of
                                  Elementary Statistics (3rd ed.)  . . . . 219
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 221
                      Anonymous   Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

The American Statistician
Volume 57, Number 4, November, 2003

         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


The American Statistician
Volume 58, Number 1, February, 2004

            James H. Albert and   
                James E. Gentle   Special Section: Teaching Computational
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                James E. Gentle   Courses in Statistical Computing and
                                  Computational Statistics . . . . . . . . 2
                   John Monahan   Teaching Statistical Computing at North
                                  Carolina State University  . . . . . . . 6
                  Kenneth Lange   Computational Statistics and
                                  Optimization Theory at UCLA  . . . . . . 9
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
           C. Chandra Sekar and   
              W. Edwards Deming   On a Method of Estimating Birth and
                                  Death Rates and the Extent of
                                  Registration (Excerpt) . . . . . . . . . 13
                     Xu Guo and   
              Bradley P. Carlin   Separate and Joint Modeling of
                                  Longitudinal and Event Time Data Using
                                  Standard Computer Packages . . . . . . . 16
          James F. Troendle and   
             Edward L. Korn and   
                Lisa M. McShane   An Example of Slow Convergence of the
                                  Bootstrap in High Dimensions . . . . . . 25
            David R. Hunter and   
                  Kenneth Lange   A Tutorial on MM Algorithms  . . . . . . 30
      Reid Dorsey-Palmateer and   
                     Gary Smith   Bowlers' Hot Hands . . . . . . . . . . . 38
               Samuel S. Wu and   
                Mark C. K. Yang   Evaluation of the Current Decision Rule
                                  in Figure Skating and Possible
                                  Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
               Justin L. Tobias   Assessing Assessments of School
                                  Performance: The Case of California  . . 55
           Ricardo J. Rodriguez   First Significant Digit Patterns From
                                  Mixtures of Uniform Distributions  . . . 64--71
             Daniel Gervini and   
               Valentin Rousson   Criteria for Evaluating
                                  Dimension-Reducing Components for
                                  Multivariate Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 72
            Donna F. Stroup and   
         Richard A. Goodman and   
              Ralph Cordell and   
              Richard Scheaffer   Teaching Statistical Principles Using
                                  Epidemiology: Measuring the Health of
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
                   Joseph Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 85
             Elaine T. McDonald   Intro Stats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
              Stephen J. Miller   Book Review: Fifty Fathoms: Statistics
                                  Demonstrations for Deeper Understanding  86
              Stephen J. Miller   Book Review: CAST (Computer-Assisted
                                  Statistics Teaching) . . . . . . . . . . 87
              Samantha C. Bates   Book Review: Introductory Statistics
                                  with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
            Mary Kathryn Cowles   Book Review: Statistical Computing: An
                                  Introduction to Data Analysis using
                                  SPlus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
            Mary Kathryn Cowles   Book Review: SAS for Linear Models (4th
                                  ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 90

The American Statistician
Volume 58, Number 2, May, 2004

                James H. Albert   Editor's Report for \em The American
                                  Statistician, Volume 57 (2003) . . . . . 91--92
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   92--92
               Russell V. Lenth   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
             Michael Hamada and   
                   Randy Sitter   Statistical Research . . . . . . . . . . 93--101
               Daniel Barry and   
               Philip J. Boland   Debating the Use of Statistical Evidence
                                  in Allegations of Age Discrimination . . 102--109
             R. Dennis Cook and   
               Sanford Weisberg   Partial One-Dimensional Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--116
              Howard Wainer and   
                  Lisa M. Brown   Two Statistical Paradoxes in the
                                  Interpretation of Group Differences  . . 117--123
                Weiwen Miao and   
            Joseph L. Gastwirth   The Effect of Dependence on Confidence
                                  Intervals for a Population Proportion    124--130
            Peter C. Austin and   
                     Jack V. Tu   Bootstrap Methods for Developing
                                  Predictive Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 131--137
               Holger Dette and   
             Timothy E. O'Brien   Efficient Experimental Design for the
                                  Behrens--Fisher Problem With Application
                                  to Bioassay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
                 Sharon L. Lohr   Statistical Frontiers in Survey Sampling 145--149
     Dimitris Hatzinikolaou and   
              Kosmas Ferentinos   On the Role of Semielasticity in
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
                 Hwan Chung and   
                 Eric Loken and   
              Joseph L. Schafer   Difficulties in Drawing Inferences With
                                  Finite-Mixture Models  . . . . . . . . . 152--158
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 159--159
             Paul T. von Hippel   Biases in SPSS 12.0 Missing Value
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--164
            Willard C. Losinger   A Review of the GUM Workbench  . . . . . 165--167
                Joseph M. Hilbe   A Review of SPSS 12.01, Part 2 . . . . . 168--171
               Amy K. Ferketich   Introductory Biostatistics for the
                                  Health Sciences  . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Regression and ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   101 Special Practice Problems in
                                  Probability and Statistics . . . . . . . 173--173
                 Robert B. Lund   Elementary Probability Theory With
                                  Stochastic Processes and an Introduction
                                  to Mathematical Finance  . . . . . . . . 173--174
                 Montserrat Rue   Statistical Methods for the Analysis of
                                  Biomedical Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
     Carolyn Pillers Dobler and   
               Russell V. Lenth   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 175--175
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 176--177
                      Anonymous   Corrections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178

The American Statistician
Volume 58, Number 3, August, 2004

                   Hal S. Stern   Statistics and the College Football
                                  Championship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--185
                 Kenneth Massey   Discussion: Statistics and the College
                                  Football Championship  . . . . . . . . . 185--187
              David A. Harville   Discussion: Statistics and the College
                                  Football Championship  . . . . . . . . . 187--189
            Richard Billingsley   Discussion: Statistics and the College
                                  Football Championship  . . . . . . . . . 190--190
                    Wes Colleys   Discussion: Statistics and the College
                                  Football Championship  . . . . . . . . . 191--192
                    David Mease   Discussion: Statistics and the College
                                  Football Championship  . . . . . . . . . 192--194
                      Anonymous   Reply: Statistics and the College
                                  Football Championship  . . . . . . . . . 194--195
                Donald B. Rubin   On Advice for Beginners in Statistical
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
                Alan E. Gelfand   Discussion of ``Statistical Research . . 197--198
             Elizabeth Thompson   The Importance of ``Why?'' . . . . . . . 198--198
               Deepak B. Khatry   Statistical Contributions in
                                  Biotechnology and Nonclinical
                                  Drug-Discovery Research  . . . . . . . . 199--199
            Willard C. Losinger   How to do Statistical Research . . . . . 200--200
            Elizabeth A. Stasny   Some Random Thoughts on Doing Research   200--202
             Michael Hamada and   
                   Randy Sitter   Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
        Patrick J. Cantwell and   
               Howard Hogan and   
             Kathleen M. Styles   The Use of Statistical Methods in the
                                  U.S. Census  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--212
                   Neil H. Timm   Estimating Effect Sizes in Exploratory
                                  Experimental Studies When Using a Linear
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--217
                   Scott Menard   Six Approaches to Calculating
                                  Standardized Logistic Regression
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--223
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Gábor J. Székely and   
         Donald St. P. Richards   The St. Petersburg Paradox and the Crash
                                  of High-Tech Stocks in 2000  . . . . . . 225--231
          Michael J. Rovine and   
            Douglas R. Anderson   Peirce and Bowditch  . . . . . . . . . . 232--236
                James A. Hanley   ``Transmuting'' Women into Men . . . . . 237--243
           Robert G. Easterling   Teaching Experimental Design . . . . . . 244--252
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 253--253
             Jamie D. Mills and   
               Elisa L. Johnson   An Evaluation of ActivStats for SPSS for
                                  Teaching and Learning  . . . . . . . . . 254--258
              Kristin A. Duncan   Grade Inflation: A Crisis in College
                                  Education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
              Stephen J. Miller   Statistics in Action: Understanding a
                                  World of Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
                     Grace Chan   SAS Programming: The One-Day Course  . . 260--260
                    Robert Lund   Stochastic Processes and Their
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
                      Anonymous   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 262--263

The American Statistician
Volume 58, Number 4, November, 2004

       Richard L. Scheaffer and   
            Elizabeth A. Stasny   The State of Undergraduate Education in
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
          Marshall M. Joffe and   
         Thomas R. Ten Have and   
          Harold I. Feldman and   
              Stephen E. Kimmel   Model Selection, Confounder Control, and
                                  Marginal Structural Models . . . . . . . 272--279
            H. Dean Johnson and   
               Dennis A. Warner   Factors Relating to the Degree to Which
                                  Statistical Consulting Clients Deem
                                  Their Consulting Experiences to be a
                                  Success  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--289
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
           Morris H. Hansen and   
             William N. Hurwitz   The Problem of Nonresponse in Sample
                                  Surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--294
                Leslie Kish and   
                     Irene Hess   A ``Replacement'' Procedure for Reducing
                                  the Bias of Nonresponse  . . . . . . . . 295--297
                Donald B. Rubin   The Design of a General and Flexible
                                  System for Handling Nonresponse in
                                  Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--302
               Michele DiPietro   Bayesian Randomized Response as a Class
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--309
             Lynn A. Fisher and   
         Donald St. P. Richards   Random Walks as Motivational Material in
                                  Introductory Statistics and Probability
                                  Courses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--316
                    Iain Pardoe   Multidimensional Scaling for Selecting
                                  Small Groups in College Courses  . . . . 317--321
            Daniel R. Jeske and   
                Todd Blessinger   Tunable Approximations for the Mean and
                                  Variance of the Maximum of Heterogeneous
                                  Geometrically Distributed Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 328--329
            Mary Kathryn Cowles   Review of WinBUGS 1.4  . . . . . . . . . 330--336
               Patrick J. Kelly   A Review of Software Packages for
                                  Analyzing Correlated Survival Data . . . 337--342
         Nicholas J. Horton and   
         Elizabeth R. Brown and   
                   Linjuan Qian   Use of R as a Toolbox for Mathematical
                                  Statistics Exploration . . . . . . . . . 343--357
            Richard J. C. Leary   Teaching Statistics Using Baseball. Jim
                                  Albert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Common Errors in Statistics (and How to
                                  Avoid Them)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
            Judith Schwartzbaum   ActivEpi Companion Textbook: A
                                  Supplement for Use with The ActivEpi
                                  CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
                       D. Glass   Proofs That Really Count: The Art of
                                  Combinatorial Proof  . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
      Clyde H. Schoolfield, Jr.   Elements of Stochastic Modeling  . . . . 360--361
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 362--363
                      Anonymous   Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
                      Anonymous   2004 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 365--368


The American Statistician
Volume 59, Number 1, February, 2005

                 David S. Moore   Preparing Graduate Students to Teach
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                  Andrew Gelman   A Course on Teaching Statistics at the
                                  University Level . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
            Amy G. Froelich and   
       William M. Duckworth and   
           W. Robert Stephenson   Training Statistics Teachers at Iowa
                                  State University . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
             W. L. Harkness and   
              J. L. Rosenberger   Training Graduate Students at Penn State
                                  University in Teaching Statistics  . . . 11--13
           Jeffrey B. Birch and   
                   J. P. Morgan   TA Training at Virginia Tech . . . . . . 14--18
        Javier Girón and   
              Josep Ginebra and   
                      Alex Riba   Bayesian Analysis of a Multinomial
                                  Sequence and Homogeneity of Literary
                                  Style  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
              Martin A. Koschat   A Case for Simple Tables . . . . . . . . 31--40
                Stefan Niermann   Optimizing the Ordering of Tables With
                                  Evolutionary Computation . . . . . . . . 41--46
         Richard N. McGrath and   
                  Arthur B. Yeh   A Quick, Compact, Two-Sample Dispersion
                                  Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53
                Abram Kagan and   
              Lawrence A. Shepp   A Sufficiency Paradox  . . . . . . . . . 54--56
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
                 Allyn A. Young   National Statistics in War and Peace . . 58--61
                    Carl Snyder   The Problem of Prosperity  . . . . . . . 62--67
                Helen M. Walker   The Role of the American Statistical
                                  Association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
                Mirjam Moerbeek   Randomization of Clusters Versus
                                  Randomization of Persons Within Clusters 72--78
         Lurdes Y. T. Inoue and   
            Donald A. Berry and   
            Giovanni Parmigiani   Relationship Between Bayesian and
                                  Frequentist Sample Size Determination    79--87
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 88--88
             Angelique Davi and   
         Dominique Haughton and   
                  Nada Nasr and   
                Gaurav Shah and   
            Maria Skaletsky and   
                     Ruth Spack   A Review of Two Text-Mining Packages . . 89--103
                Joseph M. Hilbe   A Review of Systat 11  . . . . . . . . . 104--110
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Review of SigmaPlot 9.0  . . . . . . . . 111--112
                   John. Hansen   Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh:
                                  Analyzing and Understanding Data . . . . 113--113
                Daniel L. McGee   An Introduction to Survival Analysis
                                  Using Stata (rev.) . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
     Carolyn Pillers Dobler and   
               Russell V. Lenth   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 114--115
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 116--118
                      Anonymous   Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119

The American Statistician
Volume 59, Number 2, May, 2005

             Ronald Christensen   Testing Fisher, Neyman, Pearson, and
                                  Bayes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--126
              Lynn Friedman and   
                   Melanie Wall   Graphical Views of Suppression and
                                  Multicollinearity in Multiple Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
                Paul W. Vos and   
                 Suzanne Hudson   Evaluation Criteria for Discrete
                                  Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 137--142
              Luc Duchateau and   
                   Paul Janssen   Understanding Heterogeneity in
                                  Generalized Mixed and Frailty Models . . 143--146
              Paul R. Rosenbaum   Heterogeneity and Causality  . . . . . . 147--152
            Andrew R. Solow and   
                Woollcott Smith   How Surprising is a New Record?  . . . . 153--155
           Jen\Ho Reiczigel and   
Ildikó Zakariás and   
             Lajos Rózsa   A Bootstrap Test of Stochastic Equality
                                  of Two Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 156--161
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
                  John Ludbrook   R. A. Fisher's Life and Death in
                                  Australia, 1959--1962  . . . . . . . . . 164--165
                     Brian Bull   Exemplar Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . 166--172
                Mirjam Moerbeek   Randomization of Clusters Versus
                                  Randomization of Persons Within Clusters 173--179
         Matthew A. Carlton and   
          William D. Stansfield   Making Babies by the Flip of a Coin? . . 180--182
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 183--184
                Joseph M. Hilbe   A Review of SPSS, Part 3 . . . . . . . . 185--186
                Joseph M. Hilbe   SigmaStat 3.1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--191
              Klaus Langohr and   
         Guadalupe Gómez   Likelihood Maximization Using Web-Based
                                  Optimization Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 192--202
               James J. Cochran   The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong
                                  Fascination with Statistics  . . . . . . 203--203
             Peter F. Craigmile   All of Statistics: A Concise Course in
                                  Statistical Inference  . . . . . . . . . 203--204

The American Statistician
Volume 59, Number 3, August, 2005

                James H. Albert   Editor's Report for \em The American
                                  Statistician, Volume 58 (2004) . . . . . 205--206
                     Jesse Frey   A Ranking Method Based on Minimizing the
                                  Number of In-Sample Errors . . . . . . . 207--216
              Ian R. Harris and   
                 Brent D. Burch   Measuring Relative Importance of Sources
                                  of Variation Without Using Variance  . . 217--222
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
                 Ian Spence and   
                  Howard Wainer   William Playfair and His Graphical
                                  Inventions: An Excerpt From the
                                  Introduction to the Republication of His
                                  Atlas and Statistical Breviary . . . . . 224--229
                 G. A. McIntyre   A Method for Unbiased Selective
                                  Sampling, Using Ranked Sets  . . . . . . 230--232
                   Susan Belden   Discussion: Moving Beyond the St.
                                  Petersburg Paradox to Understand Growth
                                  Stock Valuation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
    Gabor J. Székely and   
         Donald St. P. Richards   Response: Remain Steadfast With the St.
                                  Petersburg Paradox to Quantify
                                  Irrational Exuberance  . . . . . . . . . 235--239
   Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns and   
             Gaea Leinhardt and   
                Javier Corredor   Six Online Statistics Courses:
                                  Examination and Review . . . . . . . . . 240--251
          Mithat Gönen and   
          Wesley O. Johnson and   
                Yonggang Lu and   
              Peter H. Westfall   The Bayesian Two-Sample $t$ Test . . . . 252--257
               Jeff T. Terpstra   Some Illustrative Classroom Examples
                                  Regarding Sums of Discrete Random
                                  Variables With Finite Support  . . . . . 258--265
               James J. Cochran   Can You Really Learn Basic Probability
                                  by Playing a Sports Board Game?  . . . . 266--272
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 273--273
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   The Chicago Guide to Writing About
                                  Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   More Damned Lies and Statistics: How
                                  Numbers Confuse Public Issues and
                                  Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the
                                  Stock Market, & Just About Everything
                                  Else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
              Richard J. Cleary   Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks . . 275--275
        Samantha C. Bates Prins   Statistical Analysis and Data Display:
                                  An Intermediate Course with Examples in
                                  S-Plus, R, and SAS . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
        Samantha C. Bates Prins   Linear Models with R . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
                  Dave H. Annis   Probability and Statistics: The Science
                                  of Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
     Carolyn Pillers Dobler and   
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 278--278
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 279--279
                      Anonymous   Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280

The American Statistician
Volume 59, Number 4, November, 2005

                James H. Albert   Editor's Report for \em The American
                                  Statistician, Volume 59 (2005) . . . . . 281--281
           Peter J. Danaher and   
             Bruce G. S. Hardie   Bacon With Your Eggs? Applications of a
                                  New Bivariate Beta-Binomial Distribution 282--286
              Steve Verrill and   
                     Mark Durst   The Decline and Fall of Type II Error
                                  Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
          Hans-Peter Piepho and   
               Katharina Emrich   Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
                                  Two Estimable Functions and Their Ratio
                                  Under a Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . 292--300
          Steven M. Snapinn and   
                   Qi Jiang and   
                 Boris Iglewicz   Illustrating the Impact of a
                                  Time-Varying Covariate With an Extended
                                  Kaplan--Meier Estimator  . . . . . . . . 301--307
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
               Herbert A. David   Tables Related to the Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--311
                Joan Fisher Box   A Reminiscence of R. A. Fisher . . . . . 312--314
                 Fritz Scheuren   Multiple Imputation  . . . . . . . . . . 315--319
                 David H. Annis   Rethinking the Paper Helicopter  . . . . 320--326
                David R. Hunter   Teaching Computing in Statistical Theory
                                  Courses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--333
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 334--334
                Joseph M. Hilbe   A Review of Stata 9.0  . . . . . . . . . 335--348
              Richard J. Cleary   Gauss: Titan of Science and Karl
                                  Pearson: The Scientific Life in a
                                  Statistical Age  . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
              Richard J. Cleary   Gauss: Titan of Science and Karl
                                  Pearson: The Scientific Life in a
                                  Statistical Age  . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
               Izabela E. Annis   PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS    350--350
                  E. David Ford   A Primer of Ecological Statistics  . . . 350--350
                 Alexandra Dlas   Statistical Analysis of Financial Data
                                  in S-Plus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
             Jeffrey Rosoff and   
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 352--352
           Raymond. Hubbard and   
                  M. J. Bayarri   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 353--354
                      Anonymous   2005 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 355--358


The American Statistician
Volume 60, Number 1, February, 2006

                 Peter Westfall   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
             Brian J. Reich and   
            James S. Hodges and   
          Bradley P. Carlin and   
                  Adam M. Reich   A Spatial Analysis of Basketball Shot
                                  Chart Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
              Gary A. Simon and   
            Jeffrey S. Simonoff   ``Last Licks'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
               Matthew J. Gurka   Selecting the Best Linear Mixed Model
                                  Under REML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--26
            Donald A. Berry and   
               Gregory D. Ayers   Symmetrized Percent Change for Treatment
                                  Comparisons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
                 Fritz Scheuren   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
              W. Edwards Deming   On Errors in Surveys (An Excerpt)  . . . 34--38
                    S. S. Wilks   Undergraduate Statistical Education  . . 39--45
           Herbert A. David and   
             Donald F. Morrison   Samuel Stanley Wilks (1906--1964)  . . . 46--49
                John F. Monahan   Professor C. R. Mudgeon and the
                                  ``Order,'' or Writing Regression
                                  Questions So That Students Do Not Need a
                                  Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
             Dean P. Foster and   
                Robert A. Stine   Being Warren Buffett . . . . . . . . . . 53--60
            James A. Hanley and   
                   Dana Teltsch   The PDF of a Function of a Random
                                  Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67
            Jonathan J. Shuster   Using a Two-Player Coin Game Paradox in
                                  the Classroom  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   MVUE for the Mean With One Observation   71--74
           Enrique R. Villa and   
                Luis A. Escobar   Using Moment Generating Functions to
                                  Derive Mixture Distributions . . . . . . 75--80
            Philip L. H. Yu and   
        Jennifer S. K. Chan and   
                   Wing K. Fung   Statistical Exploration from SARS  . . . 81--91
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 92--92
            James W. Hardin and   
                Joseph M. Hilbe   A Review of Scientific WorkPlace 5.5 . . 93--96
                 David H. Annis   Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters: How
                                  Statistics Can Level the Playing Field
                                  and Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers:
                                  Adjusted Batting Performance from
                                  Strikeouts to Home Runs  . . . . . . . . 97--97
                 Mark Schilling   Understanding Probability: Chance Rules
                                  in Everyday Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
            Mary Kathryn Cowles   Probability and Statistics for Computer
                                  Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
              Deborah J. Rumsey   Introduction to Bayesian Statistics  . . 98--99
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   The Challenge of Developing Statistical
                                  Literacy, Reasoning and Thinking . . . . 99--99
              Richard J. Cleary   Innovations in Teaching Statistics and
                                  Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An
                                  Urgent Challenge for Higher Education    99--100
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 101--103

The American Statistician
Volume 60, Number 2, May, 2006

             Ronald L. Iman and   
            Mark E. Johnson and   
         Charles C. Watson, Jr.   Statistical Aspects of Forecasting and
                                  Planning for Hurricanes  . . . . . . . . 105--121
               Fulvio De Santis   Power Priors and Their Use in Clinical
                                  Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--129
       Christina M. Gullion and   
                   Nancy Berman   What Statistical Consultants Do  . . . . 130--138
                Brian Caffo and   
               Michael Griswold   A User-Friendly Introduction to
                                  Link-Probit-Normal Models  . . . . . . . 139--145
                  Andrew Gelman   The Boxer, the Wrestler, and the Coin
                                  Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--150
             David H. Annis and   
                   Samuel S. Wu   A Comparison of Potential Playoff
                                  Systems for NCAA I-A Football  . . . . . 151--157
                 Eric Loken and   
              Michael J. Rovine   Peirce's 19th Century Mixture Model
                                  Approach to Rater Agreement  . . . . . . 158--161
                    H. A. David   The Introduction of Matrix Algebra into
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
                Arnab Maity and   
                Michael Sherman   The Two-Sample T Test With One Variance
                                  Unknown  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--166
              Dale J. Cohen and   
                      Jon Cohen   The Sectioned Density Plot . . . . . . . 167--174
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 175--175
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Mathematica 5.2  . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--186
                Joseph M. Hilbe   A Review of LIMDEP 9.0 and NLOGIT 4.0    187--202
              Richard J. Cleary   Working with Numbers and Statistics: A
                                  Handbook for Journalists . . . . . . . . 203--203
                   Linda Pickle   Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk
                                  and Other Visual Adventures  . . . . . . 203--203
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   The Chicago Guide to Writing About
                                  Multivariate Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 203--204
                    Rudy Guerra   Dicing With Death: Chance, Risk, and
                                  Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
                    Enno Mammen   Statistical Models . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
               Steven F. Arnold   Design of Experiments with MINITAB . . . 205--205
                     David Lane   Statistics Without Math  . . . . . . . . 205--206
      Carter Cleveland Rakovski   Regression With Social Data: Modeling
                                  Continuous and Limited Response
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
     Carolyn Pillers Dobler and   
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 207--207
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 208--211
                      Anonymous   Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212

The American Statistician
Volume 60, Number 3, August, 2006

             Roderick J. Little   Calibrated Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--223
                 A. F. Karr and   
               C. N. Kohnen and   
                 A. Oganian and   
               J. P. Reiter and   
                    A. P. Sanil   A Framework for Evaluating the Utility
                                  of Data Altered to Protect
                                  Confidentiality  . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--232
               N. D. Pearce and   
                     M. P. Wand   Penalized Splines and Reproducing Kernel
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--240
               Valerie Hyde and   
              Wolfgang Jank and   
                  Galit Shmueli   Investigating Concurrency in Online
                                  Auctions Through Visualization . . . . . 241--250
                   Yulei He and   
      Trivellore E. Raghunathan   Tukey's $gh$ Distribution for Multiple
                                  Imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--256
            Torsten Hothorn and   
                Kurt Hornik and   
        Mark A. van de Wiel and   
                  Achim Zeileis   A Lego System for Conditional Inference  257--263
                Sourish Das and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   On Bayesian Analysis of Generalized
                                  Linear Models Using the Jacobian
                                  Technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--268
            Spyros Missiakoulis   Plutarch and Lucullus' Applied Sampling  269--270
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 271--271
         Dominique Haughton and   
               Arnold Kamis and   
               Patrick Scholten   A Review of Three Directed Acyclic
                                  Graphs Software Packages . . . . . . . . 272--286
                     J. C. Nash   Spreadsheets in Statistical Practice ---
                                  Another Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--289
              Richard J. Cleary   Probability is the Very Guide of Life:
                                  The Philosophical Uses of Chance . . . . 290--290
                     Jay Devore   Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
              Stanley Wasserman   Analyzing Categorical Data . . . . . . . 291--292
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   The Essence of Multivariate Thinking:
                                  Basic Themes and Methods . . . . . . . . 292--292
                   Michael Kahn   Data Matters: Conceptual Statistics for
                                  a Random World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
               Lawrence D. Ries   Statistical Methods For Communication
                                  Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
             Nicholas J. Horton   Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling
                                  Using Stata  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   SAS Guide to Report Writing: Examples    294--294
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 295--297

The American Statistician
Volume 60, Number 4, November, 2006

              David A. Freedman   On The So-Called ``Huber Sandwich
                                  Estimator'' and ``Robust Standard
                                  Errors'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
               Monnie McGee and   
                Nora V. Bergasa   Analysis of a Pilot Study for
                                  Amelioration of Itching in Liver Disease 303--308
                David J. Finney   Calibration Guidelines Challenge Outlier
                                  Practices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--314
             Ralph deLaubenfels   The Victory of Least Squares and
                                  Orthogonality in Statistics  . . . . . . 315--321
                Avital Lann and   
                      Ruma Falk   Tell Me the Method, I'll Give You the
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
              Andrew Gelman and   
                      Hal Stern   The Difference Between ``Significant''
                                  and ``Not Significant'' is not Itself
                                  Statistically Significant  . . . . . . . 328--331
               Leland Wilkinson   Revising the Pareto Chart  . . . . . . . 332--334
         Òyvind Langsrud   Explaining Correlations by Plotting
                                  Orthogonal Contrasts . . . . . . . . . . 335--339
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 340--340
                 David Berengut   Statistics for Experimenters: Design,
                                  Innovation, and Discovery  . . . . . . . 341--342
                     Jay Devore   Statistics for Business and Economics    342--343
              Peter C. Kiessler   Probability and Statistics for Engineers
                                  and Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
                      Jo Hardin   Introduction to Statistics Through
                                  Resampling Methods and R/S-PLUS  . . . . 343--344
                     Jay Devore   Essential Mathematics and Statistics for
                                  Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
               Izabela E. Annis   Statistics in Market Research  . . . . . 345--345
                Ryan E. Wiegand   Statistical Analysis of Medical Data
                                  Using SAS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
                George Cotsonis   Sharpening Your SAS Skills . . . . . . . 346--346
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 347--349
                      Anonymous   2006 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 350--353


The American Statistician
Volume 61, Number 1, February, 2007

                    D. Tim Holt   The Official Statistics Olympic
                                  Challenge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
              Gordon Brackstone   Discussion: The Official Statistics
                                  Olympic Challenge  . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
               Janet L. Norwood   Discussion: The Official Statistics
                                  Olympic Challenge  . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
              Nancy K. Torrieri   America is Changing, and So is the
                                  Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
          Geert Molenberghs and   
                  Geert Verbeke   Likelihood Ratio, Score, and Wald Tests
                                  in a Constrained Parameter Space . . . . 22--27
              Helmut Finner and   
              Markus Roters and   
              Thorsten Dickhaus   Characterizing Density Crossing Points   28--33
                Thaddeus Tarpey   Linear Transformations and the $k$-Means
                                  Clustering Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
           Herbert A. David and   
                Wayne A. Fuller   Sir Maurice Kendall (1907--1983) . . . . 41--46
       Alexander M. Strasak and   
               Qamruz Zaman and   
           Gerhard Marinell and   
           Karl P. Pfeiffer and   
                    Hanno Ulmer   The Use of Statistics in Medical
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55
          Bryan E. Shepherd and   
           Peter B. Gilbert and   
              Devan V. Mehrotra   Eliciting a Counterfactual Sensitivity
                                  Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
                      Xiaomi Hu   Multivariate Analysis Without ``vec''
                                  and ``$\otimes$''  . . . . . . . . . . . 64--66
         Gauri Sankar Datta and   
                    Malay Ghosh   Characteristic Functions Without Contour
                                  Integration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70
          Cherié Alf and   
                    Sharon Lohr   Sampling Assumptions in Introductory
                                  Statistics Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   78--78
         Nicholas J. Horton and   
                Ken P. Kleinman   Much Ado About Nothing . . . . . . . . . 79--90
                Joseph M. Hilbe   STATISTICA 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
               Joseph Cavanaugh   Seeing Through Statistics and Mind on
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
              Mervyn Marasinghe   A First Course in Statistical Methods    95--97
                     Jay Devore   Introduction to Business Statistics  . . 97--97
               Joseph Cavanaugh   Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis
                                  of Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
                Jerry L. Moreno   Investigating Statistical Concepts,
                                  Applications, and Methods  . . . . . . . 98--99
                  J. Wade Davis   A Crash Course in SPSS for Windows:
                                  Updated for Versions 10, 11, 12 And 13   99--99
             Hadley Wickham and   
                    Dianne Cook   R Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
            Martin Mächler   Statistics: An Introduction using R  . . 100--101
                John C. Kern II   Introduction to Regression Analysis  . . 101--101
            Donald Richards and   
 Christine M. Anderson-Cook and   
                    Alina Kline   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 102--102

The American Statistician
Volume 61, Number 2, May, 2007

              Peter H. Westfall   Editor's Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
                     Jesse Frey   Is an $.833$ Hitter Better Than a $.338$
                                  Hitter?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--111
                   S. A. Sisson   Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--119
         Richard E. Kennedy and   
           Sharon D. Yeatts and   
           Kellie J. Archer and   
             Chris Gennings and   
       Viswanathan Ramakrishnan   Opportunities for Biostatistics Students 120--126
               Lori E. Dodd and   
                 Edward L. Korn   The Bootstrap Variance of the Square of
                                  a Sample Mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
           Andrea Capotorti and   
                  Frank Lad and   
            Giuseppe Sanfilippo   Reassessing Accuracy Rates of Median
                                  Decisions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--138
           Ulrike Grömping   Estimators of Relative Importance in
                                  Linear Regression Based on Variance
                                  Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
                 Jeroen de Mast   Agreement and Kappa-Type Indices . . . . 148--153
Diamandopoulos A. Athanasios and   
           Goudas C. Pavlos and   
        Kassimatis I. Theodoros   Early Evidence-Based Medicine  . . . . . 154--158
                  Lingyun Zhang   Sample Mean and Sample Variance  . . . . 159--160
                Andrew Rosalsky   A Simple and Probabilistic Proof of the
                                  Binomial Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
           Leonard A. Stefanski   Residual (Sur)Realism  . . . . . . . . . 163--177
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 178--178
                Joseph M. Hilbe   ePrint 5 Professional Conversion Utility 179--180
                Alan T. Arnholt   Statistics: The Art and Science of
                                  Learning From Data . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
                    Yolande Tra   Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide
                                  for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
                Phillip Edwards   Essentials of Statistics for Business
                                  and Economics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
                     Ying Zhang   Fundamentals of Biostatistics  . . . . . 183--183
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Quality By Experimental Design . . . . . 183--184
               Michael Minnotte   Book review: \em Introduction to Modern
                                  Nonparametric Statistics. James J.
                                  Higgins  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
                 Shaun S. Wulff   SAS for Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Six Sigma Quality Improvement with
                                  MINITAB  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185
                      Anonymous   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 186--186
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 187--188

The American Statistician
Volume 61, Number 3, August, 2007

                    Robert Lund   Revenge of the White Swan  . . . . . . . 189--192
          Peter H. Westfall and   
                Joseph M. Hilbe   The Black Swan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
                    Aaron Brown   Strong Language on Black Swans . . . . . 195--197
          Nassim Nicholas Taleb   Black Swans and the Domains of
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--200
                     Jesse Frey   Bayesian Inference on a Proportion
                                  Believed to be a Simple Fraction . . . . 201--206
              Lisa J. Strug and   
           Charles A. Rohde and   
                  Paul N. Corey   An Introduction to Evidential Sample
                                  Size Calculations  . . . . . . . . . . . 207--212
            Christopher M. Rump   Capital Growth and the St. Petersburg
                                  Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--217
           Wendy K. Tam Cho and   
                Brian J. Gaines   Breaking the (Benford) Law . . . . . . . 218--223
          Hans-Peter Piepho and   
           Joseph Ochieng Ogutu   Simple State-Space Models in a Mixed
                                  Model Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--232
     Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and   
          Stuart R. Lipsitz and   
                 Michael Parzen   Approximate Median Regression via the
                                  Box--Cox Transformation  . . . . . . . . 233--238
        Scott R. Kuindersma and   
                 Brian S. Blais   Teaching Bayesian Model Comparison With
                                  the Three-Sided Coin . . . . . . . . . . 239--244
         Nathaniel Schenker and   
         Katherine L. Monti and   
             George W. Cobb and   
            Ronald S. Fecso and   
                 Joan S. Chmiel   Combining Features of a Frequency Table
                                  and a Stem-and-Leaf Plot to Summarize
                                  the American Statistical Association's
                                  Strategic Activities . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
          Sangit Chatterjee and   
                    Aykut Firat   Generating Data with Identical
                                  Statistics but Dissimilar Graphics . . . 248--254
               Thomas P. Turiel   Quantum Random Bit Generators  . . . . . 255--259
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 260--261
                 A. Talha Yalta   The Numerical Reliability of GAUSS 8.0   262--268
                Joseph M. Hilbe   GenStat 9  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
                  Page C. Moore   Statistics Explained: An Introductory
                                  Guide for Life Scientists  . . . . . . . 274--274
                     Bruce Weir   Introduction to Statistics for Forensic
                                  Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
            Timothy J. Robinson   Design of Experiments for Agriculture
                                  and the Natural Sciences . . . . . . . . 275--275
                    Sylvie Mrug   Experimental Design And Statistics for
                                  Psychology: A First Course . . . . . . . 275--276
             David R. Bellhouse   Sampling Methods: Exercises and
                                  Solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
                     John Haigh   Probability: Modeling and Applications
                                  to Random Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
                   Philip Dixon   The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide
                                  3.0  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
                  Ulric J. Lund   A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using
                                  R  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
           M. Bridget Zimmerman   SAS Programming and Data Analysis: A
                                  Theory and Program-Driven Approach . . . 277--278
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with
                                  Dynamic Interactive Graphics . . . . . . 278--278
                      Anonymous   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 279--279
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 280--284

The American Statistician
Volume 61, Number 4, November, 2007

            B. J. T. Morgan and   
               K. J. Palmer and   
                   M. S. Ridout   Negative Score Test Statistic  . . . . . 285--288
              Geert Verbeke and   
              Geert Molenberghs   What Can Go Wrong With the Score Test?   289--290
              David A. Freedman   How Can the Score Test Be Inconsistent?  291--295
               Bruce E. Barrett   Detecting Bias in Jury Selection . . . . 296--301
             Andreas Krause and   
           José Pinheiro   Modeling and Simulation to Adjust p
                                  Values in Presence of a Regression to
                                  the Mean Effect  . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--307
               J. Keith Ord and   
              Harvey J. Iglarsh   The Estimation of Conditional
                                  Distributions From Large Databases . . . 308--314
                Arthur Spirling   ``Turning Points'' in the Iraq Conflict  315--320
                   Micha Mandel   Censoring and Truncation ---
                                  Highlighting the Differences . . . . . . 321--324
      José R. Berrendero   The Bagged Median and the Bragged Mean   325--330
             S. Chakraborti and   
                          J. Li   Confidence Interval Estimation of a
                                  Normal Percentile  . . . . . . . . . . . 331--336
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   A Recurrence Relation for Moments of the
                                  Noncentral Chi Square  . . . . . . . . . 337--338
                 Boris Iglewicz   Einstein's First Published Paper . . . . 339--342
            Stuart G. Baker and   
              Barnett S. Kramer   Peirce, Youden, and Receiver Operating
                                  Characteristic Curves  . . . . . . . . . 343--346
          Gregory K. Miller and   
           Stephanie L. Fridell   A Forgotten Discrete Distribution?
                                  Reviving the Negative Hypergeometric
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--350
              Herbert K. H. Lee   Chocolate Chip Cookies as a Teaching Aid 351--355
          Lutz Dümbgen and   
                   Hans Riedwyl   On Fences and Asymmetry in
                                  Box-and-Whiskers Plots . . . . . . . . . 356--359
                Lin-Yee Hin and   
           Vincent J. Carey and   
                   You-Gan Wang   Criteria for
                                  Working--Correlation--Structure
                                  Selection in GEE . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--364
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 365--366
                     Jay Devore   Applied Regression Analysis: A Second
                                  Course in Business and Economic
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
                     Gary Simon   Applied Regression Modeling: A Business
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
                  Kerrie Nelson   Introduction to Mixed Modelling: Beyond
                                  Regression and Analysis of Variance  . . 368--369
               Jeffrey C. Sklar   Understanding Business Statistics  . . . 369--370
                    Brian Wiens   Handbook of Statistical Distributions
                                  with Applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
                     Jay Devore   Making Sense of Data: A Practical Guide
                                  to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data
                                  Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
                 David H. Annis   Dyadic Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
            Timothy J. Robinson   Introduction to Computer-Intensive
                                  Methods of Data Analysis in Biology  . . 371--371
                      Anonymous   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 372--372
                Michael Sherman   Probabilities: The Little Numbers That
                                  Rule Our Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 373--373
                      Anonymous   2007 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 374--379


The American Statistician
Volume 62, Number 1, February, 2008

     William F. Christensen and   
            Lindsay W. Florence   Predicting Presidential and Other
                                  Multistage Election Outcomes Using
                                  State-Level Pre-Election Polls . . . . . 1--10
              John McCarthy and   
         Howard Stanislevic and   
              Mark Lindeman and   
              Arlene S. Ash and   
            Vittorio Addona and   
                   Mary Batcher   Percentage-Based versus
                                  Statistical-Power-Based Vote Tabulation
                                  Audits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16
          Mary M. Whiteside and   
                  Mark E. Eakin   A Better Estimate of the Number of Valid
                                  Signatures on a Petition . . . . . . . . 17--21
              Russell A. Boyles   The Role of Likelihood in Interval
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
               David Afshartous   Sample Size Determination for Binomial
                                  Proportion Confidence Intervals  . . . . 27--31
             Denis Larocque and   
              Ronald H. Randles   Confidence Intervals for a Discrete
                                  Population Median  . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
                 Frank Tuyl and   
            Richard Gerlach and   
               Kerrie Mengersen   A Comparison of Bayes--Laplace,
                                  Jeffreys, and Other Priors . . . . . . . 40--44
         Lawrence M. Leemis and   
         Jacquelyn T. McQueston   Univariate Distribution Relationships    45--53
           Mark L. Berenson and   
               Jessica Utts and   
            Karen A. Kinard and   
          Deborah J. Rumsey and   
                Albyn Jones and   
              Leonard M. Gaines   Assessing Student Retention of Essential
                                  Statistical Ideas  . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
            Michael A. Proschan   The Normal Approximation to the Binomial 62--63
            James A. Hanley and   
            Marilyse Julien and   
             Erica E. M. Moodie   Student's $z$, $t$, and $s$  . . . . . . 64--69
               Herbert A. David   The Beginnings of Randomization Tests    70--72
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 73--73
            Robert A. Oster and   
                Joseph M. Hilbe   An Examination of Statistical Software
                                  Packages for Parametric and
                                  Nonparametric Data Analyses Using Exact
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Hawkes Learning Systems  . . . . . . . . 85--89
              Richard J. Cleary   Fundamentals of Probability and
                                  Statistics for Engineers, Statistical
                                  Techniques for Data Analysis and
                                  Statistics: An Introduction  . . . . . . 90--91
                    Xiaogang Su   Data Mining Methods and Models . . . . . 91--91
                      Phil Wood   Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
                Charles L. Liss   Multivariable Analysis: A Practical
                                  Guide for Clinicians and Study Design
                                  and Statistical Analysis: A Practical
                                  Guide for Clinicians . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
             Gregory E. Gilbert   A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology . . . . . 92--93
                      Anonymous   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 94--94
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 95--96

The American Statistician
Volume 62, Number 2, May, 2008

                         Mu Zhu   Kernels and Ensembles  . . . . . . . . . 97--109
              David A. Freedman   Survival Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 110--119
              Joshua Landon and   
          Nozer D. Singpurwalla   Choosing a Coverage Probability for
                                  Prediction Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
             Recai M. Yucel and   
                   Yulei He and   
              Alan M. Zaslavsky   Using Calibration to Improve Rounding in
                                  Imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
           Leonard A. Stefanski   The North Carolina Lottery Coincidence   130--134
                 Jesse Frey and   
                Osvaldo Marrero   A Surprising MLE for Interval-Censored
                                  Binomial Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
      José Luis Palacios   On the Simple Symmetric Random Walk and
                                  its Maximal Function . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
             Gauri S. Datta and   
                Sanat K. Sarkar   A General Proof of Some Known Results of
                                  Independence Between Two Statistics  . . 141--143
                  Robin Willink   A Unique Property of the Normal
                                  Distribution Associated With Perturbing
                                  a General Random Variable  . . . . . . . 144--146
             Georgios Skoulakis   A Recursive Formula for Computing
                                  Central Moments of a Multivariate
                                  Lognormal Distribution . . . . . . . . . 147--150
              Jack Brimberg and   
                   W. J. Hurley   Is the Overtime Period in an NHL Game
                                  Long Enough? An Example for Teaching
                                  Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in the
                                  Presence of Censored Data  . . . . . . . 151--154
       Richard C. Bell, Jr. and   
                 Andrew G. Glen   Experiences Teaching Probability and
                                  Statistics with Personal Laptops in the
                                  Classroom Daily  . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--160
                 Nick J. Broers   Helping Students to Build a Conceptual
                                  Understanding of Elementary Statistics   161--166
            Ching-Hui Chang and   
              Jyh-Jiuan Lin and   
                Nabendu Pal and   
               Miao-Chen Chiang   A Note on Improved Approximation of the
                                  Binomial Distribution by the Skew-Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--170
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 171--172
            Robert A. Oster and   
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Rejoinder to \em ``An Examination of
                                  Statistical Software Packages for
                                  Parametric and Nonparametric Data
                                  Analyses Using Exact Methods'' . . . . . 173--176
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Systat 12.2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
                Jane L. Harvill   Fundamental Probability: A Computational
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
           Thomas E. Bradstreet   Graphics of Large Datasets: Visualizing
                                  a Million  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
                 Ralph P. Russo   Intuitive Probability and Random
                                  Processes using MATLAB . . . . . . . . . 181--182
               Margie R. Gurwit   Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's
                                  Guide  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   A Quick Course in Statistical Process
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
           Thomas E. Bradstreet   Pharmaceutical Statistics Using SAS: A
                                  Practical Guide  . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
              Richard J. Cleary   Statistics: Informed Decisions Using
                                  Data and An Introduction to Statistical
                                  Analysis for Business and Industry: A
                                  Problem Solving Approach . . . . . . . . 183--184
                Lakshmi Padgett   Variations on Split Plot and Split Block
                                  Experiment Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
                      Anonymous   Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials  . . 185--185
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 186--187
                      Anonymous   Corrections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188

The American Statistician
Volume 62, Number 3, August, 2008

              Peter H. Westfall   Editor's Note  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
          Byron J. Gajewski and   
               Stephen D. Simon   A One-Hour Training Seminar on Bayesian
                                  Statistics for Nursing Graduate Students 190--194
            Greg M. Allenby and   
                 Peter E. Rossi   Teaching Bayesian Statistics to
                                  Marketing and Business Students  . . . . 195--198
               Jessica Utts and   
                 Wesley Johnson   The Evolution of Teaching Bayesian
                                  Statistics to Nonstatisticians . . . . . 199--201
                  Andrew Gelman   Teaching Bayes to Graduate Students in
                                  Political Science, Sociology, Public
                                  Health, Education, Economics, \ldots . . 202--205
                   Stephen Senn   A Note Concerning a Selection
                                  ``Paradox'' of Dawid's . . . . . . . . . 206--210
               Lynn Roy LaMotte   Sufficiency in Finite Parameter and
                                  Sample Spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
                      Xiaomi Hu   A Three-Condition Characterization of
                                  the Moore--Penrose Generalized Inverse   216--218
          Áureo De Paula   Conditional Moments and Independence . . 219--221
          Deborah N. Peikes and   
             Lorenzo Moreno and   
             Sean Michael Orzol   Propensity Score Matching  . . . . . . . 222--231
             Rajdeep Grewal and   
           James A. Dearden and   
                Gary L. Llilien   The University Rankings Game . . . . . . 232--237
             Chad R. Bhatti and   
           Jennifer L. Wightman   Conditional Probability and HIV Testing  238--241
          Duncan J. Murdoch and   
               Yu-Ling Tsai and   
                   James Adcock   $P$-Values are Random Variables  . . . . 242--245
             Stephen M. Stigler   Statistics at Harvard? A Toast to the
                                  Harvard Statistics Department  . . . . . 246--250
                 Ronald D. Snee   W. Edwards Deming's ``Making
                                  AnotherWorld'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
             David W. Scott and   
                Warren R. Scott   Smoothed Histograms for Frequency Data
                                  on Irregular Intervals . . . . . . . . . 256--261
           Paul L. Speckman and   
          Jeffrey N. Rouder and   
           Richard D. Morey and   
              Michael S. Pratte   Delta Plots and Coherent Distribution
                                  Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--266
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 267--267
                  J. Wade Davis   Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate
                                  Data Analysis and Interpretation with
                                  SPSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
                  Samiran Sinha   Introduction to Bayesian Statistics  . . 268--268
                 Eric D. Foster   Introduction to Bioinformatics . . . . . 268--269
               Pallavi Chitturi   Introduction to Business Statistics  . . 269--269
                JonDavid Sparks   Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
     Christine M. Anderson-Cook   Modern Engineering Statistics  . . . . . 270--271
                  J. Wade Davis   Multidimensional Nonlinear Descriptive
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
             Matthew A. Carlton   Probability and Statistics for Computer
                                  Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
            Timothy J. Robinson   The R Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 274--278

The American Statistician
Volume 62, Number 4, November, 2008

               Daniel E. Ho and   
                 Kevin M. Quinn   Improving the Presentation and
                                  Interpretation of Online Ratings Data
                                  with Model-Based Figures . . . . . . . . 279--288
              Patricia Grambsch   Regression to the Mean, Murder Rates,
                                  and Shall-Issue Laws . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
         Ronald Christensen and   
             Timothy Hanson and   
                 Alejandro Jara   Parametric Nonparametric Statistics  . . 296--306
        Richard F. Potthoff and   
               Susan Halabi and   
     Joellen M. Schildkraut and   
                    Beth Newman   Flexible Frames and Control Sampling in
                                  Case-Control Studies . . . . . . . . . . 307--313
              Andrew J. Vickers   Decision Analysis for the Evaluation of
                                  Diagnostic Tests, Prediction Models, and
                                  Molecular Markers  . . . . . . . . . . . 314--320
          Gillian Z. Heller and   
           Andrew B. Forbes and   
           Keith B. G. Dear and   
                  Erica Jobling   Biostatistics @ Distance . . . . . . . . 321--328
              M. C. Busstra and   
                  A. Geelen and   
              E. J. Feskens and   
            R. J. M. Hartog and   
                 P. van 't Veer   Design and Development of Digital
                                  Learning Material for Applied Data
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--339
         Christopher H. Jackson   Displaying Uncertainty With Shading  . . 340--347
                Samuel Kotz and   
                    Edith Seier   Visualizing Peak and Tails to Introduce
                                  Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--354
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Note  . . . . . . . . . 355--355
              Herbert K. H. Lee   Bayesian Methods: A Social and
                                  Behavioral Sciences Approach . . . . . . 356--356
                Ryan E. Wiegand   Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS 356--357
                Jessica Chapman   Elementary Statistics: Picturing the
                                  World  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
                   James Stamey   Modern Mathematical Statistics with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
           Frederick M. Pratter   SAS Graphics for Java: Examples Using
                                  SAS AppDev Studio and the Output
                                  Delivery System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
           Gideon (K. D.) Zamba   Statistical Development of Quality in
                                  Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
         Mario V. Wüthrich   Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in
                                  Actuarial Science  . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
          Gilbert W. Fellingham   Statistical Thinking in Sports . . . . . 360--361
                  M. G. M. Khan   Statistics for Real-Life Sample Surveys:
                                  Non-Simple-Random Samples and Weighted
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
                  J. Wade Davis   Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the
                                  Health Sciences  . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
                 Daniel B. Hall   Analyzing Receiver Operating
                                  Characteristic Curves With SAS . . . . . 362--362
                   Raquel Prado   Introduction to Design of Experiments    362--362
               F. Michael Speed   SAS Programming for Enterprise Guide
                                  Users  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
                     Jay Devore   Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
       Carol A. Gotway Crawford   Unlocking the Census with GIS  . . . . . 363--363
                Mary Richardson   Workshop Statistics: Discovery With Data 363--363
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 364--365
                      Anonymous   2008 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 366--367
                      Anonymous   Index to volume 62 . . . . . . . . . . . 368--370


The American Statistician
Volume 63, Number 1, February, 2009

              Andrew Gelman and   
                  David K. Park   Splitting a Predictor at the Upper
                                  Quarter or Third and the Lower Quarter
                                  or Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
                Ming T. Tan and   
             Guo-Liang Tian and   
                   Man-Lai Tang   Sample Surveys With Sensitive Questions:
                                  A Nonrandomized Response Approach  . . . 9--16
                  Keming Yu and   
                  Abdallah Ally   Improving Prediction Intervals: Some
                                  Elementary Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
                  Roger Koenker   The Median Is the Message: Wilson and
                                  Hilfertys Experiments on the Law of
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--25
                  R. M. Fewster   A Simple Explanation of Benford's Law    26--32
           Rebecca Graziani and   
                 Piero Veronese   How to Compute a Mean? The Chisini
                                  Approach and Its Applications  . . . . . 33--36
                Charles Hagwood   An Application of the Residue Calculus:
                                  The Distribution of the Sum of
                                  Nonhomogeneous Gamma Variates  . . . . . 37--39
                    Lei Shi and   
                     Gemai Chen   Influence Measures for General Linear
                                  Models With Correlated Errors  . . . . . 40--42
               Leng-Cheng Hwang   A Simple Proof of the Binomial Theorem
                                  Using Differential Calculus  . . . . . . 43--44
             Saralees Nadarajah   PDFs and Dual PDFs . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
                   Jaechoul Lee   A Reformulation of Weighted Least
                                  Squares Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
           Michael Friendly and   
                    Ernest Kwan   Where's Waldo? Visualizing Collinearity
                                  Diagnostics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
               Martin S. Ridout   Statistical Applications of the
                                  Complex-Step Method of Numerical
                                  Differentiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--74
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 75--77
                   Chris Barker   The Mean, Median, and Confidence
                                  Intervals of the Kaplan--Meier Survival
                                  Estimate --- Computations and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
         Dominique Haughton and   
             Pascal Legrand and   
                   Sam Woolford   Review of Three Latent Class Cluster
                                  Analysis Packages: Latent Gold, poLCA,
                                  and MCLUST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  92--101
                      Anonymous   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 102--103

The American Statistician
Volume 63, Number 2, May, 2009

             Emery N. Brown and   
                 Robert E. Kass   What Is Statistics?  . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
                 Iain Johnstone   Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 111--111
               Alison Gibbs and   
                     Nancy Reid   Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 112--113
              David Madigan and   
                  Andrew Gelman   Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 114--114
              Samad Hedayat and   
                   John Stufken   Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 115--116
              Deborah Nolan and   
             Duncan Temple Lang   Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 117--121
             Emery N. Brown and   
                 Robert E. Kass   Rejoinder: What Is Statistics? . . . . . 122--123
            John W. Emerson and   
               Miki Seltzer and   
                      David Lin   Assessing Judging Bias: An Example From
                                  the 2000 Olympic Games . . . . . . . . . 124--131
                Kenneth J. Ryan   Approximate Confidence Intervals for $p$
                                  When Double Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 132--140
                Jack G. Gambino   Design Effect Caveats  . . . . . . . . . 141--146
             Carolyn Lauzon and   
                    Brian Caffo   Easy Multiplicity Control in Equivalence
                                  Testing Using Two One-Sided Tests  . . . 147--154
          Elizabeth Koehler and   
            Elizabeth Brown and   
     Sebastien J.-P. A. Haneuse   On the Assessment of Monte Carlo Error
                                  in Simulation-Based Statistical Analyses 155--162
                 Reid D. Landes   Passing on the Passion for the
                                  Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
  Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux and   
                  Benoit Liquet   Understanding Convergence Concepts: A
                                  Visual-Minded and Graphical
                                  Simulation-Based Approach  . . . . . . . 173--178
           Leland Wilkinson and   
               Michael Friendly   The History of the Cluster Heat Map  . . 179--184
               Herbert A. David   A Historical Note on Zero Correlation
                                  and Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
                Robert A. Oster   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 187--188
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  189--196
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 197--199
                      Anonymous   Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200

The American Statistician
Volume 63, Number 3, August, 2009

                   John Stufken   An Invitation: Editor's Introduction to
                                  ``Desired and Feared --- What Do We Do
                                  Now and Over the Next 50 Years?''  . . . 201--201
                   Xiao-Li Meng   Desired and Feared --- What Do We Do Now
                                  and Over the Next 50 Years?  . . . . . . 202--210
               Micha Mandel and   
                   Yosef Rinott   A Selection Bias Conflict and
                                  Frequentist versus Bayesian Viewpoints   211--217
                 Aiyou Chen and   
           Thomas Bengtsson and   
                     Tin Kam Ho   A Regression Paradox for Linear Models:
                                  Sufficient Conditions and Relation to
                                  Simpson's Paradox  . . . . . . . . . . . 218--225
         Marios G. Pavlides and   
             Michael D. Perlman   How Likely Is Simpson's Paradox? . . . . 226--233
          Daniel J. Nordman and   
        Stephen B. Vardeman and   
             Melissa A. Bingham   Uniformly Hyper-Efficient Bayes
                                  Inference in a Class of Nonregular
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--238
             Arne C. Bathke and   
       Oliver Schabenberger and   
          Randall D. Tobias and   
             Laurence V. Madden   Greenhouse--Geisser Adjustment and the
                                  ANOVA-Type Statistic: Cousins or Twins?  239--246
             Carl N. Morris and   
                   Kari F. Lock   Unifying the Named Natural Exponential
                                  Families and Their Relatives . . . . . . 247--253
            Andrew R. Solow and   
             Woollcott K. Smith   A Statistical Problem Concerning the Mar
                                  Saba Letter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--257
       Per Gösta Andersson   A Simple Correlation Adjustment
                                  Procedure Applied to Confidence Interval
                                  Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--262
            Amy G. Froelich and   
       William M. Duckworth and   
                Jessica Culhane   Does Your iPod Really Play Favorites?    263--268
                  Halvor Mehlum   The Island Problem Revisited . . . . . . 269--273
             Scott M. Lesch and   
                Daniel R. Jeske   Some Suggestions for Teaching About
                                  Normal Approximations to Poisson and
                                  Binomial Distribution Functions  . . . . 274--277
              Anthony Y. C. Kuk   A New Way to Derive Locally Most
                                  Powerful Rank Tests  . . . . . . . . . . 278--280
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  281--293
                     Frank Tuyl   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                  H. W. Volkmer   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 295--295

The American Statistician
Volume 63, Number 4, November, 2009

                   Hua Zhou and   
                  Kenneth Lange   Rating Movies and Rating the Raters Who
                                  Rate Them  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--307
           Ulrike Grömping   Variable Importance Assessment in
                                  Regression: Linear Regression versus
                                  Random Forest  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--319
            Robert H. Lyles and   
                   Ying Guo and   
                 Andrew N. Hill   A Fresh Look at the Discriminant
                                  Function Approach for Estimating Crude
                                  or Adjusted Odds Ratios  . . . . . . . . 320--327
         Ceylan Yozgatligil and   
              William W. S. Wei   Representation of Multiplicative
                                  Seasonal Vector Autoregressive Moving
                                  Average Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--334
          Wayne A. Woodward and   
              Henry L. Gray and   
             James R. Haney and   
                Alan C. Elliott   Examining Factors to Better Understand
                                  Autoregressive Models  . . . . . . . . . 335--342
              Shonda Kuiper and   
                  Linda Collins   Guided Labs That Introduce Statistical
                                  Techniques Used in Research From
                                  Multiple Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
           Marlene A. Smith and   
                Peter G. Bryant   Managing Case Discussions in
                                  Introductory Business Statistics
                                  Classes: Practical Approaches for
                                  Instructors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--355
 Patricia Pepple Williamson and   
              Darcy P. Mays and   
      Ghidewon Abay Asmerom and   
                  Yingying Yang   Revisiting the Classical Occupancy
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--360
          Stefan H. Steiner and   
                 R. Jock MacKay   Teaching Variation Reduction Using a
                                  Virtual Manufacturing Environment  . . . 361--365
                       Tue Tjur   Coefficients of Determination in
                                  Logistic Regression Models---A New
                                  Proposal: The Coefficient of
                                  Discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--372
        Björn Bornkamp and   
                 Katja Ickstadt   A Note on B-Splines for Semiparametric
                                  Elicitation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
               Jan Serroyen and   
          Geert Molenberghs and   
              Geert Verbeke and   
                 Marie Davidian   Nonlinear Models for Longitudinal Data   378--388
              Christel Faes and   
          Geert Molenberghs and   
                 Marc Aerts and   
              Geert Verbeke and   
             Michael G. Kenward   The Effective Sample Size and an
                                  Alternative Small-Sample
                                  Degrees-of-Freedom Method  . . . . . . . 389--399
                Robert A. Oster   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 400--400
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  401--405
                      Anonymous   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
                      Anonymous   2009 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 407--408
                      Anonymous   Index to Volume 63 . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411


The American Statistician
Volume 64, Number 1, February, 2010

           Robert G. Easterling   Passion-Driven Statistics  . . . . . . . 1--5
                   David R. Fox   Desired and Feared--- Quo vadis or Quid
                                  agis?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
             Roger W. Hoerl and   
                 Ronald D. Snee   Moving the Statistics Profession Forward
                                  to the Next Level  . . . . . . . . . . . 10--14
                  Brian C. Kotz   Thoughts on the Importance of the
                                  Undergraduate Statistics Experience to
                                  the Discipline's (and Society's) Future  15--18
                 Frank P. Soler   Who Is Teaching Introductory Statistics? 19--20
                Rick Cleary and   
                   Sam Woolford   The Business of Desire and Fear  . . . . 21--22
              Elart von Collani   Response to \em ``Desired and Feared ---
                                  What Do We Do Now and Over the Next 50
                                  Years'' by Xiao-Li Meng  . . . . . . . . 23--25
                   Xiao-Li Meng   Rejoinder: Better Training, Deeper
                                  Thinking, and More Policing  . . . . . . 26--29
              Richard H. Browne   The $t$-Test $p$ Value and Its
                                  Relationship to the Effect Size and $P(X
                                  > Y)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--33
                   Wolf Schwarz   Comparing Continuous and Discrete
                                  Birthday Coincidences: ``Same-Day''
                                  versus ``Within 24 Hours'' . . . . . . . 34--36
         Marios G. Pavlides and   
             Michael D. Perlman   On Estimating the Face Probabilities of
                                  Shaved Dice With Partial Data  . . . . . 37--45
        Stephen B. Vardeman and   
     Joanne R. Wendelberger and   
                   Tom Burr and   
          Michael S. Hamada and   
            Leslie M. Moore and   
             J. Marcus Jobe and   
              Max D. Morris and   
                    Huaiqing Wu   Elementary Statistical Methods and
                                  Measurement Error  . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
      Christopher J. Malone and   
              John Gabrosek and   
            Phyllis Curtiss and   
                      Matt Race   Resequencing Topics in an Introductory
                                  Applied Statistics Course  . . . . . . . 52--58
               Julie Legler and   
                Paul Roback and   
     Kathryn Ziegler-Graham and   
                James Scott and   
          Sharon Lane-Getaz and   
                 Matthew Richey   A Model for an Interdisciplinary
                                  Undergraduate Research Program . . . . . 59--69
              T. D. Stanley and   
         Stephen B. Jarrell and   
           Hristos Doucouliagos   Could It Be Better to Discard 90% of the
                                  Data? A Statistical Paradox  . . . . . . 70--77
        Michael A. Proschan and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Beyond the Quintessential Quincunx . . . 78--82
              Henry S. Lynn and   
              Zhanjian Dong and   
                         Zhe Mu   Comparison of Software Algorithms for
                                  Calculating REML Wald Type Confidence
                                  Limits for the Between-Group Variance
                                  Component in a Small Sample One-Way
                                  Random Effects Model Example . . . . . . 83--87
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  88--96

The American Statistician
Volume 64, Number 2, May, 2010

              Deborah Nolan and   
             Duncan Temple Lang   Computing in the Statistics Curricula    97--107
             Paul Fearnhead and   
             Benjamin M. Taylor   Calculating Strength of Schedule, and
                                  Choosing Teams for March Madness . . . . 108--115
             David H. Annis and   
          Peter C. Kiessler and   
                Robert Lund and   
                Tara L. Steuber   Estimation in Reversible Markov Chains   116--120
          Devan V. Mehrotra and   
                 Xiaomin Lu and   
                    Xiaoming Li   Rank-Based Analyses of Stratified
                                  Experiments: Alternatives to the van
                                  Elteren Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
              C. Lozada-Can and   
                  A. C. Davison   Three Examples of Accurate Likelihood
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--139
              J. T. Ormerod and   
                     M. P. Wand   Explaining Variational Approximations    140--153
           Gunnar Taraldsen and   
             Bo Henry Lindqvist   Improper Priors Are Not Improper . . . . 154--158
                 Xiang Zhou and   
               Jerome P. Reiter   A Note on Bayesian Inference After
                                  Multiple Imputation  . . . . . . . . . . 159--163
           Nicholas T. Longford   Bayesian Decision Making About Small
                                  Binomial Rates With Uncertainty About
                                  the Prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--169
                      Yijun Zuo   Is the $t$ Confidence Interval $^-X \pm
                                  t_\alpha ( n - 1) (s / \sqrt{\{n\}})$
                                  Optimal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--173
           Michael Friendly and   
          Pedro Valero-Mora and   
Joaquín Ibáñez Ulargui   The First (Known) Statistical Graph:
                                  Michael Florent van Langren and the
                                  ``Secret'' of Longitude  . . . . . . . . 185--191
               Michael P. Cohen   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
              Martin Hogbin and   
                      W. Nijdam   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
                      Anonymous   Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195

The American Statistician
Volume 64, Number 3, August, 2010

             David Beaudoin and   
                  Tim B. Swartz   Strategies for Pulling the Goalie in
                                  Hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204
           Martin Wolkewitz and   
            Arthur Allignol and   
          Martin Schumacher and   
                 Jan Beyersmann   Two Pitfalls in Survival Analyses of
                                  Time-Dependent Exposure: A Case Study in
                                  a Cohort of Oscar Nominees . . . . . . . 205--211
                  Nancy S. Hall   Ronald Fisher and Gertrude Cox: Two
                                  Statistical Pioneers Sometimes Cooperate
                                  and Sometimes Collide  . . . . . . . . . 212--220
               David Aldous and   
                      Tung Phan   When Can One Test an Explanation?
                                  Compare and Contrast Benford's Law and
                                  the Fuzzy CLT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227
                     Mark Inlow   A Moment Generating Function Proof of
                                  the Lindeberg--Lévy Central Limit Theorem 228--230
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   When Finiteness Matters: Counterexamples
                                  to Notions of Covariance,~Correlation,
                                  and Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
             Joe Hirschberg and   
                      Jenny Lye   A Geometric Comparison of the Delta and
                                  Fieller Confidence Intervals . . . . . . 234--241
                     Jesse Frey   Fixed-Width Sequential Confidence
                                  Intervals for a Proportion . . . . . . . 242--249
                  Hsiuying Wang   Closed Form Prediction Intervals Applied
                                  for Disease Counts . . . . . . . . . . . 250--256
            Russell Y. Webb and   
             Peter J. Smith and   
                  Abdulla Firag   On the Probability of Improved Accuracy
                                  With Increased Sample Size . . . . . . . 257--262
                Ke-Hai Yuan and   
               Peter M. Bentler   Consistency of Normal-Distribution-Based
                                  Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Estimates When
                                  Data Are Missing at Random . . . . . . . 263--267
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  268--275
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 276--276

The American Statistician
Volume 64, Number 4, November, 2010

             Stephen M. Stigler   The Changing History of Robustness . . . 277--281
          Joseph Blitzstein and   
                   Xiao-Li Meng   Nano-Project Qualifying Exam Process: An
                                  Intensified Dialogue Between Students
                                  and Faculty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--290
                  Zhiguo Li and   
        Jeremy M. G. Taylor and   
                        Bin Nan   Construction of Confidence Intervals and
                                  Regions for Ordered Binomial
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--298
                Ruth Heller and   
          Paul R. Rosenbaum and   
                 Dylan S. Small   Using the Cross-Match Test to Appraise
                                  Covariate Balance in Matched Pairs . . . 299--309
              Michael J. Schell   Identifying Key Statistical Papers From
                                  1985 to 2002 Using Citation Data for
                                  Applied Biostatisticians . . . . . . . . 310--317
               Ariel Alonso and   
           Saskia Liti\`ere and   
              Annouschka Laenen   A Note on the Indeterminacy of the
                                  Random-Effects Distribution in
                                  Hierarchical Models  . . . . . . . . . . 318--324
            James S. Hodges and   
                 Brian J. Reich   Adding Spatially-Correlated Errors Can
                                  Mess Up the Fixed Effect You Love  . . . 325--334
             Henry W. Block and   
               Thomas H. Savits   A General Example for Benford Data . . . 335--339
               Sander Greenland   Simpson's Paradox From Adding Constants
                                  in Contingency Tables as an Example of
                                  Bayesian Noncollapsibility . . . . . . . 340--344
                   Kenneth Rice   A Decision-Theoretic Formulation of
                                  Fisher's Approach to Testing . . . . . . 345--349
           Elena Kulinskaya and   
       Stephan Morgenthaler and   
              Robert G. Staudte   Variance Stabilizing the Difference of
                                  Two Binomial Proportions . . . . . . . . 350--356
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  357--361
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 362--363
                      Anonymous   2010 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 364--365
                      Anonymous   Index to Volume 64 . . . . . . . . . . . 366--368


The American Statistician
Volume 65, Number 1, February, 2011

              Joan Garfield and   
            Andrew Zieffler and   
              Daniel Kaplan and   
             George W. Cobb and   
             Beth L. Chance and   
                John P. Holcomb   Rethinking Assessment of Student
                                  Learning in Statistics Courses . . . . . 1--10
             Dylan S. Small and   
             Kevin G. Volpp and   
              Paul R. Rosenbaum   Structured Testing of $2 \times 2$
                                  Factorial Effects: An Analytic Plan
                                  Requiring Fewer Observations . . . . . . 11--15
             Andrew J. Cron and   
                      Mike West   Efficient Classification-Based
                                  Relabeling in Mixture Models . . . . . . 16--20
                      Bo Lu and   
              Robert Greevy and   
                   Xinyi Xu and   
                      Cole Beck   Optimal Nonbipartite Matching and Its
                                  Statistical Applications . . . . . . . . 21--30
                  Chan Zeng and   
               Zhaoxing Pan and   
         Samantha MaWhinney and   
       Anna E. Barón and   
                  Gary O. Zerbe   Permutation and $F$ Distribution of
                                  Tests in the Multivariate General Linear
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--36
               Herbert A. David   Euler's Contributions to Mathematics
                                  Useful in Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
                Robert A. Oster   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 43--43
          William V. Harper and   
          Ted G. Eschenbach and   
                Thomas R. James   Concerns About Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimation for the Three-Parameter
                                  Weibull Distribution: Case Study of
                                  Statistical Software . . . . . . . . . . 44--54
                  Yeting Du and   
          Christopher Hundt and   
               David B. Wolfson   Previously Unrecognized Links Between
                                  Statistical Dependence and Some Common
                                  Modes of Convergence . . . . . . . . . . 55--60
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  61--68
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 69--69

The American Statistician
Volume 65, Number 2, May, 2011

            Melissa D. Begg and   
               Roger D. Vaughan   Are Biostatistics Students Prepared to
                                  Succeed in the Era of Interdisciplinary
                                  Science? (And How Will We Know ?)  . . . 71--79
Jean-François Plante and   
                     Nancy Reid   Statistics in the News . . . . . . . . . 80--88
                M. C. Jones and   
                J. F. Rosco and   
                  Arthur Pewsey   Skewness-Invariant Measures of Kurtosis  89--95
          James B. McDonald and   
                 Patrick Turley   Distributional Characteristics: Just a
                                  Few More Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
             Hakan Demirtas and   
                 Donald Hedeker   A Practical Way for Computing
                                  Approximate Lower and Upper Correlation
                                  Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--109
                    Kevin Hayes   A Geometrical Interpretation of an
                                  Alternative Formula for the Sample
                                  Covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
                Robert A. Oster   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 113--114
              S. S. J. Wang and   
                     M. P. Wand   Using \tt Infer.NET for Statistical
                                  Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
                     Li Zhu and   
                   Liyun Ni and   
                        Bin Yao   Group Sequential Methods and Software
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--135
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  136--139
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 140--140
                      Anonymous   Letter to the Editors  . . . . . . . . . 141--141

The American Statistician
Volume 65, Number 3, August, 2011

            John W. Emerson and   
               Taylor B. Arnold   Statistical Sleuthing by Leveraging
                                  Human Nature: A Study of Olympic Figure
                                  Skating  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--148
           Dennis Gilliland and   
                    Don Edwards   Using Randomized Confidence Limits to
                                  Balance Risk: An Application to Medicare
                                  Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153
            Hayley E. Jones and   
         David J. Spiegelhalter   The Identification of ``Unusual''
                                  Health-Care Providers From a
                                  Hierarchical Model . . . . . . . . . . . 154--163
              Nathan Morris and   
                  Robert Elston   A Note on Comparing the Power of Test
                                  Statistics at Low Significance Levels    164--166
                Carey E. Priebe   Fisher's Conditionality Principle in
                                  Statistical Pattern Recognition  . . . . 167--169
              G. D. I. Barr and   
                       K. Dowie   Swivelling Probabilities --- The Winning
                                  Hand at Poker  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--176
         Christine Franklin and   
              Brad Hartlaub and   
                  Roxy Peck and   
          Richard Scheaffer and   
                David Thiel and   
    Katherine Tranbarger Freier   AP Statistics: Building Bridges Between
                                  High School and College Statistics
                                  Education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--182
            Nicole A. Lazar and   
                Jaxk Reeves and   
             Christine Franklin   A Capstone Course for Undergraduate
                                  Statistics Majors  . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
               Marlene A. Smith   Missteps in Multiple Regression Student
                                  Projects: Beyond
                                  Association-Not-Causation  . . . . . . . 190--197
                      Yong Kong   The Expectation of Sample Central
                                  Moments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
                Robert A. Oster   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 200--200
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  201--208
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 209--211

The American Statistician
Volume 65, Number 4, November, 2011

             Dennis D. Boos and   
           Leonard A. Stefanski   $P$-Value Precision and Reproducibility  213--221
                   Colin Foster   The Significance of a Square-Root Rule   222--222
          Josue G. Martinez and   
         Raymond J. Carroll and   
         Samuel Müller and   
          Joshua N. Sampson and   
            Nilanjan Chatterjee   Empirical Performance of
                                  Cross-Validation With Oracle Methods in
                                  a Genomics Context . . . . . . . . . . . 223--228
 José R. Zubizarreta and   
         Caroline E. Reinke and   
             Rachel R. Kelz and   
          Jeffrey H. Silber and   
              Paul R. Rosenbaum   Matching for Several Sparse Nominal
                                  Variables in a Case-Control Study of
                                  Readmission Following Surgery  . . . . . 229--238
                  Yung-Pin Chen   Do the Chi-Square Test and Fisher's
                                  Exact Test Agree in Determining Extreme
                                  for $2 \times 2$ Tables? . . . . . . . . 239--245
            Prakash Gorroochurn   Errors of Probability in Historical
                                  Context  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--254
             Lyle D. Broemeling   An Account of Early Statistical
                                  Inference in Arab Cryptology . . . . . . 255--257
                Edith Seier and   
              Douglas G. Bonett   A Polyplot for Visualizing Location,
                                  Spread, Skewness, and Kurtosis . . . . . 258--261
                Yves Nievergelt   Increasing Data with a Negative Slope    262--262
                Robert A. Oster   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 263--264
          Kellie B. Keeling and   
                Robert J. Pavur   Statistical Accuracy of Spreadsheet
                                  Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--273
              Brady T. West and   
             Andrzej T. Galecki   An Overview of Current Software
                                  Procedures for Fitting Linear Mixed
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--282
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  283--297
                      Anonymous   2011 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 298--299