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Gaoxiong Gan and
Shie-Shien Yang An elementary proof of the
order-statistics characterization of the
Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Claude Angers Note on quick simultaneous confidence
intervals for multinomial proportions 91--91
Charles E. Gates New Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Richard L. Scheaffer Editor's Invited Column: Toward a More
Quantitatively Literate Citizenry . . . 2--3
James R. Lackritz Salary Evaluation for Professional
Baseball Players . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--8
Julia Lane and
Russ Ray and
Dennis Glennon Work Profiles of Research Statisticians 9--13
Joseph M. Strayhorn Estimating the Errors Remaining in a
Data Set: Techniques for Quality Control 14--18
Therese A. Stukel A General Model for Estimating
ED$_{100p}$ for Binary Response Dose-
Response Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Kuang-Kuo Gordon Lan and
Janet Wittes Linear Rank Tests for Survival Data:
Equivalence of Two Formulations . . . . 23--26
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
A. Ian McLeod A Simplified Derivation of the Variance
of Kendall's Rank Correlation
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Tommy Wright When Zero Defectives Appear in a Sample:
Upper Bounds on Confidence Coefficients
of Upper Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
William M. Makuch and
Gerald J. Hahn and
William T. Tucker A Statistical Computing Curriculum To
Meet Industrial Needs . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Kenneth L. Koonce Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 49--52
Shahdad Naghshpour Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 52--54
Neal A. Van Eck and
Susan Van Eck MicrOsiris for the PC . . . . . . . . . 54--54
John C. Nash and
Mary Walker-Smith NLEX: Examples and Software Extensions
for Nonlinear Modeling and Robust
Nonlinear Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Martin T. Wells and
Ram C. Tiwari and
I. Arizono and
H. Ohta and
James W. Mergerson and
Gabriella M. Belli and
Christopher Cox and
Murray A. Jorgensen and
Jacques Benichou and
Mitchell H. Gail and
Warren F. Kuhfeld and
Brian Dawkins and
Walter B. Studdiford and
Colin Goodall and
W. D. Kaigh and
Stephen W. Looney and
Robert Kinnison and
James A. Gibbons and
Joel R. Levin and
Ronald C. Serlin and
K. J. A. Revfeim and
Charles R. McConnell and
Robert M. Norton and
R. W. Farebrother and
I. J. Good and
Stanley Lebergott and
Vedula N. Murty Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 56--65
C. R. McConnell Letter to the Editor: Pocket computer
approximation for areas under the
standard normal curve . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Claude Angers Correction: ``Note on quick simultaneous
confidence intervals for multinomial
proportions'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 43
(1989), no. 2, 91] . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Anonymous Corrections: An Elementary Proof of the
Order-Statistics Characterization of the
Poisson Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Anonymous Corrections: Note on Quick Simultaneous
Confidence Intervals for Multinomial
Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Janet L. Norwood Editor's Invited Column: ASA
Sesquicentennial . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--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
Spencer M. Free, Jr. Some History for the Biopharmaceutical
Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
John A. Rotondo A Brief History of the Subsection on
Statistics in Marketing . . . . . . . . 82--83
Edwin D. Goldfield History of the Social Statistics Section 84--87
John M. Chambers and
Barbara F. Ryan The ASA Statistical Computing Section: a
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--89
Henry F. Inman The ASA Section on Statistical
Education: a Historical Note . . . . . . 90--93
Walter Liggett and
Douglas Splitstone History of the Section on Statistics and
the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Perry D. Haaland Historical Sketch of the ASA Section on
Statistical Graphics . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
Irene Hess History of the Section on Survey
Research Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Beth Dawson-Saunders and
Paul K. Jones and
Steven J. Verhulst The History of the Subsection on
Teaching of Statistics in the Health
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
R. L. Mason and
J. D. McKenzie, Jr. and
R. K. Spoeri The Chapters of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--106
John J. Wiorkowski A lightly annotated bibliography of the
publications of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--113
Gary G. Koch and
Fred C. Leone and
Robert L. Mason ASA Celebrates Sesquicentennial . . . . 113--115
Anonymous ASA's Sesquicentennial Celebration . . . 113
Ronald D. Snee Statistical Thinking and Its
Contribution to Total Quality . . . . . 116--121
R. Gnanadesikan Looking Ahead: Cross-Disciplinary
Opportunities for Statistics . . . . . . 121--125
Vincent P. Barabba What Does the Future Hold for
Statisticians? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Laurence A. Baxter Futures of Statistics . . . . . . . . . 128--129
R. H. `Butch' Bost, Jr. 2120 Hindsight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Thomas W. Brailsford The Future of Statistics in the Next N
Years (25 < N < 150) . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
William P. Butz An Extrapolation to the Year 2100 Career
Possibilities for Statisticians . . . . 132--132
I. J. Good Abstract of ``Speculations Concerning
the Future of Statistics'' . . . . . . . 132--133
Richard W. Hamming The Future of Statistics . . . . . . . . 133--135
Jay Herson Biostatistics 2089 . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
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--147
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--162
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--171
Steve Verrill and
Michael Axelrod and
Mark Durst We've Got the Positive Correlation BLUEs 171--173
D. J. Saville Multiple Comparison Procedures: The
Practical Solution . . . . . . . . . . . 174--180
Stephen Senn Regression: a New Mode for an Old
Meaning? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183
James R. Boen and
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz and
Leon Jay Gleser and
Donald R. Ploch and
W. D. Kaigh and
Wolfgang J. Buhler and
Donald A. Berry and
James Berger and
David A. Harville and
Herbert F. Spirer and
Michael D. Conerly and
Oscar Kempthorne and
Andrew P. Grieve and
Lawrence L. Kupper and
Kerry B. Hafner and
R. W. Farebrother and
Ronald Christensen and
Simo Puntanen and
George P. H. Styan and
Fred Ederer and
Daniel G. Seigel and
Sunil K. Sapra and
A. W. Marshall and
I. Olkin Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 184--194
Anonymous Correction: Computer Selection of
Size-Biased Samples . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Editor's Invited Column: a Hope for the
Future of Statistics: MSOD . . . . . . . 195--196
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
Paul D. Minton and
Dwight B. Brock and
Mary B. Brock Musical Celebration of ASA's
Sesquicentennial --- a Personal Account 200--203
Anonymous ASA's Sesquicentennial Celebration . . . 200
Richard F. Fawcett The Alignment Method for Displaying and
Analyzing Treatments in Blocking Designs 204--209
Jean D. Gibbons U.S. Institutional Representation on
Editorial Boards of U.S. Statistics
Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--213
Clifford M. Hurvich and
Chih-Ling Tsai The Impact of Model Selection on
Inference in Linear Regression . . . . . 214--217
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--222
Judith D. Singer and
John B. Willett Improving the Teaching of Applied
Statistics: Putting the Data Back Into
Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--230
W. Robert Stephenson A Study of Student Reaction to the Use
of Minitab in an Introductory Statistics
Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
John A. Sonquist Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 236--239
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 236
Terry M. Therneau Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 239--241
J. M. Bliss COMPACT: a Computer Package for Clinical
Trials Management . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Gerard E. Dallal PC-SIZE: Consultant --- a Program for
Sample-Size Determinations . . . . . . . 243--243
Andrea P. Lamble Fig. P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Gregory F. Piepel MIXSOFT$^{TM}$: Software for the Design
and Analysis of Mixture Experiments . . 243--244
Anonymous N-KERNEL: a Practical Multivariate
Density Estimation and Nonlinear
Regression Program . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz Randomly Weighted Averages: Some Aspects
and Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--249
Lonnie Magee $ R^2 $ Measures Based on Wald and
Likelihood Ratio Joint Significance
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--253
Brian Schott and
R. W. Farebrother and
Victor R. Prybutok and
Steve M. Bajgier and
MaryAnne Atkinson and
Grace Wahba and
Noel Cressie and
Richard Goldstein and
Richard A. Lockhart and
John J. Spinelli and
Robert Kinnison and
A. S. C. Ehrenberg and
James D. Knoke and
Roderick J. A. Little and
W. E. Sharp and
Haim Shore and
Robert M. Norton and
P. A. V. B. Swamy and
Sastry G. Pantula and
Marcia Gumpertz and
Jay H. Beder and
T. D. Stanley and
Clint Cummins and
H. D. Vinod Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 254--264
Anonymous Corrections: The ASA Section on
Statistical Education: a Historical Note 264--264
Anonymous Corrections: Power and Sample Size via
MS/PC-DOS Computers . . . . . . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gerard E. Dallal Editor's Invited Column: Statistical
Computing Packages: Dare We Abandon
Their Teaching to Others? . . . . . . . 265--266
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--269
Edward L. Korn and
Barry I. Graubard Simultaneous Testing of Regression
Coefficients With Complex Survey Data:
Use of Bonferroni $t$ Statistics . . . . 270--276
Richard A. Groeneveld Ranking Teams in a League With Two
Divisions of $t$ Teams . . . . . . . . . 277--281
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Raj S. Chhikara On the Ratio and Regression Estimation
in Finite Population Sampling . . . . . 282--284
David Edelman A Confidence Interval for the Center of
an Unknown Unimodal Distribution Based
on a Sample of Size 1 . . . . . . . . . 285--287
Nicholas R. Farnum Improving the Relative Error of
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
Edward L. Korn Projecting Power From a Previous Study:
Maximum Likelihood Estimation . . . . . 290--292
Colm Art O'Cinneide The Mean Is Within One Standard
Deviation of Any Median . . . . . . . . 292--293
Richard J. Pulskamp A Note on the Estimation of Binomial
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
Donald T. Searls and
Pichai Intarapanich A Note on an Estimator for the Variance
That Utilizes the Kurtosis . . . . . . . 295--296
Bulent Uyar and
Orhan Erdem Regression Procedures in SAS: Problems? 296--301
Harry O. Posten Review of Audio Tape: \booktitleThe
Statistician at Work . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Herbert F. Spirer Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Software Teaching Package: Statistix 3.1 303--304
Peter H. Westfall Graphical Presentation of a Basketball
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--307
John Sall Leverage Plots for General Linear
Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--315
Ralph B. D'Agostino and
Albert Belanger and
Ralph B. D'Agostino, Jr. A Suggestion for Using Powerful and
Informative Tests of Normality . . . . . 316--321
Carol A. Markowski and
Edward P. Markowski Conditions for the Effectiveness of a
Preliminary Test of Variance . . . . . . 322--326
N. I. Fisher and
Ian T. Jolliffe and
Chien-Pai Han and
Jean D. Gibbons and
Julia Lane and
Russ Ray and
Dennis Glennon and
Sunil K. Sapra and
Roy T. St. Laurent and
James W. Mergerson and
Colin R. Blyth and
Vedula N. Murty and
Jeffrey P. Benedict and
Tommy Wright Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 327--330
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 331--332
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 333--335
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
William R. Schucany Editor's Invited Column . . . . . . . . 1--1
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--9
Ronald L. Wasserstein and
John E. Boyer, Jr. Bounds on the Power of Linear Rank Tests
for Scale Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
F. F. Gan and
Kenneth J. Koehler and
John C. Thompson Probability Plots and Distribution
Curves for Assessing the Fit of
Probability Models . . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
Stephan Arndt and
Robert F. Woolson Establishing a Biostatistical Core Unit
in a Clinical Research Center . . . . . 22--27
Roger E. Kirk Statistical Consulting in a University:
Dealing With People and Other Challenges 28--34
Neil C. Schwertman and
Thomas A. McCready and
Lesley Howard Probability Models for the NCAA Regional
Basketball Tournaments . . . . . . . . . 35--38
Robert W. Mee and
Tin Chiu Chua Regression Toward the Mean and the
Paired Sample $t$ Test . . . . . . . . . 39--42
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--50
R. K. Elswick, Jr. and
Chris Gennings and
Vernon M. Chinchilli and
Kathryn S. Dawson A Simple Approach for Finding Estimable
Functions in Linear Models . . . . . . . 51--53
Robert A. McLean and
William L. Sanders and
Walter W. Stroup A Unified Approach to Mixed Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--64
Marilynn S. Dueker and
Herbert F. Spirer Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 64--65
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 64
K. G. Russell Estimating the Value of e by Simulation 66--68
Kenneth A. Bollen Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 68--73
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 68
Gerard E. Dallal LMS: Least Median of Squares Regression 74--74
Cyrus R. Mehta StatXact: a Statistical Package for
Exact Nonparametric Inference . . . . . 74--75
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Brian Dawkins Siobhan's Problem: The Coupon Collector
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--82
Anonymous Corrections: ``A Brief History of the
American Statistical Association,
1839--1989'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Corrections: a Property of
Well-Formulated Polynomial Regression
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Paul D. Sampson and
Peter Guttorp Power Transformations and Tests of
Environmental Impact as Interaction
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--89
Albert Chevan and
Michael Sutherland Hierarchical Partitioning . . . . . . . 90--96
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--120
Peter W. Zehna On Proving That $ \bar {X} $ and $ S^2 $
are Independent . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Jonathan J. Shuster The Statistician in a Reverse Cocaine
Sting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Andrew Gelman and
Xiao-Li Meng A Note on Bivariate Distributions That
Are Conditionally Normal . . . . . . . . 125--126
Alastair Scott and
Chris Wild Transformations and $ R^2 $ . . . . . . 127--129
M. J. Goddard Constructing Some Categorical Anomalies 129--134
Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. Equivariant, Monotonic, 50% Breakdown
Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
Robert Bartels and
Denzil G. Fiebig A Simple Characterization of Seemingly
Unrelated Regressions Models in Which
OLS Is BLUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
K. Ruben Gabriel and
Thomas R. Knapp and
James McNamara and
Donna Rose and
Carl Wetzstein Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 141--142
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 141
K. Ruben Gabriel Using the ``Against All Odds'' Video
Series in an Introductory Statistics
Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--145
Richard L. Cook Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 146--149
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 146
Barbara L. Mann Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 149--151
James C. Lynch and
J. Richard Landis and
A. Russell Localio Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 151--154
William P. Alexander MATRIX: An Interpreted Matrix Language 154--155
Anonymous New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Douglas M. Hawkins FIRM: Formal Inference-Based Recursive
Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Bob Prosser ML3: Software for Three-Level Analysis 155--156
Jeffrey A. Kahn @Library --- Statistical Applications
--- Technical Description (for Lotus
1-2-3 and Symphony) . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
Barry W. Brown and
David Gutierrez and
Martin F. Spears STATTAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Lee E. Edlefsen Axum Technical Graphics and Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
William D. Dupont and
Walton D. Plummer, Jr. POWER.FOR: a Computer Program for Power
and Sample Size Calculations . . . . . . 158--158
Nicholas A. Wolfe and
Alexander J. Chester SIMCLUST: a Cluster Analysis Program for
Ecological Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
H.-P. Altenburg and
G. Rosenkranz Analysis of Quantal and Quantitative
Dose-Response Data Using SAS . . . . . . 159--159
Emanuel Ringel and
Charles Mode APL Software for Discrete Semi-Markov
and Population Process Computations and
Monte Carlo Simulation . . . . . . . . . 160--160
John Zurawski GENSTAT 5: Recent Developments . . . . . 160--160
Gordon Rae and
John E. Spencer Average Spearman's Rho, Concordance, and
the Matching Problem: Some Relationships 161--162
Irwin D. Bross and
Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. and
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Stanley S. Schor and
Beth Dawson-Saunders and
Paul K. Jones and
Steven J. Verhulst and
Burt Holland and
Per Lea and
Dave Saville and
Eugene Garfield and
I. J. Good and
Daniel Gianola and
Jean-Louis Foulley and
Laurence A. Baxter and
Sherman Chottiner and
Paul A. Herzberg and
Judith D. Singer and
John B. Willett and
Ronald A. Thisted and
Chap T. Le and
Jean D. Gibbons and
B. M. P\Hotscher and
C. M. Hurvich and
C. L. Tsai Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 163--172
Anonymous Correction: Computer Selection of
Size-Biased Samples . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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--178
Hal Stern On the Probability of Winning a Football
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
L. Robert Hill and
William G. Hammond and
John R. Benfield Logistic Regression Analysis in
Experimental Bronchial Carcinogenesis 184--186
Thomas W. O'Gorman and
Robert F. Woolson Variable Selection to Discriminate
Between Two Groups: Stepwise Logistic
Regression or Stepwise Discriminant
Analysis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--193
W. W. Stroup and
D. K. Mulitze Nearest Neighbor Adjusted Best Linear
Unbiased Prediction . . . . . . . . . . 194--200
Edward L. Korn and
Richard Simon Explained Residual Variation, Explained
Risk, and Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . 201--206
Charles L. Dunn Precise Simulated Percentiles in a Pinch 207--211
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--216
Adrienne W. Kemp and
C. David Kemp Weldon's Dice Data Revisited . . . . . . 216--222
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--228
E. H. Oksanen A Simple Approach to Teaching
Generalized Least Squares Theory . . . . 229--233
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--242
Jonathan D. Cryer Book Review: \booktitleTIMESLAB: a Times
Series Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Bob Obenchain Ridge Regression Systems for MS-DOS
Personal Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Rocco L. Brunelle Breeze/STAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Sungsub Choi and
K. Ruben Gabriel and
Charles L. Odoroff LORANK: a Package for Lower Rank
Approximation of Matrices . . . . . . . 246--247
Jeremy D. Finn and
R. Darrell Bock Multivariance PC . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Sander Greenland On the Logical Justification of
Conditional Tests for Two-by-Two
Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 248--251
Deanna B. Haunsperger and
Donald G. Saari The Lack of Consistency for Statistical
Decision Procedures . . . . . . . . . . 252--255
Benjamin Kedem and
Lyle V. Jones and
Vedula N. Murty and
H. A. David and
Colin Mallows and
Sudhakar Dharmadhikari and
Colm O'Cinneide and
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Edward P. Markowski and
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Donald T. Searls and
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Neil S. Fleming and
Gregory Piepel and
Bulent Uyar and
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Anonymous William R. Schucany . . . . . . . . . . 263
Sunil K. Sapra A Connection Between the Logit Model,
Normal Discriminant Analysis, and
Multivariate Normal Mixtures . . . . . . 265--268
Juliet Popper Shaffer The Gauss--Markov Theorem and Random
Regressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
Sòren Bisgaard Teaching Statistics to Engineers . . . . 274--283
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 [Let's Make a Deal: The Player's
Dilemma]: Comment . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
J. P. Morgan and
N. R. Chaganty and
R. C. Dahiya and
M. J. Doviak [Let's Make a Deal: The Player's
Dilemma]: Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . 289--289
Donald G. Watts Why Is Introductory Statistics Difficult
to Learn? And What Can We Do to Make It
Easier? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Norean Radke-Sharpe Writing As a Component of Statistics
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
H. J. Khamis Manual Computations --- A Tool for
Reinforcing Concepts and Techniques . . 294--299
Arvind K. Shah Relationship Between the Coefficients of
Determination of Algebraically Related
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
Lawrence J. Emrich and
Marion R. Piedmonte A Method for Generating High-Dimensional
Multivariate Binary Variates . . . . . . 302--304
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Donna L. Hoffman Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 305--311
Richard M. Heiberger Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 311--315
David Morganstein Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 316--317
Al M. Best and
David Morganstein Statistics Programs Designed for the
Macintosh: Data Desk, Exstatix, Fastat,
JMP, StatView II, and SuperANOVA . . . . 318--338
F. Y. Hsieh SSIZE: a Sample Size Program for
Clinical and Epidemiologic Studies . . . 338--338
László D. Molnár LOGLINDI: Log-Linear Discriminant
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
S.N.Tibshirani Enterprises Inc. GAIM Version 1.0: a Package for
Generalized Additive Models . . . . . . 339--340
Antony Unwin Diamond Fast: Interactive Graphics for
Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
N. Visart IDAMS: Internationally Developed Data
Analysis and Management Software . . . . 340--340
Richard H. Williams Multiple Comparisons Among Correlation
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
Hoyt G. Wilson Electronic Tables: Exact Probabilities
and Percentage Points . . . . . . . . . 341--341
Robert V. Hogg Statistical Education: Improvements Are
Badly Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343
Myra L. Samuels Statistical Reversion Toward the Mean:
More Universal Than Regression Toward
the Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--346
Marilyn vos Savant and
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Narasina R. Chaganty and
Ram C. Dahiga and
Michael J. Doviak and
Nicholas R. Farnum and
Duncan K. H. Fong Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 349--350
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Lance A. Waller and
Bruce W. Turnbull Probability Plotting With Censored Data 5--12
Anne I. Goldman EVENTCHARTS: Visualizing Survival and
Other Timed-Events Data . . . . . . . . 13--18
Barry K. Moser and
Gary R. Stevens Homogeneity of Variance in the
Two-Sample Means Test . . . . . . . . . 19--21
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--31
Bernard D. Flury and
A. Narayanan A Mixture Approach to Multivariate
Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
Dale A. Kopas and
Paul R. McAllister Process Improvement Exercises for the
Chemical Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
H. F. Martz and
W. J. Zimmer The Risk of Catastrophic Failure of the
Solid Rocket Boosters on the Space
Shuttle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Charles Hallahan Book Review: \booktitleDBMS/COPY and
DBMS/COPY Plus --- (Version 2.0) . . . . 49--52
Robert F. Ling Just Say No to Binomial (and Other
Discrete Distributions) Tables . . . . . 53--54
Joseph L. Gastwirth Statistical Reasoning in the Legal
Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69
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Richard K. Burdick and
Michael H. Ames and
Dudley M. Harde and
Bruce Levin and
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R. K. Elswick, Jr. and
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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, Jr. Mean Squared Error Performance of Simple
Linear Regression Conditional Upon the
Outcome of Pretesting the Intercept . . 89--93
Walter W. Piegorsch Complementary Log Regression for
Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . 94--99
Steven B. Cohen and
Ayah E. Johnson Address Sample Effects in the National
Medical Expenditure Survey . . . . . . . 100--105
Tommy Wright Lagrange's Identity Reveals Correlation
Coefficient and Straight-Line Connection 106--107
Francisco J. Samaniego Elementary Derivations of Geometric
Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Leonard A. Stefanski Monotone Likelihood Ratio of a
``Faulty-Inspection'' Distribution . . . 110--114
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--120
Inchi Hu An Elementary Solution to a Traffic
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Barry Kurt Moser and
Yuh-Ren Lin Equivalence of the Corrected F Test and
the Weighted Least Squares Procedure . . 122--124
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--128
Rosemary A. Roberts and
David L. Roberts Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 129--130
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--139
M. C. Jones and
John A. Rice Displaying the Important Features of
Large Collections of Similar Curves . . 140--145
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--150
David A. Larson Analysis of Variance With Just Summary
Statistics as Input . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
H. Joseph Newton New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Walter T. Federer and
Michael P. Meredith Covariance Analysis for Split-Plot and
Split-Block Designs . . . . . . . . . . 155--162
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Sander Greenland and
David P. Nichols and
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James R. Lackritz Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 163--165
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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--189
David J. Hand On Comparing Two Treatments . . . . . . 190--192
Stephen B. Vardeman What About the Other Intervals? . . . . 193--197
James A. Hanley Jumping to Coincidences: Defying Odds in
the Realm of the Preposterous . . . . . 197--202
Richard A. Paulson Using Lottery Games to Illustrate
Statistical Concepts and Abuses . . . . 202--204
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--217
Alvin C. Rencher Interpretation of Canonical Discriminant
Functions, Canonical Variates, and
Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 217--225
David M. Levine Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 226--226
Marilynn S. Dueker and
Michael Nabel Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 226--227
Myra L. Samuels and
Tai-Fang C. Lu Sample Size Requirements for the
Back-of-the-Envelope Binomial Confidence
Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--231
Ted C. Chang and
Sharon L. Lohr and
C. Graham McLaren Teaching Survey Sampling Using
Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--237
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Peter C. Bruce and
Peter Guttorp and
Gerard E. Dallal and
Lynn Roy LaMotte and
Donald G. Watts and
William Bell and
M. Bhaskara Rao and
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Terry R. Ridgway and
Richard G. Seymann and
W. Edwards Deming and
Paul R. McAllister and
Dale A. Kopas and
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Anonymous Correction: The Gauss--Markov Theorem
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William R. Schucany Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
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--260
Howard Hogan The 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey: An
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--269
Thomas S. Nunnikhoven A Birthday Problem Solution for
Nonuniform Birth Frequencies . . . . . . 270--274
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--282
William Becker and
Peter Kennedy A Lesson in Least Squares and $R$
Squared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
LeRoy A. Franklin Graphical Insight Into Multiple
Regression Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 284--288
Sutaip L. C. Saw ANOVA Sums of Squares as Quadratic Forms 288--290
Robert W. Hayden and
Farid Kianifard Preparing High School Mathematics
Teachers to Teach Statistics . . . . . . 290--295
William J. Wilson Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship 295--298
Daniel L. Solomon [Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship]:
Invited Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
Paul D. Minton [Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship]:
Invited Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
Robert V. Hogg [Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship]:
Invited Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Roy E. Welsch [Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship]:
Invited Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--304
Elliot A. Tanis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 304--306
Don McNeil On Graphing Paired Data . . . . . . . . 307--311
John C. Nash Statistical Shareware: Illustrations
From Regression Techniques . . . . . . . 311--318
H. Joseph Newton New Developments in Statistical
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
David Strauss The Many Faces of Logistic Regression 321--327
Dennis D. Boos On Generalized Score Tests . . . . . . . 327--333
Andrew Therber and
Kevin Delucchi and
Martin Feuerman and
David R. Fox and
Kenneth Kaminsky and
Robert F. Ling Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 334--337
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Gerald J. Hahn and
William Q. Meeker Assumptions for Statistical Inference 1--11
Ian Spence and
Robert F. Garrison A Remarkable Scatterplot . . . . . . . . 12--19
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--26
Harry M. Schey The Relationship Between the Magnitudes
of SSR($ x_2 $ ) and SSR($ x_2 | x_1 $
): a Geometric Description . . . . . . . 26--30
Guy Thomas and
John O'Quigley A Geometric Interpretation of Partial
Correlation Using Spherical Triangles 30--32
T. W. Epps Characteristic Functions and Their
Empirical Counterparts: Geometrical
Interpretations and Applications to
Statistical Inference . . . . . . . . . 33--38
David Oakes A Note on the Kaplan--Meier Estimator 39--40
Rosemary A. Roberts and
David L. Roberts Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 40--41
Jeffrey A. Witmer Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 41--42
J. B. Douglas Confidence Regions for Parameter Pairs 43--45
Richard Goldstein and
Paul F. Velleman Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Carl J. Schwarz The Mixed-Model ANOVA: The Truth, the
Computer Packages, the Books. Part I:
Balanced Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--59
Joseph M. Hilbe Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
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Paul F. Velleman and
Leland Wilkinson Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio
Typologies Are Misleading . . . . . . . 65--72
Colin R. Blyth Restrict Estimates to the Possible
Values? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
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Geoff McLachlan and
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Roger Koenker and
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Joan F. Hilton Exact Power of Conditional and
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Janice Derr Biostatistics Cores: Improving the
Chances for Funding . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
T. P. Hutchinson The Seventh-Root Formula for a
Trivariate Normal Probability . . . . . 102--103
E. Jacquelin Dietz A Cooperative Learning Activity on
Methods of Selecting a Sample . . . . . 104--108
Cynthia A. Coyle and
Chamont Wang Wanna Bet? On Gambling Strategies That
May or May Not Work in a Casino . . . . 108--111
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--117
R. C. Juola More on Shortest Confidence Intervals 117--119
Lawrence A. Sherr Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 120--121
Richard M. Engeman Short Courses as Part of Statistical
Consulting in a Foreign Setting . . . . 122--125
D. A. Sprott and
V. T. Farewell The Difference Between Two Normal Means 126--128
Harry O. Posten An Effective Algorithm for the
Noncentral Beta Distribution Function 129--131
William A. Link Simulation Testing of Unbiasedness of
Variance Estimators . . . . . . . . . . 132--134
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--136
Robin H. Lock Book Review: \booktitleA Comparison of
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Anonymous New Developments In Statistical
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James R. Boen and
Marcus O. Kjelsberg Career Information for Statistics
Graduate Students . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
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Roland D. Fisch and
Günther A. Strehlau A Simplified Approach to Calibration
Confidence Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--171
David S. Moore The Place of Video in New Styles of
Teaching and Learning Statistics . . . . 172--176
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--191
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--197
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--206
Andrew R. Solow Estimating Record Inclusion Probability 206--208
A. J. Lee Generating Random Binary Deviates Having
Fixed Marginal Distributions and
Specified Degrees of Association . . . . 209--215
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--216
R. Murray Lindsay and
A. S. C. Ehrenberg The Design of Replicated Studies . . . . 217--228
Richard M. Engeman and
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Jay Bennett Did Shoeless Joe Jackson Throw the 1919
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Lawrence D. Brown and
J. T. Gene Hwang (formerly Jiunn T. Hwang) How to Approximate a Histogram by a
Normal Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
Carles M. Cuadras Interpreting an Inequality in Multiple
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--258
Adrian E. Raftery and
Tore Schweder Inference About the Ratio of Two
Parameters, With Application to Whale
Censusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--264
Bert Gunter Through a Funnel Slowly With Ball
Bearing and Insight to Teach
Experimental Design . . . . . . . . . . 265--269
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
Harry O. Posten and
Dipak K. Dey Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 277--279
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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--292
Richard N. MacLennan Interrater Reliability With SPSS for
Windows 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--296
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 297
Albert A. Okunade and
Cyril F. Chang and
Richard D. Evans Comparative Analysis of Regression
Output Summary Statistics in Common
Statistical Packages . . . . . . . . . . 298--303
Bernard D. Flury and
Thaddeus Tarpey Representing a Large Collection of
Curves: a Case for Principal Points . . 304--306
Lawrence Joseph Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 307--307
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 307--308
Richard R. Carlson Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 308--309
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Alan B. Cantor and
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Mark Krailo and
Carl J. Huberty and
David J. Hand and
Milton Keynes and
Paul F. Velleman and
Leland Wilkinson and
Thomas J. Lorenzen and
Richard K. Burdick Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 311--316
Anonymous Correction: Testing Means Using
Hypothesis-Dependent Variance Estimates 316--316
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
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Kinley Larntz Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Henry F. Inman Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher on
Statistical Tests: a 1935 Exchange from
Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--11
Karl Pearson and
R. A. Fisher and
Henry F. Inman Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher on
Statistical Tests: a 1935 Exchange from
\booktitleNature . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--11
Maria Elena Gonzalez Improving Data Quality Awareness in the
United States Federal Statistical
Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--17
Patricia S. Abel and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla To Survive or to Fail: That Is the
Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--21
David A. Harville and
Michael H. Smith The Home-Court Advantage: How Large Is
It and Does It Vary From Team to Team? 22--28
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--34
Ester Samuel-Cahn Combining Unbiased Estimators . . . . . 34--36
Michael P. Murray A Drunk and Her Dog: An Illustration of
Cointegration and Error Correction . . . 37--39
Thomas R. Willemain Bootstrap on a Shoestring: Resampling
Using Spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44
Paul L. Marsh Book Review: \booktitleA Review and
Comparison of Five Graphics Programs for
PC-DOS and MS-DOS Computers . . . . . . 44--51
John C. Nash Tools for Including Statistical Graphics
in Application Programs . . . . . . . . 52--57
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Michael R. Chernick Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 58--59
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
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Jeff A. Sloan Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 60--63
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James Boen and
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Peter B. Imrey [Statistical Values, Quality, and
Certification]: Reply . . . . . . . . . 82--87
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--98
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--110
J. Brian Gray and
William H. Woodall The Maximum Size of Standardized and
Internally Studentized Residuals in
Regression Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Richard Anderson-Sprecher Model Comparisons and $ R^2 $ . . . . . 113--117
Gregory Samsa and
Eugene Z. Oddone Integrating Scientific Writing Into a
Statistics Curriculum: a Course in
Statistically Based Scientific Writing 117--119
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
Harry O. Posten Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 129--129
Jim Albert and
Mark Berliner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 129--131
Cuthbert Daniel Factorial One-Factor-at-a-Time
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Gary Tietjen Recursive Schemes for Calculating
Cumulative Binomial and Poisson
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
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,
\bf 46, 240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
David DeLong Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
(1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
Factorial Experiments with Nested
Factors,'' The American Statistician,
\bf 46, 240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Ming-Long Lam Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
(1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
Factorial Experiments with Nested
Factors,'' The American Statistician,
\bf 46, 240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--144
William H. Rogers Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
(1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
Factorial Experiments with Nested
Factors,'' The American Statistician,
\bf 46, 240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Patrick J. Fleury Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
(1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
Factorial Experiments with Nested
Factors,'' The American Statistician,
\bf 46, 240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
Michael Kutner Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
(1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
Factorial Experiments with Nested
Factors,'' The American Statistician,
\bf 46, 240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Shayle R. Searle Analysis of Variance Computing Package
Output for Unbalanced Data From
Fixed-Effects Models With Nested Factors 148--153
Anne Boomsma and
Ivo W. Molenaar Four Electronic Tables for Probability
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162
C. J. Wild Embracing the ``Wider View'' of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171
Jack E. Reece Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 172--172
Richard J. Rossi Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 172--172
Subhash C. Sharma Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 172--173
Irwin D. Bross and
Bert Gunter and
Ronald D. Snee and
Roger L. Berger and
Cyrus R. Mehta and
Joan F. Hilton and
Lynn Roy LaMotte and
Roland D. Fisch and
Günther A. Strehlau and
Kosmas Ferentinos and
Stavros Kourouklis and
Robert Juola and
G. R. Dargahi-Noubary Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 174--177
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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--190
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--196
Howard S. Gitlow A Comparison of Japanese Total Quality
Control and Deming's Theory of
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--203
Harry J. Khamis and
Barbara L. Mann Outreach at a University Statistical
Consulting Center . . . . . . . . . . . 204--207
Peter McCullagh Does the Moment-Generating Function
Characterize a Distribution? . . . . . . 208--208
Johan Bring How to Standardize Regression
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
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--229
Murray A. Jorgensen Tail Functions and Iterative Weights in
Binary Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 230--234
Brani Vidakovic All Roads Lead to Rome --- Even in the
Honeycomb World . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
Daniel R. Jeske Illustrating the Gauss--Markov Theorem 237--238
Lynn Roy LaMotte A Note on the Role of Independence in
$t$ Statistics Constructed From Linear
Statistics in Regression Models . . . . 238--240
Qi Zheng and
James H. Matis Correlation Coefficient Revisited . . . 240--241
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--247
Jeffrey A. Witmer Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 247--248
Jeffrey S. Pontius and
Rhoda M. Schantz Graphical Analyses of a Two-Period
Crossover Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--253
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
Joseph M. Hilbe Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--265
Todd G. Nick Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 266--266
Eileen J. Beachell and
Ruth Hubbard and
Sheldon M. Ross and
Ronald Christensen and
Jessica Utts and
Roger L. Berger and
Dennis D. Boos and
David A. Sprott and
Vernon T. Farewell and
G. S. Watson and
Oliver D. Anderson and
Rich Dodenhoff Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 267--269
Anonymous Correction: Comparing Two Proportions
from the Same Survey . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
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
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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--284
Robert V. Hogg A Core in Statistics for Engineering
Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
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--293
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--305
Robert W. Hayden Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 305--306
A. C. Atkinson Transforming Both Sides of a Tree . . . 307--313
Joseph Gastwirth and
Abba Krieger and
Paul Rosenbaum How a Court Accepted an Impossible
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--315
Thomas P. Lane and
William H. DuMouchel Simultaneous Confidence Intervals in
Multiple Regression . . . . . . . . . . 315--321
John Nash Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
Ita G. G. Kreft and
Jan De Leeuw and
Rien Van Der Leeden Book Review: \booktitleReview of Five
Multilevel Analysis Programs: BMDP-5V,
GENMOD, HLM, ML3, VARCL . . . . . . . . 324--335
Junghun Kim and
Pravin K. Trivedi Book Review: \booktitleEconometric Time
Series Analysis Software: A Review . . . 336--346
Michael D. Conerly and
William H. Woodall Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 347--347
Michael Chernick Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 347--348
Michael F. Petras and
Ronald R. Remke and
Paul R. Saunders and
Philip J. Ernst Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 348--348
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Anne Freeny Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 349--349
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Ramesh C. Gupta Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 350--350
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Diccon Bancroft and
Heinz Neudecker and
Shuangzhe Liu and
N. R. Chaganty and
A. K. Vaish and
Peter Nemenyi and
R. Murray Lindsay and
Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg and
Nico F. Laubscher and
M. C. Jones and
N. L. Hjort and
Lawrence D. Brown and
J. T. Gene Hwang Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 351--354
Jeffrey F. Bromaghin Correction: Sample Size Determination
for Interval Estimation of Multinomial
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
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
K. T. Dinh and
Truc T. Nguyen Correction: Maximum Likelihood
Estimators of Binomial Parameters under
an Order Restriction . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
Philip L. H. Yu Correction: a Simple Statistical
Project: Image Reconstruction . . . . . 354--354
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 355--357
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
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John R. Tucker Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Jon R. Kettenring What Industry Needs . . . . . . . . . . 2--4
Peter J. Bickel What Academia Needs . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
N. Phillip Ross What the Government Needs . . . . . . . 7--9
John C. Bailar, III A Larger Perspective . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
John Lehoczky Modernizing Statistics Ph.D. Programs 12--17
Joan B. Garfield [Modernizing Statistics Ph.D. Programs]:
Respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Carl N. Morris [Modernizing Statistics Ph.D. Programs]:
Respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Carl N. Morris Respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Robert L. Wardrop Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in
Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
Edward E. Gbur, Jr. and
Bruce E. Trumbo Key Words and Phrases --- The Key to
Scholarly Visibility and Efficiency in
an Information Explosion . . . . . . . . 29--33
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--53
Robert A. Stine Graphical Interpretation of Variance
Inflation Factors . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Neil C. Schwertman and
Terry L. Kiser The Role of Geometry in Pairwise and
Mutual Independence . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
Michael F. Driscoll and
Barbara Krasnicka An accessible proof of Craig's theorem
in the general case . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Ann E. Watkins Book Review: \booktitleReview of the
Proceedings of a Conference on Data
Analysis in the Schools . . . . . . . . 62--63
Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 62
Stephen W. Looney How to Use Tests for Univariate
Normality to Assess Multivariate
Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--70
Peyton Cook and
Lyle D. Broemeling Bayesian Statistics Using Mathematica 70--76
E. Neely Atkinson Interactive Dynamic Graphics for
Exploratory Survival Analysis . . . . . 77--84
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--86
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 84
Jenny Baglivo Book Review: \booktitleComputer Algebra
Systems: Maple and Mathematica . . . . . 86--92
John C. Nash Book Review: \booktitleComputer Algebra
Systems: DERIVE\reg . . . . . . . . . . 93--99
Philip M. Lurie Book Review: \booktitleA Review of Five
Statistical Packages for Windows . . . . 99--107
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--112
Bruce King Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 113--113
William D. Warde Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 113--114
Larry Winner Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 114--114
J. M. Campbell and
James J. Higgins and
Gerard E. Dallal and
Chamont Wang and
Arthur Silverberg and
Peter B. Imrey and
Oliver D. Anderson and
Bruno D. Zumbo and
Jorgen Hilden Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 115--119
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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H. A. David First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in
Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . . 121--133
Stephen J. Gange Generating Multivariate Categorical
Variates Using the Iterative
Proportional Fitting Algorithm . . . . . 134--138
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--143
Michael A. Proschan and
Dean A. Follmann Multiple Comparisons With Control in a
Single Experiment Versus Separate
Experiments: Why Do We Feel Differently? 144--149
Lance A. Waller Does the Characteristic Function
Numerically Distinguish Distributions? 150--152
Michael Friendly Conceptual and Visual Models for
Categorical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--160
Richard D. Gelber and
Bernard F. Cole and
Shari Gelber and
Aron Goldhirsch Comparing Treatments Using
Quality-Adjusted Survival: The Q-TWiST
Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--169
Kazem Kazempour Impact of Stratification Imbalance on
Probability of Type I Error . . . . . . 170--174
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--182
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--189
Michael H. Kutner Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Jeffrey B. Birch Ten Suggestions for Effectively Teaching
Short Courses to Heterogeneous Groups 190--195
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--200
David G. Kleinbaum Teaching Short Courses in Biostatistics
and Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--203
Clifford Konold Confessions of a Coin Flipper and
Would-Be Instructor . . . . . . . . . . 203--209
R. W. Oldford A Physical Device for Demonstrating
Confounding, Blocking, and the Role of
Randomization in Uncovering a Causal
Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--216
Peter J. Smith A Recursive Formulation of the Old
Problem of Obtaining Moments From
Cumulants and Vice Versa . . . . . . . . 217--218
Elliot A. Tanis Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 219--220
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--225
Frank Y. Hsieh A Cautionary Note on the Analysis of
Extreme Data With Cox Regression . . . . 226--228
N. Balakrishnan and
R. A. Sandhu A Simple Simulational Algorithm for
Generating Progressive Type-II Censored
Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
R. Chattamvelli A Note on the Noncentral Beta
Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . 231--234
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 235
Allan J. Rossman Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 237--238
Mark S. Handcock Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 238--238
Gary D. Herrin Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 238--239
Sunil K. Sapra and
Michael Cain and
Werner E. Helm and
Peter B. Imrey Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 240--241
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Joseph M. Cameron and
Joan R. Rosenblatt Churchill Eisenhart, 1913--1994 . . . . 243--244
William J. Spencer and
Paul A. Tobias Statistics in the Semiconductor
Industry: A Competitive Necessity . . . 245--249
David S. Moore and
George W. Cobb and
Joan Garfield and
William Q. Meeker Statistics Education Fin de Si\`ecle . . 250--260
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--268
Ian T. Jolliffe Sample Sizes and the Central Limit
Theorem: The Poisson Distribution as an
Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Dennis P. Walsh Equating Poisson and Normal Probability
Functions to Derive Stirling's Formula 270--271
Paul R. Coe and
William Butterworth Optimal stopping in ``The showcase
showdown'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
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David C. Hoaglin and
Paul F. Velleman A Critical Look at Some Analyses of
Major League Baseball Salaries . . . . . 277--285
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A. Rajika Mallawaaratchy Statistical Artifacts in the Ratio of
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Edward L. Korn and
Barry I. Graubard Examples of Differing Weighted and
Unweighted Estimates From a Sample
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--295
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
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Paul A. Thompson Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondence
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Gerald J. Hahn Deming's Impact on Industrial
Statistics: Some Reflections . . . . . . 336--341
Katherine L. Monti Folded Empirical Distribution Function
Curves --- Mountain Plots . . . . . . . 342--345
Lance A. Waller and
Bruce W. Turnbull and
J. Michael Hardin Obtaining Distribution Functions by
Numerical Inversion of Characteristic
Functions With Applications . . . . . . 346--350
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--361
Charles E. Gates What Really Is Experimental Error in
Block Designs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Johannes Ledolter Projects in Introductory Statistics
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--367
Alan T. Arnholt and
Jaimie L. Hebert Estimating the Mean With Known
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Yoong-Sin Lee Graphical Demonstration of an Optimality
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J. Laurie Snell The Journal of Statistics Education
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Sharon L. Lohr Hasse Diagrams in Statistical Consulting
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John M. Charnes and
Howard S. Gitlow Using Control Charts to Corroborate
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R. J. O'Hara Hines and
W. G. S. Hines Exploring Cook's Statistic Graphically 389--394
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W. G. S. Hines Exploring Cook's Statistic Graphically 389
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David Ruppert The Use and Misuse of Orthogonal
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Jean-Marc Bernard Bayesian Interpretation of Frequentist
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Bruce R. Johnson and
Benjamin J. Tilly On the Construction of Independence
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Ian T. Jolliffe and
Peter B. Hope Bounded Bivariate Distributions With
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Mark G. Vangel Confidence Intervals for a Normal
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Christopher T. Edwards Double-Elimination Tournaments: Counting
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Neil C. Schwertman and
Kathryn L. Schenk and
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Bradley P. Carlin Improved NCAA Basketball Tournament
Modeling via Point Spread and Team
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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--50
Rhonda C. Magel Increasing Student Participation in
Large Introductory Statistics Classes 51--56
Johan Bring A Geometric Approach to Compare
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Lawrence M. Leemis and
Kishor S. Trivedi A Comparison of Approximate Interval
Estimators for the Bernoulli Parameter 63--68
Thomas E. Bradstreet Teaching Introductory Statistics Courses
So That Nonstatisticians Experience
Statistical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 69--78
Johannes Ledolter and
K. S. Chan Evaluating the Impact of the 65 mph
Maximum Speed Limit on Iowa Rural
Interstates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
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Richard A. Becker and
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Sheldon M. Ross Bayesians Should Not Resample a Prior
Sample to Learn About the Posterior . . 116--116
Rollin Brant Digesting Logistic Regression Results 117--119
Rob J. Hyndman Computing and Graphing Highest Density
Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--126
W. G. S. Hines Pragmatics of Pooling in ANOVA Tables 127--139
Dayanand N. Naik and
Ravindra Khattree Revisiting Olympic Track Records: Some
Practical Considerations in the
Principal Component Analysis . . . . . . 140--144
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--155
A. J. Lawrance A Design of Experiments Workshop as an
Introduction to Statistics . . . . . . . 156--158
Arnold J. Stromberg and
Subathra Ramanathan Easy Implementation of Writing in
Introductory Statistics Courses . . . . 159--163
Sander Greenland A Lower Bound for the Correlation of
Exponentiated Bivariate Normal Pairs . . 163--164
Renato Assuncao Likelihood Elasticity and Error Bounds 165--167
Robert W. Hayden Book Review: \booktitleReview of Two
Collections of Data for Use in a First
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Richard J. Beckman Plotting $ p^k $ Factorial or $ p^{n -
k} $ Fractional Factorial Data . . . . . 170--174
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Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177
D. J. Murdoch and
E. D. Chow A Graphical Display of Large Correlation
Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
Alan J. Miller The Convergence of Efroymson's Stepwise
Regression Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
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Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 182
Scott S. Emerson Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
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Ralph B. D'Agostino Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 193--194
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Robert B. Ilderton and
Lee R. Abramson and
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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--225
Thomas R. Fears and
Jacques Benichou and
Mitchell H. Gail A Reminder of the Fallibility of the
Wald Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Wendy A. Bergerud Displaying Factor Relationships in
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--233
Jerry Sullivan Understanding the Degrees of Freedom
Concept by Computer Experiments . . . . 234--237
Paul H. Kvam Using Exam Scores to Estimate the
Prevalence of Classroom Cheating . . . . 238--242
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. MacG. Dawson How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to
Generate a Data Set? . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
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--256
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Anonymous Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 257
Harry O. Posten Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 258--259
Michael D. Ernst and
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William R. Schucany Scatterplots for Unordered Pairs . . . . 260--265
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 266
Joseph Hilbe Book Review: \booktitleWindows File
Conversion Software . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher The Power of Replications and
Replications of Power . . . . . . . . . 271--275
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Brad Warner and
Manavendra Misra Understanding Neural Networks as
Statistical Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 284--293
Wilfried R. Vanhonacker Meta-Analysis and Response Surface
Extrapolation: A Least Squares Approach 294--299
Alexander von Eye and
Christiane Spiel Standard and Nonstandard Log-Linear
Symmetry Models for Measuring Change in
Categorical Variables . . . . . . . . . 300--305
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--318
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--323
Ibrahim A. Ahmad A Class of Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon Type
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--327
Ronald S. Fecso and
William D. Kalsbeek and
Sharon L. Lohr and
Richard L. Scheaffer and
Fritz J. Scheuren and
Elizabeth A. Stasny Teaching Survey Sampling . . . . . . . . 328--340
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--341
Mervyn G. Marasinghe and
William Q. Meeker and
Dianne Cook and
Tae-sung Shin Using Graphics and Simulation to Teach
Statistical Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 342--351
Bernard Rosner and
Frederick Mosteller and
Cleo Youtz Modeling Pitcher Performance and the
Distribution of Runs per Inning in Major
League Baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--360
Rob J. Hyndman and
Yanan Fan Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages 361--365
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu A Note on the Calculation of Pr$ (X_1 <
X_2 \cdots {} < X_k) $ . . . . . . . . . 365--365
Richard Goldstein Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 366
John C. Nash and
Tony K. Quon Software for Modeling Kinetic Phenomena 368--378
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Rob Lyerla Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 379--380
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James Berger and
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Murray Aitkin and
D. V. Lindley and
Edward J. Stanek, III and
Charles E. Gates and
Susan R. Wilson and
Judea Pearl and
R. W. Oldford and
Y. S. Sathe and
Jerome H. Klotz and
Lawrence Leemis and
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Sunil K. Sapra Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 382--389
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Peter H. Westfall and
Russell D. Wolfinger Multiple Tests with Discrete
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--8
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--19
Shayle R. Searle Built-In Restrictions on Best Linear
Unbiased Predictors (BLUP) of Random
Effects in Mixed Models . . . . . . . . 19--21
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--31
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--46
N. Radke Sharpe and
R. A. Roberts The Relationship Among Sums of Squares,
Correlation Coefficients, and
Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Amy W. Lam Connections Between Two-Level Factorials
and Venn Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Michael Sherman Comparing the Sample Mean and the Sample
Median: An Exploration in the
Exponential Power Family . . . . . . . . 52--54
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--64
Richard Goldstein Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 65--66
Philip G. Stein and
James R. Matey and
Karen Pitts A Review of Statistical Software for the
Apple Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--82
Katherine L. Monti Making Statistical Tables in Windows: a
Comparison of Data Muncher and SAS (PROC
TABULATE and PROC REPORT) . . . . . . . 83--92
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Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. Robust Sports Ratings Based on Least
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Robert Tibshirani Who Is the Fastest Man in the World? . . 106--111
Charles Poole and
Sander Greenland How a Court Accepted a Possible
Explanation: A Comment on Gastwirth,
Krieger, and Rosenbaum . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Joseph L. Gastwirth and
Abba M. Krieger and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Reply: Unquestionably Impossible . . . . 115--116
Jim Mintz and
Wilfrid Dixon Objection Overruled: a Comment on
Gastwirth, Krieger, and Rosenbaum . . . 117--119
Joseph L. Gastwirth and
Abba M. Krieger and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Reply: Hypotheticals and Hypotheses . . 120--121
Matthew S. Mayo and
J. Brian Gray Elemental Subsets: The Building Blocks
of Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--129
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--136
B. D. Jovanovic and
P. S. Levy A Look at the Rule of Three . . . . . . 137--139
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--157
Franz Loosen A Concrete Strategy for Teaching
Hypothesis Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 158--163
Prem K. Goel and
Mario Peruggia and
Baoshe An Computer-Aided Teaching of Probabilistic
Modeling for Biological Phenomena . . . 164--169
Danny W. Turner A Simple Example Illustrating a
Well-Known Property of the Correlation
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Candace Schau and
Nancy Mattern Use of Map Techniques in Teaching
Applied Statistics Courses . . . . . . . 171--175
Gemai Chen and
A. Adatia Independence and $t$ Distribution . . . 176--177
Mervyn J. Silvapulle A Curious Example Involving the
Likelihood Ratio Test Against One-Sided
Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
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--192
Richard Goldstein Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 193--193
Dominique Haughton Packages for Estimating Finite Mixtures:
a Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--205
Dominique Houghton Packages for Estimating Finite Mixtures:
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Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 206
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James R. Lackritz and
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Edward J. Bedrick and
Ronald Christensen and
Wesley Johnson Bayesian Binomial Regression: Predicting
Survival at a Trauma Center . . . . . . 211--218
Heng Li and
Hal S. Stern Bayesian Inference for Nested Designs
Based on Jeffreys's Prior . . . . . . . 219--224
Andrew A. Neath and
Francisco J. Samaniego On the Efficacy of Bayesian Inference
for Nonidentifiable Models . . . . . . . 225--232
Alberto Luceño Further Evidence Supporting the
Numerical Usefulness of Characteristic
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
J. S. Buzas Fast Estimators of the Jackknife . . . . 235--240
Donald A. Berry Teaching Elementary Bayesian Statistics
with Real Applications in Science . . . 241--246
Jim Albert Teaching Bayes' Rule: a Data-Oriented
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
David S. Moore Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--261
Jeffrey A. Witmer [Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
Hesitate]: Discussion . . . . . . . . . 262--263
Jeffrey A. Witmer Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 262
Thomas H. Short Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
D. V. Lindley Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
David A. Freedman Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 266--268
Richard L. Scheaffer Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
Donald A. Berry [Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
Hesitate]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--271
Donald A. Berry Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 270
Jim Albert [Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
Hesitate]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Jim Albert Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
Reasons to Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . 271
David S. Moore [Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
Hesitate]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
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--283
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 284--284
Steven B. Cohen An Evaluation of Alternative PC-Based
Software Packages Developed for the
Analysis of Complex Survey Data . . . . 285--292
Paul J. Smith Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 293--295
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 293
Uwe Koehn Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 295--295
Lynne B. Hare Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 295--296
Linda Barrett Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 296--296
David Mccormick Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 296--297
Ralph F. Frankowski Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 297--297
John F. Monahan Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 297--297
Joseph L. Gastwirth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 297--299
Anonymous Correction: Who is the Fastest Man in
the World? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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--304
Frederick Mosteller Lessons from Sports Statistics . . . . . 305--310
W. Alan Nicewander and
James M. Price A Consonance Criterion for Choosing
Sample Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--317
Bruce Levin A Lower Bound for the Mantel--Haenszel
One Degree of Freedom Chi-Squared
Statistic in $ 1 \colon m $ Matched
Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--320
Don G. Wardell Small-Sample Interval Estimation of
Bernoulli and Poisson Parameters . . . . 321--325
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--343
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--352
J. Jack Lee and
Z. Nora Tu A Versatile One-Dimensional Distribution
Plot: The BLiP Plot . . . . . . . . . . 353--358
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Frank E. Harrell, Jr. and
Richard Goldstein A Survey of Microcomputer Survival
Analysis Software: The Need for an
Integrated Framework . . . . . . . . . . 360--373
Enrique Del Castillo Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 374--374
Karen Kafadar Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 374--375
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 374
Joan Garfield Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 375--375
Anonymous 1997 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 376--377
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 378--380
Anonymous Index to Volume 51 . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews ??
Colin Mallows The Zeroth Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Jeffrey S. Simonoff Logistic Regression, Categorical
Predictors, and Goodness-of-Fit: It
Depends on Who You Ask . . . . . . . . . 10--14
Ali S. Hadi and
Robert F. Ling Some Cautionary Notes on the Use of
Principal Components Regression . . . . 15--19
Lonnie Magee Nonlocal Behavior in Polynomial
Regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Greg Piepel and
Trish Redgate A Mixture Experiment Analysis of the
Hald Cement Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
Katherine K. Wallman Data on Race and Ethnicity: Revising the
Federal Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--33
Hon. Thomas C. Sawyer Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Meeting
Public Policy Goals . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
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 . . . . . 44--48
Gunnar Blom and
Jan-Eric Englund and
Dennis Sandell The Mississippi Problem . . . . . . . . 49--50
G. W. Bassett and
W. J. Hurley The Effects of Alternative HOME-AWAY
Sequences in a Best-of-Seven Playoff
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53
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 . . . . . 58--69
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 68
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Walter T. Morgan A Review of Eight Statistics Software
Packages for General Use . . . . . . . . 70--82
Anonymous Statistical Computing Software Reviews 70
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 80
Malcolm J. Sherman Book Review: \booktitleA Probabilistic
Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti
Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Berton Gunter Book Review: \booktitleVisual
Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and
Deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to
Ross Perot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Roger Hoerl Book Review: \booktitleThe Pocket
Statistician: a Practical Guide to
Quality Improvement . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
William Kastner Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Quality Control Using the SAS System . . 85--85
Deborah J. Rumsey Book Review: \booktitleBusiness
Statistics: Decision Making With Data 85--86
Karen Kafadar Book Review: \booktitleStatistics and
Public Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Larry Weldon Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistics:
Tales of Distributions . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Karl L. Wuensch Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Statistics: An Introduction for the
Social Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
J. Laurie Snell Book Review: \booktitleAn Electronic
Companion to Statistics (CD-ROM) . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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--118
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--132
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
C. Mitchell Dayton Information Criteria for the
Paired-Comparisons Problem . . . . . . . 144--151
Karen D. Rappaport and
Nouna Kettaneh and
Svante Wold Perspectives on Implementing Statistical
Modeling and Design (SMD) in an
Industrial/Chemical Environment . . . . 152--159
Andrew Gelman and
Deborah Nolan and
Anna Men and
Steve Warmerdam and
Michelle Bautista Student Projects on Statistical Literacy
and the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--166
Andrew Gelman Some Class-Participation Demonstrations
for Decision Theory and Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--174
K. L. Q. Read A Lognormal Approximation for the
Collector's Problem . . . . . . . . . . 175--180
Jerry L. Hintze and
Ray D. Nelson Violin Plots: a Box Plot-Density Trace
Synergism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--184
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--197
Elizabeth Low Book Review: \em Understanding Basic
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Jonathan Nagler Book Review: \em Statistical Computing
Environments for Social Research . . . . 198--199
Tom Obremski Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Management, 7th ed. . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
V. A. Samaranayake and
Jagdish K. Patel Book Review: \booktitleModern
Engineering Statistics and Elements of
Engineering Probability and Statistics 199--201
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--202
Thomas Wonnacott Book Review: \em The Ultimate Resource 2 202--202
V. C. Hombas Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Matthew Strand and
Duane Boes Statistical Practice --- Modeling Road
Racing Times of Competitive Recreational
Runners Using Extreme Value Theory . . . 205--210
Robert J. Perry Statistical Practice --- Estimating
Strength of the Williamsburg Bridge
Suspension Cables . . . . . . . . . . . 211--217
Dennis D. Boos and
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver Applications of Basu's Theorem . . . . . 218--221
Tue Tjur Nonlinear Regression, Quasi Likelihood,
and Overdispersion in Generalized Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--227
Paul D. Berger and
Chen Wang and
James P. Monahan Quantifying a Statistical Aspect of
Segmented Selection/Quota Systems . . . 228--232
Russell R. Barton and
Craig A. Nowack A One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 233--238
Sòren Bisgaard Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 238--239
Veronica Czitrom Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 240--240
John D. Spurrier Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 241--241
Stephen Vardeman Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous [A One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
for Engineering Students]: Reply . . . . 243--243
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--247
Michael A. Proschan and
Brett Presnell Expect the Unexpected From Conditional
Expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--252
Alan Madgett Some Uses for Distribution-Fitting
Software in Teaching Statistics . . . . 253--256
R. Webster West and
R. Todd Ogden and
A. J. Rossini Statistical Tools on the World Wide Web 257--262
Gary Tietjen Recursive Schemes for Calculating Common
Cumulative Distributions . . . . . . . . 263--265
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Anonymous Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 266
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Five Statistical
Software Packages for Epidemiology . . . 267--280
Marlene Smith Book Reviews: \em Basic Business
Statistics: A Casebook and \em Business
Analysis Using Regression: a Casebook 281--281
Bernadette Russek Book Review: \em The Assessment
Challenge in Statistics Education . . . 281--282
Thomas H. Short Book Review: \em Elementary Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
Robert N. Goldman Book Review: \em Interactive Statistics:
Preliminary Edition . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
William C. Parr Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 283--284
William C. Parr Book Review: \em Practical Guide to
Experimental Design . . . . . . . . . . 283
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 284--285
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--287
James Landwehr The American Statistician Editor's
Report for 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Anonymous The American Statistician Editor's
Report for 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Boris Iglewicz Selected Information on the Statistics
Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--294
Carolyn Shettle and
Catherine Gaddy The Labor Market for Statisticians and
Other Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--302
David L. DeMets and
Robert Woolson and
Curtis Brooks and
Roger Qu Where the Jobs Are: a Study of
\booktitleAmstat News Job Advertisements 303--307
Don O. Loftsgaarden and
Ann E. Watkins Statistics Teaching in Colleges and
Universities: Courses, Instructors, and
Degrees in Fall 1995 . . . . . . . . . . 308--314
John A. Nelder The Selection of Terms in
Response-Surface Models: How Strong is
the Weak-Heredity Principle? . . . . . . 315--318
Lynne Billard The Role of Statistics and the
Statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--324
Richard A. Groeneveld A Class of Quantile Measures for
Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--329
William C. Parr and
Marlene A. Smith Developing Case-Based Business
Statistics Courses . . . . . . . . . . . 330--337
C. M. Anderson-Cook Designing a First Experiment: a Project
for Design of Experiment Courses . . . . 338--342
Roger B. Nelsen Correlation, Regression Lines, and
Moments of Inertia . . . . . . . . . . . 343--345
Donald R. Barr and
Maj. Andrew G. Glen and
Harvey F. Graf The ``Straightforward'' Nature of
Arrival Rate Estimation? . . . . . . . . 346--350
H. A. David Stronger Opposition May Make It Easier
to Win . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--353
James G. Booth and
Somnath Sarkar Monte Carlo Approximation of Bootstrap
Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--357
B. D. McCullough Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
Software: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--366
B. D. McCulloch Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
Software: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Ann R. Cannon Book Review: \em Understanding Data:
Principles and Practice of Statistics 367--367
Becki Bucher Bartelson Book Review: \em Workshop Statistics:
Discovery with Data and the Graphing
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Bruce E. Ankenman Book Review: \em Introduction to the
Design and Analysis of Experiments . . . 368--368
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 368--369
John W. Cotton Book Review: \em Analyzing
Within-Subjects Experiments . . . . . . 368
Anonymous Correction: Reviews of Books and
Teaching Materials . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Dave P. Miller and
Doug Oman and
Jeffrey S. Simonoff and
Carles M. Cuadras and
Ali S. Hadi and
Robert F. Ling and
H. A. David Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 370
Anonymous 1998 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 372--373
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 374--376
Anonymous Index to Volume 52 . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
James J. Higgins Nonmathematical Statistics: a New
Direction for the Undergraduate
Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Robert V. Hogg Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics Programs 7--14
H. Joseph Newton [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
Programs]: Discussion . . . . . . . . . 15--16
George W. Cobb [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
Programs]: Discussion . . . . . . . . . 16--21
George W. Cobb Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
G. Rex Bryce [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
Programs]: Discussion . . . . . . . . . 21--23
G. Rex Bryce Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Richard A. Groeneveld [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
Programs]: Discussion . . . . . . . . . 23--25
Richard A. Groeneveld Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
James J. Higgins [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
Programs]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
James J. Higgins Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Robert V. Hogg [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
Programs]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Robert V. Hogg Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
R. Dennis Cook and
Sanford Weisberg Graphs in Statistical Analysis: Is the
Medium the Message? . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
Steve Verrill When Good Confidence Intervals Go Bad:
Predictor Sort Experiments and ANOVA . . 38--42
Young H. Chun On the Information Economics Approach to
the Generalized Game Show Problem . . . 43--51
Dhammika Amaratunga Searching for the Right Sample Size . . 52--55
Jess S. Boronico Multi-Tiered Playoffs and Their Impact
on Professional Baseball . . . . . . . . 56--61
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--66
Jose Luis Palacios The Ruin Problem via Electric Networks 67--70
A. Ian McLeod Necessary and Sufficient Condition for
Nonsingular Fisher Information Matrix in
ARMA and Fractional ARIMA Models . . . . 71--72
John Chambers Computing With Data: Concepts and
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--84
Jon Maatta Book Review: \em ActivStats 2.0 and \em
The Active Practice of Statistics . . . 85--86
Robert W. Hayden Book Review: \em Introduction to
Statistical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Karen Kafadar and
James R. Koehler Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 86--87
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--87
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Brian L. Wiens When Log-Normal and Gamma Models Give
Different Results: a Case Study . . . . 89--93
Tyler Smith and
Neil C. Schwertman Can the NCAA Basketball Tournament
Seeding be Used to Predict Margin of
Victory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--98
M. C. Jones Distributional Relationships Arising
From Simple Trigonometric Formulas . . . 99--102
Alan J. Salzberg Removable Selection Bias in
Quasi-Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . 103--107
Richard J. Bolton and
Wojtek J. Krzanowski A Characterization of Principal
Components for Projection Pursuit . . . 108--109
Geert Molenberghs and
Els J. T. Goetghebeur and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael G. Kenward Nonrandom Missingness in Categorical
Data: Strengths and Limitations . . . . 110--118
Michael Lavine and
Mark J. Schervish Bayes Factors: What They Are and What
They Are Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--122
Nicolas W. Hengartner A Note on Maximum Likelihood Estimation 123--125
Veronica Czitrom One-Factor-at-a-Time Versus Designed
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--131
Jon E. Anderson and
Engin A. Sungur Community Service Statistics Projects 132--136
Peter K. Dunn Three Tools for Interactively
Visualizing Some Distribution Theory
Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139
Galit Shmueli and
Ayala Cohen Analysis and Display of Hierarchical
Life-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--146
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 147--148
B. D. McCullough Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
Software: Part II . . . . . . . . . . . 149--159
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz Review of Software to Fit Generalized
Estimating Equation Regression Models 160--169
Karen Kafadar Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 170--170
John P. Holcomb Book Reviews: \booktitleApplied
Regression Analysis, 3rd edition and
\booktitleApplied Regression Analysis: A
Research Tool, 2nd edition . . . . . . . 170--171
James J. Higgins Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 170
Karen Kafadar Book Review: \em Statistics: Concepts
and Controversies, 4th edition . . . . . 170--170
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \em Against the Gods: The
Remarkable Story of Risk . . . . . . . . 171--171
Becki Bucher Bartelson Book Review: \em Probability Without
Equations: Concepts for Clinicians . . . 171--172
Xiao-Li Meng and
Willard C. Losinger Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 173--174
M. P. Wand Correction: Data-Based Choice of
Histogram Bin Width . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
James M. Landwehr The American Statistician, Editor's
Report for 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Editor's Report for 1998 . . . . . . . . 175
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
William DuMouchel Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
Tables, With an Application to the FDA
Spontaneous Reporting System . . . . . . 177--190
Robert T. O'Neill and
Ana Szarfman [Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
Tables, with an Application to the FDA
Spontaneous Reporting System]:
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--196
Thomas A. Louis and
Wei Shen [Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
Tables, with an Application to the FDA
Spontaneous Reporting System]:
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198
David Madigan [Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
Tables, with an Application to the FDA
Spontaneous Reporting System]:
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--200
William DuMouchel [Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
Tables, with an Application to the FDA
Spontaneous Reporting System]: Reply . . 201--202
Anonymous Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Gary C. McDonald Shaping Statistics for Success in the
21st Century: The Needs of Industry . . 203--207
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--215
Constantino Goutis and
George Casella Explaining the Saddlepoint Approximation 216--224
S. Huzurbazar Practical Saddlepoint Approximations . . 225--232
Richard Tweedie and
Kerrie Mengersen Calculating Accuracy Rates From Multiple
Assessors With Limited Information . . . 233--238
James G. Kuczmarski and
Paul R. Rosenbaum Quantile Plots, Partial Orders, and
Financial Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--246
Robert H. Lyles and
Lawrence L. Kupper A Note on Confidence Interval Estimation
in Measurement Error Adjustment . . . . 247--253
J. N. S. Matthews Effect of Prior Specification on
Bayesian Design for Two-Sample
Comparison of a Binary Outcome . . . . . 254--256
Sangit Chatterjee and
Mustafa R. Yilmaz The NBA as an Evolving Multivariate
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--262
Stephen M. Stigler The Foundations of Statistics at
Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--266
Yadolah Dodge and
Valentin Rousson The Complications of the Fourth Central
Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
Chi Au and
Judy Tam Transforming Variables Using the Dirac
Generalized Function . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
Michael F. Driscoll An Improved Result Relating Quadratic
Forms and Chi-Square Distributions . . . 273--275
Leland Wilkinson Dot Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--281
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Anthony J. Perkins and
Siu L. Hui Comparisons of Software Packages for
Generalized Linear Multilevel Models . . 282--290
Douglas M. Andrews Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Reasoning and Methods . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Deborah J. Rumsey Book Review: \booktitleExploring
Statistics: a Modern Introduction to
Data Analysis and Inference . . . . . . 291--292
Richard Cleary Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 292--292
Roger W. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Regression Analysis and Multivariable
Methods, 3rd edition . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
Richard Cleary Statistical Methods for Engineers . . . 292
Clay Helberg Book Review: \booktitleFinding
Statistics Online: How to Locate the
Elusive Numbers You Need . . . . . . . . 293--294
William P. Peterson Book Review: \booktitleInterpreting
Basic Statistics: a Guide and Workbook
Based on Excerpts from Journal Articles 294--294
Ken Muranaka and
Norman R. Draper and
Dennis Cook and
Sanford Weisberg Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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James M. Landwehr Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
Traci Clemons and
Marcello Pagano Are Babies Normal? . . . . . . . . . . . 298--302
Rafe M. J. Donahue A Note on Information Seldom Reported
Via the $P$ Value . . . . . . . . . . . 303--306
Rosemary Roberts and
Richard Scheaffer and
Ann Watkins Advanced Placement Statistics---Past,
Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . 307--320
Abraham Okolo The Nigerian Census: Problems and
Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--325
Harold Sackrowitz and
Ester Samuel-Cahn $P$ Values as Random
Variables---Expected $P$ Values . . . . 326--331
P. David Wilson and
Patricia Langenberg Usual and Shortest Confidence Intervals
on Odds Ratios From Logistic Regression 332--335
Shiva Gautam and
George Kimeldorf Some Results on the Maximal Correlation
in $ 2 \times k $ Contingency Tables . . 336--341
Askar H. Choudhury and
Robert Hubata and
Robert D. St. Louis Understanding Time-Series Regression
Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--348
Jyh-Cherng Jong and
Samuel Kotz On a Relation Between Principal
Components and Regression Analysis . . . 349--351
Daniel T. Voss Resolving the Mixed Models Controversy 352--356
Donald R. Barr and
E. Todd Sherrill Mean and Variance of Truncated Normal
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--361
Alan M. Polansky Upper Bounds on the True Coverage of
Bootstrap Percentile Type Confidence
Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--369
D. Nolan and
T. P. Speed Teaching Statistics Theory Through
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--375
Kevin Hayes and
John Haslett Simplifying General Least Squares . . . 376--381
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Ida Ruts and
John W. Tukey The Bagplot: a Bivariate Boxplot . . . . 382--387
Richard Cleary Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 388--389
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: \booktitleData, Statistics,
and Decision Models with Excel . . . . . 389--389
Elliot A. Tanis Book review: \em Maple V Student
Version: Release 5 . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392
Richard Goldstein Book review: \em Statistics with Stata 5 392--392
Anonymous Correction: Letters to the Editor . . . 393--393
Gary C. McDonald and
M. C. Jones Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 393
Anonymous 1999 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 394--395
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Anonymous Index of Volume 53 . . . . . . . . . . . 396
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