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Christopher H. Morrell and
Larry J. Brant Lines in Random Effects Plots From the
Linear Mixed-Effects Model . . . . . . . 1--4
Jitendra Ganju and
James M. Lucas Analysis of Unbalanced Data From an
Experiment With Random Block Effects and
Unequally Spaced Factor Levels . . . . . 5--11
Ted Jaditz Are the Digits of $ \pi $ an Independent
and Identically Distributed Sequence? 12--16
Scott Menard Coefficients of Determination for
Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis 17--24
Silvia N. Elian Simple Forms of the Best Linear Unbiased
Predictor in the General Linear
Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
Magne Aldrin Multivariate Prediction Using Softly
Shrunk Reduced-Rank Regression . . . . . 29--34
Rebecca A. Betensky Alternative Derivations of a Rule for
Early Stopping in Favor of $ H_0 $ . . . 35--39
V. Solo A Simple Derivation of the Smoothing
Spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--43
Ramón V. León and
William C. Parr Use of Course Home Pages in Teaching
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48
John P. Holcomb, Jr. and
Rochelle L. Ruffer Using a Term-Long Project Sequence in
Introductory Statistics . . . . . . . . 49--53
Yudi Pawitan A Reminder of the Fallibility of the
Wald Statistic: Likelihood Explanation 54--56
Telba Z. Irony and
Carlos A. de B. Pereira and
Ram C. Tiwari Analysis of Opinion Swing: Comparison of
Two Correlated Proportions . . . . . . . 57--62
J. Jack Lee and
Kenneth R. Hess and
Joel A. Dubin Extensions and Applications of Event
Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Reinhard Bergmann and
John Ludbrook and
Will P. J. M. Spooren Different Outcomes of the
Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney Test From
Different Statistics Packages . . . . . 72--77
George W. Cobb Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 78--81
Victoria Chen Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 81--82
Kenneth N. Berk Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 82--82
Kenneth N. Berk Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 82--83
Gina F. Reed Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 83--83
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 83--84
Heejoon Kang Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 84--84
Douglas R. Langbehn and
Vance Berger and
James J. Higgins and
R. Clifford Blair and
Colin L. Mallows and
John Ludbrook and
Hugh A. F. Dudley and
Carles M. Cuadras and
David Rindskopf and
Alan Agresti and
Brent Coull Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 85--88
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Russell G. Almond and
Charles Lewis and
John W. Tukey and
Duanli Yan Displays for Comparing a Given State to
Many Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93
Paramjit S. Gill Late-Game Reversals in Professional
Basketball, Football, and Hockey . . . . 94--99
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Sujuan Gao One-Sided Confidence Intervals for Means
of Positively Skewed Distributions . . . 100--104
Y. H. Wang Fiducial Intervals: What Are They? . . . 105--111
Graham J. G. Upton Conditional Independence,
Mantel--Haenszel Test, and the Yates
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Thaddeus Tarpey A Note on the Prediction Sum of Squares
Statistic for Restricted Least Squares 116--118
Nozer D. Singpurwalla The Point Process Paradox: Where Should
We Extend the Conversation? . . . . . . 119--120
Dennis D. Boos and
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver How Large Does $n$ Have to be for $Z$
and $t$ Intervals? . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Thaddeus Tarpey and
John Holcomb Spline Bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--135
Paul H. Kvam The Effect of Active Learning Methods on
Student Retention in Engineering
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--140
M. Alvo and
P. Cabilio Calculation of Hypergeometric
Probabilities Using Chebyshev
Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--144
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Dennis K. J. Lin Random Number Generation for the New
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--150
Allan Rossman Book Review: \booktitleStatistics You
Can't Trust: a Friendly Guide to Clear
Thinking About Statistics in Everyday
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Edward C. Wallace Book Review: \booktitleA Basic Course in
Statistics, 4th edition . . . . . . . . 151--151
Richard A. Levine and
Juanjuan Fan Book Review: \booktitlePractical
Statistics by Example Using Microsoft
Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--153
Robert Stine Book Review: \booktitleStatistics with
Mathematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Peter A. Lachenbruch Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Statistical Analyses Using Stata . . . . 153--154
Kenneth N. Berk Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 154--155
Anonymous Applied Multivariate Statistics with SAS
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Matthew A. Carlton Book Review: \booktitleData Analysis:
Statistical and Computational Methods
for Scientists and Engineers . . . . . . 155--155
Steven D. Stellman and
David A. Harville and
Michael F. Driscoll and
H. J. Keselman and
James Algina and
Rhonda K. Kowalchuk and
Ravindra Khattree and
Ananda Sen and
Robert M. Hamer and
Lyle V. Jones and
Bryan E. Adams and
Amber G. Adams and
Hui-Min Chang and
Carol Etzel and
Jo-Kang Kuo and
Jorge Montemayor and
William R. Schucany Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 156--160
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 156
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Boris Freidlin and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Should the Median Test Be Retired From
General Use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--164
Diego Kuonen A Saddlepoint Approximation for the
Collector's Problem . . . . . . . . . . 165--169
Derek R. Bingham and
Tim B. Swartz Equitable Handicapping in Golf . . . . . 170--177
Li-Chun Zhang Post-Stratification and Calibration ---
a Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--184
Walter A. Rosenkrantz Confidence Bands for Quantile Functions:
a Parametric and Graphic Alternative for
Testing Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . . 185--190
Wei Pan and
Thomas A. Louis and
John E. Connett A Note on Marginal Linear Regression
With Correlated Response Data . . . . . 191--195
Marsha C. Lovett and
Joel B. Greenhouse Applying Cognitive Theory to Statistics
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--206
Bernard Flury and
Alice Zoppe Exercises in EM . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--209
Oliver Schabenberger and
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Fanzhi Kong Collections of Simple Effects and Their
Relationship to Main Effects and
Interactions in Factorials . . . . . . . 210--214
George D. Kesling The Mighty Bonus Point . . . . . . . . . 215--216
J. Scott Long and
Laurie H. Ervin Using Heteroscedasticity Consistent
Standard Errors in the Linear Regression
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--224
Christine Franklin Book Review: \booktitleIntermediate
Statistics: A Modern Approach (2nd ed.) 225--225
Andrew Schaffner Book Review: \booktitleRevealing
Statistical Principles . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Christine Franklin Book Review: \booktitleIntermediate
Statistics: A Modern Approach (2nd ed.) 225
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Distributions in Engineering . . . . . . 226--226
Syed N. U. A. Kirmani Book Review: \booktitleEngineering
Statistics and Applied Statistics and
Probability for Engineers (2nd ed.) . . 226--226
Douglas R. Langbehn and
Rafe M. J. Donahue and
Klaus Hinkelmann and
Russell D. Wolfinger and
Walter W. Stroup and
Dan Voss and
Antonio Martin Andres Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 227--230
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 227
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Teddy Schall and
Gary Smith General Do Baseball Players Regress Toward the
Mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
Lawrence M. Leemis and
Bruce W. Schmeiser and
Diane L. Evans Survival Distributions Satisfying
Benford's Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--241
Helge Blaker and
Emil Spjotvoll Paradoxes and Improvements in Interval
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--247
Bruce G. Lindsay and
Prasanta Basak Moments Determine the Tail of a
Distribution (But Not Much Else) . . . . 248--251
W. J. Owen and
D. Sinha and
M. H. Capozzoli A Paired-Data Analysis for a Lifetime
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--256
Peter G. Bryant and
Olga I. Cordero-Brana Model Selection Using the Minimum
Description Length Principle . . . . . . 257--268
Denis G. Janky Teacher's Corner: Sometimes Pooling for
Analysis of Variance Hypothesis Tests: a
Review and Study of a Split-Plot Model 269--279
Alan Agresti and
Brian Caffo Simple and Effective Confidence
Intervals for Proportions and
Differences of Proportions Result from
Adding Two Successes and Two Failures 280--288
David P. Doane and
Ronald L. Tracy Using Beam and Fulcrum Displays to
Explore Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Ross S. Sparks and
John B. F. Field Using Deming's Funnel Experiment to
Demonstrate Effects of Violating
Assumptions Underlying Shewhart's
Control Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--302
Donald M. Waldman Estimation in Discrete Choice Models
With Choice-Based Samples . . . . . . . 303--306
Prashant Sansgiry and
Olcay Akman Transformations of the Lognormal
Distribution as a Selection Model . . . 307--309
Dale L. Zimmerman Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
Viewing the Correlation Structure of
Longitudinal Data Through a PRISM . . . 310--318
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 319--319
James W. Hardin Book Review: \booktitleLogXact 4.1 for
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321
Richard Cleary Book Review: \booktitleHow to Think
About Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Robert M. Hamer Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Psychiatry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
Marcello Pagano Book Review: \booktitleStatConcepts: a
Visual Tour of Statistical Ideas . . . . 323--324
Richard Cleary Book Review: \booktitleStatistics: An
Introduction, 5th edition . . . . . . . 324--324
Robert G. Lehr and
Telba Z. Irony and
Carlos A. de B. Pereira and
Ram C. Tiwari and
Michael P. Cohen and
Carles M. Cuadras and
Lloyd S. Nelson and
M. Alvo and
P. Cabilio and
Simo Puntanen and
George P. H. Styan and
Hans Joachim Werner Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 325--328
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 325
Anonymous 2000 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 329--330
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Anonymous Index of Volume 54 . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David S. Moore Undergraduate Programs and the Future of
Academic Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
G. Rex Bryce and
Robert Gould and
William I. Notz and
Roxy L. Peck Curriculum Guidelines for Bachelor of
Science Degrees in Statistical Science 7--13
Mary Ann Ritter and
Robert R. Starbuck and
Robert V. Hogg Advice From Prospective Employers on
Training BS Statisticians . . . . . . . 14--18
John M. Hoenig and
Dennis M. Heisey The Abuse of Power: The Pervasive
Fallacy of Power Calculations for Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
Geert Verbeke and
Bart Spiessens and
Emmanuel Lesaffre Conditional Linear Mixed Models . . . . 25--34
Elizabeth A. Stasny How to Get a Job in Academics . . . . . 35--40
Jim Albert and
Patricia Williamson Using Model/Data Simulations to Detect
Streakiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50
Yadolah Dodge and
Valentin Rousson On Asymmetric Properties of the
Correlation Coefficient in the
Regression Setting . . . . . . . . . . . 51--54
John P. Wendell and
Josef Schmee Likelihood Confidence Intervals for
Proportions in Finite Populations . . . 55--61
Thomas Sellke and
M. J. Bayarri and
James O. Berger Calibration of $p$ Values for Testing
Precise Null Hypotheses . . . . . . . . 62--71
Rafael A. Irizarry Local Regression With Meaningful
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitle[Introduction to
Design and Analysis of Experiments] . . 80--81
Walter W. Piegorsch Book Review: \booktitleStatistics and
Experimental Design for Toxicologists
(3rd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
W. Robert Stephenson Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability and Statistics for Engineers
and Scientists (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . 81--82
Roger Nelsen Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Random Variables: a Beginner's Guide . . 82--83
Ann Cannon Book Review: \booktitleEssential
Statistics (3rd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
William B. Owen Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Business Statistics: a Computer
Integrated, Data Analysis Approach . . . 83--84
Richard Verrall Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Statistics With Applications in General
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Roger L. Berger and
Basil W. Coutant and
Don G. Wardell Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Lynne Stokes Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Zhen Chen and
Lynn Kuo Statistical Practice: a Note on the
Estimation of the Multinomial Logit
Model With Random Effects . . . . . . . 89--95
Ronald H. Randles Statistical Practice: On Neutral
Responses (Zeros) in the Sign Test and
Ties in the Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney Test 96--101
Melanie M. Wall and
James Boen and
Richard Tweedie An Effective Confidence Interval for the
Mean With Samples of Size One and Two 102--105
Kenneth F. McCue The Statistical Foundations of the EI
Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--110
Boris Mirkin Eleven Ways to Look at the Chi-Squared
Coefficient for Contingency Tables . . . 111--120
Gwowen Shieh The Inequality Between the Coefficient
of Determination and the Sum of Squared
Simple Correlation Coefficients . . . . 121--124
Chi-tsung Wu and
Marcia L. Gumpertz and
Dennis D. Boos Comparison of GEE, MINQUE, ML, and REML
Estimating Equations for Normally
Distributed Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
Frank Lad and
Romano Scozzafava Distributions Agreeing With Exchangeable
Sequential Forecasting . . . . . . . . . 131--139
Beth L. Chance and
Allan J. Rossman Teacher's Corner: Sequencing Topics in
Introductory Statistics: a Debate on
What to Teach When . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144
W. M. Bolstad and
Lyn A. Hunt and
Judith L. McWhirter Teacher's Corner: Sex, Drugs, and Rock &
Roll Survey in a First-Year Service
Course in Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 145--149
James A. Hanley and
Lawrence Joseph and
Robert W. Platt and
Moo K. Chung and
Patrick Belisle Teacher's Corner: Visualizing the Median
as the Minimum-Deviation Location . . . 150--152
Mai Zhou Teacher's Corner: Understanding the Cox
Regression Models With Time-Change
Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
Andrew G. Glen and
Diane L. Evans and
Lawrence M. Leemis APPL: a Probability Programming Language 156--166
Paul Hyden Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleStatistical Quality Assurance
Methods for Engineers . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Richard J. Cleary Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleQuantitative Investigations in
the Biosciences using MINITAB\TM . . . . 167--168
Jacqueline B. Miller Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleAn Electronic Companion to
Statistics, by G. W. Cobb; J. A. Witmer;
J. D. Cryer; \booktitleAn Electronic
Companion to Biostatistics, by A. A.
Afifi; M. Lee; G. W. Cobb; \booktitleAn
Electronic Companion to Business
Statistics by J. D. Cryer; G. W. Cobb;
J. A. Witmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--169
Joseph Hilbe Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleXploRe: Learning Guide . . . . 169--170
Peter S. Gartside and
Joseph L. Gastwirth and
Boris Freidlin and
W. Fred Webber and
Walter A. Rosenkrantz and
Sander Greenland and
Alan Agresti and
Herman Callaert and
Reinhard Bergmann and
I. J. Good Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 171--174
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
M. Hamada and
H. F. Martz and
C. S. Reese and
A. G. Wilson Statistical Practice: Finding
Near-Optimal Bayesian Experimental
Designs via Genetic Algorithms . . . . . 175--181
Nathaniel Schenker and
Jane F. Gentleman Statistical Practice: On Judging the
Significance of Differences by Examining
the Overlap Between Confidence Intervals 182--186
Russell V. Lenth Statistical Practice: Some Practical
Guidelines for Effective Sample Size
Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--193
Don Dawson and
Lonnie Magee The National Hockey League Entry Draft,
1969--1995: An Application of a Weighted
Pool-Adjacent-Violators Algorithm . . . 194--199
Robert G. Newcombe Logit Confidence Intervals and the
Inverse Sinh Transformation . . . . . . 200--202
Sandy D. Balkin and
Colin L. Mallows An Adjusted, Asymmetric Two-Sample $t$
Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
Glen A. Satten and
Somnath Datta The Kaplan--Meier Estimator as an
Inverse-Probability-of-Censoring
Weighted Average . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--210
Abram Kagan Another Look at the Cramer--Rao
Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Nozer D. Singpurwalla and
Andrew Swift Network Reliability and Borel's Paradox 213--218
Daniel R. Jeske and
Hoang Pham On the Maximum Likelihood Estimates for
the Goel--Okumoto Software Reliability
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
Paul R. Rosenbaum Replicating Effects and Biases . . . . . 223--227
P. Cabilio and
P. J. Farrell Teacher's Corner: a Computer-Based Lab
Supplement to Courses in Introductory
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--232
N. I. Fisher and
P. Switzer Graphical Assessment of Dependence: Is a
Picture Worth 100 Tests? . . . . . . . . 233--239
Graham J. G. Upton A Toroidal Scatter Diagram for Ternary
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--243
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
Multiple Imputation in Practice:
Comparison of Software Packages for
Regression Models With Missing Variables 244--254
Deborah J. Rumsey Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleStatistics and Data Analysis:
From Elementary to Intermediate . . . . 255--255
Margaret Mackisack Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleChance Encounters: a First
Course in Data Analysis and Inference,
by Christopher J. Wild; George A. F.
Seber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleSo Much Data So Little Math:
How to Predict Data Trends, $5$ Easy
Profitable Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 256--257
Jay Devore Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleStat Labs: Mathematical
Statistics Through Applications, by
Deborah Nolan; Terry Speed . . . . . . . 257--258
Patti B. Collings Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleFathom: Dynamic Systems
Software, by William Finzer; Tim
Erickson; Jill Bunker . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Ita G. G. Kreft Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleStatistical Concepts:
Education and Behavioral Sciences (2nd
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Ananda Sen and
W. Jason Owen and
Sunil K. Sapra and
Robert M. Price, Jr. and
Alan Agresti Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 260--261
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
L. Denby and
J. M. Landwehr and
C. L. Mallows Statistical Practice: An Exercise in the
Real World of Design and Analysis . . . 263--271
Thomas A. McCready and
Neil C. Schwertman Statistical Practice: The Statistical
Paleontology of Charles Lyell and the
Coupon Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--278
Lawrence Barker and
Henry Rolka and
Deborah Rolka and
Cedric Brown Statistical Practice: Equivalence
Testing for Binomial Random Variables:
Which Test to Use? . . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
B. M. Cesana and
G. Reina and
E. Marubini Statistical Practice: Sample Size for
Testing a Proportion in Clinical Trials:
a ``Two-Step'' Procedure Combining Power
and Confidence Interval Expected Width 288--292
Richard H. Browne Statistical Practice: Using the Sample
Range as a Basis for Calculating Sample
Size in Power Calculations . . . . . . . 293--298
George Casella and
Michael Lavine and
Christian P. Robert Explaining the Perfect Sampler . . . . . 299--305
Jonathan Shuster Dependence in Simulation: a Case Study
From the Game of Contract Bridge . . . . 306--309
Gary L. Gadbury Randomization Inference and Bias of
Standard Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--313
Li Yang and
Anastasios A. Tsiatis Efficiency Study of Estimators for a
Treatment Effect in a Pretest-Posttest
Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--321
Eric Langford and
Neil Schwertman and
Margaret Owens Is the Property of Being Positively
Correlated Transitive? . . . . . . . . . 322--325
Rob Root and
Trisha Thorme Teacher's Corner: Community-Based
Projects in Applied Statistics: Using
Service-Learning to Enhance Student
Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--331
Sterling C. Hilton and
Scott D. Grimshaw and
Genan T. Anderson Teacher's Corner: Statistics in
Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--336
Michael Henderson and
Mary C. Meyer Teacher's Corner: Exploring the
Confidence Interval for a Binomial
Parameter in a First Course in
Statistical Computing . . . . . . . . . 337--344
Philip Iversen and
Mervyn Marasinghe Teacher's Corner: Dynamic Graphical
Tools for Teaching Experimental Design
and Analysis Concepts . . . . . . . . . 345--351
D. R. Bellhouse The Central Limit Theorem Under Simple
Random Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--357
Enrique Del Castillo and
Suntara Cahya A Tool for Computing Confidence Regions
on the Stationary Point of Response
Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--365
J. G. Liao and
Ori Rosen Fast and Stable Algorithms for Computing
and Sampling From the Noncentral
Hypergeometric Distribution . . . . . . 366--369
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 370--370
Norean Radke Sharpe Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleStatistics for Management and
Economics, Fifth Edition, by Gerald
Keller; Brian Warrack . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleA First Course in the Design
of Experiments: a Linear Models Approach 370
Namwon Hyung Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleElements of Forecasting, 2nd
Edition, by Francis X. Diebold . . . . . 371--372
John Haigh Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleMathematics of Chance . . . . 372--372
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 372--372
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 372--372
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleThe Nothing That Is: a Natural
History of Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleStatistics in Psychology: An
Historical Perspective, Second Edition 372
Terry E. Dielman and
Roger L. Berger and
Jimmy Doi and
Robert G. Lehr and
Rand R. Wilcox and
Paul Vos and
Josef Schmee and
John Wendell Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 373--376
Anonymous 2001 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 378--380
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert L. Winkler and
James E. Smith and
Dennis G. Fryback Statistical Practice: The Role of
Informative Priors in Zero-Numerator
Problems: Being Conservative Versus
Being Candid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Michael P. Fay Measuring a Binary Response's Range of
Influence in Logistic Regression . . . . 5--9
Chris White and
Scott Berry Tiered Polychotomous Regression: Ranking
NFL Quarterbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--21
Kenneth C. Bessant and
Eric D. MacPherson Thoughts on the Origins, Concepts, and
Pedagogy of Statistics as a ``Separate
Discipline'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
Leonard A. Stefanski and
Dennis D. Boos The Calculus of $M$-Estimation . . . . . 29--38
R. L. Eubank and
Suojin Wang The Equivalence Between the Cholesky
Decomposition and the Kalman Filter . . 39--43
André Khuri and
George Casella The Existence of the First Negative
Moment Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
John R. Michael and
William R. Schucany The Mixture Approach for Simulating
Bivariate Distributions With Specified
Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--54
M. P. Wand Vector Differential Calculus in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
Michael P. Fay and
Dean A. Follmann Designing Monte Carlo Implementations of
Permutation or Bootstrap Hypothesis
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Joseph Hilbe Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Micah Altman Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
a Review of JMP 4.03 With Special
Attention to its Numerical Accuracy . . 72--75
Russell V. Lenth Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleStatistics on the Table: The
History of Statistical Concepts and
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Bradley A. Warner Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleBasic Engineering Data
Collection and Analysis, by Stephen B.
Vardeman; J. Marcus Jobe . . . . . . . . 76--77
Mohsen Pourahmadi Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleA Course in Time Series
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Pamela A. Ohman Strickland Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleSPSS for Windows: An
Introduction to Use and Interpretation
in Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Kevin D. Rees Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials:
\booktitleWorkshop Statistics: Discovery
With Data, A Bayesian Approach . . . . . 77--78
Susan E. Hodge and
Jian Huang and
Paul Vos and
Knut M. Wittkowski and
Melanie M. Wall Wall, M. M., Boen, J., and Tweedie, R.
(2001), ``An Effective Confidence
Interval for the Mean with Samples of
Size One and Two,'' The American
Statistician, \bf 55, 102-105. Comments
by Hodge and Huang, Vos, and Wittkowski
and Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Alan M. Zaslavsky and
David A. van Dyk Chen, Z., and Kuo, L. (2001), ``A Note
on the Estimation of the Multinomial
Logit Model with Random Effects,'' The
American Statistician, \bf 55, 89--95:
Comment by Zaslavsky and van Dyk . . . . 80--81
John J. Bartko Schenker, N., and Gentleman, J. F.
(2001), ``On Judging the Significance of
Differences by Examining the Overlap
between Confidence Intervals,'' The
American Statistician, \bf 55, 182-186:
Comment by Bartko . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Douglas W. Levine Hanley, J. A., Joseph, L., Platt, R. W.,
Chung, M. K., and Bélisle, P. (2001),
``Visualizing the Median as the
Minimum-Deviation Location,'' The
American Statistician, \bf 55, 150-152:
Comment by Levine . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Lynn Friedman Shieh, G. (2001), ``The Inequality
between the Coefficient of Determination
and the Sum of Squared Simple
Correlation Coefficients,'' The American
Statistician, \bf 55, 121-124: Comment
by Friedman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Lynne Stokes Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Lawrence Barker A Comparison of Nine Confidence
Intervals for a Poisson Parameter When
the Expected Number of Events is $5$ . . 85
J. René van Dorp and
Samuel Kotz The Standard Two-Sided Power
Distribution and its Properties: With
Applications in Financial Engineering 90
Malay Ghosh and
Bimal K. Sinha A Simple Derivation of the Wishart
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Tapan K. Nayak Rao--Cramer Type Inequalities for Mean
Squared Error of Prediction . . . . . . 102
Thomas E. Love and
David K. Hildebrand Statistics Education and the Making
Statistics More Effective in Schools of
Business Conferences . . . . . . . . . . 107
Thomas E. Bradstreet and
Milton N. Parnes Illustrating the Neyman--Pearson Lemma
With a Stopping Rule of Order $k$ . . . 113
Andrew Gelman and
Cristian Pasarica and
Rahul Dodhia Let's Practice What We Preach: Turning
Tables into Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Richard M. Heiberger and
Paulo Teles Displays for Direct Comparison of ARIMA
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Robert F. Bordley Representing Trees Using Microsoft
Doughnut Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 148
Michael R. Chernick and
Christine Y. Liu The Saw-Toothed Behavior of Power Versus
Sample Size and Software Solutions:
Single Binomial Proportion Using Exact
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 156
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 159
Elizabeth N. King and
Thomas P. Ryan A Preliminary Investigation of Maximum
Likelihood Logistic Regression versus
Exact Logistic Regression . . . . . . . 163
Wei Pan A Note on the Use of Marginal Likelihood
and Conditional Likelihood in Analyzing
Clustered Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Roger D. Peng and
Nicolas W. Hengartner Quantitative Analysis of Literary Styles 175
B. K. Ghosh Probability Inequalities Related to
Markov's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Chiara Sabatti Measuring Dependency With Volume Tests 191
Sandip Sinharay and
Hal S. Stern On the Sensitivity of Bayes Factors to
the Prior Distributions . . . . . . . . 196
Bhaskar Bhattacharya and
Desale Habtzghi Median of the $p$ Value Under the
Alternative Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . 202
M. J. Bayarri and
A. M. Mayoral Bayesian Design of ``Successful''
Replications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Jessica Thomson Hypothesis Testing About Proportions in
Two Finite Populations . . . . . . . . . 215
Mark F. Schilling and
Ann E. Watkins and
William Watkins Is Human Height Bimodal? . . . . . . . . 223
William M. Duckworth and
W. Robert Stephenson Beyond Traditional Statistical Methods 230
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 234
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Statistical Software
Packages for Categorical Data Analysis
Using Exact Methods . . . . . . . . . . 235
Jay Devore Book Review: \booktitleA First Course in
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Stergios B. Fotopoulos Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Probability Models . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Ginger Holmes Rowell Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Psychologists: An Intermediate Course 248
Calvin Williams Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Multivariate Data Analysis (2nd Edition) 248
Ulric J. Lund Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Statistical Concepts Using S-Plus . . . 249
John H. Walker Book Review: \booktitleContemporary
Business Statistics with Microsoft Excel 250
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Nonparametric Statistical Methods, 3rd
Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 252
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Lynne Stokes and
James H. Albert Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Iain Pardoe and
R. Dennis Cook A Graphical Method for Assessing the Fit
of a Logistic Regression Model . . . . . 263
Elena A. Erosheva and
Patricia D. Kroboth and
Joel B. Greenhouse Characterizing the Diurnal Rhythm of
DHEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Jeremy Aldworth and
Wherly P. Hoffman Split-Plot Model With Covariate: a
Cautionary Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Gerald J. Hahn Deming and the Proactive Statistician 290
Maya Bar-Hillel and
Yigal Attali Seek Whence: Answer Sequences and Their
Consequences in Key-Balanced
Multiple-Choice Tests . . . . . . . . . 299
M. C. Jones On Khintchine's Theorem and its Place in
Random Variate Generation . . . . . . . 304
Andrew Gelman and
Deborah Nolan You Can Load a Die, But You Can't Bias a
Coin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
James E. Brady and
Theodore T. Allen Case Study Based Instruction of DOE and
SPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Michael Friendly Corrgrams: Exploratory Displays for
Correlation Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 316
Joseph Hilbe Statistical Computing Software Reviews:
Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 325
Joseph M. Hilbe XPro 5.1: Exact Procedures for
Parametric Statistical Inference . . . . 326
James H. Albert Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling,
and Mathematical Modeling to Win . . . . 329
C. M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Jessica Utts Book Review: \booktitleNews and Numbers:
A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims
and Controversies in Health and Related
Fields, (2nd Ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Robert D. Abbott Book Review: \booktitleStatistics at
Square Two: Understanding Modern
Statistical Applications in Medicine . . 331
Arthur Cohen Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Probability Theory and Mathematical
Statistics, (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . 331
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected
Topics (vol. 1, 2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . 332
Robert Lund Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Processes. An Introduction . . . . . . . 332
Elayne Reiss and
Lorrie L. Hoffman Book Review: \booktitleThe Elements of
Statistics: With Applications to
Economics and the Social Sciences . . . 333
Boxin Tang Book Review: \booktitleExperimental
Design With Applications in Management,
Engineering, and the Sciences . . . . . 333
Ghanshyam Gupta Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Statistical Analyses using SAS, 2nd ed 334
Marjorie E. Bond Book Review: \booktitleTeach/Me Data
Analysis CD: Single User Edition . . . . 335
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 337
Kirk Wolter and
Diana Jergovic and
Whitney Moore and
Joe Murphy and
Colm O'Muircheartaigh Reliability of the Uncertified Ballots
in the 2000 Presidential Election in
Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
John Lawson One-Step Screening and Process
Optimization Experiments . . . . . . . . 15
Stephen B. Vardeman and
Max D. Morris Statistics and Ethics: Some Advice for
Young Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . 21
Ronald Christensen Significantly Insignificant $F$ Tests 27
Rongrong Xie and
Paul I. Nelson Separation Among Distributions Related
by Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . 33
James H. Albert College Students' Conceptions of
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jürgen Symanzik and
Natascha Vukasinovic Teaching Experiences With a Course on
``Web-Based Statistics'' . . . . . . . . 46
Jeffrey D. Blume and
Richard M. Royall Illustrating the Law of Large Numbers
(and Confidence Intervals) . . . . . . . 51
Henry S. Lynn Suppression and Confounding in Action 58
Daniel R. Jeske and
Ashwin Sampath A Real Example That Illustrates
Interesting Properties of Bootstrap Bias
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \booktitleStatistics with
Confidence (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . 66
Shaun S. Wulff Book Review: \booktitleA First Course in
Design and Analysis of Experiments . . . 66
X. Joan Hu Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
Linear Models: With Applications in
Engineering and the Sciences . . . . . . 67
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Linear Regression Analysis (3rd ed.) . . 67
Richard Gonzalez Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Multivariate Statistics for the Social
Sciences (4th ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 68
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleRisk-Benefit
Analysis (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 69
George Terrell Book Review: \booktitleAll the
Mathematics You Missed [But Need to Know
for Graduate School] . . . . . . . . . . 69
Robert Gentleman Book Review: \booktitleResampling
Methods: A Practical Guide to Data
Analysis (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 71
Jessica Utts Special Section on Statistical Literacy:
How You Can Help . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Jessica Utts What Educated Citizens Should Know About
Statistics and Probability . . . . . . . 74
Iddo Gal Teaching for Statistical Literacy and
Services of Statistics Agencies . . . . 80
Philip J. Boland Promoting Statistical Thinking Among
Secondary School Students in the
National Context . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Eric R. Sowey The Getting of Wisdom: Educating
Statisticians to Enhance Their Clients'
Numeracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
James H. Albert A New Column in \booktitleThe American
Statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Fritz Scheuren Looking Back So We Can Look Forward . . 94
Peter C. Austin and
Lawrence J. Brunner Type I Error Inflation in the Presence
of a Ceiling Effect . . . . . . . . . . 97
Lewis H. Shoemaker Fixing the $F$ Test for Equal Variances 105
Vasilis Theoharakis and
Mary Skordia How Do Statisticians Perceive Statistics
Journals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
David J. Hand and
Veronica Vinciotti Local Versus Global Models for
Classification Problems: Fitting Models
Where it Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Paul R. Rosenbaum Exact Confidence Intervals for
Nonconstant Effects by Inverting the
Signed Rank Test . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Yosef Rinott and
Michael Tam Monotone Regrouping, Regression, and
Simpson's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Rules
of Thumb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \booktitleThe Practice of
Statistics: Putting the Pieces Together 142
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \booktitleThe First
Measured Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Paul Roback Book Review: \booktitleWeighing the
Odds: A Course in Probability and
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Johannes Ledolter Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Sleuth (2nd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Judith Manola Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Statistical Analyses using S-Plus (2nd
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 147
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
James H. Albert Editor's Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Havi Murad and
Anat Fleischman and
Siegal Sadetzki and
Orna Geyer and
Laurence S. Freedman Small Samples and Ordered Logistic
Regression: Does it Help to Collapse
Categories of Outcome? . . . . . . . . . 155
J. G. Liao and
Dan McGee Adjusted Coefficients of Determination
for Logistic Regression . . . . . . . . 161
Robert A. Parker and
Nancy G. Berman Sample Size: More Than Calculations . . 166
Raymond Hubbard and
M. J. Bayarri Confusion Over Measures of Evidence
($p$'s) Versus Errors ($ \alpha $'s) in
Classical Statistical Testing . . . . . 171
Kenneth N. Berk Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Matthew A. Carlton Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Clifford Spiegelman and
Eun Sug Ark Nearly Nonparametric Multivariate
Density Estimates That Incorporate
Marginal Parametric Density Information 183
Anonymous Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Amanda Wachsmuth and
Leland Wilkinson and
Gerard E. Dallal Galton's Bend: a Previously Undiscovered
Nonlinearity in Galton's Family Stature
Regression Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Xiuhong Li and
Jennifer M. Buechner and
Patrick M. Tarwater and
Alvaro Muñoz A Diamond-Shaped Equiponderant Graphical
Display of the Effects of Two
Categorical Predictors on Continuous
Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 200
Robert A. Oster An Examination of Statistical Software
Packages for Categorical Data Analysis
Using Exact Methods --- Part II . . . . 201
Herman Callaert Comparing Statistical Software Packages:
The Case of the Logrank Test in StatXact 214
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book review: \booktitleThe A to Z of
Mathematics: A Basic Guide . . . . . . . 218
Richard J. Cleary Book Reviews: \booktitleDuelling Idiots
and Other Probability Puzzlers and
\booktitleWhat are the Chances? Voodoo
Deaths and Office Gossip and Other
Adventures in Probability . . . . . . . 218
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \booktitleProblems in
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Stephen J. Miller Book Reviews: \booktitleBasic Statistics
and Data Analysis (with InfoTrac and
CD-ROM) (1st ed.),
\booktitleIntroduction to Probability
and Statistics (11th ed.) and
\booktitleJust the Essentials of
Elementary Statistics (3rd ed.) . . . . 219
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 221
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Nicholas J. Horton and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael Parzen A Potential for Bias When Rounding in
Multiple Imputation . . . . . . . . . . 229
Douglas G. Bonett and
Edith Seier Confidence Intervals for Mean Absolute
Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Daniel Y. T. Fong and
C. W. Kwan and
K. F. Lam and
Karen S. L. Lam Use of the Sign Test for the Median in
the Presence of Ties . . . . . . . . . . 237
David Mease A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Approach
for the Ranking of College Football
Teams Independent of Victory Margins . . 241
A. S. Hedayat and
Bikas K. Sinha On a Sampling Design for Estimation of
Negligible Accident Rates Involving
Electronic Toys . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
David B. Hitchcock A History of the Metropolis--Hastings
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--257
Peter K. Dunn What Happens When a $ 1 \times 1 \times
r $ Die is Rolled? . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Timothy E. O'Brien and
Gerald M. Funk A Gentle Introduction to Optimal Design
for Regression Models . . . . . . . . . 265
Nicholas J. Barrowman and
Ransom A. Myers Raindrop Plots: a New Way to Display
Collections of Likelihoods and
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Christian Genest and
Jean-Claude Boies Detecting Dependence With Kendall Plots 275
Martin L. Hazelton A Graphical Tool for Assessing Normality 285
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 289
Dominique Haughton and
Joel Deichmann and
Abdolreza Eshghi and
Selin Sayek and
Nicholas Teebagy and
Heikki Topi A Review of Software Packages for Data
Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Current SPSS Products: SPSS
12, SigmaPlot 8.02, SigmaStat 3.0, Part
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: \booktitleAn R and S-PLUS
Companion to Applied Regression . . . . 316
Brian Jersky Book Review: \booktitleHyperstat (2nd
ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Marcus M. Alley Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Agricultural and Experimental
Biology (3rd ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 319
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 319
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
James H. Albert and
James E. Gentle Special Section: Teaching Computational
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
James E. Gentle Courses in Statistical Computing and
Computational Statistics . . . . . . . . 2
John Monahan Teaching Statistical Computing at North
Carolina State University . . . . . . . 6
Kenneth Lange Computational Statistics and
Optimization Theory at UCLA . . . . . . 9
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
C. Chandra Sekar and
W. Edwards Deming On a Method of Estimating Birth and
Death Rates and the Extent of
Registration (Excerpt) . . . . . . . . . 13
Xu Guo and
Bradley P. Carlin Separate and Joint Modeling of
Longitudinal and Event Time Data Using
Standard Computer Packages . . . . . . . 16
James F. Troendle and
Edward L. Korn and
Lisa M. McShane An Example of Slow Convergence of the
Bootstrap in High Dimensions . . . . . . 25
David R. Hunter and
Kenneth Lange A Tutorial on MM Algorithms . . . . . . 30
Reid Dorsey-Palmateer and
Gary Smith Bowlers' Hot Hands . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Samuel S. Wu and
Mark C. K. Yang Evaluation of the Current Decision Rule
in Figure Skating and Possible
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Justin L. Tobias Assessing Assessments of School
Performance: The Case of California . . 55
Ricardo J. Rodriguez First Significant Digit Patterns From
Mixtures of Uniform Distributions . . . 64--71
Daniel Gervini and
Valentin Rousson Criteria for Evaluating
Dimension-Reducing Components for
Multivariate Data . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Donna F. Stroup and
Richard A. Goodman and
Ralph Cordell and
Richard Scheaffer Teaching Statistical Principles Using
Epidemiology: Measuring the Health of
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Joseph Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 85
Elaine T. McDonald Intro Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Stephen J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleFifty Fathoms:
Statistics Demonstrations for Deeper
Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Stephen J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleCAST
(Computer-Assisted Statistics Teaching) 87
Samantha C. Bates Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Statistics with R . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: \booktitleSAS for Linear
Models (4th ed.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Mary Kathryn Cowles Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Computing: An Introduction to Data
Analysis using SPlus . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 90
James H. Albert and
Joseph M. Hilbe and
Russell V. Lenth Editor's Report for \booktitleThe
American Statistician, Volume 57 (2003) 91--92
Joseph M. Hilbe Statistical Computing Software Reviews 92--92
Russell V. Lenth Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Michael Hamada and
Randy Sitter Statistical Research: Some Advice for
Beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--101
Daniel Barry and
Philip J. Boland Debating the Use of Statistical Evidence
in Allegations of Age Discrimination . . 102--109
R. Dennis Cook and
Sanford Weisberg Partial One-Dimensional Regression
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--116
Howard Wainer and
Lisa M. Brown Two Statistical Paradoxes in the
Interpretation of Group Differences:
Illustrated with Medical School
Admission and Licensing Data . . . . . . 117--123
Weiwen Miao and
Joseph L. Gastwirth The Effect of Dependence on Confidence
Intervals for a Population Proportion 124--130
Peter C. Austin and
Jack V. Tu Bootstrap Methods for Developing
Predictive Models . . . . . . . . . . . 131--137
Holger Dette and
Timothy E. O'Brien Efficient Experimental Design for the
Behrens--Fisher Problem With Application
to Bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Sharon L. Lohr Statistical Frontiers in Survey Sampling 145--149
Dimitris Hatzinikolaou and
Kosmas Ferentinos On the Role of Semielasticity in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Hwan Chung and
Eric Loken and
Joseph L. Schafer Difficulties in Drawing Inferences with
Finite-Mixture Models: a Simple Example
with a Simple Solution . . . . . . . . . 152--158
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Paul T. von Hippel Biases in SPSS 12.0 Missing Value
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--164
Willard C. Losinger A Review of the GUM Workbench . . . . . 165--167
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of SPSS 12.01, Part 2 . . . . . 168--171
Amy K. Ferketich Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Biostatistics for the Health Sciences:
Modern Applications Including Bootstrap,
by Michael R. Chernick; Robert H. Friis 172--172
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleRegression and
ANOVA: An Integrated Approach Using SAS
Software, by Keith E. Muller; Bethel A.
Fetterman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Book Review: \booktitle101 Special
Practice Problems in Probability and
Statistics, by Paul D. Berger; Samuel C.
Hanna; Robert E. Maurer . . . . . . . . 173--173
Carolyn Pillers Dobler 101 Special Practice Problems in
Probability and Statistics . . . . . . . 173--173
Robert B. Lund Book Review: \booktitleElementary
Probability Theory with Stochastic
Processes and an Introduction to
Mathematical Finance, by Kai Lai Chung;
Farid Aitsahlia . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Montserrat Rue Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical
Data, by Robert F. Woolson; William R.
Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Diamonds, by Ross Honsberger . . . . . . 175--175
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitleEnvironmental
Mathematics in the Classroom, by B. A.
Fusaro; P. C. Kenschaft . . . . . . . . 175--175
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitleInternational
Mathematical Olympiads 1986--1999, by
Marcin E. Kuczma; Mathematical Olympiads
2003--2001: Problems and Solutions From
Around the World by Titu Andreescu;
Zuming Feng; George Lee, Jr. . . . . . . 175--175
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitleCommon
Statistical Methods for Clinical
Research with SAS Examples, by Glenn A.
Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitleNonparametric
Statistical Inference, by Jean Dickinson
Gibbons; Subhabrata Chakraborti . . . . 175--175
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitleElementary
Probability, by David Strizaker . . . . 175--175
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 175--175
David Rothman and
David Mease Mease, D. (2003), ``A Penalized Maximum
Likelihood Approach for the Ranking of
College Football Teams Independent of
Victory Margins,'' ``The American
Statistician, \bf 57, 241--248: Comment
by Rothman and Reply . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 176--177
M. C. Jones and
Martin L. Hazelton Hazelton, M. L. (2003), ``A Graphical
Tool for Assessing Normality,'' The
American Statistician,`` \bf 57,
285--288: Comment by Jones and Reply . . 176--177
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Douglas G. Bonett Corrections: Confidence Intervals for
Mean Absolute Deviations . . . . . . . . 178--178
Martin L. Hazelton Corrections: a Graphical Tool for
Assessing Normality . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Russell V. Lenth Corrections: CAST (Computer-Assisted
Statistics Teaching) . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Donna L. Stroup Corrections: Teaching Statistical
Principles Using Epidemiology: Measuring
the Health of Populations . . . . . . . 178--178
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Hal S. Stern and
Kenneth Massey and
David A. Harville and
Richard Billingsley and
Wes Colley and
David Mease Statistics and the College Football
Championship [with Discussions, with
Reply] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--185
Kenneth Massey Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 185--187
David A. Harville Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 187--189
Richard Billingsley Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Wes Colleys Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 191--192
David Mease Discussion: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Anonymous Reply: Statistics and the College
Football Championship . . . . . . . . . 194--195
Donald B. Rubin On Advice for Beginners in Statistical
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Alan E. Gelfand Discussion of ``Statistical Research:
Some Advice for Beginners'' by M. Hamada
and R. Sitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Elizabeth Thompson The Importance of ``Why?'' . . . . . . . 198--198
Deepak B. Khatry Statistical Contributions in
Biotechnology and Nonclinical
Drug-Discovery Research . . . . . . . . 199--199
Willard C. Losinger How to do Statistical Research . . . . . 200--200
Elizabeth A. Stasny and
Michael Hamada and
Randy Sitter Some Random Thoughts on Doing Research
[with Response] . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--202
Michael Hamada and
Randy Sitter Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Patrick J. Cantwell and
Howard Hogan and
Kathleen M. Styles The Use of Statistical Methods in the
U.S. Census: ``Utah v. Evans'' . . . . . 203--212
Neil H. Timm Estimating Effect Sizes in Exploratory
Experimental Studies When Using a Linear
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--217
Scott Menard Six Approaches to Calculating
Standardized Logistic Regression
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--223
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Gábor J. Székely and
Donald St. P. Richards The St. Petersburg Paradox and the Crash
of High-Tech Stocks in 2000 . . . . . . 225--231
Michael J. Rovine and
Douglas R. Anderson Peirce and Bowditch: An American
Contribution to Correlation and
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--236
James A. Hanley ``Transmuting'' Women into Men: Galton's
Family Data on Human Stature . . . . . . 237--243
Robert G. Easterling Teaching Experimental Design . . . . . . 244--252
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Jamie D. Mills and
Elisa L. Johnson An Evaluation of ActivStats for SPSS for
Teaching and Learning . . . . . . . . . 254--258
Kristin A. Duncan Book Review: \booktitleGrade Inflation:
A Crisis in College Education, by Valen
E. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Stephen J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Action: Understanding a World of Data,
by Anne E. Watkins; Richard L.
Schaeffer; George W. Cobb . . . . . . . 259--260
Grace Chan Book Review: \booktitleSAS Programming:
The One-Day Course, by Neil H. Spencer 260--260
Robert Lund Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Processes and Their Applications, by
Frank E. Beichelt; L. Paul Fatti . . . . 261--261
Robert Lund Stochastic Processes and Their
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Russell V. Lenth Book Review: \booktitleStep-by-Step
Basic Statistics Using SAS: Student
Guide, by Larry Hatcher; Step-by-Step
Basic Statistics Using SAS: Exercises by
Larry Hatcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous Applied Statistics: Analysis of Variance
and Regression by Ruth M. Mickey; Olive
Jean Dunn; Virginia A. Clark . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous Designing Experiments and Analyzing
Data: a Model Comparison Perspective by
Scott E. Maxwell; Harold D. Delaney . . 262--262
Anonymous Math through the Ages: a Gentle History
for Teachers and Others by William P.
Berlinghoff; Fernando Q. Gouvêa; Sherlock
Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of
Mathematical History by Marlow Anderson;
Victor Katz; Robin Wilson . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 262--263
Anonymous Writing Projects for Mathematics
Courses: Crashed Clowns, Cars, and
Coffee to Go by Annalisa Crannell; Gavin
Larose; Thomas Ratliff; Elyn Rykken . . 262--263
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard L. Scheaffer and
Elizabeth A. Stasny The State of Undergraduate Education in
Statistics: a Report from the CBMS 2000 265--271
Marshall M. Joffe and
Thomas R. Ten Have and
Harold I. Feldman and
Stephen E. Kimmel Model Selection, Confounder Control, and
Marginal Structural Models: Review and
New Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--279
H. Dean Johnson and
Dennis A. Warner Factors Relating to the Degree to Which
Statistical Consulting Clients Deem
Their Consulting Experiences to be a
Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--289
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Morris H. Hansen and
William N. Hurwitz The Problem of Nonresponse in Sample
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--294
Leslie Kish and
Irene Hess A ``Replacement'' Procedure for Reducing
the Bias of Nonresponse . . . . . . . . 295--297
Donald B. Rubin The Design of a General and Flexible
System for Handling Nonresponse in
Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--302
Michele Dipietro Bayesian Randomized Response as a Class
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--309
Lynn A. Fisher and
Donald St. P. Richards Random Walks as Motivational Material in
Introductory Statistics and Probability
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--316
Iain Pardoe Multidimensional Scaling for Selecting
Small Groups in College Courses . . . . 317--321
Daniel R. Jeske and
Todd Blessinger Tunable Approximations for the Mean and
Variance of the Maximum of Heterogeneous
Geometrically Distributed Random
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 328--329
Mary Kathryn Cowles Review of WinBUGS 1.4 . . . . . . . . . 330--336
Patrick J. Kelly A Review of Software Packages for
Analyzing Correlated Survival Data . . . 337--342
Nicholas J. Horton and
Elizabeth R. Brown and
Linjuan Qian Use of R as a Toolbox for Mathematical
Statistics Exploration . . . . . . . . . 343--357
Richard J. Cleary Book Review: \booktitleTeaching
Statistics Using Baseball, by Jim Albert 358--358
Richard J. C. Leary Teaching Statistics Using Baseball. Jim
Albert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleCommon Errors in
Statistics (and How to Avoid Them), by
Phillip I. Good; James W. Hardin . . . . 359--359
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Common Errors in Statistics (and How to
Avoid Them) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Judith Schwartzbaum Book Review: \booktitleActivEpi 1.1 (2nd
ed.), by David G. Kleinbaum; ActivEpi
Companion Textbook: A Supplement for Use
with the ActivEpi CD-ROM by David G.
Kleinbaum; Kevin M. Sullivan; Nancy D.
Barker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
D. Glass Book Review: \booktitleProofs That
Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial
Proof, by Arthur T. Benjamin; Jennifer
J. Quinn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
Clyde H. Schoolfield, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Stochastic Modeling, by K. Borovkov . . 360--361
Lawrence M. Lesser Wainer, H., and Brown, L. M. (2004),
``Two Statistical Paradoxes in the
Interpretation of Group Differences:
Illustrated with Medical School
Admission and Licensing Data,'' The
American Statistician, \bf 58, 117--123:
Comment by Lesser . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 362--363
W. Fred Webber and
Hwan Chung and
Eric Loken and
Joseph L. Schafer Chung, H., Loken, E., and Schafer, J. L.
(2004), ``Difficulties in Drawing
Inferences with Finite-Mixture Models: A
Simple Example with a Simple Solution,''
``The American Statistician'', \bf 58,
152--158: Comment by Webber and Reply 362--363
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Scott Menard Correction: Six Approaches to
Calculating Standardized Logistic
Regression Coefficients . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous 2004 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 365--368
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David S. Moore Preparing Graduate Students to Teach
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Andrew Gelman A Course on Teaching Statistics at the
University Level . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Amy G. Froelich and
William M. Duckworth and
W. Robert Stephenson Training Statistics Teachers at Iowa
State University . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
W. L. Harkness and
J. L. Rosenberger Training Graduate Students at Penn State
University in Teaching Statistics . . . 11--13
Jeffrey B. Birch and
J. P. Morgan TA Training at Virginia Tech . . . . . . 14--18
Javier Girón and
Josep Ginebra and
Alex Riba Bayesian Analysis of a Multinomial
Sequence and Homogeneity of Literary
Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
Martin A. Koschat A Case for Simple Tables . . . . . . . . 31--40
Stefan Niermann Optimizing the Ordering of Tables With
Evolutionary Computation . . . . . . . . 41--46
Richard N. McGrath and
Arthur B. Yeh A Quick, Compact, Two-Sample Dispersion
Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53
Abram Kagan and
Lawrence A. Shepp A Sufficiency Paradox . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
Allyn A. Young National Statistics in War and Peace . . 58--61
Carl Snyder The Problem of Prosperity . . . . . . . 62--67
Helen M. Walker The Role of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Mirjam Moerbeek Randomization of Clusters Versus
Randomization of Persons Within Clusters 72--78
Lurdes Y. T. Inoue and
Donald A. Berry and
Giovanni Parmigiani Relationship Between Bayesian and
Frequentist Sample Size Determination 79--87
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Angelique Davi and
Dominique Haughton and
Nada Nasr and
Gaurav Shah and
Maria Skaletsky and
Ruth Spack A Review of Two Text-Mining Packages . . 89--103
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Systat 11 . . . . . . . . . 104--110
Joseph M. Hilbe Review of SigmaPlot 9.0 . . . . . . . . 111--112
John. Hansen Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh:
Analyzing and Understanding Data . . . . 113--113
Daniel L. McGee An Introduction to Survival Analysis
Using Stata (rev.) . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Russell V. Lenth Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 114--115
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 116--118
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Ronald Christensen Testing Fisher, Neyman, Pearson, and
Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--126
Lynn Friedman and
Melanie Wall Graphical Views of Suppression and
Multicollinearity in Multiple Linear
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
Paul W. Vos and
Suzanne Hudson Evaluation Criteria for Discrete
Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 137--142
Luc Duchateau and
Paul Janssen Understanding Heterogeneity in
Generalized Mixed and Frailty Models . . 143--146
Paul R. Rosenbaum Heterogeneity and Causality . . . . . . 147--152
Andrew R. Solow and
Woollcott Smith How Surprising is a New Record? . . . . 153--155
Jen\Ho Reiczigel and
Ildikó Zakariás and
Lajos Rózsa A Bootstrap Test of Stochastic Equality
of Two Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 156--161
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
John Ludbrook R. A. Fisher's Life and Death in
Australia, 1959--1962 . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Brian Bull Exemplar Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 166--172
Mirjam Moerbeek Randomization of Clusters Versus
Randomization of Persons Within Clusters 173--179
Matthew A. Carlton and
William D. Stansfield Making Babies by the Flip of a Coin? . . 180--182
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of SPSS, Part 3 . . . . . . . . 185--186
Joseph M. Hilbe SigmaStat 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--191
Klaus Langohr and
Guadalupe Gómez Likelihood Maximization Using Web-Based
Optimization Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 192--202
James J. Cochran The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong
Fascination with Statistics . . . . . . 203--203
Peter F. Craigmile All of Statistics: a Concise Course in
Statistical Inference . . . . . . . . . 203--204
James H. Albert Editor's Report for \booktitleThe
American Statistician, Volume 58 (2004) 205--206
Jesse Frey A Ranking Method Based on Minimizing the
Number of In-Sample Errors . . . . . . . 207--216
Ian R. Harris and
Brent D. Burch Measuring Relative Importance of Sources
of Variation Without Using Variance . . 217--222
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Ian Spence and
Howard Wainer William Playfair and His Graphical
Inventions: An Excerpt From the
Introduction to the Republication of His
Atlas and Statistical Breviary . . . . . 224--229
G. A. McIntyre A Method for Unbiased Selective
Sampling, Using Ranked Sets . . . . . . 230--232
Susan Belden Discussion: Moving Beyond the St.
Petersburg Paradox to Understand Growth
Stock Valuation . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Gabor J. Székely and
Donald St. P. Richards Response: Remain Steadfast With the St.
Petersburg Paradox to Quantify
Irrational Exuberance . . . . . . . . . 235--239
Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns and
Gaea Leinhardt and
Javier Corredor Six Online Statistics Courses:
Examination and Review . . . . . . . . . 240--251
Mithat Gönen and
Wesley O. Johnson and
Yonggang Lu and
Peter H. Westfall The Bayesian Two-Sample $t$ Test . . . . 252--257
Jeff T. Terpstra Some Illustrative Classroom Examples
Regarding Sums of Discrete Random
Variables With Finite Support . . . . . 258--265
James J. Cochran Can You Really Learn Basic Probability
by Playing a Sports Board Game? . . . . 266--272
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleThe Chicago Guide
to Writing About Numbers . . . . . . . . 274--274
Christine M. Anderson-Cook More Damned Lies and Statistics: How
Numbers Confuse Public Issues and
Chance: a Guide to Gambling, Love, the
Stock Market, & Just About Everything
Else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Richard J. Cleary Teaching Statistics: a Bag of Tricks . . 275--275
Samantha C. Bates Prins Statistical Analysis and Data Display:
An Intermediate Course with Examples in
S-Plus, R, and SAS . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Samantha C. Bates Prins Linear Models with R . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Dave H. Annis Probability and Statistics: The Science
of Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 278--278
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
James H. Albert Editor's Report for \booktitleThe
American Statistician, Volume 59 (2005) 281--281
Peter J. Danaher and
Bruce G. S. Hardie Bacon With Your Eggs? Applications of a
New Bivariate Beta-Binomial Distribution 282--286
Steve Verrill and
Mark Durst The Decline and Fall of Type II Error
Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
Hans-Peter Piepho and
Katharina Emrich Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
Two Estimable Functions and Their Ratio
Under a Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . 292--300
Steven M. Snapinn and
Qi Jiang and
Boris Iglewicz Illustrating the Impact of a
Time-Varying Covariate With an Extended
Kaplan--Meier Estimator . . . . . . . . 301--307
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
Herbert A. David Tables Related to the Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--311
Joan Fisher Box A Reminiscence of R. A. Fisher . . . . . 312--314
Fritz Scheuren Multiple Imputation . . . . . . . . . . 315--319
David H. Annis Rethinking the Paper Helicopter . . . . 320--326
David R. Hunter Teaching Computing in Statistical Theory
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--333
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 334--334
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Stata 9.0 . . . . . . . . . 335--348
Richard J. Cleary Gauss: Titan of Science and Karl
Pearson: The Scientific Life in a
Statistical Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
Izabela E. Annis PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS 350--350
E. David Ford A Primer of Ecological Statistics . . . 350--350
Alexandra Dias Statistical Analysis of Financial Data
in S-Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Jeffrey Rosoff and
Carolyn Pillers Dobler Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 352--352
Raymond. Hubbard and
M. J. Bayarri Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Anonymous 2005 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 355--358
Peter Westfall Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Brian J. Reich and
James S. Hodges and
Bradley P. Carlin and
Adam M. Reich A Spatial Analysis of Basketball Shot
Chart Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
Gary A. Simon and
Jeffrey S. Simonoff ``Last Licks'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
Matthew J. Gurka Selecting the Best Linear Mixed Model
Under REML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--26
Donald A. Berry and
Gregory D. Ayers Symmetrized Percent Change for Treatment
Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
Fritz Scheuren Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
W. Edwards Deming On Errors in Surveys (An Excerpt) . . . 34--38
S. S. Wilks Undergraduate Statistical Education . . 39--45
Herbert A. David and
Donald F. Morrison Samuel Stanley Wilks (1906--1964) . . . 46--49
John F. Monahan Professor C. R. Mudgeon and the
``Order,'' or Writing Regression
Questions So That Students Do Not Need a
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
Dean P. Foster and
Robert A. Stine Being Warren Buffett . . . . . . . . . . 53--60
James A. Hanley and
Dana Teltsch The PDF of a Function of a Random
Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67
Jonathan J. Shuster Using a Two-Player Coin Game Paradox in
the Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70
Nitis Mukhopadhyay MVUE for the Mean With One Observation 71--74
Enrique R. Villa and
Luis A. Escobar Using Moment Generating Functions to
Derive Mixture Distributions . . . . . . 75--80
Philip L. H. Yu and
Jennifer S. K. Chan and
Wing K. Fung Statistical Exploration from SARS . . . 81--91
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 92--92
James W. Hardin and
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of Scientific WorkPlace 5.5 . . 93--96
David H. Annis Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters: How
Statistics Can Level the Playing Field
and Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers:
Adjusted Batting Performance from
Strikeouts to Home Runs . . . . . . . . 97--97
Mark Schilling Understanding Probability: Chance Rules
in Everyday Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Mary Kathryn Cowles Probability and Statistics for Computer
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Deborah J. Rumsey Introduction to Bayesian Statistics . . 98--99
Christine M. Anderson-Cook The Challenge of Developing Statistical
Literacy, Reasoning and Thinking . . . . 99--99
Richard J. Cleary Innovations in Teaching Statistics and
Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An
Urgent Challenge for Higher Education 99--100
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 101--103
Ronald L. Iman and
Mark E. Johnson and
Charles C. Watson, Jr. Statistical Aspects of Forecasting and
Planning for Hurricanes . . . . . . . . 105--121
Fulvio De Santis Power Priors and Their Use in Clinical
Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--129
Christina M. Gullion and
Nancy Berman What Statistical Consultants Do . . . . 130--138
Brian Caffo and
Michael Griswold A User-Friendly Introduction to
Link-Probit-Normal Models . . . . . . . 139--145
Andrew Gelman The Boxer, the Wrestler, and the Coin
Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--150
David H. Annis and
Samuel S. Wu A Comparison of Potential Playoff
Systems for NCAA I-A Football . . . . . 151--157
Eric Loken and
Michael J. Rovine Peirce's 19th Century Mixture Model
Approach to Rater Agreement . . . . . . 158--161
H. A. David The Introduction of Matrix Algebra into
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Arnab Maity and
Michael Sherman The Two-Sample T Test With One Variance
Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--166
Dale J. Cohen and
Jon Cohen The Sectioned Density Plot . . . . . . . 167--174
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Joseph M. Hilbe Mathematica 5.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--186
Joseph M. Hilbe A Review of LIMDEP 9.0 and NLOGIT 4.0 187--202
Richard J. Cleary Working with Numbers and Statistics: a
Handbook for Journalists . . . . . . . . 203--203
Linda Pickle Graphic Discovery: a Trout in the Milk
and Other Visual Adventures . . . . . . 203--203
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleThe Chicago Guide
to Writing About Multivariate Analysis 203--204
Rudy Guerra Dicing With Death: Chance, Risk, and
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Enno Mammen Statistical Models . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Steven F. Arnold Design of Experiments with MINITAB . . . 205--205
David Lane Statistics Without Math . . . . . . . . 205--206
Carter Cleveland Rakovski Regression With Social Data: Modeling
Continuous and Limited Response
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Carolyn Pillers Dobler and
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 207--207
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 208--211
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Roderick J. Little Calibrated Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--223
A. F. Karr and
C. N. Kohnen and
A. Oganian and
J. P. Reiter and
A. P. Sanil A Framework for Evaluating the Utility
of Data Altered to Protect
Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--232
N. D. Pearce and
M. P. Wand Penalized Splines and Reproducing Kernel
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--240
Valerie Hyde and
Wolfgang Jank and
Galit Shmueli Investigating Concurrency in Online
Auctions Through Visualization . . . . . 241--250
Yulei He and
Trivellore E. Raghunathan Tukey's $ g h $ Distribution for
Multiple Imputation . . . . . . . . . . 251--256
Torsten Hothorn and
Kurt Hornik and
Mark A. van de Wiel and
Achim Zeileis A Lego System for Conditional Inference 257--263
Sourish Das and
Dipak K. Dey On Bayesian Analysis of Generalized
Linear Models Using the Jacobian
Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--268
Spyros Missiakoulis Plutarch and Lucullus' Applied Sampling 269--270
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Dominique Haughton and
Arnold Kamis and
Patrick Scholten A Review of Three Directed Acyclic
Graphs Software Packages . . . . . . . . 272--286
J. C. Nash Spreadsheets in Statistical Practice:
Another Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--289
Richard J. Cleary Probability is the Very Guide of Life:
The Philosophical Uses of Chance . . . . 290--290
Jay Devore Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Stanley Wasserman Analyzing Categorical Data . . . . . . . 291--292
Carolyn Pillers Dobler The Essence of Multivariate Thinking:
Basic Themes and Methods . . . . . . . . 292--292
Michael Kahn Data Matters: Conceptual Statistics for
a Random World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
Lawrence D. Ries Statistical Methods For Communication
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
Nicholas J. Horton Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling
Using Stata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Carolyn Pillers Dobler SAS Guide to Report Writing: Examples 294--294
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 295--297
David A. Freedman On The So-Called ``Huber Sandwich
Estimator'' and ``Robust Standard
Errors'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Monnie McGee and
Nora V. Bergasa Analysis of a Pilot Study for
Amelioration of Itching in Liver Disease 303--308
David J. Finney Calibration Guidelines Challenge Outlier
Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--314
Ralph deLaubenfels The Victory of Least Squares and
Orthogonality in Statistics . . . . . . 315--321
Avital Lann and
Ruma Falk Tell Me the Method, I'll Give You the
Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
Andrew Gelman and
Hal Stern The Difference Between ``Significant''
and ``Not Significant'' is not Itself
Statistically Significant . . . . . . . 328--331
Leland Wilkinson Revising the Pareto Chart . . . . . . . 332--334
Òyvind Langsrud Explaining Correlations by Plotting
Orthogonal Contrasts . . . . . . . . . . 335--339
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 340--340
David Berengut Statistics for Experimenters: Design,
Innovation, and Discovery . . . . . . . 341--342
Jay Devore Statistics for Business and Economics 342--343
Peter C. Kiessler Probability and Statistics for Engineers
and Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Jo Hardin Introduction to Statistics Through
Resampling Methods and R/S-PLUS . . . . 343--344
Jay Devore Essential Mathematics and Statistics for
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Izabela E. Annis Statistics in Market Research . . . . . 345--345
Ryan E. Wiegand Statistical Analysis of Medical Data
Using SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
George Cotsonis Sharpening Your SAS Skills . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 347--349
Anonymous 2006 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 350--353
D. Tim Holt The Official Statistics Olympic
Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Gordon Brackstone Discussion: The Official Statistics
Olympic Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
Janet L. Norwood Discussion: The Official Statistics
Olympic Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
Nancy K. Torrieri America is Changing, and So is the
Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
Geert Molenberghs and
Geert Verbeke Likelihood Ratio, Score, and Wald Tests
in a Constrained Parameter Space . . . . 22--27
Helmut Finner and
Markus Roters and
Thorsten Dickhaus Characterizing Density Crossing Points 28--33
Thaddeus Tarpey Linear Transformations and the $k$-Means
Clustering Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
Herbert A. David and
Wayne A. Fuller Sir Maurice Kendall (1907--1983) . . . . 41--46
Alexander M. Strasak and
Qamruz Zaman and
Gerhard Marinell and
Karl P. Pfeiffer and
Hanno Ulmer The Use of Statistics in Medical
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55
Bryan E. Shepherd and
Peter B. Gilbert and
Devan V. Mehrotra Eliciting a Counterfactual Sensitivity
Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Xiaomi Hu Multivariate Analysis Without ``vec''
and ``$ \otimes $'' . . . . . . . . . . 64--66
Gauri Sankar Datta and
Malay Ghosh Characteristic Functions Without Contour
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70
Cherié Alf and
Sharon Lohr Sampling Assumptions in Introductory
Statistics Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
Joseph M. Hilbe Statistical Computing Software Reviews 78--78
Nicholas J. Horton and
Ken P. Kleinman Much Ado About Nothing . . . . . . . . . 79--90
Joseph M. Hilbe STATISTICA 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
Joseph Cavanaugh Seeing Through Statistics and Mind on
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Mervyn Marasinghe A First Course in Statistical Methods 95--97
Jay Devore Introduction to Business Statistics . . 97--97
Joseph Cavanaugh Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis
of Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Jerry L. Moreno Investigating Statistical Concepts,
Applications, and Methods . . . . . . . 98--99
J. Wade Davis A Crash Course in SPSS for Windows:
Updated for Versions 10, 11, 12 And 13 99--99
Hadley Wickham and
Dianne Cook R Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Martin Mächler Statistics: An Introduction using R . . 100--101
John C. Kern II Introduction to Regression Analysis . . 101--101
Donald Richards and
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Alina Kline Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 102--102
Peter H. Westfall Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Jesse Frey Is an $ .833 $ Hitter Better Than a $
.338 $ Hitter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--111
S. A. Sisson Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--119
Richard E. Kennedy and
Sharon D. Yeatts and
Kellie J. Archer and
Chris Gennings and
Viswanathan Ramakrishnan Opportunities for Biostatistics Students 120--126
Lori E. Dodd and
Edward L. Korn The Bootstrap Variance of the Square of
a Sample Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
Andrea Capotorti and
Frank Lad and
Giuseppe Sanfilippo Reassessing Accuracy Rates of Median
Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--138
Ulrike Grömping Estimators of Relative Importance in
Linear Regression Based on Variance
Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
Jeroen de Mast Agreement and Kappa-Type Indices . . . . 148--153
Diamandopoulos A. Athanasios and
Goudas C. Pavlos and
Kassimatis I. Theodoros Early Evidence-Based Medicine . . . . . 154--158
Lingyun Zhang Sample Mean and Sample Variance . . . . 159--160
Andrew Rosalsky A Simple and Probabilistic Proof of the
Binomial Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Leonard A. Stefanski Residual (Sur)Realism . . . . . . . . . 163--177
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Joseph M. Hilbe ePrint 5 Professional Conversion Utility 179--180
Alan T. Arnholt Statistics: The Art and Science of
Learning From Data . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Yolande Tra Even You Can Learn Statistics: a Guide
for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Phillip Edwards Essentials of Statistics for Business
and Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Ying Zhang Fundamentals of Biostatistics . . . . . 183--183
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Quality By Experimental Design . . . . . 183--184
Michael Minnotte Book review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Modern Nonparametric Statistics, by
James J. Higgins . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Shaun S. Wulff SAS for Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Six Sigma Quality Improvement with
MINITAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 186--186
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Robert Lund Revenge of the White Swan . . . . . . . 189--192
Peter H. Westfall and
Joseph M. Hilbe The Black Swan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Aaron Brown Strong Language on Black Swans . . . . . 195--197
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Black Swans and the Domains of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--200
Jesse Frey Bayesian Inference on a Proportion
Believed to be a Simple Fraction . . . . 201--206
Lisa J. Strug and
Charles A. Rohde and
Paul N. Corey An Introduction to Evidential Sample
Size Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . 207--212
Christopher M. Rump Capital Growth and the St. Petersburg
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--217
Wendy K. Tam Cho and
Brian J. Gaines Breaking the (Benford) law: statistical
fraud detection in campaign finance . . 218--223
Hans-Peter Piepho and
Joseph Ochieng Ogutu Simple State-Space Models in a Mixed
Model Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--232
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael Parzen Approximate Median Regression via the
Box--Cox Transformation . . . . . . . . 233--238
Scott R. Kuindersma and
Brian S. Blais Teaching Bayesian Model Comparison With
the Three-Sided Coin . . . . . . . . . . 239--244
Nathaniel Schenker and
Katherine L. Monti and
George W. Cobb and
Ronald S. Fecso and
Joan S. Chmiel Combining Features of a Frequency Table
and a Stem-and-Leaf Plot to Summarize
the American Statistical Association's
Strategic Activities . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Sangit Chatterjee and
Aykut Firat Generating Data with Identical
Statistics but Dissimilar Graphics . . . 248--254
Thomas P. Turiel Quantum Random Bit Generators . . . . . 255--259
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 260--261
A. Talha Yalta The Numerical Reliability of GAUSS 8.0 262--268
Joseph M. Hilbe GenStat 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
Page C. Moore Statistics Explained: An Introductory
Guide for Life Scientists . . . . . . . 274--274
Bruce Weir Introduction to Statistics for Forensic
Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Timothy J. Robinson Design of Experiments for Agriculture
and the Natural Sciences . . . . . . . . 275--275
Sylvie Mrug Experimental Design And Statistics for
Psychology: a First Course . . . . . . . 275--276
David R. Bellhouse Sampling Methods: Exercises and
Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
John Haigh Probability: Modeling and Applications
to Random Processes . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Philip Dixon The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide
3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
Ulric J. Lund Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Statistical Analyses Using R . . . . . . 277--278
M. Bridget Zimmerman SAS Programming and Data Analysis: a
Theory and Program-Driven Approach . . . 277--278
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with
Dynamic Interactive Graphics . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 279--279
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 280--284
B. J. T. Morgan and
K. J. Palmer and
M. S. Ridout Negative Score Test Statistic . . . . . 285--288
Geert Verbeke and
Geert Molenberghs What Can Go Wrong With the Score Test? 289--290
David A. Freedman How Can the Score Test Be Inconsistent? 291--295
Bruce E. Barrett Detecting Bias in Jury Selection . . . . 296--301
Andreas Krause and
José Pinheiro Modeling and Simulation to Adjust p
Values in Presence of a Regression to
the Mean Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--307
J. Keith Ord and
Harvey J. Iglarsh The Estimation of Conditional
Distributions From Large Databases . . . 308--314
Arthur Spirling ``Turning Points'' in the Iraq Conflict 315--320
Micha Mandel Censoring and Truncation ---
Highlighting the Differences . . . . . . 321--324
José R. Berrendero The Bagged Median and the Bragged Mean 325--330
S. Chakraborti and
J. Li Confidence Interval Estimation of a
Normal Percentile . . . . . . . . . . . 331--336
Christopher S. Withers and
Saralees Nadarajah A Recurrence Relation for Moments of the
Noncentral Chi Square . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Boris Iglewicz Einstein's First Published Paper . . . . 339--342
Stuart G. Baker and
Barnett S. Kramer Peirce, Youden, and Receiver Operating
Characteristic Curves . . . . . . . . . 343--346
Gregory K. Miller and
Stephanie L. Fridell A Forgotten Discrete Distribution?
Reviving the Negative Hypergeometric
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--350
Herbert K. H. Lee Chocolate Chip Cookies as a Teaching Aid 351--355
Lutz Dümbgen and
Hans Riedwyl On Fences and Asymmetry in
Box-and-Whiskers Plots . . . . . . . . . 356--359
Lin-Yee Hin and
Vincent J. Carey and
You-Gan Wang Criteria for
Working-Correlation-Structure Selection
in GEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--364
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Jay Devore Applied Regression Analysis: a Second
Course in Business and Economic
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Gary Simon Applied Regression Modeling: a Business
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Kerrie Nelson Introduction to Mixed Modelling: Beyond
Regression and Analysis of Variance . . 368--369
Jeffrey C. Sklar Understanding Business Statistics . . . 369--370
Brian Wiens Handbook of Statistical Distributions
with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Jay Devore Making Sense of Data: a Practical Guide
to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data
Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
David H. Annis Dyadic Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Timothy J. Robinson Introduction to Computer-Intensive
Methods of Data Analysis in Biology . . 371--371
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 372--372
Michael Sherman Probabilities: The Little Numbers That
Rule Our Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 373--373
Anonymous 2007 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 374--379
William F. Christensen and
Lindsay W. Florence Predicting Presidential and Other
Multistage Election Outcomes Using
State-Level Pre-Election Polls . . . . . 1--10
John McCarthy and
Howard Stanislevic and
Mark Lindeman and
Arlene S. Ash and
Vittorio Addona and
Mary Batcher Percentage-Based versus
Statistical-Power-Based Vote Tabulation
Audits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16
Mary M. Whiteside and
Mark E. Eakin A Better Estimate of the Number of Valid
Signatures on a Petition . . . . . . . . 17--21
Russell A. Boyles The Role of Likelihood in Interval
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
David Afshartous Sample Size Determination for Binomial
Proportion Confidence Intervals . . . . 27--31
Denis Larocque and
Ronald H. Randles Confidence Intervals for a Discrete
Population Median . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Frank Tuyl and
Richard Gerlach and
Kerrie Mengersen A Comparison of Bayes--Laplace,
Jeffreys, and Other Priors . . . . . . . 40--44
Lawrence M. Leemis and
Jacquelyn T. McQueston Univariate Distribution Relationships 45--53
Mark L. Berenson and
Jessica Utts and
Karen A. Kinard and
Deborah J. Rumsey and
Albyn Jones and
Leonard M. Gaines Assessing Student Retention of Essential
Statistical Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Michael A. Proschan The Normal Approximation to the Binomial 62--63
James A. Hanley and
Marilyse Julien and
Erica E. M. Moodie Student's $z$, $t$, and $s$: What if
Gosset had R? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--69
Herbert A. David The Beginnings of Randomization Tests 70--72
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Robert A. Oster and
Joseph M. Hilbe An Examination of Statistical Software
Packages for Parametric and
Nonparametric Data Analyses Using Exact
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
Joseph M. Hilbe Hawkes Learning Systems . . . . . . . . 85--89
Richard J. Cleary Fundamentals of Probability and
Statistics for Engineers, Statistical
Techniques for Data Analysis and
Statistics: An Introduction . . . . . . 90--91
Xiaogang Su Data Mining Methods and Models . . . . . 91--91
Phil Wood Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Charles L. Liss Multivariable Analysis: a Practical
Guide for Clinicians and Study Design
and Statistical Analysis: a Practical
Guide for Clinicians . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Gregory E. Gilbert A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 94--94
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Mu Zhu Kernels and Ensembles . . . . . . . . . 97--109
David A. Freedman Survival Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 110--119
Joshua Landon and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla Choosing a Coverage Probability for
Prediction Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
Recai M. Yucel and
Yulei He and
Alan M. Zaslavsky Using Calibration to Improve Rounding in
Imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
Leonard A. Stefanski The North Carolina Lottery Coincidence 130--134
Jesse Frey and
Osvaldo Marrero A Surprising MLE for Interval-Censored
Binomial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
José Luis Palacios On the Simple Symmetric Random Walk and
its Maximal Function . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
Gauri S. Datta and
Sanat K. Sarkar A General Proof of Some Known Results of
Independence Between Two Statistics . . 141--143
Robin Willink A Unique Property of the Normal
Distribution Associated With Perturbing
a General Random Variable . . . . . . . 144--146
Georgios Skoulakis A Recursive Formula for Computing
Central Moments of a Multivariate
Lognormal Distribution . . . . . . . . . 147--150
Jack Brimberg and
W. J. Hurley Is the Overtime Period in an NHL Game
Long Enough? An Example for Teaching
Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in the
Presence of Censored Data . . . . . . . 151--154
Richard C. Bell, Jr. and
Andrew G. Glen Experiences Teaching Probability and
Statistics with Personal Laptops in the
Classroom Daily . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--160
Nick J. Broers Helping Students to Build a Conceptual
Understanding of Elementary Statistics 161--166
Ching-Hui Chang and
Jyh-Jiuan Lin and
Nabendu Pal and
Miao-Chen Chiang A Note on Improved Approximation of the
Binomial Distribution by the Skew-Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--170
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Robert A. Oster and
Joseph M. Hilbe Rejoinder to ``An Examination of
Statistical Software Packages for
Parametric and Nonparametric Data
Analyses Using Exact Methods'' . . . . . 173--176
Joseph M. Hilbe Systat 12.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
Jane L. Harvill Fundamental Probability: a Computational
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Thomas E. Bradstreet Graphics of Large Datasets: Visualizing
a Million . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
Ralph P. Russo Intuitive Probability and Random
Processes using MATLAB . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Margie R. Gurwit Learning SAS by Example: a Programmer's
Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleA Quick Course in
Statistical Process Control . . . . . . 183--183
Thomas E. Bradstreet Pharmaceutical Statistics Using SAS: a
Practical Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Richard J. Cleary Statistics: Informed Decisions Using
Data and An Introduction to Statistical
Analysis for Business and Industry: a
Problem Solving Approach . . . . . . . . 183--184
Lakshmi Padgett Variations on Split Plot and Split Block
Experiment Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials . . 185--185
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 186--187
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Peter H. Westfall Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
Byron J. Gajewski and
Stephen D. Simon A One-Hour Training Seminar on Bayesian
Statistics for Nursing Graduate Students 190--194
Greg M. Allenby and
Peter E. Rossi Teaching Bayesian Statistics to
Marketing and Business Students . . . . 195--198
Jessica Utts and
Wesley Johnson The Evolution of Teaching Bayesian
Statistics to Nonstatisticians . . . . . 199--201
Andrew Gelman Teaching Bayes to Graduate Students in
Political Science, Sociology, Public
Health, Education, Economics, \ldots . . 202--205
Stephen Senn A Note Concerning a Selection
``Paradox'' of Dawid's . . . . . . . . . 206--210
Lynn Roy LaMotte Sufficiency in Finite Parameter and
Sample Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
Xiaomi Hu A Three-Condition Characterization of
the Moore--Penrose Generalized Inverse 216--218
Áureo De Paula Conditional Moments and Independence . . 219--221
Deborah N. Peikes and
Lorenzo Moreno and
Sean Michael Orzol Propensity Score Matching . . . . . . . 222--231
Rajdeep Grewal and
James A. Dearden and
Gary L. Llilien The University Rankings Game . . . . . . 232--237
Chad R. Bhatti and
Jennifer L. Wightman Conditional Probability and HIV Testing 238--241
Duncan J. Murdoch and
Yu-Ling Tsai and
James Adcock $P$-Values are Random Variables . . . . 242--245
Stephen M. Stigler Statistics at Harvard? A Toast to the
Harvard Statistics Department . . . . . 246--250
Ronald D. Snee W. Edwards Deming's ``Making
AnotherWorld'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
David W. Scott and
Warren R. Scott Smoothed Histograms for Frequency Data
on Irregular Intervals . . . . . . . . . 256--261
Paul L. Speckman and
Jeffrey N. Rouder and
Richard D. Morey and
Michael S. Pratte Delta Plots and Coherent Distribution
Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--266
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 267--267
J. Wade Davis Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate
Data Analysis and Interpretation with
SPSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Samiran Sinha Introduction to Bayesian Statistics . . 268--268
Eric D. Foster Introduction to Bioinformatics . . . . . 268--269
Pallavi Chitturi Introduction to Business Statistics . . 269--269
JonDavid Sparks Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Christine M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleModern
Engineering Statistics . . . . . . . . . 270--271
J. Wade Davis Multidimensional Nonlinear Descriptive
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Matthew A. Carlton Probability and Statistics for Computer
Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Timothy J. Robinson The R Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 274--278
Daniel E. Ho and
Kevin M. Quinn Improving the Presentation and
Interpretation of Online Ratings Data
with Model-Based Figures . . . . . . . . 279--288
Patricia Grambsch Regression to the Mean, Murder Rates,
and Shall-Issue Laws . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
Ronald Christensen and
Timothy Hanson and
Alejandro Jara Parametric Nonparametric Statistics . . 296--306
Richard F. Potthoff and
Susan Halabi and
Joellen M. Schildkraut and
Beth Newman Flexible Frames and Control Sampling in
Case-Control Studies . . . . . . . . . . 307--313
Andrew J. Vickers Decision Analysis for the Evaluation of
Diagnostic Tests, Prediction Models, and
Molecular Markers . . . . . . . . . . . 314--320
Gillian Z. Heller and
Andrew B. Forbes and
Keith B. G. Dear and
Erica Jobling Biostatistics @ Distance . . . . . . . . 321--328
M. C. Busstra and
A. Geelen and
E. J. Feskens and
R. J. M. Hartog and
P. van 't Veer Design and Development of Digital
Learning Material for Applied Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--339
Christopher H. Jackson Displaying Uncertainty With Shading . . 340--347
Samuel Kotz and
Edith Seier Visualizing Peak and Tails to Introduce
Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--354
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Herbert K. H. Lee Bayesian Methods: a Social and
Behavioral Sciences Approach . . . . . . 356--356
Ryan E. Wiegand Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS 356--357
Jessica Chapman Elementary Statistics: Picturing the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
James Stamey Modern Mathematical Statistics with
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Frederick M. Pratter SAS Graphics for Java: Examples Using
SAS AppDev Studio and the Output
Delivery System . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Gideon (K. D.) Zamba Statistical Development of Quality in
Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Mario V. Wüthrich Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in
Actuarial Science . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
Gilbert W. Fellingham Statistical Thinking in Sports . . . . . 360--361
M. G. M. Khan Statistics for Real-Life Sample Surveys:
Non-Simple-Random Samples and Weighted
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
J. Wade Davis Medical Statistics: a Textbook for the
Health Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Daniel B. Hall Analyzing Receiver Operating
Characteristic Curves With SAS . . . . . 362--362
Raquel Prado Introduction to Design of Experiments 362--362
F. Michael Speed SAS Programming for Enterprise Guide
Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Jay Devore Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Carol A. Gotway Crawford Unlocking the Census with GIS . . . . . 363--363
Mary Richardson Workshop Statistics: Discovery With Data 363--363
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 364--365
Anonymous 2008 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 366--367
Anonymous Index to volume 62 . . . . . . . . . . . 368--370
Andrew Gelman and
David K. Park Splitting a Predictor at the Upper
Quarter or Third and the Lower Quarter
or Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Ming T. Tan and
Guo-Liang Tian and
Man-Lai Tang Sample Surveys With Sensitive Questions:
a Nonrandomized Response Approach . . . 9--16
Keming Yu and
Abdallah Ally Improving Prediction Intervals: Some
Elementary Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Roger Koenker The Median Is the Message: Wilson and
Hilfertys Experiments on the Law of
Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--25
R. M. Fewster A Simple Explanation of Benford's Law 26--32
Rebecca Graziani and
Piero Veronese How to Compute a Mean? The Chisini
Approach and Its Applications . . . . . 33--36
Charles Hagwood An Application of the Residue Calculus:
The Distribution of the Sum of
Nonhomogeneous Gamma Variates . . . . . 37--39
Lei Shi and
Gemai Chen Influence Measures for General Linear
Models With Correlated Errors . . . . . 40--42
Leng-Cheng Hwang A Simple Proof of the Binomial Theorem
Using Differential Calculus . . . . . . 43--44
Saralees Nadarajah PDFs and Dual PDFs . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
Jaechoul Lee A Reformulation of Weighted Least
Squares Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
Michael Friendly and
Ernest Kwan Where's Waldo? Visualizing Collinearity
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--65
Martin S. Ridout Statistical Applications of the
Complex-Step Method of Numerical
Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--74
Joseph M. Hilbe Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 75--77
Chris Barker The Mean, Median, and Confidence
Intervals of the Kaplan--Meier Survival
Estimate --- Computations and
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
Dominique Haughton and
Pascal Legrand and
Sam Woolford Review of Three Latent Class Cluster
Analysis Packages: Latent Gold, poLCA,
and MCLUST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 92--101
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Emery N. Brown and
Robert E. Kass What Is Statistics? . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
Iain Johnstone Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 111--111
Alison Gibbs and
Nancy Reid Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 112--113
David Madigan and
Andrew Gelman Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 114--114
Samad Hedayat and
John Stufken Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 115--116
Deborah Nolan and
Duncan Temple Lang Comment: What Is Statistics? . . . . . . 117--121
Emery N. Brown and
Robert E. Kass Rejoinder: What Is Statistics? . . . . . 122--123
John W. Emerson and
Miki Seltzer and
David Lin Assessing Judging Bias: An Example From
the 2000 Olympic Games . . . . . . . . . 124--131
Kenneth J. Ryan Approximate Confidence Intervals for $p$
When Double Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 132--140
Jack G. Gambino Design Effect Caveats . . . . . . . . . 141--146
Carolyn Lauzon and
Brian Caffo Easy Multiplicity Control in Equivalence
Testing Using Two One-Sided Tests . . . 147--154
Elizabeth Koehler and
Elizabeth Brown and
Sebastien J.-P. A. Haneuse On the Assessment of Monte Carlo Error
in Simulation-Based Statistical Analyses 155--162
Reid D. Landes Passing on the Passion for the
Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux and
Benoit Liquet Understanding Convergence Concepts: a
Visual-Minded and Graphical
Simulation-Based Approach . . . . . . . 173--178
Leland Wilkinson and
Michael Friendly The History of the Cluster Heat Map . . 179--184
Herbert A. David A Historical Note on Zero Correlation
and Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Robert A. Oster Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 189--196
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
John Stufken An Invitation: Editor's Introduction to
``Desired and Feared --- What Do We Do
Now and Over the Next 50 Years?'' . . . 201--201
Xiao-Li Meng Desired and Feared --- What Do We Do Now
and Over the Next 50 Years? . . . . . . 202--210
Micha Mandel and
Yosef Rinott A Selection Bias Conflict and
Frequentist versus Bayesian Viewpoints 211--217
Aiyou Chen and
Thomas Bengtsson and
Tin Kam Ho A Regression Paradox for Linear Models:
Sufficient Conditions and Relation to
Simpson's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 218--225
Marios G. Pavlides and
Michael D. Perlman How Likely Is Simpson's Paradox? . . . . 226--233
Daniel J. Nordman and
Stephen B. Vardeman and
Melissa A. Bingham Uniformly Hyper-Efficient Bayes
Inference in a Class of Nonregular
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--238
Arne C. Bathke and
Oliver Schabenberger and
Randall D. Tobias and
Laurence V. Madden Greenhouse--Geisser Adjustment and the
ANOVA-Type Statistic: Cousins or Twins? 239--246
Carl N. Morris and
Kari F. Lock Unifying the Named Natural Exponential
Families and Their Relatives . . . . . . 247--253
Andrew R. Solow and
Woollcott K. Smith A Statistical Problem Concerning the Mar
Saba Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--257
Per Gösta Andersson A Simple Correlation Adjustment
Procedure Applied to Confidence Interval
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--262
Amy G. Froelich and
William M. Duckworth and
Jessica Culhane Does Your iPod Really Play Favorites? 263--268
Halvor Mehlum The Island Problem Revisited . . . . . . 269--273
Scott M. Lesch and
Daniel R. Jeske Some Suggestions for Teaching About
Normal Approximations to Poisson and
Binomial Distribution Functions . . . . 274--277
Anthony Y. C. Kuk A New Way to Derive Locally Most
Powerful Rank Tests . . . . . . . . . . 278--280
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 281--293
Frank Tuyl Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
G. G. Hamedani and
H. W. Volkmer Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Hua Zhou and
Kenneth Lange Rating Movies and Rating the Raters Who
Rate Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--307
Ulrike Grömping Variable Importance Assessment in
Regression: Linear Regression versus
Random Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--319
Robert H. Lyles and
Ying Guo and
Andrew N. Hill A Fresh Look at the Discriminant
Function Approach for Estimating Crude
or Adjusted Odds Ratios . . . . . . . . 320--327
Ceylan Yozgatligil and
William W. S. Wei Representation of Multiplicative
Seasonal Vector Autoregressive Moving
Average Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--334
Wayne A. Woodward and
Henry L. Gray and
James R. Haney and
Alan C. Elliott Examining Factors to Better Understand
Autoregressive Models . . . . . . . . . 335--342
Shonda Kuiper and
Linda Collins Guided Labs That Introduce Statistical
Techniques Used in Research From
Multiple Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
Marlene A. Smith and
Peter G. Bryant Managing Case Discussions in
Introductory Business Statistics
Classes: Practical Approaches for
Instructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--355
Patricia Pepple Williamson and
Darcy P. Mays and
Ghidewon Abay Asmerom and
Yingying Yang Revisiting the Classical Occupancy
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--360
Stefan H. Steiner and
R. Jock MacKay Teaching Variation Reduction Using a
Virtual Manufacturing Environment . . . 361--365
Tue Tjur Coefficients of Determination in
Logistic Regression Models --- a New
Proposal: The Coefficient of
Discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--372
Björn Bornkamp and
Katja Ickstadt A Note on B-Splines for Semiparametric
Elicitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
Jan Serroyen and
Geert Molenberghs and
Geert Verbeke and
Marie Davidian Nonlinear Models for Longitudinal Data 378--388
Christel Faes and
Geert Molenberghs and
Marc Aerts and
Geert Verbeke and
Michael G. Kenward The Effective Sample Size and an
Alternative Small-Sample
Degrees-of-Freedom Method . . . . . . . 389--399
Robert A. Oster Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 401--405
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous 2009 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 407--408
Anonymous Index to Volume 63 . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411
Brian Caffo and
Carolyn Lauzon and
Joachim Röhmel Correction to ``Easy Multiplicity
Control in Equivalence Testing Using Two
One-Sided Tests'' . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Emil M. Friedman Nontransitivity, Correlation, and
Causation: Langford, E., Schwertman, N.,
and Owens, M. (2001), ``Is the Property
of Being Positively Correlated
Transitive?'' The American Statistician,
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