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Stanley P. Azen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Morton B. Brown and
Camil Fuchs On maximum likelihood estimation in
sparse contingency tables . . . . . . . 3--15
Ivor Francis A survey of statistical software . . . . 17--27
S. R. Wilson Benchmark data sets for the flexible
evaluation of statistical software . . . 29--39
Paul A. Games and
Glenn S. Wolfgang A review of six multifactor tests for
homogeneity of spread . . . . . . . . . 41--52
Anonymous Genstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Prism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Anonymous Minitab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57
Anonymous The OSIRIS IV statistical analysis and
data management software system . . . . 57--60
Anonymous P-STAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Anonymous SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Anonymous The SPSS$^X$ \TM system . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous BMDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
Herman P. Friedman Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
software: a comparative review: by Ivor
Francis, Elsevier North-Holland, New
York, 1981 (550 pp., \$70.00, ISBN
0-444-00658-3)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
James W. Frane Book Review: \booktitleThe computer
package STATCAT source programs and user
manual: by Hugh David, North-Holland,
Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 1982 (780
pp., Dfl. 240.00, ISBN 0-444-86453-9) 69--71
Paul J. Lewi Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate data
analysis in industrial practice:
Chemometrics Research Studies Series
Vol. 3 John Wiley & Sons, Chichester,
September 1982 (256 pp, \$29.95/\pounds
13.75, ISBN 0-471-10466-3)} . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Package announcement . . . . . . . . . . 73
Rod F. Ziemer and
Jean-Paul Chavas A Stein-rule approach to outlying
observations in regression analysis . . 75--83
Haruo Onishi A variable selection procedure for
econometric models . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95
Bernhard Flury Some relations between the comparison of
covariance matrices and principal
component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 97--109
Hans-Jürgen Andress The first 10 years of a working career:
an illustration of event-history
analysis with West German mobility data 111--135
G. J. Huba and
A. L. Palisoc Computerized path diagrams on a line
printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
James M. Malone II A library of new capabilities in
statistical computing . . . . . . . . . 141--143
Frances M. Chupalio and
David P. Reilly An overview of the PACK SYSTEM and
AUTOBJ/AUTOBOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Anonymous LOLITA (LOg LInear modelling in TAbles) 147--149
Anonymous Mass microprocessor applied statistics
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--151
Grace P. Polhemus STATGRAPHICS: an interactive data
analysis and statistical graphics system
in APL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
D. V. Gokhale On entropy-based goodness-of-fit tests 157--165
Morton B. Brown and
Robert A. Wolfe Estimation of the variance of percentile
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--174
Darryl Katz Discrete approximations to continuous
density functions that are $ L_1 $
optimal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--181
S. Nessim and
D. L. Preston A Monte-Carlo comparison of several
methods for the analysis of censored
survival data with treatment and
covariate effects . . . . . . . . . . . 183--190
Wayne A. Woodward and
Alan C. Elliott A survey of statistical packages on
microcomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--200
Diane I. Gibbons and
Gary C. McDonald Illustrating regression diagnostics with
an air pollution and mortality model . . 201--220
Anonymous BMDP82 available for prime computers . . 221
Anonymous The SCA statistical system . . . . . . . 221--223
Anonymous Modistat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--226
Anonymous STAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Simon Sheather A data-based algorithm for choosing the
window width when estimating the density
at a point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--238
Rudolph S. Parrish On an integrated approach to member
selection and parameter estimation for
Pearson distributions . . . . . . . . . 239--255
C. K. Bayne and
J. J. Beauchamp and
V. E. Kane and
G. P. McCabe Assessment of fisher and logistic linear
and quadratic discrimination models . . 257--273
Essam H. Mahmoud An overview of the SIBYL-RUNNER
interactive forecasting system . . . . . 275--277
Anonymous SCSS\TM conversational system now
available for Wang VS series computers 277--278
Anonymous SPSS Inc. announces new LISREL procedure
in first update of SPSS-X\TM information
analysis system . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
Anonymous SPSS Inc. introduces SPSS/Pro\TM . . . . 279
Howard P. Edwards RANKSEL: a ranking and selection package 279--281
Anonymous SADP product package . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Anonymous P-STAT ported to Apollo . . . . . . . . 282--283
Anonymous OXYCALC electronic spreadsheet program 283--285
Anonymous STAT/PROTRAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--288
Virginia Clark Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate data
analysis in industrial practice: by Paul
J. Lewi, John Wiley and Sons,
Chichester, 1982 (256 pp., \$29.95\slash
\pounds 13.75, ISBN 0-471-10466-3)} . . 289--290
Stanley P. Azen Book Review: \booktitleThe visual
display of quantitative information: by
Edward R. TUFTE Graphics Press,
Chishire, CT, 1983 (190 pp., \$32.00)} 290--291
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
Anonymous Author index volume 1 (1983) . . . . . . 294--295
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Ivo W. Molenaar Behavioral studies of the software user 1--12
Dallas R. Wingo Fitting three-parameter lognormal models
by numerical global optimization --- an
improved algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 13--25
Darryl Katz and
David Z. D'Argenio Discrete approximation of multivariate
densities with application to Bayesian
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36
A. Scallan and
R. Gilchrist and
M. Green Fitting parametric link functions in
generalised linear models . . . . . . . 37--49
Wolfgang Polasek Exploring business cycles using running
medians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--70
Christopher E. Aston and
Susan R. Wilson Comment on M. B. Brown and C. Fuchs,
``On maximum likelihood estimation in
sparse contingency tables'' . . . . . . 71--77
Morton B. Brown and
Camil Fuchs Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Hugh Neffendorf and
David Cable and
Beverly Rowe Software for statistical and survey
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
Anonymous NAG library statistical facilities . . . 95
Anonymous Elsevier launches software programs . . 95--97
Anonymous ISSUE conference . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Three directories --- for Apple, IBM PC,
and CP/M software . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Anonymous New technical reports on census
analysis, DATATRIEVE interface . . . . . 99
Anonymous SPSS Inc. announces new consulting group 100
Anonymous Letters to the editor . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Anonymous SPSS/PC for the IBM PC XT . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous IMPORT/EXPORT facility in SPSS-X to
transport data and dictionary files . . 104
Anonymous Menu $^{TM}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous New structural equations program . . . . 105--106
Essam Mahmoud An introduction to sales forecasting
systems: FORSYS and MAVIS . . . . . . . 107--108
Anonymous SPSS-X on Hewlett--Packard . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous New release of SPSS-X now available on
DEC VAX systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Anonymous SPSS-X$^{TM}$ available on Honeywell
GCOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous TSP Version 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Anonymous P-STAT/mr --- solutions for market and
survey research . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous The BMDP StatCat$^\reg $ microcomputer 113--116
Roy Bechtel Review of Microstat 4.0 . . . . . . . . 117--121
Mary Ann Hill Book Review: \booktitleApplications,
basics, and computing of exploratory
data analysis by Paul F. Velleman and
David C. Hoaglin Duxbury Press, North
Scituate, MA (354 pp., \$17.75)} . . . . 123--124
Timothy L. McAuliffe and
A. A. Afifi Comparison of a nearest neighbor and
other approaches to the detection of
space-time clustering . . . . . . . . . 125--142
Keith E. Muller and
Bercedis L. Peterson Practical methods for computing power in
testing the multivariate general linear
hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--158
E. Tejumola Jolayemi and
Morton B. Brown The choice of a log-linear model using a
$ C_p $-type statistic . . . . . . . . . 159--165
Nicholas V. Findler and
Robert F. Cromp A heuristic approach to optimum
experimental design . . . . . . . . . . 167--178
Anonymous SPSS-11 for the Texas instruments 990 179
Anonymous SPSS-X available on prime computers . . 179--180
Anonymous BMDP on the IBM PC . . . . . . . . . . . 180--182
Roel Popping AGREE, a package for computing nominal
scale agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--185
Anonymous Computrition nutritional system . . . . 186--187
S. Nessim An introduction to contemporary
statistics: Lambert H. Koopmans Duxbury
Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981 (599
pp., \$28.50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Olga Alvarez and
Andrzej Matuszewski and
David Sotres A practical procedure to obtain
confidence intervals for the Bernoulli
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
Daniel Zelterman Approximating the distribution of
goodness of fit tests for discrete data 207--214
J. Kleffe and
B. Seifert Matrix free computation of C. R. Rao's
MINQUE for unbalanced nested
classification models . . . . . . . . . 215--228
N. R. Draper and
Irwin Guttman and
J. A. John Premium and protection of a response
estimation procedure for two-way tables
when outliers occur . . . . . . . . . . 229--236
Norman S. Matloff Update methods for reduction of
computing time in simulation studies . . 237--242
Pekka J. Korhonen Subjective principal component analysis 243--255
Anonymous Fifth IFAC/IFORS conference . . . . . . 257
Anonymous SGCSA prize award . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous Smart Software, Inc. introduces
SmartForecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Anonymous The SAS System now for minicomputers . . 260--261
Anonymous SAS business planning and project
management tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Anonymous Display Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
Anonymous SAS/GRAPH enhancements . . . . . . . . . 263--264
Anonymous SAS/OR, FSCALC, REPLAY-CICS . . . . . . 264
Anonymous Statpro XT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Anonymous \em dasy --- data analysis system . . . 266
M. Brannigan Multivariate data modelling by metric
approximants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--278
Sik-Yum Lee Analysis of covariance and correlation
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295
Ravinder Nath and
Robert Pavur A new statistic in the one-way
multivariate analysis of variance . . . 297--315
Carl E. Pierchala An improvement for the McGill University
Random Number Package . . . . . . . . . 317--322
Harald Sonnberger An introduction to the IAS-SYSTEM . . . 323--330
John Isitt MSUSTAT --- An interactive statistical
analysis package . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--336
Anonymous Micro to mainframe communications with
SPSS/PC and Kermit . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Anonymous Classification as a tool of research . . 337--338
Anonymous Author index volume 2 (1984) . . . . . . 339--340
Anonymous Package report/review index volume 2
(1984) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Michael Haber Maximum likelihood methods for linear
and log-linear models in categorical
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Russell F. Kappenman Estimation for the three-parameter
Weibull, lognormal, and gamma
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--23
P. Robert and
R. Cléroux and
N. Ranger Some results on vector correlation . . . 25--32
R. J. Baker and
M. R. B. Clarke and
P. W. Lane Zero entries in contingency tables . . . 33--45
James P. Lesage and
Stephen D. Simon Numerical accuracy of statistical
algorithms for microcomputers . . . . . 47--57
Anonymous Upgraded version of STATPRO for the IBM
PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Elsevier scientific software . . . . . . 60--67
Anonymous P-STAT ported to IBM PC/XT and PC/AT . . 67
Anonymous P-STAT 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Anonymous SPSS-X software for VAX . . . . . . . . 72--73
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Toshiro Tango Statistical model of changes in repeated
multivariate measurements associated
with the development of disease . . . . 77--88
C. Ming Wang Applications and computing of mosaics 89--97
Lance K. Heilbrun and
Daniel L. McGee Sample size determination for the
comparison of normal means when one
sample size is fixed . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Andrzej Matuszewski and
David Sotres A basic statistical problem: Confidence
interval for the Bernoulli parameter . . 103--114
R. A. Bailey A note on loosely balanced incomplete
block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
R. F. Cromp and
N. V. Findler Rejoinder to R. A. Bailey's critique ``A
note on loosely balanced incomplete
block designs'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
R. A. Bailey Response to R. F. Cromp and N. V.
Findler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
R. F. Cromp and
N. V. Findler Reply to R. A. Bailey's response . . . . 123--124
Robert J. Baker and
Michael R. B. Clarke and
Peter W. Lane Further comment on M. B. Brown and C.
Fuchs, ``On maximum likelihood
estimation in sparse contingency
tables'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Morton B. Brown and
Camil Fuchs Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
R. J. Baker and
M. R. B. Clarke and
P. W. Lane Comment on the rejoinder by M. B. Brown
and C. Fuchs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Solomon Kullback and
John C. Keegel The minimum discrimination information
approach to the analysis of contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
Morton B. Brown Rejoinder to Kullback and Keegel note on
the minimum discrimination information
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
S. Kullback and
J. C. Keegel Response to M. B. Brown . . . . . . . . 145--146
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--150
Val J. Gebski Some properties of splicing when applied
to non-linear smoothers . . . . . . . . 151--157
Albert Verbeek and
Pieter M. Kroonenberg A survey of algorithms for exact
distributions of test statistics in $ r
\times c $ contingency tables with fixed
margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--185
Yadolah Dodge and
Kasra Afsarinejad Minimal $ 2^n $ connected factorial
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--200
William E. Barlow and
Polly Feigl Analyzing binomial data with a nonzero
baseline using GLIM . . . . . . . . . . 201--204
Brian L. Shea The role of a subroutine library for
statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--218
Ramesh Gupta and
Ram Tripathi and
Joel Michalek and
Thomas White An exact test for the mean of a normal
distribution with a known coefficient of
variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--226
W. A. Sadler and
M. H. Smith A reliable method of estimating the
variance function in immunoassay . . . . 227--239
Andrzej Matuszewski and
David Sotres A simple test for the Behrens--Fisher
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--249
Dee Denteneer and
Albert Verbeek A fast algorithm for iterative
proportional fitting in log-linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264
Hugh Neffendorf and
David Cable Software for statistical and survey
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--269
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--282
Anonymous Author index volume 3 (1985) . . . . . . 283--284
Anonymous Package report/review index volume 3
(1985) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
R. A. J. Wixley The use of asymmetric power
transformation in data-based
quasi-likelihood analysis . . . . . . . 1--21
B. Simeone and
I. Verdinelli A feasible directions method for
computing Bayes $E$-optimal block
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--38
N. R. Draper and
M. Evans and
Irwin Guttman A Bayesian approach to system
reliability when two components are
dependent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--49
Michael E. Tarter and
William R. Freeman On graphing estimated distributions
using modified scatter diagrams . . . . 51--67
Daniel Zelterman Order statistics of the generalized
logistic distribution . . . . . . . . . 69--77
Jason C. Hsu Sample size computation for designing
multiple comparison experiments . . . . 79--91
Colin R. Blyth Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 93--98
Anonymous The 6th Scandinavian conference on image
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Anonymous SPSS Announces SPSS-X for Cray Unicos 100--101
Anonymous New expanded guide of the SAS system for
personal computers . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Anonymous SHAZAM: a comprehensive computer program
for regression models (Version 6) . . . 102--104
Anonymous MicroMath announces version 2.3 of MINSQ 104--105
Anonymous MicroMath announces GRAPH . . . . . . . 105--106
P. M. Bentler and
Wai-Yin Poon and
Sik-Yum Lee Generalized multimode latent variable
models: Implementation by standard
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--118
Russell F. Kappenman Nonparametric binary regression without
replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--125
Mary P. Coffey and
Marcia Feingold and
Judith Bromberg A normed measures of variability among
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--141
Ali S. Hadi Diagnosing collinearity-influential
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--159
Roderick J. A. Little Approximately calibrated small sample
inference about means from bivariate
normal data with missing values . . . . 161--178
Douglas G. Bonett and
J. Arthur Woodward Parameter estimation in linear
multinomial models . . . . . . . . . . . 179--187
James R. Bunch Calculating selected elements of the
inverse of symmetric positive definite
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--195
Stephen D. Simon and
James P. Lesage Benchmarking numerical accuracy of
statistical algorithms . . . . . . . . . 197--209
Anonymous IRIS: program package for multivariate
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Anonymous Call for papers: 1989 European
meeting-psychometric society . . . . . . 212--213
Anonymous International conference on recent
developments in statistical data
analysis and inference --- in honor of
C. R. Rao: 21--24 August 1989, Neuchâtel,
Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
D. M. Smith and
J. M. Bremner All possible subset regressions using
the QR decomposition . . . . . . . . . . 217--235
Wing-Kam Fung Quasi-Bayesian estimation of Stigler's
data sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--243
Alan Agresti and
Christy Chuang Model-based Bayesian methods for
estimating cell proportions in
cross-classification tables having
ordered categories . . . . . . . . . . . 245--258
M. Ivette Gomes Generalized Gumbel and likelihood ratio
test statistics in the multivariate GEV
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--267
Y. Ritov Monte Carlo computation of the mean of a
function with convex support . . . . . . 269--277
Haiganoush K. Preisler Fitting dose-response data with non-zero
background within generalized linear and
generalized additive models . . . . . . 279--290
Robert Kalaba and
Nima Rasakhoo and
Leigh Tesfatsion A FORTRAN program for time-varying
linear regression via flexible least
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--309
T. Deutler Some remarks on the likelihood ratio
test for the mean of a normal
distribution with known coefficient of
variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314
Anonymous 13th annual meeting of the society of
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Anonymous Second Conference of the International
Federation of Classification Societies:
June 27--30, 1989, in Charlottesville,
VA, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Anonymous First announcement and call for papers
--- joint meeting: GLIM 89 and 4$^{th}$
international workshop on statistical
modelling: Trento, Italy, July 17--21,
1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous SPSS Introduces SPSS/PC + V3.0 . . . . . 318--319
Anonymous Targets scientists for PC data analysis 319--320
Anonymous SYSTAT version 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321
Anonymous Sygraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Anonymous SYSTAT version 3.2 for Macintosh . . . . 322--323
Anonymous BMDP statistical software --- latest
release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
Anonymous La Revue de Modulad . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Author index volume 7 (1989) . . . . . . 327--328
Anonymous Package report/Review index volume 7
(1989) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Ján Pecár Combinations of optimality criteria and
optimum designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
C. P. Kitsos Fully-sequential procedures in nonlinear
design problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--19
Alessandra Giovagnoli and
Paola Sebastiani Experimental designs for mean and
variance estimation in variance
components models . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
Sudhir Gupta and
Rahul Mukerjee Efficient non-equireplicate designs
obtained by merging of treatments . . . 29--37
V. K. Kaishev Optimal experimental designs for the
B-spline regression . . . . . . . . . . 39--47
Kim-Hung Li and
N. N. Chan An algorithm for $A$-optimal regression
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--57
Dulal Kumar Bhaumik and
Thomas Mathew On the minimax optimality of
non-randomized block designs . . . . . . 59--66
M. L. Tricot Randomization tests in ANOVA: a
practical approach . . . . . . . . . . . 67--74
Sergei M. Ermakov Random interpolation in the theory of
experimental design . . . . . . . . . . 75--80
Juhani Kettunen and
Hannu Sirviö and
Olli Varis An analysis of a sampling design --- a
case study of lake eutrophication . . . 81--91
E. E. M. van Berkum Reduction of the number of pairs in
paired comparison designs and exact
designs for quadratic models . . . . . . 93--107
P. C. Wang Test for dispersion effects from
orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 109--117
W. Wierich On the relative efficiency of the best
second order proportional ANOVA-designs 119--134
Nilotpal Chakravarti Bounded isotonic median regression . . . 135--142
Morten Frydenberg and
Davis Edwards A modified iterative proportional
scaling algorithm for estimation in
regular exponential families . . . . . . 143--153
J. S. Marron Comments on a data based bandwidth
selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--170
Richard J. Turek and
Ronald C. Suich An exact test on the Goodman--Kruskal $
\lambda $ for prediction on a dichotomy:
power considerations . . . . . . . . . . 171--178
J. Brian Gray The four-measure influence plot . . . . 179--188
Arjen Merckens and
Tom Wansbeek Formula manipulation in statistics on
the computer: Evaluating the expectation
of higher-degree functions of normally
distributed matrices . . . . . . . . . . 189--200
Neil C. Schwertman and
Margaret A. Owens Simple approximation of sample size for
the bivariate normal . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
Anonymous Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 209
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Anonymous SPSS announces interfaces to Informix
and Sybase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Anonymous SPSS Inc. introduces SPSS Graphics with
databases interfaces for Informix and
Sybase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Anonymous SPSS increases value of SPSS/PC + by
bundling its graph-in-the-box option . . 212--213
Anonymous Genstat 5 release 1.3 for Dec Vax VMS
and MicroVax VMS . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Anonymous BMDP statistical software introduces
Solo: the stand-alone solution for
non-statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . 214--216
Anonymous BMDP statistical software ships new PC
release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
Anonymous BMDP statistical software announces
latest release with two new programs . . 218--219
Anonymous SYSTAT, Inc. software for data general
and NCR/TOWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Anonymous SYSTAT, Inc. announces version 1.1 of
SYGRAPH at NCGA booth 4457 . . . . . . . 220--221
Anonymous Stat wars: an overview of statistical
software and SYSTAT, Inc. . . . . . . . 221--222
Anonymous Announcing powerful software for solving
ordinary differential equations . . . . 223--224
Anonymous Connectivity tool transfers data among
database and statistical products . . . 224
Anonymous Analele Universit\ua\ctii Din
Bucure\csti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225
Richard D. De Veaux Mixtures of linear regressions . . . . . 227--245
Luc Devroye Random variate generators for the
Poisson --- Poisson and related
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--278
John R. Gleason Efficient sorting during repetitive
statistical computations: algorithms and
an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--297
F. M. Malvestuto Computing the maximum-entropy extension
of given discrete probability
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--311
Wei Shih and
James A. Sullivan A heuristic parameter estimation
procedure for a binary dependent
variable regression model . . . . . . . 313--324
Stephen D. Simon and
James P. Lesage Assessing the accuracy of ANOVA
calculations in statistical software . . 325--332
Anonymous Author index volume 8 (1989) . . . . . . 333--334
Anonymous Package report/review index volume 8
(1989) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Anonymous ``Experimental designs for mean and
variance estimation in variance
components models'': by Alessandra
Giovagnoli and Paola Sebastiani,
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
8, 21--28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93