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P. A. P. Moran The Random Division of an Interval . . . 92--98
I. D. Hill Approximating the Distribution of
Greenwood's Statistic with Johnson
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--380
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Claus Moser Statistics and Public Policy . . . . . . 1--32
L. R. Anderson and
R. A. Fontenot On the Gain Ratio as a Criterion for
Betting in Casino Games . . . . . . . . 33--40
F. Downton Monotonicity and the Gain Ratio . . . . 41--42
Simon French Updating of Belief in the Light of
Someone Else's Opinion . . . . . . . . . 43--48
P. C. Bravo and
G. B. Wetherill The Matching of Sampling Plans and the
Design of Double Sampling Plans . . . . 49--67
B. M. Balk A Method for Constructing Price Indices
for Seasonal Commodities . . . . . . . . 68--75
R. C. Geary Prais on Strikes . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Dennis Newman Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Statistics in the 17th and 18th
Centuries, Against the Changing
Background of Intellectual, Scientific
and Religious Thought: Lectures by Karl
Pearson, 1921--1933, by E. S. Pearson 78--79
K. V. Mardia Book Review: \booktitleDevelopments in
Statistics, Vol. 2, by P. R. Krishnaiah 79--79
Rodney Coleman Book Review: \booktitleProbabilistic
Analysis and Related Topics, Vol. 1, by
A. T. Bharucha-Reid . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
B. W. Silverman Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Density Estimation: A Survey, by W.
Wertz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
C. Chatfield Book Review: \booktitleForecasting.
Proceedings of the Institute of
Statisticians' Annual Conference at
Cambridge in 1976, by O. D. Anderson . . 80--81
D. P. Gregg Book Review: \booktitlePractical
Experiences with Modelling and
Forecasting Time Series, by G. M.
Jenkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing
Qualitative/Categorical Data: Log-linear
Models and Latent Structure Analysis, by
L. A. Goodman; J. A. Davis; J. Magidson;
\booktitleAnalysis of Qualitative Data.
Vol. I, by S. J. Haberman . . . . . . . 82--83
F. Downton Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Reliability and Life Testing
Models, by Lee J. Bain . . . . . . . . . 83--84
J. F. Ermisch Book Review: \booktitleResearch in
Population Economics: An Annual
Compilation of Research, by J. L. Simon 84--85
K. E. Spitz Book Review: \booktitleThe Recall Method
in Social Surveys, by Louis Moss; Harvey
Goldstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
J. G. Gibson Book Review: \booktitleTourism and the
Business Cycle: Econometric Models for
the Purpose of Analysis and Forecasting
of Short-Term Changes in the Demand for
Tourism, by S. Schulmeister . . . . . . 85--86
G. Cohen Book Review: \booktitleIssues in
Demographic Data Collection in Pakistan,
by K. J. Krotki; S. S. Hashmi . . . . . 86--87
Adrian Bowyer Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Services in Ten Years' Time, by J. W.
Duncan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
A. C. Harvey Book Review: \booktitleExercises in
Econometrics, Volumes 1 and 2, by P. C.
B. Phillips; M. R. Wickens . . . . . . . 87--88
Carole A. Roberts Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistics:
A Modern Approach, 2nd edition, by
Morris Hamburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
M. Stone Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis: A Decision-Making Approach,
2nd edition, by R. Parsons . . . . . . . 89--89
P. Holmes Book Review: \booktitleDeveloping Skills
in Statistics, by N. R. Townsend; G. H.
Wheatley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
O. B. Chedzoy Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Statistics, by A. M. Plews . . . . . . . 90--90
D. Brook Book Review: \booktitleElementary
Statistical Quality Control, by I. W.
Burr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
B. S. Yame Professor Sir Arnold Plant, 1898--1978 92--92
D. J. Finney Chester Ittner Bliss, 1899--1979 . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Recent Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 94--108
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Simon Broadbent Simulating the Ley Hunter . . . . . . . 109--140
Tony Lancaster and
Stephen Nickell The Analysis of Re-Employment
Probabilities for the Unemployed . . . . 141--165
Anonymous Opinion Polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
J. B. Copas and
M. J. Fryer Density Estimation and Suicide Risks in
Psychiatric Treatment . . . . . . . . . 167--176
R. M. Clark Calibration, Cross-Validation and
Carbon-14. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--194
F. H. C. Marriott Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophical
Problems of Statistical Inference.
Learning from R. A. Fisher, by T.
Seidenfeld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
A. J. Brown Book Review: \booktitleCausality in
Economics, by John Hicks . . . . . . . . 196--196
Margaret Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleThe Economics of
Modern Britain. An Introduction to
Macroeconomics, by John Black . . . . . 196--197
Judith Yates Book Review: \booktitleModels and
Decision Making in National Economies,
by J. M. L. Janssen; L. F. Pau; A.
Straszak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
R. K. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleAn Integrated
System of Wage Statistics. A Manual on
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
M. J. R. Healy Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Multivariate Statistics, by M. S.
Srivastava; C. G. Khatri . . . . . . . . 198--199
R. N. Curnow Book Review: \booktitleBasic Applied
Statistics, by B. L. Raktoe; J. J.
Hubert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
J. M. Bernardo Book Review: \booktitleThe Maximum
Entropy Formalism, by R. D. Levine; M.
Tribus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Freda Conway Book Review: \booktitleDemystifying
Social Statistics, by John Irvine . . . 200--201
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleStatistics. For
Students in the Behavioural Sciences, by
William A. Lindner . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleDistribution-Free
Methods for Non-Parametric Problems: A
Classified and Selected Bibliography, by
Bernard Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
E. A. Hunter Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Epidemiology in Veterinary Science, by
F. B. Leech; K. C. Sellars . . . . . . . 202--203
F. H. C. Marriott Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced Level
Statistics: An Integrated Course, by A.
Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
L. E. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleA Primer in
Probability, by Kathleen Subrahmaniam 203--204
D. Brook Book Review: \booktitleStatistics:
Concepts and Controversies, by D. S.
Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Peter Armitage Jerome Cornfield, 1912--1979 . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous Recent Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 206--218
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
H. D. Patterson and
Valerie Silvey Statutory and Recommended List Trials of
Crop Varieties in the United Kingdom . . 219--252
R. W. Payne and
D. A. Preece Identification Keys and Diagnostic
Tables: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--292
K. V. Mardia and
Dorothy Holmes A Statistical Analysis of Megalithic
Data Under Elliptic Pattern . . . . . . 293--302
D. Holt and
A. J. Scott and
P. D. Ewings Chi-Squared Tests with Survey Data . . . 303--320
J. P. Burman Seasonal Adjustment by Signal Extraction 321--337
Stephen J. Taylor Conjectured Models for Trends in
Financial Prices, Tests and Forecasts 338--362
F. Downton A Note on Labouchere Sequences . . . . . 363--366
Norman L. Webb A Note on the Accuracy of Forecasting:
Opinion Polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
A. D. J. Flowerdew Book Review: \booktitleReviews of United
Kingdom Statistical Sources: Volume X:
Ports and Inland Waterways, by W. F.
Maunder; R. E. Baxter; \booktitleReviews
of United Kingdom Statistical Sources.:
Civil Aviation, by W. F. Maunder; Celia
M. Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
R. K. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleBritish Regional
Employment Statistics, 1841--1971, by C.
H. Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
F. V. Meyer Book Review: \booktitleA Geometric
Approach to International Trade, by M.
B. Krauss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
P. J. Diggle Book Review: \booktitleTowards the
Dynamic Analysis of Spatial Systems, by
R. L. Martin; N. J. Thrift; R. J.
Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleSpatial Time
Series, by R. J. Bennett . . . . . . . . 371--372
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Economic Time Series, by Marc Nerlove;
David M. Grether; Jose L. Carvalho . . . 372--372
N. H. Bingham Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Measure, by P. Billingsley . . . . . . . 372--373
J. F. C. Kingman Book Review: \booktitleRandom Walks with
Stationary Increments and Renewal
Theory, by H. C. P. Berbee . . . . . . . 373--373
J. A. Bather Book Review: \booktitleOptimal Stopping
Rules, by A. N. Shiryaev . . . . . . . . 373--374
D. N. Shanbhag Book Review: \booktitle`Classifying
Infinitely Divisible Distributions, by
Functional Equations. by K. Van Harn . . 374--374
W. J. R. Eplett Book Review: \booktitleContributions to
Statistics, by Jana Jureckova . . . . . 374--375
C. K. Wright Book Review: \booktitleProbabilistic
Models in the Engineering Sciences,
Volume 1. Random Variables and
Stochastic Processes, by H. J. Larson;
B. O. Schubert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
John Matatko Book Review: \booktitleEstimation Risk
and Optimal Portfolio Choice, by V. S.
Bawa; S. J. Brown; R. Klein . . . . . . 376--376
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
the Theory of Nonparametric Statistics,
by Ronald H. Randles; Douglas A. Wolfe 376--377
D. J. Bartholomew Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing Social
and Educational Research Data, by M. B.
Youngman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Book Review: \booktitleThe Ways and
Means of Statistics, by L. J. Tashman;
K. Lamborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
Ian Plewis Book Review: \booktitleMethodological
Issues in Social Surveys, by Mavis
Maclean; Hazel Genn . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Vic Barnett Book Review: \booktitleStudies in
Statistics, by R. V. Hogg . . . . . . . 379--380
D. G. Clayton Book Review: \booktitleThe Design and
Analysis of Longitudinal Studies: Their
Role in The Measurement of Change, by H.
Goldstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--381
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleForecasting, by
S. Makridakis; S. C. Wheelwright . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 549--552
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
George E. P. Box Sampling and Bayes' Inference in
Scientific Modelling and Robustness . . 383--430
Vijay Verma and
Christopher Scott and
Colm O'Muircheartaigh Sample Designs and Sampling Errors for
the World Fertility Survey . . . . . . . 431--473
D. Holt and
T. M. F. Smith and
P. D. Winter Regression Analysis of Data from Complex
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--487
Anonymous Proceedings of a Special General Meeting
of the Royal Statistical Society . . . . 488--489
Anonymous Proceedings of the One Hundred and
Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting of
the Royal Statistical Society . . . . . 489--490
Anonymous President's Report . . . . . . . . . . . 491--493
Anonymous Honorary Treasurer's Report . . . . . . 494--494
Anonymous Annual Report of the Council . . . . . . 495--517
Cedric A. B. Smith Book Review: \booktitleThe Geometry of
Population Genetics, by Ethan Akin . . . 518--518
P. Holgate Book Review: \booktitleProbabilistic
Analysis and Related Topics. Volume 2,
by A. T. Barucha-Reid . . . . . . . . . 518--519
R. K. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleThe Good City. A
Study of Urban Development and Policy in
Britain, by David Domison; Paul Soto . . 519--520
M. J. R. Healy Book Review: \booktitleFitting Equations
to Data, 2nd Ed, by C. Daniel; F. S.
Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--520
R. M. Loynes Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Methods: A Tool for Data Analysis, by
Rudolf J. Freund; Paul D. Minton . . . . 520--521
K. E. Spitz Book Review: \booktitleSurveys, by
Telephone, A National Comparison with
Personal Interviews. by Robert M.
Groves; Robert L. Kahn . . . . . . . . . 521--522
Fred Lewes Book Review: \booktitleRegional
Demographic Development, by John
Hobcraft; Phillip Rees . . . . . . . . . 522--522
R. K. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleModern Theories
of Income Distribution, by M. C. Howard 523--523
M. Knott Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Statistical Inference, by J. G.
Kalbfleisch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--524
F. H. C. Marriott Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Analysis V, by P. R. Krishnaiah . . . . 524--524
M. Knott Book Review: \booktitleLattice Path
Counting and Applications, by Sri Gopal
Mohanty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--525
G. J. A. Stern Book Review: \booktitleMultidimensional
Spatial Data and Decision Analysis, by
Peter Nijkamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--526
H. C. Hillmann Book Review: \booktitleCapital Formation
in India, by Bina Roy . . . . . . . . . 526--527
K. D. Glazebrook Book Review: \booktitleRandom Processes:
A First Look, by R. Syski . . . . . . . 527--527
E. Grebenik Norman Henry Carrier, 1913--1979 . . . . 528--529
E. Joyce Snell Donald Gordon Beech, 1914--1979 . . . . 529--529
Anonymous Recent Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 530--548
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. Meisner and
F. Demirmen The Creaming Method: A Bayesian
Procedure to Forecast Future Oil and Gas
Discoveries in Mature Exploration
Provinces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--31
Peter G. Moore The Wilson Committee Review of the
Functioning of Financial Institutions
--- Some Statistical Aspects . . . . . . 32--65
Marion Diamond and
Mervyn Stone Nightingale on Quetelet . . . . . . . . 66--79
Miron L. Straf Revenue Allocation by Regression:
National Health Service Appropriations
for Teaching Hospitals . . . . . . . . . 80--84
S. Weerahandi and
J. V. Zidek Multi-Bayesian Statistical Decision
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93
Donald Leach Re-Evaluation of the Logistic Curve for
Human Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 94--103
R. J. Churnside and
S. W. Creigh Strike Activity and Plant Size: A Note 104--111
D. J. Bartholomew The Tax and Price Index . . . . . . . . 112--112
C. Chatfield Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing Time
Series, by O. D. Anderson . . . . . . . 113--113
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Experiments, by M. N. Das;
N. C. Giri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
I. D. Hill Book Review: \booktitleA Comparative
Review of Statistical Software, by Ivor
Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
B. W. Silverman Book Review: \booktitleReversibility and
Stochastic Networks, by F. P. Kelly . . 114--115
D. J. G. Farlie Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Computing, by William J. Kennedy; James
E. Gentle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
R. Ahmad Book Review: \booktitleAsymptotic
Statistics, by P. Mandl; M. Huskova . . 116--116
G. B. Wetherill Book Review: \booktitleTables for Normal
Tolerance Limits, Sampling Plans and
Screening, by R. E. Odeh; D. B. Owen . . 116--117
P. G. Moore Book Review: \booktitleModel Building
for Decision Analysis, by B. H. P.
Rivett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Recent Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 118--143
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
D. M. Titterington and
G. D. Murray and
L. S. Murray and
D. J. Spiegelhalter and
A. M. Skene and
J. D. F. Habbema and
G. J. Gelpke Comparison of Discrimination Techniques
Applied to a Complex Data Set of Head
Injured Patients . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--175
Marion Diamond and
Mervyn Stone Nightingale on Quetelet II: The
Marginalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--213
R. A. Bailey A Unified Approach to Design of
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--223
F. G. Forsyth and
R. F. Fowler The Theory and Practice of Chain Price
Index Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--246
G. J. G. Upton and
B. Sarlvik A Loyalty-Distance Model for Voting
Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--259
D. Holt Book Review: \booktitleDiscrete
Statistical Models with Social Science
Applications, by Erling B. Andersen . . 260--260
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleTime Series, by
O. D. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
P. J. Diggle Book Review: \booktitleExploratory and
Explanatory Statistical Analysis of
Spatial Data, by C. A. P. Bartels; R. H.
Ketellapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
F. R. Oliver Book Review: \booktitleGuide to Official
Statistics. No. 3, by Central
Statistical Office . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
S. C. Richardson Book Review: \booktitleSpatial and
Temporal Analysis in Ecology, by R. M.
Cormack; J. K. Ord . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
R. A. Elton Book Review: \booktitleBMDP-79:
Biomedical Computer Programs, P-Series,
by W. J. Dixon; M. B. Brown . . . . . . 263--264
D. E. Walters Book Review: \booktitleRandomization
Tests, by E. S. Edgington . . . . . . . 264--264
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Population Genetics, by W. J. Ewens . . 264--265
D. Cooke Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Modelling in Biology and Ecology, by W.
M. Getz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Qualitative Data: Vol. 2, New
Developments, by S. J. Haberman . . . . 266--266
D. J. Finney Book Review: \booktitleBioassay, by J.
J. Hubert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
A. W. F. Edwards Book Review: \booktitleScience, Belief
and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R. B.
Braithwaite, by D. H. Mellor . . . . . . 267--267
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleThe Linear
Hypothesis; A General Theory, 2nd
Edition, by G. A. F. Seber . . . . . . . 268--268
J. C. Gittins Book Review: \booktitleFinite
Generalised Markov Programming, by P. J.
Weeda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269
N. L. Johnson E. S. Pearson, 1895--1980 . . . . . . . 270--271
G. B. Newman Frank Sandon, 1891--1979 . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Recent Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 272--288
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
D. R. Cox Theory and General Principle in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--297
S. C. Darby and
J. A. Reissland Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation and
Cancer --- Are We Underestimating the
Risk? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--331
Marion Diamond and
Mervyn Stone Nightingale on Quetelet III: Essay in
Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--351
Charlotte Lythe and
Madhavi Majmudar Scottish Gross Domestic Product
Statistics for 1961--71 . . . . . . . . 352--359
Iain D. Currie Further Percentage Points of Greenwood's
Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--363
M. A. Stephens Further Percentage Points for
Greenwood's Statistic . . . . . . . . . 364--366
W. W. Muir Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Diagnostics: Identifying Influential
Data and Sources of Collinearity, by D.
A. Belsley; E. Kuh; R. E. Welsch . . . . 367--368
P. S. Carroll Book Review: \booktitleTechniques for
Making Functional Population
Projections, by D. J. Bogue; S. Bischler 368--368
P. J. Diggle Book Review: \booktitleEstimation of
Density from Line Transect Sampling of
Biological Populations, by K. P.
Burnham; D. R. Anderson; J. L. Laake . . 369--369
H. W. Peers Book Review: \booktitleAsymptotic Theory
of Statistical Tests and Estimation: In
Honor of Wassily Hoeffding, by I. M.
Chakravarti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
H. Tong Book Review: \booktitleThe Analysis of
Time Series: An Introduction, by C.
Chatfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitlePractical
Nonparametric Statistics, by W. J.
Conover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
M. Stone Book Review: \booktitleInference and
Linear Models, by D. A. S. Fraser . . . 371--371
D. A. H. Thomas Book Review: \booktitleA First Course in
Statistics, by A. Greer . . . . . . . . 372--372
F. Critchley Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Statistical Analysis: Proceedings of the
Research Seminar at Dalhousie
University, Halifax, October 5th--7th,
1979, by R. P. Gupta . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
W. W. Muir Book Review: \booktitleTesting the
Constancy of Regression Models Over
Time, by P. Hackl . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
O. B. Chedzoy Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Statistical Analysis, by D. L. Harnett;
J. L. Murphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
O. B. Chedzoy Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Statistics, by M. R. Heyworth; J. R.
Sealy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
M. B. Priestley Book Review: \booktitleThe Advanced
Theory of Statistics, Vol. 2: Inference
and Decision, by M. Kendal; A. Stuart 375--375
R. K. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleVariety, Equity
and Efficiency, by K. Lancaster . . . . 375--376
C. K. Wright Book Review: \booktitleProbabilistic
Models in Engineering Sciences, Vol. II:
Random Noise, Signals and Dynamic
Systems, by H. J. Larson; B. O. Shubert 376--376
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of
Statistics: A Survey for Managers, by P.
Montagnon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
J. Bibby Book Review: \booktitleProbability:
Inequalities in Multivariate
Distributions, by Y. L. Tong . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Recent Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 378--387
P. A. P. Moran Corrigenda: The Random Division of an
Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
I. D. Hill Corrigenda: Approximating the
Distribution of Greenwood's Statistic
with Johnson Distributions . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 557--560
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. F. Bissell and
W. A. Pridmore The UK Average Quantity System and its
Statistical Implications . . . . . . . . 389--418
Murray Aitkin and
Dorothy Anderson and
John Hinde Statistical Modelling of Data on
Teaching Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--461
R. Mead and
Janet Riley A Review of Statistical Ideas Relevant
to Intercropping Research . . . . . . . 462--509
Anonymous Proceedings of the One Hundred and
Forty-Seventh Annual General Meeting of
The Royal Statistical Society . . . . . 510--510
Anonymous Proceedings of a Special General Meeting
of The Royal Statistical Society . . . . 510--511
Anonymous Honorary Treasurer's Report . . . . . . 512--512
Anonymous Annual Report of the Council . . . . . . 513--536
W. J. R. Eplett Book Review: \booktitleNonparametric
Sequential Selection Procedures, by H.
Buringer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--537
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Related Topics, by M. Csorgo; D. A.
Dawson; J. N. K. Rao; A. K. Md. E. Saleh 108--109
John F. Osborn Book Review: \booktitleBiostatistics: A
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Sciences, by Wayne W. Daniel . . . . . . 109--110
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Calculus and Applications, by R. J.
Elliott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
J. Q. Smith Book Review: \booktitleSpecifying
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Florens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
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D. Freedman; \booktitleBrownian Motion
and Diffusion, by D. Freedman;
\booktitleApproximation Countable
Chains, by D. Freedman . . . . . . . . . 111--112
G. E. Thomas Book Review: \booktitleMatrices with
Applications in Statistics, by F. A.
Graybill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
D. Collett Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis, by
David C. Hoaglin; Frederick Mosteller;
John W. Tukey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
J. M. Hammersley Book Review: \booktitlePercolation
Theory for Mathematicians, by Harry
Kesten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
J. A. Bather Book Review: \booktitleProbability,
Statistics and Analysis, by J. F. C.
Kingman; G. E. H. Reuter . . . . . . . . 114--115
D. A. L. Wilson Book Review: \booktitleShort Term
Forecasting: An Introduction to the
Box-Jenkins Approach, by Thomas M.
O'Donovan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
M. J. Campbell Book Review: \booktitleEnvironmental
Epidemiology: Risk Assessment, by Ross
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F. Yates Book Review: \booktitleNeyman--From
Life, by Constance Reid . . . . . . . . 116--118
M. J. R. Healy Book Review: \booktitleNewer Concepts in
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Policy, by P. V. Sukhatme . . . . . . . 118--119
Eric Renshaw Book Review: \booktitleCapture-Recapture
and Removal Methods for Sampling Closed
Populations, by G. C. White; D. R.
Anderson; K. P. Burnham; D. L. Otis . . 119--119
R. L. Plackett John Anthony Anderson, 1939--1983 . . . 120--120
Alan Stuart Sir Maurice Kendall, 1907--1983 . . . . 120--122
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I. D. Hill Statistical Society of London--Royal
Statistical Society: The First 100
Years: 1834--1934 . . . . . . . . . . . 130--139
R. L. Plackett Royal Statistical Society: The Last
Fifty Years; 1934--84 . . . . . . . . . 140--150
J. A. Nelder Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Statistical Computing . . . . . . . . . 151--160
J. Durbin Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views: Time
Series Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--173
John Boreham Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Official Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 174--185
D. J. Newell Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Medical Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 186--197
Robin Sibson Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Multivariate Analysis . . . . . . . . . 198--207
T. M. F. Smith Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--221
A. R. Thatcher Topic of Public Interest: The 1981
Census of Population in England and
Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--232
J. F. C. Kingman Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Probability and Random Processes . . . . 233--244
A. F. M. Smith Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Bayesian Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 245--259
Harvey Goldstein Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Statistics in the Social Sciences . . . 260--267
Peter G. Moore Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Statistics in Business and Commerce . . 268--277
A. P. Dawid Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Statistical Theory: The Prequential
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--292
M. B. Beck Topic of Public Interest: Water Quality 293--305
D. R. Cox Present Position and Potential
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Design of Experiments and Regression . . 306--315
A. Baines Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Industrial Statistics and Operational
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--326
David F. Hendry Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Time-Series Econometrics . . . . . . . . 327--339
B. D. Ripley Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Statistics in the Natural Sciences . . . 340--348
R. N. Curnow Present Position and Potential
Developments: Some Personal Views:
Statistics in Biometry and Agriculture 349--358
D. V. Lindley Prospects for the Future: The Next 50
Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--367
M. J. R. Healy Prospects for the Future: Where has
Statistics Failed? . . . . . . . . . . . 368--374
S. Rosenbaum The Growth of the Royal Statistical
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--388
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Alan J. Miller Selection of Subsets of Regression
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--425
F. Yates Tests of Significance for $ 2 \times 2 $
Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 426--463
R. J. Lawrence The Lognormal Distribution of the
Duration of Strikes . . . . . . . . . . 464--483
A. A. Weiss and
A. P. Andersen Estimating Time Series Models Using the
Relevant Forecast Evaluation Criterion 484--487
Evdokia Xekalaki The Bivariate Generalized Waring
Distribution and its Application to
Accident Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--498
Roger H. Bezdek Tests of Three Hypotheses Relating to
the Leontief Input-Output Model . . . . 499--509
Anonymous [List of Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . 510--510
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Forecasting, by Bovas
Abraham; Johannes Ledolter . . . . . . . 511--511
J. Radcliffe Book Review: \booktitleThe
Biomathematics of Malaria, by Norman T.
J. Bailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--512
S. J. Daldry Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Applied Probability, by G. P. Beaumont 512--512
R. P. Smith Book Review: \booktitlePolitical Aspects
of the Economy, by V. K. Borooah; F. Van
der Ploeg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--513
M. J. R. Healy Book Review: \booktitleGraphical Methods
for Data Analysis, by J. M. Chambers; W.
S. Cleveland; B. Kleiner; P. A. Tukey 513--513
F. R. Latham Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Technology (A Course in Applied
Statistics), by C. Chatfield . . . . . . 513--514
M. S. Bartlett Book Review: \booktitlePao-Lu Hsu:
Collected Papers by K. L. Chung; C.-S.
Cheng; T.-P. Chiang . . . . . . . . . . 514--515
T. F. Cox Book Review: \booktitleSpatial
Processes: Models and Applications, by
A. D. Cliff; J. K. Ord . . . . . . . . . 515--515
Alan Stuart Book Review: \booktitleContribution to
Statistics, by William G. Cochran . . . 515--515
Frank Critchley Book Review: \booktitle(a) The User's
Guide to Multidimensional Scaling, by A.
P. M. Coxon; P. M. Davies; (b) Key texts
in Multidimensional Scaling. by P. M.
Davies; A. P. M. Coxon . . . . . . . . . 516--516
G. J. G. Upton Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Statistical Modelling, by Annette J.
Dobson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--516
David Newell Book Review: \booktitleEvidence, Proof
and Probability, by Richard Eggleston 517--517
B. W. Silverman Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced Methods
of Data Exploration and Modelling, by B.
S. Everitt; G. Dunn . . . . . . . . . . 517--518
G. A. Barnard Book Review: \booktitleThe Making of
Statisticians, by J. Gani . . . . . . . 518--519
David Oakes Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Practice, by Sheila M. Gore; Douglas G.
Altman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--519
J. Q. Smith Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Decision Theory and Related Topics III,
by S. S. Gupta; J. O. Berger . . . . . . 520--520
R. M. Loynes Book Review: \booktitleMartingale Limit
Theory and its Application, by P. Hall;
C. C. Heyde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--521
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleRecent Trends in
Statistics, by S. Heiler . . . . . . . . 521--521
J. C. Higgins Book Review: \booktitleRisk Analysis and
its Applications, by D. B. Hertz; H.
Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--522
R. N. Curnow Book Review: \booktitleUtilitas
Mathematica Volumes 21A and 21B, May
1982, by Frank Yates; A. M. Herzberg . . 522--522
M. J. R. Healy Book Review: \booktitleNew Trends in
Data Analysis and Applications, by J.
Janssen; J. F. Marcotorchino; J. M.
Proth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--523
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleThe Advanced
Theory of Statistics, Vol. 3: Design and
Analysis and Time Series, by M. G.
Kendall; A. Stuart; J. K. Ord . . . . . 523--523
D. E. Barton Book Review: \booktitleEncyclopedia of
Statistical Sciences Vol. I: A-Circular
Probable Error, by S. Kotz; N. L.
Johnson; \booktitleEncyclopedia of
Statistical Sciences Vol. II:
Classification-Eye Estimate, by S. Kotz;
N. L. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--524
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleDevelopments in
Statistics, Vol. 4, by Paruchuri R.
Krishnaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--525
G. E. Thomas Book Review: \booktitleA Course in
Linear Models, by A. M. Kshirsagar . . . 525--526
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleStationary
Processes in Time Series Analysis: The
Mathematical Foundations, by P. J.
Lambert; D. S. Poskett . . . . . . . . . 526--526
R. L. Plackett Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
Linear Models, by P. McCullagh; J. A.
Nelder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--527
P. Whittle Book Review: \booktitlePrediction Theory
and Harmonic Analysis, by V. Mandrekar;
H. Salehi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--527
F. R. Oliver Book Review: \booktitleSlower Growth in
the Western World, by R. C. O. Matthews 527--528
G. E. Thomas Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Agriculture and Experimental
Biology, by R. Mead; R. N. Curnow . . . 528--529
J. C. Higgins Book Review: \booktitleThe Business of
Risk, by P. G. Moore . . . . . . . . . . 529--529
D. J. Pike Book Review: \booktitleApplied Linear
Statistical Methods, by Donald F.
Morrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--530
Andrew Harvey Book Review: \booktitleRandom
Coefficient Autoregressive Models: An
Introduction, by D. F. Nicholls; B. G.
Quinn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--531
S. J. Daldry Book Review: \booktitleTheoretical
Exercises in Probability and Statistics,
by N. A. Rahman . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--531
M. J. R. Healy Book Review: \booktitleNon-Linear
Regression Modelling: A Unified
Practical Approach, by D. A. Ratkowsky 531--532
R. J. Martin Book Review: \booktitleSpatial
Statistics, by Brian D. Ripley . . . . . 532--533
G. J. Janacek Book Review: \booktitlePhysical
Applications of Stationary Time-Series,
by E. A. Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . 533--534
Cedric A. B. Smith Book Review: \booktitleContributions to
Statistics: Essays in Honour of
Professor Norman L. Johnson, by P. K.
Sen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--534
B. D. Ripley Book Review: \booktitleStatistics on
Spheres, by Geoffrey S. Watson . . . . . 534--535
J. C. Gittins Book Review: \booktitleOptimality and
Efficiency, by D. J. White . . . . . . . 535--536
Bernard Benjamin Professor Robert Eric Beard, OBE,
1911--1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--537
Raul Pedro Mentz Carlos Eugenio Dieulefait, 1901--1982 537--538
Tom Corlett Percy George Gray, 1916--1983 . . . . . 538--539
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R. J. Taffler and
B. Abassi Country Risk: A Model for Predicting
Debt Servicing Problems in Developing
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--568
Anonymous Assessment of Examination Performance in
Different Types of Schools . . . . . . . 569--581
El-Sayed Nour and
C. M. Suchindran Multi-State Mortality by Cause of Death:
A Life Table Analysis . . . . . . . . . 582--597
B. Benjamin The Statistics Users' Council: A Note 598--599
Mike West Bayesian Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . 600--607
M. J. R. Healy The Use of $ R^2 $ as a Measure of
Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--609
S. J. Taylor Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 610--610
P. A. Blight Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 610--611
Peter J. Diggle Book Review: \booktitleComputing in
Statistical Science through APL, by
Francis Anscombe . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--611
Clive Osmond Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Analysis of Survival Data in Cancer
Chemotherapy, by Walter H. Carter; Galen
L. Wampler; Donald M. Stablein . . . . . 611--612
V. T. Farewell Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Cancer Studies, by R. G.
Cornell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--613
James Davidson Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
Econometrics, by Julia Hebden . . . . . 613--614
P. J. Bunn Book Review: \booktitleDice, Data and
Decisions, by K. W. Kemp . . . . . . . . 614--614
M. Goldstein Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability Theory and Statistical
Inference, by Harold J. Larson . . . . . 614--615
Philip J. Brown Book Review: \booktitleTheory of Point
Estimation, by E. L. Lehmann . . . . . . 615--615
Colin Sparrow Book Review: \booktitleThe Fractal
Geometry of Nature, by B. Mandelbrot . . 616--618
Tom Fearn Book Review: \booktitleFood Research and
Data Analysis, by Harald Martens;
Hellmut Russwurm . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--619
J. B. Curram Book Review: \booktitleAttribute
Sampling Plans, Tables of Tests and
Confidence Limits for Proportions, by R.
E. Odeh; D. B. Owen . . . . . . . . . . 619--619
R. A. Doney Book Review: \booktitleA First Course in
Probability, by Sheldon Ross . . . . . . 619--620
D. S. Poskitt Book Review: \booktitlePrediction and
Regulation, by Linear Least-Squares
Methods. by Peter Whittle . . . . . . . 620--620
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G. J. Goodhardt and
A. S. C. Ehrenberg and
C. Chatfield The Dirichlet: A Comprehensive Model of
Buying Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--655
Paul R. Rosenbaum The Consequences of Adjustment for a
Concomitant Variable That Has Been
Affected by the Treatment . . . . . . . 656--666
Anonymous Proceedings of a Special General Meeting
of the Royal Statistical Society . . . . 667--667
Anonymous Proceedings of the One Hundred and
Fiftieth Annual General Meeting of the
Royal Statistical Society . . . . . . . 668--668
Anonymous President's Report . . . . . . . . . . . 669--670
Anonymous Honorary Treasurer's Report . . . . . . 671--671
Anonymous Annual Report of the Council . . . . . . 671--696
Keith D. C. Stoodley Book Review: \booktitleTime Series
Analysis: Theory and Practice 2, by O.
D. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--697
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Statistics, Vol. 3: Time Series in the
Frequency Domain, by D. R. Brillinger;
P. R. Krishnaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--698
James Davidson Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Econometrics, Volume 1, by Zvi
Griliches; Michael D. Intriligator;
Kenneth J. Arrow; Michael D.
Intriligator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--699
C. W. Anderson Book Review: \booktitleExtremes and
Related Properties of Random Sequences
and Processes, by M. R. Leadbetter; G.
Lindgren; H. Rootzen . . . . . . . . . . 699--700
S. J. Daldry Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference, by V. K. Rohatgi . . . . . . 700--701
M. A. Moran Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Observations, by G. A. F. Seber . . . . 701--701
C. J. Bulpitt Book Review: \booktitleClinical
Trials--Issues and Approaches, by S. H.
Shapiro; T. A. Louis . . . . . . . . . . 702--702
Edward A. Godall Book Review: \booktitleThe Ideas of
Sampling, by A. Stuart . . . . . . . . . 702--703
Brian D. Bunday Book Review: \booktitleGames, Theory and
Applications, by L. C. Thomas . . . . . 703--703
James Roger Book Review: \booktitleThe Visual
Display of Quantitative Information, by
Edward R. Tufte . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--704
R. Hartley Book Review: \booktitleOptimisation Over
Time: Dynamic Programming and Stochastic
Control, by Peter Whittle . . . . . . . 704--705
E. Grebenik Roy George Douglas Allen 1906--1983 . . 706--707
O. Kempthorne and
K. A. Fox and
W. A. Fuller Gerhard Tintner, 1907--1983 . . . . . . 707--708
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R. J. Bennett and
R. P. Haining Spatial Structure and Spatial
Interaction: Modelling Approaches to the
Statistical Analysis of Geographical
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36
P. D. Oldham The Fluoridation of the Strathclyde
Regional Council's Water Supply: Opinion
of Lord Jauncey in Causa Mrs Catherine
McColl against Strathclyde Regional
Council: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
Murray Aitkin and
Robert Healey Statistical Modelling of Unemployment
Rates from the EEC Labour Force Survey 45--56
R. L. Plackett A Tribute to Sir Harry Campion . . . . . 57--58
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleTime Series
Analysis: Theory and Practice, by O. D.
Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
A. P. Dawid Book Review: \booktitleRobustness of
Bayesian Analyses, by Joseph B. Kadane 59--60
P. Duncombe Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Descriptive Statistical Analysis:
Correspondence Analysis and Related
Techniques for Large Matrices, by L.
Lebart; A. Morineau; K. M. Warwick . . . 60--61
K. D. C. Stoodley Book Review: \booktitleTime Series and
Systems Analysis with Applications, by
S. M. Pandit; S. M. Wu . . . . . . . . . 61--62
M. K. Palmer Book Review: \booktitleClinical Trials:
A Pratical Approach, by S. J. Pocock . . 62--63
Vic Barnett Book Review: \booktitleStatistics Theory
and Practice. Selected Papers, by
Maurice Kendall (1907--1983). by Alan
Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Signal Processing, by Edward J. Wegman;
James G. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Patrick Carroll Book Review: \booktitlePractical
Statistical Sampling for Auditors, by
Arthur J. Wilburn . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Henry Daniels Frank Downton 1925--84 . . . . . . . . . 65--66
Maurice Bartlett Hilary Latham Seal, 1911--1984 . . . . . 66--66
L. Schmetterer Wilheim Winkler, 1884--1984 . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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W. F. Bodmer Understanding Statistics . . . . . . . . 69--81
David Clayton and
Jack Cuzick Multivariate Generalizations of the
Proportional Hazards Model . . . . . . . 82--117
E. Seneta A Sketch of the History of Survey
Sampling in Russia . . . . . . . . . . . 118--125
J. D. Brant and
S. M. Chalk The Use of Automatic Editing in the 1981
Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--146
John McDonald and
G. D. Snooks Statistical Analysis of Domesday Book
(1086) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--160
Anonymous Proceedings of a Special General Meeting
of the Royal Statistical Society . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Robert Charles Geary, 1896--1983 . . . . 162--162
J. Whittaker Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Ordinal Categorical Data, by Alan
Agresti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
C. J. Skinner Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Multivariate Statistical Analysis, by
T. W. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Bev Littlewood Book Review: \booktitleRepairable
Systems Reliability: Modelling,
Inference, Misconceptions and their
Causes, by H. Ascher; H. Feingold . . . 165--165
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitleOutliers in
Statistical Data, by Vic Barnett; Toby
Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
D. J. G. Farlie Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Research and Production with
Special Reference to the Chemical
Industry, by O. L. Davies; P. L.
Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--167
C. J. Skinner Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Latent Variable Models, by B. S.
Everitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
D. S. Poskitt Book Review: \booktitleAlternative
Approaches to Time Series Analysis, by
J. P. Florens; M. Mouchart; J. P.
Raouls; L. Simar . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
M. Farrow Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Modelling, by Warren Gilchrist . . . . . 168--168
R. L. Plackett Book Review: \booktitleThe Analysis of
Cross-Classified Data having Ordered
Categories, by Leo A. Goodman; Clifford
C. Clogg; Otis Dudley Duncan . . . . . . 168--169
Alexander H. Shand Book Review: \booktitleMoney, Capital
and Fluctuations: Early Essays, by F. A.
Hayek; Roy McCloughrey . . . . . . . . . 169--170
B. P. Emmett Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Causal Analysis: Exploring Survey Data
by Cross-Tabulation, by Ottar Hellevik 170--170
M. J. Gardner Book Review: \booktitleA Short Textbook
of Medical Statistics, by Austin
Bradford Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--171
I. D. Hill Book Review: \booktitleCharles Babbage
--- Pioneer of the Computer, by Anthony
Hyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Simulation, by Byron J. T. Morgan . . . 172--172
M. Bhaskara Rao Book Review: \booktitleGeneral
Irreducible Markov Chains and
Non-Negative Operators, by E. Nummelin 172--172
A. Spooner Book Review: \booktitleW. G. Cochran's
Impact on Statistics, by P. S. R. S.
Rao; J. Sedransk . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
M. T. Barlow Book Review: \booktitleProbability, by
A. N. Shiryayev; R. P. Boas . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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T. M. F. Smith and
W. B. Wakefield and
I. Diamond and
D. E. Barton Projections of Student Numbers in Higher
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--213
C. Chatfield The Initial Examination of Data . . . . 214--253
W. Narendranthan and
S. Nickell and
D. Metcalf An Investigation into the Incidence and
Dynamic Structure of Sickness and
Unemployment in Britain, 1965--75 . . . 254--267
D. Pfeffermann and
D. J. Holmes Robustness Considerations in the Choice
of a Method of Inference for Regression
Analysis of Survey Data . . . . . . . . 268--278
H. Campion J. W. Nixon, 1888--1985 . . . . . . . . 279--279
M. B. Priestley Book Review: \booktitleThe Collected
Works of John W. Tukey. Volume 1: Time
Series, 1949--1964, by D. R. Brillinger 280--280
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleCompstat
Lectures. Volumes 2 and 3. Lectures in
Computational Statistics, by J. M.
Chambers; J. Gordesch; A. Klas; L.
Lebart; P. P. Sint . . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
F. van der Ploeg Book Review: \booktitleOperations
Research and Economic Theory (Essays in
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Samy Suissa and
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Robert J. Henery On the Average Probability of Losing
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Norman R. Draper Corrections: The Box--Wetz Criterion
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D. Pfeffermann and
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for Regression Analysis of Survey Data 357--357
Anonymous Proceedings of a Special General Meeting
of the Royal Statistical Society . . . . 358--358
Anonymous Proceedings of the 151st Annual General
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Anonymous President's Report . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364
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Byron Jones Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
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J. C. Duffy and
R. W. Latcham Liver Cirrhosis Mortality in England and
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Freda Conway Statistics in Schools . . . . . . . . . 60--64
Graham Kalton and
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A. J. Swerdlow Cancer Registration in England and
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R. L. Chambers Design-Adjusted Parameter Estimation . . 161--173
Helmut Pruscha A Note on Time Series Analysis of Yearly
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Nicky Hart Inequalities in Health: The Individual
versus the Environment . . . . . . . . . 228--246
R. L. Plackett The Old Statistical Account . . . . . . 247--251
D. V. Lindley Bruno de Finetti, 1906--1985 . . . . . . 252--252
I. T. Jolliffe and
B. Jones and
B. J. T. Morgan Comparison of Cluster Analyses of the
English Personal Social Services
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Sequential Allocation of Experiments, by
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J. M. O. Mitchell Book Review: \booktitleComputer Science
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Dey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
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Statistical Inference, by J. D. Gibbons 275--275
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by D. V. Lindley . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
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A. C. Brewer and
R. Mead Continuous Second Order Models of
Spatial Variation with Application to
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Alan Stuart Location-Shifts in Sampling with Unequal
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--365
Gilbert Mackenzie A Proportional Hazard Model for Accident
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--375
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Anonymous Honorary Treasurer's Report . . . . . . 377--377
Anonymous Annual Report of the Council . . . . . . 377--401
Anonymous Proceedings of the 152nd Annual General
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the Social and Life Sciences: Theories,
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B. T. Porteous Book Review: \booktitlePatterns
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Rusell Lloyd Book Review: \booktitleDirectory of
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David Cox and
Joyce Snell Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale, F.R.S.,
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Monica A. Walker Interpreting Race and Crime Statistics 39--56
John Creedy Variations in Earnings and
Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68
A. W. Goudie Forecasting Corporate Failure: The Use
of Discriminant Analysis within a
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A. D. Gordon A Review of Hierarchical Classification 119--137
W. F. Maunder and
M. C. Fleming Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical
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Nalin Kulatilaka Decomposing Production Efficiency into
Technical, Allocative and Structural
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Distribution on the Cost of Delivering
Local Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--166
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Transformations and Regression: An
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Diagnostic Regression Analysis, by A. C.
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William S. Cleveland and
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Unlisted Numbers in Telephone Surveys in
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Sambandham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
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Statistics: The Approach Based on
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M. Ronchetti; P. J. Rousseeuw; W. A.
Stahel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
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Statistical Methods and Nonparametric
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Arthur E. Renshaw Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Finite Mixture
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Heather Joshi Book Review: \booktitleWomen and Equal
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Michael P. Weitzman The Evolution of Manuscript Traditions 287--308
M. E. Derbyshire Statistical Rationale for Grant-Related
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D. J. Hand A Statistical Knowledge Enhancement
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--345
Ernest Rudd The Educational Qualifications and
Social Class of the Parents of
Undergraduates Entering British
Universities in 1984 . . . . . . . . . . 346--372
Richard Doll Major Epidemics of the 20th Century:
From Coronary Thrombosis to AIDS . . . . 373--395
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Analysis of Compositional Data, by J.
Aitchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
J. Pemberton Book Review: \booktitleComputer Science
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Seventeenth Symposium on the Interface,
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R. I. Cooper Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Statistical Methods: A Primer, by B. F.
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Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--402
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Censored Samples from Normal
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David Warren Book Review: \booktitleDensity
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M. S. Bartlett Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
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Stigler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--405
J. C. Gower Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Image
Processing and Graphics, by Edward J.
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Anonymous Proceedings of the 153rd Annual General
Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society 406--406
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Anonymous Journal of the Royal Statistical
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Society) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Anonymous [Introduction] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Valerie Isham Mathematical Modelling of the
Transmission Dynamics of HIV Infection
and AIDS: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . 5--30 + 44--49
Norman T. J. Bailey Simplified Modelling of the Population
Dynamics of HIV/AIDS . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
A. D. Wilkie An Actual Model for AIDS . . . . . . . . 35--39
M. E. Jones and
P. J. Solomon A Note on the Concept of the Incubation
Period in HIV Infection . . . . . . . . 40--42
Jesper Lier Boldsen and
Jens Ledet Jensen and
Jes Sogaard and
Michael Sorensen On the Incubation Time Distribution and
the Danish AIDS Data . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
M. J. R. Healy and
H. E. Tillett Short-Term Extrapolation of the AIDS
Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--65
Roy M. Anderson The Epidemiology of HIV Infection:
Variable Incubation Plus Infectious
Periods and Heterogeneity in Sexual
Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--98
Anne M. Johnson Social and Behavioural Aspects of the
HIV Epidemic --- A Review . . . . . . . 99--119
V. Isham and
M. J. R. Healy and
H. E. Tillett and
R. M. Anderson and
A. M. Johnson Authors' Reply to the Discussion . . . . 120--126
John Kingman and
J. Durbin and
David Cox and
M. J. R. Healy Statistical Requirements of the AIDS
Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--130
Jonathan M. Mann Statement at an Informal Briefing on
AIDS to the 42nd Session of the United
Nations General Assembly . . . . . . . . 131--136
D. J. Bartholomew Probability, Statistics and Theology . . 137--178
J. C. Gower Statistics and Agriculture . . . . . . . 179--200
R. M. Cormack Statistical Challenges in the
Environmental Sciences: A Personal View 201--210
Martin Weale The Reconciliation of Values, Volumes
and Prices in the National Accounts . . 211--221
D. W. Salt Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Random Variables, by G. P. Beaumont . . 222--223
Michael Goldstein Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Statistics 2: Proceedings on the Second
Valencia International Meeting,
September 6--10th 1983, by J. M.
Bernardo; M. H. De Groot; D. V. Lindley;
A. F. M. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Derek J. Pike Book Review: \booktitleEmpirical
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Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225
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D. McHale Book Review: \booktitleMethodes
Pratiques de la Statistique, by T.
Foucart; A. Bensaber; R. Garneri . . . . 226--226
Roger J. Owen Book Review: \booktitleDecision Theory:
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Rationality, by Simon French . . . . . . 227--227
F. Wharton Book Review: \booktitleOperational
Research Techniques, by S. French; R.
Hartley; L. C. Thomas; D. J. White . . . 227--228
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Hoaglin; F. Mosteller; J. W. Tukey . . . 228--229
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I. Mikheev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
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Microcomputing in Pascal, by J. H.
Klotz; R. D. Meyer . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
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Statistics: Twenty Lesson and Seminar
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D. C. M. Dickson Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
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J. Umphrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
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Meinhert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Clive Osmond Book Review: \booktitleModern
Statistical Methods in Chronic Disease
Epidemiology, by S. H. Moolgavkar; R. L.
Prentice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
L. Dixon Book Review: \booktitleFinite Algorithms
in Optimization and Data Analysis, by M.
R. Osbourne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
C. J. Skinner Book Review: \booktitleSmall Area
Statistics: An International Symposium,
by R. Platek; J. N. K. Rao; C. E.
Sarndal; M. P. Singh . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
R. A. Bailey Book Review: \booktitleExperimental
Design: Sample Size Determination and
Block Designs, by D. Rasch; G.
Herrendorfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Nigel Smeeton Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
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D. P. Kennedy Book Review: \booktitleEmpirical
Processes with Applications to
Statistics, by G. R. Shorack; J. A.
Wellner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
B. D. Ripley Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Geometry and its Applications, by D.
Stoyan; W. S. Kendall; J. Mecke . . . . 239--240
P. Davies Book Review: \booktitleKendall's
Advanced Theory of Statistics. Volume 1.
Distribution Theory, by Alan Stuart; J.
Keith Ord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
Geoffrey Grimmett Book Review: \booktitleParadoxes in
Probability Theory and in Mathematical
Statistics, by Gabor J. Szekely . . . . 240--241
Ian Plewis Book Review: \booktitleSurveying
Subjective Phenomena, by Charles F.
Turner; Elizabeth Martin . . . . . . . . 241--242
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
I. D. Hill Some Aspects of Elections--To Fill One
Seat or Many . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--275
S. Rosenbaum 100 Years of Heights and Weights . . . . 276--309
D. R. Cox and
P. J. Solomon A Note on Selective Intervention . . . . 310--315
Ian Plewis Assessing and Understanding the
Educational Progress of Children from
Different Ethnic Groups . . . . . . . . 316--326
R. A. Kempton and
M. Talbot The Development of New Crop Varieties 327--341
Alison MacFarlane and
C. K. McPherson The Quality of Official Health
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--354
John Boreham Statistics in Society, 1838, 1888, 1938 355--358
Austin Bradford Hill Obituary: Dr J. A. Fraser Roberts, CBE,
MA, DSc, FRCP, FRC Psych, FRS . . . . . 359--360
Carol A. C. Wickham Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Medical Research, by P.
Armitage; G. Berry . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
David Stirzaker Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Probability and Queues, by S. Asmussen 362--362
M. J. G. Ansell Book Review:
\booktitleStatistics--Problems and
Solutions, by E. E. Basset . . . . . . . 363--363
M. J. Campbell Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Medical Statistics, by M. Bland . . . 363--364
Rudolf Grübel Book Review: \booktitleÜber Statistische
Methoden bei Punktprozessen, by F. Böker 364--365
I. G. Mackenzie Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Introductory Statistical Methods, by C.
P. Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--365
M. C. Jones Book Review: \booktitleA Course in
Density Estimation, by L. Devroye . . . 365--366
D. J. Hand Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Analysis of Ecological Communities, by
P. G. N. Digby; R. A. Kempton . . . . . 366--367
Edwin Perkins Book Review: \booktitleMarkov Processes,
Characterization and Convergence, by S.
N. Ethier; T. G. Kurtz . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Carl M. O'Brien Book Review: \booktitleA Folio of
Distributions: A Collection of
Theoretical Quantile-Quantile Plots, by
E. B. Fowlkes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
Gordon Cook Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Categorical Data Analysis, by D. H.
Freeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Gordon Cook Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Consultant in Action, by D. J. Hand; B.
S. Everitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Frank Hansford-Miller Book Review: \booktitleJudgement and
Choice: The Psychology of Decision, by
R. M. Hogarth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
H. D. Patterson Book Review: \booktitleCyclic Designs,
by J. A. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Frank Ball Book Review: \booktitlePoint Processes
and Their Statistical Inference, by A.
F. Karr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
R. I. Cooper Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Analysis, by Maurice Kendall . . . . . . 373--374
Keith Tizzard Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Tools
for Simulation Practitioners, by J. P.
C. Kleijnen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleModel Selection,
by H. Linhart; W. Zucchini . . . . . . . 375--375
Chris Chatfield Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis with Missing Data, by R. J. A.
Little; D. B. Rubin . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Carol A. C. Wickham Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Tables for the Design of Clinical
Trials, by D. Machin; M. J. Campbell . . 376--376
George A. Barnard Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 377--377
John F. Bithell Book Review: \booktitle[untitled] . . . 377--378
George A. Barnard Book Review: \booktitleReviews of United
Kingdom Statistical Sources: Volume XIX,
Intellectual Property Rights, by W. F.
Maunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--378
David McHale Book Review: \booktitleTensor Methods in
Statistics, by P. McCullagh . . . . . . 378--379
P. J. Cheek Book Review: \booktitleItalian
Contributions to the Methodology of
Statistics, by A. Naddeo . . . . . . . . 379--380
V. J. Baston Book Review: \booktitleSurveys in Game
Theory and Related Topics, by H. J. M.
Peters; O. J. Vrieze . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
B. A. Moore Book Review: \booktitlePopulation
Estimation Methods, Canada, by A.
Romaniuc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--381
Michael Stuart Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability and Statistics for Engineers
and Scientists, by S. M. Ross . . . . . 381--382
Martin Weale Book Review: \booktitleNational Accounts
Analysis, by G. Stuvel . . . . . . . . . 382--382
J. B. Copas Book Review: \booktitleRobust Inference,
by M. L. Tiku; W. Y. Tan; N.
Balakrishnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
P. W. Jones Book Review: \booktitleStochastic Games
with Finite State and Action Spaces, by
O. J. Vrieze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 575--576
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
T. J. Cole Fitting Smoothed Centile Curves to
Reference Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--418
Colin B. Begg and
Jesse A. Berlin Publication Bias: A Problem in
Interpreting Medical Data . . . . . . . 419--463
John Seaman and
Johnn Rivers Strategies for the Distribution of
Relief Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--472
G. Günlük-\cSenesen and
J. M. Bates Some Experiments with Methods of
Adjusting Unbalanced Data Matrices . . . 473--490
Nigel Meade A Modified Logistic Model Applied to
Human Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 491--498
R. Raeside The Use of Sigmoids in Modelling and
Forecasting Human Populations . . . . . 499--513
Anonymous President's Report . . . . . . . . . . . 514--514
Anonymous Honorary Treasurer's Report . . . . . . 515--515
Anonymous Annual Report of the Council . . . . . . 515--542
Anonymous Statistics in Society, 1838, 1888, 1938 543--545
R. F. Newby Obituary: Frank Garwood, 1911--88 . . . 546--546
B. W. Conolly Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Analysis of Computer Storage, by O. I.
Aven; E. G. Coffman,; Y. A. Kogan . . . 547--548
Richard J. Boys Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis,
by H. Bozdogan; A. K. Gupta . . . . . . 548--549
Mike West Book Review: \booktitleEconometrics and
Structural Change, by L. D. Broemeling;
H. Tsurumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--550
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleBasic Queueing
Theory, by B. D. Bunday . . . . . . . . 550--550
Denis Mollison Book Review: \booktitleSpatial Aspects
of Influenza Epidemics, by A. D. Cliff;
P. Haggett; J. K. Ord . . . . . . . . . 550--551
John Matatko Book Review: \booktitleUncertainty in
Risk Assessment, Risk Management and
Decision Making, by V. T. Covello; L. B.
Lane; A. Moghissi; V. R. R. Uppuluri . . 551--551
R. G. Scott Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Experiments, by M. N. Das;
N. C. Giri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--552
B. J. R. Bailey Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Statistics, by M. H. DeGroot . . . . . . 552--553
R. J. Martin Book Review: \booktitleSpatial Processes
and Spatial Time Series Analysis, by F.
Droesbeke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--554
N. P. Cockcroft Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Statistics: An Analysis of Variance and
Regression, by O. J. Dunn; V. A. Clark 554--555
M. S. Bingham Book Review: \booktitleLectures on
Topics in Probability Inequalities, by
M. L. Easton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--555
Stephen W. Duffy Book Review: \booktitleClinimetrics, by
A. R. Feinstein . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--556
E. Page Book Review: \booktitleContributions to
the Theory and Applications of
Statistics, a Volume in Honor of Herbert
Solomon, by Herbert Solomon; A. E.
Gelfand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--557
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleNon-Negative
Matrices and Applicable Topics in Linear
Algebra, by A. Graham . . . . . . . . . 557--558
I. T. Jolliffe Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate Data
Analysis with Readings, by J. F. Hair,;
R. E. Anderson; R. L. Tatham . . . . . . 558--559
Joe N. Perry Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
Comparison Procedures, by Y. Hochberg;
A. C. Tamhane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--560
A. V. Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitleEcology of
Photosynthetic Prokaryotes, by T.
Lindholm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560--560
R. H. Glendinning Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in the
Statistical Sciences: Volume I, Applied
Probability, Stochastic Processes, and
Sampling Theory, by I. B. MacNeill; G.
J. Umphrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560--561
Ed. McKenzie Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in the
Statistical Sciences: Volume IV,
Stochastic Hydrology, by I. B. MacNeill;
G. J. Umphrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--561
Johnathan Aylen Book Review: \booktitleReviews of United
Kingdom Statistical Sources: Volume XVI,
Iron and Steel and Shipbuilding, by W.
F. Maunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--562
P. Curwen Book Review: \booktitleReviews of United
Kingdom Statistical: Volume XXII,
Printing and Publishing, by W. F.
Maunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--563
Frank Critchley Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate Data
Analysis, by F. Murtagh; A. Heck . . . . 563--564
Martin Crowder Book Review: \booktitleAsymptotic Theory
of Statistical Inference, by B. L. S.
Prakasa Rao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--565
C. D. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Simulation, by B. D. Ripley . . . . . . 565--567
Roger A. Sugden Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys,
by D. B. Rubin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--567
Philip V. Bertrand Book Review: \booktitleAkaike
Information Criterion Statistics, by Y.
Sakamoto; M. Ishiguro; G. Kitagawa . . . 567--568
G. J. Janacek Book Review: \booktitleMaximum Entropy
and Bayesian Spectral Analysis and
Estimation Problems, by C. R. Smith; G.
Erickson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--569
Andris Abakuks Book Review: \booktitleSalt Lab:
Microcomputer-Based Practical Classes
and Demonstrations for Teaching Basic
Statistical Concepts, by W. D. Stirling 569--569
D. Easton Book Review: \booktitleCancer Modeling,
by J. R. Thompson; B. W. Brown . . . . . 570--570
Lindsay Paterson Book Review: \booktitleOptimal Paired
Comparison Designs for Factorial
Experimets, by E. E. M. Van Berkum . . . 570--571
P. Davies Book Review: \booktitleCluster Analysis
in Clinical Chemicstry: A Model, by W.
Vogt; D. Nagel; H. Sator . . . . . . . . 571--572
R. A. Elton Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical
Data, by R. F. Woolson . . . . . . . . . 572--573
M. B. Priestly Book Review: \booktitleThe Spectral
Analysis of Time Series, by J. G.
Zurbenko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Philip Redfern Population Registers: Some
Administrative and Statistical Pros and
Cons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--41
N. F. R. Crafts and
S. J. Leybourne and
T. C. Mills Trends and Cycles in British Industrial
Production, 1700--1913 . . . . . . . . . 43--60
Richard Wakeford and
Keith Binks and
David Wilkie Childhood Leukaemia and Nuclear
Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--86
Mick Silver and
Khashayar Mahdavy The Measurement of a Nation's Terms of
Trade Effect and Real National
Disposable Income within a National
Accounting Framework . . . . . . . . . . 87--107
Anonymous Statistics in Society, 1839, 1889, 1939 109--111
M. K. Palmer Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Interpretation of Clinical Laboratory
Data, by A. Albert; E. K. Harris . . . . 113--114
A. J. Lawrance Book Review: \booktitleThe Teaching of
Practical Statistics, by C. W. Anderson;
R. M. Loynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
R. W. Farebrother Book Review: \booktitlePlots,
Transformations and Regression: An
Introduction to Graphical Methods of
Diagnostic Regression Analysis, by A. C.
Atkinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
F. R. Jolliffe Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Statistics: A First Course, by M. L.
Berenson; D. M. Levine; D. Rindskopf . . 116--116
L. A. Baxter Book Review: \booktitleMeans and their
Inequalities, by P. S. Bullen; D. S.
Mitrinovi\'c; P. M. Vasi\'c . . . . . . 116--117
I. Diamond Book Review: \booktitleThe World
Fertility Survey: An Assessment, by J.
Cleland; C. Scott . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
R. Schlittgen Book Review: \booktitleRandomization
Tests, by E. S. Edgington . . . . . . . 118--119
M. C. Jones Book Review: \booktitleSpline Smoothing
and Nonparametric Regression, by R. L.
Eubank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Rudolf Grübel Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Analysis and Empirical Processes, by S.
A. van de Geer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
P. W. Jones Book Review: \booktitleDecision
Analysis, by G. Gregory . . . . . . . . 121--121
Carl M. O'Brien Book Review: \booktitleProbabilistic
Methods in Mathematical Physics, by K.
Itô; N. Ikeda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
P. A. K. Covey-Crump Book Review: \booktitleReason and Being,
by B. G. Kuznetsov . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
J. P. Burman Book Review: \booktitleDon and
Mandarin--Memoirs of an Economist, by
Donald MacDougall . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
B. L. Burrows Book Review: \booktitleLinear
Structures, by J. R. Magnus . . . . . . 123--124
Nigel Smeeton Book Review: \booktitleReviews of United
Kingdom Statistical Sources: Vol. XX,
Religion, by W. F. Maunder; M. C.
Fleming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
P. A. Bull Book Review: \booktitleReviews of United
Kingdom Statistical Sources: Vol. XXI,
Finance, by W. F. Maunder; M. C. Fleming 125--126
D. N. Geary Book Review: \booktitleMixture Models:
Inference and Applications to
Clustering, by G. J. McLachlan; K. E.
Basford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Mick Silver Book Review: \booktitleThe European
Economic Recovery: A Need for New
Policies?, by F. Modigliani . . . . . . 127--128
Pat Lovie Book Review: \booktitleBritish Imports
of Consumer Goods: A Study of Import
Penetration 1974--1985, by A. D. Morgan 128--129
Frank Hansford-Miller Book Review: \booktitleThe Process of
Science: Contemporary Philosophical
Approaches to Understanding Scientific
Practice, by N. J. Nersessian . . . . . 129--130
M. G. Schimek Book Review: \booktitleAutomation in
Survey Processing, by Netherlands
Central Bureau of Statistics . . . . . . 130--131
Michael Dewey Book Review: \booktitleLecture Notes on
Medical Statistics, by A. Petrie . . . . 131--131
Karol J. Krotki Book Review: \booktitleA Study on the
Future of the Census of Population:
Alternative Approaches, by P. Redfern 132--133
A. H. Seheult and
P. J. Green Book Review: \booktitleRobust Regression
and Outlier Detection, by P. J.
Rousseeuw; A. M. Leroy . . . . . . . . . 133--134
K. Parramore Book Review: \booktitleLinear Models for
Unbalanced Data, by S. R. Searle . . . . 134--135
F. R. Jolliffe Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Data, by P. Sprent . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Geoffrey Grimmett Book Review: \booktitleCounterexamples
in Probability, by J. Stoyanov . . . . . 135--136
Michael Goldstein Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Bayesian Statistics, by R. Viertl . . . 136--137
Harper Gilmour Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Health Management and Research, by M.
Woodward; L. M. A. Francis . . . . . . . 137--137
John Hinde Book Review: \booktitleDirectory of
Statistical Microcomputer Software, 1988
Edition, by W. A. Woodward; A. C.
Elliott; H. L. Gray; D. C. Matlock . . . 137--138
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. Hadjipavlou and
G. Carr-Hill A Revised Set of Blast Casualty Rates
for Civil Defence Use: An Overview . . . 139--156
J. P. Steadman Computer Models of the Effects of
Nuclear Attack on Britain: The Home
Office and its Critics . . . . . . . . . 157--181
R. I. Smith and
D. Fowler and
J. N. Cape The Statistics of Phytotoxic Air
Pollutants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--198
R. N. Curnow and
T. B. L. Kirkwood Statistical Analysis of Deoxyribonucleic
Acid Sequence Data --- A Review . . . . 199--220
Glen McPherson The Scientists' View of Statistics --- A
Neglected Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--240
J. A. Bound and
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Significant Sameness . . . . . . . . . . 241--247
W. F. F. Kemsley and
S. Rosenbaum Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Anonymous Statistics in Society, 1839, 1889, 1939 251--252
D. N. Shanbhag Book Review: \booktitlePareto
Distributions, by B. C. Arnold . . . . . 253--254
Byron J. T. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Optimization, by E. M. L. Beale . . . . 254--255
D. N. Shanbhag Book Review: \booktitleData
Distributions, by R. Christensen . . . . 255--255
R. Grübel Book Review: \booktitleSeminar on
Stochastic Processes, 1987, by E. Çinlar;
K. L. Chung; R. K. Getoor . . . . . . . 255--255
P. Holgate Book Review: \booktitleLognormal
Distributions: Theory and Applications,
by E. L. Crow; K. Shimizu . . . . . . . 256--256
M. Goldstein Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Analysis
and Uncertainty in Economic Theory, by
R. M. Cyert; M. H. DeGroot . . . . . . . 256--257
F. R. Jolliffe Book Review: \booktitleThe Method of
Paired Comparisons, by H. A. David . . . 258--258
Noel Cressie Book Review: \booktitleAsymptotics for
Generalized Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit
Tests, by F. C. Drost . . . . . . . . . 258--259
John Bibby Book Review: \booktitlePascal's
Arithmetical Triangle, by A. W. F.
Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Alan Watkins Book Review: \booktitleMaximum-Entropy
and Bayesian Methods in Science and
Engineering, by G. J. Erickson; C. R.
Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--260
John Hinde Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Optimization Methods and their
Application in Statistics, by B. S.
Everitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
J. F. Bell Book Review: \booktitleLinear Least
Squares Computations, by R. W.
Farebrother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Robert Gilchrist Book Review: \booktitleA Guide to
SPSS/PC+, by N. Frude . . . . . . . . . 262--263
J. P. Nicholl Book Review: \booktitleRoads Accident
Statistics, by T. P. Hutchinson . . . . 263--263
L. D. Sharples Book Review: \booktitleEssentials of
Medical Statistics, by B. R. Kirkwood 263--264
B. S. Everitt Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
Multivariate Analysis, by W. Krzanowski 264--265
R. Ahmad Book Review: \booktitleInformation
Theory, Statistical Decision Functions,
Random Processes, by S. Kubik . . . . . 265--266
John Hinde Book Review: \booktitleGenstat 5: An
Introduction, by P. Lane; N. Galwey; N.
Alvey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Sarah C. Darby Book Review: \booktitleMisclassification
of Smoking Habits and Passive Smoking: A
Review of the Evidence, by P. N. Lee . . 266--267
D. A. Quinney Book Review: \booktitleLinear
Structures, by J. R. Magnus . . . . . . 267--267
Martin Crowder Book Review: \booktitleMatrix
Differential Calculus with Applications
in Statistics and Econometrics, by J. R.
Magnus; H. Neudecker . . . . . . . . . . 268--269
A. J. Baczkowski Book Review: \booktitlePattern-Analytic
Clustering: Theory, Method, Research and
Configural Findings, by L. L. McQuitty 269--269
Iain D. Currie Book Review: \booktitleDistribution-Free
Tests, by H. R. Neave; P. L. Worthington 269--270
H. J. Stephens Book Review: \booktitleSelected Tables
in Mathematical Statistics, by R. E.
Odeh; J. M. Davenport . . . . . . . . . 271--271
G. H. Freeman Book Review: \booktitleA Manual of Crop
Experimentation, by S. C. Pearce; G. M.
Clarke; G. V. Dyke; R. E. Kempson . . . 271--272
Jan R. Magnus Book Review: \booktitleEstimation of
Variance Components and Applications, by
C. R. Rao; J. Kleffe . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
John Bibby Book Review: \booktitleEconometrics of
Planning and Efficiency, by J. K.
Sengupta; G. K. Kadekodi . . . . . . . . 273--273
W. D. Ray Book Review: \booktitleElementary
Applications of Probability Theory, by
H. C. Tuckwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
R. Ahmad Book Review: \booktitleTauberian
Theorems for Generalised Functions, by
V. S. Vlidimirov; Yu. N. Drozzinov; B.
I. Zavialov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Mick Silver Book Review: \booktitleStore Choice,
Store Location and Market Analysis, by
Neil Wrigley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
D. A. Conway Book Review: \booktitleTwo Models of an
Open Economy, by B.-C. Ysander . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 428--428
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Kingman Statistical Responsibility . . . . . . . 277--285
Stephen Simpson School Roll Forecasts: Their Uses, Their
Accuracy and Educational Reform . . . . 287--304
Sarah Darby Royal Statistical Society Meeting on
Cancer Near Nuclear Installations . . . 305--305
Martin J. Gardner Review of Reported Increases of
Childhood Cancer Rates in the Vicinity
of Nuclear Installations in the UK . . . 307--325
T. E. Wheldon The Assessment of Risk of
Radiation-Induced Childhood Leukaemia in
the Vicinity of Nuclear Installations 327--339
Richard Doll The Epidemiology of Childhood Leukaemia 341--351
Michael Hills and
Freda Alexander Statistical Methods Used in Assessing
the Risk of Disease Near a Source of
Possible Environmental Pollution: A
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--384
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Session
1988--89 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--414
Anonymous Statistics in Society, 1839, 1889, 1939 415--416
D. V. Lindley Obituary: Harold Jeffreys, 1891--1989 417--418
Cedric A. B. Smith Obituary: Pat Moran, 1917--1988 . . . . 419--419
Mick Silver Book Review: \booktitleRepeat-Buying:
Facts, Theory and Applications, by A. S.
C. Ehrenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--421
George Stern Book Review: \booktitleBritish Social
Trends since 1900: A Guide to the
Changing Social Structure of Britain, by
A. H. Halsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--421
H. Tong Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Theory of Linear Systems, by E. J.
Hannan; M. Deistler . . . . . . . . . . 422--422
Mick Silver Book Review: \booktitleNational Income
and Economic Progress: Essays in Honour
of Colin Clark, by D. Ironmonger; J. O.
N. Perkins; Tran Van Hoa . . . . . . . . 422--423
A. Veevers Book Review: \booktitleQuality Control
and Reliability, by P. R. Krishnaiah; C.
R. Rao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--424
John Bibby Book Review: \booktitleLinear
Structures, by J. R. Magnus . . . . . . 424--425
Kenneth Holden Book Review: \booktitleApplied Time
Series Analysis for Business and
Economic Forecasting, by S. M. Nazem . . 425--426
John Gates Book Review: \booktitleProbability,
Method and Measurement, by A. O'Hagan 426--427
Ian Plewis Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability, by D. R. Robinson; A. W.
Bowman; Introduction to Statistics by A.
W. Bowman; D. R. Robinson . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??