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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Brajendra C. Sutradhar Exact Maximum Likelihood Estimation for
the Mixed Analysis of Variance Model
with Autocorrelated Errors . . . . . . . 3--9
J. K. W. Davies A Bayesian Analysis of Some Accident
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17
S. R. Paul and
R. K. Barnwal Maximum Likelihood Estimation and a $
C(\alpha) $ Test for a Common Intraclass
Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
R. Butcher and
J. Eldridge The Use of Diaries in Data Collection 25--41
Ayala Cohen Graphical Methods for Testing the
Equality of Several Correlated Variances 43--52
Lam Yeh An Optimal Single Variable Sampling Plan
with Censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--66
F. W. O. Saporu Introducing Leslie Matrix Techniques
Into the Analysis of Age-Prevalence Data 67--77
Oliver D. Anderson Extending Some Standard Error Formulae
of Kendall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
P. R. Shearer Book Review: \booktitleQuantitative
Forecasting Methods, by N. R. Farnum; L.
W. Stanton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Chris Chatfield Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Theory of Linear Systems, by E. J.
Hannan; Manfred Deistler . . . . . . . . 85--86
J. Higgins Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Statistics. An Introduction, by Peter M.
Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
David F. Percy Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Statistics 3: Proceedings of the Third
Valencia International Meeting, by J. M.
Bernardo; M. H. DeGroot; D. V. Lindley;
A. F. M. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Guy Nason Book Review: \booktitleDescartes' Dream,
by Philip J. Davis; Reuben Hersh . . . . 87--88
Martin Crowder Book Review: \booktitleAsymptotic
Techniques for Use in Statistics, by O.
E. Barndorff-Nielsen; D. R. Cox . . . . 88--88
E. A. Hollas Book Review: \booktitleComputer
Intensive Methods for Testing
Hypotheses, by Eric W. Noreen . . . . . 89--89
Tony Hayter Book Review: \booktitleOrder Restricted
Statistical Inference, by T. Robertson;
F. T. Wright; R. L. Dykstra . . . . . . 90--90
B. D. Ripley Book Review: \booktitleE. T. Jaynes:
Papers on Probability, Statistics and
Statistical Physics, by R. D.
Rosenkrantz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Howard Grubb Book Review: \booktitlePooled Time
Series Analysis, by Lois W. Sayrs . . . 91--91
R. E. Kempson Book Review: \booktitleThe Design of
Experiments, by R. Mead . . . . . . . . 91--92
Julian Stander Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
GCSE, by Helen Wright . . . . . . . . . 92--93
R. J. Martin Book Review: \booktitleManual of Crop
Experimentation, by S. C. Pearce; G. M.
Clarke; G. V. Dyke; R. E. Kempson . . . 93--93
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitlePoint Process
Models with Applications to Safety and
Reliability, by W. A. Thompson . . . . . 94--94
Mario Cortina-Borja Book Review: \booktitleModelling
Multigroup Populations, by Robert Schoen 94--95
E. S. Gillespie Book Review: \booktitleThe Evolving Role
of Statistical Assessments as Evidence
in the Courts, by S. E. Feinberg . . . . 95--96
Wei Liu Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
Comparison Procedures, by Yosef
Hochberg; Ajit C. Tamhane . . . . . . . 96--96
Mike Denham Book Review: \booktitleEmpirical Bayes
Methods, by J. S. Maritz; T. Lwin . . . 97--97
A. Kinsella Corrigendum: Bootstrapping a
Bioequivalence Measure . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
D. A. Holland Editorial: Health of Inner Cities and
Urban Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Germaine Cornélissen Challenge to the Statistician Interested
in the Individualized Assessment of
Health in the Inner Cities and Urban
Areas --- A Tribute to Franz Halberg . . 104--109
D. W. Wilson Health of Inner Cities and Urban Areas:
Concepts, Perspectives, Reality and
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Raymond Hartley An Address on Behalf of the Council of
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--120
G. Goldstein Urbanization, Health and Well-Being: A
Global Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133
John Celecia Half of the World and Increasing:
Cities, Ecology and UNESCO's Action . . 135--141
Arcot Ramachandran An Address on Behalf of the United
Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--146
John Ashton Urban Lifestyle and Public Health in the
City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--156
Michael Day Race and Health of Inner Cities . . . . 157--161
George Nairn-Briggs The Church and Health in the Inner City 163--167
O. Stros and
J. Lener Homes for the Elderly in Urban Areas . . 169--172
William McGivern Health of Inner Cities and Urban Areas
--- A Belfast Perspective . . . . . . . 173--184
Richard J. Dietrich Biological and Ecological Factors in
Urban Built Environment: Recent Research
and Practice in West Germany . . . . . . 185--190
John Parker Images of Health, Urban Design and Human
Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--197
John R. Britten Housing and Health in Developing
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--203
Caroline Oliver Health Promotion Within an Ageing
Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Tony Whitehead Mental Health and Ageing . . . . . . . . 207--211
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
D. A. Holland Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Ingo Heinz Cutting the Costs in the Health Service
by Reducing Air Pollution Levels . . . . 217--227
Bleddyn Davies Social Services in the City: Context
Change, Service Response and Service
Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--245
D. R. Jones and
P. O. Goldblatt Social and Environmental Epidemiology in
the Inner City: Some Leads from the OPCS
Longitudinal Study . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257
Yoshimasa Yamada Problems and Health Promoting Issues in
Inner Cities in Japan . . . . . . . . . 259--262
Les Morgan Town Halls, Through Modern Leisure
Professionals, Will Lead to Healthy
Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
P. Cugini and
G. Leone and
L. Di Palma and
P. Battisti and
S. Coppola and
S. Di Simone and
C. Di Massimo Simonetti and
M. Comin Chronobiological Research Into the
Clinical Management of Cardiovascular
Diseases with Particular Reference to
Arterial Hypertension . . . . . . . . . 267--274
John Noel Rice A Healthy Sheffield by the Year 2000 . . 275--283
P. Cugini and
G. Leone and
L. Di Palma and
P. Battisti and
D. W. Wilson and
T. Kawasaki and
K. Tamura and
F. Halberg and
G. Cornelissen Construction of Reference Standards for
Blood Pressure $ 24$-h Patterns . . . . 285--299
Kohji Tamura and
Hiroyuki Ishii and
Shigeo Mukaiyama and
Franz Halberg Clinical Significance of ABPM Monitoring
for $ 48 $ h Rather than $ 24 $ h . . . 301--306
Kohji Tamura and
Hiroyuki Ishii and
Shigeo Mukaiyama and
Hiroshi Ijiri and
Ikuo Tsuruta and
Takao Komaya Chronobiologic Assessment of
Antihypertensive Drug Effects . . . . . 307--317
M. Woodward and
M. C. Shewry and
W. C. S. Smith and
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe Coronary Heart Disease and
Socio-Economic Factors in Edinburgh and
North Glasgow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--329
Guenter Wendt The Risk Factor Model as a Basis for
Community Intervention --- Experience
from the German Cardiovascular
Prevention Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--335
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--340
Anonymous From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Hardeo Sahai Some Problems of Teaching an
Introductory Biostatistics Course to
Graduate Students in Health Sciences:
Coping with the Diversity of Student
Aptitudes, Interests and Objectives . . 341--347
S. Raybould Childhood Leukaemia in the Tyne and
Wear: Investigating a Viral Hypothesis 349--363
N. C. Smeeton and
D. G. Wilkinson and
M. Gomez Beneyto and
V. Llopis A Tale of Two Cities: Repetition of
Parasuicide in Edinburgh (Scotland) and
Valencia (Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--371
Peter Phillimore Mortality Variations Within Two Poor
Areas in North-East England . . . . . . 373--383
J. F. Gilbert and
J. E. J. Gallacher and
P. M. Sweetnam and
J. W. G. Yarnell and
P. C. Elwood Employment Status and Risk Factors for
Ischaemic Heart Disease: The Caerphilly
Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--390
D. J. Brenner and
H. Quan Exact Confidence Limits for Binomial
Proportions --- Pearson and Hartley
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--397
Lemuel A. Moyé and
Asha S. Kapadia and
Irina M. Cech A Prediction Model for Outpatient Visits
and Cash Flow: Developments in
Prospective Run Theory . . . . . . . . . 399--414
Francesco Bertolino and
Ludovico Piccinato and
Walter Racugno A Marginal Likelihood Approach to
Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . 415--424
William S. Perriman Statistical Estimation of Petroleum
Geochemistry Parameters . . . . . . . . 425--436
Daniel Barry Empirical Bayes Estimation of Binomial
Probabilities in One-Way and Two-Way
Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--453
Mokhtar Bin Abdullah On a Robust Correlation Coefficient . . 455--460
J. B. Sutton Values of the Index of Determination at
the $ 5 \% $ Significance Level . . . . 461--463
D. O. Chanter and
K. F. Yee and
Nathan Mantel Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466
R. M. Loynes Book Review: \booktitleNon-Linear
Regression, by G. A. F. Seber; C. J.
Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--467
Krzysztof Jajuga Book Review: \booktitleLinear
Programming with Statistical
Applications, by Vincent A. Sposito . . 467--468
Ralph Peace Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Advanced Level, by Jane Miller . . . . . 468--469
Julian Stander Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Applications in Criminal Justice, by
Gennaro F. Vito; Edward J. Latessa . . . 469--469
A. Kinsella Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Process Control for Continuous
Processes, by Gary P. Fellers . . . . . 470--470
Larry D. Haugh Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistician
at Work, by T. Lewis; V. Barnett . . . . 470--471
Allan G. Prys-Williams Book Review: \booktitleDistribution-Free
Tests, by H. R. Neave; P. L. Worthington 471--472
C. David Kemp Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
Random Variate Generation, by J.
Dagpunar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--473
C. Cannings Book Review: \booktitleCo-Operative
Games, Solutions and Applications, by
Theo Driessen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--473
Stuart Coles Book Review: \booktitleParameter
Estimation in Reliability and Life-Span
Models, by A. Clifford Cohen; Betty
Jones Whitten . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Tim Stapenhurst Book Review: \booktitleEconometrics of
Planning and Efficiency, by Jati K.
Sengupta; K. Kadekodi . . . . . . . . . 474--474
J. Higgins Book Review: \booktitleErratum: Bayesian
Statistics. An Introduction . . . . . . 475--475
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 481--485
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
A. G. Baker Novel and Usable Properties of Saturated
Factorial Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3--9
Denis Conniffe Functional Relationship Revisited: The
EMLE Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Michael Schemper Generalisation of the Kaplan--Meier
Estimator for Standardised Processes . . 17--25
R. S. Cormack and
Nathan Mantel Fisher's Exact Test: The Marginal Totals
as Seen from Two Different Angles . . . 27--34
K. D. Patterson and
S. M. Heravi Direct Estimation of Entropy and
Revisions to the National Income
Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--50
J. B. Copas and
Tianyong Long Estimating the Residual Variance in
Orthogonal Regression with Variable
Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59
Peter Lynn A Split-Run Experiment in a Postal
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--66
Donald Lien and
David Rearden On the Information Content of Partial
Observations: A Bayesian Approach . . . 67--72
Michael Schemper Non-Parametric Partial Association
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--76
R. Saunders The Effect of Particle Agglomeration in
Pharmaceutical Preparations . . . . . . 77--86
M. A. A. Cox The Implementation of Functions to
Evaluate Percentage Points of the Normal
and Student's $t$ Distributions on a
Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94
B. V. R. Gandhi and
Hardeo Sahai and
Nancy Acevedo Teaching of Statistics in Business,
Economics and Management Sciences: Some
Comments and a Selected Bibliography . . 95--106
Yee Lok Shun Michael Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Denise Howel Book Review: \booktitleEssential
Statistics, by D. G. Rees . . . . . . . 109--109
Neil Sheldon Book Review: \booktitleScientific
Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach, by
Colin Howson; Peter Urbach . . . . . . . 109--110
R. J. Martin Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Random Fields, by A. V.
Ivanov; N. N. Leonenko . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Colin P. Chalmers Book Review: \booktitleEmpirical Model
Building, by James R. Thompson . . . . . 111--112
Guy Nason Book Review: \booktitleTowards a
Strategic Management and Decision
Technology, by John W. Sutherland . . . 112--113
Tim Stapenhurst Book Review: \booktitlePractical
Operations Management, by M. Hayes; A.
Tomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
P. D. T. O'Connor Book Review: \booktitleQuality Through
Design: Experimental Design, Off-Line
Quality Control and Taguchi's
Contributions, by N. Logothetis; H. P.
Wynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
Simon Day Book Review: \booktitleCommon Problems
Proper Solutions: Avoiding Error in
Quantitative Research, by J. Scott Long 114--115
Jacky Wilson Book Review: \booktitleElementary
Applications of Probability Theory, by
H. C. Tuckwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Wladyslaw Milo Book Review: \booktitleThe Application
of Regression Analysis, by D. R. Wittink 116--117
Tom Corlett Book Review: \booktitleRe-Counting
Plato: A Computer Analysis of Plato's
Style, by G. R. Ledger . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Colin P. Chalmers Book Review: \booktitleRasch Models for
Measurement, by D. Andrich . . . . . . . 119--120
Wei Liu Book Review: \booktitleExercises in
Probability, by T. Cacoullos . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial: Survey Design, Methodology
and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
W. F. De Heer The Use of Handheld Computers in Social
Surveys of the Netherlands Central
Bureau of Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 125--138
Joanne Lamb and
Lyn Middleton Techniques and Software for the
Processing of a Large Postal Survey . . 139--143
Neil Millward Sampling Establishments for Social
Survey Research . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
S. S. Laaksonen Adjustment for Non-Response in Two-Year
Panel Data: Applications to Problems of
Household Income Distribution . . . . . 153--168
Graham J. G. Upton The Exploratory Analysis of Survey Data
Using Log-Linear Models . . . . . . . . 169--182
N. T. Higgs Practical and Innovative Uses of
Correspondence Analysis . . . . . . . . 183--194
N. J. Nieuwenbroek Precision of Net Change in a Rotating
Panel Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201
Ken Baker Using Geodemographics in Market Research
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--207
Derek Bond and
Paula Devine The Role of Geographic Information
Systems in Survey Analysis . . . . . . . 209--216
Martin Knott and
Maria Teresa Albanese and
Jane Galbraith Scoring Attitudes to Abortion . . . . . 217--223
R. D. Wiggins and
K. Ashworth and
C. A. O'Muircheartaigh and
J. I. Galbraith Multilevel Analysis of Attitudes to
Abortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--234
Harvey Goldstein Multilevel Modelling of Survey Data . . 235--244
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--248
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
Anonymous Editorial: Survey Design, Methodology
and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Pamela C. Campanelli and
Elizabeth A. Martin and
Jennifer M. Rothgeb The Use of Respondent and Interviewer
Debriefing Studies as a Way to Study
Response Error in Survey Data . . . . . 253--264
Elizabeth A. Martin and
Pamela C. Campanelli and
Robert E. Fay An Application of Rasch Analysis to
Questionnaire Design: Using Vignettes to
Study the Meaning of `Work' in the
Current Population Survey . . . . . . . 265--276
Richard Bolstein Predicting the Likelihood to Vote in
Pre-Election Polls . . . . . . . . . . . 277--283
Keith Rennolls Strategic Frameworks for a Sample Survey
Design Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--290
John F. Bell Big is Not Necessarily Beautiful in
Survey Design: Measurement Error and the
APU Science Survey . . . . . . . . . . . 291--300
M. J. Heerschop and
C. A. J. Lieftinck-Koeijers Registered Unemployment in The
Netherlands: Estimation of a Dynamic
Population Using Retrospective
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--314
T. M. F. Smith Post-Stratification . . . . . . . . . . 315--323
Trevor Sharot Attrition and Rotation in Panel Surveys 325--331
D. Holt and
D. Elliot Methods of Weighting for Unit
Non-Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342
Dale Mellor Book Review: \booktitleThe Analysis of
Directional Time Series: Applications to
Wind Speed and Direction, by Jens
Breckling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Derek Bissell Book Review: \booktitleStatman
One-Average and Range Charts, by Alan
Long; Robyn Huisman; \booktitleStatman
Two-Process Capability, by Alan Long;
Robyn Huisman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--344
J. France Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Biology, by J. D. Murray . . . . . . . . 344--345
R. Iyer Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Analysis of Discrete Data, by Thomas J.
Santner; Diane E. Duffy . . . . . . . . 345--345
Ray Harris Book Review: \booktitleMandated Science,
by L. Slater; E. Levy; W. Leiss . . . . 345--346
J. A. Bound Book Review: \booktitleSurvey Research
for Managers, by Peter F. Hutton . . . . 346--346
A. V. Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitleOptimal Control,
Expectations and Uncertainty, by S.
Holly; A. H. Hallett . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
A. W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleDistributions of
Correlation Coefficients, by Hoben
Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
R. Iyer Book Review: \booktitleMatrix
Differential Calculus with Applications
in Statistics and Econometrics, by Jan
R. Magnus; Heinz Neudecker . . . . . . . 349--349
Norman Pigden Book Review: \booktitleRepeat-Buying:
Facts, Theory and Applications, by A. C.
S. Ehrenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--350
J. F. Blodwell Book Review: \booktitleThe Nature of
Quantum Paradoxes, by G. Tarozzi; A. van
der Merwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--351
D. G. Rees Book Review: \booktitleMedical
Statistics --- A Commonsense Approach,
by Michael J. Campbell; David Machin . . 351--351
Kevin Gough Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Generalized Linear Models, by J.
Annette Dobson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
Denise Howel Book Review: \booktitleLinear
Statistical Models: An Applied Approach,
by B. L. Bowerman; R. T. O'Connel . . . 352--353
David F. Percy Book Review: \booktitleDesigning
Experiments and Analyzing Data, by S. E.
Maxwell; H. D. Delaney . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Andrew Lawson Book Review: \booktitleSpatial Data
Analysis: Volume 2 Categorical and
Directional Data, by G. J. G. Upton; B.
Fingleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Phil Edwards Book Review: \booktitleSurvey Errors and
Survey Costs, by R. M. Groves . . . . . 355--356
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--360
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Tony Haws From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Petros Dellaportas and
David E. Wright Numerical Prediction for the
Two-Parameter Weibull Distribution . . . 365--372
Yukio Yanagisawa Optimal Designs for a Beta Binary
Response Model and the Analysis of
Binary Communication Data . . . . . . . 373--385
Richard A. Groeneveld Sharp Inequalities for Skewness Measures 387--392
Rand R. Wilcox Comparing Biweight Measures of Location 393--399
Klaus Haagen Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for
Vanishing the Arbitrariness in a
Common-Factor Model . . . . . . . . . . 401--408
A. F. Stent and
L. G. McAlevey The Stochastic Spreadsheet: A New
Teaching Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . 409--413
P. C. Saxena and
K. Navaneetham The Effect of Cluster Size,
Dimensionality, and Number of Clusters
on Recovery of True Cluster Structure
Through Chernoff-Type Faces . . . . . . 415--425
Dani Gamerman and
Hélio S. Migon Forecasting the Number of AIDS Cases in
Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--442
R. Butcher Skewness in Samples from the Census . . 443--448
Brook A. Greene and
Samuel Cameron Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--450
A. W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Probability and Stochastic Processes, by
M. K. Ochi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
Michael J. P. Selby Book Review: \booktitleExercise Manual
in Probability Theory, by J. Stoyanov;
I. Mirazchiiski; Z. Ignatov; M. Tanushev 452--452
Alan Marriott Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Tables for Economic, Business and Social
Studies, by Z. W. Kmietowicz; Y.
Yannoulis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
Arthur Pewsey Book Review: \booktitleTime Series
Analysis (Regression Techniques), by C.
W. Ostrom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--455
T. B. Vaughan Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods and Concepts, by M. N. Das . . . 455--456
Eddie Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleMaximum-Entropy
and Bayesian Methods in Science and
Engineering. Vol. 1, Foundations, by
Gary J. Erickson; C. Ray Smith;
\booktitleMaximum-Entropy and Bayesian
Methods in Science and Engineering. Vol.
2, Applications, by Gary J. Erickson; C.
Ray Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--457
Dennis Lendrem Book Review: \booktitleCategorical Data
Analysis, by A. Agresti . . . . . . . . 457--457
R. Ahmad Book Review: \booktitleReal Analysis and
Probability, by R. M. Dudley . . . . . . 457--458
R. Iyer Book Review: \booktitleApplied Logistic
Regression, by David W. Hosmer; Stanley
Lemeshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Alan J. Collins Book Review: \booktitleModern Methods of
Data Analysis, by John Fox; J. Scott
Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
L. Legg Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Statistics, by Lyman Ott; William
Mendenhall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460
G. Ramachandran Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Statistics for Engineers, by R. L.
Scheaffer; J. T. McClave . . . . . . . . 460--461
S. C. Richardson Book Review: \booktitleInteraction
Effects in Multiple Regression, by J.
Jacard; R. Turrisi; C. K. Wan . . . . . 461--462
John Disney Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods, Experimental Design and
Scientific Inference, by R. A. Fisher 462--463
A. D. Garrett Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
Research Data Audit, by Adil E. Shamoo 463--463
R. J. Martin Book Review: \booktitleTime Series, by
M. G. Kendall; J. K. Ord . . . . . . . . 463--464
Ian Plewis Book Review: \booktitleCategorical
Longitudinal Data, by J. A. Hagenaars 464--464
Denise Howel Book Review: \booktitleStatistics: A
Spectator Sport, by Richard M. Jaeger 465--465
Neil Sheldon Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability and Mathematical Statistics,
by Lee J. Bain; Max Engelhart . . . . . 465--465
R. A. Reese Book Review: \booktitleEnvisioning
Information, by Eward R. Tufte . . . . . 466--466
T. B. Vaughan Book Review: \booktitleWriting
Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences,
by Laurel Richardson . . . . . . . . . . 466--467
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--469
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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
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Denny Meyer and
Paul Fatti Estimation of Audit Bounds for Net Error 9--16
Eamonn Mullins and
Michael Stuart Simulation as an Aid in Practical
Statistical Problem-Solving . . . . . . 17--26
A. Mead Review of the Development of
Multidimensional Scaling Methods . . . . 27--39
Gilbert Ritschard and
Gérard Antille A Robust Look at the Use of Regression
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--53
Hardeo Sahai and
Satish Misra Definitions of Sample Variance: Some
Teaching Problems to be Overcome . . . . 55--64
F. W. O. Saporu The Ultimate Size of
Onchocerciasis-`Infected' Simulium
Vector Population . . . . . . . . . . . 65--70
F. F. Gan CUSUM Control Charts Under Linear Drift 71--84
Brian D. Bunday and
Victor A. Kiri Analysis of Censored Recidivism Data
Using a Proportional Hazards-Type Model 85--96
David M. Rocke $ \bar {X}_Q $ and $ R_Q $ Charts:
Robust Control Charts . . . . . . . . . 97--104
W. J. Fielding and
F. B. Lauckner Biometry Training in Developing
Countries: Caribbean Experiences . . . . 105--111
Paul S. P. Cowpertwait and
Trevor F. Cox Clustering Population Means Under
Heterogeneity of Variance with an
Application to a Rainfall Time Series
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
D. E. Walters Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleElementary Survey
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Mendenhall; L. Ott . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
A. W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleContinuous
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Business and Management Decision Making,
by M. Wisniewski; T. Dacre . . . . . . . 127--127
Alan Marriott Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Management and Economics: A Systematic
Approach, by G. Keller; B. Warrack; H.
Bartell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleNumerical
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Andrew C. Gudgeon Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
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Max Porter Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Medical Investigations, by
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Michael J. P. Selby Book Review: \booktitleProbability for
Applications, by Paul E. Pfeiffer . . . 130--131
Les Firbank Book Review: \booktitleIntermediate
Statistics: A Modern Approach, by James
Stevens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Peter Congdon Aspects of General Linear Modelling of
Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--153
R. A. Sproule The General Bernoulli Probability
Density Function and the Properties of
Its Central Moments . . . . . . . . . . 155--159
Subhash C. Kochar A Note on Characterization of Symmetry
About a Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--163
John Bacon-Shone Bayesian Estimation of Finite
Subpopulation Size . . . . . . . . . . . 165--167
R. M. Sakia The Box--Cox Transformation Technique: A
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
C. A. Glasbey and
P. A. Fowler Regression Models Fitted Using
Conditional Independence to Estimate Pig
Fatness from Magnetic Resonance Images 179--184
Mark Woodward Formulae for Sample Size, Power and
Minimum Detectable Relative Risk in
Medical Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--196
Nicholas N. N. N. Nuamah The Error and Covariance Structures of
the Mean Approach Model of Pooled
Cross-Section and Time Series Data . . . 197--207
Mohamed A. A. Moussa and
Mohamed Y. Cheema Non-Parametric Regression in Curve
Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--225
A. J. Scallan Maximum Likelihood Estimation for a
Normal/Laplace Mixture Distribution . . 227--231
Erik Holst and
Jytte Molin Christensen Intervals for the Description of the
Biological Level of a Trace Element in a
Reference Population . . . . . . . . . . 233--242
Les Firbank Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
the Behavioral Sciences, by Sharon L.
Weinberg; Kenneth P. Goldberg . . . . . 243--243
Dale Mellor Book Review: \booktitleStationary
Stochastic Models, by A. Brandt; P.
Franken; B. Lisek . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Kevin Gough Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Theory and Modelling. In Honour of Sir
David Cox, FRS, by D. V. Hinkley; N.
Reid; E. J. Snell . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
A. V. Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Processes with Applications, by Rabi N.
Bhattacharya; Edward C. Waymire . . . . 246--246
Simon Day Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Significance Testing, by L. B. Mohr . . 246--247
Arthur Pewsey Book Review: \booktitleRandomization and
Monte Carlo Methods in Biology, by B. F.
J. Manly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
J. F. Bell Book Review: \booktitleData Quality on
Longitudinal Research, by D. Magnusson;
L. R. Bergman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Steven Hayes Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistical
Computing, by D. Cooke; A. H. Craven; G.
M. Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
S. C. Richardson Book Review: \booktitleSurveys of
Economically Active Population,
Employment, Unemployment and
Underemployment, by Ralf Hussmanns;
Farhad Mehran; Vijay Verma . . . . . . . 249--250
Karol J. Krotki Book Review: \booktitleTheory and Policy
Design for Basic Needs Planning: A Case
Study of Ecuador, by Rudolf Teekens . . 250--251
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleStatistics: A
Tool for Social Research, by Joseph F.
Healey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
R. D. Leitch Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
Structural Reliability, by Alfredo C.
Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--254
James Reilly Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Probability and Statistics and Their
Applications Before 1750, by A. Hald . . 254--254
R. M. Loynes Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Repeated Measures, by M. J. Crowder; D.
J. Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
John McKellar Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Analysis, by James R. Kirkwood . . . 255--256
S. J. Prod Book Review: \booktitleThe Double in
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, by John
Herdman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Ralph Peace Book Review: \booktitleA Guide to SPSS
for Analysis of Variance, by Gustav
Levine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
R. D. Leitch Book Review: \booktitleModern
Mathematical Statistics, by E. J.
Dudewicz; S. N. Mishra . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--266
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Gilbert MacKenzie Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
John Haslett Spatial Data Analysis-Challenges . . . . 271--284
S. D. Lennox and
E. A. Goddall and
C. S. Mayne A Mathematical Model of the Lactation
Curve of the Dairy Cow to Incorporate
Metabolizable Energy Intake . . . . . . 285--293
H. A. Donegan and
F. J. Dodd and
T. B. M. McMaster A New Approach to AHP Decision-Making 295--302
Gabrielle E. Kelly Robust Regression Estimators --- The
Choice of Tuning Constants . . . . . . . 303--314
Derek Bond and
Michael J. Harrison Some Recent Developments in Econometric
Model Selection and Estimation . . . . . 315--325
David Clayton Generalized Linear Mixed Models in
Biostatistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--328
C. M. Comiskey Improvements in Integral Equation Models
for Estimates of the Level of HIV
Infection in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . 329--329
S. J. Kilpatrick Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung
Cancer: A Critique of a Meta-Analysis 331--331
E. S. Gillespie and
L. Stewart and
R. N. Wilson The Application of the Prediction Matrix
Technique to Analyse Treatments Relating
to Cancer of the Bladder . . . . . . . . 333--333
Pat McGregor and
Ian Cantley A Test of Sen's Entitlement Hypothesis 335--341
D. R. Cox The Role of Statistical Models . . . . . 343--343
G. MacKenzie A Model for Bivariate Failure Times
Subject to Right Censoring . . . . . . . 345--345
David A. Jackson Independent Trials are a Model for
Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Sally McClean and
Pat Lundy and
Wallace Ewart Predicting the Growth of Manpower for
the Northern Ireland Software Industry 349--356
J. J. McKeown and
D. Sprevak Parameter Estimation Versus Curve
Fitting: `New Lamps for Old' . . . . . . 357--361
Peter J. Green Stochastic Algorithms and Bayesian
Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Antony Unwin How Interactive Graphics Will
Revolutionize Statistical Practice . . . 365--369
Ronan Bradley and
John Haslett High-Interaction Diagnostics for
Geostatistical Models of Spatially
Referenced Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--380
Graham Wills Novel Graphical Methods for Exploration
of Spatial Data with Time Information 381--381
M. Dillon Search for Efficient Local Kriging
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
T. Pham-Gia and
N. Turkkan Sample Size Determination in Bayesian
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--397
C. J. Adcock Bayesian Approaches to the Determination
of Sample Sizes for Binomial and
Multinomial Sampling --- Some Comments
on the Paper by Pham-Gia and Turkkan . . 399--404
L. S. Freedman and
D. Pee and
D. N. Midthune The Problem of Underestimating the
Residual Error Variance in Forward
Stepwise Regression . . . . . . . . . . 405--412
Kurt Brännäs Limited Dependent Poisson Regression . . 413--423
S. E. Ahmed Large-Sample Pooling Procedure for
Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--438
Paul Michels Asymmetric Kernel Functions in
Non-Parametric Regression Analysis and
Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--454
Michael Schemper Cox Analysis of Survival Data with
Non-Proportional Hazard Functions . . . 455--465
Esteban Walker and
Ralph G. O'Brien Using Restricted Least Squares to
Delineate the Effects of
Misspecification in Linear Models . . . 467--476
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--482
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Nigel Smeeton From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--485
Hervé Monod Two-Factor Neighbour Designs in
Incomplete Blocks for Intercropping
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--497
Harry T. Valentine and
Timothy G. Gregoire and
George M. Furnival Estimation of the Aggregate Bole Volume
of a Population of Trees by Stratified,
Two-Stage, Probability Sampling . . . . 499--507
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Mike Williams Identifying and Evaluating the
Components of Non-Measurement Error in
the Application of Standard Volume
Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--518
M. Agha and
M. A. Bussell Statistical Analysis of the
Discrimination Between Salt Marsh and
Mudflats Using Visible and Infrared
Thematic Mapper Data . . . . . . . . . . 519--523
Trevor Beetson and
Marks Nester and
Jerry Vanclay Enhancing a Permanent Sample Plot System
in Natural Forests . . . . . . . . . . . 525--538
S. Richardson and
C. Guihenneuc and
V. Lasserre Spatial Linear Models with
Autocorrelated Error Structure . . . . . 539--557
Robert J. Henery An Extension to the Thurstone--Mosteller
Model for Chess . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--567
J. B. Copas Exact Confidence Limits for Binomial
Proportions --- Brenner & Quan Revisited 569--572
Peter Congdon and
Ian McCallum A Demo-Educational Model for Forecasting
School Rolls for Localities . . . . . . 573--590
Trevor F. Cox and
Paul S. P. Cowpertwait Clustering Population Means Under
Heterogeneity of Variance . . . . . . . 591--598
D. Holt and
D. Elliot Corrigendum: Methods of Weighting for
Unit Non-Response . . . . . . . . . . . 599--599
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--601
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 603--608
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Jeffrey S. Simonoff The Relative Importance of Bias and
Variability in the Estimation of the
Variance of a Statistic . . . . . . . . 3--7
Michael J. Phillips Contingency Tables with Missing Data . . 9--18
Subir Ghosh and
Edna Derderian Robust Experimental Plan and Its Role in
Determining Robust Design Against Noise
Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--28
Rand R. Wilcox Comparing the Biweight Midvariances of
Two Independent Groups . . . . . . . . . 29--35
Patrick Royston A Toolkit for Testing for Non-Normality
in Complete and Censored Samples . . . . 37--43
R. F. Bartlett Linear Modelling of Pearson's Product
Moment Correlation Coefficient: An
Application of Fisher's
$z$-Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . 45--53
G. E. Thomas and
S. S. Kiwanga Use of Ranking and Scoring Methods in
the Analysis of Ordered Categorical Data
from Factorial Experiments . . . . . . . 55--67
R. Shanmugam Book Review: \booktitleThe Multivariate
Normal Distribution, by Y. L. Tong . . . 69--69
David F. Percy Book Review: \booktitleEstimating
Functions, by V. P. Godambe . . . . . . 69--70
D. Howel Book Review: \booktitleModelling Binary
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P. M. North Book Review: \booktitleTime Series:
Theory and Methods, by Peter J.
Brockwell; Richard A. Davis . . . . . . 71--72
A. P. Grieve Book Review: \booktitle`Student' --- A
Statistical Biography of William Sealy
Gosset: Based on the Writings of E. S.
Pearson, by R. L. Plackett; G. A.
Barnard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
A. Lawson Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Spatial Data, by N. Cressie . . . . . . 73--73
P. W. Woodward Book Review: \booktitleComputation for
the Analysis of Designed Experiments, by
R. M. Heiberger . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
D. G. Rees Book Review: \booktitleStatistics, by D.
Freedman; R. Pisani; R. Purves; A.
Adhikari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
A. W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference and Analysis: Selected
Correspondence of R. A. Fisher, by R. A.
Fisher; J. H. Bennett . . . . . . . . . 75--76
I. T. Jolliffe Book Review: \booktitleA User's Guide to
Principal Components, by J. Edward
Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
D. Howel Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Health and Nutrition, by K. Visweswara
Rao; G. Radhaiah; V. Narayana . . . . . 77--77
A. V. Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear System
Analysis and Identification from Random
Data, by Julius S. Bendat . . . . . . . 77--78
R. Iyer Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Models in Behavioural Research, by
William K. Estes . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Gordon L. Smith Book Review: \booktitleRatio Scaling of
Psychological Magnitude: In Honor of the
Memory of S. S. Stevens, by Stanley J.
Bolanowski,; George A. Geschieder . . . 78--79
Peter Bullard Book Review: \booktitleEconomic
Forecasting: An Introduction, by K.
Holden; D. A. Peel; J. L. Thompson . . . 79--79
P. W. Woodward Book Review: \booktitleExtreme Value
Theory in Engineering, by E. Castillo 79--80
R. Shanmugam Book Review: \booktitleErrors, Bias and
Uncertainties in Astronomy, by Carlos
Jascheck; Fionn Murtagh . . . . . . . . 80--82
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--88
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
C. J. Adcock An Improved Bayesian Procedure for
Calculating Sample Sizes in Multinomial
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--95
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Estela Bee Dagum Testing for Homogeneous Variations in
Periodic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--106
Z. W. Kmietowicz and
H. Ding Statistical Analysis of Income
Distribution in the Jiangsu Province of
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--121
Senyo B-S. K. Adjibolosoo Estimation of Parameters of
Heteroscedastic Error Models Under
Various Hypothesized Error Structures 123--133
K. Thiagarajah and
S. R. Paul $ C(\alpha) $ Tests for the Analysis of
One-Way Layout of Data Having Extreme
Value Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 135--143
Ian R. Dunsmore and
Nick J. Ward Optimal Mixture Choice for Binary
Response Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
R. E. McCulloch Fitting Regression Models with Unknown
Transformations Using Dynamic Graphics 153--160
James A. Koziol Probability Plots for Assessing
Multivariate Normality . . . . . . . . . 161--173
H. Büning A Coefficient of Stability of Rank Tests
in the One-Sample Case . . . . . . . . . 175--180
Nikos Yannaros Analyzing Incomplete Count Data . . . . 181--187
N. D. Pidgen Book Review: \booktitleThe Comparative
Method, by C. R. Ragin . . . . . . . . . 189--189
A. J. Watkins Book Review: \booktitleLinear
Structures, by J. R. Magnus . . . . . . 190--190
David Green Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference for Spatial Processes, by B.
D. Ripley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Phil Edwards Book Review: \booktitleIntegrated Land
Use and Transport Modelling: Decision
Chains and Hierarchies, by Thomás de la
Barra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--193
Allan G. Prys-Williams Book Review: \booktitleReview of Panel
Surveys, by D. Kaspryyk; G. Duncan; G.
Kalton; M. P. Singh . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
A. J. Collins Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Scientific Investigation, by Glen
McPherson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
A. D. Garrett Book Review: \booktitleDesign
Sensitivity: Statistical Power for
Experimental Research, by Mark W. Lipsey 195--195
John Coshall Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Nonparametric Regression, by Wolfgang
Hardle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
J. N. R. Jeffers Book Review: \booktitleGraphical Models
in Applied Multivariate Statistics, by
Joe Whittaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
John McKellar Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Medicine, by F. Dunstan; J. Pickles . . 197--198
Fearnley Szuster Book Review: \booktitleDrawing General
Population Samples in Great Britain, by
Peter Lynn; Denise Lievesley . . . . . . 198--198
Eddie Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Inverse Probability from Thomas Bayes to
Karl Pearson, by Andrew I. Dale . . . . 199--199
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleSampling of
Populations: Methods and Applications,
by Paul S. Levy; Stanley Lemeshow . . . 199--200
M. G. Apostolides Book Review: \booktitleThe Challenge to
Government: Management of a Capitalist
Economy, by H. W. Robinson . . . . . . . 200--200
Alan Mabbett Book Review: \booktitleSharing Social
Science Data --- Advantages and
Challenges, by Joan E. Sieber . . . . . 200--201
Kathleen Trustrum Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Diagnostics: An Introduction, by John
Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
M. C. Jones Book Review: \booktitleNonparametric and
Semiparametric Methods in Econometrics
and Statistics, by W. A. Barnett; J.
Powell; G. E. Tauchen . . . . . . . . . 201--202
David Wooff Book Review: \booktitleStatistics:
Concepts and Controversies, by David S.
Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--207
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Anonymous Foreward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
E. F. McEntee A Control Chart Procedure for Monitoring
Quality in Terms of Consumer Appraisal 213--213
Anothai Trevanich and
Patrick Bourke EWMA Control Charts Using Attributes
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
M. A. Porter The Role of the Statistician in Industry 217--227
Brendan Walsh Improving the Accuracy of Estimated
Electricity Bills with the Prospect of
Changing from Two-Monthly Meter Reading
to Four-Monthly Meter Reading . . . . . 229--229
E. S. Gillespie An Application of Multivariate Outlier
Detection in Assessing Family
Characteristics for Bank Advertisements 231--235
E. M. McLoughlin and
E. A. Goodall and
F. D. Menzies and
S. G. McIlroy The Application of Time Series Analysis
to Assess and Control the Prevalence of
Cirrhosis of Pigs Within Northern
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--247
S. D. Lennox and
E. A. Goodall and
C. S. Mayne Mathematical Modelling of Milk
Constituent Production . . . . . . . . . 249--260
Gilbert MacKenzie Space-Time Clustering Revisited . . . . 261--261
Sally McClean and
Peter Millard Patterns of Length of Stay After
Admission in Geriatric Medicine: An
Event History Approach . . . . . . . . . 263--274
Alan Kelly Meta-Analysis Unconfounded: A Case
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
David A. Jackson Some Models for Index Betting on Sports 277--277
N. R. J. Fieller Archaeostatistics: Old Statistics in
Ancient Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295
Derek Bond and
Denise Lievesley Address-Based Sampling in Northern
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--304
Dan Barry Some Difficulties with $p$-Values . . . 305--305
Marie Reilly Data Analysis Using Hot Deck Multiple
Imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--313
Eva Tesarikova Probabilistic Models of School
Achievement Tests with Double-Choice
Response and their Statistical Analysis 315--315
Brian S. Yandell Smoothing Splines --- A Tutorial . . . . 317--319
Yudi Pawitan Penalized Whittle-Likelihood Estimates
of Spectral Density . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
J. Garvin and
S. J. McClean The Binormal Distribution: Theory and
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book Review: \booktitleHenry Theil's
Contributions to Economics and
Econometrics Volumes, by Baldev Raj;
Johan Koerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
D. S. Coad Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Multivariate Data Analysis, by B. S.
Everitt; G. Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Chris Chatfield Book Review: \booktitleComputing and
Graphics in Statistics, by A. Buja; P.
A. Tukey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
Eryl Shirley Book Review: \booktitleComputer
Simulation Application: An Introduction,
by Marcia Lynn Whicker; Lee Siegelman 327--328
John Shade Book Review: \booktitleThe Engineering
Statistician's Guide to Continuous
Bivariate Distributions, by T. P.
Hutchinson; C. D. Lai . . . . . . . . . 328--328
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
Comparisons for Researchers, by Larry E.
Toothaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329
Guy Nason Book Review: \booktitleProbability
Measures on Groups, by Herbert Heyer . . 329--330
Steve Brooks Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference: Theory and Practice, by
Tadeusz Bromek; Elzbieta Pleszczy\'nska 330--330
P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleTopics in
Statistical Methodology, by Suddhendu
Biswas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--331
W. A. Pridmore Book Review: \booktitleA Dictionary of
Statistical Terms, by F. H. C. Marriott 331--332
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--336
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337
T. Fearn and
A. O'Hagan Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Kathryn Chaloner and
Timothy Church and
Thomas A. Louis and
John P. Matts Graphical Elicitation of a Prior
Distribution for a Clinical Trial . . . 341--353
Bradley P. Carlin and
Kathryn Chaloner and
Timothy Church and
Thomas A. Louis and
John P. Matts Bayesian Approaches for Monitoring
Clinical Trials with an Application to
Toxoplasmic Encephalitis Prophylaxis . . 355--367
R. G. Cowell and
A. P. Dawid and
T. A. Hutchinson and
S. Roden and
D. J. Spiegelhalter Bayesian Networks for the Analysis of
Drug Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--384
Deborah Ashby and
Jane L. Hutton and
Magnus A. McGee Simple Bayesian Analyses for
Case-Control Studies in Cancer
Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397
J. L. Hutton and
R. G. Owens Bayesian Sample Size Calculations and
Prior Beliefs About Child Sexual Abuse 399--404
Pascal Wild and
Daniel Commenges and
Brigitte Etcheverry A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to the
Back-Calculation of Numbers of
HIV-Infected Subjects . . . . . . . . . 405--414
Joseph B. Kadane Subjective Bayesian Analysis for Surveys
with Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . 415--426
James O. Berger and
Ming-Hui Chen Predicting Retirement Patterns:
Prediction for a Multinomial
Distribution With Constrained Parameter
Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--443
Michael Goldstein and
Malcolm Farrow and
Takis Spiropoulos Prediction Under the Influence: Bayes
Linear Influence Diagrams for Prediction
in a Large Brewery . . . . . . . . . . . 445--459
Philip W. Woodward and
John C. Naylor An Application to Bayesian Methods in
SPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--469
Rudolf Kulhavý Implementation of Bayesian Parameter
Estimation in Adaptive Control and
Signal Processing . . . . . . . . . . . 471--482
C. E. Buck and
C. D. Litton and
D. A. Stephens Detecting a Change in the Shape of a
Prehistoric Corbelled Tomb . . . . . . . 483--490
L. I. Pettit Inferences About Ordered Parameters ---
An Astronomical Problem . . . . . . . . 491--496
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T. Fearn and
A. O'Hagan Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
Jim Smith and
Simon French Bayesian Updating of Atmospheric
Dispersion Models for Use After an
Accidental Release of Radioactivity . . 501--511
R. Rotondi and
J. J. Egozcue and
G. Zonno Bayesian Approach to the Treatment of
Uncertainty in Seismic Data . . . . . . 513--523
Kamarulzaman Bin Ibrahim and
A. V. Metcalfe Bayesian Overview for Evaluation of
Mini-Roundabouts as a Road Safety
Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--540
José M. Bernardo and
Javier Muñoz Bayesian Analysis of Population
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--550
Robert E. Kass Bayes Factors in Practice . . . . . . . 551--560
E. I. De la Fuente and
H. Trujillo and
A. R. Ortega and
I. Martín and
R. Estarelles Assessment in Probability Judgement: A
Model for Combining Sources . . . . . . 561--570
Wolfgang Polasek and
Andreas Krause Bayesian Regression Model with Simple
Errors in Variables Structure . . . . . 571--580
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--581
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Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--591
Andrew P. Grieve and
Alison Meredith and
Trevor J. Sweeting Measuring Your Posterior Beliefs That
you can Count Properly . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Jon Wakefield An Expected Loss Approach to the Design
of Dosage Regimens Via Sampling-Based
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--29
Mike West and
Dennis A. Turner Deconvolution of Mixtures in Analysis of
Neural Synaptic Transmission . . . . . . 31--43
J. L. du Plessis and
A. J. Van Der Merwe Inferences in Multivariate Bayesian
Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--60
Jonathan J. Forster A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of
Binary Crossover Data . . . . . . . . . 61--68
Andrew B. Lawson Using Spatial Gaussian Priors to Model
Heterogeneity in Environmental
Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--76
Edwin J. Green and
William E. Strawderman Determining Accuracy of Thematic Maps 77--85
Catriona M. Queen Using the Multiregression Dynamic Model
to Forecast Brand Sales in a Competitive
Product Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98
Paul C. Van Batenburg and
Anthony O'Hagan and
Ruud H. Veenstra Bayesian Discovery Sampling in Financial
Auditing: A Hierarchical Prior Model for
Substantive Test Sample Sizes . . . . . 99--110
Christian Ritter Statistical Analysis of Spectra from
Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--127
K. D. S. Young A Bayesian Analysis of Updated Component
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--137
C. Armero and
M. J. Bayarri Prior Assessments for Prediction in
Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--153
F. P. A. Coolen On Bernoulli Experiments with Imprecise
Prior Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . 155--167
W. R. Gilks and
A. Thomas and
D. J. Spiegelhalter A Language and Program for Complex
Bayesian Modelling . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
W. R. Gilks and
G. O. Roberts and
E. I. George Adaptive Direction Sampling . . . . . . 179--189
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W. Racugno Robust Bayesian Analysis in Analysis of
Variance and the $ \chi^2$-Test by Using
Marginal Likelihoods . . . . . . . . . . 191--201
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F. Wharton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
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--- The Survey Example, by L. B.
Bourque; V. A. Clark . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Stephen Brooks Book Review: \booktitleGeneral
Statistics, by W. Chase; F. Brown . . . 204--205
E. J. Judge Book Review: \booktitleThe Development
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China, by X. R. Chen; K. T. Fang; C. C.
Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
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Mik Wisniewski Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
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Methods for Psychology, by David C.
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P. Hutchinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
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Statistics, by R. Johnson . . . . . . . 213--213
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for Laboratories, by W. D. Kelley; T. A.
Ratliff,; C. Nenadic . . . . . . . . . . 214--214
Pamela Morris Book Review: \booktitleStatistics:
Principles and Methods, by R. A.
Johnson; G. K. Bhattacharyya . . . . . . 214--214
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitleSimulation: A
Statistical Perspective, by J. Kleijnen;
W. Van Groenenwald . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
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Limits of Bootstrap, by R. LePage; L.
Billard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
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R. Lindman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--216
Denise Howel Book Review:
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Business Statistics, by W. Mendenhall;
R. J. Beaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
R. H. Glendinning Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Density Estimation, Theory, Practice and
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Stephen Brooks Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Multivariate Statistics for the Social
Sciences, by J. Stevens . . . . . . . . 219--220
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Advanced Theory of Statistics, by A.
Stuart; J. K. Ord . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Pamela Morris Book Review: \booktitleSampling, by S.
K. Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221
Subir Ghosh and
Edna Derderian Correction: Robust Experimental Plan and
its Role in Determining Robust Design
Against Noise Factors . . . . . . . . . 222--222
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Stuart R. Lipsitz and
L. P. Zhao Estimation in Contingency Tables with
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M. P. Wiper and
S. French and
R. Cooke Hypothesis-Based Calibration Scores . . 231--236
M. Ataharul Islam An Alternative to the Product Limit
Method: The Multistate Approach . . . . 237--245
C. E. McLaren and
J. M. Legler and
G. M. Brittenham The Generalized $ \chi^2 $
Goodness-of-fit Test . . . . . . . . . . 247--258
Julio M. Singer and
Dalton F. Andrade On the Choice of Appropriate Error Terms
in Profile Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 259--266
A. J. Sharkey and
O. G. Roch and
R. D. Coker A Case-Study on the Development of a
Sampling and Testing Protocol for
Aflatoxin Levels in Edible Nuts and
Oil-Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--275
Peter Congdon Analysing Mortality in London:
Life-Tables with Frailty . . . . . . . . 277--308
David A. Jackson Index Betting on Sports . . . . . . . . 309--315
Victor S. Y. Lo and
John Bacon-Shone A Comparison Between Two Models for
Predicting Ordering Probabilities in
Multiple-Entry Competitions . . . . . . 317--327
Guy Nason Book Review: \booktitleA First Course in
Order Statistics, by B. C. Arnold; N.
Balakrishnan; H. N. Nagaraja . . . . . . 329--329
P. W. Woodward Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Analysis by Example, by S. Chatterjee;
B. Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
E. Swires-Hennessy Book Review: \booktitleImproving
Information for Social Policy Decisions:
The Uses of Microsimulation Modelling,
Vol. I, Review and Recommendations;
Improving Information for Social Policy
Decisions: The Uses of Microsimulation
Modelling Vol. II, Technical Papers, by
C. F. Citro; E. A. Hanushek . . . . . . 330--331
P. W. Woodward Book Review: \booktitleA Basic Course in
Statistics, by G. M. Clarke; D. Cooke 331--332
Andrew C. Gudgeon Book Review: \booktitleA First Course in
Factor Analysis, by A. L. Comrey; H. B.
Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
Andrew Lawson Book Review: \booktitleComplex
Stochastic Systems, by D. R. Cox; D. M.
Titterington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333
Anna Hart Book Review: \booktitleArtificial
Intelligence Frontiers in Statistics: AI
and Statistics III, by D. J. Hand . . . 333--334
Nicholas N. N. N. Nuamah Book Review: \booktitleModelling
Seasonality, by S. Hylleberg . . . . . . 334--335
R. T. Wates Book Review: \booktitleStatistics and
Decisions: An Introduction to
Foundations, by S. H. Kim . . . . . . . 335--336
Fearnley Szuster Book Review: \booktitleNonsampling Error
in Surveys, by J. T. Lessler; W. D.
Kalsbeek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--336
L. A. Baxter Book Review: \booktitleLectures on the
Coupling Method, by T. Lindvall . . . . 336--337
Peter Bullard Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Statistics, by P. S. Mann . . . . . . . 337--338
J. L. Madrigal Book Review: \booktitleStochastic Models
in Queueing Theory, by J. Medhi . . . . 338--338
Simon Briscoe Book Review: \booktitleInternational
Historical Statistics, Europe
1750--1988, by B. R. Mitchell . . . . . 339--339
Vicki A. Barbur Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Linear Regression Analysis, by D. C.
Montgomery; E. A. Peck . . . . . . . . . 339--341
T. Subba Rao Book Review: \booktitleIdentifiability
in Stochastic Models: Characterization
of Probability Distributions, by B. L.
S. Prakasa Rao . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
Chris Cannings Book Review: \booktitleStochastic Games
and Related Topics, by T. E. S.
Raghavan; T. S. Ferguson; T.
Parthasarathy; O. J. Vrieze . . . . . . 342--342
J. Coshall Book Review: \booktitleIntroducing Data
Analysis for Social Scientists, by D.
Rose; O. Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . 342--344
Neil Spencer Book Review: \booktitleVariance
Components, by S. R. Searle; G. Casella;
C. E. McCulloch . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Vicki A. Barbur Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Process Control for Quality Improvement,
by J. R. Thompson; J. Koronacki . . . . 345--346
Alvan R. Feinstein Book Review: \booktitleCentral Tendency
and Variability, by H. F. Weisberg . . . 346--347
G. E. Thomas Book Review: \booktitleResampling-Based
Multiple Testing: Examples and Methods
for $p$-Value Adjustment, by P. H.
Westfall; S. S. Young . . . . . . . . . 347--348
R. M. Loynes Book Review: \booktitleEvent History
Analysis, by K. Yamaguchi . . . . . . . 348--348
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Adrian Stickley and
Alan Winterbottom The Nature of Quality Assurance and
Statistical Methods in BS 5750 . . . . . 349--370
F. P. A. Coolen Bounds for Expected Loss in Bayesian
Decision Theory with Imprecise Prior
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--379
Z. W. Kmietowicz The Variance of the Sample Lead: A
Simple Derivation . . . . . . . . . . . 381--388
Raphael Gillett An Average Power Criterion for Sample
Size Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--394
John E. Angus Bootstrap One-Sided Confidence Intervals
for the Log-Normal Mean . . . . . . . . 395--401
F. W. O. Saporu The Use of a Markov Chain Model in the
Analysis of Data on the Change in
Fertility Status in Cows . . . . . . . . 403--412
Walter T. Federer Pooling and Other Designs for Analysing
Laboratory Samples More Efficiently . . 413--422
Mohamed A. A. Moussa Discrete Boundaries in Group Sequential
Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--429
Jerome H. Klotz and
Linda D. Sharpless Estimation for a Markov Heart Transplant
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--438
Victor S. Y. Lo On Estimation Methods of Input
Parameters for Economic Attribute
Control Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--451
M. A. Porter Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
Regression: Testing and Interpreting
Interactions, by L. S. Aike; S. G. West 453--453
Peter Challenor Book Review: \booktitleInverse Methods
in Physical Oceanography, by A. F.
Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
M. A. Porter Book Review: \booktitleClassification,
Data Analysis and Knowledge
Organisation: Models and Methods with
Applications, by H. H. Bock; P. Ihms . . 454--454
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleApproximation
Theory VII, by E. W. Cheney; C. K. Chui;
L. L. Schumaker . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Reliability Data, by M. J.
Crowder; A. C. Kimber; R. L. Smith; T.
J. Sweeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456
Nigel Smeeton Book Review: \booktitleStatistique
Théorique et Appliquée, Vol. 1, Les Bases
Théoriques, by P. Dagnelie . . . . . . . 456--457
J. D. Biggins Book Review: \booktitleLarge Deviation
Techniques, and Applications, by A.
Dembo; O. Zeitouni . . . . . . . . . . . 457--457
Richard A. Saldanha Book Review: \booktitleProbabilistic
Causality, by E. Eells . . . . . . . . . 457--458
A. B. Calder Book Review: \booktitleTalking About
Statistics, by B. Everitt; D. Hay . . . 458--459
Andrew C. Gudgeon Book Review: \booktitleDifferential Item
Functioning, by P. W. Holland; H. Wainer 459--460
Ronald Giles Book Review: \booktitleLongitudinal Data
with Serial Correlation: A Space-State
Approach, by R. H. Jones . . . . . . . . 460--461
W. S. Lounds Book Review: \booktitleTime Series, by
M. Kendall; J. K. Ord . . . . . . . . . 461--461
David Heath Book Review: \booktitleReviews of United
Kingdom Statistical Sources, Vol.
XXVIII, The Food Industries, by J. Mark;
R. Strange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Ronald Giles Book Review: \booktitleDiscrete Dynamic
Systems and Chaos, by M. Martelli . . . 462--462
I. Langford Book Review: \booktitleSocial Research:
Issues, Methods and Process, by T. May 463--463
Martin Crowder Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Modern Asymptotic Theory with
Statistical Applications, by B. McCabe;
A. Tremayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--464
Vijay Kumar Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Agriculture and Experimental
Biology, by R. Mead; R. N. Curnow; A. M.
Hasted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465
June E. Simakani Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Statistics: The Non-Parametric Way, by
G. E. Noether . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465
Bob Butcher Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Social Research, by V. Pons . . . . . . 466--466
Andrew Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitleMeta-Analytic
Procedures for Social Research, by R.
Rosenthal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--467
A. Csenki Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability Models, by S. M. Ross . . . 467--468
H. S. Konijn Book Review: \booktitleCategorical Data
Analysis, by AIC, by Y. Sakamoto . . . . 468--469
A. P. Grieve Book Review: \booktitleCross-Over Trials
in Clinical Research, by S. Senn . . . . 469--470
R. T. Wates Book Review: \booktitleMarkovian Queues,
by O. P. Sharma . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--471
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleDirectory of
Social Research Organisations in the
United Kingdom, by W. Sykes; M. Bulmer;
M. Schwerzel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
A. Csenki Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Stochastic Processes and Their
Applications, by P. Todorovic . . . . . 472--472
Simon Briscoe Book Review: \booktitleDictionary of
Statistics and Methodology, by W. P.
Vogt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--473
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--474
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Farid Kianifard Evaluation of Clinimetric Scales: Basic
Principles and Methods . . . . . . . . . 475--482
S. P. Brooks Diagnostics for Principal Components:
Influence Functions as Diagnostic Tools 483--494
Stuart G. Baker The Multinomial-Poisson Transformation 495--504
Martin R. Delap The Interpretation of Achieved Weights
of Examination Components . . . . . . . 505--511
Peter Congdon Spatiotemporal Analysis of Area
Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--528
G. A. R. Taylor Analysis of Experiments by Using
Half-Normal Plots . . . . . . . . . . . 529--536
Peter W. Lane and
Steve P. McGrath Modelling the Effect of Cultivation on
the Dispersion of Pollutants in Soil . . 537--549
Mick Silver and
Christos Ioannidis The Measurement of Inflation; Untimely
Weights and Alternative Formulae:
European Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 551--562
John O'Quigley On a Two-Sided Test for Crossing Hazards 563--569
Bo Jonsson Sample-Based Proportions as Values on a
Regressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--583
David F. Percy Stochastic Snooker . . . . . . . . . . . 585--594
R. G. Thomas and
Oliver D. Anderson Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--597
John Shade Book Review: \booktitleReliability and
Decision Making, by R. E. Barlow; C. A.
Clarotti; F. Spizzichino . . . . . . . . 598--599
J. U. M. Smith Book Review: \booktitleReliability
Evaluation of Engineering Systems, by R.
Billington; R. N. Allan . . . . . . . . 599--600
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to the Bootstrap, by B. Efron; R. J.
Tibshirani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--600
Andrew C. Gudgeon Book Review: \booktitleTest Theory for a
New Generation of Tests, by N.
Fredericksen; R. Mislevy; I. I. Bejar 601--601
P. W. Woodward Book Review: \booktitleTeaching
Statistical Concepts, by A. Hawkins; F.
Jolliffe; L. Glickman . . . . . . . . . 602--602
Andrew Holmes Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Inference in Finite Population Sampling,
by A. S. Hedayat; B. K. Sinha . . . . . 603--603
Andrew C. Gudgeon Book Review: \booktitleStrategies and
Tactics of Behavioral Research, by J. M.
Johnston; H. S. Pennypacker;
\booktitleReadings for Strategies and
Tactics of Behavioral Research, by J. M.
Johnston; H. S. Pennypacker . . . . . . 603--604
Alvan R. Feinstein Book Review: \booktitle100 Statistical
Tests, by G. K. Kanji . . . . . . . . . 605--605
James Currall Book Review: \booktitleSPSS/PC + Made
Simple, by P. R. Kinnear; C. D. Gray . . 605--607
Suzanne J. Powell Book Review: \booktitleSurvival
Analysis: State of the Art, by J. P.
Klein; P. K. Goel . . . . . . . . . . . 607--607
P. S. Saggu Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Survival Data Analysis, by
E. T. Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608
Simon Day Book Review: \booktitleMeasurement,
Design and Analysis: An Integrated
Approach, by E. J. Pedhazur; L. Pedhazur
Schmelkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--609
Ian Jolliffe Book Review: \booktitleApplied Factor
Analysis in the Natural Sciences, by R.
A. Reyment; K. G. Jöreskog . . . . . . . 609--610
Andrew V. Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophical and
Foundational Issues in Measurement
Theory, by C. W. Savage; P. Ehrlich . . 610--611
Martin Roberts Book Review: \booktitleLinear
Programming: An Introduction with
Applications, by A. Sultan . . . . . . . 611--612
Kamarulzaman Bin Ibrahim and
A. V. Metcalfe Correction: Bayesian Overview for
Evaluation of Mini-Roundabouts as a Road
Safety Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--612
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 613--616
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous Foreward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Stan Openshaw Developing Automated and Smart Spatial
Pattern Exploration Tools for
Geographical Information Systems
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
Jim Stack and
Antony R. Unwin Selecting Explanatory Variables from
Survey Data: A Simple Approach that
Explores for Interactions . . . . . . . 17--29
F. J. Dodd and
H. A. Donegan and
T. B. M. McMaster Reassessment of Consistency Criteria in
Judgment Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41
Michael J. Harrison Conference on Applied Statistics in
Ireland, 1993: Symposium on the Teaching
of Statistics in Higher Education in
Ireland: Introduction . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Michael Stuart Changing the Teaching of Statistics . . 45--54
Anonymous Discussion on the Symposium on the
Teaching of Statistics in Higher
Education in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
Anonymous [Abstracts of Papers Presented at the
Conference on Applied Statistics in
Ireland, 1993] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67
Mark Woodward and
Kirsty Laurent and
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe An Analysis of Risk Factors for
Prevalent Coronary Heart Disease by
Using the Proportional Odds Model . . . 69--80
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Michael Parzen Sample Size Calculations for
Non-Randomized Studies . . . . . . . . . 81--90
Rand R. Wilcox Comparing Two Independent Groups Via
Multiple Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . 91--99
Mick Silver Scales of Measurement and Cluster
Analysis: An Application Concerning
Market Segments in the Babyfood Market 101--112
B. S. Everitt The Analysis of Repeated Measures: A
Practical Review with Examples . . . . . 113--135
Robert Adams Book Review: \booktitleConstruction
Versus Choice in Cognitive Measurement,
by R. E. Bennett; W. C. Ward . . . . . . 137--137
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Survival Data in Medical Research, by D.
Collett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
E. Swires-Hennessy Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
the 21st Century: Proposals for
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R. H. Glendinning Book Review: \booktitleAsymptotic
Problems in Probability Theory:
Stochastic Models and Diffusions on
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Richard N. Penny Book Review: \booktitleModel Assisted
Survey Sampling, by C.-E. Särndel; B.
Swensson; J. Wretman . . . . . . . . . . 140--142
Philip Sedgwick Book Review: \booktitleProbability
Theory: An Introductory Course, by Y.
Sinai; D. Haughton . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
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Lawrence Joseph and
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Roxane Du Berger Sample Size Calculations for Binomial
Proportions via Highest Posterior
Density Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . 143--154
C. J. Adcock The Bayesian Approach to Determination
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Paper by Joseph, Wolfson and du Berger 155--161
T. Pham-Gia Sample Size Determination in Bayesian
Statistics --- A Commentary . . . . . . 163--166
Lawrence Joseph and
David B. Wolfson and
Roxane du Berger Some Comments on Bayesian Sample Size
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Peter Lynn and
Bridget Taylor On the Bias and Variance of Samples of
Individuals: A Comparison of the
Electoral Registers and Postcode Address
File as Sampling Frames . . . . . . . . 173--194
Michael Olszak and
Gilbert Ritschard The Behaviour of Nominal and Ordinal
Partial Association Measures . . . . . . 195--212
Rand R. Wilcox Simulation Results on Solutions to the
Multivariate Behrens--Fisher Problem Via
Trimmed Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225
Richard Stone and
Mark Taylor Time Series Models in Statistical
Process Control: Considerations of
Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--234
C. M. Theobald and
S. P. J. Kirby Discrimination Using Covariance
Selection Models in the Automated
Allocation of Human Chromosomes . . . . 235--240
S. P. Brooks and
B. J. T. Morgan Optimization Using Simulated Annealing 241--257
S. M. Dobson and
J. A. Goddard The Demand for Professional League
Football in England and Wales, 1925--92 259--277
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Asymptotics, by O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen;
D. R. Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
J. Sheil Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for SPC and TQM, by D. Bissell 279--281
James F. Watkins Book Review: \booktitleModelling
Survival Data in Medical Research, by D.
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Theory for Actuaries, by C. D. Daykin;
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Leland G. Neuberg Book Review: \booktitleBayes or Bust?
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P. W. Woodward Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Probability and Statistics: A Book of
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Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Circular Data, by N. I.
Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
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Analysis of Spherical Data, by N. I.
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Lai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
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Problems in Probability Theory: Wiener
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A. Fielding Book Review: \booktitleNon-Sampling
Errors in Surveys, by J. T. Kessler; W.
D. Kelsbeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
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Information and Efficiency, by J. K.
Sengupta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
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Taylor; S. Karlin . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
Stephen Brooks Book Review: \booktitleMarkov Decision
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Z. W. Kmietowicz Accuracy of Indices of Industrial
Production in Developing Countries . . . 295--307
Mick Silver and
Christos Ioannidis European Inflation and Its Variability 309--322
Terence C. Mills Modelling Skewness and Kurtosis in the
London Stock Exchange FT-SE Index Return
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--332
W. K. Li and
K. Lam Modelling Asymmetry in Stock Returns by
a Threshold Autoregressive Conditional
Heteroscedastic Model . . . . . . . . . 333--341
Saleh Amirkhalkhali and
Tomson Ogwang and
Samad Amirkhalkhali and
U. L. Gouranga Rao On the Forecasting Performance of
Estimators for a Structural Equation in
a Large System: Some Monte Carlo Results 343--351
Laurence Watier and
Sylvia Richardson Modelling of an Epidemiological Time
Series by a Threshold Autoregressive
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--364
Gilbert Mackenzie Regression Models for Repeated Medical
Random Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--372
Alan J. Collins Bootstrap Confidence Limits on Process
Capability Indices . . . . . . . . . . . 373--378
P. C. Wang and
H. W. Jan Designing Two-Level Factorial
Experiments Using Orthogonal Arrays when
the Run Order is Important . . . . . . . 379--388
Saurabh Mukhopadhyay and
Brani Vidakovic Efficiency of Linear Bayes Rules for a
Normal Mean: Skewed Priors Class . . . . 389--397
Norman R. Draper and
Irwin Guttman Confidence Intervals Versus Regions . . 399--403
Steven B. Caudill Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--406
Peter J. Hingley Book Review: \booktitleInference and
Asymptotics, by O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen;
D. R. Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Statistical Analyses Using S-Plus, by B.
S. Everitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
Ioannis I. Gerontidis Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Methods in Queuing Theory, by V. V.
Kalashnikov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Denise Howel Book Review: \booktitleLogistic
Regression: A Self Learning Text, by D.
G. Kleinbaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
R. H. Glendinning Book Review: \booktitleTheory of
$U$-Statistics, by V. S. Koroljuk; Yu.
V. Borovskich . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Peter R. Bullard Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Probability and Statistics --- A Book of
Problems, by A. K. Peters . . . . . . . 412--412
Michael J. Phillips Book Review: \booktitleThe Reliability,
Availability and Productiveness of
Systems, by D. J. Sherwin; A. Bossche 412--413
A. Csenki Book Review: \booktitleApplied Methods
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G. Berry and
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Sadao Tomizawa Measures of Departure from Marginal
Homogeneity for Contingency Tables with
Nominal Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 425--439
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I. Herranz Tejedor and
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$-, Student and Pearson Tests and $ 2
\times 2$ Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--450
David P. Byar and
Laurence S. Freedman and
Agnes M. Herzberg Identifying Which Sets of Parameters are
Simultaneously Estimable in an
Incomplete Factorial Design . . . . . . 451--456
Z. W. Kmietowicz The Exact Distribution of the Sample
Lead: Further Results . . . . . . . . . 457--467
Stephen Robinson and
Sally McClean Simulation of Wind Speed for the
Modelling of Pine Saw-Fly Mortality . . 469--477
George E. P. Box and
Alberto Luceño Discrete Proportional-Integral Control
with Constrained Adjustment . . . . . . 479--495
Erika Graf and
Martin Schumacher An Investigation on Measures of
Explained Variation in Survival Analysis 497--507
Stephen R. Clarke and
John M. Norman Home Ground Advantage of Individual
Clubs in English Soccer . . . . . . . . 509--521
Anthony Y. C. Kuk Modelling Paired Comparison Data with
Large Numbers of Draws and Large
Variability of Draw Percentages Among
Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--528
David R. Appleton May the Best Man Win? . . . . . . . . . 529--538
David Goda Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Social Science Statistics: A Spreadsheet
Approach, by R. Bakeman . . . . . . . . 539--540
Murray D. Smith Book Review: \booktitleComputational
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John Shade Book Review: \booktitleUsing Statistics
in Industry, by G. Betteley; N.
Mettrick; E. Sweeney; D. Wilson . . . . 541--542
Quentin Burrell Book Review: \booktitleProbability with
a View Toward Statistics, by J.
Hoffmann-Jörgensen . . . . . . . . . . . 542--543
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Reliability Theory-Models and
Statistical Methods, by A. Hòyland; M.
Rausand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--544
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Univariate Distributions, by N. L.
Johnson; S. Kotz; N. Balakrishnan . . . 544--545
Simon Day Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Two-Way Layouts, by J. Mandel . . . . . 545--546
Antony Fielding Book Review: \booktitleData Analysis: An
Introduction, by B. Nolan . . . . . . . 546--547
R. A. Ipinyomi and
B. L. Adeleke Correction: Nested Row-Column Designs 547--547
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Yudi Pawitan Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Daniel Barry An Empirical Bayes Approach to Growth
Curve Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--19
Gilbert Mackenzie Regression Models for Survival Data: The
Generalized Time-Dependent Logistic
Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--34
Gabrielle Kelly Adaptive Choice of Tuning Constant for
Robust Regression Estimators . . . . . . 35--40
Anonymous [Abstracts of Papers Presented at the
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Quang P. Duong and
Richard W. Shorrock On Behrens--Fisher Solutions . . . . . . 57--63
Kiseok Lee An Economic Application of Time Domain
Chebyshev Filters: A Test of the
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W. E. Henley and
D. J. Hand A $k$-Nearest-Neighbour Classifier for
Assessing Consumer Credit Risk . . . . . 77--95
Renato G. Flôres, Jr. and
Victor A. Ginsburgh The Queen Elisabeth Musical Competition:
How Fair is the Final Ranking? . . . . . 97--104
Ann Largey and
John E. Spencer $F$- and $t$-Tests in Multiple
Regression: The Possibility of
`Conflicting' Outcomes . . . . . . . . . 105--109
Edward I. George and
Samuel D. Oman Multiple-Shrinkage Principal Component
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Terry Weight and
Alan J. Collins Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
R. I. Smith Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
the Environment $2$-Water Related
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John Disney Book Review: \booktitleAchieving Quality
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Caulcutt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
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R. H. Glendinning Book Review: \booktitleRuns and Patterns
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Ryan Cheal and
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Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
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Methods for Data Analysis, by S.
Weerahandi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--141
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Probability, by G. Wright; P. Ayton . . 141--141
W. K. Li and
K. Lam Correction: Modelling Asymmetry in Stock
Returns by a Threshold Autoregressive
Conditional Heteroscedastic Model . . . 142--142
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Andrew Wood Trend Growth in Post-1850 British
Economic History: The Kalman Filter and
Historical Judgment . . . . . . . . . . 143--152
Terence C. Mills and
N. F. R. Crafts Modelling Trends in Economic History . . 153--159
Michael Ball and
Andrew Wood Some Comments on Modelling Economic
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Rebecca Gray and
Pamela Campanelli and
Kavita Deepchand and
Patricia Prescott-Clarke Exploring Survey Non-Response: The
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the 1984--85 Health and Life Style
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--183
Lesley Walls A Graphical Approach to Identification
of Dependent Failures . . . . . . . . . 185--196
A. N. Pettitt Infinite Estimates with Fractional
Factorial Experiments . . . . . . . . . 197--206
F. W. O. Saporu On the Use of the Leslie Matrix in the
Analysis of Prevalence Data for General
Epidemic Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221
J. K. Lindsey and
C. Laurent Estimating the Proportion of
Lymphoblastoid Cells Affected by
Exposure to Ethylene Oxide Through
Micronuclei Counts . . . . . . . . . . . 223--229
Raphael Gillett Retrospective Power Surveys . . . . . . 231--236
Syed Shakir Ali Ghazali Modification of Waterton's Controlled
Selection Method . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--242
David C. Blest Lower Bounds for Athletic Performance 243--253
S. M. Crowe and
Jennifer Middeldorp A Comparison of Leg Before Wicket Rates
Between Australians and Their Visiting
Teams for Test Cricket Series Played in
Australia, 1977--94 . . . . . . . . . . 255--262
P. Sprent and
A. Martin and
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A. Silva Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
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First Course in Statistics and Data
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J. S. Simonoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--265
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S. Stern; D. B. Rubin . . . . . . . . . 266--267
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John C. Duffy Compound Binomial Distributions for
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P. Vandenbroeck and
P. Vandevyvere Statistics in a New Business
Environment: An Example . . . . . . . . 287--292
Stephen Walker A Bayesian Maximum a Posteriori
Algorithm for Categorical Data Under
Informative General Censoring . . . . . 293--298
Raphael Gillett Sampling with Fallible Memory: An
Occupancy Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 299--305
H. H. Chen and
S. W. Duffy and
Laszlo Tabar A Markov Chain Method to Estimate the
Tumour Progression Rate from Preclinical
to Clinical Phase, Sensitivity and
Positive Predictive Value for
Mammography in Breast Cancer Screening 307--317
Subal C. Kumbhakar Estimation of Cost Efficiency with
Heteroscedasticity: An Application to
Electricity Utilities . . . . . . . . . 319--335
John D. Lyon and
Chih-Ling Tsai A Comparison of Tests for
Heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 337--349
S. Chakraborti and
P. van der Laan Precedence Tests and Confidence Bounds
for Complete Data: An Overview and Some
Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--369
Friedrich Schmid and
Mark Trede Testing for First-Order Stochastic
Dominance: A New Distribution-Free Test 371--380
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J. Martin Bland and
Stephen R. Clarke and
John M. Norman Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383
Frank Coolen Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
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Keiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
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Dobson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--388
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Interactive Statistical Computing
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Models in Finance, by S. D. Howison; F.
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Decision Support for Environmental
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James F. Watkins Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing
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Observational Studies, by E. Marubini;
M.-G. Valsecchi . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
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Adrian Dunne and
Yudi Pawitan and
Liam Doody Two-Sided $P$-Values from Discrete
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Steven Haberman and
Arthur E. Renshaw Generalized Linear Models and Actuarial
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--436
Philip J. Boland and
James Nicholson The Statistics and Probability
Curriculum at the Secondary School Level
in the USA, Ireland and the UK . . . . . 437--446
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Peter Walley and
Lyle Gurrin and
Paul Burton Analysis of Clinical Data Using
Imprecise Prior Probabilities . . . . . 457--485
José M. Bernardo and
Telba Z. Irony A General Multivariate Bayesian Process
Capability Index . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--502
U. E. Makov and
A. F. M. Smith and
Y.-H. Liu Bayesian Methods in Actuarial Science 503--515
Nigel Smeeton Open Wide: Teaching Statistics to Dental
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Bryan Campbell and
John W. Galbraith Nonparametric Tests of the Unbiasedness
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Anonymous Editorial Acknowledgement . . . . . . . 527--527
L. A. Baxter Book Review: \booktitleThe Elements of
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Allan G. Prys-Williams Book Review: \booktitleTesting
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James F. Watkins Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear Models
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C. M. O'Brien Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
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Crime Statistics, by A. Walker . . . . . 538--539
Joseph B. Kadane Correction: Subjective Bayesian Analysis
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S. E. Meikle Control Charts Based on Medians . . . . 19--31
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S. I. McClean Convolution and Sampling Theory of the
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Yuedong Wang Odds Ratio Estimation in Bernoulli
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J. Andrew Coutts and
Jennifer Roberts and
Terence C. Mills Parameter Stability in the Market Model:
Tests and Time Varying Parameter
Estimation With UK Data . . . . . . . . 57--70
Manuel Galea and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Heleno Bolfarine Local Influence in Elliptical Linear
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice Model Selection with Overdispersed Data 81--91
E. S. Jeevanand Bayes Estimation of $ P(X_2 < X_1) $ for
a Bivariate Pareto Distribution . . . . 93--99
R. Hugh Morton Statistical Effects of Lane Allocation
on Times in Running Races . . . . . . . 101--104
Daniel B. Wright Football Standings and Measurement
Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
R. Hugh Morton and
David Best Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
B. Everitt Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Categorical Data Analysis, by A.
Agresti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Dave Upendra Book Review: \booktitleMeasurement Error
in Nonlinear Models, by R. J. Carroll;
D. Ruppert; L. A. Stefanski . . . . . . 115--116
Peter Congdon Book Review: \booktitleClinical
Biostatistics: An Introduction to
Evidence-Based Medicine, by G. Dunn; B.
Everitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Stephen Brooks Book Review: \booktitleMarkov Chain
Monte Carlo in Practice, by W. R. Gilks;
S. Richardson; D. J. Spiegelhalter . . . 117--118
Howard Grubb Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Modelling of Scientific Data, by P.
Guttorp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
R. J. Martin Book Review: \booktitleCyclic and
Computer Generated Designs, by J. A.
John; E. R. Williams . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
John Lintott Book Review: \booktitleMeasuring the
Economy: A Guide to Understanding
Official Statistics, by C. Johnson; S.
Briscoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
James Currall Book Review: \booktitleStatistics: An
Interactive Text for the Health and Life
Sciences, by G. B. Krishnamurty; P.
Kasovia-Schmitt; D. J. Ostroff . . . . . 120--121
Susan Starkings Book Review: \booktitleModels for
Uncertainty in Educational Testing, by
N. T. Longford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Alison Wheatley Book Review: \booktitleBasic
Epidemiological Methods and
Biostatistics: A Practical Guidebook, by
R. M. Page; G. E. Cole; T. C. Timmreck 122--123
B. Everitt Book Review: \booktitleWorkshop
Statistics Discovery with Data, by A. J.
Rossman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Ian Jolliffe Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Geostatistics: An Introduction with
Applications, by H. Wackernagel . . . . 124--124
Philippe Castagliola Book Review: \booktitleKernel Smoothing,
by M. P. Wand; M. C. Jones . . . . . . . 124--125
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
N. C. Smeeton and
C. J. Adcock Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Dennis V. Lindley The Choice of Sample Size . . . . . . . 129--138
T. Pham-Gia On Bayesian Analysis, Bayesian Decision
Theory and the Sample Size Problem . . . 139--144
Lawrence Joseph and
David B. Wolfson Interval-Based Versus Decision Theoretic
Criteria for the Choice of Sample Size 145--149
José M. Bernardo Statistical Inference as a Decision
Problem: The Choice of Sample Size . . . 151--153
C. J. Adcock The Choice of Sample Size and the Method
of Maximum Expected Utility --- Comments
on the Paper by Lindley . . . . . . . . 155--162
Dennis V. Lindley The Choice of Sample Size --- A Reply to
the Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--166
Michael Goldstein and
David A. Wooff Choosing Sample Sizes in Balanced
Experimental Designs: A Bayes Linear
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--183
Robert Weiss Bayesian Sample Size Calculations for
Hypothesis Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 185--191
Lam Yeh and
Lam Chi Van Bayesian Double-Sampling Plans with
Normal Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 193--207
Lawrence Joseph and
Patrick Bélisle Bayesian Sample Size Determination for
Normal Means and Differences Between
Normal Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--226
Henry C. Thode, Jr. Power and Sample Size Requirements for
Tests of Differences Between Two Poisson
Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230
J. K. Lindsey Exact Sample Size Calculations for
Exponential Family Models . . . . . . . 231--237
W. Liu On Some Sample Size Formulae for
Controlling Both Size and Power in
Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--251
T. H. Sparks and
J. O. Mountford and
S. J. Manchester and
P. Rothery and
J. R. Treweek Sample Size for Estimating Species Lists
in Vegetation Surveys . . . . . . . . . 253--260
C. J. Adcock Book Review: \booktitleSample Size
Determination: A Review . . . . . . . . 261--283
Murray D. Smith Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Models: Censored, Sample Selected, or
Truncated Data, by R. Breen . . . . . . 285--285
Ana F. Militino Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Dependencies, Models, Analysis and
Interpretation, by D. R. Cox; N. Wermuth 285--286
B. Everitt Book Review: \booktitleChallenges Ahead
for Improving Sports Statistics, by
International Statistical Institute
Sports Statistics Committee and
International Statistical Institute . . 287--287
D. V. Lindley Book Review: \booktitleLife's Grandeur:
The Spread of Excellence from Plato to
Darwin, by S. J. Gould . . . . . . . . . 287--287
Frank Coolen Book Review: \booktitleSurvival
Analysis: A Self-Learning Text, by D. G.
Kleinbaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleVARIOWIN:
Software for Spatial Data Analysis in
$2$D, by Y. Pannatier . . . . . . . . . 289--290
A. D. Barbour Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Computational Biology: Maps, Sequences
and Genomes, by M. S. Waterman . . . . . 290--291
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
P. J. Schlüter and
J. J. Deely and
A. J. Nicholson Ranking and Selecting Motor Vehicle
Accident Sites by Using a Hierarchical
Bayesian Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--316
Aaron Sheldon and
Robert Sproule Variance as a Proxy for Risk: The Case
of the Binomial Distribution . . . . . . 317--322
Douglas M. Hawkins and
David H. Olwell Inverse Gaussian Cumulative Sum Control
Charts for Location and Shape . . . . . 323--335
J. C. W. Rayner The Asymptotically Optimal Tests . . . . 337--346
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner Product Maps for Ranked Preference Data 347--354
Enrique Castillo and
José María Sarabia and
Ali S. Hadi Fitting Continuous Bivariate
Distributions to Data . . . . . . . . . 355--369
Mark Woodward and
Neil Dourmashkin and
Etienne Twagirumukiza and
Maurice C. Y. Mbago and
Adrião S. Ferreira da Cunha Statistics Training in Eastern and
Southern Africa: A Study of Supply and
Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--386
David Johnson The Triangular Distribution as a Proxy
for the Beta Distribution in Risk
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--398
Tomson Ogwang and
U. L. Gouranga Rao A Simple Algorithm for Estimating
Box--Cox Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--409
Patrick Royston and
Douglas G. Altman Approximating Statistical Functions by
Using Fractional Polynomial Regression 411--422
Philip J. Smith Power and Sample Size Considerations for
Detecting Deviations from Secular Trends
in Surveillance Surveys . . . . . . . . 423--432
D. E. Walters Confidence Limits and Log-Odds Ratios 433--438
Attila Csenki Optimum Allocation in Stratified Random
Sampling via Hölder's Inequality . . . . 439--441
Nick Longford and
S. R. Clarke and
J. M. Norman and
J. M. Bland and
Gerard J. P. Van Breukelen Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--447
Armando Seuc Book Review: \booktitleStatistics as
Principled Argument, by R. P. Abelson 448--449
Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Approach
to Interpreting Archaeological Data, by
C. E. Buck; W. G. Cavanagh; C. D. Litton 449--450
R. J. Martin Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Statistical Time Series, by W. A. Fuller 450--451
Vicente Núñez-Antón Book Review: \booktitlePractical
Longitudinal Data Analysis, by D. Hand;
M. Crowder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
J. Gani Book Review: \booktitleModels for
Infectious Human Diseases: Their
Structure and Relation to Data, by V.
Isham; G. Medley . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--453
J. Gani Book Review: \booktitleLifetime Data:
Models in Reliability and Survival
Analysis, by N. P. Jewell; A. C. Kimber;
M.-L. T. Lee; G. A. Whitmore . . . . . . 454--454
D. V. Lindley Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Methods
and Ethics in a Clinical Trial Design,
by J. B. Kadane . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--455
Joao A. Branco Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Analysis,Part 2: Classification,
Covariance Structures and Repeated
Measurements, by W. J. Krzanowski; F. H.
C. Marriott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456
Paul E. Firmin Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals of
Applied Statistics and Surveys, by D. B.
Orr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--457
B. Everitt Book Review: \booktitleActivity Based
Statistics, by R. L. Scheaffer; M.
Gnanadesikan; A. Watkins; J. A. Witmer 457--458
B. Everitt Book Review: \booktitleGraphing
Statistics and Data, by A. Wallgren; B.
Wallgren; R. Persson; U. Jorner; J. A.
Haaland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Beattie and
Edward Goodall and
Gil Stevenson Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Chris Chatfield Forecasting in the 1990s . . . . . . . . 461--473
John Haslett On the Sample Variogram and the Sample
Autocovariance for Non-Stationary Time
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--485
Denis Conniffe Improving a Linear Regression Through
Joint Estimation with a Probit Model . . 487--493
Sally Watson Evaluation of Semivariance Estimators
Under Normal Conditions . . . . . . . . 495--503
David R. Boniface and
Margaret E. Tefft The Application of Structural Equation
Modelling to the Construction of an
Index for the Measurement of
Health-Related Behaviours . . . . . . . 505--514
Gordon Hay The Selection from Multiple Data Sources
in Epidemiological Capture-Recapture
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--520
Nigel Smeeton Statistical Education in Medicine and
Dentistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--527
Olaf B. Chedzoy The Effect of Umpiring Errors in Cricket 529--540
Richard Pollard and
Charles Reep Measuring the Effectiveness of Playing
Strategies at Soccer . . . . . . . . . . 541--550
Roger L. Holder and
Alan M. Nevill Modelling Performance at International
Tennis and Golf Tournaments: Is There a
Home Advantage? . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--559
Lola Ugarte Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference-Based on the Likelihood, by A.
Azzalini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--562
Susan Starkings Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Tests
--- An Introduction with Minitab
Commentary, by G. P. Beaumont; J. D.
Knowles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--562
Marion Scott Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Time Series and Forecasting, by P. J.
Brockwell; R. A. Davis . . . . . . . . . 562--563
Susan Starkings Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Queueing Theory, by B. D. Bunday . . 563--564
Stephen D. Clark Book Review: \booktitleThe Analysis of
Time Series: An Introduction, by C.
Chatfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--565
Mary A. Foulkes Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
the Design and Analysis of Experiments,
by G. M. Clarke; R. E. Kempson . . . . . 565--566
Phil Woodward Book Review: \booktitleThe Pocket
Statistician: A Practical Guide to
Quality Improvement, by S. Coleman; T.
Greenfield; R. Jones; C. Morris; I.
Puzey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--567
James Watkins Book Review: \booktitleBiplots, by J. C.
Gower; D. J. Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 567--568
Frederick P. Wheeler Book Review: \booktitleResearch Methods:
Guidance for Postgraduates, by T.
Greenfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--569
Frank Coolen Book Review: \booktitleMaximum Entropy
and Bayesian Methods, by G. R.
Heidbreder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--570
D. J. Bartholomew Book Review: \booktitleLatent Class and
Discrete Latent Trait Models:
Similarities and Differences, by T.
Heinen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--571
J. Gani Book Review: \booktitleDiscrete-Time
Markov Control Processes: Basic
Optimality Criteria, by O.
Hernandez-Lerma; J. B. Lasserre . . . . 571--572
D. V. Lindley Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
Comparisons: Theory and Methods, by J.
C. Hsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--573
Ray Thomas Book Review: \booktitleInterpreting
Official Statistics, by R. Levitas; W.
Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--576
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleDiscrete Gambling
and Stochastic Games, by A. P. Maitra;
W. D. Sudderth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576--577
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 579--582
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Joseph B. Kadane and
Lara J. Wolfson Experiences in Elicitation . . . . . . . 3--19
A. O'Hagan Eliciting Expert Beliefs in Substantial
Practical Applications . . . . . . . . . 21--35
Peter S. Craig and
Michael Goldstein and
Allan H. Seheult and
James A. Smith Constructing Partial Prior
Specifications for Models of Complex
Physical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--53
Anonymous Discussion on the Papers on
`Elicitation' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--68
Stephen P. Brooks Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method and Its
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--100
José M. Bernardo and
José M. Ramón An Introduction to Bayesian Reference
Analysis: Inference on the Ratio of
Multinomial Parameters . . . . . . . . . 101--135
Richard William Farebrother Non-Linear Curve Fitting and the True
Method of Least Squares . . . . . . . . 137--147
Elham Rahme and
Lawrence Joseph Estimating the Prevalence of a Rare
Disease: Adjusted Maximum Likelihood . . 149--158
Peter Congdon A Multilevel Model for Infant Health
Outcomes: Maternal Risk Factors and
Geographic Variation . . . . . . . . . . 159--182
D. N. Joanes and
C. A. Gill Comparing Measures of Sample Skewness
and Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Estela Bee Dagum Bartlett-Type Modified Test for Moving
Seasonality with Applications . . . . . 191--206
Thomas M. Loughin On Type I Error Rates in the Analysis of
Unreplicated $ 2^3$-Factorials . . . . . 207--210
D. R. Cox Some Remarks on Statistical Education 211--213
John M. Halley Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Information, by D. Applebaum . . . . . . 215--216
Theofanis Sapatinas Book Review: \booktitleUnimodality of
Probability Measures, by E. M. J.
Bertin; I. Cuculescu; R. Theodorescu . . 216--217
Peter Ridges Book Review: \booktitleA Course in
Stochastic Processes, by D. Bosq; H. T.
Nguyen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Jennifer Argyle Book Review: \booktitleA Conceptual
Introduction to Modeling: Qualitative
and Quantitative Perspectives, by D. W.
Britt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Philippe Castagliola Book Review: \booktitleGeneral
Statistics, by W. Chase; F. Bown . . . . 218--219
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitleThe Pocket
Statistician: A Practical Guide to
Quality Improvement, by S. Coleman; T.
Greenfield; R. Jones; C. Morris; I.
Puzey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
A. D. Gordon Book Review: \booktitleTree Models of
Similarity and Association, by J. E.
Corter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Robert Bartels Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
Statistical Data Handling, by F.
Davidson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Allan White Book Review: \booktitleDiscovering
Advanced Mathematics: Statistics, by R.
Fentem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleAn Intermediate
Course in Probability, by A. Gut . . . . 222--222
Georges Le Vey Book Review: \booktitleRobust
Statistical Procedures: Asymptotics and
Interrelations, by J. Jureckova; P. K.
Sen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--224
Simon French Book Review: \booktitleOperational
Subjective Statistical Methods: A
Mathematical, Philosophical and
Historical Introduction, by F. Lad . . . 224--224
Robert Bartels Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Matrices, by H. Lütkepohl . . . . . . . . 225--225
G. Janacek Book Review: \booktitleThe Biostatistics
Cookbook: The Most User Friendly Guide
for the Bio/ Medical Scientist, by S.
Michelson; T. Schofield . . . . . . . . 225--226
Martin Ridout Book Review: \booktitleBeyond ANOVA:
Basics of Applied Statistics, by R. G.
Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Paul Northrop Book Review: \booktitleOptimization of
Stochastic Models: The Interface Between
Simulation and Optimization, by G. Ch.
Pflug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Graham Dunn Book Review: \booktitleApplied Factor
Analysis in the Natural Sciences, by R.
Reyment; K. G. Jöreskog . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Philip Young Book Review: \booktitleMatrix Analysis
for Statistics, by J. R. Schott . . . . 228--229
Rüdiger Kiesel Book Review: \booktitleProbability, by
A. N. Shiryaev . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Survey Sampling, by R. Singh; N. S.
Mangat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Theofanis Sapatinas Book Review: \booktitleCounterexamples
in Probability, by J. Stoyanov . . . . . 231--231
Georgi Boshnakov Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
Time Series Analysis in Astronomy and
Meteorology, by T. Subba Rao; M. B.
Priestley; O. Lessi . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Rüdiger Kiesel Book Review: \booktitleWeak Convergence
and Empirical Processes with
Applications to Statistics, by A. W. van
der Vaart; J. A. Wellner . . . . . . . . 233--233
W. N. Venables Book Review: \booktitleAspects of
Statistical Inference, by A. H. Welsh 233--234
Kyösti Huhtala Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Statistics: An Introduction for the
Social Sciences, by D. B. Wright . . . . 234--235
Shirley Coleman Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
P. Sprent Statistics and Mathematics-Trouble at
the Interface? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--244
David J. Hand Breaking Misconceptions-Statistics and
Its Relationship to Mathematics . . . . 245--250
Stephen Senn Mathematics: Governess or Handmaiden? 251--259
R. A. Bailey Statistics and Mathematics: The
Appropriate Use of Mathematics Within
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271
Anonymous Discussion on the Papers on `Statistics
and Mathematics' . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--290
Conall Boyle Organizations Selecting People: How the
Process Could be Made Fairer by the
Appropriate Use of Lotteries . . . . . . 291--321
Neidha Nadal and
Luis Raúl Pericchi An Automatic Bayesian Procedure for
Likelihoods with Shifted Origin . . . . 323--332
Trivellore E. Raghunathan and
David S. Siscovick Combining Exposure Information from
Various Sources in an Analysis of a
Case-Control Study . . . . . . . . . . . 333--347
Adrian Bowman and
W. Harper Gilmour and
Gillian Constable and
Neville Davies and
Steven G. Gilmour and
Edwin J. Redfern Computer-Based Learning in Statistics: A
Problem Solving Approach . . . . . . . . 349--364
A. Saei and
C. A. McGilchrist Longitudinal Threshold Models with
Random Components . . . . . . . . . . . 365--375
Philip V. Bertrand Constructing Explained and Explanatory
Variables with Strange Statistical
Analysis Results . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--383
Bruno D. Zumbo and
Anita M. Hubley A Note on Misconceptions Concerning
Prospective and Retrospective Power . . 385--388
Suhas P. Sukhatme Obituary: Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme . . 389--390
John Hinde Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
the Statistical Analysis of Categorical
Data, by E. B. Andersen . . . . . . . . 391--391
D. A. Stephens Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Information: An Integrated Approach, by
D. Applebaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392
E. Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
the Environment 3: Pollution Assessment
and Control, by V. Barnett; K. F.
Turkman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393
D. A. Stephens Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Statistics 5, by J. M. Bernardo; J. O.
Berger; A. P. Dawid; A. F. M. Smith . . 393--394
James Currall Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Significance: Rationale, Validity and
Utility, by S. L. Chow . . . . . . . . . 394--395
Chris McCollin Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Industrial Process Control,
by D. Drain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Allan G. Prys-Williams Book Review: \booktitleA Guide to
Chi-Squared Testing, by P. E. Greenwood;
M. S. Nikulin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
M. J. Collop Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Pattern Theory, by U. Grenander . . . . 396--397
Mark Brewer Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Bayesian Networks, by F. V. Jensen 397--398
Ana F. Militino Book Review: \booktitleStatistics,
Principles and Methods, by R. A.
Johnson; G. K. Bhattacharyya . . . . . . 398--399
Frank Coolen Book Review: \booktitleBusiness
Statistics: Decision Making with Data,
by R. A. Johnson; D. W. Wichern . . . . 399--399
John F. Bell Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Plant Variety Evaluation, by
R. A. Kempton; P. N. Fox . . . . . . . . 399--400
A. W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleMarkov Processes
for Stochastic Modelling, by M. Kijima 400--401
Orlando Machado Book Review: \booktitleProbability: An
Introduction with Statistical
Applications, by J. J. Kinney . . . . . 401--401
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleProbability: A
Survey of the Mathematical Theory, by J.
W. Lamperti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
O. Mayo Book Review: \booktitleError and the
Growth of Experimental Knowledge, by D.
G. Mayo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--404
Peter Craig Book Review: \booktitleStatistics of the
Boolean Model for Practitioners and
Mathematicians, by I. Molchanov . . . . 404--404
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleMarkov Chains, by
J. R. Norris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--405
Ken Holden Book Review: \booktitleA Beginner's
Guide to Structural Equation Modelling,
by R. E. Schumacker; R. G. Lomax . . . . 405--406
Ilya Molchanov Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Theory of Shape, by C. G. Small . . . . 406--406
A. V. Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Statistics for Managers, by H. A.
Spooner; C. D. Lewis . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Clare Morris Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Analysis Techniques in Social Science
Research, by J. Tacq . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
R. H. Glendinning Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear
Filters, Estimation and Applications, by
H. Tanizaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Geoffrey Morgan Book Review: \booktitleComputational
Economics and Finance: Modelling and
Analysis with Mathematica, by H. R.
Varian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410
Mario Cortina Borja Book Review: \booktitleLinear and
Nonlinear Models for the Analysis of
Repeated Measurements, by E. F. Vonesh;
V. M. Chinchilli . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Eddie Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Demonstrations and Activities in the
Teaching of Psychology: Volume 1,
Introductory, Statistics, Research
Methods, and History, by M. E. Ware; D.
E. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David Unwin and
Antony Unwin Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--413
A. Unwin and
D. Unwin Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis with
Local Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--421
Adalbert Wilhelm and
Robert Steck Exploring Spatial Data by Using
Interactive Graphics and Local
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--430
Chris Brunsdon and
Stewart Fotheringham and
Martin Charlton Geographically Weighted
Regression-Modelling Spatial
Non-Stationarity . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--443
Adalbert Wilhelm and
Meike Sander Interactive Statistical Analysis of
Dialect Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--455
Robert Haining and
Stephen Wise and
Jingsheng Ma Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis in a
Geographic Information System
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--469
Chris Brunsdon Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and
Local Indicators of Spatial Association
with XLISP--STAT . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--484
Jason Dykes Cartographic Visualization: Exploratory
Spatial Data Analysis with Local
Indicators of Spatial Association Using
Tcl/Tk and cdv . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--497
Roger S. Bivand Software and Software Design Issues in
the Exploration of Local Dependence . . 499--508
H. J. Grubb Models for Comparing Athletic
Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--521
Mark J. Dixon and
Michael E. Robinson A Birth Process Model for Association
Football Matches . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--538
A. W. F. Edwards Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
Biometry: 50 Years of the International
Biometric Society, by P. Armitage; H. A.
David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--539
David G. T. Denison Book Review: \booktitleApplied Smoothing
Techniques for Data Analysis --- The
Kernel Approach with S-Plus
Illustrations, by A. W. Bowman; A.
Azzalini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--540
Javid Shabbir Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Statistical Methods: For Business,
Economics and the Social Sciences, by W.
L. Carlson; B. Thorne . . . . . . . . . 540--540
Stephen Brooks Book Review: \booktitleBootstrap Methods
and Their Applications, by A. C.
Davidson; D. V. Hinkley . . . . . . . . 541--541
Bruno D. Zumbo Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Single-Case Research, by R.
D. Franklin; D. B. Allison; B. S. Gorman 541--543
Martin Knott Book Review: \booktitleBonferroni-Type
Inequalities with Applications, by J.
Galambos; I. Simonelli . . . . . . . . . 543--544
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleThe SPSS Guide to
the New Statistical Analysis of Data, by
S. Gerber; K. E. Vogel . . . . . . . . . 544--544
David Wooff Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Tools
for Nonlinear Regression: A Practical
Guide with S-PLUS Examples, by S. Huet;
A. Bouvier; M.-A. Gruet; E. Jolivet . . 545--545
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleAsymptotic Theory
of Nonlinear Regression, by A. V. Ivanov 545--546
Aurelio Tobías Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Graphics for Univariate and Bivariate
Data, by W. G. Jacoby . . . . . . . . . 546--547
S. Nadarajah Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Models and Dependence Concepts, by H.
Joe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--547
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleResponse
Surfaces: Designs and Analyses, by A. I.
Khuri; J. A. Cornell . . . . . . . . . . 547--548
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleMarkov Processes
for Stochastic Modeling, by M. Kijima 548--549
Mauro Gasparini Book Review: \booktitleSurvival
Analysis: Techniques for Censored and
Truncated Data, by J. P. Klein; M. L.
Moeschberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--549
Stephen Brooks Book Review: \booktitleBreakthroughs in
Statistics, Volume III, by S. Kotz; N.
L. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--550
Orlando Machado Book Review: \booktitleThe Basics of S
and S-PLUS, by A. Krause; M. Olson . . . 550--551
Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleApplying
Generalised Linear Models, by J. K.
Lindsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--552
Saghir A. Bashir Book Review: \booktitleParametric
Statistical Inference, by J. K. Lindsey 552--553
Hedley Rees Book Review: \booktitleRegression Models
for Categorical and Limited Dependent
Variables, by J. S. Long . . . . . . . . 553--554
Barry Quinn Book Review: \booktitleHidden Markov and
Other Models for Discrete-Valued Time
Series, by L. MacDonald; W. Zucchini . . 554--554
John Thompson Book Review: \booktitleThe EM Algorithm
and Extensions, by G. J. McLachlan; T.
Krishnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--555
S. Nadarajah Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Extreme Values with
Applications to Insurance, Finance,
Hydrology and Other Fields, by R.-D.
Reiss; M. Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--556
Paulo Rodrigues Book Review: \booktitleModern Regression
Methods, by T. R. Ryan . . . . . . . . . 556--557
Robert West Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods --- A Geometric Primer, by D. J.
Saville; G. R. Wood . . . . . . . . . . 557--558
Adrian Bowman Book Review: \booktitleSmoothing Methods
in Statistics, by J. S. Simonoff . . . . 558--558
T. Subba Rao Book Review: \booktitleComputational
Economics and Finance-Modelling and
Analysis with Mathematica, by H. R.
Varian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558--559
Lawrence Pettit Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Forecasting and Dynamic Models, by M.
West; J. Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . 559--560
Nikolai Kolev Book Review: \booktitleEconometric
Analysis of Count Data, by R. Winkelmann 560--561
Leda Minkova Book Review: \booktitleSome Aspects of
Brownian Motion, Part II, Some Recent
Martingale Problems, by M. Yor . . . . . 561--562
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous The Beveridge Memorial Lectures:
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--563
Frank Field The Beveridge Memorial Lecture, 1998 . . 565--571
Paul Barnes Can Takeover Targets be Identified by
Statistical Techniques?: Some UK
Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--591
Md. Baki Billah and
A. K. Md. E. Saleh Conflict Between Pretest Estimators
Induced by Three Large Sample Tests
Under a Regression Model with Student
$t$-Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--606
John Reeves and
Gilbert MacKenzie A Bivariate Regression Model with Serial
Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--615
Vic Barnett and
John Haworth A Fractional Factorial Design for
Bench-Mark Testing of a Bayesian Method
for Multilocation Audits . . . . . . . . 617--628
Simon J. Cox and
Geoffrey J. Daniell and
Denis A. Nicole Using Maximum Entropy to Double One's
Expected Winnings in the UK National
Lottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--641
R. Champion and
C. T. Lenard and
T. M. Mills Demonstrating the Durbin--Watson
Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--644
Tim Holt National Statistics --- Meeting New
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--646
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Session
1997--1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--699
K. V. Mardia Obituary: Geoffrey Stuart Watson . . . . 701--702
Renato Assuncao Book Review: \booktitleMethods for
Investigating Localized Clustering of
Disease, by F. E. Alexander; P. Boyle 703--704
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Approach to Social Measurement, by D. J.
Bartholomew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--704
Marc Saez Book Review: \booktitleModern
Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and
Applications, by I. Borg; P. Groenen . . 705--705
Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleLog-Linear Models
and Logistic Regression, by R.
Christensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--706
Adalbert Wilhelm Book Review: \booktitlePlane Answers to
Complex Questions: The Theory of Linear
Models, by R. Christensen . . . . . . . 706--708
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Case
Studies for Industrial Process
Improvement, by V. Czitrom; P. D. Spagon 708--708
Nikolai Kolev Book Review: \booktitleRandom Iterative
Models, by M. Duflo . . . . . . . . . . 708--709
M. G. Scotto Book Review: \booktitleModelling
Extremal Events for Insurance and
Finance, by P. Embrechts; C. Klüppelberg;
T. Mikosch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--710
A. D. Gordon Book Review: \booktitleThe Analysis of
Proximity Data, by B. S. Everitt; S.
Rabe-Hesketh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--711
John F. Bell Book Review: \booktitleSocial Statistics
for a Diverse Society, by C.
Franfort-Nachmias . . . . . . . . . . . 711--711
Anna Bartkowiak Book Review: \booktitleThe Practice of
Bayesian Analysis, by S. French; J. Q.
Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--713
Yanan Fan Book Review: \booktitleMarkov Chain
Monte Carlo-Stochastic Simulation for
Bayesian Inference, by D. Gamerman . . . 713--713
Frank Coolen Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Methods
for Finite Population Sampling, by M.
Ghosh; G. Meeden . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--714
Philippe Castagliola Book Review: \booktitleSequential
Estimation, by M. Ghosh; N.
Mukhopadhyay; P. K. Sen . . . . . . . . 714--715
R. J. Reed Book Review: \booktitleThe Beginner's
Guide to Mathematica Version 3, by J.
Glynn; T. W. Gray . . . . . . . . . . . 715--715
Georgi Boshnakov Book Review: \booktitleARCH Models and
Financial Applications, by C. Gourieroux 715--716
Darryl Neil Penenberg Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Statistics: A First Course in Inference,
by F. Graybill; H. Iyer; R. Burdick . . 716--717
Lesley F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Data: Principles and Practice of
Statistics, by D. Griffiths; W. D.
Stirling; K. L. Weldon . . . . . . . . . 717--718
Alison Gray Book Review: \booktitleConstruction and
Assessment of Classification Rules, by
D. J. Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718--720
Neyko M. Neykov Book Review: \booktitleRegional
Frequency Analysis: An Approach Based on
$L$-Moments, by J. R. M. Hosking; J. R.
Wallis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--721
Theofanis Sapatinas Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in the
Theory and Practice of Statistics, by N.
L. Johnson; N. Balakrishnan . . . . . . 721--722
P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleLeading
Personalities in Statistical Sciences
--- From the Seventeenth Century to the
Present, by N. L. Johnson; S. Kotz . . . 722--723
A. Stein Book Review: \booktitleA Solution to the
Ecological Inference Problem, by G. King 723--723
Eugenia Stoimenova Book Review: \booktitleTesting
Statistical Hypotheses, by E. L. Lehmann 723--724
Mario Cortina Borja Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Statistical Methods: A First Course, by
G. A. Marcoulides; S. L. Hershberger . . 724--725
M. Stone Book Review: \booktitleActualité et
Universalité de la Pensée Scientifique
d'Adolphe Quetelet, by Mémoire de la
Classe des Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 725--726
Richard Lampard Book Review: \booktitleConstructing
Classes: Towards a New Social
Classification for the UK, by D. Rose;
K. O'Reilly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--727
P. W. Woodward Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Issues in Drug Development, by S. Senn 727--728
Eddie Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleThe Art of Causal
Conjecture, by G. Shafer . . . . . . . . 728--729
David Balding Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Human Genetics, by P. Sham . . . . . . . 729--730
Jennifer Argyle Book Review: \booktitleModern Applied
Statistics with S-PLUS, by W. N.
Venables; B. D. Ripley . . . . . . . . . 730--730
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 731--740
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. K. Lindsey Some Statistical Heresies . . . . . . . 1--40
C. J. Brien and
R. W. Payne Tiers, Structure Formulae and the
Analysis of Complicated Experiments . . 41--52
John O'Quigley and
Philippe Flandre and
Ethan Reiner Large Sample Theory for Schemper's
Measures of Explained Variation in the
Cox Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . 53--62
Lars Forsberg and
Bo Jonsson and
Ulf Kristiansson On Type I Errors after a Preliminary
Test for Heteroscedasticity . . . . . . 63--72
Wing-Kam Fung Outlier Diagnostics in Several
Multivariate Samples . . . . . . . . . . 73--84
J. S. Cramer Predictive Performance of the Binary
Logit Model in Unbalanced Samples . . . 85--94
Dong Hoon Lim and
Robert A. Lordo and
Douglas A. Wolfe A Screening Analysis for Incomplete
Ranking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--107
S. T. Buckland and
D. C. Macmillan and
E. I. Duff and
N. Hanley Estimating Mean Willingness to Pay from
Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--124
Adrian Dunne and
John Devane and
Thomas O'Hara The Relationship between In vitro Drug
Dissolution and In vivo Absorption . . . 125--133
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Ana F. Militino Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Tools for Applied Multivariate Analysis,
by J. D. Carroll; P. E. Green . . . . . 136--136
Nick Sofroniou Book Review: \booktitleSPSS: Analysis
Without Anguish, by S. J. Coakes; L. G.
Steed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
Michael Collop Book Review: \booktitleAn Electronic
Companion to Statistics, by G. W. Cobb;
J. D. Cryer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
R. H. Glendinning Book Review: \booktitleLimit Theorems in
Change-Point Analysis, by M. Csörg\Ho; L.
Horváth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Robert M. Kunst Book Review: \booktitleTime Series, Unit
Roots, and Cointegration, by P. Dhrymes 139--140
P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Regression Analysis, by N. R. Draper; H.
Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Graham Upton Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Regression Analysis, Linear Models, and
Related Methods, by J. Fox . . . . . . . 141--141
R. M. Lark Book Review: \booktitleGeostatistics for
Natural Resources Evaluation, by P.
Goovaerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Graphics for Visualizing Multivariate
Data, by W. G. Jacoby . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Rüdiger Kiesel Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of
Modern Probability: Probability and Its
Applications, by O. Kallenberg . . . . . 144--144
Michael G. Apostolides Book Review: \booktitleA Self-Teaching
Guide: Statistics, by D. J. Koosis . . . 144--145
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleExponential
Families of Stochastic Processes, by U.
Kuchler; M. Sorensen . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Saghir A. Bashir Book Review: \booktitleMathematical and
Statistical Methods for Genetic
Analysis, by K. Lange . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Víctor Moreno Book Review: \booktitleApplied Survival
Analysis, by C. T. Le . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Thomas Lumley Book Review: \booktitleLimit Theory for
Mixing Dependent Random Variables, by Z.
Lin; C. Lu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
Olivier Thas Book Review: \booktitleBasics of
Structural Equation Modeling, by G. M.
Maruyama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Matthew Downs and
Mary A. Foulkes Book Review: \booktitleManagement of
Data in Clinical Trials, by E. McFadden 149--150
Simon French Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
Statistical Decision Theory and
Applications, by S. Panchapakesan; N.
Balakrishnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
James Price Book Review: \booktitleFunctional Data
Analysis, by J. O. Ramsay; B. W.
Silverman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Georgi Boshnakov Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Multivariate Time Series Analysis, by G.
C. Reinsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
M. Dolores Ugarte Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Statistical Inference and Applications,
by A. C. Rencher . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Simon Day Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm, by R.
Royall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Simon Day Book Review: \booktitleOdds Ratios in
the Analysis of Contingency Tables, by
T. Rudas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Nick Longford Book Review: \booktitleTheory of Sample
Surveys, by M. E. Thompson . . . . . . . 156--157
Anonymous Corrigendum: A Toolkit for Testing for
Non-Normality in Complete and Censored
Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Douglas C. Montgomery Experimental Design for Product and
Process Design and Development . . . . . 159--177
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz Non-Smooth Sailing or Triangular
Distributions Revisited after Some 50
Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--187
H. Stòvring On Radicke and His Method for Testing
Mean Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--201
Mick Silver and
Sharifah Sakinah Aidid Modelling the Volatility of Purchase
Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--213
C. S. Leung and
M. S. Patel and
C. A. McGilchrist A Distribution-Free Regional Cumulative
Sum for Identifying Hyperendemic Periods
of Disease Incidence . . . . . . . . . . 215--225
David C. Blest Choice and Order: An Extension to
Kendall's $ \tau $ . . . . . . . . . . . 227--237
Jan R. Magnus and
Franc J. G. M. Klaassen The Effect of New Balls in Tennis: Four
Years at Wimbledon . . . . . . . . . . . 239--246
Jan R. Magnus and
Franc J. G. M. Klaassen On the Advantage of Serving First in a
Tennis Set: Four Years at Wimbledon . . 247--256
John A. Nelder From Statistics to Statistical Science 257--269
Bela Bollobas Paul Erd\Hos, 1913--1996 . . . . . . . . 271--273
M. S. Bartlett Jose Enrique Moyal, 1910--1998 . . . . . 273--274
D. J. Bartholomew and
M. Knott Alan Stuart, 1922--1998 . . . . . . . . 274--276
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
M. F. Omran Book Review: \booktitleEconometrics, by
B. H. Baltagi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
B. A. Turlach Book Review: \booktitleMorphometric
Tools for Landmark Data: Geometry and
Biology, by F. L. Bookstein . . . . . . 279--279
Philippe Castagliola Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Control, by Monitoring and Feedback
Adjustment, by G. Box; A. Luceño . . . . 279--280
M. F. Al-Bayatti Book Review: \booktitleThe Practice of
Data Analysis: Essays in Honor of John
W. Tukey, by D. R. Brillinger; L. T.
Fernholz; S. Morgenthaler . . . . . . . 280--280
Ana F. Militino Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Design and Analysis of Experiments, by
G. W. Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Miles Harkness Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Shape
Analysis, by I. L. Dryden; K. V. Mardia 281--282
Orlando Machado Book Review: \booktitleThe Cambridge
Dictionary of Statistics, by B. S.
Everitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleRetrial Queues,
by G. I. Falin; J. G. C. Templeton . . . 282--283
E. Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Ecology and Environmental Monitoring 2,
by D. J. Fletcher; L. Kavalieris; B. F.
J. Manly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
L. F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleChaos, Scattering
and Statistical Mechanics, by P. Gaspard 284--284
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleData Science,
Classification and Related Methods, by
C. Hayashi; N. Ottsumi; K. Yajima; Y.
Tanaka; H. H. Bock; Y. Baba . . . . . . 284--285
John Haigh Book Review: \booktitleHow to Win More:
Strategies for Increasing a Lottery Win,
by N. Henze; H. Riedwyl . . . . . . . . 285--286
Mario Cortina Borja Book Review: \booktitleRobust
Nonparametric Statistical Methods, by T.
P. Hettmansperger; J. W. McKean . . . . 286--287
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleCollected Works
of Jaroslav Hajek-with Commentary, by
Jaroslav Hajek; M. Huskova; R. Beran; V.
Dupac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
Ray Harris Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Reasoning and Methods, by R. A. Johnson;
K.-W. Tsui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
Andrew Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitleA Friendly Guide
to Wavelets, by G. Kaiser . . . . . . . 288--289
Mario Cortina Borja Book Review: \booktitleS+SpatialStats
User's Manual, by S. P. Kaluzny; S. C.
Vega; T. P. Cardoso; A. A. Shelly . . . 289--290
R. J. Reed Book Review: \booktitleLoss Models: From
Data to Decisions, by S. A. Klugman; H.
H. Panjer; G. E. Willmot . . . . . . . . 290--291
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleEncyclopedia of
Statistical Sciences Update Volume 2, by
S. Kotz; C. B. Read; D. L. Banks . . . . 291--292
John F. Bell Book Review: \booktitleExploring Textual
Data, by L. Lebart; A. Salem; L. Berry 292--293
E. Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Concepts: A Second Course for Education
and the Behavioural Sciences, by R. G.
Lomax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Nick Sofroniou Book Review: \booktitleEasy Use and
Interpretation of SPSS for Windows:
Answering Research Questions with
Statistics, by G. A. Morgan; O. V.
Griego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Pedro Puig Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
Statistical Inference from a
Neo-Fisherian Perspective, by L. Pace;
A. Salvan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--296
L. F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of
Queueing Theory, by N. U. Prabhu . . . . 296--296
Orlando Machado Book Review: \booktitleModern Simulation
and Modeling, by R. Y. Rubenstein; B.
Melamed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Bendell and
J. Disney and
C. McCollin The Future Role of Statistics in Quality
Engineering and Management . . . . . . . 299--326
Mike Nicholson and
Jon Barry Inferences from Spatial Surveys about
the Distribution of Patch Size of an
Unobserved Species . . . . . . . . . . . 327--337
Srabashi Basu and
Ayanendranath Basu and
Aparna Raychaudhuri Measuring Agreement between Two Raters
for Ordinal Response: A Model-Based
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--348
Peter J. Avery and
Gillian A. Masters Advice on the Design and Analysis of
Sensory Evaluation Experiments Using a
Case-Study with Cooked Pork . . . . . . 349--359
M. F. Omran and
E. McKenzie Testing for Covariance Stationarity in
the UK All-Equity Returns . . . . . . . 361--369
Chris Tofallis Model Building with Multiple Dependent
Variables and Constraints . . . . . . . 371--378
Angelo J. Canty and
A. C. Davison Resampling-Based Variance Estimation for
Labour Force Surveys . . . . . . . . . . 379--391
G. W. Horgan and
D. A. Elston and
M. F. Franklin and
C. A. Glasbey and
E. A. Hunter and
M. Talbot and
R. A. Kempton and
J. W. McNicol and
F. Wright Teaching Statistics to Biological
Research Scientists . . . . . . . . . . 393--400
J. K. Lindsey Relationships among Sample Size, Model
Selection and Likelihood Regions, and
Scientifically Important Differences . . 401--411
Benjamin Reiser and
David Faraggi Confidence Intervals for the Overlapping
Coefficient: The Normal Equal Variance
Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--418
Lynn Roy LaMotte and
Júlia Volaufová Prediction Intervals via Consonance
Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--424
John Haigh (Performance) Index Betting and Fixed
Odds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--434
R. J. Henery Measures of Over-Round in Performance
Index Betting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--439
Tom Ryan and
Peter P. Howley and
G. Janacek and
S. Meikle Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--444
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--445
Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleBasic Linear
Geostatistics, by M. Armstrong . . . . . 446--446
Ioannis I. Gerontidis Book Review: \booktitleNonnegative
Matrices and Applications, by R. B.
Bapat; T. E. S. Raghavan . . . . . . . . 447--448
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear System
Techniques and Applications, by J. S.
Bendat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--449
Joe Gani Book Review: \booktitleEfficient and
Adaptive Estimation for Semiparametric
Models, by P. J. Bickel; C. A. J.
Klaassen; Y. Ritov; J. A. Wellner . . . 449--450
Jordan Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleErgodicity and
Stability of Stochastic Processes, by A.
A. Borovkov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--451
B. A. Turlach Book Review: \booktitleProgramming with
Data: A Guide to the S Language, by J.
M. Chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
Armin Röhrl Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematica
Primer, by K. R. Coombes; B. R. Hunt; R.
L. Lipsman; J. E. Osborn; G. K. Stuck 452--453
Paul Allin Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Society: The Arithmetic of Politics, by
D. Dorling; S. Simpson . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Robin Thompson Book Review: \booktitleA First Course in
Multivariate Statistics, by B. Flury . . 455--455
L. F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleCooperation:
Game-Theoretic Approaches, by S. Hart;
A. Mas-Colell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456
John Hinde Book Review: \booktitleQuasi-Likelihood
and Its Application: A General Approach
to Optimal Parameter Estimation, by C.
C. Heyde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--456
Frank Coolen Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Reliability Data, by W. Q.
Meeker; L. A. Escobar . . . . . . . . . 456--458
Lindsay Hemmett Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Power
Analysis, by K. R. Murphy; B. Myors . . 458--458
L. F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleGame Theoretical
Applications to Economics and Operations
Research, by T. Parthasarathy . . . . . 458--459
Theofanis Sapatinas Book Review: \booktitleMatrix Algebra
and Its Applications to Statistics and
Econometrics, by C. R. Rao; M. B. Rao 459--460
Alan Kimber Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Regression Analysis --- A Research Tool,
by J. O. Rawlings; S. G. Pantula; D. A.
Dickey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--461
David G. T. Denison Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability and Statistics for
Scientists and Engineers, by W. A.
Rosenkrantz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--461
Thor Myklebust Book Review: \booktitleInto Statistics,
by P. J. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Kuldeep Kumar Book Review: \booktitleImage Processing
and Data Analysis, by J.-L. Starck; F.
Murtagh; A. Bijaoui . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert N. Curnow Unfathomable Nature and Government
Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--476
Kerenza Hood and
Barry A. J. Nix and
Terence C. Iles Asymptotic Information and
Variance-Covariance Matrices for the
Linear Structural Model . . . . . . . . 477--493
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Joseph G. Ibrahim and
Michael Parzen A Degrees-of-Freedom Approximation for a
$t$-Statistic with Heterogeneous
Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--506
M. A. van de Wiel and
A. Di Bucchianico and
P. van der Laan Symbolic Computation and Exact
Distributions of Nonparametric Test
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--516
Bruno Giraudeau and
Claude Chastang Two Discordancy Tests for Location
Slippage and Dispersion Slippage Outlier
Detection in Agreement Studies . . . . . 517--527
Gilberto A. Paula Leverage in Inequality-Constrained
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 529--538
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Session
1998--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--603
Robin Plackett J. P. Burman, 1924--1998 . . . . . . . . 605--606
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--607
David Kemp Book Review: \booktitleRecords, by B. C.
Arnold; N. Balakrishnan; H. N. Nagaraja 608--608
Anna Bartkowiak Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
the Environment 4: Statistical Aspects
of Health and the Environment, by V.
Barnett; A. Stein; K. F. Turkman . . . . 608--610
Adrienne (Freda) Kemp Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Its Applications, by M. C.
Bhattacharjee; S. K. Basu . . . . . . . 610--611
Marian Scott Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Regression with Measurement Error, by
C.-L. Cheng; J. W. Van Ness . . . . . . 611--612
P. W. Woodward Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Graphics: Ideas for Studying Regression
through Graphics, by R. D. Cook . . . . 612--613
Mary A. Foulkes Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Experiments, by A. M. Dean;
D. T. Voss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--614
P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleFitting Linear
Relationships --- A History of the
Calculus of Observations, 1750--1900, by
R. W. Farebrother . . . . . . . . . . . 614--615
Thanasis Lopatatzidis Book Review: \booktitlePolicy
Simulations in the European Union, by A.
Fossati; J. Hutton . . . . . . . . . . . 615--616
L. F. Wright Book Review: \booktitleData Analysis
Using SPSS for Windows, by J. J. Foster 616--616
Dimitris Fouskakis and
David Draper Book Review: \booktitleTabu Search, by
F. Glover; M. Laguna . . . . . . . . . . 616--619
Alan S. Rigby Book Review: \booktitleNonresponse in
Household Interview Surveys, by R. M.
Groves; M. P. Couper . . . . . . . . . . 619--619
John Newell Book Review: \booktitleApplied Survival
Analysis: Regression Modelling of Time
to Event Data, by D. W. Hosmer; S.
Lemeshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--621
Ivan Mizera Book Review: \booktitleTheory of Point
Estimation, by E. L. Lehmann; G. Casella 621--622
Andrew W. Roddam Book Review: \booktitleStatistics
Explained, by J. P. Lewis; A. Traill . . 622--622
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleDecoupling: From
Dependence to Independence, by V. H. de
la Peña; E. Giné . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--623
Adrienne (Freda) Kemp Book Review: \booktitleProbability
Theory III, by Yu. V. Prokhorov; A. N.
Shiryaev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--624
Ana F. Militino Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Geostatistics: An Introduction with
Applications, by H. Wackernagel . . . . 624--625
B. S. Everitt Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Taxometric Procedures: Distinguishing
Types from Continua, by N. G. Waller; P.
E. Meel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--625
Tsung-wu Ho Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
Econometric Theory --- The Selected
Works of Halbert White, by H. White . . 625--626
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 627--634
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??