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Volume 43, Number 1, 1989
Volume 43, Number 2, 1989
Volume 44, Number 1, February, 1990
Volume 44, Number 2, May, 1990
Volume 44, Number 3, August, 1990
Volume 44, Number 4, November, 1990
Volume 45, Number 1, February, 1991
Volume 45, Number 2, May, 1991
Volume 45, Number 3, August, 1991
Volume 45, Number 4, November, 1991
Volume 46, Number 1, February, 1992
Volume 46, Number 2, May, 1992
Volume 46, Number 3, August, 1992
Volume 46, Number 4, November, 1992
Volume 47, Number 1, February, 1993
Volume 47, Number 2, May, 1993
Volume 47, Number 3, August, 1993
Volume 47, Number 4, November, 1993
Volume 48, Number 1, February, 1994
Volume 48, Number 2, May, 1994
Volume 48, Number 3, August, 1994
Volume 48, Number 4, November, 1994
Volume 49, Number 1, February, 1995
Volume 49, Number 2, May, 1995
Volume 49, Number 3, August, 1995
Volume 49, Number 4, November, 1995
Volume 50, Number 1, February, 1996
Volume 50, Number 2, May, 1996
Volume 50, Number 3, August, 1996
Volume 50, Number 4, November, 1996
Volume 51, Number 1, February, 1997
Volume 51, Number 2, May, 1997
Volume 51, Number 3, August, 1997
Volume 51, Number 4, November, 1997
Volume 52, Number 1, February, 1998
Volume 52, Number 2, May, 1998
Volume 52, Number 3, August, 1998
Volume 52, Number 4, November, 1998
Volume 53, Number 1, February, 1999
Volume 53, Number 2, May, 1999
Volume 53, Number 3, August, 1999
Volume 53, Number 4, November, 1999


The American Statistician
Volume 43, Number 1, 1989

               Gaoxiong Gan and   
                Shie-Shien Yang   An elementary proof of the
                                  order-statistics characterization of the
                                  Poisson process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46

The American Statistician
Volume 43, Number 2, 1989

                  Claude Angers   Note on quick simultaneous confidence
                                  intervals for multinomial proportions    91--91


The American Statistician
Volume 44, Number 1, February, 1990

               Charles E. Gates   New Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
           Richard L. Scheaffer   Editor's Invited Column: Toward a More
                                  Quantitatively Literate Citizenry  . . . 2--3
              James R. Lackritz   Salary Evaluation for Professional
                                  Baseball Players . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--8
                 Julia Lane and   
                   Russ Ray and   
                 Dennis Glennon   Work Profiles of Research Statisticians  9--13
            Joseph M. Strayhorn   Estimating the Errors Remaining in a
                                  Data Set: Techniques for Quality Control 14--18
              Therese A. Stukel   A General Model for Estimating
                                  ED$_{100p}$ for Binary Response Dose-
                                  Response Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
       Kuang-Kuo Gordon Lan and   
                   Janet Wittes   Linear Rank Tests for Survival Data:
                                  Equivalence of Two Formulations  . . . . 23--26
               Julio L. Peixoto   A property of well-formulated polynomial
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
                Peter H. Peskun   A Note on a General Method for Obtaining
                                  Confidence Intervals From Samples From
                                  Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 31--35
             Roy T. St. Laurent   The Equivalence of the
                                  Milliken--Graybill Procedure and the
                                  Score Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
         Neil C. Schwertman and   
                A. J. Gilks and   
                     J. Cameron   A Simple Noncalculus Proof That the
                                  Median Minimizes the Sum of the Absolute
                                  Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
               Paul D. Valz and   
                  A. Ian McLeod   A Simplified Derivation of the Variance
                                  of Kendall's Rank Correlation
                                  Coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
                   Tommy Wright   When Zero Defectives Appear in a Sample:
                                  Upper Bounds on Confidence Coefficients
                                  of Upper Bounds  . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
          William M. Makuch and   
             Gerald J. Hahn and   
              William T. Tucker   A Statistical Computing Curriculum To
                                  Meet Industrial Needs  . . . . . . . . . 42--49
              Kenneth L. Koonce   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 49--52
             Shahdad Naghshpour   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 52--54
            Neal A. Van Eck and   
                  Susan Van Eck   MicrOsiris for the PC  . . . . . . . . . 54--54
               John C. Nash and   
              Mary Walker-Smith   NLEX: Examples and Software Extensions
                                  for Nonlinear Modeling and Robust
                                  Nonlinear Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
            Martin T. Wells and   
              Ram C. Tiwari and   
                 I. Arizono and   
                    H. Ohta and   
         James W. Mergerson and   
         Gabriella M. Belli and   
            Christopher Cox and   
        Murray A. Jorgensen and   
           Jacques Benichou and   
           Mitchell H. Gail and   
          Warren F. Kuhfeld and   
              Brian Dawkins and   
       Walter B. Studdiford and   
              Colin Goodall and   
                W. D. Kaigh and   
          Stephen W. Looney and   
            Robert Kinnison and   
           James A. Gibbons and   
              Joel R. Levin and   
           Ronald C. Serlin and   
           K. J. A. Revfeim and   
       Charles R. McConnell and   
           Robert M. Norton and   
          R. W. Farebrother and   
                 I. J. Good and   
          Stanley Lebergott and   
                Vedula N. Murty   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 56--65
                C. R. McConnell   Letter to the Editor: Pocket computer
                                  approximation for areas under the
                                  standard normal curve  . . . . . . . . . 63--63
                  Claude Angers   Correction: ``Note on quick simultaneous
                                  confidence intervals for multinomial
                                  proportions'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 43
                                  (1989), no. 2, 91] . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
                      Anonymous   Corrections: An Elementary Proof of the
                                  Order-Statistics Characterization of the
                                  Poisson Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Note on Quick Simultaneous
                                  Confidence Intervals for Multinomial
                                  Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
               Gaoxiong Gan and   
                Shie-Shien Yang   Correction: ``An elementary proof of the
                                  order-statistics characterization of the
                                  Poisson process'' [Amer. Statist. \bf 43
                                  (1989), no. 1, 45--46] . . . . . . . . . 65--65
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 44, Number 2, May, 1990

               Janet L. Norwood   Editor's Invited Column: ASA
                                  Sesquicentennial . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
                R. L. Mason and   
        J. D. McKenzie, Jr. and   
                   S. J. Ruberg   A brief history of the American
                                  Statistical Association, 1839--1989  . . 68--73
            Sandra Stinnett and   
                         others   Women in Statistics: Sesquicentennial
                                  Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
           Spencer M. Free, Jr.   Some History for the Biopharmaceutical
                                  Section  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
                John A. Rotondo   A Brief History of the Subsection on
                                  Statistics in Marketing  . . . . . . . . 82--83
             Edwin D. Goldfield   History of the Social Statistics Section 84--87
           John M. Chambers and   
                Barbara F. Ryan   The ASA Statistical Computing Section: a
                                  History  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--89
                 Henry F. Inman   The ASA Section on Statistical
                                  Education: a Historical Note . . . . . . 90--93
             Walter Liggett and   
             Douglas Splitstone   History of the Section on Statistics and
                                  the Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
               Perry D. Haaland   Historical Sketch of the ASA Section on
                                  Statistical Graphics . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
                     Irene Hess   History of the Section on Survey
                                  Research Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
       Beth Dawson-Saunders and   
              Paul K. Jones and   
             Steven J. Verhulst   The History of the Subsection on
                                  Teaching of Statistics in the Health
                                  Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
                R. L. Mason and   
        J. D. McKenzie, Jr. and   
                   R. K. Spoeri   The Chapters of the American Statistical
                                  Association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--106
             John J. Wiorkowski   A lightly annotated bibliography of the
                                  publications of the American Statistical
                                  Association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--113
               Gary G. Koch and   
              Fred C. Leone and   
                Robert L. Mason   ASA Celebrates Sesquicentennial  . . . . 113--115
                      Anonymous   ASA's Sesquicentennial Celebration . . . 113
                 Ronald D. Snee   Statistical Thinking and Its
                                  Contribution to Total Quality  . . . . . 116--121
                R. Gnanadesikan   Looking Ahead: Cross-Disciplinary
                                  Opportunities for Statistics . . . . . . 121--125
             Vincent P. Barabba   What Does the Future Hold for
                                  Statisticians? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
             Laurence A. Baxter   Futures of Statistics  . . . . . . . . . 128--129
        R. H. `Butch' Bost, Jr.   2120 Hindsight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
           Thomas W. Brailsford   The Future of Statistics in the Next N
                                  Years (25 < N < 150) . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
                William P. Butz   An Extrapolation to the Year 2100 Career
                                  Possibilities for Statisticians  . . . . 132--132
                     I. J. Good   Abstract of ``Speculations Concerning
                                  the Future of Statistics'' . . . . . . . 132--133
             Richard W. Hamming   The Future of Statistics . . . . . . . . 133--135
                     Jay Herson   Biostatistics 2089 . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
                   Hans Riedwyl   Rudolf Wolf's Contribution to the Buffon
                                  Needle Problem (an Early Monte Carlo
                                  Experiment) and Application of Least
                                  Squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
          Richard R. Picard and   
                Kenneth N. Berk   Data Splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--147
                Gunter Lorenzen   A Unified Approach to the Calculation of
                                  Growth Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--150
                Gunnar Blom and   
            Daniel Thorburn and   
             Theodore A. Vessey   The Distribution of the Record Position
                                  and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . 151--153
              Marie D. Eldridge   The Status of Advisory Committees to the
                                  Federal Statistical Agencies . . . . . . 154--162
                   David Birkes   Generalized Likelihood Ratio Tests and
                                  Uniformly Most Powerful Tests  . . . . . 163--166
           Kosmas K. Ferentinos   Shortest Confidence Intervals for
                                  Families of Distributions Involving
                                  Truncation Parameters  . . . . . . . . . 167--168
           Frank R. Lichtenberg   Aggregation of Variables in
                                  Least-Squares Regression . . . . . . . . 169--171
              Steve Verrill and   
            Michael Axelrod and   
                     Mark Durst   We've Got the Positive Correlation BLUEs 171--173
                  D. J. Saville   Multiple Comparison Procedures: The
                                  Practical Solution . . . . . . . . . . . 174--180
                   Stephen Senn   Regression: a New Mode for an Old
                                  Meaning? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183
              James R. Boen and   
          Norman L. Johnson and   
                Samuel Kotz and   
            Leon Jay Gleser and   
            Donald R. Ploch and   
                W. D. Kaigh and   
         Wolfgang J. Buhler and   
            Donald A. Berry and   
               James Berger and   
          David A. Harville and   
          Herbert F. Spirer and   
         Michael D. Conerly and   
           Oscar Kempthorne and   
           Andrew P. Grieve and   
         Lawrence L. Kupper and   
            Kerry B. Hafner and   
          R. W. Farebrother and   
         Ronald Christensen and   
              Simo Puntanen and   
         George P. H. Styan and   
                Fred Ederer and   
           Daniel G. Seigel and   
             Sunil K. Sapra and   
             A. W. Marshall and   
                       I. Olkin   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 184--194
                      Anonymous   Correction: Computer Selection of
                                  Size-Biased Samples  . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 44, Number 3, August, 1990

             A. S. C. Ehrenberg   Editor's Invited Column: a Hope for the
                                  Future of Statistics: MSOD . . . . . . . 195--196
             Gerald J. Hahn and   
         Thomas J. Boardman and   
                 David Fluharty   History of the section on quality and
                                  productivity of the American Statistical
                                  Association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
             Paul D. Minton and   
            Dwight B. Brock and   
                  Mary B. Brock   Musical Celebration of ASA's
                                  Sesquicentennial --- a Personal Account  200--203
                      Anonymous   ASA's Sesquicentennial Celebration . . . 200
             Richard F. Fawcett   The Alignment Method for Displaying and
                                  Analyzing Treatments in Blocking Designs 204--209
                Jean D. Gibbons   U.S. Institutional Representation on
                                  Editorial Boards of U.S. Statistics
                                  Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--213
        Clifford M. Hurvich and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   The Impact of Model Selection on
                                  Inference in Linear Regression . . . . . 214--217
               Javad Behboodian   Examples of Uncorrelated Dependent
                                  Random Variables Using a Bivariate
                                  Mixture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
                  David Edelman   A Note on Uniformly Most Powerful
                                  Two-Sided Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
                   J. A. Nelder   Nearly Parallel Lines in Residual Plots  221--222
           Judith D. Singer and   
                John B. Willett   Improving the Teaching of Applied
                                  Statistics: Putting the Data Back Into
                                  Data Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--230
           W. Robert Stephenson   A Study of Student Reaction to the Use
                                  of Minitab in an Introductory Statistics
                                  Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
               John A. Sonquist   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 236--239
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   236
              Terry M. Therneau   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 239--241
                    J. M. Bliss   COMPACT: a Computer Package for Clinical
                                  Trials Management  . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
                      Anonymous   New Developments in Statistical
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
               Gerard E. Dallal   PC-SIZE: Consultant --- a Program for
                                  Sample-Size Determinations . . . . . . . 243--243
               Andrea P. Lamble   Fig. P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
              Gregory F. Piepel   MIXSOFT$^{TM}$: Software for the Design
                                  and Analysis of Mixture Experiments  . . 243--244
                      Anonymous   N-KERNEL: a Practical Multivariate
                                  Density Estimation and Nonlinear
                                  Regression Program . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
          Norman L. Johnson and   
                    Samuel Kotz   Randomly Weighted Averages: Some Aspects
                                  and Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--249
                   Lonnie Magee   $ R^2 $ Measures Based on Wald and
                                  Likelihood Ratio Joint Significance
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--253
               Brian Schott and   
          R. W. Farebrother and   
         Victor R. Prybutok and   
           Steve M. Bajgier and   
          MaryAnne Atkinson and   
                Grace Wahba and   
               Noel Cressie and   
          Richard Goldstein and   
        Richard A. Lockhart and   
           John J. Spinelli and   
            Robert Kinnison and   
         A. S. C. Ehrenberg and   
             James D. Knoke and   
      Roderick J. A. Little and   
                W. E. Sharp and   
                 Haim Shore and   
           Robert M. Norton and   
          P. A. V. B. Swamy and   
          Sastry G. Pantula and   
            Marcia Gumpertz and   
               Jay H. Beder and   
              T. D. Stanley and   
              Clint Cummins and   
                    H. D. Vinod   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 254--264
                      Anonymous   Corrections: The ASA Section on
                                  Statistical Education: a Historical Note 264--264
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Power and Sample Size via
                                  MS/PC-DOS Computers  . . . . . . . . . . 264--264
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 44, Number 4, November, 1990

               Gerard E. Dallal   Editor's Invited Column: Statistical
                                  Computing Packages: Dare We Abandon
                                  Their Teaching to Others?  . . . . . . . 265--266
               Gerard E. Dallal   Statistical Computing Packages: Dare We
                                  Abandon Their Teaching to Others?  . . . 265
             Eric R. Ziegel and   
               J. Stuart Hunter   American Statistical Association's
                                  Section on Physical and Engineering
                                  Sciences: Past, Present, and Future  . . 267--269
             Edward L. Korn and   
              Barry I. Graubard   Simultaneous Testing of Regression
                                  Coefficients With Complex Survey Data:
                                  Use of Bonferroni $t$ Statistics . . . . 270--276
          Richard A. Groeneveld   Ranking Teams in a League With Two
                                  Divisions of $t$ Teams . . . . . . . . . 277--281
              Lih-Yuan Deng and   
                Raj S. Chhikara   On the Ratio and Regression Estimation
                                  in Finite Population Sampling  . . . . . 282--284
                  David Edelman   A Confidence Interval for the Center of
                                  an Unknown Unimodal Distribution Based
                                  on a Sample of Size 1  . . . . . . . . . 285--287
             Nicholas R. Farnum   Improving the Relative Error of
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
                 Edward L. Korn   Projecting Power From a Previous Study:
                                  Maximum Likelihood Estimation  . . . . . 290--292
            Colm Art O'Cinneide   The Mean Is Within One Standard
                                  Deviation of Any Median  . . . . . . . . 292--293
            Richard J. Pulskamp   A Note on the Estimation of Binomial
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
           Donald T. Searls and   
            Pichai Intarapanich   A Note on an Estimator for the Variance
                                  That Utilizes the Kurtosis . . . . . . . 295--296
                Bulent Uyar and   
                    Orhan Erdem   Regression Procedures in SAS: Problems?  296--301
                Harry O. Posten   Review of Audio Tape: \booktitleThe
                                  Statistician at Work . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
              Herbert F. Spirer   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
                                  Software Teaching Package: Statistix 3.1 303--304
              Peter H. Westfall   Graphical Presentation of a Basketball
                                  Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--307
                      John Sall   Leverage Plots for General Linear
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--315
        Ralph B. D'Agostino and   
            Albert Belanger and   
       Ralph B. D'Agostino, Jr.   A Suggestion for Using Powerful and
                                  Informative Tests of Normality . . . . . 316--321
         Carol A. Markowski and   
            Edward P. Markowski   Conditions for the Effectiveness of a
                                  Preliminary Test of Variance . . . . . . 322--326
               N. I. Fisher and   
            Ian T. Jolliffe and   
              Chien-Pai Han and   
            Jean D. Gibbons and   
                 Julia Lane and   
                   Russ Ray and   
             Dennis Glennon and   
             Sunil K. Sapra and   
         Roy T. St. Laurent and   
         James W. Mergerson and   
             Colin R. Blyth and   
            Vedula N. Murty and   
        Jeffrey P. Benedict and   
                   Tommy Wright   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 327--330
                      Anonymous   Editorial Collaborators  . . . . . . . . 331--332
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 333--335
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


The American Statistician
Volume 45, Number 1, February, 1991

            William R. Schucany   Editor's Invited Column  . . . . . . . . 1--1
                      Anonymous   William R. Schucany  . . . . . . . . . . 1
        Benjamin J. Tepping and   
                Joseph Waksberg   Morris H. Hansen, 1910--1990 . . . . . . 2--3
               Ralph Penner and   
                Donald G. Watts   Mining Information . . . . . . . . . . . 4--9
      Ronald L. Wasserstein and   
             John E. Boyer, Jr.   Bounds on the Power of Linear Rank Tests
                                  for Scale Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
                  F. F. Gan and   
         Kenneth J. Koehler and   
               John C. Thompson   Probability Plots and Distribution
                                  Curves for Assessing the Fit of
                                  Probability Models . . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
              Stephan Arndt and   
              Robert F. Woolson   Establishing a Biostatistical Core Unit
                                  in a Clinical Research Center  . . . . . 22--27
                  Roger E. Kirk   Statistical Consulting in a University:
                                  Dealing With People and Other Challenges 28--34
         Neil C. Schwertman and   
         Thomas A. McCready and   
                  Lesley Howard   Probability Models for the NCAA Regional
                                  Basketball Tournaments . . . . . . . . . 35--38
              Robert W. Mee and   
                  Tin Chiu Chua   Regression Toward the Mean and the
                                  Paired Sample $t$ Test . . . . . . . . . 39--42
Víctor Pérez-Abreu   Poisson Approximation to Power Series
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
            Michael H. Ames and   
                John T. Webster   On Estimating Approximate Degrees of
                                  Freedom  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--50
         R. K. Elswick, Jr. and   
             Chris Gennings and   
       Vernon M. Chinchilli and   
              Kathryn S. Dawson   A Simple Approach for Finding Estimable
                                  Functions in Linear Models . . . . . . . 51--53
           Robert A. McLean and   
         William L. Sanders and   
               Walter W. Stroup   A Unified Approach to Mixed Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--64
         Marilynn S. Dueker and   
              Herbert F. Spirer   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 64--65
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 64
                  K. G. Russell   Estimating the Value of e by Simulation  66--68
              Kenneth A. Bollen   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 68--73
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   68
               Gerard E. Dallal   LMS: Least Median of Squares Regression  74--74
                 Cyrus R. Mehta   StatXact: a Statistical Package for
                                  Exact Nonparametric Inference  . . . . . 74--75
                      Anonymous   New Developments in Statistical
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
                  Brian Dawkins   Siobhan's Problem: The Coupon Collector
                                  Revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--82
                      Anonymous   Corrections: ``A Brief History of the
                                  American Statistical Association,
                                  1839--1989'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
                      Anonymous   Corrections: a Property of
                                  Well-Formulated Polynomial Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 45, Number 2, May, 1991

            Paul D. Sampson and   
                  Peter Guttorp   Power Transformations and Tests of
                                  Environmental Impact as Interaction
                                  Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--89
              Albert Chevan and   
             Michael Sutherland   Hierarchical Partitioning  . . . . . . . 90--96
          Richard A. Groeneveld   An Influence Function Approach to
                                  Describing the Skewness of a
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
                Edna Schechtman   On Estimating the Asymptotic Variance of
                                  a Function of $U$ Statistics . . . . . . 103--106
                Phillip S. Kott   A Model-Based Look at Linear Regression
                                  With Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
            Siddhartha Chib and   
                  Ram C. Tiwari   Extreme Bounds Analysis in the Kalman
                                  Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
              Marie Gaudard and   
                 Gerald J. Hahn   An Undergraduate Concentration in
                                  Applied Statistics for Mathematics
                                  Majors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--120
                 Peter W. Zehna   On Proving That $ \bar {X} $ and $ S^2 $
                                  are Independent  . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
            Jonathan J. Shuster   The Statistician in a Reverse Cocaine
                                  Sting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
              Andrew Gelman and   
                   Xiao-Li Meng   A Note on Bivariate Distributions That
                                  Are Conditionally Normal . . . . . . . . 125--126
             Alastair Scott and   
                     Chris Wild   Transformations and $ R^2 $  . . . . . . 127--129
                  M. J. Goddard   Constructing Some Categorical Anomalies  129--134
        Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr.   Equivariant, Monotonic, 50% Breakdown
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
             Robert Bartels and   
               Denzil G. Fiebig   A Simple Characterization of Seemingly
                                  Unrelated Regressions Models in Which
                                  OLS Is BLUE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
           K. Ruben Gabriel and   
            Thomas R. Knapp and   
             James McNamara and   
                 Donna Rose and   
                 Carl Wetzstein   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 141--142
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 141
               K. Ruben Gabriel   Using the ``Against All Odds'' Video
                                  Series in an Introductory Statistics
                                  Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--145
                Richard L. Cook   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 146--149
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   146
                Barbara L. Mann   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 149--151
             James C. Lynch and   
          J. Richard Landis and   
             A. Russell Localio   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 151--154
           William P. Alexander   MATRIX: An Interpreted Matrix Language   154--155
                      Anonymous   New Developments in Statistical
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
             Douglas M. Hawkins   FIRM: Formal Inference-Based Recursive
                                  Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
                    Bob Prosser   ML3: Software for Three-Level Analysis   155--156
                Jeffrey A. Kahn   @Library --- Statistical Applications
                                  --- Technical Description (for Lotus
                                  1-2-3 and Symphony)  . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
             Barry W. Brown and   
            David Gutierrez and   
               Martin F. Spears   STATTAB  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
                Lee E. Edlefsen   Axum Technical Graphics and Data
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
          William D. Dupont and   
         Walton D. Plummer, Jr.   POWER.FOR: a Computer Program for Power
                                  and Sample Size Calculations . . . . . . 158--158
          Nicholas A. Wolfe and   
           Alexander J. Chester   SIMCLUST: a Cluster Analysis Program for
                                  Ecological Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
            H.-P. Altenburg and   
                  G. Rosenkranz   Analysis of Quantal and Quantitative
                                  Dose-Response Data Using SAS . . . . . . 159--159
             Emanuel Ringel and   
                   Charles Mode   APL Software for Discrete Semi-Markov
                                  and Population Process Computations and
                                  Monte Carlo Simulation . . . . . . . . . 160--160
                  John Zurawski   GENSTAT 5: Recent Developments . . . . . 160--160
                 Gordon Rae and   
                John E. Spencer   Average Spearman's Rho, Concordance, and
                                  the Matching Problem: Some Relationships 161--162
             Irwin D. Bross and   
    Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. and   
        Timothy G. Gregoire and   
           Stanley S. Schor and   
       Beth Dawson-Saunders and   
              Paul K. Jones and   
         Steven J. Verhulst and   
               Burt Holland and   
                    Per Lea and   
               Dave Saville and   
            Eugene Garfield and   
                 I. J. Good and   
             Daniel Gianola and   
         Jean-Louis Foulley and   
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
          Sherman Chottiner and   
           Paul A. Herzberg and   
           Judith D. Singer and   
            John B. Willett and   
          Ronald A. Thisted and   
                 Chap T. Le and   
            Jean D. Gibbons and   
           B. M. P\Hotscher and   
              C. M. Hurvich and   
                     C. L. Tsai   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 163--172
                      Anonymous   Correction: Computer Selection of
                                  Size-Biased Samples  . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 45, Number 3, August, 1991

                  Marie D. Wann   A. Ross Eckler, 1901--1991 . . . . . . . 173--173
           Rhonda Cockerill and   
                    Bruce Fried   Increasing Public Awareness of
                                  Statistics as a Science and a Profession
                                  --- Reinforcing the Message in
                                  Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--178
                      Hal Stern   On the Probability of Winning a Football
                                  Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
             L. Robert Hill and   
         William G. Hammond and   
               John R. Benfield   Logistic Regression Analysis in
                                  Experimental Bronchial Carcinogenesis    184--186
         Thomas W. O'Gorman and   
              Robert F. Woolson   Variable Selection to Discriminate
                                  Between Two Groups: Stepwise Logistic
                                  Regression or Stepwise Discriminant
                                  Analysis?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--193
               W. W. Stroup and   
                  D. K. Mulitze   Nearest Neighbor Adjusted Best Linear
                                  Unbiased Prediction  . . . . . . . . . . 194--200
             Edward L. Korn and   
                  Richard Simon   Explained Residual Variation, Explained
                                  Risk, and Goodness of Fit  . . . . . . . 201--206
                Charles L. Dunn   Precise Simulated Percentiles in a Pinch 207--211
         Daniel Peña and   
                 George C. Tiao   A Note on Likelihood Estimation of
                                  Missing Values in Time Series  . . . . . 212--213
                 Richard Madsen   On the Probability of a Perfect
                                  Progression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--216
           Adrienne W. Kemp and   
                  C. David Kemp   Weldon's Dice Data Revisited . . . . . . 216--222
            Carl J. Schwarz and   
                     M. Samanta   An Inductive Proof of the Sampling
                                  Distributions for the MLE's of the
                                  Parameters in an Inverse Gaussian
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--225
                    Ayala Cohen   Dummy Variables in Stepwise Regression   226--228
                  E. H. Oksanen   A Simple Approach to Teaching
                                  Generalized Least Squares Theory . . . . 229--233
               John Haslett and   
              Ronan Bradley and   
                Peter Craig and   
               Antony Unwin and   
                   Graham Wills   Dynamic Graphics for Exploring Spatial
                                  Data With Application to Locating Global
                                  and Local Anomalies  . . . . . . . . . . 234--242
              Jonathan D. Cryer   Book Review: \booktitleTIMESLAB: a Times
                                  Series Laboratory  . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
                  Bob Obenchain   Ridge Regression Systems for MS-DOS
                                  Personal Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
              Rocco L. Brunelle   Breeze/STAT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
               Sungsub Choi and   
           K. Ruben Gabriel and   
             Charles L. Odoroff   LORANK: a Package for Lower Rank
                                  Approximation of Matrices  . . . . . . . 246--247
             Jeremy D. Finn and   
                R. Darrell Bock   Multivariance PC . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
               Sander Greenland   On the Logical Justification of
                                  Conditional Tests for Two-by-Two
                                  Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 248--251
      Deanna B. Haunsperger and   
                Donald G. Saari   The Lack of Consistency for Statistical
                                  Decision Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . 252--255
             Benjamin Kedem and   
              Lyle V. Jones and   
            Vedula N. Murty and   
                H. A. David and   
              Colin Mallows and   
     Sudhakar Dharmadhikari and   
            Colm O'Cinneide and   
             Daniel J. Gans and   
         Carol A. Markowski and   
        Edward P. Markowski and   
          Hatem A. Howlader and   
      Richard A. Groeneveld and   
           Donald T. Searls and   
     Gilbert W. Basset, Jr. and   
                  Xuming He and   
         Nicholas R. Farnum and   
            Neil S. Fleming and   
             Gregory Piepel and   
                Bulent Uyar and   
                    Orhan Erdem   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 256--262
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 45, Number 4, November, 1991

            William R. Schucany   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
                      Anonymous   William R. Schucany  . . . . . . . . . . 263
                 Sunil K. Sapra   A Connection Between the Logit Model,
                                  Normal Discriminant Analysis, and
                                  Multivariate Normal Mixtures . . . . . . 265--268
          Juliet Popper Shaffer   The Gauss--Markov Theorem and Random
                                  Regressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
          Sòren Bisgaard   Teaching Statistics to Engineers . . . . 274--283
               J. P. Morgan and   
             N. R. Chaganty and   
               R. C. Dahiya and   
                   M. J. Doviak   Let's Make a Deal: The Player's Dilemma  284--287
             Richard G. Seymann   [Let's Make a Deal: The Player's
                                  Dilemma]: Comment  . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
               J. P. Morgan and   
             N. R. Chaganty and   
               R. C. Dahiya and   
                   M. J. Doviak   [Let's Make a Deal: The Player's
                                  Dilemma]: Rejoinder  . . . . . . . . . . 289--289
                Donald G. Watts   Why Is Introductory Statistics Difficult
                                  to Learn? And What Can We Do to Make It
                                  Easier?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
            Norean Radke-Sharpe   Writing As a Component of Statistics
                                  Education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
                   H. J. Khamis   Manual Computations --- A Tool for
                                  Reinforcing Concepts and Techniques  . . 294--299
                 Arvind K. Shah   Relationship Between the Coefficients of
                                  Determination of Algebraically Related
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
         Lawrence J. Emrich and   
            Marion R. Piedmonte   A Method for Generating High-Dimensional
                                  Multivariate Binary Variates . . . . . . 302--304
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
               Donna L. Hoffman   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 305--311
           Richard M. Heiberger   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 311--315
              David Morganstein   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 316--317
                 Al M. Best and   
              David Morganstein   Statistics Programs Designed for the
                                  Macintosh: Data Desk, Exstatix, Fastat,
                                  JMP, StatView II, and SuperANOVA . . . . 318--338
                    F. Y. Hsieh   SSIZE: a Sample Size Program for
                                  Clinical and Epidemiologic Studies . . . 338--338
László D. Molnár   LOGLINDI: Log-Linear Discriminant
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
S. N. Tibshirani Enterprises Inc.   GAIM Version 1.0: a Package for
                                  Generalized Additive Models  . . . . . . 339--340
                   Antony Unwin   Diamond Fast: Interactive Graphics for
                                  Time Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
                      N. Visart   IDAMS: Internationally Developed Data
                                  Analysis and Management Software . . . . 340--340
            Richard H. Williams   Multiple Comparisons Among Correlation
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
                 Hoyt G. Wilson   Electronic Tables: Exact Probabilities
                                  and Percentage Points  . . . . . . . . . 341--341
                 Robert V. Hogg   Statistical Education: Improvements Are
                                  Badly Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343
                Myra L. Samuels   Statistical Reversion Toward the Mean:
                                  More Universal Than Regression Toward
                                  the Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--346
         Marilyn vos Savant and   
             John P. Morgan and   
       Narasina R. Chaganty and   
              Ram C. Dahiga and   
          Michael J. Doviak and   
         Nicholas R. Farnum and   
              Duncan K. H. Fong   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 347--348
                      Anonymous   Editorial Collaborators  . . . . . . . . 349--350
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 351--353
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


The American Statistician
Volume 46, Number 1, February, 1992

                  D. R. Cox and   
                  Nanny Wermuth   A Comment on the Coefficient of
                                  Determination for Binary Responses . . . 1--4
            Lance A. Waller and   
              Bruce W. Turnbull   Probability Plotting With Censored Data  5--12
                Anne I. Goldman   EVENTCHARTS: Visualizing Survival and
                                  Other Timed-Events Data  . . . . . . . . 13--18
             Barry K. Moser and   
                Gary R. Stevens   Homogeneity of Variance in the
                                  Two-Sample Means Test  . . . . . . . . . 19--21
         Thomas L. Boullion and   
        John W. Seaman, Jr. and   
                  Dean M. Young   Moments of Discrete Probability
                                  Distributions Derived Using a
                                  Differential Operator  . . . . . . . . . 22--24
            Barry C. Arnold and   
            Patrick L. Brockett   On Distributions Whose Component Ratios
                                  Are Cauchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
                Gary W. Oehlert   A Note on the Delta Method . . . . . . . 27--29
           Dennis L. Clason and   
                Leigh W. Murray   Exponential Families and Variance
                                  Component Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--31
           Bernard D. Flury and   
                   A. Narayanan   A Mixture Approach to Multivariate
                                  Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
              Dale A. Kopas and   
             Paul R. McAllister   Process Improvement Exercises for the
                                  Chemical Industry  . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
                H. F. Martz and   
                   W. J. Zimmer   The Risk of Catastrophic Failure of the
                                  Solid Rocket Boosters on the Space
                                  Shuttle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
               Charles Hallahan   Book Review: \booktitleDBMS/COPY and
                                  DBMS/COPY Plus --- (Version 2.0) . . . . 49--52
                 Robert F. Ling   Just Say No to Binomial (and Other
                                  Discrete Distributions) Tables . . . . . 53--54
            Joseph L. Gastwirth   Statistical Reasoning in the Legal
                                  Setting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69
           Gerard E. Dallal and   
               John Stufken and   
         Michael Sutherland and   
                 Martin Fox and   
              I. S. Alalouf and   
        Jonathan J. Shuster and   
         Stephen M. Stigler and   
                Malay Ghosh and   
             Peter W. Zehna and   
         Ronald Christensen and   
         Richard K. Burdick and   
            Michael H. Ames and   
            Dudley M. Harde and   
                Bruce Levin and   
               S. R. Searle and   
         R. K. Elswick, Jr. and   
                 Y. H. Wang and   
             Victor Perez-Abreu   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 70--77
                      Anonymous   Correction: Genstat 5  . . . . . . . . . 77--77
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 46, Number 2, May, 1992

   Thomas P. Hettmansperger and   
              Simon J. Sheather   A Cautionary Note on the Method of Least
                                  Median Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
             A. F. M. Smith and   
                  A. E. Gelfand   Bayesian Statistics Without Tears: A
                                  Sampling--Resampling Perspective . . . . 84--88
        Timothy G. Gregoire and   
    Alexandros A. Arabatzis and   
        Marion R. Reynolds, Jr.   Mean Squared Error Performance of Simple
                                  Linear Regression Conditional Upon the
                                  Outcome of Pretesting the Intercept  . . 89--93
            Walter W. Piegorsch   Complementary Log Regression for
                                  Generalized Linear Models  . . . . . . . 94--99
            Steven B. Cohen and   
                Ayah E. Johnson   Address Sample Effects in the National
                                  Medical Expenditure Survey . . . . . . . 100--105
                   Tommy Wright   Lagrange's Identity Reveals Correlation
                                  Coefficient and Straight-Line Connection 106--107
         Francisco J. Samaniego   Elementary Derivations of Geometric
                                  Moments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
           Leonard A. Stefanski   Monotone Likelihood Ratio of a
                                  ``Faulty-Inspection'' Distribution . . . 110--114
                  John E. Angus   Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator of
                                  the Probability of an Odd Number of
                                  Successes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
                Ralph W. Bailey   Distributional Identities of Beta and
                                  Chi-Squared Variates: a Geometrical
                                  Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120
                       Inchi Hu   An Elementary Solution to a Traffic
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
           Barry Kurt Moser and   
                    Yuh-Ren Lin   Equivalence of the Corrected F Test and
                                  the Weighted Least Squares Procedure . . 122--124
           Barry Kurt Moser and   
                    Yuh-Ren Lin   Equivalence of the Corrected $F$ Test
                                  and the Weighted Least Squares Procedure 122--124
          Bruce L. Bowerman and   
           Richard T. O'Connell   Integrating Quality Control Concepts
                                  Into the Introductory Business
                                  Statistics Course  . . . . . . . . . . . 124--128
        Rosemary A. Roberts and   
               David L. Roberts   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 129--130
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 129
           Raymond H. Myers and   
             Andre I. Khuri and   
                Geoffrey Vining   Response Surface Alternatives to the
                                  Taguchi Robust Parameter Design Approach 131--139
                M. C. Jones and   
                   John A. Rice   Displaying the Important Features of
                                  Large Collections of Similar Curves  . . 140--145
             Cyrus R. Mehta and   
               Stephen J. Walsh   Comparison of Exact, Mid-$p$, and
                                  Mantel--Haenszel Confidence Intervals
                                  for the Common Odds Ratio Across Several
                                  $ 2 \times 2 $ Contingency Tables  . . . 146--150
                David A. Larson   Analysis of Variance With Just Summary
                                  Statistics as Input  . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
               H. Joseph Newton   New Developments in Statistical
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
          Walter T. Federer and   
            Michael P. Meredith   Covariance Analysis for Split-Plot and
                                  Split-Block Designs  . . . . . . . . . . 155--162
        Jonathan J. Shuster and   
           Sander Greenland and   
           David P. Nichols and   
                Ayala Cohen and   
              James R. Lackritz   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 163--165
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 46, Number 3, August, 1992

             George Casella and   
               Edward I. George   Explaining the Gibbs Sampler . . . . . . 167--174
                   N. S. Altman   An Introduction to Kernel and
                                  Nearest-Neighbor Nonparametric
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--185
               J. R. M. Hosking   Moments or $L$ Moments? An Example
                                  Comparing Two Measures of Distributional
                                  Shape  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--189
                  David J. Hand   On Comparing Two Treatments  . . . . . . 190--192
            Stephen B. Vardeman   What About the Other Intervals?  . . . . 193--197
                James A. Hanley   Jumping to Coincidences: Defying Odds in
                                  the Realm of the Preposterous  . . . . . 197--202
             Richard A. Paulson   Using Lottery Games to Illustrate
                                  Statistical Concepts and Abuses  . . . . 202--204
                   Ingram Olkin   A Matrix Formulation on How Deviant an
                                  Observation Can Be . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209
                Nabendu Pal and   
                J. Calvin Berry   On Invariance and Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--212
            Shashikala Sukhatme   Powers of Two-Sample Rank Tests Under
                                  the Lehmann Alternatives . . . . . . . . 212--214
              Ravindra Khattree   Comparing Estimators for Population
                                  Variance Using Pitman Nearness . . . . . 214--217
               Alvin C. Rencher   Interpretation of Canonical Discriminant
                                  Functions, Canonical Variates, and
                                  Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 217--225
                David M. Levine   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 226--226
         Marilynn S. Dueker and   
                  Michael Nabel   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 226--227
            Myra L. Samuels and   
                 Tai-Fang C. Lu   Sample Size Requirements for the
                                  Back-of-the-Envelope Binomial Confidence
                                  Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--231
               Ted C. Chang and   
             Sharon L. Lohr and   
              C. Graham McLaren   Teaching Survey Sampling Using
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--237
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
             Peter C. Bruce and   
              Peter Guttorp and   
           Gerard E. Dallal and   
           Lynn Roy LaMotte and   
            Donald G. Watts and   
               William Bell and   
            M. Bhaskara Rao and   
            John P. Wendell and   
           Terry R. Ridgway and   
         Richard G. Seymann and   
          W. Edwards Deming and   
         Paul R. McAllister and   
              Dale A. Kopas and   
                   Paul Switzer   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 239--243
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Gauss--Markov Theorem
                                  and Random Regressors  . . . . . . . . . 243--243
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 46, Number 4, November, 1992

            William R. Schucany   Editor's Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
                   James Albert   A Bayesian analysis of a Poisson random
                                  effects model for home run hitters . . . 246--253
               Peter J. Danaher   Some Statistical Modeling Problems in
                                  the Advertising Industry: a Look at
                                  Media Exposure Distributions . . . . . . 254--260
                   Howard Hogan   The 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey: An
                                  Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--269
          Thomas S. Nunnikhoven   A Birthday Problem Solution for
                                  Nonuniform Birth Frequencies . . . . . . 270--274
         Ronald Christensen and   
                   Jessica Utts   Bayesian Resolution of the ``Exchange
                                  Paradox''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--276
                Marcel F. Neuts   An Invariance Property of the Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--278
            Roger L. Berger and   
                 George Casella   Deriving Generalized Means as Least
                                  Squares and Maximum Likelihood Estimates 279--282
             William Becker and   
                  Peter Kennedy   A Lesson in Least Squares and $R$
                                  Squared  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
              LeRoy A. Franklin   Graphical Insight Into Multiple
                                  Regression Concepts  . . . . . . . . . . 284--288
               Sutaip L. C. Saw   ANOVA Sums of Squares as Quadratic Forms 288--290
           Robert W. Hayden and   
                Farid Kianifard   Preparing High School Mathematics
                                  Teachers to Teach Statistics . . . . . . 290--295
              William J. Wilson   Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship    295--298
              Daniel L. Solomon   [Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship]:
                                  Invited Comment  . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
                 Paul D. Minton   [Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship]:
                                  Invited Comment  . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
                 Robert V. Hogg   [Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship]:
                                  Invited Comment  . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
                  Roy E. Welsch   [Statistical Consulting Is Scholarship]:
                                  Invited Comment  . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--304
                Elliot A. Tanis   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 304--306
                     Don McNeil   On Graphing Paired Data  . . . . . . . . 307--311
                   John C. Nash   Statistical Shareware: Illustrations
                                  From Regression Techniques . . . . . . . 311--318
               H. Joseph Newton   New Developments in Statistical
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
                  David Strauss   The Many Faces of Logistic Regression    321--327
                 Dennis D. Boos   On Generalized Score Tests . . . . . . . 327--333
             Andrew Therber and   
             Kevin Delucchi and   
            Martin Feuerman and   
               David R. Fox and   
           Kenneth Kaminsky and   
                 Robert F. Ling   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 334--337
                      Anonymous   Editorial Collaborators  . . . . . . . . 338--339
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 340--341
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


The American Statistician
Volume 47, Number 1, February, 1993

             Gerald J. Hahn and   
              William Q. Meeker   Assumptions for Statistical Inference    1--11
                 Ian Spence and   
             Robert F. Garrison   A Remarkable Scatterplot . . . . . . . . 12--19
            Maureen Tingley and   
                     Chunhui Li   A Note on Obtaining Confidence Intervals
                                  for Discrete Parameters  . . . . . . . . 20--23
                  Joel R. Levin   An Improved Modification of a
                                  Regression-Toward-the-Mean Demonstration 24--26
                 Harry M. Schey   The Relationship Between the Magnitudes
                                  of SSR($ x_2 $ ) and SSR($ x_2 | x_1 $
                                  ): a Geometric Description . . . . . . . 26--30
                 Guy Thomas and   
                 John O'Quigley   A Geometric Interpretation of Partial
                                  Correlation Using Spherical Triangles    30--32
                     T. W. Epps   Characteristic Functions and Their
                                  Empirical Counterparts: Geometrical
                                  Interpretations and Applications to
                                  Statistical Inference  . . . . . . . . . 33--38
                    David Oakes   A Note on the Kaplan--Meier Estimator    39--40
        Rosemary A. Roberts and   
               David L. Roberts   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 40--41
              Jeffrey A. Witmer   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 41--42
                  J. B. Douglas   Confidence Regions for Parameter Pairs   43--45
          Richard Goldstein and   
               Paul F. Velleman   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
                Carl J. Schwarz   The Mixed-Model ANOVA: The Truth, the
                                  Computer Packages, the Books. Part I:
                                  Balanced Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--59
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
                                  Additive Models Software . . . . . . . . 59--64
           Paul F. Velleman and   
               Leland Wilkinson   Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio
                                  Typologies Are Misleading  . . . . . . . 65--72
                 Colin R. Blyth   Restrict Estimates to the Possible
                                  Values?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
               Richard J. Rossi   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 76--76
                Michael H. Ames   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 76--77
              James R. Schwenke   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 77--77
                      Anonymous   Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
           Harry S. Shannon and   
         Geoffrey R. Norman and   
            Harry J. Khamis and   
          Robert L. Andrews and   
               Donald Watts and   
         Katherine L. Monti and   
           Gerard E. Dallal and   
                 Ingo Klein and   
              David Branson and   
             John W. Seaman and   
              Niels Keiding and   
           Gavin G. Gregory and   
              Bernard Flury and   
               A. Narayanan and   
          Ravindra Khattree and   
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
            Ralph W. Bailey and   
             James M. Lucas and   
              Nathan Mantel and   
                Tosiya Sato and   
            Hirofumi Takagi and   
             Cyrus R. Mehta and   
                Steve Walsh and   
        Arnold J. Stromberg and   
            Geoff McLachlan and   
             Sunil K. Sapra and   
              R. W. Farebrother   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 79--88
              Roger Koenker and   
                    Gib Bassett   Correction: Four (Pathological) Examples
                                  in Asymptotic Statistics . . . . . . . . 88--88
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 47, Number 2, May, 1993

             Cyrus R. Mehta and   
                 Joan F. Hilton   Exact Power of Conditional and
                                  Unconditional Tests: Going Beyond the $
                                  2 \times 2 $ Contingency Table . . . . . 91--98
                    Janice Derr   Biostatistics Cores: Improving the
                                  Chances for Funding  . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
               T. P. Hutchinson   The Seventh-Root Formula for a
                                  Trivariate Normal Probability  . . . . . 102--103
             E. Jacquelin Dietz   A Cooperative Learning Activity on
                                  Methods of Selecting a Sample  . . . . . 104--108
           Cynthia A. Coyle and   
                   Chamont Wang   Wanna Bet? On Gambling Strategies That
                                  May or May Not Work in a Casino  . . . . 108--111
                 Y. H. Wang and   
            Jordan Stoyanov and   
                    Qi Man Shao   On Independence and Dependence
                                  Properties of a Set of Random Events . . 112--115
             Arvind K. Shah and   
              K. Krishnamoorthy   Testing Means Using Hypothesis-Dependent
                                  Variance Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
                    R. C. Juola   More on Shortest Confidence Intervals    117--119
              Lawrence A. Sherr   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 120--121
             Richard M. Engeman   Short Courses as Part of Statistical
                                  Consulting in a Foreign Setting  . . . . 122--125
               D. A. Sprott and   
                 V. T. Farewell   The Difference Between Two Normal Means  126--128
                Harry O. Posten   An Effective Algorithm for the
                                  Noncentral Beta Distribution Function    129--131
                William A. Link   Simulation Testing of Unbiasedness of
                                  Variance Estimators  . . . . . . . . . . 132--134
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--136
                  Robin H. Lock   Book Review: \booktitleA Comparison of
                                  Five Student Versions of Statistics
                                  Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--145
                      Anonymous   New Developments In Statistical
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
              James R. Boen and   
            Marcus O. Kjelsberg   Career Information for Statistics
                                  Graduate Students  . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
                 Ronald D. Snee   What's Missing in Statistical Education? 149--154
          Ronald L. Wasserstein   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 155--155
               Walter R. Schumm   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 155--156
              James R. Schwenke   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 156--156
            Milton W. Loyer and   
             Jeremy D. Finn and   
          Richard S. Lehman and   
            David A. Larson and   
                 Tim Kramer and   
            Alan E. Gelfand and   
         Adrian F. M. Smith and   
             N. R. Chaganty and   
              Peter Nemenyi and   
              David J. Hand and   
            David A. Binder and   
         Ronald Christensen and   
               Jessica Utts and   
             Gautam M. Appa and   
              Ailsa H. Land and   
   Thomas P. Hettmansperger and   
          Simon J. Sheather and   
             Peter J. Rousseeuw   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 157--163
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 47, Number 3, August, 1993

           Gerald van Belle and   
               Donald C. Martin   Sample Size as a Function of Coefficient
                                  of Variation and Ratio of Means  . . . . 165--167
            Roland D. Fisch and   
       Günther A. Strehlau   A Simplified Approach to Calibration
                                  Confidence Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--171
                 David S. Moore   The Place of Video in New Styles of
                                  Teaching and Learning Statistics . . . . 172--176
          André I. Khuri   A note on Scheffé's confidence intervals  176--178
                 C. J. Wild and   
                 G. A. F. Seber   Comparing Two Proportions From the Same
                                  Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--181
                James H. Albert   Teaching Bayesian Statistics Using
                                  Sampling Methods and MINITAB . . . . . . 182--191
            Luis A. Escobar and   
                 E. Barry Moser   A Note on the Updating of Regression
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
               Julio L. Peixoto   Incorrect $F$ Formulas in Regression
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--197
                    H. A. David   A Note on Order Statistics for Dependent
                                  Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
            Lambert H. Koopmans   A Note on Using the Moment Generating
                                  Function to Teach the Laws of Large
                                  Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
           Jeffrey F. Bromaghin   Sample Size Determination for Interval
                                  Estimation of Multinomial Probabilities  203--206
                Andrew R. Solow   Estimating Record Inclusion Probability  206--208
                      A. J. Lee   Generating Random Binary Deviates Having
                                  Fixed Marginal Distributions and
                                  Specified Degrees of Association . . . . 209--215
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--216
          R. Murray Lindsay and   
             A. S. C. Ehrenberg   The Design of Replicated Studies . . . . 217--228
         Richard M. Engeman and   
             Stephen A. Shumake   Animal Welfare and the Statistical
                                  Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233
                 James W. Neill   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 234--234
              Daniel M. Wardrop   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 234--235
              Diane L. Tompkins   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 235--235
             William H. Woodall   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 235--236
                      Anonymous   Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
           Terry R. Ridgway and   
           Cornel G. Ormsby and   
          Thomas S. Nunnikhoven   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 237--238
                      Anonymous   Correction: What about the other
                                  Intervals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 47, Number 4, November, 1993

            William R. Schucany   Editor's Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
                    Jay Bennett   Did Shoeless Joe Jackson Throw the 1919
                                  World Series?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
          Lawrence D. Brown and   
J. T. Gene Hwang (formerly Jiunn T. Hwang)   How to Approximate a Histogram by a
                                  Normal Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
              Carles M. Cuadras   Interpreting an Inequality in Multiple
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--258
          Adrian E. Raftery and   
                  Tore Schweder   Inference About the Ratio of Two
                                  Parameters, With Application to Whale
                                  Censusing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--264
                    Bert Gunter   Through a Funnel Slowly With Ball
                                  Bearing and Insight to Teach
                                  Experimental Design  . . . . . . . . . . 265--269
            J. Wanzer Drane and   
                 Su Hua Cao and   
                 Lixia Wang and   
                  T. Postelnicu   Limiting Forms of Probability Mass
                                  Functions via Recurrence Formulas  . . . 269--274
             Donald B. Percival   Three Curious Properties of the Sample
                                  Variance and Autocovariance for
                                  Stationary Processes With Unknown Mean   274--276
            Harry O. Posten and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 277--279
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 277
             Roger W. Hoerl and   
          Jeffrey H. Hooper and   
            Peter J. Jacobs and   
                 James M. Lucas   Skills for Industrial Statisticians to
                                  Survive and Prosper in the Emerging
                                  Quality Environment  . . . . . . . . . . 280--292
           Richard N. MacLennan   Interrater Reliability With SPSS for
                                  Windows 5.0  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--296
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   297
          Albert A. Okunade and   
             Cyril F. Chang and   
               Richard D. Evans   Comparative Analysis of Regression
                                  Output Summary Statistics in Common
                                  Statistical Packages . . . . . . . . . . 298--303
           Bernard D. Flury and   
                Thaddeus Tarpey   Representing a Large Collection of
                                  Curves: a Case for Principal Points  . . 304--306
                Lawrence Joseph   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 307--307
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 307--308
             Richard R. Carlson   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 308--309
                Joan M. Donohue   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 309--309
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 309--310
                  Dennis Clason   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 310--310
              Terry Ridgway and   
         Ronald Christensen and   
               Jessica Utts and   
             Sunil K. Sapra and   
               Shigeru Mase and   
         Thomas Nunnikhoven and   
             Harry M. Schey and   
        Jonathan J. Shuster and   
             Alan B. Cantor and   
                David Oakes and   
                Mark Krailo and   
            Carl J. Huberty and   
              David J. Hand and   
              Milton Keynes and   
           Paul F. Velleman and   
           Leland Wilkinson and   
         Thomas J. Lorenzen and   
             Richard K. Burdick   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 311--316
                      Anonymous   Correction: Testing Means Using
                                  Hypothesis-Dependent Variance Estimates  316--316
                      Anonymous   Editorial Collaborators  . . . . . . . . 317--318
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


The American Statistician
Volume 48, Number 1, February, 1994

                  Kinley Larntz   Editor's Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                 Henry F. Inman   Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher on
                                  Statistical Tests: a 1935 Exchange from
                                  Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--11
               Karl Pearson and   
               R. A. Fisher and   
                 Henry F. Inman   Karl Pearson and R. A. Fisher on
                                  Statistical Tests: a 1935 Exchange from
                                  \booktitleNature . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--11
           Maria Elena Gonzalez   Improving Data Quality Awareness in the
                                  United States Federal Statistical
                                  Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--17
           Patricia S. Abel and   
          Nozer D. Singpurwalla   To Survive or to Fail: That Is the
                                  Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--21
          David A. Harville and   
               Michael H. Smith   The Home-Court Advantage: How Large Is
                                  It and Does It Vary From Team to Team?   22--28
              Khoan T. Dinh and   
                 Truc T. Nguyen   Maximum Likelihood Estimators of
                                  Binomial Parameters Under an Order
                                  Restriction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
                Philip L. H. Yu   A Simple Statistical Project: Image
                                  Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Combining Unbiased Estimators  . . . . . 34--36
              Michael P. Murray   A Drunk and Her Dog: An Illustration of
                                  Cointegration and Error Correction . . . 37--39
            Thomas R. Willemain   Bootstrap on a Shoestring: Resampling
                                  Using Spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44
                  Paul L. Marsh   Book Review: \booktitleA Review and
                                  Comparison of Five Graphics Programs for
                                  PC-DOS and MS-DOS Computers  . . . . . . 44--51
                   John C. Nash   Tools for Including Statistical Graphics
                                  in Application Programs  . . . . . . . . 52--57
             John E. Boyer, Jr.   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 58--58
            Michael R. Chernick   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 58--59
                      Anonymous   Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
                 Linda Kasparek   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 59--59
               K. M. Lal Saxena   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 59--59
      Victor Aguirre-Torres and   
             Gerald J. Hahn and   
          William Q. Meeker and   
                G. Trenkler and   
              J. B. Douglas and   
              Jorgen Hilden and   
         Katherine L. Monti and   
                  Jeff A. Sloan   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 60--63
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 48, Number 2, May, 1994

                 Peter B. Imrey   Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--70
           J. Stuart Hunter and   
         Stephen M. Stigler and   
        Stephen E. Fienberg and   
                 James Boen and   
               Joseph B. Kadane   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 70--70
             Stephen M. Stigler   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 71--71
            Stephen E. Fienberg   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 71--72
                     James Boen   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 73--73
               Joseph B. Kadane   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 73--74
                  Susan Groshen   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 74--74
                James S. Hodges   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 75--75
                    Sharon Lohr   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 76--77
                    Bert Gunter   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 77--78
                  Steve Verrill   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 78--79
                  Karen Kafadar   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Invited Comment  . . . . 79--82
                 Peter B. Imrey   [Statistical Values, Quality, and
                                  Certification]: Reply  . . . . . . . . . 82--87
                 Peter B. Imrey   Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
           Friedrich Pukelsheim   The Three Sigma Rule . . . . . . . . . . 88--91
                Wenjun Chen and   
                     Tim Swartz   Quantitative Aspects of Five-Pin Bowling 92--98
                 Tapan K. Nayak   Pitman Nearness Comparison of Some
                                  Estimators of Population Variance  . . . 99--102
                   R. L. Eubank   A Simple Smoothing Spline  . . . . . . . 103--106
            Woollcott Smith and   
                  Milton Parnes   Mean Streets: The Median of a
                                  Size-Biased Sample and the Population
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--110
              J. Brian Gray and   
             William H. Woodall   The Maximum Size of Standardized and
                                  Internally Studentized Residuals in
                                  Regression Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
      Richard Anderson-Sprecher   Model Comparisons and $ R^2 $  . . . . . 113--117
              Gregory Samsa and   
               Eugene Z. Oddone   Integrating Scientific Writing Into a
                                  Statistics Curriculum: a Course in
                                  Statistically Based Scientific Writing   117--119
             David M. Nickerson   Construction of a Conservative
                                  Confidence Region From Projections of an
                                  Exact Confidence Region in Multiple
                                  Linear Regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
                   Michael Cain   The Moment-Generating Function of the
                                  Minimum of Bivariate Normal Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
               Shaul K. Bar-Lev   A Derivation of Conditional Cumulants in
                                  Exponential Models . . . . . . . . . . . 126--129
                Harry O. Posten   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 129--129
                 Jim Albert and   
                  Mark Berliner   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 129--131
                Cuthbert Daniel   Factorial One-Factor-at-a-Time
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
                   Gary Tietjen   Recursive Schemes for Calculating
                                  Cumulative Binomial and Poisson
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
           Carlos G. Lazaro and   
               David DeLong and   
              Ming-Long Lam and   
          William H. Rogers and   
              Patrick J. Fleury   Invited Responses to Dallal, G. E.
                                  (1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
                                  Factorial Experiments With Nested
                                  Factors,'' The American Statistician,
                                  \bf 46, 240  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
                   David DeLong   Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
                                  (1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
                                  Factorial Experiments with Nested
                                  Factors,'' The American Statistician,
                                  \bf 46, 240  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
                  Ming-Long Lam   Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
                                  (1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
                                  Factorial Experiments with Nested
                                  Factors,'' The American Statistician,
                                  \bf 46, 240  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--144
              William H. Rogers   Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
                                  (1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
                                  Factorial Experiments with Nested
                                  Factors,'' The American Statistician,
                                  \bf 46, 240  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
              Patrick J. Fleury   Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
                                  (1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
                                  Factorial Experiments with Nested
                                  Factors,'' The American Statistician,
                                  \bf 46, 240  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
                 Michael Kutner   Invited Response to Dallal, G. E.
                                  (1992), ``The Computer Analysis of
                                  Factorial Experiments with Nested
                                  Factors,'' The American Statistician,
                                  \bf 46, 240  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
               Shayle R. Searle   Analysis of Variance Computing Package
                                  Output for Unbalanced Data From
                                  Fixed-Effects Models With Nested Factors 148--153
               Anne Boomsma and   
                Ivo W. Molenaar   Four Electronic Tables for Probability
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162
                     C. J. Wild   Embracing the ``Wider View'' of
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171
                  Jack E. Reece   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 172--172
               Richard J. Rossi   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 172--172
              Subhash C. Sharma   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 172--173
             Irwin D. Bross and   
                Bert Gunter and   
             Ronald D. Snee and   
            Roger L. Berger and   
             Cyrus R. Mehta and   
             Joan F. Hilton and   
           Lynn Roy LaMotte and   
            Roland D. Fisch and   
   Günther A. Strehlau and   
          Kosmas Ferentinos and   
         Stavros Kourouklis and   
               Robert Juola and   
          G. R. Dargahi-Noubary   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 174--177
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 48, Number 3, August, 1994

             Thomas J. Boardman   The statistician who changed the world:
                                  W. Edwards Deming, 1900--1993  . . . . . 179--187
       Steven N. MacEachern and   
               L. Mark Berliner   Subsampling the Gibbs Sampler  . . . . . 188--190
          Daniel L. Solomon and   
              J. Tim Arnold and   
            Bruce E. Trumbo and   
               Paul F. Velleman   Electronic Publications in Statistics
                                  --- Ready or Not, Here They Come . . . . 191--196
               Howard S. Gitlow   A Comparison of Japanese Total Quality
                                  Control and Deming's Theory of
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--203
            Harry J. Khamis and   
                Barbara L. Mann   Outreach at a University Statistical
                                  Consulting Center  . . . . . . . . . . . 204--207
                Peter McCullagh   Does the Moment-Generating Function
                                  Characterize a Distribution? . . . . . . 208--208
                    Johan Bring   How to Standardize Regression
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
                Leo Knüsel   The prediction problem as the dual form
                                  of the two-sample problem with
                                  applications to the Poisson and the
                                  binomial distribution  . . . . . . . . . 214--219
           Joseph W. McKean and   
               Thomas J. Vidmar   A Comparison of Two Rank-Based Methods
                                  for the Analysis of Linear Models  . . . 220--229
            Murray A. Jorgensen   Tail Functions and Iterative Weights in
                                  Binary Regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 230--234
                Brani Vidakovic   All Roads Lead to Rome --- Even in the
                                  Honeycomb World  . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
                Daniel R. Jeske   Illustrating the Gauss--Markov Theorem   237--238
               Lynn Roy LaMotte   A Note on the Role of Independence in
                                  $t$ Statistics Constructed From Linear
                                  Statistics in Regression Models  . . . . 238--240
                   Qi Zheng and   
                 James H. Matis   Correlation Coefficient Revisited  . . . 240--241
       Edsel A. Peña and   
                  Vijay Rohatgi   Some Comments About Sufficiency and
                                  Unbiased Estimation  . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
              Roman Viveros and   
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Binomial and Negative Binomial Analogues
                                  Under Correlated Bernoulli Trials  . . . 243--247
              Jeffrey A. Witmer   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 247--248
         Jeffrey S. Pontius and   
               Rhoda M. Schantz   Graphical Analyses of a Two-Period
                                  Crossover Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--253
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
                Joseph M. Hilbe   Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
                                  Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--265
                   Todd G. Nick   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 266--266
         Eileen J. Beachell and   
               Ruth Hubbard and   
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
         Ronald Christensen and   
               Jessica Utts and   
            Roger L. Berger and   
             Dennis D. Boos and   
            David A. Sprott and   
         Vernon T. Farewell and   
               G. S. Watson and   
         Oliver D. Anderson and   
                 Rich Dodenhoff   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 267--269
                      Anonymous   Correction: Comparing Two Proportions
                                  from the Same Survey . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
                 C. J. Wild and   
                 G. A. F. Seber   Correction: ``Comparing two proportions
                                  from the same survey'' [Amer.\ Statist.
                                  \bf 47 (1993), no. 3, 178--181]  . . . . 269--269
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 48, Number 4, November, 1994

       Panagis Moschopoulos and   
            Joan G. Staniswalis   Estimation Given Conditionals From an
                                  Exponential Family . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
         Peter J. Rousseeuw and   
              Geert Molenberghs   The Shape of Correlation Matrices  . . . 276--279
            David L. DeMets and   
                  Dan Anbar and   
        William Fairweather and   
            Thomas A. Louis and   
              Robert T. O'Neill   Training the Next Generation of
                                  Biostatisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--284
                 Robert V. Hogg   A Core in Statistics for Engineering
                                  Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
          Stephen L. Hillis and   
               Charles S. Davis   A Simple Justification of the Iterative
                                  Fitting Procedure for Generalized Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
                Julian L. Simon   What Some Puzzling Problems Teach About
                                  the Theory of Simulation and the Use of
                                  Resampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--293
               Joseph B. Keller   A characterization of the Poisson
                                  distribution and the probability of
                                  winning a game . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--298
              Dorothy D. Dunlop   Regression for Longitudinal Data: a
                                  Bridge From Least Squares Regression . . 299--303
          Mark F. Schilling and   
                 Ann E. Watkins   A Suggestion for Sunflower Plots . . . . 303--305
               Robert W. Hayden   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 305--306
                 A. C. Atkinson   Transforming Both Sides of a Tree  . . . 307--313
           Joseph Gastwirth and   
               Abba Krieger and   
                 Paul Rosenbaum   How a Court Accepted an Impossible
                                  Explanation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--315
             Thomas P. Lane and   
           William H. DuMouchel   Simultaneous Confidence Intervals in
                                  Multiple Regression  . . . . . . . . . . 315--321
                      John Nash   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
            Ita G. G. Kreft and   
               Jan De Leeuw and   
            Rien Van Der Leeden   Book Review: \booktitleReview of Five
                                  Multilevel Analysis Programs: BMDP-5V,
                                  GENMOD, HLM, ML3, VARCL  . . . . . . . . 324--335
                Junghun Kim and   
              Pravin K. Trivedi   Book Review: \booktitleEconometric Time
                                  Series Analysis Software: A Review . . . 336--346
         Michael D. Conerly and   
             William H. Woodall   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 347--347
               Michael Chernick   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 347--348
          Michael F. Petras and   
            Ronald R. Remke and   
           Paul R. Saunders and   
                Philip J. Ernst   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 348--348
                Benjamin Reiser   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 348--348
                    Anne Freeny   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 349--349
                Linda C. Malone   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 349--350
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 350--350
     Katherine Taylor Halvorsen   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 350--350
     Katherine Taylor Halvorsen   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 350--350
            Diccon Bancroft and   
            Heinz Neudecker and   
              Shuangzhe Liu and   
             N. R. Chaganty and   
                A. K. Vaish and   
              Peter Nemenyi and   
          R. Murray Lindsay and   
     Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg and   
          Nico F. Laubscher and   
                M. C. Jones and   
                N. L. Hjort and   
          Lawrence D. Brown and   
               J. T. Gene Hwang   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 351--354
           Jeffrey F. Bromaghin   Correction: Sample Size Determination
                                  for Interval Estimation of Multinomial
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
                 K. T. Dinh and   
                 Truc T. Nguyen   Acknowledgement of priority: ``Maximum
                                  likelihood estimators of binomial
                                  parameters under an order restriction''
                                  [Amer. Statist. \bf 48 (1994), no. 1,
                                  29--30]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
                 K. T. Dinh and   
                 Truc T. Nguyen   Correction: Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimators of Binomial Parameters under
                                  an Order Restriction . . . . . . . . . . 354--354
                Philip L. H. Yu   Correction: a Simple Statistical
                                  Project: Image Reconstruction  . . . . . 354--354
                      Anonymous   Editorial Collaborators  . . . . . . . . 355--357
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


The American Statistician
Volume 49, Number 1, February, 1995

                 John R. Tucker   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
              Jon R. Kettenring   What Industry Needs  . . . . . . . . . . 2--4
                Peter J. Bickel   What Academia Needs  . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
                N. Phillip Ross   What the Government Needs  . . . . . . . 7--9
            John C. Bailar, III   A Larger Perspective . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
                  John Lehoczky   Modernizing Statistics Ph.D. Programs    12--17
               Joan B. Garfield   [Modernizing Statistics Ph.D. Programs]:
                                  Respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
                 Carl N. Morris   [Modernizing Statistics Ph.D. Programs]:
                                  Respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
                 Carl N. Morris   Respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
              Robert L. Wardrop   Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in
                                  Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
        Edward E. Gbur, Jr. and   
                Bruce E. Trumbo   Key Words and Phrases --- The Key to
                                  Scholarly Visibility and Efficiency in
                                  an Information Explosion . . . . . . . . 29--33
            Barry C. Arnold and   
          Richard A. Groeneveld   Measuring Skewness With Respect to the
                                  Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38
            C. E. McCulloch and   
                   S. R. Searle   On an Identity Derived From Unbiasedness
                                  in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
          Douglas J. Taylor and   
                Keith E. Muller   Computing Confidence Bounds for Power
                                  and Sample Size of the General Linear
                                  Univariate Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
          William Q. Meeker and   
                Luis A. Escobar   Teaching About Approximate Confidence
                                  Regions Based on Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
                Robert A. Stine   Graphical Interpretation of Variance
                                  Inflation Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
         Neil C. Schwertman and   
                 Terry L. Kiser   The Role of Geometry in Pairwise and
                                  Mutual Independence  . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
        Michael F. Driscoll and   
              Barbara Krasnicka   An accessible proof of Craig's theorem
                                  in the general case  . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
                 Ann E. Watkins   Book Review: \booktitleReview of the
                                  Proceedings of a Conference on Data
                                  Analysis in the Schools  . . . . . . . . 62--63
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 62
              Stephen W. Looney   How to Use Tests for Univariate
                                  Normality to Assess Multivariate
                                  Normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--70
                Peyton Cook and   
             Lyle D. Broemeling   Bayesian Statistics Using Mathematica    70--76
              E. Neely Atkinson   Interactive Dynamic Graphics for
                                  Exploratory Survival Analysis  . . . . . 77--84
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--86
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   84
                  Jenny Baglivo   Book Review: \booktitleComputer Algebra
                                  Systems: Maple and Mathematica . . . . . 86--92
                   John C. Nash   Book Review: \booktitleComputer Algebra
                                  Systems: DERIVE\reg  . . . . . . . . . . 93--99
                Philip M. Lurie   Book Review: \booktitleA Review of Five
                                  Statistical Packages for Windows . . . . 99--107
             T. D. Sterling and   
            W. L. Rosenbaum and   
                  J. J. Weinkam   Publication Decisions Revisited: The
                                  Effect of the Outcome of Statistical
                                  Tests on the Decision to Publish and
                                  Vice Versa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--112
                     Bruce King   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 113--113
               William D. Warde   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 113--114
                   Larry Winner   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 114--114
             J. M. Campbell and   
           James J. Higgins and   
           Gerard E. Dallal and   
               Chamont Wang and   
          Arthur Silverberg and   
             Peter B. Imrey and   
         Oliver D. Anderson and   
             Bruno D. Zumbo and   
                  Jorgen Hilden   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 115--119
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 49, Number 2, May, 1995

                    H. A. David   First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 121--133
               Stephen J. Gange   Generating Multivariate Categorical
                                  Variates Using the Iterative
                                  Proportional Fitting Algorithm . . . . . 134--138
           Martin L. Lesser and   
               Nina E. Kohn and   
      Barbara A. Napolitano and   
                   Savita Pahwa   The FU-PLOT: a Graphical Method for
                                  Visualizing the Timing of Follow-Up in
                                  Longitudinal Studies . . . . . . . . . . 139--143
        Michael A. Proschan and   
               Dean A. Follmann   Multiple Comparisons With Control in a
                                  Single Experiment Versus Separate
                                  Experiments: Why Do We Feel Differently? 144--149
                Lance A. Waller   Does the Characteristic Function
                                  Numerically Distinguish Distributions?   150--152
               Michael Friendly   Conceptual and Visual Models for
                                  Categorical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--160
          Richard D. Gelber and   
            Bernard F. Cole and   
               Shari Gelber and   
                Aron Goldhirsch   Comparing Treatments Using
                                  Quality-Adjusted Survival: The Q-TWiST
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--169
                Kazem Kazempour   Impact of Stratification Imbalance on
                                  Probability of Type I Error  . . . . . . 170--174
          Thomas K. Philips and   
                Randolph Nelson   The Moment Bound is Tighter Than
                                  Chernoff's Bound for Positive Tail
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
             Lewis H. Shoemaker   Tests for Differences in Dispersion
                                  Based on Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182
            Joyce C. Niland and   
      Tamara L. Odom-Maryon and   
               Jennifer Lee and   
              Barbara C. Tilley   A Survey of Biostatistical Consulting
                                  Units Throughout North America . . . . . 183--189
              Michael H. Kutner   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
               Jeffrey B. Birch   Ten Suggestions for Effectively Teaching
                                  Short Courses to Heterogeneous Groups    190--195
            John A. Cornell and   
             Ron H. Randles and   
                G. Geoff Vining   Challenges in Teaching Short Courses by
                                  an Academic Department: The University
                                  of Florida Experience  . . . . . . . . . 195--200
             David G. Kleinbaum   Teaching Short Courses in Biostatistics
                                  and Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--203
                Clifford Konold   Confessions of a Coin Flipper and
                                  Would-Be Instructor  . . . . . . . . . . 203--209
                  R. W. Oldford   A Physical Device for Demonstrating
                                  Confounding, Blocking, and the Role of
                                  Randomization in Uncovering a Causal
                                  Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--216
                 Peter J. Smith   A Recursive Formulation of the Old
                                  Problem of Obtaining Moments From
                                  Cumulants and Vice Versa . . . . . . . . 217--218
                Elliot A. Tanis   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 219--220
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 219
       William O. Williford and   
            William F. Krol and   
         Stephen F. Bingham and   
          Joseph F. Collins and   
                 David G. Weiss   The Multicenter Clinical Trials
                                  Coordination Center Statistician: ``More
                                  Than a Consultant''  . . . . . . . . . . 221--225
                 Frank Y. Hsieh   A Cautionary Note on the Analysis of
                                  Extreme Data With Cox Regression . . . . 226--228
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                   R. A. Sandhu   A Simple Simulational Algorithm for
                                  Generating Progressive Type-II Censored
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
                R. Chattamvelli   A Note on the Noncentral Beta
                                  Distribution Function  . . . . . . . . . 231--234
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   235
               Allan J. Rossman   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 237--238
               Mark S. Handcock   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 238--238
                 Gary D. Herrin   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 238--239
             Sunil K. Sapra and   
               Michael Cain and   
             Werner E. Helm and   
                 Peter B. Imrey   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 240--241
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 49, Number 3, August, 1995

          Joseph M. Cameron and   
             Joan R. Rosenblatt   Churchill Eisenhart, 1913--1994  . . . . 243--244
         William J. Spencer and   
                 Paul A. Tobias   Statistics in the Semiconductor
                                  Industry: A Competitive Necessity  . . . 245--249
             David S. Moore and   
             George W. Cobb and   
              Joan Garfield and   
              William Q. Meeker   Statistics Education Fin de Si\`ecle . . 250--260
           W. Scott Overton and   
             Stephen V. Stehman   The Horvitz--Thompson Theorem as a
                                  Unifying Perspective for Probability
                                  Sampling: With Examples From Natural
                                  Resource Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . 261--268
                Ian T. Jolliffe   Sample Sizes and the Central Limit
                                  Theorem: The Poisson Distribution as an
                                  Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
                Dennis P. Walsh   Equating Poisson and Normal Probability
                                  Functions to Derive Stirling's Formula   270--271
                Paul R. Coe and   
            William Butterworth   Optimal stopping in ``The showcase
                                  showdown'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
                   Peter Holmes   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 276--276
           David C. Hoaglin and   
               Paul F. Velleman   A Critical Look at Some Analyses of
                                  Major League Baseball Salaries . . . . . 277--285
          Roger G. Johnston and   
         Shayla D. Schroder and   
       A. Rajika Mallawaaratchy   Statistical Artifacts in the Ratio of
                                  Discrete Quantities  . . . . . . . . . . 285--291
             Edward L. Korn and   
              Barry I. Graubard   Examples of Differing Weighted and
                                  Unweighted Estimates From a Sample
                                  Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--295
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
         Sharon-Lise T. Normand   Book Review: \booktitleMeta-Analysis
                                  Software: A Comparative Review . . . . . 298--309
               Paul A. Thompson   Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondence
                                  Analysis in Statistical Package Programs 310--316
                 Paul Alper and   
              Robert L. Raymond   Imposing Views, Imposing Shoes: a
                                  Statistician as a Sole Model . . . . . . 317--319
                 Soren Bisgaard   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 320--321
            Katherine Halvorsen   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 321--321
             David M. Nickerson   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 321--321
            Katherine Halvorsen   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 322--322
                             MW   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 322--322
                             RS   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 322--322
               Diane G. Saphire   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 322--322
      Edward J. Stanek, III and   
        John P. Buonaccorsi and   
            Carl J. Schwarz and   
         David M. Nickerson and   
           Thomas N. Herzog and   
         Thomas J. Boardman and   
            Richard W. Katz and   
              Roman Viveros and   
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 323--326
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 49, Number 4, November, 1995

            Siddhartha Chib and   
               Edward Greenberg   Understanding the Metropolis--Hastings
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--335
                 Gerald J. Hahn   Deming's Impact on Industrial
                                  Statistics: Some Reflections . . . . . . 336--341
             Katherine L. Monti   Folded Empirical Distribution Function
                                  Curves --- Mountain Plots  . . . . . . . 342--345
            Lance A. Waller and   
          Bruce W. Turnbull and   
              J. Michael Hardin   Obtaining Distribution Functions by
                                  Numerical Inversion of Characteristic
                                  Functions With Applications  . . . . . . 346--350
                Inge S. Helland   Simple Counterexamples Against the
                                  Conditionality Principle . . . . . . . . 351--356
           Daniel Zelterman and   
         Ivan Siu-Fung Chan and   
            Paul W. Mielke, Jr.   Exact Tests of Significance in Higher
                                  Dimensional Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 357--361
               Charles E. Gates   What Really Is Experimental Error in
                                  Block Designs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
              Johannes Ledolter   Projects in Introductory Statistics
                                  Courses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--367
            Alan T. Arnholt and   
               Jaimie L. Hebert   Estimating the Mean With Known
                                  Coefficient of Variation . . . . . . . . 367--369
                  Yoong-Sin Lee   Graphical Demonstration of an Optimality
                                  Property of the Median . . . . . . . . . 369--372
                J. Laurie Snell   The Journal of Statistics Education
                                  Information Service and Other Internet
                                  Resources for Statistics Teachers  . . . 372--375
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 372
                 Sharon L. Lohr   Hasse Diagrams in Statistical Consulting
                                  and Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--381
             John A. Nelder and   
                  Peter W. Lane   The Computer Analysis of Factorial
                                  Experiments: In Memorian --- Frank Yates 382--385
            John M. Charnes and   
               Howard S. Gitlow   Using Control Charts to Corroborate
                                  Bribery in Jai Alai  . . . . . . . . . . 386--389
         R. J. O'Hara Hines and   
                 W. G. S. Hines   Exploring Cook's Statistic Graphically   389--394
         R. J. O'Hara Hines and   
                 W. G. S. Hines   Exploring Cook's Statistic Graphically   389
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   395
               Nancy Jo Delaney   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 397--397
            Bradley A. Hartlaub   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 397--398
     Katherine Taylor Halvorsen   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 398--398
             Virginia M. Lesser   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 398--399
                Andrew R. Solow   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 399--399
         Ronald Christensen and   
             Henry F. Inman and   
               Xiao-Li Meng and   
                 Ananda Sen and   
           Joseph B. Keller and   
              Kevin Donegan and   
                  Peter Nemenyi   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 400--403
                      Anonymous   Correction: Sample Size Determination
                                  for Interval Estimation of Multinomial
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
                      Anonymous   Editorial Collaborators  . . . . . . . . 404--405
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 406--408
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


The American Statistician
Volume 50, Number 1, February, 1996

              R. J. Carroll and   
                  David Ruppert   The Use and Misuse of Orthogonal
                                  Regression in Linear Errors-in-Variables
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
              Jean-Marc Bernard   Bayesian Interpretation of Frequentist
                                  Procedures for a Bernoulli Process . . . 7--13
           Bruce R. Johnson and   
              Benjamin J. Tilly   On the Construction of Independence
                                  Counterexamples  . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
            Ian T. Jolliffe and   
                  Peter B. Hope   Bounded Bivariate Distributions With
                                  Nearly Normal Marginals  . . . . . . . . 17--20
                 Mark G. Vangel   Confidence Intervals for a Normal
                                  Coefficient of Variation . . . . . . . . 21--26
         Christopher T. Edwards   Double-Elimination Tournaments: Counting
                                  and Calculating  . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--33
         Neil C. Schwertman and   
          Kathryn L. Schenk and   
              Brett C. Holbrook   More Probability Models for the NCAA
                                  Regional Basketball Tournaments  . . . . 34--38
              Bradley P. Carlin   Improved NCAA Basketball Tournament
                                  Modeling via Point Spread and Team
                                  Strength Information . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
           Richard F. Gunst and   
               Gary C. McDonald   The Importance of Outcome Dynamics,
                                  Simple Geometry, and Pragmatic
                                  Statistical Arguments in Exposing
                                  Deficiencies of Experimental Design
                                  Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--50
                Rhonda C. Magel   Increasing Student Participation in
                                  Large Introductory Statistics Classes    51--56
                    Johan Bring   A Geometric Approach to Compare
                                  Variables in a Regression Model  . . . . 57--62
         Lawrence M. Leemis and   
              Kishor S. Trivedi   A Comparison of Approximate Interval
                                  Estimators for the Bernoulli Parameter   63--68
           Thomas E. Bradstreet   Teaching Introductory Statistics Courses
                                  So That Nonstatisticians Experience
                                  Statistical Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . 69--78
          Johannes Ledolter and   
                     K. S. Chan   Evaluating the Impact of the 65 mph
                                  Maximum Speed Limit on Iowa Rural
                                  Interstates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   86
                  Keith Ord and   
                       Sam Lowe   Book Review: \booktitleAutomatic
                                  Forecasting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--94
                 Thomas Johnson   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 95--95
                   Alan Agresti   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 95--96
           Elizabeth M. Eltinge   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 96--97
                    Chand Midha   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 97--97
         Nelson M. Blachman and   
         Ronald Christensen and   
            Jessica M. Utts and   
                David J. Finney   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 98--99
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 50, Number 2, May, 1996

                  Howard Wainer   Depicting Error  . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
          Richard A. Becker and   
          Sallie Keller-McNulty   Presentation Myths . . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
                Sheldon M. Ross   Bayesians Should Not Resample a Prior
                                  Sample to Learn About the Posterior  . . 116--116
                   Rollin Brant   Digesting Logistic Regression Results    117--119
                 Rob J. Hyndman   Computing and Graphing Highest Density
                                  Regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--126
                 W. G. S. Hines   Pragmatics of Pooling in ANOVA Tables    127--139
           Dayanand N. Naik and   
              Ravindra Khattree   Revisiting Olympic Track Records: Some
                                  Practical Considerations in the
                                  Principal Component Analysis . . . . . . 140--144
             D. R. Grimmett and   
                J. R. Ridenhour   The Effect of a Variable Data Point on
                                  Hypothesis Tests for Means . . . . . . . 145--150
             Jeffrey H. Dorfman   Pseudorandom Sampling Has a Real Effect
                                  on Test Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--155
                 A. J. Lawrance   A Design of Experiments Workshop as an
                                  Introduction to Statistics . . . . . . . 156--158
        Arnold J. Stromberg and   
            Subathra Ramanathan   Easy Implementation of Writing in
                                  Introductory Statistics Courses  . . . . 159--163
               Sander Greenland   A Lower Bound for the Correlation of
                                  Exponentiated Bivariate Normal Pairs . . 163--164
                Renato Assuncao   Likelihood Elasticity and Error Bounds   165--167
               Robert W. Hayden   Book Review: \booktitleReview of Two
                                  Collections of Data for Use in a First
                                  Course in Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 168--169
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 168
             Richard J. Beckman   Plotting $ p^k $ Factorial or $ p^{n -
                                  k} $ Fractional Factorial Data . . . . . 170--174
         Ronald Christensen and   
           Aparna V. Huzurbazar   A Note on Augmenting Resolution III
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177
              D. J. Murdoch and   
                     E. D. Chow   A Graphical Display of Large Correlation
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
                 Alan J. Miller   The Convergence of Efroymson's Stepwise
                                  Regression Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   182
               Scott S. Emerson   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
                                  Packages for Group Sequential Methods    183--192
             Robert J. Anderson   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 193--193
            Ralph B. D'Agostino   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 193--194
                Thomas H. Short   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 194--194
               Richard Waterman   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 194--195
                 Sharon Neidert   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 195--196
          Dennis V. Lindley and   
           W. Scott Overton and   
         Stephen V. Stehman and   
              A. S. Hedayat and   
             Bruno D. Zumbo and   
        Donald W. Zimmerman and   
           Joseph W. McKean and   
           Thomas J. Vidmar and   
               Dan C. Stone and   
         Robert B. Ilderton and   
            Lee R. Abramson and   
             Paul Gottfried and   
                Clifford Konold   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 197--200
                      Anonymous   Correction: Equating Poisson and Normal
                                  Probability Functions to Derive
                                  Stirling's Formula . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 50, Number 3, August, 1996

              Mark J. Schervish   $P$ Values: What They Are and What They
                                  Are Not  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
          Daniel F. Heitjan and   
                  Srabashi Basu   Distinguishing ``missing at random'' and
                                  ``missing completely at random'' . . . . 207--213
                   S. Kunte and   
                  K. S. Upadhya   Estimating Multinomial Probabilities . . 214--216
           Paul F. Velleman and   
                 David S. Moore   Multimedia for Teaching Statistics:
                                  Promises and Pitfalls  . . . . . . . . . 217--225
            Thomas R. Fears and   
           Jacques Benichou and   
               Mitchell H. Gail   A Reminder of the Fallibility of the
                                  Wald Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
              Wendy A. Bergerud   Displaying Factor Relationships in
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--233
                 Jerry Sullivan   Understanding the Degrees of Freedom
                                  Concept by Computer Experiments  . . . . 234--237
                   Paul H. Kvam   Using Exam Scores to Estimate the
                                  Prevalence of Classroom Cheating . . . . 238--242
             Neil C. Schwertman   A Connection Between Quadratic-Type
                                  Confidence Limits and Fiducial Limits    242--243
                    Malay Ghosh   Wishart Distribution via Induction . . . 243--246
                L. A. Stefanski   A Note on the
                                  Arithmetic-Geometric-Harmonic Mean
                                  Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
         Robert J. MacG. Dawson   How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to
                                  Generate a Data Set? . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
              Robert J. Mac and   
                      G. Dawson   How Many Light Bulbs Does it Take to
                                  Generate a Data Set? . . . . . . . . . . 247
              Steven C. Hillmer   A Problem-Solving Approach to Teaching
                                  Business Statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 249--256
              Bernard S. Gorman   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 257--258
                      Anonymous   Accent on Teaching Materials . . . . . . 257
                Harry O. Posten   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 258--259
           Michael D. Ernst and   
                Rudy Guerra and   
            William R. Schucany   Scatterplots for Unordered Pairs . . . . 260--265
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   266
                   Joseph Hilbe   Book Review: \booktitleWindows File
                                  Conversion Software  . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
         Kenneth J. Ottenbacher   The Power of Replications and
                                  Replications of Power  . . . . . . . . . 271--275
                 Fritz Scheuren   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 276--276
                     Gary Simon   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 277--277
               Allan J. Rossman   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 277--278
                Thomas H. Short   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 278--278
         Ronald D. Fricker, Jr.   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 278--279
            Andrew Schulman and   
           Stephen J. Gange and   
           Cornel G. Ormsby and   
          Roger G. Johnston and   
       Clarence W. Lienhard and   
                Ian T. Jolliffe   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 280--282
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 50, Number 4, November, 1996

                  Kinley Larntz   Editor's Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
                Brad Warner and   
               Manavendra Misra   Understanding Neural Networks as
                                  Statistical Tools  . . . . . . . . . . . 284--293
        Wilfried R. Vanhonacker   Meta-Analysis and Response Surface
                                  Extrapolation: A Least Squares Approach  294--299
          Alexander von Eye and   
               Christiane Spiel   Standard and Nonstandard Log-Linear
                                  Symmetry Models for Measuring Change in
                                  Categorical Variables  . . . . . . . . . 300--305
              Chul Gyu Park and   
               Taesung Park and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   A Simple Method for Generating
                                  Correlated Binary Variates . . . . . . . 306--310
                    Eduardo Ley   On the Peculiar Distribution of the U.S.
                                  Stock Indexes' Digits  . . . . . . . . . 311--313
                Roger L. Berger   More Powerful Tests From Confidence
                                  Interval $p$ Values  . . . . . . . . . . 314--318
              D. K. Bhaumik and   
                 P. M. Kulkarni   A Simple and Exact Method of
                                  Constructing Tolerance Intervals for the
                                  One-Way ANOVA With Random Effects  . . . 319--323
               Ibrahim A. Ahmad   A Class of Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon Type
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--327
            Ronald S. Fecso and   
        William D. Kalsbeek and   
             Sharon L. Lohr and   
       Richard L. Scheaffer and   
          Fritz J. Scheuren and   
            Elizabeth A. Stasny   Teaching Survey Sampling . . . . . . . . 328--340
            Ronald S. Fesco and   
        William D. Kalsbeek and   
             Sharon L. Lohr and   
       Richard L. Scheaffer and   
          Fritz J. Scheuren and   
            Elizabeth A. Stasny   Teaching Survey Sampling . . . . . . . . 328
          David R. Appleton and   
            Joyce M. French and   
          Mark P. J. Vanderpump   Ignoring a Covariate: An Example of
                                  Simpson's Paradox  . . . . . . . . . . . 340--341
       Mervyn G. Marasinghe and   
          William Q. Meeker and   
                Dianne Cook and   
                  Tae-sung Shin   Using Graphics and Simulation to Teach
                                  Statistical Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 342--351
             Bernard Rosner and   
        Frederick Mosteller and   
                     Cleo Youtz   Modeling Pitcher Performance and the
                                  Distribution of Runs per Inning in Major
                                  League Baseball  . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--360
             Rob J. Hyndman and   
                      Yanan Fan   Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages 361--365
               A. J. Hayter and   
                         W. Liu   A Note on the Calculation of Pr$ (X_1 <
                                  X_2 \cdots {} < X_k) $  . . . . . . . . . 365--365
              Richard Goldstein   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
                      Anonymous   Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   366
               John C. Nash and   
                   Tony K. Quon   Software for Modeling Kinetic Phenomena  368--378
                Joan M. Donohue   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 379--379
                     Rob Lyerla   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 379--380
                Thomas L. Moore   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 380--381
            John H. Randall and   
             John A. Nelder and   
               James Berger and   
            Inge S. Helland and   
              Murray Aitkin and   
              D. V. Lindley and   
      Edward J. Stanek, III and   
           Charles E. Gates and   
            Susan R. Wilson and   
                Judea Pearl and   
              R. W. Oldford and   
                Y. S. Sathe and   
            Jerome H. Klotz and   
            Lawrence Leemis and   
          Kishor S. Trivedi and   
                 Sunil K. Sapra   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 382--389
                      Anonymous   Editorial Collaborators  . . . . . . . . 390--392
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 393--395
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


The American Statistician
Volume 51, Number 1, February, 1997

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
              James M. Landwehr   Editor's Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
          Peter H. Westfall and   
           Russell D. Wolfinger   Multiple Tests with Discrete
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--8
                H. A. David and   
               Jason L. Gunnink   The Paired $t$ Test Under Artificial
                                  Pairing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
                 Heather Hammer   Symbolic Exclusion in Statistical
                                  Literature: The Impact of Gendered
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--19
               Shayle R. Searle   Built-In Restrictions on Best Linear
                                  Unbiased Predictors (BLUP) of Random
                                  Effects in Mixed Models  . . . . . . . . 19--21
           Necip Doganaksoy and   
                N. Balakrishnan   A Useful Property of Best Linear
                                  Unbiased Predictors with Applications to
                                  Life-Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
                 William Navidi   A Graphical Illustration of the EM
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--31
           Edward A. Silver and   
                   Daniel Costa   A Property of Symmetric Distributions
                                  and a Related Order Statistic Result . . 32--33
           Thomas M. Sellke and   
                Sarah H. Sellke   Chebyshev Inequalities for Unimodal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--40
                Philippe Naveau   Comparison Between the Chernoff and
                                  Factorial Moment Bounds for Discrete
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
          Michael J. Rovine and   
              Alexander von Eye   A 14th Way to Look at a Correlation
                                  Coefficient: Correlation as the
                                  Proportion of Matches  . . . . . . . . . 42--46
            N. Radke Sharpe and   
                  R. A. Roberts   The Relationship Among Sums of Squares,
                                  Correlation Coefficients, and
                                  Suppression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
           Dennis K. J. Lin and   
                     Amy W. Lam   Connections Between Two-Level Factorials
                                  and Venn Diagrams  . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
                Michael Sherman   Comparing the Sample Mean and the Sample
                                  Median: An Exploration in the
                                  Exponential Power Family . . . . . . . . 52--54
            Justus F. Seely and   
               David Birkes and   
                    Youngjo Lee   Characterizing Sums of Squares by Their
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
                     M. P. Wand   Data-Based Choice of Histogram Bin Width 59--64
              Richard Goldstein   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 65--66
            Philip G. Stein and   
             James R. Matey and   
                    Karen Pitts   A Review of Statistical Software for the
                                  Apple Macintosh  . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--82
             Katherine L. Monti   Making Statistical Tables in Windows: a
                                  Comparison of Data Muncher and SAS (PROC
                                  TABULATE and PROC REPORT)  . . . . . . . 83--92
          Sheila O'Leary Weaver   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 93--93
               Jennifer Hoeting   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 93--94
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  93
                Linda C. Malone   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 94--94
              Anne M. Dougherty   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 94--95
                  Youn-Min Chou   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 95--95
              Jonathan D. Cryer   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 95--96
           K. L. D. Gunawardena   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 96--96
                  Michael Nabel   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 97--97
              Jeffrey A. Witmer   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 97--98
             Charles Kooperberg   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 98--98
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 51, Number 2, May, 1997

        Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr.   Robust Sports Ratings Based on Least
                                  Absolute Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105
              Robert Tibshirani   Who Is the Fastest Man in the World? . . 106--111
              Charles Poole and   
               Sander Greenland   How a Court Accepted a Possible
                                  Explanation: A Comment on Gastwirth,
                                  Krieger, and Rosenbaum . . . . . . . . . 112--114
        Joseph L. Gastwirth and   
            Abba M. Krieger and   
              Paul R. Rosenbaum   Reply: Unquestionably Impossible . . . . 115--116
                  Jim Mintz and   
                  Wilfrid Dixon   Objection Overruled: a Comment on
                                  Gastwirth, Krieger, and Rosenbaum  . . . 117--119
        Joseph L. Gastwirth and   
            Abba M. Krieger and   
              Paul R. Rosenbaum   Reply: Hypotheticals and Hypotheses  . . 120--121
            Matthew S. Mayo and   
                  J. Brian Gray   Elemental Subsets: The Building Blocks
                                  of Regression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--129
                   V. C. Hombas   Waiting Time and Expected Waiting Time:
                                  Paradoxical Situations . . . . . . . . . 130--133
                Jules I. Borack   A Technique for Estimating the
                                  Probability of Detecting a Nongaming
                                  Drug User  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--136
            B. D. Jovanovic and   
                     P. S. Levy   A Look at the Rule of Three  . . . . . . 137--139
             Dawn M. VanLeeuwen   A Note on the Covariance Structure in a
                                  Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144
                 David L. Allen   Hypothesis Testing Using an $ {L1}
                                  $-Distance Bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . 145--150
            Michael R. Frey and   
                   John C. Kern   The Pitman Closeness of a Class of
                                  Scaled Estimators  . . . . . . . . . . . 151--154
                James R. Murphy   How to Read the Statistical Methods
                                  Literature: A Guide for Students . . . . 155--157
                   Franz Loosen   A Concrete Strategy for Teaching
                                  Hypothesis Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 158--163
               Prem K. Goel and   
             Mario Peruggia and   
                      Baoshe An   Computer-Aided Teaching of Probabilistic
                                  Modeling for Biological Phenomena  . . . 164--169
                Danny W. Turner   A Simple Example Illustrating a
                                  Well-Known Property of the Correlation
                                  Coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
              Candace Schau and   
                  Nancy Mattern   Use of Map Techniques in Teaching
                                  Applied Statistics Courses . . . . . . . 171--175
                 Gemai Chen and   
                      A. Adatia   Independence and $t$ Distribution  . . . 176--177
           Mervyn J. Silvapulle   A Curious Example Involving the
                                  Likelihood Ratio Test Against One-Sided
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                      C. R. Rao   A Note on the Best Linear Unbiased
                                  Estimation Based on Order Statistics . . 181--185
                      Xuming He   Quantile Curves Without Crossing . . . . 186--192
              Richard Goldstein   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 193--193
             Dominique Haughton   Packages for Estimating Finite Mixtures:
                                  a Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--205
             Dominique Houghton   Packages for Estimating Finite Mixtures:
                                  a Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
          Linda Williams Pickle   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 206--206
               James R. Koehler   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 206--207
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  206
             E. Jacquelin Dietz   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 207--208
                   Roxy L. Peck   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 208--209
                 David E. Booth   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 209--209
          James R. Lackritz and   
                  Oscar Sheynin   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 210--210
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 210
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 51, Number 3, August, 1997

          Edward J. Bedrick and   
         Ronald Christensen and   
                 Wesley Johnson   Bayesian Binomial Regression: Predicting
                                  Survival at a Trauma Center  . . . . . . 211--218
                    Heng Li and   
                   Hal S. Stern   Bayesian Inference for Nested Designs
                                  Based on Jeffreys's Prior  . . . . . . . 219--224
            Andrew A. Neath and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   On the Efficacy of Bayesian Inference
                                  for Nonidentifiable Models . . . . . . . 225--232
          Alberto Luceño   Further Evidence Supporting the
                                  Numerical Usefulness of Characteristic
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
                    J. S. Buzas   Fast Estimators of the Jackknife . . . . 235--240
                Donald A. Berry   Teaching Elementary Bayesian Statistics
                                  with Real Applications in Science  . . . 241--246
                     Jim Albert   Teaching Bayes' Rule: a Data-Oriented
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
                 David S. Moore   Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
                                  Hesitate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--261
              Jeffrey A. Witmer   [Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
                                  Hesitate]: Discussion  . . . . . . . . . 262--263
              Jeffrey A. Witmer   Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
                                  Reasons to Hesitate  . . . . . . . . . . 262
                Thomas H. Short   Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
                                  Reasons to Hesitate  . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
                  D. V. Lindley   Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
                                  Reasons to Hesitate  . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
              David A. Freedman   Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
                                  Reasons to Hesitate  . . . . . . . . . . 266--268
           Richard L. Scheaffer   Discussion --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
                                  Reasons to Hesitate  . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
                Donald A. Berry   [Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
                                  Hesitate]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--271
                Donald A. Berry   Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
                                  Reasons to Hesitate  . . . . . . . . . . 270
                     Jim Albert   [Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
                                  Hesitate]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
                     Jim Albert   Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
                                  Reasons to Hesitate  . . . . . . . . . . 271
                 David S. Moore   [Bayes for Beginners? Some Reasons to
                                  Hesitate]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
                 David S. Moore   Reply --- Bayes for Beginners? Some
                                  Reasons to Hesitate  . . . . . . . . . . 272
          Kathryn S. Dawson and   
             Chris Gennings and   
               Walter H. Carter   Two Graphical Techniques Useful in
                                  Detecting Correlation Structure in
                                  Repeated Measures Data . . . . . . . . . 275--283
                   Joseph Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 284--284
                Steven B. Cohen   An Evaluation of Alternative PC-Based
                                  Software Packages Developed for the
                                  Analysis of Complex Survey Data  . . . . 285--292
                  Paul J. Smith   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 293--295
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  293
                      Uwe Koehn   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 295--295
                  Lynne B. Hare   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 295--296
                  Linda Barrett   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 296--296
                David Mccormick   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 296--297
            Ralph F. Frankowski   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 297--297
                John F. Monahan   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 297--297
            Joseph L. Gastwirth   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 297--299
                      Anonymous   Correction: Who is the Fastest Man in
                                  the World? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 51, Number 4, November, 1997

            James A. Koziol and   
          Joel E. Alexander and   
             Lance O. Bauer and   
            Samuel Kuperman and   
           Sandra Morzorati and   
           Sean J. O'Connor and   
             John Rohrbaugh and   
            Bernice Porjesz and   
            Henri Begleiter and   
                    John Polich   A Graphical Technique for Displaying
                                  Correlation Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
            Frederick Mosteller   Lessons from Sports Statistics . . . . . 305--310
         W. Alan Nicewander and   
                 James M. Price   A Consonance Criterion for Choosing
                                  Sample Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--317
                    Bruce Levin   A Lower Bound for the Mantel--Haenszel
                                  One Degree of Freedom Chi-Squared
                                  Statistic in $ 1 \colon m $ Matched
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--320
                 Don G. Wardell   Small-Sample Interval Estimation of
                                  Bernoulli and Poisson Parameters . . . . 321--325
             Daniel Peña   Combining Information in Statistical
                                  Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--332
              Joseph G. Ibrahim   On Properties of Predictive Priors in
                                  Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--337
     Christopher H. Morrell and   
             Jay D. Pearson and   
                 Larry J. Brant   Linear Transformations of Linear
                                  Mixed-Effects Models . . . . . . . . . . 338--343
              Thomas Mathew and   
         Kenneth Nordström   An Inequality for a Measure of Deviation
                                  in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--349
          Frederick Wiseman and   
              Sangit Chatterjee   Major League Baseball Player Salaries:
                                  Bringing Realism into Introductory
                                  Statistics Courses . . . . . . . . . . . 350--352
                J. Jack Lee and   
                     Z. Nora Tu   A Versatile One-Dimensional Distribution
                                  Plot: The BLiP Plot  . . . . . . . . . . 353--358
                   Joseph Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 359--359
      Frank E. Harrell, Jr. and   
              Richard Goldstein   A Survey of Microcomputer Survival
                                  Analysis Software: The Need for an
                                  Integrated Framework . . . . . . . . . . 360--373
           Enrique Del Castillo   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 374--374
                  Karen Kafadar   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 374--375
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  374
                  Joan Garfield   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 375--375
                      Anonymous   1997 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 376--377
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 378--380
                      Anonymous   Index to Volume 51 . . . . . . . . . . . 378
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   ??


The American Statistician
Volume 52, Number 1, February, 1998

                  Colin Mallows   The Zeroth Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
            Jeffrey S. Simonoff   Logistic Regression, Categorical
                                  Predictors, and Goodness-of-Fit: It
                                  Depends on Who You Ask . . . . . . . . . 10--14
                Ali S. Hadi and   
                 Robert F. Ling   Some Cautionary Notes on the Use of
                                  Principal Components Regression  . . . . 15--19
                   Lonnie Magee   Nonlocal Behavior in Polynomial
                                  Regressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
                Greg Piepel and   
                  Trish Redgate   A Mixture Experiment Analysis of the
                                  Hald Cement Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
           Katherine K. Wallman   Data on Race and Ethnicity: Revising the
                                  Federal Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--33
          Hon. Thomas C. Sawyer   Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Meeting
                                  Public Policy Goals  . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
                    H. A. David   First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in
                                  Probability and Statistics --- A Second
                                  List, with Corrections . . . . . . . . . 36--40
              A. S. Hedayat and   
            Weining Z. Robieson   Exclusion of an Undesirable Sample from
                                  the Support of a Simple Random Sample    41--43
      G. R. Dargahi-Noubary and   
             Jo Anne S. Growney   Risk --- A Motivating Theme for an
                                  Introductory Statistics Course . . . . . 44--48
                Gunnar Blom and   
           Jan-Eric Englund and   
                 Dennis Sandell   The Mississippi Problem  . . . . . . . . 49--50
              G. W. Bassett and   
                   W. J. Hurley   The Effects of Alternative HOME-AWAY
                                  Sequences in a Best-of-Seven Playoff
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53
           Barry Kurt Moser and   
                Julia K. Sawyer   Algorithms for Sums of Squares and
                                  Covariance Matrices Using Kronecker
                                  Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
             Edward L. Korn and   
              Barry I. Graubard   Scatterplots With Survey Data  . . . . . 58--69
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   68
                   Joseph Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 70--70
               Walter T. Morgan   A Review of Eight Statistics Software
                                  Packages for General Use . . . . . . . . 70--82
                      Anonymous   Statistical Computing Software Reviews   70
                      Anonymous   Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials  80
             Malcolm J. Sherman   Book Review: \booktitleA Probabilistic
                                  Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti
                                  Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
                  Berton Gunter   Book Review: \booktitleVisual
                                  Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and
                                  Deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to
                                  Ross Perot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
                    Roger Hoerl   Book Review: \booktitleThe Pocket
                                  Statistician: a Practical Guide to
                                  Quality Improvement  . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
                William Kastner   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
                                  Quality Control Using the SAS System . . 85--85
              Deborah J. Rumsey   Book Review: \booktitleBusiness
                                  Statistics: Decision Making With Data    85--86
                  Karen Kafadar   Book Review: \booktitleStatistics and
                                  Public Policy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
                   Larry Weldon   Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistics:
                                  Tales of Distributions . . . . . . . . . 86--87
                Karl L. Wuensch   Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
                                  Statistics: An Introduction for the
                                  Social Sciences  . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
                J. Laurie Snell   Book Review: \booktitleAn Electronic
                                  Companion to Statistics (CD-ROM) . . . . 88--88
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 52, Number 2, May, 1998

               J. Stuart Hunter   Cuthbert Daniel: Industrial Statistician 89--92
             Robert E. Kass and   
          Bradley P. Carlin and   
              Andrew Gelman and   
                Radford M. Neal   Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice: A
                                  Roundtable Discussion  . . . . . . . . . 93--100
           Colin R. Goodall and   
              Karen Kafadar and   
                  John W. Tukey   Computing and Using Rural versus Urban
                                  Measures in Statistical Applications . . 101--111
                  David J. Hand   Data Mining: Statistics and More?  . . . 112--118
               Alan Agresti and   
                 Brent A. Coull   Approximate is Better than ``Exact'' for
                                  Interval Estimation of Binomial
                                  Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126
              John Ludbrook and   
                    Hugh Dudley   Why Permutation Tests are Superior to
                                  $t$ and $F$ Tests in Biomedical Research 127--132
            Barry C. Arnold and   
             Robert M. Shavelle   Joint Confidence Sets for the Mean and
                                  Variance of a Normal Distribution  . . . 133--140
              John W. Pratt and   
               Robert Schlaifer   A New Interpretation of the $F$
                                  Statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
             C. Mitchell Dayton   Information Criteria for the
                                  Paired-Comparisons Problem . . . . . . . 144--151
         Karen D. Rappaport and   
             Nouna Kettaneh and   
                    Svante Wold   Perspectives on Implementing Statistical
                                  Modeling and Design (SMD) in an
                                  Industrial/Chemical Environment  . . . . 152--159
              Andrew Gelman and   
              Deborah Nolan and   
                   Anna Men and   
            Steve Warmerdam and   
              Michelle Bautista   Student Projects on Statistical Literacy
                                  and the Media  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--166
                  Andrew Gelman   Some Class-Participation Demonstrations
                                  for Decision Theory and Bayesian
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--174
                  K. L. Q. Read   A Lognormal Approximation for the
                                  Collector's Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 175--180
            Jerry L. Hintze and   
                  Ray D. Nelson   Violin Plots: a Box Plot-Density Trace
                                  Synergism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--184
      A. Pedro Duarte Silva and   
                   Antonie Stam   Nonparametric Two-Group Classification:
                                  Concepts and a SAS-Based Software
                                  Package  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 (or 185--??)
      A. Pedro Duarte Silva and   
                   Antonie Stam   Nonparametric Two-Group Classification:
                                  Concepts and a SAS-Based Software
                                  Package  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197
                  Elizabeth Low   Book Review: \em Understanding Basic
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
                Jonathan Nagler   Book Review: \em Statistical Computing
                                  Environments for Social Research . . . . 198--199
                   Tom Obremski   Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
                                  Management, 7th ed.  . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
         V. A. Samaranayake and   
               Jagdish K. Patel   Book Review: \booktitleModern
                                  Engineering Statistics and Elements of
                                  Engineering Probability and Statistics   199--201
               Marjorie E. Bond   Book Reviews: \em Applied Statistical
                                  Methods for Business, Economics, and the
                                  Social Sciences and \em Statistics for
                                  Managers: Using Microsoft Excel  . . . . 201--202
               Thomas Wonnacott   Book Review: \em The Ultimate Resource 2 202--202
                   V. C. Hombas   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 203--203
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 52, Number 3, August, 1998

             Matthew Strand and   
                     Duane Boes   Statistical Practice --- Modeling Road
                                  Racing Times of Competitive Recreational
                                  Runners Using Extreme Value Theory . . . 205--210
                Robert J. Perry   Statistical Practice --- Estimating
                                  Strength of the Williamsburg Bridge
                                  Suspension Cables  . . . . . . . . . . . 211--217
             Dennis D. Boos and   
    Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver   Applications of Basu's Theorem . . . . . 218--221
                       Tue Tjur   Nonlinear Regression, Quasi Likelihood,
                                  and Overdispersion in Generalized Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--227
             Paul D. Berger and   
                  Chen Wang and   
               James P. Monahan   Quantifying a Statistical Aspect of
                                  Segmented Selection/Quota Systems  . . . 228--232
          Russell R. Barton and   
                Craig A. Nowack   A One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
                                  Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
                                  for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 233--238
          Sòren Bisgaard   Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
                                  One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
                                  Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
                                  for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 238--239
               Veronica Czitrom   Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
                                  One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
                                  Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
                                  for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 240--240
               John D. Spurrier   Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
                                  One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
                                  Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
                                  for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 241--241
               Stephen Vardeman   Teacher's Corner --- Discussion --- A
                                  One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
                                  Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
                                  for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 242--242
                      Anonymous   [A One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
                                  Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
                                  for Engineering Students]: Reply . . . . 243--243
                      Anonymous   Teacher's Corner --- Reply --- A
                                  One-Semester, Laboratory-Based,
                                  Quality-Oriented Statistics Curriculum
                                  for Engineering Students . . . . . . . . 243
               Richard A. Stone   The Blind Paper Cutter: Teaching About
                                  Variation, Bias, Stability, and Process
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--247
        Michael A. Proschan and   
                 Brett Presnell   Expect the Unexpected From Conditional
                                  Expectation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--252
                   Alan Madgett   Some Uses for Distribution-Fitting
                                  Software in Teaching Statistics  . . . . 253--256
            R. Webster West and   
              R. Todd Ogden and   
                  A. J. Rossini   Statistical Tools on the World Wide Web  257--262
                   Gary Tietjen   Recursive Schemes for Calculating Common
                                  Cumulative Distributions . . . . . . . . 263--265
                   Joseph Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 266--266
                      Anonymous   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 266
                Robert A. Oster   An Examination of Five Statistical
                                  Software Packages for Epidemiology . . . 267--280
                  Marlene Smith   Book Reviews: \em Basic Business
                                  Statistics: A Casebook and \em Business
                                  Analysis Using Regression: a Casebook    281--281
              Bernadette Russek   Book Review: \em The Assessment
                                  Challenge in Statistics Education  . . . 281--282
                Thomas H. Short   Book Review: \em Elementary Bayesian
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
              Robert N. Goldman   Book Review: \em Interactive Statistics:
                                  Preliminary Edition  . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
                William C. Parr   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 283--284
                William C. Parr   Book Review: \em Practical Guide to
                                  Experimental Design  . . . . . . . . . . 283
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 284--285
         Carolyn Pillers Dobler   Book Reviews: \em Modern Elementary
                                  Statistics (9th ed.), \em A First Course
                                  in Statistics (6th ed.)  . . . . . . . . 284
               John C. Nash and   
                    Chris Olsen   Book Review: \em The Texas Instruments
                                  TI-83 Graphing Calculator  . . . . . . . 285--287
                 James Landwehr   The American Statistician Editor's
                                  Report for 1997  . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
                      Anonymous   The American Statistician Editor's
                                  Report for 1997  . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 52, Number 4, November, 1998

                 Boris Iglewicz   Selected Information on the Statistics
                                  Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--294
            Carolyn Shettle and   
                Catherine Gaddy   The Labor Market for Statisticians and
                                  Other Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--302
            David L. DeMets and   
             Robert Woolson and   
              Curtis Brooks and   
                       Roger Qu   Where the Jobs Are: a Study of
                                  \booktitleAmstat News Job Advertisements 303--307
        Don O. Loftsgaarden and   
                 Ann E. Watkins   Statistics Teaching in Colleges and
                                  Universities: Courses, Instructors, and
                                  Degrees in Fall 1995 . . . . . . . . . . 308--314
                 John A. Nelder   The Selection of Terms in
                                  Response-Surface Models: How Strong is
                                  the Weak-Heredity Principle? . . . . . . 315--318
                  Lynne Billard   The Role of Statistics and the
                                  Statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--324
          Richard A. Groeneveld   A Class of Quantile Measures for
                                  Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--329
            William C. Parr and   
               Marlene A. Smith   Developing Case-Based Business
                                  Statistics Courses . . . . . . . . . . . 330--337
            C. M. Anderson-Cook   Designing a First Experiment: a Project
                                  for Design of Experiment Courses . . . . 338--342
                Roger B. Nelsen   Correlation, Regression Lines, and
                                  Moments of Inertia . . . . . . . . . . . 343--345
             Donald R. Barr and   
        Maj. Andrew G. Glen and   
                 Harvey F. Graf   The ``Straightforward'' Nature of
                                  Arrival Rate Estimation? . . . . . . . . 346--350
                    H. A. David   Stronger Opposition May Make It Easier
                                  to Win . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--353
             James G. Booth and   
                 Somnath Sarkar   Monte Carlo Approximation of Bootstrap
                                  Variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--357
               B. D. McCullough   Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
                                  Software: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--366
                B. D. McCulloch   Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
                                  Software: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
                  Ann R. Cannon   Book Review: \em Understanding Data:
                                  Principles and Practice of Statistics    367--367
         Becki Bucher Bartelson   Book Review: \em Workshop Statistics:
                                  Discovery with Data and the Graphing
                                  Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
              Bruce E. Ankenman   Book Review: \em Introduction to the
                                  Design and Analysis of Experiments . . . 368--368
               Russell V. Lenth   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 368--369
                 John W. Cotton   Book Review: \em Analyzing
                                  Within-Subjects Experiments  . . . . . . 368
                      Anonymous   Correction: Reviews of Books and
                                  Teaching Materials . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
                      Anonymous   Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
             Dave P. Miller and   
                  Doug Oman and   
        Jeffrey S. Simonoff and   
          Carles M. Cuadras and   
                Ali S. Hadi and   
             Robert F. Ling and   
                    H. A. David   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 370--371
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 370
                      Anonymous   1998 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 372--373
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 374--376
                      Anonymous   Index to Volume 52 . . . . . . . . . . . 374
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


The American Statistician
Volume 53, Number 1, February, 1999

               James J. Higgins   Nonmathematical Statistics: a New
                                  Direction for the Undergraduate
                                  Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
                 Robert V. Hogg   Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics Programs 7--14
               H. Joseph Newton   [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
                                  Programs]: Discussion  . . . . . . . . . 15--16
                 George W. Cobb   [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
                                  Programs]: Discussion  . . . . . . . . . 16--21
                 George W. Cobb   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
                   G. Rex Bryce   [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
                                  Programs]: Discussion  . . . . . . . . . 21--23
                   G. Rex Bryce   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
          Richard A. Groeneveld   [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
                                  Programs]: Discussion  . . . . . . . . . 23--25
          Richard A. Groeneveld   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
               James J. Higgins   [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
                                  Programs]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
               James J. Higgins   Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
                 Robert V. Hogg   [Let's Use CQI in Our Statistics
                                  Programs]: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
                 Robert V. Hogg   Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
             R. Dennis Cook and   
               Sanford Weisberg   Graphs in Statistical Analysis: Is the
                                  Medium the Message?  . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
                  Steve Verrill   When Good Confidence Intervals Go Bad:
                                  Predictor Sort Experiments and ANOVA . . 38--42
                  Young H. Chun   On the Information Economics Approach to
                                  the Generalized Game Show Problem  . . . 43--51
            Dhammika Amaratunga   Searching for the Right Sample Size  . . 52--55
               Jess S. Boronico   Multi-Tiered Playoffs and Their Impact
                                  on Professional Baseball . . . . . . . . 56--61
                Bruce Levin and   
                       Xun Chen   Is the One-Half Continuity Correction
                                  Used Once or Twice to Derive a
                                  Well-Known Approximate Sample Size
                                  Formula to Compare Two Independent
                                  Binomial Distributions?  . . . . . . . . 62--66
             Jose Luis Palacios   The Ruin Problem via Electric Networks   67--70
                  A. Ian McLeod   Necessary and Sufficient Condition for
                                  Nonsingular Fisher Information Matrix in
                                  ARMA and Fractional ARIMA Models . . . . 71--72
                  John Chambers   Computing With Data: Concepts and
                                  Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--84
                     Jon Maatta   Book Review: \em ActivStats 2.0 and \em
                                  The Active Practice of Statistics  . . . 85--86
               Robert W. Hayden   Book Review: \em Introduction to
                                  Statistical Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . 86--86
              Karen Kafadar and   
               James R. Koehler   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 86--87
              Karen Kafadar and   
               James R. Koehler   Book Review: \em Modern Applied
                                  Statistics with S-Plus, 2nd edition  . . 86
                 David W. Macky   Book Review: \em A Course in
                                  Mathematical Statistics, 2nd edition . . 87--87
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 53, Number 2, May, 1999

                 Brian L. Wiens   When Log-Normal and Gamma Models Give
                                  Different Results: a Case Study  . . . . 89--93
                Tyler Smith and   
             Neil C. Schwertman   Can the NCAA Basketball Tournament
                                  Seeding be Used to Predict Margin of
                                  Victory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--98
                    M. C. Jones   Distributional Relationships Arising
                                  From Simple Trigonometric Formulas . . . 99--102
               Alan J. Salzberg   Removable Selection Bias in
                                  Quasi-Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . 103--107
          Richard J. Bolton and   
           Wojtek J. Krzanowski   A Characterization of Principal
                                  Components for Projection Pursuit  . . . 108--109
          Geert Molenberghs and   
      Els J. T. Goetghebeur and   
          Stuart R. Lipsitz and   
             Michael G. Kenward   Nonrandom Missingness in Categorical
                                  Data: Strengths and Limitations  . . . . 110--118
             Michael Lavine and   
              Mark J. Schervish   Bayes Factors: What They Are and What
                                  They Are Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--122
          Nicolas W. Hengartner   A Note on Maximum Likelihood Estimation  123--125
               Veronica Czitrom   One-Factor-at-a-Time Versus Designed
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--131
            Jon E. Anderson and   
                Engin A. Sungur   Community Service Statistics Projects    132--136
                  Peter K. Dunn   Three Tools for Interactively
                                  Visualizing Some Distribution Theory
                                  Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139
              Galit Shmueli and   
                    Ayala Cohen   Analysis and Display of Hierarchical
                                  Life-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--146
                   Joseph Hilbe   Section Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . 147--148
               B. D. McCullough   Assessing the Reliability of Statistical
                                  Software: Part II  . . . . . . . . . . . 149--159
         Nicholas J. Horton and   
              Stuart R. Lipsitz   Review of Software to Fit Generalized
                                  Estimating Equation Regression Models    160--169
                  Karen Kafadar   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 170--170
                John P. Holcomb   Book Reviews: \booktitleApplied
                                  Regression Analysis, 3rd edition and
                                  \booktitleApplied Regression Analysis: A
                                  Research Tool, 2nd edition . . . . . . . 170--171
               James J. Higgins   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 170
                  Karen Kafadar   Book Review: \em Statistics: Concepts
                                  and Controversies, 4th edition . . . . . 170--170
   Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka   Book Review: \em Against the Gods: The
                                  Remarkable Story of Risk . . . . . . . . 171--171
         Becki Bucher Bartelson   Book Review: \em Probability Without
                                  Equations: Concepts for Clinicians . . . 171--172
               Xiao-Li Meng and   
            Willard C. Losinger   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 173--174
                     M. P. Wand   Correction: Data-Based Choice of
                                  Histogram Bin Width  . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
              James M. Landwehr   The American Statistician, Editor's
                                  Report for 1998  . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
                      Anonymous   Editor's Report for 1998 . . . . . . . . 175
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 53, Number 3, August, 1999

              William DuMouchel   Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
                                  Tables, With an Application to the FDA
                                  Spontaneous Reporting System . . . . . . 177--190
          Robert T. O'Neill and   
                   Ana Szarfman   [Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
                                  Tables, with an Application to the FDA
                                  Spontaneous Reporting System]:
                                  Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--196
            Thomas A. Louis and   
                       Wei Shen   [Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
                                  Tables, with an Application to the FDA
                                  Spontaneous Reporting System]:
                                  Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198
                  David Madigan   [Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
                                  Tables, with an Application to the FDA
                                  Spontaneous Reporting System]:
                                  Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--200
              William DuMouchel   [Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency
                                  Tables, with an Application to the FDA
                                  Spontaneous Reporting System]: Reply . . 201--202
                      Anonymous   Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
               Gary C. McDonald   Shaping Statistics for Success in the
                                  21st Century: The Needs of Industry  . . 203--207
             Gerald J. Hahn and   
            William J. Hill and   
             Roger W. Hoerl and   
            Stephen A. Zinkgraf   The Impact of Six Sigma Improvement---A
                                  Glimpse Into the Future of Statistics    208--215
         Constantino Goutis and   
                 George Casella   Explaining the Saddlepoint Approximation 216--224
                  S. Huzurbazar   Practical Saddlepoint Approximations . . 225--232
            Richard Tweedie and   
               Kerrie Mengersen   Calculating Accuracy Rates From Multiple
                                  Assessors With Limited Information . . . 233--238
        James G. Kuczmarski and   
              Paul R. Rosenbaum   Quantile Plots, Partial Orders, and
                                  Financial Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--246
            Robert H. Lyles and   
             Lawrence L. Kupper   A Note on Confidence Interval Estimation
                                  in Measurement Error Adjustment  . . . . 247--253
              J. N. S. Matthews   Effect of Prior Specification on
                                  Bayesian Design for Two-Sample
                                  Comparison of a Binary Outcome . . . . . 254--256
          Sangit Chatterjee and   
              Mustafa R. Yilmaz   The NBA as an Evolving Multivariate
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--262
             Stephen M. Stigler   The Foundations of Statistics at
                                  Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--266
              Yadolah Dodge and   
               Valentin Rousson   The Complications of the Fourth Central
                                  Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
                     Chi Au and   
                       Judy Tam   Transforming Variables Using the Dirac
                                  Generalized Function . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
            Michael F. Driscoll   An Improved Result Relating Quadratic
                                  Forms and Chi-Square Distributions . . . 273--275
               Leland Wilkinson   Dot Plots  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--281
              Xiao-Hua Zhou and   
         Anthony J. Perkins and   
                     Siu L. Hui   Comparisons of Software Packages for
                                  Generalized Linear Multilevel Models . . 282--290
             Douglas M. Andrews   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
                                  Reasoning and Methods  . . . . . . . . . 291--291
              Deborah J. Rumsey   Book Review: \booktitleExploring
                                  Statistics: a Modern Introduction to
                                  Data Analysis and Inference  . . . . . . 291--292
                 Richard Cleary   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 292--292
               Roger W. Johnson   Book Review: \booktitleApplied
                                  Regression Analysis and Multivariable
                                  Methods, 3rd edition . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
                 Richard Cleary   Statistical Methods for Engineers  . . . 292
                   Clay Helberg   Book Review: \booktitleFinding
                                  Statistics Online: How to Locate the
                                  Elusive Numbers You Need . . . . . . . . 293--294
            William P. Peterson   Book Review: \booktitleInterpreting
                                  Basic Statistics: a Guide and Workbook
                                  Based on Excerpts from Journal Articles  294--294
               Ken Muranaka and   
           Norman R. Draper and   
                Dennis Cook and   
               Sanford Weisberg   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 295--296
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

The American Statistician
Volume 53, Number 4, November, 1999

              James M. Landwehr   Editor's Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
              Traci Clemons and   
                Marcello Pagano   Are Babies Normal? . . . . . . . . . . . 298--302
             Rafe M. J. Donahue   A Note on Information Seldom Reported
                                  Via the $P$ Value  . . . . . . . . . . . 303--306
           Rosemary Roberts and   
          Richard Scheaffer and   
                    Ann Watkins   Advanced Placement Statistics---Past,
                                  Present, and Future  . . . . . . . . . . 307--320
                  Abraham Okolo   The Nigerian Census: Problems and
                                  Prospects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--325
          Harold Sackrowitz and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   $P$ Values as Random
                                  Variables---Expected $P$ Values  . . . . 326--331
            P. David Wilson and   
            Patricia Langenberg   Usual and Shortest Confidence Intervals
                                  on Odds Ratios From Logistic Regression  332--335
               Shiva Gautam and   
               George Kimeldorf   Some Results on the Maximal Correlation
                                  in $ 2 \times k $ Contingency Tables . . 336--341
         Askar H. Choudhury and   
              Robert Hubata and   
            Robert D. St. Louis   Understanding Time-Series Regression
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--348
            Jyh-Cherng Jong and   
                    Samuel Kotz   On a Relation Between Principal
                                  Components and Regression Analysis . . . 349--351
                 Daniel T. Voss   Resolving the Mixed Models Controversy   352--356
             Donald R. Barr and   
               E. Todd Sherrill   Mean and Variance of Truncated Normal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--361
               Alan M. Polansky   Upper Bounds on the True Coverage of
                                  Bootstrap Percentile Type Confidence
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--369
                   D. Nolan and   
                    T. P. Speed   Teaching Statistics Theory Through
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--375
                Kevin Hayes and   
                   John Haslett   Simplifying General Least Squares  . . . 376--381
         Peter J. Rousseeuw and   
                   Ida Ruts and   
                  John W. Tukey   The Bagplot: a Bivariate Boxplot . . . . 382--387
                 Richard Cleary   Book Review: \booktitle[untitled]  . . . 388--389
                 Richard Cleary   Book review: \em Workshop Statistics:
                                  Discovery with Data and Minitab, Data
                                  Analysis with Microsoft Excel, and
                                  Statistical Laboratory Exercises Using
                                  Excel: A Guide to Understanding Data . . 388
                   Sue B. Schou   Book review: \booktitleData, Statistics,
                                  and Decision Models with Excel . . . . . 389--389
                Elliot A. Tanis   Book review: \em Maple V Student
                                  Version: Release 5 . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392
              Richard Goldstein   Book review: \em Statistics with Stata 5 392--392
                      Anonymous   Correction: Letters to the Editor  . . . 393--393
           Gary C. McDonald and   
                    M. C. Jones   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 393--393
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 393
                      Anonymous   1999 Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . 394--395
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
                      Anonymous   Index of Volume 53 . . . . . . . . . . . 396
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??