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Editors In Memoriam: Walter Kaufmann Buhler . . 8--8
Howard Wainer and
David Thissen Plotting in the Modern World: Statistics
Packages and Good Graphics . . . . . . . 10--20
Albert Madansky The Gentleman Tasting Pastrami . . . . . 22--26
Peter A. Bounpane and
Thomas A. Jones Automation of the 1990 U.S. Census . . . 28--35
William J. Hill and
William G. Hunter Statistics: A Road to the Future ---
Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Charles G. Pfeifer and
Donald W. Marquardt and
Ronald D. Snee Statistics: A Road to the Future --- A
Time for Change . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
Gary C. McDonald Statistics: A Road to the Future ---
Communicating With Management . . . . . 42--44
Joseph W. Duncan Statistics: A Road to the Future ---
Government Economic Statistics . . . . . 45, 52
Brian L. Joiner Statistics: A Road to the Future ---
Let's Change How We Teach Statistics . . 53--54
Mervyn Stone Quetelet and the Poetry of Statistical
Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--17
David Alan Grier Supercomputers and Monte Carlo
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--28
Marc Moore Predicting Iceberg Trajectories . . . . 30--36
Frank Proschan Investigation of Latin Squares . . . . . 37--41
Tore Dalenius The Debate on Privacy and Surveys in
Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
Nancy R. Mann Why It Happened in Japan and Not in the
U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--15
Otis Dudley Duncan Some Ancient Anticipations of
Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
David Streitfeld Shere Hite and the Trouble with Numbers 26--31
Norman Cliff A Model-Based Analysis . . . . . . . . . 32--36
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Data Reduction and Prior Knowledge . . . 37--42
John D. Emerson and
David C. Hoaglin and
John W. Tukey and
George Y. Wong Exploring Some Adverb--Adjective Data 42--48
Judith M. Tanur Comment on Adverb--Adjective Analyses 48--50
Belizaire Way Down Yonder in New Orleans . . . . . 52--54
William DuMouchel RS/Explore: The Electronic Data Analysis
Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--22
Joel B. Greenhouse and
Samuel W. Greenhouse An Aspirin a Day \ldots? . . . . . . . . 24--31
Stephen E. Fienberg and
Samuel Krislov and
Miron L. Straf Statistics, Expert Witnesses, and the
Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Edward B. Fiske Standardized Test Scores: Voodoo
Statistics for the Nation . . . . . . . 38--39
David C. Hoaglin Transformations in Everyday Experience 40--45
Robert A. Frosch Taking Chances in Industry and in
Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Amos Tversky and
Gilovich Thomas The Cold Facts About the `Hot Hand' in
Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
Forrest W. Young Visualizing Six-Dimensional Structure
With Dynamic Statistical Graphics . . . 22--30
Jane F. Gentleman A Useful Classification System for
Statistical Presentations and Conference
Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin The Case of the Purloined Notices &
Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 54
Albert Shanker What's Wrong With This Picture? Lies,
Damned Lies, and Statistics . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous \booktitleChance Musings . . . . . . . . 4--7
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 8--8
Michael A. Stoto Opinion: Statistics for the AIDS
Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Stephen Jay Gould The Streak of Streaks . . . . . . . . . 10--16
Marc A. Berger Images Generated by Orbits of $2$-D
Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--28
Watts S. Humphrey Statistically Managing the Software
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--39
Jonathan Berkowitz Statistical Acrostic . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Robert P. Abelson A Bayesball Problem . . . . . . . . . . 41--43
Belizaire A Capital Place for Dining . . . . . . . 44--46
Katherine K. Wallman and
Vincent P. Barabba Window on Washington: Relevant Federal
Statistics and the Public Interest . . . 47--49
Alan Paller Visual Revelations: A Short Cut to
Becoming a Competent Speaker: Part 1 . . 50--51
Mark J. Schervish Personal Crunching: Statgraphics . . . . 53--58
Naomi Vaisrub Statistical Whigmaleeries: Can These
Data Be Saved? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Opinion Surveys . . 64--64
William B. Fairley and
Alan J. Izenman Welfare Quality Control Programs: How
Much Is Misspent by the Welfare System? 10--17
Robert L. Mason Celebrating 150 Years of Statistics in
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? . . . . . . 23--25
Janet L. Norwood The Employment Situation: How Do We Know
About It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
Margaret L. Smykla The Steroid Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . 30--35
Tony Hoffman The Search for the Ultimate Baseball
Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39
Andrew R. Solow Is It Getting Stuffy in Here, Or Is It
Just My Imagination? . . . . . . . . . . 40--46
Anonymous \booktitleChance Musings . . . . . . . . 3--6
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Stephen E. Fienberg Opinion: Science and the Popular Press:
From 60 Hertz Electrical and Magnetic
Fields to the Cholesterol Myth . . . . . 8--8
Paul Minton Music by Design: A Sesquicentennial
Statistics Songbook . . . . . . . . . . 9--11
M. Granger Morgan Electric and Magnetic Fields from 60 Hz
Electric Power: Possible Health Risks? 12--20, 37
Patrick D. Larkey and
Richard A. Smith and
Joseph B. Kadane It's Okay to Believe in the ``Hot Hand'' 22--30
Amos Tversky and
Thomas Gilovich The ``Hot Hand'': Statistical Reality or
Cognitive Illusion? . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
Robert Hooke Basketball, Baseball, and the Null
Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
Henry Porter Profile: A Decision Analyst Reflects on
His Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Katherine K. Wallman Window on Washington: Federal
Statistical Policy: Will Reauthorization
Bring Renewal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
Naomi Vaisrub Statistical Whigmaleeries: Statistical
Savvy vs. Marital Harmony . . . . . . . 45--47
Alan Paller Visual Revelations: A Short Cut to
Becoming a Competent Speaker: Part 2 . . 46--47
Mark J. Schervish Personal Crunching: Data Desk
Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--52
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Popular Statistics 56--56
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Editors A Memoriam: Morris H. DeGroot:
1931--1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Margo Anderson ``According to Their Respective
Numbers\ldots'' for the Twenty-First
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--18
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? An Interim
Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--21
George Barnard Fisher: A Retrospective . . . . . . . . 22--28
D. V. Lindley Fisher: a retrospective . . . . . . . . 31--32
Editors Comments from Selected Statisticians on
Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
Arnold Zellner Trygve Haalvelmo, 1989 Nobel Laureate in
Economic Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--35
Jonathan Fuerbringer A Rusty Statistical Compass for U.S.
Policy Mappers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38, 56
Belizaire 47th Session of the ISI: Gastronomie et
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
Arnold Barnett Air Safety: End of the Golden Age? . . . 8--12
Edwin D. Goldfield What We Expect to Learn from the 1990
Decennial Census . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--19
Tony Hoffman Chatting with Extraterrestrials --- What
Are the Odds? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--31
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? Back to
Court Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Andrew W. Spisak Modeling the 1988 Presidential Election 36--41
William F. Eddy Hardware Review: The DECstation 3100 ---
UNIX for Power Users . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
Belizaire The Statistical Pleasures of California
Cabernets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--50
Anonymous \booktitleChance Musings . . . . . . . . 3--5
Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Seymour Geisser Opinion: Some Remarks on DNA
Fingerprinting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Philip J. Boland and
Michael Proschan The Use of Statistical Evidence in
Allegations of Exam Cheating . . . . . . 10--14
Donald A. Berry DNA Fingerprinting: What Does It Prove? 15--25, 36
Joel E. Cohen DNA Fingerprinting: What (Really) Are
the Odds? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--32
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? Back to
Court Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? The Judge
Rules and the PES Begins . . . . . . . . 33--36
Anonymous Sir David R. Cox Wins Kettering Prize 37--37
J. A. Hartigan Adjustments of Minority Group Test
Scores Used in Employment Referrals . . 38--44
Katherine K. Wallman and
George T. Duncan and
Virginia A. de Wolf Window on Washington: The Federal
Statistical System Amidst the Rising
Tension between Privacy and Data Access 45--48
Alan Paller Visual Revelations: Questions Every EIS
Implementor Should be Able to Answer . . 49--56
Naomi Vaisrub Statistical Whigmaleeries: Amateur Hour 52--56
Mark J. Schervish Personal Crunching . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--61
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Shlepping
Statisticians to Siberia . . . . . . . . 62--63
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ron Brookmeyer and
Mitchell H. Gail A Statistical History of the AIDS
Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--14
David Bellhouse A Bayesian Busman's Holiday . . . . . . 15--17, 47
Solomon Dutka and
Lester R. Frankel Misuses and Abuses of Statistical
Techniques in Market Research Surveys 18--23
Patrick D. Larkey Fair Bets on Winners in Professional
Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Paul Meier The Experimental Evaluation of Relative
Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
Lester B. Lave Does the Surgeon-General Need a
Statistics Advisor? . . . . . . . . . . 33--40
James H. Ware The Role of Epidemiology in the
Assessment of Societal Risk: A
Statistician's Perspective . . . . . . . 41--46
Andrew Cherlin Will Single Women Ever Marry? The
Strange Career of a Statistical
Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Christian T. L. Janssen and
Robert W. Schutz The Great Gretzky . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
Julian L. Simon and
Peter C. Bruce Resampling: A Tool for Everyday
Statistical Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
Satish Iyengar Much Ado About Meta-Analysis . . . . . . 33--40
Peter J. Rousseeuw Why the Wrong Papers Get Published . . . 41--43
M. H. DeGroot and
B. Natvig Bayesians in the Night . . . . . . . . . 45--45
William G. McCown and
Judith Johnson and
Z. Harry Galina Last Chance: Statistics and Cognitive
Psychotherapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Eduardo Engel and
Achilles Venetoulias Monty Hall's Probability Puzzle . . . . 6--9
D. V. Lindley Sir Harold Jeffreys . . . . . . . . . . 10--14, 21
Bruce A. Bolt Sir Harold Jeffreys and Geophysical
Inverse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Vasant S. Huzurbazar Sir Harold Jeffreys: Recollections of a
Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--21
Lady Jeffreys Harold Jeffreys: Some Reminiscences . . 22--23, 26
Leon Knopoff Sir Harold Jeffreys: The Earth: Its
Origin, History, and Physical
Constitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
John C. Bailar III Scientific Inferences and Environmental
Health Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--38
M. A. Grove Survival on the Bestseller List . . . . 39--45
Ronald Forthofer Streak Shooter --- the Sequel . . . . . 46--48
Ward Elliott and
Robert Valenza Who Was Shakespeare? . . . . . . . . . . 8--14
K. O. Bowman and
T. H. Hopp and
R. N. Kacker and
R. J. Lundegard Statistical Quality Control Technology
in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--21
Dan Kadell and
Donald Ylvisaker Lotto Play: The Good, the Fair, and the
Truly Awful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25, 57
David A. Young and
R. W. Hoyer and
Colin Mallows and
Miriam D. Rosenthal Poetry for Statisticians . . . . . . . . 26--28
David Alan Grier Statistics and the Introduction of
Digital Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 30--36
Sangit Chatterjee and
Mustafa Yilmaz Parity in Baseball: Stability of
Evolving Systems? . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? Commerce
Says `No' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--52
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--6
William F. Eddy and
Stephen E. Fienberg Letter from the Editors . . . . . . . . 7--7
Scott Berry The Summer of '41: A Probabilistic
Analysis of DiMaggio's `Streak' and
Williams's Average of $ .406 $ . . . . . 8--11
William F. Eddy and
Lawrence H. Cox The Quality of Statistical Software:
Controversy in the Statistical Software
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--18
Ian W. Evett and
Bruce S. Weir Flawed Reasoning in Court . . . . . . . 19--21
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? A Full-scale
Judicial Review Approaches . . . . . . . 22--24, 29
Anne Boomsma and
Ivo W. Molenaar Resampling with More Care . . . . . . . 25--29
Julian L. Simon and
Peter C. Bruce Reply to Boomsma and Molenaar . . . . . 30--40
W. H. Williams Dispensable Statistics . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Christian T. L. Janssen and
Robert W. Schutz Response to ``Dispensable Statistics'' 33--35
Anonymous A Statistical Return to the Land of True
Gastronomic Pleasures ``Belizaire'' . . 36--40
Belizaire A Statistical Return to the Land of True
Gastronomic Pleasures . . . . . . . . . 36--40
Katherine K. Wallman and
Mary Anne Freedman and
Manning Feinleib Window on Washington: Monitoring the
Nation's Health Objectives for the Year
2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--44
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Elegance, Grace,
Impact, and Graphical Displays . . . . . 45--47
Naomi Vaisrub Statistical Whigmaleeries: The Probable
Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Mark J. Schervish Personal Crunching: EasyPlot . . . . . . 50--53
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Statistical
Self-Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--56
Anonymous \booktitleChance Cumulative Index:
Volumes 1--4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Editors Five Hundred Years of Scrutinity . . . . 36--37, 39
Editors Pico della Mirandola: A. Philosophical
Forefather of Applied Statistics? . . . 40--42
Charles Safran The Fibonacci Numbers . . . . . . . . . 43--46
Ary L. Goldberger and
Bruce J. West Chaos and Order in the Human Body . . . 47--55
Editors Charles Babbage Describes His
Calculating Engines . . . . . . . . . . 56--62
B. Geller and
Y. Bruk A Portrait of Poisson: A Fish Out of
Water Who Found His Calling . . . . . . 63--67
Valery Vavilov Calculating pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Vladimir Dubrovsky What is pi? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Anonymous Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Trond Haider and
T. H. Wonnacott Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Anonymous \booktitleChance Musings . . . . . . . . 8--11
J. Laurie Snell and
John Finn A Course called ``Chance'' . . . . . . . 12--16
Harris Cooper and
Kristina M. Deneve and
Frederick Mosteller Predicting Professional Sports Game
Outcomes from Intermediate Game Scores 18--22
Stephen P. Klein Statistical Evidence of Cheating on
Multiple-Choice Tests . . . . . . . . . 23--27
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? The Trial 28--38
Sandra A. Geschwind Should Pregnant Women Move? Linking
Risks for Birth Defects with Proximity
to Toxic Waste Sites . . . . . . . . . . 40--45, 86
William G. Fortney and
Steven Hotovy and
Fritz Klein and
Fritz Scholz The Undoing of Maurice G. Kendall . . . 46--48
J. A. Ladwig and
N. C. Schwertman Using Probability and Statistics to
Analyze Tournament Competitions . . . . 49--53
Terry Allen and
Glen Buckner Expanding the Role of the Bar Chart in
Representing Crime Data . . . . . . . . 54--59
Leslie Roberts Science in Court: A Culture Clash . . . 60--66
Katherine K. Wallman Window on Washington: Toward the Year
2000 Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Sense-Lining . . . . 71--72
Lionel Galway On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
Nuts and Bolts: How much can you trust
your hardware? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
Sall C. Morton Personal Crunching: New Advances in
Statistical Dendrology . . . . . . . . . 76--79
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: The Washington
Statistical Scene: The Unofficial Guide 88--70
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Warren J. Mitofsky The State of State Election Polls . . . 9--16
Howard Wainer How Much More Efficiently Can Humans Run
than Swim? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--21
Stephen Ansolabehere and
Thomas R. Belin Poll Faulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27
Mike Royko Blood Test `Results' Already Legendary 28--29
J. H. O'Geran and
H. P. Wynn and
A. A. Zhiglyavsky Mastermind as a Test-Bed for Search
Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--37
Belizaire Toronto: A World Serious City . . . . . 38--40
David A. Jackson and
Neil C. Schwertman and
Jack A. Ladwig Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8
Edward H. Kaplan and
Robert Heimer What Happened to HIV Transmission among
Drug Injectors in New Haven? . . . . . . 9--14
Lee Ratzan L'Homme Moyen (The Canonical Man) . . . 15--16
Bill James and
Jim Albert and
Hal S. Stern Answering Questions about Baseball Using
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--22, 30
Stephen Strauss Statscan Devises a New Math for Counting
Warm Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 49
Peter A. Morrison More than Meets the Eye . . . . . . . . 24--30
William Hurley What Sort of Tournament Should the World
Series Be? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--33
Belizaire A San Francisco Feast . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Frederick Mosteller and
Cleo Youtz Where Eagles Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Katherine K. Wallman Window on Washington: The View Beyond 43--45
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Making Readable
Overhead Displays . . . . . . . . . . . 46--49
Lionel Galway On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
What Good is a Benchmark? . . . . . . . 50--53
John Adams Personal Crunching: I Have Looked at
Clouds from Both Sides Now . . . . . . . 54--58
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Having a Difficult
Time Adjusting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--58
Anonymous Letter to the Editors . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Anonymous The Proportionality Review of New Jersey
Death Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
David Baldus and
George Woodworth Proportionality: The View of the Special
Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--17
Herbert I. Weisberg Proportionality: An Alternative View . . 18--24
Harry V. Roberts Can TQM Improve Athletic Performance? 25--29
Donald G. Morrison and
Manohar U. Kalwani The Best NFL Field Goal Kickers: Are
They Lucky or Good? . . . . . . . . . . 30--37
Stephen P. Klein and
David A. Freedman Ecological Regression in Voting Rights
Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Barbara Everitt Bryant Guest Commentary: Census-Taking for a
Litigious, Data-Driven Society . . . . . 44--49
Katherine K. Wallman and
Stanley Presser Window on Washington: To Enhance and
Enrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Tabular Presentation 52--56
Lionel Galway On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
John von Neumann and the Origin of
Pseudo-Random Number Generators . . . . 57--59
Paul Marsh Personal Crunching: Stanford Graphics 60--65
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: More Journals! . . 72--69
John E. Rolph Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Leigh B. Bienen and
Douglas L. Mills Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 4--9
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
Naomi Vaisrub The Gambler's Tale . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 37
Alan J. Gross Does Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke
Increase Lung Cancer Risk? . . . . . . . 11--14
Howard E. Rockette What Evidence is Needed to Link Lung
Cancer and Second-Hand Smoke? . . . . . 15--18
Daniel D. Reidpath and
Mark R. Diamond and
K. Vijayan Catching Drug Couriers . . . . . . . . . 19--23, 30
John F. Buoncristiani and
David E. Martin Factors affecting Runners' Marathon
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--30
Robert Maccoun Blaming Others to a Fault? . . . . . . . 31--33
Peter Passell Like a New Drug, Social Programs are Put
to the Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36, 57
Denise Woemer Who Really Said it? . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Eugene P. Ericksen and
Teresa K. Defonso Guest Commentary: Beyond the Net
Undercount: How to Measure Census Error 38
Katherine K. Wallman and
Stephen E. Fienberg and
Margaret E. Martin and
Miron L. Straf Window on Washington: Fostering
Interactions between Statisticians in
Academia and Government . . . . . . . . 44--47
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Graphical Answers to
Scientific Questions . . . . . . . . . . 48--50
Lionel Galway On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
Statistics at Stonehenge . . . . . . . . 51--53
Joel B. Greenhouse and
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Anonymous \booktitleChance Cumulative Index:
Volumes 5--6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: The Academiks are
Coming! The Academiks are Coming! . . . 64--63
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Peter A. Lachenbruch and
Thomas R. Belin and
Stephen Ansolabehere and
Dorothy P. Rice and
Stanton A. Glantz Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8
Roland Sturm Do Soviet Nuclear Reactors Outperform
Western Reactors? . . . . . . . . . . . 9--16, 27
Keith Greiner The Baby Boom Generation and How They
Grow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Howard Wainer and
Richard D. De Veaux Resizing Triathlons for Fairness . . . . 20--25
Naomi Vaisrub Guidelines for Statistical Consulting 26--27
David J. Hand Statistical Expert Systems . . . . . . . 28--31, 34
Allan J. Rossman ``Techno-Thriller'' Statistics: Chance
in the Fiction of Michael Crichton . . . 32--34
Thomas J. Plewes Federal Agencies Introduce Redesigned
Current Population Survey . . . . . . . 35--41
Eric Zorn Math Riots Prove Fun Incalculable . . . 42, 61
Katherine K. Wallman and
Richard C. Rockwell Window on Washington: Do You Want to
Reduce the Differential Undercount \em
and Control Costs in the Year 2000
Census? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--45
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Todai Moto Kurashi 46--49
Lionel Galway On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
Computational Experiments and
Exploratory Modeling . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
Paul Marsh Personal Crunching: Origin . . . . . . . 52--57
Michael M. Meyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: International
Statistical Junkets . . . . . . . . . . 64--61
Stephen P. Klein Coping With Catastrophes (and Lesser
Events) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
Jeremy M. G. Taylor Betting Strategies in Final Jeopardy . . 14--19, 27
Richard L. Tweedie and
Kerrie L. Mengerson and
John A. Eccleston Garbage In, Garbage Out: Can
Statisticians Quantify the Effects of
Poor Data? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--27
Christopher T. Edwards Baseball's Earned Run Average: What Kind
of an Average Is It? . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Constance F. Citro and
Eric A. Hanushek Estimating the Effects of Proposed
Legislation: The Case for Model
Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--40
Belizaire Temptations in Toronto: Ethnic
Variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--44
Philip R. Humbaugh and
Betty C. Jung Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--8
Leonard Evans Small Cars, Big Cars: What is the Safety
Difference? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--16
Lawrence D. Brown and
Rebecca D'Amato and
Randy Gertner Racetrack Betting: Do Bettors Understand
the Odds? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--23
Cliff Frohlich Baseball: Pitching No-Hitters . . . . . 24--30
William B. Fairley and
Alan J. Izenman and
A. Rhett Whitlock Bricks, Buildings, and the Bronx:
Estimating Masonry Deterioration . . . . 32--37
Haynes Phillips and
Denise Phillips Wilburn Consistency and Predictability of
Football Results . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--46
Martha Farnsworth Riche and
Jeffrey Passel Window on Washington: Putting
Immigration in Perspective . . . . . . . 47--48
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Visual Aids When
Comparing an Apple to the Stars . . . . 50--53
Lionel Galway On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
E-Books and E-Journals: Why Not? . . . . 54--56
Peter A. Lachenbruch Personal Crunching: Logical Decisions 57--63
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Enhancing
Statistical Performance . . . . . . . . 64--63
Jim Cargal and
Julian L. Simon and
Charles D. Jones and
Eugene P. Ericksen and
Teresa K. Defonso Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8
Donald A. Berry DNA, Statistics, and the Simpson Case 9--12
Robert Matthews Improving the Odds on Justice? . . . . . 13--15
W. Allen Wallis Statistics in Washington, 1935--1945 . . 16--20
K. G. Manton and
Burton Singer What's the Fuss about Compression of
Mortality? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990? Trial
Judgment Set Aside . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Jeff A. Sloan Layperson's Guide to Professional Titles 33--33
Johan Bring and
Kenneth Carling A Paradox in the Ranking of Figure
Skaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
James P. Scanlan Divining Difference . . . . . . . . . . 38--39, 48
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--54
Martha Farnsworth Riche Window on Washington: Readying
Statistics on Families and Children for
Policy-making . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Implicit Graphs . . 44--48
Lionel Galway On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
The Internet --- A User's View . . . . . 49--54
Peter A. Lachenbruch and
Jerry Dallal Personal Crunching: Epi Info Version
5.01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
Anonymous \booktitleChance Cumulative Index:
Volume 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: To read or not to
read? That is, the instructions . . . . 64--59
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Suzann Evinger How Shall We Measure Our Nation's
Diversity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--14
Margo Anderson and
Stephen E. Fienberg Black, White, and Shades of Gray (and
Brown and Yellow) . . . . . . . . . . . 15--18
William Hurley Overtime Shootout: Deciding Ties in
Hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
John C. Bailar III How Statisticians Can Help the News
Media Do a Better Job . . . . . . . . . 24, 26--27
John C. Bailar III How News Media Can Help Statisticians Do
a Better Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 28--29
Karlyn S. Heiner and
Karl W. Heiner Tree Rings in the Northern Shawangunks 30--37
Jay Bennett Cost-Effectiveness in Public Education 38--41
Eric A. Hanushek Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--45
Albyn C. Jones What Do You Get When You Combine a
Pentium and a Research Grant? . . . . . 7--8
William Gould The Pentium Bug and Statistical Software 9--13, 25
Jon F. Merz and
Jonathan P. Caulkins Propensity to Abuse --- Propensity to
Murder? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Dan Horvitz and
Daniel Koshland and
Donald Rubin and
Albert Gollin and
Tom Sawyer and
Judith M. Tanur Pseudo-Opinion Polls: SLOP or Useful
Data? Statistical Cryptic . . . . . . . 16--25
Belizaire Off to Orlando! . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27, 32
Ann E. Watkins The Law of Averages . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
W. D. Kaigh Forecasting Baseball Games . . . . . . . 33--37
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--42
Constance Citro Window on Washington: A U.S.
Administrative Record Census? . . . . . 43--45
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Rose by Another
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Lionel Galway On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
Relations --- Who Needs 'Em? . . . . . . 52--55
Peter A. Lachenbruch Personal Crunching: StatMost Statistical
Analysis and Scientific Graphs . . . . . 56--61
Miron Straf On the Lighter Side: In Re: We Trust . . 64--61
Hal S. Stern Who's Number 1 in College Football?
\ldots And How Might We Decide? . . . . 7--14
James K. Hammitt Can More Information Increase
Uncertainty? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17, 36
Stephen P. Klein and
Robert M. Bell How Will the NCAA's New Standards Affect
Minority Student-Athletes? . . . . . . . 18--21
Jinho Kim and
Hyung Jun Kim The Advantage of Playing First in Go . . 22--26
Bernie Devlin and
Stephen E. Fienberg and
Daniel P. Resnick and
Kathryn Roeder Wringing The Bell Curve: A Cautionary
Tale About the Relationships Among Race,
Genes, and IQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36
David Jackson Tennis in Lilliput: A Fable on Sports
and Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Giles Warrack The Great Streak . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--43, 60
John E. Rolph Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
Orley Ashenfelter and
David Ashmore and
Robert Lalonde Bordeaux Wine Vintage Quality and the
Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--14
Michael Laviolette Fuzzy Logic: Great Hope or Grating Hype? 15--19
Kris Moore and
Jonathan Trower and
Kent Borowick How Birth Order Influences Individual
Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24, 48
John C. Nash and
Mary M. Nash Managing Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--31
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Constance F. Citro and
John Adams and
Audrey Burnam Window on Washington: Federal Block
Grants: What Do Statisticians Have to
Contribute? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Picturing an L.A.
Bus Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48
R. Allan Reese On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
Means What He Says, Says What He Means 49--52
Peter A. Lachenbruch and
Pamela Getson Personal Crunching: BMDP New System for
Windows, Version 1.11, Reviewed by
Pamela Getson, and Survey Pro for
Windows, Version 1.8 . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
Anonymous \booktitleChance Cumulative Index:
Volume 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Miron Straf On the Lighter Side: Statistics Happens 64--52
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
George P. H. Styan Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Glen D. Johnson and
Barry D. Nussbaum and
Ganapati P. Patil and
N. Phillip Ross Designing Cost-Effective Environmental
Sampling Using Concomitant Information 4--11
Howard Wainer and
John W. Durso Visual Revelations: A Nobel Graph . . . 12--16
James T. Bonnen The Politics of Statistical Reform: A
Cautionary Tale, 1978--1980 . . . . . . 17--26
Keith J. Worsley The Geometry of Random Images . . . . . 27--40
Harold Sackrowitz and
David Sackrowitz Time Management in Sports: Ball Control
and other Myths . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
Constance F. Citro and
Janet L. Norwood Window on Washington: The Winds of
Change: Opportunity or Disaster for U.S.
Federal Statistics? . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Graeme D. Ruxton Can the World Wide Web Make Statistics
Textbooks More Fun? . . . . . . . . . . 56--57
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Sufferin'
Succotash! Another ASA Cartoon Meeting! 64--63
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 5--7
Bryan F. J. Manly and
Lyman L. McDonald Sampling Wildlife Populations . . . . . 9--19
Robert Gentleman Personal Crunching: Welcome from the new
``Personal Crunching'' Column Editor . . 20--22
R. Allan Reese On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
SED \em Moveat --- Stream Editing Still
Goes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
Anonymous Coming to Chicago: ``Belizaire'' . . . . 27--33
Anonymous Coming to Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . 27--33
A. David Paltiel and
Aaron A. Stinnett Making Health Policy Decisions: Is Human
Instinct Rational? Is Rational Choice
Human? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--39
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Why Playfair? . . . 43--52
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: Results of CPS
Research on the Measurement of Race and
Ethnicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Jennifer E. Trickett and
Paul M. Sommers Congressional Ways and Statistical Means 57--59
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Statistician:
Measure Thyself . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--63
Margo Anderson and
Stephen E. Fienberg An Adjusted Census in 1990: The Supreme
Court Decides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--9
L. R. Haff The First Four Moves in the Game of Go 10--16
John Emert and
Dale Umbach Inconsistencies of ``Wild-Card'' Poker 17--22
R. Allan Reese On the Edge: Statistics and Computing:
Graphical Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . 23--28
Paul M. Sommers Presidential Candidates Who Measure up 29--32
Paul M. Sommers Stamps of Approval . . . . . . . . . . . 33--37
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Scaling the Heights
(and Widths) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--49
Robert Gentleman Personal Crunching: A Peek at the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--53
Constance F. Citro and
Edward L. Hunter and
Ross Arnett III Window on Washington: Survey
``Reinventing'' at Health and Human
Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: The Virtual
Statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--63
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. Radhakrishna Rao Uncertainty, Statistics, and Creation of
New Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--11
James R. Lackritz Two of Baseball's Great Marks: Can They
Ever Be Broken? . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--18
Ronald D. Fricker, Jr. The Mysterious Case of the Blue M&M's . . 19--22
Chris Gilberg and
Julie L. Cox and
Hidetaro Kashima and
Kurt Eberle Survey Biases: When Does the
Interviewer's Race Matter? . . . . . . . 23--25
Jason J. Cawley and
Paul M. Sommers Voting Irregularities in the 1995
Referendum on Québec Sovereignty . . . . 26--27
Paul M. Sommers Meddling with the 1996 Olympic Results 28--30
David J. Breiter and
Bradley P. Carlin How to Play Office Pools If You Must . . 5--11
Rebecca Dersimonian and
John Clemens Does Vasectomy Cause Prostate Cancer? 12--14
Alan J. Lee Modeling Scores in the Premier League:
Is Manchester United \em Really the
Best? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
Jack Kaplan A Statistical Error in \booktitleThe
Bell Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
George Brooks and
Sangit Chatterjee and
Mustafa R. Yilmaz Who is the Greatest Rebounder of all
Time? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Nico M. van Dijk To Wait or Not to Wait: That is the
Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Ian Spence and
Howard Wainer William Playfair: A Daring Worthless
Fellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Who Was Playfair? 35--37
Hal S. Stern A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Baseball by the Numbers . . . . . . . . 38--41
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Robert Gentleman Personal Crunching: Operating Systems
for PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
R. Allan Reese On the Edge: Statistics & Computing: What
is Data? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: Always a
Bridesmaid, Never a Bride? The Role of
Sampling in the U.S. Decennial Census 53--54
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Lost in Cyberspace 64--48
Donald A. Redelmeier and
Robert J. Tibshirani Is Using a Car Phone like Driving Drunk? 5--9
Alan Agresti and
Larry Winner Evaluating Agreement and Disagreement
among Movie Reviewers . . . . . . . . . 10--14
Shayle R. Searle Selecting High-Producing Farm Animals
--- With Help from Statistics . . . . . 15--18
Willard C. Losinger The Lorenz Curve Applied to Livestock
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Anonymous Anaheim Appetite and Turkish Delight
``Belizaire'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
David Jackson and
Krzysztof Mosurski Heavy Defeats in Tennis: Psychological
Momentum or Random Effect? . . . . . . . 27--34
Hal S. Stern A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Judging Who's Hot and Who's Not . . . . 40--43
Anonymous Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Robert Gentleman Personal Crunching: A Review of BUGS:
Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling 48--51
R. Allan Reese On the Edge: Statistics & Computing: What
Goes down Also Goes up . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: What the Public
Needs to Know about U.S. Federal
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Suzann Evinger Update on OMB's Review of Directive No.
15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Graphical Birth
Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Paul M. Sommers Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 64--63
David R. Bellhouse Il Campanile Statistico: Campanologia et
Ars Combinatoria . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5
David Hemenway The Myth of Millions of Annual
Self-Defense Gun Uses or A Case Study of
Survey Overestimates of Rare Events . . 6--10
Eric T. Bradlow Forbes, Free Popcorn, and Experimental
Design or A Note on Multivariate Testing
in Marketing Research . . . . . . . . . 11--13
Marc N. Elliott NonRANDom Selection of Statisticians? 14--15
Hal S. Stern and
Wade Wilcox A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Shooting Darts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Bill Williams and
David Williams Are Salaries in the National Hockey
League Related to Nationality? . . . . . 20--24
Edward M. Cross and
Edward P. Markowski Secrets of the Lottery Wizard . . . . . 25--32
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--34
Anonymous From the Bookshelf: A Tribute to Johnson
and Kotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Borko D. Jovanovic and
Paul S. Levy and
Jacob A. Brody A Long Line of Dead Men . . . . . . . . 36--39
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Tom's Veggies and
the American Way . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
David A. Ludwig and
Paul M. Sommers Letter to the Editor: Disputing
Discernible Height . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Robert Gentleman Personal Crunching: Statistical
Computing Environments . . . . . . . . . 49--52
Rudy Hung Visually Fitting a
Least-Absolute-Deviation Regression Line 53--52
R. Allan Reese On the Edge: Statistics & Computing: Vote
for Apple Pie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: Maintaining
National Statistics in an Era of
Devolution: The Challenge of Welfare
Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Statistical
Partnering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--63
Stephen L. George Perspectives on Scientific Misconduct
and Fraud in Clinical Trials . . . . . . 3--5
David Harrington The Aftermath of Falsified Data in
Breast Cancer Trials . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Judith Rich O'fallon Reflections on the NSABP Affair . . . . 9--11
Robyn M. Dawes Letter to the Editor: Survey Biases and
Sample Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Nalini Ambady and
Robert Rosenthal Judging Social Behavior Using ``Thin
Slices'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--51
Hal S. Stern A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
How Accurately Can Sports Outcomes Be
Predicted? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--23
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: Recognizing
Diversity: Recommendations to OMB on
Standards for Data on Race and Ethnicity 26--31
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Like a Trout in the
Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Anonymous From the Bookshelf: A \booktitleChance
Holiday Reading List . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Gary Smith Do Statistics Test Scores Regress Toward
the Mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
David Salsburg Digit Preference in the Bible . . . . . 46--48
R. Allan Reese On the Edge: Statistics & Computing: IQ
--- Abnormal Thoughts . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Anonymous \booktitleChance Topical Index: Volumes
1--10 (1988--1997) . . . . . . . . . . . 54--58
Anonymous \booktitleChance Cumulative Index:
Volume 10 (1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Let's Talk Turkey 64--63
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Judith Rich Fallon Reflections on the NSABP Affair . . . . ??
Shayle R. Searle Winning Probabilities of Lotto in the
U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Donald G. Morrison and
David C. Schmittlein It Takes a Hot Goalie to Raise the
Stanley Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
Michael C. Wolfson Window on Ottawa: Welcome to Statistics
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13
James H. Grosjean Beating the Showcase Showdown . . . . . 14--19
Shayle R. Searle Winning Probabilities of Lotto in the
United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--25
Hal S. Stern and
Barbara Mock A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
College Basketball Upsets: Will a $
16$-Seed Ever Beat a $1$-Seed? . . . . . 26--31
Anonymous From the Bookshelf: A \booktitleChance
Holiday Reading List --- Part Two . . . 32--57
David R. Bellhouse Il Campanile Statistico: Literary
Probability and Statistics . . . . . . . 34--37
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Eric T. Bradlow and
Howard Wainer Publication Delays in Statistics
Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Rounding Tables . . 46--50
Constance F. Citro and
Janet L. Norwood Window on Washington: Science and
Politics in Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 51--53
R. Allan Reese On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
What's Normal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Howard Wainer and
Samuel Palmer and
Eric T. Bradlow A Selection of Selection Anomalies . . . 3--7
R. Hugh Morton The Human Body as an Engine . . . . . . 8--12
Maya Bar-Hillel and
Dror Bar-Natan and
Brendan McKay The Torah Codes: Puzzle and Solution . . 13--19
Christopher R. Bilder and
Thomas M. Loughin ``It's Good!'' an Analysis of the
Probability of Success for Placekicks 20--30
W. J. Hurley How Should You Order Players in a
Shoot-Out? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
W. J. Hurley Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--30
Belizaire Virtual Dallas Dining . . . . . . . . . 31--33
Robert Gentleman and
Murray Jorgensen Personal Crunching: Data Mining . . . . 34--42
Ian Westbrooke Simpson's Paradox: An Example in a New
Zealand Survey of Jury Composition . . . 40--42
David R. Bellhouse Il Campanile Statistico: Stochastic
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--45
Hal S. Stern A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Best of Seven Playoff Series . . . . . . 46--49
Constance F. Citro and
David B. McMillen Window on Washington: The Census under
Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: On Time . . . . . . 64--63
Jim Albert The Home-Run Hitting of Mike Schmidt . . 3--11
John F. Jarvis Chance and Intent: A Baseball Paradox 12--19
Hal S. Stern A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Football Strategy: Go for It! . . . . . 20--24
Norma Terrin and
Joseph B. Kadane Counting Cars in a Legal Case Involving
Differential Enforcement . . . . . . . . 25--27
Robert Gentleman Personal Crunching: A Review of Systat
7.0 by SPSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Richard William Farebrother A Genealogy of Charles Darwin, Francis
Galton, and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth . . 31--33
Jonas Andersson and
Kenneth Carling and
Stefan Mattson Random Ranking of Hospitals is Unsound 34--39
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: Model-Based
Small-Area Estimates: The Next Major
Advance for the Federal Statistical
System for the 21st Century . . . . . . 40--50
Michael C. Wolfson Window on Ottawa: Statistics, Taxes, and
PIPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--46
David R. Bellhouse Il Campanile Statistico: A Random Walk
into Marxist--Leninist Probability and
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--50
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 51--58
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
George P. H. Styan Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Martin Theus and
Robert Erber How to Survive the Thirty Years' War:
Analyzing Historical Data of the City of
Augsburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--10
Evelyn Matheson Styan Chance in Aristotle's \em Physics . . . 11--16
Hal S. Stern A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
How Accurate are the Posted Odds? . . . 17--21
Bryan F. J. Manly and
Richard Thomson How to Catch a Thief . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Tim Thornton Measuring Hockey's Special Teams
Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--38
David R. Bellhouse Il Campanile Statistico: Lotto Mania . . 35--38
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: The Graphical
Inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: Two
Precursors to William Playfair . . . . . 39--41
Robert Gentleman Personal Crunching: Review of S-PLUS 4.5 42--45
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Anonymous From the Bookshelf . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 47--53
Anonymous \booktitleChance Cumulative Index:
Volume 11 (1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Anonymous Letter from the Executive Editor . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9
Brad Warner and
Jim Rutledge Checking the Chips Ahoy! Guarantee . . . 10--14
Hal Stern The Man Who Makes the Odds: An Interview
with ``Roxy'' Roxborough . . . . . . . . 15--21
Peter Ullrich An Eulerian Square before Euler and an
Experimental Design before R. A. Fisher:
On the Early History of Latin Squares 22--27
Richard William Farebrother A Brief History of the British National
Lottery 1567--1826 . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
Kevin J. Hastings Building a Baseball Simulation Game . . 32--37
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: Five Years Later
--- Reflections from inside the Federal
Statistical System . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Puzzle Solved? . . 42--43
Duncan J. Murdoch On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
What's Java? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
David R. Bellhouse Il Campanile Statistico: What I Did on
My Summer Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . 48--50
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Does ``The Zone'' Exist for Home-Run
Hitters? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
Miron L. Straf On the Lighter Side: Garbology . . . . . 64--63
Anonymous Letter to the Editor: On Winning College
Basketball Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--11
Alfred Blumstein and
Jeff Benedict Criminal Violence of NFL Players
Compared to the General Population . . . 12--15
Orley Ashenfelter and
Richard Quandt Analyzing a Wine Tasting Statistically 16--20
Bradley P. Carlin and
Hal S. Stern Designing a College Football Playoff
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
Theodore P. Hill The Difficulty of Faking Data . . . . . 27--31
Joseph B. Kadane An Allegation of Examination Copying . . 32--36
Fikri Akdeniz and
Doggan Dönmez The History of Statistics in the Ottoman
Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39
Constance F. Citro and
James D. Fitzsimmons Window on Washington: Reviewing the
Metropolitan Area Standards . . . . . . 40--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Scaling the Market 43--44
Duncan J. Murdoch and
Angela L. Jonkhans On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
ActivStats 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
David R. Bellhouse Il Campanile Statistico 2001: A Bayes
Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--50
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages: A
Geometry Model for NFL Field Goal
Kickers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
Hal Stern The Reader Speaks Out An Honest
Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews: From the Bookshelf . . . . 9--10
Tommy Wright and
Howard Hogan Census 2000: Evolution of the Revised
Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--19
David E. Martin and
John F. Buoncristiani The Effects of Temperature on Marathon
Runners' Performance . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Alan P. Ker and
Barry K. Goodwin Statistics and the U.S. Crop Insurance
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--30
Samuel Kotz and
Norman L. Johnson Lifelengths of ``Leading Personalities''
in Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
Paul R. Murrell The Statistics of Monopoly . . . . . . . 36--40
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: Penny Wise, Pound
Foolish: The Case of Environmental
Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--43
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Graphical
Investigation of the Scourge of Vietnam 44--46
Duncan J. Murdoch On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Programming with Components . . . . . . 47--49
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Drive for Show and Putt for Dough . . . 50--55
Anonymous \booktitleChance Cumulative Index:
Volume 12 (1999) . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Congressman Tom Sawyer The Reader Speaks Out Toward a More
Accurate Census . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Gary A. Mauser Letter to the Editor: On Defensive Gun
Use Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--6
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9
Howard Wainer and
Catherine Njue and
Samuel Palmer Assessing Time Trends in Sex Differences
in Swimming & Running . . . . . . . . . . 10--15
David E. Martin Comment: Studying Trends in Sport
Participation by Modeling Results of
Elite-Level Athletic Performance . . . . 16--17
Phillip N. Price Comment: Can We Trust a Method Just
Because We like its Predictions? . . . . 18--20
Howard Wainer and
Samuel Palmer and
Catherine Njue Sex and Sports: A Rejoinder . . . . . . 21--21
M. Kathleen Kerr Patents and Statistical Inventions . . . 22--25
Thomas L. Hankins Blood, Dirt, and Nomograms . . . . . . . 26--37
Yigal Gerchak On the ``Proper'' Relative Size of
Prizes in Competitions . . . . . . . . . 38--42
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--46
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Kelley's Paradox . . 47--48
Duncan J. Murdoch On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Statistics on the Web . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Modeling Acceptance to the Major League
Baseball Hall of Fame . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Hal S. Stern Opinion: A Lesson Learned from Census
2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Mary Grace Kovar Four Million Adolescents Smoke: Or Do
They? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--14
Raymond T. Stefani Olympic winning performances: no longer
``Citius, altius, fortius'' . . . . . . 15--19
Robert A. Strong and
John F. Buoncristiani Wall Street profits, arbitrage, and the
pricing of stock options . . . . . . . . 20--24
Shiyong Lu and
Steven Skiena Filling a Penny Album . . . . . . . . . 25--28
Rolf Poulsen Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Estimating the Effect of Firing the
Manager in Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--38
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: Federal Statistics
in the New Millennium --- A User
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Testing the
Disabled: Using Statistics to Navigate
between the Scylla of Standards and the
Charybdis of Court Decisions . . . . . . 42--44
Duncan J. Murdoch On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Omega Tasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--50
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Statistics and the Pokémon Craze: Trying
to Impress My Kids . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
Richard William Farebrother The Last Word A Slmple Combinatorial
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Alan Zaslavsky Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Donald A. Redelmeier and
Robert J. Tibshirani Are Those other Drivers Really Going
Faster? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--14
Jeffrey S. Simonoff and
Ilana R. Sparrow Predicting Movie Grosses: Winners and
Losers, Blockbusters and Sleepers . . . 15--24
Nicholas G. Polson and
Jeffrey Yasumoto Where Will Yahoo! Stock Be in Five
Years? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
Harold Sackrowitz Refining the Point(s)-After-Touchdown
Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--34
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
Constance F. Citro Window on the World . . . . . . . . . . 38--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: New Tools for
Exploratory Data Analysis: I. Automating
Two-Way Table Decomposition . . . . . . 43--47
Duncan J. Murdoch On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Drawing a Scatterplot . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
My Triple Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
Hal Stern Opinion: A New Age of Statistics? . . . 64--64
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
Ina Berg and
Selwyn Blieden The pots of Phylakopi: applying
statistical techniques to archaeology 8--15
Peter Gilbert Developing an AIDS Vaccine by Sieving 16--21
Margo Anderson and
Stephen E. Fienberg Census 2000 Controversies . . . . . . . 22--30
Hortensia Soto-Johnson and
Roger W. Johnson Who lied about the Hot Tamales? . . . . 31--34
Teddy Schall and
Gary Smith Career Trajectories in Baseball . . . . 35--38
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews: From the Bookshelf . . . . 39--40
Constance F. Citro and
Diane Hen Window on Washington: The Proposed
American Time-Use Survey . . . . . . . . 41--44
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: New Tools for
Exploratory Data Analysis: II. Rotatable
SPLOMS and a Slicing Engine . . . . . . 45--47
Duncan J. Murdoch On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Markov Chain Monte Carlo . . . . . . . . 48--51
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Modeling Offensive Ability in Baseball 56--59
Anonymous Index to Volume 13 (2000) . . . . . . . 62--63
Hal Stern Opinion: Randomized Trials in Medicine 64--64
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Gwynne Nettler and
James A. Wollack and
Joel R. Levin and
Joseph B. Kadane and
Stephen Senn and
Robert A. Strong and
John F. Buoncristiani Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Derek C. Briggs The Effect of Admissions Test
Preparation: Evidence from NELS:88 . . . 10--18
Donald E. Powers Comment: Using National Education
Longitudinal Study (NELS) Data to
Evaluate the Effects of Commercial Test
Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--21
Greg Adams Voting Irregularities in Palm Beach,
Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Martha Farnsworth Riche What Census 2000 Will Show . . . . . . . 25--29
Lawrence L. Kupper and
Leonard B. Hearne and
Sandra L. Martin and
Jeffrey M. Griffin Is the USGA Golf Handicap System
Equitable? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--35
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Constance F. Citro and
Peggy G. Carr and
Janet Johnson Window on Washington: What's in NAEP's
Black Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: New Tools for
Exploratory Data Analysis: III.
Smoothing and Nearness Engines . . . . . 43--46
Duncan J. Murdoch and
Dianne Cook On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Virtual Reality: Real Ponderings . . . . 47--51
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Luck in Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Hal Stern Opinion: Grading Tests and Counting
Votes --- Not as Easy as it Seems . . . 64--64
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--6
Seth Roberts Surprises from Self-Experimentation:
Sleep, Mood, and Weight . . . . . . . . 7--14
Robert Rosenthal Comment: Lessons from
Self-Experimentation: Counting for
Content, Inspecting for Insight . . . . 15--15
Donald B. Rubin Comment: Self-Experimentation for Causal
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Seth Roberts Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Jason T. Connor and
Joseph B. Kadane Alleged Racial Steering in an Apartment
Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Nathan Wetzel Three Sisters Give Birth on the Same Day 23--25
Randy Mason A Market Research Paradox of Means . . . 26--30
Zia Zaman Coach Markov Pulls Goalie Poisson . . . 31--35
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Constance F. Citro Window on Washington: The Credibility of
Federal Statistics: Don't Take it for
Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Order in the Court 43--46
Duncan J. Murdoch and
Radu V. Craiu and
Xiao-Li Meng On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Chance and Fractals . . . . . . . . . . 47--52
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Do You Feel a Draft in Here? . . . . . . 53--57
Hal Stern Opinion: Risk, Reward, and the College
Statistics Course . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
Elliot Bernstein and
Kevin Cottrell and
Naomi Altman and
André Dhondt and
Wesley Hochachka and
Roger Slothower and
Frances C. James Measuring Bird Migration Using Spatial
and Temporal Counts . . . . . . . . . . 7--14
Frances C. James Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
Wesley Hochachka and
André Dhondt and
Naomi Altman Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Bob Deshotels and
Mark Fitzgerald Designing for Extreme Temperatures . . . 15--22
Peter F. Thall Bayesian Clinical Trial Design in a
Cancer Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--28
Keith A. Willoughby The Return of a Missed Field Goal in
Canadian Football . . . . . . . . . . . 29--33
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--39
Wendy Ahmed and
Evi Rezmovic and
Terri Ann Lowenthal Window on Washington: Racial Profiling:
A Policy Issue in Need of Better Answers 40--41
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Sex, Smoking, and
Life Insurance: A Graphic View . . . . . 42--45
Duncan J. Murdoch and
Vincent J. Carey On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Literate Statistical Programming:
Concepts and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 46--50
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
How Ferocious is Tiger? . . . . . . . . 51--56
Hal Stern Opinion: The Buzz about Bayes . . . . . 64--64
Hal S. Stern Letter from the Executive Editor . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
Joseph Lee Rodgers and
Debby Doughty Does Having Boys or Girls Run in the
Family? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13
Jack Kaplan and
Conor V. Dolan and
Arthur R. Jensen Misuses of Statistics in the Study of
Intelligence: The Case of Arthur Jensen 14--26
Conor V. Dolan Comment: unhelpful criticism in the
study of intelligence . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Arthur R. Jensen Comment: misleading caricatures of
Jensen's statistics . . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Jack Kaplan Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Roman L. Weil Parker v. Prial: the death of the
vintage chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--36
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen Window on Washington: Census Directors
past and Adjustment Decisions Present:
The 2000 Census Adjustment Debate . . . 37--43
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Winds Across Europe:
Francis Galton and the Graphic Discovery
of Weather Patterns . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Duncan J. Murdoch and
Erich Neuwirth On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Listen to Your Data --- Sonification
with Standard Statistics Software . . . 48--50
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
The Relative Sizes of MLB Umpires'
Strike Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--54
Anonymous Index to Volume 14 (2001) . . . . . . . 62--63
T. Chameleon The Last Word The Real Reason . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Dalene Stangl Letter from the Executive Editor . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
David L. Banks Statistics for Homeland Defense . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Jack Kaplan An SAT Coaching Program that Works . . . 12--17
Derek C. Briggs Jack Kaplan's ``An SAT coaching program
with works'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Jack Kaplan Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Gary A. Simon and
Jeffrey S. Simonoff Were the 1996--2000 Yankees the Best
Baseball Team Ever? . . . . . . . . . . 23--29
Charles J. Robinove Letter-Frequency Bias in an Electronic
Scrabble Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Matt Reed and
Vyvyan Howard Ancient Geometry Comes to the Aid of
Modern Medics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--40
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Turn! Turn! Turn! . . . . . . . . . . . 41--46
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen and
Michael R. Rand and
Callie M. Rennison Window on Washington: True Crime
Stories? Accounting for Differences in
Our National Crime Indicators . . . . . 47--51
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Beowulfs Meet Statistics: An
Introduction to Cluster Supercomputers 52--55
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Clear Thinking Made
Visible: Redesigning Score Reports for
Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--58
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Joseph B. Kadane Anatomy of a Jury Challenge . . . . . . 10--13
Scott M. Berry Gold Medals, Protests, and Trading
Ratings: The 2002 Winter Olympics Figure
Skating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Paul S. Levy and
Jason Hsia and
Borko Jovanovic and
Douglas Passaro Sampling Mailrooms for Presence of
Anthrax Spores: A Curious Property of
the Hypergeometric Distribution under an
Unusual Hypothesis Testing Scenario . . 19--21
Eugene M. Laska and
Paul Leber If Placebo Works, Could, Should or Would
it be Approved for Marketing? . . . . . 22--26
Stephen Senn The Unpleasant Placebo? . . . . . . . . 27--29
David Alan Grier Predicting the Unpredictable Election 30--35
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews: From the Bookshelf . . . . 36--38
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Scatterplotting . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen Window on Washington: Census Adjustment:
The View from Capitol Hill . . . . . . . 43--48
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
One Modern Man or 15 Tarzans? . . . . . 49--53
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Reporting Test
Results to Institutions and Nations . . 58--61
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--8
Valen E. Johnson Teacher Course Evaluations and Student
Grades: An Academic Tango . . . . . . . 9--16
Kim Kleinman How Graphical Innovations Assisted Edgar
Anderson's Discoveries in Evolutionary
Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--21
Andrew Gelman Voting, Fairness, and Political
Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--26
Stephen Ansolabehere Comment on ``Voting, fairness, and
political representation'' . . . . . . . 27--28
Terry Allen Using and Interpreting the Trilinear
Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35
Heinrich Böll At the Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Database Linkage, Privacy, and Medical
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen Window on Washington: Determining Data
Needs for the Consumer Price Index . . . 43--47
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Read during Your Leisure lime . . . . . 48--55
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: The BK-Plot: Making
Simpson's Paradox Clear to the Masses 60--62
Hal Lewis and
Santa Barbara Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Jim Albert Hitting with Runners in Scoring Position 8--16
Patrick Ball and
Jana Asher Statistics and Slobodan: using data
analysis and statistics in the war
crimes trial of former president
Milosevic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
Peter Hall Statistical Smoothing and the
Investigation of Flight 587 . . . . . . 25--26
Joseph B. Kadane Crossing Lines in a Patent Case . . . . 27--32
Mary C. Meyer Uncounted Votes: Does Voting Equipment
Matter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--38
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen Window on Washington: Innovations in the
Federal Statistical System . . . . . . . 41--45
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Something in the Air? . . . . . . . . . 46--49
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages: A
Juiced Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--53
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Small Hurrah for
the Black Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Anonymous Index to Volume 15 (2002) . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
Peter Hall A Possum's Tale --- How Statistics
Revealed a New Mammal Species . . . . . 8--13
Thomas P. Ryan Basketball Statistics: A Matter of
Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
Phil Woodward Yahtzee$^\reg $: The Solution . . . . . 18--22
Eduardo Fernandez-Cantelli and
Glen Meeden An Improved Award System for Soccer . . 23--29
Peter A. Morrison Confronting a Race-Based School
Admissions Policy . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
Paul M. Sommers The Writing on the Wall . . . . . . . . 35--38
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley and
W. B. Lober On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Bioterrorism Surveillance Using
Computerized Clinical Data . . . . . . . 44--48
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
The Great One . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--54
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Graphical Legacy
of Charles Joseph Minard: Two Jewels
from the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--62
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
David I. Holmes and
Judit Kardos Who Was the Author? An Introduction to
Stylometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8
José Nilo G. Binongo Who Wrote the \booktitle15th Book of Oz?
An Application of Multivariate Analysis
to Authorship Attribution . . . . . . . 9--17
David I. Holmes Stylometry and the Civil War: The Case
of the Pickett Letters . . . . . . . . . 18--25
Joseph Rudman Cherry Picking in Nontraditional
Authorship Attribution Studies . . . . . 26--32
Nicole A. Lazar and
David S. Sidore Math Chaps and other Oddities:
Statisticians in Literature . . . . . . 33--37
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley and
Friedrich Leisch On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Reproducible Statistical Research . . . 41--45
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
College Football Rankings: The BCS and
the CLT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--49
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: How Long is Short? 55--57
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen and
Katharine G. Abraham Window on Washington: Data for Managing
Tight Labor Markets: The New Job
Openings and Labor Turnover Survey . . . 58--62
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Tom Ryan Author's reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--9
Song S. Qian and
Michael Lavine Setting Standards for Water Quality in
the Everglades . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--16
Valen E. Johnson Consumerism in the Classroom: Student
Grades and Student Course Selections . . 17--20
Lara J. Wolfson and
Thomas R. Lee Utah's Census Battles: The inside Story 21--29
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin \booktitleChance at the Bar: Bush v.
Gore: Two Neglected Lessons from a
Statistical Perspective . . . . . . . . 30--36
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews: From the Bookshelf . . . . 37--38
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley and
Lance A. Waller and
Andrew B. Barclay On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
``Agile'' GIS: Building
Application-Specific Spatial Analytic
Software from Freely Available Software
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--44
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
``A Game of Which I am Not Familiar'' 45--48
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen and
Thomas B. Jabine and
Thomas A. Louis Window on Washington: Funding Formulas
in a Federal System . . . . . . . . . . 49--53
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: La Diffusion de
Quelques Idées: a Master's Voice . . . . 58--61
Dalene Stangl From the Editor Welcome and Thank You 3--3
Richard L. Smith Letter to the Editor: Discussion of
``Bush v. Gore\ldots'' . . . . . . . . . 4--5
David Banks Proteomics: A Frontier between Genomics
and Metabolomics . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
David Banks and
Emmanuel Petricoin Finding Cancer Signals in Mass
Spectrometry Data . . . . . . . . . . . 8--12, 57
Anindya Roy and
Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch and
Kwan R. Lee and
Yaming Hang and
Mark Marten and
Babu Raman Analyzing Two-Dimensional Gel Images . . 13--18
Douglas M. Hawkins and
Russell D. Wolfinger and
Li Liu and
S. Stanley Young Exploring Blood Spectra for Signs of
Ovarian Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--23
Walter Liggett and
Lisa Cazares and
O. John Semmes A Look at Mass Spectral Measurement . . 24--28
Herbert Thiele Mass Spectrometry and Bioinformatics in
Proteomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin \booktitleChance at the Bar: A
Statistical Portrait of the Handgun
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Cindy Christiansen and
Mark Glickman Here's to Your Health: Statistics:
Keeping Pace with the Medical Technology
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--44
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Political
Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
Stanley Wasserman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen Window on Washington: The Congress and
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Anonymous Index to Volume 16 . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Jon Kettenring Statistics and Counterterrorism . . . . 6--7
David J. Marchette and
Edward J. Wegman Statistical Analysis of Network Data for
Cybersecurity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--18
Michael A. Stoto and
Matthias Schonlau and
Louis T. Mariano Syndromic surveillance: Is it worth the
effort? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
Shanti Gomatam and
Michael D. Larsen Record Linkage and Counterterrorism . . 25--29
Andrew L. Rukhin The Recognition Problem of Biometrics 30--34
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin \booktitleChance at the Bar: Statistical
Proof of Discrimination in Peremptory
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--38
Cindy Christiansen and
Mark Glickman Here's to Your Health: Is There One Best
Model of Care for Children Orphaned by
AIDS?: A Multinational Perspective and
How Statistics Can Help . . . . . . . . 39--43
Howard Wainer and
Henry Braun Visual Revelations: Numbers and the
Remembrance of Things Past . . . . . . . 44--48
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Building a Better Mailtrap . . . . . . . 49--52
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
The Black Cat Unmasked . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen Window on Washington . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Donald A. Berry and
LeeAnn Chastain Inferences about Testosterone Abuse
among Athletes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8
Todd Bishop and
Byron J. Gajewski Drafting a Career in Sports: Determining
Underclassmen College Players' Stock in
the NBA Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
Heather Mitchell and
Mark F. Stewart Does Drug-Testing Deter Participation in
Athletic Events? EPO and the Sydney
Olympics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
Howard Wainer and
Brent Bridgeman and
Michelle Najarian and
Catherine Trapani How Much Does Extra Time on the SAT
Help? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
Susan Martonosi and
Arnold Barnett Terror is in the Air . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
Andrew Gelman 55,000 Residents Desperately Need Your
Help! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--31
Scott D. Grimshaw and
Howard B. Christensen and
David B. Magleby and
Kelly D. Patterson Twenty Years of the Utah Colleges Exit
Poll: Learning by Doing . . . . . . . . 32--38
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin \booktitleChance at the Bar:
Epidemiologic Evidence in the Silicone
Breast Implant Cases . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Cindy Christiansen and
Mark Glickman and
Bei-Hung Chang Here's to Your Health: Studying
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
in the United States . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Howard Wainer and
Michael Friendly Visual Revelations: Nobody's Perfect . . 48--51
A. J. Rossini and
Thomas Lumley On the Edge: Statistics & Computing:
Sustainable Sources of Randomness . . . 52--54
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Hired to be Fired . . . . . . . . . . . 55--59
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Stephen E. Fienberg and
Aleksandra B. Slavkovic Making the Release of Confidential Data
from Multi-Way Tables Count . . . . . . 5--10
Jerome P. Reiter New Approaches to Data Dissemination: A
Glimpse into the Future (?) . . . . . . 11--15
George T. Duncan and
S. Lynne Stokes Disclosure risk vs. data utility: the
$R$--$U$ confidentiality map as applied
to topcoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Katherine K. Wallman and
Brian A. Harris-Kojetin Implementing the Confidential
Information Protection and Statistical
Efficiency Act of 2002 . . . . . . . . . 21--25
Alan F. Karr and
Xiaodong Lin and
Ashish P. Sanil and
Jerome P. Reiter Analysis of Integrated Data without Data
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
Eleanor Singer Confidentiality, Risk Perception, and
Survey Participation . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
Miron L. Straf Fostering Trust to Motivate Responses:
It's Not Just a Matter of
Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Jim Albert Streakiness in Team Performance . . . . 37--43
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin \booktitleChance at the Bar: Bullet Lead
as Forensic Evidence . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Cindy Christiansen and
Mark Glickman and
Nicole A. Lazar Here's to Your Health: Numbers on the
Brain: The Role of Statistics in the
Analysis of Functional Magnetic
Resonance Images . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--51
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Order, by ``The Book'' . . . . . . . . . 52--55
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen and
David M. Talan and
James R. Spletzer and
Richard L. Clayton Window on Washington: Business
Employment Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . 58--61
Anonymous Chance Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--6
Jan Beran Music --- Chaos, Fractals, and
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16
Christopher Raphael Musical Accompaniment Systems . . . . . 17--22
Simon Godsill Computational Modeling of Musical
Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--29
Rafael A. Irizarry Parameters with Musical Interpretations 30--38
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin \booktitleChance at the Bar: Stopping
Rules in Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . 39--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Curbstoning IQ and
the 2000 Presidential Election . . . . . 43--46
Scott M. Berry and
Berry Consultants and
Craig Wood A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
The Cold-Foot Effect . . . . . . . . . . 47--51
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen and
Arthur Fries Window on Washington: Statistics Counts!
Examples of the Impact of Statistical
Analyses on the Operational Test and
Evaluation of Major Defense Systems . . 55--60
Anonymous Index to Volume 17 . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Anonymous Editorial Board Page . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Richard F. Potthoff Letter to the Editor: A neglected issue
in Florida in 2000? . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous The Editors' Reply . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Paul R. Rosenbaum Reasons for Effects . . . . . . . . . . 5--10
Nicholas J. Horton and
Emily C. Shapiro Statistical Sleuthing During Epidemics:
Maternal Influenza and Schizophrenia . . 11--19
Donald A. Redelmeier and
Craig L. Stewart Do fatal crashes increase following a
Super Bowl telecast? . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
Ruma Falk and
Avital Lann and
Shmuel Zamir Average Speed Bumps: Four Perspectives
on Averaging Speeds . . . . . . . . . . 25--32
Rudy A. Gideon The Distribution of Bridge Hands in
Newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--37
Cindy Christiansen and
Mark. Glickman and
Sarah Michalak and
Greg Wilson Here's to Your Health: Reconsidering
Smallpox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin \booktitleChance at the Bar: Statistical
Evidence in an Education Finance Case 44--47
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Nature, Nurture, or Culture . . . . . . 48--53
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Statistical Cryptic Puzzle
No. 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen and
Mary Dorinda Allard Window On Washington: How Americans
Spend Their Time: A First Look at the
New American Time Use Survey . . . . . . 56--62
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Mary C. Meyer and
Tremika Finney Who Wants Airbags? . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
Anonymous Reply to Discussion of ``Who Wants
Airbags?'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
Charles J. Kahane Discussion: ``Who Wants Airbags?'' . . . 16--16
Howard Wainer and
William P. Skorupski Was It Ethnic and Social-Class Bias or
Statistical Artifact? Logical and
Empirical Evidence against Freedle's
Method for Reestimating SAT Scores . . . 17--24
Jack Kaplan The Effectiveness of SAT Coaching on
Math SAT Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34
David Banks and
Maria J. Sirois and
Raphel O. Thattil Statistical Aspects of Tsunami Response 35--40
Robert C. Hannum Risky Business: The Use and Misuse of
Statistics in Casino Gaming . . . . . . 41--47
Vassilios C. Hombas and
Christos P. Baloglou Gambling in Greek Antiquity . . . . . . 49--50
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Stumbling on the
Path toward the Visual Communication of
Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Scott M. Berry Is Second Place the First Loser? . . . . 55--59
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Statistical Spiral Cryptic
No. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
John Bart Wilburn Missile Detection and Tracking in
Satellite Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
Roman L. Weil Analysis of Reserve and Regular
Bottlings: Why Pay for a Difference Only
the Critics Claim to Notice? . . . . . . 9--15
Simon F. Durdan and
Daniela Ferrero and
Frank Harary On the Evolution of Square-cell Animals 16--19
Danny Helman Reversal of Fortunes . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Elena A. Erosheva Will the Market Bear Your Asking Price? 23--28
Charles E. McCulloch Repeated Measures ANOVA, R.I.P.? . . . . 29--33
Andrew Gelman Comment: Anova as a Tool for Structuring
and Understanding Hierarchical Models 33--33
Michael O. Finkelstein and
Bruce Levin \booktitleChance at the Bar: The
Machinery of Death . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
Howard Wainer and
Danielle Vasilescu Visual Revelations: Old Mother Hubbard
and the United Nations: an Adventure in
Exploratory Data Analysis . . . . . . . 38--45
Sanford Weisberg Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
Mark Glickman and
Jeffrey D. Dawson and
Patricia H. Davis and
Cindy Christiansen Here's to Your Health: What's the Big
Deal about BMI? . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Winning Isn't Everything; It's the Only
Thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Statistical Cryptic Puzzle
No. 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Daniel Cork and
Michael Cohen Window on Washington: Tomato--Tomahto:
What To Do about Competing Estimates? 59--62
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Michael Lavine Editor's Column . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
S. Keller-McNulty and
A. G. Wilson and
G. Wilson The Impact of Technology on the
Scientific Method . . . . . . . . . . . 4--8
Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar and
Susan Paddock Comment: ``The impact of technology on
the scientific method'' . . . . . . . . 9--12
James M. Landwehr and
Colin L. Mallows and
Patrick Tendick Comment: ``The impact of technology on
the scientific method'' . . . . . . . . 12--13
Alan F. Karr Comment: ``The impact of technology on
the scientific method'' . . . . . . . . 13--15
Vijay Nair Comment: ``The impact of technology on
the scientific method'' . . . . . . . . 15--16
John Stufken Comment: ``The impact of technology on
the scientific method'' . . . . . . . . 16--16
Graham Pollard On Solving an Aspect of Unfairness in
the Tennis Doubles Scoring System . . . 17--19
Raymond T. Stefani Politics, Drugs, and the Olympics: And
the Winners Are\ldots Politics and Drugs 20--28
Judith D. Singer Afraid To Discuss Evolution? . . . . . . 29--31
Iain Pardoe Just How Predictable Are the Oscars? . . 32--39
John P. A. Ioannidis Why Most Published Research Findings Are
False . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Howard Wainer \booktitleChance Conversation: Former
Director of the U.S. Census Bureau Gets
Personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--51
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Truth Is Slower Than
Fiction: Francis Galton as an
Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--54
Mark Glickman and
James D. Neaton Here's to Your Health: Safeguards in
Studies: the Role of Data Monitoring
Committees in Clinical Trials . . . . . 55--58
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Cryptic Acrostic No. 6 . . 59--61
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Michael Lavine Editor's Column . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Rob Singmaster and
Lissa Redmiles The Impact of the Follow-up Process on
the 2002 Foreign Tax Credit Study Data 4--9
Leonard Evans Innate Sex Differences Supported by
Untypical Traffic Fatalities . . . . . . 10--15
Anonymous Comment: David C. Geary . . . . . . . . 16--17
Anonymous Comment: Mary Meyer . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Anonymous Evans Responds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Lee Giesbrecht and
Jonaki Bose and
Michael P. Cohen Measuring Exposure to Vehicle Crashes 22--27
Jay Schaffer and
Erik L. Heiny The Effects of Elevation on Slugging
Percentage in Major League Baseball . . 28--34
Steffanie Halberstadt and
Stacey Wood Global Public Health: The New Frontier
of Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
Robert B. Noble and
A. John Bailer and
Lary L. Faris Finding Consolation in First-Round
Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
Howard Wainer and
Marc Gessaroli and
Monica Verdi Visual Revelations: Finding What Is Not
There through the Unfortunate Binning of
Results: The Mendel Effect . . . . . . . 49--52
Mark Glickman and
Michael Proschan Here's to Your Health: Clinical Trials
Reliably Test Dietary Claims . . . . . . 53--56
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Budgets and Baseball Concave or Convex:
Winning the Salary Game . . . . . . . . 57--60
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner From the Beginning to the
End: Two Word Puzzles . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Joe Rodgers Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Albyn Jones Special Section on Forensic Statistics
Grows from JSM Session . . . . . . . . . 5--6
David W. Peterson Analyst Takes Fresh Look at Pay
Discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16
Clifford H. Spiegelman and
Karen Kafadar Data Integrity and the Scientific
Method: the Case of Bullet Lead Data as
Forensic Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25
Alicia Carriquiry Comment: Further Arguments against CABL
as a Forensic Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
T. Egeland and
B. Kulle and
R. Andreassen Esséen--Möller and Identification Based on
DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
Efstathia Bura and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Assessing the Fairness of a Firm's
Allocation of Shares in Initial Public
Offerings: Adapting a Measure from
Biostatistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Joseph B. Kadane Misuse of Bayesian Statistics in Court 38--40
Elizabeth Becker Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
Lily S. Khadjavi Driving while black in the City of
Angels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--46
James P. Scanlan Guest Editorial: Can We Actually Measure
Health Disparities? . . . . . . . . . . 47--51
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Does Defense Win Championships? . . . . 52--54
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Using Graphs To Make
the Complex Simple: the Medicare Drug
Plan as an Example . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Cindy Christiansen and
Valerie L. Durkalski Here's to Your Health: Virtual
Colonoscopy: the Reality of Colon Polyp
and Colorectal Cancer Screening . . . . 57--60
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Statistical Cryptic Puzzle
No. 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Holger Schwender and
Sylvia Rabstein and
Katja Ickstadt Do You Speak Genomish? . . . . . . . . . 3--8
Anonymous Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10
Susan J. Simmons and
Ann E. Stapleton Bayesian Hierarchical Models To Detect
Quantitative Trait Loci . . . . . . . . 11--14
Holger Schwender and
Anton Belousov Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for
Affymetrix Microarrays . . . . . . . . . 15--20
Katja Ickstadt and
Tina Mueller and
Holger Schwender Analyzing SNPs: Are There Needles in the
Haystack? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
Naomi Altman and
Jim Leebens-Mack and
Laura Zahn and
André Chanderbali and
Donglan Tian and
Lillian Werner and
Hong Ma and
Claude dePamphilis Behind the Scenes: Planning a
Multispecies Microarray Experiment . . . 27--38
A. Wise and
J. Hardin and
L. Hoopes Yeast through the Ages: a Statistical
Analysis of Genetic Changes in Aging
Yeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--44
Erin M. Conlon and
Gulhan Alpargu and
Jeffrey L. Blanchard Comparative Genomics Approaches to
Identifying Genetic Regulatory Networks 45--48
Haiyan Huang and
Kyungpil Kim Unsupervised Clustering Analysis of Gene
Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Howard Wainer \booktitleChance Conversation: Judith
Tanur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Mark Glickman and
Ron Neath and
Brad Carlin Here's to Your Health: Does Insurance
Status Affect Access to ER Follow-up
Care? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Statistical Spiral Cryptic
No. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Ronald D. Fricker, Jr. and
Henry Rolka Protecting against Biological Terrorism:
Statistical Issues in Electronic
Biosurveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--14
Charles M. Farmer Another Look at Meyer and Finney's `Who
Wants Airbags?' . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--22
Mary Meyer Commentary on ``Another Look at Meyer
and Finney's `Who Wants Airbags?''' . . 23--24
Theodore Allen and
Mikhail Bernshteyn Mitigating Voter Waiting Times . . . . . 25--34
Jasjeet S. Sekhon Comment: Queuing To Vote in Franklin
County, Ohio, in 2004 . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Anonymous Authors' Response . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Christopher M. Rump Andrei Markov in the Stanley Cup
Playoffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Jane E. Miller How To Communicate Statistical Findings:
an Expository Writing Approach . . . . . 43--49
Scott M. Berry A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Statistical Fallacies in Sports . . . . 50--56
Mark Glickman and
Stuart G. Baker and
Karen S. Lindeman and
Barnett S. Kramer Here's to Your Health: The Paired
Availability Design: If You Can't
Randomize, Perhaps This Applies . . . . 57--60
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Statistical Cryptic Puzzle
No. 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
David Marker Letter to the Editor: Did the Democrats
Really Win Control of the Senate? . . . 5--5
David H. Annis and
Samuel S. Wu Improved College Football Scheduling
Using a Modified Swiss System . . . . . 6--10
Ian Ayres and
Antonia R. Ayres-Brown and
Henry J. Ayres-Brown Seeing Significance: Is the 95%
Probability Range Easier To Perceive? 11--16
Suzanne S. Switzer and
Nicholas J. Horton What Your Doctor Should Know about
Statistics (but Perhaps Doesn't\ldots) 17--21
Kjetil K. Haugen An Improved Award System for Soccer: a
(Game-Theoretic) Comment . . . . . . . . 22--24
Eduardo Fernandez-Cantelli and
Glen Meeden Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Steve C. Wang Teaching Statistical Thinking Using the
Baseball Hall of Fame . . . . . . . . . 25--31
Andrew Yang Is Oprah Zulu? Sampling and Seeming
Certainty in DNA Ancestry Testing . . . 32--39
Steven J. Miller A Derivation of the Pythagorean
Won--Loss Formula in Baseball . . . . . 40--48
Jarrett J. Barber Using Rubber Sheets To Infer True Map
Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--54
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Insignificant Is Not
Zero: Rescoring the SAT as an Example 55--58
Mark Glickman and
R. Todd Ogden Here's to Your Health: Statistics and
Brain Imaging in the Study of Mental
Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Statistical Cryptic
Acrostic No. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Michael Lavine Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Arnold Barnett and
Edward H. Kaplan A Cure for the Electoral College? . . . 6--9
Mahmut Tolon and
Herman Chernoff The Effect of Fasting during Ramadan on
Traffic Accidents in Turkey . . . . . . 10--18
John W. Emerson Chance, On and Off the Ice . . . . . . . 19--21
Andreas Rathgeber and
Harriet Rathgeber Why Germany Was Supposed To Be Drawn in
the Group of Death and Why It Escaped 22--24
Heike Hofmann Interview with a Centennial Chart . . . 26--35
Susan Kyle and
Douglas A. Samuelson and
Fritz Scheuren and
Nicole Vicinanza and
Scott Dingman and
Warren Mitofsky Explaining Discrepancies between
Official Votes and Exit Polls in the
2004 Presidential Election . . . . . . . 36--43
Jasjeet S. Sekhon Comment: Data troubles: Explaining
discrepancies between official votes and
exit polls in the 2004 Presidential
Election [MR 2370724] . . . . . . . . . 43--45
Fritz Scheuren Rejoinder [MR2370724] . . . . . . . . . 45--47
Phil Everson A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Describing Uncertainty in Games Already
Played . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Galton's Normal Is
Too Platykurtic . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Mark Glickman and
A. John Bailer and
Jane K. Straker and
Robert B. Noble and
Michael R. Hughes and
Kyoungah See and
Cindy Christiansen Here's to Your Health: Considering
Nursing Home Quality: Is \em Places
Rated or \booktitleConsumer Reports a
Better Model? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Statistical Cryptic Puzzle
No. 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Michael Lavine Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Hal Lewis Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Improving Data
Displays: Ours and the Media's . . . . . 8--15
Yasmin H. Said and
Edward J. Wegman Quantitative Assessments of
Alcohol-Related Outcomes . . . . . . . . 17--25
Juanjuan Fan and
Richard A. Levine To Amnio or Not To Amnio: That Is the
Decision for Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . 26--32
John G. McDonald and
Joe Lesko Understanding Phishing and Why
Statisticians Are Needed . . . . . . . . 33--37
Robert Bordley Statistical Decisionmaking Without Math 39--44
Mary Meyer Commentary on ``Another look at Meyer
and Finney's `Who wants airbags?'''
[MR2149936] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
Phil Everson A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Stein's Paradox Revisited . . . . . . . 49--56
Mark Glickman and
Stuart G. Baker and
Jaakko Kaprio and
Cindy Christiansen Here's to Your Health: Genes, Cancer,
and Twins: The Statistics Behind the
Headlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner Two-Word Loops: A Word
Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Michael Lavine Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Howard Wainer and
Andrew Gelman Editorial: A Catch-22 in Assigning
Primary Delegates . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Stephen E. Fienberg Memories of Election Night Predictions
Past: Psephologists and Statisticians at
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--17
Dalene Stangl Using \booktitleChance To Engage
Undergraduates in the Study of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--25
Stephen M. Stigler Chance Is 350 Years Old . . . . . . . . 26--30
Miron L. Straf Mr. Statistician \em schleps to
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Howard Wainer Taking a CHANCE: An Interview with
William F. Eddy and Stephen E. Fienberg 33--39
Hal Stern and
Adam Sugano Baseball Decisions and Small Samples . . 40--47
William F. Eddy and
Rebecca McNamee and
Kary L. Myers Imaging the Living Brain . . . . . . . . 48--58
Andrew Gelman and
Seth Roberts Weight Loss, Self-Experimentation, and
Web Trials: A Conversation . . . . . . . 59--63
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Michael Proschan Self-Experimentation and Web Trials . . 7--9
Erik L. Heiny PGA tour pro: Long but not so straight 11--21
David W. Peterson Putting Chance to Work: Reducing the
Politics in Political Redistricting . . 22--26
M. Leigh Lunsford and
Ginger Holmes Rowell and
Tracy Goodson-Espy Assessment of student understanding of
the Central Limit Theorem . . . . . . . 27--32
Joseph B. Kadane Load Factors, Crowdedness, and the
Cauchy--Schwarz Inequality . . . . . . . 33--34
Jarad B. Niemi and
Bradley P. Carlin and
Jonathan M. Alexander Contrarian Strategies for NCAA
Tournament Pools: A Cure for March
Madness? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--42
Kris Moore and
Dawn Carlson and
Dwayne Whitten and
Aimee Clement Gender Differences at the Executive
Level: Perceptions and Experiences . . . 43--48
Christopher Sink and
Matthew Sink and
Jonathan Stob and
Kevin Taniguchi Further evidence of gender differences
in high school--level computer literacy 49--53
Howard Wainer and
Sam Savage Visual Revelations: Until Proven Guilty:
False Positives and the War on Terror 55--58
David A. Freedman Editorial: Oasis or Mirage? . . . . . . 59--61
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner: Statistical Spiral
Cryptic No. 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
David Banks Statisticians and metabolomics:
collaborative possibilities for the next
*omics revolution? . . . . . . . . . . . 5--11
Philip M. Dixon and
Geng Ding A Metabolomic Data Uncertainty Budget
for the Plant \em Arabidopsis thaliana 12--17
Arlene Ash and
John Lamperti Florida 2006: Can Statistics Tell Us Who
Won Congressional District-13? . . . . . 18--24
Joseph Lorenzo Hall Statistical Solutions to Election
Mysteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Walter R. Mebane, Jr. Counting Frustrated Voter Intentions . . 26--27
Roger Pinkham A Historical Puzzle: de Mere's Paradox
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
H. Dean Johnson and
Sarah Boslaugh and
Murray Clayton and
Chris Holloman and
Linda J. Young Compensation for statistical consulting
services: Approaches used at four U.S.
Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
Thomas A. Louis Compensation for Statistical Consulting
Services: Observations and
Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Janice Derr Statistical Consulting in a University
Setting: Don't Forget the Students . . . 38--39
Jane F. Gentleman The National Health Interview Survey: 50
Years and Going Strong . . . . . . . . . 40--45
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Improving Graphic
Displays by Controlling Creativity . . . 46--52
Linda Williams Pickle Commentary on `Improving graphic
displays by controlling creativity' . . 53--53
Mark Glickman and
Gerardo Chowell and
N. W. Hengartner and
Catherine Ammon and
Mac Hyman Here's to Your Health: Learning from the
Past to Prepare for the Future: Modeling
the Impact of Hypothetical Interventions
During the Great Influenza Pandemic of
1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--60
Michael Larsen An Interview with Thomas Jabine,
Retiring Puzzle Corner Editor . . . . . 61--62
Thomas B. Jabine Puzzle Corner: Statistical Cryptic
Puzzle No. 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Letter to the Editor: The Best Graph May
Be No Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Donald Berry and
Frank T. McGraw The best graph may be no graph . . . . . 6--6
Tom Krenzke and
David Judkins Filling in the blanks: some guesses are
better than others. Illustrating the
impact of covariate selection when
imputing complex survey items . . . . . 7--13
Michael R. Elliott Healthy for life: accounting for
transcription errors using multiple
imputation. Application to a study of
childhood obesity . . . . . . . . . . . 14--23
Eric T. Bradlow and
Shane T. Jensen and
Justin Wolfers and
Abraham J. Wyner A statistical look at Roger Clemens'
pitching career . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--30
Peter Freeman and
Joseph Richards and
Chad Schafer and
Ann Lee Astrostatistics: The Final Frontier . . 31--35
Simo Puntanen and
George P. H. Styan Stochastic Stamps: A Philatelic
Introduction to Chance . . . . . . . . . 36--41
Peter Olofsson Probability, Statistics, Evolution, and
Intelligent Design . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Phil Everson A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Good Offense vs. Poor Defense: The 2007
Women's World Cup . . . . . . . . . . . 46--54
Mark Glickman and
Yulei He and
Recai Yucel and
Alan M. Zaslavsky Here's to Your Health: Misreporting,
Missing Data, and Multiple Imputation:
Improving Accuracy of Cancer Registry
Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
Howard Wainer and
Grace Lee and
Paul Velleman Visual Revelations: Giving the Finger to
Dating Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test: ``If nothing ever
changed, there'd be no butterflies'' . . 62--64
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Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Brian E. Clauser War, Enmity, and Statistical Tables . . 6--11
Stephen Stigler Fisher and the 5% Level . . . . . . . . 12--12
Moudud Alam and
Kenneth Carling and
Rui Chen and
Yuli Liang How to Determine the Progression of
Young Skiers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--19
W. J. Hurley The Birthday Matching Problem When the
Distribution of Birthdays Is Nonuniform 20--24
Rachel Croson and
Peter Fishman and
Devin G. Pope Poker superstars: skill or luck?
Similarities between golf --- thought to
be a game of skill --- and poker . . . . 25--28
Phillip Price The Value of Statistical Thinking: A
Basketball Gambling Rookie Conquers
March Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Brian Schmotzer When Is the Lead Safe in a College
Basketball Game? . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
Katherine McGivney and
Ray McGivney and
Ralph Zegarelli Light It Up: Predicting the winner of an
NBA game before the end . . . . . . . . 45--50
Mark Glickman and
Stephanie R. Land Here's to Your Health: `We All Survived'
and Other Failings of Risk Perception 51--55
Howard Wainer and
Paul Velleman Visual Revelations: Looking at Blood
Sugar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
Anonymous \booktitleChance Graphic Display
Contest: Burtin's Antibiotic Data . . . 62--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
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Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Kenneth G. Keppel and
Jeffrey N. Pearcy Healthy People 2010: Measuring
Disparities in Health . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Brian Caffo and
Bruce Swihart and
Ciprian Crainiceanu and
Alison Laffan and
Naresh Punjabi An Overview of Observational Sleep
Research with Application to Sleep Stage
Transitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--15
James E. Slaven and
Michael E. Andrew and
Anna Mnatsakanova and
John M. Violanti and
Cecil M. Burchfiel and
Bryan J. Vila Statistical Modeling of Sleep . . . . . 16--21
Michele Connolly Disability: It's Complicated . . . . . . 22--27
W. J. Hurley Jussi Jokinen, regression to the mean,
and the assessment of exceptional
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--33
M. Lawrence Clevenson and
Jennifer Wright Go For It: What to consider when making
fourth-down decisions . . . . . . . . . 34--41
Michael Cherkassky Application of Machine Learning Methods
to Medical Diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . 42--50
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Centenary
Celebration for Will Burtin: A Pioneer
of Scientific Visualization . . . . . . 51--55
Mark Glickman and
Todd G. Nick and
Shannon N. Saldaña Here's to Your Health: Pharmacogenetics
and Pharmacogenomics: Statistical
Challenges in Design and Analysis . . . 56--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Susanne Aref and
Ray Stefani Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Michael R. Elliott Healthy for life: Accounting for
transcription errors using multiple
imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Jim Albert Is Roger Clemens' WHIP Trajectory
Unusual? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--20
Brian Schmotzer and
Patrick D. Kilgo and
Jeff Switchenko `The Natural'? The Effect of Steroids on
Offensive Performance in Baseball . . . 21--32
Don M. Chance What Are the Odds? Another look at
DiMaggio's streak . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
Mike Larsen Announcing the Burtin graphic contest
winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--45
Howard Wainer and
Mike Larsen Visual Revelations: Pictures at an
Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--54
Mark Glickman and
Xiaofei Wang and
Herbert Pang and
Todd A. Schwartz Here's to Your Health: Building and
Validating High Throughput Lung Cancer
Biomarkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Editor's letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Dana Quade Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Shahedul Ahsan Khan and
Grace Chiu and
Joel A. Dubin Atmospheric concentration of
chlorofluorocarbons: Addressing the
Global Concern with the longitudinal
bent-cable model . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--17
Daniel Westreich Comic: A Statistical Investigation of
Urban Skylines in Illinois . . . . . . . 16--16
Autar K. Kaw and
Ali Yalcin A Metric to Quantify College Football's
Topsy-Turvy Season . . . . . . . . . . . 18--26
Tristan Barnett Gambling Your Way to New York: A Story
of Expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--34
Alberto Baccini and
Lucio Barabesi and
Marzia Marcheselli How are statistical journals linked? A
network analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45
Christopher R. Bilder Human or Cylon? Group testing on
`Battlestar Galactica' . . . . . . . . . 46--50
Howard Wainer and
Peter Baldwin Visual Revelations: A Little Ignorance:
How Statistics Rescued a Damsel in
Distress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--55
Mark Glickman and
Scott Evans Here's to Your Health: Noninferiority
Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of wit test #5: Simple
inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous Editor's letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Zacariah Labby Weldon's Dice, Automated . . . . . . . . 6--13
Wanli Min and
Gang Luo Medical Applications of EEG Wave
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
Fredrick E. Vars Missing Well: Optimal Targeting of
Soccer Shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
Jürgen Symanzik A Real Challenger of a Puzzle . . . . . 28--28
Mark F. Schilling Does Momentum Exist in Competitive
Volleyball? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35
W. J. Hurley Calculating the Odds of the Miracle at
Brookline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Andreas Nguyen and
Shenghua K. Fan Ethics and Stopping Rules in a Phase II
Clinical Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--44
Mark G. Haug and
Heather Ardery Entangling Finance, Medicine, and Law 45--50
Virginia Vimpeny Lewis Pascal and Fermat Divide the Stakes . . 51--54
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Good Table Can
Beat a Bad Graph: It Matters Who Plays
Mozart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57
Mark Glickman and
Douglas A. Noe and
Ian M. Nelson and
Shahla Mehdizadeh and
A. John Bailer Here's to Your Health: Will They Stay or
Will They Go? Predicting disenrollment
from home care services to nursing homes
using classification trees . . . . . . . 58--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of wit test #6: Standardizing
conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Editor's letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Walter R. Mebane, Jr. Fraud in the 2009 Presidential Election
in Iran? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--15
Michela Baccini and
Samantha Cook and
Constantine E. Frangakis and
Fan Li and
Fabrizia Mealli and
Donald B. Rubin and
Elizabeth R. Zell Multiple Imputation in the Anthrax
Vaccine Research Program . . . . . . . . 16--23
Robert M. Bell and
Yehuda Koren and
Chris Volinsky All Together Now: A Perspective on the
Netflix Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Steve Lohr The Contest That Shaped Careers and
Inspired Research Papers . . . . . . . . 25--29
Todd G. Remund Analysis of Engineering Data: The Case
of Rocket Firings . . . . . . . . . . . 30--36
Götz Gelbrich and
Annegret Franke and
Bianca Gelbrich and
Susann Blüher and
Markus Löffler Gummy Bears and the Pleasure of
Biostatistics Lessons . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Paul Kvam Electoral voting and population
distribution in the United States . . . 41--47
Mark Glickman Here's to Your Health: The Virtual
Patient: Developing Drugs Using Modeling
and Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--52
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Schrödinger's Cat and
the Conception of Probability in Item
Response Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Peter D. Loly and
George P. H. Styan Comments on $ 4 \times 4 $ Philatelic
Latin Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of wit test #7: Figure it out 63--66
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Editor's letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Jana Asher Collecting Data in Challenging Settings:
In the Global South --- say, East Timor
--- data collection is not for the faint
of heart or weak of stomach . . . . . . 6--13
Qi Zheng The Luria--Delbrück Distribution: Early
statistical thinking about evolution . . 15--18
Holmes Finch Using Item Response Theory to Understand
Gender Differences in Opinions on Women
in Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
Jürgen Symanzik and
Stephanie Kovalchik and
Brad Thiessen Results of ``A Real Challenger of a
Puzzle'' Graphics Contest . . . . . . . 25--27
Bernard Dillard Hey, Who Turned Off the Lights? A look
at electricity consumption . . . . . . . 28--37
Ivo Petras and
Igor Podlubny Least Squares or Least Circles? A
comparison of classical regression and
orthogonal regression . . . . . . . . . 38--42
John Bohannon and
Robin Goldstein and
Alexis Herschkowitsch Can People Distinguish Pâté from Dog Food? 43--46
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Commentary on the
Graphic Displays in the 2008 National
Healthcare Quality Report and State
Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53
Ronald K. Smeltzer One for the History Books: An Early
Time-Line Bar Graph . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Peter D. Loly and
George P. H. Styan Comments on $ 5 \times 5 $ Philatelic
Latin Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of wit test #8: Employs magic 63--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Lawrence Mosley and
Dianne Cook and
Heike Hofmann and
Chris Kielion and
Barret Schloerke Visually Monitoring the 2008 Election 4--4
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
David Rothschild Debia\$ed Aggregated Poll\$ and
Prediction Market Price\$ . . . . . . . 6--7
Andrew Gelman and
Yu-Sung Su Voting by Education in 2008 . . . . . . 8--8
Philip B. Stark Risk-Limiting Vote-Tabulation Audits:
The Importance of Cluster Size . . . . . 9--12
Jonathan Hobbs and
Luke Fostvedt and
Adam Pintar and
David Rockoff and
Eunice Kim and
Randy Griffiths Fixed-Cost vs. Fixed-Risk Post-Election
Audits in Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--17
Linda J. Young and
Dan McCrea Election Audits in Florida . . . . . . . 18--19
Donald A. Redelmeier and
Robert J. Tibshirani Road Crashes and the Next U.S.
Presidential Election . . . . . . . . . 20--24
David McCarthy and
David Groggel and
A. John Bailer Career Pitching Statistics and the
Probability of Throwing a No-Hitter in
MLB: A Case-Control Study . . . . . . . 25--33
Vincent Berthet Best Hand Wins: How Poker Is Governed by
Chance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--38
Martin L. Jones and
Ryan J. Parker The Contribution of \booktitleStar
Players in the NBA: A Story of
Misbehaving Coefficients . . . . . . . . 39--45
Mary H. Mulry and
Patrick J. Cantwell Overview of the 2010 Census Coverage
Measurement Program and its evaluations 46--51
Mark Glickman and
Arlene S. Swern Here's to Your Health: A Story of
Evidence-Based Medicine: Hormone
Replacement Therapy and Coronary Heart
Disease in Postmenopausal Women . . . . 52--56
Howard Wainer and
Jim Ramsay Visual Revelations: Inside-Out Plots . . 57--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of wit test #9: In one ear and
out the other . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Editor's letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Mike Larsen Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Jason Crowley and
Brenna Curley and
Dave Osthus What Is Jeopardy!? A graphical
exploration from 1984--2009 . . . . . . 6--14
Necip Doganaksoy and
Gerald J. Hahn and
William Q. Meeker Validating Product Reliability . . . . . 15--21
Janice Lent Statistics in a Dynamic Energy
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
Terry Allen and
Amber Thom and
Glen Buckner Infant Homicides: An Examination Using
Multiple Correspondence Analysis . . . . 29--34
Mark Glickman and
Rick Ittenbach and
Todd G. Nick and
Ralph O'Brien and
Sarah J. Ratcliffe and
Justine Shults Statistical Consulting with Limited
Resources: Applications to Practice . . 35--42
Philip B. Stark Null and Vetoed: Chance Coincidence?
Governor Schwarzenegger's acrostic veto 43--46
Michael Huber Mick has (almost) left the building . . 47--51
Trent McCotter Hitting Streaks Don't Obey Your Rules:
Evidence that hitting streaks are not
just byproducts of random variation . . 52--57
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Pies, Spies, Roses,
Lines, and Symmetries . . . . . . . . . 58--61
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #10: Once Is Enough 62--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Dror Feitelson Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Stephen M. Stigler Galton Visualizing Bayesian Inference 8--10
Howard Wainer Value-Added Models to Evaluate Teachers:
\em A Cry for Help . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
David Rockoff and
Philip Yates Joe DiMaggio Done It Again \ldots and
Again and Again and Again? . . . . . . . 14--18
Harry Zvi Davis and
Hershey H. Friedman and
Jianming Ye An Ancient Sampling Technique: Flawed,
Surprisingly Good, or Optimal? . . . . . 19--23
Robert E. Burks Jelly Belly Mixing and Uniform
Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . 24--28
Michael Wenz and
Joren Skugrud Tackling the Chart: Two-Point
Conversions and Team Differences in
Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35
Hongmei Liu and
Jay Parker and
Wei Sun Estimating Rates at Which Books Are
Mis-Shelved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Milton W. Loyer and
Gene D. Sprechini Can the Probability of an Event Be
Larger or Smaller Than Each of Its
Component Conditional Probabilities? . . 44--53
Stephen Marks and
Gary Smith The Two-Child Paradox Reborn? . . . . . 54--59
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #11: Definite
Article Rejection! . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Aleksandra Slavkovic and
Stephen E. Fienberg O Privacy, Where Art Thou? What Should
Privacy Mean to You? . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Stephen E. Fienberg O privacy, Where art thou? . . . . . . . 7--9
Tristan Barnett How Much to Bet on Video Poker . . . . . 10--14
Roland C. Deutsch Looking Back at South Africa: Analyzing
and Reviewing the 2010 FIFA World Cup 15--23
James R. Lackritz A New Analysis of the Golf Handicap
System: Does the Better Player Have an
Advantage? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--34
David Rockoff and
Heike Hofmann How Good Is Your Eyeballing? . . . . . . 35--45
W. J. Hurley and
Andrey Pavlov There Will Be Blood: On the Risk-Return
Characteristics of a Blackjack Counting
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--52
Mark Glickman and
Meena Doshi Here's to Your Health: Assessing the
Seasonality of Influenza . . . . . . . . 53--59
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: The First Step
Toward Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #12:
Straightforward! . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Editor's letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Sam Behesta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Rebecca E. Trempel and
Sergey Y. Kyrychenko and
Matthew J. Moore Dòes Banning Hand-Held Cell Phòne Use
While Driving Reduce Còllisiòns? . . . . . 6--11
Michael A. Rutter Ranking Women's College Hockey Teams:
Ties and Home Ice . . . . . . . . . . . 12--22
Daniel Guzmán Speaking stats to justice: Expert
testimony in a Guatemalan human rights
trial based on statistical sampling . . 23--29
Jimin Ding and
Jürgen Symanzik and
Abbass Sharif and
Jia Wang and
Stephen Duntley and
William D. Shannon Powerful Actigraphy Data Through
Functional Representation . . . . . . . 30--36
David McCarthy Estimating Different Sources of
Variation and Predicting Tournament
Outcomes in Professional Bowling . . . . 37--46
Johan Bring and
Marcus Thuresson Three Points for a Win in Soccer: Is It
Fair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: How Much Is Tenure
Worth? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Aleksandra Slavkovic and
John M. Abowd and
Lars Vilhuber O Privacy, Where Art Thou? Science,
Confidentiality, and the Public Interest 58--62
John M. Abowd and
Lars Vilhuber O privacy, where art thou? . . . . . . . 59--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #13: Don't Be Mean 63--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Anonymous About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Anonymous Editor's letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Tim K. Keyes Model Risk and the Great Recession . . . 6--16
Kristen A. Lampe Reconciling Wild Cards and Poker . . . . 17--24
Benjamin Alamar and
Keith Goldner The Blindside Project: Measuring the
Impact of Individual Offensive Linemen 25--29
Mervyn Stone The Owl and the Nightingale: The
Quetelet/Nightingale Nexus . . . . . . . 30--34
Fernando Mata and
Sarah Watts Analyzing the Placement Odds of Favorite
Horses in the Thoroughbred Racing
Industry of the British Isles . . . . . 35--40
Aleksandra Slavkovic and
Saki Kinney and
Alan Karr O Privacy, Where Art Thou? Research
Access to Restricted-Use Data . . . . . 41--45
Shane Jensen A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Evaluating General Managers in Baseball 47--49
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics Open Data and Open
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53
Anonymous Ethics and statistics . . . . . . . . . 51--54
Howard Wainer and
Lawrence Hubert Visual Revelations: A Remarkable Horse:
An Inquiry into the Accuracy of Medical
Predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57
Christian Robert and
Kenneth Lange Book Reviews: \booktitleNumerical
Analysis for Statisticians . . . . . . . 58--59
Kenneth Lange and
Shravan Vasishth and
Michael Broe and
Neal Stephenson Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--61
Shravan Vasishth and
Michael Broe The Foundations of Statistics: A
Simulation-Based Approach . . . . . . . 59--61
Neal Stephenson Anathem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #14: Outcome
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Erik L. Heiny and
Robert L. Heiny An $ 11$-Year Study of the Relative
Importance of Driving Accuracy and
Driving Distance on Scoring Average on
the PGA Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--14
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Dalene Stangl and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Kari Lock Morgan Taking a Chance in the Classroom:
Uncounted Votes: A Case Study in
Analyzing Aggregated Data . . . . . . . 18--23
Anonymous Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Answers
Questions About: `\booktitleThe Theory
That Would Not Die' . . . . . . . . . . 24--29
Tatsuki Koyama Length of The Beatles' Songs . . . . . . 30--33
Aleksandra Slavkovic and
Jerry Reiter O Privacy, Where Art Thou?: Statistical
Disclosure Limitation Research and
Practice: Fascinating and Growing Areas
of Importance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
Shane Jensen and
Andrew C. Thomas A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
When Can You Blame Your Tiles in
Scrabble? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--42
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Moral Statistics and
the Thematic Maps of Joseph Fletcher . . 43--46
Andrew Gelman and
Eric Loken Ethics and Statistics: Statisticians:
When We Teach, We Don't Practice What We
Preach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Christian Robert Book Review: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne,
\booktitleThe Theory That Would Not Die:
Hardcover: 320 + xiv pages, Publisher:
Yale University Press (first edition,
May 2011), Language: English, ISBN-10:
0-300-16969-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Stephen Ziliak and
Deirdre McCloskey Book Review: \booktitleThe Cult of
Significance: Hardcover: 322 + xxiv
pages, Publisher: The University of
Michigan Press (First edition, Feb.
2008), Language: English, ISBN-13:
978-0-472-05007-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53
Steve Brooks and
Andrew Gelman and
Galin Jones and
Xiao-Li Meng Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Hardcover: 619
pages, Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Press (first edition, May 2011),
Language: English, ISBN-10:
1-4200-7941-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Z. Karian and
E. J. Dudewicz Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Fitting Statistical Distributions with
R: Hardcover: xlv + 1672 pages + 1
CD-ROM, Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor and
Francis Group, Chapman & Hall, Boca Raton
(first edition, Oct. 2010), Language:
English, ISBN-13: 978-1-58488-711-9 . . 56--57
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #15: Outcome
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Dennis House and
Carl F. Blackman and
Andrew Gelman Letters to the Editor: Responses to
Gelman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Scotland C. Leman and
Leanna House Improving Mr. Miyagi's Coaching Style:
Teaching Data Analytics with Interactive
Data Visualizations . . . . . . . . . . 4--12
Adam Kucharski The Family Tree of an Epidemic . . . . . 13--16
Alden L. Gross An Exploratory Data Analysis of a
Graduate Student (N=1) . . . . . . . . . 17--26
Maya Bar-Hillel and
Ro'i Zultan We Sing the Praise of Good Displays: How
Gamblers Bet in Casino Roulette . . . . 27--30
Laura Taylor Competing Risks in Basketball \ldots
Competing Risks in Basketball \ldots
Competing Risks in Basketball \ldots . . 31--36
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Multiplicity Control in
Large Data Sets Presents New Challenges
and Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Dalene Stangl and
Kari Lock Morgan Taking a Chance in the Classroom:
Exploring Google's Transparency Report 41--45
Shane Jensen A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Baseball Playoffs Are a Coin Toss . . . 46--48
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: When Nothing Is Not
Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics: Ethics in Medical
Trials: Where Does Statistics Fit In? 52--54
Alessandra Iacobucci and
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitleThe Art of R
Programming: A Tour of Statistical
Software Design, by Norman Matloff . . . 55--56
Christian Robert and
William M. Boldstad Understanding Computational Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Christian Robert and
Ronald Christensen and
Wesley Johnson and
Adam Branscum and
Timothy Hanson Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis . . . . 58--60
Christian Robert and
Ioannis Ntzoufras Bayesian Modeling Using WinBUGS . . . . 60--61
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #16: Logical
Shortcomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Sam Behseta and
Jo Hardin Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Darrel Ince The Problem of Reproducibility . . . . . 4--7
Christopher D. Barr and
Jukka-Pekka Onnela Establishing a Culture of
Reproducibility and Openness in Medical
Research with an Emphasis on the
Training Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Xiaohui Zhao and
Keith Dowd and
Cynthia A. Searcy Assessing Statistics and Research
Methodology in the MCAT Exam . . . . . . 11--17
Mary J. Kwasny and
Constantine Daskalakis Career Issues Pertaining to Teaching
Introductory Biostatistics in a Medical
Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
Dalene Stangl and
Allison Dorogi and
Kyu Seo Kim and
Josh Latner and
Daniel Li and
Clara Starkweather and
Cynthia Wang and
Michelle Wu and
Young In Yun and
Lisa Zhang Transforming Introductory Biostatistics
Education: A Decision-Theoretic
Perspective Using Deliberate Practice
and Team-Based Learning . . . . . . . . 23--30
Katharine Brieger and
Johanna Hardin Medicine, Statistics, and Education: The
Inextricable Link . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
Johanna Hardin Changes Across 25 Years of Statistics in
Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
Mark Glickman and
Sowmya R. Rao and
Gary Shapiro and
Theresa Diaz Here's to Your Health: Use of
GPS-Enabled Mobile Devised to Conduct
Health Surveys: Child Mortality in
Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--42
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics: Statistics for
Cigarette Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . 43--46
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Big Data Hits the Big
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49
Shane Jensen and
Abraham Wyner A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Can the Skill Level of a Game of Chance
Be Measured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--53
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Cheating: Some Ways
to Detect It Badly . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Christian Robert Principles of Applied Statistics . . . . 58--59
Christian Robert Large-Scale Inference: Empirical Bayes
Methods for Estimation, Testing, and
Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Christian Robert A Whistle-Stop Tour of Statistics . . . 61--61
Christian Robert Correlations Between the Physical and
Social Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #17 . . . . . . . . 63--64
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Norma Faris Hubele and
Mark W. Arndt Vehicle Safety Standard Update: A Case
Study in a Regulatory Debate Using
Statistical Models . . . . . . . . . . . 4--12
Prakash Gorroochurn Some Laws and Problems of Classical
Probability and How Cardano Anticipated
Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20
Christian Robert and
Sam Behseta Interview with: Persi Diaconis . . . . . 21--25
Mitchell R. Watnik and
Richard A. Levine If We Build It, Will They Compete? . . . 26--31
Jonathan L. Wilson Prediction Markets: How Accurate Are
They? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--38
Julia Lane O Privacy, Where Art Thou?: Protecting
Privacy and Confidentiality in an Era of
Big Data Access . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging --- Introduction to a
Neuroimaging Modality . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Dalene Stangl and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Kari Lock Morgan Taking a Chance in the Classroom: Making
the Old New Again . . . . . . . . . . . 46--49
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Waiting for Achilles 50--51
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics: Ethics and the
Statistical Use of Prior Information . . 52--54
Sophie Donnet and
Christian Robert Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology
(second edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Sophie Donnet Statistical Thinking in Epidemiology . . 56--57
Christian Robert The Universe in Zero Words . . . . . . . 57--58
Christian Robert Simulating Nature . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Christian Robert A Wealth of Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
Christian Robert Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth . . 61--61
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #18: Plus or Minus 63--64
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Lisa M. Sullivan and
Marie Davidian and
Anita L. DeStefano and
Roslyn A. Stone Building the Biostatistics Pipeline:
Summer Institutes for Training in
Biostatistics (SIBS) . . . . . . . . . . 4--9
Stephen J. Robinson How to Beat Kindergartners at Battleship 10--15
Bhojnarine R. Rambharat Statistical Intelligence Units . . . . . 16--21
Christian Robert \em Special Issue on George Casella's
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Data, Data, Everywhere
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--37
Aleksandra Slavkovic and
Anne-Sophie Charest O Privacy, Where Art Thou?: Privacy
Protection for the European Census Hub 38--41
Dalene Stangl and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Kari Lock Morgan Taking a Chance in the Classroom: The
American Community Survey . . . . . . . 42--46
Shane Jensen A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Salaries and Wins in Baseball . . . . . 47--52
Howard Wainer and
Polina Harik and
John Neter Visual Revelations: Stigler's Law of
Eponymy and Marey's Train Schedule: Did
Serjev Do It Before Ibry, and What About
Jules Petiet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Andrew Gelman and
Mark Palko Ethics and Statistics: The War on Data 57--60
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #19: No Real
Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Stephen Blyth Of Wranglers and Bankers: Reflections on
applied statistics from a career in
finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Donald A. Redelmeier and
Christopher J. Yarnell Can Tax Deadlines Cause Fatal Mistakes? 8--14
Germano D'Abramo How to Defuse Earth Impact Threat
Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--23
Sam Behseta and
Michelle Dunn Discussing \em Principles of Uncertainty
with \em Jay Kadane . . . . . . . . . . 24--27
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Big Data Computing . . 28--32
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Kari Lock Morgan and
Dalene Stangl Taking a Chance in the Classroom:
Looking Good on Course Evaluations . . . 33--37
Robert Cook and
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Plotting Evidence to
Affect Social Policy: Guns, Murders,
Life, Death, and Ignorance in
Contemporary America . . . . . . . . . . 38--44
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics: They'd Rather Be
Rigorous Than Right . . . . . . . . . . 45--49
Christian Robert Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical
Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks 50--51
Brendan McCabe Methods for Estimation and Inference in
Modern Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
Christian Robert Paradoxes in Scientific Inference . . . 52--54
Christian Robert In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations
That Changed the World . . . . . . . . . 54--58
Christian Robert Guesstimation: Solving the World's
Problems on the Back of a Cocktail
Napkin and Guesstimation 2.0: Solving
Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin 58--59
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #20: Uncertainty 60--62
Sander Greenland Should a Meta-Analyst Want the
Likelihood or the Posterior from Each
Study? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Marcello Pagano and
Sarah Anoke Mommy's Baby, Daddy's Maybe: A Closer
Look at Regression to the Mean . . . . . 4--9
Gavin Stewart and
Kerrie Mengersen and
Georgina M. Mace and
Jeff A. McNeely and
Jegar Pitchforth and
Ben Collen To Fund or Not to Fund: Using Bayesian
Networks to Make Decisions About
Conserving Our World's Endangered
Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--17
Paul R. Rosenbaum Using Differential Comparisons in
Observational Studies . . . . . . . . . 18--25
Ira Horowitz and
Jim Lackritz The Value of $s$ at Which a Major League
Player with Multiple Hitting Streaks of
at Least $s$ Games Might Be Termed
`Streak Prone' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Shane Jensen A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Measuring Player Contributions in Hockey 34--38
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Symbolic Data Analysis 39--42
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Dalene Stangl Taking A Chance in the Classroom: A
Celebration of Data . . . . . . . . . . 43--46
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: How the Rule of 72
Can Provide Guidance to Advance Your
Wealth, Weight, Career, and Gas Mileage 47--48
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics: It's Too Hard to
Publish Criticisms and Obtain Data for
Republication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52
Pierre Jacob Probability and Statistics for Engineers
and Scientists (9th Edition) . . . . . . 53--53
Jean-Bernard Saloman Probability and Statistics (Fourth
Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Merlin Keller Statistics for the Life Sciences (4th
Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Marc Hoffmann Stationary Stochastic Processes . . . . 56--57
Marc Hoffmann Statistical Methods for Stochastic
Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #21: Cogitation . . 59--60
Eric R. Teoh Beware the Ides of March? . . . . . . . 61--64
Sam Behseta Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Aleksandra Slavkovic Steve the Matchmaker: The Marriage of
Statistics and Computer Science in the
World of Data Privacy . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Judith M. Tanur Steve's Contributions to Sample Surveys,
Censuses, and Federal Statistics . . . . 8--11
Edoardo M. Airoldi Stephen E. Fienberg's Contributions to
Categorical Data Analysis and the Social
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Stephen Stigler Book Review: Stephen Fienberg:
\booktitleCause or Effect? Node or Edge?
A Comparative Study . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Edward I. George Steve the Bayesian . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Sam Behseta and
Aleksandra Slavkovic Interview with Steve Fienberg . . . . . 18--29
Howard Wainer Taking a Chance: An Interview with
William F. Eddy and Stephen E. Fienberg 30--34
Michael D. Larsen and
Alexander F. Wakim and
Reid Rottach and
Yang Cheng Nonparametric Comparisons of Current
Population Survey Panel Estimates . . . 35--41
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: The Arts --- Digitized,
Quantified, and Analyzed . . . . . . . . 42--45
Rachel Schutt Taking a Chance in the Classroom:
Embracing the Ambiguity and Potential of
Data Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics: Is It Possible to
Be an Ethicist Without Being Mean to
People? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--55
Jean-Louis Fouley The BUGS Book: A Practical Introduction
to Bayesian Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
Frank Emmert-Streib Biostatistics: A Computing Approach . . 59--60
Beno\^\it Beck Advanced Bayesian Methods for Medical
Test Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitleR For Dummies . . 61--61
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #22: Judge for
Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Statistics and the Ontario Lottery
Retailer Scandal . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--9
H. Dean Johnson The Conduct of Statistical Consulting
Sessions Between Statisticians and the
Researchers with Whom They Interact: A
Survey of Consulting Clients from
Academic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 10--19
Andee Kaplan and
Eric Hare and
Heike Hofmann and
Dianne Cook Can You Buy a President? Politics After
the Tillman Act . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--30
W. J. Hurley and
Jack Brimberg and
Richard Kohar Examining a Gambler's Claims:
Probabilistic Fact-Checking and Don
Johnson's Extraordinary Blackjack
Winning Streak . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--37
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Functional Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Shannon McClintock and
Dalene Stangl and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Taking a Chance in the Classroom: The
Real Secret to Genius? Reading Between
the Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--44
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: On the Crucial Role
of Empathy in the Design of
Communications: Genetic Testing as an
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--50
Andrew Gelman and
Eric Loken Ethics and Statistics: The AAA Tranche
of Subprime Science . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
Christian Robert The Most Human Human . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Christian Robert Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread
from Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Julien Sohier Introduction to Probability with Texas
Hold 'Em Examples . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Christian Robert The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics 61--61
Jonathan Berkowitz Goodness of Wit Test #23: Times Are
Changing: A Farewell Puzzle . . . . . . 62--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
John A. Trono and
Philip Yates How Predictable Is the Overall Voting
Pattern in the NCAA Men's Basketball
Post Tournament Poll? . . . . . . . . . 4--12
Michael J. Lopez and
Adrian Esparza and
Michael Lavine and
Jenna Marquard Your Textbook Can't Help You Here: \em
Applying traditional methods to atypical
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20
Derek S. Young Bond, James Bond. A Statistical Look at
Cinema's Most Famous Spy . . . . . . . . 21--27
Jason D. Mitchell and
Li Lian Ong Optimism and the Occult Octopus: \em
Favorites Lose, Underdogs Triumph, and
Spain Finally Wins the World Cup . . . . 28--38
Sam Behseta and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Interview with Jim Berger . . . . . . . 39--43
Kari Lock Morgan and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Dalene Stangl Taking a Chance in the Classroom: Speed
Dating: Exploring Initial Romantic
Attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: On Mice, Badges for
your CV, and the Big Data Backlash
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
Di Cook Visiphilia: A Graphical Expedition into
a Statistics Gradebook . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Life Follows Art:
\em Gaming the Missing Data Algorithm 56--57
Andrew Gelman and
Phillip N. Price Ethics and Statistics: The Commissar for
Traffic Presents the Latest Five-Year
Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Christian Robert \em Statistical Modeling and Computation 61--62
Christian Robert \em Machine Learning, a Probabilistic
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Christian Robert \em Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data 64--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Jim Albert Streakiness in Home Run Hitting . . . . 4--9
Krista Fischer and
Donald A. Berry Statisticians Introduce Science to
International Doping Agency: The Andrus
Veerpalu Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--16
Carl N. Morris Interview with Carl Morris . . . . . . . 17--24
Richard L. Smith and
Scott Powers and
Jessi Cisewski Qualifying Times for the Boston Marathon 25--33
Jason Wilson and
Jarvis Greiner A Curveball Index: \em Quantification of
Breaking Balls for Pitchers . . . . . . 34--40
Benjamin S. Baumer and
Gregory J. Matthews A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
There is No Avoiding WAR . . . . . . . . 41--44
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Take Me Out to the Ball
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
Di Cook Visiphilia: Can Nick Kyrgios Be a Tennis
Champion? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52
Andrew Bray and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Dalene Stangl Taking a Chance in the Classroom: Five
Concrete Reasons Your Students Should Be
Learning to Analyze Data in the
Reproducible Paradigm . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Christian Robert Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence,
Visualization and Statistical Thinking
to Improve Healthcare . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Musing About Changes
in the SAT: Is the College Board Getting
Rid of the Bulldog? . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Stephanie C. Hicks When Women in Statistics Come to Know
Their Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Dalene Stangl Know Your Power: A Panel Discussion by
Past and Future ASA Presidents . . . . . 6--14
Scott Evans An Interview with Janet Wittes,
President of Statistics Collaborative 15--22
Kimberly F. Sellers and
K. Nicole Meyer and
Maria A. Terres and
Samantha Tyner and
Kaitlin Woo Surviving Graduate School: What Happens
in Session, Stays in Session . . . . . . 23--25
Stacy R. Lindborg Influencing --- Even Without Statistics 26--27
Arati Mejdal Making the Most of Social Media . . . . 28--30
Joanne Wendelberger and
Alyson Wilson and
Sandra Stinnett and
Brenda Gaydos Working in Interdisciplinary Teams . . . 31--33
Jane L. Harvill and
Kristen Tecson Two Perspectives on Celebrating Women in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Karen Kafadar Contributions of Women in Science:
Ingredients for Success? . . . . . . . . 37--43
Snehalata Huzurbazar and
Jessi Cisewski and
Bailey Fosdick and
Xia Wang Opportunities at SAMSI and NISS . . . . 44--47
Di Cook Visiphilia: The Gender Gap in Math is
Not Universal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--52
Shannon McClintock Pileggi and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Dalene Stangl Taking a Chance in the Classroom: A
Classroom Project for Generation Z . . . 53--55
Rasmus Bååth The Cartoon Guide to Statistics . . . . 56--56
Rasmus Bååth The Manga Guide to Statistics . . . . . 56--57
Rasmus Bååth The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics 57--57
Rasmus Bååth Introducing Statistics, A Graphic Guide 57--58
Christian Robert Straightforward Statistics:
Understanding the Tools of Research . . 58--59
Christian Robert Foundations of Statistical Algorithms 59--60
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Happiness and Causal
Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Guro Dòrum and
Mariam Mjærum Bouzga Urns and Forensics . . . . . . . . . . . 4--11
Sam Behseta An Interview with Howard Wainer . . . . 12--20
W. J. Hurley Mandatory Drug Testing in the Canadian
Workplace: A Note on the Recent Supreme
Court Decision and Its Effect on the
Misclassification Rate of Non-Drug Users 21--26
Nick Polson and
Jan Hendrik Witte A Bellman View of Jesse Livermore . . . 27--31
Sam Behseta and
Michelle Dunn A Peek into MoMath . . . . . . . . . . . 32--38
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Big Data and Privacy 39--42
A. C. Thomas A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Pucksberry: What We Can Learn from
Hexagonal Plots of NHL Data . . . . . . 43--50
Mary W. Gray The Odds of Justice: $P$-values: What Do
They Prove? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53
Kees Mulder Circular Statistics in R . . . . . . . . 54--54
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics: Disagreements
About the Strength of Evidence . . . . . 55--59
David C. Hoaglin and
Jarvis Greiner and
Jason Wilson Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 60--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Xinping Zhang and
Byran J. Smucker and
Jay Woffington Statistics and Show Business:
Shakespeare Meets Predictive Analytics 4--12
Andrew Vesper Putting the ``Hot Hand'' on Ice . . . . 13--18
Tom Radman and
Erica Rosemond and
Michelle Dunn Calling All Statisticians for the Next
Wave of Biomedical Big Data Discoveries 19--22
Robert Goldman Development of a Biostatistics Major:
The Simmons College Story . . . . . . . 23--25
W. J. Hurley and
Tyler Sauerbrei Handicapping Net Best-Ball Team Matches
in Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
Andrew Gelman and
David Madigan Ethics and Statistics: How is Ethics
Like Logistic Regression? Ethics
decisions, like statistical inferences,
are informative only if they're not too
easy or too hard . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--33
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Now Trending on
Twitter\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Aleksandra Slavkovic and
Fei Yu O Privacy, Where Art Thou?: Genomics and
Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39
Nicholas J. Horton and
Benjamin S. Baumer and
Hadley Wickham Taking a Chance in the Classroom:
Setting the Stage for Data Science:
Integration of Data Management Skills in
Introductory and Second Courses in
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--50
Mary W. Gray The Odds of Justice: Where is the
Reverend Bayes When Needed? . . . . . . 51--53
Bruce A. Craig and
Zachary Hass and
Sean McCabe A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
Easy to Criticize, Harder to Verify:
Fourth and Goal in Post-2011 NFL
Overtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Howard Wainer and
Donald B. Rubin Visual Revelations: Causal Inference and
Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Zalman Usiskin and
Kathy Hall The Relationships Between Statistics and
Other Subjects in the K--12 Curriculum 4--18
Anna Bargagliotti and
Christine Franklin The Statistical Education of Teachers:
Preparing Teachers to Teach Statistics 19--27
Daren Starnes and
Anna Martin The AP Statistics Exam: An Insider's
Guide to its Distinctive Features . . . 28--37
Benjamin Hedrick The AP Statistics Curriculum: Past,
Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Andrew Zieffler and
Michael D. Huberty A Catalyst for Change in the High School
Math Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Kay Endriss and
Michael MacWilliams Data Surfing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Hollylynne Lee and
Dalene Stangl Taking a Chance in the Classroom:
Professional Development MOOCs for
Teachers of Statistics in K--12 . . . . 56--63
Scott Evans Editor's Note: Stay-tuned for Part II of
``Nurturing Statistical Thinking before
College'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Eric J. Simoneau STATS4STEM: Data, Computing, and
Assessment Resources for High-School
Statistics Students . . . . . . . . . . 4--11
Peter R. Turner and
Rachel Levy and
Kathleen Fowler Collaboration in the Mathematical
Sciences Community on Mathematical
Modeling Across the Curriculum . . . . . 12--18
Robert (Bob) W. Hayden Statistics: From College to Pre-college 19--25
Mary J. Kwasny Statistics in K--12: Educators,
Students, and Us: Challenges and
resources for K--12 educators and
students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
John Holcomb Consider a Career in Statistics . . . . 30--33
Anonymous A Conversation About Statistics Before
College: Barriers and Opportunities for
Statistics in Secondary Education . . . 34--42
Nicole Lazar and
Christine Franklin The Big Picture: Preparing Students for
a Data-centric World . . . . . . . . . . 43--45
Daniel Kaplan Taking a Chance in the Classroom:
Modeling Statistical Thinking . . . . . 46--51
Mary W. Gray The Odds of Justice: Leveling the
Playing Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--54
Stephen ``Shep'' Roey and
Tom Krenzke and
Robert Perkins O Privacy, Where Art Thou?: Can `Dirty'
Data Be Your Friend? Considering the
Impact on Disclosure Risk as Illustrated
in the Education Data Context . . . . . 55--59
Richard Layton Influences of Reproducible Reporting on
Work Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Steve Pierson and
Karen Kafadar Statisticians and Forensic Science: A
Perfect Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--8
Cedric Neumann and
Hal Stern Forensic Examination of Fingerprints:
Past, Present, and Future . . . . . . . 9--16
James M. Curran and
Bruce S. Weir Modern Methods of DNA Interpretation . . 17--26
Edward K. Cheng A Bayesian Look at the Baby Annie Case 27--31
Sandy Zabell The Virtues of Being Blind . . . . . . . 32--36
Cedric Neumann and
David Kaye and
Graham Jackson and
Valerie Reyna and
Anjali Ranadive Presenting Quantitative and Qualitative
Information on Forensic Science Evidence
in the Courtroom . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--43
Mark J. Lancaster An Exploration of Statistical Issues in
Forensic Science Related to Document
Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48
Sonja Starr The Odds of Justice: Actuarial Risk
Prediction and the Criminal Justice
System. Mary W. Gray, Column Editor . . 49--51
Robert A. Nathenson A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages: A
Historical Tracking of Parity in
Baseball. Shane Jensen, Column Editor 52--60
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Defeating Deception:
Escaping the Shackles of Truthiness by
Learning to Think like a Data Scientist 61--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Michael Lavine and
J. Roger Brothers and
Kenneth J. Lohmann and
Isaac Lavine Sea Turtles: A Case of Animal Magnetism 4--9
Hannah L. Buckley and
Bradley S. Case and
Ronny Vallejos and
J. Julio Camarero and
Emilia Gutiérrez and
Eryuan Liang and
Yafeng Wang and
Aaron M. Ellison Detecting Ecological Patterns Along
Environmental Gradients: Alpine Treeline
Ecotones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--15
Kiona Ogle and
Jarrett J. Barber Plant and Ecosystem Memory . . . . . . . 16--22
Christopher K. Wikle and
William B. Leeds and
Mevin B. Hooten Models for Ecological Models: Ocean
Primary Productivity . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
Sydne Record and
Noah Charney Modeling Species Ranges . . . . . . . . 31--37
Nicholas J. Gotelli Checkerboards and Missing Species
Combinations: Are Ecological Communities
Assembled by Chance? . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Tanujit Dey and
Walter Hickey and
Bimal Parakkal and
Wojbor A. Woyczynski Deepwater Horizon: Locating Submerged
Oil in Ocean Water Using the $k$-means
Clustering Technique . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Colin Rundel and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Taking a Chance in the Classroom: La
Quinta is Spanish for ``Next to
Denny's'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--57
Mary W. Gray The Odds of Justice: Statistics Go to
School and Then to Court . . . . . . . . 58--60
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Imagining Genetics: A
Tale of Two Modalities . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Linda Steinberg and
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: VAMs and Baseball 64--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Sam Tyner Using the R Package \pkggeomnet:
Visualizing Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
of Africans, 1514--1866 . . . . . . . . 4
Abigail Smith Zika is Here, and We Need Statistics . . 17
Michael Huber Why Babe Ruth Never Hit for the Cycle,
and Other Hitting for the Cycle Tidbits 27
Michael Proschan FDA Advisory Committees: The Role of
Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Edward J. Stanek III Predicting the Unknown --- Sampling,
Smoke, and Mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Scott Evans and
Cyrus Mehta and
Nitin Patel Creators of Pioneering Software and
Clinical Services Company Look Back and
to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitleStatistics Done
Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide . . . 58
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitleMeasuring
Statistical Evidence Using Relative
Belief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: Evidence in the 2016
Presidential Campaign . . . . . . . . . 62
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
David A. Friedenberg and
Michael A. Schwemmer Moving a Paralyzed Hand --- A Biomedical
Big Data Success Story . . . . . . . . . 4--13
Michael Bossé and
Eric Marland and
Gregory Rhoads and
Michael Rudziewicz Searching for the Black Box:
Misconceptions of Linearity . . . . . . 14--23
Jason Mulholland and
Shane T. Jensen Projecting the Draft and NFL Performance
of Wide Receiver and Tight End Prospects 24--31
Anonymous Statistics Books to Read for Pleasure 32--33
Scott Evans and
Dennis Lock and
Stephanie Kovalchik Careers in Sports Analytics-Highlights
of an ASA Webinar . . . . . . . . . . . 34--46
Mary W. Gray The Odds of Justice: Who Gets to Vote? 47--51
Brian Freilich A Statistician Reads the Sports Pages:
The Value of Coaching Tenure in the NBA 52--60
Scott Evans Brief Bits of Humor in Statistics: ``A
Statistician is \ldots'' . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous International Prize in Statistics
Awarded to Sir David Cox for Survival
Analysis Model: Cox Model Applied in
Medicine, Science, and Engineering . . . 62--63
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Robert T. O'Neill and
Marcia A. Testa Let's Go to the Videotape: Promoting the
visibility and understanding of
regulatory science by using case studies
from publicly available FDA information 4--14
Toshimitsu Hamasaki and
Scott Evans Interview with Professor Geert
Molenberghs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--23
William F. Eddy Remembering Steve Fienberg . . . . . . . 24--25
Jim Albert and
Stephanie Kovalchik The Do's and Dont's of Sports Metrics:
The Tennis ATP Leaderboard . . . . . . . 26--34
Richard Ball Anti-isomorphisms in Classical
Hypothesis Testing and Children's
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Andrew Gelman Ethics and Statistics: Honesty and
Transparency Are Not Enough . . . . . . 37--39
Christian Robert Une Vie Br\`eve (One Hundred Twenty-One
Days) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Christian Robert Statistical Rethinking . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Christian Robert Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers,
Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: The Grabovsky Curve 44--48
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Donna Brogan Challenging Sex Discrimination:
Reflections over Seven Decades . . . . . 4--18
Cathy Furlong Leadership Development through Volunteer
Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--21
Joanne R. Wendelberger Scaling Up to Address Data Science
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Susmita Datta Advancing Omics Data Analysis: A Call
for Participation by a Statistician in
the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
Erin Wiley Cause and Effective Communication . . . 30--37
Kimberly F. Sellers and
Emma K. T. Benn and
Maria Garcia and
Meghan Kellam Addressing Implicit Bias Among Women
Statisticians and Data Scientists . . . 38--41
Ming-Wen An and
Donna LaLonde ASA's Committee on Funded Research: How
Can It Help \em You? . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
Dalene Stangl From `Truth or Dare' to `Truth and Dare' 45--53
Dalene Stangl and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Taking a Chance in the Classroom: An
Interview with Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel . . 54--59
Mary W. Gray The Odds of Justice: Adjusting the Odds 60--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Kevin Bales Unlocking the Statistics of Slavery . . 4--12
Sheldon X. Zhang and
Kyle Vincent Strategies to Estimate Global Prevalence
of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation 13--20
Jacqueline Joudo Larsen and
Davina P. Durgana Measuring Vulnerability and Estimating
Prevalence of Modern Slavery . . . . . . 21--29
Jacqueline Joudo Larsen and
Pablo Diego-Rosell Using Surveys to Estimate the National
Prevalences of Modern Slavery:
Experience and Lessons Learned . . . . . 30--35
Davina P. Durgana and
Graham K. Brown The Politics of Global Data Reporting: A
Triangulated Solution for Estimating
Modern Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--40
Maarten Cruyff and
Jan van Dijk and
Peter G. M. van der Heijden The Challenge of Counting Victims of
Human Trafficking: Not on the record: A
multiple systems estimation of the
numbers of human trafficking victims in
the Netherlands in 2010--2015 by year,
age, gender, and type of exploitation 41--49
Davina P. Durgana and
Paul L. Zador Fighting Slavery through Statistics: A
Discussion of Five Promising Methods to
Estimate Prevalence in the United States 50--53
Fiona David Modern Slavery --- From Statistics to
Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--60
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: The Birth of
Statistical Graphics and Their European
Childhood: On the historical development
of W. E. B. Du Bois's graphical
narrative of a people . . . . . . . . . 61--67
Carl Lagoze and
Lars Vilhuber O Privacy, Where Art Thou? Making
Confidential Data Part of Reproducible
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--72
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Peter F. Craigmile Editorial: The Role of Statistics in
Climate Research . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Peter Guttorp How We Know that the Earth is Warming 6--11
Peter F. Craigmile and
Bo Li Instruments, Proxies, and Simulations:
Exploring Imperfect Measures of Climate 12--18
Mikyoung Jun Climate Model Intercomparison . . . . . 19--25
Dorit Hammerling Climate Change Detection and
Attribution: Letting Go of the Null? . . 26--29
Eric Gilleland and
Richard W. Katz and
Philippe Naveau Quantifying the Risk of Extreme Events
under Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . 30--36
Murali Haran and
Won Chang and
Klaus Keller and
Robert Nicholas and
David Pollard Statistics and the Future of the
Antarctic Ice Sheet . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
Christopher K. Wikle Ecological Impacts of Climate Change:
the Importance of Temporal and Spatial
Synchrony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
Howard H. Chang and
Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat and
Yang Liu Projecting Health Impacts of Climate
Change: Embracing an Uncertain Future 55--61
Azka Javaid and
Xiaofei Wang and
Nicholas J. Horton Taking a Chance in the Classroom: Using
a ``Study of Studies'' to Help
Statistics Students Assess Research
Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--66
Aimee Schwab-McCoy Teaching Statistics in the Health
Sciences: Life on an Island: Using Peer
Consulting in Applied Statistics Courses 67--72
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Robin Mejia and
Megan Price Working Where Statistics and Human
Rights Meet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
David Hemenway Firearms Data, and an Ode to Data
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--11
Matt Jans and
Bianca D. M. Wilson and
Jody L. Herman Measuring Aspects of Sexuality and
Gender: A Sexual Human Rights Challenge
for Science and Official Statistics . . 12--20
Arthur Kendall Maryland Rent Courts Fail to Protect
Human Rights to Due Process and Fair
Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
Phuong Pham and
Patrick Vinck Human Rights and Mixed Methods . . . . . 29--37
Patrick Ball and
Megan Price The Statistics of Genocide . . . . . . . 38--45
Kimmo Vehkalahti and
Juuso Koponen and
Hanna Kuusi From Russia with Love to \em Infovis:
Graphic Train Schedules Reflect the
History of Finland . . . . . . . . . . . 46--53
Mary W. Gray (Column Editor) The Odds of Justice: Is Statistics Down
for the Count? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Nicole Lazar (Column Editor) The Big Picture: Divide and Combine to
Conquer Big Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59
Christian Robert Testing R Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
Christian Robert Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact
from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a
Data Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Christian Robert The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom 61--62
Christian Robert Errors, Blunders, and Lies . . . . . . . 62--63
Christian Robert What Makes Variables Random: Probability
for the Applied Researcher . . . . . . . 63--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Laura J. Freeman and
Catherine Warner Informing the Warfighter --- Why
Statistical Methods Matter in Defense
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--11
Ronald D. Fricker, Jr. and
Steven E. Rigdon Disease Surveillance: Detecting and
Tracking Outbreaks Using Statistics . . 12--22
David Banks Adversarial Risk Analysis . . . . . . . 23--29
Douglas M. Ray and
Paul A. Roediger Adaptive Testing of DoD Systems with
Binary Response . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--37
Samuel E. Buttrey and
Lyn R. Whitaker and
Jonathan K. Alt Developments in the Statistical Modeling
of Military Recruiting . . . . . . . . . 38--44
Susan M. Sanchez Data Farming: Reaping Insights from
Simulation Experiments . . . . . . . . . 45--52
Beverly L. Wood and
Megan Mocko and
Michelle Everson and
Nicholas J. Horton and
Paul Velleman Updated Guidelines, Updated Curriculum:
The \em GAISE College Report and
Introductory Statistics for the Modern
Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
Mary W. Gray (Column Editor) The Odds of Justice: Whom Shall We Kill?
How Shall We Kill Them? . . . . . . . . 60--61
Howard Wainer (Column Editor) and
Michael Friendly Visual Revelations: Ancient
Visualizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Stephen M. Stigler and
Margaret L. Stigler Luck and Skill in Tournament Golf . . . 4--13
Leonard Cupingood Why a 1-for-45 Record in the Kentucky
Derby Does Not Necessarily Equate to
Underachievement . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--19
David Cottrell and
Michael C. Herron All in the Family: German Twins'
Finishing Times in the 2016 Women's
Olympic Marathon . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--28
Harold Sackrowitz The Point(s)-After-Touchdown Decision
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Gabriel Chandler and
Simon Rosenbaum An Analysis of the First Round of the
MLB First-Year Player Draft . . . . . . 37--43
Erik L. Heiny and
Cody C. Frisby An Ordinal Logistic Regression Model for
the Masters Golf Tournament . . . . . . 44--58
Craig A. Heard and
A. John Bailer Defying the Odds: How Likely Are We to
See Another Team Pull a `Leicester' and
Win the EPL? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66
Rebecca Wexler The Odds of Justice: Code of Silence:
\em How private companies hide flaws in
the software that governments use to
decide who goes to prison and who gets
out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--72
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Arnold Barnett Epic Fail? The Polls and the 2016
Presidential Election . . . . . . . . . 4--8
Richard D. Gill and
Piet Groeneboom and
Peter de Jong Elementary Statistics on Trial --- The
Case of Lucia de Berk . . . . . . . . . 9--15
Jose R. Zubizarreta and
Dylan S. Small and
Paul R. Rosenbaum A Simple Example of Isolation in
Building a Natural Experiment . . . . . 16--23
Daniel H. Mowrey and
Jonathan Potts and
Susan Spruill and
Walter Stroup and
Michiko I. Wolcott ``With Great Power Comes Great
Responsibility'': Harnessing the
Extraordinary Power of Statistics . . . 24--28
Briana Cameron and
23andMe Research Team and
Robert Gentleman Mobile Apps versus Web Browsers: A
Comparison of Self-administered Survey
Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Donald A. Redelmeier and
Eldar Shafir The Lunacy of Motorcycle Mortality . . . 37--44
Deborah V. Dawson and
Derek R. Blanchette Meta-analysis: Can We Extract Gold from
the Biomedical Literature? . . . . . . . 45--50
Chris Rohlfs Taking a Chance in the Classroom: Top 10
Reasons Not to Drop Insignificant
Regressors: A Statistical Listicle . . . 51--56
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
John P. A. Ioannidis Why Most Published Research Findings Are
False . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--13
Tatsuki Koyama Length of the Beatles' Songs . . . . . . 14--17
Kevin Bales Unlocking the Statistics of Slavery . . 18--26
Derek S. Young Bond. James Bond. A Statistical Look at
Cinema's Most Famous Spy . . . . . . . . 27--35
Peter Guttorp How We Know that the Earth is Warming 36--41
Miguel A. Hernán and
John Hsu and
Brian Healy A Second Chance to Get Causal Inference
Right: A Classification of Data Science
Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--49
Tom Adams Book Excerpt: \booktitleImproving Your
NCAA\reg Bracket with Statistics . . . . 50--54
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Big Data and Privacy 55--58
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitlePragmatics of
Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitle10 Great Ideas
About Chance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitleIndependent
Random Sampling Methods . . . . . . . . 62--63
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitleComputational
Methods for Numerical Analysis with R 63--63
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
David C. Hoaglin Another Look at Meta-analysis . . . . . 4--5
Leonard M. Wapner Fair and Efficient by Chance . . . . . . 6--10
Paul Kvam Demonstrating the Consequences of Quota
Sampling in Graduate Student Admissions 11--16
Tom Krenzke and
Jianzhu Li Replicating Published Data Tables to
Assess Sensitivity in Subsequent
Analyses and Mapping . . . . . . . . . . 17--27
Sarjinder Singh Box Plot Versus Human Face . . . . . . . 28--30
Jingchen (Monika) Hu Taking a Chance in the Classroom:
Teaching Upper-level Undergraduate
Statistics through a Shared/Hybrid Model 31--36
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Teaching Statistics in the Health
Sciences: Teaching to, and Learning
from, the Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Nicole Lazar The Big Picture: Crowdsourcing Your Way
to Big Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--46
Christian Robert The Beauty of Mathematics in Computer
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Christian Robert AIQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Christian Robert Let the Evidence Speak . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Christian Robert Is that a big number? . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Christian Robert Surprises in Probability-Seventeen Short
Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
Howard Wainer Visual Revelations: A Statistician Reads
the Obituaries: On the Relative Effects
of Race and Crime on Employment . . . . 53--56
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Jessi Cisewski-Kehe and
Chad Schafer Special Issue on Astrostatistics . . . . 4--5
Sheridan B. Green and
Abby Mintz and
Xin Xu and
Jessi Cisewski-Kehe Topology of Our Cosmology with
Persistent Homology . . . . . . . . . . 6--13
Collin A. Politsch and
Rupert A. C. Croft Mapping the Large-Scale Universe through
Intergalactic Silhouettes . . . . . . . 14--19
Peter E. Freeman Just How Far Away is that Galaxy,
Anyway? \em Estimating Galaxy Distances
Using Low-Resolution Photometric Data 20--26
Gwendolyn Eadie Statistics for Stellar Systems: From
Globular Clusters to Clusters of
Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--34
Eric D. Feigelson ARIMA for the Stars: How Statistics
Finds Exoplanets . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
Mark R. Segal and
Jacob W. Segal Identifying Milky Way Open Clusters With
Extreme Kinematics using PRIM . . . . . 41--49
David J. Corliss Time Series Clustering Methods for
Analysis of Astronomical Data . . . . . 50--58
Mary W. Gray (Column Editor) Alexa Did It! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
David C. Hoaglin Reconsidering the Human Face as Boxplot 62--63
Scott Evans Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Frank Bretz and
Willi Maurer and
Dong Xi Replicability, Reproducibility, and
Multiplicity in Drug Development . . . . 4--11
Mouna Akacha Choosing Measures of Treatment Benefit:
Estimands and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . 12--17
Yunyun Jiang and
Diane Uschner Romantic Comedies and Responsive
Adaptive Randomization in Clinical
Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
Susan Halabi and
Donna Niedzwiecki Advancing Precision Oncology Through
Biomarker-Driven Trials: Theory vs.
Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--31
I-Chun Lai and
Chin-Fu Hsiao and
Lih-jiuan Hsu and
Churn-Shiouh Gau Clinical Trials in Global Drug
Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Amanda S. Hering and
Daniel Cooley 20 Years of Statistics at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research . . . . 40--43
R. B. Campbell When Did History Occur? . . . . . . . . 44--45
Konstantinos Pelechrinis and
Ronald Yurko and
Sam Ventura Reducing Concussions in the NFL: A
Data-Driven Approach . . . . . . . . . . 46--56
Sarah McDonald and
Nicholas J. Horton Data Scraping, Ingestation, and
Modeling: Bringing Data from cars.com
into the Intro Stats Class . . . . . . . 57--64
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Christine P. Chai The Importance of Data Cleaning: Three
Visualization Examples . . . . . . . . . 4--9
Zia Zaman and
Hong Ming Tan A Modification to Pull the Goalie that
Takes the State of Play into Account:
Coach Markov Returns . . . . . . . . . . 10--15
Daniel J. Eck Challenging Nostalgia and Performance
Metrics in Baseball . . . . . . . . . . 16--25
Richard William Farebrother Neopythagorean Approaches to Measures of
Central Tendency and Dispersion . . . . 26--29
Allen Kim and
Steven Skiena Maximizing the Expected Value of a
Lottery Ticket: How to Sell and When to
Buy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--37
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Statistics History in a Crossword . . . 38--39
Christian Robert Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of
Medical Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Christian Robert The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science . . . . . 41--42
Christian Robert Prime Suspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Howard Wainer and
Michael Friendly The Graphical Birth of Plate Tectonics 44--47
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Crossword Puzzle Solution . . . . . . . 48--48
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Sam Behseta and
Michelle Dunn Meet Cynthia Rudin A Champion of
Interpretable Machine Learning . . . . . 4--6
David Holmes and
Ferris Samara Was the Wild Frontiersman a Prolific
Penman? A Stylometric Investigation into
the Works of Davy Crockett . . . . . . . 7--18
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Word Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
David Trott Deceiving Machines: Sabotaging Machine
Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--24
Andrew Gelman and
Alexey Guzey Statistics as Squid Ink: How Prominent
Researchers Can Get Away with
Misrepresenting Data . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
Mary Gray Call Mr. Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and
Maria Tackett From Drab to Fab: Teaching Visualization
via Incremental Improvements . . . . . . 31--41
Justin Jacobs Three is Greater than Two? Not So Fast
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--46
Paul J. Campbell Messy Data in the Real World . . . . . . 47--47
Anonymous Word Search Solution . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
E. Thomas Ewing and
Steven E. Rigdon and
Ronald D. Fricker Jr. Understanding COVID-19 in 2020 Through
the Lens of the 1918 ``Spanish Flu''
Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--21
Xiaoyan Yin and
Toshimitsu Hamasaki and
Dean Follmann and
Scott R. Evans OutSMARTing Superbugs . . . . . . . . . 22--30
Arthur Berg Statistical Analysis of the Elo Rating
System in Chess . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
Tianjian Zhou and
Yuan Ji Emerging Methods for Oncology Clinical
Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--48
Dong Wang and
Fang Liu Privacy Risk and Preservation in Contact
Tracing of COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
Mary W. Gray Dangerous Models? . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57
Andrew Gelman Assessing Evidence vs. Truth in the
Coronavirus Pandemic . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Christian Robert Essentials of Probability Theory for
Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Christian Robert A Computational Approach to Statistical
Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Maria Tackett and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel COVID-19 Data in the Classroom . . . . . 63--66
Debra M. Boka and
Howard Wainer How Can We Estimate the Death Toll from
COVID-19? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--72
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Fang Liu and
Saki Kinney and
Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic' Special Issue: A New Generation of
Statisticians Tackles Data Privacy . . . 4--5
Joshua Snoke and
Claire McKay Bowen How Statisticians Should Grapple with
Privacy in a Changing Data Landscape . . 6--13
Michelle Pistner Nixon and
Steven R. Nixon and
Roberto Molinari Data of the Defense and the Defense of
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
Zhe Zhang and
Linjun Zhang Privacy-Preserving Algorithms: the Gain
and the Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
Jingchen (Monika) Hu and
Terrance Savitsky and
Matthew Williams Risk-Weighted Data Synthesizers for
Microdata Dissemination . . . . . . . . 29--36
Marco Avella-Medina The Role of Robust Statistics in Private
Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Jordan Awan and
Matthew Reimherr and
Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovi\'c Formal Privacy for Modern Nonparametric
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--49
Ella Burnham and
Erin Blankenship Lessons Learned: Revising an Online
Introductory Course . . . . . . . . . . 50--55
Christopher R. Bilder In or Out? The New Flagstick Dilemma for
Putting in Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
Evangeline Reynolds Outcome-Oriented Educational Tasks With
Flipbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Moinak Bhaduri and
Joe Dery and
Dominique Haughton and
Tao Li and
Piaomu Liu and
Wenxiu Nan Dynamics of Reward-Based Crowdfunding:
Kickstarter Rock Music Projects . . . . 4--13
Anonymous A Conversation with Emery Brown . . . . 14--24
James C. Dickens The Data Science Public Schools Outreach
Project: An Initiative for Diversity and
Inclusion in Statistics . . . . . . . . 25--27
Ernie Walker Monty Python and the Probability of
Winning the Holy Grail . . . . . . . . . 28--38
Nigel Smeeton Early Statistical Findings and
Authorship Misattribution: An
Unsystematic Review of the Literature 39--43
Johnathon P. Ehsani and
Brian Tefft Crash Risk and Roadway Familiarity . . . 44--48
Mary W. Gray And the Winner Is \ldots . . . . . . . . 49--51
Robert Christian and
John J. Wiorkowski Data Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
Christian Robert Understanding Elections through
Statistics: Polling, Prediction, and
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
Uncertainty (Second Edition) . . . . . . 54--55
Christian Robert Book Review: \booktitleStatistics and
Analysis of Scientific Data (Second
Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Jon T. and
Nicholas B. and
Thomas Middleton Modeling the Economic and Societal
Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical
Interventions During the COVID-19
Pandemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--17
Brenda McIntire The Secret Career of Solomon Kullback 18--23
Terry Allen Police Officers Killed in the Line of
Duty: A Correspondence Analysis of
Circumstances and Time of Day . . . . . 24--30
Chase Marchand and
Dalton Maahs Benford's Law and COVID-19 Data . . . . 31--38
Charna Parkey Who is Accountable for Data Bias? . . . 39--43
Adam Palayew and
Sam Harper and
James A. Hanley Toward Reducing the Possibility of
False-Positive Results in Epidemiologic
Studies of Traffic Crashes . . . . . . . 44--52
Valerie Nelson and
Jason Crea The Data Science Instructional Escape
Room --- a Successful Experiment . . . . 53--58
Nicole Lazar and
Hyunnam Ryu The Shape of Things: Topological Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
Howard Wainer and
Richard Feinberg Looking at Reported Hate Crimes . . . . 65--72
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Caitlin Augustin and
Matt Brems and
Davina P. Durgana Special Issue on Statistics and Data
Science for Good . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Christian Andersen and
Uyen Kim Huynh and
Andrés Ochoa Toasa and
Christine Wells and
Melissa Wong Lessons from Applying the Community
Rapid Assessment Method to COVID-19
Protective Measures in Three Countries 6--12
Olusanya E. Olubusoye and
Olalekan J. Akintande and
Eric A. Vance Transforming Evidence to Action: The
Case of Election Participation in
Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--23
Caitlin Augustin and
Isaac Holeman and
Erika Salomon and
Helen Olsen and
Phil Azar and
Mitali Ayyangar Pathways to Increasing Trust in Public
Health Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--32
Jennifer Unangst Surveys for the Public Good: Examples
from Statistics Without Borders . . . . 33--37
Eric A. Vance and
Kim Love Building Statistics and Data Science
Capacity for Development . . . . . . . . 38--46
Blake Gentry and
Marianne Richardson and
Diego Piña Lopez and
Joseph Watkins Indigenous Language Migration along the
U.S. Southwestern Border --- the View
from Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55
Samantha Cheng and
Caitlin Augustin Keep a Human in the Machine and Other
Lessons Learned from Deploying and
Maintaining \pkgColandr . . . . . . . . 56--60
Michal Czapski and
Stephen Godfrey and
Joshua Derenski and
Isaac Khader A Machine Learning Approach to Helping
Small Businesses Find Pandemic
Economic-Impact Relief . . . . . . . . . 61--68
Maria Tackett and
Kendra Burbank and
Judith Canner and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Teaching Courses Focused on Social Good 69--72
Preetam Debasish Saha Roy and
Sangeeta Jayadevan COVID Monitoring Framework for Indian
Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W73--W81
Violeta Balinskaite An Assessment of the Change in Co-worker
Well-being at Sydenham Garden . . . . . W82--W85
Benjamin Kinsella Data Science for Social Good Volunteer
Motivations and Limitations: an
Exploratory Survey . . . . . . . . . . . W86--W95
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Michael Orkin Games of Chance and Games of Skill . . . 4--9
Yoav Benjamini and
Richard D. De Veaux and
Bradley Efron and
Scott Evans and
Mark Glickman and
Barry I. Graubard and
Xuming He and
Xiao-Li Meng and
Nancy M. Reid and
Stephen M. Stigler and
Stephen B. Vardeman and
Christopher K. Wikle and
Tommy Wright and
Linda J. Young and
Karen Kafadar ASA President's Task Force Statement on
Statistical Significance and
Replicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Christopher Tong The Statistical Endeavors of Andrew
Carnegie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--17
R. A. Weitzman From Divining Rods to Statistics: a
Forensic Analysis of the Misuse of
Statistics in the Estimation of
Environmental Impact . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Andrew Gelman Ethical Requirements of a Research
Assistant Who Is Concerned About the
Behavior of a Supervisor . . . . . . . . 21--22
Mary Gray and
Nimai Mehta Liars, Damned Liars, and \ldots . . . . 23--27
Howard Wainer Some Thoughts on a World Without Tests 28--29
Carol Bigelow and
Amy S. Nowacki Teaching Statistics in the Health
Sciences Resources Portal . . . . . . . 30--33
Christian P. Robert Quick(er) Calculations . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Christian P. Robert The Error of Truth . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Christian P. Robert Poems that Solve Puzzles . . . . . . . . 36--36
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers Bernoulli's Fallacy . . . . . . . . . . 37--38
Leland Wilkinson A History of Data Visualization and
Graphic Communication . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Arnold Barnett and
Pengchen Han and
Gege Zhang A Simple Fix for Gerrymandering? . . . . 4--10
Steven Tijms The Mathematical Anatomy of the
Gambler's Fallacy . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17
Randy Schutt Probit and Wealth Inequality-How Random
Events and the Laws of Probability Are
Partially Responsible for Wealth
Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--25
Moinak Bhaduri Contrary Currents . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Steven B. Kim and
Joonghak Lee Approaches to a Dilemma During the
Pandemic: Sequential Successes and
Simultaneous Successes . . . . . . . . . 34--37
Hollylynne S. Lee and
Zachary T. Vaskalis and
David J. Stokes and
Taylor R. Harrison A Look into the AP Statistics Classroom:
Who Teaches It and What Aspects of
Statistics Do They Emphasize? . . . . . 38--47
Alan Paller Why Some People Don't Listen to
Statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--50
Nairanjana Dasgupta Skewed Distributions in Data Science . . 51--55
Sujata Patil and
Jaya Satagopan Building and Teaching a Statistics
Curriculum for Post-Doctoral Biomedical
Scientists at a Free-Standing Cancer
Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--64
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Brooks Groharing and
David McCune Benford's Law and County-Level Votes in
US Presidential Elections . . . . . . . 4--10
Paul Velleman and
Howard Wainer Exploring COVID Data with Benford's and
Zipf's Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Nicholas A. Lines The Past, Problems, and Potential of
Readability Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
Michael Orkin The Mega Millions Lottery and Hypothesis
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
Mary W. Gray The Struggle for Equal Pay, the Lament
of a Female Statistician . . . . . . . . 29--31
Nicholas J. Horton and
Jie Chao and
William Finzer and
Phebe Palmer Spam Four Ways: Making Sense of Text
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--40
Andrew Gelman How Should Scientific Journals Handle
`Big If True' Submissions? . . . . . . . 41--43
Christian Robert Measuring Abundance: Methods for the
Estimation of Population Size and
Species Richness . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
Christian Robert What Are the Chances? (Why We Believe in
Luck) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Christian Robert \booktitleLearning Base R (2nd edition) 46--47
Paul Velleman and
Howard Wainer In Memoriam: Leland Wilkinson
(1944--2021) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Nguyen-Khang Pham and
Jean-Hugues Chauchat and
Jean Dumais Correspondence Analysis Visualization 50--52
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Michael Messner and
Claire McKay Bowen Spotlight on the Government Statistics
Section of the American Statistical
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--8
John Eltinge and
Wendy Martinez A Conversation with Howard Hogan, Former
Chief Demographer at the United States
Census Bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--16
Donna LaLonde R Govys: A New Community that Wants \em
You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
Emily Molfino Tips for Getting a Federal Statistics
Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Simone Gray An In-depth Conversation with Dionne
Price, 2023 President of the American
Statistical Association . . . . . . . . 23--26
Howard Wainer Transforming Medical Cucumbers into
Sunbeams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--32
Philip Sedgwick Trials and Tribulations of Teaching Null
Hypothesis Significance Testing in the
Health Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
Andrea Fox and
Marica Manisera and
Marco Sandri and
Paola Zuccolotto Analyzing Basketball Data with
BasketballAnalyzeR . . . . . . . . . . . 42--56
Amanda Peterson-Plunkett Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Steven Tijms Monty Hall and ``the Leibniz Illusion'' 4--14
Michael Orkin Random Entanglement . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Sam Behseta An Interview with Hal Stern --- From
Academics to Administration . . . . . . 18--26
Sinjini Mitra Teaching Statistics and Data Science to
Business Students . . . . . . . . . . . 27--35
Mary Gray Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--39
Richard De Veaux and
Anna Plantinga and
Elizabeth Upton Are the Handicaps Fair? Age and
Participation Effects in the Dipsea Race 40--49
Christian Robert Bayes Rules! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Christian Robert Amy's Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Fang Liu A Q&A about Differential Privacy . . . . 52--56
Wendy Martinez and
Donna LaLonde Editors' Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Katherine Bennett Ensor and
Donna LaLonde The Influencing Discovery Exploration
and Action Forum: An Initiative of the
American Statistical Association . . . . 4--8
Noel Cressie Adapting Statistical Science for a
Fast-Changing Climate . . . . . . . . . 9--13
Katherine Bennett Ensor and
Rich Sorkin Helping Society Mitigate Effects of
Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Steve Sain Climate Risk Analytics . . . . . . . . . 17--22
Katherine Bennett Ensor and
Jennifer Grancio Engine No. 1 CEO Reflects on the Future
of Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
Bo Li and
Douglas Simpson Reflections on the IDEA
Forum-Statistics, Climate Change, and
Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--30
Mark Risser and
Steve Pierson Advisory Committee on Climate Change
Policy: A Committee of the American
Statistical Association . . . . . . . . 31--34
Rochelle Tractenberg 10 Simple Rules for Integrating Ethics
Training into Any Quantitative Course 35--39
Maria Tackett and
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Analyzing and Recreating Data
Visualizations of W. E. B. Du Bois . . . 40--47
Howard Wainer and
Daniel Robinson Why Testing? Why Should It Cost You? . . 48--52
Wendy Martinez and
Donna LaLonde Editors' Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Robert Lund and
Xueheng Shi Changepoint Methods in Climatology . . . 4--8
Robert A. Tumasian Iii Toward Enhancing Clinical Trial
Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--13
John L. Eltinge Re-Reading Deming's 14 Points in the Era
of Data Science: 14 Questions for
Vibrant Management of Statistical
Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . 14--22
Donna LaLonde \em Remembering Samuel ``Ed'' Nevius . . 23--27
Wendy Martinez and
Donna LaLonde Pixel by Pixel: The Art of
\booktitleCHANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Christian P. Robert Casanova's Lottery . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Christian P. Robert Bayes Factors for Forensic Decision
Analyses with R . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
Christian P. Robert Bayesian Probability for Babies . . . . 33--33
Penny S. Reynolds and
Chaitra Nagaraja Fresh Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36
Ron Wasserstein One Thing About \ldots . . . . . . . . . 37--38
Amanda Ellis Incorporating Workforce Readiness Skills
to Increase How Students Perceive Value
of Biostatistics Coursework . . . . . . 39--44
Howard Wainer Three Welcome Arrivals for 2023: 1.
Florence Nightingale . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
Wendy Martinez and
Donna LaLonde Editors' Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Patricia Muoio Assessing Risk in Cybersecurity: How
Sound Data Science Can Raise the Bar . . 4--8
Benjamin S. Baumer More Math for Data Scientists, Not Less 9--11
Moinak Bhaduri Bringing Unrelated Games Closer:
Excitements Unified with Changes Picked
Through a Careful Parallax . . . . . . . 12--18
David Banks The Future of Industrial Statistics . . 19--24
JunBo Wu and
Nathaniel C. Comfort Precision Medicine for the Population
--- The Hope and Hype of Public Health
Genomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
John Durso and
Howard Wainer A Physicist and a Statistician Walk into
a Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
A. John Bailer and
Rosemary Pennington Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner \ldots
Well, Maybe a Podcast Appearance and
Some Swag: Using Contests to Engage
Learner Communities . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
Usha Govindarajulu COVID-19 Research and $p$-Values . . . . 35--38
Chaitra H. Nagaraja Refracted Selves . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
R. J. Andrews Timeless Temples --- a Journey Through
Emma Willard's Chronographic
Masterpieces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48