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R. J. Gandy The Calculation of Catchment Populations
within the National Health Service . . . 29--37
A. G. Carruthers and
D. J. Sellwood and
P. W. Ward Recent Developments in the Retail Prices
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--32
Tony Greenfield and
Sean Siday Statistical Computing for Business and
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--55
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
William Armstrong A User's Review of GLIM3 . . . . . . . . 57--63
G. Kalton and
Julie Roberts and
D. Holt The Effects of Offering a Middle
Response Option with Opinion Questions 65--78
Byron J. T. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Techniques for Manpower Planning, by D.
J. Bartholomew; A. F. Forbes . . . . . . 79--79
D. A. H. Thomas Book Review: \booktitleA Basic Course in
Statistics, by G. M. Clarke; D. Cooke 79--80
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. G. Hawkes Teaching and Examining Applied
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--89
Anonymous A Note of Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
R. H. Smith A Geometric Comparison of Principal
Component Analysis with Analysis of
Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--96
D. A. Preece Covariance Analysis, Factorial
Experiments and Marginality . . . . . . 97--122
Winston A. Richards Training of Statistical Officers and
Other Officers of the Republic Who
Require Quantitative Skills to Perform
Their Duties Effectively . . . . . . . . 123--134
K. T. Boyd The Expectation of Mean Squares in
Analysis of Variance --- Some
Conjectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--142
P. T. Harris Book Review: \booktitleSurvey Sampling
and Measurement, by N. Krishnan
Namboodiri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
R. Ellison Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Statistics, by A. M. Plews . . . . . . . 143--144
J. N. R. Jeffers Book Review: \booktitleSequential
Methods in Statistics, by G. B.
Wetherill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Alan G. Hawkes Book Review: \booktitleStudies in
Mathematical Biology --- Part I:
Cellular Behaviour and the Development
of Pattern; Studies in Mathematical
Biology --- Part II: Population and
Communities, by S. A. Levin . . . . . . 144--145
Tony Greenfield Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Statistics: A Non-Parametric Approach
for The Social Sciences, by Chris Leach 145--145
Derek Bissell Book Review: \booktitleThe Ways and
Means of Statistics, by Leonard J.
Tashman; Kathleen R. Lamborn . . . . . . 146--146
Hugh L. Porteous Book Review: \booktitleMegalithic
Remains in Britain and Brittany, by A.
Thom; A. S. Thom . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--149
J. L. Haybittle and
L. S. Freedman Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. G. Prys Williams and
R. W. E. Wadman Testing Retail Markets: A Cautionary
Tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--165
R. A. Darton Rotation in Factor Analysis . . . . . . 167--194
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--204
J. D. Jones and
G. K. Kanji The Role of Professional Experience in
Statistical Education . . . . . . . . . 196--203
Douglas Liddell Practical Tests for Comparative Trials:
A Rejoinder to N. L. Johnson . . . . . . 205--207
Bernard Ethell Book Review: \booktitleEconometric
Models, Techniques, and Applications, by
Michael D. Intriligator . . . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Leslie Kish Design and Estimation for Domains . . . 209--222
Barbara A. Bailar and
Charles D. Jones The Evaluation of the 1980 Decennial
Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--235
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Seymour Sudman Reducing Response Error in Surveys . . . 237--273
Ivan P. Fellegi Evaluation Programme of the 1976 Census
of Population and Housing --- A Sampling 275--312
S. E. Fienberg The Measurement of Crime Victimization:
Prospects for Panel Analysis of a Panel
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--350
F. E. Whitehead The Work of the Social Survey Division
of OPCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--363
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
D. J. Hand Branch and Bound in Statistical Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
Barnard H. Bissinger A Long Life Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 15--21
H. A. Gordon Errors in Computer Packages. Least
Squares Regression Through the Origin 23--29
D. A. Preece Distributions of Final Digits in Data 31--60
Orhan Idil The Dilemma of Teaching Statistics and
Applications to Business Decisions in
the Developing Countries . . . . . . . . 61--67
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--76
Steve Skidmore Some Comments on ``The Calculation of
Catchment Populations within the
National Health Service'' by Gandy . . . 69--72
Stephen J. Senn Some Comments on ``The Calculation of
Catchment Populations within the
National Health Service'' . . . . . . . 73--75
A. F. Bissell Correction to ``A Semi-Parabolic Mask
for Cusum Charts'' . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
W. Wallace Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing Social
and Educational Research Data, by M. B.
Youngman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. N. R. Jeffers Investigation of Alternative
Regressions: Some Practical Examples . . 79--88
D. D. V. Morgan Estimation of Retail Price Changes . . . 89--96
M. C. Fessey Business Censuses and Surveys in
Developing Countries . . . . . . . . . . 97--106
William G. Hunter Six Statistical Tales . . . . . . . . . 107--117
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--130
R. J. Gadsden and
G. K. Kanji Sequential Analysis for Angular Data . . 119--129
P. D. P. Wood A Possible Selection Effect in Medical
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--135
I. T. Jolliffe Runs Tests For Detecting Dependence
Between Two Variables . . . . . . . . . 137--141
D. Sculli The Use of Non-Random Numbers in Monte
Carlo Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
M. Bhaskara Rao Book Review: \booktitleThe $H$-Function
with Applications in Statistics and
Other Disciplines, by A. M. Mathai; R.
K. Saxena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
D. N. Shanbhag Book Review: \booktitleRandom
Allocations, by V. F. Kolchin; B. A.
Sevast'yanov; Vladimir P. Chistyakov . . 153--153
D. N. Shanbhag Book Review: \booktitleCharacterizations
of the Normal Probability Law, by A. M.
Mathai; G. Pederzoli . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
P. S. Brown Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Business Data Processing, by D. K.
Carver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Byron J. T. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Applied Probability, by I. F. Blake 155--156
Valerie Imber Book Review: \booktitleDemystifying
Social Statistics, by John Irvine; Ian
Miles; Jeff Evans . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
G. K. Kanji Book Review: \booktitleR. A. Fisher, The
Life of a Scientist, by Joan Fisher Box 157--158
T. H. Hassard Book Review: \booktitleApplied Linear
Regression, by Sanford Weisberg . . . . 158--158
Paul Wilson Improving the Methodology of Drinking
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--167
D. Holt and
A. J. Scott Regression Analysis Using Survey Data 169--178
Adi Raveh A Graphic Display for Characterization
of Seasonal Pattern Similarities of Time
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192
G. K. Kanji and
W. G. Gilchrist A Degree in Applied Statistics . . . . . 193--198
Hans K. Ury Continuity-Corrected Approximations to
Sample Size or Power When Comparing Two
Proportions: Chi-Squared or Arc Sine? 199--203
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Byron J. T. Morgan Three Applications of Methods of
Cluster-Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--223
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--230
J. Poloniecki and
D. Daniel Further Analysis of the Hills and
Armitage Enuresis Data . . . . . . . . . 225--229
E. M. L. Beale and
P. W. Lane and
J. A. Nelder and
A. F. Bissell and
P. L. Goldsmith Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 231--234
Tony Greenfield Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods for Comparative Studies, by
Sharon Anderson; Ariane Auquier; Walter
W. Hauck; David Oakes; Walter Vandaele;
Herbert I. Weisberg . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
M. Bhaskara Rao Book Review: \booktitleStudies in
Probability Theory, by M. Rosenblatt . . 236--236
Colin Thunhurst Book Review: \booktitleDrink in Great
Britain 1900--1979, by G. P. Williams;
G. T. Brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238
R. A. Jinkinson and
M. Slater Critical Discussion of a Graphical
Method for Identifying Discrete
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--248
Harri Hietikko On the Effect of Zero Initial Estimates
on the Standard Estimation of ARMA $ (p,
q) $ Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--254
G. K. Kanji Logit Model to Assess the Environmental
Impacts Caused by Bus Services . . . . . 255--261
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--296
Robert M. Adams and
John Wilmut A Measure of the Weights of Examination
Components, and Scaling to Adjust Them 263--269
S. J. Morrison A Note on the Teaching of AoV . . . . . 271--274
Keith Rennolls The Total Area of Woodland in Berkshire
is \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
D. E. Walters Sampling the Randomization Distribution 289--295
R. J. Gandy The Calculation of Catchment Populations
Within the National Health Service ---
Reprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--302
Anonymous Obituary: Dennis Albert Lury, 1922--81 303--304
A. P. Haws and
H. A. Gordon Letters to Editor . . . . . . . . . . . 304--308
Tom Leonard Book Review: \booktitleNon-Parametric
Probability Density Estimation, by
Richard A. Tapia; James R. Thompson . . 309--310
Mervyn Stone Book Review: \booktitleDiscrete
Discriminant Analysis, by M. Goldstein;
W. R. Dillon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Tony Greenfield Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Graphic Presentation, by C. F. Schmid;
S. E. Schmid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
Tony Greenfield Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Morsels, by Ross Honsberger . . . . . . 312--313
S. E. Siday Book Review: \booktitleOutliers in
Statistical Data, by Vic Barnett; Toby
Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--315
R. Ward Book Review: \booktitleLong Range
Forecasting (From Crystal Ball to
Computer), by J. Scott Armstrong . . . . 315--315
Valerie Imber Book Review: \booktitleEvaluating
Primary Care, by Ewen M. Clark; J. A.
Forbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
J. D. Merrett Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Statistical Techniques, by K. D. C.
Stoodley; T. Lewis; C. L. S. Stainton 316--316
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Stuart J. Pocock Statistical Aspects of Clinical Trial
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
D. J. Spiegelhalter Statistical Aids in Clinical
Decision-Making . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--36
F. D. J. Dunstan and
S. Barham and
K. W. Kemp and
A. B. J. Nix and
R. J. Rowlands and
D. W. Wilson and
M. J. Phillips and
K. Griffiths A Feasibility Study for Early Detection
of Breast Cancer Using Breast Skin
Temperature Rhythms . . . . . . . . . . 37--52
M. F. Corbett and
A. Davis and
J. L. M. Hawk and
A. Herxheimer and
I. A. Magnus and
M. Mohindra and
N. J. Tan and
P. Toosi Controlled Clinical Trials of Treatments
for Skin Photosensitivity . . . . . . . 53--62
J. J. Grimshaw and
G. V. Jaffe Statistics in Relation to Clinical
Trials in General Practice . . . . . . . 63--69
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
A. Huitson and
J. Poloniecki and
R. Hews and
N. Barker A Review of Cross-Over Trials . . . . . 71--80
S. J. Senn and
W. B. Samson Estimating Hospital Catchment
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
M. G. Campbell and
S. M. Rudolfer A Comparative Study of Diagnostic
Modelling in Electrodiagnosis . . . . . 97--106
John O'Quigley Regression Models and Survival
Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
Noel Cressie Letters to Editor . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
P. Armitage and
M. Hills The Two-Period Crossover Trial . . . . . 119--131
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--168
R. J. Rowlands and
A. B. J. Nix and
M. A. Abdollahian and
Kenneth W. Kemp Snub-Nosed V-Mask Control Schemes . . . 133--142
J. C. Karger An Application of Logit Analysis to the
Effective Graphical Representations of
Two-Way Tables of Ratios . . . . . . . . 143--148
Patrick Honohan and
Colm McCarthy On the Use of Durbin--Watson Type
Statistics Where There are Missing
Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--152
Ben Kiregyera On Sampling Frames in African Censuses
and Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--167
D. A. Preece $t$ Is for Trouble (and Textbooks): A
Critique of Some Examples of the
Paired-Samples $t$-Test . . . . . . . . 169--195
Tony Greenfield Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Multivariate Analysis, by Christopher
Chatfield; Alexander J. Collins . . . . 196--196
Tony Greenfield Book Review: \booktitleTheory and
Problems of Probability and Statistics,
SI, by Murray R. Spiegel . . . . . . . . 196--196
Colin Thunhurst Book Review: \booktitleTaxonomy and
Behavioral Science-Comparative
Performance of Grouping Methods, by J.
E. Mezzich; H. Solomon . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
William Armstrong A Chart to Describe and Measure the
Effects of Industrial Inspection Errors 199--209
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--230
W. Douglas Stirling Enhancements to Aid Interpretation of
Probability Plots . . . . . . . . . . . 211--220
Keith A. Yeomans and
Paul A. Golder The Guttman--Kaiser Criterion as a
Predictor of the Number of Common
Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--229
Alan G. Hawkes Approximating the Normal Tail . . . . . 231--236
H. P. Wynn Controlled Versus Random Experimentation 237--244
Hans K. Ury Comparing Two Proportions: Finding $ p_2
$ when $ p_1 $, $N$, $ \alpha $, and $
\beta $ are Specified . . . . . . . . . 245--250
S. Shanmugalingam On the Analysis of the Ratio of Two
Correlated Normal Variables . . . . . . 251--258
K. Holden and
D. A. Peel The Relationships Between Preliminary
and Revised Estimates of GDP and
Consumers' Expenditure in the UK . . . . 259--266
Eamonn Mullins and
David Griffiths Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 267--270
Alan G. Hawkes Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Numerical and Statistical Techniques, by
J. H. Pollard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
G. W. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Biology, by Norman T. J.
Bailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--272
M. Agha Book Review: \booktitleStatistics.
Meaning and Methods, by Lawrence Lapin 272--273
Tony Greenfield Book Review: \booktitleRegression: A
Second Course in Statistics, by Thomas
H. Wonnacott; Ronald J. Wonnacott . . . 273--274
M. Agha Book Review: \booktitleFinite Mixture
Distribution, by B. S. Everitt; D. J.
Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
V. N. Hewitt Book Review: \booktitleThe Algebra of
Econometrics, by D. S. G. Pollock . . . 274--275
K. T. Boyd Book Review: \booktitleIncomplete Block
Designs, by Peter W. M. John . . . . . . 275--275
T. B. Vaughan Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Data Analysis, by B. D. Bowen; H. F.
Weisberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--277
H. T. Burley Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Programming in Statistics, by T. S.
Arthanari; Yadalah Dodge . . . . . . . . 277--277
Gilbert Mackenzie Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Analysis of Failure Time Data, by J. D.
Kalbfleisch; R. L. Prentice . . . . . . 278--278
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael A. Adena Statistical Modelling of a
Pharmacological Experiment . . . . . . . 279--291
Jean Martin and
Bob Butcher The Quality of Proxy Information ---
Some Results from a Large-Scale Study 293--319
Ernie S. Lightman Indirect Projection and the Validity
Problem in Survey Research . . . . . . . 321--331
G. M. Clarke and
S. A. Ricketts A Case Study in the Efficiency of
Experimental Design . . . . . . . . . . 333--337
Spyros Missiakoulis An Alternative Specification of the
Linear Probability Model . . . . . . . . 339--343
Ayala Cohen Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
H. T. Burley Book Review: \booktitleGame Theory,
Mathematical Models of Conflict, by A.
J. Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Richard Kay Book Review: \booktitleSurvival Models
and Data Analysis, by Regina C.
Elandt-Johnson; Norman L. Johnson . . . 347--347
H. L. Porteous Book Review: \booktitleCatastrophe
Theory and Bifurcation-Applications to
Urban and Regional Systems, by A. G.
Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dennis V. Lindley Theory and Practice of Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Morris H. DeGroot and
Stephen E. Fienberg The Comparison and Evaluation of
Forecasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--22
Arnold Zellner Applications of Bayesian Analysis in
Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--34
Richard E. Barlow and
Jaw Huan Hsiung Expected Information from a Life Test
Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45
A. F. M. Smith and
M. West and
K. Gordon and
M. S. Knapp and
I. M. G. Trimble Monitoring Kidney Transplant Patients 46--54
Donald B. Rubin Some Applications of Bayesian Statistics
to Educational Data . . . . . . . . . . 55--68
William H. Dumouchel The 1982 Massachusetts Automobile
Insurance Classification Scheme . . . . 69--81
J. C. Naylor and
A. F. M. Smith A Contamination Model in Clinical
Chemistry: An Illustration of a Method
for the Efficient Computation of
Posterior Distributions . . . . . . . . 82--87
Stephen E. Fienberg and
Joseph B. Kadane The Presentation of Bayesian Statistical
Analyses in Legal Proceedings . . . . . 88--98
A. M. Skene Computing Marginal Distributions for the
Dispersion Parameters of Analysis of
Variance Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
J. Q. Smith Forecasting Accident Claims for an
Assurance Company . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
Helen Tate A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of
Serial Tumour-Marker Data . . . . . . . 116--116
David M. Eaves Minimally Informative Prior Analysis of
a Non-Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
A. G. Baker and
D. R. Lane-Joynt Bayesian Statistics in an Industrial
Research Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
R. W. Andrews and
T. M. F. Smith Pseudo-Bayesian and Bayesian Approach to
Auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126
David E. Wright Sequential Batch Acceptance Sampling for
Exponential Lifetimes (Extended
Abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--130
Mark J. Schervish and
Elizabeth Elmer A Residential Programme for Treating
Victims of Child Abuse . . . . . . . . . 131--137
Ludovico Piccinato Some Statistical Problems in Parasite
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
G. E. Kokolakis A New Look at the Problem of
Classification with Binary Data . . . . 144--152
L. S. Freedman and
D. J. Spiegelhalter The Assessment of the Subjective Opinion
and its Use in Relation to Stopping
Rules for Clinical Trials . . . . . . . 153--160
Isabella Verdinelli Computing Bayes $D$- and $A$-Optimal
Block Designs for a Two-Way Model . . . 161--167
Richard J. Meinhold and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla Bayesian Analysis of a Commonly Used
Model for Describing Software Failures 168--173
Kathryn M. Chaloner and
George T. Duncan Assessment of a Beta Prior Distribution:
PM Elicitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--180
C. Abbess and
D. Jarrett and
C. C. Wright Bayesian Methods Applied to Road
Accident Blackspot Studies . . . . . . . 181--187
Wolfgang Polasek Hierarchical Load Curve Models . . . . . 188--194
Leland Stewart Bayesian Analysis Using Monte Carlo
Integration --- a Powerful Methodology
for Handling Some Difficult Problems . . 195--200
J. R. De Wit Inventory Problems with Slow Moving
Items: A Bayesian Approach . . . . . . . 201--206
Udi E. Makov Approximate Bayesian Procedures for
Dynamic Linear Models in the Presence of
Jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--213
Alfred Houle The Genealogical Tree of Bayesians . . . 214--215
H. K. van Dijk and
T. Kloek Monte Carlo Analysis of Skew Posterior
Distributions: An Illustrative
Econometric Example . . . . . . . . . . 216--223
A. R. Abdel-Wahed and
Alan Winterbottom Approximating Posterior Distributions of
System Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . 224--228
Randy L. Carter and
Barry J. N. Blight A Bayesian Change Point Problem with an
Application to the Prediction and
Detection of Ovulation in Women . . . . 229--230
S. A. Conrad The Design of Statistical Experiments
--- A Computational Approach . . . . . . 231--232
G. Steve and
A. Rossi-Mori Prescreening of Beta-Thalassaemia
Carriers: A Comparison Between Bayesian
and Other Approaches . . . . . . . . . . 233--239
C. G. E. Boender and
A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan A Bayesian Analysis of the Number of
Cells of a Multinomial Distribution . . 240--248
John Bacon-Shone Bayesian Methods for System Reliability
and Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251
Lawrence D. Philips and
Thomas K. Wisniewski Bayesian Models for Computer-Aided
Underwriting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--263
J. Burridge and
A. O'Hagan Job Times and Office Performance . . . . 264--272
L. R. Pericchi and
I. Rodriguez-Iturbe On Some Problems in Bayesian Model
Choice in Hydrology . . . . . . . . . . 273--278
Gopal K. Kanji Bulletin in Applied Statistics (BIASs) 279--279
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. J. A. Moors Bayes' Estimation in Sampling for
Auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--288
R. J. Gadsden and
G. K. Kanji Analysis of Clay Strata Orientations . . 289--296
J. P. Royston A Simple Method for Evaluating the
Shapiro--Francia $ W' $ Test of
Non-Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
G. H. D. Royston Wider Application of Survival Analysis:
An Evaluation of an Unemployment Benefit
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--306
D. G. Altman and
J. M. Bland Measurement in Medicine: The Analysis of
Method Comparison Studies . . . . . . . 307--317
Raymond T. Stefani Observed Betting Tendencies and
Suggested Betting Strategies for
European Football Pools . . . . . . . . 319--329
Andrew Lawson Rank Analysis of Covariance: Alternative
Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--337
S. K. Sinha Bayesian Estimation of the Mean of a
Normal Distribution when the Coefficient
of Variation is Known . . . . . . . . . 339--345
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
M. J. R. Healy A Simple Method for Monitoring Routine
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--349
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--350
John O'Quigley Asymptotic Variance Formulae for Some
Measures Used as Prognostic Indices . . 351--352
W. Townsend Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 353--353
J. F. R. Casimir Book Review: \booktitleSocial and
Economic Statistics for Africa, by G. M.
C. Kpodekpo; P. L. Arya . . . . . . . . 354--354
G. W. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference for Stochastic Processes, by
I. V. Basawa; B. L. S. Prakasa Rao . . . 354--355
B. S. Everitt Book Review: \booktitleClustering of
Large Data Sets, by Jure Zupan . . . . . 355--355
A. D. Gordon Book Review: \booktitleThe User's Guide
to Multidimensional Scaling, with
Special Reference to the MDS(X) Library
of Computer Programs, by A. P. M. Coxon;
P. M. Davies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
R. M. Cormack Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
Econometrics, by D. G. Mayes . . . . . . 356--356
G. W. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleKinetic Data
Analysis, Design and Analysis of Enzyme
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P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleSequential
Nonparametrics-Invariance Principles and
Statistical Inference, by P. K. Sen . . 357--357
Michael F. Fuller Book Review: \booktitleIntroducing
Social Statistics, by Richard Startup;
Elwyn T. Whittaker . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
A. A. le Roux Book Review: \booktitleEuropean
Historical Statistics, 1750--1970, by B.
R. Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
G. F. Raggett Book Review: \booktitleTables for
Numerical Integration, by H. V. Smith 359--359
A. A. le Roux Book Review: \booktitleInternational
Historical Statistics: Africa and Asia,
by B. R. Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Ayala Cohen and
C. L. Mallows Assessing Goodness of Fit of Ranking
Models to Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374
S. C. Pearce The Monstrous Regiment of Mathematicians 375--378
R. R. Harris and
G. K. Kanji On the Use of Minimum Chi-Square
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394
Ron S. Kenett On an Exploratory Analysis of
Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 395--403
D. I. Holmes A Graphical Identification Procedure for
Growth Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
S. R. Paul Sequential Detection of Unusual Points
in Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--424
G. K. Kanji and
C. K. Liu Further Investigation of Robustness of
Power in the Analysis of Variance . . . 425--438
W. J. Edmond Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Sources and Techniques, by F. J.
Rendall; D. M. Wolf . . . . . . . . . . 439--439
David K. Smith Book Review: \booktitleOptimization Over
Time. Volume 1. Dynamic Programming and
Stochastic Control, by Peter Whittle . . 439--439
David K. Smith Book Review: \booktitleOptimisation Over
Time. Volume 2. Dynamic Programming and
Stochastic Control, by Peter Whittle . . 439--440
Richard Kay Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis of Counting Processes, by
Martin Jacobsen . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
M. S. Bingham Book Review: \booktitleCombinatorial
Integral Geometry with Applications to
Mathematical Stereology, by R. V.
Ambartzumian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--441
Tony Greenfield Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Research and Development, by Roland
Caulcutt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--442
Rodney Coleman Book Review: \booktitleQueues and Point
Processes, by P. Franken; D. Konig; U.
Arndt; V. Schmidt . . . . . . . . . . . 442--442
Bernard Edwards Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistics
for Business and Economics, by Paul G.
Hoel; Raymond J. Jessen . . . . . . . . 442--443
G. W. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleSome Recent
Advances in Statistics, by J. Tiago de
Oliveira; B. Epstein . . . . . . . . . . 443--443
Anna Hart Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Statistics for Management Studies, by
David Croft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
P. Sprent Book Review: \booktitleQuotes, Damned
Quotes, and \ldots, by John Bibby . . . 444--444
A. R. Tricker Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Errors, by S. K. Muthu . . . . . . . . . 444--444
D. J. Bartholomew Obituary: Sir Maurice Kendall FBA . . . 445--446
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
F. W. Hutber Energy Statistics and the Planning
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
F. K. Lyness Gas Demand Forecasting . . . . . . . . . 9--21
J. M. W. Rhys Techniques for Forecasting Electricity
Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33
Richard Ormerod and
John McLeod The Development and Use of the NCB
Strategic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--49
Philip J. Brown Forecasts and Public Policy . . . . . . 51--63
N. H. Skinner Load Research and Its Application to
Electricity Demand Forecasting . . . . . 65--73
K. E. Rosing and
P. R. Odell Estimating the Ultimate Economically
Recoverable Hydrocarbon Reserves of the
North Sea Province: Phase. 1 The Theory 75--90
P. M. S. Jones Statistics and Nuclear Energy . . . . . 91--102
Tony Scanlan Micro or Macro? A Case Study of
Approaches to Forecasting Based on Oil
Trading (1970--74) . . . . . . . . . . . 103--110
D. H. Buckley-Golder and
R. G. Derwent and
K. F. Langley and
J. F. Walker and
A. V. Ward Contribution of Renewable Energy
Technologies to Future Energy
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--132
S. Openshaw An Evaluation of the Safety
Characteristics of Current and Possible
Future Nuclear Power Stations Series . . 133--142
John Chesshire A Statistical Analysis of the UK Stream
Boiler Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--150
Margareta Holgersson A Survey of Energy Consumption in the
Swedish Housing Stock . . . . . . . . . 151--160
F. M. O'Carroll Weather Modelling for Offshore
Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--169
Gina Jessup Avon County Council Fuel Oil Usage
Monitoring System . . . . . . . . . . . 171--179
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Gee-Kin Yeo A Note of Caution on Using Statistical
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--184
J. W. Horwood Compensating for Missed Whales in
Land-Based Surveys of Bowhead Whales . . 185--200
Alan Hay and
Francis Peck An Alternative to the Sign Test in a
Matched Pairs Design . . . . . . . . . . 201--204
B. S. Everitt Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the
Parameters in a Mixture of Two
Univariate Normal Distributions; A
Comparison of Different Algorithms . . . 205--215
Philip Brown and
Clive Payne Forecasting the 1983 British General
Election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--228
M. S. Silver Criteria for Choosing Between
Alternative Consumer Price Index Number
Formulae with Special Reference to
Chained Indices . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--237
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--238
Y. V. Hui and
Y. K. Tse A Physical Interpretation of the Maximum
Likelihood Estimation of a Linear
Functional Relationship Model . . . . . 239--242
Sheila M. Gore Teaching Experimental Design: Prescribed
by a Medical Statistician . . . . . . . 243--247
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
G. F. Raggett Book Review: \booktitleThe
Biomathematics of Malaria, by N. T. J.
Bailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
H. J. H. MacFie Book Review: \booktitleKey Texts in
Multidimensional Scaling, by P. M.
Davies; A. P. M. Coxon . . . . . . . . . 250--251
John T. Kent Book Review: \booktitleAspects of
Multivariate Statistical Theory, by R.
J. Muirhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
I. S. Riley Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability Theory and Statistical
Interference, by Harold J. Larson . . . 251--251
G. H. Freeman Book Review: \booktitleTheory of
Statistical Experiments, by H. Heyer . . 252--252
Michael J. P. Selby Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Processes, by J. Medhi . . . . . . . . . 252--252
John Martin Bland Using a Microcomputer as a Visual Aid in
the Teaching of Statistics . . . . . . . 253--259
R. H. Tuckwell Choice of Strategy in a Speculative
Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271
Helen Tate The Timing of ``Confirmatory'' Tests in
Medical Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . 273--281
Iain Currie and
Athol Korabinski Some Comments on Bivariate Regression 283--293
P. I. Uche Undergraduate Project Work in Statistics
at a Nigerian University . . . . . . . . 295--300
G. K. Kanji and
C. K. Liu Power Aspects of Split-Plot Designs . . 301--311
A. O'Hagan Motivating Principal Components, and a
Stronger Optimality Result . . . . . . . 313--315
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
M. F. Fuller Book Review: \booktitlePage Scan . . . . 317--318
R. J. Gadsden Book Review: \booktitleStatistics on
Spheres, by G. S. Watson . . . . . . . . 318--319
David Targett Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Modern Business Decisions, by Lawrence
L. Lapin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
C. J. Skinner Book Review: \booktitleSampling with
Unequal Probabilities, by K. R. W.
Brewer; Muhammad Hanif . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Michael Stuart Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis, by
David C. Hoaglin; Frederick Mosteller;
John W. Tukey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321
Nigel C. Smeeton Book Review: \booktitlePlanning and
Analysis of Observational Studies, by
William G. Cochran; Lincoln E. Moses;
Frederick Mosteller . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
J. M. Cobby Book Review: \booktitleThe Agricultural
Field Experiment. A Statistical
Examination of Theory and Practice, by
S. C. Pearce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
G. H. Freeman Book Review: \booktitleTheory of
Statistical Experiments, by H. Heyer . . 322--323
Michael J. P. Selby Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Processes, by J. Medhi . . . . . . . . . 323--323
M. Bhaskara Rao Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Processes, by Sheldon M. Ross . . . . . 323--324
E. Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleEstimation of
Dependences Based on Empirical Data, by
Vladimir Vapnik; Samuel Kotz . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Douglas M. Hawkins and
L. Paul Fatti Exploring Multivariate Data Using the
Minor Principal Components . . . . . . . 325--338
Z. W. Kmietowicz and
M. J. Al-Fallogi Some Problems in the Calculation of
Indices of Industrial Production in
Developing Countries: The Case of Iraq,
1954--73 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--349
D. J. Hand Statistical Expert Systems: Design . . . 351--369
C. C. Greenfield The Terms of Trade Index and Terms of
Trade Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--379
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
A. R. Tricker Effects of Rounding on the Moments of a
Probability Distribution . . . . . . . . 381--390
Richard A. Groeneveld and
Glen Meeden Measuring Skewness and Kurtosis . . . . 391--399
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--400
Anonymous Obituary: Sir Roy Allen, CBE, FBA
(1906--1983) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--406
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Norman T. J. Bailey The Role of Statistics in Controlling
and Eradicating Infectious Diseases . . 3--17
E. S. Gilbert How Much Can Be Learned from Populations
Exposed to Low Levels of Radiation? . . 19--30
Stuart J. Pocock and
Deborah Ashby Environmental Lead and Children's
Intelligence: A Review of Recent
Epidemiological Studies . . . . . . . . 31--44
Gillian M. Raab and
Mary Fulton and
Duncan P. H. Laxen and
George O. B. Thomson The Edinburgh Lead Study: Aspects of
Design and Progress . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
Sarah C. Darby Evaluation of Radiation Risk From
Epidemiological Studies of Populations
Exposed at High Doses . . . . . . . . . 59--72
Derek G. Cook A Critical View of the Unemployment and
Health Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--82
Paul R. Jackson Differential Vulnerability and
Psychological Health in Unemployment . . 83--91
Colin Thunhurst The Analysis of Small Area Statistics
and Planning for Health . . . . . . . . 93--106
J. R. Ashford and
T. C. Bailey A Management Decision Support System for
the National Health Service . . . . . . 107--116
T. C. Bailey Information and Decision Support Systems
in the National Health Service . . . . . 117--124
Douglas G. Altman Comparability of Randomised Groups . . . 125--136
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
E. M. L. Beale Regression: A Bridge Between Analysis
and Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--154
William H. Woodall The Statistical Design of Quality
Control Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--160
A. C. Bora Change Over Design with First Order
Residual Effects and Errors Following a
First Order Autoregressive Process . . . 161--173
Karen Yuen Fung and
Hyunshik Lee and
I. Tajuddin Some Robust Test Statistics for the
Two-Sample Location Problem . . . . . . 175--182
T. P. Hutchinson Analysing Severity Data When Assessors
Differ in Their Usage of the Categories 183--195
W. M. Maclaren Using Discriminant Analysis to Predict
Attacks of Complicated Pneumoconiosis in
Coalworkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--208
Robert Gilchrist Some Aspects of Modelling Operational
Problems in the National Health Service 209--214
I. Heinrich and
H. O'Hare and
B. Sweetman and
J. A. D. Anderson Validation Aspects of an Empirically
Derived Classification for
`Non-Specific' Low Back Pain . . . . . . 215--230
Alessandra Marioni and
Eugenio Torre and
Mario Comelli Evaluating Mental Health Services in
Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
S. F. Barry Estimation of Internal Exposure to
Radiation Using Empirical Bayes . . . . 237--242
E. B. Faragher and
E. N. Chantler and
C. T. Roberts A Statistical Evaluation of the Rate of
Degradation of Copper Releasing IUCDs 243--248
Anonymous Preliminary Notice: Dates for Your
Diary. Conference on Practical Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
D. A. H. Thomas Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistical
Computing, by D. Cooke; A. H. Craven; G.
M. Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Carolyn Craggs Book Review: \booktitleA Primer in Data
Reduction: An Introductory Statistics
Textbook, by A. S. C. Ehrenberg . . . . 252--253
C. R. Muirhead Book Review: \booktitleEnvironmental
Epidemiology: Risk Assessment, by Ross
L. Prentice; Alice S. Whittemore . . . . 253--254
F. R. Oliver Book Review: \booktitleEvaluating the
Reliability of Macroeconomic Models, by
Gregory C. Chow; Paolo Corsi . . . . . . 254--255
Robert McNair Book Review: \booktitleBuild Your Own
Expert System, by Chris Naylor . . . . . 255--255
M. G. Gibson Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistics
for Business & Economics, by Leonard J.
Kazmier; Norval F. Pohl . . . . . . . . 256--257
J. N. R. Jeffers Book Review: \booktitleMultidimensional
Scaling, by Mark L. Davison . . . . . . 257--258
R. J. Williamson Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Advanced Level Mathematics, by I. Gwyn
Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
A. G. Prys Williams Book Review: \booktitleLinear
Statistical Models and Related Methods;
With Applications to Social Research, by
John Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Roger Tarling Book Review: \booktitleMeasures of
Association, by Albert M. Liebetrau . . 260--261
Oliver D. Anderson Book Review: \booktitleThe Forecasting
Accuracy of Major Time Series Methods,
by S. Makridakis; A. Andersen; R.
Carbone; R. Fildes; M. Hibon; R.
Lewandowski; J. Newton; E. Parzen; R.
Winkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
Simon French The Weighting of Examination Components 265--280
M. Breth On Data Description, Population
Estimation and the Selection of
Multivariate Ordering . . . . . . . . . 281--285
Margareta Westberg Combining Independent Statistical Tests 287--296
Stephen W. Looney and
Thomas R. Gulledge, Jr. Probability Plotting Positions and
Goodness of Fit for the Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--303
Sik-Yum Lee and
Wai-Yin Poon Further Developments on Constrained
Estimation in Analysis of Covariance
Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--316
Jean B. Soper and
Martin P. Lee Spreadsheets in Teaching Statistics . . 317--321
G. J. S. Ross and
D. A. Preece The Negative Binomial Distribution . . . 323--335
Jorgen Seldrup Book Review: \booktitleClinical Trials.
A Practical Approach, by Stuart J.
Pocock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
Gopal K. Kanji Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
R. J. Williamson Span Tests on Cusums . . . . . . . . . . 345--356
Graham Dunn Assays for Drug, Neurotransmitter and
Hormone Receptors . . . . . . . . . . . 357--364
Asghar Ali and
G. M. Clarke and
K. Trustrum Principal Component Analysis Applied to
Some Data from Fruit Nutrition
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--370
L. R. Peace A Time Correlation Between Cigarette
Smoking and Lung Cancer . . . . . . . . 371--381
J. Kriens and
R. H. Veenstra Statistical Sampling in Internal Control
by Using the AOQL-System . . . . . . . . 383--390
G. Barrie Wetherill and
John B. Curram and
J. P. Burman and
P. Duncombe and
J. E. Hailstone and
R. E. Kempson The Design and Evaluation of Statistical
Software for Microcomputers . . . . . . 391--427
S. M. Tam On Covariance in Finite Population
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--433
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 435--439
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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
G. A. Barnard Rescuing Our Manufacturing Industry-Some
of the Statistical Problems . . . . . . 3--16
Jerry W. Lewis and
Luis A. Escobar Suppression and Enhancement in Bivariate
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
M. M. Shoukri $K$-Sample Likelihood Ratio Tests on the
Inverse-Gaussian Distribution . . . . . 27--32
D. A. Preece Illustrative Examples: Illustrative of
What? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
Wolfgang Pelz and
I. J. Good Estimating Probabilities from
Contingency Tables When the Marginal
Probabilities are Known, by Using
Additive Objective Functions . . . . . . 45--50
Annette J. Dobson and
Val J. Gebski Sample Sizes for Comparing Two
Independent Proportions Using the
Continuity-Corrected Arc Sine
Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53
Nigel C. Smeeton Modelling Episodes of Mental Illness:
Some Results from the Second U.K.
National Morbidity Survey . . . . . . . 55--63
John B. Wood An Application of Predictive Checks in
the Bayesian Analysis of Multinomial
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--72
Ian McGowan Fitting $S$-Shaped Curves to Mail
Response Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
E. Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleUsing Published
Data: Errors and Remedies, by Herbert
Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
A. Kinsella Book Review: \booktitleExperiments in
Industry: Analysis and Interpretation of
Results, by Ronald D. Snee; Lynne B.
Hare; J. Richard Trout . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Derek Bissell Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Statistical Quality Control, by Douglas
C. Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Allan Reese Book Review: \booktitleSumming Up, by R.
J. Light; D. B. Pillemer . . . . . . . . 82--83
A. W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of the
Normal Distribution, by J. K. Patel; C.
B. Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
G. Barrie Wetherill Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate Data
Analysis in Industrial Practice, by Paul
J. Lewi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
D. O. Chanter Book Review: \booktitleApplied and
Computational Statistics; A First
Course, by Keith Stoodley . . . . . . . 85--86
S. D. Jacka Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Calculus and Applications, by Robert J.
Elliott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Nick Moon Book Review: \booktitleData Construction
in Social Surveys, by Nicholas Bateson 87--88
D. D. V. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Observations, by G. A. F. Seber . . . . 88--89
P. Holmes Book Review: \booktitleA Modern Approach
to Statistics, by R. L. Iman; W. J.
Conover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
R. Allan Reese Book Review: \booktitleThe Visual
Display of Quantitative Information, by
Edward R. Tufte . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
R. A. Sugden Book Review: \booktitleThe Ideas of
Sampling, by Alan Stuart . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
G. K. Kanji Editorial: ``All Models are Wrong but
Some are Useful'' . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
A. F. M. Smith Some Bayesian Thoughts on Modelling and
Model Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
Murray Aitkin Statistical Modelling: The Likelihood
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--113
E. F. Harding Modelling: The Classical Approach . . . 115--134
Christine E. McLaren and
Gary M. Brittenham and
Victor R. Gordeuk and
Margaret A. Hughes and
Louise J. Keating Statistical Modelling of the
Distribution of Red Blood Cell Volumes
in Iron Deficiency Anemia Using the
Expectation-Maximisation Algorithm . . . 135--142
Trevor Sharot Modelling the Audience to Posters . . . 143--150
M. B. Beck The Selection of Structure in Models of
Environmental Systems . . . . . . . . . 151--161
B. S. Van Der Laan and
A. S. Louter A Statistical Model for the Costs of
Passenger Car Traffic Accidents . . . . 163--174
Leland Stewart and
William W. Davis Bayesian Posterior Distributions Over
Sets of Possible Models with Inferences
Computed by Monte Carlo Integration . . 175--182
L. I. Pettit Diagnostics in Bayesian Model Choice . . 183--190
Mike Baxter Geographical and Planning Models for
Data on Spatial Flows . . . . . . . . . 191--198
R. A. Reese Data Analysis: The Need for Models? . . 199--206
G. A. Whitmore First-Passage-Time Models for Duration
Data: Regression Structures and
Competing Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--219
J. G. Shepherd and
M. D. Nicholson Use and Abuse of Multiplicative Models
in the Analysis of Fish Catch-at-Age
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227
F. R. Johnston and
P. J. Harrison and
A. S. Marshall and
K. M. France Modelling and the Estimation of Changing
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--235
S. G. Thompson Modelling in Matched Case-Control
Studies in Epidemiology . . . . . . . . 237--244
C. J. Adcock Choosing Linear Approximations to a
Non-Linear Model: A Case Study . . . . . 245--249
Peter C. Sander Modelling and Testing Shocks . . . . . . 251--262
R. J. Young and
M. Young Use of Prior Information in Specifying
the Dynamics of Sales-Advertising
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--269
Neville Davies and
Joseph D. Petruccelli Detecting Non-Linearity in Time Series 271--280
A. M. Skene and
J. E. H. Shaw and
T. D. Lee Bayesian Modelling and Sensitivity
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--288
Gordon Brown Modelling Advertising Awareness . . . . 289--299
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Tony Bendell Minimising Misconceived Models . . . . . 303--309
W. R. Gilks and
S. E. Hills and
S. M. Gore In Practice: A Two-Stage Technique for
Rapidly Exploring Large Datasets . . . . 311--324
Martin R. Carr Modelling the Attenuation of Broad Band
Light Down a Water Column . . . . . . . 325--333
James M. Freeman An Unknown Change Point and Goodness of
Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--344
Nicholas N. N. N. Nuamah Pooling Cross Section and Time Series
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--351
S. M. Rizvi Manpower Demand Modelling . . . . . . . 353--358
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Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--368
Roger Tarling Statistical Applications in Criminology 369--388
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Sciences Series No. 40, by Philip A.
Schrodt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--405
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Nice; K. F. Elliott . . . . . . . . . . 405--405
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John O'Quigley The Chi-Squared Approximation in the
Comparison of Several Proportions . . . 409--412
E. H. Oksanen A Note on Observation-Specific Dummies
and Logit Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 413--416
C. Philip Cox and
Richard A. Groeneveld Analytic Results on the Difference
Between the $ G^2 $ and $ \chi^2 $ Test
Statistics in One Degree of Freedom
Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--420
A. Kinsella Estimating Method Precisions . . . . . . 421--427
M. Gibbs and
R. K. Lindner and
A. J. Fischer Reliability of Two Survey Techniques: A
Study of Innovation Discovery by Farmers 429--439
Jorge Luis Romeu Teaching Engineering Statistics with
Simulation: A Classroom Experience . . . 441--447
A. C. Bora and
M. Singh and
G. Singh Robust Change-Over Designs . . . . . . . 449--454
Nathan Mantel and
Samuel W. Greenhouse On the Diaconis--Efron Proposal for a
Volume Test for Contingency Tables . . . 455--457
Paula J. Laschober and
H. Tamura Application of AID in Analysis of Energy
Survey Data --- A Case Study . . . . . . 459--469
Haim Shore Approximate Closed Form Expressions for
the Decision Variables of Some Tests
Related to the Binomial Distribution . . 471--478
M. Frisen Unimodal Regression . . . . . . . . . . 479--485
Allan Reese Letter to the Editor: An Addendum . . . 487--487
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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D. J. Johnstone and
G. A. Barnard and
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Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--504
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P. Duncombe and
Mary G. Hills and
P. M. North and
G. B. Wetherill A Microcomputer Survey Analysis Package
Designed for the Developing Countries 505--523
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C. D. Kemp On the Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit
Statistic for Bivariate Discrete
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--529
Isaac Olayiwola Oshungade Use of Percentage Change in Small Area
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--545
James M. Freeman A Piecewise Regression Analysis for
Firm-Size Distributions . . . . . . . . 547--559
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Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--563
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in Optimisation and Data Analysis, by M.
R. Osborne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--564
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Statistics 3: Time Series in the Time
Domain, by D. R. Brillinger; P. R.
Krishnaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--565
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--- The Approach Based on Influence
Functions, by F. R. Hampel; E. M.
Ronchetti; P. J. Rousseuw; W. A. Stahel 565--566
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Basics of Applied Statistics, by R. G.
Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--567
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Statistics 4: Nonparametric Methods, by
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Analysis of Measurement Errors, by John
L. Jaech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--569
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Statistics with Your Microcomputer, by
Conall Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--570
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Queueing Theory, by Donald Gross; Carl
M. Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--570
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Ethics of Fieldwork Qualitative Research
Methods Series, Paper 3, by Maurice
Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--571
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--572
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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Dorothy L. Robinson Estimation and Use of Variance
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--14
C. A. de B. Pereira and
D. V. Lindley Examples Questioning the Use of Partial
Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--20
Nathan Mantel Truncation as a Unifying Principle . . . 21--24
V. T. Prabhakaran and
J. P. Jain On the Variance of Heritability
Coefficient Obtained from Intra-Sire
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Leon Katz Phi and the Difference in Proportions 27--29
J. S. Dagpunar Nomograms for the Manual Sampling of
Random Variates from Gamma, Normal and
Associated Distributions . . . . . . . . 31--36
Ian R. Dunsmore A Bayesian Alternative to the Sign Test
in a Matched Pairs Design . . . . . . . 37--43
D. A. Preece The Language of Size, Quantity and
Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
Jan Hendl A Note on Exponential Transformations 55--57
Eddie Taylor Book Review: \booktitleESRC Data Archive
Catalogue, by Marcia Freed Taylor . . . 59--59
D. G. Rees Book Review: \booktitleBasic Statistics
with Applications, by Edwin Mansfield 60--60
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Life of a Scientist, by R. A. Fisher;
Joan Fisher Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
Jeremy Chadwick Book Review: \booktitleMeta-Analysis, by
Frederic M. Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
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des Équations Différentielles, by M.
Crouzeix; A. L. Mignot . . . . . . . . . 63--63
D. G. Rees Book Review: \booktitleLinear
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Teaching Statistics, by Peter Holmes . . 64--65
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A. W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleSystems in
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and Stochastic Flow Systems, by J.
Michael Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Anne S. Hawkins Book Review: \booktitleBandit
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Fristedt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
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Techniques, by Frank Owen; Ron Jones . . 68--68
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Fowler; L. Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69
T. Sparks Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Regression Analysis: An Introductory
Guide Quantitative Applications in the
Social Sciences No. 57, by Larry D.
Schroeder; David L. Sjoquist; Paula E.
Stephan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
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World, by J. C. Polkinghorne . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. F. M. Smith and
A. M. Skene and
J. E. H. Shaw and
J. C. Naylor Progress with Numerical and Graphical
Methods for Practical Bayesian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82
Herman K. Van Dijk and
J. Peter Hop and
Adri S. Louter An Algorithm for the Computation of
Posterior Moments and Densities Using
Simple Importance Sampling . . . . . . . 83--90
A. P. Dawid The Difficulty About Conjunction . . . . 91--97
I. W. Evett Bayesian Inference and Forensic Science:
Problems and Perspectives . . . . . . . 99--105
J. D. Bermudez and
J. M. Bernardo and
M. Sendra Classification Problems in Education . . 107--113
Jeff Harrison and
Mike West Practical Bayesian Forecasting . . . . . 115--125
W. R. Gilks Some Applications of Hierarchical Models
in Kidney Transplantation . . . . . . . 127--136
M. J. Bayarri and
M. H. DeGroot Bayesian Analysis of Selection Models 137--146
J. E. H. Shaw Numerical Bayesian Analysis of Some
Flexible Regression Models . . . . . . . 147--153
C. J. Adcock A Bayesian Approach to Calculating
Sample Sizes for Multinomial Sampling 155--159
T. D. Lee Assessment of Inter- and
Intra-Laboratory Variances: A Bayesian
Alternative to BS 5497 . . . . . . . . . 161--170
A. J. Van Der Merwe and
P. C. N. Groenewald Bayes and Empirical Bayes Confidence
Intervals in Applied Research . . . . . 171--179
Donald A. Berry Statistical Inference, Designing
Clinical Trials, and Pharmaceutical
Company Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . 181--189
Michael Goldstein Systematic Analysis of Limited Belief
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199
David J. Spiegelhalter Coherent Evidence Propagation in Expert
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--210
Leland Stewart Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis Using
Monte Carlo Integration: Computing
Posterior Distributions When There are
Many Possible Models . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
Wolfgang Polasek Bounds on Rounding Errors in Linear
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227
J. A. Achcar and
H. Bolfarine and
Luis R. Pericchi Transformation of Survival Data to an
Extreme Value Distribution . . . . . . . 229--234
S. E. Hills Reference Priors and Identifiability
Problems in Non-Linear Models . . . . . 235--240
J. C. Naylor Bayesian Alternatives to $t$-Tests . . . 241--246
A. O'Hagan Monte Carlo is Fundamentally Unsound . . 247--249
Udi E. Makov A Bayesian Treatment of the `Missing
Suspect' Problem in Forensic Science . . 251--258
Marie-Paule Kestemont The Kolmogorov Distance as Comparison
Measure Between Parametric and
Non-Parametric Bayesian Predictions . . 259--264
John Marriott Bayesian Numerical and Graphical Methods
for Box--Jenkins Time Series . . . . . . 265--268
Dani Gamerman and
Mike West An Application of Dynamic Survival
Models in Unemployment Studies . . . . . 269--274
José M. Quintana and
Mike West An Analysis of International Exchange
Rates Using Multivariate DLM's . . . . . 275--281
A. P. Grieve Applications of Bayesian Software: Two
Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--288
Michel Mouchart and
Hugo Roche Bayesian Analysis of Load-Curves Through
Spline Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--296
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Douglas M. Hawkins Self-Starting Cusum Charts for Location
and Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--316
Denis Conniffe Expected Maximum Log Likelihood
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--329
A. F. Laurence Imputing Molecular Properties . . . . . 331--343
A. Kinsella The `Exact' Bootstrap Approach to
Confidence Intervals for the Relative
Difference Statistic . . . . . . . . . . 345--347
Brian D. Bunday and
Victor A. Kiri Maximum Likelihood Estimation ---
Practical Merits of Variable Metric
Optimisation Methods . . . . . . . . . . 349--355
C. Chatfield and
M. G. Schimek An Example of Model-Formulation Using
IDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--363
C. Caroni Residuals and Influence in the
Multivariate Linear Model . . . . . . . 365--370
Christian Genest and
Philip E. J. Green A Graphical Display of Association in
Two-Way Contingency Tables . . . . . . . 371--380
Steven B. Caudill Dichotomous Choice Models and Dummy
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383
P. C. Mehrotra and
A. K. Srivastava and
K. K. Tyagi On Unequal Cluster Sampling for Fixed
Sample Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--391
A. Khalique and
I. H. Tajuddin On the Choice of Using Four Moments or
Three Moments and the Left Boundary for
Fitting a Pearsonian Distribution . . . 393--395
D. A. Preece Good Statistical Practice . . . . . . . 397--408
V. T. Prabhakaran and
J. P. Jain A Procedure for Obtaining the
Probability of Negative Estimates of
Heritability from Sib Analysis . . . . . 409--411
Nicholas N. N. N. Nuamah Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Statistics, by Arnold Naiman; Robert
Rosenfeld; Gene Zirkel . . . . . . . . . 413--414
Bob Peters Book Review: \booktitleSequential
Methods in Statistics, by G. Barrie
Wetherill; Kevin D. Glazebrook . . . . . 414--414
R. W. Farebrother Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Statistics: The Measurement of
Uncertainty Before 1900, by Stephen M.
Stigler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--415
D. A. Jones Book Review: \booktitleEmpirical
Processes with Applications to
Statistics, by G. R. Shorack; J. A.
Wellner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--416
J. F. Bell Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference in Linear Models, by H. Burke;
O. Burke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
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Modelling and Analysis: A Computational
Approach, by H. C. Tijms . . . . . . . . 417--417
D. D. V. Morgan Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Analysis of Variance, by J. H. Bray; S.
E. Maxwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Martin Gibson Book Review: \booktitleThe Design and
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Random Variables, by G. P. Beaumont . . 419--420
C. D. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleDensity
Estimation for Statistics and Data
Analysis, by B. W. Silverman . . . . . . 420--421
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleMonte Carlo
Optimization, Simulation and Sensitivity
of Queueing Networks, by Reuven Y.
Rubinstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422
C. G. G. Aitken Book Review: \booktitleStatistics and
the Law, by M. H. Degroot; S. E.
Fienberg; J. E. Kadane . . . . . . . . . 422--423
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M. A. Porter Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
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Yadolah Dodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--424
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Stochastic Analysis, by M. M. Rao . . . 424--424
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Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
T. R. L. Fry Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Analysis of Compositional Data, by J.
Aitchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
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Statistics, by M. G. Godfrey; E. M.
Roebuck; A. J. Sherlock . . . . . . . . 427--428
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Systematic Approach, by Peter H. Rossi;
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R. J. Croucher Book Review: \booktitleReliability and
Life Testing, by S. K. Sinha . . . . . . 429--429
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for Engineering and Science Student, by
Ian S. Murphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
Michael D. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Simulation, by Brian D. Ripley . . . . . 430--431
Anna Hart Book Review: \booktitleCognition as
Intuitive Statistics, by Gerd
Gegerenzer; David J. Murray . . . . . . 431--432
John Law Book Review: \booktitlePrincipal
Component Analysis, by I. T. Jolliffe 432--432
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Financial Time Series, by Stephen Taylor 433--433
B. Roweth Book Review: \booktitleNew Tools for
Social Scientists: Advances and
Applications in Research Methods, by
William D. Berry; Michael S. Lewis-Beck 433--434
Michael Stuart Book Review: \booktitleThe Logic of
Causal Order, by James A. Davis . . . . 435--435
Ray Harris Book Review: \booktitleThe Vote Catcher,
by Mike Carey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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S. J. Morrison SQC Is Not Enough . . . . . . . . . . . 439--464
David H. Baillie Multivariate Acceptance Sampling ---
Some Applications to Defence Procurement 465--478
D. A. Lobley Industry, Quality and Statistics . . . . 479--485
K. Julian Statisticians --- Keep It Simple . . . . 487--492
T. S. Manns and
M. J. Coleman An Approach to Software Quality
Assurance Training . . . . . . . . . . . 493--498
Michael Willmott and
Michael Warren Reliability Surveys and Panels . . . . . 499--511
Norman G. Alvey The Measurement of Consumer
Acceptability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--523
R. M. Wankling Trading Standards: An Aid to Quality . . 525--530
I. J. Townshend and
A. F. Bissell Sampling for Clinical Report Auditing 531--539
Athol A. Korabinski Teaching Basic Statistical Quality
Control to the Shop-Floor . . . . . . . 541--553
Roland Caulcutt Statistics in Industry: A Failure of
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--560
Henry R. Neave Deming's 14 Points for Management:
Framework for Success . . . . . . . . . 561--570
B. J. Murphy Selecting Out of Control Variables With
the $ T^2 $ Multivariate Quality Control
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--581
K. Searstone The Open Tech Project in Quality
Assurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--587
G. Barrie Wetherill and
M. E. Gerson Computer Aids to Data Quality Control 589--592
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 593--597
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Jinn-Tyan Lin Approximating the Cumulative Chi-Square
Distribution and its Inverse . . . . . . 3--5
John D. Jackson and
James A. Dunlevy Orthogonal Least Squares and the
Interchangeability of Alternative Proxy
Variables in the Social Sciences . . . . 7--14
R. Butcher The Use of the Post-Code Address File as
a Sampling Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
J. J. A. Moors A Quantile Alternative for Kurtosis . . 25--32
Frances Good A Method of Moderation of School-Based
Assessments: Some Statistical
Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--49
John O'Quigley and
Claude Baudoin General Approaches to the Problem of
Bioequivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--58
Nathan Mantel and
Donald M. Stablein The Crossing Hazard Function Problem . . 59--64
Steven B. Caudill Type I Errors after Preliminary Tests
for Heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . 65--68
D. D. V. Morgan and
A. S. Monk Sampling Farm Accidents . . . . . . . . 69--79
A. W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Probability and Queues, by Soren
Asmussen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Eddie Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleEmpirical
Model-Building and Response Surfaces, by
G. E. P. Box; N. R. Draper . . . . . . . 82--82
Margaret Corbett Book Review: \booktitleMeasurement Error
Models, by Wayne A. Fuller . . . . . . . 83--83
G. A. Garreau Book Review: \booktitleThe Problems of
Mathematics, by Ian Stewart . . . . . . 83--83
R. W. Farebrother Book Review: \booktitleSpecification
Analysis in the Linear Model, by Maxwell
L. King; David E. A. Giles . . . . . . . 84--84
C. D. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleSpatial
Variation, by Bertil Matérn . . . . . . . 84--85
Peter Marks Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Methods in Discrimination Litigation, by
D. H. Kaye; Mikel Aickin . . . . . . . . 85--85
Ray Harris Book Review: \booktitleDirectory of
Statistical Microcomputer Software, by
Wayne A. Woodward; Alan C. Elliott;
Henry L. Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Robert E. Kempson Book Review: \booktitleA Genstat Primer,
by A. J. Weekes . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Nigel C. Smeeton Book Review: \booktitleA Guide to
Statistical Methods and to the Pertinent
Literature, by Lothar Sachs . . . . . . 87--87
D. G. Rees Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Statistical Inference, by D. V.
Huntsberger; P. P. Billingsley . . . . . 88--88
D. A. Preece Book Review: \booktitleCyclic Designs,
by J. A. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
J. F. Bell Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Statistical Simulations, by Mark E.
Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
T. Sparks Book Review: \booktitleA Handbook of
Introductory Statistical Methods, by C.
Phillip Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Norman Pigden Book Review: \booktitleMultidimensional
Scaling: History, Theory and
Applications, by Forrest W. Young;
Robert M. Hamer . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Sheila Jefferson Book Review: \booktitleSurvey Research
Designs: Towards a Better Understanding
of Their Costs and Benefits, by R. W.
Pearson; R. F. Boruch . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Graeme Smith Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Management, by Richard Levin . . . . . . 92--93
Ron S. Kenett Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Business and Economics, by Paul Newbold 93--94
K. E. Basford Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Experiments, by M. N. Das;
N. C. Giri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Kevin J. McConway Book Review: \booktitleDecision Theory:
An Introduction to the Mathematics of
Rationality, by Simon French . . . . . . 94--95
David H. Baillie Errata: Multivariate Acceptance Sampling
--- Some Applications to Defence
Procurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
A. Kinsella Errata: The `Exact' Bootstrap Approach
to Confidence Intervals for the Relative
Difference Statistic . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Howell Tong and
R. Moeanaddin On Multi-Step Non-Linear Least Squares
Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
Paul Newbold Predictors Projecting Linear Trends Plus
Seasonal Dummies . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--127
Chris Chatfield and
Mohammad Yar Holt--Winters Forecasting: Some
Practical Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
Lilian Shiao-Yen Wu Business Planning Under Uncertainty:
Quantifying Variability . . . . . . . . 141--151
W. S. Perriman Inference Associated with Differenced
Time Series Data on Measurements with
Error on Ash Content of Coal . . . . . . 153--164
Paul S. Horn and
Paul W. Britton and
Daniel F. Lewis On The Prediction of a Single Future
Observation from a Possibly Noisy Sample 165--172
K. A. Yeomans and
M. T. Bendixen Business Forecasting in South Africa:
Practice and Cases . . . . . . . . . . . 173--186
J. M. Marriott and
A. R. Tremayne Alternative Statistical Approaches to
Time Series Modelling for Forecasting
Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--197
N. Davies and
J. Pemberton and
J. D. Petruccelli An Automatic Procedure for
Identification, Estimation and
Forecasting Univariate Self Exiting
Threshold Autoregressive Models . . . . 199--204
C. J. Adcock A Service System Model for Sales
Forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--211
R. Moeanaddin and
Howell Tong A Comparison of Likelihood Ratio Test
and CUSUM Test for Threshold
Autoregression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225
Jamal R. M. Ameen Sequential Discount Estimation . . . . . 227--237
C. J. Adcock Erratum: Corrections to a Bayesian
Approach to Calculating Sample Sizes for
Multinomial Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
C. David Kemp and
Adrienne W. Kemp Rapid Estimation for Discrete
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--255
W. G. Stevenson and
J. R. Mallon and
F. Hepper Practical Aspects of Monitoring Equality
of Employment Opportunity in a Large
Organisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--270
A. Agliari and
C. Calvi Parisetti $A$-$g$ Reference Informative Prior: A
Note on Zellner's $g$ Prior . . . . . . 271--275
C. A. Glasbey Examples of Regression with Serially
Correlated Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 277--291
John H. Herbert and
Phillip S. Kott An Empirical Note on Regressions with
and Without a Poorly Measured Variable
Using Gas Demand as a Case Study . . . . 293--298
D. G. Rees and
C. J. K. Henry On Comparing the Predicted Values from
Two Simple Linear Regression Lines . . . 299--306
John Bacon-Shone Bayesian Methods for Growth Curves with
Capture-Recapture . . . . . . . . . . . 307--312
D. A. Preece and
G. J. S. Ross and
P. J. Kirby Bortkewitsch's Horse-Kicks and the
Generalised Linear Model . . . . . . . . 313--318
David E. Wright and
Claire E. Hazelhurst Estimation and Prediction for a Simple
Software Reliability Model . . . . . . . 319--325
D. R. Bellhouse and
B. C. Sutradhar Variance Estimation for Systematic
Sampling When Autocorrelation is Present 327--332
Elart Von Collani Economic Product Control by Routine
Testing of Small Samples . . . . . . . . 333--341
Philip Giles Book Review: \booktitleSuperCalc:
Assignments and Solutions, by B. M.
Garstang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Andrew Lawson Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Analysis of Computer Storage, by O. I.
Aven; E. G. Coffman,; Y. A. Kogan . . . 343--344
D. J. Colwell and
J. R. Gillett Book Review: \booktitleStatistics
Explained: Basic Concepts and Methods,
by R. Kapadia; G. Anderson . . . . . . . 344--344
Nigel C. Smeeton Book Review: \booktitleThe Spectral
Analysis of Time Series, by I. G.
Zurbenko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Philip Giles Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Data Handling in BBC Basic, by J.
Gatenby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--345
Anne S. Hawkins Book Review: \booktitleInstructional
Technology: Foundations, by R. M. Gagné 345--346
Philip M. North Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Biostatistics, by R. R. Sokal; F. J.
Rohlf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347
Geoff Cohen Book Review: \booktitleStatistics
Problems and Solutions, by E. E.
Bassett; J. M. Bremner; I. T. Jolliffe;
B. Jones; B. J. T. Morgan; P. M. North 347--348
Paul Waller Book Review: \booktitleExpert Systems
and Artificial Intelligence in Decision
Support Systems, by H. G. Sol; C. A. T.
Takkenberg; P. F. De Vries Robbe . . . . 348--349
Anne Hawkins Book Review: \booktitleInformation
Theory: Structural Models for
Qualitative Data, by K. Krippendorff . . 349--349
P. I. Dugard Book Review: \booktitleEngineering
Reliability and Risk in Water Resources,
by L. Duckstein; E. J. Plate . . . . . . 349--350
Andrew Lawson Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Statistical Inference, by J. C. Kiefer 350--350
Nigel C. Smeeton Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Variance, by G. R. Iverson; H. Norpoth 351--352
J. N. R. Jeffers Book Review: \booktitleImproving Study
Skills, by I. Selmes . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--356
A. Kinsella and
C. O'Boyle Testing Differential Drug Effects . . . 357--361
S. R. Paul and
Nathan Mantel Model Dependent Analyses of
Litter-Depletion Data . . . . . . . . . 363--370
Philip V. Bertrand and
Roger L. Holder A Quirk in Multiple Regression: The
Whole Regression can be Greater Than the
Sum of Its Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--374
Rainer Schlittgen Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Uniformity and
Normality Based on the Correlation
Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--381
Weichung J. Shih Non-Parametric Simultaneous Prediction
Intervals for Quality Control . . . . . 383--386
Karen Yuen Fung and
Hilda Tam Robust Confidence Intervals for
Comparing Several Treatment Groups to a
Control Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--399
Camil Fuchs and
Ron S. Kenett Appraisal of Ceramic Substrates by
Multivariate Tolerance Regions . . . . . 401--411
Jinn-Tyan Lin Alternatives to Hamakers' Approximations
to the Cumulative Normal Distribution
and its Inverse . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--414
L. Jonathan Cohen The Difficulty About Conjunction in
Forensic Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--416
G. J. McLachlan On the Choice of Starting Values for the
EM Algorithm in Fitting Mixture Models 417--425
John J. Gart and
Jun-Mo Nam Alternative Confidence Intervals for the
Relative Difference . . . . . . . . . . 427--431
C. J. Adcock A Bayesian Approach to Calculating
Sample Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--439
Denis Conniffe Obtaining Expected Maximum Log
Likelihood Estimators . . . . . . . . . 441--449
Peter Congdon Deprivation in London Wards: Mortality
and Unemployment Trends in the 1980's 451--472
R. Moeanaddin and
Howell Tong Addendum & Corrigendum: A Comparison of
Likelihood Ratio Test and CUSUM Test for
Threshold Autoregression . . . . . . . . 473--474
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys,
by D. B. Rubin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
M. A. Porter Book Review: \booktitleGraphical
Exploratory Data Analysis, by S. H. C.
Du Toit; A. G. W. Steyn; R. H. Stumpf 476--477
Dan Grove Book Review: \booktitleAkaike
Information Criterion Statistics, by Y.
Sakamoto; M. Ishiguro; G. Kitagawa . . . 477--478
John F. Bell Book Review: \booktitleMultilevel Models
in Educational and Social Research, by
H. Goldstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--478
Phil Woodward Book Review: \booktitleLinear Models for
Unbalanced Data, by S. R. Searle . . . . 478--479
Grant Ogilvie Book Review: \booktitleDecision Science
and Social Risk Management, by M. W.
Merkhofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--480
N. N. N. N. Nuamah Book Review: \booktitleBusiness and
Economics Statistics with Computer
Applications, by W. E. Becker; D. L.
Harnett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--481
R. A. Darton Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Design for Research, by L. Kish . . . . 481--483
C. Cannings Book Review: \booktitleSearch Problems,
by R. Ahlswede; I. Wegener . . . . . . . 483--483
G. S. W. Rutherford Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate Data
Analysis with Readings, by J. F. Hair,;
R. E. Anderson; R. L. Tatham . . . . . . 484--484
Peter C. Dunne Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Differential Systems, by V. S. Pugachev;
I. N. Sinitsyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
Michael Stuart Book Review: \booktitleDesign, Data and
Analysis by Some Friends of Cuthbert
Daniel, by C. L. Mallows . . . . . . . . 485--486
Martin G. Gibson Book Review: \booktitleModel Selection,
by H. Linhart; W. Zucchini . . . . . . . 486--487
A. M. Farrow Book Review: \booktitleBasic Operational
Research, by P. G. Moore . . . . . . . . 487--487
Oliver D. Anderson Book Review: \booktitleKendall's
Advanced Theory of Statistics, Volume 1:
Distribution Theory, by A. Stuart; J. K.
Ord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--488
Ewan W. MacArthur Book Review: \booktitleGLIM: An
Introduction, by M. J. R. Healy . . . . 488--490
P. I. Dugard Book Review: \booktitleCompromise,
Negotiation and Decision, by B. R.
Munier; M. F. Shakun . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
M. A. Speller Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Linear Programming, by G. R. Walsh 491--492
D. G. Rees Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Statistics for the Life and Social
Sciences, by B. M. Alfred . . . . . . . 492--493
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 495--499
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Tapan K. Nayak and
Dayanand N. Naik Estimating Multinomial Cell
Probabilities Under Quadratic Loss . . . 3--10
George S. Donatos A Monte Carlo Study of $k$-Class
Estimators for Small Samples with Normal
and Non-Normal Disturbances . . . . . . 11--20
Javad Behboodian A Note on Skewness and Symmetry . . . . 21--23
I. K. Crombie and
W. C. S. Smith and
J. M. Irving and
H. D. Tunstall-Pedoe Experience With General Practitioner
Lists as a Sampling Frame for a Survey
of Cardiovascular Risk Factors . . . . . 25--31
R. Allan Reese A Graphics Extension to the GLIM$^\reg
$3 Computer Program . . . . . . . . . . 33--45
M. S. Silver Sampling Frames and Non-Response
Problems in Surveys of United Kingdom
Companies: A Case Study of the ESRC/DTI
Survey of Management Training . . . . . 47--60
Robert W. Makuch and
Michael A. Stephens and
Michael Escobar Generalised Binomial Models to Examine
the Historical Control Assumption in
Active Control Equivalence Studies . . . 61--70
Josemar Rodrigues and
Heleno Bolfarine and
José Galvão Leite A Simple Non-Parametric Bayes Solution
to the Estimation of the Size of a
Closed Animal Population . . . . . . . . 71--76
Carolyn Craggs Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Research: Basic Concepts and Techniques
for Research Workers, by B. Ostle; L. C.
Malone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
R. Iyer Book Review: \booktitleBusiness
Forecasting, by John E. Hanke; Arthur G.
Reitsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleAsymptotic Theory
of Statistical Inference, by B. L. S.
Prakasa Rao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
K. Rennolls Book Review: \booktitleGenstat 5: An
Introduction, by P. Lane; N. Galwey; N.
Alvey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
D. R. Grey Book Review: \booktitleCounterexamples
in Probability, by Jordan Stoyanov . . . 79--80
Michael D. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Statistics, by Neil A. Weiss; Matthew J.
Hassett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Karol J. Krótki Book Review: \booktitleField Methods in
Cross-Cultural Research, Cross-Cultural
Research and Methodology Series, Volume
8, by Walter J. Lonner; John W. Berry 80--82
D. R. Giddings Book Review: \booktitleRoad Accident
Statistics, by T. P. Hutchinson . . . . 82--82
Martin G. Gibson Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Analysis with Missing Data, by R. J. A.
Little; D. B. Rubin . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Larry D. Haugh Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Hydrology, by Ian B. MacNeill; Gary J.
Umphrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
A. J. Woods Book Review: \booktitleLatent Class
Analysis, by Allan L. McCutcheon . . . . 84--85
Les Ruddock Book Review: \booktitleNew Directions
for Database Systems, by Gad Ariav;
James Clifford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
T. Subba Rao Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Methods in Structural Dynamics, by G. I.
Schuëller; M. Sinozuka . . . . . . . . . 85--86
D. N. Shanbhag Book Review: \booktitleCharacterization
Problems Associated with the Exponential
Distribution, by T. A. Azlarov; N. A.
Volodin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Denis Conniffe Corrigendum: Obtaining Expected Maximum
Log Likelihood Estimators . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Knut M. Wittkowski An Asymptotic UMP Sign Test for
Discretised Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
J. Brian Gray On the Use of Regression Diagnostics . . 97--105
C. J. Adcock Pre-Sampling Procedures . . . . . . . . 107--115
R. D. Coe The Stochastic Spreadsheet: A New
Statistical Computing Tool . . . . . . . 117--120
S. R. Paul and
Nathan Mantel Model-Free Analyses of Litter-Depletion
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--125
Nigel C. Smeeton Changes in the Distribution of Episodes
of Mental Illness in a Group of U.K.
General Practices . . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
Raja Iyer Book Review: \booktitleBasic Forecasting
Techniques, by David Johnson; Malcolm
King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
P. M. Lee Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
Bayesian Statistics, by R. Viertl . . . 133--134
Ralph Peace Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Data, by Peter Sprent . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleSmall Area
Statistics: An International Symposium,
by R. Platek; J. N. K. Rao; C. E.
Sarndal; M. P. Singh . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Martin G. Gibson Book Review: \booktitleHow Many
Subjects? Statistical Power Analysis in
Research, by H. C. Kraeme; S. Thieman 135--136
Karol J. Krotki Book Review: \booktitleSystematic
Fieldwork. Vol. I: Foundations of
Ethnography and Interviewing, by Oswald
Werner; G. Mark Schoepfle;
\booktitleSystematic Fieldwork. Vol. II:
Ethnographic Analysis and Data
Management, by Oswald Werner; G. Mark
Schoepfle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
Deborah J. Harris Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
Comparisons, by Alan J. Klockers; Gilber
Sax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
P. J. Laycock Book Review: \booktitleRobust Regression
and Outlier Detection, by Peter J.
Rousseuw; Annick M. Leroy . . . . . . . 138--138
Nicholas N. N. N. Nuamah Book Review: \booktitleSensitivity
Analysis in Linear Regression, by
Samprit Chatterjee; Ali S. Hadi . . . . 138--139
Tony Scanlan Book Review: \booktitleElements of
Statistical Computing: Numerical
Computation, by Ronald A. Thisted . . . 139--140
W. B. Samson Book Review: \booktitleReliability Data
Bases, by Aniello Amendola; Alfred Z.
Keller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Eddie Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Reasoning, by Gary Smith . . . . . . . . 140--141
Derek Bissell Book Review: \booktitleProblem Solving
--- A Statistician's Guide, by
Christopher Chatfield . . . . . . . . . 141--142
D. G. Rees Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Medical Statistics, by R. F. Mould . . . 142--143
I. G. Mackenzie Book Review: \booktitleReview of
Pharmacokinetics: Mathematical and
Statistical Approaches to Metabolism and
Distribution of Chemicals and Drugs, by
A. Pecile; A. Resigno . . . . . . . . . 143--144
James A. Reilly Book Review: \booktitleParadoxes in
Probability Theory and Mathematical
Statistics, by Gabor J. Szekely . . . . 144--144
S. A. McAllister Book Review: \booktitleAutomation in
Survey Processing . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Paul Cockram Book Review: \booktitleMathematics and
Statistics for Accounting and Business
Studies, by T. Bancroft; G. O'Sullivan 145--146
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Probability & Mathematical Statistics, by
V. Fabian; J. Hannan . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Alan J. Collins Book Review: \booktitleSurface
Organometallic Chemistry: Molecular
Approaches to Surface Catalysis, by
J.-M. Basset; B. C. Gates . . . . . . . 147--147
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleW. G. Cochran's
Impact on Statistics, by P. S. R. S.
Rao; J. Sedransk . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
D. G. Rees Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Health Management and Research, by Mark
Woodward; Lesley M. A. Francis . . . . . 148--149
Peter Lynn Book Review: \booktitleNew Developments
in Statistics for Psychology and the
Social Sciences, by A. D. Lovie . . . . 149--150
Chris Beaumont Book Review: \booktitleExternal Trade
Indices. Eurostat News Special Edition 150--150
Adrienne W. Kemp Book Review: \booktitleMeans and Their
Inequalities, by P. S. Bullen; D. S.
Mitrinovi\'c; P. M. Vasi\'c . . . . . . 150--151
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
N. Logothetis Establishing a Noise Performance Measure 155--174
A. Kinsella Bootstrapping a Bioequivalence Measure 175--179
Philip J. Boland Majority Systems and the Condorcet Jury
Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--189
Ejaz Ahmed On the Probability of Selecting Extreme
Value Populations Associated with the
Smallest Location Parameters . . . . . . 191--195
R. A. Ipinyomi and
B. L. Adeleke Nested Row-Column Designs . . . . . . . 197--202
Steven B. Caudill and
John D. Jackson Measuring Marginal Effects in Limited
Dependent Variable Models . . . . . . . 203--206
Margaret Corbett Book Review: \booktitleStatistics & Data
Analysis: An Introduction, by Andrew F.
Siegel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Eddie Shoesmith Book Review: \booktitleExploring
Statistics with the IBM\reg PC, by David
P. Doane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--209
Frank Clifford Book Review: \booktitleChallenges and
Responses in Mathematics, by Geoffrey
Howson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
K. E. Basford Book Review: \booktitleComparative
Experiments with Field Crops, by G. V.
Dyke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
J. F. Bell Book Review: \booktitlePlane Answers to
Complex Questions: The Theory of Linear
Models, by Ronald Christensen . . . . . 210--210
Larry D. Haugh Book Review: \booktitleTables for
Selecting the Best Population, by K. L.
Butler; D. G. Butler . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
A. V. Metcalfe Book Review: \booktitleTensor Methods in
Statistics, by P. McCullagh . . . . . . 211--212
Alan J. Collins Book Review: \booktitleInterfaces Under
Laser Irradiation, by L. D. Laude; D.
Bauerle; M. Wautelet . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Max Porter Book Review: \booktitleCharacterization
and Analysis of Block Designs, by A. K.
Nigam; P. D. Puri; V. K. Gupta . . . . . 212--213
Allan G. Prys-Williams Book Review: \booktitleMembership Roles
in Fields Research, by Patricia A.
Adler; Peter Adler . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213
B. D. Spurr Book Review: \booktitleThe Inverse
Gaussian Distribution, by Raj S.
Chhikara; J. Leroy Folks . . . . . . . . 213--214
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
Vee Ming Ng On an Estimation Problem in Multiple
Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--219
Mark Woodward A Computer-Based Method for Determining
Optimal Sample Size with Medical
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--226
Paul C. Van Batenburg and
J. Kriens Bayesian Discovery Sampling: A Simple
Model of Bayesian Inference in Auditing 227--233
John Wurst and
John Neter and
James Godfrey Comparison of Sieve Sampling with Random
and Cell Sampling of Monetary Units . . 235--249
P. A. Osanaiye and
C. O. Talabi On Some Non-Manufacturing Applications
of Counted Data Cumulative Sum (CUSUM)
Control Chart Schemes . . . . . . . . . 251--257
A. N. Pettitt and
I. Bin Daud Rough-and-Ready Approximations for
Diagnostic Statistics for Proportional
Hazards Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274
A. V. Metcalfe Ratio Estimators with Unequal
Probabilities Sampling: A Practical
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--280
Isaac Olayiwola Oshungade Some Methods of Handling Item
Non-Response in Categorical Data . . . . 281--296
Mick Silver Consumer Price Indices and Parallel
Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--304
Chris Sutton Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
Biologists, by R. C. Campbell . . . . . 305--305
Karol J. Krótki Book Review: \booktitlePopulation
Statistics: A Review of UK Sources, by
Bernard Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--307
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleThe Method of
Paired Comparisons, by H. A. David . . . 307--308
C. T. Gray Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
Fibonacci Numbers, by A. N. Philippou;
A. F. Horadam; G. E. Bergum . . . . . . 308--308
Michael J. P. Selby Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
Equations for Complex Systems, by A. V.
Skorohod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
R. Iyer Book Review: \booktitleNew Statistical
Procedures for the Social Sciences, by
Rand R. Wilcox . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Alan Marriott Book Review: \booktitleThe Problem of
The Reign of King Edward III: A
Statistical Approach, by Eliot Slater 310--310
M. E. Smith and
I. G. Mackenzie Book Review: \booktitleStatistics with
Vague Data, by Rudolf Kruse; Klaus
Dieter Meyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
G. M. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleNonnegative
Matrices and Applicable Topics in Linear
Algebra, by A. Graham . . . . . . . . . 311--312
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Census: A Social History, by Margo J.
Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
David H. Baillie Corrigendum: Multivariate Acceptance
Sampling --- Some Applications to
Defence Procurement . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
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