The American Statistician

2001 - 2008

Edited by Peter H. Westfall

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2008

Predicting Presidential and Other Multistage Election Outcomes Using State-Level Pre-Election Polls pp. 1-10

William F. Christensen and Lindsay W. Florence

Percentage-Based versus Statistical-Power-Based Vote Tabulation Audits pp. 11-16

John McCarthy, Howard Stanislevic, Mark Lindeman, Arlene S. Ash, Vittorio Addona and Mary Batcher

A Better Estimate of the Number of Valid Signatures on a Petition pp. 17-21

Mary M. Whiteside and Mark E. Eakin

The Role of Likelihood in Interval Estimation pp. 22-26

Russell A. Boyles

Sample Size Determination for Binomial Proportion Confidence Intervals: An Alternative Perspective Motivated by a Legal Case pp. 27-31

David Afshartous

Confidence Intervals for a Discrete Population Median pp. 32-39

Denis Larocque and Ronald H. Randles

A Comparison of BayesLaplace, Jeffreys, and Other Priors: The Case of Zero Events pp. 40-44

Frank Tuyl, Richard Gerlach and Kerrie Mengersen

Univariate Distribution Relationships pp. 45-53

Lawrence M. Leemis and Jacquelyn T. McQueston

Assessing Student Retention of Essential Statistical Ideas: Perspectives, Priorities, and Possibilities pp. 54-61

Mark L. Berenson, Jessica Utts, Karen A. Kinard, Deborah J. Rumsey, Albyn Jones and Leonard M. Gaines

The Normal Approximation to the Binomial pp. 62-63

Michael A. Proschan

t Distribution Centennial: Student's z, t, and s: What if Gosset had R? pp. 64-69

James A. Hanley, Marilyse Julien and Erica E.M. Moodie

The Beginnings of Randomization Tests pp. 70-72

Herbert A. David

Section Editor's Notes pp. 73-73

Joseph Michael Hilbe

An Examination of Statistical Software Packages for Parametric and Nonparametric Data Analyses Using Exact Methods pp. 74-84

Robert A. Oster and Joseph Michael Hilbe

Hawkes Learning Systems: Statistics pp. 85-89

Joseph Michael Hilbe

Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers, T. T. Soong; Statistical Techniques for Data Analysis (2nd ed.), John K. Taylor and Cheryl Cihon; Statistics: An Introduction (3rd ed.), Peter M. Lee pp. 90-91

Richard J. Cleary

Data Mining Methods and Models, Daniel T. Larose pp. 91-91

Xiaogang Su

Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research, Timothy A. Brown pp. 91-91

Phil Wood

Multivariable Analysis: A Practical Guide for Clinicians (2nd ed.), Mitchell H. Katz; Study Design and Statistical Analysis: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, Mitchell H. Katz pp. 92-92

Charles L. Liss

A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology, David G. Kleinbaum, Kevin M. Sullivan and Nancy D. Barker pp. 92-92

Gregory E. Gilbert

Kernels and Ensembles: Perspectives on Statistical Learning pp. 97-109

Mu Zhu

Survival Analysis: A Primer pp. 110-119

David A. Freedman

Choosing a Coverage Probability for Prediction Intervals pp. 120-124

Joshua Landon and Nozer D. Singpurwalla

Using Calibration to Improve Rounding in Imputation pp. 125-129

Recai M. Yucel, Yulei He and Alan M. Zaslavsky

The North Carolina Lottery Coincidence pp. 130-134

Leonard A. Stefanski

A Surprising MLE for Interval-Censored Binomial Data pp. 135-137

Jesse Frey and Osvaldo Marrero

On the Simple Symmetric Random Walk and its Maximal Function pp. 138-140

Jose Luis Palacios

A General Proof of Some Known Results of Independence Between Two Statistics pp. 141-143

Gauri S. Datta and Sanat K. Sarkar

A Unique Property of the Normal Distribution Associated With Perturbing a General Random Variable pp. 144-146

Robin Willink

A Recursive Formula for Computing Central Moments of a Multivariate Lognormal Distribution pp. 147-150

Georgios Skoulakis

Is the Overtime Period in an NHL Game Long Enough? An Example for Teaching Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in the Presence of Censored Data pp. 151-154

Jack Brimberg and W.J. Hurley

Experiences Teaching Probability and Statistics with Personal Laptops in the Classroom Daily pp. 155-160

Richard C. Bell and Andrew G. Glen

Helping Students to Build a Conceptual Understanding of Elementary Statistics pp. 161-166

Nick J. Broers

A Note on Improved Approximation of the Binomial Distribution by the Skew-Normal Distribution pp. 167-170

Chang, Ching-Hui, Lin, Jyh-Jiuan, Nabendu Pal and Chiang, Miao-Chen

Section Editor's Notes pp. 171-172

Joseph M. Hilbe

Rejoinder to pp. 173-176

Robert A. Oster and Joseph M. Hilbe

Systat 12.2: An Overview pp. 177-178

Joseph M. Hilbe

Fundamental Probability: A Computational Approach, Marc S. Paolella pp. 179-180

Jane L. Harvill

Graphics of Large Datasets: Visualizing a Million, Antony Unwin, Martin Theus, and Heike Hofmann pp. 180-181

Thomas E. Bradstreet

Intuitive Probability and Random Processes using MATLAB, Steven Kay pp. 181-182

Ralph P. Russo

Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide, Ron Cody pp. 182-183

Margie R. Gurwit

Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, Michael Sullivan, III; An Introduction to Statistical Analysis for Business and Industry: A Problem Solving Approach, Michael Stuart pp. 183-184

Richard J. Cleary

Pharmaceutical Statistics Using SAS: A Practical Guide, Alex Dmitrienko, Christy Chuang-Stein, Ralph D'Agostino (eds.) pp. 183-183

Thomas E. Bradstreet

Variations on Split Plot and Split Block Experiment Designs, Walter T. Federer and Freedom King pp. 184-184

Lakshmi Padgett

Editor's Note pp. 189-189

Peter H. Westfall

A One-Hour Training Seminar on Bayesian Statistics for Nursing Graduate Students pp. 190-194

Byron J. Gajewski and Stephen D. Simon

Teaching Bayesian Statistics to Marketing and Business Students pp. 195-198

Greg M. Allenby and Peter E. Rossi

The Evolution of Teaching Bayesian Statistics to Nonstatisticians: A Partisan View from the Trenches pp. 199-201

Jessica Utts and Wesley Johnson

Teaching Bayes to Graduate Students in Political Science, Sociology, Public Health, Education, Economics pp. 202-205

Andrew Gelman

A Note Concerning a Selection Paradox of Dawid's pp. 206-210

Stephen Senn

Sufficiency in Finite Parameter and Sample Spaces pp. 211-215

Lynn Roy LaMotte

A Three-Condition Characterization of the MoorePenrose Generalized Inverse pp. 216-218

Xiaomi Hu

Conditional Moments and Independence pp. 219-221

Aureo de Paula

Propensity Score Matching: A Note of Caution for Evaluators of Social Programs pp. 222-231

Deborah N. Peikes, Lorenzo Moreno and Sean Michael Orzol

The University Rankings Game: Modeling the Competition Among Universities for Ranking pp. 232-237

Rajdeep Grewal, James A. Dearden and Gary L. Lilien

Conditional Probability and HIV Testing: A Real-World Example pp. 238-241

Chad R. Bhatti and Jennifer L. Wightman

P-Values are Random Variables pp. 242-245

Duncan J. Murdoch, Tsai, Yu-Ling and James Adcock

Statistics at Harvard? A Toast to the Harvard Statistics Department pp. 246-250

Stephen M. Stigler

W. Edwards Deming's Making Another World: A Holistic Approach to Performance Improvement and The Role of Statistics pp. 251-255

Ronald D. Snee

Smoothed Histograms for Frequency Data on Irregular Intervals pp. 256-261

David W. Scott and Warren R. Scott

Delta Plots and Coherent Distribution Ordering pp. 262-266

Paul L. Speckman, Jeffrey N. Rouder, Richard D. Morey and Michael S. Pratte

Section Editor's Notes pp. 267-267

Joseph M. Hilbe

Introduction to Bioinformatics pp. 268-269

Eric D. Foster

Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate Data Analysis and Interpretation with SPSS pp. 268-268

Wade J. Davis

Introduction to Business Statistics (6th ed.) pp. 269-269

Pallavi Chitturi

Missing Data: A Gentle Introduction pp. 269-270

JonDavid Sparks

Modern Engineering Statistics pp. 270-271

Anderson-Cook, Christine M.

Probability and Statistics for Computer Scientists pp. 271-272

Matthew A. Carlton

Multidimensional Nonlinear Descriptive Analysis pp. 271-271

Wade J. Davis

The R Book pp. 272-273

Timothy J. Robinson