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2011, volume 65, issue 3

Statistical Sleuthing by Leveraging Human Nature: A Study of Olympic Figure Skating pp. 143-148

John W. Emerson and Taylor B. Arnold

Using Randomized Confidence Limits to Balance Risk: An Application to Medicare Investigations pp. 149-153

Dennis Gilliland and Don Edwards

The Identification of “Unusual†Health-Care Providers From a Hierarchical Model pp. 154-163

Hayley E. Jones and David J. Spiegelhalter

A Note on Comparing the Power of Test Statistics at Low Significance Levels pp. 164-166

Nathan Morris and Robert Elston

Fisher’s Conditionality Principle in Statistical Pattern Recognition pp. 167-169

Carey E. Priebe

Swivelling Probabilities—The Winning Hand at Poker pp. 170-176

G. D. . Barr and K. Dowie

AP Statistics: Building Bridges Between High School and College Statistics Education pp. 177-182

Christine Franklin, Brad Hartlaub, Roxy Peck, Richard Scheaffer, David Thiel and Katherine Tranbarger Freier

A Capstone Course for Undergraduate Statistics Majors pp. 183-189

Nicole A. Lazar, Jaxk Reeves and Christine Franklin

Missteps in Multiple Regression Student Projects: Beyond Association-Not-Causation pp. 190-197

Marlene A. Smith

The Expectation of Sample Central Moments pp. 198-199

Yong Kong

Section Editor’s Notes pp. 200-200

Robert A. Oster

2011, volume 65, issue 2

Are Biostatistics Students Prepared to Succeed in the Era of Interdisciplinary Science? (And How Will We Know?) pp. 71-79

Melissa D. Begg and Roger D. Vaughan

Statistics in the News pp. 80-88

Plante, Jean-François and Nancy Reid

Skewness-Invariant Measures of Kurtosis pp. 89-95

M. C. Jones, J. F. Rosco and Arthur Pewsey

Distributional Characteristics: Just a Few More Moments pp. 96-103

James McDonald and Patrick Turley

A Practical Way for Computing Approximate Lower and Upper Correlation Bounds pp. 104-109

Hakan Demirtas and Donald Hedeker

A Geometrical Interpretation of an Alternative Formula for the Sample Covariance pp. 110-112

Kevin Hayes

Section Editor’s Notes pp. 113-114

Robert A. Oster

Using Infer.NET for Statistical Analyses pp. 115-126

S. S. J. Wang and M. P. Wand

Group Sequential Methods and Software Applications pp. 127-135

Li Zhu, Liyun Ni and Bin Yao

2011, volume 65, issue 1

Rethinking Assessment of Student Learning in Statistics Courses pp. 1-10

Joan Garfield, Andrew Zieffler, Daniel Kaplan, George W. Cobb, Beth L. Chance and John P. Holcomb

Structured Testing of 2×2 Factorial Effects: An Analytic Plan Requiring Fewer Observations pp. 11-15

Dylan S. Small, Kevin G. Volpp and Paul R. Rosenbaum

Efficient Classification-Based Relabeling in Mixture Models pp. 16-20

Andrew J. Cron and Mike West

Optimal Nonbipartite Matching and Its Statistical Applications pp. 21-30

Bo Lu, Robert Greevy, Xinyi Xu and Cole Beck

Permutation and F Distribution of Tests in the Multivariate General Linear Model pp. 31-36

Chan Zeng, Zhaoxing Pan, Samantha MaWhinney, Barón, Anna E. and Gary O. Zerbe

Euler’s Contributions to Mathematics Useful in Statistics pp. 37-42

Herbert A. David

Section Editor’s Notes pp. 43-43

Robert A. Oster

Concerns About Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the Three-Parameter Weibull Distribution: Case Study of Statistical Software pp. 44-54

William V. Harper, Ted G. Eschenbach and Thomas R. James

Previously Unrecognized Links Between Statistical Dependence and Some Common Modes of Convergence pp. 55-60

Yeting Du, Christopher Hundt and David B. Wolfson

2010, volume 64, issue 4

The Changing History of Robustness pp. 277-281

Stephen M. Stigler

Nano-Project Qualifying Exam Process: An Intensified Dialogue Between Students and Faculty pp. 282-290

Joseph Blitzstein and Xiao-Li Meng

Construction of Confidence Intervals and Regions for Ordered Binomial Probabilities pp. 291-298

Zhiguo Li, Jeremy M. G. Taylor and Bin Nan

Using the Cross-Match Test to Appraise Covariate Balance in Matched Pairs pp. 299-309

Ruth Heller, Paul R. Rosenbaum and Dylan S. Small

Identifying Key Statistical Papers From 1985 to 2002 Using Citation Data for Applied Biostatisticians pp. 310-317

Michael J. Schell

A Note on the Indeterminacy of the Random-Effects Distribution in Hierarchical Models pp. 318-324

Ariel Alonso, Litière, Saskia and Annouschka Laenen

Adding Spatially-Correlated Errors Can Mess Up the Fixed Effect You Love pp. 325-334

James S. Hodges and Brian J. Reich

A General Example for Benford Data pp. 335-339

Henry W. Block and Thomas H. Savits

Simpson’s Paradox From Adding Constants in Contingency Tables as an Example of Bayesian Noncollapsibility pp. 340-344

Sander Greenland

A Decision-Theoretic Formulation of Fisher’s Approach to Testing pp. 345-349

Kenneth Rice

Variance Stabilizing the Difference of Two Binomial Proportions pp. 350-356

Elena Kulinskaya, Stephan Morgenthaler and Robert G. Staudte

2010, volume 64, issue 3

Strategies for Pulling the Goalie in Hockey pp. 197-204

David Beaudoin and Tim B. Swartz

Two Pitfalls in Survival Analyses of Time-Dependent Exposure: A Case Study in a Cohort of Oscar Nominees pp. 205-211

Martin Wolkewitz, Arthur Allignol, Martin Schumacher and Jan Beyersmann

Ronald Fisher and Gertrude Cox: Two Statistical Pioneers Sometimes Cooperate and Sometimes Collide pp. 212-220

Nancy S. Hall

When Can One Test an Explanation? Compare and Contras Benford’s Law and the Fuzzy CLT pp. 221-227

David Aldous and Tung Phan

A Moment Generating Function Proof of the Lindeberg–Lévy Central Limit Theorem pp. 228-230

Mark Inlow

When Finiteness Matters: Counterexamples to Notions of Covariance, Correlation, and Independence pp. 231-233

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

A Geometric Comparison of the Delta and Fieller Confidence Intervals pp. 234-241

Joseph Gerald Hirschberg and Jeanette Ngaire Lye

Fixed-Width Sequential Confidence Intervals for a Proportion pp. 242-249

Jesse Frey

Closed Form Prediction Intervals Applied for Disease Counts pp. 250-256

Hsiuying Wang

On the Probability of Improved Accuracy With Increased Sample Size pp. 257-262

Russell Y. Webb, Peter J. Smith and Abdulla Firag

Consistency of Normal-Distribution-Based Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Estimates When Data Are Missing at Random pp. 263-267

Ke-Hai Yuan and Peter M. Bentler

2010, volume 64, issue 2

Computing in the Statistics Curricula pp. 97-107

Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang

Calculating Strength of Schedule, and Choosing Teams for March Madness pp. 108-115

Paul Fearnhead and Benjamin M. Taylor

Estimation in Reversible Markov Chains pp. 116-120

David H. Annis, Peter C. Kiessler, Robert Lund and Tara L. Steuber

Rank-Based Analyses of Stratified Experiments: Alternatives to the van Elteren Test pp. 121-130

Devan V. Mehrotra, Xiaomin Lu and Xiaoming Li

Three Examples of Accurate Likelihood Inference pp. 131-139

C. Lozada-Can and A. C. Davison

Explaining Variational Approximations pp. 140-153

J. T. Ormerod and M. P. Wand

Improper Priors Are Not Improper pp. 154-158

Gunnar Taraldsen and Bo Henry Lindqvist

A Note on Bayesian Inference After Multiple Imputation pp. 159-163

Xiang Zhou and Jerome P. Reiter

Bayesian Decision Making About Small Binomial Rates With Uncertainty About the Prior pp. 164-169

Nicholas T. Longford

Is the t Confidence Interval X̅ ± tα (n − 1)s / √n Optimal? pp. 170-173

Yijun Zuo

The First (Known) Statistical Graph: Michael Florent van Langren and the “Secret†of Longitude pp. 174-184

Michael Friendly, Pedro Valero-Mora and Ibáñez Ulargui, Joaquín

Letter to the Editor pp. 192-192

Michael P. Cohen

Letter to the Editor pp. 193-194

Martin Hogbin and W. Nijdam

2010, volume 64, issue 1

Passion-Driven Statistics pp. 1-5

Robert G. Easterling

Desired and Feared—Quo vadis or Quid agis? pp. 6-9

David R. Fox

Moving the Statistics Profession Forward to the Next Level pp. 10-14

Roger W. Hoerl and Ronald D. Snee

Thoughts on the Importance of the Undergraduate Statistics Experience to the Discipline’s (and Society’s) Future pp. 15-18

Brian C. Kotz

Who Is Teaching Introductory Statistics? pp. 19-20

Frank P. Soler

The Business of Desire and Fear pp. 21-22

Rick Cleary and Sam Woolford

Response to ‘Desired and Feared—What Do We Do Now and Over the Next 50 Years’ by Xiao-Li Meng pp. 23-25

Elart von Collani

Rejoinder: Better Training, Deeper Thinking, and More Policing pp. 26-29

Xiao-Li Meng

The t-Test p Value and Its Relationship to the Effect Size and P(X>Y) pp. 30-33

Richard H. Browne

Comparing Continuous and Discrete Birthday Coincidences: “Same-Day†versus “Within 24 Hours†pp. 34-36

Wolf Schwarz

On Estimating the Face Probabilities of Shaved Dice With Partial Data pp. 37-45

Marios G. Pavlides and Michael D. Perlman

Elementary Statistical Methods and Measurement Error pp. 46-51

Stephen B. Vardeman, Joanne R. Wendelberger, Tom Burr, Michael S. Hamada, Leslie M. Moore, J. Marcus Jobe, Max D. Morris and Huaiqing Wu

Resequencing Topics in an Introductory Applied Statistics Course pp. 52-58

Christopher J. Malone, John Gabrosek, Phyllis Curtiss and Matt Race

A Model for an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Program pp. 59-69

Julie Legler, Paul Roback, Kathryn Ziegler-Graham, James Scott, Sharon Lane-Getaz and Matthew Richey

Could It Be Better to Discard 90% of the Data? A Statistical Paradox pp. 70-77

T. D. Stanley, Stephen B. Jarrell and Chris Doucouliagos

Beyond the Quintessential Quincunx pp. 78-82

Michael A. Proschan and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

Comparison of Software Algorithms for Calculating REML Wald Type Confidence Limits for the Between-Group Variance Component in a Small Sample One-Way Random Effects Model Example pp. 83-87

Henry S. Lynn, Zhanjian Dong and Zhe Mu