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2007, volume 61

The Official Statistics Olympic Challenge: Wider, Deeper, Quicker, Better, Cheaper pp. 1-8

D. Tim Holt

Discussion pp. 9-12

Gordon Brackstone

Discussion pp. 13-15

Janet L. Norwood

America is Changing, and So is the Census: The American Community Survey pp. 16-21

Nancy K. Torrieri

Likelihood Ratio, Score, and Wald Tests in a Constrained Parameter Space pp. 22-27

Geert Molenberghs and Geert Verbeke

Characterizing Density Crossing Points pp. 28-33

Helmut Finner, Markus Roters and Thorsten Dickhaus

Linear Transformations and the k-Means Clustering Algorithm: Applications to Clustering Curves pp. 34-40

Thaddeus Tarpey

Sir Maurice Kendall (19071983): A Centenary Appreciation pp. 41-46

Herbert A. David and Wayne A. Fuller

[MEDICINE] The Use of Statistics in Medical Research: A Comparison of The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine pp. 47-55

Alexander M. Strasak, Qamruz Zaman, Gerhard Marinell, Karl P. Pfeiffer and Hanno Ulmer

Eliciting a Counterfactual Sensitivity Parameter pp. 56-63

Bryan E. Shepherd, Peter B. Gilbert and Devan V. Mehrotra

Multivariate Analysis Without "vec" and """ pp. 64-66

Xiaomi Hu

Characteristic Functions Without Contour Integration pp. 67-70

Gauri Sankar Datta and Malay Ghosh

Sampling Assumptions in Introductory Statistics Classes pp. 71-77

Cherie Alf and Sharon Lohr

Statistical Computing Software Reviews: Section Editor's Notes pp. 78-78

Joseph Michael Hilbe

Much Ado About Nothing: A Comparison of Missing Data Methods and Software to Fit Incomplete Data Regression Models pp. 79-90

Nicholas Jon Horton and Ken P. Kleinman

STATISTICA 7: An Overview pp. 91-94

Joseph Michael Hilbe

A First Course in Statistical Methods, R. Lyman Ott and Michael T. Longnecker pp. 95-97

Mervyn Marasinghe

Seeing Through Statistics (3rd ed.), Jessica M. Utts and Mind on Statistics (3rd ed.), Jessica M. Utts and Robert F. Heckard pp. 95-95

Joseph Cavanaugh

Introduction to Business Statistics (5th ed.), Ronald M. Weiers pp. 97-97

Jay Devore

Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data (5th ed.), Jay L. Devore and Roxy Peck pp. 97-98

Joseph Cavanaugh

Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods, Beth L. Chance and Allan J. Rossman pp. 98-99

Jerry L. Moreno

A Crash Course in SPSS for Windows: Updated for Versions 10, 11, 12 And 13 (3rd ed.), Andrew Colman and Briony Pulford pp. 99-99

J. Wade Davis

R Graphics, Paul Murrel pp. 99-100

Hadley Wickham and Dianne Cook

Statistics: An Introduction using R, Michael J. Crawley pp. 100-101

Martin Machler

Introduction to Regression Analysis, M. A. Golberg and H. A. Cho pp. 101-101

John C. Kern

Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials pp. 102-102

Donald Richards, Christine M. Anderson-Cook and Alina Kline

Editor's Report pp. 103-104

Peter H. Westfall

Sports: Is an.833 Hitter Better Than a.338 Hitter? pp. 105-111

Jesse Frey

Genetics: Genetics and Stochastic Simulation Do Mix! pp. 112-119

S.A. Sisson

Opportunities for Biostatistics Students: Training and Fellowship Grants from the National Institutes of Health pp. 120-126

Richard E. Kennedy, Sharon D. Yeatts, Kellie J. Archer, Chris Gennings and Viswanathan Ramakrishnan

The Bootstrap Variance of the Square of a Sample Mean pp. 127-131

Lori E. Dodd and Edward L. Korn

Reassessing Accuracy Rates of Median Decisions pp. 132-138

Andrea Capotorti, Frank Lad and Giuseppe Sanfilippo

Estimators of Relative Importance in Linear Regression Based on Variance Decomposition pp. 139-147

Ulrike Gromping

Agreement and Kappa-Type Indices pp. 148-153

Jeroen de Mast

Early Evidence-Based Medicine: Clues on Statistical Analysis in Medicine from Galen's Writings pp. 154-158

Diamandopoulos A. Athanasios, Goudas C. Pavlos and Kassimatis . Theodoros

Sample Mean and Sample Variance: Their Covariance and Their (In)Dependence pp. 159-160

Lingyun Zhang

A Simple and Probabilistic Proof of the Binomial Theorem pp. 161-162

Andrew Rosalsky

Residual (Sur)Realism pp. 163-177

Leonard A. Stefanski

Section Editor's Notes pp. 178-178

Joseph Michael Hilbe

ePrint 5 Professional Conversion Utility pp. 179-180

Joseph Michael Hilbe

Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning From Data. Alan Agresti and Christine A. Franklin pp. 181-182

Alan T. Arnholt

Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics. David M. Levine and David Stephan pp. 182-182

Yolande Tra

Essentials of Statistics for Business and Economics (4th ed.). David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, and Thomas A. Williams pp. 182-183

Phillip Edwards

Quality By Experimental Design (3rd ed.). Thomas B. Barker pp. 183-184

Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Fundamentals of Biostatistics (6th ed.). Bernard Rosner pp. 183-183

Ying Zhang

SAS for Mixed Models (2nd ed.) Ramon C. Littell, George A. Milliken, Walter W. Stroup, Russell D. Wolfinger, and Oliver Schabenberger pp. 184-185

Shaun S. Wulff

Introduction to Modern Nonparametric Statistics. James J. Higgins pp. 184-184

Michael Minnotte

Six Sigma Quality Improvement with MINITAB. G. Robin Henderson pp. 185-185

Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Revenge of the White Swan pp. 189-192

Robert Lund

The Black Swan: Praise and Criticism pp. 193-194

Peter H. Westfall and Joseph Michael Hilbe

Strong Language on Black Swans pp. 195-197

Aaron Brown

Black Swans and the Domains of Statistics pp. 198-200

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bayesian Inference on a Proportion Believed to be a Simple Fraction pp. 201-206

Jesse Frey

An Introduction to Evidential Sample Size Calculations pp. 207-212

Lisa J. Strug, Charles A. Rohde and Paul N. Corey

Capital Growth and the St. Petersburg Game pp. 213-217

Christopher M. Rump

Breaking the (Benford) Law: Statistical Fraud Detection in Campaign Finance pp. 218-223

Wendy K. Tam Cho and Brian J. Gaines

Simple State-Space Models in a Mixed Model Framework pp. 224-232

Hans-Peter Piepho and Joseph Ochieng Ogutu

Approximate Median Regression via the Box-Cox Transformation pp. 233-238

Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, Stuart R. Lipsitz and Michael Parzen

Teaching Bayesian Model Comparison With the Three-Sided Coin pp. 239-244

Scott R. Kuindersma and Brian S. Blais

Combining Features of a Frequency Table and a Stem-and-Leaf Plot to Summarize the American Statistical Association's Strategic Activities pp. 245-247

Nathaniel Schenker, Katherine L. Monti, George W. Cobb, Ronald S. Fecso and Joan S. Chmiel

Generating Data with Identical Statistics but Dissimilar Graphics: A Follow up to the Anscombe Dataset pp. 248-254

Sangit Chatterjee and Aykut Firat

Quantum Random Bit Generators pp. 255-259

Thomas P. Turiel

Section Editor's Notes pp. 260-261

Joseph Michael Hilbe

The Numerical Reliability of GAUSS 8.0 pp. 262-268

A. Talha Yalta

GenStat 9: A Review pp. 269-273

Joseph Michael Hilbe

Introduction to Statistics for Forensic Scientists. David Lucy pp. 274-274

Bruce Weir

Statistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Life Scientists. Steve McKillup pp. 274-274

Page C. Moore

Design of Experiments for Agriculture and the Natural Sciences (2nd ed.). A. Reza Hoshmand pp. 275-275

Timothy J. Robinson

Experimental Design And Statistics for Psychology: A First Course. Fabio Sani and John Todman pp. 275-276

Sylvie Mrug

Sampling Methods: Exercises and Solutions. Pascal Ardilly and Yves Tille pp. 276-276

David R. Bellhouse

Probability: Modeling and Applications to Random Processes. Gregory K. Miller pp. 276-277

John Haigh

SAS Programming and Data Analysis: A Theory and Program-Driven Approach. Leonard C. Onyiah pp. 277-278

M. Bridget Zimmerman

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R. Brian S. Everitt and Torsten Hothorn pp. 277-278

Ulric J. Lund

The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 3.0. Susan J. Slaughter and Lora D. Delwiche pp. 277-277

Philip Dixon

Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics. Forrest W. Young, Pedro M. Valero-Mora, and Michael Friendly pp. 278-278

Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials pp. 279-279

Peng Huang

Negative Score Test Statistic pp. 285-288

B.J.T. Morgan, K.J. Palmer and M.S. Ridout

What Can Go Wrong With the Score Test? pp. 289-290

Geert Verbeke and Geert Molenberghs

How Can the Score Test Be Inconsistent? pp. 291-295

David A. Freedman

Detecting Bias in Jury Selection pp. 296-301

Bruce E. Barrett

Modeling and Simulation to Adjust p Values in Presence of a Regression to the Mean Effect pp. 302-307

Andreas Krause and Jose Pinheiro

The Estimation of Conditional Distributions From Large Databases pp. 308-314

Keith Ord and Harvey J. Iglarsh

[Political Science] pp. 315-320

Arthur Spirling

Censoring and TruncationHighlighting the Differences pp. 321-324

Micha Mandel

The Bagged Median and the Bragged Mean pp. 325-330

Jose R. Berrendero

Confidence Interval Estimation of a Normal Percentile pp. 331-336

S. Chakraborti and J. Li

A Recurrence Relation for Moments of the Noncentral Chi Square pp. 337-338

Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah

Einstein's First Published Paper pp. 339-342

Boris Iglewicz

Peirce, Youden, and Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves pp. 343-346

Stuart G. Baker and Barnett S. Kramer

A Forgotten Discrete Distribution? Reviving the Negative Hypergeometric Model pp. 347-350

Gregory K. Miller and Stephanie L. Fridell

Chocolate Chip Cookies as a Teaching Aid pp. 351-355

Herbert K.H. Lee

On Fences and Asymmetry in Box-and-Whiskers Plots pp. 356-359

Lutz Dumbgen and Hans Riedwyl

Criteria for WorkingCorrelationStructure Selection in GEE: Assessment via Simulation pp. 360-364

Lin-Yee Hin, Vincent J. Carey and You-Gan Wang

Section Editor's Notes pp. 365-366

Joseph Michael Hilbe

Applied Regression Modeling: A Business Approach, Iain Pardoe pp. 367-368

Gary Simon

Applied Regression Analysis: A Second Course in Business and Economic Statistics (4th ed.), Terry E. Dielman pp. 367-367

Jay Devore

Introduction to Mixed Modelling: Beyond Regression and Analysis of Variance, N. W. Galwey pp. 368-369

Kerrie Nelson

Understanding Business Statistics, Ned Freed pp. 369-370

Jeffrey C. Sklar

Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications, K. Krishnamoorthy pp. 370-370

Brian Wiens

Making Sense of Data: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining, Glenn J. Myatt pp. 370-371

Jay Devore

Introduction to Computer-Intensive Methods of Data Analysis in Biology, Derek A. Roff pp. 371-371

Timothy J. Robinson

Dyadic Data Analysis, David A. Kenny, Deborah A. Kashy, and William L. Cook pp. 371-371

David H. Annis

Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives, Peter Olofsson pp. 372-372

Michael Sherman

The Mathematics of Games And Gambling (2nd ed.), Edward Packel pp. 372-372

J. Wade Davis