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2003, volume 57

Reliability of the Uncertified Ballots in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida pp. 1-14

K. Wolter, D. Jergovic, W. Moore, J. Murphy and C. OMuircheartaigh

One-Step Screening and Process Optimization Experiments pp. 15-20

J. Lawson

Statistics and Ethics: Some Advice for Young Statisticians pp. 21-26

S.B. Vardeman and M.D. Morris

Significantly Insignificant F Tests pp. 27-32

R. Christensen

Separation Among Distributions Related by Linear Regression pp. 33-36

R. Xie and P.I. Nelson

College Students Conceptions of Probability pp. 37-45

J.H. Albert

Teaching Experiences With a Course on pp. 46-50

J. Symanzik and N. Vukasinovic

Illustrating the Law of Large Numbers (and Confidence Intervals) pp. 51-57

J.D. Blume and R.M. Royall

Suppression and Confounding in Action pp. 58-61

Lynn H.S.

A Real Example That Illustrates Interesting Properties of Bootstrap Bias Correction pp. 62-65

D.R. Jeske and A. Sampath

A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments pp. 66-67

S.S. Wulff

Statistics with Confidence (2nd ed.) pp. 66-66

R.J. Cleary

Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis (3rd ed.) pp. 67-67

S.R. Jammalamadaka

Generalized Linear Models: With Applications in Engineering and the Sciences pp. 67-68

Hu X.J.

Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences (4th ed.) pp. 68-69

R. Gonzalez

All the Mathematics You Missed But Need to Know for Graduate School pp. 69-70

G. Terrell

Risk-Benefit Analysis (2nd ed.) pp. 69-69

J. Haigh

Resampling Methods: A Practical Guide to Data Analysis (2nd ed.) pp. 70-70

R. Gentleman

Special Section on Statistical Literacy: How You Can Help pp. 73-73

J. Utts

What Educated Citizens Should Know About Statistics and Probability pp. 74-79

J. Utts

Teaching for Statistical Literacy and Services of Statistics Agencies pp. 80-84

I. Gal

Promoting Statistical Thinking Among Secondary School Students in the National Context pp. 85-88

P.J. Boland

The Getting of Wisdom: Educating Statisticians to Enhance Their Clients Numeracy pp. 89-93

E.R. Sowey

A New Column in The American Statistician pp. 94-94

J.H. Albert

Looking Back So We Can Look Forward pp. 94-96

F. Scheuren

Type I Error Inflation in the Presence of a Ceiling Effect pp. 97-104

P.C. Austin and L.J. Brunner

Fixing the F Test for Equal Variances pp. 105-114

L.H. Shoemaker

How Do Statisticians Perceive Statistics Journals? pp. 115-123

V. Theoharakis and M. Skordia

Local Versus Global Models for Classification Problems: Fitting Models Where it Matters pp. 124-131

Hand D.J. and V. Vinciotti

Exact Confidence Intervals for Nonconstant Effects by Inverting the Signed Rank Test pp. 132-138

P.R. Rosenbaum

Monotone Regrouping, Regression, and Simpsons Paradox pp. 139-141

Yosef Rinott and M. Tam

The Practice of Statistics: Putting the Pieces Together pp. 142-143

Pillers Dobler C.

Statistical Rules of Thumb pp. 142-142

R.J. Cleary

The First Measured Century pp. 143-144

R.J. Cleary

Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics pp. 144-145

P. Roback

The Statistical Sleuth (2nd ed.) pp. 145-146

J. Ledolter

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using S-Plus (2nd ed.) pp. 146-146

J. Manola

Editors Reports pp. 153-154

J.H. Albert

Small Samples and Ordered Logistic Regression: Does it Help to Collapse Categories of Outcome? pp. 155-160

H. Murad, A. Fleischman, S. Sadetzki, O. Geyer and L.S. Freedman

Adjusted Coefficients of Determination for Logistic Regression pp. 161-165

Liao J.G. and D. McGee

Sample Size: More Than Calculations pp. 166-170

R.A. Parker and N.G. Berman

Confusion Over Measures of Evidence (ps) Versus Errors (alphas) in Classical Statistical Testing pp. 171-178

R. Hubbard and M.J. Bayarri

Discussion pp. 178-179

Berk K.N.

Discussion pp. 179-181

M.A. Carlton

Nearly Nonparametric Multivariate Density Estimates That Incorporate Marginal Parametric Density Information pp. 183-188

C. Spiegelman and Ark E.S.

Introduction pp. 189-189

F. Scheuren

Galtons Bend: A Previously Undiscovered Nonlinearity in Galtons Family Stature Regression Data pp. 190-192

A. Wachsmuth, L. Wilkinson and G.E. Dallal

A Diamond-Shaped Equiponderant Graphical Display of the Effects of Two Categorical Predictors on Continuous Outcomes pp. 193-199

Li X., J.M. Buechner, P.M. Tarwater and A. Munoz

Section Editors Notes pp. 200-200

Joseph Michael Hilbe

An Examination of Statistical Software Packages for Categorical Data Analysis Using Exact Methods-Part II pp. 201-213

R.A. Oster

Comparing Statistical Software Packages: The Case of the Logrank Test in StatXact pp. 214-217

H. Callaert

The A to Z of Mathematics: A Basic Guide pp. 218-218

C.M. Anderson-Cook

Problems in Probability pp. 218-218

Pillers Dobler C.

Duelling Idiots amd Other Probability Puzzlers and What are the Chances? Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability pp. 218-218

R.J. Cleary

Basic Statistics and Data Analysis (with InfoTrac and CD-ROM) (1st ed.), Introduction to Probability and Statistics (11th ed.)and Just the Essemtials of Elementary Statistics (3rd ed.) pp. 219-219

S.J. Miller

A Potential for Bias When Rounding in Multiple Imputation pp. 229-232

Nicholas Jon Horton, S.R. Lipsitz and M. Parzen

Confidence Intervals for Mean Absolute Deviations pp. 233-236

D.G. Bonett and E. Seier

Use of the Sign Test for the Median in the Presence of Ties pp. 237-240

Fong D.Y.T., Kwan C.W., Lam K.F. and Lam K.S.L.

A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Approach for the Ranking of College Football Teams Independent of Victory Margins pp. 241-248

D. Mease

On a Sampling Design for Estimation of Negligible Accident Rates Involving Electronic Toys pp. 249-252

A.S. Hedayat and B.K. Sinha

Introduction pp. 253-253

F. Scheuren

A History of the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm pp. 254-257

D.B. Hitchcock

What Happens When a 1 1 r Die is Rolled? pp. 258-264

Dunn P.K.

A Gentle Introduction to Optimal Design for Regression Models pp. 265-267

T.E. OBrien and Funk G.M.

Raindrop Plots: A New Way to Display Collections of Likelihoods and Distributions pp. 268-274

N.J. Barrowman and R.A. Myers

Detecting Dependence With Kendall Plots pp. 275-284

C. Genest and J-C. Boies

A Graphical Tool for Assessing Normality pp. 285-288

M.L. Hazelton

Section Editors Notes pp. 289-289

Joseph Michael Hilbe

A Review of Software Packages for Data Mining pp. 290-309

D. Haughton, J. Deichmann, A. Eshghi, Selin Sayek, N. Teebagy and H. Topi

A Review of Current SPSS Products: SPSS 12, SigmaPlot 8.02, SigmaStat 3.0, Part 1 pp. 310-315

Joseph Michael Hilbe

Hyperstat (2nd ed.) pp. 316-317

B. Jersky

An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression pp. 316-316

M.K. Cowles

Statistical Methods in Agricultural and Experimental Biology (3rd ed.) pp. 317-317

C.M. Anderson-Cook and M.M. Alley