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2009, volume 63, articles 4

Rating Movies and Rating the Raters Who Rate Them pp. 297-307

Hua Zhou and Kenneth Lange

Variable Importance Assessment in Regression: Linear Regression versus Random Forest pp. 308-319

Grömping, Ulrike

A Fresh Look at the Discriminant Function Approach for Estimating Crude or Adjusted Odds Ratios pp. 320-327

Robert H. Lyles, Ying Guo and Andrew N. Hill

Representation of Multiplicative Seasonal Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models pp. 328-334

Ceylan Yozgatligil and William W. S. Wei

Examining Factors to Better Understand Autoregressive Models pp. 335-342

Wayne A. Woodward, Henry L. Gray, James R. Haney and Alan C. Elliott

Guided Labs That Introduce Statistical Techniques Used in Research From Multiple Disciplines pp. 343-347

Shonda Kuiper and Linda Collins

Managing Case Discussions in Introductory Business Statistics Classes: Practical Approaches for Instructors pp. 348-355

Marlene A. Smith and Peter G. Bryant

Revisiting the Classical Occupancy Problem pp. 356-360

Patricia Pepple Williamson, Darcy P. Mays, Ghidewon Abay Asmerom and Yingying Yang

Teaching Variation Reduction Using a Virtual Manufacturing Environment pp. 361-365

Stefan H. Steiner and R. Jock MacKay

Coefficients of Determination in Logistic Regression Models—A New Proposal: The Coefficient of Discrimination pp. 366-372

Tue Tjur

A Note on B-Splines for Semiparametric Elicitation pp. 373-377

Bornkamp, Björn and Katja Ickstadt

Nonlinear Models for Longitudinal Data pp. 378-388

Jan Serroyen, Geert Molenberghs, Geert Verbeke and Marie Davidian

The Effective Sample Size and an Alternative Small-Sample Degrees-of-Freedom Method pp. 389-399

Christel Faes, Geert Molenberghs, Marc Aerts, Geert Verbeke and Michael G. Kenward

Section Editor’s Notes pp. 400-400

Robert A. Oster

2009, volume 63, articles 3

An Invitation: Editor’s Introduction to “Desired and Feared—What Do We Do Now and Over the Next 50 Years?†pp. 201-201

John Stufken

Desired and Feared—What Do We Do Now and Over the Next 50 Years? pp. 202-210

Xiao-Li Meng

A Selection Bias Conflict and Frequentist versus Bayesian Viewpoints pp. 211-217

Micha Mandel and Yosef Rinott

A Regression Paradox for Linear Models: Sufficient Conditions and Relation to Simpson’s Paradox pp. 218-225

Aiyou Chen, Thomas Bengtsson and Tin Kam Ho

How Likely Is Simpson’s Paradox? pp. 226-233

Marios G. Pavlides and Michael D. Perlman

Uniformly Hyper-Efficient Bayes Inference in a Class of Nonregular Problems pp. 234-238

Daniel J. Nordman, Stephen B. Vardeman and Melissa A. Bingham

Greenhouse–Geisser Adjustment and the ANOVA-Type Statistic: Cousins or Twins? pp. 239-246

Arne C. Bathke, Oliver Schabenberger, Randall D. Tobias and Laurence V. Madden

Unifying the Named Natural Exponential Families and Their Relatives pp. 247-253

Carl N. Morris and Kari F. Lock

A Statistical Problem Concerning the Mar Saba Letter pp. 254-257

Andrew R. Solow and Woollcott K. Smith

A Simple Correlation Adjustment Procedure Applied to Confidence Interval Construction pp. 258-262

Andersson, Per Gösta

Does Your iPod Really Play Favorites? pp. 263-268

Amy G. Froelich, William M. Duckworth and Jessica Culhane

The Island Problem Revisited pp. 269-273

Halvor Mehlum

Some Suggestions for Teaching About Normal Approximations to Poisson and Binomial Distribution Functions pp. 274-277

Scott M. Lesch and Daniel R. Jeske

A New Way to Derive Locally Most Powerful Rank Tests pp. 278-280

Anthony Y. C. Kuk

Letter to the Editor pp. 294-294

Frank Tuyl

Letter to the Editor pp. 295-295

G. G. Hamedani and H. W. Volkmer

2009, volume 63, articles 2

Comment pp. 111-111

Iain Johnstone

Comment pp. 112-113

Alison Gibbs and Nancy Reid

Comment pp. 114-114

David Madigan and Andrew Gelman

Comment pp. 115-116

Samad Hedayat and John Stufken

Comment pp. 117-121

Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang

Rejoinder pp. 122-123

Emery N. Brown and Robert E. Kass

Assessing Judging Bias: An Example From the 2000 Olympic Games pp. 124-131

John W. Emerson, Miki Seltzer and David Lin

Approximate Confidence Intervals for p When Double Sampling pp. 132-140

Kenneth J. Ryan

Design Effect Caveats pp. 141-146

Jack G. Gambino

Easy Multiplicity Control in Equivalence Testing Using Two One-Sided Tests pp. 147-154

Carolyn Lauzon and Brian Caffo

On the Assessment of Monte Carlo Error in Simulation-Based Statistical Analyses pp. 155-162

Elizabeth Koehler, Elizabeth Brown and Sebastien J.-P. A. Haneuse

Passing on the Passion for the Profession pp. 163-172

Reid D. Landes

Understanding Convergence Concepts: A Visual-Minded and Graphical Simulation-Based Approach pp. 173-178

Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux and Benoit Liquet

The History of the Cluster Heat Map pp. 179-184

Leland Wilkinson and Michael Friendly

A Historical Note on Zero Correlation and Independence pp. 185-186

Herbert A. David

Section Editor’s Notes pp. 187-188

Robert A. Oster

2009, volume 63, articles 1

Splitting a Predictor at the Upper Quarter or Third and the Lower Quarter or Third pp. 1-8

Andrew Gelman and David K. Park

Sample Surveys With Sensitive Questions: A Nonrandomized Response Approach pp. 9-16

Ming T. Tan, Guo-Liang Tian and Man-Lai Tang

Improving Prediction Intervals: Some Elementary Methods pp. 17-19

Keming Yu and Abdallah Ally

The Median Is the Message: Wilson and Hilfertys Experiments on the Law of Errors pp. 20-25

Roger Koenker

A Simple Explanation of Benford's Law pp. 26-32

R. M. Fewster

How to Compute a Mean? The Chisini Approach and Its Applications pp. 33-36

Rebecca Graziani and Piero Veronese

An Application of the Residue Calculus: The Distribution of the Sum of Nonhomogeneous Gamma Variates pp. 37-39

Charles Hagwood

Influence Measures for General Linear Models With Correlated Errors pp. 40-42

Lei Shi and Gemai Chen

A Simple Proof of the Binomial Theorem Using Differential Calculus pp. 43-44

Leng-Cheng Hwang

PDFs and Dual PDFs pp. 45-48

Saralees Nadarajah

A Reformulation of Weighted Least Squares Estimators pp. 49-55

Jaechoul Lee

Where's Waldo? Visualizing Collinearity Diagnostics pp. 56-65

Michael Friendly and Ernest Kwan

Statistical Applications of the Complex-Step Method of Numerical Differentiation pp. 66-74

Martin S. Ridout

The Mean, Median, and Confidence Intervals of the Kaplan-Meier Survival Estimate—Computations and Applications pp. 78-80

Chris Barker

Review of Three Latent Class Cluster Analysis Packages: Latent Gold, poLCA, and MCLUST pp. 81-91

Dominique Haughton, Pascal Legrand and Sam Woolford