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2006, volume 60

Editorial pp. 1-2

Peter Westfall

A Spatial Analysis of Basketball Shot Chart Data pp. 3-12

Brian J. Reich, James S. Hodges, Bradley P. Carlin and Adam M. Reich

"Last Licks pp. 13-18

Gary A. Simon and Jeffrey S. Simonoff

Selecting the Best Linear Mixed Model Under REML pp. 19-26

Matthew J. Gurka

Symmetrized Percent Change for Treatment Comparisons pp. 27-31

Donald A. Berry and Gregory D. Ayers

Introduction pp. 32-33

Fritz Scheuren

On Errors in Surveys (An Excerpt) pp. 34-38

W. Edwards Deming

Undergraduate Statistical Education pp. 39-45

S.S. Wilks

Samuel Stanley Wilks (19061964) pp. 46-49

Herbert A. David and Donald F. Morrison

Professor C. R. Mudgeon and the pp. 50-52

John F. Monahan

Being Warren Buffett: A Classroom Simulation of Risk and Wealth When Investing in the Stock Market pp. 53-60

Dean P. Foster and Robert A. Stine

The PDF of a Function of a Random Variable: Teaching its Structure by Transforming Formalism into Intuition pp. 61-67

James A. Hanley and Dana Teltsch

Using a Two-Player Coin Game Paradox in the Classroom pp. 68-70

Jonathan J. Shuster

MVUE for the Mean With One Observation: Normal with Same Mean and Variance pp. 71-74

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

Using Moment Generating Functions to Derive Mixture Distributions pp. 75-80

Enrique R. Villa and Luis A. Escobar

Statistical Exploration from SARS pp. 81-91

Philip Yu, Jennifer Chan and Wing K. Fung

Section Editor's Notes pp. 92-92

Joseph Hilbe

A Review of Scientific WorkPlace 5.5 pp. 93-96

James W. Hardin and Joseph Hilbe

Understanding Probability: Chance Rules in Everyday Life. Henk Tijms pp. 97-98

Mark Schilling

Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters: How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field. Michael J. Schell; Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers: Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs. Michael J. Schell pp. 97-97

David H. Annis

Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. James L. Johnson pp. 98-98

Mary Kathryn Cowles

Introduction to Bayesian Statistics. William M. Bolstad pp. 98-99

Deborah J. Rumsey

Innovations in Teaching Statistics. Joan B. Garfield; Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An Urgent Challenge for Higher Education. Lynn Steen pp. 99-100

Richard J. Cleary

The Challenge of Developing Statistical Literacy, Reasoning and Thinking. Dani Ben-Zvi and Joan Garfield pp. 99-99

Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Statistical Aspects of Forecasting and Planning for Hurricanes pp. 105-121

Ronald L. Iman, Mark E. Johnson and Charles C. Watson

Power Priors and Their Use in Clinical Trials pp. 122-129

Fulvio De Santis

What Statistical Consultants Do: Report of a Survey pp. 130-138

Christina M. Gullion and Nancy Berman

A User-Friendly Introduction to Link-Probit-Normal Models pp. 139-145

Brian Caffo and Michael Griswold

The Boxer, the Wrestler, and the Coin Flip: A Paradox of Robust Bayesian Inference and Belief Functions pp. 146-150

Andrew Gelman

A Comparison of Potential Playoff Systems for NCAA I-A Football pp. 151-157

David H. Annis and Samuel S. Wu

Peirce's 19th Century Mixture Model Approach to Rater Agreement pp. 158-161

Eric Loken and Michael J. Rovine

The Introduction of Matrix Algebra into Statistics pp. 162-162

H.A. David

The Two-Sample T Test With One Variance Unknown pp. 163-166

Arnab Maity and Michael Sherman

The Sectioned Density Plot pp. 167-174

Dale J. Cohen and Jon Cohen

Section Editor's Notes pp. 175-175

Joseph Hilbe

Mathematica 5.2: A Review pp. 176-186

Joseph Hilbe

A Review of LIMDEP 9.0 and NLOGIT 4.0 pp. 187-202

Joseph Hilbe

The Chicago Guide to Writing About Multivariate Analysis. Jane E. Miller pp. 203-204

Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures. Howard Wainer pp. 203-203

Linda Pickle

Working with Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists. Charles Livingston and Paul Voakes pp. 203-203

Richard J. Cleary

Dicing With Death: Chance, Risk, and Health. Stephen Senn pp. 204-204

Rudy Guerra

Statistical Models. A. C. Davison pp. 204-205

Enno Mammen

Statistics Without Math. William E. Magnusson and Guilherme Mourao pp. 205-206

David Lane

Design of Experiments with MINITAB. Paul Mathews pp. 205-205

Steven F. Arnold

Regression With Social Data: Modeling Continuous and Limited Response Variables. Alfred Demaris pp. 206-206

Carter Cleveland Rakovski

Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials pp. 207-207

Carolyn Pillers Dobler and Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Calibrated Bayes: A Bayes/Frequentist Roadmap pp. 213-223

Roderick Little

A Framework for Evaluating the Utility of Data Altered to Protect Confidentiality pp. 224-232

A.F. Karr, C.N. Kohnen, A. Oganian, J.P. Reiter and A.P. Sanil

Penalized Splines and Reproducing Kernel Methods pp. 233-240

N.D. Pearce and M.P. Wand

Investigating Concurrency in Online Auctions Through Visualization pp. 241-250

Valerie Hyde, Wolfgang Jank and Galit Shmueli

Tukey's gh Distribution for Multiple Imputation pp. 251-256

Yulei He and Trivellore E. Raghunathan

A Lego System for Conditional Inference pp. 257-263

Torsten Hothorn, Kurt Hornik, Mark A. van de Wiel and Achim Zeileis

On Bayesian Analysis of Generalized Linear Models Using the Jacobian Technique pp. 264-268

Sourish Das and Dipak K. Dey

Plutarch and Lucullus' Applied Sampling pp. 269-270

Spyros Missiakoulis

Section Editor's Notes pp. 271-271

Joseph Hilbe

A Review of Three Directed Acyclic Graphs Software Packages: MIM, Tetrad, and WinMine pp. 272-286

Dominique Haughton, Arnold Kamis and Patrick Scholten

Spreadsheets in Statistical PracticeAnother Look pp. 287-289

J.C. Nash

Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes. Peter Olofsson pp. 290-290

Jay Devore

Probability is the Very Guide of Life: The Philosophical Uses of Chance. Henry E. Kyburg Jr., and Mariam Thalos (eds.) pp. 290-290

Richard J. Cleary

Analyzing Categorical Data. Jeffrey S. Simonoff pp. 291-292

Stanley Wasserman

Data Matters: Conceptual Statistics for a Random World. Nicholas Maxwell pp. 292-293

Michael Kahn

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking: Basic Themes and Methods. Lisa L. Harlow pp. 292-292

Carolyn Pillers Dobler

Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata. Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal pp. 293-294

Nicholas Horton

Statistical Methods For Communication Science. Andrew F. Hayes pp. 293-293

Lawrence D. Ries

SAS Guide to Report Writing: Examples (2nd ed.). Michelle M. Burlew pp. 294-294

Carolyn Pillers Dobler

On The So-Called "Huber-Sandwich Estimator" and "Robust Standard Errors" pp. 299-302

David A. Freedman

Analysis of a Pilot Study for Amelioration of Itching in Liver Disease: When is a Failed Trial not a Failure? pp. 303-308

Monnie McGee and Nora V. Bergasa

Calibration Guidelines Challenge Outlier Practices pp. 309-314

David J. Finney

The Victory of Least Squares and Orthogonality in Statistics pp. 315-321

Ralph deLaubenfels

Tell Me the Method, I'll Give You the Mean pp. 322-327

Avital Lann and Ruma Falk

The Difference Between pp. 328-331

Andrew Gelman and Hal Stern

Revising the Pareto Chart pp. 332-334

Leland Wilkinson

Explaining Correlations by Plotting Orthogonal Contrasts pp. 335-339

Oyvind Langsrud

Section Editor's Notes pp. 340-340

Joseph Hilbe

Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery, (2nd ed.). George E. P. Box, J. Stuart Hunter, and William G. Hunter pp. 341-342

David Berengut

Statistics for Business and Economics (9th ed.). David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, and Thomas A. Williams pp. 342-343

Jay Devore

Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists (3rd ed.). Anthony J. Hayter pp. 343-343

Peter C. Kiessler

Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and R/S-PLUS. Phillip I. Good pp. 343-344

Jo Hardin

Essential Mathematics and Statistics for Science. Graham Currell and Antony Dowman pp. 344-345

Jay Devore

Statistics in Market Research. Chuck Chakrapani pp. 345-345

Izabela E. Annis

Statistical Analysis of Medical Data Using SAS. Geoff Der and Brian S. Everitt pp. 345-346

Ryan E. Wiegand

Sharpening Your SAS Skills. Sunil Gupta and Curt Edmonds pp. 346-346

George Cotsonis