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2005, volume 59

Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Statistics: Introduction pp. 1-3

David S. Moore

A Course on Teaching Statistics at the University Level pp. 4-7

Andrew Gelman

Training Statistics Teachers at Iowa State University pp. 8-10

Amy G. Froelich, William M. Duckworth and W. Robert Stephenson

Training Graduate Students at Penn State University in Teaching Statistics pp. 11-13

W.L. Harkness and J.L. Rosenberger

TA Training at Virginia Tech: A Stepwise Progression pp. 14-18

Jeffrey B. Birch and J.P. Morgan

Bayesian Analysis of a Multinomial Sequence and Homogeneity of Literary Style pp. 19-30

Javier Giron, Josep Ginebra and Alex Riba

A Case for Simple Tables pp. 31-40

Martin A. Koschat

Optimizing the Ordering of Tables With Evolutionary Computation pp. 41-46

Stefan Niermann

A Quick, Compact, Two-Sample Dispersion Test: Count Five pp. 47-53

Richard N. McGrath and Arthur B. Yeh

A Sufficiency Paradox: An Insufficient Statistic Preserving the Fisher Information pp. 54-56

Abram Kagan and Lawrence A. Shepp

Introduction pp. 57-57

Fritz Scheuren

National Statistics in War and Peace pp. 58-61

Allyn A. Young

The Problem of Prosperity pp. 62-67

Carl Snyder

The Role of the American Statistical Association pp. 68-71

Helen M. Walker

Randomization of Clusters Versus Randomization of Persons Within Clusters: Which Is Preferable? pp. 72-78

Mirjam Moerbeek

Relationship Between Bayesian and Frequentist Sample Size Determination pp. 79-87

Lurdes Y.T. Inoue, Donald A. Berry and Giovanni Parmigiani

Section Editor's Notes pp. 88-88

Joseph Hilbe

A Review of Two Text-Mining Packages: SAS TextMining and WordStat pp. 89-103

Angelique Davi, Dominique Haughton, Nada Nasr, Gaurav Shah, Maria Skaletsky and Ruth Spack

A Review of Systat 11 pp. 104-110

Joseph Hilbe

Review of SigmaPlot 9.0 pp. 111-112

Joseph Hilbe

Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials pp. 114-115

Carolyn Pillers Dobler and Russell V. Lenth

Testing Fisher, Neyman, Pearson, and Bayes pp. 121-126

Ronald Christensen

Graphical Views of Suppression and Multicollinearity in Multiple Linear Regression pp. 127-136

Lynn Friedman and Melanie Wall

Evaluation Criteria for Discrete Confidence Intervals: Beyond Coverage and Length pp. 137-142

Paul W. Vos and Suzanne Hudson

Understanding Heterogeneity in Generalized Mixed and Frailty Models pp. 143-146

Luc Duchateau and Paul Janssen

Heterogeneity and Causality: Unit Heterogeneity and Design Sensitivity in Observational Studies pp. 147-152

Paul R. Rosenbaum

How Surprising is a New Record? pp. 153-155

Andrew R. Solow and Woollcott Smith

A Bootstrap Test of Stochastic Equality of Two Populations pp. 156-161

Jeno Reiczigel, Ildiko Zakarias and Lajos Rozsa

Introduction pp. 162-163

Fritz Scheuren

R. A. Fisher's Life and Death in Australia, 1959-1962 pp. 164-165

John Ludbrook

Exemplar Sampling: Nonrandom Methods of Selecting a Sample Which Characterizes a Finite Multivariate Population pp. 166-172

Brian Bull

Randomization of Clusters Versus Randomization of Persons Within Clusters: Which Is Preferable? pp. 173-179

Mirjam Moerbeek

Making Babies by the Flip of a Coin? pp. 180-182

Matthew A. Carlton and William D. Stansfield

Section Editor's Notes pp. 183-184

Joseph Hilbe

A Review of SPSS, Part 3: Version 13.0 pp. 185-186

Joseph Hilbe

SigmaStat 3.1: A Second Look pp. 187-191

Joseph Hilbe

Likelihood Maximization Using Web-Based Optimization Tools: A Short Tutorial pp. 192-202

Klaus Langohr and Guadalupe Gomez

All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference. Larry Wasserman pp. 203-203

Peter F. Craigmile

The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics. Alan Schwarz pp. 203-204

James J. Cochran

Editor's Report for The American Statistician, Volume 58 (2004) pp. 205-206

James H. Albert

A Ranking Method Based on Minimizing the Number of In-Sample Errors pp. 207-216

Jesse Frey

Measuring Relative Importance of Sources of Variation Without Using Variance pp. 217-222

Ian R. Harris and Brent D. Burch

History Corner pp. 223-223

Fritz Scheuren

William Playfair and His Graphical Inventions: An Excerpt From the Introduction to the Republication of His Atlas and Statistical Breviary pp. 224-229

Ian Spence and Howard Wainer

A Method for Unbiased Selective Sampling, Using Ranked Sets pp. 230-232

G.A. McIntyre

Discussion: Moving Beyond the St. Petersburg Paradox to Understand Growth Stock Valuation pp. 233-234

Susan Belden

Response: Remain Steadfast With the St. Petersburg Paradox to Quantify Irrational Exuberance pp. 235-239

Gabor J. Szekely and Donald S.t.P. Richards

Six Online Statistics Courses: Examination and Review pp. 240-251

Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns, Gaea Leinhardt and Javier Corredor

The Bayesian Two-Sample t Test pp. 252-257

Mithat Gonen, Wesley O. Johnson, Yonggang Lu and Peter H. Westfall

Some Illustrative Classroom Examples Regarding Sums of Discrete Random Variables With Finite Support pp. 258-265

Jeff T. Terpstra

Can You Really Learn Basic Probability by Playing a Sports Board Game? pp. 266-272

James J. Cochran

Section Editor's Notes pp. 273-273

Joseph Hilbe

The Chicago Guide to Writing About Numbers, Jane E. Miller pp. 274-275

Christine M. Anderson-Cook

More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues, Joel Best; Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, & Just About Everything Else, Amir D. Aczel pp. 274-274

Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Statistical Analysis and Data Display: An Intermediate Course with Examples in S-Plus, R, and SAS, Richard M. Heiberger and Burt Holland pp. 275-275

Samantha C. Bates Prins

Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, Andrew Gelman and Deborah Nolan pp. 275-276

Richard J. Cleary

Linear Models with R, Julian J. Faraway pp. 276-277

Samantha C. Bates Prins

Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty, Michael J. Evans and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal pp. 276-276

Dave H. Annis

Biostatistics: A Methodology for the Health Sciences (2nd ed.), Gerald van Belle, Lloyd D. Fisher, Patrick J. Heagerty, and Thomas Lumley pp. 278-278

Carolyn Pillers Dobler and Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Forecasting, Time Series, and Regression: An Applied Approach (4th ed.), Bruce L. Bowerman, Richard T. O?Connell, and Anne B. Koehler pp. 278-278

Carolyn Pillers Dobler and Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2nd ed.), J. K. Lindsey pp. 278-278

Carolyn Pillers Dobler and Christine M. Anderson-Cook

Editor's Report for The American Statistician, Volume 59 (2005) pp. 281-281

James H. Albert

Bacon With Your Eggs? Applications of a New Bivariate Beta-Binomial Distribution pp. 282-286

Peter Danaher and Bruce G.S. Hardie

The Decline and Fall of Type II Error Rates pp. 287-291

Steve Verrill and Mark Durst

Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Two Estimable Functions and Their Ratio Under a Linear Model pp. 292-300

Hans-Peter Piepho and Katharina Emrich

Illustrating the Impact of a Time-Varying Covariate With an Extended Kaplan-Meier Estimator pp. 301-307

Steven M. Snapinn, Qi Jiang and Boris Iglewicz

Introduction pp. 308-308

Fritz Scheuren

Tables Related to the Normal Distribution: A Short History pp. 309-311

Herbert A. David

A Reminiscence of R. A. Fisher pp. 312-314

Joan Fisher Box

Multiple Imputation: How It Began and Continues pp. 315-319

Fritz Scheuren

Rethinking the Paper Helicopter: Combining Statistical and Engineering Knowledge pp. 320-326

David H. Annis

Teaching Computing in Statistical Theory Courses pp. 327-333

David R. Hunter

Section Editor's Notes pp. 334-334

Joseph Hilbe

A Review of Stata 9.0 pp. 335-348

Joseph Hilbe

Gauss: Titan of Science, G. Waldo Dunnington, Jeremy Gray, and Fritz-Egbert Dohse; Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age, Theodore M. Porter pp. 349-349

Richard J. Cleary

A Primer of Ecological Statistics, Nicholas J. Gotelli and Aaron M. Ellison pp. 350-350

E. David Ford

PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS, Kirk Paul Lafler pp. 350-350

Izabela E. Annis

Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in S-Plus, Rene A. Carmona pp. 351-351

Alexandra Dlas

Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials pp. 352-352

Jeffrey Rosoff and Carolyn Pillers Dobler