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2004, volume 58

Special Section: Teaching Computational Statistics pp. 1-1

Albert J.H. and Gentle J.E.

Courses in Statistical Computing and Computational Statistics pp. 2-5

Gentle J.E.

Teaching Statistical Computing at North Carolina State University pp. 6-8

Monahan J.

Computational Statistics and Optimization Theory at UCLA pp. 9-11

Lange K.

Introduction pp. 12-12

Scheuren F.

On a Method of Estimating Birth and Death Rates and the Extent of Registration (Excerpt) pp. 13-15

Sekar C.C. and Deming W.E.

Separate and Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Event Time Data Using Standard Computer Packages pp. 16-24

Guo X. and Carlin B.P.

An Example of Slow Convergence of the Bootstrap in High Dimensions pp. 25-29

Troendle J.F., Korn E.L. and McShane L.M.

A Tutorial on MM Algorithms pp. 30-37

Hunter D.R. and Lange K.

Bowlers Hot Hands pp. 38-45

Dorsey-Palmateer R. and Gary Smith

Evaluation of the Current Decision Rule in Figure Skating and Possible Improvements pp. 46-54

Wu S.S. and Yang M.C.K.

Assessing Assessments of School Performance: The Case of California pp. 55-63

Justin Tobias

First Significant Digit Patterns From Mixtures of Uniform Distributions pp. 64-71

Rodriguez R.J.

Criteria for Evaluating Dimension-Reducing Components for Multivariate Data pp. 72-76

Gervini D. and Rousson V.

Teaching Statistical Principles Using Epidemiology: Measuring the Health of Populations pp. 77-84

Stroup D.F., Goodman R.A., Cordell R. and Scheaffer R.

Section Editors Notes pp. 85-85

Joseph Hilbe

Intro Stats pp. 86-87

McDonald E.T.

Fifty Fathoms: Statistics Demonstrations for Deeper Understanding pp. 86-86

Miller S.J.

CAST (Computer-Assisted Statistics Teaching) pp. 87-88

Miller S.J.

Introductory Statistics with R pp. 88-89

Bates S.C.

Statistical Computing: An Introduction to Data Analysis using SPlus pp. 89-89

Cowles M.K.

SAS for Linear Models (4th ed.) pp. 89-89

Cowles M.K.

Editors Report for The American Statistician, Volume 57 (2003) pp. 91-92

Albert J.H.

Statistical Computing Software Reviews pp. 92-92

Joseph Hilbe

Book Reviews pp. 92-92

Lenth R.V.

Statistical Research: Some Advice for Beginners pp. 93-101

Hamada M. and Sitter R.

Debating the Use of Statistical Evidence in Allegations of Age Discrimination pp. 102-109

Barry D. and Boland P.J.

Partial One-Dimensional Regression Models pp. 110-116

Cook R.D. and Weisberg S.

Two Statistical Paradoxes in the Interpretation of Group Differences: Illustrated with Medical School Admission and Licensing Data pp. 117-123

Wainer H. and Brown L.M.

The Effect of Dependence on Confidence Intervals for a Population Proportion pp. 124-130

Miao W. and Gastwirth J.L.

Bootstrap Methods for Developing Predictive Models pp. 131-137

Austin P.C. and Tu J.V.

Efficient Experimental Design for the Behrens-Fisher Problem With Application to Bioassay pp. 138-143

Dette H. and OBrien T.E.

Introduction pp. 144-144

Scheuren F.

Statistical Frontiers in Survey Sampling pp. 145-149

Lohr S.L.

On the Role of Semielasticity in Statistics pp. 150-151

Dimitris Hatzinikolaou and Ferentinos K.

Difficulties in Drawing Inferences With Finite-Mixture Models: A Simple Example With a Simple Solution pp. 152-158

Chung H., Loken E. and Schafer J.L.

Section Editors Notes pp. 159-159

Joseph Hilbe

Biases in SPSS 12.0 Missing Value Analysis pp. 160-164

Paul von Hippel

A Review of the GUM Workbench pp. 165-167

Losinger W.C.

A Review of SPSS 12.01, Part 2 pp. 168-171

Joseph Hilbe

Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences: Modern Applications Including Bootstrap pp. 172-172

Ferketich A.K.

Regression and ANOVA: An Integrated Approach Using SAS Software pp. 172-173

Anderson-Cook C.M.

101 Special Practice Problems in Probability and Statistics pp. 173-173

Pillers Dobler C.

Elementary Probability Theory With Stochastic Processes and an Introduction to Mathematical Finance (4th ed.) pp. 173-174

Lund R.B.

Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Data (2nd ed.) pp. 174-174

Rue M.

Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials pp. 175-175

Pillers Dobler C. and Lenth R.V.

Statistics and the College Football Championship pp. 179-185

Hal S. Stern

Discussion pp. 185-187

Kenneth Massey

Discussion pp. 187-189

David A. Harville

Discussion pp. 190-190

Richard Billingsley

Discussion pp. 191-192

Wes Colleys

Discussion pp. 192-194

David Mease

Discussion of pp. 196-197

James Albert

On Advice for Beginners in Statistical Research pp. 196-197

Donald B. Rubin

Discussion of pp. 197-198

Alan E. Gelfand

The Importance of pp. 198-198

Elizabeth Thompson

Statistical Contributions in Biotechnology and Nonclinical Drug-Discovery Research pp. 199-199

Deepak B. Khatry

How to do Statistical Research pp. 200-202

Willard C. Losinger

Some Random Thoughts on Doing Research pp. 200-202

Elizabeth Stasny

Response pp. 202-202

Michael Hamada and Randy Sitter

The Use of Statistical Methods in the U.S. Census: Utah v. Evans pp. 203-212

Patrick J. Cantwell, Howard Hogan and Kathleen M. Styles

Estimating Effect Sizes in Exploratory Experimental Studies When Using a Linear Model pp. 213-217

Neil H. Timm

Six Approaches to Calculating Standardized Logistic Regression Coefficients pp. 218-223

Scott Menard

Introduction pp. 224-224

Fritz Scheuren

The St. Petersburg Paradox and the Crash of High-Tech Stocks in 2000 pp. 225-231

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

Peirce and Bowditch: An American Contribution to Correlation and Regression pp. 232-236

Michael J. Rovine and Douglas R. Anderson

"Transmuting pp. 237-243

James A. Hanley

Teaching Experimental Design pp. 244-252

Robert G. Easterling

Section Editor's Notes pp. 253-253

Joseph Hilbe

An Evaluation of ActivStats for SPSS for Teaching and Learning pp. 254-258

Jamie D. Mills and Elisa L. Johnson

Grade Inflation: A Crisis in College Education pp. 259-260

Kristin A. Duncan

Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data pp. 259-260

Stephen J. Miller

SAS Programming: The One-Day Course pp. 260-260

Grace Chan

Stochastic Processes and Their Applications pp. 261-261

Robert Lund

The State of Undergraduate Education in Statistics: A Report from the CBMS 2000 pp. 265-271

Richard L. Scheaffer and Elizabeth A. Stasny

Model Selection, Confounder Control, and Marginal Structural Models: Review and New Applications pp. 272-279

Marshall M. Joffe, Thomas R. Ten Have, Harold I. Feldman and Stephen E. Kimmel

Factors Relating to the Degree to Which Statistical Consulting Clients Deem Their Consulting Experiences to be a Success pp. 280-289

H. Dean Johnson and Dennis A. Warner

Introduction pp. 290-291

Fritz Scheuren

The Problem of Nonresponse in Sample Surveys pp. 292-294

Morris H. Hansen and William N. Hurwitz

A pp. 295-297

Leslie Kish and Irene Hess

The Design of a General and Flexible System for Handling Nonresponse in Sample Surveys pp. 298-302

Donald B. Rubin

Bayesian Randomized Response as a Class Project pp. 303-309

Michele DiPietro

Random Walks as Motivational Material in Introductory Statistics and Probability Courses pp. 310-316

Lynn A. Fisher and Donald S.t.P. Richards

Multidimensional Scaling for Selecting Small Groups in College Courses pp. 317-321

Iain Pardoe

Tunable Approximations for the Mean and Variance of the Maximum of Heterogeneous Geometrically Distributed Random Variables pp. 322-327

Daniel R. Jeske and Todd Blessinger

Section Editor's Notes pp. 328-329

Joseph Hilbe

Review of WinBUGS 1.4 pp. 330-336

Mary Kathryn Cowles

A Review of Software Packages for Analyzing Correlated Survival Data pp. 337-342

Patrick J. Kelly

Use of R as a Toolbox for Mathematical Statistics Exploration pp. 343-357

Nicholas Horton, Elizabeth R. Brown and Linjuan Qian

Teaching Statistics Using Baseball. Jim Albert pp. 358-358

Richard J.C. Leary

Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them). Phillip I. Good and James W. Hardin pp. 359-360

Christine Anderson-Cook

ActivEpi Companion Textbook: A Supplement for Use with The ActivEpi CD-ROM. David G. Kleinbaum, Kevin M. Sullivan, and Nancy D. Barker pp. 359-360

Judith Schwartzbaum

Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof. Arthur T. Benjamin and Jennifer J. Quinn pp. 360-361

D. Glass

Elements of Stochastic Modeling. K. Borovkov pp. 360-361

Clyde H. Schoolfield