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Volume 174, issue 4, 2011

Editorial: The measurement of progress—some achievements and challenges pp. 851-855

Paul Anand, Martine Durand and James Heckman

A multilevel modelling approach to investigating the predictive validity of editorial decisions: do the editors of a high profile journal select manuscripts that are highly cited after publication? pp. 857-879

Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz, Werner Marx, Hermann Schier and Hans‐Dieter Daniel

Design of the 2001 and 2011 Census Coverage Surveys for England and Wales pp. 881-906

James Brown, Owen Abbott and Paul A. Smith

Surviving slavery: mortality at Mesopotamia, a Jamaican sugar estate, 1762–1832 pp. 907-929

Martin Forster and S. D. Smith

Small area estimation using a reweighting algorithm pp. 931-951

Robert Tanton, Yogi Vidyattama, Binod Nepal and Justine McNamara

Combining the intensity and sequencing of the poverty experience: a class of longitudinal poverty indices pp. 953-973

Daria Mendola, Annalisa Busetta and Anna Maria Milito

A stochastic model for assessing Chlamydia trachomatis transmission risk by using longitudinal observational data pp. 975-989

Wanzhu Tu, Pulak Ghosh and Barry P. Katz

The effect of survey design on household reporting of financial difficulty pp. 991-1005

Robert Breunig and Rebecca McKibbin

New Orleans business recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina pp. 1007-1027

James LeSage, Kelley Pace, Nina Lam, Richard Campanella and Xingjian Liu

Using paradata to predict best times of contact, conditioning on household and interviewer influences pp. 1029-1049

Gabriele B. Durrant, Julia D'Arrigo and Fiona Steele

Modelling member behaviour in on‐line user‐generated content sites: a semiparametric Bayesian approach pp. 1051-1069

Young‐Hoon Park, Chang Hee Park and Pulak Ghosh

Investigating the behavioural characteristics of lottery players by using a combination preference model for conscious selection pp. 1071-1086

Rose Baker and Ian G. McHale

Practical and efficient estimates of one's accuracy in darts pp. 1175-1177

Sudipta Sadhukhan, Zhihui Liu and James A. Hanley

Obituary: Richard Malvern Allen, 1933–2009 pp. 1178-1179

Anne Harrison

Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis—an Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians pp. 1181-1181

Andrew V. Metcalfe

Multiple Testing Problems in Pharmaceutical Statistics pp. 1181-1182

Gonzalo Durán Pacheco and F. Hoffmann‐La Roche

Meta‐analysis and Combining Information in Genetics and Genomics pp. 1182-1183

S. E. Lazic and F. Hoffmann‐La Roche

The Hockey Stick Illusion pp. 1183-1185

John Shade

Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control pp. 1185-1186

John Shade

Volume 174, issue 3, 2011

The abuse of regression in the National Health Service allocation formulae: response to the Department of Health's 2007 ‘resource allocation research paper’ pp. 517-528

Jane Galbraith and Mervyn Stone

Resource allocation for English local government: a critique of the four‐block model pp. 529-546

Alex Gibson and Sheena Asthana

An introduction to anchoring vignettes pp. 569-574

Arnaud Chevalier and Antony Fielding

Validating the use of anchoring vignettes for the correction of response scale differences in subjective questions pp. 575-595

Arthur van Soest, Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon, Arie Kapteyn and James Smith

Is the anchoring vignette method sensitive to the domain and choice of the vignette? pp. 597-620

Hana Voňková and Patrick Hullegie

Dynamics of reporting work disability in Europe pp. 621-638

Viola Angelini, Danilo Cavapozzi and Omar Paccagnella

Education‐related inequity in healthcare with heterogeneous reporting of health pp. 639-664

Teresa Bago d'Uva, Maarten Lindeboom, Owen O'Donnell and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Anchoring vignettes with sample selection due to non‐response pp. 665-687

Omar Paccagnella

Latent class profile analysis: an application to stage sequential processes in early onset drinking behaviours pp. 689-712

Hwan Chung, James C. Anthony and Joseph L. Schafer

Forecasting mortality in the event of a structural change pp. 713-736

Edviges Coelho and Luis Nunes

Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right‐wing party affinity: evidence from panel data pp. 737-758

Thomas Siedler

Inequality in Burkina Faso—to what extent do household, community and regional factors matter? pp. 759-784

Johannes Gräb and Michael Grimm

Assessing variance components in multilevel linear models using approximate Bayes factors: a case‐study of ethnic disparities in birth weight pp. 785-804

Benjamin R. Saville, Amy H. Herring and Jay S. Kaufman

Estimating the fraction of ‘non‐genuine’ artwork by Henry Moore for sale on eBay: application of latent class screening test methodology pp. 805-822

Joseph L. Gastwirth, Wesley O. Johnson and Hiro Hikawa

A new look at Halley's life table pp. 823-832

David R. Bellhouse

A note on ‘The limitations of school league tables to inform school choice’ pp. 833-836

George Leckie and Harvey Goldstein

Food, Economics, and Health pp. 842-842

Aisha Dasgupta

Lotteries for Education pp. 842-843

David Goda

The R Book pp. 843-844

S. E. Lazic

Circular and Linear Regression: Fitting Circles and Lines by Least Squares pp. 843-843

Jonathan Gillard

Handbook of Advanced Multilevel Analysis pp. 844-845

George Leckie

New Perspectives in Stochastic Geometry pp. 845-846

Sreenivasan Ravi

Monte Carlo Methods and Models in Finance and Insurance pp. 846-846

Morteza Aalabaf‐Sabaghi

Applied Statistics for Engineers and Physical Scientists pp. 847-848

Thomas Hochkirchen

Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems pp. 847-847

Jordan Stoyanov

Applied Statistics for Business and Economics pp. 848-848

Morteza Aalabaf‐Sabaghi

Statistical Methods for Disease Clustering pp. 848-849

M. Dolores Ugarte

Statistics in Plain English pp. 849-850

Giorgio Bedogni

Volume 174, issue 2, 2011

Towards more accessible conceptions of statistical inference pp. 247-295

C. J. Wild, M. Pfannkuch, M. Regan and Nicholas Horton

A comparison of earnings measures from longitudinal and cross‐sectional surveys: evidence from the UK pp. 297-326

Marco Francesconi, Holly Sutherland and Francesca Zantomio

Qualitative business surveys: signal or noise? pp. 327-348

Silvia Sze Wai Lui, James Mitchell and Martin Weale

Investigating scheduling of work: a two‐stage optimal matching analysis of workdays and workweeks pp. 349-368

Laurent Lesnard and Man Yee Kan

The use of propensity scores to assess the generalizability of results from randomized trials pp. 369-386

Elizabeth A. Stuart, Stephen R. Cole, Catherine P. Bradshaw and Philip J. Leaf

Slope estimation for bivariate longitudinal outcomes adjusting for informative right censoring by using a discrete survival model: application to the renal transplant cohort pp. 387-402

Miran A. Jaffa, Robert F. Woolson and Stuart R. Lipsitz

An overflow loss network model for capacity planning of a perinatal network pp. 403-417

Md Asaduzzaman and Thierry J. Chaussalet

Contextual variations in ethnic group differences in educational attainments pp. 419-437

Ian Plewis

EUROMIND: a monthly indicator of the euro area economic conditions pp. 439-470

Cecilia Frale, Massimiliano Marcellino, Gian Luigi Mazzi and Tommaso Proietti

On the distribution of runs scored and batting strategy in test cricket pp. 471-497

Philip Scarf, Xin Shi and Sohail Akhtar

Measurement Error: Models, Methods and Applications pp. 506-507

Shalabh

Model based Inference in the Life Sciences: a Primer on Evidence pp. 506-506

S. E. Lazic and F. Hoffmann‐La Roche

Time Series Analysis with Applications in R pp. 507-507

Judith Corbyn

Fundamentals of Probability: a First Course pp. 507-508

Shalabh

Nonparametric Statistical Inference pp. 508-509

Shalabh

Simulation and Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations: with R Examples pp. 509-509

Jordan Stoyanov

Graphics for Statistics and Data Analysis with R pp. 509-510

Gonzalo Durán Pacheco and F. Hoffmann‐La Roche Basel

Stochastic Financial Models pp. 510-511

Jordan Stoyanov

Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data pp. 511-512

Giorgio Bedogni

Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology pp. 512-513

Neal Alexander

Introduction to Spatial Econometrics pp. 513-514

M. Dolores Ugarte

Statistical Methods for Estimating Petroleum Resources pp. 513-513

R. M. Lark

Matrix Computations and Semiseparable Matrices: vol. 1, Linear Systems; vol. 2, Eigenvalue and Singular Value Methods pp. 514-515

Jonathan Gillard

Volume 174, issue 1, 2011

Exploring the implications of changing census output geographies for the measurement of residential segregation: the example of Northern Ireland 1991–2001 pp. 1-16

I. G. Shuttleworth, C. D. Lloyd and D. J. Martin

Predicting participation in higher education: a comparative evaluation of the performance of geodemographic classifications pp. 17-30

Chris Brunsdon, Paul Longley, Alex Singleton and David Ashby

Modelling bias in combining small area prevalence estimates from multiple surveys pp. 31-50

Giancarlo Manzi, David J. Spiegelhalter, Rebecca M. Turner, Julian Flowers and Simon G. Thompson

The origins and originators of early statistical societies: a comparison of Liverpool and Manchester pp. 51-62

Christopher O'Brien

Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple‐imputation approach to estimation and inference pp. 63-81

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

Estimating research performance by using research grant award gradings pp. 83-93

Harvey Goldstein

Biases in the healthcare luxury good hypothesis?: a meta‐regression analysis pp. 95-107

Joan Costa‐Font, Marin Gemmill and Gloria Rubert

Constructing representative air quality indicators with measures of uncertainty pp. 109-126

Duncan Lee, Claire Ferguson and E. Marian Scott

The determinants of regional migration in Great Britain: a duration approach pp. 127-153

Martyn Andrews, Ken Clark and William Whittaker

Estimating herd prevalence on the basis of aggregate testing of animals pp. 155-174

Christel Faes, Marc Aerts, Saskia Litière, Estelle Meroc, Yves Van der Stede and Koen Mintiens

Catching the habit: a study of inequality of opportunity in smoking‐related mortality pp. 175-194

Silvia Balia and Andrew Jones

Quantifying the cost of passive smoking on child health: evidence from children's cotinine samples pp. 195-212

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields, Stephen Wheatley Price and Jenny Williams

A statistician plays darts pp. 213-226

Ryan J. Tibshirani, Andrew Price and Jonathan Taylor

Economic Modelling and Inference pp. 240-240

Morteza Aalabaf‐Sabaghi

Demographic Forecasting pp. 240-241

Kuldeep Kumar

Robust Statistics, 2nd edn pp. 241-242

Kuldeep Kumar

Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories: a Guide for MBAs pp. 242-242

Morteza Aalabaf‐Sabaghi

A Practical Guide to Scientific Data Analysis pp. 242-243

P. Sprent

Causality, 2nd edn pp. 243-244

Tyler VanderWeele

Design of Observational Studies pp. 244-245

Giorgio Bedogni

ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis pp. 245-246

Cedric Ginestet