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Volume 172, issue 4, 2009

Editorial: Towards a world of 2–6 billion well‐educated and therefore healthy and wealthy people pp. 701-705

Wolfgang Lutz

Statistical issues in the assessment of health outcomes in children: a methodological review pp. 707-727

Gillian A. Lancaster

Using relative utility curves to evaluate risk prediction pp. 729-748

Stuart G. Baker, Nancy R. Cook, Andrew Vickers and Barnett S. Kramer

Measuring people's trust pp. 749-769

John Ermisch, Diego Gambetta, Heather Laurie, Thomas Siedler and SC Noah Uhrig

The construction and analysis of a consistent set of input–output tables for the Irish economy pp. 771-788

Gerard Keogh and Patrick Quill

Multivariate meta‐analysis: the effect of ignoring within‐study correlation pp. 789-811

Richard D. Riley

Modelling the probability distribution of prize winnings in the UK National Lottery: consequences of conscious selection pp. 813-834

R. D. Baker and I. G. McHale

The limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice pp. 835-851

George Leckie and Harvey Goldstein

Obituary: Hendrik Salomon Konijn, 1918–2008 pp. 933-933

Gad Nathan

Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective pp. 935-935

Shalabh

Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis pp. 935-936

Phil Woodward

Statistical Design pp. 936-936

Shalabh

Morphometrics with R pp. 937-938

Z. Q. John Lu

Model Selection and Model Averaging pp. 937-937

Cedric E. Ginestet

Statistical Practice in Business and Industry pp. 938-939

Kuldeep Kumar

Longitudinal Data Analysis pp. 939-940

Badi Baltagi

Introductory Statistics with R pp. 939-939

Derek Robinson

Nonlinear Time Series: Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods pp. 940-941

Sreenivasan Ravi

Credit Risk Management: Basic Concepts, Financial Risk Components, Rating Analysis, Models, Economic and Regulatory Capital pp. 941-941

Morteza Aalabaf‐Sabaghi

Applied Multiway Data Analysis pp. 941-942

Paul Hewson

Polya Urn Models pp. 942-942

John Haigh

Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB pp. 942-943

Varinder Jain

Estimating Market Power and Strategies pp. 943-944

Judith Corbyn

Clinical Prediction Models—a Practical Approach to Development, Validation and Updating pp. 944-944

Giorgio Bedogni

Introduction to Nonparametric Estimation pp. 944-945

P. Sprent

Statistical Development of Quality in Medicine pp. 945-946

Mark A. Best

Volume 172, issue 3, 2009

Editorial: Recent advances in multilevel modelling methodology and applications pp. 535-536

William J. Browne and Fiona Steele

The complexity of school and neighbourhood effects and movements of pupils on school differences in models of educational achievement pp. 537-554

George Leckie

The effect of area of residence over the life course on subsequent mortality pp. 555-578

Alastair H. Leyland and Øyvind Næss

The use of simple reparameterizations to improve the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation for multilevel models with applications to discrete time survival models pp. 579-598

William J. Browne, Fiona Steele, Mousa Golalizadeh and Martin J. Green

Multilevel multivariate modelling of childhood growth, numbers of growth measurements and adult characteristics pp. 599-613

Harvey Goldstein and Daphne Kounali

Using Bayesian graphical models to model biases in observational studies and to combine multiple sources of data: application to low birth weight and water disinfection by‐products pp. 615-637

Nuoo‐Ting Molitor, Nicky Best, Chris Jackson and Sylvia Richardson

Multilevel regression mixture analysis pp. 639-657

Bengt Muthén and Tihomir Asparouhov

Prediction in multilevel generalized linear models pp. 659-687

Anders Skrondal and Sophia Rabe‐Hesketh

Norman Thomas John Bailey, 1923–2007 pp. 689-690

P. Armitage and J. F. Bithell

John Mandel, 1914–2007 pp. 691-692

Antonio Possolo

Semisupervised Learning for Computational Linguistics pp. 694-694

Cedric Ginestet

Handbook of Multilevel Analysis pp. 694-695

George Leckie

An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models pp. 695-696

Mario Cortina Borja

R Programming for Bioinformatics pp. 696-696

Diane Berry

R for SAS and SPSS Users pp. 697-698

R. Allan Reese

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus applied to Finance pp. 697-697

Jordan Stoyanov

Reliability and Risk—a Bayesian Perspective pp. 698-698

Lesley F. Wright

Data Manipulation in R pp. 699-699

Mario Cortina Borja

DNA Methylation Microarrays: Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis pp. 699-700

S. E. Lazic

Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists pp. 700-700

R. Allan Reese

Volume 172, issue 2, 2009

Modern statistics: the myth and the magic pp. 287-306

David J. Hand

Overeducation and the skills of UK graduates pp. 307-337

Arnaud Chevalier and Joanne Lindley

Surveying migrant households: a comparison of census‐based, snowball and intercept point surveys pp. 339-360

David McKenzie and Johan Mistiaen

Multilevel modelling of refusal and non‐contact in household surveys: evidence from six UK Government surveys pp. 361-381

Gabriele B. Durrant and Fiona Steele

Accounting for uncertainty in health economic decision models by using model averaging pp. 383-404

Christopher H. Jackson, Simon G. Thompson and Linda D. Sharples

Modelling population‐based cancer survival trends by using join point models for grouped survival data pp. 405-425

Binbing Yu, Lan Huang, Ram C. Tiwari, Eric J. Feuer and Karen A. Johnson

Friendship ties and geographical mobility: evidence from Great Britain pp. 427-442

Michèle Belot and John Ermisch

Analysing direct effects in randomized trials with secondary interventions: an application to human immunodeficiency virus prevention trials pp. 443-465

Michael Rosenblum, Nicholas P. Jewell, Mark van der Laan, Stephen Shiboski, Ariane van der Straten and Nancy Padian

Sir Godfrey Thomson: a statistical pioneer pp. 467-482

David J. Bartholomew, Ian J. Deary and Martin Lawn

On square ordinal contingency tables: a comparison of social class and income mobility for the same individuals pp. 483-493

D. R. Cox, Michelle Jackson and Shiwei Lu

Cluster designs to assess the prevalence of acute malnutrition by lot quality assurance sampling: a validation study by computer simulation pp. 495-510

Casey Olives, Marcello Pagano, Megan Deitchler, Bethany L. Hedt, Kari Egge and Joseph J. Valadez

Multiple imputation for combining confidential data owned by two agencies pp. 511-528

Christine N. Kohnen and Jerome P. Reiter

Semi‐supervised Learning pp. 530-530

Niall Adams

Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in Actuarial Science pp. 530-530

Sreenivasan Ravi

Basic Statistics using SAS Enterprise Guide, a Primer pp. 530-531

Alex Karagrigoriou

Book reviews pp. 531-532

Eirini Koutoumanou

Book reviews pp. 532-532

Shalabh

Book reviews pp. 532-533

Phil Woodward

Book reviews pp. 533-534

A. C. Brooms

Volume 172, issue 1, 2009

Editorial: Built on firm foundations pp. 1-2

Antony Fielding and Simon Day

Joint generalized estimating equations for multivariate longitudinal binary outcomes with missing data: an application to acquired immune deficiency syndrome data pp. 3-20

Stuart R. Lipsitz, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, Joseph G. Ibrahim, Debajyoti Sinha, Michael Parzen and Steven Lipshultz

Bias modelling in evidence synthesis pp. 21-47

Rebecca M. Turner, David J. Spiegelhalter, Gordon C. S. Smith and Simon G. Thompson

Local and marginal control charts applied to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia reports in UK acute National Health Service trusts pp. 49-66

O. A. Grigg, D. J. Spiegelhalter and H. E. Jones

R×C ecological inference: bounds, correlations, flexibility and transparency of assumptions pp. 67-81

D. James Greiner and Kevin M. Quinn

Joint projections of temperature and precipitation change from multiple climate models: a hierarchical Bayesian approach pp. 83-106

Claudia Tebaldi and Bruno Sansó

Forecasting obesity trends in England pp. 107-117

Terence C. Mills

Models for potentially biased evidence in meta‐analysis using empirically based priors pp. 119-136

N. J. Welton, A. E. Ades, J. B. Carlin, D. G. Altman and J. A. C. Sterne

A re‐evaluation of random‐effects meta‐analysis pp. 137-159

Julian P. T. Higgins, Simon G. Thompson and David J. Spiegelhalter

Hitting and missing targets by ambulance services for emergency calls: effects of different systems of performance measurement within the UK pp. 161-190

Gwyn Bevan and Richard Hamblin

Forecasting murder within a population of probationers and parolees: a high stakes application of statistical learning pp. 191-211

Richard Berk, Lawrence Sherman, Geoffrey Barnes, Ellen Kurtz and Lindsay Ahlman

Sequential case series analysis for pharmacovigilance pp. 213-236

Mounia N. Hocine, Patrick Musonda, Nick J. Andrews and C. Paddy Farrington

A family of measures to evaluate scale reliability in a longitudinal setting pp. 237-253

Annouschka Laenen, Ariel Alonso, Geert Molenberghs and Tony Vangeneugden

Another look into the effect of premarital cohabitation on duration of marriage: an approach based on matching pp. 255-273

Stefano Mazzuco

David George Kendall, 1918–2007 pp. 275-278

Geoffrey Grimmett

C. C. Heyde, 1939–2008 pp. 278-280

Joe Gani

Design and Analysis of Experiments, vol. I, Introduction to Experimental Designs pp. 282-282

Thomas Hochkirchen

Computational Pharmacokinetics pp. 282-283

David Woods

Data Analysis and Graphics using R: an Example‐based Approach pp. 283-284

Deven D. Patel

Time Series Analysis pp. 283-283

Hassan S. Bakouch

Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems pp. 284-284

Fiona McElduff

Putting People and Health Needs on the Map pp. 285-285

Mariano Ruiz Espejo