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Volume 169, issue 4, 2006

Editorial: Measurement of Government output and productivity pp. 659-662

Anthony Atkinson

From Beveridge to Turner: demography, distribution and the future of pensions in the UK pp. 663-679

John Hills

Reducing bias in ecological studies: an evaluation of different methodologies pp. 681-700

Gillian A. Lancaster, Mick Green and Steven Lane

Patterns of consent: evidence from a general household survey pp. 701-722

Stephen Jenkins, Lorenzo Cappellari, Peter Lynn, Annette Jäckle and Emanuela Sala

Latent class logistic regression: application to marijuana use and attitudes among high school seniors pp. 723-743

Hwan Chung, Brian P. Flaherty and Joseph L. Schafer

Estimating the prevalence of male clients of prostitute women in Vancouver with a simple capture–recapture method pp. 745-756

John M. Roberts and Devon D. Brewer

The formation and outcomes of cohabiting and marital partnerships in early adulthood: the role of previous partnership experience pp. 757-779

Fiona Steele, Constantinos Kallis and Heather Joshi

Employment, family union and childbearing decisions in Great Britain pp. 781-804

Arnstein Aassve, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Matt Dickson

Multilevel modelling of complex survey data pp. 805-827

Sophia Rabe‐Hesketh and Anders Skrondal

Sibling death clustering in India: state dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity pp. 829-848

Wiji Arulampalam and Sonia Bhalotra

Risk preference and employment contract type pp. 849-863

Sarah Brown, Lisa Farrell, Mark Harris and John Sessions

Sample size implications when biases are modelled rather than ignored pp. 865-881

Paul Gustafson

Dependence in the 2001 one‐number census project pp. 883-902

James Brown, Owen Abbott and Ian Diamond

Neutral umpires and leg before wicket decisions in test cricket pp. 903-911

Trevor J. Ringrose

Report of the Council for the session 2005–2006 pp. 913-1002

Tim Holt

Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 3rd edn, by C. R. Buncher and J. Y. Tsay (eds) pp. 1004-1004

Kuldeep Kumar

Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in S‐Plus by R. A. Carmona pp. 1004-1005

Isaac Dialsingh

Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance by P. Cizek, W. Härdle and R. Weron (eds) pp. 1005-1005

N. H. Bingham

Computational Genome Analysis: an Introduction by R. C. Deonier, S. Tavaré and M. S. Waterman pp. 1006-1007

Mark Broom

Handbook of Statistics in Clinical Oncology, 2nd edn by J. Crowley and D. P. Ankerst (eds) pp. 1006-1006

Kuldeep Kumar

Design and Modeling for Computer Experiments by K.‐T. Fang, R. Li and A. Sudjianto pp. 1007-1008

Thomas Hochkirchen

Extending the Linear Model with R by J. J. Faraway pp. 1008-1008

T. Verbeke

Exact Analysis of Discrete Data by K. F. Hirji pp. 1009-1009

Shalabh

Probabilistic Modeling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics by D. Husmeier, R. Dybowski and S. Roberts (eds) pp. 1009-1010

Natalia Bochkina

Beyond Beta: Other Continuous Families of Distributions with Bounded Support and Applications by S. Kotz and J. R. van Dorp pp. 1010-1011

Mario Cortina‐Borja

Handbook of Parallel Computing and Statistics by E. J. Kontoghiorghes (ed.) pp. 1010-1010

Niall Adams

Bayesian Statistics and Marketing by P. E. Rossi, G. M. Allenby and R. McCulloch pp. 1011-1011

Paul Hewson

Publication Bias in Meta‐analysis by H. R. Rothstein, A. J. Sutton and M. Borenstein (eds) pp. 1012-1012

Sarah Rhodes

Measures, Integrals and Martingales by R. L. Schilling pp. 1012-1013

N. H. Bingham

Stochastic Processes and Models by D. Stirzaker pp. 1013-1014

Jordan Stoyanov

The Hunt for the Last Respondent by I. Stoop pp. 1014-1014

Susan Nunn

Essentials of Statistical Inference by G. A. Young and R. L. Smith pp. 1014-1015

Thomas Hochkirchen

Volume 169, issue 3, 2006

Editorial: Attrition and non‐response pp. 393-394

Peter Lynn

Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction pp. 395-438

J. Haslett, M. Whiley, S. Bhattacharya, M. Salter‐Townshend, Simon P. Wilson, J. R. M. Allen, B. Huntley and F. J. G. Mitchell

Responsive design for household surveys: tools for actively controlling survey errors and costs pp. 439-457

Robert M. Groves and Steven G. Heeringa

The long‐term effectiveness of refusal conversion procedures on longitudinal surveys pp. 459-478

Jonathan Burton, Heather Laurie and Peter Lynn

Modelling non‐response in the National Child Development Study pp. 479-491

Denise Hawkes and Ian Plewis

Linkage bias in estimating the association between childhood exposures and propensity to become a mother: an example of simple sensitivity analyses pp. 493-505

D. Nitsch, B. L. DeStavola, S. M. B. Morton and D. A. Leon

Analysis of a long‐term study of neurotic disorder, with insights into the process of non‐response pp. 507-523

Nicholas T. Longford, P. Tyrer, U. A. M. Nur and H. Seivewright

Using number of failed contact attempts to adjust for non‐ignorable non‐response pp. 525-542

Angela M. Wood, Ian White and Matthew Hotopf

Health‐related non‐response in the British Household Panel Survey and European Community Household Panel: using inverse‐probability‐weighted estimators in non‐linear models pp. 543-569

Andrew Jones, Xander Koolman and Nigel Rice

A comparison of multiple imputation and doubly robust estimation for analyses with missing data pp. 571-584

James R. Carpenter, Michael G. Kenward and Stijn Vansteelandt

Survey non‐response and the duration of unemployment pp. 585-604

Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and Peter Dolton

Using data augmentation to correct for non‐ignorable non‐response when surrogate data are available: an application to the distribution of hourly pay pp. 605-623

Gabriele B. Durrant and Chris Skinner

The effects of income imputation on microanalyses: evidence from the European Community Household Panel pp. 625-646

Cheti Nicoletti and Franco Peracchi

Correspondence pp. 647-648

N. T. Longford

Authors’ response pp. 648-649

Dan Jackson, John Copas and Alex J. Sutton

Combinatorial Methods in Discrete Distributions by C. A. Charalambides pp. 652-652

Jordan Stoyanov

Statistical Modelling in GLIM4, 2nd edn by M. Aitkin, B. Francis and J. Hinde pp. 652-652

M. Dolores Ugarte

Statistics for Fission Track Analysis by R. F. Galbraith pp. 652-653

M. C. Jones

Computational Statistics by G. H. Givens and J. A. Hoeting pp. 653-654

Philippe Castagliola

Stochastic Approximation and Recursive Algorithms with Applications, 2nd edn by H. J. Kushner and G. G. Yin pp. 654-654

A. C. Brooms

Spatial and Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health by A. B. Lawson and K. Kleinman pp. 655-655

Iain Lang

Constrained Statistical Inference: Inequality, Order and Shape Restrictions by M. J. Silvapulle and P. K. Sen pp. 655-656

Eugenia Stoimenova

The Total Survey Error Approach: a Guide to the New Science of Survey Research by H. F. Weisberg pp. 656-657

Mariano Ruiz Espejo and Miguel Delgado Pineda

The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction by M. Sullivan Pepe pp. 656-656

Derek Robinson

Volume 169, issue 2, 2006

Model choice in time series studies of air pollution and mortality pp. 179-203

Roger D. Peng, Francesca Dominici and Thomas A. Louis

Multilevel modelling of the number of property crimes: household and area effects pp. 205-233

Andromachi Tseloni

A Bayesian method of sample size determination with practical applications pp. 235-253

S. K. Sahu and T. M. F. Smith

Public expenditure in the UK: how measures matter pp. 255-271

Stuart N. Soroka, Christopher Wlezien and Iain McLean

Extending the Box–Cox transformation to the linear mixed model pp. 273-288

Matthew J. Gurka, Lloyd J. Edwards, Keith E. Muller and Lawrence L. Kupper

A new parametric family for modelling cumulative incidence functions: application to breast cancer data pp. 289-303

Jong‐Hyeon Jeong

A validation of a computer‐assisted randomized response survey to estimate the prevalence of fraud in social security pp. 305-318

Gerty J. L. M. Lensvelt‐Mulders, Peter G. M. Van Der Heijden, Olav Laudy and Ger Van Gils

Do divorcing couples become happier by breaking up? pp. 319-336

Jonathan Gardner and Andrew Oswald

Pathways between education and health: a causal modelling approach pp. 337-359

Tarani Chandola, Paul Clarke, J. N. Morris and David Blane

Analysis of Irish third‐level college applications data pp. 361-379

Isobel Claire Gormley and Thomas Brendan Murphy

Harold William George Gearing, BSc, FIS, FCIS, FBCS, 1912–2005 pp. 381-382

Ed Swires‐Hennessy

Sir Jack Hibbert, 1932–2005 pp. 382-383

Robin Lynch

Quality by Experimental Design pp. 386-387

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Statistical Treatment of Analytical Data pp. 386-386

Mark Whitlock

Association Schemes: Designed Experiments, Algebra and Combinatorics pp. 386-386

Sreenivasan Ravi

An Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis pp. 387-389

Ron Driver

Bayesian Models for Categorical Data pp. 387-387

So Moon Tong

Introduction to Linear Models and Statistical Inference pp. 389-390

Shalabh

Celebrating Statistics: Papers in Honour of Sir David Cox on His 80th Birthday pp. 389-389

David Bartholomew

Statistical Analysis of Stochastic Processes in Time pp. 390-390

Isaac Dialsingh

Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB pp. 390-391

A. Hannachi

Statistical Methods in Molecular Evolution pp. 391-391

Chris Cannings

Analysing Categorical Data pp. 391-392

Susan Nunn

Volume 169, issue 1, 2006

Editorial: (Post‐normal) statistical science pp. 1-4

James V. Zidek

Multiparameter evidence synthesis in epidemiology and medical decision‐making: current approaches pp. 5-35

A. E. Ades and A. J. Sutton

Re‐examining informative prior elicitation through the lens of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods pp. 37-48

Eugene D. Hahn

A statistical study of the triple‐link model in the synoptic problem pp. 49-60

Andris Abakuks

Significance and impotence: towards a balanced view of the null and the alternative hypotheses in marker selection for plant breeding pp. 61-79

B. Moerkerke, E. Goetghebeur, J. De Riek and I. Roldán‐Ruiz

Measuring agreement between two statistics with applications to age standardization pp. 81-96

Michael P. Fay and Ji‐Hyun Lee

A Bayesian hierarchical model for categorical longitudinal data from a social survey of immigrants pp. 97-114

A. N. Pettitt, T. T. Tran, M. A. Haynes and J. L. Hay

Comparing clinical data with administrative data for producing acute myocardial infarction report cards pp. 115-126

Peter C. Austin and Jack V. Tu

Tell me why I don't like Mondays: investigating day of the week effects on job satisfaction and psychological well‐being pp. 127-142

Mark Taylor

How not to fund hospital and community health services in England pp. 143-164

Mervyn Stone and Jane Galbraith

Obituary: John Harold West MBE pp. 165-166

Frank E. Whitehead

Book reviews pp. 168-169

Scott Sisson

Book reviews pp. 169-169

Isaac Dialsingh

Book reviews pp. 169-170

N. H. Bingham

Book reviews pp. 170-170

Mark Broom

Book reviews pp. 171-172

N. H. Bingham

Book reviews pp. 171-171

Andreas Karlsson

Book reviews pp. 172-173

Tim Futing Liao

Book reviews pp. 173-173

Mariano Ruiz Espejo and Housila P. Singh

Book reviews pp. 173-173

Susan Nunn

Book reviews pp. 174-175

Shalabh

Book reviews pp. 174-174

Andrew Robinson

Subject index of obituary notices, 1994–2005 pp. 177-178

Richard William Farebrother and Peter Neal