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Volume 168, issue 4, 2005

The professionalization of the ‘shoe clerk’ pp. 639-656

Andrew P. Grieve

A review of cancer screening evaluation techniques, with some particular examples in breast cancer screening pp. 657-677

Jane Warwick and Stephen W. Duffy

Trends in inequality in infant mortality in the north of England, 1921–1973, and their association with urban and social structure pp. 679-700

P. Congdon and H. Southall

The spatial structure of epidemic emergence: geographical aspects of poliomyelitis in north‐eastern USA, July–October 1916 pp. 701-722

Barry Trevelyan, Matthew Smallman‐Raynor and Andrew D. Cliff

A protective estimator for longitudinal binary data subject to non‐ignorable non‐monotone missingness pp. 723-735

Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Geert Molenberghs and Joseph G. Ibrahim

Modelling reporting bias: the operative mortality rate for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm repair pp. 737-752

Dan Jackson, John Copas and Alex J. Sutton

Resolving paradoxes involving surrogate end points pp. 753-762

Stuart G. Baker, Grant Izmirlian and Victor Kipnis

Survey response and survey characteristics: microlevel evidence from the European Community Household Panel pp. 763-781

Cheti Nicoletti and Franco Peracchi

Report of the Council for the session 2004–2005 pp. 783-863

Andy Grieve

Obituary: James Austin Heady, 1917–2004 pp. 865-867

Peter Armitage

Book reviews pp. 870-870

Sreenivasan Ravi

Book reviews pp. 870-871

J. Roderick McCrorie

Book reviews pp. 871-872

Dougal Hutchison

Book reviews pp. 871-871

Iain Lang

Book reviews pp. 872-873

Jordan Stoyanov

Book reviews pp. 872-872

Charles M. Goldie

Book reviews pp. 873-874

Anders Brix

Book reviews pp. 874-875

Mark P. Little

Book reviews pp. 875-876

Francesca Chappell

Book reviews pp. 875-875

Dougal Hutchison

Book reviews pp. 876-877

Alex Lewin and Anne‐Mette Hein

Book reviews pp. 877-878

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Volume 168, issue 3, 2005

Editorial: Model selection and efficiency—is ‘Which model …?’ the right question? pp. 469-472

N. T. Longford

Evaluating the effect of education on earnings: models, methods and results from the National Child Development Survey pp. 473-512

Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden and Barbara Sianesi

Exploring the economic and social determinants of psychological well‐being and perceived social support in England pp. 513-537

Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

An evaluation of the childhood family structure measures from the sixth wave of the British Household Panel Survey pp. 539-566

Marco Francesconi

Working life expectancies: the case of Finland 1980–2006 pp. 567-581

Markku M. Nurminen, Christopher R. Heathcote, Brett A. Davis and Borek D. Puza

Factor analysis for ranked data with application to a job selection attitude survey pp. 583-597

Philip Yu, K. F. Lam and S. M. Lo

Variance partitioning in multilevel logistic models that exhibit overdispersion pp. 599-613

W. J. Browne, S. V. Subramanian, K. Jones and H. Goldstein

De Morgan in the prehistory of statistical hypothesis testing pp. 615-627

Adrian Rice and Eugene Seneta

Handbook of Statistics, Volume 23, Advances in Survival Analysis pp. 630-630

Jamie Griffin

Statistics in Market Research pp. 630-631

John Smart

Tutorials in Biostatistics, Volume 1, Statistical Methods in Clinical Studies pp. 631-632

Andreas Karlsson

Linear Models with R pp. 632-632

Fernando Tusell-Palmer

Periodic Time Series Models pp. 632-633

Chris Chatfield

Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete Data Perspectives pp. 633-634

Isaac Dialsingh

Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data: a Model Comparison Perspective, 2nd edn pp. 634-635

R. A. Bailey

Highly Structured Stochastic Systems pp. 634-634

S. J. Maybank

Discriminant Analysis and Statistical Pattern Recognition pp. 635-636

Theofanis Sapatinas

Random Geometric Graphs pp. 636-636

Chris Cannings

Statistical Process Control, 5th edn pp. 636-636

Mark A. Best

Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires pp. 637-637

Pamela Campanelli

Quantifying the World: UN Ideas and Statistics pp. 637-638

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Volume 168, issue 2, 2005

Biosecurity and the role of statisticians pp. 263-266

Ron Brookmeyer

Multiple‐bias modelling for analysis of observational data pp. 267-306

Sander Greenland

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis techniques as tools for the quality assessment of composite indicators pp. 307-323

M. Saisana, Andrea Saltelli and S. Tarantola

Top incomes in the UK over the 20th century pp. 325-343

Anthony Atkinson

On the viral safety of plasma pools and plasma derivatives pp. 345-363

S. Vansteelandt, E. Goetghebeur, Isabelle Thomas, E. Mathys and F. Van Loock

Unemployed couples: the labour market effects of making both partners search for work pp. 365-385

Richard Dorsett

Estimating Parliamentary composition through electoral polls pp. 387-399

Frederic Udina and Pedro Delicado

Measuring the efficiency of public services: the limits of analysis pp. 401-417

Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street

Breaking the boundaries: geographical approaches to integrating 200 years of the census pp. 419-437

Ian N. Gregory and Paul S. Ell

Age at first marriage in Malawi: a Bayesian multilevel analysis using a discrete time‐to‐event model pp. 439-455

Samuel Manda and Renate Meyer

Exploring Multivariate Data with the Forward Search pp. 458-458

Paul Hewson

Environmental Statistics: Methods and Applications pp. 458-459

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

State Space and Unobserved Component Models: Theory and Applications pp. 459-460

Len Thomas

Procrustes Problems pp. 459-459

S. J. Maybank

Statistical Analysis and Data Display pp. 460-461

Chris Chatfield

Introduction to Mathematical Methods in Bioinformatics pp. 461-462

Mark Broom

Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice pp. 461-461

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Bayesian Field Theory pp. 462-463

Peter Craig

Spatial Evolutionary Modeling pp. 462-462

Andrew McCulloch

Analysing Survival Data from Clinical Trials and Observational Studies pp. 463-463

Andrew W. Roddam

Multivariate Probability pp. 463-464

Jordan Stoyanov

Statistics for the Quality Control Chemistry Laboratory pp. 464-464

Andrew W. Roddam

Statistics and Finance pp. 465-466

Theofanis Sapatinas

Statistical Power Analysis pp. 465-465

Andrea Le Fevre

Sensitivity Analysis in Practice: a Guide to Assessing Scientific Models pp. 466-466

Andrew McCulloch

Risk and Financial Management pp. 466-466

Lesley F. Wright

Corrigendum: A comparison study of realtime fatality rates: severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Toronto and Beijing, China pp. 468-468

Paul S. F. Yip, K. F. Lam, Eric H. Y. Lau, Pui‐Hing Chau, Kenneth W. Tsang and Anne Chao

Volume 168, issue 1, 2005

Performance indicators: good, bad, and ugly pp. 1-27

Sheila M. Bird, Cox Sir David, Vern T. Farewell, Goldstein Harvey, Holt Tim and Smith Peter C.

The case for small area microdata pp. 29-49

Mark Tranmer, Andrew Pickles, Ed Fieldhouse, Mark Elliot, Angela Dale, Mark Brown, David Martin, David Steel and Chris Gardiner

A continuous time Markov model for the length of stay of elderly people in institutional long‐term care pp. 51-61

H. Xie, T. J. Chaussalet and P. H. Millard

The quality of social security benefit data in the British Family Resources Survey: implications for investigating income support take‐up by pensioners pp. 63-82

Ruth Hancock and Geraldine Barker

The random‐effects proportional hazards model with grouped survival data: a comparison between the grouped continuous and continuation ratio versions pp. 83-94

Leonardo Grilli

The ubiquitous angle pp. 95-107

Graham R. Wood and David J. Saville

Robust, accurate confidence intervals with a weak instrument: quarter of birth and education pp. 109-126

Guido Imbens and Paul R. Rosenbaum

Exploring road mortality ratios in Europe: national versus regional realities pp. 127-144

Sylvain Lassarre and Isabelle Thomas

The survival of newly founded firms: a case‐study into varying‐coefficient models pp. 145-158

Göran Kauermann, Gerhard Tutz and Josef Brüderl

Generalized linear mixed models for ordered responses in complex multilevel structures: effects beneath the school or college in education pp. 159-183

Antony Fielding and Min Yang

Releasing multiply imputed, synthetic public use microdata: an illustration and empirical study pp. 185-205

Jerome P. Reiter

A panel data analysis of the effects of wages, standard hours and unionization on paid overtime work in Britain pp. 207-231

Adriaan Kalwij and Mary Gregory

A comparison study of realtime fatality rates: severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Toronto and Beijing, China pp. 233-243

Paul S. F. Yip, K. F. Lam, Eric H. Y. Lau, Pui‐Hing Chau, Kenneth W. Tsang and Anne Chao

Seymour Geisser, 1929–2004 pp. 245-246

Donald A. Berry

Sir Donald Macdougall OBE, 1912–2004 pp. 246-246

Lord Croham

Financial Modelling with Jump Processes pp. 250-251

René L. Schilling

Tools for Constructing Chronologies; Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries pp. 250-250

M. C. Jones

Bayesian Data Analysis, 2nd edn pp. 251-252

Anders Brix

Multilevel Statistical Models, 3rd edn pp. 252-253

Sreenivasan Ravi

Automatic Nonuniform Random Variate Generation pp. 253-254

Mohamed Afzal Norat

Statistics for Epidemiology pp. 254-255

Derek Robinson

Statistical Tools for Nonlinear Regression: a Practical Guide with S‐PLUS and R Examples, 2nd edn pp. 254-254

Paul Hewson

Forecast Verification: a Practitioner's Guide in Atmospheric Sciences pp. 255-255

Kuldeep Kumar

Diagnostic Checks in Time Series pp. 256-256

Mohamed Afzal Norat

Polynomial Parameter Estimations of Close to Gaussian Random Variables pp. 256-256

Jordan Stoyanov

Statistical Estimation of Epidemiological Risk pp. 256-257

Andrew W. Roddam

Risk Analysis in Finance and Insurance pp. 257-258

Quentin L. Burrell

Statistical Inference and Simulation for Spatial Point Processes pp. 258-259

Scott A. Sisson

Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics, volume 2B, Bayesian Inference, 2nd edn pp. 259-260

Dennis Lindley

Measures of Interobserver Agreement pp. 260-261

Russell Ecob

All of Statistics: a Concise Course in Statistical Inference pp. 261-261

Stuart Barber

Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials and Health‐Care Evaluation pp. 261-261

Mark A. Best

Biostatistics and Epidemiology: a Primer for Biomedical Professionals pp. 262-262

Isaac Dialsingh