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Volume 167, issue 4, 2004

Editorial: Measuring and communicating survey quality pp. 575-578

Peter Lynn

The sensitivity of estimates of the change in population behaviour to realistic changes in bias in repeated surveys pp. 579-595

Andrew J. Copas, Vern T. Farewell, Catherine H. Mercer and Guiqing Yao

A comparison of univariate and multivariate multilevel models for repeated measures of use of antenatal care in Uttar Pradesh pp. 597-611

Paula L. Griffiths, James J. Brown and Peter W. F. Smith

Has the national minimum wage reduced UK wage inequality? pp. 613-626

Richard Dickens and Alan Manning

Bayesian binary segmentation procedure for detecting streakiness in sports pp. 627-637

Tae Young Yang

Modelling the evolution of distributions: an application to Major League baseball pp. 639-655

Gary Koop

Rating teams and analysing outcomes in one‐day and test cricket pp. 657-667

P. E. Allsopp and Stephen R. Clarke

Report of the Council for the session 2003–2004 pp. 669-756

Andy Grieve

Obituary: Petter Jakob Bjerve pp. 757-758

Olav Bjerkholt and Svein Longva

Book reviews pp. 760-760

Quentin L. Burrell

Book reviews pp. 760-760

Derek Robinson

Book reviews pp. 761-762

N. H. Bingham

Book reviews pp. 762-762

Scott L. Hershberger

Book reviews pp. 763-763

Jennifer Lyn

Book reviews pp. 763-764

Mohamed Afzal Norat

Book reviews pp. 764-765

Marian Scott

Book reviews pp. 764-764

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Book reviews pp. 764-764

Mark A. Best

Book reviews pp. 765-766

Roger Harbord

Book reviews pp. 766-766

Mohamed Afzal Norat

Book reviews pp. 767-768

N. H. Bingham

Book reviews pp. 768-768

Stuart Barber

Volume 167, issue 3, 2004

Editorial: Performance monitoring in the public services pp. 381-383

Sheila M. Bird

Ecological inference for 2 × 2 tables (with discussion) pp. 385-445

Jon Wakefield

Ecological inference for 2 × 2 tables pp. 385-425

Jon Wakefield

Foreword to the papers on ‘Performance monitoring and surveillance’ pp. 447-448

Nicky Best and Simon Day

Statistical analysis of performance indicators in UK higher education pp. 449-474

David Draper and Mark Gittoes

Higher education outcomes, graduate employment and university performance indicators pp. 475-496

Massimiliano Bratti, Abigail McKnight, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

Simultaneous modelling of multiple traffic safety performance indicators by using a multivariate generalized linear mixed model pp. 501-517

Trevor C. Bailey and Paul J. Hewson

An overview of risk‐adjusted charts pp. 523-539

O. Grigg and V. Farewell

Statistical issues in the prospective monitoring of health outcomes across multiple units pp. 541-559

Clare Marshall, Nicky Best, Alex Bottle and Paul Aylin

Book reviews pp. 565-566

M. C. Jones

Book reviews pp. 566-567

Scott Sisson

Book reviews pp. 567-568

Chris Chatfield

Book reviews pp. 568-569

Victor Moreno

Book reviews pp. 568-568

Les Huson

Book reviews pp. 569-570

David Kemp

Book reviews pp. 569-569

Paul Hewson

Book reviews pp. 570-571

Andrew W Roddam

Book reviews pp. 571-572

Lesley Rushton

Book reviews pp. 572-573

Mark A. Best

Book reviews pp. 572-572

David Wooff

Book reviews pp. 573-574

Anna Bartkowiak

Volume 167, issue 2, 2004

Editorial: Evaluating automatic edit and imputation methods, and the EUREDIT project pp. 199-207

John Charlton

An alternative view of the 2001 census and future census taking pp. 209-228

Philip Redfern

New ways of specifying data edits pp. 249-274

George Petrakos, Claudio Conversano, Gregory Farmakis, Francesco Mola, Roberta Siciliano and Photis Stavropoulos

Multivariate outlier detection in incomplete survey data: the epidemic algorithm and transformed rank correlations pp. 275-294

Cédric Béguin and Beat Hulliger

Combining editing and imputation methods: an experimental application on population census data pp. 295-307

Antonia Manzari

Bayesian networks for imputation pp. 309-322

Marco Di Zio, Mauro Scanu, Lucia Coppola, Orietta Luzi and Alessandra Ponti

Robust automatic methods for outlier and error detection pp. 323-339

Ray Chambers, Adão Hentges and Xinqiang Zhao

Missing data and small area estimation in the UK Labour Force Survey pp. 341-373

Nicholas T. Longford

Environmental Foresight and Models: a Manifesto pp. 376-376

Freda Kemp

The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms pp. 377-377

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Applying the Rasch Model: Fundamental Measurement in the Human Sciences pp. 377-377

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies pp. 378-379

Tim Auton

Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimation, Volume I, Density Estimation pp. 378-378

Pia Veldt Larsen

Large‐scale Assessment Programs for All Students: Validity, Technical Adequacy, and Implementation pp. 379-379

Nick Sofroniou

Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement pp. 379-379

Gillian M. Arnold

Volume 167, issue 1, 2004

Editorial: The need for randomized trials in social research pp. 1-4

Carol Fitz‐Gibbon

A framework for progressively improving small area population estimates pp. 5-36

Philip Rees, Paul Norman and Dominic Brown

Men matter more: the social class identity of married British women, 1985–1991 pp. 37-52

Michael E. Sobel, Nan Dirk De Graaf, Anthony Heath and Ying Zou

Offenders as victims of crime?: an investigation into the relationship between criminal behaviour and victimization pp. 53-67

Derek Deadman and Ziggy MacDonald

Parental partnership and joblessness in childhood and their influence on young people's outcomes pp. 69-101

John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi and David J. Pevalin

The validation of surrogate end points by using data from randomized clinical trials: a case‐study in advanced colorectal cancer pp. 103-124

Tomasz Burzykowski, Geert Molenberghs and Marc Buyse

Estimating household structure in ancient China by using historical data: a latent class analysis of partially missing patterns pp. 125-139

Tim Futing Liao

Evaluation of adjustments for partial non‐response bias in the US National Immunization Survey pp. 141-156

Philip J. Smith, David C. Hoaglin, J. N. K. Rao, Michael P. Battaglia and Danni Daniels

A hazard model of the probability of medical school drop‐out in the UK pp. 157-178

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

Faulty assumptions in Atkinson's criteria for clinical trial design pp. 179-181

Donald R. Taves

Bioinformatics: the Machine Learning Approach, 2nd edn pp. 184-184

Mark A. Best

Statistical Rules of Thumb pp. 184-185

Quentin L. Burrell

Information Gap Decision Theory: Decisions under Severe Uncertainty pp. 185-186

Lesley F. Wright

Components of Variance pp. 186-187

M. C. Jones

Time Series Analysis by State Space Methods pp. 187-188

Kuldeep Kumar

A Course in Financial Calculus. Mathematical Finance and Probability: a Discrete Introduction pp. 188-189

Freda Kemp

Modern Medical Statistics: a Practical Guide pp. 189-190

P. Sprent

Data Mining pp. 190-191

Freda Kemp

Applied Quantitative Finance: Theory and Computational Tools pp. 191-192

Ravi Sreenivasan

The Elements of Statistical Learning pp. 192-192

Theofanis Sapatinas

Logistic Regression: a Self‐learning Text, 2nd edn pp. 192-194

David Wooff

Hidden Markov Models for Bioinformatics pp. 194-195

Scott Sisson

The Estimation and Tracking of Frequency pp. 195-196

Dharmendra Lingaiah

Statistical Analysis of Data from Marked Bird Populations pp. 195-195

Ruth King

Handbook of Statistics, Volume 21, Stochastic Processes: Modeling and Simulation pp. 196-197

Freda Kemp

Handbook for Conducting Research on Human Sexuality pp. 197-198

James Tighe