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Volume 166, issue 3, 2003

Editorial: Pharmaceuticals, patents and competition—some statistical issues pp. 271-274

Stephen Senn and Nicoletta Rosati

Editorial: How long do pharmaceuticals stay in the market‐place? pp. 274-277

John Urquhart

A multilevel cross‐classified modelling approach to peer review of grant proposals: the effects of assessor and researcher attributes on assessor ratings pp. 279-300

Upali W. Jayasinghe, Herbert W. Marsh and Nigel Bond

Social identities and political cleavages: the role of political context pp. 301-327

Robert Andersen and Anthony Heath

Using success to measure quality in British higher education: which subjects attract the best‐qualified students? pp. 329-347

Derek Leslie

The need for new statistical legislation for the UK pp. 349-367

D. Holt

Using panel methods to model waiting times for National Health Service surgery pp. 369-387

Stephen Martin and Peter C. Smith

A Bayesian approach to Markov modelling in cost‐effectiveness analyses: application to taxane use in advanced breast cancer pp. 389-405

Nicola J. Cooper, Keith R. Abrams, Alex J. Sutton, David Turner and Paul C. Lambert

Selection effects of source of contraceptive supply in an analysis of discontinuation of contraception: multilevel modelling when random effects are correlated with an explanatory variable pp. 407-423

Fiona Steele

The evaluation of DNA evidence in pedigrees requiring population inference pp. 425-440

Fabio Corradi, Giampietro Lago and Federico M. Stefanini

Corrigendum: The role of tobacco taxes in starting and quitting smoking: duration analysis of British data pp. 441-442

Martin Forster and Andrew Jones

Volume 166, issue 2, 2003

Inferences from DNA data: population histories, evolutionary processes and forensic match probabilities pp. 155-188

Ian J. Wilson, Michael E. Weale and David J. Balding

The communication of risk pp. 203-204

D. R. Cox and S. C. Darby

Foreword to the papers on ‘The communication of risk’ pp. 205-206

Adrian Smith

Human immunodeficiency virus risk: is it possible to dissuade people from having unsafe sex? pp. 207-215

John Richens, John Imrie and Helen Weiss

Communicating risk—coronary risk scores pp. 217-223

Ian M. Graham and Elizabeth Clavel

Tobacco—the importance of relevant information on risk pp. 225-231

Sarah C. Darby

Tobacco: public perceptions and the role of the industry pp. 233-239

David Simpson and Sue Lee

Communication of risk: health hazards from mobile phones pp. 241-246

D. R. Cox

Crime victimization: its extent and communication pp. 247-252

Paul Wiles, Jon Simmons and Ken Pease

Accidental fatalities in transport pp. 253-260

Andrew W. Evans

Communicating the risks arising from geohazards pp. 261-270

Michael S. Rosenbaum and Martin G. Culshaw

Volume 166, issue 1, 2003

The National Statistician: 2 years on pp. 1-4

Len Cook

A review and discussion of prospective statistical surveillance in public health pp. 5-21

Christian Sonesson and David Bock

Remembrances of things past: test–retest reliability of retrospective migration histories pp. 23-49

James Smith and Duncan Thomas

Screening for prostate cancer by using random‐effects models pp. 51-62

Larry J. Brant, Shan L. Sheng, Christopher H. Morrell, Geert N. Verbeke, Emmanuel Lesaffre and H. Ballentine Carter

Patterns and trends in occupational attainment of first jobs in the Netherlands, 1930–1995: ordinary least squares regression versus conditional multinomial logistic regression pp. 63-84

Jos A. G. Dessens, Wim Jansen, Harry B. G. Ganzeboom and Peter G. M. Van Der Heijden

Some new international comparisons of productivity performance at the sectoral level pp. 85-104

Jim Malley, Vito Muscatelli and Ulrich Woitek

Estimation of life expectancy in the Middle Ages pp. 105-117

M. A. Jonker

Estimation of a large cross‐classified multilevel model to study academic achievement in a modular degree course pp. 119-133

V. Simonite and W. J. Browne

Is comprehensive education really free?: a case‐study of the effects of secondary school admissions policies on house prices in one local area pp. 135-154

Dennis Leech and Erick Campos

Volume 165, issue 3, 2002

Editorial: An independent statistical service? pp. 401-403

Greg Phillpotts

How not to measure the efficiency of public services (and how one might) pp. 405-434

M. Stone

Discussion on the paper by Stone pp. 405-434

Peter C. Smith

Cross‐national comparison of internal migration: issues and measures pp. 435-464

M. Bell, M. Blake, P. Boyle, O. Duke‐Williams, P. Rees, J. Stillwell and G. Hugo

A cross‐national study of the effects of family migration on women's labour market status: some difficulties with integrating microdata from two censuses pp. 465-480

Paul Boyle, Thomas J. Cooke, Keith Halfacree and Darren Smith

New methods for comparing literacy across populations: insights from the measurement of poverty pp. 481-493

Kevin Denny

A controlled donor imputation system for a one‐number census pp. 495-522

Fiona Steele, James Brown and Ray Chambers

Still‐births among the offspring of male radiation workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant: detailed results and statistical aspects pp. 523-548

Mark S. Pearce, Heather O. Dickinson, Murray Aitkin and Louise Parker

Mixture models in measurement error problems, with reference to epidemiological studies pp. 549-566

Sylvia Richardson, Laurent Leblond, Isabelle Jaussent and Peter J. Green

Correspondence pp. 567-568

Bernard L. Cohen

Volume 165, issue 2, 2002

Commissioned analysis of surgical performance using routine data: lessons from the Bristol inquiry pp. 191-221

David J. Spiegelhalter, Paul Aylin, Nicola G. Best, Stephen J. W. Evans and Gordon D. Murray

Discussion on the paper by Spiegelhalter, Aylin, Best, Evans and Murray pp. 221-231

R. N. Curnow

Causal variables, indicator variables and measurement scales: an example from quality of life pp. 233-253

Peter M. Fayers and David J. Hand

Discussion on the paper by Fayers and Hand pp. 253-261

D. J. Bartholomew

Deprivation, ill‐health and the ecological fallacy pp. 263-278

Gillian Lancaster and Mick Green

Modelling the data measurement process for the index of production pp. 279-296

K. D. Patterson

Random‐digit dialling in the UK: viability revisited pp. 297-316

Gerry Nicolaas and Peter Lynn

Predicting successful and unsuccessful transitions from school to work by using sequence methods pp. 317-334

Duncan McVicar and Michael Anyadike‐Danes

Investigating the economic and demographic determinants of sporting participation in England pp. 335-348

Lisa Farrell and Michael Shields

The comparison of designs for sequential clinical trials with covariate information pp. 349-373

Anthony C. Atkinson

Effects of neighbourhood demographic shifts on findings of environmental injustice: a New York City case‐study pp. 375-397

Makram Talih and Ronald D. Fricker

Corrigendum: Building multivariable prognostic and diagnostic models: transformation of the predictors by using fractional polynomials pp. 399-400

W. Sauerbrei and P. Royston

Volume 165, issue 1, 2002

Evaluation of economic and social policies pp. 9-11

Peter Dolton

Extending the reach of randomized social experiments: new directions in evaluations of American welfare‐to‐work and employment initiatives pp. 13-30

James A. Riccio and Howard S. Bloom

Modelling impact heterogeneity pp. 31-38

Ian Plewis

Testing for programme effects in a regression discontinuity design with imperfect compliance pp. 39-57

Erich Battistin and Enrico Rettore

Some practical issues in the evaluation of heterogeneous labour market programmes by matching methods pp. 59-82

Michael Lechner

The effect of careers guidance for employed adults on continuing education: assessing the importance of attitudinal information pp. 83-95

Michael White and John Killeen

Measurement error evaluation of self‐reported drug use: a latent class analysis of the US National Household Survey on Drug Abuse pp. 97-119

Paul P. Biemer and Christopher Wiesen

Political generations and partisanship in the UK, 1964–1997 pp. 121-135

James Tilley

Multivariate multilevel analyses of examination results pp. 137-153

Min Yang, Harvey Goldstein, William Browne and Geoffrey Woodhouse

Ehrenberg law‐like relationship and anthropometry pp. 155-172

N. Forcheh

Transactions of the Statistical Society of London (1837) pp. 173-185

Sidney Rosenbaum

Modelling political popularity: a correction pp. 187-189

David Byers, James Davidson and David Peel