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Volume 164, issue 3, 2001

Editorial: UK census 2001—progress and promise pp. 423-425

Ludi Simpson

Proposals for 2001 samples of anonymized records: An assessment of disclosure risk pp. 427-447

Angela Dale and Mark Elliot

A simple method for estimating a regression model for κ between a pair of raters pp. 449-465

Stuart R. Lipsitz, John Williamson, Neil Klar, Joseph Ibrahim and Michael Parzen

A comparison of suicide patterns in Australia and Hong Kong pp. 467-483

Chris J. Lloyd and Paul S. F. Yip

Statistical methods for clinical studies in the presence of surrogate end points pp. 485-503

Denis Heng‐Yan Leung

Estimating reference ranges from stratified two‐stage samples pp. 505-516

Mary Lou Thompson, Steven D. Edland, Laura E. Gibbons and Susan M. McCurry

The role of tobacco taxes in starting and quitting smoking: Duration analysis of British data pp. 517-547

Martin Forster and Andrew Jones

Analysis of incomplete durations with application to contraceptive use pp. 549-563

Mohamed M. Ali, Tom Marshall and Abdel G. Babiker

Correspondence pp. 565-566

Nicholas T. Longford, David Firth, Michael Noble and George Smith

Volume 164, issue 2, 2001

Editorial: The growing demands on the European statistical system pp. 213-215

Lucy McKeever and Mike Cuthbertson

Capitation funding in the public sector pp. 217-257

Peter C. Smith, Nigel Rice and Roy Carr‐Hill

Simulation‐based diagnostics in random‐coefficient models pp. 259-273

Nicholas T. Longford

Bayesian analysis of mortality data pp. 275-291

Petros Dellaportas, Adrian F. M. Smith and Photis Stavropoulos

The transition from university to work: a multilevel approach to the analysis of the time to obtain the first job pp. 293-305

L. Biggeri, Matilde Bini and Leonardo Grilli

Women's work in UK official statistics and the 1980 reclassification of occupations pp. 307-325

Louisa Blackwell

Detecting covariates with non‐random missing values in a survey of primary education in Madagascar pp. 327-338

J. K. Lindsey and P. J. Lindsey

Improved estimation procedures for multilevel models with binary response: a case‐study pp. 339-355

Germán Rodríguez and Noreen Goldman

The value of the aggregate data approach in meta‐analysis with time‐to‐event outcomes pp. 357-370

Catrin Tudur, Paula R. Williamson, Saboor Khan and Lesley Y. Best

Decline and fall: Unemployment among Britain's non‐white ethnic communities 1960–1999 pp. 371-387

Derek Leslie, Joanne Lindley and Leighton Thomas

Dropping out of university: A statistical analysis of the probability of withdrawal for UK university students pp. 389-405

Jeremy Smith and Robin Naylor

A two‐phase sampling scheme with applications to auditing or sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? pp. 407-422

V. Barnett, J. Haworth and T. M. F. Smith

Volume 164, issue 1, 2001

Editorial: Disease clusters and ecological studies pp. 1-2

Jon Wakefield, Mike Quinn and Gillian Raab

Disease clusters: should they be investigated, and, if so, when and how? pp. 3-12

Paul Elliott and Jon Wakefield

Investigating disease clusters: why, when and how? pp. 13-22

Daniel Wartenberg

The cluster that never was: germ warfare experiments and health authority reality in Dorset pp. 23-27

C. E. Stein, S. Bennett, S. Crook and F. Maddison

An ecological investigation of the incidence of cancer in Welsh children for the period 1985–1994 in relation to residence near the coastline pp. 29-43

John Steward and Gareth John

Comments on the papers by Elliott and Wakefield, Wartenberg, Stein et al. and Steward and John pp. 45-47

Helen Dolk

Methods for eliciting aetiological clues from geographically clustered cases of disease, with application to leukaemia–lymphoma data pp. 49-60

Joan R. Williams, Freda E. Alexander, Ray A. Cartwright and Richard J. Q. McNally

Prospective time periodic geographical disease surveillance using a scan statistic pp. 61-72

Martin Kulldorff

A shared component model for detecting joint and selective clustering of two diseases pp. 73-85

Leonhard Knorr‐Held and Nicola G. Best

Monitoring point patterns for the development of space–time clusters pp. 87-96

Peter A. Rogerson

Comments on the papers by Williams et al., Kulldorff, Knorr‐Held and Best, and Rogerson pp. 97-99

Andrew Lawson

Models, assumptions and model checking in ecological regressions pp. 101-118

Andrew Gelman, David K. Park, Stephen Ansolabehere, Phillip N. Price and Lorraine C. Minnite

A statistical framework for ecological and aggregate studies pp. 119-137

Jonathan Wakefield and Ruth Salway

Comments on the papers by Gelman et al. and Wakefield and Salway pp. 139-139

Lianne Sheppard

Overcoming biases and misconceptions in ecological studies pp. 141-154

Katherine A. Guthrie and Lianne Sheppard

Ecological regression analysis of environmental benzene exposure and childhood leukaemia: sensitivity to data inaccuracies, geographical scale and ecological bias pp. 155-174

Nicky Best, Samantha Cockings, James Bennett, Jon Wakefield and Paul Elliott

Simple methods for ecological inference in 2×2 tables pp. 175-192

R. L. Chambers and D. G. Steel

A parallel analysis of individual and ecological data on residential radon and lung cancer in south‐west England pp. 205-207

Sarah Darby, Harz Deo, Richard Doll and Elise Whitley

Comments on the papers by Guthrie and Sheppard, Best et al., Chambers and Steel and Darby et al pp. 205-207

Ben Armstrong

Volume 163, issue 3, 2000

Statistics on the voluntary sector in the UK pp. 255-261

Roger Tarling

Combining evidence on air pollution and daily mortality from the 20 largest US cities: a hierarchical modelling strategy pp. 263-302

Francesca Dominici, Jonathan M. Samet and Scott L. Zeger

Ethnic differences in the labour market: a comparison of the samples of anonymized records and Labour Force Survey pp. 303-339

Anthony Heath, Dorren McMahon and Jane Roberts

Estimating the underlying change in unemployment in the UK pp. 303-309

Andrew Harvey and Chia‐Hui Chung

The social class of Catholics in Scotland pp. 363-379

Lindsay Paterson

Number needed to treat: properties and problems pp. 381-402

J. L. Hutton

Handling missing data in diaries of alcohol consumption pp. 381-402

Nicholas T. Longford, Margaret Ely, Rebecca Hardy and Michael E. J. Wadsworth

Theoretical and practical issues in purchasing power parities illustrated with reference to the 1993 Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development data pp. 421-444

James R. Cuthbert

Weighting for item non‐response in attitude scales by using latent variable models with covariates pp. 445-459

Irini Moustaki and Martin Knott

Volume 163, issue 2, 2000

Editorial: Cohabitation in Britain pp. 123-126

Mike Murphy

Marriage or cohabitation: a competing risks analysis of first‐partnership formation among the 1958 British birth cohort pp. 127-151

Ann Berrington and Ian Diamond

Cohabitation in Great Britain: not for long, but here to stay pp. 153-171

John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

Correcting for regression dilution bias: comparison of methods for a single predictor variable pp. 173-189

Chris Frost and Simon G. Thompson

Analysis of cervical cancer mortality and incidence data from England and Wales: evidence of a beneficial effect of screening pp. 191-209

Peter D. Sasieni and Joanna Adams

Selecting treatments: a decision theoretic approach pp. 211-225

Karl Claxton, Larry F. Lacey and Stephen G. Walker

Estimating driver crash risks based on the extended Bradley–Terry model: an induced exposure method pp. 227-240

Lel Li and Karl Kim

Interpreting forensic DNA mixtures: allowing for uncertainty in population substructure and dependence pp. 241-254

Wing K. Fung and Yue‐Qing Hu

Volume 163, issue 1, 2000

Editorial: Statistical guidelines for clinical trials pp. 1-3

S. D. Day and D. J. Talbot

Statistical review by research ethics committees pp. 5-13

P. Williamson, J. L. Hutton, J. Bliss, J. Blunt, M. J. Campbell and R. Nicholson

On the use of surrogate end points in randomized trials pp. 15-28

C. B. Begg and D. H. Y. Leung

A design for testing clinical strategies: biased adaptive within‐subject randomization pp. 29-38

P. W. Lavori and R. Dawson

Stochastic models of geriatric patient bed occupancy behaviour pp. 39-48

G. J. Taylor, S. I. McClean and P. H. Millard

Multilevel models for repeated binary outcomes: attitudes and voting over the electoral cycle pp. 49-62

M. Yang, H. Goldstein and A. Heath

Monitoring contemporary student flows and characteristics: secondary analyses using the Labour Force Survey and the General Household Survey pp. 63-80

M. Egerton

The relationship between crime, punishment and economic conditions: is reliable inference possible when crimes are under‐recorded? pp. 81-97

Stephen Pudney, D. Deadman and D. Pyle

Fatal train accidents on Britain's mainline railways pp. 99-119

A. W. Evans

Corrigendum: The zero‐inflated Poisson model and the decayed, missing and filled teeth index in dental epidemiology pp. 121-122

D. Böhning, E. Dietz, P. Schlattmann, L. Mendonça and U. Kirchner