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Volume 181, issue 4, 2018

Editorial: Statistical flaws in the teaching excellence and student outcomes framework in UK higher education pp. 923-925

Guy Nason

From start to finish: a framework for the production of small area official statistics pp. 927-979

Nikos Tzavidis, Li‐Chun Zhang, Angela Luna, Timo Schmid and Natalia Rojas‐Perilla

Small area estimation under informative sampling and not missing at random non‐response pp. 981-1008

Michael Sverchkov and Danny Pfeffermann

Non‐parametric evidence of second‐leg home advantage in European football pp. 1009-1031

Gery Geenens and Thomas Cuddihy

Can incentives improve survey data quality in developing countries?: results from a field experiment in India pp. 1033-1056

Guy Stecklov, Alexander Weinreb and Calogero Carletto

Which schools and pupils respond to educational achievement surveys?: a focus on the English Programme for International Student Assessment sample pp. 1057-1075

Gabriele B. Durrant and Sylke Schnepf

The use of a three‐level M‐quantile model to map poverty at local administrative unit 1 in Poland pp. 1077-1104

Stefano Marchetti, Maciej Beręsewicz, Nicola Salvati, Marcin Szymkowiak and Łukasz Wawrowski

A comparison of joint models for longitudinal and competing risks data, with application to an epilepsy drug randomized controlled trial pp. 1105-1123

Graeme L. Hickey, Pete Philipson, Andrea Jorgensen and Ruwanthi Kolamunnage‐Dona

Continuous inference for aggregated point process data pp. 1125-1150

Benjamin M. Taylor, Ricardo Andrade‐Pacheco and Hugh J. W. Sturrock

A design‐based approach to small area estimation using a semiparametric generalized linear mixed model pp. 1151-1167

Hongjian Yu, Yueyan Wang, Jean Opsomer, Pan Wang and Ninez A. Ponce

Latent variable modelling with non‐ignorable item non‐response: multigroup response propensity models for cross‐national analysis pp. 1169-1192

Jouni Kuha, Myrsini Katsikatsou and Irini Moustaki

Generalizing evidence from randomized trials using inverse probability of sampling weights pp. 1193-1209

Ashley L. Buchanan, Michael G. Hudgens, Stephen R. Cole, Katie R. Mollan, Paul E. Sax, Eric S. Daar, Adaora A. Adimora, Joseph J. Eron and Michael J. Mugavero

Correlates of record linkage and estimating risks of non‐linkage biases in business data sets pp. 1211-1230

Jamie C. Moore, Peter W. F. Smith and Gabriele B. Durrant

Inference for instrumental variables: a randomization inference approach pp. 1231-1254

Hyunseung Kang, Laura Peck and Luke Keele

Tata Subba Rao, 1942–2018 pp. 1255-1256

Patrick J. Laycock

Derek John Pike, 1944–2018 pp. 1256-1257

Robert Curnow

Hurricane Climatology: a Modern Statistical Guide using R pp. 1260-1261

Isaac Dialsingh

Metric Power pp. 1260-1260

Thomas King

The Mata Book: a Book for Serious Programmers and Those Who Want To Be pp. 1261-1261

Baptiste Leurent

Graphics for Statistics and Data Analysis with R, 2nd edn pp. 1261-1262

R. Allan Reese

Teaching Statistics pp. 1263-1263

Neil Sheldon

Statistical Regression and Classification: from Linear Models to Machine Learning pp. 1263-1264

Kuldeep Kumar

Handbook of Applied Modelling: Non‐Gaussian and Correlated Data pp. 1264-1265

Mark Pilling

Volume 181, issue 3, 2018

Statistical challenges of administrative and transaction data pp. 555-605

David J. Hand

Preface to the papers on ‘Data confidentiality and statistical disclosure control’ pp. 607-608

Jörg Drechsler and Natalie Shlomo

Differentially private model selection with penalized and constrained likelihood pp. 609-633

Jing Lei, Anne‐Sophie Charest, Aleksandra Slavkovic, Adam Smith and Stephen Fienberg

Bayesian non‐parametric generation of fully synthetic multivariate categorical data in the presence of structural zeros pp. 635-647

Daniel Manrique‐Vallier and Jingchen Hu

Generating partially synthetic geocoded public use data with decreased disclosure risk by using differential smoothing pp. 649-661

Harrison Quick, Scott H. Holan and Christopher K. Wikle

General and specific utility measures for synthetic data pp. 663-688

Joshua Snoke, Gillian M. Raab, Beata Nowok, Chris Dibben and Aleksandra Slavkovic

On solving endogeneity with invalid instruments: an application to investment equations pp. 689-716

Antonio Galvao, Gabriel Montes–Rojas, Jose Olmo and Suyong Song

Smoothing mortality data: the English Life Tables, 2010–2012 pp. 717-735

Erengul Dodd, Jonathan J. Forster, Jakub Bijak and Peter W. F. Smith

Tracking and modelling prices using web‐scraped price microdata: towards automated daily consumer price index forecasting pp. 737-756

Ben Powell, Guy Nason, Duncan Elliott, Matthew Mayhew, Jennifer Davies and Joe Winton

An assessment of the causes of the errors in the 2015 UK general election opinion polls pp. 757-781

Patrick Sturgis, Jouni Kuha, Nick Baker, Mario Callegaro, Stephen Fisher, Jane Green, Will Jennings, Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Patten Smith

Factors associated with supermarket and convenience store closure: a discrete time spatial survival modelling approach pp. 783-802

Joshua L. Warren and Penny Gordon‐Larsen

Autologistic models for benchmark risk or vulnerability assessment of urban terrorism outcomes pp. 803-823

Jingyu Liu, Walter W. Piegorsch, A. Grant Schissler and Susan L. Cutter

Estimating onset time from longitudinal and cross‐sectional data with an application to estimating gestational age from longitudinal maternal anthropometry during pregnancy and neonatal anthropometry at birth pp. 825-842

Ana Maria Ortega‐Villa, Katherine L. Grantz and Paul S. Albert

Sensitivity of treatment recommendations to bias in network meta‐analysis pp. 843-867

David M. Phillippo, Sofia Dias, A. E. Ades, Vanessa Didelez and Nicky J. Welton

Bayesian joint modelling of longitudinal data on abstinence, frequency and intensity of drinking in alcoholism trials pp. 869-888

Eugenia Buta, Stephanie S. O’Malley and Ralitza Gueorguieva

Effect of forced displacement on health pp. 889-906

Ivan Zilic

David John Bartholomew, 1931–2017 pp. 907-909

Celia Swan and Martin Knott

Stanley Francis James, 1927–2017 pp. 909-910

John Walton

Nicholas Rodney James Fieller, 1947–2017 pp. 910-911

Eleanor Stillman

Walter Werner Holland, 1929–2018 pp. 911-912

Susan Chinn

Frank Ernest Whitehead, 1930–2018 pp. 913-914

John Craig and John Fox

Risk Theory: a Heavy Tail Approach pp. 916-916

Morteza Aalabaf‐Sabaghi

Big Data and Social Sciences: a Practical Guide to Methods and Tools pp. 916-916

Kuldeep Kumar

Foundations of Ergodic Theory pp. 917-919

Peter Walters

Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age pp. 917-917

Thomas King

Volume 181, issue 2, 2018

‘Making it count’: incentives, student effort and performance pp. 323-349

Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton and Melanie Lührmann

Legislative behaviour absent re‐election incentives: findings from a natural experiment in the Arkansas Senate pp. 351-378

Rocío Titiunik and Andrew Feher

Occupation coding during the interview pp. 379-407

Malte Schierholz, Miriam Gensicke, Nikolai Tschersich and Frauke Kreuter

Modelling earnings dynamics and inequality: foreign workers and inequality trends in Luxembourg, 1988–2009 pp. 409-440

Denisa Sologon and Philippe Van Kerm

Direct and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployed pp. 441-463

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Anthony Strittmatter

A Bayesian spatiotemporal model to estimate long‐term exposure to outdoor air pollution at coarser administrative geographies in England and Wales pp. 465-486

Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay and Sujit K. Sahu

The effect of school spending on student achievement: addressing biases in value‐added models pp. 487-515

Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

Multiple regression, longitudinal data and welfare in the 19th century: reflections on Yule (1899) pp. 517-533

Ian Plewis

Discovering effect modification in an observational study of surgical mortality at hospitals with superior nursing pp. 535-546

Kwonsang Lee, Dylan S. Small, Jesse Y. Hsu, Jeffrey H. Silber and Paul R. Rosenbaum

Obituary: Geoffrey Harry Freeman, 1928–2017 pp. 547-547

J.T. Wood

Mendelian Randomization: Methods for using Genetic Variants in Causal Estimation pp. 549-550

Mark Little

Errors, Blunders, and Lies: How to Tell the Difference, 1st edn pp. 550-551

Allan Reese

Bayesian Psychometric Modelling pp. 550-550

Dougal Hutchison

Humanizing Big Data: Marketing at the Meeting of Data, Social Science and Consumer Insight pp. 551-552

Sebastian Dietz

Volume 181, issue 1, 2018

Forecasting daily political opinion polls using the fractionally cointegrated vector auto‐regressive model pp. 3-33

Morten Nielsen and Sergei S. Shibaev

Spatiotemporal trends in teen birth rates in the USA, 2003–2012 pp. 35-58

Diba Khan, Lauren M. Rossen, Brady Hamilton, Erin Dienes, Yulei He and Rong Wei

The repayment of unsecured debt by European households pp. 59-83

Charles Grant and Mario Padula

Estimating the cumulative incidence function of dynamic treatment regimes pp. 85-106

Idil Yavuz, Yu Chng and Abdus S. Wahed

Parsimonious higher order Markov models for rating transitions pp. 107-131

S. Baena‐Mirabete and P. Puig

Modelling illegal drug participation pp. 133-154

Sarah Brown, Mark Harris, Preety Srivastava and Xiaohui Zhang

Point, interval and density forecasts of exchange rates with time varying parameter models pp. 155-179

Angela Abbate and Massimiliano Marcellino

Can conversational interviewing improve survey response quality without increasing interviewer effects? pp. 181-203

Brady T. West, Frederick G. Conrad, Frauke Kreuter and Felicitas Mittereder

A re‐evaluation of fixed effect(s) meta‐analysis pp. 205-227

Kenneth Rice, Julian P. T. Higgins and Thomas Lumley

Data set representativeness during data collection in three UK social surveys: generalizability and the effects of auxiliary covariate choice pp. 229-248

Jamie C. Moore, Gabriele B. Durrant and Peter W. F. Smith

Separating risk from heterogeneity in education: a semiparametric approach pp. 249-275

Jacopo Mazza and Hans van Ophem

Methods for estimating complier average causal effects for cost‐effectiveness analysis pp. 277-297

K. DiazOrdaz, A. J. Franchini and R. Grieve

Do environmental concerns affect commuting choices?: hybrid choice modelling with household survey data pp. 299-320

Jennifer Roberts, Gurleen Popli and Rosemary J. Harris