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Volume 180, issue 4, 2017

Editorial: The Digital Economy Act and statistical research pp. 945-946

Harvey Goldstein

Trust in numbers pp. 948-965

David Spiegelhalter

Beyond subjective and objective in statistics pp. 967-1033

Andrew Gelman and Christian Hennig

Preface to the papers on ‘Small area estimation’ pp. 1035-1037

Nikos Tzavidis, Li‐Chun Zhang, Danny Pfeffermann and Partha Lahiri

Small area models for skewed Brazilian business survey data pp. 1039-1055

Fernando A. S. Moura, André Felipe Neves and Denise Britz do N. Silva

Small domain estimation of business statistics by using multivariate skew normal models pp. 1057-1088

Maria Ferrante and Silvia Pacei

Non‐parametric small area models using shape‐constrained penalized B‐splines pp. 1089-1109

Julian Wagner, Ralf Münnich, Joachim Hill, Johannes Stoffels and Thomas Udelhoven

Poverty mapping in small areas under a twofold nested error regression model pp. 1111-1136

Yolanda Marhuenda, Isabel Molina, Domingo Morales and J. N. K. Rao

Robust mean‐squared error estimation for poverty estimates based on the method of Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw pp. 1137-1161

Sumonkanti Das and Ray Chambers

Multivariate Fay–Herriot Bayesian estimation of small area means under functional measurement error pp. 1191-1209

Serena Arima, William R. Bell, Gauri S. Datta, Carolina Franco and Brunero Liseo

Improving small area estimates of disability: combining the American Community Survey with the Survey of Income and Program Participation pp. 1211-1227

Jerry J. Maples

Mixed generalized Akaike information criterion for small area models pp. 1229-1252

María José Lombardía, Esther López‐Vizcaíno and Cristina Rueda

Clustering in small area estimation with area level linear mixed models pp. 1253-1279

Elaheh Torkashvand, Mohammad Jafari Jozani and Mahmoud Torabi

Multilevel hierarchical Bayesian versus state space approach in time series small area estimation: the Dutch Travel Survey pp. 1281-1308

Oksana Bollineni‐Balabay, Jan van den Brakel, Franz Palm and Harm Jan Boonstra

Geoffrey Mallin Clarke, 1928–2017 pp. 1309-1311

Tony Haws

Bob Carpenter, 1929–2016 pp. 1311-1311

James Carpenter

Michael J. Phillips, 1943–2017 pp. 1311-1312

Jake Ansell

Corrigendum: Florence Nightingale, statistics and the Crimean War pp. 1319-1319

Lynn McDonald

Volume 180, issue 3, 2017

Interpretable classification models for recidivism prediction pp. 689-722

Jiaming Zeng, Berk Ustun and Cynthia Rudin

Health losses at the end of life: a Bayesian mixed beta regression approach pp. 723-749

Maria Gheorghe, Susan Picavet, Monique Verschuren, Werner Brouwer and Pieter H. M. Baal

Statistical modelling of a terrorist network pp. 751-768

Murray Aitkin, Duy Vu and Brian Francis

Seasonal changes in central England temperatures pp. 769-791

Tommaso Proietti and Eric Hillebrand

The effect of income on mortality—new evidence for the absence of a causal link pp. 793-816

Alexander Ahammer, Gerard Horvath and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Extensive and intensive margin effects in sample selection models: racial effects on wages pp. 817-839

Myoung-jae Lee

The pattern of social fluidity within the British class structure: a topological model pp. 841-862

Erzsébet Bukodi, John H. Goldthorpe and Jouni Kuha

An introduction to applications of wavelet benchmarking with seasonal adjustment pp. 863-889

Homesh Sayal, John A. D. Aston, Duncan Elliott and Hernando Ombao

A latent promotion time cure rate model using dependent tail-free mixtures pp. 891-905

Li Li and Ji-Hyun Lee

The dynamics of adolescent depression: an instrumental variable quantile regression with fixed effects approach pp. 907-922

Paul Contoyannis and Jinhu Li

Charles Stein, 1920–2016 pp. 923-925

Bradley Efron

John Aitchison, 1926–2016 pp. 925-927

Mike Titterington

Stephen Fienberg, 1942–2016 pp. 927-928

Joseph B. (‘Jay’) Kadane

Thomas P. Linehan, 1926–2017 pp. 929-930

Donal Murphy

Graham Neil Wilkinson 1927–2016 pp. 930-931

Chris Brien and Roger Payne

Timothy Terence Dunne, 1948–2016 pp. 931-932

Linda Haines and Francesca Little

Richard Nixon, 1972–2016 pp. 932-933

B. D. M. Tom, S. G. Thompson, S. W. Duffy, M. J. Sweeting and D. I. Ohlssen

Ann Mitchell, 1935–2016 pp. 933-934

Lynda White

Mike Tallis, 1931–2017 pp. 934-936

N. I. Fisher

Correspondence pp. 937-938

Paul A. Smith

Authors' response pp. 938-938

Marco Bertoni (on behalf of Viola Angelini and Luca Corazzini)

Happiness Explained: What Human Flourishing Is and How We Can Promote It P. Anand 2016 Oxford, Oxford University Press xii + 142 pp., £12.99 ISBN 978-0-198-73545-8 pp. 940-940

Kuldeep Kumar

Managing and Sharing Research Data: a Guide to Good Practice L. Corti, V. Van den Eynden, L. Bishop and M. Wollard 2014 240 pp., $26.99 London Sage ISBN 978-1-446-26726-4 pp. 940-941

Carole Sutton

Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications 2nd edn K. Krishnamoorthy, 2016 Boca Raton, CRC Press 376 pp. £69.99 (hardbound); £66.49 (e-book) ISBN 978-1-584-88635-8 pp. 941-941

Mark Pilling

Volume 180, issue 2, 2017

Should we sample a time series more frequently?: decision support via multirate spectrum estimation pp. 353-407

Guy P. Nason, Ben Powell, Duncan Elliott and Paul A. Smith

Measuring and forecasting quality in English hospitals pp. 409-432

Irene Papanicolas and Alistair McGuire

Spatial modelling of emergency service response times pp. 433-453

Benjamin M. Taylor

The poor and the poorest, 50 years on: evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s pp. 455-474

Ian Gazeley, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Rebecca Searle

Does preschool boost the development of minority children?: the case of Roma children pp. 475-502

Christina Felfe and Martin Huber

Retail payment innovations and cash usage: accounting for attrition by using refreshment samples pp. 503-530

Heng Chen, Marie-Helene Felt and Kim Huynh

Separating interviewer and area effects by using a cross-classified multilevel logistic model: simulation findings and implications for survey designs pp. 531-550

Rebecca Vassallo, Gabriele Durrant and Peter Smith

Detecting and understanding interviewer effects on survey data by using a cross-classified mixed effects location–scale model pp. 551-568

Ian Brunton-Smith, Patrick Sturgis and George Leckie

Randomization-based instrumental variables methods for binary outcomes with an application to the ‘IMPROVE’ trial pp. 569-586

Luke Keele, Dylan Small and Richard Grieve

Heads I win; tails you lose: asymmetry in exchange rate pass-through into import prices pp. 587-612

Raphael Brun-Aguerre, Ana-Maria Fuertes and Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo

Bayesian survival modelling of university outcomes pp. 613-631

Catalina A. Vallejos and Mark Steel

Public school consolidation: a partial observability spatial bivariate probit approach pp. 633-656

David Brasington and Olivier Parent

Dependence evolution in the Spanish disabled population: a functional data analysis approach pp. 657-677

Irene Albarrán-Lozano, Pablo J. Alonso-González and Ana Arribas-Gil

Handbook of Discrete-valued Time Series R. A. Davis, S. H. Holan, R. Lund and N. Ravishanker, 2016 Boca Raton, Chapman and Hall–CRC 464 pp., £76.99 ISBN 978-1-466-57773-2 pp. 682-683

Safaa Kadhem

Adversarial Risk Analysis D. L. Banks, J. Rios and D. Ríos Insua 2015 Boca Raton, CRC Press 214 pp., £57.99 (e-book £55.09) ISBN 978-1-498-71239-2 pp. 682-682

Matthew Craven

Option Valuation under Stochastic Volatility, vol. II A. L. Lewis, 2016 Newport Beach, Finance Press 738 pp., £67.50 ISBN 978-0-967-63721-1 pp. 683-684

Sebastian Dietz

Sociology as a Population Science J. H. Goldthorpe, 2015 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 176 pp., £14.99 ISBN 978-1-107-56731-3 pp. 683-683

Thomas King

Missing Data Analysis in Practice T. Raghunathan, 2016 Boca Raton, Chapman and Hall–CRC 230 pp., £52.99 ISBN 978-1-482-21192-4 pp. 684-685

Gian Luca Di Tanna

Modern Adaptive Randomized Clinical Trials: Statistical and Practical Aspects O. Sverdlov (ed.), 2016 Boca Raton, Chapman and Hall–CRC 534 pp., £69.99 ISBN 978-1-482-23988-1 pp. 685-685

Stanley E. Lazic

Volume 180, issue 1, 2017

New statistics for old?—measuring the wellbeing of the UK pp. 3-43

Paul Allin and David J. Hand

Taylor's power law and the statistical modelling of infectious disease surveillance data pp. 45-72

Doyo Gragn Enki, Angela Noufaily, Paddy Farrington, Paul Garthwaite, Nick Andrews and Andre Charlett

Zero-inflated modelling for characterizing coverage errors of extracts from the US Census Bureau's Master Address File pp. 73-97

Derek S. Young, Andrew M. Raim and Nancy R. Johnson

Respondent-driven sampling bias induced by community structure and response rates in social networks pp. 99-118

Luis Rocha, Anna E. Thorson, Renaud Lambiotte and Fredrik Liljeros

A space–time multivariate Bayesian model to analyse road traffic accidents by severity pp. 119-139

Areti Boulieri, Silvia Liverani, Kees Hoogh and Marta Blangiardo

Assessing the inequality of lifetime healthcare expenditures: a nearest neighbour resampling approach pp. 141-160

Albert Wong, Hendriek Boshuizen, Johan Polder and José António Ferreira

Estimating the density of ethnic minorities and aged people in Berlin: multivariate kernel density estimation applied to sensitive georeferenced administrative data protected via measurement error pp. 161-183

Marcus Groß, Ulrich Rendtel, Timo Schmid, Sebastian Schmon and Nikos Tzavidis

Combining Labour Force Survey data to estimate migration flows: the case of migration from Poland to the UK pp. 185-202

Arkadiusz Wiśniowski

Adaptive and responsive survey designs: a review and assessment pp. 203-223

Roger Tourangeau, J. Michael Brick, Sharon Lohr and Jane Li

Unpacking the determinants of life satisfaction: a survey experiment pp. 225-246

Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni and Luca Corazzini

Identifying subgroups of enhanced predictive accuracy from longitudinal biomarker data by using tree-based approaches: applications to fetal growth pp. 247-261

Jared C. Foster, Danping Liu, Paul S. Albert and Aiyi Liu

Multilevel structural equation models for longitudinal data where predictors are measured more frequently than outcomes: an application to the effects of stress on the cognitive function of nurses pp. 263-283

Fiona Steele, Paul Clarke, George Leckie, Julia Allan and Derek Johnston

Florence Nightingale, William Farr and competing risks pp. 285-293

Jan Beyersmann and Christine Schrade

Stochastic block models for multiplex networks: an application to a multilevel network of researchers pp. 295-314

Pierre Barbillon, Sophie Donnet, Emmanuel Lazega and Avner Bar-Hen

Exploring complete school effectiveness via quantile value added pp. 315-340

Garritt L. Page, Ernesto San Martín, Javiera Orellana and Jorge González