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Volume 178, issue 4, 2015

Editorial: Big data in social research pp. 787-790

Natalie Shlomo and Harvey Goldstein

Statistics: a data science for the 21st century pp. 793-813

Peter J. Diggle

Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting?: a multisurvey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain pp. 815-836

Ruth Hancock, Marcello Morciano, Stephen Pudney and Francesca Zantomio

Realtime nowcasting with a Bayesian mixed frequency model with stochastic volatility pp. 837-862

Andrea Carriero, Todd Clark and Massimiliano Marcellino

The relationship between education and fertility in the presence of a time varying frailty component pp. 863-881

Anna Gottard, Alessandra Mattei and Daniele Vignoli

Gender and risk taking: evidence from jumping competitions pp. 883-902

René Böheim and Mario Lackner

A joint model of persistent human papilloma virus infection and cervical cancer risk: implications for cervical cancer screening pp. 903-923

Hormuzd A. Katki, Li C. Cheung, Barbara Fetterman, Philip E. Castle and Rajeshwari Sundaram

Adjusting for selection bias in assessing the relationship between sibship size and cognitive performance pp. 925-944

Gebrenegus Ghilagaber and Linda Wänström

Selection error in single- and mixed mode surveys of the Dutch general population pp. 945-961

Thomas Klausch, Joop Hox and Barry Schouten

A new method for protecting interrelated time series with Bayesian prior distributions and synthetic data pp. 963-975

Matthew J. Schneider and John Abowd

Bayesian reconstruction of two-sex populations by age: estimating sex ratios at birth and sex ratios of mortality pp. 977-1007

Mark C. Wheldon, Adrian E. Raftery, Samuel J. Clark and Patrick Gerland

Bayesian hierarchical models for smoothing in two-phase studies, with application to small area estimation pp. 1009-1023

Michelle Ross and Jon Wakefield

Ranking scientific journals via latent class models for polytomous item response data pp. 1025-1049

Francesco Bartolucci, Valentino Dardanoni and Franco Peracchi

Deriving small area estimates from information technology business surveys pp. 1051-1067

A. F. Militino, M. D. Ugarte and T. Goicoa

A Bayesian framework for estimating disease risk due to exposure to uranium mine and mill waste on the Navajo Nation pp. 1069-1091

Lauren Hund, Edward J. Bedrick, Curtis Miller, Gabriel Huerta, Teddy Nez, Sandy Ramone, Chris Shuey, Miranda Cajero and Johnnye Lewis

Obituaries pp. 1093-1096

Martha K. Smith, Stuart Reid, Max Murray and Crawford Revie

Modeling Count Data J. M. Hilbe Cambridge Cambridge University Press xvi + 284 pp., $99.00 (hardbound), $37.99 (paperbound) ISBN 978-1-107-02833-3 (hardbound), 978-1-107-61125-2 (paperbound) pp. 1098-1099

Anoop Chaturvedi

Using R for Numerical Analysis in Science and Engineering V. A. Bloomfield 2014 Boca Raton CRC Press xxxiv + 336 pp., $57.99 ISBN 978-1-439-88448-5 pp. 1098-1098

Andrey Kostenko

Simulating Nature: a Philosophical Study of Computer-simulation Uncertainties and Their Role in Climate Science and Policy Advice 2nd edn A. C. Petersen 2012 Boca Raton Chapman and Hall–CRC xvi+ 224 pp., £41.99 ISBN 978-1-466-50062-4 pp. 1099-1100

Umut Okkan and Guül Nan

Analyzing Baseball Data with R M. Marchi and J. Albert 2013 Boca Raton Chapman and Hall–CRC 334 pp., $26.99 ISBN 978-1-466-57022-1 pp. 1099-1099

Philip Pallmann

Bayesian and Frequentist Regression Methods J. Wakefield 2013 720 pp., £62.99 Springer, New York ISBN 978-1-441-90924-4 pp. 1100-1101

Jonathan Gillard

Volume 178, issue 3, 2015

Classical time varying factor-augmented vector auto-regressive models—estimation, forecasting and structural analysis pp. 493-533

Sandra Eickmeier, Wolfgang Lemke and Massimiliano Marcellino

Small area estimation of labour force indicators under a multinomial model with correlated time and area effects pp. 535-565

Esther López-Vizcaíno, María José Lombardía and Domingo Morales

Prediction of patient-reported outcome measures via multivariate ordered probit models pp. 567-591

Caterina Conigliani, Andrea Manca and Andrea Tancredi

Profile identification via weighted related metric scaling: an application to dependent Spanish children pp. 593-618

Irene Albarrán, Pablo Alonso and Aurea Grané

Network model-assisted inference from respondent-driven sampling data pp. 619-639

Krista J. Gile and Mark S. Handcock

Mapping the spatial distribution of a disease-transmitting insect in the presence of surveillance error and missing data pp. 641-658

Andrew E. Hong, Corentin M. Barbu, Dylan S. Small, Michael Z. Levy and the Chagas Disease Working Group in Arequipa

Joint modelling of goals and bookings in association football pp. 659-683

A. C. Titman, D. A. Costain, P. G. Ridall and K. Gregory

Consistent estimation of the fixed effects ordered logit model pp. 685-703

Gregori Baetschmann, Kevin Staub and Rainer Winkelmann

Multilevel multivariate modelling of legislative count data, with a hidden Markov chain pp. 705-723

Francesco Lagona, Antonello Maruotti and Fabio Padovano

Bayesian estimation of long-term health consequences for obese and normal-weight elderly people pp. 725-739

Hyokyoung Grace Hong, Yu Yue and Pulak Ghosh

Home bias in officiating: evidence from international cricket pp. 741-755

Abhinav Sacheti, Ian Gregory-Smith and David Paton

From sample average treatment effect to population average treatment effect on the treated: combining experimental with observational studies to estimate population treatment effects pp. 757-778

Erin Hartman, Richard Grieve, Roland Ramsahai and Jasjeet S. Sekhon

Obituary: A. H. Halsey, FBA pp. 779-780

Anthony Heath

Computational Actuarial Science with R A. Charpentier ed 2015 Boca Raton CRC Press xxxii + 618 pp., $73.79 ISBN 978-1-466-59259-9 pp. 782-783

Andrey Kostenko

Analysis of Multivariate and High Dimensional Data I. Koch 2013 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 526 pp., £55.00 ISBN 978-0-521-88793-9 pp. 783-784

Shalabh

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics N. J. Salkind 2014 New York Sage 484 pp., £50.00 ISBN 978-1-452-27771-4 pp. 784-784

Nathan Green

Bayes’ Rule: a Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis J. V. Stone 2013 Sebtel 260 pp., £19.95 ISBN 978-0-956-37284-0 pp. 785-785

Claire Keeble

Volume 178, issue 2, 2015

Is the Carli index flawed?: assessing the case for the new retail price index RPIJ pp. 303-336

Peter Levell

Private information in healthcare utilization: specification of a copula-based hurdle model pp. 337-361

Peng Shi and Wei Zhang

A log-linear modelling approach to assessing the consistency of ego reports of dyadic outcomes with applications to fertility and sexual partnerships pp. 363-382

Ryan Admiraal and Mark S. Handcock

Analysis of income inequality measures on human immunodeficiency virus mortality: a spatiotemporal Bayesian perspective pp. 383-403

Tevfik Aktekin and Muzaffer Musal

A multilevel modelling approach to measuring changing patterns of ethnic composition and segregation among London secondary schools, 2001–2010 pp. 405-424

George Leckie and Harvey Goldstein

Estimating the health benefit of reducing indoor air pollution in a randomized environmental intervention pp. 425-443

Roger D. Peng, Arlene M. Butz, Amber J. Hackstadt, D'Ann L. Williams, Gregory B. Diette, Patrick N. Breysse and Elizabeth C. Matsui

Combining data from multiple spatially referenced prevalence surveys using generalized linear geostatistical models pp. 445-464

Emanuele Giorgi, Sanie S. S. Sesay, Dianne J. Terlouw and Peter J. Diggle

Partially supervised spatiotemporal clustering for burglary crime series identification pp. 465-480

Brian J. Reich and Michael D. Porter

Time varying ratings in association football: the all-time greatest team is pp. 481-492

Rose D. Baker and Ian G. McHale

Volume 178, issue 1, 2015

Hierarchical models for estimating state and demographic trends in US death penalty public opinion pp. 1-28

Kenneth E. Shirley and Andrew Gelman

Inference and forecasting in the age–period–cohort model with unknown exposure with an application to mesothelioma mortality pp. 29-55

María Dolores Martínez Miranda, Bent Nielsen and Jens Perch Nielsen

Unrestricted mixed data sampling (MIDAS): MIDAS regressions with unrestricted lag polynomials pp. 57-82

Claudia Foroni, Massimiliano Marcellino and Christian Schumacher

Interviewer effects on non-response propensity in longitudinal surveys: a multilevel modelling approach pp. 83-99

Rebecca Vassallo, Gabriele B. Durrant, Peter W. F. Smith and Harvey Goldstein

Broader health coverage is good for the nation's health: evidence from country level panel data pp. 101-124

Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Peter C. Smith

Local cost surface models of distance decay for the analysis of gridded population data pp. 125-146

Christopher D. Lloyd

Diffusion of innovations in dynamic networks pp. 147-166

Charlotte C. Greenan

A dynamic bivariate Poisson model for analysing and forecasting match results in the English Premier League pp. 167-186

Siem Jan Koopman and Rutger Lit

Fitting age-specific fertility rates by a flexible generalized skew normal probability density function pp. 187-203

Stefano Mazzuco and Bruno Scarpa

Modelling reporting delays for outbreak detection in infectious disease data pp. 205-222

Angela Noufaily, Yonas Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Doyo Gragn Enki, Paul Garthwaite, Nick Andrews, André Charlett and Paddy Farrington

Enhancing a geographic regression discontinuity design through matching to estimate the effect of ballot initiatives on voter turnout pp. 223-239

Luke Keele, Rocio Titiunik and José R. Zubizarreta

Diagnostics for respondent-driven sampling pp. 241-269

Krista J. Gile, Lisa G. Johnston and Matthew J. Salganik

Bayesian inference for transportation origin–destination matrices: the Poisson–inverse Gaussian and other Poisson mixtures pp. 271-296

Konstantinos Perrakis, Dimitris Karlis, Mario Cools and Davy Janssens

Bayesian Data Analysis 3rd edn A. Gelman, J. B. Carlin, H. S. Stern, D. B. Dunson, A. Vehtari and D. B. Rubin, 2013 Boca Raton, Chapman and Hall–CRC 676 pp., £44.99 ISBN 1-439-84095-4 pp. 301-301

Paul Hewson

Statistics Topics S. Mehta, 2014 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 160 pp., £4.50 ISBN 978-1-499-27353-3 pp. 301-302

Mark Pilling

Understanding Advanced Statistical Methods P. Westfall and K. S. S. Henning, 2013 Boca Raton, Chapman and Hall–CRC 570 pp., £44.99 ISBN 978-1-466-51210-8 pp. 302-302

Irene Kaimi