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Volume 177, issue 4, 2014

Editorial: Educational and health inequalities pp. 755-756

Anna Vignoles and Arnaud Chevalier

A decomposition analysis of the relationship between parental income and multiple child outcomes pp. 757-782

Elizabeth Washbrook, Paul Gregg and Carol Propper

Socio-economic inequalities in bodily pain over the life cycle: longitudinal evidence from Australia, Britain and Germany pp. 783-806

Stefanie Schurer, Michael Shields and Andrew Jones

The income gradient in childhood mental health: all in the eye of the beholder? pp. 807-827

David Johnston, Carol Propper, Stephen Pudney and Michael Shields

The drivers of month-of-birth differences in children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills pp. 829-860

Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Ellen Greaves

Variation of learning intensity in late adolescence and the effect on personality traits pp. 861-892

Hendrik Thiel, Stephan Thomsen and Bettina Büttner

Reaction to ‘An approach to perform expert elicitation for engineering design risk analysis: methodology and experimental results’ pp. 981-985

T. Ganguly, K. J. Wilson, J. Quigley, Roger Cooke, Alessandra Babuscia and Kar-Ming Cheung

Obituary: David Charles Lynn Wroe pp. 987-988

John Kidgell

An Introduction to Quantitative Finance S. Blyth, 2014 Oxford University Press 170 pp., £ 19.99 ISBN 978-0-199-66659-1 pp. 989-989

Sebastian Dietz

SPSS for Applied Sciences: Basic Statistical Testing C. Davis, 2013 Collingwood, CSIRO Publishing vi + 176 pp., AU $29.95 ISBN 978-0-643-10710-6 pp. 990-990

Kuldeep Kumar

Volume 177, issue 3, 2014

Florence Nightingale, statistics and the Crimean War pp. 569-586

Lynn McDonald

Using panel data for partial identification of human immunodeficiency virus prevalence when infection status is missing not at random pp. 587-606

Bruno Arpino, Elisabetta De Cao and Franco Peracchi

Modelling spatial variability in concentrations of single pollutants and composite air quality indicators in health effects studies pp. 607-623

Helen Powell and Duncan Lee

Review of methodological issues in cost-effectiveness analyses relating to injecting drug users, and case-study illustrations pp. 625-642

Simon R. White, Sheila M. Bird and Richard Grieve

Testing for non-linear and time irreversible probabilistic structure in high frequency financial time series data pp. 643-659

Phillip Wild, John Foster and Melvin Hinich

Towards realtime spatiotemporal prediction of district level meningitis incidence in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 661-678

Michelle C. Stanton, and Lydiane Agier, Benjamin M. Taylor and Peter J. Diggle

Geostatistical survival models for environmental risk assessment with large retrospective cohorts pp. 679-695

Huan Jiang, Patrick E. Brown, Håvard Rue and Silvia Shimakura

On the epidemic of financial crises pp. 697-723

Nikolaos Demiris, Theodore Kypraios and L. Vanessa Smith

Average household size and the eradication of malaria pp. 725-742

Lena Huldén, Ross McKitrick and Larry Huldén

Advances in Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence A. Fink, B. Lausen, W. Seidel and A. Ultsch (eds), 2010 Berlin, Springer 792 + xxvi pp., € 169.99 ISBN 978-3-642-01043-9 pp. 753-753

Kuldeep Kumar

Volume 177, issue 2, 2014

Missing ordinal covariate with informative selection pp. 319-344

Alfonso Miranda and Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Wage insurance within German firms: do institutions matter? pp. 345-369

Nicole Guertzgen

On modelling early life weight trajectories pp. 371-396

Costanza Pizzi, Tim J. Cole, Camila Corvalan, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Lorenzo Richiardi and Bianca L. De Stavola

A mixed effects model for identifying goal scoring ability of footballers pp. 397-417

Ian G. McHale and Łukasz Szczepański

Optimal Bayesian sequential sampling rules for the economic evaluation of health technologies pp. 419-438

Paolo Pertile, Martin Forster and Davide La Torre

Multiple-membership multiple-classification models for social network and group dependences pp. 439-455

Mark Tranmer, David Steel and William J. Browne

Handling missing values in cost effectiveness analyses that use data from cluster randomized trials pp. 457-474

K. Díaz-Ordaz, Michael G. Kenward and Richard Grieve

An approach to perform expert elicitation for engineering design risk analysis: methodology and experimental results pp. 475-497

Alessandra Babuscia and Kar-Ming Cheung

Re-engaging with survey non-respondents: evidence from three household panels pp. 499-522

Nicole Watson and Mark Wooden

Evaluating nationwide health interventions: Malawi's insecticide-treated-net distribution programme pp. 523-552

Eva Deuchert and Conny Wunsch

Fitting multilevel multivariate models with missing data in responses and covariates that may include interactions and non-linear terms pp. 553-564

Harvey Goldstein, James R. Carpenter and William J. Browne

Exercises and Solutions in Biostatistical Theory L. L. Kupper, B. H. Neelon and S. M. O’Brien, 2011 Boca Raton, Chapman and Hall–CRC 402 pp., $49.95 ISBN 978-1-584-88722-5 pp. 566-567

Jordan Stoyanov

Probability for Statistics and Machine Learning: Fundamentals and Advanced Topics A. DasGupta, 2011 New York, Springer xx + 782 pp., £81.00 ISBN 978-1-441-99633-6 pp. 566-566

Jordan Stoyanov

R Graphics, 2nd edn P. Murrell, 2011 Boca Raton, Chapman and Hall–CRC xxviii + 518 pp., £52.99 ISBN 1-439-83176-2 pp. 567-567

Stefan K. Lhachimi

Volume 177, issue 1, 2014

Report of the Editors pp. 1-2

Linda Sharples and Arnaud Chevalier

On information quality pp. 3-38

Ron Kenett and Galit Shmueli

A hierarchical Bayesian model for improving short-term forecasting of hospital demand by including meteorological information pp. 39-61

Sujit K. Sahu, Bernard Baffour, Paul R. Harper, John H. Minty and Christophe Sarran

What do healthcare workers know about sudden infant death syndrome?: the results of the Italian campaign ‘GenitoriPiù’ pp. 63-82

Federico de Luca and Giovanna Boccuzzo

Antithetic time series analysis and the CompanyX data pp. 83-94

Dennis Ridley and Pierre Ngnepieba

The UK minimum wage at 22 years of age: a regression discontinuity approach pp. 95-114

Richard Dickens, Rebecca Riley and David Wilkinson

Testing the specification of parametric models by using anchoring vignettes pp. 115-133

Arthur van Soest and Hana Vonkova

A non-parametric model of residual brand equity in hierarchical branding structures with application to US beer data pp. 135-152

Sudhir Voleti and Pulak Ghosh

A comparison of the accuracy of liquid cytology versus conventional screening: a meta-analysis of split-sample studies pp. 153-168

David Epstein, Antonio Olry Labry Lima, Leticia García Mochón, Jaime Espín Balbino and Javier Esquivias

Form or function?: the effect of new sports stadia on property prices in London pp. 169-190

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Georgios Kavetsos

Bayesian ranking responses in multiple-response questions pp. 191-208

Hsiuying Wang and Wei Heng Huang

Estimating prevalence of injecting drug users and associated heroin-related death rates in England by using regional data and incorporating prior information pp. 209-236

Ruth King, Sheila M. Bird, Antony M. Overstall, Gordon Hay and Sharon J. Hutchinson

Multilevel factor analytic models for assessing the relationship between nurse-reported adverse events and patient safety pp. 237-257

Luwis Diya, Baoyue Li, Koen Heede, Walter Sermeus and Emmanuel Lesaffre

Treatment comparisons for decision making: facing the problems of sparse and few data pp. 259-279

Marta Soares, Jo C. Dumville, A. E. Ades and Nicky J. Welton

Is there a ‘heat-or-eat’ trade-off in the UK? pp. 281-294

Timothy Beatty, Laura Blow and Thomas Crossley

Synthesis of evidence on heterogeneous interventions with multiple outcomes recorded over multiple follow-up times reported inconsistently: a smoking cessation case-study pp. 295-314

Jason Madan, Yen-Fu Chen, Paul Aveyard, Dechao Wang, Ismail Yahaya, Marcus Munafo, Linda Bauld and Nicky Welton