The American Statistician

2012 - 2022

Continuation of The American Statistician.

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Volume 76, issue 2, 2022

Variable Selection With Second-Generation P-Values pp. 91-101

Yi Zuo, Thomas G. Stewart and Jeffrey D. Blume

A Generalization of the Savage–Dickey Density Ratio for Testing Equality and Order Constrained Hypotheses pp. 102-109

Joris Mulder, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Maarten Marsman

Bang the Can Slowly: An Investigation into the 2017 Houston Astros pp. 110-116

Ryan Elmore and Gregory J. Matthews

The Case-Control Approach Can be More Powerful for Matched Pair Observational Studies When the Outcome is Rare pp. 117-123

Wei Wang, Dylan S. Small, Guy Cafri and Elizabeth W. Paxton

Pseudo-Ranks: The Better Way of Ranking? pp. 124-130

Georg Zimmermann, Edgar Brunner, Werner Brannath, Martin Happ and Arne C. Bathke

Publication Policies for Replicable Research and the Community-Wide False Discovery Rate pp. 131-141

Joshua Habiger and Ye Liang

Statistical Implications of Endogeneity Induced by Residential Segregation in Small-Area Modeling of Health Inequities pp. 142-151

Rachel C. Nethery, Jarvis T. Chen, Nancy Krieger, Pamela D. Waterman, Emily Peterson, Lance A. Waller and Brent A. Coull

COVID-19 Pandemic as a Change Agent in the Structure and Practice of Statistical Consulting Centers pp. 152-158

Shing Lee, Emilia Bagiella, Roger Vaughan, Usha Govindarajulu, Paul Christos, Denise Esserman, Hua Zhong and Mimi Kim

On Deconfounding Spatial Confounding in Linear Models pp. 159-167

Dale L. Zimmerman and Jay M. Ver Hoef

Comparing Three Groups pp. 168-176

Jelle J. Goeman and Aldo Solari

Re-exploring the Penney-Ante Game pp. 177-183

Sushil Kumar Singh, Neelkanth Rawat, Sargun Singh and Savinder Kaur

Pairwise Independence May Not Imply Independence: New Illustrations and a Generalization pp. 184-187

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

A Survey of Bias in Machine Learning Through the Prism of Statistical Parity pp. 188-198

Philippe Besse, Eustasio del Barrio, Paula Gordaliza, Jean-Michel Loubes and Laurent Risser

Bayesian Analysis of Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 and Beyond pp. 199-199

Qiwei Li

Statistics in Medicine pp. 199-200

Weixiao Dai and Toshimitsu Hamasaki

The Impact of Application of the Jackknife to the Sample Median pp. 201-201

The Editors

Volume 76, issue 1, 2022

A Proposal for Informative Default Priors Scaled by the Standard Error of Estimates pp. 1-9

Erik van Zwet and Andrew Gelman

Computing (Bivariate) Poisson Moments Using Stein–Chen Identities pp. 10-15

Christian H. Weiß and Boris Aleksandrov

Calculating Sample Size for Follmann’s Simple Multivariate Test for One-Sided Alternatives pp. 16-21

Matthew J. McIntosh

Bayesian Inference Is Unaffected by Selection: Fact or Fiction? pp. 22-28

David A. Harville

Difference Between Binomial Proportions Using Newcombe’s Method With Multiple Imputation for Incomplete Data pp. 29-36

Yulia Sidi and Ofer Harel

Reconstructing the Kaplan–Meier Estimator as an M-estimator pp. 37-43

Jiaqi Gu, Yiwei Fan and Guosheng Yin

Myths About Linear and Monotonic Associations: Pearson’s r, Spearman’s ρ, and Kendall’s τ pp. 44-52

Edwin van den Heuvel and Zhuozhao Zhan

When Your Permutation Test is Doomed to Fail pp. 53-63

William F. Christensen and Brinley N. Zabriskie

A Bayesian Spatial Analysis of the Heterogeneity in Human Mobility Changes During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Epidemic in the United States pp. 64-72

Giulia Carella, Javier Pérez Trufero, Miguel Álvarez and Jorge Mateu

A Geometric Derivation of the Cantor Distribution pp. 73-77

Brett Presnell

On the Power of the F-test for Hypotheses in a Linear Model pp. 78-84

William E. Griffiths and Carter Hill

Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB, 3rd ed., by Wendy L. Martinez, Angel R. Martinez, and Jeffrey L. Solka pp. 85-86

Yang Ni

Do Dice Play God? The Mathematics of Uncertainty, by Ian Stewart pp. 85-85

James M. Flegal

The Phantom Pattern Problem: The Mirage of Big Data pp. 86-87

Emilija Perković

Statistics for Making Decisions pp. 87-88

Angelika M. Stefan

A Connection Between Baseball and Clinical Trials Found in “Slugging Percentage is Not a Percentage—And Why That Matters” pp. 89-89

Byron J. Gajewski, Jo A. Wick and Truman J. Milling

Volume 75, issue 4, 2021

Comparing Covariate Prioritization via Matching to Machine Learning Methods for Causal Inference Using Five Empirical Applications pp. 355-363

Luke Keele and Dylan S. Small

The Classical Occupancy Distribution: Computation and Approximation pp. 364-375

Ben O’Neill

The Short-Term and Long-Term Hazard Ratio Model: Parameterization Inconsistency pp. 376-382

Philippe Flandre and John O’Quigley

Hurdle Blockmodels for Sparse Network Modeling pp. 383-393

Narges Motalebi, Nathaniel T. Stevens and Stefan H. Steiner

Random number generators produce collisions: Why, how many and more pp. 394-402

Marius Hofert

Learning Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in R pp. 403-413

Samuel Thomas and Wanzhu Tu

Pairwise Comparisons Using Ranks in the One-Way Model pp. 414-423

Dennis D. Boos and Siyu Duan

A Review of Bayesian Perspectives on Sample Size Derivation for Confirmatory Trials pp. 424-432

Kevin Kunzmann, Michael J. Grayling, Kim May Lee, David S. Robertson, Kaspar Rufibach and James M. S. Wason

Facilitating Authentic Practice for Early Undergraduate Statistics Students pp. 433-444

Peter E. Freeman

The Impact of Application of the Jackknife to the Sample Median pp. 445-449

Jianning Yang and John E. Kolassa

Beyond Multiple Linear Regression: Applied Generalized Linear Models and Multilevel Models in R pp. 450-451

Youjin Lee

Probability and Statistical Inference: From Basic Principles to Advanced Models pp. 451-453

Gabriel J. Young

Textual Data Science with R pp. 453-454

Kenneth R. Benoit

Letter to the Editor: Zhang, J. (2021), “The Mean Relative Entropy: An Invariant Measure of Estimation Error,” The American Statistician, 75, 117–123: comment by Vos and Wu pp. 455-457

Paul Vos and Qiang Wu

Response to Letter to the Editor: Zhang, J. (2021) pp. 458-458

Jin Zhang

Volume 75, issue 3, 2021

Statistical Challenges in Agent-Based Modeling pp. 235-242

David L. Banks and Mevin B. Hooten

A Prediction Tournament Paradox pp. 243-248

David J. Aldous

Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Defended and Calibrated by Bayesian Model Checking pp. 249-255

David R. Bickel

Connecting and Contrasting the Bayes Factor and a Modified ROPE Procedure for Testing Interval Null Hypotheses pp. 256-264

J. G. Liao, Vishal Midya and Arthur Berg

Reconnecting p-Value and Posterior Probability Under One- and Two-Sided Tests pp. 265-275

Haolun Shi and Guosheng Yin

Improving Effect Estimates by Limiting the Variability in Inverse Propensity Score Weights pp. 276-287

Keith Kranker, Laura Blue and Lauren Vollmer Forrow

The Exact Form of the “Ockham Factor” in Model Selection pp. 288-293

Jonathan Rougier and Carey E. Priebe

Adjusting Published Estimates for Exploratory Biases Using the Truncated Normal Distribution pp. 294-299

Travis Loux and Orlando Davy

Learning Temporal Structures of Random Patterns by Generating Functions pp. 300-309

Yanlong Sun and Hongbin Wang

A Set of Efficient Methods to Generate High-Dimensional Binary Data With Specified Correlation Structures pp. 310-322

Wei Jiang, Shuang Song, Lin Hou and Hongyu Zhao

On Being an Ethical Statistical Expert in a Legal Case pp. 323-333

William B. Fairley and William A. Huber

From One Environment to Many: The Problem of Replicability of Statistical Inferences pp. 334-342

James J. Higgins, Michael J. Higgins and Jinguang Lin

Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses With Spatial Experiments pp. 343-353

Amanda S. Hering, Luke Durell and Grant Morgan

Reviewof Books and Teaching Materials pp. 354-354

Yen-Chi Chen

Volume 75, issue 2, 2021

The Mean Relative Entropy: An Invariant Measure of Estimation Error pp. 117-123

Jin Zhang

Slugging Percentage Is Not a Percentage—And Why That Matters pp. 124-127

Douglas VanDerwerken

Toward Replicability With Confidence Intervals for the Exceedance Probability pp. 128-138

Brian D. Segal

A Problem of Distributive Justice, Solved by the Lasso pp. 139-144

Philip T. Reiss

A Robustified Posterior for Bayesian Inference on a Large Number of Parallel Effects pp. 145-151

J. G. Liao, Arthur Berg and Timothy L. McMurry

Bayes Factors for Testing Order Constraints on Variances of Dependent Outcomes pp. 152-161

Florian Böing-Messing and Joris Mulder

Visually Communicating and Teaching Intuition for Influence Functions pp. 162-172

Aaron Fisher and Edward H. Kennedy

Does Home Health Care Increase the Probability of 30-Day Hospital Readmissions? Interpreting Coefficient Sign Reversals, or Their Absence, in Binary Logistic Regression Analysis pp. 173-184

Alecos Papadopoulos and Roland B. Stark

Making Recursive Bayesian Inference Accessible pp. 185-194

Mevin B. Hooten, Devin S. Johnson and Brian M. Brost

Harmonizing Optimized Designs With Classic Randomization in Experiments pp. 195-206

Adam Kapelner, Abba M. Krieger, Michael Sklar, Uri Shalit and David Azriel

March Madness “Anomalies”: Are They Real, and If So, Can They Be Explained? pp. 207-216

Dale L. Zimmerman, Nathan D. Zimmerman and Joshua T. Zimmerman

The Lorenz Curve in the Classroom pp. 217-225

Roberta La Haye and Petr Zizler

Further Examples Related to Correlations Between Variables and Ranks pp. 226-229

Chunming Zhang

The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You pp. 230-231

Edward L. Boone

SAS for Mixed Models: Introduction and Basic Applications pp. 231-231

Christine R. Wells

x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender pp. 232-233

Christina P. Knudson

Volume 75, issue 1, 2021

Intuition for an Old Curiosity and an Implication for MCMC pp. 1-6

Michael Lavine and Jim Hodges

Exact Bayes Factors for the Comparison of Multinomial Distributions pp. 7-14

Rudy Ligtvoet

The Price is Right: Analyzing Bidding Behavior on Contestants’ Row pp. 15-22

Paul Kvam

Testing for Positive Quadrant Dependence pp. 23-30

Chuan-Fa Tang, Dewei Wang, Hammou El Barmi and Joshua M. Tebbs

Hypothesis Testing in Presence of Adversaries pp. 31-40

J. González-Ortega, D. Ríos Insua, F. Ruggeri and R. Soyer

Objective Bayesian testing for the correlation coefficient under divergence-based priors pp. 41-51

Bo Peng and Min Wang

Sampling Strategies for Fast Updating of Gaussian Markov Random Fields pp. 52-65

D. Andrew Brown, Christopher S. McMahan and Stella Watson Self

Optimizing Sample Size Allocation and Power in a Bayesian Two-Stage Drop-the-Losers Design pp. 66-75

Alex Karanevich, Richard Meier, Stefan Graw, Anna McGlothlin and Byron Gajewski

Assumption Lean Regression pp. 76-84

Richard Berk, Andreas Buja, Lawrence Brown, Edward George, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, Weijie Su and Linda Zhao

Correction of Survival Bias in a Study About Increased Mortality of Heads of Government pp. 85-91

Julian Fecker, Martin Schumacher, Kristin Ohneberg and Martin Wolkewitz

Modeling Response Time to Structure Fires pp. 92-100

Madison Arnsbarger, Joshua Goldstein, Claire Kelling, Gizem Korkmaz and Sallie Keller

A Probabilistic Approach to The Moments of Binomial Random Variables and Application pp. 101-103

Duy Nguyen

Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Interpreted and Calibrated by Estimating Probabilities of Sign Errors: A Bayes-Frequentist Continuum pp. 104-112

David R. Bickel

Data Visualization: Charts, Maps, and Interactive Graphics. Robert Grant pp. 113-113

James M. Flegal

Fundamentals of Probability with Stochastic Processes, 4th ed. Saeed Ghahramani pp. 113-114

James M. Flegal

Spatio-Temporal Statistics With R pp. 114-114

Nicholas W. Bussberg

McCann and Habiger (2020), “The Detection of Nonnegligible Directional Effects With Associated Measures of Statistical Significance,” pp. 115-115

Roger L. Berger

Response to the Letter to the Editor on “The Detection of Nonnegligible Directional Effects With Associated Measures of Statistical Significance,” The American Statistician, 74:3, 213–217: Comment by Roger Berger pp. 116-116

Melinda H. McCann and Joshua D. Habiger