The American Statistician

2012 - 2025

Continuation of The American Statistician.

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Volume 68, issue 4, 2014

Reference Class Forecasting: Resolving Its Challenge to Statistical Modeling pp. 221-229

Robert F. Bordley

An Introduction to Practical Sequential Inferences via Single-Arm Binary Response Studies Using the binseqtest R Package pp. 230-242

Jennifer L. Kirk and Michael P. Fay

Are Nonprofit Antipoverty Organizations Located Where They Are Needed? A Spatial Analysis of the Greater Hartford Region pp. 243-252

Jun Yan, Chao Guo and Laurie E. Paarlberg

Dissonant Conclusions When Testing the Validity of an Instrumental Variable pp. 253-263

Fan Yang, José R. Zubizarreta, Dylan S. Small, Scott Lorch and Paul R. Rosenbaum

The Promise of Prediction Contests pp. 264-270

Phillip E. Pfeifer, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl

A Paradoxical Result in Estimating Regression Coefficients pp. 271-276

Thaddeus Tarpey, R. Todd Ogden, Eva Petkova and Ronald Christensen

A Property of Geometric Mean Regression pp. 277-281

Shaoji Xu

Some Useful Moment Results in Sampling Problems pp. 282-296

B. O'Neill

The Sign of the Logistic Regression Coefficient pp. 297-301

A. B. Owen and P. A. Roediger

The "Three Plus One" Likelihood-Based Test Statistics: Unified Geometrical and Graphical Interpretations pp. 302-306

Vito M. R. Muggeo and Gianfranco Lovison

Warr, R. L. and Erich, R. A. (2013), "Should the Interquartile Range Divided by the Standard Deviation be Used to Assess Normality?," The American Statistician, 67, 242-244: Comment by Mukhopadhyay and Reply pp. 316-317

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

Tarpey, T., Ogden, R. T., Petkova, E., and Christensen R. (2014), "A Paradoxical Result in Estimating Regression Coefficients," The American Statistician, 68, 271-276 (this issue): Comment by Peng Ding pp. 316-316

Peng Ding

Reply pp. 317-317

Richard L. Warr and Roger A. Erich

Aldor-Noiman, S., Brown, L.D., Buja, A., Rolke, W., and Stine, R.A. (2013), "The Power to See: A New Graphical Test of Normality," The American Statistician, 67, 249-260 pp. 318-318

Sivan Aldor-Noiman, Lawrence D. Brown, Andreas Buja, Wolfgang Rolke and Robert A. Stine

Volume 68, issue 3, 2014

A Coverage Probability Approach to Finding an Optimal Binomial Confidence Procedure pp. 133-145

Mark F. Schilling and Jimmy A. Doi

New Statistical Tests for Detecting Disparate Impact Arising From Two-Stage Selection Processes pp. 146-157

Weiwen Miao and Joseph L. Gastwirth

A Simple Density-Based Empirical Likelihood Ratio Test for Independence pp. 158-169

Albert Vexler, Wan-Min Tsai and Alan D. Hutson

On a Simple Construction of a Bivariate Probability Function With a Common Marginal pp. 170-173

Djilali Ait Aoudia and Éric Marchand

Applying Bootstrap Methods to System Reliability pp. 174-182

Christopher E. Marks, Andrew G. Glen, Matthew W. Robinson and Lawrence M. Leemis

Uniform Correlation Mixture of Bivariate Normal Distributions and Hypercubically Contoured Densities That Are Marginally Normal pp. 183-187

Kai Zhang, Lawrence D. Brown, Edward George and Linda Zhao

Two New Elementary Derivations of Geometric Expectation pp. 188-190

Liang Hong

Kurtosis as Peakedness, 1905-2014. R.I.P pp. 191-195

Peter H. Westfall

A Unique Collaboration: Prominent Statisticians' Survey Work in Greece in 1946 pp. 196-203

Catherine Michalopoulou

Section Editor's Notes pp. 204-204

Robert A. Oster

Analyzing DOE With Statistical Software Packages: Controversies and Proposals pp. 205-211

Sara Fontdecaba, Pere Grima and Xavier Tort-Martorell

Letter to the Editor pp. 220-220

Liang Hong

Reply pp. 220a-220a

Changyong Feng, Hongyue Wang, Yu Han, Yinglin Xia and Xin M. Tu

Volume 68, issue 2, 2014

The Need for More Emphasis on Prediction: A "Nondenominational" Model-Based Approach pp. 71-83

David A. Harville

Comment pp. 83-84

Hal Stern

Comment pp. 85-86

Dale L. Zimmerman

Comment pp. 87-88

Robert McCulloch

Comment pp. 88-89

Donald A. Berry and Scott M. Berry

Rejoinder pp. 89-92

David A. Harville

Direct Calculation of the Variance of Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimates via EM Algorithm pp. 93-97

Woojoo Lee and Yudi Pawitan

A Decorated Parallel Coordinate Plot for Categorical Longitudinal Data pp. 98-103

Reto Bürgin and Gilbert Ritschard

A Note on the Simulation of Overdispersed Random Variables With Specified Marginal Means and Product Correlations pp. 104-107

Matthew W. Guerra and Justine Shults

Mosaic Plots are Useful for Visualizing Low-Order Projections of Factorial Designs pp. 108-116

Ulrike Grömping

Vardeman, S. B. and Morris, M. D. (2013), "Majority Voting by Independent Classifiers can Increase Error Rates," The American Statistician, 67, 94-96: Comment by Baker, Xu, Hu, and Huang and Reply pp. 125-126

Stuart Baker, Jian-Lun Xu, Ping Hu and Peng Huang

Segal, N. L., and Torres, J. (2013), "A Repeated Grammatical Error Does Not Make it Right," The American Statistician, 67, 266: Comment by Holland and Reply pp. 127-127

Bart Holland

Reply pp. 127-128

Nancy L. Segal and Jorge Luis Torres

Ignatova, I., Deutsch, R. C., and Edwards, D. (2012), "Closed Sequential and Multistage Inference on Binary Responses With or Without Replacement," The American Statistician, 66, 163-172: Comment by Michlin and Shaham and Reply pp. 128-128

Yefim Haim Michlin and Ofer Shaham

Reply pp. 129-129

Lina Ignatova, Roland C. Deutsch and Don Edwards

Kim, Y., Choi, Y.-K., and Emery, S. (2013), "Logistic Regression With Multiple Random Effects: A Simulation Study of Estimation Methods and Statistical Packages," The American Statistician, 67, 171-182 pp. 129-130

Gul Inan, Ozlem Ilk-Dag and Alexander de Leon

Reply pp. 130-131

Yoonsang Kim and Sherry Emery

Volume 68, issue 1, 2014

Resurrecting the Third Variable: A Critique of Pearl's Causal Analysis of Simpson's Paradox pp. 1-7

Timothy W. Armistead

Comment: Understanding Simpson's Paradox pp. 8-13

Judea Pearl

Comment pp. 13-17

Ronald Christensen

Comment: A Fruitful Resolution to Simpson's Paradox via Multiresolution Inference pp. 17-29

Keli Liu and Xiao-Li Meng

Rejoinder pp. 30-31

Timothy Armistead

Three Occurrences of the Hyperbolic-Secant Distribution pp. 32-35

Peng Ding

Two Useful Reformulations of the Hazard Ratio pp. 36-41

Edward J. Bedrick

Prior Elicitation: Interactive Spreadsheet Graphics With Sliders Can Be Fun, and Informative pp. 42-51

Geoffrey Jones and Wesley O. Johnson

The Gram-Schmidt Construction as a Basis for Linear Models pp. 52-55

Lynn Roy LaMotte

Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Several Quantiles of an Unknown Distribution pp. 56-62

A. J. Hayter

Letter to the Editor: Griffith, Daniel A. (2013), "Better Articulating Normal Curve for Introductory Mathematical Statistics Students: Power Transformations," The American Statistician, 67, 157-169 pp. 67-67

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

Reply pp. 67-69

Daniel A. Griffith