Letters to the Editor

Abstract

Letters to the editor will be confined to discussions of papers that have appeared in The American Statistician and to important issues facing the statistical community. Letters discussing papers in The American Statistician must be received within two months of publication of the paper; the author of the paper will then be given an opportunity to reply, and the letters and reply will be published together. All letters to the editor will be refereed. Corrections of errors that have been noted in papers published in The American Statistician will be listed as corrections at the end of this section.