The American Statistician, Volume 36, Issue 2 (1982)

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The American Statistician, Volume 36, Issue 2 (1982)

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Preparing Statisticians for Careers in the Federal Government: Report of the ASA Section on Statistical Education Committee on Training of Statisticians for Government
Marie D. Eldridge, Katherine K. Wallman, Rolf M. Wulfsberg, Barbara A. Bailar, Yvonne M. Bishop, William E. Kibler, Beatrice S. Orleans, Dorothy P. Rice, Wesley Schaible, Seymour M. Selig & Monroe G. Sirken
Pages: 69-81
Published online: 26 Mar 2012
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Lincoln E. Moses
Page: 82
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Ronald D. Snee
Pages: 82-87
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Douglas A. Zahn
Pages: 88-89
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Donald G. Brauer
Page: 89
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Original Articles

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Quality of Statistical Education: Should ASA Assist or Assess?
Judith M. Tanur
Pages: 90-93
Published online: 26 Mar 2012
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Shanti S. Gupta
Page: 94
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James J. Higgins
Pages: 94-95
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Dallas E. Johnson
Pages: 95-96
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Thomas R. Knapp
Page: 97
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D. B. Owen
Pages: 97-99
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Jim Swift
Page: 99
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Fred C. Leone
Pages: 100-101
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Reply
Judith M. Tanur
Pages: 101-102
Published online: 26 Mar 2012
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Original Articles

Article
The Committee on National Statistics: 10 Years Later
Margaret E. Martin, Edwin D. Goldfield & Miron L. Straf
Pages: 103-108
Published online: 26 Mar 2012
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Graphs for use with the Lilliefors Test for Normal and Exponential Distributions
Ronald L. Iman
Pages: 109-112
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An Introduction to Modern Matrix Methods and Statistics
James M. Lowerre
Pages: 113-115
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An Objective Graphical Method for Testing Normal Distributional Assumptions using Probability Plots
David T. Mage
Pages: 116-120
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The Writings of Leonard Jimmie Savage — A Memorial Selection
Page: 121
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In Memoriam

William Ramsdell Leonard 1904–1981
Walter F. Ryan
Pages: 122-123
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Rensis Likert 1903–1981
Leslie Kish
Pages: 124-125
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Jacob Wolfowitz (1910–1981)
Lionel Weiss
Pages: 126-127
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The Teacher's Corner

Article
Deriving the Probability Density for Sums of Uniform Random Variables
Edward J. Lusk & Haviland Wright
Pages: 128-130
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A Note on the Multivariate General Linear Test
Richard K. Burdick
Pages: 131-132
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An Alternative Way of Calculating the X2 Independence or Association Test Statistic for a 2 × k Contingency Table
C. Philip Cox
Page: 133
Published online: 26 Mar 2012
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Accent on Teaching Materials
Notices and Reviews of Important Teaching Materials
Harry O. Posten Section Editor
Pages: 134-136
Published online: 26 Mar 2012
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Commentary

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A Modest Proposal: A New Standard for the Normal
Stephen M. Stigler
Pages: 137-138
Published online: 26 Mar 2012
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Resolving Current Controversies in Analysis of Variance
R. K. Steinhorst
Pages: 138-139
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A Note on the Robustness of Dixon's Ratio Test in Small Samples
Michael R. Chernick
Page: 140
Published online: 26 Mar 2012
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More on Evaluating Computer Programs
Norman H. Nie & Marija J. Norušis
Page: 141
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Commentary

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Paul F. Velleman & Roy E. Welsch
Pages: 141-142
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Reply
Norman H. Nie & Marija H. Norušis
Page: 142
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