The American Statistician, Volume 38, Issue 4 (1984)

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The American Statistician, Volume 38, Issue 4 (1984)

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Statistics for Quality and Productivity: A New Graduate-Level Statistics Course
Stephen Vardeman & Herbert T. David
Pages: 235-243
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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On Prior Distributions for Binary Trials
Seymour Geisser
Pages: 244-247
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Commentary

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Comment
Jose M. Bernardo
Pages: 247-248
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Multiparameter Bayesian Indifference Procedures Revisited
Melvin R. Novick
Pages: 248-249
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Comment
Arnold Zellner
Pages: 249-250
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Miscellany

Reply
Seymour Geisser
Pages: 250-251
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Original Articles

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Report of the ASA Technical Panel on the Census Undercount
Margaret E. Martin, Martin R. Frankel, Noreen Goldman, Daniel G. Horvitz, Joseph B. Kadane, Graham Kalton, Samuel H. Preston, Bruce D. Spencer, Michael A. Stoto & Franklin D. Wilson
Pages: 252-256
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Commentary

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Comment from the Census Bureau
Barbara A. Bailar
Pages: 257-260
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Original Articles

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Graphs in Scientific Publications
William S. Cleveland
Pages: 261-269
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Graphical Methods for Data Presentation: Full Scale Breaks, Dot Charts, and Multibased Logging
William S. Cleveland
Pages: 270-280
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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The Teacher's Corner

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Statistical Consulting in a Geographically Dispersed Organization
Richard M. Engeman & William E. Dusenberry
Pages: 281-283
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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An Elementary Introduction to Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Multinomial Models: Birch's Theorem and the Delta Method
Christopher Cox
Pages: 283-287
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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On Covariances from Overlapping Samples
S. M. Tam
Pages: 288-289
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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A Note on Independent and Exhaustive Events
Daniel Krewski & Mikelis Bickis
Pages: 290-291
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Justifying an Invalid Derivation of the Probability of a Union of Events
Paul H. Jackson
Pages: 291-293
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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The Moments Do Not Determine a Distribution
James C. Fu
Pages: 294-295
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Nonnormality of Linear Combinations of Normal Random Variables
G. G. Hamedani
Pages: 295-296
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Lord's MAD Paradox and Jensen's Inequality
David K. Hildebrand
Pages: 296-297
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Nonnegative Definiteness of the Sample Autocovariance Function
A. Ian McLeod & Carlos Jimenéz
Pages: 297-298
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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On Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Ordinary Least Squares Estimators to Be Best Linear Unbiased Estimators
George A. Milliken & Mohammed Albohali
Pages: 298-299
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Statistical Computing

Article
First Partial Differentiation by Computer with an Application to Categorical Data Analysis
John W. Sawyer Jr.
Pages: 300-308
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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A Retrievable Recipe for Inverse t
Donald P. Gaver & Karen Kafadar
Pages: 308-311
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Exact p Values for F and t Tests
James R. Lackritz
Pages: 312-314
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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New Developments in Statistical Computing
Short Notices and Reviews of New Software, New Products, and other Sources of Information
Jane F. Gentleman Section Editor
Pages: 315-321
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Commentary

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Imaging: A Tool for Data Reduction
Trina Hosmer & Robert Edwards
Pages: 322-327
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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An Application of Response Surface Methodology to the Atari® Miniature Golf Video Game
Charles W. Kish Jr. & Walter H. Carter Jr.
Pages: 327-329
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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Letters To The Editor

Letter
Letters to the Editor
Pages: 330-332
Published online: 30 Mar 2012
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