The American Statistician, Volume 41, Issue 4 (1987)

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The American Statistician, Volume 41, Issue 4 (1987)

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Original Articles

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Environmental Monitoring, Statistics, and the Law: Room for Improvement
Steven P. Millard
Pages: 249-253
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Comment
N. Phillip Ross
Pages: 254-256
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Comment
Bertram Price
Pages: 257-259
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Model-Based Estimation in Finite Population Sampling
D. R. Bellhouse
Pages: 260-262
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Teacher's Corner

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The Instruction of Biostatistics in Medical Schools
Beth Dawson-Saunders, Stanley Azen, Raymond S. Greenberg & Allen H. Reed
Pages: 263-266
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Medical Statistics at the Medical School of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Carl S. Hacker
Pages: 266-267
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Biostatistics Instruction at Meharry Medical College
Richard A. Carter
Pages: 268-269
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Teaching Biostatistics at the Emory University School of Medicine
John R. Boring III
Page: 269
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Data Analysis for Managers
Harry V. Roberts
Pages: 270-278
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Some Remarks on Exponential Families
Wolfgang J. Bühler & Joachim Sehr
Pages: 279-280
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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A Heuristic Derivation of the Inverse Gaussian Distribution
G. A. Whitmore & V. Seshadri
Pages: 280-281
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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A Ridge-Regression Sidelight
Norman R. Draper & Agnes M. Herzberg
Pages: 282-283
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Accent on Teaching Materials: A Bibliography on the Teaching of Probability and Statistics
Harry O. Posten Section Editor, S. Chandra Misra, Hardeo Sahai, Anil P. Gore & Joseph K. Garrett
Pages: 284-310
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing

Article
Hierarchical Variable Selection in Polynomial Regression Models
Julio L. Peixoto
Pages: 311-313
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing Software Reviews
Kenneth Berk Section Editor
Pages: 314-327
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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New Developments in Statistical Computing
Jane F. Gentleman Section Editor
Pages: 328-334
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Commentary

Article
How Do We Judge Confidence-Interval Adequacy?
Dennis E. Jennings
Pages: 335-337
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Letters To The Editor

Letter
Letters to the Editor
Pages: 338-341
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Miscellany

Correction
Page: 341
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Editorials

Editorial
Editorial Board Page
Page: ebi
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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