The American Statistician, Volume 42, Issue 3 (1988)

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The American Statistician, Volume 42, Issue 3 (1988)

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Original Articles

Article
Increasing Public Awareness of Statistics as a Science and a Profession—Starting in the High Schools
Stephen J. Ruberg & Robert L. Mason
Pages: 167-170
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Type I Error Rates for Multiple Comparison Procedures with Dependent Data
Robert Pavur
Pages: 171-173
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Power Allocations: Determining Sample Sizes for Subnational Areas
Michael D. Bankier
Pages: 174-177
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Choosing a Pretest-Posttest Analysis
Edward J. Stanek III
Pages: 178-183
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Predictive Estimation in Double Sampling Procedures
M. C. Agrawal & Nirmal Jain
Pages: 184-186
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Characterizing the Domain of a Regression Model
Daniel G. Brooks, Steven S. Carroll & William A. Verdini
Pages: 187-190
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Inverted Distributions
E. L. Lehmann & Juliet Popper Shaffer
Pages: 191-194
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Teacher's Corner

Article
Approximating the Birthday Problem
W. Schwarz
Pages: 195-196
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
A Box of Balls: New Lessons from an Old Model
David W. Pentico
Pages: 197-198
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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The Appropriateness of Some Common Procedures for Testing the Equality of Two Independent Binomial Populations
Ralph B. D'agostino, Warren Chase & Albert Belanger
Pages: 198-202
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
A Central Limit Theorem for the Bootstrap Mean
Shie-Shien Yang
Pages: 202-203
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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The Monotonicity of Power Means Using Entropy
D. R. Shier
Pages: 203-204
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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A Statistical Method of Approach to Stirling's Formula
Tien-Chung Hu
Pages: 204-205
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
A Comparison of Two Criteria for Ordinary-Least-Squares Estimators to Be Best Linear Unbiased Estimators
Jerzy K. Baksalary & Adrian C. van Eijnsbergen
Pages: 205-208
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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The Variance of Left-Truncated Continuous Nonnegative Distributions
John P. Mullooly
Pages: 208-210
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
Parallel Lines in Residual Plots
Shayle R. Searle
Page: 211
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing

Article
Statistical Microcomputing—Like it is
Gerard E. Dallal
Pages: 212-216
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing Software Reviews
Kenneth Berk Section Editor
Pages: 217-225
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
New Developments in Statistical Computing
H. Joseph Newton Section Editor
Pages: 226-235
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Commentary

Article
Another Cautionary Note about R2: Its Use in Weighted Least-Squares Regression Analysis
John B. Willett & Judith D. Singer
Pages: 236-238
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Letter
Letters to the Editor
Pages: 239-240
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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