The American Statistician, Volume 43, Issue 1 (1989)

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The American Statistician, Volume 43, Issue 1 (1989)

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Miscellany

Editor's Invited Column
Charles E. Gates
Page: 1
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Original Articles

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Concepts of Relative Importance in Recent Scientific Literature
William Kruskal & Ruth Majors
Pages: 2-6
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Median Unbiased Estimation for Binary Data
Karim F. Hirji, Anastasios A. Tsiatis & Cyrus R. Mehta
Pages: 7-11
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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A Bear Trap in Using the Iowa-Curve Methodology for Property Retirements and Depreciation Charges
W. Edwards Deming & Nozer D. Singpurwalla
Pages: 12-16
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Uniformly Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation for Discrete Distributions with Support Depending on the Parameter
Malay Ghosh & Gauri Sankar Datta
Pages: 17-19
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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A Test for Normality Based on Kullback—Leibler Information
Ikuo Arizono & Hiroshi Ohta
Pages: 20-22
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Teacher's Corner

Article
Two Rules of Thumb for the Approximation of the Binomial Distribution by the Normal Distribution
Martin Schader & Friedrich Schmid
Pages: 23-24
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Pocket-Calculator Approximation for Areas under the Standard Normal Curve
Robert M. Norton
Pages: 24-26
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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MAD Property of a Median: A Simple Proof
Kumar Joag-Dev
Pages: 26-27
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
Understanding Partial Statistics and Redundancy of Variables in Regression and Discriminant Analysis
Bernhard W. Flury
Pages: 27-31
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
Analysis of Variance through Simple Correlation
Joel R. Levin, Ronald C. Serlin & Lisa Webne-Behrman
Pages: 32-34
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
Teaching Regression in a Nonparametric Statistics Course
E. Jacquelin Dietz
Pages: 35-40
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
Linear Estimators for the Parameter in the Problem of the Nile
Suneeta M. Joshi & Smita P. Nabar
Pages: 40-41
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
A Delta Method for Implicitly Defined Random Variables
Jacques Benichou & Mitchell H. Gail
Pages: 41-44
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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An Elementary Proof of the Order-Statistics Characterization of the Poisson Process
Gaoxiong Gan & Shie-Shien Yang
Pages: 45-46
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Article
An Alternate Proof of Samuelson's Inequality and its Extensions
Nicholas R. Farnum
Pages: 46-47
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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A Note on Evaluating a Certain Orthant Probability
James L. Kepner, Sandra Z. Keith & James D. Harper
Pages: 48-49
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing

Article
Some Implementations of the Boxplot
Michael Frigge, David C. Hoaglin & Boris Iglewicz
Pages: 50-54
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing Software Reviews
Kenneth Berk Section Editor
Pages: 55-66
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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New Developments in Statistical Computing
H. Joseph Newton Section Editor
Pages: 66-67
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Letters To The Editor

Letter
Letters to the Editor
Pages: 68-69
Published online: 27 Feb 2012
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Miscellany

Correction
Page: 69
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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