The American Statistician, Volume 50, Issue 4 (1996)

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The American Statistician, Volume 50, Issue 4 (1996)

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Editor's Report

Editor's Report
Kinley Larntz
Page: 283
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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General

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Understanding Neural Networks as Statistical Tools
Brad Warner & Manavendra Misra
Pages: 284-293
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Meta-Analysis and Response Surface Extrapolation: A Least Squares Approach
Wilfried R. Vanhonacker
Pages: 294-299
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Standard and Nonstandard Log-Linear Symmetry Models for Measuring Change in Categorical Variables
Alexander von Eye & Christiane Spiel
Pages: 300-305
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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A Simple Method for Generating Correlated Binary Variates
Chul Gyu Park, Taesung Park & Dong Wan Shin
Pages: 306-310
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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On the Peculiar Distribution of the U.S. Stock Indexes' Digits
Eduardo Ley
Pages: 311-313
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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More Powerful Tests from Confidence Interval p Values
Roger L. Berger
Pages: 314-318
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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A Simple and Exact Method of Constructing Tolerance Intervals for the One-Way ANOVA with Random Effects
D. K. Bhaumik & P. M. Kulkarni
Pages: 319-323
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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A Class of Mann—Whitney—Wilcoxon Type Statistics
Ibrahim A. Ahmad
Pages: 324-327
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Teacher's Corner

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Teaching Survey Sampling
Ronald S. Fecso, William D. Kalsbeek, Sharon L. Lohr, Richard L. Scheaffer, Fritz J. Scheuren & Elizabeth A. Stasny
Pages: 328-340
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Article
Ignoring a Covariate: An Example of Simpson's Paradox
David R. Appleton, Joyce M. French & Mark P. J. Vanderpump
Pages: 340-341
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Using Graphics and Simulation to Teach Statistical Concepts
Mervyn G. Marasinghe, William Q. Meeker, Dianne Cook & Tae-Sung Shin
Pages: 342-351
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Statistical Practice

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Modeling Pitcher Performance and the Distribution of Runs per Inning in Major League Baseball
Bernard Rosner, Frederick Mosteller & Cleo Youtz
Pages: 352-360
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing

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Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages
Rob J. Hyndman & Yanan Fan
Pages: 361-365
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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A Note on the Calculation of Pr{X1 < X2 < ··· < Xk}
A. J. Hayter & W. Liu
Page: 365
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing Software Reviews
Richard Goldstein Section Editor
Page: 366
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Software for Modeling Kinetic Phenomena
John C. Nash & Tony K. Quon
Pages: 368-378
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Commentaries

Book Review
Book Reviews
Karen Kafadar Section Editor
Pages: 379-381
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Letter
Letters to the Editor
Pages: 382-389
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Editorial Collaborators
Pages: 390-392
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Index to Volume 50 (1996) Articles (By Author)
Pages: 393-395
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Statistical Computing

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Editor's Notes
Richard Goldstein Section Editor
Pages: 366a-367
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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Editorials

Editorial
Editorial Board Page
Page: ebi
Published online: 17 Feb 2012
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