The American Statistician, Volume 52, Issue 2 (1998)

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The American Statistician, Volume 52, Issue 2 (1998)

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Original Articles

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Cuthbert Daniel: Industrial Statistician
J. Stuart Hunter
Pages: 89-92
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Statistical Practice

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice: A Roundtable Discussion
Robert E. Kass, Bradley P. Carlin, Andrew Gelman & Radford M. Neal
Pages: 93-100
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Competing and Using Moral versus Urban Measures in Statistical Applications
Colin R. Goodall, Karen Kafadar & John W. Tukey
Pages: 101-111
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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General

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Data Mining: Statistics and More?
David J. Hand
Pages: 112-118
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Approximate is Better than “Exact” for Interval Estimation of Binomial Proportions
Alan Agresti & Brent A. Coull
Pages: 119-126
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Why Permutation Tests are Superior to t and F Tests in Biomedical Research
John Ludbrook & Hugh Dudley
Pages: 127-132
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Joint Confidence Sets for the Mean and Variance of a Normal Distribution
Barry C. Arnold & Robert M. Shavelle
Pages: 133-140
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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A New Interpretation of the F Statistic
John W. Pratt & Robert Schlaifer
Pages: 141-143
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Information Criteria for the Paired-Comparisons Problem
C. Mitchell Dayton
Pages: 144-151
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Teacher's Corner

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Perspectives on Implementing Statistical Modeling and Design (SMD) in an Industrial/Chemical Environment
Karen D. Rappaport, Nouna Kettaneh & Svante Wold
Pages: 152-159
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Student Projects on Statistical Literacy and the Media
Andrew Gelman, Deborah Nolan, Anna Men, Steve Warmerdam & Michelle Bautista
Pages: 160-166
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Some Class-Participation Demonstrations for Decision Theory and Bayesian Statistics
Andrew Gelman
Pages: 167-174
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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A Lognormal Approximation for the Collector's Problem
K. L. Q. Read
Pages: 175-180
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Statistical Computing and Graphic

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Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace Synergism
Jerry L. Hintze & Ray D. Nelson
Pages: 181-184
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Nenparametric Two-Group Classification: Concepts and a SAS-Based Software Package
A. Pedro Duarte Silva & Antonie Stam
Pages: 185-197
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
Pages: 198-202
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Letters To The Editor

Letter
Letters to the Editor
V. C. Hombas
Page: 203
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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Editorials

Editorial
Editorial Board Page
Page: ebi
Published online: 22 Mar 2012
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