The American Statistician, Volume 62, Issue 2 (2008)

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The American Statistician, Volume 62, Issue 2 (2008)

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Kernels and Ensembles
Perspectives on Statistical Learning
Mu Zhu
Pages: 97-109
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Survival Analysis
A Primer
David A Freedman
Pages: 110-119
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Choosing a Coverage Probability for Prediction Intervals
Joshua Landon & Nozer D Singpurwalla
Pages: 120-124
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Using Calibration to Improve Rounding in Imputation
Recai M Yucel, Yulei He & Alan M Zaslavsky
Pages: 125-129
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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The North Carolina Lottery Coincidence
Leonard A Stefanski
Pages: 130-134
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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A Surprising MLE for Interval-Censored Binomial Data
Jesse Frey & Osvaldo Marrero
Pages: 135-137
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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On the Simple Symmetric Random Walk and its Maximal Function
José Luis Palacios
Pages: 138-140
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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A General Proof of Some Known Results of Independence Between Two Statistics
Gauri S Datta & Sanat K Sarkar
Pages: 141-143
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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A Unique Property of the Normal Distribution Associated With Perturbing a General Random Variable
Robin Willink
Pages: 144-146
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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A Recursive Formula for Computing Central Moments of a Multivariate Lognormal Distribution
Georgios Skoulakis
Pages: 147-150
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Is the Overtime Period in an NHL Game Long Enough? An Example for Teaching Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in the Presence of Censored Data
Jack Brimberg & W. J Hurley
Pages: 151-154
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Experiences Teaching Probability and Statistics with Personal Laptops in the Classroom Daily
Richard C Bell Jr & Andrew G Glen
Pages: 155-160
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Helping Students to Build a Conceptual Understanding of Elementary Statistics
Nick J Broers
Pages: 161-166
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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A Note on Improved Approximation of the Binomial Distribution by the Skew-Normal Distribution
Ching-Hui Chang, Jyh-Jiuan Lin, Nabendu Pal & Miao-Chen Chiang
Pages: 167-170
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Section Editor's Notes
Joseph M Hilbe
Pages: 171-172
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Rejoinder to “An Examination of Statistical Software Packages for Parametric and Nonparametric Data Analyses Using Exact Methods”
Robert A Oster & Joseph M Hilbe
Pages: 173-176
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Systat 12.2
An Overview
Joseph M Hilbe
Pages: 177-178
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Book Review

Book Review
Fundamental Probability: A Computational Approach
Jane L Harvill
Pages: 179-180
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Graphics of Large Datasets: Visualizing a Million
Thomas E Bradstreet
Pages: 180-181
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Intuitive Probability and Random Processes using MATLAB
Ralph P Russo
Pages: 181-182
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide
Margie R Gurwit
Pages: 182-183
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Pharmaceutical Statistics Using SAS: A Practical Guide
Thomas E Bradstreet
Page: 183
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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A Quick Course in Statistical Process Control
Christine M Anderson-Cook
Page: 183
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data and An Introduction to Statistical Analysis for Business and Industry: A Problem Solving Approach
Richard J Cleary
Pages: 183-184
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Variations on Split Plot and Split Block Experiment Designs
Lakshmi Padgett
Page: 184
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Book Review
Brief Reviews of Teaching Materials
Page: 185
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Letters to the Editor
Pages: 186-187
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Correction
Corrections
Page: 188
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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