The American Statistician, Volume 63, Issue 1 (2009)

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The American Statistician, Volume 63, Issue 1 (2009)

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Statistical Practice

Article
Splitting a Predictor at the Upper Quarter or Third and the Lower Quarter or Third
Andrew Gelman & David K. Park
Pages: 1-8
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Sample Surveys With Sensitive Questions: A Nonrandomized Response Approach
Ming T. Tan, Guo-Liang Tian & Man-Lai Tang
Pages: 9-16
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Improving Prediction Intervals: Some Elementary Methods
Keming Yu & Abdallah Ally
Pages: 17-19
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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History Corner

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The Median Is the Message: Wilson and Hilfertys Experiments on the Law of Errors
Roger Koenker
Pages: 20-25
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Teachers Corner

Article
A Simple Explanation of Benford's Law
R. M. Fewster
Pages: 26-32
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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How to Compute a Mean? The Chisini Approach and Its Applications
Rebecca Graziani & Piero Veronese
Pages: 33-36
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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An Application of the Residue Calculus: The Distribution of the Sum of Nonhomogeneous Gamma Variates
Charles Hagwood
Pages: 37-39
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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General

Article
Influence Measures for General Linear Models With Correlated Errors
Lei Shi & Gemai Chen
Pages: 40-42
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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A Simple Proof of the Binomial Theorem Using Differential Calculus
Leng-Cheng Hwang
Pages: 43-44
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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PDFs and Dual PDFs
Saralees Nadarajah
Pages: 45-48
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Article
A Reformulation of Weighted Least Squares Estimators
Jaechoul Lee
Pages: 49-55
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Statistical Computing and Graphics

Article
Where's Waldo? Visualizing Collinearity Diagnostics
Michael Friendly & Ernest Kwan
Pages: 56-65
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Statistical Applications of the Complex-Step Method of Numerical Differentiation
Martin S. Ridout
Pages: 66-74
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Statistical Computing and Software Reviews

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Section Editor's Notes
Joseph M. Hilbe
Pages: 75-77
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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The Mean, Median, and Confidence Intervals of the Kaplan-Meier Survival Estimate—Computations and Applications
Chris Barker
Pages: 78-80
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Review of Three Latent Class Cluster Analysis Packages: Latent Gold, poLCA, and MCLUST
Dominique Haughton, Pascal Legrand & Sam Woolford
Pages: 81-91
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials

Review Article
Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
Pages: 92-101
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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Letters to the Editor

Letter
Letter to the Editor
Pages: 102-103
Published online: 01 Jan 2012
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