The American Statistician, Volume 69, Issue 3 (2015)

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Teacher's Corner

Article
Another Remark on the Alternative Expectation Formula
Liang Hong
Pages: 157-159
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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A Classroom Approach to the Construction of an Approximate Confidence Interval of a Poisson Mean Using One Observation
Per Gösta Andersson
Pages: 160-164
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Statistical Practice

Article
Bayesian Variable Selection Under Collinearity
Joyee Ghosh & Andrew E. Ghattas
Pages: 165-173
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Discreteness Causes Bias in Percentage-Based Comparisons: A Case Study From Educational Testing
Darrick Yee & Andrew Ho
Pages: 174-181
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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A New Test for Short Memory in Long Memory Time Series
Timothy A. C. Hughes & Jaechoul Lee
Pages: 182-190
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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General

Article
Understanding and Addressing the Unbounded “Likelihood” Problem
Shiyao Liu, Huaiqing Wu & William Q. Meeker
Pages: 191-200
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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A Statistical Framework for Hypothesis Testing in Real Data Comparison Studies
Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Robert Hable, Sabine Lauer & Manuel J. A. Eugster
Pages: 201-212
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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The Challenges in Developing an Online Applied Statistics Program: Lessons Learned at Penn State University
Derek S. Young, Glenn F. Johnson, Mosuk Chow & James L. Rosenberger
Pages: 213-220
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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On Two General Classes of Discrete Bivariate Distributions
Hyunju Lee & Ji Hwan Cha
Pages: 221-230
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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What Your Future Doctor Should Know About Statistics: Must-Include Topics for Introductory Undergraduate Biostatistics
Brigitte Baldi & Jessica Utts
Pages: 231-240
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Short Technical Note

On Probabilistic Proofs of Certain Binomial Identities
P. Vellaisamy
Pages: 241-243
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials

Book Review
Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
Pages: 244-252
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Letters to the Editor

Letter
Letter to the Editor
R. Dennis Cook, Liliana Forzani & Adam Rothman
Pages: 253-254
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Reply
Thaddeus Tarpey, R. Todd Ogden, Eva Petkova & Ronald Christensen
Pages: 254-255
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Reply
Peng Ding
Pages: 255-256
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Letter
Kirk, J.L., and Fay, M.P. “An Introduction to Practical Sequential Inferences Via Single-Arm Binary Response Studies Using the Binseqtest R Package,” The American Statistician, 68, 230–242
Iliana Ignatova, Roland Deutsch & Don Edwards
Pages: 256-257
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Letter
Nontransitivity, Correlation, and Causation
Langford, E., Schwertman, N., and Owens, M. (2001), “Is the Property of Being Positively Correlated Transitive?” The American Statistician, 55, 322-325: Comment by Friedman
Emil M. Friedman
Page: 257
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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Letter
Evidence-Based Data Analysis: Protecting the World From Bad Code? Comment by Veresoglou and Rillig
Stavros D. Veresoglou & Matthias C. Rillig
Page: 257
Published online: 27 Aug 2015
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