The American Statistician, Volume 70, Issue 4 (2016)

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The American Statistician, Volume 70, Issue 4 (2016)

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GENERAL

Article
Assessing Equality of Means Using the Overlap of Range-Preserving Confidence Intervals
Kimihiro Noguchi & Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
Pages: 325-334
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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How the Maximal Evidence of P-Values Against Point Null Hypotheses Depends on Sample Size
Leonhard Held & Manuela Ott
Pages: 335-341
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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Improving the Big East Conference Basketball Tournament
Christopher Abdul-Chani & Jesse Frey
Pages: 342-349
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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Understanding the Ensemble Kalman Filter
Matthias Katzfuss, Jonathan R. Stroud & Christopher K. Wikle
Pages: 350-357
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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STATISTICAL PRACTICE

Article
Bias Introduced by Rounding in Multiple Imputation for Ordered Categorical Variables
Yan Xia & Yanyun Yang
Pages: 358-364
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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Interval Estimation for the “Net Promoter Score”
Brendan Rocks
Pages: 365-372
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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How Robust Are Multirater Interrater Reliability Indices to Changes in Frequency Distribution?
David Quarfoot & Richard A. Levine
Pages: 373-384
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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STATISTICAL COMPUTING AND GRAPHICS

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Weighing Evidence “Steampunk” Style via the Meta-Analyser
Jack Bowden & Chris Jackson
Pages: 385-394
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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Computation of Two- and Three-Dimensional Confidence Regions With the Likelihood Ratio
Adam Jaeger
Pages: 395-398
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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INTERDISCIPLINARY

Article
Statistics of Primes (and Probably Twin Primes) Satisfy Taylor's Law from Ecology
Joel E. Cohen
Pages: 399-404
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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TEACHER'S CORNER

Article
Meeting Student Needs for Multivariate Data Analysis: A Case Study in Teaching an Undergraduate Multivariate Data Analysis Course
Amy Wagaman
Pages: 405-412
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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Sojourning With the Homogeneous Poisson Process
Piaomu Liu & Edsel A. Peña
Pages: 413-423
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND TEACHING MATERIALS

Book Review
Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
Pages: 424-433
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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Letters to the Editor

Letter
Letter to the Editor
Lawrence M. Lesser
Page: 434
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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Indices

Index
Editorial Collaborators
Pages: 435-437
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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Index
Editorial Board EOV
Page: ebi
Published online: 21 Nov 2016
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