The American Statistician, Volume 72, Issue 2 (2018)

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The American Statistician, Volume 72, Issue 2 (2018)

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General

Article
A Cautionary Note on Beta Families of Distributions and the Aliases Within
Alan D. Hutson & Albert Vexler
Pages: 121-129
Published online: 26 Jan 2018
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Simulation of Constrained Variables in Engineering Risk Analyses
Sashi Kanth Tadinada & Abhinav Gupta
Pages: 130-139
Published online: 26 Jan 2018
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A Note on Collinearity Diagnostics and Centering
Santiago Velilla
Pages: 140-146
Published online: 26 Jan 2018
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Teacher's Corner

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On Teaching Statistical Practice: From Novice to Expert
Joel B. Greenhouse & Howard J. Seltman
Pages: 147-154
Published online: 26 Jan 2018
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A Note on “Shaved Dice” Inference
Rolf Sundberg
Pages: 155-157
Published online: 26 Jan 2018
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Visualizing Type II Error in Normality Tests
José A. Sánchez-Espigares, Pere Grima & Lluís Marco-Almagro
Pages: 158-162
Published online: 26 Jan 2018
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Regression Using Pairs vs. Regression on Differences: A Real-life Case Study for a Master's Level Methods Class
Daniel R. Jeske & Janet M. Myhre
Pages: 163-168
Published online: 15 Mar 2018
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Short Technical Notes

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An Expression for Fast Computation of Sample Central Moments
Saralees Nadarajah & Rui Li
Pages: 169-171
Published online: 20 Mar 2018
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On the Gaussian Mixture Representation of the Laplace Distribution
Peng Ding & Joseph K. Blitzstein
Pages: 172-174
Published online: 15 Mar 2018
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Statistical Practice

Article
The Tale of Cochran's Rule: My Contingency Table has so Many Expected Values Smaller than 5, What Am I to Do?
P. M. Kroonenberg & Albert Verbeek
Pages: 175-183
Published online: 15 Mar 2018
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Estimating Desired Sample Size for Simple Random Sampling of a Skewed Population
Timothy G. Gregoire & David L. R. Affleck
Pages: 184-190
Published online: 15 Mar 2018
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Interdisciplinary

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A New Lens on High School Dropout: Use of Correspondence Analysis and the Statewide Longitudinal Data System
Kathryn Schaefer Ziemer, Bianica Pires, Vicki Lancaster, Sallie Keller, Mark Orr & Stephanie Shipp
Pages: 191-198
Published online: 05 Jun 2018
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Statistical Computing and Graphics

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Facilitating the Calculation of the Efficient Score Using Symbolic Computing
Alexander B. Sibley, Zhiguo Li, Yu Jiang, Yi-Ju Li, Cliburn Chan, Andrew Allen & Kouros Owzar
Pages: 199-205
Published online: 05 Jun 2018
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Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials

Index
Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials
Pages: 206-212
Published online: 05 Jun 2018
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