The American Statistician, Volume 72, Issue 4 (2018)

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GENERAL

Article
Bayesian Inference for Kendall’s Rank Correlation Coefficient
Johnny van Doorn, Alexander Ly, Maarten Marsman & Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Pages: 303-308
Published online: 26 Jan 2018
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Optimal Whitening and Decorrelation
Agnan Kessy, Alex Lewin & Korbinian Strimmer
Pages: 309-314
Published online: 26 Jan 2018
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A “Paradox” in Confidence Interval Construction Using Sufficient Statistics
Weizhen Wang
Pages: 315-320
Published online: 10 May 2018
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A Survey of Reporting Practices of Computer Simulation Studies in Statistical Research
Michael Harwell, Nidhi Kohli & Yadira Peralta-Torres
Pages: 321-327
Published online: 11 Jun 2018
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A Simple and Effective Inequality Measure
Luke A. Prendergast & Robert G. Staudte
Pages: 328-343
Published online: 04 Jun 2018
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STATISTICAL PRACTICE

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On Mixture Alternatives and Wilcoxon’s Signed-Rank Test
Jonathan D. Rosenblatt & Yoav Benjamini
Pages: 344-347
Published online: 08 Jun 2018
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An Improved Boxplot for Univariate Data
M. L. Walker, Y. H. Dovoedo, S. Chakraborti & C. W. Hilton
Pages: 348-353
Published online: 17 Jul 2018
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TEACHER'S CORNER

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An Innovative Classroom Approach for Developing Critical Thinkers in the Introductory Statistics Course
Sherri Cheng, Mark Ferris & Jessica Perolio
Pages: 354-358
Published online: 14 Nov 2018
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Teaching Ethics in a Statistics Curriculum with a Cross-Cultural Emphasis
Alan C. Elliott, S. Lynne Stokes & Jing Cao
Pages: 359-367
Published online: 10 May 2018
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A Bayesian Survival Analysis of a Historical Dataset: How Long Do Popes Live?
Julian Stander, Luciana Dalla Valle & Mario Cortina-Borja
Pages: 368-375
Published online: 10 May 2018
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SHORT TECHNICAL NOTE

Article
Taylor's Law Holds for Finite OEIS Integer Sequences and Binomial Coefficients
Simon Demers
Pages: 376-378
Published online: 11 Jun 2018
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Note
Model Selection and Regression t-Statistics
DeWayne Derryberry, Ken Aho, John Edwards & Teri Peterson
Pages: 379-381
Published online: 09 Jul 2018
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DATA SCIENCE

Article
A Guide to Teaching Data Science
Stephanie C. Hicks & Rafael A. Irizarry
Pages: 382-391
Published online: 14 Nov 2018
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COMMENT

Discussion
Comment on Knaeble and Dutter (2017)
Ronald Christensen
Pages: 392-393
Published online: 14 Nov 2018
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Corrigenda

Correction
Corrigenda
Page: 394
Published online: 14 Nov 2018
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