The American Statistician, Volume 75, Issue 2 (2021)

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The American Statistician, Volume 75, Issue 2 (2021)

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Article
The Mean Relative Entropy: An Invariant Measure of Estimation Error
Jin Zhang
Pages: 117-123
Published online: 25 Apr 2019
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Slugging Percentage Is Not a Percentage—And Why That Matters
Douglas VanDerwerken
Pages: 124-127
Published online: 20 May 2019
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Toward Replicability With Confidence Intervals for the Exceedance Probability
Brian D. Segal
Pages: 128-138
Published online: 22 Nov 2019
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A Problem of Distributive Justice, Solved by the Lasso
Philip T. Reiss
Pages: 139-144
Published online: 02 Dec 2019
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A Robustified Posterior for Bayesian Inference on a Large Number of Parallel Effects
J. G. Liao, Arthur Berg & Timothy L. McMurry
Pages: 145-151
Published online: 14 Jan 2020
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Bayes Factors for Testing Order Constraints on Variances of Dependent Outcomes
Florian Böing-Messing & Joris Mulder
Pages: 152-161
Published online: 12 Feb 2020
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Visually Communicating and Teaching Intuition for Influence Functions
Aaron Fisher & Edward H. Kennedy
Pages: 162-172
Published online: 25 Feb 2020
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Interdisciplinary

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Does Home Health Care Increase the Probability of 30-Day Hospital Readmissions? Interpreting Coefficient Sign Reversals, or Their Absence, in Binary Logistic Regression Analysis
Alecos Papadopoulos & Roland B. Stark
Pages: 173-184
Published online: 23 Jan 2020
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Statistical Computing and Graphics

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Making Recursive Bayesian Inference Accessible
Mevin B. Hooten, Devin S. Johnson & Brian M. Brost
Pages: 185-194
Published online: 16 Oct 2019
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Statistical Practice

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Harmonizing Optimized Designs With Classic Randomization in Experiments
Adam Kapelner, Abba M. Krieger, Michael Sklar, Uri Shalit & David Azriel
Pages: 195-206
Published online: 21 Feb 2020
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March Madness “Anomalies”: Are They Real, and If So, Can They Be Explained?
Dale L. Zimmerman, Nathan D. Zimmerman & Joshua T. Zimmerman
Pages: 207-216
Published online: 21 Feb 2020
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Teacher's Corner

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The Lorenz Curve in the Classroom
Roberta La Haye & Petr Zizler
Pages: 217-225
Published online: 19 Oct 2020
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Further Examples Related to Correlations Between Variables and Ranks
Chunming Zhang
Pages: 226-229
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND TEACHING MATERIALS

Book Review
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
by Scott E. Page. New York: Basic Books, 2018, xiii+427 pp., $32.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-46-509462-2
Edward L. Boone
Pages: 230-231
Published online: 10 May 2021
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SAS for Mixed Models: Introduction and Basic Applications
by Walter W. Stroup, George A. Milliken, Elizabeth A. Claassen, and Russell D. Wolfinger. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, 2018, xii+594 pp., $105.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-63-526135-6
Christine R. Wells
Page: 231
Published online: 10 May 2021
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Book Review
x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
by Eugenia Cheng. New York: Basic Books, 2020, x+272 pp., $28.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-54-164650-6
Christina P. Knudson
Pages: 232-233
Published online: 10 May 2021
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