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The American Statistician CONTENTS OF VOLUME 45 Numbers 1—4 Editor’s Invited Column Commentaries 76, 161, 248, 342 General Articles 2, 83, 173, 265 Letters to the Editor 163, 256, 347 Teacher’s Corner - 35, 121, 214, 290 Corrections Accent on Teaching Materials 64, 141 Editorial Collaborators Statistical Computing 66, 146, 234, 302 Index to Volume 45 Editor’s Notes 3 Articles, by Author Statistical Computing Software Reviewed, by Author Software Reviews 68, 146, 243, 305 Reviewers New Developments in Statistical Computing 74, 154, 245, 338 INDEX TO VOLUME 45 (1991) ARTICLES, BY AUTHORS Alexander, William P., “MATRIX: An Interpreted Matrix — Charles L., “Precise Simulated Percentiles in a Pinch,” Language,” 154 Altenburg, H.-P., and Rosenkranz, G., “Analysis of Quantal Dupont, William D., and Plummer, Walton D., Jr., and Quantitative Dose-Response Data Using SAS,” 159 “POWER.FOR: A Computer Program for Power and Sam- Ames, Michael H., and Webster, John T., “On Estimating ple Size Calculations,” 158 Approximate Degrees of Freedom,” 45 Edlefsen, Lee E., “Axum Technical Graphics and Data Anal- Arndt, Stephan, and Woolson, Robert F., “Establishing a ysis,” 157 Biostatistical Core Unit in a Clinical Research Center,” 22 Elswick, R. K., Jr., Gennings, Chris, Chinchilli, Vernon M., Bartels, Robert, and Fiebig, Denzil G., “A Simple Charac- and Dawson, Kathryn S., “A Simple Approach for Finding terization of Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Models in Estimable Functions in Linear Models,” 51 Which OLS Is BLUE,” 137 Emrich, Lawrence J., and Piedmonte, Marion R., “A Method Bassett, Gilbert W., Jr., “Equivariant, Monotonic, 50% for Generating High-Dimensional Multivariate Binary Var- Breakdown Estimators,” 135; Letter to the Editor, 260 iates,” 302 Baxter, Laurence A., Letter to the Editor, 168 Farnum, Nicholas R., Letters to the Editor, 260, 348 Benfield, John R. (see Hill, L. Robert) Fiebig, Denzil G. (see Bartels, Robert) Bisgaard, Sgren, “Teaching Statistics to Engineers,” 274 Finn, Jeremy D., and Bock, R. Darrell, “Multivariance PC,” Bock, R. Darrell (see Finn, Jeremy D.) 247 Boyer, John E., Jr. (see Wasserstein, Ronald L.) Fleming, Neil S., Letter to the Editor, 261 Bradley, Ronan (see Haslett, John) Fong, Duncan K. H., Letter to the Editor, 348 Bross, Irwin D., Letter to the Editor, 163 Foulley, Jean-Louis (see Gianola, Daniel) Brown, Barry W., Gutierrez, David, and Spears, Martin F., Fox, David A., Correction, 172 “STATTAB,” 157 Fried, Bruce (see Cockerill, Rhonda) Brunelle, Rocco L., “Breeze/STAT,” 246 Gabriel, K. Ruben, “Using the ‘Against All Odds’ Video Se- Chaganty, N. R. (see Morgan, J. P.) ries in an Introductory Statistics Course,” 142; see also Choi, Chester, Alexander J. (see Wolfe, Nicholas A.) Sungsub Chevan, Albert, and Sutherland, Michae!, “Hierarchical Par- Gabriel, K. Ruben, Knapp, Thomas R., McNamara, James, titioning,” 90 Rose, Donna, and Wetzstein, Carl, “Review of the ‘Against Chib, Siddhartha, and Tiwari, Ram C., “Extreme Bounds All Odds’ Videotaped Programs,” 141 Analysis in the Kalman Filter,” 113 Gan, F. F., Koehler, Kenneth J., and Thompson, John C., Chinchilli, Vernon M. (see Elswick, R. K., Jr.) “Probability Plots and Distribution Curves for Assessing the Choi, Sungsub, Gabriel, K. Ruben, and Odoroff, Charles L., Fit of Probability Models,” 14 “LORANK: A Package for Lower Rank Approximation of Gans, Daniel J., Letter to the Editor, 258 Matrices,” 246 Garfield, Eugene, Letter to the Editor, 168 Chottiner, Sherman, Letter to the Editor, 169 Gaudard, Marie, and Hahn, Gerald J., “An Undergraduate Chua, Tin Chiu (see Mee, Robert W.) Concentration in Applied Statistics for Mathematics Ma- Cockerill, Rhonda, and Fried, Bruce, “Increasing Public jors,” 115 Awareness of Statistics as a Science and a Profession— Gelman, Andrew, and Meng, Xiao-Li, “A Note on Bivariate Reinforcing the Message in Universities,” 174 Distributions That Are Conditionally Normal,” 125 Cohen, Ayala, “Dummy Variables in Stepwise Regression,” Gennings, Chris, (see Elswick, R. K., Jr.) 226 Gianola, Daniel, and Foulley, Jean-Louis, Letter to the Editor, Craig, Peter (see Haslett, John) 168 Dahiya, R. C. (see Morgan, J. P.) Gibbons, Jean D., Letter to the Editor, 171 Dallal, Gerard E., “LMS: Least Median of Squares Regres- Goddard, M. J., “Constructing Some Categorical Anomalies,” sion,” 74 129 David, H. A., Letter to the Editor, 257 Good, I. J., Letter to the Editor, 168 Dawkins, Brian, “Siobhan’s Problem: The Coupon Collector Greenland, Sander, “On the Logical Justification of Condi- Revisited,” 76 tional Tests for Two-By-Two Contingency Tables,” 248 Dawson, Kathryn-S. (see Elswick, R. K., Jr.) Gregoire, Timothy G. (see Reynolds, Marion R.) Dawson-Saunders, Beth, Jones, Paul K., and Verhulst, Steven Groeneveld, Richard A., “An Influence Function Approach to J., Letter to the Editor, 164 Describing the Skewness of a Distribution,” 97; Letter to Dharmadhikari, Sudhakar, Letter to the Editor, 257 the Editor, 259 Doviak, M. J. (see Morgan, J. P.) Gutierrez, David (see Brown, Barry W.) Dueker, Marilynn S., and ,Spirer, Herbert F., “Statistical Guitorp, Peter (see Sampson, Paul D.) Computer Teaching Package: ISP,” 64 Hahn, Gerald J. (see Gaudard, Marie) © 199] American Statistical Association The American Statistician, November 1991, Vol. 45, No. 4 351 Hammond, William G. (see Hill, L. Robert) Pena, Daniel, and Tiao, George C., “A Note on Likelihood Haslett, John, Bradley, Ronan, Craig, Peter, Unwin, Antony, Estimation of Missing Values in Time Series,” 212 and Wills, Graham, “Dynamic Graphics for Exploring Spa- Penner, Ralph, and Watts, Donald G., “Mining Information,” tial Data With Application to Locating Global and Local 4 Anomalies,” 234 Pérez-Abreu, Victor, “Poisson Approximation to Power Series Haunsperger, Deanna B., and Saari, Donald G., “The Lack Distribution,” 42 of Consistency for Statistical Decision Procedures,” 252 Piedmonte, Marion R. (see Emrich, Lawrence J.) Hawkins, Douglas M., “FIRM: Formal Inference-Based Re- Piepel, Gregory, Letter to the Editor, 261 cursive Modeling,” 155 Plummer, Walton D., Jr. (see Dupont, William D.) He, Xuming, Letter to the Editor, 260 Pétscher, B. M., Letter to the Editor, 171 Herzberg, Paul A., Letter to the Editor, 169 Prosser, Bob, “ML3: Software for Three-Level Analysis,” 155 Hill, L. Robert, Hammond, William G., and Benfield, John Radke-Sharpe, Norean, “Writing As a Component of Statistics R., “Logistic Regression Analysis in Experimental Bron- Education,” 292 chial Carcinogenesis,” 184 Rae, Gordon, and Spencer, John E., “Average Spearman’s Hogg, Robert V., “Statistical Education: Improvements Are Rho, Concordance, and the Matching Problem: Some Re- Badly Needed,” 342 lationships,” 161 Holland, Burt, Letter to the Editor, 165 Reynolds, Marion R., Jr., and Gregoire, Timothy G., Letter Howard, Lesley (see Schwertman, Neil C.) to the Editor, 164 Howlader, Hatem A., Letter to the Editor, 259 Ringel, Emanuel, and Mode, Charles, “APL Software for Dis- Hsieh, F. Y., “SSIZE: A Sample Size Program for Clinical crete Semi-Markov and Population Process Computations and Epidemiologic Studies,” 338 and Monte Carlo Simulation,” 160 Hurvich, C. M., and Tsai, C. L., Letter to the Editor, 172 Rose, Donna (see Gabriel, K. Ruben) Intarapanich, Pichai (see Searls, Donald T.) Rosenkranz, G. (see Altenburg, H.-P.) Jones, Lyle V., Letter to the Editor, 256 Ruberg, S. J. (see Mason, R. L.) Jones, Paul K. (see Dawson-Saunders, Beth) Russell, K. G., “Estimating the Value of e by Simulation,” Kahn, Jeffrey A., “@Library—Statistical Applications— 66 Technical Description (for Lotus 1-2-3 and Symphony),” Saari, Donald G. (see Haunsperger, Deanna B.) 156 Samanta, M. (see Schwarz, Carl J.) Kedem, Benjamin, Letter to the Editor, 256 Sampson, Paul D., and Guttorp, Peter, “Power Transforma- Kemp, Adrienne W., and Kemp, David C., “Weldon’s Dice tions and Tests of Environmental Impact as Interaction Ef- Data Revisited,” 216 fects,” 83 Kemp, David C. (see Kemp, Adrienne W.) Samuels, Myra L., “Statistical Reversion Toward the Mean: Khamis, H. J., “Manual Computations—A Tool for Rein- More Universal Than Regression Toward the Mean,” 344 forcing Concepts and Techniques,” 294 Sanders, William L., (see McLean, Robert A.) Kirk, Roger E., “Statistical Consulting in a University: Deal- Sapra, Sunil K., “A Connection Between the Logit Model, ing With People and Other Challenges,” 28 Normal Discriminated Analysis, and Multivariate Normal Knapp, Thomas R. (see Gabriel, K. Ruben) Mixtures,” 265 Koehler, Kenneth J. (see Gan, F. F.) Saville, Dave, Letter to the Editor, 166 Korn, Edward L., and Simon, Richard, “Explained Residual Schechtman, Edna, “On Estimating the Asymptotic Variance Variation, Explained Risk, and Goodness of Fit,” 201 of a Function of U Statistics,” 103 Kott, Phillip, S., “A Model-Based Look at Linear Regression Schor, Stanley S., Letter to the Editor, 164 With Survey Data,” 107 Schucany, William R., Editorial, 263 Le, Chap T., Letter to the Editor, 17] Schwarz, Carl J., and Samanta, M., “An Inductive Proof of Lea, Per, Letter to the Editor, 165 the Sampling Distributions for the MLE’s of the Parameters Madsen, Richard, “On the Probability of a Perfect Progres- in an Inverse Gaussian Distribution,” 223 sion,” 214 Schwertman, Neil C., McCready, Thomas A., and Howard, Mallows, Colin, Letter to the Editor, 257 Lesley, “Probability Models for the NCAA Regional Bas- Markowski, Carol A., and Markowski, Edward P., Letter to ketball Tournaments,” 35 the Editor, 258 Scott, Alastair, and Wild, Chris, “Transformations and R7,” Markowski, Edward P. (see Markowski, Carol A.) 127 Mason, R. L., McKenzie, J. D., Jr., and Ruberg, S. J., Cor- Searls, Donald T., and Intarapanich, Pichai, Letter to the Ed- rection, 82 itor, 259 McCready, Thomas A. (see Schwertman, Neil C.) Seymann, Richard G., Comment, 287 McKenzie, J. D., Jr. (see Mason, R. L.) Shaffer, Juliet Popper, “The Gauss—Markov Theorem and McLean, Robert A., Sanders, William L., and Stroup, Walter Random Regressors,” 269 W., “A Unified Approach to Mixed Linear Models,” 54 Shah, Arvind, K., “Relationship Between the Coefficients of McNamara, James (see Gabriel, K. Ruben) Determination of Algebraically Related Models,” 300 Mee, Robert W., and Chua, Tin Chiu, “Regression Toward Shuster, Jonathan J., “The Statistician in a Reverse Cocaine the Mean and the Paired Sample ¢ Test,” 39 Sting,” 123 Mehta, Cyrus R., “StatXact: A Statistical Package for Exact Simon, Richard (see Korn, Edward L.) Nonparametric Inference,” 74 Singer, Judith D., and Willett, John B., Letter to the Editor, Meng, Xiao-Li (see Gelman, Andrew) 170 Mode, Charles (see Ringel, Emanuel) Spears, Martin F. (see Brown, Barry W.) Molnar, Laszl6, “LOGLINDI: Log-Linear Discriminant Anal- Spencer, John E. (see Rae, Gordon) ysis,” 339 Spirer, Herbert F. (see Dueker, Marilynn S.) Morgan, J. P., Chaganty, N. R., Dahiya, R. C., and Doviak, Stern, Hal, “On the Probability of Winning a Football Game,” M. J., “Let’s Make a Deal: The Player’s Dilemma,” 284; 179 Rejoinder, 289; Letter to the Editor, 347 Stroup, Walter W. (see McLean, Robert A.) Mulitze, D. K. (see Stroup, W. W.) Stroup, W. W., and Mulitze, D. K., “Nearest Neighbor Ad- Murty, Vedula N., Letter to the Editor, 257 justed Best Linear Unbiased Prediction,” 194 Obenchain, Bob “Ridge Regression Systems for MS-DOS Sutherland, Michael (see Chevan, Albert) Personal Computers,” 245 Tepping, Benjamin J., and Waksberg, Joseph, “Morris H. O’Cinneide, Colm, Letter to the Editor, 258 Hansen, 1910-1990,” 2 Odoroff, Charles L. (see Choi, Sungsub) Thisted, Ronald A., Letter to the Editor, 170 O’Gorman, Thomas W., and Woolson, Robert F., “Variable Thompson, John C. (see Gan, F. F.) Selection to Discriminate Between Two Groups: Stepwise Tiao, George C. (see Peta, Daniel) Logistic Regression or Stepwise Discriminant Analysis?” 187 Tibshirani, S. N., “GAIM Version i.0: A Package For Gen- Oksanen, E. H., “A Simple Approach to Teaching General- eralized Additive Models,” 339 ized Least Squares Theory,” 229 Tiwari, Ram C. (see Chib, Siddhartha) Peixoto, Julio L., Correction, 82 Tsai, C. L. (see Hurvich, C. M.) 352 The American Statistician, November 1991, Vol. 45, No. 4 Unwin, Antony, “Diamond Fast: Interactive Graphics for Time Wetzstein, Carl (see Gabriel, K. Ruben) Series,” 340 (see also Haslett, John) Wild, Chris (see Scott, Alastair) Uyar, Biilent, Letter to the Editor, 262 Willett, John B. (see Singer, Judith D.) Verhulst, Steven J. (see Dawson-Saunders, Beth) Williams, Richard H., “Multiple Comparisons Among Cor- Visart, N., “Internationally Developed Data Analysis and relation Coefficients,” 341 Management Software,” 340 Wills, Graham (see Haslett, John) vos Savant, Marilyn, Letter to the Editor, 347 Wilson, Hoyt G., “Electronic Tables: Exact Probabilities and Waksberg, Joseph (see Tepping, Benjamin J.) Percentage Points,” 341 Wann, Marie D., “A. Ross Eckler, 1901-1991,” 173 Wolfe, Nicholas A., and Chester, AlexandeJr. , “SIMCLUST: Wasserstein, Ronald L., and Boyer, John E., Jr., “Bounds on A Cluster Analysis Program for Ecological Data,” 158 the Power of Linear Rank Tests for Scale Parameters,” 10 Woolson, Robert F. (see Arndt, Stephan; O’Gorman, Thomas Watts, Donald G., “Why Is Introductory Statistics Difficult to W.) Learn? And What Can We Do To Make It Easier?” 290; Zehna, Peter W., “On Proving That X and S* are Indepen- see also Penner, Ralph dent,” 121 Webster, John T. (see Ames, Michael H.) Zurawski, John, “GENSTAT 5: Recent Developments,” 160 SOFTWARE REVIEWED, BY AUTHOR Abacus Concepts, “StatView II and SuperANOVA,” Al M. Newton, H. Joseph, “TIMESLAB: A Time Series Labora- Best and David Morganstein, 318 tory,” Jonathan D. Dryer, 243 Ashton-Tate Corporation, “dBase Stats,” David Morganstein, Nishisato, Ira (see Nishisato, Shizuhiko) 316 Nishisato, Shizuhiko, and Nishisato, Ira, “Dual 3 (Version 3.2)” BASS Institute, Inc., “BASS, Version 88.10,” Barbara L. Donna L. Hoffman, 305 Mann, 149 Numerical Algorithms Group, “Genstat 5,” Richard M. Hei- BLSS Project, “The Berkeley Interactive Statistical System berger, 311 (BLSS 4.1),” Richard L. Cook, 146 SAS Institute, Inc., “JMP,” Al M. Best and David Morgan- BMDP Statistical Software, Inc., “EQS (Version 3.0),” Ken- stein, 318 neth A. Bollen and Kwok-fai Ting, 68 Scientific Software, Inc. “LISREL (Version 7.16),” Kenneth Cytel Software Corporation, “StatXact,” James C. Lynch, J. A. Bollen and Kwok-fai Ting, 68 Richard Landis, and A. Russell Localio, 151 Smith, Scott M., “PC-MDS (Version 5.0),” Donna L. Hoff- Data Description, Inc., “Data Desk,” Al M. Best and David man, 305 Morganstein, 318 Strategic Mapping, “Exstatix,” Al M. Best and David Mor- Goodnow, Wilma Elizabeth, “~MAPWISE 1988 (Version 2.01), ganstein, 318 Donna L. Hoffman, 305 Systat Inc., “Fastat,” Al M. Best and David Morganstein, 318 Greenacre, Michael J., “SimCA (Version 1.5),” Donna L. Hoffman, 305 REVIEWERS Best, Al M., 318 Cryer, Jonathan D., 243 Landis, J. Richard, 151 Mann, Barbara L., 149 Bollen, Kenneth A. 68 Heiberger, Richard M., 311 Localio, A. Russell, 151 Morganstein, David, 316, 318 Cook, Richard L., 146 Hoffman, Donna L., 305 Lynch, James C., 151 Ting, Kwok-fai, 68 The American Statisiician, November 1991, Vol. 45, No. 4 353