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The American Statistician CONTENTS OF VOLUME 53 (Numbers 1-4) Special Section—Undergraduate Statistics: What Should Change? ... 1 PUUGR OUI MUNN TE ON ei ktoe i le 147 OMNUERCE PUMCUniCisn sE sik iso dds vata eusensda vcn e e: BOY aT, ee Statistical Computing Software Reviews.................... 149, 282 RN NIN 200s 55.090 ws 'ze e riisieStae nant 43, 99, 203, 307 Letters to the Editor 173, 295, 393 Teacher’s Corner 267, 370 Editor’s Report 175, 297 Statistical Computing and Graphics ................ 73, 140, 276, 382 NNN TIUNNINN Shao 5se,c hs asli as Ha eOeoina A Soleo eeu eek 394 Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials 85, 170, 291, 388 Ne NI aie os 68 5 Rae Aun DENK DARA ean Goa enas 396 INDEX TO VOLUME 53 (1999) ARTICLES (BY AUTHOR) Amaratunga, Dhammika, “Searching for the Right Sample Size,” 52 Goutis, Constantino, and Casella, George, “Explaining the Saddlepoint Ap- Anderson, Jon E., and Sungur, Engin A., “Community Service Statistics proximation,” 216 Projects,” 132 Groeneveld, Richard A., Discussion of Higgins, James J., and Hogg, Robert Au, Chi, and Tam, Judy, “Transforming Variables Using the Dirac Gener- V., 23 alized Function,” 270 Hahn, Gerald J., Hill, William J., Hoerl, Roger W., and Zinkgraf, Stephen Barr, Donald R., and Sherrill, E. Todd, “Mean and Variance of Truncated A., “The Impact of Six Sigma Improvement—A Glimpse Into the Future Normal Distributions,” 357 of Statistics,” 208 Bolton, Richard J., and Krzanowski, Wojtek J., “A Characterization of Haslett, John (see Hayes, Kevin) Principal Components for Projection Pursuit,” 108 Hayes, Kevin, and Haslett, John, “Simplifying General Least Squares,” 376 Boronico, Jess S., “Multi-Tiered Playoffs and Their Impact on Professional Hengartner, Nicolas W., “A Note on Maximum Likelihood Estimation,” Baseball,” 56 123 Bryce, G. Rex, Discussion of Higgins, James J., and Hogg, Robert V., 21 Higgins, James J., “Nonmathematical Statistics: A New Direction for the Casella, George (see Goutis, Constantino) Undergraduate Discipline,” 1; Reply, 26 Chambers, John, “Computing With Data: Concepts and Challenges,” 73 Hill, William J. (see Hahn, Gerald J.) Chatterjee, Sangit, and Yilmaz, Mustafa R., “The NBA as an Evolving Hoerl, Roger W. (see Hahn, Gerald J.) Multivariate System,” 257 Hogg, Robert V., “Let’s Use CQI in Our Statistics Programs,” 7; Reply 27 Chen, Xun (see Levin, Bruce) Horton, Nicholas J., and Lipsitz, Stuart R., “Review of Software to Fit Choudhury, Askar H., Hubata, Robert, and St. Louis, Robert D., “Under- Generalized Estimating Equation Regression Models,” 160 standing Time-Series Regression Estimators,” 342 Hubata, Robert (see Choudhury, Askar H.) Chun, Young H., “On the Information Economics Approach to the Gen- Hui, Siu L. (see Zhou, Xiao-Hua) eralized Game Show Problem,” 43 Huzurbazar, S., “Practical Saddlepoint Approximations,” 225 Clemons, Traci, and Pagano, Marcello, “Are Babies Normal?” 298 Jones, M. C., “Distributional Relationships Arising From Simple Trigono- Cobb, George W., Discussion of Higgins, James J., and Hogg, Robert V., metric Formulas,” 99 16 Jong, Jyh-Cherng, and Kotz, Samuel, “On a Relation Between Principal Cohen, Ayala (see Shmueli, Galit) Components and Regression Analysis,” 349 Cook, R. Dennis, and Weisberg, Sanford, “Graphs in Statistical Analysis: Kenward, Michael G. (see Molenberghs, Geert) Is the Medium the Message?” 29 Kimeldorf, George (see Gautam, Shiva) Czitrom, Veronica, “One-Factor-at-a-Time Versus Designed Experiments,” Kotz, Samuel (see Jong, Jyh-Cherng) 126 Krzanowski, Wojtek J. (see Bolton, Richard J.) Dodge, Yadolah, and Rousson, Valentin, “The Complications of the Fourth Kuczmarski, James G., and Rosenbaum, Paul R., “Quantile Plots, Partial Orders, and Financial Risk,” 239 Central Moment,” 267 Kupper, Lawrence L. (see Lyles, Robert H.) Donahue, Rafe M. J., “A Note on Information Seldom Reported Via the Landwehr, James M., Editor’s Report for 1998, 175 P Value,” 303 Landwehr, James M., Editor’s Report, 297 Driscoll, Michael F., “An Improved Result Relating Quadratic Forms and Langenberg, Patricia (see Wilson, P. David) Chi-Square Distributions,” 273 Lavine, Michael, and Schervish, Mark J., “Bayes Factors: What They Are DuMouchel, William, “Bayesian Data Mining in Large Frequency Tables, and What They Are Not,” 119 With an Application to the FDA Spontaneous Reporting System,” 177; Levin, Bruce, and Chen, Xun, “Is the One-Half Continuity Correction Reply 201 Used Once or Twice to Derive a Well-Known Approximate Sample Size Dunn, Peter K., “Three Tools for Interactively Visualizing Some Distribu- Formula to Compare Two Independent Binomial Distributions,” 62 tion Theory Concepts,” 137 Lipsitz, Stuart R. (see Horton, Nicholas J.) Gautam, Shiva, and Kimeldorf, George, “Some Results on the Maximal Lipsitz, Stuart R. (see Molenberghs, Geert) Correlation in 2 x k Contingency Tables,” 336 Louis, Thomas A., and Shen, Wei, Discussion of DuMouchel, William, Goetghebeur, Els. J. T. (see Molenberghs, Geert) 196 396 The American Statistician, November 1999, Vol. 53, No. 4 © 1999 American Statistical Association