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April 2009, Volume 172, Issue 2
- 287-306 Modern statistics: the myth and the magic
by David J. Hand - 307-337 Overeducation and the skills of UK graduates
by Arnaud Chevalier & Joanne Lindley - 339-360 Surveying migrant households: a comparison of census‐based, snowball and intercept point surveys
by David J. McKenzie & Johan Mistiaen - 361-381 Multilevel modelling of refusal and non‐contact in household surveys: evidence from six UK Government surveys
by Gabriele B. Durrant & Fiona Steele - 383-404 Accounting for uncertainty in health economic decision models by using model averaging
by Christopher H. Jackson & Simon G. Thompson & Linda D. Sharples - 405-425 Modelling population‐based cancer survival trends by using join point models for grouped survival data
by Binbing Yu & Lan Huang & Ram C. Tiwari & Eric J. Feuer & Karen A. Johnson - 427-442 Friendship ties and geographical mobility: evidence from Great Britain
by Michèle Belot & John Ermisch - 443-465 Analysing direct effects in randomized trials with secondary interventions: an application to human immunodeficiency virus prevention trials
by Michael Rosenblum & Nicholas P. Jewell & Mark van der Laan & Stephen Shiboski & Ariane van der Straten & Nancy Padian - 467-482 Sir Godfrey Thomson: a statistical pioneer
by David J. Bartholomew & Ian J. Deary & Martin Lawn - 483-493 On square ordinal contingency tables: a comparison of social class and income mobility for the same individuals
by D. R. Cox & Michelle Jackson & Shiwei Lu - 495-510 Cluster designs to assess the prevalence of acute malnutrition by lot quality assurance sampling: a validation study by computer simulation
by Casey Olives & Marcello Pagano & Megan Deitchler & Bethany L. Hedt & Kari Egge & Joseph J. Valadez - 511-528 Multiple imputation for combining confidential data owned by two agencies
by Christine N. Kohnen & Jerome P. Reiter - 530-530 Semi‐supervised Learning
by Niall Adams - 530-530 Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in Actuarial Science
by Sreenivasan Ravi - 530-531 Basic Statistics using SAS Enterprise Guide, a Primer
by Alex Karagrigoriou - 531-532 Book reviews
by Eirini Koutoumanou - 532-532 Book reviews
by Shalabh - 532-533 Book reviews
by Phil Woodward - 533-534 Book reviews
by A. C. Brooms
January 2009, Volume 172, Issue 1
- 1-2 Editorial: Built on firm foundations
by Antony Fielding & Simon Day - 3-20 Joint generalized estimating equations for multivariate longitudinal binary outcomes with missing data: an application to acquired immune deficiency syndrome data
by Stuart R. Lipsitz & Garrett M. Fitzmaurice & Joseph G. Ibrahim & Debajyoti Sinha & Michael Parzen & Steven Lipshultz - 21-47 Bias modelling in evidence synthesis
by Rebecca M. Turner & David J. Spiegelhalter & Gordon C. S. Smith & Simon G. Thompson - 49-66 Local and marginal control charts applied to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia reports in UK acute National Health Service trusts
by O. A. Grigg & D. J. Spiegelhalter & H. E. Jones - 67-81 R×C ecological inference: bounds, correlations, flexibility and transparency of assumptions
by D. James Greiner & Kevin M. Quinn - 83-106 Joint projections of temperature and precipitation change from multiple climate models: a hierarchical Bayesian approach
by Claudia Tebaldi & Bruno Sansó - 107-117 Forecasting obesity trends in England
by Terence C. Mills - 119-136 Models for potentially biased evidence in meta‐analysis using empirically based priors
by N. J. Welton & A. E. Ades & J. B. Carlin & D. G. Altman & J. A. C. Sterne - 137-159 A re‐evaluation of random‐effects meta‐analysis
by Julian P. T. Higgins & Simon G. Thompson & David J. Spiegelhalter - 161-190 Hitting and missing targets by ambulance services for emergency calls: effects of different systems of performance measurement within the UK
by Gwyn Bevan & Richard Hamblin - 191-211 Forecasting murder within a population of probationers and parolees: a high stakes application of statistical learning
by Richard Berk & Lawrence Sherman & Geoffrey Barnes & Ellen Kurtz & Lindsay Ahlman - 213-236 Sequential case series analysis for pharmacovigilance
by Mounia N. Hocine & Patrick Musonda & Nick J. Andrews & C. Paddy Farrington - 237-253 A family of measures to evaluate scale reliability in a longitudinal setting
by Annouschka Laenen & Ariel Alonso & Geert Molenberghs & Tony Vangeneugden - 255-273 Another look into the effect of premarital cohabitation on duration of marriage: an approach based on matching
by Stefano Mazzuco - 275-278 David George Kendall, 1918–2007
by Geoffrey Grimmett - 278-280 C. C. Heyde, 1939–2008
by Joe Gani - 282-282 Design and Analysis of Experiments, vol. I, Introduction to Experimental Designs
by Thomas Hochkirchen - 282-283 Computational Pharmacokinetics
by David Woods - 283-283 Time Series Analysis
by Hassan S. Bakouch - 283-284 Data Analysis and Graphics using R: an Example‐based Approach
by Deven D. Patel - 284-284 Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems
by Fiona McElduff - 285-285 Putting People and Health Needs on the Map
by Mariano Ruiz Espejo
October 2008, Volume 171, Issue 4
- 763-805 Calculating compensation for loss of future earnings: estimating and using work life expectancy
by Zoltan Butt & Steven Haberman & Richard Verrall & Victoria Wass - 807-841 Research prioritization based on expected value of partial perfect information: a case‐study on interventions to increase uptake of breast cancer screening
by N. J. Welton & A. E. Ades & D. M. Caldwell & T. J. Peters - 843-856 The giants of excess: a challenge to the nation's health
by Julian Le Grand - 857-875 Two sides to every story: measuring polarization and inequality in the distribution of work
by Paul Gregg & Jonathan Wadsworth - 877-897 Locally dependent latent class models with covariates: an application to under‐age drinking in the USA
by Beth A. Reboussin & Edward H. Ip & Mark Wolfson - 899-914 Estimating the intensity of conflict in Iraq
by Guy P. Nason & Daniel Bailey - 915-937 Conflicting evidence in a Bayesian synthesis of surveillance data to estimate human immunodeficiency virus prevalence
by A. M. Presanis & D. De Angelis & D. J. Spiegelhalter & S. Seaman & A. Goubar & A. E. Ades - 939-952 Unemployed, uneducated and sick: the effects of socio‐economic status on health duration in the European Union
by D. Cooper & W. D. McCausland & I. Theodossiou - 1029-1030 Obituary: Professor Anders Hald, 1913–2007
by Steffen Lauritzen - 1032-1032 Random Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications
by Jordan Stoyanov - 1032-1033 Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair‐division Procedures
by I. D. Hill - 1033-1034 Saddlepoint Approximations with Applications
by Jordan Stoyanov - 1034-1035 Poverty, Wealth and Place in Britain, 1968–2005
by Judith Corbyn - 1035-1036 Companion to Advanced Mathematics and Statistics
by Usman I. Lula - 1036-1036 Analysing Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves with SAS
by Alex Karagrigoriou - 1037-1037 Bioequivalence Studies in Drug Development: Methods and Applications
by N. T. Longford - 1037-1038 Placing History: how Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship
by Stephen Clark - 1038-1039 Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications
by Thomas Hochkirchen - 1039-1039 Introduction to Statistics for Biology, 3rd edn
by Lallmahomed Naguib - 1039-1040 Missing Data in Clinical Studies
by Shalabh - 1040-1041 Niche Modeling: Predictions from Statistical Distributions
by Ian Vaughan - 1041-1042 Identity in Britain—a Cradle‐to‐grave Atlas
by Judith Corbyn
June 2008, Volume 171, Issue 3
- 509-539 Exit polling in a cold climate: the BBC–ITV experience in Britain in 2005
by John Curtice & David Firth - 541-580 Estimates of human immunodeficiency virus prevalence and proportion diagnosed based on Bayesian multiparameter synthesis of surveillance data
by A. Goubar & A. E. Ades & D. De Angelis & C. A. McGarrigle & C. H. Mercer & P. A. Tookey & K. Fenton & O. N. Gill - 581-613 Design‐based analysis of embedded experiments with applications in the Dutch Labour Force Survey
by Jan A. Van Den Brakel - 615-643 Household debt and financial assets: evidence from Germany, Great Britain and the USA
by Sarah Brown & Karl Taylor - 645-671 Immigrant wage differentials, ethnicity and occupational segregation
by Robert J. R. Elliott & Joanne K. Lindley - 673-697 High wage workers and low wage firms: negative assortative matching or limited mobility bias?
by M. J. Andrews & L. Gill & T. Schank & R. Upward - 699-722 Exploration of associations between governance and economics and country level foot‐and‐mouth disease status by using Bayesian model averaging
by R. B. Garabed & W. O. Johnson & J. Gill & A. M. Perez & M. C. Thurmond - 723-738 Good item or bad—can latent class analysis tell?: the utility of latent class analysis for the evaluation of survey questions
by Frauke Kreuter & Ting Yan & Roger Tourangeau - 739-753 Qualitative longitudinal analysis of symptoms in patients with primary and metastatic brain tumours
by Frank Rijmen & Edward H. Ip & Stephen Rapp & Edward G. Shaw - 756-756 Sample Size Calculations in Clinical Research
by Ian White - 756-757 An Introduction to State Space Time Series Analysis
by Fernando Tusell - 757-758 Randomization Tests
by Andreas Karlsson - 758-758 Statistical Test Theory for the Behavioral Sciences
by Shalabh - 758-759 Negative Binomial Regression
by Fiona McElduff - 759-760 Handbook of Exponential and Related Distributions for Engineers and Scientists
by Quentin L. Burrell - 760-760 A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using Stata
by Diane Berry - 760-761 Matched Sampling for Causal Effects
by Angie Wade - 761-761 Elementary Statistics using JMP
by Naguib Lallmahomed - 761-762 Introduction to Bioinformatics
by Kuldeep Kumar
April 2008, Volume 171, Issue 2
- 319-321 Editorial: Probabilistic forecasting
by Tilmann Gneiting - 323-346 Official statistics, public policy and public trust
by D. Tim Holt - 347-373 A flexible marginal modelling strategy for non‐monotone missing data
by Ivy Jansen & Geert Molenberghs - 375-394 Applying discrete choice models to predict Academy Award winners
by Iain Pardoe & Dean K. Simonton - 395-405 A new approach to investigating spatial variations of disease
by Louise Choo & Stephen G. Walker - 407-432 Cumulative sum schemes for surgical performance monitoring
by Tee‐Chin Chang - 433-448 A response to M. Stone: ‘How not to measure the efficiency of public services (and how one might)’
by W. W. Cooper & Subhash C. Ray - 449-464 Identification of Salmonella high risk pig‐herds in Belgium by using semiparametric quantile regression
by Kaatje Bollaerts & Marc Aerts & Stefaan Ribbens & Yves Van der Stede & Ides Boone & Koen Mintiens - 465-480 Design priorities and disciplinary perspectives: the case of the US National Children's Study
by Robert T. Michael & Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh - 481-502 Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference
by Kosuke Imai & Gary King & Elizabeth A. Stuart - 504-504 Optimum Experimental Designs, with SAS
by Z. Q. John Lu - 504-505 Applied Asymptotics: Case Studies in Small‐sample Statistics
by Andrew Robinson - 505-506 Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models: a Modern Perspective
by Andrew W. Roddam - 506-506 Combinatorics, Complexity, and Chance: a Tribute to Dominic Welsh
by Cedric E. Ginestet - 506-507 Basic Concepts in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
by Matthew J. Gurka - 507-507 Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials
by Lawrence Muthami - 507-508 Approaching Multivariate Analysis: an Introduction for Psychology
by Armando H. Seuc
January 2008, Volume 171, Issue 1
- 1-3 Editorial: The analysis of panel data
by Andrew Hinde - 5-19 Multilevel models for longitudinal data
by Fiona Steele - 21-40 The dynamics of perception: modelling subjective wellbeing in a short panel
by Stephen Pudney - 41-63 Modelling method effects as individual causal effects
by Steffi Pohl & Rolf Steyer & Katrin Kraus - 65-88 Exploring social mobility with latent trajectory groups
by Patrick Sturgis & Louise Sullivan - 89-108 A graphical chain model for reciprocal relationships between women's gender role attitudes and labour force participation
by Ann Berrington & Yongjian Hu & Peter W. F. Smith & Patrick Sturgis - 109-135 Quantifying uncertainty in the biospheric carbon flux for England and Wales
by Marc Kennedy & Clive Anderson & Anthony O'Hagan & Mark Lomas & Ian Woodward & John Paul Gosling & Andreas Heinemeyer - 137-157 The analysis of change, Newton's law of gravity and association models
by Mark de Rooij - 159-178 Hierarchical related regression for combining aggregate and individual data in studies of socio‐economic disease risk factors
by Christopher Jackson & And Nicky Best & Sylvia Richardson - 179-202 Alleviating linear ecological bias and optimal design with subsample data
by Adam N. Glynn & Jon Wakefield & Mark S. Handcock & Thomas S. Richardson - 203-222 Incidence‐based estimates of life expectancy of the healthy for the UK: coherence between transition probabilities and aggregate life‐tables
by Ehsan Khoman & James Mitchell & Martin Weale - 223-237 On the use and evaluation of prospective scan methods for health‐related surveillance
by William H. Woodall & J Brooke Marshall & Michael D. Joner Jr & Shannon E Fraker & Abdel‐Salam G Abdel‐Salam - 239-264 The ‘heuristics and biases’ bias in expert elicitation
by Mary Kynn - 265-277 Model‐based measurement of latent risk in time series with applications
by Frits Bijleveld & Jacques Commandeur & Phillip Gould & Siem Jan Koopman - 279-298 Detecting year‐of‐birth mortality patterns with limited data
by S. J. Richards - 299-308 A joint latent class changepoint model to improve the prediction of time to graft failure
by Francisca Galindo Garre & Aeilko H. Zwinderman & Ronald B. Geskus & Yvo W. J. Sijpkens - 309-309 Obituary: Neil William Please, 1919–2005
by J. I. Galbraith - 312-312 Probability and Statistics for Computer Scientists
by Naguib Lallmahomed - 312-313 Latent Curve Models: a Structural Equation Perspective
by Cedric E. Ginestet - 313-313 Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses
by Philippe Castagliola - 313-314 Compositional Data Analysis in the Geosciences: from Theory to Practice
by R. M. Lark - 314-314 Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials
by Angela Wade - 314-315 A Crash Course in SPSS for Windows: Updated for Versions 10, 11, 12 and 13
by Venkata Putcha - 315-316 Principles of Statistical Inference
by Alan Kimber - 316-316 Bayes Linear Statistics: Theory and Methods
by B. M. Golam Kibria - 317-317 Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate Data Analysis and Interpretation with SPSS
by Venkata Putcha - 317-318 Binomial Models in Finance
by Jordan Stoyanov - 318-318 Linear Mixed Models: a Practical Guide using Statistical Software
by R. Allan Reese
October 2007, Volume 170, Issue 4
- 861-863 Editorial: What to do with missing data?
by Geert Molenberghs - 865-890 A hierarchical modelling framework for identifying unusual performance in health care providers
by David I. Ohlssen & Linda D. Sharples & David J. Spiegelhalter - 891-908 Combining census and registration data to estimate detailed elderly migration flows in England and Wales
by James Raymer & Guy Abel & Peter W. F. Smith - 909-921 The size of under‐reporting bias in recorded transnational terrorist activity
by Konstantinos Drakos - 923-940 Multiple imputation: an alternative to top coding for statistical disclosure control
by Di An & Roderick J. A. Little - 941-954 Modelling the effect of pupil mobility on school differences in educational achievement
by Harvey Goldstein & Simon Burgess & Brendon McConnell - 955-974 Discrete time, discrete state latent Markov modelling for assessing and predicting household acquisitions of financial products
by Leonard J. Paas & Jeroen K. Vermunt & Tammo H. A. Bijmolt - 975-1000 Small area estimates of labour force participation under a multinomial logit mixed model
by Isabel Molina & Ayoub Saei & M. José Lombardía - 1001-1017 A Bayesian model for ranking hazardous road sites
by Tom Brijs & Dimitris Karlis & Filip Van den Bossche & Geert Wets - 1019-1034 Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas: a modelling approach
by Robert Haining & Jane Law - 1035-1059 Avoiding ‘data snooping’ in multilevel and mixed effects models
by David Afshartous & Michael Wolf - 1061-1078 Clustering work and family trajectories by using a divisive algorithm
by Raffaella Piccarreta & Francesco C. Billari - 1178-1178 An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis
by P. Sprent - 1178-1179 DNA Microarrays and Related Genomics Techniques: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation of Experiments
by Z. Q. John Lu - 1179-1179 Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts
by Judith Corbyn - 1179-1180 Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials
by Angela Wade - 1180-1180 Statistique Théorique et Appliquée
by Naguib Lallmahomed - 1180-1181 Statistical Analysis of Medical Data using SAS
by Steff Lewis - 1181-1181 Bayesian Inference for Gene Expression and Proteomics
by Z. Q. John Lu - 1182-1182 Statistical Methods for Spatio‐temporal Systems
by M. Dolores Ugarte - 1182-1183 Bayesian Logical Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences: a Comparative Approach with Mathematica® Support
by Sreenivasan Ravi - 1183-1183 SPSS 14 Made Simple
by Güldem Gökçek - 1183-1184 Probability and Random Processes
by Jordan Stoyanov - 1184-1184 Starter Packs: a Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries?
by Emma Reed - 1184-1185 Uncertain Judgements—Eliciting Experts’ Probabilities
by Gareth Peters - 1185-1186 Presenting Medical Statistics from Proposal to Publication
by S. E. Lazic - 1186-1187 Elements of Distribution Theory
by Hassan S. Bakouch - 1187-1187 Bayesian Networks and Probabilistic Inference in Forensic Science
by L. F. Wright - 1187-1189 Asset Price Dynamics, Volatility, and Prediction
by Anthony F. Gyles - 1189-1189 Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics
by Iain A. Lang - 1189-1190 Modelling Financial Time Series with S‐PLUS
by Kuldeep Kumar
July 2007, Volume 170, Issue 3
- 513-516 Editorial: Knowledge from information
by Scott L. Zeger - 517-579 Statistical issues in first‐in‐man studies
by Stephen Senn & Dipti Amin & Rosemary A. Bailey & Sheila M. Bird & Barbara Bogacka & Peter Colman & Andrew Garrett & Andrew Grieve & Peter Lachmann - 581-622 The teaching of statistics in UK universities
by T. M. F. Smith & L. Staetsky - 623-646 International surveys of educational achievement: how robust are the findings?
by Giorgina Brown & John Micklewright & Sylke V. Schnepf & Robert Waldmann - 647-670 Fitting disposition codes to mobile phone surveys: experiences from studies in Finland, Slovenia and the USA
by Mario Callegaro & Charlotte Steeh & Trent D. Buskirk & Vasja Vehovar & Vesa Kuusela & Linda Piekarski - 671-689 Statistical learning procedures for monitoring regulatory compliance: an application to fisheries data
by Cleridy E. Lennert‐Cody & Richard A. Berk - 691-711 Model comparison for a complex ecological system
by C. A. Ferguson & A. W. Bowman & E. M. Scott & L. Carvalho - 713-733 Coverage and non‐response errors in the UK New Earnings Survey
by Mark Pont - 735-758 Theoretic and empirical data‐inclusive process characterization
by Vladimir B. Bokov - 759-779 Adapting the optimal job search model for active labour market policy
by Richard J. Boys & Peter J. Dolton & Neil R. Walker - 781-799 Marital disruption and economic well‐being: a comparative analysis
by Arnstein Aassve & Gianni Betti & Stefano Mazzuco & Letizia Mencarini - 801-824 The effect of school resources on pupil attainment: a multilevel simultaneous equation modelling approach
by Fiona Steele & Anna Vignoles & Andrew Jenkins - 825-839 Who captures the marks for the Petersen estimator?
by I. B. J. Goudie & M. Goudie - 841-850 A modification of Honoré’s triple‐link model in the synoptic problem
by Andris Abakuks - 851-852 Obituary: William Frederick Fenn Kemsley, MA, 1914–2006
by F. E. Whitehead - 854-854 Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods 2nd edn
by Richard Penny - 854-855 Basic Statistics and Pharmaceutical Statistical Applications, 2nd edn
by Isaac Dialsingh - 855-856 Generalized Linear Models with Random Effects: Unified Analysis via H‐likelihood
by Andrew Robinson - 856-856 Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology
by Andrew Robinson - 856-857 Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis
by Andreas Karlsson - 857-858 Statistical Inference Based on Divergence Measures
by Z. Q. John Lu - 858-858 Gaussian Markov Random Fields: Theory and Applications
by Peter Congdon - 858-860 Data Analysis of Asymmetric Structures
by Gérard D'Aubigny
March 2007, Volume 170, Issue 2
- 263-266 Editorial: Census present and future
by D. J. Martin - 267-300 Enhancing statistical education by using role‐plays of consultations
by Ross Taplin - 301-354 Model‐based clustering for social networks
by Mark S. Handcock & Adrian E. Raftery & Jeremy M. Tantrum - 355-378 Census data issues for epidemiology and health risk assessment: experiences from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit
by David Briggs & Daniela Fecht & Kees De Hoogh - 379-403 Creating the UK National Statistics 2001 output area classification
by Dan Vickers & Phil Rees - 405-424 Ghettos of the mind: the empirical behaviour of indices of segregation and diversity
by Ludi Simpson - 425-445 Understanding the 2001 UK census migration and commuting data: the effect of small cell adjustment and problems of comparison with 1991
by John Stillwell & Oliver Duke‐Williams - 447-467 Using the 2001 census to study human capital movements affecting Britain's larger cities: insights and issues
by Tony Champion & Mike Coombes - 469-481 Increasing social mobility: an effective policy to reduce health inequalities
by Mel Bartley & Ian Plewis - 483-501 Information integration for constructing social statistics: history, theory and ideas towards a research programme
by D. H. Judson - 504-504 Probability and Random Variables by G. P. Beaumont
by Sreenivasan Ravi - 504-504 Sampling Methods: Exercises and Solutions by P. Ardilly and Y. Tillé
by Isaac Dialsingh - 504-505 Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials by D. L. DeMets, C. D. Furberg and L. M. Friedman
by Andrea Le Fevre - 505-506 Statistics for Real‐life Sample Surveys by S. Dorofeev and P. Grant
by Mariano Ruiz Espejo - 506-506 A Kalman Filter Primer by R. L. Eubank
by Byron J. T. Morgan - 506-507 A Handbook of Statistical Analysis using R by B. S. Everitt and T. Hothorn
by Thomas Hochkirchen - 507-507 Design of Experiments for Agriculture and the Natural Sciences, 2nd edn by A. R. Hoshmand
by M. Dolores Ugarte