Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 2008

Volume 171 (Part 4 - October 2008)

Original articles

• BUTT Zoltan, HABERMAN Steven, VERRALL Richard, WASS Victoria - Calculating compensation for loss of future earnings: estimating and using work life expectancy, pp. 763-805
• WELTON N. J., ADES A. E., CALDWELL D. M., PETERS T. J. Peters - Research prioritization based on expected value of partial perfect information: a case-study on interventions to increase uptake of breast cancer screening, pp. 807-841
• LE GRAND Julian - The giants of excess: a challenge to the nation's health, pp. 843-856
• GREGG Paul, WADSWORTH Jonathan - Two sides to every story: measuring polarization and inequality in the distribution of work, pp. 857-875
• REBOUSSIN Beth A., IP Edward H., WOLFSON Mark - Locally dependent latent class models with covariates: an application to under-age drinking in the USA, pp. 877-897
• NASON Guy P., BAILEY Daniel - Estimating the intensity of conflict in Iraq, pp. 899-914
• PRESANIS A. M., DE ANGELIS D., SPIEGELHALTER D. J., SEAMAN S., GOUBAR A., ADES A. E. - Conflicting evidence in a Bayesian synthesis of surveillance data to estimate human immunodeficiency virus prevalence, pp. 915-937
• COOPER D., MCCAUSLAND W. D., THEODOSSIOU I. - Unemployed, uneducated and sick: the effects of socio-economic status on health duration in the European Union, pp. 939-952
• Report of the Council for July—December 2007, pp. 953-1028
• LAURITZEN Steffen - Obituary: Professor Anders Hald, 1913–2007, pp. 1029-1030
  

Book reviews

• STOYANOV Jordan - Random Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications, p. 1032
• HILL I. D. - Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-division Procedures, pp. 1032-1033
• STOYANOV Jordan - Saddlepoint Approximations with Applications, pp. 1033-1034
• CORBYN Judith - Poverty, Wealth and Place in Britain, 1968–2005, pp. 1034-1035
• LULA Usman I. - Companion to Advanced Mathematics and Statistics, pp. 1035-1036
• KARAGRIGORIOU Alex - Analysing Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves with SAS, p. 1036
• LONGFORD N. T. - Bioequivalence Studies in Drug Development: Methods and Applications, p. 1037
• CLARK Stephen - Placing History: how Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship, pp. 1037-1038
• HOCHKIRCHEN Thomas - Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications, pp. 1038-1039
• NAGUIB Lallmahomed - Introduction to Statistics for Biology, 3rd edn., p. 1039
• Missing Data in Clinical Studies, pp. 1039-1040
• VAUGHAN Ian - Niche Modeling: Predictions from Statistical Distributions, pp. 1040-1041
• CORBYN Judith - Identity in Britain—a Cradle-to-grave Atlas, pp. 1041-1042
  

(résumés du n° 4/2008)

Volume 171 (Part 3 - June 2008)

• CURTICE John, FIRTH David - Exit polling in a cold climate: the BBC–ITV experience in Britain in 2005, pp. 509–539
• GOUBAR A., ADES A. E., DE ANGELIS D., MCGARRIGLE C. A., MERCER C. H., TOOKEY P. A., FENTON K., GILL O. N. - Estimates of human immunodeficiency virus prevalence and proportion diagnosed based on Bayesian multiparameter synthesis of surveillance data, pp. 541–580
• VAN DEN BRAKEL Jan A. - Design-based analysis of embedded experiments with applications in the Dutch Labour Force Survey, pp. 581–613
• BROWN Sarah, TAYLOR Karl - Household debt and financial assets: evidence from Germany, Great Britain and the USA, pp. 615–643
• ELLIOTT Robert J. R., LINDLEY Joanne K. - Immigrant wage differentials, ethnicity and occupational segregation, pp. 645–671
• ANDREWS M. J., GILL L., SCHANK T., UPWARD R. - High wage workers and low wage firms: negative assortative matching or limited mobility bias?, pp. 673–697
• GARABED R. B., JOHNSON W. O., GILL J., PEREZ A. M., THURMOND M. C. - Exploration of associations between governance and economics and country level foot-and-mouth disease status by using Bayesian model averaging, pp. 699–722
• KREUTER Frauke, YAN Ting, TOURANGEAU Roger - Good item or bad—can latent class analysis tell?: the utility of latent class analysis for the evaluation of survey questions, pp. 723–738
• RIJMEN Frank, IP Edward H., RAPP Stephen, SHAW Edward G. - Qualitative longitudinal analysis of symptoms in patients with primary and metastatic brain tumours, pp. 739–753

Book reviews

• WHITE Ian - Sample Size Calculations in Clinical Research, p. 756
• TUSELL Fernando - An Introduction to State Space Time Series Analysis, pp. 756–757
• KARLSSON Andreas - Randomization Tests, pp. 757–758
• SHALABH - Statistical Test Theory for the Behavioral Sciences, p. 758
  
• MCELDUFF Fiona - Negative Binomial Regression, pp. 758–759
• BURRELL Quentin L. - Handbook of Exponential and Related Distributions for Engineers and Scientists, pp. 759–760
• BERRY Diane - A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using Stata, p. 760
• WADE Angie - Matched Sampling for Causal Effects, pp. 760–761
  Angie Wade
• LALLMAHOMED Naguib - Elementary Statistics using JMP, p. 761
• KUMAR Kuldeep - Introduction to Bioinformatics, pp. 761–762

(résumés du n° 3/2008)

Volume 171 (Part 2 - April 2008)

• GNEITING Tilmann - Editorial: Probabilistic forecasting, pp. 319–321
• HOLT D. Tim - Official statistics, public policy and public trust, pp. 323–346
• MOLENBERGHS Geert, JANSEN Ivy - A flexible marginal modelling strategy for non-monotone missing data, pp. 347–373
• PARDOE Iain, SIMONTON Dean K. - Applying discrete choice models to predict Academy Award winners, pp. 375–394
• CHOO Louise, WALKER Stephen G. - A new approach to investigating spatial variations of disease, pp. 395–405
• CHANG Tee-Chin - Cumulative sum schemes for surgical performance monitoring, pp. 407–432
• COOPER W. W., RAY Subhash C. - A response to M. Stone: ‘How not to measure the efficiency of public services (and how one might)’ , pp. 433–448
• BOLLAERTS Kaatje, AERTS Marc, RIBBENS Stefaan, VAN DER STEDE Yves, BOONE Ides, MINTIENS Koen - Identification of Salmonella high risk pig-herds in Belgium by using semiparametric quantile regression, pp. 449–464
• MICHAEL Robert T., O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH Colm A. - Design priorities and disciplinary perspectives: the case of the US National Children's Study, pp. 465–480
• IMAI Kosuke, KING Gary, STUART Elizabeth A. - Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference, pp. 481-502

Book reviews

• LU Z. Q. John - Optimum Experimental Designs, with SAS, p. 504
• ROBINSON Andrew - Applied Asymptotics: Case Studies in Small-sample Statistics, pp. 504-505
• RODDAM Andrew W. - Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models: a Modern Perspective, pp. 505-506
• GINESTET Cedric E. - Combinatorics, Complexity, and Chance: a Tribute to Dominic Welsh, p. 506
• GURKA Matthew J. - Basic Concepts in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, pp. 506-507
• MUTHAMI Lawrence - Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials, p. 507
• SEUC Armando H. - Approaching Multivariate Analysis: an Introduction for Psychology, pp. 507-508

(résumés du n° 2/2008)

Volume 171 (Part 1 - January 2008)

• HINDE Andrew - Editorial : The analysis of panel data, pp. 1-3
• STEELE Fiona - Multilevel models for longitudinal data, pp. 5-19
• PUDNEY Stephen - The dynamics of perception: modelling subjective wellbeing in a short panel, pp. 21-40
• POHL Steffi, STEYERAND Rolf, KRAUS Katrin - Modelling method effects as individual causal effects, pp. 41-63
• STURGIS Patrick, SULLIVAN Louise - Exploring social mobility with latent trajectory groups, pp. 65-88
• BERRINGTON Anne, HU Yongjian, SMITH Peter W. F., STURGIS Patrick - A graphical chain model for reciprocal relationships between women's gender role attitudes and labour force participation, pp. 89-108
• KENNEDY Marc, ANDERSON Clive, O'HAGAN Anthony, LOMAS Mark, WOODWARD Ian, GOSLINGAND John Paul , HEINEMEYER Andreas - Quantifying uncertainty in the biospheric carbon flux for England and Wales, pp. 109-135
• DE ROOIJ Mark - The analysis of change, Newton's law of gravity and association models, pp. 137-157
• JACKSON Christopher, BEST Nicky, RICHARDSON Sylvia - Hierarchical related regression for combining aggregate and individual data in studies of socio-economic disease risk factors, pp. 159-178
• GLYNN Adam N., WAKEFIELD Jon, HANDCOCK Mark S., RICHARDSON Thomas S. - Alleviating linear ecological bias and optimal design with subsample data, pp. 179-202
• KHOMAN Ehsan, MITCHELL James, WEALE Martin - Incidence-based estimates of life expectancy of the healthy for the UK: coherence between transition probabilities and aggregate life-tables, pp. 203-222
• WOODALL William H., MARSHALL J.B., JONER Michael D. Jr., FRAKER Shannon E., ABDEL-SALAM Abdel-Salam G. - On the use and evaluation of prospective scan methods for health-related surveillance, pp. 223-237
• KYNN Mary - The ‘heuristics and biases’ bias in expert elicitation, pp. 239-264
• BIJLEVELD Frits, COMMANDEUR Jacques, GOULD Philip, KOOPMAN Siem Jan - Model-based measurement of latent risk in time series with applications, pp. 265-277
• RICHARDS S. J. - Detecting year-of-birth mortality patterns with limited data, pp. 279-298
• GALINDO GARRE Francisca, ZWINDERMAN Aeilko H., GESKUS Ronald B., SIJPKENS Yvo W. J. - A joint latent class changepoint model to improve the prediction of time to graft failure, pp. 299-308
• GALBRAITH J. I. - Obituary: Neil William Please, 1919–2005, p. 309

Book reviews

• LALLMAHOMED Naguib - Probability and Statistics for Computer Scientists, p. 312
• GINESTET Cedric E. - Latent Curve Models: a Structural Equation Perspective, pp. 312-313
• CASTAGLIOLA Philippe - Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses, p. 313
• LARK R. M. - Compositional Data Analysis in the Geosciences: from Theory to Practice. pp. 313-314
• WADE Angela - Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials, p. 314
• PUTCHA Venkata - A Crash Course in SPSS for Windows: Updated for Versions 10, 11, 12 and 13, pp. 314-315
• KIMBER Alan - Principles of Statistical Inference, pp. 315-316
• GOLAM KIBRIA B. M. - Bayes Linear Statistics: Theory and Methods, p. 316
• PUTCHA Venkata - Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate Data Analysis and Interpretation with SPSS, p. 317
• STOYANOV Jordan - Binomial Models in Finance, pp. 317-318
• REESE R. Allan - Linear Mixed Models: a Practical Guide using Statistical Software, p. 318

(résumés du n° 1/2008)