Technometrics back issues from November 2002:
Editor's report.(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2002; ... 1. GENERAL REMARKS This report summarizes the highlights of the 44th volume, provides statistics on journal operations (i.e., submissions, review times, and acceptance rates) for manuscripts submitted in 2001, and describes general trends in statistical content of manuscripts ...
Robust estimates of location and dispersion for high-dimensional datasets.
Nov 01, 2002; ... The computing times of high-breakdown point estimates of multivariate location and scatter increase rapidly with the number of variables, which makes them impractical for high-dimensional datasets, such as those used in data mining. We propose an estimator of location and scatter based on ...
An efficient sampling technique for Bayesian inference with computationally demanding models.
Nov 01, 2002; ... In the environmental sciences, a large knowledge base is typically available on an investigated system or at least on similar systems. This makes the application of Bayesian inference techniques in environmental modeling very promising. However, environmental systems are often described by ...
Accounting for dependence in a flexible multivariate receptor model.
Nov 01, 2002; ... Formulation and evaluation of environmental policy depends on receptor models that are used to assess the number and nature of pollution sources affecting the air quality for a region of interest. Different approaches have been developed for situations in which no information is available ...
Robust parameter design of multiple-target systems.
Nov 01, 2002; ... In multiple-target systems, the signal factor is varied based on the signal-response relationship to achieve different targets for the response specified by the customer. Robust parameter design aims to make the signal-response relationship insensitive to the noise variation by choosing ...
The idle column method: design construction, properties and comparisons.
Nov 01, 2002; ... Taguchi's idle column method for constructing arrays is investigated and generalized. A general construction method is proposed via a necessary and sufficient condition on two-level orthogonal arrays to which the method is applicable. A method is developed for identifying the idle column ...
An algorithm for constructing orthogonal and nearly-orthogonal arrays with mixed levels and small runs.
Nov 01, 2002; ... Orthogonal arrays are used widely in manufacturing and high-technology industries for quality and productivity improvement experiments. For reasons of run size economy or flexibility, nearly-orthogonal arrays are also used. The construction of orthogonal or nearly-orthogonal arrays can be ...
Prediction based on mean subset.
Nov 01, 2002; ... Shrinkage methods have traditionally been applied in prediction problems. In this article we develop a shrinkage method (mean subset) that forms an average of regression coefficients from individual subsets of the explanatory variables. A Bayesian approach is taken to derive an expression ...
Design and performance analysis of the exponentially weighted moving average mean estimate for processes subject to random step changes.
Nov 01, 2002; ... The exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) is a well-known and popular statistic used for smoothing and forecasting time series and as a process mean estimator, due to its simplicity and ability to capture nonstationarity. The EWMA statistic has been shown to be an optimal mean ...
The importance of the designated statistic on Buehler upper limits on a system failure probability.
Nov 01, 2002; ... The upper limits introduced by Buehler are constructed to be honest confidence limits that are as small as possible subject to the constraint that they are nondecreasing functions of a designated statistic S. This methodology has largely been developed for applications in reliability that ...
An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values, by Stuart COLES, London: Springer-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 1-85233-459-2, xiv + 208 pp., $74.95. The modeling of extreme values is important to scientists in such fields as hydrology, civil engineering, environmental science, ...
Analysis of Failure and Survival Data.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Analysis of Failure and Survival Data, by Peter J. SMITH, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2002, ISBN 1-58488-075-9, 254 pp., $49.95. This book begins with a broad and basic introduction to methods for handling censored failure time data, applying these to both medical and ...
Statistical Quality Control.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Statistical Quality Control, by M. Jeya CHANDRA, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8493-2347-9, 284 pp., $89.95. The author's intention has been to create a graduate-level book in statistical quality control in the engineering discipline. A broad spectrum of topics is ...
Sampling Methodologies With Applications.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Sampling Methodologies With Applications, by Poduri S. R. S. RAO, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2000, ISBN 1-58488-214-X, xxiv + 311 pp., $64.95. This book discusses the methodologies and applications of commonly used procedures for sampling from finite populations. The ...
Runs and Scans With Applications.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Runs and Scans With Applications, by N. BALAKRISHNAN and Markos V. KOUTRAS, New York; Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-24892-4, xxii + 452 pp., $84.95. This book provides excellent coverage of the topic of scans and runs, including a nice historical account and guide to the literature. ...
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (2nd ed.), by Edward R. TUFTE, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001, ISBN 0-9613921-4-2, 197 pp., $40.00. This book is the second edition of the critically acclaimed graphics book that Tufte first published in 1983. Many prominent ...
Practical Experiment Designs for Engineers and Scientists.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Practical Experiment Designs for Engineers and Scientists (3rd ed.), by William J. DIAMOND, New York: Wiley, 2001, ISBN 0-471-39054-2, xvi + 423 pp., $90.00. The first edition of this book was published in 1981 by Wadsworth. The Current Index to Statistics has no reference to a ...
Single-Case and Small-n Experimental Designs.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Single-Case and Small-n Experimental Designs, by John B. TODMAN and Pat DUGARD, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001, ISBN 0-8058-3554-7, xxiii + 245 pp., $59.95. This book is meant to be helpful to practitioners, especially in psychology or related fields. The authors ...
Design for Reliability.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Design for Reliability, edited by Dana CROWE and Alec FEINBERG, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8493-1111-X, xiii + 243 pp., $109.95. As stated in the Acknowledgments, this text is an edited and revised version of the M/A-COM Tyco Electronic Design for Reliability ...
Basic Statistical Methods and Models for the Sciences.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Basic Statistical Methods and Models for the Sciences, by Judah ROSENBLATT, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 1-58488-147-X, 282 pp., $79.95. The level of mathematical rigor and depth in statistical pedagogy is a muchargued issue. For statisticians, detail is requisite; we ...
Probability With Statistical Applications.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Probability With Statistical Applications, by Rinaldo B. SCHINAZI, New York: Birkhauser/Springer-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 0-8176-4247-1, xii+281 pp., $44.95. This book is intended for undergraduate students majoring in sciences and engineering, and with some understanding of calculus ....
Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Foundations and Methods.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Foundations and Methods, by Tim BEDFORD and Roger COOKE, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-77320-2, xx+393 pp., $54.95. This book presents a detailed account of probabilistic risk analysis (PRA). It is suitable for readers ...
Monte Carlo Strategies in Scientific Computing.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Monte Carlo Strategies in Scientific Computing, by Jun S. LIU, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 0-387-95230-6, xvi + 343 pp., $69.95. The strength of this book is in bringing together advanced Monte Carlo (MC) methods developed in many disciplines. This intent is clear from ...
In All Likelihood: Statistical Modeling and Inference Using Likelihood.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... In All Likelihood: Statistical Modeling and Inference Using Likelihood, by Yudi PAWITAN, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-850765-8, xiii + 528 pp., $70.00. As the title indicates, this book discusses using the likelihood function for both modeling and ...
Calculated Bets.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Calculated Bets, by Steven SKIENA, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-00962-6, xv + 232 pp., $17.95. This is a nontechnical book written for the general audience that deals with mathematical modeling, computers, and gambling. The author, Steven Skiena, a ...
Mind on Statistics.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Mind on Statistics, by Jessica M. UTTS and Robert F. HECKARD, Pacific Grove, CA; Duxbury, Thomson Learning, 2002, ISBN 0-534-35935-3, xxi + 568 pp. +CD, $93.95. Any time an introductory statistics book tries to move in some different directions, not so much in topics but in ...
Computational Statistics Handbook With MATLAB[R].(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Computational Statistics Handbook With MATLAB[R], by Wendy L. MARTINEZ and Angel R. MARTINEZ, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2002, ISBN 1-58488-229-8, xvii + 591 pp., $79.95. This book covers a number of modern, computationally intensive methods in statistics and ...
Interpreting ISO 9001:2000 With Statistical Methodology.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Interpreting ISO 9001:2000 With Statistical Methodology, by James L. LAMPRECHT, Milwaukee: ASQ Quality Press, 2001, ISBN 0-87389-517-7, x + 205 pp., $32.00. I am an applied statistician with 23 years experience but limited personal experience with integrating a company's ...
An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models (2nd ed.), by Annette J. DOBSON, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2002, ISBN 1-58488-165-8, vii + 225 pp., $39.95. I read the first edition (1E) of this book as a follow-up to an earlier reading of the text by McCullagh and ...
Applied Multivariate Data Analysis.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Applied Multivariate Data Analysis (2nd ed.), by Brian S. EVERITT and Graham DUNN, London: Arnold, 2001, ISBN 0-340-74122-8, x + 342 pp., $45.00. The first edition of this book (1E) appeared in 1992 and was reviewed extensively by Naik (1994). That review continues to serve ...
Sampling.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Sampling (2nd ed.), by Steven K. THOMPSON, New York: Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-29116-1, xvii + 367 pp., $74.95. I wrote the review for the first edition (1E) of this book (Ziegel 1993). The last sentence of the review ("This is a highly recommended acquisition for any statistician ...
Statistical Inference.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Statistical Inference (2nd ed.), by George CASELLA and Roger L. BERGER, Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury, 2002, ISBN 0-534-24312-6, xxviii + 660 pp., $104.95. Just this past week I needed to check something in a mathematical statistics book. The text by Rice (1994), reported by Ziegel ...
Time Series.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Time Series, by Ngai CHAN, New York: Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-41117-5, xii + 203 pp., $79.95. This is a very unusual book on time series analysis. My current basic time series reference is the text of Brockwell and Davis (1996). A new edition of this book, which was about 500 ...
Analysis of Financial Time Series.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Analysis of Financial Time Series, by Ruey TSAY, New York: Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-41544-8, xii + 448 pp., $89.95. For the past few years I have used the book by Enders (1994), (reported in Ziegel 1995), as my desktop reference for analyzing time series in economics and business ...
Encyclopedia of Environmetrics Vols. 1-4.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Encyclopedia of Environmetrics Vols. 1-4, edited by Abdel H. EL-SHAARAWI and Walter W. PIEGORSCH, West Sussex, UK: Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-89997-6, xxxix + 2502 pp., $1,750.00. Coming from the publisher's division in England, this four-volume encyclopedia is the publisher's ...
Biostatistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Biostatistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology, edited by Robert ELSTON, Jane OLSON, and Lyle PALMER, West Sussex, UK: Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-48631-0, xxiv + 831 pp., $245.00. This is the third extraction that the publisher has produced from its comprehensive Encyclopedia of ...
Modeling in Medical Decision Making.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Modeling in Medical Decision Making, by Giovanni PARMIGIANI, West Sussex, UK: Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-98608-9, xi + 266 pp., $69.95. This book comes from the publisher's "Statistics in Practice" series, which emanates from its U.K. division. Previous reports in these pages have ...
Multilevel Modelling of Health Statistics.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Multilevel Modelling of Health Statistics, edited by A. H. LEYLAND and H. GOLDSTEIN, New York: Wiley, 2001, ISBN 0-471-99890-7, xvii + 217 pp., $95.00. In the Preface the editors note that "early application of multilevel modeling tended to be concerned with educational and ...
Applied Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... Applied Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry, edited by Steven MILLARD and Andreas KRAUSE, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002, 0-387-98814-9, xviii + 513 pp., $79.95. This is a book of chapters written by different authors. The book is organized into seven parts that ...
The Ultimate Six Sigma.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2002; ... The Ultimate Six Sigma, by Keki R. BHOTE, New York: AMACOM, 2002, ISBN 0-8144-0677-7, xxxvi + 404 pp., $99.95. Readers of my numerous reports on Six Sigma books will have learned that the text by Pande et al. (2000) (reported in Ziegel 2002), has been the "ultimate" Six Sigma ...
Forthcoming reviews.(Book Reviews)
Nov 01, 2002 ... Books listed here have been assigned for review in the past quarter. Publication of their reviews or reports generally would occur within the next four issues of the journal. Persons interested in reviewing specific books must notify the editor soon after the publication date for the book ....
Editorial collaborators.
Nov 01, 2002 ... We acknowledge with appreciation the following reviewers who returned reports between July 1, 2001 and June 30, 2002. B. Michael Adams, University of Alabama Rekha Agrawal, General Electric Company Susan Albin, Rutgers University Malwane Ananda, ...