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JASA Highlights
Issue Opens with Presidential Address
Len Stefanski, David Banks, and Dalene Stangl
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t is unlikely that rt ead-
ers of the Me arch 2009
JASA Table of Contents
issue of is JASA Theory Applications and Case Studies
aand Mnd ethods will enjoy Communicating Statistics and Developing Professionals: The
the arthe ticles more than 2008 ASA Presidential Address — Peter A. Lachenbruch
ooutgoing editors ut Walt
PiPiegorsch and Se teve
A Spatio-Temporal Model for Mean, Anomaly, and Trend Fields
of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature — Ricardo T. Lemos
PPoortnoy, as they can read
and Bruno Sansó
ththe last fruits of their
lalabor with the satisfac-
Bayesian Semiparametric Joint Models for Functional
tition of having com-
Predictors— Jamie L. Bigelow and David B. Dunson
ppleted a job well done.
A Case Study in Exploratory Functional Data Analysis: Geometrical
AAs the new Theory
Features of the Internal Carotid Artery — Laura M. Sangalli,
aand Mn ethods editor, Piercesare Secchi, Simone Vantini, and Alessandro Veneziani
LLen Sen Sttefanski knoefanski knows ws he speaks for the prh o-
ffession when he thanks Pi h h h k Piiegorsch and Portnoy for
Estimating the Effect of a Time-Dependent Treatment by
their enthusiastic and tireless service, par excellence,
Levels of an Internal Time-Dependent Covariate: Application
to the Contrast Between Liver Wait-List and Post-Transplant
over the past four years. “I am personally indebted to
Mortality —Douglas E. Schaubel, Robert A. Wolfe, Camelia
Piegorsch and Portnoy for their sage counsel in my
S. Sima, and Robert M. Merion
year as editor-elect (in spite of having ignored their
best advice, “Don’t do it!”),” said Stefanski. “I hope to
Robust Estimation of Mean Functions and Treatment Effects
continue their successes and maintain JASA Theory
for Recurrent Events Under Event-Dependent Censoring and
and Methods as the premier journal for theoretical
Termination: Application to Skeletal Complications in Cancer
and methodological statistical research.”
Metastatic to Bone — Richard J. Cook, Jerald F. Lawless,
JASA Theory and Methods will continue to
Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb, and Ker-Ai Lee
include articles in all areas of statistical science (broad- Bayesian Emulation and Calibration of a Stochastic Computer
ly defined) and all flavors of statistics (e.g., Bayesian,
Model of Mitochondrial DNA Deletions in Substantia Nigra
computational, frequentist, graphical, and mathe-
Neurons — Daniel A. Henderson, Richard J. Boys, Kim J.
matical) that have demonstrable relevance to practical
Krishnan, Conor Lawless, and Darren J. Wilkinson
applications, which includes understanding the theory
Estimating the Time-Varying Rate of Transmission
that underlies useful methods. The online presence of
of SARS in Singapore and Hong Kong Under Two
JASA will increase, creating opportunities to provide
Environments — Anthony Y. C. Kuk and Tan C. C.
content of a form not possible at present. How far the
trend will advance in the next three years is uncertain,
Bayesian Modeling of Uncertainty in Ensembles of Climate
but, at the least, the role of the JASA Supplemental
Models — Richard L. Smith, Claudia Tebaldi, Doug Nychka,
Materials Archive will grow. Just as readers now expect
and Linda O. Mearns
to have access to the proof of a published theorem, so On the Determination of General Scientific Models with Application
too should they expect to have access to the “proof” of
to Asset Pricing — Ronald Gallant and Robert E. McCulloch
published simulations and computational results. This
Bayesian Analysis of Isochores — Paul Fearnhead and
means authors will be asked to provide code used for
Despina Vasileiou
simulation studies and to make their computations
available to the community.
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Analysis of Single-Nucleotide
As is customary in March, the issue opens with
Polymorphisms Diversity in Multilocus, Multipopulation
the presidential address from the previous year’s
Samples — Feng Guo, Dipak K. Dey, and Kent E. Holsinger
Joint Statistical Meetings. Tony Lachenbruch Estimating Response-Maximized Decision Rules with
writes about communicating statistics and develop- Applications to Breastfeeding — Erica E. M. Moodie, Robert
ing professionals and traces a number of important W. Platt, and Michael S. Kramer
challenges for our field. These comments were the
Likelihood-Based Analysis of Causal Effects of Job-Training
basis for his JSM address, but have been slightly mod-
Programs Using Principal Stratification —Junni L. Zhang,
ified to fit the written page.
Donald B. Rubin, and Fabrizia Mealli
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