JASA Highlights
June Issue Filled with Diversity
of Papers
Len stefanski, David Banks, and Dalene stangl
T
he Journal of the
American Statistical
Association editors
JASA Table of Contents
are delighted to introduce
their new colleague, Hal
Applications and Case Studies
Stern, from the Department
Joint Models for the Association of Longitudinal Binary and
Continuous Processes with Application to a Smoking Cessation Trial
of Statistics at the
Xuefeng Liu, Michael J. Daniels, and Bess Marcus
University of California at
Irvine. Stern is the incom-
Bayesian Analysis of Cancer Rates from SEER Program Using
ing coordinating editor
Parametric and Semiparametric Joinpoint Regression Models
Pulak Ghosh, Sanjib Basu, and Ram C. Tiwari
and editor of the
Applications and Case
Nonparametric Priors for Ordinal Bayesian Social Science Models:
Studies section. He has
Specification and Estimation
Jeff Gill and George Casella
already begun to handle the new A&CS sub-
missions. As is customary, David Banks will con-
A Statistical Framework to Infer Functional Gene Relationships
tinue to handle papers that are already in process
from Biologically Interrelated Microarray Experiments
through the end of 2009.
Siew Leng Teng and Haiyan Huang
The editors want to particularly thank Mark
Assessing Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors of Young Women:
Kaiser for chairing the search committee that select-
A Joint Model with Nonlinear Time Effects, Time Varying
ed Stern. There were many excellent candidates. The
Covariates, and Dropouts
Pulak Ghosh and Wanzhu Tu
profession is fortunate to have such depth of strength
among its members, and even more fortunate that so
Inferring Optimal Peer Assignment from Experimental Data
many are willing to volunteer for this job.
Debopam Bhattacharya
Looking to the future, the ASA is undertaking a Sensitivity Analysis for Equivalence and Difference in an
review of its approach to electronic publication. Observational Study of Neonatal Intensive Care Units
David Scott is heading up a committee charged
Paul R. Rosenbaum and Jeffrey H. Silber
with reporting to the ASA Board in June and
Random Effects Models in a Meta-Analysis of the Accuracy of Two
August on the financial and technical feasibility of Diagnostic Tests Without a Gold Standard
significantly expanding the scope of journal ser-
Haitao Chu, Sining Chen, and Thomas A. Louis
vices members receive.
Repeated Measurements on Distinct Scales with Censoring—
A Bayesian Approach Applied to Microarray Analysis of Maize
Applications and Case Studies Tanzy Love and Alicia Carriquiry
The section contains its usual diversity of papers.
Nonparametric Signal Extraction and Measurement Error in the
There are two by Pulak Ghosh, one on Bayesian
Analysis of Electroencephalographic Activity During Sleep
analysis of cancer data and one on the assessment Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Brian S. Caffo, Chong-Zhi Di, and
of sexual attitudes and behaviors. Genetic analysis
Naresh M. Punjabi
is represented in three papers—by Val Johnson, by
Nonparametric Residue Analysis of Dynamic PET Data with
Tanzy Love and Alicia Carriquiry, and by Gilles Application to Cerebral FDG Studies in Normals
Durrieu and Laurent Briollais.
Finbarr O’Sullivan, Mark Muzi, Alexander M. Spence, David M.
Chris Paciorek and Jason McLachlan use
Mankoff, Janet N. O’Sullivan, Niall Fitzgerald, George C. Newman,
data on pollen sediments to map ancient for-
and Kenneth A. Krohn
ests. Hongtu Zhu and a research team of eight Modeling Hazard Rates as Functional Data for the Analysis of
coauthors develop a new noise model for magnetic
Cohort Lifetables and Mortality Forecasting
resonance imaging. Kristin Lennox, David Dahl,
Jeng-Min Chiou and Hans-Georg Müller
Marina Vannucci, and Jerry Tsai apply spheri-
Density Estimation for Protein Conformation Angles Using a
cal data methods to analyze protein conformation Bivariate von Mises Distribution and Bayesian Nonparametrics
angles. Greg Ridgeway and John MacDonald study
Kristin P. Lennox, David B. Dahl, Marina Vannucci, and Jerry W. Tsai
racial bias in traffic stops. Debopam Bhattacharya
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