JASA Highlights
Changes in Store for Future Issues
David Banks, Dalene stangl, and Len stefanski
A
t the Joint Statistical Meetings, the ASA
Board of Directors voted that all ASA jour-
nals will move to make electronic publica-
tion their primary medium. This will not obviate
the current system, in which hard copy journals are
delivered to all those who subscribe, but it will
allow authors to make full use of color in the elec-
tronic version and to write their papers using lan-
guage that refers to color. (Color is expensive to
produce, requiring special inserts, so authors are
discouraged from using it unless it is essential.)
The move to electronic primacy opens the door
to broader service to ASA members. For example,
the board noted that in an electronic system, there
can be access to accepted papers before hard copy
publication, which helps in getting the word out on
new research results. (JASA typically has a backlog of
at least one issue.) Also, it will be possible to include
dynamic graphics as part of a JASA paper (the hard
copy will have a high-resolution static grayscale fig-
ure with a note that the reader should access the
online version for motion). Also, it will be possible
for subscribers to be alerted when, according to
for ecology, Nicole Augustin et al. study spatio-
their individual preferences, articles are accepted on
temporal trends in forest health monitoring data.
specific topics or by specified authors.
Cancer topics are addressed in three papers, each
As part of this transformation, subscribers will
of which addresses a different facet of the disease.
soon be receiving quarterly emails with links to arti-
Jianhua Hu, Xuming He, Gilbert Cote, and Ralf
cles in the current issue. Thus, JASA subscribers will
Krahe analyze microarray data. Guosheng Yin
receive both hard copy and electronic delivery of their
and Ying Yuan provide a Bayesian model averag-
journal (unless they are among those who have opted
ing structure that improves on current methods
out of hard copy, in which case the quarterly emails
for dose-finding and apply this to cancer therapy
will constitute the only delivery system).
data. And Carolyn Rutter, Diana Miglioretti, and
The editors feel these changes are a step forward
James Savarino develop Bayesian calibration for
in providing improved service to subscribers and
microsimulation models of cancer event histories.
to ASA members in general. The staging of these
This does not begin to exhaust the range of
changes is being worked out, but prospective authors
applications in this issue, nor does this short cata-
should plan now to use color and expect immediate
log do justice to the authors. It is an exciting collec-
access once the galleys have been finalized.
tion of papers, and showcases the broad impact of
Applications and Case Studies
our field.
This section contains its usual diversity of applica-
Theory and Methods
tions. Regarding elections, Ben Hansen and Jake
This section opens with the JSM JASA (T&M)
Bowers write about an analysis that attributes effects
invited paper. Motivated by applications in
to a cluster-randomized get-out-the-vote campaign.
dietary science, R. J. Carroll, A. Delaigle, and P.
On health status studies, Rebecca Hubbard, Lurdes
Hall present interesting and surprising results in
Inoue, and Paula Diehr develop a joint model for
“Nonparametric Prediction in Measurement Error
self-rated health and physical functioning. And
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