JASA Highlights
Estimating Incumbency Advantage
Leads June Issue
David L. Banks, Walter W. Piegorsch, Stephen L. Portnoy,
Dalene K. Stangl, and Leonard Stefanski
T
h e Journal of the American current page limits do not allow. To use this Douglas Simpson, and Raymond Carroll).
Statistical Association has been for- site, prepare the supplemental material as
tunate to enjoy the support of two a technical report (or reports) and refer to
books Reviewed
outstanding professionals: Cara Baker, the it in the main submission (with the above The Reviews section includes a paper by
editorial coordinator, and Lisa Hisel, the URL). When submitting the paper on our Debajyoti Sinha, Tapabrata Maiti, Joseph
ASA journals manager. Regrettably for us, AllenTrack Submission System, mention Ibrahim, and Bichun Ouyang that presents
both are leaving. Baker is stepping down at the report in the cover letter and upload statistical methods for analyzing recurrent
the end of August, and Hisel left the ASA in it as a supplemental file when you upload events data with risk of termination depen-
May. Our profession has greatly benefited your paper. Please make sure the supplemen- dent on the history of the recurrent events.
from the services of both, and the editors in tal file contains enough description to make The authors present stochastic models that
particular will miss their skills, enthusiasm, what is presented easy to understand, and allow both negative and positive association
and support. feel free to add any relevant bridge notes. between the risk of termination and the rate
The good news is that Eric Sampson will The supplemental material will be consid- of recurrent events. Theoretical properties,
join the ASA full time as the journals and ered by the editors (and perhaps by addi- identifiability results, and consequences of key
publications manager. Many already know tional reviewers), but it will not undergo the modeling assumptions are presented, along
Sampson from his excellent work on the detailed and stringent review process used with methodology limitations and directions
production of a number of the ASA’s jour- for general JASA submissions. for further methodology development.
nals and as the JSM photographer. We are
delighted he is joining the ASA staff. Also,
June JASA Applied Linear Statistical Models (5th
Baker is being replaced by Jamie Hutchens, The Applications and Case Studies section
ed.) by Michael H. Kutner, Christopher J.
who already works as the editorial coordi- leads with a discussion paper by Andrew
Nachtsheim, John Neter, and William Li
nator for the ASA’s Journal of Business & Gelman and Zaiying Huang, titled
Economic Statistics. Hutchens is expert in “Estimating Incumbency Advantage and Its
Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A
the AllenTrack system, thoroughly familiar Variation, as an Example of a Before-After
New Approach for Attorneys and Expert
with the ASA publication processes, and Study.” The topic is clearly pertinent to the
Witnesses by Phillip I. Good
will be working jointly with Baker over the looming national elections, and the discus-
The Expert: The Statistical Analyst in
summer to handle the workload. The edi- sions by Jonathan Katz and James Hodges.
Litigation by Stephan Michelson
tors are delighted to welcome Hutchens; highlight the novelty in the analysis.
associate editors and other members of the
Data Quality and Record Linkage
ASA will have a chance to meet her and
Theory and Methods
Techniques by Thomas N. Herzog, Fritz J.
Sampson at the Joint Statistical Meetings
The Theory and Methods section leads
Scheuren, and William E. Winkler
in Denver.
with “Penalized Clustering of Large-Scale
Functional Data with Multiple Covariates” Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral
Supplemental Files Online
by Ping Ma and Wenxuan Zhong. This Science by Brian Everitt and David Howell
Readers intending to submit articles to paper proposes a penalized clustering meth- (eds.)
JASA should be aware that the ASA main- od for large-scale data sets such as those
tains a web page for material supplemen- arising in gene expression data. Functional
Extreme Value Theory: An Introduction by
tal to published papers at www.amstat.org/ ANOVA is applied, and mixed-effect mod-
Laurens de Haan and Ana Ferreira
publications/jasa/supplemental_materials. els are introduced to permit heterogeneity.
Additional information about the page and Other highlighted papers include a new
An Introduction to Bayesian Analysis:
the type of supplemental material available approach to censored quantile regression
Theory and Methods by Jayanta K. Ghosh,
also is available there. based on generalizing the Nelson-Allen
Mohan Delampady, and Tapas Samanta
As the relatively small percent of submis- estimator (“Survival Analysis with Quantile
An Introduction to Random Sets by
sions accepted by JASA puts our space at Regression Models” by Limin Peng and
Hung T. Nguyen
a premium, and since long papers tend to Yijian Huang) and a very general approach
burden our reviewers and discourage read- to data analysis for populations not homo- Theory of Random Sets by Ilya Molchanov
ership, authors are encouraged to use this geneous (“Semiparametric Analysis of
site as a place to archive data sets, additional Heterogeneous Data Using Varying-Scale
Linear Models: An Integrated Approach
examples, software, and detailed proofs that Generalized Linear Models” by Minge Xie,
by Debasis Sengupta and Sreenivasa Rao
Jammalamadaka
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