The September issue of the Journal of the American Statistical Association is absolutely brimming with terrific articles by noted authors. The best part? All of these articles are available to the public as free downloads, because they are all JASA Featured Articles!
If you're an ASA member, just log in through ASA's Members Only to access all of JASA online. But also be sure to tell friends and colleagues who are not ASA members that they can go to
http://pubs.amstat.org/toc/jasa/105/491
and download these papers for free.
First, check out Bradley Efron's latest, "Correlated z-Values and the Accuracy of Large-Scale Statistical Estimates," with discussion by T. Tony Cai, Ruth Heller, Armin Schwartzman, and Peter H. Westfall (did I mention that the discussion is free too?). Efron considers "large-scale studies in which there are hundreds or thousands of correlated cases to investigate, each represented by its own normal variate, typically a z-value."
If you're interested in climate studies, see "The Value of Multiproxy Reconstruction of Past Climate," by Bo Li, Douglas W. Nychka, and Caspar M. Ammann. This article includes discussion by Noel Cressie and Martin P. Tingley; Eugene Wahl, Christian Schoelzel, John Williams, and Seyitriza Tigrek; and Richard L. Smith.
And there's more!
* "Bayesian Modeling of MPSS Data: Gene Expression Analysis of Bovine Salmonella Infection," by Soma S. Dhavala et al.
* "Least Absolute Relative Error Estimation," by Kani Chen et al.
All these are available online as free Featured Articles for a limited time. Of course, if you're an ASA Member, then these papers are available online as part of your membership!
The ASA Journals Dept has another announcement coming in a few weeks . . . think Fasttrack!