- The criteria you enter will be searched against the Title, Author(s) and Keyword(s) fields
- The search is not case sensitive, unless you enter mixed case criteria
- Example: Entering "Binomial" would find
"Binomial" but not "binomial"; but entering
"binomial" would find them both.
- You may use and asterisk "*" as a wildcard. Without the asterisk, the search will be limited to the exact word or phrase you enter
- You can use "AND" and/or "OR" to narrow your search.
- Examples: "binomial AND smith",
"binomial OR smith"
Editor's Preface
The American Statistician—50 Year Index
Bruce E. Trumbo, California State University, Hayward
Brian M. Munneke, Purdue University
Michael J. Wichura, University of Chicago
Tim Gill, ASA (Adaptations for Amstat Online)
This preface contains some information about the contents of the
index that may be useful to users in making searches and in understanding the display of the records retrieved. It also contains a brief description of how the index was assembled, with appropriate
acknowledgments.
Contents of the Index
The original version of this index on Amstat Online covers the first
50 years of The American Statistician (TAS): 1947-1996. Periodic updates are planned.
When you retrieve a TAS article from the index you will see
the following information:
LOCATION: The year, volume number, and inclusive pages of the
article.
In the first 27 volumes of TAS each issue was numbered from
page 1, and so issue numbers are provided for these volumes to provide the information you will need to locate an article. For example "3/2" means the 2nd issue of Volume 3.
The notation + with a page number indicates that the article has been
continued on additional, non-sequential pages.
AUTHOR(S): All authors of an article listed in the order in
which they appeared in print. Family names are given first and multiple authors are separated by semi-colons. When searching for an
author with a common last name you can narrow the search by using the
first name. For example enter "Smith, A*" (including the quotation marks) to find A. F. M. Smith and Armand Smith, but not Peter Smith, Michael Smith, etc.
A few author names contain accent marks or letters that cannot be
conveniently represented on the web; these are shown in TeX notation. Whether or not an accented name uses TeX format, you can use it
in a search by approximating the spelling with unaccented English
characters. For example, to find Peña you can type Pena (without the tilde) and to find Råde you can type either Rade or Raade.
In the case of reviews of books or software, the parenthetical
notations (Rev) and (Auth) follow the names of the reviewers and the original authors, respectively.
TITLE: The full title of the article.
Some titles are followed by notations in parentheses indicating the
location of discussion (C/R, Com or Disc), correction notes (Corr), or closely related articles (Ref).
Year, volume and page numbers are given for the references. For
example: 94V48 p177 refers to a comment in Vol. 48.
Titles of a few articles contain mathematical notation, which is
represented with TeX codes. The editors have tried to include Key Words that convey the subject matter without using mathematical notation.
In the earlier years TAS carried death notices. The title of
each of these begins Obituary:. Some of the many letters to the editor have been indexed. The title of each of these is followed by [Letter]. Obituary: and "[Letter]"
(with the quotes) may be used in searches.
KEY WORDS AND PHRASES: Words containing information about
subject matter — in addition to that provided by the title — that may be helpful in finding an article.
From time to time TAS has included recurring sections or
features such as Teacher's Corner and Accent on Teaching Materials.
These are among the key phrases included in brackets [ ].
Because TAS contains so many articles about statistics
education, we have tried to adhere to some conventions about associated key words — in spite of the inevitable overlaps and ambiguities.
Education: Statistics education in the broadest sense, also
including the use of statistical methods to clarify educational issues.
Teaching: Classroom teaching of statistics in the broadest
sense.
Curriculum: Discussion of the choice of courses for a program
or the choice of topics for a course.
Pedagogy: Discussion of the choice of methods by which to
teach a particular topic or type of material.
Brief History of the TAS Index
The American Statistician (TAS) started publication in 1947.
The journal had been systematically indexed in the Current Index to Statistics (CIS) since 1975, with reliable electronic records still surviving back to 1980. CIS is a joint venture of ASA and
the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
In 1993 the ASA Board of Directors approved a project to make CIS-style records
from 1947 to 1974 and to repair fragmentary records from 1975 to 1979. About year later the bibliographic records through 1994 were
finished and put into a consistent format under the editorship of
Bruce Trumbo (CSU Hayward), Brian Munneke (then a M.S. student at Hayward, in 1999 a Ph.D. student at Purdue), and Michael Wichura (Chicago). These records were included in the 1995 edition of the
CIS Extended Database, and in subsequent versions. Michael Wichura has edited the years beyond 1994, with some of the information provided by CIS editor Klaus Hinkelmann (Virginia Polytechnic Institute).
This index of TAS in Amstat Online (as it first appears in early 1999) contains the first 50 years of TAS publication.
We hope that it can be updated annually.
The search software was written in late 1998 and early 1999 by Tim Gill (ASA Office).
We thank the CIS Management Committee for permission to make this service available free of charge.
One of the benefits of membership in ASA is a reduced price on the purchase (for personal use) of a CD-ROM containing the entire CIS Extended Database: currently $90 for the first year and $45 for annual renewals. Coverage extends from 1975 (and in some cases
earlier) to the present. Comprehensive coverage is provided for over 100 journals in statistics and probability, and articles of interest to statisticians from many other journals are included. Order
through the ASA Office or see the Statindex.org Web site.
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