N. BALAKRISHNAN, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Balakrishnan is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition and also serves as Editor in Chief of Communications in Statistics. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In addition to serving as Editor of the Methods and Applications of Statistics series, Dr. Balakrishnan is the coauthor of Precedence-Type Tests and Applications and A Primer on Statistical Distributions, both published by Wiley.

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• Preface vContributors vii1. Actuarial Science 12. Causation-I 63. Causation-II 94. Census 255. Correlation 326. Current Population Survey 467. Data Masking for Disclosure Avoidance 568. Divisia Indices 669. Econometrics 6910. Educational Statistics 8111. Electron Forecasting in the United Kingdom 8812. Electron Projections 9313. Employment Cost Index 9714. Evolution of Current Population Survey 10515. Federal Statistics 11916. Fertility Measurement 12817. Graduation 13418. Human Capital 14119. Dagum System of Income and Wealth Distributions 15620. Income Distribution Models 17421. Income Inequality Measures 18622. Indexes: Affluence, Poverty, and Quality of Life 21023. Index of Industrial Production 21524. Infant Morality 22025. Labor Statistics 22326. Life Tables 22827. Literature and Statistics-I 23228. Literature and Statistics-II 23829. Mathematical Theory of Population 24230. Medico-Actuarial Investigations 24931. Migration 25532. Music, Probability, and Statistics 25933. Numeracy 26334. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 27135. Population Growth Models 27736. Population Projection 28537. Probabilistic Voting Models 28938. Productivity Measurement 29639. Public Opinion Polls 30240. Purchasing Power Parity 30841. Psychological Decision Making 31342. Sabermetrics 31943. Social Security Statistics 32444. Social Statistics 32945. Sociometry 33546. Scoring Systems in Sports 33947. Statistical Aspects of Television Viewing 34348. Statistical Methods in Psychophysics 34849. Statistics and Religious Studies 35350. Statistics in Agriculture Production 35751. Statistics in Archaeology-I 37352. Statistics in Archaeology-II 37853. Statistics in Childhood Obesity 38554. Statistics in Historical Studies 40055. Statistics in Gambling 40756. Statistics in Law 41157. Statistics in Linguistics 42158. Statistics in Musicology 42959. Statistics in Political Science 43760. Statistics in Psychology 44661. Statistics in Sociology 45362. Statistics in Sports 46163. Stochastic Demography 46764. The Theory and Practice of Index Numbers 48065. Transferable Vote System for Elections 50566. Uncertainty in Economics 50867. U.S. Bureau of the Census 51568. Utility Theory 53169. Utilization Analysis 53970. Vital Statistics 54471. Whittaker-Henderson Graduation Formulas 549Index 553

N. BALAKRISHNAN, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Balakrishnan is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition and also serves as Editor in Chief of Communications in Statistics. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In addition to serving as Editor of the Methods and Applications of Statistics series, Dr. Balakrishnan is the coauthor of Precedence-Type Tests and Applications and A Primer on Statistical Distributions, both published by Wiley.

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• Preface vContributors vii1. Actuarial Science 12. Causation-I 63. Causation-II 94. Census 255. Correlation 326. Current Population Survey 467. Data Masking for Disclosure Avoidance 568. Divisia Indices 669. Econometrics 6910. Educational Statistics 8111. Electron Forecasting in the United Kingdom 8812. Electron Projections 9313. Employment Cost Index 9714. Evolution of Current Population Survey 10515. Federal Statistics 11916. Fertility Measurement 12817. Graduation 13418. Human Capital 14119. Dagum System of Income and Wealth Distributions 15620. Income Distribution Models 17421. Income Inequality Measures 18622. Indexes: Affluence, Poverty, and Quality of Life 21023. Index of Industrial Production 21524. Infant Morality 22025. Labor Statistics 22326. Life Tables 22827. Literature and Statistics-I 23228. Literature and Statistics-II 23829. Mathematical Theory of Population 24230. Medico-Actuarial Investigations 24931. Migration 25532. Music, Probability, and Statistics 25933. Numeracy 26334. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 27135. Population Growth Models 27736. Population Projection 28537. Probabilistic Voting Models 28938. Productivity Measurement 29639. Public Opinion Polls 30240. Purchasing Power Parity 30841. Psychological Decision Making 31342. Sabermetrics 31943. Social Security Statistics 32444. Social Statistics 32945. Sociometry 33546. Scoring Systems in Sports 33947. Statistical Aspects of Television Viewing 34348. Statistical Methods in Psychophysics 34849. Statistics and Religious Studies 35350. Statistics in Agriculture Production 35751. Statistics in Archaeology-I 37352. Statistics in Archaeology-II 37853. Statistics in Childhood Obesity 38554. Statistics in Historical Studies 40055. Statistics in Gambling 40756. Statistics in Law 41157. Statistics in Linguistics 42158. Statistics in Musicology 42959. Statistics in Political Science 43760. Statistics in Psychology 44661. Statistics in Sociology 45362. Statistics in Sports 46163. Stochastic Demography 46764. The Theory and Practice of Index Numbers 48065. Transferable Vote System for Elections 50566. Uncertainty in Economics 50867. U.S. Bureau of the Census 51568. Utility Theory 53169. Utilization Analysis 53970. Vital Statistics 54471. Whittaker-Henderson Graduation Formulas 549Index 553