We are very grateful to all contributors for their stimulating comments and questions on the role of variable screening and selection on high-dimensional statistical modeling. This paper would not have been in the current form without the benefits of private communications with Professors Peter Bickel, Peter Bühlmann, Eitan Greenshtein, Qiwei Yao, Cun-Hui Zhang and Wenyang Zhang at various stag...

JULY/AUGUST 2003 3 T he Twenty-Seventh Economic Policy Conference, held November 7 and 8, 2002, focused on research that examines the influence of financial markets and institutions on real economic activity. While some economists trace this literature back to Schumpeter (1949, first published in 1912), Gurley and Shaw (1955), and Goldsmith (1969), published research on this topic has grown rap...

First of all, we would like to thank all the discussants for their interest and comments, as well as for their thorough investigation. The comments all underlie the importance and timeliness of the topics discussed in our paper, namely, accurate statistical estimation in high dimensions. We would also like to thank the editors for this opportunity to comment briefly on a few issues raised in th...

Conference Chair: David T. Felson, MD, MPH; Conference Organizer: Reva C. Lawrence, MPH; Discussants: Paul A. Dieppe, MD; Rosemarie Hirsch, MD, MPH; Charles G. Helmick, MD; Joanne M. Jordan, MD, MPH; Raynard S. Kington, MD, PhD; Nancy E. Lane, MD; Michael C. Nevitt, PhD; Yuqing Zhang, DSc; MaryFran Sowers, PhD; Timothy McAlindon, MD, MPH; Tim D. Spector, MD, MSc; A. Robin Poole, PhD, DSc; Susan...

The present discussion is primarily about how to interpret belief functions, and the discussants have a wide variety of views on this topic. I am somewhat disappointed at this, both because I would like to see work on belief functions move on from interpretation to application, and also, of course, because I have been explaining my own views on the interpretation of belief functions for many ye...

Introduction My charge as part of this workshop was to serve as one of two formal discussants, focusing in particular on how well the proposed redesigns address the key methodological and cognitive concerns expressed in various forums with regard to the Consumer Expenditure Surveys. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to review many of the papers and presentations on the methodological concern...

Assessing and engaging suicidal adolescents in psychoanalytic psychotherapy is filled with complexity and stress, but offers a potential for lasting suicide prevention. This study provides a detailed account of the initial psychotherapy sessions with a suicidal teenager, drawing extensively on the comprehensive notes taken by the therapist. Four discussants were invited to provide their perspec...

Most colleges and universities have adopted course management systems (e.g., Blackboard, WebCT). Worldwide faculty and students use them for class communications and discussions. The discussion tools provided by course management systems, while powerful, often do not offer adequate capabilities to appraise communication patterns, online behaviors, group processes, or critical thinking. This pap...

Statistics and the College Football Championship Hal S Stern a Hal S. Stern is Professor, Department of Statistics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine . The author thanks the TAS editor, Jim Albert, for encouraging this article and the many people with whom I've discussed this subject. Notable among the latter group are David Harville and C...

First of all, we would like to thank all the discussants for their interest and comments, as well as for their thorough investigation. The comments all underlie the importance and timeliness of the topics discussed in our paper, namely, accurate statistical estimation in high dimensions. We would also like to thank the editors for this opportunity to comment briefly on a few issues raised in th...