Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Preface to fourth edition

Preface to third edition

Preface to first edition

Acknowledgements

Notation

Sources

A

Aalen-Johansen estimator

Aalen's linear regression model

Abbot's formula

ABC method

Ability parameter

Absolute deviation

Absolute risk

Absorbing barrier

Absorbing Markov chains

Absorption distributions

Abundance matrices

Accelerated failure time model

Accelerated life testing

Acceleration factor

Acceptable quality level

Acceptable risk

Acceptance region

Acceptance-rejection algorithm

Acceptance sampling

Accident proneness

Accidentally empty cells

Accrual rate

Accuracy

ACE

ACE model

ACES

ACF

ACORN

Acquiescence bias

Action lines

Active control equivalence studies (ACES)

Active control trials

Active life expectancy (ALE)

Actuarial estimator

Actuarial statistics

Adaptive cluster sampling

Adaptive designs

Adaptive estimator

Adaptive lasso

Adaptive methods

Adaptive methods of treatment assignment

Adaptive sampling design

Added variable plot

Addition rule for probabilities

Additive clustering model

Additive effect

Additive genetic variance

Additive model

Additive outlier

Additive tree

Adelstein, Abe (1916-1993)

Adequate subset

Adjacency matrix

Adjusted correlation matrix

Adjusted treatment means

Adjusting for baseline

Administrative databases

Admissibility

Admixture in human populations

Adoption studies

Adverse selection

Aetiological fraction

Affine invariance

Affine transformation

Ageependent birth and death process

Age heaping

Age-period-cohort model

Age-related reference ranges

Age-specific death rates

Age-specific failure rate

Age-specific incidence rate

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering methods

Agreement

Agresti's a

Agronomy trials

AI

AIC

Aickin's measure of agreement

AID

Aitchison distributions

Aitken, Alexander Craig (1895-1967)

Ajne's test

Akaike's information criterion (AIC)

ALE

Algorithm

Aliasing

Allele

Allocation ratio

Allocation rule

Allometry

All possible comparisons (APC)

All subsets regression

Almon lag technique

Almost sure convergence

Alpha(a)

Alpha factoring

Alpha spending function

Alpha(a)-trimmed hairspmean

Alpha(a)-winsorized mean

Alshuler's estimator

Alternate allocations

Alternating conditional expectation (ACE)

Alternating least squares

Alternating logistic regression

Alternative hypothesis

Aly's statistic

Amersham model

AML

Amplitude

Amplitude gain

Analysis as-randomized

Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)

Analysis of dispersion

Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

Analysis of variance table

Analytic