The new ASA-sponsored journal Statistics and Public Policy (SPP) published its inaugural issue late last month. The issue contains the following six articles: "The Twentieth-Century Reversal: How Did the Republican States Switch to the Democrats and Vice Versa?" by Andrew Gelman of Columbia University "How Informative Are Vital Registration Data for Estimating Maternal Mortality? A Bayesian Analysis of WHO Adjustment Data and Parameters" by Fengqing Chao and Leontine Alkema, both of the National University of Singapore "The Sensitivity of Value-Added Estimates to Specification Adjustments: Evidence from School- and Teacher-Level Models in Missouri" by Mark Ehlert of the Economic and Policy Analysis Research Center, Cory Koedel of the University of Missouri, Eric Parsons of the Economic and Policy Analysis Research Center, and Michael J. Podgursky of the University of Missouri.
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