Introduction: 75 Years Later

Yates and Contingency Tables: 75 Years Later

Seventy-five years ago, Yates (1934) presented an article introducing his continuity correction to the χ test for independence in contingency tables. The paper also was one of the first introductions to Fisher’s exact test. We discuss the historical importance of Yates and his 1934 paper. The development of the exact test and continuity correction are studied in some detail. Subsequent disputes...

Birth size and brain function 75 years later.

BACKGROUND There are several lines of evidence pointing to fetal and other early origins of diseases of the aging brain, but there are no data directly addressing the hypotheses in an older population. We investigated the association of fetal size to late-age measures of brain structure and function in a large cohort of older men and women and explored the modifying effect of education on these...

Indoor radon entry: 30 years later

The paper discusses the results of 30 years of radon indoor entry research. While some progress has been made, many discrepancies between current theories and experimental data still remain. Misconceptions of radon transport mechanisms in homes are analyzed. The role of US Environmental Protection Agency in radon indoor entry research is examined and the agency's policies are criticize...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Software Engineering Project Management 20 Years Later

Forum: German Home Towns, Forty Years Later Introduction

THEidea of publicly recognizing an important milestone in the life of Mack Walker’s book German Home Towns, which appeared in 1971, goes back to January 2011 when David Luebke and Yair Mintzker put out a call for papers to discuss “German Home Towns—Forty Years Later” at the upcoming meeting of the German Studies Association (GSA) in Louisville, Kentucky.1 The robust response to their call conf...