Paul Friedrich Meyer-Waarden 5 December 1902 - 15 February 1975

Eugene Paul Wigner 1902--1995

December 15, 2003

Today the word "schizophrenia" brings to mind such names as John Nash and Andrea Yates. Nash, the subject of the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, emerged as a mathematical prodigy and eventually won a Nobel Prize for his early work, but he became so profoundly disturbed by the brain disorder in young adulthood that he lost his academic career and floundered for years before recovering. Yate...

Measles Outbreak — California, December 2014–February 2015

On January 5, 2015, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) was notified about a suspected measles case. The patient was a hospitalized, unvaccinated child, aged 11 years with rash onset on December 28. The only notable travel history during the exposure period was a visit to one of two adjacent Disney theme parks located in Orange County, California. On the same day, CDPH received re...

Cover vol. 15, no. 6, December 2018

Package ‘ Zelig ’ February 15 , 2013

Description Zelig is an easy-to-use program that can estimate, and help interpret the results of, an enormous range of statistical models. It literally is ‘‘everyone’s statistical software’’because Zelig’s simple unified framework incorporates everyone else’s (R) code. We also hope it will become ‘‘everyone’s statistical software’’ for applications and teaching, and so have designed Zelig so th...