Most Downloaded Papers from the first 6 months of 2008

The 10 papers below were the most downloaded papers in the first half of 2008, from Elsevier’s journal platform ScienceDirect.

Statistical Methodology currently has two special issues available for free online access until the end of 2008 through ScienceDirect:

Special Issue on Bioinformatics
And
Special Issue on Astrostatistics

Top 10 Statistical Methodology downloads from ScienceDirect.

1. The two-sample t-test with a known ratio of variances
   Schechtman, E.; Sherman, M.
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 4, Issue 4, October 2007, Pages 508-514
   Times downloaded: 326

2. Hierarchical overdispersed Poisson model with macrolevel autocorrelation
   Liu, J.; Dey, D.K.
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2007, Pages 354-370
   Times downloaded: 272

3. An R-square coefficient based on final prediction error
   Rousson, V.; Gosoniu, N.F.
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2007, Pages 331-340
   Times downloaded: 253

4. The use of GARCH models in VaR estimation
   Angelidis, T.; Benos, A.; Degiannakis,
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 1, Issues 1-2, December 2004, Pages 105-128
   Times downloaded: 228

5. A rich learning lesson using the Poisson distribution
   Al-Saleh, M.F.
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 4, Issue 4, October 2007, Pages 504-507
   Times downloaded: 175

6. Sample size calculation based on risk ratio under multiple matching
   Lui, K.J.
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 3, Issue 4, October 2006, Pages 406-415
   Times downloaded: 170

7. A bound on the Poisson-binomial relative error
   Teerapabolarn, K.
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 4, Issue 4, October 2007, Pages 407-415
   Times downloaded: 157

8. First moment approximations for order statistics from the extreme value distribution
   Fard, M.N.P.; Holmquist, B.
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 196-203
   Times downloaded: 153

9. Credit risk modeling based on survival analysis with immunes
   Beran, J.; Djaidja, A.Y.K.
   Statistical Methodology, Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2007, Pages 251-276
   Times downloaded: 148

10. Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods
    Tartakovsky, A.G.; Rozovskii, B.L.; Blazek, R.B.; Kim, H.
    Statistical Methodology, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2006, Pages 252-293
    Times downloaded: 144