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Part 1 Decision analysis: utility and probability assessment in settlingan insurance claim, J.Smith; multicriteria analysis and public sectordecision making, A.Pearman; a decision tree for the selection of tenderers,J.Smith; sample information in marketing a new product, Z.Kmietowicz. Part 2Forecasting: trend analysis in technological forecasting, J.Sparkes andS.Witt; forecasting jeans sales in the UK using decomposition analysis,J.Sparkes and S.Witt; company sales forecasting using exponential smoothing,J.Sparkes and S.Witt; multiple regression and the market size for new cars,J.Sparkes and S.Witt. Part 3 Multivariate analysis: principal componentsanalysis of medical records, G.Dunn; the classification of depression amongstwomen, B.Everitt; discriminant analysis for psychiatric screening, D.Hand;understanding pain through multidimensional scaling, B.Everitt. Part 4 Thedesign and analysis of surveys: sample design and the 1979 British electionstudy, S. Stray; opinion polling and opinion poll designs, S. Stray;technology and the survey process, S. Stray; the analysis of cross-tabulatedsurvey data, G.Upton. Part 5 The design and analysis of experiments: a badexperiment in chemical process development, R.Caulcutt; a factorialexperiment to help determine government policy on bean growing, R.Caulcutt; asplit plot experiment and a blocked experiment to support the marketing ofshampoos, R.Caulcutt; a hill climbing approach to find the optimum conditionsfor satisfying quality and quantity specfications, R.Caulcutt.