Canonical analysis of the composition and structure of social networks, Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust; correspondence analysis, with special attention to the analysis of panel data and event history data, Peter van der Heijden and Jan de Leeuw; structures of mediation - a formal approach to brokerage in transaction networks, Roger V. Gould and Roberto M. Fernandez; issues in smoothing empirical hazard rates, Lawrence L. Wu; empirical comparison of conditional and marginal likelihood methods in a longitudinal study, Robert Crouchley and Andrew Pickles; the utility of empirical Bayes methods for comparing regression structures in small subsamples, Ross M. Stolzenberg and Daniel Relles; effect on secondary data analysis of common imputation methods, J.-H. Jinn and J. Sedransk; methods for estimating cohort replacement effects, Glenn Firebaugh; from words to numbers - a generalized and linguistics-based coding procedure for collecting textual data, Roberta Franzosi; loglinear item response models, with applications to data from social surveys, David Thissen and Jo Ann Mooney; loglinear models with missing data - a latent class approach, Christopher Winship and Robert D. Mare; construction principles for latent trait models, Gerhard Arminger and Ulrich Kusters; systems analysis - macrolevel analysis with microlevel data, James S. Coleman and Lingxin Hao.