American Educational Research Association Empirical Bayes Ranking Methods Author(s): Nan M. Laird and Thomas A. Louis Source: Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 29-46 Published by: American Educational Research Association and American Statistical Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1164724 Accessed: 03/02/2010 13:30 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=aera. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. American Educational Research Association and American Statistical Association are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Educational Statistics. http://www.jstor.org