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T. K. M. Wisniewski Testing for Homogeneity of a Binomial Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--428
R. E. Tarone Testing the Goodness of Fit of the Binomial Distribution . . . . . . . . . 585--590
David M. Rocke Outlier Resistance in Small Samples . . 175--181
A. C. Davison Approximate Predictive Likelihood . . . 323--332 David F. Findley The Uniqueness of Moving Average Representations with Independent and Identically Distributed Random Variables for Non-Gaussian Stationary Time Series 520--521
D. S. Poskitt A Modified Hannan--Rissanen Strategy for Mixed Autoregressive-Moving Average Order Determination . . . . . . . . . . 781--790
Alastair Hall Testing for a Unit Root in the Presence of Moving Average Errors . . . . . . . . 49--56 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Gilberto A. Paula Improved Likelihood Ratio Statistics for Exponential Family Nonlinear Models . . 93--100
Luke Tierney and Robert E. Kass and Joseph B. Kadane Approximate Marginal Densities of Nonlinear Functions . . . . . . . . . . 425--433
R. L. Eubank and Paul Speckman Curve Fitting by Polynomial-Trigonometric Regression . . 1--9 Tor D. Tosteson and James H. Ware Designing a Logistic Regression Study using Surrogate Measures for Exposure and Outcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--21 Brian D. Marx and Eric P. Smith Principal Component Estimation for Generalized Linear Regression . . . . . 23--31 Bernhard A. Flury Principal Points . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41 M. Davidian Estimation of Variance Functions in Assays with Possibly Unequal Replication and Nonnormal Data . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 A. E. Gelfand and S. R. Dalal A Note on Overdispersed Exponential Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 D. A. S. Fraser Tail Probabilities from Observed Likelihoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--76 Thomas J. DiCiccio and Christopher A. Field and D. A. S. Fraser Approximations of Marginal Tail Probabilities and Inference for Scalar Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--95 Denis Conniffe Testing Hypotheses with Estimated Scores 97--106 Robert E. Kass Data-Translated Likelihood and Jeffreys's Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--114 Joe R. Hill A General Framework for Model-Based Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126 Tsuyoshi Nakamura Corrected Score Function for Errors-in-Variables Models: Methodology and Application to Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137 Bert Van Es and Adriaan Hoogendoorn Kernel Estimation in Wicksell's Corpuscle Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145 Terry M. Therneau and Patricia M. Grambsch and Thomas R. Fleming Martingale-Based Residuals for Survival Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--160 C. R. Heathcote and D. F. Nicholls Least-Squares Estimation of the Contact Rate in Models for the Spread of Infectious Diseases . . . . . . . . . . 161--168 Wei-Yann Tsai Testing the Assumption of Independence of Truncation Time and Failure Time . . 169--177 G. A. Young and H. E. Daniels Bootstrap Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--185 Michael Jacroux and Rita Saha Ray On the Construction of Trend-Free Run Orders of Treatments . . . . . . . . . . 187--191 Nizam Uddin and John P. Morgan Some Constructions for Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with Nested Rows and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--202 I. B. J. Goudie A Likelihood-Based Stopping Rule for Recapture Debugging . . . . . . . . . . 203--206 Els Goetghebeur and Louise Ryan A Modified Log Rank Test for Competing Risks with Missing Failure Type . . . . 207--211 Nader Ebrahimi and Mohamed Habibullah Testing Whether the Survival Distribution is New Better than Used of Specified Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--215 M. Schemper The Explained Variation in Proportional Hazards Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 216--218 Bruce Levin and Fanhui Kong Bartlett's Bias Correction to the Profile Score Function is a Saddlepoint Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221 Shean-Tsong Chiu Why Bandwidth Selectors Tend to Choose Smaller Bandwidths, and a Remedy . . . . 222--226 Hirofumi Wakaki Comparison of Linear and Quadratic Discriminant Functions . . . . . . . . . 227--229 Tito A. Mijares The normal approximation to the Bartlett--Nanda--Pillai trace test in multivariate analysis . . . . . . . . . 230--233 David F. Findley Amendments and corrections: ``The uniqueness of moving average representations with independent and identically distributed random variables for non-Gaussian stationary time series'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 73 (1986), no. 2, 520--521; MR0855914 (88e:62210)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235 Alastair Hall Amendments and corrections: ``Testing for a unit root in the presence of moving average errors'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 76 (1989), no. 1, 49--56; MR0991422 (90g:62218)] . . . 235--235 David M. Rocke Amendments and corrections: ``Outlier resistance in small samples'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 73 (1986), no. 1, 175--181; MR0836445 (88b:62069)] by D. M. Rocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. N. Darroch and P. I. McCloud Separating Two Sources of Dependence in Repeated Influenza Outbreaks . . . . . . 237--243 Jonathan A. Tawn Modelling Multivariate Extreme Value Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--253 Stephan M. Rudolfer A Markov Chain Model of Extrabinomial Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--264 Hal Stern A Continuum of Paired Comparisons Models 265--273 Bruce Levin The Saddlepoint Correction in Conditional Logistic Likelihood Analysis 275--285 Diane E. Duffy On Continuity-Corrected Residuals in Logistic Regression . . . . . . . . . . 287--293 Yun-Xin Fu and R. N. Curnow Locating a Changed Segment in a Sequence of Bernoulli Variables . . . . . . . . . 295--304 Hans-Georg Müller and Jane-Ling Wang Nonparametric Analysis of Changes in Hazard Rates for Censored Survival Data: An Alternative to Change-Point Models 305--314 David Madigan and Krzysztof Mosurski An Extension of the Results of Asmussen and Edwards on Collapsibility in Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 315--319 Gunseog Kang and Douglas M. Bates Approximate Inferences in Multiresponse Regression Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 321--331 D. A. S. Fraser and H. S. Lee and N. Reid Nonnormal Linear Regression; An Example of Significance Levels in High Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--341 Thomas A. Severini Conditional Properties of Likelihood-Based Significance Tests . . 343--352 Stuart R. Lipsitz and Nan M. Laird and David P. Harrington Finding the Design Matrix for the Marginal Homogeneity Model . . . . . . . 353--358 L. J. Wei and John Q. Su and John M. Lachin Interim Analyses with Repeated Measurements in a Sequential Clinical Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--364 J. N. K. Rao and J. G. Kovar and H. J. Mantel On Estimating Distribution Functions and Quantiles from Survey Data Using Auxiliary Information . . . . . . . . . 365--375 Theo Gasser and Joachim Engel The Choice of Weights in Kernel Regression Estimation . . . . . . . . . 377--381 Wai Kwan Fong A Bayesian Approach to Successive Sampling with Partial Replacement of Units on Two Occasions . . . . . . . . . 383--388 H. Stenger Asymptotic Minimaxity of the Ratio Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--395 R. W. Farebrother Studies in the history of probability and statistics. XLII. Further details of contacts between Boscovich and Simpson in June 1760 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--400 Roger Gay and C. C. Heyde On a Class of Random Field Models which Allows Long Range Dependence . . . . . . 401--403 A. J. Watkins On Polynomial Expansions for Likelihoods of Spatial Data with Finite Range Correlation Function . . . . . . . . . . 404--408 David Oakes and Tamraparni Dasu A Note on Residual Life . . . . . . . . 409--410 Edit Gombay and Lajos Horváth Asymptotic Distributions of Maximum Likelihood Tests for Change in the Mean 411--414 Peter Hall and J. S. Marron On Variance Estimation in Nonparametric Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--419 Iris Pigeot A Class of Asymptotically Efficient Noniterative Estimators of a Common Odds Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--423 Gordon E. Willmot On the Construction of a Parameter Orthogonal to the Mean . . . . . . . . . 424--428 Nader Ebrahimi and Ehsan S. Soofi Relative Information Loss Under Type II Censored Exponential Data . . . . . . . 429--435 Anthony Y. C. Kuk Asking Sensitive Questions Indirectly 436--438 N. S. Mangat and Ravindra Singh An Alternative Randomized Response Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--442 Tito A. Mijares On the normal approximation to the Lawley--Hotelling trace criterion . . . 443--443 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Linda D. Sharples Identification and Accommodation of Outliers in General Hierarchical Models 445--453 L. I. Pettit and K. D. S. Young Measuring the Effect of Observations on Bayes Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--466 Colin B. Begg On Inferences from Wei's Biased Coin Design for Clinical Trials . . . . . . . 467--478 V. T. Farewell and D. A. Sprott Discussion of Paper by C. B. Begg . . . 479--480 S. J. Pocock Discussion of Paper by C. B. Begg . . . 480--481 Oscar Kempthorne Discussion of Paper by C. B. Begg . . . 481--483 D. R. Cox Discussion of Paper by C. B. Begg . . . 483--484 C. B. Begg Response to Discussion . . . . . . . . . 484--484 Andrea Rotnitzky and Nicholas P. Jewell Hypothesis Testing of Regression Parameters in Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models for Cluster Correlated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--497 Martin Crowder On Some Nonregular Tests for a Modified Weibull Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--506 Daniel J. Schaid and Sam Wieand and Terry M. Therneau Optimal Two-Stage Screening Designs for Survival Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . 507--513 Glenn Heller and Jeffrey S. Simonoff A Comparison of Estimators for Regression with a Censored Response Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--520 Peter Hall and J. W. Kay and D. M. Titterington Asymptotically Optimal Difference-Based Estimation of Variance in Nonparametric Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--528 Peter Hall On the Bias of Variable Bandwidth Curve Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--535 Tarmo Pukkila and Sergio Koreisha and Arto Kallinen The Identification of ARMA Models . . . 537--548 S. R. Paul Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Intraclass Correlation in the Analysis of Familial Data: Estimating Equation Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--555 Raja Velu and M. Bhaskara Rao Estimation of Parent-Offspring Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--562 Yun-Xin Fu and R. N. Curnow Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multiple Change Points . . . . . . . . . 563--573 Yutaka Kano and Maia Berkane and Peter M. Bentler Covariance Structure Analysis with Heterogeneous Kurtosis Parameters . . . 575--585 James R. Schott Canonical Mean Projections and Confidence Regions in Canonical Variate Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--596 William H. Jefferys Robust Estimation when More than One Variable per Equation of Condition has Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--607 D. J. Hirst and I. Ford and F. Critchley An Empirical Investigation of Methods for Interval Estimation of the Log Odds Ratio in Discriminant Analysis . . . . . 609--615 Juha M. Alho Adjusting for Nonresponse Bias Using Logistic Regression . . . . . . . . . . 617--624 Rahul Mukerjee and S. Sengupta Optimal Estimation of a Finite Population Mean in the Presence of Linear Trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--630 Paul S. Horn Robust Quantile Estimators for Skewed Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--636 Yasuo Amemiya and T. W. Anderson and Peter A. W. Lewis Percentage Points for a Test of Rank in Multivariate Components of Variance . . 637--641 Lue Ping Zhao and Ross L. Prentice Correlated Binary Regression Using a Quadratic Exponential Model . . . . . . 642--648 Greg C. G. Wei and Martin A. Tanner Calculating the Content and Boundary of the Highest Posterior Density Region via Data Augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . 649--652 Emery N. Brown A Note on the Asymptotic Distribution of the Parameter Estimates for the Harmonic Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--656 I. G. Vlachonikolis Predictive Discrimination and Classification with Mixed Binary and Continuous Variables . . . . . . . . . . 657--662 Dror M. Rom A Sequentially Rejective Test Procedure Based on a Modified Bonferroni Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--665 A. C. Davison Amendments and Corrections: ``Approximate predictive likelihood'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 73 (1986), no. 2, 323--332; MR0855892 (87i:62014)] . . 667--667 D. S. Poskitt Amendments and Corrections: ``A modified Hannan--Rissanen strategy for mixed autoregressive-moving average order determination'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 74 (1987), no. 4, 781--790; MR0919846 (90f:62291)] . . . . . . . . . 667--667 R. E. Tarone Amendments and Corrections: ``Testing the Goodness of fit of the Binomial Distribution'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668--668 T. K. M. Wisniewski Amendments and Corrections: Testing for Homogeneity of a Binomial Series . . . . 668--668 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii Bjòrn Auestad and Dag Tjòstheim Identification of Nonlinear Time Series: First Order Characterization and Order Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--687 Rodney C. L. Wolff A Note on the Behaviour of the Correlation Integral in the Presence of a Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--697 A. T. Walden and R. E. White Estimating the Statistical Bandwidth of a Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--707 Clifford M. Hurvich and Robert Shumway and Chih-Ling Tsai Improved estimators of Kullback--Leibler information for autoregressive model selection in small samples . . . . . . . 709--719 Richard H. Jones and Lynn M. Ackerson Serial Correlation in Unequally Spaced Longitudinal Data . . . . . . . . . . . 721--731 Simeon M. Berman A Stochastic Model for the Distribution of HIV Latency Time Based on T4 Counts 733--741 D. R. Bellhouse On the Equivalence of Marginal and Approximate Conditional Likelihoods for Correlation Parameters Under a Normal Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--746 D. R. Cox and Nanny Wermuth An Approximation to Maximum Likelihood Estimates in Reduced Models . . . . . . 747--761 Sik Yum Lee Multilevel Analysis of Structural Equation Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--772 J. C. Gower Three-Dimensional Biplots . . . . . . . 773--785 James G. Booth and Ronald W. Butler Randomization Distributions and Saddlepoint Approximations in Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . 787--796 Herman Chernoff and Yoel Haitovsky Locally Optimal Design for Comparing Two Probabilities from Binomial Data Subject to Misclassification . . . . . . . . . . 797--805 J. N. K. Rao and A. K. Nigam Optimal Controlled Sampling Designs . . 807--814 Edward J. Bedrick and Joe R. Hill Outlier Tests for Logistic Regression: A Conditional Approach . . . . . . . . . . 815--827 Nizam Uddin Some Series Constructions for Minimal Size Equineighboured Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with Nested Rows and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--833 Robin Henderson A Problem with the Likelihood Ratio Test for a Change-Point Hazard Rate Model . . 835--843 L. J. Wei and Z. Ying and D. Y. Lin Linear Regression Analysis of Censored Survival Data Based on Rank Tests . . . 845--851 David M. Zucker and Edward Lakatos Weighted Log Rank Type Statistics for Comparing Survival Curves when There is a Time Lag in the Effectiveness of Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--864 M. Samiuddin and G. M. El-Sayyad On Nonparametric Kernel Density Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--874 Scott S. Emerson and Thomas R. Fleming Parameter Estimation Following Group Sequential Hypothesis Testing . . . . . 875--892 Donald R. Hoover and Frank M. Guess Response Linked Censoring: Modelling and Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--896 Bryan Langholz and Duncan Thomas and Tsunjen Chen and Phillip Rhodes Tests of Effect in 1: $J$ Matched Case-Control Studies Based on a Modified Likelihood Approach . . . . . . . . . . 897--900 Nick Polson and Larry Wasserman Prior Distributions for the Bivariate Binomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--904 J. Aitchison On Coherence in Parametric Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--908 Zhiliang Ying Linear Rank Statistics for Truncated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--914 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous The Editorship of \booktitleBiometrika ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Morton Analysis of Extra-Multinomial Data Derived from Extra-Poisson Variables Conditional on Their Total . . . . . . . 1--6 Gillian K. Reeves Estimation of Contrast Variances in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--14 Mark Knowles and David Siegmund and Heping Zhang Confidence Regions in Semilinear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--31 Philip J. Brown and Samuel D. Oman Double Points in Nonlinear Calibration 33--43 Harvey Goldstein Nonlinear Multilevel Models, with an Application to Discrete Response Data 45--51 A. V. Vecchia and R. Ballerini Testing for Periodic Autocorrelations in Seasonal Time Series Data . . . . . . . 53--63 B. G. Quinn and P. J. Thomson Estimating the Frequency of a Periodic Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74 Tapan K. Nayak Estimating the Number of Component Processes of a Superimposed Process . . 75--81 W. K. Li Testing Model Adequacy for Some Markov Regression Models for Time Series . . . 83--89 Bernard Lefrançois Detecting Over-Influential Observations in Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--99 You-Gan Wang Gittins Indices and Constrained Allocation in Clinical Trials . . . . . 101--111 D. S. Coad Sequential Tests for an Unstable Response Variable . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121 D. Y. Lin Nonparametric Sequential Testing in Clinical Trials with Incomplete Multivariate Observations . . . . . . . 123--131 Christopher Jennison and Bruce W. Turnbull Exact Calculations for Sequential $t$, $ \chi^2$ and $F$ tests . . . . . . . . . 133--141 V. P. Godambe Orthogonality of Estimating Functions and Nuisance Parameters . . . . . . . . 143--151 Stuart R. Lipsitz and Nan M. Laird and David P. Harrington Generalized Estimating Equations for Correlated Binary Data: Using the Odds Ratio as a Measure of Association . . . 153--160 Kim-Anh Do and Peter Hall On Importance Resampling for the Bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--167 H. E. Daniels and G. A. Young Saddlepoint Approximation for the Studentized Mean, with an Application to the Bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--179 C. F. J. Wu Balanced Repeated Replications Based on Mixed Orthogonal Arrays . . . . . . . . 181--188 Lih-Yuan Deng and Raj S. Chhikara On Asymptotically Design-Unbiased Estimators of a Finite Population Mean 189--195 David W. Scott and M. P. Wand Feasibility of Multivariate Density Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--205 E. Reschenhofer and I. M. Bomze Length Tests for Goodness of Fit . . . . 207--216 Stuart L. Beal Computing Initial Estimates with Mixed Effects Models: A General Method of Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--220 M. Y. Wong Bartlett Adjustment to the Likelihood Ratio Statistic for Testing Several Slopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224 K. J. Keen and M. S. Srivastava The Asymptotic Variance of the Interclass Correlation Coefficient . . . 225--228 Jan de Leeuw and Peter G. M. van der Heijden Reduced Rank Models for Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--232 Yun-Xin Fu and R. N. Curnow Amendments and Corrections: ``Locating a changed segment in a sequence of Bernoulli variables'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 77 (1990), no. 2, 295--304; (91f:62038)] . . . . . . . 233--233 T. Srivenkataramana and D. S. Tracy Amendment: ``Two-phase sampling for selection with probability proportional to size in sample surveys'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 76 (1989), no. 4, 818--821; MR1041430 (91c:62009)] . . 233--233 Luke Tierney and Robert E. Kass and Joseph B. Kadane Amendments and Corrections: ``Approximate marginal densities of nonlinear functions'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 76 (1989), no. 3, 425--433; MR1040637 (91c:62015)] . . 233--234 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. Ruiz-Velasco Asymptotic Efficiency of Logistic Regression Relative to Linear Discriminant Analysis . . . . . . . . . 235--243 D. Firth and J. Glosup and D. V. Hinkley Model Checking with Nonparametric Curves 245--252 M. J. Buckley Detecting a Smooth Signal: Optimality of Cusum Based Procedures . . . . . . . . . 253--262 Peter Hall and Simon J. Sheather and M. C. Jones and J. S. Marron On Optimal Data-Based Bandwidth Selection in Kernel Density Estimation 263--269 Marianne Frisén and Jacques De Maré Optimal Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . 271--280 Michael L. Stein A New Class of Estimators for the Reduced Second Moment Measure of Point Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--286 Dale Zimmerman Censored Distance-Based Intensity Estimation of Spatial Point Processes 287--294 Chang-Hyuck Oh and Norman C. Severo and John Slivka Approximations to the Maximum Likelihood Estimate in Some Pure Birth Processes 295--299 Julian Besag and Peter Clifford Sequential Monte Carlo $p$-values . . . 301--304 K. G. Russell The Construction of Good Change-Over Designs When There are Fewer Units than Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--313 Joachim Kunert Cross-Over Designs for Two Treatments and Correlated Errors . . . . . . . . . 315--324 Ching-Shui Cheng and David M. Steinberg Trend Robust Two-Level Factorial Designs 325--336 Frances P. Stewart and Ralph A. Bradley Some Universally Optimal Row-Column Designs with Empty Nodes . . . . . . . . 337--348 Herbert Robbins and Cun-Hui Zhang Estimating a Multiplicative Treatment Effect Under Biased Allocation . . . . . 349--354 K. V. Mardia and J. T. Kent Rao Score Tests for Goodness of Fit and Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--363 Rahul Mukerjee and Tapas K. Chandra Bartlett-Type Adjustment for the Conditional Likelihood Ratio Statistic of Cox and Reid . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--372 Joyce M. Wellman and Richard F. Gunst Influence Diagnostics for Linear Measurement Error Models . . . . . . . . 373--380 W. K. Li Some Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Seasonal Differencing . . . . . . . . . 381--387 Steven K. Thompson Stratified Adaptive Cluster Sampling . . 389--397 Philip J. Smith Bayesian Analyses for a Multiple Capture-Recapture Model . . . . . . . . 399--407 Danny Pfeffermann and Abba M. Krieger Poststratification Using Regression Estimators when Information on Strata Means and Sizes is Missing . . . . . . . 409--419 Mike West Kernel Density Estimation and Marginalization Consistency . . . . . . 421--425 Nicholas G. Polson A Representation of the Posterior Mean for a Location Model . . . . . . . . . . 426--430 Kenneth J. Beath and Annette J. Dobson Regression to the Mean for Nonnormal Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--435 Shean-Tsong Chiu The Effect of Discretization Error on Bandwidth Selection for Kernel Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--441 Chi-Lun Cheng and John W. Van Ness On the Unreplicated Ultrastructural Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--445 David F. Signorini Sample Size for Poisson Regression . . . 446--450 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Andrew Chesher The Effect of Measurement Error . . . . 451--462 Yosihiko Ogata and Koiti Katsura Maximum Likelihood Estimates of the Fractal Dimension for Random Spatial Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--474 A. M. Thompson and J. W. Kay and D. M. Titterington Noise Estimation in Signal Restoration Using Regularization . . . . . . . . . . 475--488 B. G. Quinn and J. M. Fernandes A Fast Efficient Technique for the Estimation of Frequency . . . . . . . . 489--497 Clifford M. Hurvich and Chih-Ling Tsai Bias of the Corrected AIC Criterion for Underfitted Regression and time Series Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--509 M. C. Jones Kernel Density Estimation for Length Biased Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--519 Hans-Georg Müller Smooth Optimum Kernel Estimators Near Endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--530 Peter J. Lenk Towards a Practicable Bayesian Nonparametric Density Estimator . . . . 531--543 D. Firth and I. R. Harris Quasi-likelihood for Multiplicative Random Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--555 O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen Modified Signed Log Likelihood Ratio . . 557--563 D. A. S. Fraser and I. Guttman and M. S. Srivastava Conditional Inference for Treatment and Error in Multivariate Analysis . . . . . 565--572 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Silvia L. de Paula Ferrari A Modified Score Test Statistic Having Chi-Squared Distribution to Order $ n^{-1} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--582 C. Hirotsu An Approach to Comparing Treatments Based on Repeated Measures . . . . . . . 583--594 S. M. Lewis and A. M. Dean On General Balance in Row-Column Designs 595--600 A. C. Ponce de Leon and A. C. Atkinson Optimum Experimental Design for Discriminating Between Two Rival Models in the Presence of Prior Information . . 601--608 H. I. Patel Analysis of Incomplete Data from a Clinical Trial with Repeated Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--619 Eric Slud Relative Efficiency of the Log Rank Test Within a Multiplicative Intensity Model 621--630 Robin Henderson and Alvin Milner On Residual Plots for Relative Risk Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--636 Kathryn Chaloner Bayesian Residual Analysis in the Presence of Censoring . . . . . . . . . 637--644 Keying Ye and James O. Berger Noninformative Priors for Inferences in Exponential Regression Models . . . . . 645--656 Alan E. Gelfand and Lynn Kuo Nonparametric Bayesian Bioassay Including Ordered Polytomous Response 657--666 Dongcheol Kim A Bayesian Significance Test of the Stationarity of Regression Parameters 667--675 Frank Critchley and Cecilia Vitiello The Influence of Observations on Misclassification Probability Estimates in Linear Discriminant Analysis . . . . 677--690 N. J. D. Nagelkerke A Note on a General Definition of the Coefficient of Determination . . . . . . 691--692 Ashish Das and Sanpei Kageyama A class of $E$-optimal proper efficiency-balanced designs . . . . . . 693--696 G. L. Thompson A Note on the Rank Transform for Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--701 Yannis G. Yatracos A Note on Tukey's Polyefficiency . . . . 702--703 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii C. J. Wild Fitting Prospective Regression Models to Case-Control Data . . . . . . . . . . . 705--717 Robert Schall Estimation in Generalized Linear Models with Random Effects . . . . . . . . . . 719--727 Samuel D. Oman Multiplicative Effects in Mixed Model Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . 729--739 Yiannis C. Bassiakos and Xiao-Li Meng and Shaw-Hwa Lo A General Estimator of the Treatment Effect When the Data are Heavily Censored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--748 Clive R. Loader Inference for a Hazard Rate Change Point 749--757 J. Sun Significance Levels in Exploratory Projection Pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . 759--769 James R. Schott Some Tests for Common Principal Component Subspaces in Several Groups 771--777 Yasunori Fujikoshi and C. Radhakrishna Rao Selection of Covariables in the Growth Curve Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--785 Ji Zhang and Sastry G. Pantula and Dennis D. Boos Robust Methods for Testing the Pattern of a Single Covariance Matrix . . . . . 787--795 Jeff Harrison and Mike West Dynamic Linear Model Diagnostics . . . . 797--808 David K. Guilkey and Peter Schmidt An Interpolation Test for a Unit Root in the Presence of Drift . . . . . . . . . 809--815 Z. D. Bai and Mo Suk Chow Inadmissibility of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in the Sequential Estimation of the Size of a Population 817--823 Y. Pawitan and A. K. Gangopadhyay Efficient Bias Corrected Nonparametric Spectral Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 825--832 C. R. Dietrich Modality of the Restricted Likelihood for Spatial Gaussian Random Fields . . . 833--839 Trevor F. Cox and Gillian Ferry Robust Logistic Discrimination . . . . . 841--849 S. K. Bhattacharjee and I. R. Dunsmore The Influence of Variables in a Logistic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--856 M. Zelen and Y. Haitovsky Testing Hypotheses with Binary Data Subject to Misclassification Errors: Analysis and Experimental Design . . . . 857--865 Sòren Tolver Jensen and Sòren Johansen and Steffen L. Lauritzen Globally Convergent Algorithms for Maximizing a Likelihood Function . . . . 867--877 Richard H. Spady Saddlepoint Approximations for Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 879--889 Thomas J. DiCiccio and Michael A. Martin Approximations of Marginal Tail Probabilities for a Class of Smooth Functions with Applications to Bayesian and Conditional Inference . . . . . . . 891--902 Thomas J. DiCiccio and Christopher A. Field An Accurate Method for Approximate Conditional and Bayesian Inference about Linear Regression Models from Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--910 R. M. Cormack and P. E. Jupp Inference for Poisson and Multinomial Models for Capture-Recapture Experiments 911--916 E. A. Catchpole and B. J. T. Morgan A Note on Seber's Model for Ring-Recovery Data . . . . . . . . . . . 917--919 L. Kavalieris A Note on Estimating Autoregressive-Moving Average Order . . 920--922 Leszek Marzec and Pawe\l Marzec On Testing the Equality in Dispersion of Two Probability Distributions . . . . . 923--925 Ling-Yau Chan Optimal Design for Estimation of Variance in Nonparametric Regression Using First Order Differences . . . . . 926--929 Michel Donegani An Adaptive and Powerful Randomization Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930--933 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Gilberto A. Paula Amendments and Corrections: ``Improved likelihood ratio statistics for exponential family nonlinear models'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 76 (1989), no. 1, 93--100; MR0991426 (90f:62067)] . . . 935--935 Stephan M. Rudolfer Corrections: ``A Markov chain model of extrabinomial variation'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 77 (1990), no. 2, 255--264; (91f:62028)] . . . . . . . 935--935 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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P. J. Solomon and D. R. Cox Nonlinear Component of Variance Models 1--11 John D. Eales and Christopher Jennison An Improved Method for Deriving Optimal One-Sided Group Sequential Tests . . . . 13--24 James O. Berger and Jose M. Bernardo Ordered Group Reference Priors with Application to the Multinomial Problem 25--37 Dani Gamerman A Dynamic Approach to The Statistical Analysis of Point Processes . . . . . . 39--50 Robert E. Weiss and R. Dennis Cook A Graphical Case Statistic for Assessing Posterior Influence . . . . . . . . . . 51--55 I. L. Dryden and K. V. Mardia Size and Shape Analysis of Landmark Data 57--68 Thomas A. Severini Conditional Robustness in Location Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--79 C. K. Carter and G. K. Eagleson and B. W. Silverman A Comparison of the Reinsch and Speckman Splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91 D. L. McLeish and Christopher G. Small A Projected Likelihood Function for Semiparametric Models . . . . . . . . . 93--102 Xiao-Li Meng and Donald B. Rubin Performing Likelihood Ratio Tests with Multiply-Imputed Data Sets . . . . . . . 103--111 A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley and B. J. Worton Bootstrap Likelihoods . . . . . . . . . 113--130 Barbara McKnight and Jürgen Wahrendorf Tumour Incidence Rate Alternatives and the Cause-of-Death Test for Carcinogenicity . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--138 David A. Binder Fitting Cox's Proportional Hazards Models from Survey Data . . . . . . . . 139--147 Brenda Gillespie and John A. Gillespie and Boris Iglewicz A Comparison of the Bias in Four Versions of the Product-Limit Estimator 149--155 Ronald W. Butler and S. Huzurbazar and James G. Booth Saddlepoint Approximations for the Generalized Variance and Wilks' Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--169 Seong-Ju Kim A practical solution to the multivariate Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 171--176 Terence J. O'Neill Error Rates of Non-Bayes Classification Rules and the Robustness of Fisher's Linear Discriminant Function . . . . . . 177--184 M. R. Meshkani and L. Billard Empirical Bayes Estimators for a Finite Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--193 Thierry Moreau and Jean Maccario and Joseph Lellouch and Catherine Huber Weighted Log Rank Statistics for Comparing Two Distributions . . . . . . 195--198 Rick Chappell A Note on Linear Rank Tests and Gill and Schumacher's Tests of Proportionality 199--201 M. Schemper Further Results on the Explained Variation in Proportional Hazards Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--204 Z. Ying and L. J. Wei and J. S. Lin Prediction of Survival Probability Based on a Linear Regression Model . . . . . . 205--209 K. Suresh Chandra and S. Sampath and G. K. Balasubramani Markov Sampling for Finite Populations 210--213 Gregory M. Constantine On the Information and Precision Matrices of Varietal Contrasts . . . . . 214--216 Arijit Chaudhuri A Note on Estimating the Variance of the Regression Estimator . . . . . . . . . . 217--218 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Trevor J. Sweeting Parameter-Based Asymptotics . . . . . . 219--230 Thomas DiCiccio and Bradley Efron More Accurate Confidence Intervals in Exponential Families . . . . . . . . . . 231--245 Peter McCullagh Conditional Inference and Cauchy Models 247--259 Kung-Yee Liang and Daniel Tsou Empirical Bayes and Conditional Inference with Many Nuisance Parameters 261--270 John F. Monahan and Dennis D. Boos Proper Likelihoods for Bayesian Analysis 271--278 A. C. Davison and Peter Hall On the Bias and Variability of Bootstrap and Cross-Validation Estimates of Error Rate in Discrimination Problems . . . . 279--284 Thomas J. DiCiccio and Michael A. Martin and G. Alastair Young Fast and Accurate Approximate Double Bootstrap Confidence Intervals . . . . . 285--295 Ülkü Uzuno\ugullari and Jane-Ling Wang A Comparison of Hazard Rate Estimators for Left Truncated and Right Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--310 James Robins and Anastasios A. Tsiatis Semiparametric Estimation of an Accelerated Failure Time Model with Time-Dependent Covariates . . . . . . . 311--319 James Robins Estimation of the Time-Dependent Accelerated Failure Time Model in the Presence of Confounding Factors . . . . 321--334 Robert Kohn and Craig F. Ansley and Chi-Ming Wong Nonparametric Spline Regression with Autoregressive Moving Average Errors . . 335--346 Michael Woodroofe Estimation After Sequential Testing: A Simple Approach for a Truncated Sequential Probability Ratio Test . . . 347--353 Margaret Sullivan Pepe Inference Using Surrogate Outcome Data and a Validation Sample . . . . . . . . 355--365 Paul R. Rosenbaum Detecting Bias with Confidence in Observational Studies . . . . . . . . . 367--374 Patrick DeFeo and Raymond H. Myers A New Look at Experimental Design Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--380 Chihiro Hirotsu and Satoshi Kuriki and Anthony J. Hayter Multiple Comparison Procedures Based on the Maximal Component of the Cumulative Chi-Squared Statistic . . . . . . . . . 381--392 Wing Hung Wong and Bing Li Laplace Expansion for Posterior Densities of Nonlinear Functions of Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--398 Robert Schall and Timothy T. Dunne A Note on the Relationship Between Parameter Collinearity and Local Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--404 Joseph B. Lang Obtaining the Observed Information Matrix for the Poisson Log Linear Model with Incomplete Data . . . . . . . . . . 405--407 D. R. Cox and N. Reid A Note on the Difference Between Profile and Modified Profile Likelihood . . . . 408--411 Leon Jay Gleser A Note on the Analysis of Familial Data 412--415 Ibrahim A. Ahmad A New Test for Mean Residual Life Times 416--419 D. Y. Lin and P. Y. Liu Nonparametric Sequential Tests Against Ordered Alternatives in Multiple-Armed Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--425 R. J. Martin and J. A. Eccleston Recursive Formulae for Constructing Block Designs with Dependent Errors . . 426--430 Suojin Wang Tail Probability Approximations in the First-Order Noncircular Autoregression 431--434 W. K. Li On the Asymptotic Standard Errors of Residual Autocorrelations in Nonlinear Time Series Modelling . . . . . . . . . 435--437 A. T. Walden Asymptotic Percentage Points for Siegel's Test Statistic for Compound Periodicities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--440 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous The Editorship of \booktitleBiometrika ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
D. R. Cox and Nanny Wermuth Response Models for Mixed Binary and Quantitative Variables . . . . . . . . . 441--461 A. C. Davison Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Paired Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--474 J. C. Gower Generalized Biplots . . . . . . . . . . 475--493 R. L. Prentice and J. Cai Covariance and Survivor Function Estimation Using Censored Multivariate Failure Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . 495--512 Michael P. Jones and John Crowley Nonparametric Tests of the Markov Model for Survival Data . . . . . . . . . . . 513--522 D. Y. Lin Sequential Log Rank Tests Adjusting for Covariates with the Accelerated Life Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--529 Anthony Y. C. Kuk and Chen-Hsin Chen A Mixture Model Combining Logistic Regression with Proportional Hazards Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--541 Richard M. Wilson and Mark F. Collins Capture-Recapture Estimation with Samples of Size One Using Frequency Data 543--553 Chris J. Lloyd Testing Capture Homogeneity in a Recapture Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--561 Stephen M. Stigler Studies in the history of probability and statistics. XLIII. Karl Pearson and quasi-independence . . . . . . . . . . . 563--575 R. L. Chambers and Alan H. Dorfman and Peter Hall Properties of Estimators of the Finite Population Distribution Function . . . . 577--582 Ronald Christensen and Wesley Johnson and Larry M. Pearson Prediction Diagnostics for Spatial Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--591 Donald Malec and J. Sedransk Bayesian Methodology for Combining the Results from Different Experiments when the Specifications for Pooling are Uncertain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--601 A. Gerami and S. M. Lewis Comparing Dual with Single Treatments in Block Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--610 Weng Kee Wong A Unified Approach to the Construction of Minimax Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 611--619 Mervyn J. Silvapulle Robust Tests of Inequality Constraints and One-Sided Hypotheses in the Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--630 Sadanori Konishi and C. Radhakrishna Rao Principal Component Analysis for Multivariate Familial Data . . . . . . . 631--641 R. J. Boys and K. D. Glazebrook A Robust Design of a Screen for a Binary Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--650 Niall H. Anderson and Peter Hall and D. M. Titterington Interpolation Rules Suggested by Asymptotic Expansions . . . . . . . . . 651--653 Shyamal Das Peddada and Girish Patwardhan Jackknife Variance Estimators in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654--657 J. A. John and Deborah J. Street Bounds for the Efficiency Factor of Row-Column Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 658--661 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? A. P. Dawid Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x Robert E. McCulloch and Peter E. Rossi Bayes Factors for Nonlinear Hypotheses and Likelihood Distributions . . . . . . 663--676 Edward I. George and Christian P. Robert Capture-Recapture Estimation Via Gibbs Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--683 Tommy Wright A Note on Sampling to Locate Rare Defectives with Strong Prior Evidence 685--691 J. L. Jensen The Modified Signed Likelihood Statistic and Saddlepoint Approximations . . . . . 693--703 Ronald W. Butler and S. Huzurbazar and James G. Booth Saddlepoint approximations for the Bartlett--Nanda--Pillai trace statistic in multivariate analysis . . . . . . . . 705--715 Paige L. Williams and Christopher J. Portier Explicit Solutions for Constrained Maximum Likelihood Estimators in Survival/Sacrifice Experiments . . . . . 717--729 R. A. Maller and S. Zhou Estimating the Proportion of Immunes in a Censored Sample . . . . . . . . . . . 731--739 Ping Zhang Inference After Variable Selection in Linear Regression Models . . . . . . . . 741--746 Stephan Morgenthaler Least-Absolute-Deviations Fits for Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . 747--754 J. M. Neuhaus and W. W. Hauck and J. D. Kalbfleisch The Effects of Mixture Distribution Misspecification when Fitting Mixed-Effects Logistic Models . . . . . 755--762 Friedrich Pukelsheim and Sabine Rieder Efficient Rounding of Approximate Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--770 Shean-Tsong Chiu An Automatic Bandwidth Selector for Kernel Density Estimation . . . . . . . 771--782 Eva Herrmann and Theo Gasser and Alois Kneip Choice of Bandwidth for Kernel Regression when Residuals are Correlated 783--795 Donald B. Rubin and Neal Thomas Characterizing the Effect of Matching Using Linear Propensity Score Methods with Normal Distributions . . . . . . . 797--809 J. N. K. Rao and J. Shao Jackknife Variance Estimation with Survey Data Under Hot Deck Imputation 811--822 Siem Jan Koopman and Neil Shephard Exact Score for Time Series Models in State Space Form . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--826 David Oakes and Amita K. Manatunga Fisher Information for a Bivariate Extreme Value Distribution . . . . . . . 827--832 Christopher J. Lloyd Modified Martingale Estimation for Recapture Experiments with Heterogeneous Capture Probabilities . . . . . . . . . 833--836 Mai Zhou $M$-Estimation in Censored Linear Models 837--841 Bruno Goffinet and Patrice Loisel and Beatrice Laurent Testing in Normal Mixture Models when the Proportions are Known . . . . . . . 842--846 Timothy E. O'Brien A Note on Quadratic Designs for Nonlinear Regression Models . . . . . . 847--849 Govind S. Mudholkar and Maria McDermott and Deo Kumar Srivastava A test of $p$-variate normality . . . . 850--854 Anup Dewanji A Note on a Test for Competing Risks with Missing Failure Type . . . . . . . 855--857 E. Reschenhofer and I. M. Bomze Amendments and corrections: ``Length tests for goodness of fit'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 78 (1991), no. 1, 207--216; (93a:62079)] . . . . . . . 859--859 Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. P. Dawid Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Bradley Efron Bayes and Likelihood Calculations from Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 3--26 David Firth Bias Reduction of Maximum Likelihood Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--38 Malcolm Farrow and Michael Goldstein Bayes Linear Methods for Grouped Multivariate Repeated Measurement Studies with Application to Crossover Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--59 Susan E. Hills and Adrian F. M. Smith Diagnostic Plots for Improved Parameterization in Bayesian Inference 61--74 Craig F. Ansley and Robert Kohn and Chi-Ming Wong Nonparametric Spline Regression with Prior Information . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88 R. L. Eubank and Jeffrey D. Hart Commonality of Cusum, von Neumann and Smoothing-Based Goodness-of-Fit Tests 89--98 Roy T. St. Laurent and R. Dennis Cook Leverage, Local Influence and Curvature in Nonlinear Regression . . . . . . . . 99--106 Jia Hua Chen and Jing Qin Empirical Likelihood Estimation for Finite Populations and the Effective Usage of Auxiliary Information . . . . . 107--116 Siem Jan Koopman Disturbance Smoother for State Space Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--126 T. E. Raghunathan and Yoichi Ii Analysis of Binary Data from a Multicentre Clinical Trial . . . . . . . 127--139 Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and Nan M. Laird A Likelihood-Based Method for Analysing Longitudinal Binary Responses . . . . . 141--151 Nicholas P. Jewell and Jens P. Nielsen A Framework for Consistent Prediction Rules Based on Markers . . . . . . . . . 153--164 Niels G. Becker and Ian C. Marschner A Method for Estimating the Age-Specific Relative Risk of HIV Infection from AIDS Incidence Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--178 Qi Wei Yao Tests for Change-Points with Epidemic Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191 Anne Chao and M.-C. Ma and Mark C. K. Yang Stopping Rules and Estimation for Recapture Debugging with Unequal Failure Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--201 C.-F. J. Wu and Run Chu Zhang Minimum Aberration Designs with Two-Level and Four-Level Factors . . . . 203--209 R. R. Sitter Balanced Repeated Replications Based on Orthogonal Multi-Arrays . . . . . . . . 211--221 Steven James Skates On Secant Approximations to Cumulative Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 223--235 C. Y. Wang and R. J. Carroll On Robust Estimation in Logistic Case-Control Studies . . . . . . . . . . 237--241 Eunho Ha and H. Joseph Newton The Bias of Estimators of Causal Spatial Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 242--245 Peter Hall and Andrew Wood On the Performance of Box-Counting Estimators of Fractal Dimension . . . . 246--252 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Murray A. Jorgensen Influence Functions for Iteratively Defined Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 253--265 Xiao-Li Meng and Donald B. Rubin Maximum Likelihood Estimation via the ECM Algorithm: A General Framework . . . 267--278 Marvin Zelen Optimal Scheduling of Examinations for the Early Detection of Disease . . . . . 279--293 Brunero Liseo Elimination of Nuisance Parameters with Reference Priors . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--304 Thomas A. Severini Local Ancillarity in the Presence of a Nuisance Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 305--320 Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and Peter McCullagh A note on the relation between modified profile likelihood and the Cox--Reid adjusted profile likelihood . . . . . . 321--328 Anna Clara Monti and Elvezio Ronchetti On the relationship between empirical likelihood and empirical saddlepoint approximation for multivariate $M$-estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--338 W. Schill and K.-H. Jöckel and K. Drescher and J. Timm Logistic Analysis in Case-Control Studies under Validation Sampling . . . 339--352 Werner Vach and Martin Schumacher Logistic Regression with Incompletely Observed Categorical Covariates: A Comparison of Three Approaches . . . . . 353--362 Jorge G. Morel and Neerchal K. Nagaraj A Finite Mixture Distribution for Modelling Multinomial Extra Variation 363--371 Burkhardt Seifert and Theo Gasser and Andreas Wolf Nonparametric Estimation of Residual Variance Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 373--383 Anthony Y. C. Kuk A Kernel Method for Estimating Finite Population Distribution Functions Using Auxiliary Information . . . . . . . . . 385--392 J. Kleffe Parent-Offspring and Sibling Correlation Estimation Based on MINQUE Theory . . . 393--404 Chu-In Charles Lee and Tim Robertson and F. T. Wright Bounds on Distributions Arising in Order Restricted Inferences with Restricted Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--416 Fumiyasu Komaki State-Space Modelling of Time Series Sampled from Continuous Processes with Pulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--429 Gillian K. Reeves Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Two-State Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--442 Michael L. Stein Asymptotically Optimal Estimation for the Reduced Second Moment Measure of Point Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--449 R. A. Sugden Partial Exchangeability and Survey Sampling Inference . . . . . . . . . . . 451--455 Jacek Osiewalski and Mark F. J. Steel Robust Bayesian Inference in $ l_q$-Spherical Models . . . . . . . . . 456--460 Clarice R. Weinberg and Sholom Wacholder Prospective Analysis of Case-Control Data under General Multiplicative-Intercept Risk Models . . 461--465 Ibrahim A. Ahmad Modification of Some Goodness-of-Fit Statistics to Yield Asymptotically Normal Null Distributions . . . . . . . 466--472 Yoshiki Kumazawa Comments on `A New Test for Mean Residual Life Times' by Ahmad . . . . . 473--474 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Marie Davidian and A. Ronald Gallant The Nonlinear Mixed Effects Model with a Smooth Random Effects Density . . . . . 475--488 P. Ramgopal and P. W. Laud and A. F. M. Smith Nonparametric Bayesian Bioassay with Prior Constraints on the Shape of the Potency Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--498 Rahul Mukerjee and Dipak K. Dey Frequentist Validity of Posterior Quantiles in the Presence of a Nuisance Parameter: Higher Order Asymptotics . . 499--505 Bradley P. Carlin and Alan E. Gelfand Parametric Likelihood Inference for Record Breaking Problems . . . . . . . . 507--515 Vincent Carey and Scott L. Zeger and Peter Diggle Modelling Multivariate Binary Data with Alternating Logistic Regressions . . . . 517--526 Alan Agresti and Joseph B. Lang A Proportional Odds Model with Subject-Specific Effects for Repeated Ordered Categorical Responses . . . . . 527--534 Edward L. Korn On Estimating the Distribution Function for Quality of Life in Cancer Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--542 Qing Liu and Donald A. Pierce Heterogeneity in Mantel--Haenszel-type models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--556 D. Y. Lin and L. J. Wei and Z. Ying Checking the Cox Model with Cumulative Sums of Martingale-Based Residuals . . . 557--572 D. Y. Lin and Zhiliang Ying A Simple Nonparametric Estimator of the Bivariate Survival Function Under Univariate Censoring . . . . . . . . . . 573--581 Suojin Wang Saddlepoint Expansions in Finite Population Problems . . . . . . . . . . 583--590 Hans Julius Skaug and Dag Tjòstheim A Nonparametric Test of Serial Independence Based on the Empirical Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . 591--602 Daniel Peña and Irwin Guttman Comparing Probabilistic Methods for Outlier Detection in Linear Models . . . 603--610 David S. Stoffer and David E. Tyler and Andrew J. McDougall Spectral Analysis for Categorical Time Series: Scaling and the Spectral Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--622 George C. Tiao and Daming Xu Robustness of Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Multi-Step Predictions: The Exponential Smoothing Case . . . . . 623--641 H. Monod and R. A. Bailey Two-Factor Designs Balanced for the Neighbour Effect of One Factor . . . . . 643--659 C. F. J. Wu Construction of Supersaturated Designs Through Partially Aliased Interactions 661--669 Daniel Rabinowitz Estimating Durbin's Approximation . . . 671--680 Daniel Rabinowitz and Louise Ryan Lower Confidence Bounds for Time to Cure 681--687 Jun-mo Nam Bias-Corrected Maximum Likelihood Estimator of a Log Common Odds Ratio . . 688--694 Heather Mitchell Testing for Linearity Versus Convexity in Regression Using a Contrast-Type Test 695--697 Paul Newbold and Christos Agiakloglou Bias in the Sample Autocorrelations of Fractional Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--702 Mitsuhiro Odaki On the Invertibility of Fractionally Differenced ARIMA Processes . . . . . . 703--709 Georgia Lee Thompson Amendments and Corrections: ``A note on the rank transform for interactions'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 78 (1991), no. 3, 697--701; (92k:62127)] . . . . . . . 711--711 R. L. Prentice and J. Cai Amendments and Corrections: ``Covariance and survivor function estimation using censored multivariate failure time data'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 79 (1992), no. 3, 495--512; (93j:62239)] 711--712 J. A. John and Deborah J. Street Amendments and Corrections: ``Bounds for the efficiency factor of row-column designs'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 79 (1992), no. 3, 658--661; (94a:62118)] 712--713 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii James E. Stafford and David F. Andrews A Symbolic Algorithm for Studying Adjustments to the Profile Likelihood 715--730 Thomas J. DiCiccio and Steven E. Stern On Bartlett Adjustments for Approximate Bayesian Inference . . . . . . . . . . . 731--740 Bing Li A Deviance Function for the Quasi-Likelihood Method . . . . . . . . 741--753 C. C. Heyde and R. Morton On Constrained Quasi-Likelihood Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--761 Christopher G. Small and D. J. Murdoch Nonparametric Neyman--Scott problems: telescoping product methods . . . . . . 763--779 Thomas J. DiCiccio and Michael A. Martin and G. Alastair Young Analytical Approximations to Conditional Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 781--790 Russ Wolfinger Laplace's Approximation for Nonlinear Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--795 V. P. Godambe and S. Kunte Optimal Estimation Under Biased Allocation of Treatments . . . . . . . . 797--806 John M. Neuhaus and Nicholas P. Jewell A Geometric Approach to Assess Bias Due to Omitted Covariates in Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--815 Jan Beran Fitting Long-Memory Models by Generalized Linear Regression . . . . . 817--822 Michael R. Kosorok and Thomas R. Fleming Using Surrogate Failure Time Data to Increase Cost Effectiveness in Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--833 Daniel J. Holder and Francis Hsuan Moment-Based Criteria for Determining Bioequivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--846 Alan Pankratz Detecting and Treating Outliers in Dynamic Regression Models . . . . . . . 847--854 Sung. K. Ahn Some Tests for Unit Roots in Autoregressive-Integrated-Moving Average Models with Deterministic Trends . . . . 855--868 Y. M. Chan and Xuming He On median-type estimators of direction for the von Mises--Fisher distribution 869--875 Jayant V. Deshpande and Avinash D. Dharmadhikari and Uttara V. Naik-Nimbalkar Two-Sample Tests Based on Cumulative Incidence Functions from Coherent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877--883 Naihua Duan Sensitivity analysis for Box--Cox power transformation model: contrast parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--897 D. W. Schafer Likelihood Analysis for Probit Regression with Measurement Errors . . . 899--904 D. R. Cox Unbiased Estimating Equations Derived from Statistics that are Functions of a Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--909 Yasuhiro Omori and Richard A. Johnson The Influence of Random Effects on the Unconditional Hazard Rate and Survival Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910--914 R. Morton Ultrastructural Relationships and Canonical Variates Analysis . . . . . . 915--918 Sastry G. Pantula and Wayne A. Fuller The Large Sample Distribution of the Roots of the Second Order Autoregressive Polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--923 Keumhee Chough Carri\`ere and Gregory C. Reinsel Optimal Two-Period Repeated Measurement Designs with Two or More Treatments . . 924--929 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vi Donald A. Pierce and Dawn Peters Higher-Order Asymptotics and the Likelihood Principle: One-Parameter Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 Nicholas G. Polson and Gareth O. Roberts Bayes Factors for Discrete Observations from Diffusion Processes . . . . . . . . 11--26 Jun S. Liu and Wing Hung Wong and Augustine Kong Covariance Structure of the Gibbs Sampler with Applications to the Comparisons of Estimators and Augmentation Schemes . . . . . . . . . . 27--40 R. G. Aykroyd and C. W. Anderson Use of the EM Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Electron Microscope Autoradiography . . . . . . . 41--52 Debajyoti Sinha and Martin A. Tanner and W. J. Hall Maximization of the Marginal Likelihood of Grouped Survival Data . . . . . . . . 53--60 D. Y. Lin and Zhiliang Ying Semiparametric Analysis of the Additive Risk Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--71 D. Y. Lin and T. R. Fleming and L. J. Wei Confidence Bands for Survival Curves Under the Proportional Hazards Model . . 73--81 David Oakes and Lu Cui On Semiparametric Inference for Modulated Renewal Processes . . . . . . 83--90 Olaf Dannenberg and Holger Dette and Axel Munk An extension of Welch's approximate $t$-solution to comparative bioequivalence trials . . . . . . . . . 91--101 Jason C. Hsu and J. T. Gene Hwang and Hung-Kung Liu and Stephen J. Ruberg Confidence Intervals Associated with Tests for Bioequivalence . . . . . . . . 103--114 Neil Shephard Partial Non-Gaussian State Space . . . . 115--131 Piet De Jong and Singfat Chu-Chun-Lin Fast Likelihood Evaluation and Prediction for Nonstationary State Space Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142 John W. Galbraith and Victoria Zinde-Walsh A Simple Noniterative Estimator for Moving Average Models . . . . . . . . . 143--155 Rolf Sundberg Precision Estimation in Sample Survey Inference: A Criterion for Choice Between Variance Estimators . . . . . . 157--172 Richard L. Smith Nonregular Regression . . . . . . . . . 173--183 K. V. Mardia and A. N. Walder Shape Analysis of Paired Landmark Data 185--196 Lue Ping Zhao Segregation Analysis of Human Pedigrees Using Estimating Equations . . . . . . . 197--209 B.-Y. Jing and A. Feuerverger and J. Robinson On the Bootstrap Saddlepoint Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--215 H. Peter Boswijk and Heinz Neudecker and Shuang Zhe Liu A Note on the Asymptotics of a Stochastic Vector Difference Equation 216--218 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. T. James and W. N. Venables and I. B. Dry and J. T. Wiskich Random Effects and Variances as a Synthesis of Nonlinear Regression Analyses of Mitochondrial Electron Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--235 Bani K. Mallick and Alan E. Gelfand Generalized Linear Models with Unknown Link Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--245 M. J. Buckley Fast Computation of a Discretized Thin-Plate Smoothing Spline for Image Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--258 J. N. Darroch and M. Borkent Synergism, Attributable Risk and Interaction for Two Binary Exposure Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--270 P. K. Cheah and D. A. S. Fraser and N. Reid Multiparameter Testing in Exponential Models: Third Order Approximations from Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278 K. M. Keaney and L. J. Wei Interim Analyses Based on Median Survival Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--286 V. T. Farewell and O. O. Aalen and D. De Angelis and N. E. Day Estimation of the Rate of Diagnosis of HIV Infection in HIV Infected Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--294 Jim Burridge and Paola Sebastiani $D$-Optimal Designs for Generalised Linear Models with Variance Proportional to the Square of the Mean . . . . . . . 295--304 C. J. Lloyd Efficiency of Martingale Methods in Recapture Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315 Ludwig Fahrmeir Dynamic Modelling and Penalized Likelihood Estimation for Discrete time Survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--330 James G. Booth and Peter Hall Monte Carlo Approximation and the Iterated Bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . 331--340 M. I. Parzen and L. J. Wei and Z. Ying A Resampling Method Based on Pivotal Estimating Functions . . . . . . . . . . 341--350 Prabir Burman and Edmond Chow and Deborah Nolan A Cross-Validatory Method for Dependent Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--358 Patricia M. Grambsch Simple Robust Tests for Scale Differences in Paired Data . . . . . . . 359--372 Louis-Paul Rivest Statistical Properties of Winsorized Means for Skewed Distributions . . . . . 373--383 Thomas W. Lucas Priors and Likelihoods that are Arbitrarily Sensitive to Outlying Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--389 F. J. Girón and J. C. Rojano Bayesian Kalman Filtering with Elliptically Contoured Errors . . . . . 390--395 Gordon K. Smyth A Note on Modelling Cross-Correlations: Hyperbolic Secant Regression . . . . . . 396--402 D. R. Cox and Nanny Wermuth A Note on the Quadratic Exponential Binary Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 403--408 G. E. Willmot and D. A. Sprott A Note on Parameters Orthogonal to the Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--412 Andreas Christmann Least Median of Weighted Squares in Logistic Regression with Large Strata 413--417 Dankmar Böhning A Note on a Test for Poisson Overdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--419 Sudhir Gupta and Sanpei Kageyama Optimal Complete Diallel Crosses . . . . 420--424 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David L. Donoho and Iain M. Johnstone Ideal Spatial Adaptation by Wavelet Shrinkage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--455 Xiang-Hui Chen and Arthur P. Dempster and Jun S. Liu Weighted Finite Population Sampling to Maximize Entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--469 Roderick J. A. Little A Class of Pattern-Mixture Models for Normal Incomplete Data . . . . . . . . . 471--483 O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and S. R. Chamberlin Stable and Invariant Adjusted Directed Likelihoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--499 Ian W. McKeague and Peter D. Sasieni A Partly Parametric Additive Risk Model 501--514 Patricia M. Grambsch and Terry M. Therneau Proportional Hazards Tests and Diagnostics Based on Weighted Residuals 515--526 Robert J. Gray A Kernel Method for Incorporating Information on Disease Progression in the Analysis of Survival . . . . . . . . 527--539 C. K. Carter and R. Kohn On Gibbs Sampling for State Space Models 541--553 Alberto Luceño A Fast Algorithm for the Exact Likelihood of Stationary and Partially Nonstationary Vector Autoregressive-Moving Average Processes 555--565 Laurence A. Baxter Estimation from Quasi Life Tables . . . 567--577 Stephen Blyth Local Divergence and Association . . . . 579--584 Adam Crisp and Jim Burridge A Note on Nonregular Likelihood Functions in Heteroscedastic Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--587 Carmen Fernández and Jacek Osiewalski and Mark F. J. Steel The Continuous Multivariate Location-Scale Model Revisited: A Tale of Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--594 Sylvan Wallenstein and Joseph Naus and Joseph Glaz Power of the Scan Statistic in Detecting a Changed Segment in a Bernoulli Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--601 Winfried Stute and Jane-Ling Wang The jackknife estimate of a Kaplan--Meier integral . . . . . . . . . 602--606 David M. DeLong and George H. Guirguis and Ying C. So Efficient Computation of Subset Selection Probabilities with Application to Cox Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 607--611 Ravindra Khattree and Dayanand N. Naik Estimation of Interclass Correlation Under Circular Covariance . . . . . . . 612--617 Robert Gentleman and Charles J. Geyer Maximum Likelihood for Interval Censored Data: Consistency and Computation . . . 618--623 Qing Liu and Donald A. Pierce A note on Gauss--Hermite quadrature . . 624--629 P. Ramgopal and P. W. Laud and A. F. M. Smith Amendments and Corrections: ``Nonparametric Bayesian bioassay with prior constraints on the shape of the potency curve'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 80 (1993), no. 3, 489--498; (94g:62089)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--631 M. Schemper Amendments and Corrections: ``The explained variation in proportional hazards regression'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 77 (1990), no. 1, 216--218; (91a:62272)] . . . . . . . 631--631 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x Chuanhai Liu and Donald B. Rubin The ECME Algorithm: A Simple Extension of EM and ECM with Faster Monotone Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--648 Thomas A. Severini On the Approximate Elimination of Nuisance Parameters by Conditioning . . 649--661 Ian Abramson and Hans-Georg Müller Estimating Direction Fields in Autonomous Equation Models, with an Application to System Identification from Cross-Sectional Data . . . . . . . 663--672 Roger Koenker and Pin Ng and Stephen Portnoy Quantile Smoothing Splines . . . . . . . 673--680 Offer Lieberman A Laplace Approximation to the Moments of a Ratio of Quadratic Forms . . . . . 681--690 V. Bill Pikounis and P. V. Rao Linear Rank Tests for the Nonresponders Problem with Censored Data . . . . . . . 691--699 Daniel F. Heitjan Ignorability in General Incomplete-Data Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--708 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Denise A. Botter and Silvia L. De Paula Ferrari Nonnull Asymptotic Distributions of Three Classic Criteria in Generalised Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--720 Peter McCullagh Exponential Mixtures and Quadratic Exponential Families . . . . . . . . . . 721--729 R. Dennis Cook and Sanford Weisberg Transforming a Response Variable for Linearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--737 Holger Dette and Linda M. Haines $E$-optimal designs for linear and nonlinear models with two parameters . . 739--754 Jan Beran On a Class of $M$-Estimators for Gaussian Long-Memory Models . . . . . . 755--766 A. Azzalini Logistic Regression for Autocorrelated Data with Application to Repeated Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--775 Anna Clara Monti A Proposal for a Residual Autocorrelation Test in Linear Models 776--780 Chih-Ling Tsai A Note on Jorgensen's Iteratively Defined Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 781--786 Andrew P. Grieve A Further Note on Sampling to Locate Rare Defectives with Strong Prior Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--789 Ayanendranath Basu and Ian R. Harris Robust Predictive Distributions for Exponential Families . . . . . . . . . . 790--794 Martin T. Wells Nonparametric Kernel Estimation in Counting Processes with Explanatory Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--801 Minggao Gu and Jiang Lu A Note on Identifiability of the Regression Parameter and Validity of the Partial Likelihood Approach in General Relative Risk Regression . . . . . . . . 802--806 Offer Lieberman Saddlepoint Approximation for the Least Squares Estimator in First-Order Autoregression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--811 Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Trevor J. Sweeting A Framework for Bayesian and Likelihood Approximations in Statistics . . . . . . 1--23 Trevor J. Sweeting A Bayesian Approach to Approximate Conditional Inference . . . . . . . . . 25--36 Gauri Sankar Datta and Jayanta Kumar Ghosh On Priors Providing Frequentist Validity for Bayesian Inference . . . . . . . . . 37--45 P. I. McCloud and J. N. Darroch An Analysis of Categorical Repeated Measurements in the Presence of an External Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55 Alice S. Whittemore Logistic Regression of Family Data from Case-Control Studies . . . . . . . . . . 57--67 Bryan Langholz and Ornulf Borgan Counter-Matching: A Stratified Nested Case-Control Sampling Method . . . . . . 69--79 Norman E. Breslow and Xihong Lin Bias Correction in Generalised Linear Mixed Models with a Single Component of Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91 Oliver Linton and Jens Perch Nielsen A Kernel Method of Estimating Structured Nonparametric Regression Based on Marginal Integration . . . . . . . . . . 93--100 Pierre-Yves Geoffard and Tomas Philipson The Empirical Content of Canonical Models of Infectious Diseases: The Proportional Hazard Specification . . . 101--111 Ross L. Prentice and Lianne Sheppard Aggregate Data Studies of Disease Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125 Ming Zheng and John P. Klein Estimates of Marginal Survival for Dependent Competing Risks Based on an Assumed Copula . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--138 Haibo Zhou and Margaret Sullivan Pepe Auxiliary Covariate Data in Failure Time Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--149 Jian Wen Cai and Ross L. Prentice Estimating Equations for Hazard Ratio Parameters Based on Correlated Failure Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--164 Anastasios A. Tsiatis and Hél\`ene Boucher and Kyungmann Kim Sequential Methods for Parametric Survival Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--173 Sharon L. Lohr Optimal Bayesian Design of Experiments for the One-Way Random Effects Model . . 175--186 R. A. Bailey and H. Monod and J. P. Morgan Construction and Optimality of Affine-Resolvable Designs . . . . . . . 187--200 A. T. Walden and E. J. McCoy and D. B. Percival The Effective Bandwidth of a Multitaper Spectral Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214 J. H. Venter and J. L. J. Snyman A Note on the Generalised Cross-Validation Criterion in Linear Model Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--219 M. Lavine On an Approximate Likelihood for Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--222 Luis R. Pericchi and Bruno Sansó A Note on Bounded Influence in Bayesian Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--225 Jane L. Harvill and H. Joseph Newton Saddlepoint Approximations for the Difference of Order Statistics . . . . . 226--231 John N. Haddad On the Closed Form of the Likelihood Function of the First Order Moving Average Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--234 Donald A. Pierce and Dawn Peters Amendments and corrections: ``Higher-order asymptotics and the likelihood principle: one-parameter models'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 81 (1994), no. 1, 1--10; (95a:62011)] . . . 235--235 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ingrid K. Glad and Giovanni Sebastiani A Bayesian Approach to Synthetic Magnetic Resonance Imaging . . . . . . . 237--250 Jayant V. Deshpande and Debasis Sengupta Testing the Hypothesis of Proportional Hazards in Two Populations . . . . . . . 251--261 Fei Fang Hu and James V. Zidek A Bootstrap Based on the Estimating Equations of the Linear Model . . . . . 263--275 Andrew P. Grieve Extending a Bayesian Analysis of the Two-Period Crossover to Accommodate Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286 Xin Ming Tu and Eugene Litvak and Marcello Pagano On the Informativeness and Accuracy of Pooled Testing in Estimating Prevalence of a Rare Disease: Application to HIV Screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--297 Marie Reilly and Margaret Sullivan Pepe A Mean Score Method for Missing and Auxiliary Covariate Data in Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--314 C. K. Chu and K. F. Cheng Nonparametric Regression Estimates Using Misclassified Binary Responses . . . . . 315--325 M. C. Jones and O. Linton and J. P. Nielsen A Simple Bias Reduction Method for Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 327--338 Piet de Jong and Neil Shephard The Simulation Smoother for Time Series Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--350 Vidar Hjellvik and Dag Tjòstheim Nonparametric Tests of Linearity for Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--368 Rong Chen and Jun S. Liu and Ruey S. Tsay Additivity Tests for Nonlinear Autoregression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--383 Yazhen Wang Jump and Sharp Cusp Detection by Wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397 Susan Murphy and Bing Li Projected Partial Likelihood and Its Application to Longitudinal Data . . . . 399--406 Martin Crowder On the Use of a Working Correlation Matrix in Using Generalised Linear Models for Repeated Measures . . . . . . 407--410 M. Guay Curvature Measures for Multiresponse Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 411--417 Clifford M. Hurvich and Chih-Ling Tsai Relative Rates of Convergence for Efficient Model Selection Criteria in Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 418--425 Francisco Cribari-Neto and Silvia L. P. Ferrari Second Order Asymptotics for Score Tests in Generalised Linear Models . . . . . . 426--432 Andrew Chesher and Richard J. Smith Bartlett Corrections to Likelihood Ratio Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--436 Bernard Boulerice and Gilles R. Ducharme A Note on Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit for Location-Scale Families . . . . 437--438 Carlos Daniel Mimoso Paulino and Carlos Alberto de Braganca Pereira Bayesian Methods for Categorical Data Under Informative General Censoring . . 439--446 Peter J. Smith and J. Zhang Renovated Scatterplots for Censored Data 447--452 J. N. K. Rao and R. R. Sitter Variance Estimation Under Two-Phase Sampling with Application to Imputation for Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--460 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John J. Hanfelt and Kung-Yee Liang Approximate Likelihood Ratios for General Estimating Functions . . . . . . 461--477 Alan E. Gelfand and Sujit K. Sahu and Bradley P. Carlin Efficient Parametrisations for Normal Linear Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . 479--488 O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen Stable and Invariant Adjusted Profile Likelihood and Directed Likelihood for Curved Exponential Models . . . . . . . 489--499 Daniel Rabinowitz and Anastasios Tsiatis and Jorge Aragon Regression with Interval-Censored Data 501--513 Hina Mehta Malani A Modification of the Redistribution to the Right Algorithm Using Disease Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--526 Garnet L. Anderson and Thomas R. Fleming Model Misspecification in Proportional Hazards Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 527--541 C. Genest and K. Ghoudi and L.-P. Rivest A Semiparametric Estimation Procedure of Dependence Parameters in Multivariate Families of Distributions . . . . . . . 543--552 Beat E. Neuenschwander and Bernard D. Flury Common Canonical Variates . . . . . . . 553--560 Peter Hall and Joel L. Horowitz and Bing-Yi Jing On Blocking Rules for the Bootstrap with Dependent Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--574 Peter Hall and J. Stephen Marron and D. M. Titterington On Partial Local Smoothing Rules for Curve Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--587 Clemens Elster and Arnold Neumaier Screening by Conference Designs . . . . 589--602 Chia-Shang J. Chu and Kurt Hornik and Chung-Ming Kuan MOSUM Tests for Parameter Constancy . . 603--617 Donald P. Percival On Estimation of the Wavelet Variance 619--631 Christiana Drake and Allan McQuarrie A Note on the Bias due to Omitted Confounders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--638 Ranjini Natarajan and Charles E. McCulloch A Note on the Existence of the Posterior Distribution for a Class of Mixed Models for Binomial Responses . . . . . . . . . 639--643 Daoji Shi Fisher Information for a Multivariate Extreme Value Distribution . . . . . . . 644--649 Myron N. Chang and A. Lawrence Gould and Steven M. Snapinn $P$-Values for Group Sequential Testing 650--654 R. A. Bailey and J.-M. Aza\"ìs and H. Monod Are neighbour methods preferable to analysis of variance for completely systematic designs? ``Silly designs are silly!'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--659 Hongyi Li The Power of Modified Instrumental Variables Tests for Unit Roots . . . . . 660--666 S. Blyth Amendments and Corrections: ``Local divergence and association'' . . . . . . 667--667 David Firth Amendments and Corrections: ``Bias reduction of maximum likelihood estimates'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 80 (1993), no. 1, 27--38; (94b:62017)] . . 667--667 Patricia M. Grambsch and Terry M. Therneau Amendments and Corrections: ``Proportional hazards tests and diagnostics based on weighted residuals'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 81 (1994), no. 3, 515--526] . . . . . . . . 668--668 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii Judea Pearl Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research 669--688 D. R. Cox and Nanny Wermuth Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 688--689 A. P. Dawid Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 689--690 Stephen E. Fienberg and Clark Glymour and Peter Spirtes Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 690--692 David Freedman Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 692--693 Guido W. Imbens and Donald B. Rubin Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 694--695 James M. Robins Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 695--698 Paul R. Rosenbaum Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 698--699 Glenn Shafer Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 699--700 Michael E. Sobel Discussion of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' by J. Pearl . . . . 700--702 Judea Pearl Rejoinder to Discussions of ``Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research'' . . . 702--710 Peter J. Green Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo computation and Bayesian model determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--732 Julian Besag and Charles Kooperberg On Conditional and Intrinsic Autoregressions . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--746 Jim Albert and Siddhartha Chib Bayesian Residual Analysis for Binary Response Regression Models . . . . . . . 747--759 Jerome A. Dupuis Bayesian Estimation of Movement and Survival Probabilities from Capture-Recapture Data . . . . . . . . . 761--772 Halina Frydman Nonparametric estimation of a Markov ``illness-death'' process from interval-censored observations, with application to diabetes survival data 773--789 Sally McClean and Colum Devine A Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Incomplete Renewal Data 791--803 Andrea Rotnitzky and James M. Robins Semiparametric Regression Estimation in the Presence of Dependent Censoring . . 805--820 Els Goetghebeur and Louise Ryan Analysis of Competing Risks Survival Data When Some Failure Types are Missing 821--833 S. C. Cheng and L. J. Wei and Z. Ying Analysis of Transformation Models with Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--845 Anders Ekholm and Peter W. F. Smith and John W. McDonald Marginal Regression Analysis of a Multivariate Binary Response . . . . . . 847--854 Paolo Vidoni A Simple Predictive Density Based on the $ p^* $-Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--863 F. Bellavance and S. Tardif A Nonparametric Approach to the Analysis of Three-Treatment Three-Period Crossover Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 865--875 P. Burman and D. Nolan A General Akaike-Type Criterion for Model Selection in Robust Regression . . 877--886 Udo Wagner and Alois L. J. Geyer A Maximum Entropy Method for Inverting Laplace Transforms of Probability Density Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 887--892 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard P. Waterman and Bruce G. Lindsay Projected Score Methods for Approximating Conditional Scores . . . . 1--13 G. F. V. Glonek A Class of Regression Models for Multivariate Categorical Responses . . . 15--28 Karen J. Bandeen-Roche and Kung-Yee Liang Modelling Failure-Time Associations in Data with Multiple Levels of Clustering 29--39 Guoqi Qian and George Gabor and R. P. Gupta Generalised Linear Model Selection by the Predictive Least Quasi-Deviance Criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--54 Dongchu Sun and Keying Ye Frequentist Validity of Posterior Quantiles for a Two-Parameter Exponential Family . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65 Peter Müller and Alaattin Erkanli and Mike West Bayesian Curve Fitting Using Multivariate Normal Mixtures . . . . . . 67--79 George Casella and Christian P. Robert Rao--Blackwellisation of Sampling Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94 G. O. Roberts and R. L. Tweedie Geometric Convergence and Central Limit Theorems for Multidimensional Hastings and Metropolis Algorithms . . . . . . . 95--110 Morris L. Eaton and Alessandra Giovagnoli and Paola Sebastiani A Predictive Approach to the Bayesian Design Problem with Application to Normal Regression Models . . . . . . . . 111--125 Peter D. Sasieni Proportional Excess Hazards . . . . . . 127--141 C. F. Spiekerman and D. Y. Lin Checking the Marginal Cox model for Correlated Failure Time Data . . . . . . 143--156 Stephen J. Gange and David L. DeMets Sequential Monitoring of Clinical Trials with Correlated Responses . . . . . . . 157--167 Anthony W. Ledford and Jonathan A. Tawn Statistics for Near Independence in Multivariate Extreme Values . . . . . . 169--187 Jianqing Fan and Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong Estimation of Conditional Densities and Sensitivity Measures in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 189--206 K. V. Mardia and J. T. Kent and C. R. Goodall and J. A. Little Kriging and Splines with Derivative Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221 Wei Liu The Construction of Upper Confidence Bounds on the Range of Several Location Parameters Following a Sequential Range Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--226 Sin-Ho Jung Regression Analysis for Long-Term Survival Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--232 Nader Ebrahimi and S. N. U. A. Kirmani A Characterisation of the Proportional Hazards Model Through a Measure of Discrimination Between Two Residual Life Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235 Dieter Hauschke and Volker W. Steinijans and Ludwig A. Hothorn A Note on Welch's Approximate $t$-Solution to Bioequivalence Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237 Yves Tillé An Elimination Procedure for Unequal Probability Sampling without Replacement 238--241 S. Altan and D. Raghavarao Nested Youden Square Designs . . . . . . 242--245 Leon Jay Gleser Corrections: ``A note on the analysis of familial data'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 79 (1992), no. 2, 412--415; (93f:62145)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247 Offer Lieberman Amendments and Corrections: ``Saddlepoint approximation for the least squares estimator in first-order autoregression'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 81 (1994), no. 4, 807--811; (96f:62150)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247 Peter McCullagh Amendments and Corrections: ``Exponential mixtures and quadratic exponential families'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 81 (1994), no. 4, 721--729; (96d:62014)] . . . . . . . 248--248 Marvin Zelen Amendments and Corrections: ``Optimal scheduling of examinations for the early detection of disease'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 80 (1993), no. 2, 279--293; (94e:62111)] . . . . . . . 249--249 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Adrian E. Raftery Approximate Bayes Factors and Accounting for Model Uncertainty in Generalised Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--266 Purushottam W. Laud and Joseph G. Ibrahim Predictive Specification of Prior Model Probabilities in Variable Selection . . 267--274 Christopher A. Bush and Steven N. MacEachern A Semiparametric Bayesian Model for Randomised Block Designs . . . . . . . . 275--285 Gauri Sankar Datta On Priors Providing Frequentist Validity of Bayesian Inference for Multiple Parametric Functions . . . . . . . . . . 287--298 Fumiyasu Komaki On Asymptotic Properties of Predictive Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--313 Michael A. Newton Bootstrapping Phylogenies: Large Deviations and Dispersion Effects . . . 315--328 Song Xi Chen Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for Nonparametric Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--341 Mei-Cheng Wang Hazards Regression Analysis for Length-Biased Data . . . . . . . . . . . 343--354 Glen A. Satten Rank-Based Inference in the Proportional Hazards Model for Interval Censored Data 355--370 Ping Hu and Anastasios A. Tsiatis Estimating the Survival Distribution When Ascertainment of Vital Status is Subject to Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--380 D. Y. Lin and J. M. Robins and L. J. Wei Comparing Two Failure Time Distributions in the Presence of Dependent Censoring 381--393 Larry Z. Shen and John O'Quigley Consistency of Continual Reassessment Method Under Model Misspecification . . 395--405 L. A. Stefanski and J. M. Bay Simulation Extrapolation Deconvolution of Finite Population Cumulative Distribution Function Estimators . . . . 407--417 Yudi Pawitan Automatic Estimation of the Cross-Spectrum of a Bivariate Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--432 J. P. Buonaccorsi A Modified Estimating Equation Approach to Correcting for Measurement Error in Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--440 J. M. Neuhaus and M. L. Lesperance Estimation Efficiency in a Binary Mixed-Effects Model Setting . . . . . . 441--446 Edward F. Vonesh A Note on the Use of Laplace's Approximation for Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Models . . . . . . . . . . 447--452 Susan Todd and John Whitehead and Karen M. Facey Point and Interval Estimation Following a Sequential Clinical Trial . . . . . . 453--461 Dankmar Bohning and Peter Schlattmann and Ekkehart Dietz Interval Censored Data: A Note on the Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the Distribution Function 462--466 David Faraggi and Edward L. Korn Competing Risks with Frailty Models When Treatment Affects Only One Failure Type 467--471 R. J. Boys and K. D. Glazebrook and C. M. McCrone A Bayesian Model for the Optimal Ordering of a Collection of Screens . . 472--476 Paul S. F. Yip and Richard M. Huggins and D. Y. Lin Inference for Capture-Recapture Experiments in Continuous Time with Variable Capture Rates . . . . . . . . . 477--483 Aloke Dey and Chand K. Midha Optimal Block Designs for Diallel Crosses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--489 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Li Hsu and Ross L. Prentice On Assessing the Strength of Dependency Between Failure Time Variates . . . . . 491--506 Michael Visser Nonparametric Estimation of the Bivariate Survival Function with an Application to Vertically Transmitted AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--518 Fushing Hsieh A Transformation Model for Two Survival Curves: An Empirical Process Approach 519--528 O. B. Linton and W. Härdle Estimation of Additive Regression Models with Known Links . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--540 W. Härdle and A. Korostelev Search for Significant Variables in Nonparametric Additive Regression . . . 541--549 John S. Preisser and Bahjat F. Qaqish Deletion Diagnostics for Generalised Estimating Equations . . . . . . . . . . 551--562 C. J. Lloyd Estimating Attributable Response as a Function of a Continuous Risk Factor . . 563--573 Trevor J. Ringrose Alternative Confidence Regions for Canonical Variate Analysis . . . . . . . 575--587 C. K. Carter and R. Kohn Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Conditionally Gaussian State Space Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--601 Alberto Luceño A Fast Likelihood Approximation for Vector General Linear Processes with Long Series: Application to Fractional Differencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--614 Yongmiao Hong Testing for Independence Between Two Covariance Stationary Time Series . . . 615--625 Jan Beran and Norma Terrin Testing for a Change of the Long-Memory Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--638 Suojin Wang and Alan H. Dorfman A New Estimator for the Finite Population Distribution Function . . . . 639--652 Giovanni Pistone and Henry P. Wynn Generalised Confounding with Gröbner Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--666 Holger Dette and Weng Kee Wong Robust Optimal Extrapolation Designs . . 667--680 Jun S. Liu Peskun's Theorem and a Modified Discrete-State Gibbs Sampler . . . . . . 681--682 E. A. Van Der Meulen and N. J. Van Sittert Testing Homogeneity of Many Within-Subject Variances Using Small Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--687 Dong Wan Shin and Chul Gyu Park and Taesung Park Testing for Ordered Group Effects with Repeated Measurements . . . . . . . . . 688--694 Ye Ding On the Asymptotic Normality of Multinomial Population Size Estimators with Application to Backcalculation of AIDS Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--699 C. J. Lloyd Accurate Pivotals from Recapture Experiments with Time Variation . . . . 700--708 E. R. Williams and J. A. John A Note on Optimality in Lattice Square Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--713 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii A. Azzalini and A. Dalla Valle The Multivariate Skew-Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--726 Andrew G. Bruce and Hong-Ye Gao Understanding WaveShrink: Variance and Bias Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--745 X. Joan Hu and Jerald F. Lawless Estimation from Truncated Lifetime Data with Supplementary Information on Covariates and Censoring Times . . . . . 747--761 D. S. Coad and M. B. Woodroofe Corrected Confidence Intervals After Sequential Testing with Applications to Survival Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 763--777 Sandra J. Lee and Kyungmann Kim and Anastasios A. Tsiatis Repeated Significance Testing in Longitudinal Clinical Trials . . . . . . 779--789 Bruno Goffinet and Daniel Wallach Optimised Importance Sampling Quantile Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--800 Naisyin Wang and Marie Davidian A Note on Covariate Measurement Error in Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models . . . . . 801--812 Daniel W. Schafer and Kathleen G. Purdy Likelihood Analysis for Errors-in-Variables Regression with Replicate Measurements . . . . . . . . . 813--824 Myunghee Cho Paik Quasi-Likelihood Regression Models with Missing Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . 825--834 E. S. Venkatraman and Colin B. Begg A Distribution-Free Procedure for Comparing Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves from a Paired Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--848 Nelida Ferretti and Juan Romo Unit Root Bootstrap Tests for AR (1) Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--860 Shu-Ing Liu Model Selection for Multiperiod Forecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861--873 Sadanori Konishi and Genshiro Kitagawa Generalised Information Criteria in Model Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--890 J. Pfanzagl and O. Sheynin Studies in the history of probability and statistics. XLIV. A forerunner of the $t$-distribution . . . . . . . . . . 891--898 M. C. Jones The Local Dependence Function . . . . . 899--904 Li Hsu and Ross L. Prentice A generalisation of the Mantel--Haenszel test to bivariate failure time data . . 905--911 Iain D. Currie A Note on Buckley--James Estimators for Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--915 Stuart R. Lipsitz and Joseph G. Ibrahim A Conditional Model for Incomplete Covariates in Parametric Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916--922 Yoshihide Kakizawa Higher Order Monotone Bartlett-Type Adjustment for Some Multivariate Test Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--927 Ester Samuel-Cahn Is the Simes Improved Bonferroni Procedure Conservative? . . . . . . . . 928--933 Peter Bauer and Meinhard Kieser A Unifying Approach for Confidence Intervals and Testing of Equivalence and Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934--937 Andy C. C. Kwan and Ah-Boon Sim On the Finite-Sample Distribution of Modified Portmanteau Tests for Randomness of a Gaussian Time Series . . 938--943 Alok Bhargava Some Properties of Exact Tests for Unit Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944--949 George Box and John Tyssedal Projective Properties of Certain Orthogonal Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 950--955 Mausumi Bose Some Efficient Incomplete Block Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956--961 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Arnoldo Frigessi and Fabio Martinelli and Julian Stander Computational complexity of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for finite Markov random fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 David Madigan and Jeremy C. York Bayesian Methods for Estimation of the Size of a Closed Population . . . . . . 19--31 G. Molenberghs and M. G. Kenward and E. Lesaffre The Analysis of Longitudinal Ordinal Data with Nonrandom Drop-Out . . . . . . 33--44 Roger Day and John Bryant and Myrto Lefkopoulou Adaptation of Bivariate Frailty Models for Prediction, with Application to Biological Markers as Prognostic Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--56 A. J. Scott and C. J. Wild Fitting Regression Models to Case-Control Data by Maximum Likelihood 57--71 Michael P. Jones A Class of Semiparametric Regressions for the Accelerated Failure Time Model 73--84 John S. J. Hsu and Tom Leonard Hierarchical Bayesian Semiparametric Procedures for Logistic Regression . . . 85--93 Frank H. Shaw and Charles J. Geyer Estimation and Testing in Constrained Covariance Component Models . . . . . . 95--102 George G. Dougherty, Jr. Estimation of common linear functional relationships in $k$ data sets . . . . . 103--110 Heung Wong and W. K. Li On a Multivariate Conditional Heteroscedastic Model . . . . . . . . . 111--123 A. Ronald Gallant and Jonathan R. Long Estimating Stochastic Differential Equations Efficiently by Minimum Chi-Squared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--141 Bradley Efron The Length Heuristic for Simultaneous Hypothesis Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--157 N. H. Bingham Studies in the history of probability and statistics. XLV. The late Philip Holgate's paper: ``Independent functions. Probability and analysis in Poland between the Wars'' . . . . . . . 159--173 Lei Shi Local Influence in Principal Components Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186 E. A. Catchpole and B. J. T. Morgan Detecting Parameter Redundancy . . . . . 187--196 Michael A. Proschan Conditional Power with Fisher's Least Significant Difference Procedure . . . . 197--208 Mohammad Salehi M. and George A. F. Seber Adaptive Cluster Sampling with Networks Selected without Replacement . . . . . . 209--219 Eric V. Slud and Edward L. Korn Semiparametric Two-Sample Tests in Clinical Trials with a Post-Randomisation Response Indicator 221--230 R. J. Carroll Surprising Effects of Measurement Error on an Aggregate Data Estimator . . . . . 231--234 Steinar Engen and Magnar Lillegård Stochastic Simulations Conditioned on Sufficient Statistics . . . . . . . . . 235--240 Elena Stanghellini Identification of a Single-Factor Model Using Graphical Gaussian Rules . . . . . 241--244 D. K. Ghosh and J. Divecha Two Associate Class Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs and Partial Diallel Crosses . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--248 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard L. Smith and Jonathan A. Tawn and Stuart G. Coles Markov Chain Models for Threshold Exceedances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--268 Jeanne Kowalski and Xin M. Tu and Roger S. Day and José R. Mendoza-Blanco On the rate of convergence of the ECME algorithm for multiple regression models with $t$-distributed errors . . . . . . 269--281 Ömer Öztürk and Thomas P. Hettmansperger Generalised weighted Cramér--von Mises distance estimators . . . . . . . . . . 283--294 James Pickands III and Robert A. Stine Estimation for an M/G/$ \infty $ Queue with Incomplete Information . . . . . . 295--308 Xihong Lin Variance Component Testing in Generalised Linear Models with Random Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--326 James R. Schott Asymptotics of Eigenprojections of Correlation Matrices with Some Applications in Principal Components Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--337 Hongwei Zhao and Anastasios A. Tsiatis A Consistent Estimator for the Distribution of Quality Adjusted Survival Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--348 Ross L. Prentice and Li Hsu Regression on Hazard Ratios and Cross Ratios in Multivariate Failure Time Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--363 Vilijandas B. Bagdonavi\vcius and Mikhail S. Nikulin Transfer Functionals and Semiparametric Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 365--378 Sven Ove Samuelsen A Pseudolikelihood Approach to Analysis of Nested Case-Control Studies . . . . . 379--394 Anna Clara Monti Empirical Likelihood Confidence Regions in Time Series Models . . . . . . . . . 395--405 C. S. Wong and W. K. Li Testing for Threshold Autoregression with Conditional Heteroscedasticity . . 407--418 Peter H. Westfall and Wesley O. Johnson and Jessica M. Utts A Bayesian Perspective on the Bonferroni Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--427 France Mentré and Alain Mallet and Doha Baccar Optimal Design in Random-Effects Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 429--442 Nizam Uddin and John P. Morgan Efficient Block Designs for Settings with Spatially Correlated Errors . . . . 443--454 H. B. Kushner Optimality and Efficiency of Two-Treatment Repeated Measurements Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--468 Oliver B. Linton Efficient Estimation of Additive Nonparametric Regression Models . . . . 469--473 Xuming He and Liji Shen Linear Regression After Spline Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--481 Silvia L. P. Ferrari and Denise A. Botter and Francisco Cribari-Neto Local Power of Three Classic Criteria in Generalised Linear Models with Unknown Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--485 Daniel Rabinowitz A Note on Efficient Estimation from Case-Control Data . . . . . . . . . . . 486--488 Mike West Time Series Decomposition . . . . . . . 489--494 Alberto Luceno Estimation of Missing Values in Possibly Partially Nonstationary Vector Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--499 B. Nielsen Bartlett Correction of the Unit Root Test in Autoregressive Models . . . . . 500--504 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Elja Arjas and Dario Gasbarra On Prequential Model Assessment in Life History Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--522 Peter Müller and Kathryn Roeder A Bayesian Semiparametric Model for Case-Control Studies with Errors in Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--537 Mark J. Van Der Laan and Nicholas P. Jewell and Derick R. Peterson Efficient Estimation of the Lifetime and Disease Onset Distribution . . . . . . . 539--554 Xiaolong Luo and Bruce W. Turnbull and Larry C. Clark Likelihood Ratio Tests for a Changepoint with Survival Data . . . . . . . . . . . 555--565 P. Capéra\`a and A.-L. Foug\`eres and C. Genest A Nonparametric Estimation Procedure for Bivariate Extreme Value Copulas . . . . 567--577 Myunghee Cho Paik and Wei-Yann Tsai On Using the Cox Proportional Hazards Model with Missing Covariates . . . . . 579--593 Margaret Sullivan Pepe A Regression Modelling Framework for Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves in Medical Diagnostic Testing . . . . . 595--608 Jing Qin and Biao Zhang A Goodness-of-Fit Test for Logistic Regression Models Based on Case-Control Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--618 Tomas Philipson and Jeffrey DeSimone Experiments and Subject Sampling . . . . 619--630 K. C. Yuen and M. D. Burke A Test of Fit for a Semiparametric Additive Risk Model . . . . . . . . . . 631--639 Albert W. Marshall and Ingram Olkin A New Method for Adding a Parameter to a Family of Distributions with Application to the Exponential and Weibull Families 641--652 Neil Shephard and Michael K. Pitt Likelihood Analysis of Non-Gaussian Measurement Time Series . . . . . . . . 653--667 J. Durbin and S. J. Koopman Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Non-Gaussian State Space Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--684 John W. Galbraith and Victoria Zinde-Walsh On Some Simple, Autoregression-Based Estimation and Identification Techniques for ARMA Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--696 Bani K. Mallick and Stephen G. Walker Combining Information from Several Experiments with Nonparameter Priors . . 697--706 Yasunori Fujikoshi and Kenichi Satoh Modified AIC and $ C_p $ in Multivariate Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 707--716 Louis-Paul Rivest A Decentred Predictor for Circular--Circular Regression . . . . . 717--726 E. Gutiérrez-Peña Moments for the Canonical Parameter of an Exponential Family Under a Conjugate Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--732 Andy C. C. Kwan and Yangru Wu Further Results on the Finite-Sample Distribution of Monti's Portmanteau Test for the Adequacy of an $ \mathrm {ARMA}(p, q) $ model . . . . . . . . . . 733--736 Susan Todd and John Whitehead Confidence Interval Calculation for a Sequential Clinical Trial of Binary Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--743 Inchi Hu Strong Consistency in Stochastic Regression Models Via Posterior Covariance Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 744--749 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii Anestis Antoniadis and Ir\`ene Gijbels and Gérard Grégoire Model Selection Using Wavelet Decomposition and Applications . . . . . 751--763 E. Mammen and J. S. Marron Mass Recentred Kernel Smoothers . . . . 765--777 Peter Hall and Berwin A. Turlach Enhancing Convolution and Interpolation Methods for Nonparametric Regression . . 779--790 Bonnie K. Ray and Ruey S. Tsay Bandwidth Selection for Kernel Regression with Long-Range Dependent Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--802 Giovanni Parmigiani Timing Medical Examinations via Intensity Functions . . . . . . . . . . 803--816 Ping Hu and Marvin Zelen Planning Clinical Trials to Evaluate Early Detection Programmes . . . . . . . 817--829 José C. Pinheiro and David L. DeMets Estimating and Reducing Bias in Group Sequential Designs with Gaussian Independent Increment Structure . . . . 831--845 Fan Hui Kong and Eric Slud Robust Covariate-Adjusted Logrank Tests 847--862 Weijing Wang and Martin T. Wells Nonparametric Estimators of the Bivariate Survival Function Under Simplified Censoring Conditions . . . . 863--880 Hans-Georg Müller and Jane-Ling Wang and William B. Capra From Lifetables to Hazard Rates: The Transformation Approach . . . . . . . . 881--892 J. T. Gene Hwang and Weizhen Wang The Validity of the Test of Individual Equivalence Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . 893--900 Leszek Marzec and Pawe\l Marzec On Fitting Cox's Regression Model with Time-Dependent Coefficients . . . . . . 901--908 Nancy Paul Silliman Nonparametric Classes of Weight Functions to Model Publication Bias . . 909--918 Jeremy Penzer and Brian Shea The Exact Likelihood of an Autoregressive-Moving Average Model with Incomplete Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--928 Piet De Jong The Scan Sampler for Time Series Models 929--937 Rahul Mukerjee Optimal Partial Diallel Crosses . . . . 939--948 R. Dennis Cook and Efstathia Bura Testing the Adequacy of Regression Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--956 Chunsheng Ma On the Exact Likelihood Function of a Multivariate Autoregressive Moving Average Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957--964 Thomas C. M. Lee A Simple Span Selector for Periodogram Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--969 Rahul Mukerjee and Malay Ghosh Second-Order Probability Matching Priors 970--975 Cynthia Wilson Garvan and Malay Ghosh Noninformative Priors for Dispersion Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976--982 Bahjat F. Qaqish and Haibo Zhou and Jianwen Cai On Case-Control Sampling of Clustered Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--986 Hyo-Il Park A Note on the Relation Between Two Forms of Linear Rank Statistics for Right Censored and Grouped Data . . . . . . . 987--988 A. Azzalini Amendments and Corrections: ``Logistic Regression for Autocorrelated Data with Application to Repeated Measures'' . . . 989--989 Alice S. Whittemore Amendments and Corrections: ``Logistic Regression of Family Data From Case-Control Studies . . . . . . . . . . 989--990 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan E. Gelfand and Sujit K. Ghosh Model Choice: A Minimum Posterior Predictive Loss Approach . . . . . . . . 1--11 Donna K. Pauler The Schwarz Criterion and Related Methods for Normal Linear Models . . . . 13--27 Constantinos Goutis and Christian P. Robert Model choice in generalised linear models: a Bayesian approach via Kullback--Leibler projections . . . . . 29--37 Michael Goldstein and David A. Wooff Adjusting Exchangeable Beliefs . . . . . 39--54 D. Sun and J. O. Berger Reference Priors with Partial Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--71 Ming-Hui Chen and Qi-Man Shao Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Analysis of Constrained Parameter Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--87 Jean-Claude Deville and Yves Tillé Unequal Probability Sampling Without Replacement Through a Splitting Method 89--101 Bing Li An Optimal Estimating Equation Based on the First Three Cumulants . . . . . . . 103--114 F. Abramovich and B. W. Silverman Wavelet Decomposition Approaches to Statistical Inverse Problems . . . . . . 115--129 M. J. Faddy and M. C. Jones Semiparametric Smoothing for Discrete Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--138 Q. Yao and L. J. Wei and J. W. Hogan Analysis of Incomplete Repeated Measurements with Dependent Censoring Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--149 Betty J. Flehinger and Benjamin Reiser and Emmanuel Yashchin Survival with Competing Risks and Masked Causes of Failures . . . . . . . . . . . 151--164 Xiaotong Shen Proportional Odds Regression and Sieve Maximum Likelihood Estimation . . . . . 165--177 K. F. Lam A class of tests for the equality of $k$ cause-specific hazard rates in a competing risks model . . . . . . . . . 179--188 Joanna H. Shih A Goodness-of-Fit Test for Association in a Bivariate Survival Model . . . . . 189--200 David S. Stoffer and David E. Tyler Matching Sequences: Cross-Spectral Analysis of Categorical Time Series . . 201--213 Dani Gamerman Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Dynamic Generalised Linear Models . . . . . . . 215--227 Zongwu Cai and Clifford M. Hurvich and Chih-Ling Tsai Score Tests for Heteroscedasticity in Wavelet Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 229--234 M. C. Jones and M. Samiuddin and A. H. Al-Harbey and T. A. H. Maatouk The Edge Frequency Polygon . . . . . . . 235--239 Isao Shoji and Tohru Ozaki A Statistical Method of Estimation and Simulation for Systems of Stochastic Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 240--243 Offer Lieberman From Unbiased Linear Estimating Equations to Unbiased Estimators . . . . 244--250 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert L. Wolpert and Katja Ickstadt Poisson/Gamma Random Field Models for Spatial Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 251--267 Kathryn Roeder and Michael Escobar and Joseph B. Kadane and Ivan Balazs Measuring Heterogeneity in Forensic Databases Using Hierarchical Bayes Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--287 D. Y. Lin and David Oakes and Zhiliang Ying Additive Hazards Regression with Current Status Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--298 Lue Ping Zhao and Li Hsu and Sarah Holte and Yan Chen and Filemon Quiaoit and Ross L. Prentice Combined Association and Aggregation Analysis of Data from Case-Control Family Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--315 Chin-Shan Chuang and Tze Leung Lai Resampling Methods for Confidence Intervals in Group Sequential Trials . . 317--332 Edwin Choi and Peter Hall On Bias Reduction in Local Linear Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--345 Siddhartha Chib and Edward Greenberg Analysis of Multivariate Probit Models 347--361 David G. T. Denison and Bani K. Mallick and Adrian F. M. Smith A Bayesian CART Algorithm . . . . . . . 363--377 Dean P. Foster and Rakesh V. Vohra Asymptotic Calibration . . . . . . . . . 379--390 Merlise Clyde and Giovanni Parmigiani and Brani Vidakovic Multiple Shrinkage and Subset Selection in Wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--401 Thomas A. Severini An Approximation to the Modified Profile Likelihood Function . . . . . . . . . . 403--411 K. S. Chan and Ruey S. Tsay Limiting Properties of the Least Squares Estimator of a Continuous Threshold Autoregressive Model . . . . . . . . . . 413--426 B. M. Brown and Ann Cowling Clustering and Abundance Estimation for Neyman--Scott Models and Line Transect Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--438 Samuel D. Oman Calibration with Random Slopes . . . . . 439--449 Ibrahim A. Ahmad Testing Whether a Survival Distribution is New Better than Used of an Unknown Specified Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--456 Chris D. Orme On the Insensitivity of the Score Test for Heterogeneity to Omitted Covariates in Multivariate Failure Time Models . . 457--461 E. A. Catchpole and B. J. T. Morgan and S. N. Freeman Estimation in Parameter-Redundant Models 462--468 Peter Hall and Byeong U. Park and Berwin A. Turlach A Note on Design Transformation and Binning in Nonparametric Curve Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--476 Avner Bar-Hen and Jean J. Daudin Asymptotic Distribution of Matusita's Distance: Application to the Location Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--481 Ioulia Papageorgiou and K. X. Karakostas On Optimal Sampling Designs for Autocorrelated Finite Populations . . . 482--486 A. D. Lunn and S. J. Davies A Note on Generating Correlated Binary Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--490 Ching-Shui Cheng Some Hidden Projection Properties of Orthogonal Arrays with Strength Three 491--495 Inchi Hu On Sequential Designs in Nonlinear Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--503 K. V. Mardia and J. T. Kent and C. R. Goodall and J. A. Little Amendments and Corrections: ``Kriging and splines with derivative information'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 83 (1996), no. 1, 207--221; (98d:65017)] 505--505 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Thomas A. Severini Likelihood Functions for Inference in the Presence of a Nuisance Parameter . . 507--522 Nicole Lazar and Per Aslak Mykland An Evaluation of the Power and Conditionality Properties of Empirical Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--534 Keith A. Baggerly Empirical Likelihood as a Goodness-of-Fit Measure . . . . . . . . 535--547 Ayanendranath Basu and Ian R. Harris and Nils L. Hjort and M. C. Jones Robust and Efficient Estimation by Minimising a Density Power Divergence 549--559 Weijing Wang and Martin T. Wells Nonparametric Estimation of Successive Duration Times Under Dependent Censoring 561--572 Wei-Yann Tsai and John Crowley A Note on Nonparametric Estimators of the Bivariate Survival Function Under Univariate Censoring . . . . . . . . . . 573--580 Ludwig Fahrmeir and Artur Klinger A Nonparametric Multiplicative Hazard Model for Event History Analysis . . . . 581--592 Jinheum Kim and Seung-Yeoun Lee Two-Sample Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Additive Risk Models with Censored Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--603 D. Y. Lin and L. J. Wei and Zhiliang Ying Accelerated Failure Time Models for Counting Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 605--618 Jing Qin Inferences for Case-Control and Semiparametric Two-Sample Density Ratio Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--630 Bernd Droge Minimax Regret Analysis of Orthogonal Series Regression Estimation: Selection Versus Shrinkage . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--643 Jianqing Fan and Qiwei Yao Efficient Estimation of Conditional Variance Functions in Stochastic Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--660 Andrea B. Troxel and Stuart R. Lipsitz and David P. Harrington Marginal Models for the Analysis of Longitudinal Measurements with Nonignorable Non-Monotone Missing Data 661--672 Chuanhai Liu and Donald B. Rubin Ellipsoidally Symmetric Extensions of the General Location Model for Mixed Categorical and Continuous Data . . . . 673--688 K. Ruben Gabriel Generalised Bilinear Regression . . . . 689--700 Clifford M. Hurvich and Chih-Ling Tsai A Crossvalidatory AIC for Hard Wavelet Thresholding in Spatially Adaptive Function Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 701--710 Alberto Roverato and Joe Whittaker The Isserlis Matrix and Its Application to Non-Decomposable Graphical Gaussian Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--725 Donald W. K. Andrews and Xuemei Liu and Werner Ploberger Tests for White Noise Against Alternatives with Both Seasonal and Nonseasonal Serial Correlation . . . . . 727--740 John O'Quigley and Ethan Reiner A Stopping Rule for the Continual Reassessment Method . . . . . . . . . . 741--748 Peide Shi and Wing-Kam Fung A Note on Transforming a Response Variable for Linearity . . . . . . . . . 749--754 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii Chuanhai Liu and Donald B. Rubin and Ying Nian Wu Parameter expansion to accelerate EM: the PX--EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 755--770 Mark J. Van der Laan and Alan E. Hubbard Locally Efficient Estimation of the Survival Distribution with Right-Censored Data and Covariates when Collection of Data is Delayed . . . . . 771--783 Yijian Huang and Thomas A. Louis Nonparametric Estimation of the Joint Distribution of Survival Time and Mark Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--798 Adrian Bowman and Peter Hall and Tania Prvan Bandwidth Selection for the Smoothing of Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 799--808 Donald R. Hoover and John A. Rice and Colin O. Wu and Li-Ping Yang Nonparametric Smoothing Estimates of Time-Varying Coefficient Models with Longitudinal Data . . . . . . . . . . . 809--822 Craig A. Cooley and Steven N. MacEachern Classification via Kernel Product Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--833 A. Philip Dawid and Julia Mortera Forensic Identification with Imperfect Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--849 Paola Bortot and Jonathan A. Tawn Models for the Extremes of Markov Chains 851--867 Holger Dette and Weng Kee Wong Bayesian $D$-Optimal Designs on a Fixed Number of Design Points for Heteroscedastic Polynomial Models . . . 869--882 R. J. Martin and J. A. Eccleston Variance-Balanced Change-Over Designs for Dependent Observations . . . . . . . 883--892 C. Nadeau and J. F. Lawless Inference for Means and Covariances of Point Processes Through Estimating Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--906 Joseph L. Gastwirth and Abba M. Krieger and Paul R. Rosenbaum Dual and Simultaneous Sensitivity Analysis for Matched Pairs . . . . . . . 907--920 J. Beran and R. J. Bhansali and D. Ocker On Unified Model Selection for Stationary and Nonstationary Short- and Long-Memory Autoregressive Processes . . 921--934 Naisyin Wang and James M. Robins Large-Sample Theory for Parametric Multiple Imputation Procedures . . . . . 935--948 Paolo Vidoni A Note on Modified Estimative Prediction Limits and Distributions . . . . . . . . 949--953 C. C. Heyde and R. Morton Multiple Roots in General Estimating Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954--959 Vanessa Didelez and Iris Pigeot Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Graphical Models with Missing Values . . 960--966 Stephen A. Corcoran Bartlett Adjustment of Empirical Discrepancy Statistics . . . . . . . . . 967--972 Chuanhai Liu Information Matrix Computation from Conditional Information via Normal Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973--979 J. P. Fine and Z. Ying and L. J. Wei On the Linear Transformation Model for Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980--986 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Hua Yun Chen and Roderick Little A Test of Missing Completely at Random for Generalised Estimating Equations with Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Michael A. Newton and Yunlei Zhang A Recursive Algorithm for Nonparametric Analysis with Missing Data . . . . . . . 15--26 Peter B. Gilbert and Subhash R. Lele and Yehuda Vardi Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Semiparametric Selection Bias Models with Application to AIDS Vaccine Trials 27--43 Minggao Gu and Dean Follmann and Nancy L. Geller Monitoring a General Class of Two-Sample Survival Statistics with Applications 45--57 D. Y. Lin and W. Sun and Zhiliang Ying Nonparametric Estimation of the Gap Time Distributions for Serial Events with Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70 Aiyi Liu and W. J. Hall Unbiased Estimation Following a Group Sequential Test . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78 James O. Berger and Benzion Boukai and Yinping Wang Simultaneous Bayesian-Frequentist Sequential Testing of Nested Hypotheses 79--92 Holger Dette and Timothy E. O'Brien Optimality Criteria for Regression Models Based on Predicted Variance . . . 93--106 Stephen M. S. Lee and G. Alastair Young Nonparametric Likelihood Ratio Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 107--118 Göran Kauermann and Gerhard Tutz On Model Diagnostics Using Varying Coefficient Models . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128 Venkata K. Jandhyala and Stergios B. Fotopoulos Capturing the Distributional Behaviour of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of a Changepoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 Kazuo Anraku An Information Criterion for Parameters under a Simple Order Restriction . . . . 141--152 Carmen Fernandez and Mark F. J. Steel Multivariate Student--$t$ regression models: pitfalls and inference . . . . . 153--167 Bent Jòrgensen and Sòren Lundbye-Christensen and Peter Xue-Kun Song and Li Sun A State Space Model for Multivariate Longitudinal Count Data . . . . . . . . 169--181 Joseph E. Cavanaugh and Wesley O. Johnson Assessing the Predictive Influence of Cases in a State Space Process . . . . . 183--190 Elizabeth H. Slate Assessing Multivariate Nonnormality Using Univariate Distributions . . . . . 191--202 Nicole A. Lazar and Per Aslak Mykland Empirical Likelihood in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 203--211 B. G. Quinn A Fast Efficient Technique for the Estimation of Frequency: Interpretation and Generalisation . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220 Anny Hui Xiang and Bryan Langholz Comparison of Case-Control to Full Cohort Analyses under Model Misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--226 Jens Perch Nielsen Super-Efficient Hazard Estimation Based on High-Quality Marker Information . . . 227--232 Anonymous Efficient Block Designs for Settings with Spatially Correlated Errors . . . . 233--233 Jan Beran and Norma Terrin Amendments and corrections:``Testing for a change of the long-memory parameter'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 83 (1996), no. 3, 627--638; (98a:62111)] . . . . . . . 233--233 N. Uddin and J. P. Morgan Amendments and corrections:``Efficient block designs for settings with spatially correlated errors'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 84 (1997), no. 2, 443--454; (99c:62212)] . . . . . . . 233--233 H. B. Kushner Amendments and corrections:``Optimality and efficiency of two-treatment repeated measurement designs'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 84 (1997), no. 2, 455--468; (98k:62134)] . . . . . . . 234--234 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Thomas A. Severini An Empirical Adjustment to the Likelihood Ratio Statistic . . . . . . . 235--247 D. A. S. Fraser and N. Reid and J. Wu A Simple General Formula for Tail Probabilities for Frequentist and Bayesian Inference . . . . . . . . . . . 249--264 Donald A. Pierce and Dawn Peters Improving on Exact Tests by Approximate Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--277 B. Nielsen The Likelihood-Ratio Test for Rank in Bivariate Canonical Correlation Analysis 279--288 P. J. Solomon and J. M. G. Taylor Orthogonality and Transformations in Variance Components Models . . . . . . . 289--300 Xiao-Li Meng and David A. Van Dyk Seeking Efficient Data Augmentation Schemes via Conditional and Marginal Augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--320 James G. Booth and Ronald W. Butler An Importance Sampling Algorithm for Exact Conditional Tests in Log-Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--332 Rahul Mukerjee and N. Reid On a Property of Probability Matching Priors: Matching the Alternative Coverage Probabilities . . . . . . . . . 333--340 Dongchu Sun and Robert K. Tsutakawa and Paul L. Speckman Posterior Distribution of Hierarchical Models Using CAR(1) Distributions . . . 341--350 J. Aitchison and J. Bacon-Shone Convex Linear Combinations of Compositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364 Constantine E. Frangakis and Donald B. Rubin Addressing Complications of Intention-to-Treat Analysis in the Combined Presence of All-or-None Treatment-Noncompliance and Subsequent Missing Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--379 David V. Glidden Checking the Adequacy of the Gamma Frailty Model for Multivariate Failure Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--393 Weizhen Wang and J. T. Gene Hwang and Anirban Dasgupta Statistical Tests for Multivariate Bioequivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--402 J. N. K. Rao and Jun Shao Modified Balanced Repeated Replication for Complex Survey Data . . . . . . . . 403--415 Ming-Yen Cheng and Peter Hall and Berwin A. Turlach High-Derivative Parametric Enhancements of Nonparametric Curve Estimators . . . 417--428 Richard Dykstra and John Hewett and Tim Robertson Nonparametric, Isotonic Discriminant Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--438 James G. Booth and James P. Hobert and Pamela A. Ohman On the Probable Error of the Ratio of Two Gamma Means . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--452 Feng-Shun Chai and Rahul Mukerjee Optimal Designs for Diallel Crosses with Specific Combining Abilities . . . . . . 453--458 Brajendra C. Sutradhar and Kalyan Das On the Efficiency of Regression Estimators in Generalised Linear Models for Longitudinal Data . . . . . . . . . 459--465 Michael A. Proschan Properties of Spending Function Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--473 Mike K. P. So Time Series with Additive Noise . . . . 474--482 Qiansheng Cheng On Time-Reversibility of Linear Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--486 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gang Li and Ram C. Tiwari and Martin T. Wells Semiparametric Inference for a Quantile Comparison Function with Applications to Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves 487--502 Yu Shen and Marvin Zelen Parametric Estimation Procedures for Screening Programmes: Stable and Nonstable Disease Models for Multimodality Case Finding . . . . . . . 503--515 X. Joan Hu and Stephen W. Lagakos Interim Analyses Using Repeated Confidence Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--529 Biao Zhang A Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Test for Logistic Regression Models Based on Case-Control Data . . . . . . . . . . . 531--539 Raymond J. Carroll and Jeffrey D. Maca and David Ruppert Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Measurement Error . . . . . . . . . . 541--554 Peter Bühlmann Dynamic Adaptive Partitioning for Nonlinear Time Series . . . . . . . . . 555--571 Vidar Hjellvik and Dag Tjòstheim Modelling Panels of Intercorrelated Autoregressive Time Series . . . . . . . 573--590 Jun-Ichiro Fukuchi Subsampling and Model Selection in Time Series Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--604 Cees Diks and Howell Tong A Test for Symmetries of Multivariate Probability Distributions . . . . . . . 605--614 Petros Dellaportas and Jonathan J. Forster Markov Chain Monte Carlo Model Determination for Hierarchical and Graphical Log-Linear Models . . . . . . 615--633 Philip J. Brown and Tom Fearn and Marina Vannucci The Choice of Variables in Multivariate Regression: A Non-Conjugate Bayesian Decision Theory Approach . . . . . . . . 635--648 Håvard Rue and Merrilee A. Hurn Bayesian Object Identification . . . . . 649--660 David J. Nott and Tobias Rydén Pairwise Likelihood Methods for Inference in Image Models . . . . . . . 661--676 Mohsen Pourahmadi Joint Mean-Covariance Models with Applications to Longitudinal Data: Unconstrained Parameterisation . . . . . 677--690 Torben Martinussen and Thomas H. Scheike A Semiparametric Additive Regression Model for Longitudinal Data . . . . . . 691--702 Stephen G. Walker and David A. Stephens A Multivariate Family of Distributions on $ (0, \infty)^p $ . . . . . . . . . . 703--709 S. P. Brooks and G. O. Roberts On quantile estimation and Markov chain Monte Carlo convergence . . . . . . . . 710--717 Markku Rahiala Random Coefficient Autoregressive Models for Longitudinal Data . . . . . . . . . 718--722 T. Banerjee and S. R. Paul An extension of Morel--Nagaraj's finite mixture distribution for modelling multinomial clustered data . . . . . . . 723--727 Jane L. Harvill and Bonnie K. Ray A Note on Tests for Nonlinearity in a Vector Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . 728--734 N. Sartori and R. Bellio and A. Salvan and L. Pace The Directed Modified Profile Likelihood in Models with Many Nuisance Parameters 735--742 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii Li Hsu and Ross L. Prentice and Lue Ping Zhao and Juan Juan Fan On Dependence Estimation Using Correlated Failure Time Data from Case-Control Family Studies . . . . . . 743--753 Kani Chen and Shaw-Hwa Lo Case-Cohort and Case-Control Analysis with Cox's Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--764 Kostas Skouras and A. Philip Dawid On Efficient Probability Forecasting Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--784 Paolo Giudici and Peter J. Green Decomposable Graphical Gaussian Model Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--801 François Perron Beyond Accept-Reject Sampling . . . . . 803--813 Christopher K. Wikle and Noel Cressie A Dimension-Reduced Approach to Space-Time Kalman Filtering . . . . . . 815--829 Yingcun Xia and Howell Tong and W. K. Li On Extended Partially Linear Single-Index Models . . . . . . . . . . 831--842 John M. Neuhaus Bias and Efficiency Loss Due to Misclassified Responses in Binary Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--855 Paul J. Rathouz and Kung-Yee Liang Reducing Sensitivity to Nuisance Parameters in Semiparametric Models: A Quasi-Score Method . . . . . . . . . . . 857--869 Peter Hall and Liang Peng and Nader Tajvidi On Prediction Intervals Based on Predictive Likelihood or Bootstrap Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--880 Suojin Wang and Raymond J. Carroll High-Order Accurate Methods for Retrospective Sampling Problems . . . . 881--897 James R. Schott Partial Common Principal Component Subspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--908 Michael R. Kosorok Two-Sample Quantile Tests under General Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--921 J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and A. Muñoz-Reyes and J. Muñoz-Pichardo Influence Diagnostic in Survey Sampling: Conditional Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--928 D. Kuonen Saddlepoint Approximations for Distributions of Quadratic Forms in Normal Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 929--935 M. P. Wand On the Optimal Amount of Smoothing in Penalised Spline Regression . . . . . . 936--940 Edwin Choi and Peter Hall Data Sharpening as a Prelude to Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--947 John Barnard and Donald B. Rubin Small-Sample Degrees of Freedom with Multiple Imputation . . . . . . . . . . 948--955 Subhashis Ghosal Probability Matching Priors for Non-Regular Cases . . . . . . . . . . . 956--964 Wilfredo Palma and Guido Del Pino Statistical Analysis of Incomplete Long-Range Dependent Data . . . . . . . 965--972 David Madigan and Krzysztof Mosurski Amendments and corrections:``An extension of the results of Asmussen and Edwards on collapsibility in contingency tables'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 77 (1990), no. 2, 315--319; (91i:62075)] 973--973 A. Philip Dawid and Julia Mortera Amendments and corrections:``Forensic identification with imperfect evidence'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 85 (1998), no. 4, 835--849; (2000a:62285)] . . . . . . 974--974 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Albert W. Marshall and Ingram Olkin Amendments and Corrections: ``A new method for adding a parameter to a family of distributions with application to the exponential and Weibull families'' [\booktitleBiometrika \bf 84 (1997), no. 3, 641--652; MR1603936] . . 505--505