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M. L. Tiku A new statistic for testing suspected outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--752
W. J. Conover and K. E. Kemp Comparisons of the asymptotic efficiencies of two sample tests for discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 1--15 V. P. Bhapkar and Grant W. Somes Multiple comparisons of matched proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25 Sidney Addelman Systematic latin squares . . . . . . . . 27--44 Ramesh C. Gupta Distribution of the sum of independent generalized logarithmic series variables 45--48 Govind S. Mudholkar and Yogendra P. Chaubey and Lin Ching-Chuong Approximations for the doubly noncentral-$F$ distribution . . . . . . 49--63 Norman Neff and William E. Strawderman Further remarks on estimating the parameter of a noncentral chi-square distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--76 Arthur E. Hoerl and Robert W. Kennard Ridge regression iterative estimation of the biasing parameter . . . . . . . . . 77--88 Bradford R. Grain Matrix density estimation . . . . . . . 89--96 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
D. A. S. Fraser and Irwin Guttman and George P. H. Styan Serial correlation and distributions on the sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--118 Robert M. Smith and Lee J. Bain Correlation type goodness-of-fit statistics with censored sampling . . . 119--132 Shyaai Johari and Stanley L. Selove Partitioning a distribution . . . . . . 133--147 R. L. Scheaffer A note on approximate confidence limits for the negative binomial model . . . . 149--158 Matthew Goldstein and Edward Wolf and William Dillon On a test of independence for contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169 J. N. Adichie A note on asymptotic linearity of a bank statistic in regression parameter . . . 171--181 P. V. Rao and C. Littell Ramon An estimator of relative potency . . . . 183--189 K. R. Shah and S. C. Puri Application of MINQUE procedure to block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--196 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
S. Zacks and H. Solomon On testing and estimating the interaction between treatments and environmental conditions in binomial experiments: The case of two stations 197--223 Alan E. Gelfand and D. L. Thomas Discrimination between the binomial and hypergeometric models . . . . . . . . . 225--240 Joel Michalek Uniform convergence of an empirical cdf based on a relatively small number of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250 Douglas H. Jones and Lewis Coopersmith A ratio estimator of the total of a subpopulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--260 D. E. Amos Computation of the central and noncentral $F$ distributions . . . . . . 261--281 Thomas J. Santner A two stage procedure for selecting $ \delta^*$-optimal means in the normal model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--292 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. J. Shuster and F. H. Dietrich Quantal response assays by inverse regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305 J. F. Lawless and P. Wang A simulation study of ridge and other regression estimators . . . . . . . . . 307--323 Austin F. S. Lee and Ralph B. D. Agostino Levels of significance of some two-sample tests when observations are from compound normal distributions . . . 325--342 John D. Spurrier Double sample tests for the equality of two means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--349 Charles Locke A test for the composite hypothesis that a population has a gamma distribution 351--364 Meena Pradhan and Y. S. Sathe Modification of fixed even sample size procedure for play-the-winner . . . . . 365--371 Michael A. Fligner and Robert V. Hogg and Timothy J. Killeen Some distribution-free Rane-like statistics having the Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon null distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--376 J. E. Dutt and A. P. Soms An integral representation technique for calculating general multivariate probabilities with an application to multivariate $ \chi^2 $ . . . . . . . . 377--388 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Jerald F. Lawless and Nancy R. Mann Tests for homogeneity of extreme value scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--405 G. Nagase and K. S. Banerjee On the distribution of a second degree polynomial statistic in singular normal variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--412 Robb J. Muirhead Forms for the distribution of the ellipticity statistic for bivariate sphericity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--420 George W. Williams Testing the association between health status and an environmental index . . . 421--427 Z. Govindarajulu A brief survey of nonparametric statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--453 V. Susarlam and E. G. Phadia Empirical Bayes testing of a distribution function with Dirichlet process priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--469 S. K. Sinlia and Irwin Guttman Bayesian inference about the reliability function for the exponential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--479 Victor J. Yohai and Ricardo A. Maronna Location estimators based on linear combinations of modified order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--486 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
James W. Frane and Maryann Hill Factor analysis as a tool for data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--506 C. P. Quasenberry and R. R. Starbuck On optimal tests for separate hypotheses and conditional probability integral transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--524 Khursheed Alam and K. T. Wallenius Positive dependence and monotonicity in conditional distributions . . . . . . . 525--534 Harold Ruben On the evaluation of Steck's determinant for rectangle probabilities of uniform order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--543 R. M. Ray A new $ C(\alpha) $ test for $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--563 Wanzer Drane N the theory of randomized responses to two sensitive questions . . . . . . . . 565--574 K. Aiyappan Nair Bivariate extreme value distributions 575--581 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ronald L. Iman An approximation to the exact distribution of the Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney rank sum test statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--598 P. D. Puri and A. K. Nigam Balanced factorial experiments. I . . . 599--619 Deng-Yuan Huang and S. Panchapakesan A modified subset selection formulation with special reference to one-way and two-way layout experiments . . . . . . . 621--633 Robert W. Resek Estimation of the parameters of a general Student's $t$ distribution . . . 635--645 Marakatha Krishnan The noncentral bivariate chi-squared distribution and extensions . . . . . . 647--660 Bertram Price A note on estimation in Bernoulli trials with dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--671 Stuart Scott Moments of suprema of random variables 673--680 R. F. Woolson and J. D. Leeper and J. W. L. Cole and W. R. Clarke A Monte Carlo investigation of a statistic for a bivariate missing data problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--688 William L. Harkness and Ashok V. Godambe Inequalities for tail probabilities for the multivariate normal distribution . . 689--692 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Joseph W. McKean and Thomas P. Hettmansperger Tests of hypotheses based on ranks in the general linear model . . . . . . . . 693--709 T. Sugiyama and H. Tong On a statistic useful in dimensionality reduction in multivariable linear stochastic system . . . . . . . . . . . 711--721 D. Holt and J. G. Fryer On the robustness of the power function of the one-sample test for the negative exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 723--734 Joseph B. Kadane For what use are tests of hypotheses and tests of significance, introduction . . 735--736 Jerzy Neyman Tests of statistical hypotheses and their use in studies of natural phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--751 Harry V. Roberts For what use are tests of hypotheses and tests of significance . . . . . . . . . 753--761 Oscar Kempthore Of what use are tests of significance and tests of hypothesis . . . . . . . . 763--777 John W. Pratt A discussion of the question: for what use are tests of hypotheses and tests of significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--787 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
John E. Rolph Choosing shrinkage estimators for regression problems . . . . . . . . . . 789--802 P. A. V. B. Swamy and J. S. Mehta Minimum average risk estimators for coefficients in linear models . . . . . 803--818 Irwin Guttman and Rudolf Dutter Procedures for investigating outliers when estimating in the general univariate linear situation-nonfull rank case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--835 K. S. Banerjee and G. Nagase A note on the generalisation of Cochran's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . 837--842 Pasquale J. Di Pillo The application of bias to discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--854 A. K. Gupta and D. S. Tracy Recurrence relations for the moments of truncated multinormal distribution . . . 855--865 J. J. Shuster The precision of an estimator due to Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--874 Joseph A. Cima and Yosef Hochberg On optimality criteria in simultaneous interval estimation . . . . . . . . . . 875--882 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Betty Beck and Lorraine Denby and James M. Landwehr Statistics in the elementary school . . 883--894 Susan Dadakis Horn Teaching statistics to elementary school students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--899 F. Downton Statistics in English schools for the $ 16$--$ 18$ + age group . . . . . . . . . 901--924 Richard F. Gunst Reassessing service courses in statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--934 D. C. Haack and H. E. McKean Graduate and undergraduate modular instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--941 D. G. Haack A nonsymbolic statistics course . . . . 943--947 Jane F. Gentleman Interactive graphics in a terminal-equipped classroom . . . . . . 949--967 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
W. Fraser and B. L. Raktoe A theorem on invariance of estimability of linear parametric functions in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--983 J. N. Adichie Testing parallelism of regression lines against ordered alternatives . . . . . . 985--997 Howard A. Bird and George A. Milliken Estimable functions in the nonlinear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1012 Robert E. Colvert and Thomas J. Boardman Estimation in the piece-wise constant hazard rate model . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1029 Bertram Price and Aaron Tenenbein Probability computations for an extension of the geometric distribution 1031--1039 Leo A. Aroian Moments of the decisive sample number and of the average time to termination of sequential tests . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1045 C. E. Mc Henry A note on expressing Wilks' $A$ as the product of independent beta variables 1047--1053 K. Pinski and V. A. Sposito Consistency of the normal equations . . 1055--1057 Robert P. Clickner On least squares estimation for categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1064 Benee F. Swindel Good ridge estimators based on prior information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1075 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v Patrick L. Odell Current and past roles of the statistician in space applications . . . 1077--1089 P. L. Odell and J. P. Basu Concerning several methods for estimating crop acreages using remote sensing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1114 J. D. Tubbs and W. A. Coberly An empirical sensitivity study of mixture proportion estimators . . . . . 1115--1125 Charles Peters and William A. Coberly The numerical evaluation of the maximum-likelihood estimate of mixture proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1135 B. C. Peters, Jr. and J. L. Solomon A note on optimum linear feature extraction for Gaussian populations with equal covariances and equal a priori probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1141 Henry P. Decell, Jr. and Salma K. Marani Feature combinations and the Bhattacharyya criterion . . . . . . . . 1143--1152 Henry P. Decell, Jr. and W. G. Smiley III Optimal linear combinations using Householder transformations . . . . . . 1153--1162 Robert M. Haralick The table look-up rule . . . . . . . . . 1163--1191 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
D. A. Anderson and W. T. Federer Multidimensional balanced designs . . . 1193--1204 Edward F. Meydrech and Lawrence L. Kupper On quadratic approximation of a cubic response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1213 Bimal Kumar Sinha and Bikas Kumar Sinha On a characterization of the dispersion matrix based on the properties of regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1224 Bruce W. Turnbull Multiple decision rules for comparing several populations with a fixed known standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1244 Peter Tan and B. Bernholtz On structural models and a theorem of D. Basu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245--1256 Yves Lepage Asymptotic power efficiency for a location and scale problem . . . . . . . 1257--1274 Lionel Weiss Two-sample tests and tests of fit . . . 1275--1285 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Benjamin S. Duran A survey of nonparametric tests for scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287--1312 Robert V. Hogg A new dimension to nonparametric tests 1313--1325 William R. Schucany and James Beckett Analysis of multiple sets of incomplete rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327--1334 Ronald L. Iman and James M. Davenport New approximations to the exact distribution of the Kruskal--Wallis test statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1348 W. J. Conover and R. L. Iman On some alternative procedures using ranks for the analysis of experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1349--1368 Myles Hollander and Ramesh M. Korwar Nonparametric empirical Bayes estimation of the probability that $ x \geq y $ . . 1369--1383 Kamal C. Chanda Some comments on sample quantiles for dependent observations . . . . . . . . . 1385--1392 N. F. Laubscher and Robert E. Odeh A confidence interval for the scale parameter based on Sukhtmes two-sample statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1407 Paul W. Mielke, Jr. and Kenneth J. Berry and Earl S. Johnson Multi-response permutation procedures for a priori classifications . . . . . . 1409--1424 Gary G. Koch and M. Nabil El-Khorazaty and Alcinda L. Lewis The asymptotic covariance structure of log-linear model estimated parameters for the multiple recapture census . . . 1425--1445 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Yosef Hochberg and Peter A. Lachenbruch Two stage multiple comparison procedures based on the Studentized range . . . . . 1447--1453 D. D. Wackerly and F. H. Dietrich Pairwise comparisons of matched proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1467 Earl Nordbrock A sequential design for binomial clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469--1478 K. G. Russell The connectedness and optimality of a class of row-column designs . . . . . . 1479--1488 Deng-Yuan Huang On some selection procedures for normal means problems with unequal sample sizes 1489--1499 R. F. Gunst and R. L. Mason Generalized mean squared error properties of regression estimators . . 1501--1508 A. Hsuan and D. S. Robson The $ \chi^2$-goodness-of-fit tests with moment type estimators . . . . . . . . . 1509--1519 Gerald J. La Cava and Kenneth Reid Scale estimators for symmetric stable distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1521--1531 F. K. Hwang The rank distribution of the maximin in a random matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1538 C. J. Park The power series distribution with unknown truncation parameter: Two sample problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1539--1544 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
H. D. Brunk and Donald A. Pierce Large sample posterior normality of the population mean . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Ajit C. Tamhane Multiple comparisons in Model I one-way ANOVA with unequal variances . . . . . . 15--32 G. L. Hensler and K. G. Mehrotra and J. E. Michalek A goodness of fit test for multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41 Karen K. Yuen Robustness of some sequential procedures 43--54 Hajime Yamato Relations between limiting Bayes estimates and the $U$-statistics for estimable parameters of degrees $2$ and $3$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66 Takis Papaioannou and Ted Speevak Rank correlation inequalities with missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--72 George A. Milliken and Fikri Akdeniz A theorem on the difference of the generalized inverses of two nonnegative matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--79 N. I. Lyons and C. H. Proctor A test for regression function adequacy 81--86 Lyle D. Broemeling Forecasting future values of changing sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--102 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Lee J. Bain and Max Engelhardt and F. T. Wright Inferential procedures for the truncated exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 103--111 Ram C. Dahiya Estimation in a truncated bivariate Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 113--120 G. S. Rogers and D. L. Young Explicit maximum likelihood estimators for certain patterned covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133 W. Fieger A characterization of the multivariate normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 135--140 J. N. Srivastava and S. Ghosh Balanced $ 2^m $ factorial designs of resolution V which allow search and estimation of one extra unknown effect, $ 4 \leq m \leq 8 $ . . . . . . . . . . 141--166 G. P. Patil and M. V. Ratnaparkhi Invariance of linearity of regression and related characterizations of some classical discrete distributions . . . . 167--174 P. F. Ramig On the Galton--Watson branching process: application of a method of moments and recursive determination for certain distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--196 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Abdalla T. El-Helbawy and Ralph A. Bradley Treatment contrasts in paired comparisons: convergence of a basic iterative scheme for estimation . . . . 197--207 Paul J. Smith A nonparametric test for bivariate circular symmetry based on the empirical cdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--220 B. Kedem On the asymptotic normality of linear rank statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--229 G. S. Lingappaiah On some inflated generalized discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--241 E. D. Mc Cune On Cornish--Fisher expansions as a ratio of determinants without cumulants . . . 243--250 E. R. Jones Fixed-size rectangular confidence regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264 Donald Holbert and Lyle Broemeling Bayesian inferences related to shifting sequences and two-phase regression . . . 265--275 Claude Cohen The generalized symmetric eigenproblem in multivariate statistical models . . . 277--288 A. Dey and S. C. Gupta Singular weighing designs and estimation of total weight . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Saul Blumenthal Estimating population size with truncated sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 297--308 R. Carter Hill and Thomas B. Fomby and S. R. Johnson Component selection norms for principal components regression . . . . . . . . . 309--334 L. Denby and W. A. Larsen Robust regression estimators compared via Monte Carlo . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--362 Prem P. Talwar and James E. Gentle A robust test for the homogeneity of scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--369 A. R. Padmanabhan Hodges--Lehmann estimators in the case of grouped data --- I . . . . . . . . . 371--380 C. A. Field Confidence sets as programming problems 381--390 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
M. J. Doviak and R. L. Scheaffer Utilizing auxiliary variables in sequential ratio and regression estimation schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 391--404 Allen H. Reed and Gaw T. Wu Estimation of bias in classical linear regression slope when the proper model is functional linear regression . . . . 405--416 Stanley L. Sclove Population mixture models and clustering algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--434 Douglas M. Hawkins Comment on ``A new statistic for testing suspected outliers'' . . . . . . . . . . 435--438 William R. Schucany and Wayne A. Woodward Adjusting the degrees of freedom for the jackknife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--442 W. J. Padgett and L. J. Wei Bayes estimation of reliability for the two-parameter lognormal distribution . . 443--457 K. G. Mehrotra and R. A. Johnson and G. K. Bhattacharyya Locally most powerful rank tests for multiple-censored data . . . . . . . . . 459--469 K. G. Brown On estimation of diagonal covariance matrices by MINQUE . . . . . . . . . . . 471--484 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
N. L. Johnson and S. Kotz On some generalized Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern distributions --- II regression, correlation and further generalizations 485--496 A. Hedayat and B. L. Raktoe and Prem P. Talwar Examination and analysis of residuals: A test for detecting a monotonic relation between mean and variance in regression through the origin . . . . . . . . . . . 497--506 Hiranmay Majumdar and Pranab Kumar Sen Rank order tests for grouped data under progressive censoring . . . . . . . . . 507--524 Austin M. Barron and Eugene Mignogna Sequential selection procedures for choosing the better of two binomial populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--552 Campbell B. Read Partitioning chi-square in contingency tables: a teaching approach . . . . . . 553--562 Hira L. Koul A test for new better than used . . . . 563--573 G. J. McLachlan Constrained sample discrimination with the Studentized classification statistic $w$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--583 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Anil K. Bhargava Maximum likelihood estimation in a multivariate `errors in variables' regression model with unknown error covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 587--601 Friedrich Pukelsheim Equality of two blues and ridge-type estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--610 L. F. Guseman, Jr. and Jay R. Walton An application of linear feature selection to estimation of proportions 611--617 Tom Leonard Bayesian simultaneous estimation for several multinomial distributions . . . 619--630 A. I. Khuri and J. A. Cornell Secondary design considerations for minimum bias estimation . . . . . . . . 631--647 Yves Lepage A class of nonparametric tests for location and scale parameters . . . . . 649--659 P. M. Robinson Finite-parameter approximations to frequency response function . . . . . . 661--677 Wilkie W. Chaffin and John T. Sennetti and Klaus Hinkelmann A procedure for optimal augmentation of multidimensional designs . . . . . . . . 679--689 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. Brownie and J. Kiefer The ideas of conditional confidence in the simplest setting . . . . . . . . . . 691--751 P. D. Puri and A. K. Nigam Partially efficiency balanced designs 753--771 Kim Andriano and James E. Gentle and V. A. Sposito On the asymptotic bias of Grenander's mode estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--776 Richard Simon and David G. Hoel and George H. Weiss The use of covariate information in the sequential analysis of dichotomous response experiments . . . . . . . . . . 777--788 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Robert V. Hogg An introduction to robust procedures . . 789--794 Edward J. Wegman and Raymond J. Carroll A Monte Carlo study of robust estimators of location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--812 Paul W. Holland and Roy E. Welsch Robust regression using iteratively reweighted least-squares . . . . . . . . 813--827 H. Leon Harter Nonuniqueness of least absolute values regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--838 J. E. Gentle and W. J. Kennedy and V. A. Sposito On least absolute values estimation . . 839--845 Russell V. Lenth Robust splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--854 Thomas P. Hettmansperger and Jessica M. Utts Robustness properties for a simple class of rank estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 855--868 Douglas H. Jones A one-sample adaptive distribution-free test with a stable power function . . . 869--877 Ronald M. Schrader and Joseph W. Mc Kean Robust analysis of variance . . . . . . 879--894 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
U. B. Paik and W. T. Federer Analysis of binary number association scheme partially balanced designs . . . 895--931 Pasquale J. Di Pillo Further applications of bias to discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 933--943 H. P. Wynn The combinatorial characterization of certain connected $ 2 \times j \times k $ three-way layouts . . . . . . . . . . 945--953 Umesh D. Naik Some subset selection problems . . . . . 955--966 Edwin L. Crow Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the ratio of means of two lognormal variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--975 Ramesh C. Gupta Minimum variance unbiased estimation in a modified power series distribution and some of its applications . . . . . . . . 977--991 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Shanti S. Gupta Selection and ranking procedures: a brief introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 993--1001 Ajit C. Tamhane and Robert E. Bechhofer A Two-stage minimax procedure with screening for selecting the largest normal mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1033 Shanti S. Gupta and Deng-Yuan Huang Some multiple decision problems in analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1054 Gary C. Mc Donald Subset selection procedures based on sample ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1079 S. Panchapakesan and T. J. Santner Subset selection procedures for $ \Delta_P $-superior populations . . . . 1081--1090 Alam Khursheed and K. T. Wallenius On selecting the best population . . . . 1091--1104 Y. L. Tong Applications of a probability inequality to ranking and selection and other related problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1120 Peter O. Anderson and Thomas A. Bishop and Edward J. Dudewicz Indifference-zone ranking and selection: confidence intervals for true achieved P(CD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1132 John S. Ramberg Selecting the best predictor variate . . 1133--1147 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
James A. Koziol and Nancy Reid On multiple comparisons among $K$ samples subject to unequal patterns of censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1164 L. L. Sia Some Properties of connectedness in two-way designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165--1169 P. D. Puri and A. K. Nigam Balanced block designs . . . . . . . . . 1171--1179 P. A. V. B. Swamy and J. S. Mehta A note on minimum average risk estimators for coefficients in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1186 J. T. Mc Clave and R. G. Marks Predicting hospital census using time series regression methods . . . . . . . 1187--1205 S. Lynne Stokes Ranked set sampling with concomitant variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1211 A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and J.-P. Dionne On a further generalization of the savage test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1221 M. M. Desu and Subhash C. Narula and Bernardo Villarreal A two-stage procedure for selecting the best of $k$ exponential distributions 1223--1230 Dan Weiner and Peter Purdue A semi-Markov approach to stochastic compartmental models . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1243 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Thomas B. Fomby and S. R. Johnson MSE evaluation of ridge estimators based on stochastic prior information . . . . 1245--1258 Stanley Lemeshow and Robert Epp Properties of the balanced half-sample and jackknife variance estimation techniques in the linear case . . . . . 1259--1274 Robert J. Beaver Weighted least squares response surface fitting in factorial paired comparisons 1275--1287 Yosef Hochberg On the use of general positive quadratic forms in simultaneous inference . . . . 1289--1300 John G. Saw On inequalities in constrained random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301--1304 Detlef Plachky Note on sums of a random number of random variables with exponential family distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1309 Robert M. Smith Some results on interval estimation for the two-parameter Weibull or extreme-value distribution . . . . . . . 1311--1321 Moshe Shaked Statistical inference for a class of life distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 1323--1339 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Alan Agresti A coefficient of multiple association based on ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341--1359 H. M. Schey The asymptotic distribution of the one-sided Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistic for truncated data . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1366 Albert M. Liebetrau Tests of randomness in two dimensions 1367--1383 Peter W. M. John Series of semiregular group divisible designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1385--1392 Hari H. Dayal Bayesian procedures for testing partial equality of two populations when parameters are exchangeable . . . . . . 1393--1397 S. K. Perng An asymptotically efficient test for the location parameter and the scale parameter of an exponential distribution 1399--1407 R. M. Korwar On characterizing Lagrangian, Poisson, and quasi-binomial distributions . . . . 1409--1415 M. L. Tiku Rejoinder: ``Comment on `A new Statistic for Testing Suspected Outliers'\,'' . . 1417--1422 Matthew Goldstein and William R. Dillon A stepwise discrete variable selection procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1436 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Thomas J. Boardman Graphical contributions to the $ \chi^2 $ statistic for two-way contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1451 John H. Skillings and Douglas A. Wolfe Testing for ordered alternatives by combining independent distribution-free block statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1463 Yadolah Dodge and K. R. Shah Estimation of parameters in latin squares and graeco-latin squares with missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 1465--1472 Z. Govindarajulu and A. K. Gupta Estimators for ``the fraction of variance explained'' in the one-way classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473--1484 M. L. Tiku and D. E. Stewart Estimating and testing group effects from Type I censored normal samples in experimental design . . . . . . . . . . 1485--1501 Frank Alt and Carl Spruill A comparison of confidence intervals generated by the Scheffé and Bonferroni methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503--1510 Michael A. Fligner and George E. Policello II and Jagbir Singh A comparison of two randomized response survey methods with consideration for the level of respondent protection . . . 1511--1524 Jay L. Devore A note on the randomized response technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1525--1529 Anonymous Referee recognition . . . . . . . . . . 1531--1533 Ajit C. Tamhane Corrections and amendments Multiple Comparisons in Model I one-way ANOVA With Unequal Variances . . . . . . . . . 1535--1536 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Daniel Krewski Jackknifing $U$-statistics in finite populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 Nariaki Sugiura Further analysts of the data by Akaike's information criterion and the finite corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--26 S. Kullback and D. V. Gokhale Information analysis of linear interactions in contingency tables . . . 27--45 Chien-Pai Han and T. A. Bancroft Estimating regression coefficients tinder conditional specification . . . . 47--56 G. H. Brown Estimation from smallest values . . . . 57--64 George A. Milliken and Robert L. Debruin A procedure to test hypotheses for nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79 P. M. V. Yu and T. L. Bouillon and I. A. Watkins The use of prior information in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Nancy R. Mann Calculation of small-sample Weibull tolerance bounds for accelerated testing 97--112 R. G. Marks and P. V. Rao A modified Tiao--Guttman rule for multiple outliers . . . . . . . . . . . 113--126 L. H. Koopmans An application of a crossing probability bound to population biology . . . . . . 127--137 J. F. Lawless Ridge and related estimation procedures: theory and practice . . . . . . . . . . 139--164 Leo A. Aroian and Vidya S. Taneja and Larry W. Cornwell Mathematical forms of the distribution of the product of two normal variables 165--172 Donna R. Brogan and Joseph Sedransk Estimating one mean of a bivariate normal distribution using a preliminary test of significance and a two-stage sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--186 K. G. Brown On ridge estimation in rank deficient models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192 R. W. Farebrother Estimating regression coefficients under conditional specification: comment . . . 193--196 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Richard F. Gunst and Tsushung A. Hua \booktitleCommunications in Statistics: 1972--1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--209 J. Van Ryzin and H. C. Wang The methods for Smooth estimation of discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 211--228 Dennis G. Haack An adaptive approach to compound multiple decisions . . . . . . . . . . . 229--239 Charles Locke and John D. Spurrier On tests of uniformity . . . . . . . . . 241--258 James T. McClave Estimating the order of moving average models: the max $ \chi^2 $ method . . . 259--276 Allan Seheult Minium bias or least squares estimation? 277--283 L. J. Wei A class of treatment assignment rules for sequential experiments . . . . . . . 285--295 L. D. Broemeling Simultaneous inferences for variance ratios of some mixed linear models . . . 297--305 M. I. Beq and S. N. U. A. Kirmani Characterization of the exponential distribution by a weak homoscedasticity 307--310 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Pranab Kumar Sen Time-sequential statistical procedures: a preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314 Norman Breslow The proportional hazards model: applications in epidemiology . . . . . . 315--332 Nathan Mantel and Benjamin F. Hankey A logistic regression analysis of response-time data where the hazard function is time dependent . . . . . . . 333--347 Hiranmay Majumdar and Pranab Kumar Sen Nonparametric testing for simple regression under progressive censoring with staggering entry and random withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--371 Jodrph C. Gardiner and Pranab Kumar Sen Asymptotic normality of a class of time-sequential statistics and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--388 C. E. Davis A two sample Wilcoxon test for progressively censored data . . . . . . 389--398 John D. Spurrier Two stage sign tests that allow first stage acceptance and rejection . . . . . 399--408 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. Radhakrishna Rao A note on the unified theory of least squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411 C. E. Davis and Dana Quade U-statistics for skewness or symmetry 413--418 Paula Kanarek and Lloyd Fisher A goodness-of-fit comparison of four survival curve models . . . . . . . . . 419--426 Kamal C. Chanda and Richard W. Kulp On some nonparametric estimators for the linear Markov scheme . . . . . . . . . . 427--439 Norman R. Draper and Irwin Guttman Bayesian analysis of reliability in multicomponent stress-strength models 441--451 Ashok K. Bansal Robustness of a Bayes estimator for the mean of a normal population with nonnormal prior . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--460 P. C. Burr and D. H. Young The power of the exponential scores test for an ordinary renewal process against trend alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . 461--473 Pankaj Chosh A characterization of a bimodal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--477 Agnes M. Herzberg and David F. Andrews The robustness of chain block designs and coat-of-mail designs . . . . . . . . 479--485 T. D. Dwivedi and V. K. Srivastava On the minimum mean squared error estimators in a regression model . . . . 487--494 Thomas A. Bishop A Stein two-sample procedure for the general linear model with unequal error variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--507 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
V. I. Oliker On the relationship between the sample size and the number of variables in a linear regression model . . . . . . . . 509--516 Samuel D. Oman A Bayesian comparison of some estimators used in linear regression with multicollinear data . . . . . . . . . . 517--534 Robert D. Gordon On monotonicity of power of two-sample rank tests when testing the alternative $g$ is stochastically larger than $f$ 535--541 Tea-Yuan Hwang The Chernoff efficiency of the Wilcoxon rank test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--555 Marshall N. Brunden The probability contours and a goodness-of-fit test for the singly truncated bivariate normal distribution 557--572 Ruth Marcus Further results on simultaneous confidence bounds in normal models with restricted alternatives . . . . . . . . 573--590 P. D. Puri and A. K. Nigam Balanced factorial experiments. II . . . 591--605 G. W. Lynch A decision theoretic approach to ridits 607--614 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Eric Peritz and Ray Rose Some statistical methods for survival analysis with rare failures . . . . . . 619--636 Bimal Kumar Sinha and B. Raja Rao and Bernard Clement Behrens--Fisher problem under the assumption of homogeneous coefficients of variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--656 A. R. Sen Estimation of the population mean when the coefficient of variation is known 657--672 Kathleen Subrahmaniam The Pascal--Poisson distribution revisited: estimation and efficiency . . 673--683 Hira L. Koul Testing for new is better than used in expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--701 K. Ravi Kumar and Elinor S. Pape Selecting a test level for random effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--707 Suneeta Joshi and Y. S. Sathe A generalization of Mosteller's test . . 709--715 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. P. Quesenberry On similarity and independence properties of composite EDF goodness-of-fit tests . . . . . . . . . 717--723 C. L. Anderson Random visibility models . . . . . . . . 725--731 G. Nagase and K. S. Banerjee On the independence between two generalized second degree polynomial statistics and their covariance . . . . 733--738 Ranjit M. Passi and James S. Williams Sample-size requirements for confidence bounds of prescribed precision on multivariate normal quantiles . . . . . 739--753 G. D. Herrin and J. B. Neuhardt A useful approximation for planning block designs with potential missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--766 Poduri S. R. S. Rao and Yogendra P. Chaubey Three modifications of the principle of the MINQUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--778 A. C. Harvey On the unbiasedness of robust regression estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--783 Sven Berg Characterization of a class of discrete distributions by properties of their moment distributions . . . . . . . . . . 785--789 Kali S. Banerjee Wald's ``true index'' derived ipso facto 791--798 Yosef Rinott On two-stage selection procedures and related probability-inequalities . . . . 799--811 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Tea-Yuan Hwang and Jain-Feng Tsay The treatment of ties in some linear rank tests when the underlying distribution is discrete . . . . . . . . 813--827 J. W. H. Swanepoel and F. Lombard Fixed width sequential confidence interval for the median of a distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--835 A. K. M. Sirajul Hoq and Mir M. Ali and J. G. C. Templeton The distribution of Student's ratio for samples from an exponential population 837--850 K. S. Banerjee On the factorial approach providing the true index of cost of living: an interpretation of a special pair of equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--856 M. Safiul Haq On prediction from the location-scale model with equi correlated response . . 857--866 Rasul A. Khan A note on testing the means of normal distributions with known coefficient of variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--876 K. Byth and G. J. McLachlan The biases associated with maximum likelihood methods of estimation of the multivariate logistic risk function . . 877--890 Francis G. Giesbrecht and Peter M. Burrows Estimating variance components in hierarchical structures using MINQUE and restricted maximum livelihood . . . . . 891--904 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. Gani The analysis of some biological data . . 905--915 John J. Gart The analysis of ratios and cross-product ratios of Poisson variates with application to incidence rates . . . . . 917--937 R. L. Plackett and S. R. Paul Dirichlet models for square contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--952 Nathan Mantel and David P. Byar Marginal homogeneity, symmetry, and independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--976 Alio Kudô and Tomoyuki Tarumi $ 2 \times 2 $ Tables emerging out of different chance mechanisms . . . . . . 977--986 D. V. Gokhale and S. Kullback The minimum discrimination information approach in analyzing categorical data 987--1005 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Hiranmay Majumdar and Pranab Kumar Sen Invariance principles for jackknifing $U$-statistics for finite population sampling and some applications . . . . . 1007--1025 John H. Skillings Adaptively combining independent Jonckheere statistics in a randomized block design with unequal scales . . . . 1027--1039 Bruce L. Bowerman and Anne B. Koehler Ax optimal policy for sampling from uncertain distributions . . . . . . . . 1041--1051 A. C. Gleeson and C. A. McGilchrist An introduction to relationship algebras 1053--1078 Thomes Johnson Selection without (unfair) discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1098 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Lionel Weiss Some tests of whether several samples are from identical populations . . . . . 1099--1127 N. S. Kambo Maximum likelihood estimators of the location and scale parameters of the exponential distribution from a censored sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1132 P. A. V. B. Swamy and J. S. Mehta and P. N. Rappoport Two methods of evaluating Hoerl and Kennard's ridge regression . . . . . . . 1133--1155 H. D. Vinod Equivariance of ridge estimators through standardization, a note . . . . . . . . 1157--1161 P. A. V. B. Swamy and J. S. Mehta and P. N. Rappoport Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163--1168 H. D. Vinod A rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1170 P. A. V. B. Swamy and J. S. Mehta and P. N. Rappoport Further reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171--1172 Barry C. Arnold and Richard A. Groeneveld Bounds on deviations of estimates arising in finite population regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1179 Constance L. Wood On null-hypothesis limiting distributions of Kolmogorov--Smiirnov type statistics with estimated location and scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1198 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. Radhakrishna Rao Choice of best linear in the Gauss--Markoff model with a singular dispersion matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 1199--1208 Kent F. Baldwin and Arthur E. Hoerl Bounds on minimum mean squared error in ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1232 K. V. Mardia Some properties of classical multi-dimensional scaling . . . . . . . 1233--1241 Subhash C. Kochar A class of distribution-free tests for the two-sample slippage problem . . . . 1243--1252 David W. Smith and R. R. Hocking Maximum likelihood analysis of the mixed model: the balanced case . . . . . . . . 1253--1266 Ibrahim A. Salama and Gary G. Koch and Dennis H. Tolley On the estimation of the most probable number in a serial dilution experiment 1267--1281 A. I. Khuri A conservative Sample size for the comparison of several proportions . . . 1283--1293 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
A. Ash and A. Hedayat An introduction to design optimality with an overview of the literature . . . 1295--1325 Ching-Shui Cheng A note on (m.s)-optimality . . . . . . . 1327--1338 V. V. Fedorov Some extremal problems in designing discriminating experiments . . . . . . . 1339--1345 J. Kiefer Asymptotic approach to families of design problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1362 V. Kurotschka Optimal design of complex experiments with qualitative factors of influence 1363--1378 S. D. Silvey and D. H. Titterington and B. Torsney An algorithm for optimal designs on a design space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379--1389 W. J. Studden Designs for large degree polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391--1397 Chien-Fu Wu Some iterative procedures for generating nonsingular optimal designs . . . . . . 1399--1412 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
E. J. Williams A simple derivation of the distribution of the multiple correlation coefficient 1413--1420 N. Shinozaki A note on estimating the common mean of $k$ normal distributions and the Stein problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1432 Adrienne W. Kemp Slustep size probabilities for generalized Poisson distributions . . . 1433--1438 L. F. Guseman, Jr. and Jay R. Walton Methods for estimating proportions of convex combinations of normals using linear feature selection . . . . . . . . 1439--1450 Allan Donner and Walter W. Hauck A simple alternative to the likelihood ratio test in a logistic discrimination problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451--1463 Justus Seely A complete sufficient statistic for the linear model under normality and a singular covariance matrix . . . . . . . 1465--1473 M. A. Hidiroglou An approximation of the inverse moments of the positive hypergeometric distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1487 Eve Bofinger Selection using ``play-the-winner'' sampling for non-negative observations 1489--1499 Yosef Fochberr and Puth Marcus On partitioning successive increments in means of ratios of variances in a chain of normal populations . . . . . . . . . 1501--1513 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Danny D. Dyer and Jerome P. Keating A further look at the comparison of normal percentile estimators . . . . . . 1--16 Moshe Shaked An estimator for the generalized hazard rate function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--33 Lawrence Peele Characterizations of autoregressive prediction and moving average prediction as discrete-time spline interpolation 35--46 A. M. Mathai On the non-null distributions of test statistics connected with exponential populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55 Prajneshu Stability of two interacting species subject to stochastic parameter variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--69 M. G. Akritas and M. L. Puri and G. G. Roussas Sample size, parameter rates and contiguity: the I.I.D. case . . . . . . 71--83 F. H. Dietrich and R. G. Marks Analysis of a factorial quantal response assay using inverse regression . . . . . 85--98 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Norman B. Draper and Irwin Guttman and Lillian Lapczak Actual rejection levels in a certain stepwise test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105 F. Lombard and J. W. H. Swanepoel An asymptotic sequential test based on confidence sequences . . . . . . . . . . 107--116 T. De Wet and J. W. J. Van Wyk Efficiency and robustness of Hogg's adaptive trimmed means . . . . . . . . . 117--128 W. J. Padgett and L. J. Wei Estimation for the three-parameter inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 129--137 A. B. M. Lutful Kabir and M. Ahsanullah Estimation of the location and scale parameters of a power function distribution based on a selected number of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . 139--149 Ashish Kumar and P. C. Consul Negative moments of a modified power series distribution and bias of the maximum likelihood estimator . . . . . . 151--166 T. O'Bryan Rates of convergence in a modified empirical Bayes estimation problem involving Poisson distributions . . . . 167--174 J. Brucker A note on the bivariate normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177 M. Safiul Haq and V. Ming Ng On marginal likelihood inference for the intra-class correlation coefficient . . 179--189 O. Zerbe Randomization analysis of randomized blocks design extended to growth and response curves . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--205 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
James A. Koziol A test for bivariate symmetry based on the empirical distribution function . . 207--221 Rudolf Avenhaus Significance thresholds of onesided tests for means of bivariate normally distributed variables . . . . . . . . . 223--230 Nebojsa Nakicenovic Annex: Numerical calculations . . . . . 231--235 G. G. Khatri and R. T. Ratani On estimation of the mean parameter of a truncated normal distribution with known coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 237--244 T. A. Watkins On estimating a function of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution . . . 245--256 B. M. Brown and D. G. Kildea Outlier-detection tests and robust estimators based on signs of residuals 257--269 Roberto E. Altschul and Richard Marcuson A generalized Scheffé method of multiple comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--281 Paul I. Nelson Least squares tests for discrete parameter stochastic processes . . . . . 283--297 Paul R. McAllister and Burt S. Holland On O.L.S. estimation in singular linear models with general positive definite dispersion matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ronald D. Snee Experimental designs for mixture systems with multicomponent constraints . . . . 303--326 T. P. Hutchinson The validity of the chi-squared test when expected frequencies are small: a list of recent research references . . . 327--335 Ajit C. Tamhane and Robert E. Bechhofer A two-stage minimax procedure with screening for selecting the largest normal mean (II): an improved PCS lower bound and associated tables . . . . . . 337--358 B. N. Pandey On shrinkage estimation of normal population variance . . . . . . . . . . 359--365 Pramod K. Pathak and William J. Zimmer and Raymond E. Williams Non-parametric estimation of an acceleration parameter . . . . . . . . . 367--383 V. Susarla and T. O'Bryan Empirical Bayes interval estimates involving uniform distributions . . . . 385--397 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Dany Dyer and Jerome P. Keating and Onas L. Hensley On the relative behavior of estimators of reliability/survivability . . . . . . 399--416 Thomas J. Boardman and Robert E. Colvert Estimation in the piece-wise constant hazard rate model --- when the data are grouped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--432 Edward E. Gbur, Jr. Analysis of variance with Poisson responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--445 R. A. Chechile Exact and approximate distributions for linear contrasts of means and variances 447--461 V. P. Bhapkar and T. C. Venable On Gart's test for interaction of second order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470 H. K. Hsieh On multivariate extension of Sukhatme--Perng--Littell test . . . . . 471--475 Thomas E. Fomby and R. Carter Hill Multicollinearity and the value of a priori information . . . . . . . . . . . 477--486 D. R. Anderson and K. P. Burnham and B. R. Crain Line transect estimation of population size: the exponential case with grouped data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--507 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Moshe Pollak A class of robust estimators . . . . . . 509--531 Y. S. Sathe and S. R. Lingras Bounds for the Pearson type IV tail probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--541 Roger L. Berger Gamma minimax robustness of Bayes rules 543--560 M. James The generalised inverse form of canonical correlation . . . . . . . . . 561--568 N. I. Lyons and K. Hutcheson Distributional properties of Simpson's index of diversity . . . . . . . . . . . 569--574 Y. S. Sathe and R. G. Shenoy On inequalities for statistics similar to Student's $t$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--579 Khursheed Alam and James S. Hawkes Minimax property of Stein's estimator 581--590 Do Sun Bai and Seong-in Kim Estimation of transition probabilities in a two-state Markov chain . . . . . . 591--599 Ramesh C. Gupta Waiting time paradox and size biased sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--607 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
R. Dutter and I. Guttman On estimation in the linear model when spurious observations are present: a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . 611--635 Malay Ghosh and Nitis Mukhopadhyay Sequential point estimation of the mean when the distribution is unspecified . . 637--652 Peter B. Imrey and E. Sobel and M. E. Francis Analysis of categorical data obtained by stratified random sampling . . . . . . . 653--670 Nitis Mukhopadhyay Some comments on two-stage selection procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--683 Ramesh C. Gupta On the characterization of survival distributions in reliability by properties of their renewal densities 685--697 A. N. Pettitt Testing for bivariate normality using the empirical distribution function . . 699--712 V. K. Srivastava and Baldev Raj The existence of the mean of the estimator in seemingly unrelated regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--717 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Walter T. Federer Preface to special issue on covariance 719--721 Russell R. Barton and Bruce W. Turnbull A survey of covariance models for censored life data with an application to recidivism analysis . . . . . . . . . 723--750 Charles R. Henderson, Jr. and C. R. Henderson Analysis of covariance in mixed models with unequal subclass numbers . . . . . 751--787 Bradley E. Huitema An analysis of covariance Markov model for interrupted time series experiments 789--797 S. R. Searle Alternative covariance models for the $2$-way crossed classification . . . . . 799--818 Pranab Kumar Sen Nonparametric repeated significance tests for some analysis of covariance models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--841 D. Raghavarao and G. Nageswararao Analysis of covariance as an alternative approach to the analysis of non-orthogonal lay-outs . . . . . . . . 843--854 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ram C. Tripathi and John Gurland Some aspects of the Kemp families of distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--869 Agam Nath Sinha and Pranab Kumar Sen Progressively censored tests for clinical experiments and life testing problems based on weighted empirical distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--897 James B. McDonald and Michael R. Ransom Alternative parameter estimators based upon grouped data . . . . . . . . . . . 899--917 G. J. McLachlan A comparison of the estimative and predictive methods of estimating posterior probabilities . . . . . . . . 919--929 Donald A. Anderson and Ann M. Thomas Resolution IV fractional factorial designs for the general asymmetric factorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--943 A. K. Gupta and A. K. Chattopadhyay Gammaization and Wishartness of dependent quadratic forms . . . . . . . 945--951 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
E. J. Smith An experimenter's view of the application of statistics to cloud-seeding experiments . . . . . . . 223--230 John J. Wiorkowski and Patrick L. Odell Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--954 K. Ruben Gabriel Some statistical issues in weather experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--1015 A. J. Miller and D. E. Shaw and L. G. Veitch and E. J. Smith Analyzing the results of a cloud-seeding experiment in Tasmania . . . . . . . . . 1017--1047
Ralph A. Bradley and Sushil S. Srivastava and Adolf Lanzdorf Some approaches to statistical analysis of a weather modification experiment . . 1049--1081 P. W. Mielke Some parametric, nonparametric and permutation inference procedures result ind from weather modification experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1096 Jerzy Neyman Developments in probability and mathematical statistics generated by studies in meteorology and weather modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1110 Robert D. Elliott Physically meaningful covariates Physically meaningful covariates . . . . 1111--1127 Morgan A. Hanson and Lawrence E. Barker and Charles L. Bach and Ldward A. Cooley and Charles H. Hunter A bibliography of weather modification experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1153 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
R. R. Hocking and D. L. Marx Estimation with incomplete data: An improved computational method and the analysis of nested data . . . . . . . . 1155--1181 Richard W. Hill On estimating the covariance matrix of robust regression $M$-estimates . . . . 1183--1196 Y. L. Tong Counterexamples to a result of Broemeling on simultaneous inferences for variance ratios of some mixed linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1204 Klaus-J. Mieseke Bayesian subset selection for additive and linear loss function . . . . . . . . 1205--1226 Johannes Ledolter A recursive approach to parameter estimation in regression and time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227--1245 Hans K. Ury and Alvin D. Wiggins Distribution-free confidence bounds for $ {\rm Pr}(y < x) $ when $ F(x) $ and $ G(y) = F(x - c) $ are continuous and symmetric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1253
Nebojsa Mari\'c and Franklin A. Grayhi Small samples confidencce intervals on common mean of two normal distributions variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255--1269 J. E. Angus and R. E. Schafer Estimation of logistic quantiles with minimum error in the predicted distribution function . . . . . . . . . 1271--1284 William R. Clarke and Peter A. Lachenbruch and Barabara Broffitt How non-normality affects the quadratic discriminant function . . . . . . . . . 1285--1301 Robert J. Anderson and J. Richard Landis A note on the asymptotic variance of the Gray and Williams measure of partial association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303--1314 W. O. Williford and S. K. Bingham Bayesian estimation of the parameters in two modified Poisson distributions . . . 1315--1326 E. G. Phadia and V. Susarla An empirical Bayes approach to two-sample problems with censored data 1327--1351 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. Radhakrishna Rao Estimation of parameters in the singular Gauss--Markoff model . . . . . . . . . . 1353--1358 R. H. Myers and A. I. Khuri A new procedure for steepest ascent . . 1359--1376 Krishna Kadiyala Operational ridge regression estimators under the prediction goal . . . . . . . 1377--1391 Bert M. Steece A Bayesian approach to model adequacy 1393--1402 G. S. Lingappaiah Bayesian approach to the prediction problem in complete and censored samples from the gamma and exponential populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403--1423 Heather A. Camber Choice of an optimal shape parameter when smoothing noisy data . . . . . . . 1425--1435 Heather Camber Confidence regions for periodic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1446 Pasquale J. Dipillo Biased discriminant analysis: Evaluation of the optimum probability of misclassification . . . . . . . . . . . 1447--1457 Allen H. Reed and Mary E. Frantz A sequential two sample $t$ test using Welch type modification for unequal variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1459--1471 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
H. Leon Harter and Albert H. Moore and Thomas F. Curry Adaptive robust estimation of location and scale parameters of symmetric populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473--1491 Kishan G. Mehrotra and R. A. Johnson and G. K. Bhattacharyya Exact fisher information for censored samples and the extended hazard rate functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1510 A. John Petkau Exact slopes for a life testing problem involving the two parameter exponential distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1511--1521 J. John Petkau On a life testing problem involving the two parameter exponential distribution 1523--1534 Ramesh C. Gupta Some counterexamples in the competing risk analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1540 P. W. Mielke On asymptotic non-normality of null distributions of MRPP statistics . . . . 1541--1550 Edward Hughes and J. N. K. Rao Some problems of optimal allocation in sample surveys involving inequality constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551--1574 M. S. Taylor and F. E. Grubbs Use of tail areas for testing goodness-of-fit . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575--1584 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi