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Jerzy Neyman Two radiation related public health
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
B. Broffitt and
W. R. Clarke and
P. A. Lachenbruch The effect of Huberizing and trimming on
the quadratic-discriminant function . . 13--25
Pranab Kumar Sen On time-sequential point estimation of
the mean of an exponential distribution 27--38
Jesse M. Shapiro Sequential analysis applied to testing
the mean of a normal population with
known coefficient of variation . . . . . 39--49
Pi-Erh Lin and
Ke-Tsai Wu and
Ibrahim A. Ahmad Asymptotic joint distribution of sample
quantiles and sample mean with
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
Huynh Huynh and
Leonard S. Feldt Performance of traditional $F$ tests in
repeated measures designs under
covariance heterogeneity . . . . . . . . 61--74
D. Raghavarao and
K. R. Shah A class of $ d_o $ designs for two-way
elimination of heterogeneity . . . . . . 75--80
G. D. A. Phillips All asymptotic justification for using a
jackknifed two stage least squares
estimator for bias reduction in a
simultaneous equation model . . . . . . 81--86
K. S. Banerjee A comparison of the constant-utility
true index and the true index obtained
through the factorial approach . . . . . 87--105
R. K. Hwang and
F. Hsuan Stronger players win more knockout
tournaments in average . . . . . . . . . 107--113
K. S. Banerjee Corrections and amendments . . . . . . . 115--115
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R. R. Hocking and
F. M. Speed and
A. T. Coleman Hypotheses to be tested with unbalanced
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--129
G. Rex Bryce and
Del T. Scott and
Melvin W. Carter Estimation and hypothesis in linear
models --- a reparameterization approach
to the cell MLANS model . . . . . . . . 131--150
James W. Frane Some computing methods for unbalanced
analysis of variance and covariance . . 151--166
J. H. Goodnight Tests of hypotheses in fixed effects
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--180
S. R. Searle Arbitrary hypotheses in linear mod fi.S
with unbalanced data . . . . . . . . . . 181--200
William J. Hemmerle Recognizing balance with unbalanced data 201--211
Charles J. Monlezun and
F. M. Speed The geometry of estimation and
hypothesis testing in the constrained
linear model --- the full rank case . . 213--230
D. S. Burdick and
D. G. Herr Counterexamples in unbalanced two-way
analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 231--241
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Thomas A. Bishop Improved fixed-width confidence
intervals for the largest normal mean 243--253
K. D. Glazebrook and
T. F. Cox On the design of efficient experiments
for choosing between two Bernoulli
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--264
James T. Ramey, Jr. and
Khursheed Alam A Bayes sequential procedure for
selecting the most probable multinomial
event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--276
Ester Samuel-Cahn Comparisons of sequential two-sided
tests for normal hypothesis . . . . . . 277--290
S. R. Chakravorti On some tests in MANOCOVA model with
different dispersion matrices . . . . . 291--308
Anand S. Katiyar A rotation sampling design for inventory
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--320
J. L. Hess and
R. F. Gunst A relationship between generalized and
integrated mean square errors . . . . . 321--326
M. A. Beg Estimation of $ {\rm Pr}(y, x) $ for
truncation parameter distributions . . . 327--345
Sheela Talwalker On characterizing the normal and Poisson
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
James R. Lackritz and
Richard L. Scheaffer Point sampling in areal-fraction
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374
Lee J. Bain and
Max Engelhardt Probability of correct selection of
Weibull versus gamma based on livelihood
ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--381
Joseph V. Kingston and
Jagdish K. Patel Selecting the best one of several
Weibull populations . . . . . . . . . . 383--398
Emad El-Neweihi Extensions of a simple model: with
applications in reliability, extinction
of species, inventory depletion and urn
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--414
A. R. Padmanabhan Hodges--Lehmann estimators in the case
or grouped data --- III . . . . . . . . 415--425
B. K. Ghosh Two normal approximations to the
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 427--438
K. G. Russell Further results on the connectedness and
optimality of designs of type O:XB . . . 439--447
J. A. Eccleston and
K. G. Russell $ (M, S) $-optimal row-column designs 449--452
Vic Barnett Some bivariate uniform distributions . . 453--461
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
W. J. Conover and
Ronald L. Iman The rank transformation as a method of
discrimination with some examples . . . 465--487
Peter Kubat and
Philip McDunnough Estimating the precision of a bivariate
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
Lon-Mu Liu and
George C. Tiao Parameter estimation in dynamic models 501--517
F. J. Henk Don and
Jan R. Magnus On the unbiasedness of iterated GLS
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--527
Y. S. Hsu and
W. J. Park Some statistical inferences on O--U
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--540
S. N. U. A. Kirmani and
S. N. Alam Characterization of the geometric
distribution by the form of a predictor 541--547
Ashish Kumar A note on minimum variance unbiased
estimators of power series distributions 549--556
Itzhak Venezia Optimal aggregation of input-output
coefficients --- a decision theoretic
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--570
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ronald L. Iman and
James M. Davenport Approximations of the critical region of
the Friedman statistic . . . . . . . . . 571--595
Sanpei Kageyama On properties of efficiency-balanced
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--616
A. I. Khuri Simultaneous testing of parameter
subsets in less than full rank models 617--627
Federico J. O'Reilly and
Paul W. Mielke, Jr. Asymptotic normality of MRPP statistics
from invariance principles of
$U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--637
H. K. Baruah and
G. P. Bhattacharjee A modification of the partial sequential
probability ratio test . . . . . . . . . 639--648
I. G. Evans and
A. M. Nigm Bayesian prediction for two-parameter
Weibull lifetime models . . . . . . . . 649--658
Evan E. Chen and
Robert L. Wardrop Bayes sequential estimation in a life
test and asymptotic properties . . . . . 659--672
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Stanley L. Sclove The occurrence of fingerprint
characteristics as a two-dimensional
Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--695
B. K. Kim and
J. Van Ryzin Estimation of the derivative of a
density and related functions . . . . . 697--709
Y. S. Sathe and
S. R. Lingras A note on the inequalities for tail
probability of the multivariate normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--715
Amitava Mitra and
Khursheed Alam Measurement error in regression analysis 717--723
W. Stroup Walter and
James W. Evans and
R. L. Anderson Maximum likelihood estimation of
variance components in a completely
random bib design . . . . . . . . . . . 725--756
T. J. Vidmar and
M. N. Brunden Optimal allocation with fixed power in a
completely randomized design with levels
of subsampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--763
George P. McCabe, Jr. Use of the 21% Rulf in experimental
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--776
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. J. Beauchamp and
J. E. Folkert and
D. S. Robson A note on the effect of logarithmic
transformation on the probability of
misclassification . . . . . . . . . . . 777--794
A. M. Mathai Moments of the trace of a noncentral
Wishart matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--801
Helmut Rieder Locally robust correlation coefficients 803--819
Michael F. Driscoll and
Dennis J. Anderson Point-of-expansion, structure, and
selection in multivariable polynomial
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--836
Homer F. Walker Estimating the proportions of two
populations in a mixture using linear
maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--849
Hubert J. Chen On selecting a subset which contains all
populations better than a control . . . 851--864
James C. Fu A probabilistic model for predicting
total basal area growth of closed
uneven-aged stand . . . . . . . . . . . 865--874
B. N. Pandey and
Padmakar Singh Shrinkage estimation of scale in
exponential distribution from censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--882
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
John Orban and
Douglas A. Wolfe Distribution-free partially sequential
placement procedures . . . . . . . . . . 883--904
Stephen C. Hora Sequential discrimination . . . . . . . 905--916
N. L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz and
H. L. Sorkin ``Faulty inspection'' distributions . . 917--922
S. Ganesalingam and
G. J. McLachlan A comparison of the mixture and
classification approaches to cluster
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--933
H. N. Nagaraja Some distributional problems connected
with order statistics . . . . . . . . . 935--942
James M. Bovett and
John G. Saw On comparing two Poisson intensity
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--948
Ruth Marcus A tow-stage procedure for testing
homogeneity of means against ordered
alternatives in analysis of variance
with unequal variances . . . . . . . . . 949--963
Jerzy Neyman Comments on the special issue of
\booktitleCommunications in Statistics
(vol. 8, no. 10) concerned with weather
modification experiments . . . . . . . . 965--992
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Saul Blumenthal and
Lalitha Sanathanan Estimation with truncated inverse
binomial sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 997--1017
J. S. Galpin A note on some conditions for optimality
of certain ridge regression estimates 1019--1024
Ayala Cohen On the graphical display of the
significant components in two-way
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1041
David W. Hosmer and
Stanley Lemesbow Goodness of fit tests for the multiple
logistic regression model . . . . . . . 1043--1069
S. Shirahata Rank tests for the $k$-sample problem
with restricted alternatives . . . . . . 1071--1086
Claudio Silva and
Dana Quade Evaluation of weighted rankings using
expected significance level . . . . . . 1087--1096
D. A. S. Fraser and
F. Streit A further note on the bivariate normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1099
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
H. D. Brunk Bayesian least squares estimates of
univariate regression functions . . . . 1101--1136
Bahadur Singh Bayesian inference for comparing several
treatment means under a Poisson model 1137--1145
Jayanti Chotai Subset selection based on likelihood
from uniform and related populations . . 1147--1164
Ishay Weissman Estimation of tail parameters under Type
I censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165--1175
Mark J. Schervish Tolerance regions for random vectors and
best linear predictors . . . . . . . . . 1177--1183
Meena N. Swamy Optimum spring balance weighing designs
for estimating the total weight . . . . 1185--1190
Robert J. Anderson and
J. Richard Landis CATANOVA for multidimensional
contingency tables: Nominal-scale
response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191--1206
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Edgar P. Hickman and
Clayton S. Long A note on Glejser's test for
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1220
S. K. Katti and
Magdy Khedr Efficiency of an adaptive estimator of a
log-zero-Poisson parameter . . . . . . . 1221--1246
G. Trenkler Generalized mean squared error
comparisons of biased regression
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1259
Ashish Kumar and
P. C. Consul Minimum variance unbiased estimation for
modified power series distribution . . . 1261--1275
Shanti S. Gupta and
Ashok K. Singh On rules based on sample medians for
selection of the largest location
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1298
Robert A. Wolfe A circular test of association between a
point process and a continuous time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1307
V. A. Sposito and
W. J. Kennedy and
J. E. Gentle Useful generalized properties of $ L_1 $
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309--1315
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. L. Dunn and
W. B. Smith Combinatoric classification of
multivariate normal variates . . . . . . 1317--1340
J. D. Tubbs The effect of serial correlation on
confidence regions for the parameters of
a multivariate normal population . . . . 1341--1351
J. H. Smith and
T. O. Lewis Determining the effects of intraclass
correlation on factorial experiments . . 1353--1364
Ramesh C. Gupta On the mean residual life function of a
mixture in reliability studies . . . . . 1365--1369
Joseph V. Kingston and
Jagdish K. Patel A restricted subset selection procedure
for Weibull populations . . . . . . . . 1371--1383
James Wyckoff and
Max Engelhardt Cramér--Rao lower bounds for estimators
based on censored data . . . . . . . . . 1385--1399
Seong-In Kim and
Do Sun Bai On parameter estimation in Bernoulli
trials with dependence . . . . . . . . . 1401--1410
David P. Hasza A note on maximum likelihood estimation
for the first-order autoregressive
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1411--1415
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Chien-Pai Han On estimating the variance of the sample
mean in random models based on
conditional specification . . . . . . . 1417--1425
H. H. Lemmer Some empirical results on the two-way
analysis of variance by ranks . . . . . 1427--1438
Jason C.. Hsu Robust and nonparametric subset
selection procedures . . . . . . . . . . 1439--1459
Paul D. Amer and
Edward J. Dudewicz Two new goals for selection based on
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461--1472
Neville Davies and
Paul Newbold Sample moments of the autocorrelations
of moving average processes and a
modification to Bartlett's asymptotic
variance formula . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473--1481
Volker Abel Some essentially complete classes for
Bayesian multistage sampling inspection 1483--1489
Robert F. Woolson and
James D. Leeper Growth curve analysis of complete and
incomplete longitudinal data . . . . . . 1491--1513
A. P. Basu and
J. K. Ghosh Identifiability of distributions under
competing risks and complementary risks
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1515--1525
Henrick J. Malik Exact formula for the cumulative
distribution function of the quasi-range
from the logistic distribution . . . . . 1527--1534
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Dan A. Watson and
Saul Blumenthal Estimating the size of a truncated
sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1550
N. Singh On the estimation of $ {\rm Pr}(X_1 < Y <
X_2) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551--1561
Lucien G. Preuss A class of statistics based on the
information concept . . . . . . . . . . 1563--1585
Edward J. Wegman and
El-Sayed Nour and
Cris Kukuk A time series approach to life table
construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587--1607
Klaus-J. Miescke and
Joachim Sehr On a conjecture concerning the least
favorable configuration of certain
two-stage selection procedures . . . . . 1609--1617
J. E. Mann A simple sequential criterion for
testing a normal mean with unknown
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1619--1624
J. K. Ghosh and
N. Mukhopadhyay Sequential procedures in identification 1625--1639
Cary O. Zerbe and
David E. Goldgar Comparison of intraclass correlation
coefficients with the ratio of two
independent $F$-statistics . . . . . . . 1641--1655
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Samuel C. Kao and
Tze Leung Lai Sequential selection procedures based on
confidence sequences for normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1657--1676
Robert Charles Hugwood A nonlinear renewal theorem for discrete
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1677--1698
Robert W. Keener Renewal theory and the sequential design
of experiments with two states of nature 1699--1726
Michael Woodroofe On the Bayes risk incurred by using
asymptotic shapes . . . . . . . . . . . 1727--1748
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ronald L. Iman and
W. J. Conover Small sample sensitivity analysis
techniques for computer models.with an
application to risk assessment . . . . . 1749--1842
Willard E. Lawrence Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843--1845
Corwin I. Atwood Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847--1851
Robert G. Easterling Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853--1857
M. D. McKay and
R. J. Beckman Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859--1861
Ronald L. Iman and
W. J. Conover Rejoinder to comments . . . . . . . . . 1863--1874
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. Joiner and
B. L. Raktoe and
W. T. Federer On sum composition of fractional
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 1875--1899
Constantine Gregory Magda Circular balanced repeated measurements
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901--1918
H. I. Patel and
Erwin M. Hearne III Multivariate analysis for the two-period
repeated measures crossover design with
application to clinical trials . . . . . 1919--1929
Ch. E. Minder On inspecting multiparameter likelihood
surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1931--1939
Ralph A. Bradley and
Elton Scott Perspective from a weather modification
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1941--1961
K. Ruben Gabriel On Neyman's ``comments'' regarding the
first Israeli randomized rainfall
stimulation experiment . . . . . . . . . 1963--1973
A. J. Miller and
D. E. Shaw and
L. G. Veitch and
E. J. Smith Rejoinder to ``\,`Comments on the
special issue of
\booktitleCommunications in Statistics
(vol. 8, no. 10) concerned with weather
modification experiments' by Jerzy
Neyman'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1975--1978
E. J. Smith Rejoinder to ``\,`Comments on the
special issue of
\booktitleCommunications in Statistics
(vol. 8, no. 10) concerned with weather
modification experiments' by Jerzy
Neyman'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--1983
Paul W. Mielke, Jr. Another response to Professor Neyman . . 1985--1987
J. Neyman Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 1989--1996
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
D. B. Owen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
C. Radhakrishna Rao A lemma on $G$-inverse of a matrix and
computation of correlation coefficients
in the singular case . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Herman Burstein Binomial $ 2 \times 2 $ test for
independent samples with independent
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--29
A. K. Chattopadhyay Selecting the normal population with
largest (smallest) value of Mahalanobis
distance from the origin . . . . . . . . 31--37
Y. S. Sathe and
S. P. Shah On estimating $ P(X > Y) $ for the
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 39--47
W. J. Padgett and
L. J. Wei A Bayesian nonparametric estimator of
survival probability assuming increasing
failure rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--63
Ulrich Menzefricke Bayesian clustering of data sets . . . . 65--77
Stephen Vardeman and
Ashok Singh Empirical restricted Bayes estimation in
a muitivariate discrete exponential
family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--100
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
D. B. Owen Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
Thomas J. Lorenzen and
Gary C. McDonald Selecting logistic populations using the
sample medians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--124
Bruce Levin and
Patrick E. Shrout On extending Bock's model of logistic
regression in the analysis of
categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--147
Henry I. Braun and
Donald R. McNeil Testing in robust ANOVA . . . . . . . . 149--165
Ron C. Mittelhammer On specification error in the general
linear model and weak mean square error
superiority of the mixed estimator . . . 167--176
M. A. Beg Exponential family distribution with
unknown truncation parameter: two sample
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--187
Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis Large-sample quantile estimation in
Pareto laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--201
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Göran Bronström On sequentially rejective subset
selection procedures . . . . . . . . . . 203--221
A. I. Khuri and
R. H. Myers Design related robustness of tests in
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 223--235
A. Dey and
M. Singh and
G. M. Saha Efficiency balanced block designs . . . 237--247
B. Raja Rao Correlation between the numbers of two
types of children in a family with the
MPSD for the family size . . . . . . . . 249--254
Guido E. Del Pino On the asymptotic non null distribution
of some tests for homogeneity of
variances and related results . . . . . 255--267
Malay Ghosh and
Shashikala Sukhatme On Bahadur's representation of quantiles
in nonregular cases . . . . . . . . . . 269--282
W. Y. Tan and
S. S. Cheng Cumulants of bilinear forms and
quadratic forms and their applications 283--298
Dale Umbach On inference for a mixture of a Poisson
and a degenerate distribution . . . . . 299--306
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
D. B. Owen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Malay Ghosh Multivariate negative dependence . . . . 307--337
Carles M. Cuadras and
Joan Augé A continuous general multivariate
distribution and its properties . . . . 339--353
Mark C. K. Yang and
Jack F. Schreckengost Difference sign test for comovements
between two time series . . . . . . . . 355--369
C. J. Park On the distribution of the number of
unobserved elements when $m$-samples of
size $n$ are drawn from a finite
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--383
Ibrahim A. Salama and
Dana Quade Using weighted rankings to test against
ordered alternatives in complete blocks 385--399
C. G. Khatrl and
K. R. Shah On the unbiased estimation of fixed
effects in a mixed model for growth
curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--406
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
S. Zacks and
H. Solomon Bayes and equivariant estimators of the
variance of a finite population: Part I,
simple random sampling . . . . . . . . . 407--426
S. Zacks Bayes equivariant estimators of the
variance of a finite population for
exponential priors . . . . . . . . . . . 427--437
L. Friedman and
I. Gertsbakh Parameter estimations in a minimum-type
scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--462
Lea Friedman Parameter estimation in a minimum-type
model by the least-squares method --- a
Monte Carlo study . . . . . . . . . . . 463--487
Danny Dyer and
P. Keating On the relative behavior of estimators
of the characteristic life in the
exponential failure model . . . . . . . 489--501
Kok Huat Lee Estimation of variance of mean using
known coefficient of variation . . . . . 503--514
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R. Radhakrishnan and
A. M. Kshirsagar Influence functions for certain
parameters in multivariate analysis . . 515--529
Yasuko Chikuse Simultaneous pseudo confidence regions
for ratios of the discriminant
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--547
Ishay Weissman Confidence intervals for the threshold
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--557
Sanpei Kageyama Constructions of efficiency-balanced
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--580
Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis Tests for normality in stable laws . . . 581--595
Yosef Hochberg and
Ruth Marcus Three stage elimination type procedures
for selecting the best normal population
when variances are unknown . . . . . . . 597--612
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Anthony E. Boardman and
Baldwin S. Hui and
Herman Wold The partial least squares-fix point
method of estimating interdependent
systems with latent variables . . . . . 613--639
A. Albert and
J. A. Anderson Probit and logistic discriminant
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--657
A. Kudo and
S. Sasabuchi and
J. R. Choi Test of equality of normal means in the
absence of independent estimator of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--668
Ulrich Menzefricke A decision-theoretic approach to
variable selection in discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--686
M. A. Beg A note on the estimation of $ P r \{ y,
x \} $ for truncation parameter
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--691
M. Berman The maximum likelihood estimators of the
parameters of the gamma distribution are
always positively biased . . . . . . . . 693--697
Noel C. Wheeler and
Anant M. Kshirsagar Uniformly better estimators with
application in two-way designs . . . . . 699--711
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I. Guttman Conjugate Bayesian inference for
structural models . . . . . . . . . . . 739--748
Henry W. Block and
Mei-Ling Ting Some concepts of multivariate dependence 749--762
Thomas R. Fleming and
David P. Harrington A class of hypothesis tests for one and
two sample censored survival data . . . 763--794
Paul Horn Heteroscedasticity of residuals: a
non-parametric alternative to the
Goldfeld--Quandt peak test . . . . . . . 795--808
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analyzing time series data . . . . . . . 809--821
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general linear models . . . . . . . . . 849--873
Charles J. Monlezun and
F. M. Speed Recovering sums of squares between full
and reduced linear models . . . . . . . 875--882
B. K. Ghosh and
S. Keith Lee A sequential test for homogeneity of
multinomial proportions . . . . . . . . 883--895
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and their applications . . . . . . . . . 897--906
M. L. Tiku and
M. Singh Testing the two parameter Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--918
Robert A. Wolfe Testing disease--survival dependence . . 919--926
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Elizabeth Ray DeLong and
Pranab Kumar Sen Estimation of $ P \{ X > Y \} $ based on
progressively truncated versions of the
Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney statistics . . . 963--981
H. S. Konijn Maximum likelihood estimator and
confidence intervals for a simple errors
in variables model . . . . . . . . . . . 983--996
Hoi M. Leung and
Lawrence L. Kupper Interval estimation using the folded
logarithmic transformation . . . . . . . 997--1015
H. H. Lemmer Note on shrinkage estimators for the
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 1017--1027
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Louís A. Pingel A procedure for estimating the number of
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Pranab Kumar Sen On asymptotic non-normal null
distributions for locally most powerful
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gamma distribution by means of a maximal
invariant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1110
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P. V. Rao Tests of symmetry based on Watson
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111--1125
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K. Iwase Uniformly minimum variance unbiased
estimation in lognormal and related
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Schechtman Kenneth A test for zero point triserial
correlation coefficient and its
relationship with tests for homogeneity
of means with ordered alternatives . . . 1167--1182
Alam Khursheed and
K. M. Lai Saxena Positive dependence in multivariate
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183--1196
Borowiak Dale A procedure for selecting between two
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1203
C. Parr William Minimum distance estimation: a
bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1224
Y. P. Chaubey and
G. Gabor Another look at Fisher's solution to the
problem of the weighted mean . . . . . . 1225--1237
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distribution function with a gamma
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of hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263--1275
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Detlef Plachky On the optimality of the sample variance 1277--1284
F. B. Six Representations of multivariate normal
distributions with special correlation
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1285--1295
Mir M. Ali and
J. G. C. Templeton Common content of a regular hypersimplex
and a concentric hypersphere . . . . . . 1297--1304
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K. P. Saxena On approximation of power of a test
procedure based on preliminary tests of
significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1321
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Louis A. Pingel On the robustness of recursive outlier
detection procedures to nonnormality . . 1323--1334
William W. S. Wei and
Bovas Abraham Forecasting contemporal time series
aggregates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1344
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A. F. Mashhour A note on the unimodality of discrete
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Gary O. Zerbe Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 1355--1356
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Franklin A. Graybill Confidence intervals on a ratio of
variances in the two-factor nested
components of variance model . . . . . . 1357--1368
Stephen W. Mykytyn and
Thomas J. Santner Maximum likelihood estimation of the
survival function based on censored data
under hazard rate assumptions . . . . . 1369--1387
S. A. Shaban Computation of the Poisson-inverse
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 1389--1399
R. J. Brook and
R. H. Fletcher Optimal significance levels of prior
tests in the presence of
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D. R. Weier Bayes estimation for a bivariate
survival model based on exponential
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1415--1427
Ashish Kumar Some applications of Lagrangian
distributions in queueing theory and
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B. S. Duran A generalization of the rank transform
in the two-sample location problem . . . 1437--1455
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wet statistics for dry statisticians . . 1505--1522
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proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587--1611
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D. R. Rashwan Bayesian predictions for compound
Weibull model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1624
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D. E. Olsen and
L. J. Levy Estimation and tests of hypotheses for
the initial mean and covariance in the
Kalman filter model . . . . . . . . . . 1625--1641
B. Abraham Missing observations in time series . . 1643--1653
Emad El-Neweihi Stochastic ordering and a class of
multivariate new better than used
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1655--1672
Lydla P. Gans and
C. A. Robertson The behavior of estimated measures of
association in small and moderate sample
sizes for $ 2 \times 3 $ tables . . . . 1673--1686
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Yosef Hochberg On the variance estimate of a
Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney statistic for
group ordered data . . . . . . . . . . . 1719--1732
William M. Stanish and
Randy U. Allred Categorical variable selection based on
entropy reduction . . . . . . . . . . . 1733--1750
Diego Salazar and
Lyle Broemeling and
Albert Chi Parameter changes in a regression model
with autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . 1751--1758
W. M. Patefield Confidence intervals for the slope of a
linear functional relationship . . . . . 1759--1764
Timo Teräsvirta A comparison of mixed and minimax
estimators of linear models . . . . . . 1765--1778
Soundara V. S. Pandian and
K. N. Ponnuswamy On the recovery of intra- and interblock
information in $n$-ary designs . . . . . 1779--1788
Pankaj Ghosh On multimodal distributions . . . . . . 1789--1793
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Van Hui Yer Shewhart $x$-charts with estimated
process variance . . . . . . . . . . . . 1797--1822
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fitting procedure for data analysis . . 1823--1848
Edward J. Dudewicz and
Vidya S. Taneja A multivariate solution of the
multivariate ranking and selection
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849--1868
Hui-Kuang Hsieh On estimating the mean of the selected
population with unknown variance . . . . 1869--1878
M. Pandey and
J. Singh Estimation of variance of a normal
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879--1884
J. K. Ord and
Erwin M. Saniga and
William V. Gehrlein Bayesian tests for matched proportions 1885--1899
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monotone likelihood ratio: case of
vector valued parameter . . . . . . . . 1901--1913
Charles F. Dunkl The absorption distribution and the
$q$-binomial theorem . . . . . . . . . . 1915--1920
Masoom Ali Mir and
Umbach Dale and
Khatab M. Hassanein Estimation of quantiles of exponential
and double exponential distributions
based on two order statistics . . . . . 1921--1932
Umbach Dale and
Masoom Ali Mir and
Khatab M. Hassanein Estimating Pareto quantiles using two
order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1933--1941
K. Kocherlakota and
S. Kocherlakota On the distribution of$_r$ in samples
from the mixtures of bivariate normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1943--1966
Locke Charles and
John D. Spurrier On the distribution of a new measure of
heaviness of tails . . . . . . . . . . . 1967--1980
Francis C. Hsuan Ridge regression from principal
component point of view . . . . . . . . 1981--1995
Chikuse Yasuko Representations of the covariance matrix
for robustness in the Gauss--Markov
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Margaret A. Chmielewski A re-appraisal of tests for normality 2005--2014
Norman S. Matloff An alternative to the analysis of
covariance for comparing randomized
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015--2024
Roger L. Berger Selecting all treatments better than a
control using existing tables . . . . . 2025--2037
P. C. Consul Relation of modified power series
distributions to Lagrangian probability
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2039--2046
Zvi Gilula A note on measuring the degree of
dependence between two discrete random
variables measured on a nominal scale 2047--2055
M. L. Tiku and
M. Singh Robust test for means when population
variances are unequal . . . . . . . . . 2057--2071
John P. Klein and
Asit P. Basu Weibull accelerated life tests when
there are competing causes of failure 2073--2100
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John B. Neuhardt On the number of $ 2^{n - p} $
fractional factorials of resolution III 2101--2111
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P. K. Sen Editorial Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
Hajime Takahashi and
Michael Woodroofe Asymptotic expansions in non-linear
renewal theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2113--2135
Robert A. Wijsman Confidence sets based on sequential
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2137--2147
Ying Chiu So and
Pranab Kumar Sen Repeated significance tests based on
likelihood ratio statistics . . . . . . 2149--2176
Bennett Eisenberg On the sample size of curtailed tests 2177--2196
David M. De Long Crossing probabilities for a square root
boundary by a Bessel process . . . . . . 2197--2213
Malay Ghosh Sequential point estimation of the means
of $U$-statistics in finite population
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2215--2229
N. Mukhopadhyay Convergence rates of sequential
confidence intervals and tests for the
mean of a $U$-statistic . . . . . . . . 2231--2244
S. Zacks The probability distribution and the
expected value of a stopping variable
associated with one-sided cusum
procedures for non-negative integer
valued random variables . . . . . . . . 2245--2258
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experiments with repeated measurements
in clinical trials using a stochastic
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Joseph V. Kingston and
Jagdish K. Patel Interval estimation of the largest
reliability of $k$ Weibull populations 2279--2298
Ram B. Jain Detecting outliers: power and some other
considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299--2314
C. K. Bayne and
W. Y. Tan Qdf misclassification probabilities for
known population parameters . . . . . . 2315--2326
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G. B. Gray Estimation for small areas in household
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2327--2338
Lakhbir S. Hayre and
Bruce W. Turnbull A class of simple approximate sequential
tests for adaptive comparison of two
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2339--2360
Mark D. Pagel Comment on Hoerl and Kennard's ridge
regression simulation methodology . . . 2361--2367
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models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2389--2398
J. A. Craig, Jr. and
R. P. Bland An empirical Bayes approach to a
variables acceptance sampling plan
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Jan F. Bjòrnstad A decision-theoretic approach to subset
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2411--2433
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E. Pleszczy\'nska and
W. Szczesny Remarks on multivariate analogues of
Kendall's tau . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2435--2445
Clovis A. Peres Testing the effect of blocking in a
randomized complete block design (RCBD) 2447--2459
Mohamed Y. El Bassiouni Likelihood ratio tests for covariance
hypotheses generating commutative
quadratic subspaces . . . . . . . . . . 2461--2468
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the ratio of scales of independent gamma
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H. S. Wieand An asymptotically optimal nonparametric
statistic for testing equality of two
normal population means and variances 1--12
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H. Peso tan and
B. L. Raktoe Globally orthogonal regular fractions of
the $ s n $ factorial . . . . . . . . . 13--30
Teruhiro Shirakura Norm of alias matrices for $ (l +
1)$-factor interactions in balanced
fractional $ 2^M$ factorial designs of
resolution $ 2 l + 1$ . . . . . . . . . 31--47
David J. Stevenson and
R. P. Bland Bayes Ian Multiple Comparisons Of Noemal
Populations Without The Assumption Op
Equal Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--57
Marvin H. J. Gruber and
Poduri S. R. S. Rao Bayes estimators for linear models with
less than full rank . . . . . . . . . . 59--69
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T. O. Lewis Effects of Intraclass Correlation on
Covariance Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
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Hayat M. Awan On the robustness of Hotelling's $ T^2
$-test and distribution of linear and
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mixture of two multivariate normal
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Allan Donner and
Bernard Rosner Missing value problems in multiple
linear regression with two independent
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James J. Higgins A note on MLE's in linear models with
non-normal or dependent errors . . . . . 141--149
Mohamed M. Shoukri On a generalization for the double
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Robert E. Young and
Arnold L. Sweet Confidence intervals for transition
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Arnold L. Sweet Confidence intervals for transition
probabilities in multi-state Markov
chains. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--198
N. P. Archer Maximam likelihood estimation with
Weibull models when the data are grouped 199--207
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Sathe T. S On approximating the equivariant
estimator of the mean of a normal
distribution with known coefficient of
variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--215
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quadratic forms . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--221
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J. Richard Landis CATANOVA for multidimensional
contingency tables: ordinal-scale
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sample case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--289
Hanzoor Ahmad Testing independence through conditional
and marginal data . . . . . . . . . . . 291--296
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Dominique M. Hanssens Identification of multiple-input
transfer function models . . . . . . . . 297--314
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Dallas E. Johnson Estimation of $ \sigma^2 $ in the
multiplicative interaction model . . . . 315--324
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Anant M. Kshirsagar Terminating Markov renewal processes . . 325--342
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Quesenberry C. P. Testing multivariate normality using
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David K. Gullkey An improved version of the Geary test 359--374
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binary dose response models with
applications to animal carcinocenicity
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--393
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Yuan S. P. On concurrence of several linear
regressions and applications to problems
of enzyme kinetics . . . . . . . . . . . 395--409
Tong An Hsu and
Deng Yuan Huang Some sequential selection procedures for
good regression models . . . . . . . . . 411--421
Jack Kaplan A theorem relating MINQUE and unweighted
means estimators of variance components
in the one-way design . . . . . . . . . 423--428
Mahesh Chandra and
Tertius De Wet and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla On the sample redundancy and a test for
exponentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--438
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Lloyd E. Chambless Logistic regression analysis of
epidemiologic data: theory and practice 485--547
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Mari Palta and
Robert F. Woolson Analysis of matched pairs studies with
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--565
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J. Richard Landis A general categorical data methodology
for evaluating medical diagnostic tests 567--605
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used in order restricted inferences, and
the analysis of freezing dates of Lake
Mendota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--614
Ruth Marcus Some results on simultaneous confidence
intervals for monotone contrasts in
one-way ANOVA model . . . . . . . . . . 615--622
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Rod F. Ziemer The application of generalized ridge and
Stein-like general minimax rules to
multicollinear data . . . . . . . . . . 623--638
A. K. Md E. Saleh and
Sen P. K. Nonparametric tests for location after a
Preliminary test on regression . . . . . 639--652
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P. B. Nagarsenker On the distribution of independence test
for the residuals of space-time ARMA
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--661
Russell F. Kappenman On A method for selecting a
distributional model . . . . . . . . . . 663--672
Jan F. Bjòrnstad Comparison of dependent two-way
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 673--686
Kosei Iwase and
Kunio Shimizu and
Manibu Suzuki On UMVU estimators for the multivariate
lognormal distribution and their
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--697
Peter R. Nelson Exact critical points for the analysis
of means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--709
Pushpa Lata Gupta Structural properties and estimation in
m|E$_K$ |1 queue . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--719
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Robert V. Hogg Symmetrically distributed and unbiased
estimators in linear models . . . . . . 721--729
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under heteroscedasticity and robustness
with respect to departure from normality 731--750
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S. Panchapakesan On eliminating inferior regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--759
Meena N. Swamy Use of balanced bipartite weighing
designs as chemical balance designs . . 769--785
Olaf Krafft and
Ludger Rüschendorf On the gain in power when using
additional observations . . . . . . . . 787--800
Henrick J. Malik and
Roger Trudel Probability density function of quotient
of order statistics from the Pareto,
power and Weibull distributions . . . . 801--814
Charles E. McCulloch Conditions under which $ F \{ N_1 \} =
\infty $ for Tong's adaptive solution to
ranking and selection problems . . . . . 815--819
G. Sadasivan A Thurstone-type model for paired
comparisons with unequal numbers of
repetitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--833
W. O. Williford and
W. Jan Shan Bayesian estimation of the complete
sample size from an incomplete Poisson
sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--846
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Richard W. Mill When there are outliers in the carriers:
the univariate case . . . . . . . . . . 849--868
Kishan G. Mehrotra On goodness of fit tests based on
spacings for Type II censored samples 869--878
S. John The three-parameter two-piece normal
family of distributions and its fitting 879--885
Ramesh M. Korwar and
Ram C. Dahiya Estimation of a bivariate distribution
function from incomplete observations 887--897
Joseph V. Kingston and
Jagdish K. Patel Classifying Weibull populations with
respect to a control . . . . . . . . . . 899--909
E. Güinel Bayes factors in three-way contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910--933
Murari Singh A note on the use of multi-auxiliary
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--939
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likelihood estimator for a multivariate
normal distribution when some
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M. Singh Robust statistics for testing mean
vectors of multivariate distributions 985--1001
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R. J. McKay Tests of dimensionality in multivariate
analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1027
Tze Fen Li A note on James--Stein and Bayes
empirical Bayes estimators . . . . . . . 1029--1043
Steven Bean and
Chris P. Tsokos Bandwidth selection procedures for
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Haim Levy Evaluating estimators using stochastic
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Charles C. Brown On a goodness of fit test for the
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Walter R. Pirie Tighter bounds and simplified estimation
for moments of some rank statistics . . 1107--1117
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P. B. Nagarsenker On the distribution of LRT for testing
the equality of exponential
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Ronald H. Ketellapper On estimating the regression parameter
in the simple errors-in-variables model
without constant term . . . . . . . . . 1147--1153
M. Anthony Wong Asymptotic properties of bivariate
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Kenneth J. Berry An extended class of permutation
techniques for matched pairs . . . . . . 1197--1207
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Fariborz Khorasani and
George A. Milliken Simultaneous confidence bands for
nonlinear regression models . . . . . . 1241--1253
Taka-aki Shiraishi Testing homogeneity against trend based
on rank in one-way layout . . . . . . . 1255--1268
Mete Sirvanci and
Ibrahim Levent Numerical results concerning the MLE of
an exponential parameter used in life
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H. K. Iyer Permutation techniques for analyzing
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exponential distribution with an
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Omar Mouqadem Estimation of the common mean of two
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the variance components . . . . . . . . 1659--1669
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E. B. Manoukian Approximate critical values with error
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ordered alternatives in randomized block
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shape and scale parameters and their
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Ramon C. Littell and
P. V. Rao On minimum distance estimation of
location based on the Kolmogorov
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their expectations in range and mean
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mean and the variance of a normal
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Lee J. Bain Approximate percentiles for ratios of
$F$-variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831--1838
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Jeffrey B. Birch Tests for the two-sample problem based
on empirical probability measures . . . 1839--1853
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Yogendra P. Chaubey Best minimum bias linear estimators in
Gauss--Markoff model . . . . . . . . . . 1959--1963
J. Michael Price Comparisons among regression estimators
under the generalized mean square error
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George A. Milliken On a confidence interval about a
parameter estimated by a ratio of normal
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Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota and
M. Singh On the behaviour of some transforms of
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discrete bivariate populations . . . . . 2017--2043
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota and
M. Singh On the behaviour of some transforms of
the sample correlation coefficient in
samples from the bivariate $t$ and the
bivariate $X^2$ distribution . . . . . . 2045--2060
Cheng Chen and
Thomas C. Baker, Jr. On Bayes-type estimators of linearly or
log-linearly constrained multinomial
cell probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . 2061--2073
Samuel Gutmann Minimax linear empirical Bayes
estimation of the binomial parameter . . 2075--2082
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the von Mises distribution . . . . . . . 2083--2090
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A. J. Quinzi Sequential unbiased estimation of
parameters in a two-way contingency
table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2091--2103
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Arie Kapteyn A simple way to obtain the spectral
decomposition of variance components
models for balanced data . . . . . . . . 2105--2112
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with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . 2157--2167
Stuart J. Pocock When not to rely on the central limit
theorem --- an example from absenteeism
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Richard M. Engeman and
Thomas J. Keefe On generalized least squares estimation
of the Weibull distribution . . . . . . 2181--2193
M. D. Mohamed el Lozy Simple computation of a bivariate normal
integral arising from a problem of
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Shu-Chen Wu Rank tests for independence based on
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lea Hon Kuo Generalized James--Stein estimators . . 2249--2257
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unimodal and decreasing densities based
on arbitrarily right-censored data . . . 2259--2270
John P. Klein and
Asit P. Basu Accelerated life tests under competing
Weibull causes of failure . . . . . . . 2271--2286
Richard E. Lund Plans for blocking and fractions of
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Richard E. Lund and
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cube experimental design . . . . . . . . 2297--2313
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T. O. Lewis Test procedures for the analysis of
experimental designs with correlated
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likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2379--2387
Nader Ebrahimi The ordering of negative quadrant
dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2389--2399
Gary O. Zerbe and
Eugene Laska and
Morris Meisner and
H. B. Kushner On multivariate confidence regions and
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ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401--2425
Lennart Nordberg On variable selection in generalized
linear and related regression models . . 2427--2449
Ishay Weissman Confidence intervals for the threshold
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of means or variances . . . . . . . . . 2543--2558
Anthony C. Atkinson Robust and diagnostic regression
analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2559--2571
R. J. Carroll and
Paul P. Callo Sow aspects of robustness in the
functional errors-in-variables
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2573--2585
David M. Rocke Inference for response-limited
time-series models . . . . . . . . . . . 2587--2596
M. L. Tiku and
Punara Bhasin Usefulness of robust estimators in
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Charles W. Dunnett Robust multiple comparisons . . . . . . 2611--2629
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Betty Whitten Modified maximum likelihood and modified
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Tong An Hsu On some optimal selection procedures for
Weibull populations . . . . . . . . . . 2657--2668
James M. Lucas and
Ronald B. Crosier Robust cusum: a robustness study for
cusum quality control schemes . . . . . 2669--2687
H. Callaert and
M. Vandemaele and
N. Veraverbeke A Cramér type large deviation theorem for
trimmed linear combinations of order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2689--2698
Rao K. Kadiyala and
Dennis Oberhelman Response predictions in regressions on
panel data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2699--2714
Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and
David F. Bauer Asymptotic distribution of regression
type estimators of parameters of stable
laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2715--2730
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B. L. Raktoe and
H. Pesotan On the problem of augmented fractional
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John D. Spurrier Two-stage tests of hypotheses in the
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P. A. V. B. Sway and
J. S. Mehta The existence of moments of ridge-like
$k$-class and partially restricted
reduced form estimators . . . . . . . . 2793--2799
Jessica M. Utts The rainbow test for lack of fit in
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2801--2815
A. K. Minan and
N. N. Puri Partially efficiency-balanced designs
--- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2817--2830
Marcia Feingold Missing data in linear models with
correlated errors . . . . . . . . . . . 2831--2843
Alan Gleit Estimation of functions of the
parameters of a normal distribution . . 2845--2855
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Johannes Ledolter Forecast efficiency of systematically
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A. I. Khuri Direct products: a powerful tool for the
analysis of balanced data . . . . . . . 2903--2920
Lyle Broemeling and
Muthiya Rajagopalan Estimating the parameters of mixed
linear models with modal estimators . . 2921--2935
Philip C. Spector and
H. Joseph Newton The bias of the MLE of Box's degrees of
freedom correction factor for
correlation in ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . 2937--2945
Joseph Breuer A note on the greenwood variance
estimator in cohort life tables:
Isolating the effect of one source of
bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2947--2951
Ram B. Jain and
Louis A. Pingel and
John L. Davidson A unified approach for estimation and
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Christy Chuang Empirical Bayes methods for a two-way
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Ralph A. Bradley Trend-free block designs: existence and
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B. W. Sirotnik Model-robust analysis of paired
comparison experiments . . . . . . . . . 25--36
Tsushung A. Hua and
Richard F. Gunst Generalized ridge regression: a note on
negative ridge parameters . . . . . . . 37--45
R. Ponnapalli On multinomial parametric estimation . . 47--72
Lee D. Kaiser and
David C. Bowden Simultaneous confidence intervals for
all linear contrasts of means with
heterogeneous variances . . . . . . . . 73--88
Dipak K. Dey On truncation of multiparameter
estimator in discrete exponential
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--101
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S. John Tests for multivariate normality with
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distribution of the sphericity test . . 119--129
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and Reliability Function from Mixed
Exponentially Distributed Time-Censored
Life Test Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--151
Jayant V. Deshpande and
Subhash C. Kochar A linear combination of two
$U$-statistics for testing new better
than used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
C. D. Elphinstone A target distribution model for
nonparametric density estimation . . . . 161--198
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J. K. Ghosh Identifiability results for a
$k$-out-of-$p$ system . . . . . . . . . 199--205
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K. Foster Omnibus tests of multinormality based on
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M. S. Srivastava Covariate classification for two
correlated populations . . . . . . . . . 223--241
Vincent N. La Riccia and
Ross P. Kindermann An asymptotically efficient closed form
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sphericity test in a complex
multivariate normal distribution . . . . 288--288
Edward F. Vonesh Efficiency of repeated measures designs
versus completely randomized designs
based on multiple comparisons . . . . . 289--301
C. K. Narodia Characterizations for the original
observations with linearity of
regression in additive damage models . . 303--310
Yoshiki Kumazawa A class of test statistics for testing
whether new is better than used . . . . 311--321
El-Sayed Nour Nour and
C. M. Suchindran The effect of individual variability on
the life table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--339
Deng-Yuan Huang and
Sheng-Tsaing Tseng $ \Gamma $-Optimal decision procedures
for selecting the best population in
randomized complete block design . . . . 341--354
Khursheed Alam and
M. Haseeb Rizvi On selecting from $k$ finite populations
the population with the largest $ \alpha
$-quantile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--362
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Tommy Wright On Bayes allocation of the sample for
estimation of the mean when each stratum
has a Poisson distribution . . . . . . . 409--426
Anant M. Kshirsagar and
Thomas M. Davis Discriminant functions from the dummy
variable space for growth curve models 427--440
Jerome P. Keating Estimators of percentiles based on
absolute loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--447
Pushpa Lata Gupta and
Ramesh C. Gupta On the moments of residual life in
reliability and some characterization
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--461
Alan E. Gelfand Estimation in noncentral distributions 463--475
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John Rice and
Clifford Spiegelman One-sided trimming in small samples with
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Lee J. Bain Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii
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O. J. Pendleton The regression dilemma . . . . . . . . . 497--527
Thomas W. Sager Estimating modes and isopleths . . . . . 529--557
Nozer D. Singpurwalla and
Man-Yuen Wong Estimation of the failure rate --- a
survey of nonparametric methods. Part I:
Non-Bayesian Methods . . . . . . . . . . 559--588
Lee J. Bain and
Max Engelhardt A review of model selection procedures
relevant to the Weibull distribution . . 589--609
Divakar Sharma Sufficiency of a sufficient statistic
for equivariant estimation . . . . . . . 611--623
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A. M. Mathai On linear combinations of independent
exponential variables . . . . . . . . . 625--632
Anne Chao Approximate mean squared errors of
estimations of reliability in the
two-parameter exponential case . . . . . 633--644
Nathan Gad A simulation comparison of estimators
for a regression coefficient under
differential non-response . . . . . . . 645--659
Dipak K. Dey On the choice of co-ordinates in
simultaneous estimation of normal means
under misspecification of normal priors 661--673
Yogendra P. Chaubey and
A. B. M. Nur Enayet Talukder Exact moments of a ratio of two positive
quadratic forms in normal variables . . 675--679
K. F. Cheng Nonparametric estimators for percentile
regression functions . . . . . . . . . . 681--692
Nader Ebrahimi and
Mohamed Habibullah Testing for linearity and convexity of
potency curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--700
Muthiya Rajagopalan and
Lyle Broemeling Bayesian inference for the variance
components in general mixed linear
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Stephen C. Hora and
Gary D. Kelley Bayesian inference on the odds and risk
ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--738
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Brian L. Joiner Asymptotic relative efficiencies of
$R$-estimators of location . . . . . . . 739--763
Haber Michael Multidimensional Intraclass Contingency
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--776
Alan Paul Fenech A Pseudo-Replicate Estimator of the
Variance of a Function of Sample Means 777--798
G. Trenkler A Note on Superiority Comparisons of
Homogeneous Linear Estimators . . . . . 799--808
A. B. Heath and
J. A. Anderson Estimation in a Multivariable Two-Phase
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--828
R. J. Pavur and
T. O. Levis Unbiased $F$ Tests for Factorial
Experiments for Correlated Data . . . . 829--840
John Panaretos A Generating Model Involving Pascal and
Logarithmic Series Distributions . . . . 841--848
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Richard L. Scheaffer Asymptotic properties of estimators
derived from line transect sampling . . 849--864
M. T. Taka and
P. Armitage Autoregressive models in clinical trials 865--876
C. G. Khatri Multivariate discrete exponential family
of distributions and their properties 877--893
Stephen L. Meeks and
Ralph B. D' Agostino A model for comparisons with ordered
categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--906
Bengt Klefsjö Some tests against aging based on the
total time on test transform . . . . . . 907--927
C. G. Khatri Estimation of the common location
parameters for the two linear models . . 929--946
S. R. Dalai and
E. G. Phadia Nonparametric Bayes Inference for
Concordance in Bivariate Distributions 947--963
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John D. Spurrier Exact Uniform Confidence Bands for
Periodic Regression . . . . . . . . . . 969--973
Shimizu Kunio Variances of UMVU Estimators for Means
and Variances After Using a Normalizing
Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--985
Carl M. Harris On finite mixtures of geometric and
negative binomial distributions . . . . 987--1007
J. L. Bryant and
A. S. Paulson Estimation of mixing proportions via
distance between characteristic
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1029
D. N. Joanes Estimators of Certain Functions of the
Variance of a Normal Distribution . . . 1031--1037
Masahide Kuwada Best alias designs in some class of
balanced fractional $ 3^m $ factorial
designs of resolution $V$ . . . . . . . 1039--1051
Jun-mo Nam Efficient method for identification of
cyclic trends in incidence . . . . . . . 1053--1068
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Thomas P. Hettmansperger Weighted least-squares rank estimates 1069--1086
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Frank Proschan Tests for properties of residual life 1121--1134
Don Edwards and
Jason C. Hsu Adaptive sequential procedures for
comparing new treatments with a standard 1135--1145
Irwin Guttman and
Ulrich Menzefricke Estimating the common mean of $r$ normal
populations with different precisions 1147--1159
Gerald L. Sievers A weighted dispersion function for
estimation in linear models . . . . . . 1161--1179
Evdokia Xekalaki A property of the Yule distribution and
its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1189
B. S. Duran and
T. L. Boullion and
P. L. Odell On a criterion for evaluating an
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191--1208
Peritz Eric Exact tests for matched pairs: studies
with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1210
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Vasant P. Bhapkar Ban Estimation for Chi-Square Test
Criteria in Categorical Data . . . . . . 1211--1223
Jacqueline Lan Dana and
D. V. Gokhale On the Hypothesis of No Interaction on a
Linear Scale in Contingency Tables . . . 1225--1240
James H. Albert and
Arjun K. Gupta Models for Reflecting Prior Beliefs of
Association in two-way Contingency
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1259
Alan Agresti and
Abbas Kezouh Association Models for Multi-Dimensional
Cross-Classifications of Ordinal
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261--1276
K. A. Semenya and
G. G. Koch and
M. E. Stokes and
R. N. Forthofer Linear Models Methods for Some Rank
Function Analyses of Ordinal Categorical
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1298
Bruce Levin On Calculations Involving the Maximum
Cell Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1327
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Smith Philip and
J. Sedransk Lower bounds for confidence coefficients
for confidence intervals for finite
population quantiles . . . . . . . . . . 1329--1344
J. E. Angus Normal quantile estimation based on
minimizing the error in predicted
distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 1345--1358
Prajneshu Environmental stochasticity of Gompertz
model with time delay . . . . . . . . . 1359--1369
Woollcott Smith Inequalities for bivariate distribution
with $ x \leq y $ and marginals given 1371--1379
D. S. Chang On the large sample theory of the
multivariate ratio estimator . . . . . . 1381--1390
Notz I. William and
Ajit C. Tamhane Balanced Treatment incomplete block
(BTIB) designs for comparing treatments
with a control: minimal complete sets of
generator designs for $ k = 3 $, $ p = 3
(1)10 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391--1412
H. Miyashita and
P. Newbold On the sensitivity to non-normality of a
test for outliers in linear models . . . 1413--1419
Land Margaret and
Broemeling Lyle Bayesian forecasting with changing
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1430
Adel I. Bargal and
David R. Thomas Smooth goodness of fit tests for the
Weibull distribution with singly
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431--1447
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Miguel A. Villalobos and
Grace Wahba Multivariate thin plate spline estimates
for the posterior probabilities in the
classification problem . . . . . . . . . 1449--1479
M. S. Srivastava On the distribution of Hotelling's $ T^2
$ and multiple correlation $ R^2 $ when
sampling from a mixture of two normals 1481--1497
William J. Raynor, Jr. Caliper pair-matching on a continuous
variable in case-control studies . . . . 1499--1509
Ronald H. Ketellapper and
Joop A. Weisbeek Further evidence on the appropriateness
of a robust estimation procedure for the
structural errors-in-variables model . . 1511--1522
Yosef Hochbeg and
Aaron Tenenbein On triple sampling schemes for
estimating from binomial data with
misclassification errors . . . . . . . . 1523--1533
Mikel Aickin Serial tests of multiple hypotheses . . 1535--1551
Ramona L. Trader A Bayesian predictive approach to the
selection of variables in multiple
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1553--1557
I. G. Evans and
A. S. Ragab Bayesian inferences given a type-$^2$
censored sample from a Burr distribution 1569--1580
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Jeyaraj Vadiveloo On the theory of modified randomization
tests for nonparametric hypotheses . . . 1581--1596
Michael A. Fligner and
Steven W. Rust On the independence problem and
Kendall's tau . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1597--1607
P. Sarmah and
A. D. Dharmadhikari Estimation of parameters of
$1$-out-of-$2$:$G$ repairable system . . 1609--1618
P. R. Parthasarathy and
P. Mayilswami Sojourn time distribution in a
stochastic compartmental system . . . . 1619--1635
C. Y. Leung and
M. S. Srivastava Asymptotic Comparison of Two
Discriminants Used in Normal Covariate
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1637--1646
C. Ming Wang On the analysis of multivariate repeated
measures designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647--1659
Kunio Shimizu Umvu estimation for covariances and
first product moments of transformed
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1661--1674
Subir Ghosh Influential observations in view of
design and inference . . . . . . . . . . 1675--1683
M. Singh and
P. Kumar and
R. R. Chandak Use of multi-auxiliary variables as a
condensed auxiliary variable in
selecting a sample . . . . . . . . . . . 1685--1697
Donald P. Gaver and
Rupert G. Miller, Jr. Jackknifing the Kaplan--Meier survival
estimator for censored data: Simulation
results and asymptotic analysis . . . . 1701--1718
E. M. Carter and
M. S. Srivastava Asymptotic non-null distribution for the
locally most powerful invariant test for
sphericity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1719--1725
A. M. Mathai and
D. S. Tracy On a random convex hull in an $n$-ball 1727--1736
Michael N. Boyd and
Pranab K. Sen Union-intersection rank tests for
ordered alternatives in some simple
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1737--1753
D. V. Chopra A note on an upper bound for the
constraints of balanced arrays with
strength $t$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1759
Manabu Suzuki Some asymptotic results in the
multivariate lognormal estimation theory 1761--1774
R. S. Sparks and
D. Coutsourides and
L. Troskie The multivariate $ C_p $ . . . . . . . . 1775--1793
V. K. Srivastva and
T. D. Dwivedi and
Y. P. Chaubey and
S. Bhatnagar Finite sample properties of Beale's
ratio estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . 1795--1805
Ramesh M. Korwa and
Govind Prasad and
Ashok Sahai A generalized improvement procedure for
variance bounds for minimum variance
unbiased estimator in inverse sampling 1807--1812
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John D. Spurrier Comparison of two independent life tests
subject to type II censoring . . . . . . 1813--1829
Roy Saunders and
Purushottam Laud and
Tsushung A. Hua A test of independence in the presence
of discrete points . . . . . . . . . . . 1831--1839
Subir Ghosh Statistical planning when the parameters
in the model are of unequal importance 1841--1853
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
P. K. Sen Nonparametric tests of location after a
preliminary test on regression in the
multivariate case . . . . . . . . . . . 1855--1872
Panagis G. Moschopoulos On a new transformation to normality . . 1873--1878
James M. Freeman Sampling experiments and the Quandt
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879--1887
David A. Kikuchi The inverse of a partitioned
positive-definite symmetric matrix . . . 1889--1900
Kenneth M. Gaver and
Ramon Rabinovitch Evaluating random choice models using
multivariate correlation analysis . . . 1901--1939
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Tie-Hua Ng and
Ronald H. Randles Rank procedures in many population
forced discrimination problems . . . . . 1943--1959
Joseph Glaz and
Joseph Naus Multiple clusters on the line . . . . . 1961--1986
John Gurland and
Evan E. Chen and
Fabian M. Hernandez A new discrete distribution involving
Laguerre polynomials . . . . . . . . . . 1987--2004
Panagis G. Moschopoulos A general procedure for deriving
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005--2015
Jose F. Soares and
C. F. Jeff Wu Some Restricted randomization rules in
sequential designs . . . . . . . . . . . 2017--2034
Luis A. Escobar and
James L. Cornette Spacing of information in polynomial
regression: a simple solution . . . . . 2035--2042
M. L. Tlku Exact efficiencies of some robust
estimators in sample survey . . . . . . 2043--2051
D. G. Kabe A quadratic programming approach to the
construction of simultaneous confidence
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2053--2058
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J. W. H. Swanepoel Bootstrap selection procedures based on
robust estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 2059--2083
Mohsen Pourahmadi Exact factorization of the spectral
density and its application to
forecasting and time series analysis . . 2085--2094
R. S. Singh and
T. Gasser and
B. Prasad Nonparametric estimates of distribution
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2095--2108
Jayanti Chotai Isotonic inference for populations
related to the uniform distribution . . 2109--2118
S. Ghosh and
K. P. Shah On the optimality of the generalized
room squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2119--2125
M. S. Chikkagoudar and
S. H. Kunchur Distributions of test statistics for
multiple outliers in exponential samples 2127--2142
T. Srivenkataramana and
D. S. Tracy Interchangeability of the ratio and
product methods in sample surveys . . . 2143--2150
D. M. Titterington Kernel-based density estimation using
censored, truncated or grouped data . . 2151--2167
F. G. Giesbrecht An efficient procedure for computing
MINQUE of variance components and
generalized least squares estimates of
fixed effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2169--2177
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Lee J. Bain Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii
Herbert Solomon Jury size and jury verdicts . . . . . . 2179--2215
Richard F. Gunst Regression analysis with multicollinear
predictor variables: definition,
direction, and effects . . . . . . . . . 2217--2260
M. Masoom Ali and
Dale Umbach and
A. K. Md Ehsanes Saleh and
Khatab M. Hassanein Estimating quantiles using optimally
selected order statistics . . . . . . . 2261--2271
Ronaldo Iachan Nonsampling errors in surveys --- a
review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2273--2287
Walter W. Piegorsch The questions of fit in the Gregor
Mendel controversy . . . . . . . . . . . 2289--2304
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Lee J. Bain Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
John E. Hewett and
John D. Spurrier A survey of two stage tests of
hypotheses: theory and application . . . 2307--2425
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W. D. Kaigh Quantile interval estimation . . . . . . 2427--2443
Keaven Anderson Convergence of the moment generating
function of standardized quantiles . . . 2445--2454
Edna Schechtman A conservative nonparametric
distribution-free confidence bound for
the shift in the changepoint problem . . 2455--2464
John G. Bush and
Brian W. Woodruff and
Albert H. Moore and
Edward J. Dunne Modified Cramér--von Mises and
Anderson--Darling tests for Weibull
distributions with unknown location and
scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 2465--2476
John E. Angus On the asymptotic distribution of
Cramér--von Mises one-sample test
statistics under an alternative . . . . 2477--2482
R. L. Eubank A note on optimal and robust spacing
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2483--2491
S. Theodore Chester, Jr. A note on a parametric extension of rank
tests to the analysis of multifactor
experiments within blocks . . . . . . . 2493--2502
Evdokia Xekalaki Hazard functions and life distributions
in discrete time . . . . . . . . . . . . 2503--2509
H. Nyquist The optimal L$_p$ norm estimator in
linear regression models . . . . . . . . 2511--2524
Kunio Shimizu Covariances between UMVU estimators for
means of transformed variables . . . . . 2525--2532
M. S. Srivastava and
G. C. Lee On the choice of transformations of the
correlation coefficient with or without
an outlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2533--2547
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R. W. Farebrother An examination of recent criticisms of
ridge regression simulation designs . . 2549--2555
R. Carter Hill and
Rod F. Ziemer Missing regressor values under
conditions of multicollinearity . . . . 2557--2573
Mario Baras Testing randomness against ordered
alternatives in a multinomial experiment
with grouped frequencies . . . . . . . . 2575--2580
Beverley D. Causey Estimation of proportions for
multinomial contingency tables subject
to marginal constraints . . . . . . . . 2581--2587
W. Y. Tan and
R. P. Gupta On approximating a linear combination of
central Wishart matrices with positive
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2589--2600
Devendra Chhetry and
George Kimeldorf A note on positive dependence in
multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 2601--2603
M. S. Ramachandra Murthy and
J. S. Murty Restricted region simplex design for
mixture experiments . . . . . . . . . . 2605--2615
Ricardo Fraiman General $M$-estimators and applications
to bounded influence estimation for
non-linear regression . . . . . . . . . 2617--2631
S. K. Perng and
Shu Geng Modified $d$-optimal sequential
procedure in allocation problem . . . . 2633--2644
Dankmar Bohning Convergence of a fixed point algorithm 2645--2653
G. T. Rizzuto and
T. L. Bouillon Busy period in batch queues . . . . . . 2655--2662
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Sharon Anderson and
Walter W. Hauck A new procedure for testing equivalence
in comparative bioavailability and other
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 2663--2692
H. I. Patel Use of baseline measurements in the
two-period crossover design . . . . . . 2693--2712
J. R. Ashford and
Hilary J. Doyle Dosage-response analysis for a
semi-quantal response derived from an
aqueous biological assay . . . . . . . . 2713--2722
H. J. Khamiss Log-linear model analysis of the
semi-symmetric intraclass contingency
table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2723--2752
Stephen W. Duffy On the merging of quoted survival rates
to obtain an overall rate . . . . . . . 2753--2760
W. Joan Kempthorne and
Gary G. Koch Statistical methodology for binary data
from a set of partially structured
two-way random cross-classifications . . 2761--2777
Lawrence L. Kupper and
Joseph M. Janis and
Ibrahim A. Salama and
Carl N. Yoshizawa and
Bernard G. Greenberg and
H. H. Winsborough Age-period-cohort analysis: an
illustration of the problems in
assessing interaction in one observation
per cell data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2779--2807
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Samuel Kotz and
Norman L. Johnson Some distributions arising from faulty
inspection with multitype defectives,
and an application to grading . . . . . 2809--2821
James A. Koziol Tests for symmetry about an unknown
value based on the empirical
distribution function . . . . . . . . . 2823--2846
Evan P. Smouse Nonparametric Bayesian inference for
dichotomous response models . . . . . . 2847--2859
Edward A. Cooley and
Pi-Erh Lin Bayes minimax estimators of a
multivariate normal mean, with
application to generalized ridge
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2861--2869
Christy Chuang Multiplicative-interaction logit models
for $ i \times j \times 2 $ three-way
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2871--2885
Christopher Jennison Equal probability of correct selection
for Bernoulli selection procedures . . . 2887--2896
Ruth Marcus and
Hovav Talpaz On testing homogeneity of $t$ normal
means against ordered alternatives in
$r$ groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2897--2902
Giorgio Pederzoli On the ratio of generalized variances 2903--2909
Dale Borowiak A multiple model discrimination
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2911--2921
R. W. Kulp and
B. N. Nagarsenker Asymptotic non-null distribution of a
test connected with exponential
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2923--2930
R. W. Kulp and
B. N. Nagarsenker Asymptotic non-null distribution of a
test of equality of exponential
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2931--2936
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C. Portier and
D. Hoel Type 1 error of trend tests in
proportions and the design of cancer
screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Lewis H. Shoemaker Robustness properties for a class of
scale estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--28
Timothy A. Wittig A generalized Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43
Mark Eakin and
Craig Slinkman and
Elinor S. Pape A cost based decision rule for deciding
between two estimators of $ \mu^y -
\mu^x $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--58
Hubert J. Chen and
John R. Pickett Selecting all treatments better than a
control under a multivariate normal
distribution and a uniform prior
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--80
James R. Lackritz Variance approximation for volume
fraction estimators from areal sampling 81--92
Wong Chi Song and
J. F. McDonald and
M. A. Selby The asymptotic distribution of a pivotal
quantity for a capture--recapture model 93--98
R. L. Schaefer and
L. D. Roi and
R. A. Wolfe A ridge logistic estimator . . . . . . . 99--113
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H. D. Vinod Fordham symposium on ridge regression:
introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
R. E. Kalman We can do something about
multicollinearity . . . . . . . . . . . 115--125
A. J. Hughes Hallett The use of ridge regression techniques
to generate risk sensitive decision
rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--138
Kenneth D. Lawrence and
Lawrence C. Marsh Robust ridge estimation methods for
predicting U.S. coal mining fatalities 139--149
Frank J. Fabozzi and
Raj Baldev and
Hrishikesh D. Vinod The stability of the systematic risk of
individual stocks: an application of
ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--161
James H. Gapinski Residents, recreationists, ridge
regression, and revenues: the five $r$'s
of Florida's motor-tax . . . . . . . . . 163--171
Diane I. Gibbons Some characterizations of the ridge
trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--182
John B. Guerard, Jr. and
Raymond L. Horton The management of executive compensation
in large, dynamic firms: a ridge
regression estimation . . . . . . . . . 183--190
R. W. Farebrother The restricted least squares estimator
and ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . 191--196
Michael R. Baye and
Darrell F. Parker Combining ridge and principal component
regression: a money demand illustration 197--205
Aman Ullah and
H. D. Vinod Improvement ranges for shrinkage
estimators with stochastic target . . . 207--215
Anup K. Anup and
G. S. Maddala Ridge estimators for distributed lag
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--225
Robert L. Obenchain Maximum likelihood ridge displays . . . 227--240
Rappoport Paul and
Michael L. Goetz Ridge estimation of price sensitivities
for long distance telephone demand for
bell competitors . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
Timothy I. Miller and
Ronald L. Tracy Further results concerning ridge
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--262
Yih-Wu Liu and
Richard H. Bee Ridge regression: an application in
criminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--271
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Dietrich Trenkler and
Götz Trenkler On the Euclidean distance between biased
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
Michael N. Boyd and
Pranab K. Sen Union-intersection rank tests for
ordered alternatives in a complete block
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--303
Konrad Behnen and
Marie Huskové A simple algorithm for the adaptation of
scores and power behavior of the
corresponding rank test . . . . . . . . 305--325
D. Teather Exchangeability and medical diagnosis 327--352
Martinez Jorge and
Iglewicz Boris Some properties of the Tukey $g$ and $h$
family of distributions . . . . . . . . 353--369
M. S. Srivastava and
Mohammad Awan Hyat On the robustness of the correlation
coefficient in sampling from a mixture
of two bivariate normals . . . . . . . . 371--382
Dennis E. Smith Examination of a parsimonious factor
screening technique: screening $ K =
2^{N - 1} - 1 $ factors in $N$ runs . . 383--393
Julia Abrahams and
John B. Thomas A note on the characterization of
bivariate densities by conditional
densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--400
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Lee J. Bain Statistical reviews . . . . . . . . . . v--v
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Lee J. Bain Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii
Emad El-Neweihi and
Frank Proschan Degradable systems: a survey of
multistate system theory . . . . . . . . 405--432
R. L. Eubank Approximate regression models and
splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--484
James W. Neill and
Dallas E. Johnson Testing for lack of fit in regression
--- a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--511
Terry E. Dielman Least absolute value estimation in
regression models: an annotated
bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--541
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Joseph D. Petruccelli and
Neville Davies Some restrictions on the use of corner
method hypothesis tests . . . . . . . . 543--551
Derrick S. Tracy Moments of sample moments . . . . . . . 553--562
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Joel E. Michalek On Gehan's Wilcoxon and the accelerated
failure time model . . . . . . . . . . . 563--566
B. C. Gupta and
Ramirez S. S. Carvajal A necessary condition for the existence
of main effect plus one plans for $ 2^m
$ factorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--580
Edwin B. Blasidell Systematic designs permitting
determination of trends in several
attributes each unaffected by the others 581--598
James L. Rosenberger and
Dennis E. Smith Interruptible supersaturated two-level
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--609
Robert W. Chen and
Eric V. Slud On the product of symmetric random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--615
C. H. Proctor On the detection of clustering and
anisotropy using binary data from a
lattice patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--638
Gregory C. Reinsel Effects of the estimation of covariance
matrix parameters in the generalized
multivariate linear model . . . . . . . 639--650
Nader Ebrahimi Maximum likelihood estimation, from
doubly censored samples, of the mean of
a normal distribution with known
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 651--659
F. Burk and
L. Dion and
D. Fridshal and
E. Langford and
C. O'Cinneide and
T. Parsons In a conjecture relating $ \chi^2 $ and
$F$ quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--670
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Derck Teather The estimation of exchangeable binomial
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--680
M. Schemper A generalized Wilcoxon test for data
defined by intervals . . . . . . . . . . 681--684
R. W. Kulp and
B. N. Nagarsenker Test of independence between tow sets of
variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--698
Y. P. Chaubey and
T. D. Dwivedi and
M. Singh An efficiency comparison of product and
ratio estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--709
M. C. Wang and
V. Aggarwal Stratification under a particular Pareto
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--735
Erdogan Gunel A Bayesian analysis of the multinomial
model for a dichotomous response with
nonrespondents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--751
Kentaro Nomakuchi and
Toshio Sakata The union-intersection principle applied
to the test of dimensionality . . . . . 753--760
J. A. M. Ottieno and
M. S. Patel Two stage group-screening designs with
unequal a-priori probabilities . . . . . 761--779
Jack W. Lee and
W. Y. Tan On the degree of polynomial in a general
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--790
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Gambino Jack and
Guttman Irwin A Bayesian approach to prediction in the
presence of spurious observations for
several models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--812
Jeffrey S. Simonoff A comparison of robust methods and
detection of outliers techniques when
estimating a location parameter . . . . 813--842
Charernkavanich Dusit and
A. Clifford Cohen Estimation in the singly truncated
Weibull distribution with an unknown
truncation point . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--857
Littlewood Bev Subjective probability and the
DFR-mixture closure theorem . . . . . . 859--863
Shanmugam Ramalingam and
Singh Jagbir A characterization of the logarithmic
series distribution and its application 865--875
Shur Walter The negative contagion reflection of the
Pólya--Eggenberger distribution . . . . . 877--885
Andrew P. Soms Note on an extension of rational bounds
for the $t$-tail area to arbitrary
degrees of freedom . . . . . . . . . . . 887--891
Rice John Boundary modification for kernel
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--900
Manuel Mendoza Ramírez A modification to some proposed tests in
relation to the problem of switching
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 901--914
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James L. Kepner and
Ronald H. Randles Comparison of tests for bivariate
symmetry versus location and/or scale
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--930
Daniel M. Grove Positive association in a two-way
contingency table: likelihood ratio
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--945
Adrian E. Raftery A continuous multivariate exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--965
M. L. Tiku and
N. Balakrishnan Robust multivariate classification
procedures based on the MML estimators 967--986
K. Rao Kadiyala and
H. Dennis Oberhelman Alternative tests for heteroscedasticity
of disturbances: a comparative study . . 987--1001
Tsurumi Hiroki and
Sheflin Neil Bayesian tests of a parameter shift
under heteroscedasticity: weighted-$t$
vs. double-$t$ approaches . . . . . . . 1003--1013
Erkki P. Liski Regression analysis with two mixed forms
of heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . 1015--1030
R. K. Amoh Estimation of parameters in mixtures of
inverse Gaussian distributions . . . . . 1031--1043
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Jerome P. Keating and
Youn-Min Chou An adaptive estimator frequently used in
material fatigue testing . . . . . . . . 1047--1061
Roger C. Grimson and
Dana Quade A simple test for equally likely random
responses in a sequence of Bernoulli
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1071
David F. Findley On the mean square convergence of the
convolution representation of linear
filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1087
S. R. Adke and
S. M. Manjunath Sequential estimation for continuous
time finite Markov processes . . . . . . 1089--1106
S. N. Narahari Pandit and
C. Raghavendra Rao On a new distribution arising in
decaying inventory systems . . . . . . . 1107--1120
Christy Chuang On the decomposition of $ X^2 $ for
two-way contingency tables . . . . . . . 1121--1126
Luis A. Escobar and
Bradley Skarpness A closed form solution for the least
squares regression problem with linear
inequality constraints . . . . . . . . . 1127--1134
Ron C. Mittelhammer and
Roger K. Conway On the admissibility of restricted least
squares estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1146
M. S. Patel and
J. A. M. Ottieno Two-stage group-screening designs with
equal prior probabilities and no errors
in decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1159
Barry R. Davis Nonparametric prediction analysis for
binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161--1175
Lawrence L. Kupper and
Joseph M. Janis and
Ibrahim A. Salama and
Carl N. Yoshizawa and
Bernard G. Greenberg Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1177
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D. J. Slymen and
P. A. Lachenbruch Survival distributions arising from two
families and generated by
transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1201
Kotz Samuel and
L. Johnson Norman and
N. Rodriguez Robert Inspection errors in link sampling . . . 1203--1213
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz Moment estimators of defect pattern
frequencies, allowing for inspection
error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1226
Stephen M. Scariano and
James W. Neill and
James M. Davenport Testing regression function adequacy
with correlation and without replication 1227--1237
M. M. Shoukri and
R. H. Ward On the estimation of the intraclass
correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1255
Martin S. Levy and
S. K. Perng A maximum likelihood prediction function
for the linear model with consistency
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257--1273
R. J. Martin Exact maximum likelihood for incomplete
data from a correlated Gaussian process 1275--1288
W. Chen Robert and
K. Hwang Frank Some theorems, counterexamples, and
conjectures in multinomial selection
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1289--1298
H. W. Corley Multivariate order statistics . . . . . 1299--1304
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Broemeling Lyle and
Land Margaret On forecasting with univariate
autoregressive processes: a Bayesian
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1320
James M. Freeman Two-phase regression and goodness of fit 1321--1334
H. K. Hsieh Nonparametric tests for scale shift at
an unknown time point . . . . . . . . . 1335--1355
M. Samanta Estimation of the location parameter of
an exponential distribution with known
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 1357--1364
P. Sarmah and
A. D. Dharmadhikari Estimation of parameters of
$1$-out-of-$n$: g repairable system . . 1365--1374
Shah Arvind K. and
P. L. Claypool Analysis of binary data for the balanced
one-way classification . . . . . . . . . 1375--1390
S. J. Schwager and
W. T. Federer and
B. L. Raktoe Nonisomorphic complete sets of
orthogonal $f$-squares and Hadamard
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391--1406
Broemeling Lyle and
Yusoff Abdullah Mat An approximation to the poly-$t$
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407--1422
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M. K. Khan Discrete adaptive design in attribute
life testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1433
E. Jacquelin Dietz Linear signed rank tests for
multivariate location . . . . . . . . . 1435--1451
K. F. Cheng Asymptotically nonparametric tests with
censored paired data . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1470
David Fairley and
Dennis K. Pearl The Bahadur efficiency of paired versus
joint ranking procedures for pairwise
multiple comparisons . . . . . . . . . . 1471--1481
S. C. Gupta The analysis of non-orthogonal designs
with many classifications . . . . . . . 1483--1492
B. N. Nagarsenker and
P. B. Nagarsenker and
D. W. Quinn Asymptotic expansions of the non-central
distribution of Wilks' statistic in the
complex Gaussian case . . . . . . . . . 1493--1505
Tapas K. Chandra and
Rahul Mukerjee On the optimality of Rao's statistic . . 1507--1515
Chun-tu Lin Extrema of quadratic forms and
statistical applications . . . . . . . . 1517--1520
David H. Moen and
Lyle D. Broemeling Testing for a change lit the regression
matrix of a multivariate linear model 1521--1531
P. C. Consul and
M. M. Shoukri Maximum likelihood estimation for the
generalized Poisson distribution . . . . 1533--1547
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Jagdish K. Patel and
Lee J. Bain Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Robert V. Hogg and
Russell V. Lenth A review of some adaptive statistical
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551--1579
W. J. Padgett and
Diane T. McNichols Nonparametric density estimation from
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1581--1611
H. Leon Harter Another look at plotting positions . . . 1613--1633
John D. Spurrier An overview of tests for exponentiality 1635--1654
M. Schemper A survey of permutation tests for
censored survival data . . . . . . . . . 1655--1665
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Poduri S. R. S. Rao and
Edward A. Sylvestre Anova and MINQUE type of estimators for
the one-way random effects model . . . . 1667--1673
Masahide Kuwada and
Masaaki Matsuura On robustness of balanced fractional $
2^m $ factorial designs of resolution
VII derived from simple arrays . . . . . 1675--1691
Jorge Alberto Achcar Use of Bayesian analysis to design of
clinical trials with one treatment . . . 1693--1707
Bimal Kumar Sinha and
Anirban Das Gupta Admissibility of generalized Bayes and
Pitman estimates in the non-regular
family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1709--1721
T. P. Hutchinson Using the bivariate normal distribution
to construct probability models in the
health sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 1723--1733
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Kishan G. Mehrotra and
Joel E. Michalek A small sample test for an absolutely
continuous bivariate exponential model 1735--1740
Lisa A. Weissfeld and
H. Samuel Wieand Bounds on efficiencies for some
two-sample nonparametric statistics . . 1741--1757
Mete Sirvanci An estimator for the scale parameter of
the two parameter Weibull distribution
for Type I singly right-censored data 1759--1768
Shailaja R. Deshmukh Maximum likelihood estimation for
branching migration process . . . . . . 1769--1780
Kurt Brännäs and
Stig Uhlin Improper use of the ordinary least
squares estimator in the switching
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781--1791
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Roger L. Berger Testing Whether One Regression Function
is Larger Than Another . . . . . . . . . 1793--1810
Arie Kapteyn and
Tom Wansbeek Errors in variables: consistent adjusted
least squares (CALS) estimation . . . . 1811--1837
A. P. Basu and
Nader Ebrahimi Testing whether survival function is
bivariate new better than used . . . . . 1839--1849
Max R. Mickey and
Claude O. Archer Reliability models for categorical data 1851--1869
Samir Shaarawy and
Lyle Broemeling Bayesian inferences and forecasts with
moving averages processes . . . . . . . 1871--1888
Jerome P. Keating and
Rhonda C. Magel Comments on estimators based on error in
the predicted distribution function . . 1889--1900
V. B. Waikar and
F. J. Schuurmann and
T. E. Raghunathan On a two stage shrinkage testimator of
the mean of a normal distribution . . . 1901--1913
Edward P. Markowski The mean of linear signed rank
statistics under alternatives . . . . . 1915--1918
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Graham Kalton and
Leslie Kish Some efficient random imputation methods 1919--1939
Philip J. Smith and
Erdogan Gunel Practical Bayesian approaches to the
analystcs of a $ 2 \times 2 $
contingency table with incompletely
categorized data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1941--1963
Paul G. Marlin Goodness-of-fit tests for the Pareto and
lognormal distributions based on
multiply truncated samples . . . . . . . 1965--1979
James C. Spall and
Kent D. Wall Asymptotic distribution theory for the
Kalman filter state estimator . . . . . 1981--2003
J. S. Butler and
Kathryn H. Anderson Continuous outcomes stochastically
mismeasured as discrete random
variables: a maximum likelihood approach 2005--2012
Steven W. Rust and
Michael A. Filgner A modification of the Kruskal--Wallis
statistic for the generalized
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 2013--2027
Gordon H. Fick A study of linear model analysis by an
error contour emulation . . . . . . . . 2029--2047
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Danny Dyer and
Paul Chiou An information-theoretic approach to
incorporating prior information in
binomial sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 2051--2083
T. W. F. Stroud Bayesian shrinkage estimates for
regression coefficients in $m$
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2085--2109
Yoshiko Isogawa Large sample theory for a multivariate
structural relationship with replication 2111--2118
D. G. Nel and
D. J. De Waal and
D. G. Marx A predictive approach to the detection
of additional information in a
multivariate regression model . . . . . 2119--2132
Khursheed Alam and
K. M. Lal Saxena Bounded length confidence interval for a
common mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2133--2142
M. L. Tiku and
N. Balakrishnan Testing equality of population variances
the robust way . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2143--2159
Shaul K. Bar-Lev On independence of statistics in
truncated exponential models . . . . . . 2161--2172
R. P. Kindermann and
M. S. Levy A condition for best asymptotic
normality in a regular family of
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2173--2179
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K. V. Mardia Spatial discrimination and
classification maps . . . . . . . . . . 2181--2197
K. C. S. Pillai and
Bernhard N. Flury Percentage points of the largest
characteristic root of the multivariate
beta matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2199--2237
Dal ton F. Andrade and
Ronald W. Helms Maximum likelihood estimates in the
multivariate normal with patterned mean
and covariance via the em algorithm . . 2239--2251
John Shin and
H. D. Brunk Bayes least squares linear estimation of
densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2253--2291
P. Stanley and
J. W. Kennerley and
J. M. Newton Assignment errors in histograms with
equal class intervals of arbitrary width 2293--2306
G. Jones and
R. C. H. Cheng On the asymptotic efficiency of moment
and maximum likelihood estimators in the
three-parameter inverse Gaussian
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307--2314
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
David L. Demets, Ph.D. and
Gordon K. K. Lan, Ph.D. An overview of sequential methods and
their application in clinical trials . . 2315--2338
K. K. Gordon Lan and
David L. Detlets and
Max Halperin More flexible sequential and
non-sequential designs in long-term
clinical trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2339--2353
T. L. Lai Incorporating scientific, ethical and
economic considerations into the design
of clinical trials in the pharmaceutical
industry: a sequential approach . . . . 2355--2368
Paul L. Canner Monitoring long-term clinical trials for
beneficial and adverse treatment effects 2369--2394
David L. DeMets, Ph.D. Stopping guidelines vs stopping rules: a
practitioner's point of view . . . . . . 2395--2417
A. E. Hearron and
G. L. Elfring and
J. R. Schultz Biopharmaceutical applications of group
sequential designs . . . . . . . . . . . 2419--2450
Dan Anbar Stochastic approximation methods and
their use in bioassay and Phase I
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 2451--2467
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Thomas R. Fleming and
David P. Harrington Nonparametric estimation of the survival
distribution in censored data . . . . . 2469--2486
Beverley D. Causey Estimation under generalized sampling of
cell proportions for contingency tables
subject to marginal constraints . . . . 2487--2494
Robert Bartels The rank von Neumann test as a test for
autocorrelation in regression models . . 2495--2502
Antti J. Kanto A characterization of the inverse
autocorrelation function . . . . . . . . 2503--2510
S. R. Kulkarni and
S. R. Paranjape Use of Andrews' function plot technique
to construct control curves for
multivariate process . . . . . . . . . . 2511--2533
Youn-Min Chou and
D. B. Owen An approximation to percentiles of a
variable of the bivariate normal
distribution when the other variable is
truncated, with applications . . . . . . 2535--2547
Wei-Yin Loh Partially-adaptive robust estimators of
location via exponential embedding . . . 2549--2570
D. G. Kabe On the maximal invariance of MANOVA step
down procedure statistics . . . . . . . 2571--2581
R. Radhakrishnan Estimating Mahalanobis's distance using
Bayesian analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 2583--2600
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Thomas J. Lorenzen Randomization and blocking in the design
of experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2601--2623
Carl A. Mauro and
Kevin C. Burns A comparison of random balance and
two-stage group screening designs: A
case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2625--2648
M. S. Patel and
J. A. M. Ottieno Optimum two stage group-screening
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2649--2663
Joachim Kunert Designs balanced for circular residual
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2665--2671
Youn-Min Chou and
Kathleen H. Arthur and
Rebecca B. Rosenstein and
D. B. Owen New representations of the noncentral
chi-square density and cumulative . . . 2673--2678
Donald M. Waldman The mean of the conditional, truncated
multinormal distribution . . . . . . . . 2679--2689
Jerome P. Keating and
Ram C. Tripathi Comparison of some two sample tests for
equality of variances . . . . . . . . . 2691--2706
Hubert J. Chen Sample size determinations when two
binomial proportions are very small . . 2707--2712
Aisha Ragab and
Jack Green On order statistics from the
log-logistic distribution and their
properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2713--2724
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Pranab Kumar Sen A James--Stein type detour of
$U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2725--2747
Nasrollah Etemadi On the maximal inequalities for the
average of pairwise i.i.d. random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2749--2756
Wei-Yin Loh Random quotients and robust estimation 2757--2769
Vincent N. LaRiccia Parameter estimation based upon
nonparametric function estimators . . . 2771--2792
Surendar S. Yadava and
Ravindra Singh Optimum stratification for allocation
proportional to strata totals for simple
random sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . 2793--2806
N. J. D. Nagelkerke and
E. A. Van der Velde Hypothesis tests for linear functional
relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2807--2816
Kazuhiro Ohtani and
Yuzo Honda On small sample properties of the mixed
regression predictor under
misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 2817--2825
Abdalla T. El-Helbawy and
Essam A. Ahmed Optimal design results for $ 2^n $
factorial paired comparison experiments 2827--2845
Yael Alberton and
Yosef Hochberg Approximations for the distribution of a
maximal pairwise $t$ in some repeated
measure designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 2847--2854
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Raj S. Chhikara Communications in statistics . . . . . . 7--8
A. G. Houston and
F. G. Hall Use of satellite data in agricultural
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2857--2880
Richard P. Heydorn Using satellite remotely sensed data to
estimate crop proportions . . . . . . . 2881--2903
Raj S. Chhikara and
Cecil R. Hallum and
T. G. Lycthuan-Lee Sampling designs for LANDSAT crop
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2905--2935
Alan H. Feiveson Weighted ratio estimation in
agricultural surveys . . . . . . . . . . 2937--2959
Robert L. Sielken and
Edward E. Gbur Multiyear, through the season crop
acreage estimation using estimated
acreage in sample segments . . . . . . . 2961--2974
Gail Walker and
Richard Sigman The use of LANDSAT for county estimates
of crop areas: evaluation of the
Huddleston--Ray and the Battese--Fuller
estimators for the case of stratified
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2975--2996
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Robert E. Bechhofer and
Radhika V. Kulkarni Closed sequential procedures for
selecting the multinomial events which
have the largest probabilities . . . . . 2997--3031
Thomas Mathew and
C. R. Rao and
B. K. Sinha Admissible linear estimation in singular
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3033--3045
P. Borwein and
G. Gabor On the behavior of MLE of the scale
parameter of the Student family . . . . 3047--3057
Dan Bradu Response surface model diagnosis in
two-way tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3059--3106
Vijay Aggarwal and
Ravindra Singh On optimum stratification with
proportional allocation for a class of
Pareto distributions . . . . . . . . . . 3107--3116
Eve Bofinger $ \Delta $-correct decision for location
and scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . 3117--3121
S. Kocherlakota and
N. Balakrishnan Two sided acceptance sampling plans
based on MML estimators . . . . . . . . 3123--3131
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Joel B. Greenhouse and
Robert A. Wolfe A competing risks derivation of a
mixture model for the analysis of
survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3133--3154
Stephen M. Scariano and
James M. Davenport Corrected $F$-tests in the general
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3155--3172
D. D. Sarath Kulatunga and
Syoichi Sasabuchi A test of simultaneous homogeneity
against ordered alternatives in
multifactorial design . . . . . . . . . 3173--3183
Sanpei Kegeyama and
R. N. Mohan Three methods of constructing PBIB
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3185--3189
Mayer Alvo and
Paul Cabilio A comparison of approximations to the
distribution of average Kendall tau . . 3191--3216
Wagner de Souza Borges and
Frank Proschan and
Josemar Rodrigues A simple test for new better than used
in expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3217--3223
Ch A. Charalambides Probabilities and moments of generalized
discrete distributions using finite
difference operators . . . . . . . . . . 3225--3241
Ramalingam Shanmugam A test for homogeneity when the sample
is a positive Lagrangian Poisson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3243--3250
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Joseph V. Ierza Ordinal probit: A generalization . . . . 1--11
J. D. Iubbs and
O. E. Smith A note on the ratio of positively
correlated gamma variates . . . . . . . 13--23
M. S. Srivastava and
G. C. Lee On the robustness of tests of
correlation coefficient in the presence
of an outlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--40
Badri Prasad and
V. V. Menon Poisson approximation to the
distribution of empty cells in
randomized occupancy . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
David F. Findley On Backshift-Operator polynomial
transformations to stationarity for
nonstationary time series and their
aggregates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--61
Hardeo Sahai and
Andre I. Khuri and
C. H. Kapadia A second bibliography on variance
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--115
Peter W. M. John Non-isomorphism of two latin square
designs for sixteen varieties . . . . . 117--121
Kenneth J. Risko Selecting the better binomial population
with unequal sample sizes . . . . . . . 123--158
Sergio G. Koreisha and
Stanley A. Taylor Identification of transfer function
models: an asymptotic test of
significance for the corner method . . . 159--173
N. Balakrishnan and
S. Kocherlakota Robust two sided tolerance limits based
on MML estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
Giorgio Pederzoli On uniformly distributed random points
in an $n$-Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--194
Giorgio Pederzoli On beta Type-1 distributed random points
in an $n$-ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--202
Iapan Kumar Nayak On diversity measures based on entropy
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--215
Andrew P. Soms Permutation tests for $k$-sample
binomial data with comparisons of exact
and approximate $P$-levels . . . . . . . 217--233
A. C. Kimber Methods for the two-piece normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--245
A. K. Md Ehsanes Saleh and
Khatab M. Hassanein and
Edward F. Brown Optimum spacings for the joint
estimation and tests of hypothesis of
location and scale parameters of the
Cauchy distribution . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
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D. B. Owen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
André M. Lubecke and
W. J. Padgett Nonparametric maximum penalized
likelihood estimation of a density from
arbitrarily right-censored observations 257--271
C. H. Kraft and
Y. Lepage and
C. Van Eeden Estimation of a symmetric density
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--288
A. J. Lee On estimating the variance of a
$U$-statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--301
Sergio Wechsler Mood's test for dispersion as a counting
of triplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--306
Stephen C. Hora Goodness of fit tests using regression 307--332
N. Balakrishnan and
H. J. Malik Some general identities involving order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--339
Harri Hietikko On the approximation to the $ {\rm
ARMA}(P, Q) $ covariance determinant . . 341--353
R. M. Korwar Bounds for the variance of the
Graybill--Deal estimator of the common
mean of two normal distributions . . . . 355--361
Nityaoanda Sarkar Box-cox transformation and the problem
of heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . 363--379
Subhash C. Kochar Testing exponentiality against monotone
failure rate average . . . . . . . . . . 381--392
Yaçin Tuncer Equivalence of parametric
identifiability and estimability . . . . 393--400
Lyle Broemeling and
Abdullah Mat Yusoff and
Joaquin Diaz Some Bayesian solutions for problems of
adaptive estimation in linear dynamic
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418
John J. Lefante, Jr. and
Malcolm E. Turner, Jr. The average likelihood and a fiducial
approximation: one parameter members of
the generalized gamma distributions . . 419--436
H. C. C. H. Coolen and
J. L. A. Van Rijckevorsel and
H. J. Duivenvoorden and
A. H. B. Schuurs A non linear analysis of the preference
for preservation of the teeth . . . . . 437--450
K. E. Basford and
G. J. McLachlan Cluster analysis in a randomized
complete block design . . . . . . . . . 451--463
N. Balakrishnan and
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota Robustness to nonnormality of the linear
discriminant function: mixtures of
normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . 465--478
Marvin H. J. Gruber A comparison of Bayes estimators and
constrained least square estimators . . 479--489
Thomas Mathew Admissible linear estimation in singular
linear models with respect to a
restricted parameter set . . . . . . . . 491--498
Danielle Morin-Wahhab Moments of a ratio of two quadratic
forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--508
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Mohammad-Ali Kafaei and
Peter Schmidt On the adequacy of the ``Sargan
distribution'' as an approximation to
the normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--526
Chou Youn-Min New representations for the doubly
noncentral $F$-distribution and derived
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--534
R. Radhakrishnan Influence functions for certain
parameters in discriminant analysis when
a single discriminant function is not
adequate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--549
O. J. Pendleton Influential observations in the analysis
of variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--565
O. J. Pendleton Influential observations in the analysis
of variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--583
Ramona L. Trader Bayesian inference for truncated
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 585--592
Charles E. McCulloch Relationships among some chi-square
goodness of fit statistics . . . . . . . 593--603
Peter D. Hill Kernel estimation of a distribution
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--620
A. K. Md. Ehsanesh Saleh and
Pranab Kumar Sen Asymptotic relative efficiency of some
joint-tests for location and scale
parameters based on selected order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--633
John P. Buonaccorsi Ratios of linear combinations in the
general linear model . . . . . . . . . . 635--650
A. Ciampi and
J. Etezadi-Amoli A general model for testing the
proportional hazards and the accelerated
failure time hypotheses in the analysis
of censored survival data with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--667
Rahul Mukerjee and
S. Huda $D$-optimal statistical designs with
restricted string property . . . . . . . 669--677
Mark D. Schelchter and
Alan B. Forsythe Post-hoc selection of covariates in
randomized experiments . . . . . . . . . 679--699
D. D. Sarath Kulatunga Testing homogeneity of $t$ normal means
against ordered alternatives in $2$
groups having uncommon and unknown
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--711
Badiollah R. Asrabadi The exact confidence interval for the
scale parameter and the MVUE of the
Laplace distribution . . . . . . . . . . 713--733
P. Kabaila and
G. Nelson On confidence regions for the mean of a
multivariate time series . . . . . . . . 735--753
Ruth M. Mickey Large sample bias of maximum likelihood
estimates from a series of sparse $ i
\times j $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . 755--759
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Richard K. Burdick and
Franklin A. Graybill Confidence intervals on the total
variance in an unbalanced two-fold
nested classification with equal
subsampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--774
M. S. Srivastava Multivariate data with missing
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--792
Annick Lambert and
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
Pranab Kumar Sen On least squares estimation of
intercepts after a preliminary test on
parallelism of regression lines . . . . 793--807
E. E. Gbur and
P. F. Dahm Estimation of the linear-linear
segmented regression model in the
presence of measurement error . . . . . 809--826
R. Gonin and
A. H. Money Nonlinear $ L_P $-norm estimation: Part
I --- on the choice of the exponent,
$p$, where the errors are additive . . . 827--840
R. Gonin and
A. H. Money Nonlinear $ L_p $-norm estimation: Part
II: The asymptotic distribution of the
exponent, $p$, as a function of the
sample kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--849
C. D. Lai On the reliability of a standby system
composed of two dependent exponential
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--860
Avital Cnaan Survival models with two phases and
length biased sampling . . . . . . . . . 861--886
Jayant V. Deshpande and
Harshinder Singh Testing for second order stochastic
dominance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--893
Wei-Yin Loh A note on the geometry of
Kullback--Leibler information numbers 895--904
Saul Blumenthal Asymptotic expansions for modified
maximum likelihood estimators with
percentile truncated data . . . . . . . 905--925
George E. Kokolakis A martingale approach to the problem of
dimensionality and performance of
Bayesian classifiers: asymptotic results 927--935
H. A. Howlader Approximate Bayes estimation of
reliability of two parameter inverse
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 937--946
James H. Albert A Bayesian treatment of nonresponse when
sampling from a dichotomous population 947--961
H. P. Singh and
R. Iachan and
L. N. Upadhyaya Almost unbiased ratio and product
estimators based on interpenetrating
subsamples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--978
Seth M. Steinberg and
C. E. Davis Distribution-free confidence intervals
for quantiles in small samples . . . . . 979--990
R. N. Pillai Semi-$ \alpha $-Laplace distributions 991--1000
Peyton Cook Bayesian autoregressive spectral
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001--1018
J. M. Dickey and
D. V. Lindley and
S. J. Press Bayesian estimation of the dispersion
matrix of a multivariate normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1034
Roger J. Owen Accuracy, confidence and consensus in
Bayesian hypothesis inference . . . . . 1035--1052
S. James Press and
Kazuo Shigemasu Bayesian MANOVA and MANOCOVA under
exchangeability . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1078
A. F. M. Smith and
A. M. Skene and
J. E. H. Shaw and
J. C. Naylor and
M. Dransfield The implementation of the Bayesian
paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1102
Hiroki Tsurumi Limited information Bayesian analysis of
a structural coefficient in a
simultaneous equations system . . . . . 1103--1120
Eugene F. Schuster Incorporating support constraints into
nonparametric estimators of densities 1123--1136
Ashok Shanubhogue and
A. P. Gore Non-parametric tests for several sample
location problem based on subsample
extrema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1150
Noriaki Setô and
Kosei Iwase Umvu estimators of the mode and limits
of an interval for the inverse Gaussian
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1161
Noel C. Wheeler and
Bonnie H. Corre and
Anant M. Kshirsagar The weighted compounding of
probabilities from three independent
hypothesis tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163--1174
Arvind K. Shah and
P. L. Claypool Analysis of binary data in the
randomized complete block design . . . . 1175--1179
Hiroko Nakanishi and
Yoshiharu Sato The performance of the linear and
quadratic discriminant functions for
three types of non-normal distribution 1181--1200
James R. Schott Comparison of some goodness of fit tests
for a single non-isotropic hypothetical
principal component . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1215
J. Bee Bednar and
Brenda Roberts On the relationship between Levinson
recursion and the $r$ and $s$ arrays for
ARMA model identification . . . . . . . 1217--1248
Irwin Guttman and
P. Hougaard Studentization and prediction problems
in multivariate multiple regression . . 1251--1258
Bhagwandas Shakti Banerjee and
Sanpei Kageyama Patterned constructions of partially
balanced incomplete block design . . . . 1259--1267
J. Lew Silver and
Mukhtar Ali Additional approximations to the
distribution of a structural coefficient
estimator for the case of two included
endogenous variables For the case of two
included endogenous variables . . . . . 1269--1282
Y. K. Tse and
C. T. Phoon Testing for heteroscedasticity in a
dynamic simultaneous equation model . . 1283--1300
Dilip B. Madan The measurement of capital utilisation
rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301--1314
P. D. Puri and
Sanpei Kageyama Constructions of partially
efficiency-balanced designs and their
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1342
M. S. Patel and
J. K. Arap Koske Conditions for fourth order rotatability
in $K$ dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1351
David W. Scott and
Simon J. Sheather Kernel density estimation with binned
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353--1359
P. J. De Jongh and
T. De Wet Trimmed mean and bounded influence
estimators for the parameters of the $
{\rm AR}(1) $ process . . . . . . . . . 1361--1375
Lloyd E. Chambless and
Kerrie E. Boyle Maximum likelihood methods for complex
sample data: logistic regression and
discrete proportional hazards models . . 1377--1392
R. W. Haas and
R. F. Gunst and
D. B. Owen Screening procedures using quadratic
forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1404
Doug Wiens Ellipsoidal confidence regions for a
normal covariance matrix . . . . . . . . 1405--1411
W. R. Javier and
A. K. Gupta On matric variate-$t$ distribution . . . 1413--1425
Bimal Kumar Sinha and
Bernard Clement and
Narayan C. Giri Tests for means with additional
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1427--1451
K. Kocherlakota and
S. Kocherlakota On some tests for independence in
nonnormal situations: Neyman's C(A) test 1453--1470
A. D. Barbour and
D. I. Cartwright and
J. B. Donnelly and
G. K. Eagleson A new rank test for the $k$-sample
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1471--1484
D. S. Tracy and
I. H. Tajuddin Extended moment results for improving
inferences based on MRPP . . . . . . . . 1485--1496
S. R. Paul A three-parameter generalization of the
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 1497--1506
Anonymous Referee recognition . . . . . . . . . . 1507--1509
Thomas L. Boullion and
Grace C. Cascio and
Jerome P. Keating Comparison of estimators of the fraction
defective in the normal distribution . . 1511--1529
Robert L. Mason and
John C. Young Re-examining two tests for bivariate
normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1531--1546
Hisao Nagao On the limiting distributions of the
jackknife statistics for eigenvalues of
a sample covariance matrix . . . . . . . 1547--1567
R. S. Sparks and
W. Zucchini and
D. Coutsourides On variable selection in multivariate
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1569--1587
Tze-San Lee and
Don B. Campbell Selecting the optimum $k$ in ridge
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1589--1604
Fred J. Connell The bivariate linear model: a geometric
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605--1614
N. Singh A simple and asymptotically optimal test
for the equality of $ k (\geq 2) $
exponential distributions based on type
II censored samples . . . . . . . . . . 1615--1625
Thomas Arbutiski A family of multiplicative survival
models incorporating a long-term
survivorship parameter $c$ as a function
of covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1627--1642
Blossom H. Patterson and
Paul J. Smith Asymptotic and finite sample behavior of
the time on test estimator under random
censorship when lifetimes are not
Exponential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643--1658
Jan F. Bjòrnstad Asymptotic consistency of procedures for
selecting good populations . . . . . . . 1659--1668
W. Robert Stephenson and
Malay Ghosh Two sample nonparametric tests based on
subsamples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1669--1684
S. Shirahata Asymptotic properties of Kruskal--Wallis
test and Friedman test in the analysis
of variance models with random effects 1685--1692
Linda June Davis Alternative moment approximations for
Berkson's minimum logit chi-squared
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1693--1708
Ted H. Szatrowski The relationship between two
parameterizations of linear patterned
mean and covariance models . . . . . . . 1709--1712
Douglas G. Bonett The negative multinomial logit model . . 1713--1717
James C. Spall An implicit function based procedure for
analyzing maximum likelihood estimates
from nonidentically distributed data . . 1719--1730
Sanpei Kageyama and
P. D. Puri A new special class of PEB designs . . . 1731--1744
Kai F. Yu On the asymptotic expectation and
variance of the number of boundary
crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1745--1753
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
David H. Moen and
Diego Salazar and
Lyle D. Broemeling Structural changes in multivariate
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1757--1768
Ben Zehnwirth Nonparametric linear Bayes estimation of
survival curves from incomplete
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1769--1778
Ram C. Tripathi and
Ramesh C. Gupta A generalization of the log-series
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779--1799
S. M. Rudolfer and
M. G. Campbell Large sample inference for diagnostic
normal limits in Gaussian populations 1801--1835
Dale Borowiak A dependent multiple failure mode
modelling procedure . . . . . . . . . . 1837--1847
Eve Bofinger Expanded confidence intervals . . . . . 1849--1864
J. P. C. Kleijnen and
H. M. M. T. Denis and
R. M. G. Kerckhoffs Efficient estimation of power functions 1865--1878
Ron C. Mittelhammer and
Roger K. Conway Extending Chipman's MARL estimator to
cases of ignorance in one or more
parameter dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 1879--1888
Leigh W. Murray and
D. W. Smith Estimability, testability, and
connectedness in the cell means model 1889--1917
Jane F. Pendergast and
James D. Broffitt Robust estimation in growth curve models 1919--1939
R. W. Farebrother Unbiased $ L_1 $ and $ L_\infty $
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1941--1962
James H. Drew Performance of the weighted least
squares approach to categorical data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963--1979
B. J. Yum Asymptotic properties of the OLS and
GRLS estimator for the replicated
functional relationship model . . . . . 1981--1996
Walter Kräer Ordinary least squares estimation of
simultaneous equation systems with
trended data: further results . . . . . 1997--2005
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Jason C. Hsu A method of unconstrained multiple
comparisons with the best . . . . . . . 2009--2028
David H. Moen and
Lyle D. Broemeling The uncertainty of forecasting: models
with structural change versus those
without changing parameters . . . . . . 2029--2040
E. A. Popovich and
P. V. Rao Conditional Tests for censored matched
pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2041--2056
Christy Chuang and
David Gheva and
Charles Odoroff Methods for diagnosing
multiplicative-interaction models for
two-way contingency tables . . . . . . . 2057--2080
Malay Ghosh Nonparametric empirical Bayes estimation
of certain funtionals . . . . . . . . . 2081--2094
Mayer Alvo and
Paul Cabilio Average rank correlation statistics in
the presence of ties . . . . . . . . . . 2095--2108
Peter A. Lachenbruch and
Robert F. Woolson On small sample properties of the
generalized signed rank and generalized
sign tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2109--2127
Carl N. Yoshizawa and
Pranab K. Sen and
C. Edward Davis Asymptotic equivalence of the
Harrell--Davis median estimator and the
sample median . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2129--2136
Constantine Gatsonis and
H. K. Hsieh and
Ramesh Korwar Simple nonparametric tests for a known
standard survival based on censored data 2137--2162
Richard H. Smith, Jr. Maximum likelihood mean and covariance
matrix estimation constrained to general
positive semi-definiteness . . . . . . . 2163--2179
P. S. Gill and
G. K. Shukla Experimental designs and their
efficiencies for spatially correlated
observations in two dimensions . . . . . 2181--2197
Sastry G. Pantula and
Larry A. Nelson and
Richard L. Anderson Estimation of linear models for field
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2199--2217
Mervyn G. Marasinghe Asymptotic tests and Monte Carlo studies
associated with the multiplicative
interaction model . . . . . . . . . . . 2219--2231
Y. C. Patel An asymptotic expression for cumulative
sum of probabilities of the Hermite
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2233--2241
Annick Lambert and
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
Pranab Kumar Sen Tests of homogeneity of intercepts after
a preliminary test . . . . . . . . . . . 2243--2259
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Eric Peritz Modified Mantel--Haenszel procedures for
matched pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2263--2285
V. V. Menon and
B. Prasad The probability generating function of
empty cell variable in a randomized
occupancy problem . . . . . . . . . . . 2287--2292
Christy Chuang and
Christopher Cox Pseudo maximum likelihood estimation for
the Dirichlet-multinomial distribution 2293--2311
Md A. K. Ehsanes Saleh and
Pranab Kumar Sen On shrinkage $M$-estimators of location
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2313--2329
Albertus S. Koorts Second order efficiency for a class of
estimators within the multinomial family 2331--2343
Virginia Foard Flack Testing hypotheses when there could be
an initial effect . . . . . . . . . . . 2345--2363
Russell F. Kappenman A testing approach to estimation . . . . 2365--2377
Robert K. Rayner A test for variance--covariance
parameters in normal linear models . . . 2379--2392
V. Soundararajan and
D. Muthuraj Single sampling plans indexed by point
of control and inflection point . . . . 2393--2410
Erdogan Gunel A Bayesian comparison of randomized and
voluntary response sampling models . . . 2411--2435
B. Lecoutre Reconsideration of the $F$-test of the
analysis of variance: the semi-Bayesian
significance test . . . . . . . . . . . 2437--2446
Sumiyasu Yamamoto and
Masahide Kuwada and
Fuzhi Yuan On the maximum number of constraints for
$s$-symbol balanced arrays of strength
$t$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2447--2456
P. J. De Jongh and
T. De Wet A Monte Carlo comparison of regression
trimmed means . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2457--2472
Camil Fuchs and
Norman R. Draper Percentage points and power calculations
for outlier tests in a regression
situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2473--2487
Masuo Nomura and
Tsuneharu Ohkubo A note on combining ridge and principal
component regression . . . . . . . . . . 2489--2493
ötz Trenkler Mean square error matrix comparisons of
estimators in linear regression . . . . 2495--2509
John L. Bryant and
G. Edward Fox Some comments on a class of simultaneous
inference procedures in ANCOVA . . . . . 2511--2530
Samir Shaarawy and
Lyle Broemeling Inference and prediction with ARMA
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2531--2548
Shu-Ing Liu Theory of Bilinear Time Series Models 2549--2561
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Roger W. Berger A survey of low-cost, user-friendly SQC
software for microcomputers . . . . . . 2575--2588
J. Booth and
W. Mudryk Statistical quality control at
Statistics Canada . . . . . . . . . . . 2589--2603
George E. P. Box Experimental design for product
improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2605--2605
H. T. David Variations on two familiar industrial
statistics themes . . . . . . . . . . . 2607--2620
A. Blanton Godfrey Training & education in quality &
reliability --- a modern approach . . . 2621--2638
H. James Harrington Quality trends around the world . . . . 2639--2639
Thomas C. Hsiang and
Hau L. Lee Zero defects: a quality costs approach 2641--2655
J. Edward Jackson Multivariate quality control . . . . . . 2657--2688
James M. Lucas Cumulative sum (cusum) control schemes 2689--2704
Lars Lyberg Quality control procedures at Statistics
Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2705--2751
Mary C. Natrella Statistical and quality control
standards in the U.S. . . . . . . . . . 2753--2764
John Neter The American Statistical Association's
response to the challenges of improving
quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2765--2765
Robert N. Rodriguez Computer tools for statistical quality
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2767--2767
Edward G. Schilling The role of acceptance sampling in
modern quality control . . . . . . . . . 2769--2783
Genichi Taguchi Quality engineering in Japan . . . . . . 2785--2801
Brian G. Young, P.Eng., C.I.M. International quality system standards 2803--2813
Donald B. Owen and
Ralph A. Evans and
Richard A. Johnson and
Jerald F. Lawless and
Peter R. Nelson Panel discussion by journal editors . . 2815--2844
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Michael Haber Log-linear models for correlated
marginal totals of a contingency table 2845--2856
H. D. Tolley and
A. R. Olsen A note on homogeneity tests when
combining $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . 2857--2871
Bruce McK Johnson and
Timothy J. Killeen Kolmogorov--Smirnov confidence sets: the
case of more than one sample . . . . . . 2873--2885
Nader Ebrahimi Nonparametric estimation of survival
functions for incomplete observations
when the life time distribution is
proportionally related to the censoring
time distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 2887--2898
M. S. Prasad and
V. R. Harischandrakar A note on estimation in a minimum-type
model with an exponential factor . . . . 2899--2905
Merran A. Evans and
Maxwell L. King Higher order generalisation of first
order autoregressive tests . . . . . . . 2907--2918
Heikki Ruskeepää Conditionally Gaussian distributions and
an application to Kalman filtering with
stochastic regressors . . . . . . . . . 2919--2942
Jeffrey D. Hart A counterexample to a claim concerning
the convolution of multimodal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2943--2945
M. Samanta On a geometrical derivation of the upper
tail of the null distribution of
$W$-exponential . . . . . . . . . . . . 2947--2950
Henrick J. Malik and
Roger Trudel Distributions of the product and the
quotient from bivariates $t$, $f$ and
Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . 2951--2962
R. C. Tiwari and
J. N. Zalkikar Empirical Bayes estimation of
functionals of unknown probability
measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2963--2995
D. J. de Waal and
J. S. Maritz An empirical Bayes approach in
estimating the parameters of two or more
geometric distributions . . . . . . . . 2997--3005
Javier Rojo Examples of the effect of the loss
function on the best equivariant
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3007--3032
M. L. Tiku and
N. Balakrishnan Testing the equality of
variance-covariance matrices the robust
way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3033--3051
I. J. Good and
E. P. Smith The variance and covariance of a
generalized index of similarity
especially for a generalization on an
index of Hellinger and Bhattacharyya . . 3053--3061
Michael D. Huffman Comparing two Poisson parameters: what
to do when the optimal isn't done . . . 3063--3074
Vernon M. Chinchilli and
Ronald K. Elswick A mixture of the MANOVA and GMANOVA
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3075--3089
S. S. Deo and
A. V. Kharshikar On consequences of one missing
observation in a balanced design . . . . 3091--3100
N. N. Mikhail Penrose's criterion and Pillai's
statistic under non-normal theory . . . 3101--3106
Paul S. Horn On borrowing spread from auxiliary
samples in the one-sample problem . . . 3107--3124
T. W. Epps and
L. R. Pulley Parameter estimates and tests of fit for
infinite mixture distributions . . . . . 3125--3145
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Chuang Christy A note on the applications of the RC
model to two-way contingency tables . . 1--6
R. W. Farebrother Testing linear inequality constraints in
the standard linear model . . . . . . . 07--31
Tormod Naes Detection of multivariate outliers in
linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 33--47
Noel C. Wheeler and
Anant M. Kshirsagar Adjustments to the treatment total when
inter-row and inter-column information
is recovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
Shu Geng and
S. K. Perng Homogeneous designs based on
pretreatment information . . . . . . . . 59--72
Dennis P. Sheehan Approximating the distribution of the
Durbin--Watson statistic . . . . . . . . 73--88
Dalton F. Andrade and
Ronald W. Helms ML estimation and LR tests for the
multivariate normal distribution with
general linear model mean and
linear-structure covariance matrix:
$k$-population complete-data case . . . 89--107
Thomas A. Bass and
Karen Yuen Fung A two-stage test for the mean of a
multivariate normal distribution with
unknown covariance matrix . . . . . . . 109--121
Satya N. Mishra and
Arvind K. Shah and
John J. Lefante Overlapping coefficient: the generalized
$t$ approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--128
Roger R. W. Ellerton and
Christos P. Kitsos and
Stefan Rinco Choosing the optimal order of a response
polynomial --- structural approach with
minimax criterion . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136
Dean M. Young and
Patrick L. Odell Feature-subset selection for statistical
classification problems involving
unequal covariance matrices . . . . . . 137--157
Richard G. Cornell and
Bryce D. Landenberger and
Robert H. Bart left Randomized play the winner clinical
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178
N. Balakrishnan and
H. J. Malik Order statistics from the
linear-exponential distribution, Part I:
increasing hazard rate case . . . . . . 179--203
H. Nyquist An evaluation of the Huber estimator . . 205--214
Nader Ebrahimi A parametric approach to theory of
competing risks when the time of death
from each cause follows a change-point
hazard rate model . . . . . . . . . . . 215--229
Kochar C. Subhash and
R. P. Gupta Some competitors of the mood test for
the two-sample scale problem . . . . . . 231--239
M. Pandey and
S. K. Upadhyay Approximate prediction limit for Weibull
failure based on preliminary test
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
J. D. Tubbs Moments for a ratio of correlated gamma
variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--259
D. L. Hawkins and
Chien-Pai Han Bivariate distributions of some ratios
of independent noncentral chi-square
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--277
Kosei Iwase and
Noriaki Set Incomplete sufficient unbiased
estimators in the problem of the Nile 279--289
Debabrata Mukherjee and
Makarand V. Ratnaparkhi On the functional relationship between
entropy and variance with related
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--311
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Robert E. Tarone Correctings tests for trend in
proportions for skewness . . . . . . . . 317--328
Richard A. Groeneveld Measurement of skewness and kurtosis for
the generalized Tukey lambda
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--343
Lawrence S. Mayer and
Steven S. Carroll Detecting serial correlation in the
error structure of a cross-lagged panel
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--366
Pinyuen Chen On the least favorable configuration in
multinomial selection problems . . . . . 367--385
Cyrus R. Mehta and
Nitin R. Patel A hybrid algorithm for Fisher's exact
test in unordered $ r \times c $
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 387--403
M. C. Wang A prior-valued estimator applied to
multinomial classification . . . . . . . 405--427
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Mir M. Ali Estimation of the parameters of a
regression model with a multivariate $t$
error variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--450
C. L. Dunn Application of multiple comparison type
procedures to the eigenvalues of $
\Sigma_1^{-1} \Sigma_2 $ . . . . . . . . 451--471
R. J. Pavur and
T. O. Lewis Test procedures in covariance analysis
assuming a general correlation pattern 473--491
G. Jack Gambino and
I. Guttman A Bayesian approach to prediction in
analysis of variance settings . . . . . 493--504
Richard J. Hathaway and
James C. Bezdek On the asymptotic properties of fuzzy
$c$-means cluster prototypes as
estimators of mixture subpopulation
centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--513
B. Raja Rao and
Gary M. Marsh and
Joan Winwood Sidak-type simultaneous confidence
intervals for the risk measures
RSMR$_1$, based on proportional
mortality measures in epidemiologic
studies involving several competing
risks of death . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--536
Adel I. Bargal Smooth tests of fit for censored gamma
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--549
T. S. Tracy and
I. H. Tajuddin Empirical power comparisons of two MRPP
rank tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--570
M. S. Srivastava and
S. R. Chakravorti Asymptotic distributions of two test
statistics for testing independence with
missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--588
R. K. Amoh and
K. Kocherlakota Errors of misclassification associated
with the inverse Gaussian distribution 589--612
Y. S. Sathe and
R. G. Shenoy On sharper bounds for the risk of
James--Stein estimators . . . . . . . . 613--617
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Rafid S. Abdul-Razak and
Ganapati P. Patil Power series distributions and their
conjugates in stochastic modeling and
Bayesian inference . . . . . . . . . . . 623--641
Abdulhamid A. Alzaid and
C. Radhakrishna Rao and
D. N. Shanbhag Characterization of discrete probability
distributions by partial independence 643--656
N. Balakrishnan Order statistics from discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--675
Charalambos A. Charalambides Derivation of probabilities and moments
of certain generalized discrete
distributions via urn models . . . . . . 677--696
C. Chatfield Discrete distributions and purchasing
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--708
Ram C. Dahiya Integer-parameter estimation in discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--725
J. B. Douglas User friendly computerized maximum
likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . 727--745
M. A. Hamdan and
M. O. Nasro Maximum likelihood estimation of the
parameters of the bivariate binomial
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--754
J. J. Gart and
H. M. Petti grew and
D. G. Thomas Further results on the effect of bias,
variance estimation, and non-normality
of the empirical logit on weighted least
squares analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--782
A. W. Kepm Weighted discrepancies and maximum
likelihood estimation for discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--803
C. D. Kemp A modal method for generating binomial
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--813
S. Kocherlakota and
K. Kocherlakota Goodness of fit tests for discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--829
Samuel Kotz and
Mao Shisong and
Norman L. Johnson Effects of inspection errors on
curtailed Dorman-type procedures . . . . 831--838
Kourouklis Stavros Characterizations of some discrete
distributions based on a variant of the
Rao--Rubin condition . . . . . . . . . . 839--851
J. Keith Ord and
G. Alex Whitmore The Poisson-inverse Gaussian
distribution as a model for species
abundance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--871
John Panaretos and
Evdokia Xekalaki On some distributions arising from
certain generalized sampling schemes . . 873--891
H. Papageorgiou Bivariate short distributions . . . . . 893--905
G. P. Patil and
C. R. Rao and
M. V. Ratnaparkhi On discrete weighted distributions and
their use in model choice for observed
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--918
Prem S. Puri A branching process approach to a
problem connected with a T.V. game show 919--933
H. S. Sichel Parameter estimation for a word
frequency distribution based on
occupancy theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--949
C. Taillie and
G. P. Patil The Fibonacci distribution revisited . . 951--959
Sheela Talwaiker Functional equations in
characterizations of discrete
distributions by Rao--Rubin condition
and its variants . . . . . . . . . . . . 961--979
Robert E. Tarone Tests for comparing a sequence of
Bernoulli random variables to a sequence
of known probabilities . . . . . . . . . 981--997
Ram C. Tripathi and
Pushpa L. Gupta and
Ramesh C. Gupta Incomplete moments of modified power
series distributions with applications 999--1015
Ram C. Tripathi and
John Gurland A unified approach to estimating
parameters in some generalized Poisson
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017--1034
R. Viveros and
D. A. Sprott Conditional inference and maximum
likelihood in a capture--recapture model 1035--1046
Evdokia Xekalaki The multivariate generalized Waring
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1064
S. H. Ong and
P. A. Lee On a generalized non-central negative
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 1065--1079
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota The bivariate inverse Gaussian
distribution: an introduction . . . . . 1081--1112
Alan J. Gross and
Hurshell H. Hunt and
Robert E. Odeh The correlation coefficient between the
smallest and largest observations when $
(N - 1) $ of the $n$ observations are
iid exponentially distributed . . . . . 1113--1123
Subhash C. Sharma The effects of correlation among
observations on the consistency property
of sample variance . . . . . . . . . . . 1125--1152
W. J. Anderson An inequality for the variance of the
first order statistic . . . . . . . . . 1153--1162
Walter Katzenbeisser and
Peter Hackl An alternative to the
Kolmogorov--Smirnov two-sample test . . 1163--1177
Nélida E. Ferretti and
Víctor J. Yohai Efficiency of tests based on weighted
rankings for equality of treatment
effects in a complete randomized blocks
layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1200
Douglas G. Bonett and
Arthur J. Woodward and
John L. Davidson Minimum chi-square estimator and test
for incomplete multidimensional
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1207
Z. Govindarajulu Augmenting Lehmann alternatives for
improving asymptotic efficiency of rank
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1220
John E. Angus Testing the steady state availability
based on data from a fixed length test 1221--1234
Jeffrey R. Wilson Approximate distribution and test of fit
for the clustering effect in the
Dirichlet multinomial model . . . . . . 1235--1249
Martijn P. F. Berger A Monte Carlo study of the power of
alternative tests under the generalized
MANOVA model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1283
Serge B. Provost On the distribution of some test
statistics connected with the
multivariate linear functional
relationship model . . . . . . . . . . . 1285--1298
D. T. Voss On generalizations of the classical
method of confounding to asymmetric
factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 1299--1314
Sudhir C. Gupta Efficiency-consistency in designs . . . 1315--1318
Timo Teräsvirta Superiority comparisons of heterogeneous
linear estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 1319--1336
Erdogan Gunel A note on the posterior expectation . . 1337--1345
Ricardo Maronna and
Stephan Morgenthaler Robust regression through robust
covariances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1365
V. A. Sposito and
Michael D. Tveite On the estimation of the variance of the
median used in $ L_1 $ linear inference
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1367--1375
Isha Bagai and
Subhash C. Kochar On tail-ordering and comparison of
failure rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377--1388
Paul K. H. Lin Using the Chinese Remainder Theorem in
constructing confounded designs for
mixed factorial experiments . . . . . . 1389--1398
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Jan W. H. Swanepoel On the construction of nonparametric
density function estimators using the
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1399--1415
Alan Agresti and
Jane Pendergast Comparing mean ranks for repeated
measures data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417--1433
Cary T. Isaki Mas of toe dual system estimator and
some alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . 1435--1450
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
Pranab Kumar Sen On shrinkage least squares estimation in
a parallelism problem . . . . . . . . . 1451--1466
Stephen M. Scariano and
James M. Davenport A four-moment approach and other
practical solutions to the
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 1467--1505
James A. Koziol A note on the asymptotic distribution of
Mardia's measure of multivariate
kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1507--1513
S. R. Adke One way ANOVA for dependent observations 1515--1528
G. G. Agarwal and
Sanjay Kumar On a class of variance balanced
incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 1529--1533
Rahul Mukerjee Construction of orthogonal factorial
designs controlling interaction
efficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1548
Anand K. Seth and
Sati Mazumdar Estimation of parameters of a polynomial
model under intra class correlation
structure for incomplete longitudinal
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1559
James R. Schott A note on the critical values used in
stepwise tests for multiplicative
components of interaction . . . . . . . 1561--1570
Kazuhiro Ohtani On small sample properties of the almost
unbiased generalized ridge estimator . . 1571--1578
Mervyn J. Silvapulle A note on some conditions for optimality
of certain ridge estimators . . . . . . 1579--1585
Edward F. Meydrech and
P. K. Sen On a nonparametric test for the
mixed-model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587--1596
B. P. M. McCabe Testing for heteroscedasticity occurring
at unknown points . . . . . . . . . . . 1597--1613
Rahul Mukerjee and
S. Huda Optimal statistical designs with
circular string property . . . . . . . . 1615--1626
J. W. Odhiambo and
M. S. Patel On multistage group screening designs 1627--1645
Javier Rojo A necessary and sufficient condition for
an estimator to be optimal . . . . . . . 1647--1651
Markand Oza and
G. K. Shukla Prediction under uncertainty of degree
of polynomial in growth curve models . . 1653--1664
M. S. Prasad and
Alladi Subramanyam Asymptotic efficiency of sequential and
non-sequential procedures based on
Fisher's method of combining tests . . . 1665--1680
J. S. Jang and
D. S. Bai Efficient sequential estimation in a
Markov branching process with
immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1681--1697
Chan-Fu Chen Asymptotic normality for limiting
discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 1699--1707
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Joseph Glaz and
Joseph Naus Approximating probabilities of first
passage in a particular Gaussian process 1709--1722
S. S. Thurman and
P. A. V. B. Swamy and
J. S. Mehta An examination of distributed lag model
coefficients estimated with smoothness
priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1723--1749
B. R. Bhat and
Sunita K. Deshpande Likelihood ratio test for testing order
of continuous time finite Markov chains 1751--1771
John R. Crigler and
Jesse C. Arnold Economically optimal Markovian sampling
policies for process monitoring . . . . 1773--1803
Lyle Broemeling and
Joaquin Diaz An adaptive Bayesian solution to the
control problem for linear control
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1803--1817
Mete Sirvanci Comparison of two Weibull distributions
under random censoring . . . . . . . . . 1819--1836
Timothy M. Morgan and
Robert M. Elasoff Effect of censoring on adjusting for
covariates in comparison of survival
times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837--1854
Michael A. Fligner and
David Fairley Stochastic equivalence of ranking
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855--1863
A. M. Al-Abood and
D. H. Young Improved deviance goodness of fit
statistics for a gamma regression model 1865--1874
B. S. Hosmane Improved likelihood ratio tests and
Pearson chi-square tests for
independence in two dimensional
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 1875--1888
R. H. Stumpf and
H. S. Steyn Exact distributions associated with an $
i \times j \times k $ contingency table 1889--1904
Adonis Yatchew Multivariate distributions involving
ratios of normal variables . . . . . . . 1905--1926
Dalton F. Andrade and
Ronald W. Helms ML estimation for the multivariate
normal distribution with general linear
model mean and linear-structure
covariance matrix; one-population,
complete-data case . . . . . . . . . . . 1927--1955
Julio L. Peixoto Testable hypotheses in singular fixed
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1957--1973
Richard Valliant Mem squared error estimation in finite
populations under nonlinear models . . . 1975--1993
Peter W. M. John On a paper by Kageyama and Mohan . . . . 1995--2001
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Jean-François Angers and
James O. Berger The Stein effect and Bayesian analysis:
a reexamination . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005--2023
L. D. Brown and
J. T. Hwang Some limitation on Stein's phenomenon 2025--2042
George Casella and
Jiunn Tzon Hwang Confidence sets and the Stein effect . . 2043--2063
Anirban Dasgupta and
James Berger Estimation of multiple gamma
scale-parameters: Bayes estimation
subject to uniform domination . . . . . 2065--2086
Dipak K. Dey and
C. Srinivasan On estimation of Poisson logits . . . . 2087--2097
Edward I. George A formal Bayes multiple shrinkage
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2099--2114
Malay Ghosh and
David M. Nickerson Sequential shrinkage estimation of
independent normal means with unknown
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2115--2130
L. R. Haff On linear log-odds and estimation of
discriminant coefficients . . . . . . . 2131--2144
Peter J. Kempthorne Optimal minimax squared error risk
estimation of the mean of a multivariate
normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 2145--2157
Fanny Ki and
Kam-Wah Tsuf Universal domination of Stein-type
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2159--2173
Pi-Erh Lin and
Amany M. Mousa Minimax estimation of independent normal
means under a quadratic loss function
with unknown weights . . . . . . . . . . 2175--2189
Robert J. Miceli and
William E. Strawderman Minimax estimation for certain
independent component distributions
under weighted squared error loss . . . 2191--2200
S. James Press and
John E. Rolph Empirical Bayes estimation of the mean
in a multivariate normal distribution 2201--2228
Md A. K. Ehsanes Saleh and
Pranab Kumar Sen On shrinkage $R$-estimation in a
multiple regression model . . . . . . . 2229--2244
Pranab Kumar Sen Whither jackknifing in Stein-rule
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2245--2266
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. B. Bell and
E. P. Smith Inference for non-negative
autoregressive schemes . . . . . . . . . 2267--2293
Harshinder Singh and
Subhash C. Kochar A test for exponentiality against HNBUE
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2295--2304
M. C. Costanza and
H. I. Hamdy and
M. S. Son Two stage fixed width confidence
intervals for the common location
parameter of several exponential
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305--2322
Ursula Gather Robust estimation of the mean of the
exponential distribution in outlier
situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2323--2345
Takashi Yanagawa and
Kentaro Nomakuchi Characterization of probability models
by an odds ratio in prospective and
retrospective studies . . . . . . . . . 2347--2353
Danny W. Turner and
Dean M. Young and
Virgil R. Marc A note on the robustness of the
Lilliefors test for univariate normality
with respect to equicorrelated data . . 2355--2361
R. P. Bhargava Classification of an observation into
linear manifolds, their closed subsets
and closed convex subsets . . . . . . . 2363--2374
B. R. Bhat and
Sunita K. Deshpande Testing for Markov process vs
semi-Markov process . . . . . . . . . . 2375--2382
Hajime Yamato Bayes estimates of estimable parameters
with a Dirichlet invariant process . . . 2383--2390
Kai F. Yu On the bounded regret of empirical Bayes
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2391--2403
Hamparsum Bozdogan and
Donald E. Ramirez An adjusted likelihood-ratio approach to
the Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . 2405--2433
Youn-Min Chou and
D. B. Owen One-sided normal prediction intervals
and sample sizes for a third-stage
sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2435--2448
K\=osei Iwase Umvu estimator of the probability in the
geometric distribution with unknown
truncation parameter . . . . . . . . . . 2449--2453
Yi-Ching Yao Maximum likelihood estimation in hazard
rate models with a change-point . . . . 2455--2466
J. W. Odhiambo The performance of multistage group
screening designs . . . . . . . . . . . 2467--2481
Robert E. Johnson On the correlation between $F$-ratios 2483--2492
Dianne M. Finkelstein and
Robert A. Wolfe Isotonic regression for interval
censored survival data using an E--M
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2493--2505
Randy L. Carter and
Mark C. K. Yang Large sample inference in random
coefficient regression models . . . . . 2507--2525
A. A. Haddow and
D. H. Young Moment properties of estimators for a
type $1$ extreme-value regression model 2527--2539
Linda June Davis Whittemore's notion of collapsibility in
multidimensional contingency tables . . 2541--2554
Thomas B. Fomby and
James E. Pearce Standard errors in the multinomial logit
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2555--2568
W. R. Stephenson and
Malay Ghosh Acknowledgment of priority . . . . . . . 2569--2569
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Jagdish K. Patel and
Lee J. Bain Statistical reviews . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Herbert Solomon and
Howard Weiner A Review of the packing problem . . . . 2571--2607
H. Leon Harter Some Applications of Order Statistics to
Multivariate Analysis II . . . . . . . . 2609--2649
Robert L. Mason Latent root regression: a biased
regression methodology for use with
collinear predictor variables . . . . . 2651--2678
Ajit C. Tamhane A survey of literature on quantal
response curves with a view toward
application to the problem of selecting
the curve with the smallest $q$-quantile
(EDIOOq) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2679--2718
J. K. Patel Tolerance limits --- a review . . . . . 2719--2762
James A. Koziol Assessing multivariate normality: a
compendium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2763--2783
O. J. Pendleton and
M. Von Tress and
R. Bremer Interpretation of the four types of
analysis of variance tables in SAS . . . 2785--2808
Richard F. Raubertas and
Chu-In Charles Lee and
Erik V. Nordheim Hypothesis tests for normal means
constrained by linear inequalities . . . 2809--2833
J. Kenneth Shultis and
D. E. Johnson and
G. A. Milliken Non-conjugate prior distributions and
their estimation for use in failure
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2835--2865
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Micheal Falk On the accuracy of the bootstrap
approximation of the joint distribution
of sample quantiles . . . . . . . . . . 2867--2876
D. Haack and
Z. Govindarajulu A decision theoretic approach to a
distribution-free compound
classification problem . . . . . . . . . 2877--2897
Stephen J. Ruberg A continuously adaptive nonparametric
two-sample test . . . . . . . . . . . . 2899--2920
Leonard A. Stefanski and
Michael Meredith Robust estimation of location in samples
of size three . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2921--2933
Russell F. Kappenman Adaptive $m$ estimation of symmetric
distribution location . . . . . . . . . 2935--2951
Jean-Marie Dufour and
Roch Roy Generalized portmanteau statistics and
tests of randomness . . . . . . . . . . 2953--2972
Donald W. K. Andrews and
Peter C. B. Phillips A simplified proof of a theorem on the
difference of the Moore--Penrose
inverses of two positive semi-definite
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2973--2975
Kenneth J. Koehler and
Jeffrey R. Wilson Chi-square tests for comparing vectors
of proportions for several cluster
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2977--2990
Stephen J. Ruberg Efficiencies of some two-sample location
tests for a broad class of distributions 2991--3004
Shyamal Das Peddada and
Ravindra Khattree On Pitman nearness and variance of
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3005--3017
Yuk-Miu Lam Stein's two sample test of a general
linear hypothesis and a noncentral
$F$-type distribution . . . . . . . . . 3019--3033
B. Raja Rao Joint distribution of simultaneous
exposures to several carcinogens in a
case-control study: sample size
determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3035--3065
Jack P. C. Kleijnen A scenario for sequential
experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 3067--3078
Jyoti N. Zalkikar and
Ram C. Tiwari and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation of
the probability that $ Z > X + Y $ . . . 3079--3101
Khursheed Alam and
Amitava Mitra An empirical Bayes estimate of
multinomial probabilities . . . . . . . 3103--3127
Ray Hinde Population moments and moments of the
sample mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3129--3143
Evc Bofinger and
Kerrie Mangersen Subset selection of the $t$ best
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3145--3161
Guido Giani On a strengthening of the indifference
zone approach to a generalized selection
goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3163--3171
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C. R. Rao and
I. P. Reating and
Robert D. Mason The Pitman nearness criterion and its
determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3173--3191
Jan W. H. Swanepoel A note on proving that the (modified)
bootstrap works . . . . . . . . . . . . 3193--3203
Theodor J. Stewart Experience with a Bayesian bootstrap
method incorporating proper prior
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3205--3225
S. Chatterjee and
D. L. McLeish Fitting linear regression models to
censored data by least squares and
maximum likelihood methods . . . . . . . 3227--3243
Neil C. Schwertman and
Buck Ware A note on the multivariate multisample
rank sum and median tests . . . . . . . 3245--3252
Hajime Yamato and
Yoshihiko Maesono Invariant $U$-statistics . . . . . . . . 3253--3263
Offer Kella On the distribution of the maximum of
bivariate normal random variables with
general means and variances . . . . . . 3265--3276
Roger B. Nelsen Properties of a one-parameter family of
bivariate distributions with specified
marginals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3277--3285
A. W. Kemp and
C. D. Kemp Distributional properties of a model for
the spread or drug abuse . . . . . . . . 3287--3298
Giorgio Pederzoli A representation in beta series for the
exact density of some random volume
contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3299--3306
James R. Schott Tests concerning two non-isotropic
principal components . . . . . . . . . . 3307--3320
D. A. S. Fraser and
S. E. Sackey Prior-likelihood factorization and
missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3321--3331
Eric V. Slud Inefficiency of inferences with the
partial likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . 3333--3351
Richard K. Burdick and
Farooq Maqsood and
Franklin A. Craybill Confidence intervals on the intraclass
correlation in the unbalanced one-way
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3353--3378
Steven S. Carroll and
Lawrence S. Mayer Analysis of the cross-effects in a
cross-lagged panel study . . . . . . . . 3379--3399
D. L. Hawkins and
Chien-Pai Han A power comparison of three tests for
design effects in a random effects
covariance model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3401--3418
D. G. Kabe On a GMANOVA model likelihood ratio test
criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3419--3427
A. M. Dean and
S. M. Lewis A note on the connectivity of
generalized cyclic designs . . . . . . . 3429--3433
J. K. Arap Koske and
M. S. Patel A fourth order rotatable design in three
dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3435--3444
T. Nirmalan and
N. Singh On the problem of model selection in
bilinear time series analyses . . . . . 3445--3457
S. Jeyaratnam and
S. Panchapakesan Estimation after subset selection from
exponential populations . . . . . . . . 3459--3473
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Christy Chuang and
Steven F. Francom A structural model for the Markov chain
of change in vote intention . . . . . . 3475--3487
Radhey S. Singh and
Aman Ullah Nonparametric recursive estimation of a
multivariate, marginal and conditional
DGP with an application to specification
of econometric models . . . . . . . . . 3489--3513
Bruce McK. Johnson and
Timothy J. Killeen and
Timothy J. Killeen Exact confidence regions for scale and
location parameters based on sample
quartiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3515--3529
Layth C. Alwan Cusum quality control-multivariate
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3531--3543
Giancarlo Diana and
Alessandra Salvan Two tests for monotone failure rate with
incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 3545--3558
Kosei Iwase Umvu estimation for the cumulative
hazard function in a Pareto distribution
of the first kind . . . . . . . . . . . 3559--3566
Arthur Vogt The natural index and the Divisia index
on the straight line as well as the
Divisia index on the exponential line 3567--3582
Anil K. Srivastava and
Derrick S. Tracy Computation of standard errors in
seemingly unrelated regression equation
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3583--3588
Uditha Balasooriya and
Y. K. Tse Outlier detection in linear models: a
comparative study in simple linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3589--3597
Bert M. Steece Regressor space outliers in ridge
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3599--3605
Ehsan S. Soofi and
D. V. Gokhale An extension of Bayesian measure of
information to regression . . . . . . . 3607--3616
D. G. Kabe and
U. L. Gouranga Rao On tests of independence between
stochastic regressors and disturbances 3617--3623
Richard L. Schmoyer Convex sets in minimum-distance
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3625--3635
Jee Soo Kim Asymptotic properties of the maximum
likelihood estimator of a randomly
censored exponential parameter . . . . . 3637--3646
B. Prasad Research Officer Some unbiased estimators versus mean per
unit and ratio estimators in finite
population sample surveys . . . . . . . 3647--3657
M. Shelton Peiris On prediction with time dependent ARMA
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3659--3668
Don Holbert and
Mun-Shig Son Bootstrapping a time series model: some
empirical results . . . . . . . . . . . 3669--3691
P. R. Krishnaiah and
Jugan Lin Complex elliptically symmetric
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3693--3718
D. G. Nel and
C. A. van der Merwe A solution to the multivariate
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 3719--3735
Housila P. Singh A note on the estimation of variance of
sample mean Using the knowledge of
coefficient of variation in normal
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3737--3746
James C. Spall An approximation for analyzing a broad
class of implicitly and explicitly
defined estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 3747--3762
Om Parkash and
H. C. Taneja Characterization of the
quantitative-qualitative measure of
inaccuracy for discrete generalized
probability distributions . . . . . . . 3763--3771
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
David Fairley and
Michael Higner Linear Rank Statistics for the Ordered
Alternatives Problem . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
Hossein Arsham A Modified One-Sided K--S Confidence
Region Narrower In One Tail . . . . . . 17--28
I. S. Alalouf The Chi Square Test With Both Margins
Fixed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43
Phyllis A. Gimotty The Asymptotic Distribution Of The
Goodness-Of-Fit Chi-Square Statistic
Computed From Imputed Data . . . . . . . 45--60
Sung K. Ahn and
Gregory C. Reinsel Distribution Of Residual Autocovariances
And Prediction Mean Square Error
Properties The Multivariate Reduce Rank
Autoregressive Model . . . . . . . . . . 61--78
Chi Song Wong and
J. F. McDonald Confidence Intervals For A Population
Size Based On A Capture-Recapture Model 79--91
B. B. Winter Nonparametric Estimation With Censored
Data From A Distribution With
Nonincreasing Density . . . . . . . . . 93--120
Pinyuen Chen and
Milton Sabel An Integrated Formulation for Selecting
the $t$ Best of $k$ Normal Populations 121--146
Pinyuen Chen and
Milton Sabel A New Formulation for the Multinomial
Selection Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 147--180
Junji Nakano and
Sigani Tagami Estimation of Parameters of a
Multivariate Moving Average Model From
Estimates of the Inverse Autocovariance
Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--192
Paul W. Holland and
Yuchung J. Wang Regional Dependence For Continuous
Bivariate Densities . . . . . . . . . . 193--206
Edna Schezhtman and
Shlomo Yitzhaki A Measure of Association Based on Gin's
Mean Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--231
Pushpa Lata Gupta A Characterization for GPSD Signals in
Additive Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--240
N. Etermsdi On Sums of Independent Random Vectors 241--252
Colm A. O'Cinneide Optimality Of Some Two-Stage Sampling
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--261
Ravindra Khattree On Comparison Of Estimates Of Dispersion
Using Generalized Pitman Nearness
Criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--274
S. N. U. A. Kirmani and
M. Ahsanullah A Note on Weighted Distributions . . . . 275--280
S. P. Mukherjee and
Dillip Roy Failure Rate Transform of the Weibull
Variate and its Properties . . . . . . . 281--291
S. J. Steel and
N. J. le Roux A Reparameterisation Of A Bivariate
Gamma Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Sik-Yum Lee and
Wai-Yin Poon Two-step estimation of multivariate
polychoric correlation . . . . . . . . . 307--320
Pi-Erh Lin Measures of association between vectors 321--338
Song-Gui Wang and
Shein-Chung Chow Some results on canonical correlations
and measures of multivariate association 339--351
R. P. Gupta Estimation of multiple correlation
coefficient when observations are
missing on one of the variables . . . . 353--360
C. J. Lloyd Pivotal quantities based on the
conditional distribution function
transform in models with accessory
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374
M. Ahsanullah Two characterizations of the exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--381
P. Janssen and
N. Veraverbeke On nonparametric regression estimators
based on regression quantiles . . . . . 383--396
Luis A. Escobar and
Bradley Skarpness Mean square error and efficiency of the
least squares estimator over interval
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--406
Paul K. H. Lin A simple method for constructing
confounded designs for mixed factorial
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--419
Paul K. H. Lin Confounding in mixed factorial
experiments through isomorphisms . . . . 421--429
D. J. Groggel and
R. L. Schaefer and
J. H. Skillings Procedures for analyzing block designs
with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 431--444
Linda J. Wilson and
J. H. Young and
J. Leroy Folks A biological application of
Bose--Einstein statistics . . . . . . . 445--459
A. K. Md Ehsanes Saleh and
Pranab Kumar Sen Relative performance of Stein-rule and
preliminary test estimators in linear
models least squares theory . . . . . . 461--476
Sadao Tomizawa Diagonal, weighted marginal homogeneity
model and decompositions for linear
diagonals-parameter symmetry model . . . 477--488
Harshinder Singh and
Amarjot Kaur Testing goodness of fit in terms of the
mean residual life function . . . . . . 489--497
Robert J. Gray, Ph.D. A simultaneous inference procedure for
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--510
Kathryn Chaloner and
George T. Duncan Some properties of the
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution and
its use in prior elicitation . . . . . . 511--523
Hajime Yamato Nonparametric Bayes estimates of
estimable parameters with a Dirichlet
invariant process and invariant
$U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--543
Lonnie Magee Asymptotic risk comparisions of
restricted and unrestricted maximum
likelihood estimators . . . . . . . . . 545--558
G. G. Walter and
G. G. Hamedani Empiric Bayes estimation of binomial
probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--577
Kevin P. Balanda Kurtosis comparisons of the Cauchy and
double exponential distributions . . . . 579--592
J. P. du Preez and
J. H. Venter An estimator for the means of normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--612
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Philip E. Cheng A nearest neighbor hazard rate estimator
for randomly censored data . . . . . . . 613--625
M. S. Chikkagoudar and
S. H. Kunchur Comparison of many outlier procedures
for exponential samples . . . . . . . . 627--645
J. Marcus Jobe Error rates for Poisson process
discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--658
Gilles R. Ducharme and
Philip Milasevic Some asymptotic properties of the
circular median . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--664
Enio Jelihovschi Estimation of the binomial parameter,
using an a priori hypothesis about its
value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--692
D. N. Shan and
M. R. Gupta An efficiency comparison of dual ratio
and product estimators . . . . . . . . . 693--703
E. L. Korn Data-randomized confidence intervals for
discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 705--715
Kazuhiro Ohtani Some sampling properties of the
two-stage test in a linear regression
with a proxy variable . . . . . . . . . 717--729
Lusi Firinguetti Exact moments of Lawless and Wang's
operational ridge regression estimator 731--745
Jack P. C. Kleijnen and
Peter C. A. Karremans and
Wim K. Oortwijn and
Willem J. H. Van Groenendaal Jackknifing estimated weighted least
squares: Jewls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--764
Carl M.-S. Lee Constrained optimal designs for
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 765--783
Bruno A. Baldessari Experimental designs with dependent
observations: New results and comments
on previous results . . . . . . . . . . 785--803
Jack P. C. Kleijnen A practical comment on resolution IV
designs: Bad properties of quantitative
factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--812
M. N. Goria Some characterizations of the uniform
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813--819
Erica H. Brittain $P$-values for the multi-sample
Kolmogorov--Smirnov test using the
expanded Bonferroni approximation . . . 821--835
Jack Reeves and
Marc Sobel Complete ranking procedures with
quadratic loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--854
N. Balakrishnan A note on moments of order statistics
from exchangeable variates . . . . . . . 855--861
Paul W. Holland and
Yuchung J. Wang Dependence function for continuous
bivariate densities . . . . . . . . . . 863--876
Zehua Chen A stepwise approach for the purely
periodic interaction spline model . . . 877--895
Ravindra Khattree and
D. S. Gill Estimation of signal to noise ratio
using Mahalanobis distance . . . . . . . 897--907
M. S. Srivastava Profile analysis of several groups . . . 909--926
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Lyle D. Broemeling and
Mun S. Son The classification problem with
autoregressive process . . . . . . . . . 927--936
John B. Guerard, Jr. Composite forecasting using ridge
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--952
Virginia Foard Flack Confidence intervals for the interrater
agreement measure kappa . . . . . . . . 953--968
R. Gonin and
S. H. C. du Toit Numerical algorithms for solving
nonlinear $ L_p $-norm estimation
problems: part II --- a mixture method
for large residual and ill-conditioned
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--986
Ashis SenGupta Generalizations of Barlett's and
Hartley's tests of homogeneity using
``overall variability'' . . . . . . . . 987--996
R. M. Loynes Cross-validatory, recursive and partial
residuals for non-linear models: theory 997--1011
Subir Ghosh Influential nonnegligible parameters
under the search linear model . . . . . 1013--1025
Virgil R. Marco and
Dean M. Young and
Danny W. Turner A note on the effect of simple
equicorrelation in detecting a spurious
multivariate observation . . . . . . . . 1027--1036
A. Dobrigai and
D. A. S. Fraser and
R. Gebotys Linear calibration and conditional
inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1048
James B. McDonald Model selection: some generalized
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1074
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly Sums of weighted spacings and a test for
the logistic distribution . . . . . . . 1075--1086
Tze Fen Li On asymptotic optimality of Bayes
empirical Bayes estimators . . . . . . . 1087--1099
P. Stahlecker and
J. Lauterbach Approximate minimax estimation in linear
regression: theoretical results . . . . 1101--1116
Siegfried Gabler The nearest proportional to size
sampling design . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117--1131
Sik-Yum Lee A distribution-free method for
structural equation models with
incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1151
I. J. Good Serial unblocked designs balanced for
correlation between neighbours . . . . . 1153--1159
Saul Blumenthal Estimating $n$ with time grouped and
truncated data from a scale parameter
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161--1179
Enrique Castilio and
Alberto Luceno and
Alejandro Montalban and
Alfonso Fernandez-Canteli A dependent fatigue lifetime model . . . 1181--1193
Ram C. Tripatni and
Ramesh C. Gupta A comparison between the ordinary and
the length-biased modified power series
distributions with applications . . . . 1195--1206
Paul Speckman and
Sharon Anderson and
John Hewett Sample sizes for comparing means of two
multivariate normal populations . . . . 1207--1218
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R. J. Brooks On the design of comparative lifetime
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221--1240
Andrey Feuerverger New derivations of the maximum
likelihood estimator and the likelihood
ratio test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1251
R. Schall and
T. T. Dunne Additional variables and adjusted
estimates with arbitrary known
variance-covariance structure . . . . . 1253--1263
W. Wefelmeyer Uniform approximation of log-likelihood
ratios in the i.i.d. case . . . . . . . 1265--1280
A. H. Khan and
M. Masoom Ali Characterization of probability
distributions through higher order gap 1281--1287
S. Dahel On the minimaxity of the maximum
likelihood estimator in a multivariate
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1289--1296
Max Halperin and
K. K. Gordon Lan A two sample ordered alternative test
for means and variances . . . . . . . . 1297--1313
Mukhter M. Ali Distribution of sample mean when
observations are correlated . . . . . . 1321--1343
E. Lakatos and
D. Raghavarao Undiminished residual effects designs
and their suggested applications . . . . 1345--1359
J. K. Arap Koske and
M. S. Patel Construction of fourth order rotatable
designs with estimation of corresponding
response surface . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1376
Charles E. McCulloch Tests for equality of variances with
paired data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377--1391
Haruo Miyazaki Critical values for testing partially
ordered alternatives in the analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1431
Janice L. DuBien and
William D. Warde A comparison of agglomerative clustering
methods with respect to noise . . . . . 1433--1460
Colm A. O'Cinneide On optimality of a two-stage sampling
method for binomial populations . . . . 1461--1471
S. R. Raul On the beta-correlated binomial (BCB)
distribution --- a three parameter
generalization of the binomial
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473--1478
Michael A. Fligner and
Joseph S. Verducci Aspects of two group concordance . . . . 1479--1503
Pradeep Kumer Bedi Interpenetrating subsampling of unequal
samples and the estimator with distinct
units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1505--1512
Ronald L. Iman Tables of the exact quantiles of the
top-down correlation coefficient for $ n
= 3 (1)14 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1513--1540
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Chris C. Frangos An updated bibliography on the jackknife
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1543--1584
M. Schemper On bootstrap confidence limits for
possibly skew distributed statistics . . 1585--1590
P. M. Kulkarni Large sample prediction regions with
estimated parameters . . . . . . . . . . 1591--1605
Seth M. Steinberg and
C. E. Davis Comparison of nonparametric point
estimators for interquantile differences
in moderate sized samples . . . . . . . 1607--1616
Y. L. Lio and
W. J. Padgett On the mean squared error of
nonparametric quantile estimators under
random right-censorship . . . . . . . . 1617--1628
Nélida E. Ferretti Efficiency of tests based on weighted
rankings for randomized blocks when the
alternatives have an a priori ordering 1629--1653
Anant M. Kshirsagar and
Sharon A. Naberhuis Stehouwer Efficiency of Bailey's trigonometric
levels in factorial experiments . . . . 1655--1673
J. N. Srivastava and
M. M. Siddiqui When $A$- and $D$-optimality conflict 1675--1682
John G. Saw MANOVA with covariates and an
application in profile analysis . . . . 1683--1696
Rahul Mukerjee On fourth order rotatable designs . . . 1697--1702
Ha Sik Sunwoo and
Byung Chun Kim $ L_1 $ for the simple linear regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1715
Alan E. Gelfand Mean square error behavior for
prediction in linear regression models 1717--1724
Balakrishna Hosmane Some conditions for optimality of the
almost unbiased estimators of regression
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1725--1731
C. J. Lloyd Optimality of marginal likelihood
estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . 1733--1741
S. K. Perng A note on the inverse estimator for the
linear calibration problem . . . . . . . 1743--1747
Jeffrey S. Simonoff The breakdown and influence properties
of outlier rejection-plus-mean
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1749--1760
A. M. Nigm and
H. I. Hamdy Bayesian prediction bounds for the
Pareto lifetime model . . . . . . . . . 1761--1772
Lisa A. Weissfeld and
Helmut Schneider Inferences based on the Buckley--James
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1773--1787
Rakesh Srivastava Admissibility of a test procedure in a
conditionally specified random model . . 1789--1796
Suojin Wang Improved approximation for
transformation diagnostics . . . . . . . 1797--1819
S. R. Adke and
V. B. Waikar and
F. J. Schurmann A two stage shrinkage testimator for the
mean of an exponential distribution . . 1821--1834
Jan W. H. Swanepoel Optimal kernels when estimating
non-smooth densities . . . . . . . . . . 1835--1848
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau A note on MSE coverage intervals in a
partial spline model . . . . . . . . . . 1851--1866
Barry Kurt Moser Generalized $F$ variates in the general
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867--1884
Sudhir C. Gupta Generating generalized cyclic designs
with factorial balance . . . . . . . . . 1885--1900
J. Kunert and
R. J. Martin Some results on optimal design under a
first-order autoregression and on finite
Williams Type II designs . . . . . . . . 1901--1922
Stephen F. Olejnik and
James Algina An analysis of statistical power for
parametric ANCOVA and rank transform
ANCOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1923--1949
P. M. Bentler and
S. Y. Lee and
Li-Jen Weng Multiple population covariance structure
analysis under arbitrary distribution
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1951--1964
Youngjo Lee The exact mean squared error risks of
preliminary test type estimators for the
multivariate normal mean . . . . . . . . 1965--1975
Kazuhiro Ohtani On estimating the common mean in two
normal distributions after a preliminary
test for equality of variances . . . . . 1977--1993
S. R. Chakravorti and
Irwin Guttman A large sample analysis of the
magnitudinal model in multivariate
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995--2002
R. W. Farebrother A further remark on testing linear
inequality constraints in the standard
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003--2005
K. R. Gabriel and
J. Robinson A note on simultaneous inference with
rerandomization tests . . . . . . . . . 2007--2015
Carl M. S. Lee and
Shyamal Das Peddada Comparison of some common ratio
estimators using Pitman measure of
nearness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2017--2027
H. J. Khamis A Measure of partial association between
disease and genotype for the two-parent
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2029--2060
Steve M. Bajgier and
Lalit K. Aggarwal A stepwise algorithm for selecting
category boundaries for the chi-squared
goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . . . . . 2061--2081
Sylvan Wallenstein Confidence intervals for dose or
treatment effect in several $ 2 \times j
$ tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2083--2096
J. K. Ghorai and
L. Rejtö Estimation of mean residual life with
censored data under the proportional
hazard model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2097--2114
B. N. Shetty and
P. C. Joshi Estimation of parameters of $k$
exponential distributions in doubly
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 2115--2123
Fredrick S. Whaley Optimizing the Wald--Wolfowitz runs
statistic using a linkage tolerance:
guidelines based on computer simulation 2125--2138
Nien Fan Zhang and
Robert V. Foutz Partial group delay and time-lagged
relationships among multiple time series 2139--2144
Kunio Shimizu and
K\=osei Iwase Unbiased estimation of the
autocovariance function in a stationary
generalized lognormal process . . . . . 2145--2154
H. I. Hamdy and
W. J. Pallotta Triple sampling procedure for estimating
the scale parameters of Pareto
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2155--2164
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M. C. Jones and
J. B. Copas Empirical assessment of the
applicability of shrinkage predictors in
regression when past and future data
differ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2165--2185
Jana Jurecková and
Stephen Portnoy Asymptotics for one-step $M$-estimators
in regression with application to
combining efficiency and high breakdown
point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2187--2199
U. Holst Recursive $M$-estimators of location . . 2201--2226
Sh I. Pinsker and
Victor Kipnis and
Eugen Grechanovsky The use of conditional cutoffs in a
forward selection procedure . . . . . . 2227--2241
P. S. Gill and
G. K. Shukla Optimal change-over designs for
correlated observations . . . . . . . . 2243--2261
Chand K. Chauhan Some results on the regularity in a
single replicate design . . . . . . . . 2263--2268
Mare J. Sobel Confidence intervals which admit
positively (semi) relevant sursets that
are not invariant . . . . . . . . . . . 2269--2276
Robert E. Bechhofer and
Charles W. Dunnett Subset selection for normal means in
multi-factor experiments . . . . . . . . 2277--2286
Linda M. Penas and
Jagdish K. Patel Classifying $k$ normal populations with
respect to a control: making at most $m$
$ (0 \leq m < k)$ incorrect decisions . . 2287--2311
Shanti S. Gupta and
Lii-Yuh Leu An asymptotic distribution-free
selection procedure for a two-way layout
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2313--2325
Patricia S. Costello and
Douglas A. Wolfe An extreme null distribution approach to
the problem of paired comparisons . . . 2327--2341
Joseph A. Damico and
Douglas A. Wolfe Extended tables of the exact
distribution of a rank statistic for all
treatments multiple comparisons in
one-way layout designs . . . . . . . . . 2343--2360
C. S. Withers Unbiased asymptotically optimal
estimates for the problem of the Nile 2361--2367
C. S. Withers Bias reduction by Taylor series . . . . 2369--2383
N. Balakrishnan Two identities involving order
statistics in the presence of an outlier 2385--2389
S. R. Paul and
R. K. Barnwal Detection of outliers in Poisson samples 2391--2403
Cary T. Isaki and
Linda K. Schultz The effects of correlation and matching
error on dual system estimation . . . . 2405--2427
Shu-Mei Chen and
Gouri K. Bhattacharyya Exact confidence bounds for an
exponential parameter under hybrid
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2429--2442
Glen Meeden and
James E. Gentle Computing some Bayes estimates for the
mean of a normal distribution . . . . . 2443--2457
James H. Albert Empirical Bayes estimation in
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 2459--2485
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Lawrence S. Mayer and
Steven S. Carroll Testing for homogeneity in cross-lagged
panel studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2487--2516
Andrey Oldford On the $n$-dimensional geometry of
regression diagnostics . . . . . . . . . 2517--2540
Lalit K. Aggarwal and
Steve M. Bajgier Comparative performance of tests of
normality in detecting mixtures of
parallel regression lines . . . . . . . 2541--2563
Ralph L. Kodell and
James J. Chen Handling cause of death in equivocal
cases using the em algorithm . . . . . . 2565--2585
Gregg E. Dinse Discussion of ``Handling cause of death
in equivocal cases using the EM
algorithm'' by R. L. Kodel and J. J.
Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2587--2592
Ralph L. Kodell and
James J. Chen Rejoinder to discussion by G. E. Dinse
of ``Handling cause of death in
equivocal causes using the EM
algorithm'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2593--2595
Gregg E. Dinse Further discussion of ``Handling cause
of death in equivocal cases using the EM
algorithm'' by R. L. Kodell and J. J.
Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2597--2601
Ralph L. Kodell and
James J. Chen Rejoinder to further discussion by G. E.
Dinse of handling cause of death in
equivocal cases using the EM algorithm 2603--2603
R. Ahmad and
S. M. Mostafa Variance components estimation for the
balanced random effects model under
mixed prior distributions . . . . . . . 2605--2621
Nader Ebrahimi and
Balakrishna Hosmane On shrinkage estimation of the
exponential location parameter . . . . . 2623--2637
Richard A. Redner and
Richard J. Hathaway and
James C. Bezdek Estimating the parameters of mixture
models with modal estimators . . . . . . 2639--2660
Mehdi Razzaghi and
William S. Rayens Modified maximum likelihood estimator
for the mixing distribution in a finite
mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2661--2676
Pandurang M. Kulkarni Large sample estimation and prediction
for explosive growth curve models . . . 2677--2696
Peyton Cook Bayesian autoregressive filter and
squared gain estimation . . . . . . . . 2697--2715
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Ian B. MacNeill Charts for autocorrelation and
partial-autocorrelation functions for
the $ {\rm AR}(2) $ and $ {\rm MA}(2) $
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2717--2725
John W. Odhiambo On the performance of three-stage group
screening experiments . . . . . . . . . 2727--2745
J. K. Arap Koske A fourth order rotatable design in four
dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2747--2753
B. R. Handa and
N. S. Kambo Power of a test for equality of $k$
exponential location parameters . . . . 2755--2769
Hans Frick On level and power of Anderson and
Hauck's procedure for testing
equivalence in comparative
bioavailability . . . . . . . . . . . . 2771--2778
E. M. Carter and
J. J. Hubert and
M. N. Walsh Multivariate parabolic bioassay . . . . 2779--2788
B. B. Bhattacharyya One sided Chebyshev inequality when the
first four moments are known . . . . . . 2789--2791
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Geoffrey S. Watson Reflections on group screening . . . . . 2795--2798
M. S. Patel and
J. A. M. Ottieno Optimum two stage group-screening with
unequal group sizes and with errors in
decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2799--2820
Kevin C. Burns and
Carl A. Mauro Group testing with test error as a
function of concentration . . . . . . . 2821--2837
Subir Ghosh Non-orthogonal designs for measuring
dispersion effects in sequential factor
screening experiments using search
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2839--2850
Bernard S. Pasternack and
Milton Sobel and
James Thomas Group-testing, halving procedures, and
binary search . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2851--2871
H. T. David Bayes extraction of component failure
information from Boolean module test
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2873--2883
Jack P. C. Kleijnen Review of random and group-screening
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2885--2900
Jaya Srivastava On the inadequacy of the customary
orthogonal arrays in quality control and
general scientific experimentation, and
the need of probing designs of higher
revealing power . . . . . . . . . . . . 2901--2941
Toby J. Mitchell and
David S. Scott A computer program for the design of
group testing experiments . . . . . . . 2943--2955
J. W. Odhiambo and
M. S. Patel Three-stage group screening with unequal
group sizes and with errors in
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2957--2979
Alan J. Gross and
Philip F. Rust Item reliability based on a paucity of
item failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2981--2990
C. A. Weideman and
D. Raghavarao Non-adaptive hypergeometric group
testing designs for identifying at most
two defectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2991--3006
S. Kocherlakota and
K. Kocherlakota and
N. Balakrishnan Selection procedures based on normal and
nonnormal variables with single and
multiple characters . . . . . . . . . . 3007--3023
C. Christen and
F. K. Hwang Detecting the two complementary
defectives with a balance scale . . . . 3025--3032
Walter T. Federer On screening samples in the laboratory
and factors in factorial investigations 3033--3049
Max D. Morris Two-stage factor screening procedures
using multiple grouping assignments . . 3051--3067
M. T. Boswell and
G. P. Patil A perspective of composite sampling . . 3069--3093
J. W. Odhiambo and
M. M. Manene Step-wise group screening designs with
errors in observations . . . . . . . . . 3095--3115
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Mel Cheng Wang Product limit estimates: a generalized
maximum likelihood study . . . . . . . . 3117--3132
S. P. Mukherjee and
A. Chatterjee Estimation of parameters in finite
mixtures of exponential families from
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3133--3147
S. Joshi and
S. Nabar Estimation of the parameter in the
problem of the Nile . . . . . . . . . . 3149--3156
Toshio Sakata Likelihood ratio test for one-sided
hypothesis of covariance matrices of two
normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . 3157--3168
M. Austin Betz An approximation for the
Hotelling--Lawley trace in the
noncentral case . . . . . . . . . . . . 3169--3183
Balakrishna Hosmane Improved likelihood ratio test for
multinomial goodness of fit . . . . . . 3185--3198
Clifford M. Hurvich Automatic selection of a linear
predictor through frequency domain
cross-validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 3199--3234
Miles Davis and
Rudolph E. Schwartz Geometric programming for optimal
allocation of integrated samples in
quality control . . . . . . . . . . . . 3235--3254
Avinash C. Singh On the optimality and a generalization
of Rao--Robson's statistic . . . . . . . 3255--3273
Chong Gu What happens when bootstrapping the
smoothing spline . . . . . . . . . . . . 3275--3284
M. S. Srivastava Bootstrap method in ranking and slippage
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3285--3299
Y. L. Lio and
W. J. Padgett A generalized quantile estimator under
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3301--3321
A. K. Gupta and
D. K. Nagar Nonnull distribution of the likelihood
ratio criterion for testing equality of
covariance matrices under intraclass
correlation model . . . . . . . . . . . 3323--3341
M. V. Ramakrishna Computing the probability of hash
table/urn overflow . . . . . . . . . . . 3343--3353
John F. Monahan An alternative method for computing
overflow probabilities . . . . . . . . . 3355--3357
Dong Ho Park and
K. M. Lai Saxena Nonparametric procedure for selecting
the least NBU population: large sample
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3359--3377
Ranjit M. Passi and
Michael J. Carpenter and
Harsh A. Passi Operational outlier detection . . . . . 3379--3391
Keh-Wei Chen and
Z. Zheng Admissible minimax model selection rule 3393--3401
Ruth M. Mickey The magnitude of the difference of crude
and adjusted log odds ratios . . . . . . 3403--3415
P. C. Wang Simultaneous transformations and
influence in regression . . . . . . . . 3417--3425
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3427--3428
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Jeffrey L. Pliskin A ridge-type estimator and good prior
means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3429--3437
S. P. Mukherjee and
U. Dasgupta Ridge estimation of restricted
parameters in production techniques . . 3439--3446
Yinsheng Qu George and
George W. Williams and
Gerald J. Beck and
Marlene Goormastic A generalized model of logistic
regression for clustered data . . . . . 3447--3476
N. Balakrishnan and
H. J. Malik Best linear unbiased estimation of
location and scale parameters of the
log-logistic distribution . . . . . . . 3477--3495
Sorana Froda A signed rank test for censored paired
lifetimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3497--3517
Fred Calitz An alternative to the
Kolmogorov--Smirnov test for goodness of
fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3519--3534
C. F. Smit and
N. G. N. Swart and
D. J. Stoker Weighted combinations of rank tests for
location-scale alternatives . . . . . . 3535--3553
M. Singh and
A. Dey A note on incomplete block designs for
symmetrical parallel line assays . . . . 3555--3564
Sunanda Bagchi Mukhopadhyay On the optimalities of the MBGDD's under
mixed effects model . . . . . . . . . . 3565--3576
D. G. Nel A profile analysis for two groups under
the heteroscedastic assumption . . . . . 3577--3589
Gillian Z. Stein and
June M. Juritz Bivariate compound Poisson distributions 3591--3607
Susan M. Sanchez A modified least-failures sampling
procedure for Bernoulli subset selection 3609--3629
T. J. Rao On certain unbiased product estimators 3631--3640
Arthur Vogt Some suggestions concerning an axiom
system for statistical price and
quantity indices . . . . . . . . . . . . 3641--3663
Cay A. van der Merwe and
D. G. Nel Linear generalizations of various
matric-$t$ distributions . . . . . . . . 3665--3681
Heleno Bolfarine Minimax prediction in finite populations 3683--3700
Ravindra Khattree and
Dayanand N. Naik Detection of outliers in bivariate time
series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3701--3714
James D. Leeper and
Hang Ling Chang Hypothesis testing for two-group
incomplete-data growth curve problems 3715--3728
A. Dobriyal and
D. A. S. Fraser and
R. Gebotys Approximate conditional inference and
the linear functional model . . . . . . 3729--3737
Vijay K. Rohatgi Distribution of order statistics with
random sample size . . . . . . . . . . . 3739--3743
Javier Roio On the admissibility of $ c \bar {X} + d
$ with respect to the LINEX loss
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3745--3748
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T. J. Jeon and
S. J. Park Multiple time series model
identification using concatenated sample
cross-correlations . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
P. David Wilson Maximum likelihood estimation using
differences in an autoregressive-$1$
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
M. Shelton Peiris On the prediction of multivariate ARMA
processes with a time dependent
covariance structure . . . . . . . . . . 27--37
S. R. Paul Estimation of and testing significance
for a common correlation coefficient . . 39--53
L. A. Franklin A note on approximations and convergence
in distribution for Spearman's rank
correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 55--59
M. Joun Bootstrapping density estimates . . . . 61--78
R. W. Farebrother Elemental location shift estimators in
the constrained linear model . . . . . . 79--85
Deborah J. Street Some repeated measurements designs . . . 87--104
Veronica Czitrom Mixture experiments with process
variables: $d$-optimal orthogonal
experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . 105--121
Tommy Wright A note on optimal allocation and an
ordering of the family of beta prior
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--138
Samuel Kotz and
Norman L. Johnson and
Nina Gunther Inspection errors in Graff--Roeloffs
modification of hierarchical Dorfman
screening procedures . . . . . . . . . . 139--168
Sheng-Tsaing Tseng Selecting more reliable Weibull
populations than a control . . . . . . . 169--181
Jee Soo Kim A subset selection procedure for
exponential populations under random
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--206
D. B. Owen and
Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau On the duality between points and lines 207--228
Ulrich Menzefricke Predictive distributions in the presence
of measurement error . . . . . . . . . . 229--243
James H. Albert Estimation of a Poisson mean using
discrete mixtures of conjugate priors 245--261
David A. Amato A generalized Kaplan--Meier estimator
for heterogeneous populations . . . . . 263--286
A. M. Nigm Prediction bounds for the Burr model . . 287--297
P. C. Consul and
Felix Famoye Maximum likelihood estimation for the
generalized Poisson distribution when
sample mean is larger than sample
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--309
W. R. Schucany and
A. M. Kshirsagar Communications in theory and methods
Editor-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . . . edi--edii
T. Elperin and
I. Gertsbakh Lower confidence limit for the
availability of a parallel system with
renewable components . . . . . . . . . . 311--323
K. F. Cheng and
C. H. Chen Estimation of the Weibull parameters
with grouped data . . . . . . . . . . . 325--341
S. K. Sinha and
Irwin Guttman Bayesian analysis of life-testing
problems involving the Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--356
Ram Chandra Tiwari Convergence of Dirichlet invariant
measures and the limits of Bayes
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--393
Hung C. Li The exact probability that the roots of
quadratic, cubic, and quartic equations
are all real if the equation
coefficients are random . . . . . . . . 395--409
C. Ming Wang A robust estimator for wall following 411--422
P. C. Consul On some models leading to the
generalized Poisson distribution . . . . 423--442
S. R. Adke and
E. S. Murphree Efficient sequential estimation for
compound Poisson processes . . . . . . . 443--460
Louis-Paul Rivest A distribution for dependent unit
vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--483
Nien Fan Zhang and
Robert V. Foutz A higher-order random-parameter process
for modeling and forecasting time series 485--498
Tatsuya Kubokawa Monotonicity of risk for a shrinkage
estimator of a multivariate normal mean 499--506
Bradley M. Bell Generalized gamma parameter estimation
and moment evaluation . . . . . . . . . 507--517
Vincent N. LaRiccia Parametric testing procedures for type
II censored data sets based on the
quantile function . . . . . . . . . . . 519--542
I. S. Bradbury Approximations to permutation
distributions in the completely
randomized design . . . . . . . . . . . 543--555
Gillian Z. Stein and
June M. Juritz Linear models with an inverse Gaussian
Poisson error distribution . . . . . . . 557--571
Rober Haining Estimating spatial means with an
application to remotely sensed data . . 573--597
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Perla Subbaiah On a Fisherian detour of the step-down
procedure for MANOVA . . . . . . . . . . 599--611
Sukhminder Singh Estimation in overlapping clusters . . . 613--621
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W. R. Schucany and
A. M. Kshirsagar and
A. M. Kshirsagar Communications in theory and methods
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R. Dennis Cook and
Daniel Peña and
Sanford Weisberg The likelihood displacement: a unifying
principle for influence measures . . . . 623--640
Toshio Sakata Detecting a change in variances . . . . 641--655
Ning-Zhong Shi A test of homogeneity for umbrella
alternatives and tables of the level
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--670
Y. M. Chan and
M. S. Srivastava Comparison of powers for the sphericity
tests using both the asymptotic
distribution and the bootstrap . . . . . 671--690
Derrick S. Tracy and
Anil K. Srivastava A synthesis of Stein-rule and mixed
regression procedures in linear
regression models under non-normality 691--704
Ross S. Sparks A distribution free method of detecting
outliers in regression . . . . . . . . . 705--727
Manuel del Rio On the potential in the estimation of
linear functions in regression . . . . . 729--738
J. S. Chawia A note on general ridge estimator . . . 739--744
B. Raja Rao and
Gary M. Marsh Approximate variance formulas and
asymptotic joint sampling distributions
of standardized risk ratios in the
presence of competing risks in cohort
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--777
Suddhendu Biswas and
Nather Abas Ebraheem On an application of the diffusion
approximation of the generalized birth
and death process for stochastic
population projection . . . . . . . . . 779--789
J. H. Venter Estimation of the mean of the selected
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--805
Tanan Kumar Nayak Testing equality of conditionally
independent exponential distributions 807--820
Chuang-Stein Christy Two approaches for the analysis of a
titration study with a placebo control 821--832
F. Njui and
M. S. Patel Fifth order rotability . . . . . . . . . 833--848
Barry K. Noser and
Virgil R. Marco Bayesian outlier testing using the
predictive distribution for a linear
model of constant intraclass form . . . 849--860
Vittadini Giorgio On the validity of the indeterminate
latent variables in the LISREL model . . 861--874
Heikki Ruskeepää Exact predictors for a generalized $
{\rm AR}(1) $ process with an $ {\rm
AR}(1) $ parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 875--885
Edward P. Markowski A characterization of some locally most
powerful rank tests . . . . . . . . . . 887--891
M. L. Tiku Modified maximum likelihood estimation
for the bivariate normal . . . . . . . . 893--910
R. D. Gupta and
Ramesh C. Gupta Estimation of $ p \{ y_p > \max (y_1,
y_2, \ldots {}, y_{p - 1}) \} $ in the
exponential case . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--924
Anna Moli\'nska and
Krzysztof Moli\'nski Relationships between confidence
intervals for the ratio of two variances
of independent normal distributions . . 925--933
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Shayle R. Searle Mixed models and unbalanced data:
wherefrom, whereat and whereto? . . . . 935--968
C. R. Henderson The use of equivalent linear models in
mixed model estimation and prediction 969--982
R. R. Hocking A cell means analysis of mixed linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--1010
Poduri S. R. S. Rao and
Kuranchie Pasmore Variance components of the linear
regression model with a random intercept 1011--1026
L. R. Verdooren Least squares estimators and
non-negative estimators of variance
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1051
Daniel R. Jeske and
David A. Harville Prediction-interval procedures and
(fixed-effects) confidence-interval
procedures for mixed linear models . . . 1053--1087
Justus F. Seely and
El-Houssainy Rady When can random effects be treated as
fixed effects for computing a test
statistic for a linear hypothesis? . . . 1089--1109
N. G. N. Prasad and
J. N. K. Rao and
N. G. N. Prasad and
J. N. K. Rao Robust tests and confidence intervals
for error variance in a regression model
and for functions of variance components
in an unbalanced random one-way model 1111--1133
Lynn Roy Lamotte and
Archer McWhorter, Jr. and
Ram A. Prasad Confidence intervals and tests on the
variance ratio in random models with two
variance components . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1164
Richard K. Burdick and
Franklin A. Graybill The present status of confidence
interval estimation on variance
components in balanced and unbalanced
random models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165--1195
L. R. Verdooren Exact tests and confidence intervals for
ratio of variance components in
unbalanced two-and three-stage nested
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1230
W. I. Tan and
M. A. Tabatabai Harmonic mean approach to unbalanced
mixed effects models under
heteroscedastic variances . . . . . . . 1231--1259
W. Y. Tan and
M. A. Tabatabai and
N. Balakrishnan Harmonic mean approach to unbalanced
random effects models under
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1261--1286
J. Kleffe On the role of MINQUE in testing of
hypotheses under hiked linear models . . 1287--1309
Z. D. Bai and
P. R. Krishnaiah and
L. C. Zhao Multivariate components of covariance
model in unbalanced case . . . . . . . . 1311--1324
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Arnold Janssen Locally most powerful rank tests . . . . 1325--1349
David L. Tritchler The exact nonparametric analysis of a
class of experimental designs . . . . . 1351--1363
Kusum Kalpana and
Bagai Isha A new class of distribution free
procedures for testing homogeneity of
scale parameters against ordered
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1365--1376
Kamona L. Paetzold and
H. Fenwick Huss Bernoulli processes interrelated by
constrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377--1383
P. Sarmah and
A. D. Dharmadhikari Statistical analysis of a two-unit
dependent repairable system . . . . . . 1385--1400
Yuichiro Kanazawa An optimal variable cell histogram . . . 1401--1422
M. O. Ojo A new approximation to the incomplete
beta function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1435
P. V. Rao and
R. R. Daley On the use of the Scholz--Sievers method
for distribution-free inference about
the difference in slopes of two
regression lines . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1448
L. C. Singhal and
R. K. Tuteja and
Priti Jain On measures of relative information with
preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1464
Robert W. Mee Estimation of the percentage of a normal
distribution lying outside a specified
interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465--1479
J. Andel On $ {\rm AR}(1) $ processes with
exponential white noise . . . . . . . . 1481--1495
Norman T. Bruvold and
Shanker Ganesan A sample size selection procedure for
pairwise comparisons of means with
unequal variances . . . . . . . . . . . 1497--1505
Bofinger Eve and
Mengersen Kerrie Simultaneous comparisons with a control
and with the ``best'' . . . . . . . . . 1507--1540
C. Trioathi Ram and
C. Gupta Ramesh Another generalization of the
logarithmic series and the geometric
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541--1547
Robert E. Tarone Homogeneity score tests with nuisance
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1556
Andrey Feuerverger and
Sucharita Ghosh An asymptotic Neyman--Pearson type
result under symmetry constraints . . . 1557--1564
Sik-Yum Lee Estimation of structural equation models
with exact and stochastic prior
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565--1589
S. Sivaganesan Range of posterior measures for priors
with arbitrary contaminations . . . . . 1591--1612
George Y. Wong Asymptotic normality of poly-$t$
densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1627
Varghese T. George and
S. K. Katti A non-Bayesian approach to estimation
using tested priors . . . . . . . . . . 1629--1639
Jay H. Beder Estimating a covariance function having
an un unknown scale parameter . . . . . 1641--1657
C. Y. Leung Anderson's classification statistic
based on a post-stratified training
sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1659--1667
Sanpei Kageyama and
G. M. Saha and
Mukerjee Rahul $ D^{-1} $-Partially efficiency-balanced
designs with at most two efficiency
classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1669--1683
Satyabrata Pal and
Samarendranath Pal Nonproper variance balanced designs and
optimality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1685--1695
Eve Bofinger Least significant spacing for `one
versus the rest' normal populations . . 1697--1716
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ehsan S. Soofi Principal component regression under
exchangeability . . . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1733
Balakrishna S. Hosmane On a generalized Stein estimator of
regression coefficients . . . . . . . . 1735--1740
M. A. Ali and
M. S. Abu-Salih and
S. K. Titi A method of selecting the levels of
regressor variables in lognormal
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1741--1761
Serge B. Provost Likelihood ratio test for independence
with partial multivariate normal data 1763--1775
Peter J. Danaher Parameter estimation for the
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution using
supplementary beta-binomial data . . . . 1777--1788
M. L. Tiku and
N. Balakrishnan Robust Hotelling-type $ T^2 $ statistics
based on the modified maximum likelihood
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1789--1810
James C. Spall Effect of the sample on the posterior
probability in Bayesian analysis . . . . 1811--1827
G. G. Hamedani and
G. G. Walter Bayes estimation of the binomial
parameter $n$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829--1843
Andrew P. Soms The Lindstrom--Madden method for series
systems with repeated components . . . . 1845--1856
Shu-Mei Chen and
Gouri K. Bhattacharyya Exact confidence bounds for an
exponential parameter under hybrid
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857--1870
TaChen Liang Isotonic rules for selecting good
exponential populations . . . . . . . . 1871--1887
David C. Heilbron Exact test of a common odds ratio:
robustness and comparison with an
alternative test . . . . . . . . . . . . 1889--1902
Rahiala Markku A simple method for the estimation of
rational distributed lag models . . . . 1903--1928
Lap-Ming Wun and
Ken Hung A note on the distribution of mean
square error of forecasting . . . . . . 1929--1934
Philip Byrne Multivariate analysis with a stationary
time series covariance structure . . . . 1935--1943
Chien-Pai Han and
C. V. Rao and
J. Ravichandran Inference based on conditional
specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1945--1964
S. Dahel Admissible tests for the mean with
additional information . . . . . . . . . 1965--1972
Jerome P. Keating and
Robert L. Mason Preference regions and their
probabilities based on a rectangular
grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1973--1983
Alain Moise and
Bernard Clement and
Marios Raissis A test for crossing receiver operating
characteristic (roc) curves . . . . . . 1985--2003
Vijay K. Rohatgi and
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh A class of distributions connected to
order statistics with nonintegral sample
size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005--2012
U. Kamps Distance measures in a one-parameter
class of density functions . . . . . . . 2013--2019
Ryuei Nishii Identities and inequalities for the
expected values of random matrices and
Loewner's theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 2021--2035
Georg Neuhaus Asymptotically optimal rank tests for
the two-sample problem with randomly
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2037--2058
Ning-zhong Shi Rank test statistics for umbrella
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2059--2073
Y. C. Yao and
H. K. Iyer A note on the completeness of the normal
family with constant coefficient of
variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2075--2083
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
H. Leon Barter History and role of order statistics . . 2091--2107
Vic Barnett Outliers and order statistics . . . . . 2109--2118
H. A. David General bounds and inequalities in order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2119--2134
Barry C. Arnold Bounds on the expected maximum . . . . . 2135--2150
Jee Soo Kim and
Frank Proschan and
Jayaram Sethuraman Stochastic comparisons of order
statistics, with applications in
reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2151--2172
N. Balakrishnan Relations and identities for the moments
of order statistics from a sample
containing a single outlier . . . . . . 2173--2190
W. D. Kaigh O-statistics and their applications . . 2191--2210
Janes Galambos Variants of the graph dependent model in
extreme value theory . . . . . . . . . . 2211--2221
H. N. Nagaraja Record values and related statistics ---
a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2223--2238
Betty Jones Whitten and
Clifford Cohen A. and
Vani Sundaraiyer A pseudo-complete sample technique for
estimation from censored samples . . . . 2239--2258
Lai K. Chan and
Cheng W. Linear estimation of the location and
scale parameters based on selected order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2259--2278
J. E. Oppenlander and
J. Scmee and
C. J. Hahn Some simple robust estimators of normal
distribution tail percentiles and their
properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2279--2301
S. Jeyaratnam and
S. Panchapakesan Selection from uniform populations based
on sample midranges and an associated
estimation after selection . . . . . . . 2303--2314
P. C. Joshi Estimation and testing under
exchangeable exponential model with a
single outlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2315--2326
N. Balakrishnan and
R. S. Ambagaspitiya Relationships among moments of order
statistics in samples from two related
outlier models and some applications . . 2327--2341
Effat Moussa-Hamouda Inference in regression problems based
on order statistics . . . . . . . . . . 2343--2367
M. L. Tiku Order statistics in goodness of fit
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2369--2387
I. D. Shelty and
Z. Govindarajulu A two-sample test for location . . . . . 2389--2401
W. Y. Tan and
N. Balakrishnan Bayesian approach to robust procedures
based on censored samples . . . . . . . 2403--2418
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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii
Joseph Glaz A survey of statistical methods on
remote sensing in Russian literature
from 1976 to 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . 2419--2454
Richard T. Burnett and
R. Andrew Willan Linear rank tests for randomized block
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2455--2470
N. Mukhopadhyay Sequential estimation problems for
negative exponential populations . . . . 2471--2506
E. H. Oksanen Principal components in econometrics . . 2507--2532
Ch. A. Charalambides and
Jagbir Singh Review of the Stirling numbers, their
generalizations and statistical
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2533--2595
Sujata Rajarshi and
M. B. Rajarshi Bathtub distributions: a review . . . . 2597--2621
J. Henrick Malik and
N. Balakrishnan and
S. E. Ahmed Recurrence relations mid identities for
moments of order statistics, I:
arbitrary continuous distribution . . . 2623--2655
N. Balakrishnan and
Henrick J. Malick and
S. E. Ahmed Recurrence Relations And Identities For
Moments Of Order Statistics, II;
Specific Continuous Distributions . . . 2657--2694
Sanpei Kageyama Optimum chemical balance weighing
designs for estimating the total weight 2697--2704
Ching-Mirig Yeh Schur optimality of one-way designs . . 2705--2713
Ronald W. Helms Definitions of linear model parameters
and hypotheses as functions of e[y] . . 2715--2723
Ronald W. Helms Comparisons of parameter and hypothesis
definitions in a general linear model 2725--2753
K. X. Karakostas On the efficiency or a centrally located
sampling design . . . . . . . . . . . . 2755--2762
Michale F. Driscoll and
W. D. Laigh Characterizations and $O$-statistic
representations of $ L U$-statistics . . 2763--2777
Takemi Yanagimoto The conditional MLE in the two-parameter
geometric distribution and its
competitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2779--2787
Trevor S. Breusch and
Peter Schmidt Alternative forms of the Wald test: how
long is a piece of string? . . . . . . . 2789--2795
P. Vellaisamy and
D. Sharma Estimation of the mean of the selected
gamma population . . . . . . . . . . . . 2797--2817
Edsel A. Pena and
Vijay K. Rohatgi Estimation of parameters under a random
censorship model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2819--2829
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
Vijay K. Rohatgi Estimation of parameters of
location-scale family of distributions
in complete and Type II censored samples 2831--2858
Malay Ghosh and
Lily Liorens Mantelle Maximum likelihood estimation for two
parameter exponentials under Type I
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2859--2879
I. Gertsbakh On the equivalence of Pavlov--Ushakov
and Kaplan--Meier estimators of survival
probability in multiply censored sample 2881--2886
Ken-Wei Chen Optimal rates of convergence for the
piecewise polynomial estimator with the
index chosen by the FPE selection rule 2887--2906
William F. Roller A two- sample partially sequential
probability ratio test . . . . . . . . . 2907--2920
James E. Daly The construction of optimal histograms 2921--2931
Varghese T. George and
Robert C. Elston Generalized modulus power
transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 2933--2952
David C. Emanuel and
Kenneth H. Sutrick Non-random shuffling strategies in
blackjack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2953--2958
Ravindra Khattree Inequality restricted linear selection
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2959--2980
Covadonga Caso and
Maria Angeles Gil The Gini--Simpson index of diversity:
estimation in the stratified sampling 2981--2995
Tommy Wright On some properties of variable size
simple random sampling and a limit
theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2997--3016
Jun Shao Consistency of jackknife estimators of
the variances of simple quantiles . . . 3017--3028
Fahimeh Rezayat and
Anandalingam G. Using instrumental variables for
selecting the order of ARMA models . . . 3029--3065
S. Jeyaratnam and
S. Panchapakesan Prediction intervals for the random
intercept linear model . . . . . . . . . 3067--3073
Kai F. Yu A linear regression with unobserved
dependent variables . . . . . . . . . . 3075--3087
S. C. Gupta Type A incomplete multi-response designs 3089--3105
Marcia Feingold A more powerful test for incomplete
block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3107--3119
K. R. Shah On uniformly better combined estimates
in row-column designs with adjusted
orthogonality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3121--3124
Sudhir Gupta On the property of balance and the
pattern of $C$-matrix in block designs 3125--3135
B. C. Gupta A bound connected with $ 2^6 $ factorial
search designs of resolution $ 3.1 $ . . 3137--3144
A. K. Gupta and
D. K. Nagar Asymptotic expansion of the nonnull
distribution of likelihood ratio
statistic for testing multisample
sphericity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3145--3155
Yukata Tanaka Sensitivity analysis in principal
component analysis: influence on the
subspace spanned by principal components 3157--3175
Chyi Hung Hsu and
Martin S. Levy and
James W. Neill The distribution of the ratio of
independent central Wishart determinants 3177--3190
Basil Samara and
Ronald H. Randles A test for correlation based on
Kendall's tau . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3191--3205
B. Q. Miao and
L. C. Zhao Detection of change points using rank
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3207--3217
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Joachim Sehr On a conjecture concerning the least
favorable configuration of a two-stage
selection procedure . . . . . . . . . . 3221--3233
J. C. W. Rayner and
D. J. Best Smooth tests of goodness of fit for
regular distributions . . . . . . . . . 3235--3267
C. S. Withers Some asymptotics for $U$-statistics . . 3269--3276
Daniel Barry Asymptotic IMSE for a nonparametric
Bayesian regression estimate . . . . . . 3277--3293
Y. S. Sathe On the correlation coefficient between
the first and the $r$-th smallest order
statistics based on $n$ independent
exponential random variables . . . . . . 3295--3299
Douglas G. Bonett Exact and stochastic nonlinear
constrained estimation in the
conditional Poisson log-linear model . . 3301--3311
Alan E. Gelfand and
Dipak K. Dey Improved estimation of variance
components in mixed models . . . . . . . 3313--3331
Sylvan Wallenstein and
Joseph L. Fleiss The two-period crossover design with
baseline measurements . . . . . . . . . 3333--3343
Daniel T. Voss Generalized modulus-ratio tests for
analysis of factorial designs with zero
degrees of freedom for error . . . . . . 3345--3359
C. G. Moon Simulataneous specification test in a
binary logit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3361--3387
N. K. Indira and
V. V. Menon Normal approximation in an urn model
with indistinguishable balls . . . . . . 3389--3402
H. Papageorgiou and
S. Loukas Conditional even point estimation for
bivariate discrete distributions . . . . 3403--3412
M. Samanta A unified approach to minimum variance
unbiased estimation of a probability
function belonging to an exponential
family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3413--3426
B. R. Bhat and
K. Suresh Chandra Least squares estimation of the
parameters of a stochastic difference
equation with polynomial regression
component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3427--3446
P. Vellaisamy and
Kumar Somesh and
Sharma Divakar Estimating the mean of the selected
uniform population . . . . . . . . . . . 3447--3475
R. N. Rattihaili and
M. R. Huggi Optimal Bayesian confidence interval of
fixed width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3477--3482
Patricia A. Pepple Bayesian testing of an exponential point
null hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . 3483--3503
Dean M. Young and
John W. Seaman, Jr. and
Danny W. Turner and
Virgil R. Marco Probability inequalities for continuous
unimodal random variables with finite
support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3505--3519
Alan Dorfman A note on Miller's empirical weights for
heteroscedastic linear regression . . . 3521--3535
Timo Teräsvirta Superiority comparisons between mixed
regression estimators . . . . . . . . . 3537--3546
Marshall Freimer and
Georgia Kollia and
Govind S. Mudholkar and
C. Thomas Lin A study of the generalized Tukey lambda
family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3547--3567
Jürg Husler On the asymptotic behaviour of selector
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3569--3590
R. C. Tiwari and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Jyoti N. Zalkikar Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation of
survival function under progressive
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3591--3606
Saul Blumentthal Estimating with percentile grouped and
truncated date from a scale parameter
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3607--3628
L. A. Franklin and
G. D. Richardson A comparison of nonparametric unweighted
and length-biased density estimation of
fibres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3629--3644
Stephen M. Scariano and
Terry A. Watkins Nonparametric point estimators for the
change-point problem . . . . . . . . . . 3645--3675
Harry Joe Extreme probabilities for contingency
tables under row and column independence
with application to Fisher's exact test 3677--3685
Dibyen Majumdar Optimal repeated measurements designs
for comparing test treatments with a
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3687--3703
Girish Patwardhan Tests for exponentiality . . . . . . . . 3705--3722
Marie-Pierre Malice and
Claude Lef\`evre On some effects of variability in the
Weiss epidemic model . . . . . . . . . . 3723--3731
Byung Soo Kim Some remarks on locally most powerful
unbiased tests for the detection of
mixtures of Poisson or binomial
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3733--3741
Erkki P. Liski A test of the mean square error
criterion for linear admissible
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3743--3756
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Vijay K. Rohatgi Minimum variance unbiased estimation in
some nonregular families . . . . . . . . 3757--3765
U. Gather and
B. K. Kale Maximum likelihood estimation in the
presence of outliers . . . . . . . . . . 3767--3784
Jan W. H. Swanepoel Mean integrated squared error properties
and optimal kernels when estimating a
distribution function . . . . . . . . . 3785--3799
William P. McCormick and
Jack H. Reeves Approximating the distribution of the
maximum of a dependent stationary
sequence based on estimates from a
generating function . . . . . . . . . . 3801--3823
Stefan Mittnik Derivation of the theoretical
autocovariance and autocorrelation
function of autoregessive moving average
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3825--3831
John G. Saw The non-null distributions in ANOVA . . 3833--3845
Dorothy A. Anderson and
John P. Hinde Random effects in generalized linear
models and the EM algorithm . . . . . . 3847--3856
John Stufken On the existence of linear trend free
block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3857--3863
Sudhir Gupta Designs for symmetrical parallel line
assays obtainable through group
divisible designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3865--3868
C. Y. Leung Covariate classification by
post-stratification . . . . . . . . . . 3869--3880
Andrew T. A. Wood Some notes on the Fisher--Bingham family
on the sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3881--3897
M. L. Tiku and
N. Balakrishnan Generalization of the robust bivariate $
t^2 $ statistic to multivariate
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3899--3911
Hong-Jie Sun A general reduction method for
$n$-variate normal orthant probability 3913--3921
Xiquan Shi and
Jun Shao Resampling estimation when observations
are $m$-dependent . . . . . . . . . . . 3923--3934
S. N. Pandey and
H. J. Malik Some improved estimators for a measures
of dispersion of an inverse Gaussian
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3935--3949
Nicholas J. Schork and
M. Anthony Schork Skewness and mixtures of normal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3951--3969
A. J. Stam and
A. G. M. Steerneman Equality conditions in an inequality for
affinities of finite measures . . . . . 3971--3979
Ravindra Khattree Asymmetric selection indices . . . . . . 3981--3993
Youn-Min Chou One-sided simultaneous prediction
intervals for the order statistics of a
future samples from an exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3995--4003
H. A. David Note on ``An extreme null distribution
approach to the problem of paired
comparisons'' by Patricia S. Costello
and Douglas A. Wolfe . . . . . . . . . . 4005--4009
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Steve Verrill and
Richard A. Johnson Asymptotic distributions for quadratic
forms with applications to censored data
tests of fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4011--4024
Mitsuyo Kanazawa On the distributions of the inner
distance functions in the multivariate
normal populations with unequal
covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . 4025--4038
Carlos Urzúa A class of maximum-entropy multivariate
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4039--4057
Yuehua Wu Discrimination analysis when the
variates are grouped and observed in
sequential order . . . . . . . . . . . . 4059--4074
S. Chakraborti Large sample tests for equality of
medians under unequal right-censoring 4075--4084
Parthasarathi Lahiri and
Dong Ho Park Nonparametric Bayes and empirical Bayes
estimation of the residual survival
function at age $t$ . . . . . . . . . . 4085--4098
Eugenia Bair Chin and
John E. Hewett Multivaritate two stage test based on
ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4099--4119
B. D. Spurr and
C. D. Sinclair A General formula for the upper tail
significance levels of empirical
distribution function test statistics 4121--4131
Koiti Takahasi A note on hazard rates of order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4133--4136
Zhi Geng Multidimensional contingency tables with
missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4137--4146
Yaakov Friedman and
Alexander Gelman and
Eswar Phadia A modified Kolmogorov--Smirnov type
goodness of fit test . . . . . . . . . . 4147--4162
Russell F. Kappenman and
R. V. Hogg and
G. K. Bril and
S. M. Han and
L. Yuh Detection of symmetry or lack of it and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4163--4177
M. Bolstad William Estimation in the multiprocess dynamic
generalized linear model . . . . . . . . 4179--4204
Gilberto A. Paulo and
Clovis A. Peres Diagnostics for GLMS with linear
inequality parameter constraints . . . . 4205--4219
Nabendu Pal Decision-theoretic estimation of
generalized variance and generalized
precision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4221--4230
Kazuhiro Ohtani Testing the disturbance variance after a
pre-test for a linear hypothesis on
coefficients in a linear regression . . 4231--4250
Gotz Trenkler Some remarks on a ridge-type-estimator
and good prior means . . . . . . . . . . 4251--4256
Pentti Saikkonen and
Ritva Luukkone An efficient method for the estimation
of multivariate moving average models 4257--4270
B. Abraham and
K. Vijayan A statistic to check model adequacy in
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4271--4278
Mervyn J. Silvapulle On the symmetry of $M$-estimators
computed by the Huber--Dutter algorithm 4279--4284
Gina Bravo and
Brenda Macgibbon Improved estimation for the parameters
of an inverse Gaussian distribution . . 4285--4299
Park Euhyoon and
Shaul k Bar-Lev Minimum variance unbiased estimation in
natural exponential families generated
by stable distributions . . . . . . . . 4301--4313
Somesh Kumar and
Divakar Sharma Simultaneous estimation of ordered
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4315--4336
Mei-Ling Huang and
Karen Yuen Fung A more generalized Stirling distribution
of the second kind . . . . . . . . . . . 4337--4356
J. de la Horra and
C. Ruiz-Rivas A Bayesian method for inferring the
degree of dependence for a positively
quadrant dependent distribution . . . . 4357--4370
D. S. Bai and
J. S. Jang Efficient sequential estimation in
multiplicative counting processes . . . 4371--4388
R. J. Kulperger A Monte Carlo approximation of the
distributions of the maximum of various
Brownian bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . 4389--4397
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Ursula Gather Testing for multisource contamination in
location/scale families . . . . . . . . 1--34
C. S. Withers The probability of a random deviation
from a sample mean . . . . . . . . . . . 35--52
Hajime Yamato and
Yoshihiko Maesono Deficiencies of $U$-statistics of degree
2 under symmetric distributions . . . . 53--66
Benjamin S. Duran and
Chi-Chung Mitchell A class of multisample multivariate
nonparametric tests for location-scale 67--84
Taka-aki Shiraishi Multivariate multi-sample rank tests for
location-scale alternatives . . . . . . 85--105
Isha Bagai and
Jayant V. Deshpandé and
Subhash C. Kochar A distribution-free test for the
equality of failure rates due to two
competing risks . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120
Malay Ghosh and
Parthasarthi Lahiri and
Ram C. Tiwari Nonparametric empirical Bayes estimation
of the distribution function and the
mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--146
Michael Haber Do the marginal totals of a $ 2 \times 2
$ contingency table contain information
regarding the table proportions? . . . . 147--156
Samuel Y. Dennis Some probabilities associated with the
ordering of random variables having a
Dirichlet distribution . . . . . . . . . 157--170
Hsien-Ming Hung On the utility of transformed auxiliary
variables in finite population inference 171--188
Katuomi Hirano and
Kosei Iwase Minimum risk scale equivariant
estimator: estimating the mean of an
inverse Gaussian distribution with known
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 189--197
Hassan Zahedi and
Samuel S. Shapiro A discrete model for the segmentation of
chains and strings . . . . . . . . . . . 199--218
James C. Spall Effect of imprecisely known nuisance
parameters on estimates of primary
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--237
S. M. Joshi and
S. P. Nabar Sequential analysis applied to testing
the scale parameter in the problem of
the Nile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--243
H. A. Howlader and
G. Weiss Bayes estimators of the reliability of
the logistic distribution . . . . . . . 245--259
Taka-aki Shiraishi $R$-estimators and confidence regions
for main effects in a two-factor MANOVA 261--276
Dexter C. Whittinghill III A note on trend-free block designs . . . 277--285
Mokhtar B. Abdullah On $W$-estimators of a linear functional
relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--314
Ranjit M. Passi and
Claude Morel Least squares adaptive polynomials . . . 315--329
Santiago Velilia Cerdán A note on the behaviour of augmented
principal-component plots in regression 331--342
Mostafa S. Aminzadeh Prediction intervals in exponential
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--353
Evdokia Xekalaki and
J. Panaretos On some distributions arising in inverse
cluster sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--366
Charles S. Davis Two-sample post-stratified or subgroup
analysis with restricted randomization
rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--378
B. Prasad Some improved ratio type estimators of
population mean and ratio in finite
population sample surveys . . . . . . . 379--392
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Lonnie Magee Bias approximations for covariance
parameter estimators in the linear model
with $ {\rm AR}(1) $ errors . . . . . . 395--422
Ralph G. O.'Brien On the Tiku--Balakrishnan tests for
equality of covariance matrices . . . . 423--428
R. J. Mc Kay Simultaneous procedures for covariance
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--443
Aiala Barr A multivariate model for discrete data
sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--459
Paul W. Stewart and
Ronald W. Helms Evaluating the cumulative distribution
function of a Bonferroni test statistic
from a Type III bivariate $t$
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--477
Bernadette Govaerts A note on a method to compute the
asymptotic Distribution of the sample
second order moments of dynamic linear
normal variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--488
Le Roy A. Franklin A comparison of estimators for
randomized response sampling with
continuous distributions from a
dichotomous population . . . . . . . . . 489--505
Vee Ming Ng Prediction distributions for changing
sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--513
J. De la Horra An asymptotic result with respect to
predictive distributions . . . . . . . . 515--521
Tony Robinson and
Rana Moyeed Making robust the cross-validatory
choice of smoothing parameter in spline
smoothing regression . . . . . . . . . . 523--539
Nariaki Sugiura and
May Thu Naing Improved estimators for the location of
double exponential distribution . . . . 541--554
P. Vellaisamy and
D. Sharma A note on the estimation of the mean of
the selected gamma population . . . . . 555--560
Laxman M. Hegde and
Ram C. Dahiya Estimation of the parameters of a
truncated gamma distribution . . . . . . 561--577
Giovanni Radaelli and
Giuseppe Gallus On detection of a change in the dynamics
of rare health events . . . . . . . . . 579--590
Jay H. Beder The problem of confounding in two-factor
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--612
Siu-Keung Tse A comparison of procedures for general
contrasts --- unequal sample size case 613--632
S. R. Adke and
D. V. Gokhale A note on shrinkage factors in two stage
testimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--637
Hwa-Ming Yang On selecting the treatment with the
largest probability of survival . . . . 639--659
T. S. K. Moothathu On unbiased estimation of GINI index and
Yntema--Pietra index of lognormal
distribution and their variances . . . . 661--672
P. C. Consul On the differences of two generalized
negative binomial variates . . . . . . . 673--690
Kallappa M. Koti Some inequalities in incomplete beta
functions by using statistical
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--696
S. M. Bendre Masking and swamping effects on tests
for multiple outliers in normal sample 697--710
Uditha Balasooriya Detection of outliers in the exponential
distribution based on prediction . . . . 711--720
William F. Roller and
Walter R. Pirie Truncated sequential sign tests for
location shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--742
Thomas Laitila Asymptotic misspecification biases for
Heckman's two step estimator . . . . . . 743--753
Virginia F. Flack Predictability measures for ridge
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 755--766
Walter W. Hauck Odds ratio inference from stratified
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--800
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Huaixiang Li and
D. B. Owen On the UMVU estimators after using a
normalizing transformation . . . . . . . 801--816
Daniel Peña and
Irwin Guttman Optimal collapsing of mixture
distributions in robust recursive
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--833
Patricia A. Pepple Simultaneous estimation of gamma means
using a hierarchical generalized linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--852
Paul W. Stewart Extension of the Harrell--Davis quantile
estimator to finite populations . . . . 853--875
Ram C. Tiwari and
Ram C. Tripathi Nonparametric Bayes estimation of the
probability of discovering a new species 877--895
A. M. Nigm An informative Bayesian prediction for
the Weibull lifetime distribution . . . 897--911
Ram C. Tiwari and
Parthasarathi Lahiri On robust empirical Bayes analysis of
means and variances from stratified
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--926
Heleno Bolfarine Equivariant prediction in finite
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--941
J. Brian Gray The internal norm approach to influence
diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--958
Diane E. Duffy and
Thomas J. Santner On the small sample properties of
norm-restricted maximum likelihood
estimators for logistic regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959--980
Martin Bilodeau On the monotone regression dependence
for Archimedian bivariate uniform . . . 981--988
V. K. Srivastava and
A. Chaturvedi Comparison of improved regression
estimators with and without moments . . 989--999
John P. Buonaccorsi Errors-in-variables with systematic
biases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001--1021
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Vijay K. Rohatgi and
Josef Blass Unbiased estimation in type II censored
samples from a one-truncation parameter
density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1030
Jaya Srivastava Advances in the statistical theory of
comparison of lifetimes of machines
under the generalized Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1045
M. L. Tiku and
N. Balakrishnan Robust classification procedures based
on the MML estimators . . . . . . . . . 1047--1066
N. Singh and
T. Nirmalan Identification of composite $ (\Sigma +
\Pi) $ ARMA models by relatively simpler
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067--1083
Elzbieta Trybus and
Ginter Trybus The distance random variable and its
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1098
S. James Press A note on the multivariate miser for
balancing experiments . . . . . . . . . 1099--1105
C. Ming Wang Error analysis of spatial representation
and estimation of mobile robots . . . . 1107--1122
S. R. Paul and
N. I. Ho Estimation in the bivariate Poisson
distribution and hypothesis testing
concerning independence . . . . . . . . 1123--1133
K. Y. Fung and
N. Balakrishnan On the robust two sided tolerance limits
based on MML estimators . . . . . . . . 1135--1138
Sunanda Bagchi and
A. C. Mukhopadhyay Optimality in the presence of two factor
interactions among the nuisance factors 1139--1152
Rahul Mukerjee and
Mausumi Bose Admissibility in factorial designs . . . 1153--1158
Min Xie Some results on renewal equations . . . 1159--1171
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B. N. Pandey and
H. J. Malik Shrinkage testimators for the shape
parameter of Weibull distribution under
Type II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 1175--1199
Osebekwin Asiribo and
John Gurland Some simple approximate solutions to the
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 1201--1216
K. Lam The multiple comparison of ranked
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217--1237
Allan Donner and
John J. Koval The effect of imbalance on
significance-testing in one-way Model II
analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1250
J. Michael Hardin and
Badrig M. Kurkjian The calculus for factorial arrangements:
a review and bibliography . . . . . . . 1251--1277
M. S. Ramachandra Murthy and
J. S. Murty Restricted region designs for
multifactor mixture experiments . . . . 1279--1295
Marc Sobel The estimation of the number of balls
put in a sequence of urns . . . . . . . 1297--1307
Eiichi Isogai Nonparametric recursive estimation in
stationary Markov processes . . . . . . 1309--1323
Jaap Praagman Efficiency of nonparametric tests for
scale shift at an unknown time point . . 1325--1338
H. A. Howlader and
G. Weiss Bayes estimators of the reliability of
the logistic distribution . . . . . . . 1339--1355
Nader Ebrahimi and
Hassan Zahedi Testing for bivariate Gumbel against
bivariate new better than used in
expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1357--1371
Dipak K. Dey On estimation of the scale matrix of the
multivariate $F$ distribution . . . . . 1373--1383
Kathryn Chaloner Bayesian design for estimating the
turning point of a quadratic regression 1385--1400
Ram C. Tiwari and
Siddhartha Chib and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka Bayes estimation of the multiple
correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 1401--1413
Adi Raveh Gini correlation as a measure of
monotonicity and two of its usages . . . 1415--1423
C. G. Khatri Study of redundancy of vector variables
in canonical correlations . . . . . . . 1425--1440
Robert Cléroux and
Gilles R. Ducharme Vector correlation for elliptical
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1454
A. J. Hayter Selecting the normal population with the
largest mean when the variances are
bounded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1467
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz and
Robert N. Rodriguez Dorfman--Sterrett screening (group
testing) schemes and the effects of
faulty inspection . . . . . . . . . . . 1469--1484
Qishen Huang and
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz Modified Dorfman--Sterrett screening
(group testing) procedures and the
effects of faulty inspection . . . . . . 1485--1495
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz and
Xizhi Wu Quota fulfilment and errors in
stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497--1505
Miles Davis and
Robert H. Finch, Jr. Optimal allocation of stratified samples
with several variance constraints and
equal workloads over time by geometric
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1507--1520
Maria Angeles Gil A note on stratification and gain in
precision in estimating diversity from
large samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1521--1526
Martin T. Wells and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Ram C. Tiwari A test of goodness-of-fit based on
extreme multinomial cell frequencies . . 1527--1547
Subhash C. Kochar and
T. Ramallingam Testing for superadditivity of the mean
value function of a non-homogeneous
Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1562
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Roy F. Bartlett An approximation to the distribution of
the ratio of two general quadratic forms
with application . . . . . . . . . . . . 1563--1588
Pentti Saikkonen and
Ritva Luukkonen Estimating multivariate autoregressive
moving average models by fitting long
autoregressions . . . . . . . . . . . . 1589--1615
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Rebecca B. Rosenstein Tests of symmetry derived as components
of Pearson's phi-squared distance
measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1617--1626
G. K. Bhattacharyya and
Zanzawi Soejoeti A tampered failure rate model for
step-stress accelerated life test . . . 1627--1643
I. Gijbels and
N. Veraverbeke Quantile estimation in the proportional
hazards model of random censorship . . . 1645--1663
David H. Young and
Mohamad S. Abdel-Hameed Efficiency of observation schemes for
proportional hazard regression models
with censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665--1674
Esteban Walker Detection of collinearity- influential
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1675--1690
Michael Hamada The costs of using incomplete response
data for the exponential regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1691--1714
Leonard A. Stefanski Correcting data for measurement error in
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 1715--1733
Panagis G. Moschopoulos Tests of hypotheses on concomitant
variables in linear models . . . . . . . 1735--1746
Erkki P. Liski and
Simo Puntan A further note on a theorem on the
difference of the generalized inverses
of two nonnegative definite matrices . . 1747--1751
D. G. Kabe and
A. K. Gupta On a superiority problem in misspecified
restricted linear models . . . . . . . . 1753--1757
R. M. Loynes Testing distributions in large numbers
of small samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1768
Indushobha N. Chengalur and
Jesse C. Arnold and
Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. Variable sampling intervals for
multiparameter Shewhart charts . . . . . 1769--1792
Jan W. H. Swanepoel and
C. F. de Beer On a new test for autocorrelation in
regression models under nonnormality . . 1793--1804
Paul D. Feigin and
A. N. Pettitt Detection of concordance for extreme
ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1805--1818
John E. Angus A note on the use of the Shapiro--Wilk
test of exponentiality for complete
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819--1830
J. K. Ghorai Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of a
survival function under the proportional
hazard model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831--1842
Arthur T. Denzau and
Patrick C. Gibbons and
Edward Greenberg Bayesian estimation of proportions with
a cross-entropy prior . . . . . . . . . 1843--1861
Heleno Bolfarine A note on finite population prediction
under asymmetric loss functions . . . . 1863--1869
S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and
N. Nematollahi A note on the admissibility of relative
to the LINEX loss function . . . . . . . 1871--1873
Robert Haining and
Daniel Griffith and
Robert Bennett Maximum likelihood estimation with
missing spatial data and with an
application to remotely sensed data . . 1875--1894
S. K. Perng and
K. E. Kemp and
P. I. Nelson Testing for a separation between two
normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . 1895--1912
Phillip Good Almost most powerful tests against
composite alternatives . . . . . . . . . 1913--1925
J. Koronacki and
W. Feluch Density estimation under simple partial
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1927--1942
Arthur Vogt Numerical integration of the Divisia
price index and an application of the
equation of measurement to prices . . . 1943--1959
S. P. Mukherjee and
A. K. Chattopadhyay Measurement of occupational mobility
using semi-Markov models . . . . . . . . 1961--1978
John E. Angus A note on the central limit theorem for
the bootstrap mean . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--1982
C. G. Khatri Multivariate generalization of t'-
statistic based on the mean square
successive difference . . . . . . . . . 1983--1992
R. B. Bapat and
M. I. Beg Identities and recurrence relations for
order statistics corresponding to
nonidentically distributed variable . . 1993--2004
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Jun Shao Bootstrapping for generalized
$L$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005--2016
G. Landenna and
A. Scagni and
M. Boldrini An approximated distribution of the
Gini's rank association coefficient . . 2017--2026
Mukul M. Mittal and
Ram C. Dahiya Estimating the parameters of a truncated
Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 2027--2042
D. T. Mc Nichols The exact solution to the MLE of a
decreasing density based on arbitrarily
right censored data . . . . . . . . . . 2043--2062
B. N. Shetty and
P. C. Joshi Likelihood ratio test for testing
equality of location parameters of two
exponential distributions from doubly
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 2063--2072
Lisa A. Weissfeld A multicollinearity diagnostic for
models fit to censored data . . . . . . 2073--2085
N. Sambamoorthi Information theoretic criterion approach
to dimensionality reduction in
multinomial logistic regression models.
Part I: theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2087--2106
D. B. Holiday The estimation of derivatives of a
nonparametric regression function when
the data are correlated . . . . . . . . 2107--2124
Andreas N. Philippou and
Gregory A. Tripsiannis and
Demetris L. Antzoulakos New Pólya and inverse Pólya distributions
of order $k$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2125--2137
Rajan Gupta and
Larry Lee Estimating fault hitting rates by
recapture sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 2139--2153
Balgobin Nandram Discrimination between the complementary
log-log and logistic model for ordinal
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2155--2164
Jay H. Beder The problem of confounding in two-factor
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2165--2188
Kashinath Chatterjee Search designs for general asymmetric
factorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2189--2200
Steven G. From Optimal spacing of quantiles for the
estimation of the mixing parameters in a
mixture of two exponential distributions 2201--2223
Dayanand N. Naik Detection of outliers in the
multivariate linear regression model . . 2225--2232
Madhusudan Bhandary Detection of outliers in signal
processing and detection of number of
signals in presence of outliers . . . . 2233--2261
Girish Aras and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Mohammad Kafai A rank test for stochastically ordered
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2263--2277
Lon-Mu Liu Identification of seasonal ARIMA models
using a filtering method . . . . . . . . 2279--2288
Christian Robert A lower bound for the risk of classes of
shrinkage estimators in a general
multivariate estimation problem and some
deduced estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 2289--2299
Frits H. Ruymgaart and
William B. Smith A note on homogeneity tests of
covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . 2301--2310
David R. Fox Conditional multivariate calibration . . 2311--2330
Zvi Drezner and
George O. Wesolowsky An approximation method for bivariate
and multivariate normal equiprobability
contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2331--2344
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Bahadur Singh and
F. T. Wright The power functions of the likelihood
ratio tests for a simply ordered trend
in normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . 2351--2392
J. K. Patel Prediction intervals --- a review . . . 2393--2465
Dominic F. Vecchia and
Hari K. Iyer Exact distribution-free tests for
equality of several linear models . . . 2467--2488
J. K. Arap Koske and
M. S. Patel A simpler way of obtaining
non-singularity conditions of
rotatability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2489--2500
L. S. Kaushik and
P. D. Puri Partial diallel crosses based on
generalized right angular association
scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2501--2510
Robert L. Fountain and
Pramod K. Pathak Systematic and nonrandom sampling in the
presence of linear trends . . . . . . . 2511--2526
Leigh W. Murray A note on connectedness in fixed effects
MANOVA and GMANOVA models with missing
cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2527--2531
R. J. Karunamuni On empirical Bayes sequential estimation 2533--2552
Ram C. Tiwari and
Parthasarathi Lahiri Empirical Bayes estimation of the mean
of a ``nonhomogeneous'' finite
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2553--2568
V. Soundararajan and
D. Muthuraj Double sampling plans indexed by point
of control and inflection point . . . . 2569--2597
R. J. O' Hara Hines and
W. G. S. Hines Repeated sampling of spatial point
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2599--2614
P. Rilstone and
A. Ullah Nonparametric estimation of response
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2615--2627
P. N. Jones and
G. J. Mc Lachlan Modelling mass-size particle data by
finite mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . 2629--2646
K. Zografos and
K. Ferentinos and
T. Papaioannou Order preserving property of measures of
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2647--2656
Ryuei Nishii A Characterization of probability
densities with expected log likelihood 2657--2662
R. A. Singhal and
C. B. Tiwari and
H. Sahai and
S. C. Misra Estimation and testing procedures for
non-normal samples: an introduction and
a bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2663--2741
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Anant M. Kshirsagar and
Sheela Deo Distribution of the biased hypothesis
sum of squares in linear models with
missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 2747--2754
P. Stahlecker and
J. Lauterbach Approximate linear minimax estimation in
regression analysis with ellipsoidal
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2755--2784
Dovalee Dorsett Bounded-leverage weights for robust
regression estimators . . . . . . . . . 2785--2800
M. A. Ali An alternative approach to minimize
model inadequacy . . . . . . . . . . . . 2801--2811
Marc Sobel The conditional level of confidence
intervals for the normal variance and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2813--2823
Damaraju V. Rathnam Analysis of a design under the competing
effects model with missing values . . . 2825--2833
Marshall N. Brunden and
Thomas J. Vidmar Optimal $ 3 \times 3 $ factorial and
$3$-ray designs for drug interaction
experiments with dichotomous responses 2835--2859
Theda A. Foster and
Donna L. Mohr and
Robert C. Elston A statistical model of tracking . . . . 2861--2881
Guido Consonni and
Piero Veronese A note on coherent invariant
distributions as non-informative priors
for exponential and location-scale
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2883--2907
Paul Whitney Approximation and information topologies 2909--2933
Zhi Geng and
Chooichiro Asano Bayesian estimation methods for
categorical data with misclassifications 2935--2954
Martin T. Wells and
Ram C. Tiwari Bayesian quantile plots and statistical
inference for nonlinear models in the
two sample case with incomplete data . . 2955--2964
Stephen F. Olejnik and
James Algina and
Kelly Hern Contrast analysis for scale differences 2965--2987
E. Lesaffre and
J. L. Willems and
A. Albert Estimation of error rate in multiple
group logistic discrimination. The
approximate leaving-one-out method . . . 2989--3007
William A. Link Testing for exponentiality against
monotone failure rate average
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3009--3017
Hubert J. Chen and
Kanlaya Vanichbuncha Simultaneous upper confidence bounds for
distances from the best two-parameter
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 3019--3031
V. Soundararajan and
R. Vijayaraghavan Double sampling attributes plans indexed
by AQL and AOQL . . . . . . . . . . . . 3033--3046
J. K. Ghorai Deficiency of the MLE of a smooth
survival function under the proportional
hazard model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3047--3056
J. \'Cwik and
J. Mielniczuk Estimating density ratio with
application to discriminant analysis . . 3057--3069
Ulhas J. Dixit Estimation of parameters of the gamma
distribution in the presence of outliers 3071--3085
C. K. Mustafi Weak convergence of residual median
process for dependent or randomly
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 3087--3093
Chi Song Wong Linear Models in a general parametric
form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3095--3115
D. L. Hawkins A U--I approach to retrospective testing
for shifting parameters in a linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3117--3134
Nancy J. Carter and
G. David Faulkenberry A model-based sample selection procedure
for one-stage sampling . . . . . . . . . 3135--3147
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Tatsuia Kubokawa Estimating common parameters of growth
curve models under a quadratic loss . . 3149--3155
R. J. Karunamuni Some improvements on empirical Bayes
testing in Lebesgue-exponential families 3157--3176
Ruben Klein and
S. James Press Contextual Bayesian classification of
remotely sensed data . . . . . . . . . . 3177--3202
D. V. Gokhale On two stage shrinkage testimation for
exponential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3203--3213
J. S. Maritz Empirical Bayes estimation of the log
odds ratio in $ 2 \times 2 $ contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3215--3233
S. W. Dharmadhikari and
Kumar Joag-Dev Upper bounds for the variances of
certain random variables . . . . . . . . 3235--3247
M. L. Tiku and
P. S. Gill and
N. Balakrishnan A robust procedure for testing the
equality of mean vectors of two
bivariate populations with unequal
covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . 3249--3265
Yuehua Wu On a class of model selection procedures 3267--3287
Samuel L. Seaman and
Dean M. Young and
Danny W. Turner On the robustness of the extreme deviate
test for a single multivariate outlier
against heavy-tailed distributions . . . 3289--3303
M. C. Spruill Accurate detection of excess over a
standard based on a random sample . . . 3305--3312
Subir Kumar Bhandari and
Arup Bose Selecting the $t$-best cells in a
multinomial distribution . . . . . . . . 3313--3326
Joseph A. Damico and
Douglas A. Wolfe Extended tables of the exact
distribution of a rank statistic for
treatments versus control multiple
comparisons in one- way layout designs 3327--3353
Russell F. Kappenman The use of power transformations for
improved entropy estimation . . . . . . 3355--3364
Cheng- Tao Chang On the construction of hypercubic design 3365--3371
Antonio Ciampi and
Johanne Thiffault Pruning regression trees for censored
survival data: the RECPAM approach . . . 3373--3388
Stephen Senn and
Richard Brown Maximum likelihood estimation of
treatment effects for samples subject to
regression to the mean . . . . . . . . . 3389--3406
Barbel Elpeit On linear statistical models of
commutative quadratic type . . . . . . . 3407--3450
B. Senyo and
S. K. Adjibolosoo Measuring the degree of severity of
heteroskedasticity and the choice
between the OLS estimator and the 2SAE 3451--3462
Murray J. Mackinnon and
Martin L. Puterman Collinearity in generalized linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3463--3472
Albert Fässler and
Arthur Vogt Analytic integration of the Divisia
price index on the exponential path for
two commodities . . . . . . . . . . . . 3473--3476
Tie-Hua Ng A new class of modified binomial
distributions with applications to
certain toxicological experiments . . . 3477--3492
Manuel del Rio A coordinate-free approach to testable
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3493--3503
M. L. Tiku and
P. S. Gill Modified maximum likelihood estimators
for the bivariate normal based on Type
II censored samples . . . . . . . . . . 3505--3518
K. Selvavel Unbiased estimation in sampling from two
one-truncation parameter families when
both samples are Type II censored . . . 3519--3531
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
James W. Neill and
Dallas E. Johnson A comparison of some lack of fit tests
based on near replicates . . . . . . . . 3533--3570
S. D. Peddada and
A. K. Nigam and
A. K. Saxena On the inadmissibility of ridge
estimator in a linear model . . . . . . 3571--3585
K\=osei Iwase Linear regression through the origin
with constant coefficient of variation
for the inverse Gaussian distribution 3587--3593
D. L. Hawkins Estimating changes in a multi-parameter
exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 3595--3623
Takemi Yanagimoto The inverse binomial distribution as a
statistical model . . . . . . . . . . . 3625--3633
P. C. Consul and
Felix Famoye The truncated generalized Poisson
distribution and its estimation . . . . 3635--3648
Abdul-Hakeem Abdul-Hay Eideh and
Mohamed Salahuddin Ahmed Some tests for the power series
distributions in one parameter using the
Kullback--Leibler information measure 3649--3663
Jaap Praagman Efficiency of nonparametric tests for
scale shift at an unknown time point . . 3665--3678
Tom Greene and
William S. Rayens Partially pooled covariance matrix
estimation in discriminant analysis . . 3679--3702
Hubert J. Chen and
Kin Lam Single-stage interval estimation of the
largest normal mean under
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 3703--3718
Indrani Basak Estimation of the multi-criteria worths
of the alternatives in a hierarchical
structure of comparisons . . . . . . . . 3719--3738
James A. Koziol A modification of Watson's statistic for
goodness-of-fit . . . . . . . . . . . . 3739--3747
George M. Furnival and
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Harry T. Valentine Confidence intervals and significance
tests for a single trial . . . . . . . . 3749--3761
E. Jacquelin Dietz Multivariate generalizations of
Jonckheere's test for ordered
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3763--3783
Duncan K. H. Fong A Bayesian approach to the comparison of
two means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3785--3800
Jorge Alberto Achcar and
Heleno Bolfarine Constant hazard against a change-point
alternative: a Bayesian approach with
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3801--3819
Seung-Hoon Lee and
Bong-Jin Yum Large-sample comparisons of calibration
procedures when both measurements are
subject to error: the unreplicated case 3821--3840
Christina Schneider Dempster's combination rule and
sufficient statistics . . . . . . . . . 3841--3850
Henry F. Inman and
Edwin L. Bradley, Jr. The overlapping coefficient as a measure
of agreement between probability
distributions and point estimation of
the overlap of two normal densities . . 3851--3874
Chung-yi Suen Some resolvable orthogonal arrays with
two symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3875--3881
Masahide Kuwada Analysis of variance of balanced
fractional $ 2^n $ factorial designs of
resolution $ 2 l + 1 $ . . . . . . . . . 3883--3905
Helmut Zeisel On the power of the Durbin--Watson test
under high autocorrelation . . . . . . . 3907--3916
Rani S. Srivnstava and
S. P. Srivastava and
B. B. Khare Chain ratio type estimator for ratio of
two population means using auxiliary
characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3917--3926
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Danny Dyer and
Larry F. Heath Estimation of gene/haplotype frequencies
in genetic marker systems based on
phenotype data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3927--3947
Suojin Wang On the bootstrap and smoothed bootstrap 3949--3962
Barry K. Moser and
Gary R. Stevens and
Christian L. Watts The two-sample $t$ test versus
Satterthwaite's approximate $F$ test . . 3963--3975
C. Y. Leung The Studentized location linear
discriminant function . . . . . . . . . 3977--3990
Yutaka Tanaka Influence functions related to
eigenvalue problems which appear in
multivariate analysis . . . . . . . . . 3991--4010
H. L. Gray and
Wayne A. Woodward and
Gary McCartor Testing for the maximum mean in a
mixture of normals . . . . . . . . . . . 4011--4027
J. Andel Nonlinear nonnegative $ {\rm AR}(1) $
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4029--4037
James B. McDonald and
Ray D. Nelson Alternative beta estimation for the
market model using partially adaptive
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4039--4058
Marc A. Evans and
Douglas G. Bonett Maximum likelihood estimation for the
negative multinomial log-linear model 4059--4065
Yutaka Tanaka and
Yoshimasa Odaka Sensitivity analysis in maximum
likelihood factor analysis . . . . . . . 4067--4084
Dong Qian Wang and
David J. Scott Testing a Markov chain for independence 4085--4103
Veronica Czitrom An application of Taguchi's methods
reconsidered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4105--4119
Anna Moli\'nska and
Krzysztof Moli\'nski Interval estimation of parameters in an
unbalanced mixed two-fold nested
classification --- the last-stage
uniformity case . . . . . . . . . . . . 4121--4135
B. Singh and
D. D. Joshi On the distributions of components sums
of squares in one-way unbalanced random
model under heterogeneous error
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4137--4144
Gerhard Tutz On cross-validation for discrete kernel
estimates in discrimination . . . . . . 4145--4162
Somesh Kumar and
Divakar Sharma On the Pitman estimator of ordered
normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4163--4175
Laxman M. Hegde and
Ram C. Dahiya Estimation of the parameters in a
truncated normal distribution . . . . . 4177--4195
Jun Shao and
Xiquan Shi Half-sample variance estimation . . . . 4197--4210
Andrew P. Soms Some recent results for series system
reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4211--4227
C. S. Withers Accurate confidence intervals when
nuisance parameters are present . . . . 4229--4259
Marshall Freimer and
Georgia Kollia and
Govind S. Mudholkar and
C. Thomas Lin Extremes, extreme spacings and outliers
in the Tukey and Weibull families . . . 4261--4274
Susan M. Sanchez Unbiased estimation following selection
for Bernoulli populations . . . . . . . 4275--4301
H. Neudecker A generalization of a result of Trenkler
and Trenkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4303--4304
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Hari K. Iyer and
Dominic F. Vecchia Exact moments of the symmetric cubic
assignment statistic . . . . . . . . . . 4309--4320
Hossein Mansouri Linear rank tests for homogeneity
against ordered alternatives in ANOVA
and ANOCOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4321--4334
Leonard A. Stefanski Unbiased estimation of a nonlinear
function of a normal mean with
application to measurement error models 4335--4358
Alexandras A. Arabatzis and
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. Conditional interval estimation of the
mean following rejection of a two sided
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4359--4373
Alex G. Papadopoulos A hierarchical approach to the study of
the exponential failure model . . . . . 4375--4392
Kanchan Jain and
Harshinder Singh and
Isha Bagai Relations for reliability measures of
weighted distributions . . . . . . . . . 4393--4412
John E. Angus Application of extreme value theory to
the BEC family of distributions . . . . 4413--4419
M. A. Al-Osh and
A. A. Alzaid On the increasing failure rate criteria 4421--4436
Islam Noor and
J. S. Mehta A study of some ridge-type shrinkage
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4437--4457
Andrew P. Soms Applications of Schur theory to
reliability inference for $k$ of $n$
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4459--4469
Kenneth Nordström Some further aspects of the
Löwner-ordering antitonicity of the
Moore--Penrose inverse . . . . . . . . . 4471--4489
M. A. Ali On a class of shrinkage estimators of
vector of regression coefficients the 4491--4500
Mohamed Tahir Asymptotic expansions for sequential
confidence levels in inverse linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4501--4509
Anant M. Kshirsagar and
R. Radhakrishnan A likelihood ratio test for interaction
among variances . . . . . . . . . . . . 4511--4517
Ashis Sen Gupta and
Lea Vermeire Locally optimal test for simultaneously
testing the mean and variance of a
normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 4519--4532
W. J. Anderson Some remarks on the duality of
continuous time Markov chains . . . . . 4533--4538
P. Holgate The lognormal characteristic function 4539--4548
Youn-Min Chou and
D. B. Owen On the distributions of the estimated
process capability indices . . . . . . . 4549--4560
Veronica Czitrom Experimental design for four mixture
components with process variables . . . 4561--4581
Veronica Czitrom Taguchi methods: linear graphs of high
resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4583--4606
Calvin J. Berry Bayes minimax estimation of a Bernoulli
$p$ in a restricted parameter space . . 4607--4616
Kallappa M. Koti Minimax policies for a
two-location/two-product inventory
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4617--4630
R. J. Martin Information loss due to incomplete data
from a spatial Gaussian one-parameter
first-order conditional process . . . . 4631--4645
Myron N. Chang and
P. V. Rao Berry--Esséen bound for the Kaplan--Meier
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4647--4664
Steven E. Rigdon Testing goodness-of-fit for the power
law process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4665--4676
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Samuel Kotz and
Norman L. Johnson Some comments on a paper by Aiala Barr 815--819
B. Prasad, Research Officer Erratum to ``Some improved ratio type
estimators of population mean and ratio
in finite population sample survey'' . . 2331--2332
Zhu Wang Correction to ``Estimation of the
Weibull Parameters with Grouped Data'' 3755--3755