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B. Prasad Some improved ratio type estimators of
population mean and ratio in finite
population sample surveys . . . . . . . 379--392
Aiala Barr A multivariate model for discrete data
sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--459
Yoritake Fujino Estimating the value of control variable
$x$ with $ {\rm Pr} \{ Y > c | x \} = p$
in normal linear regression . . . . . . 1--9
Lai K. Chan and
Z. Xiong and
D. Zhang On the asymptotic distributions of some
process capability indices. . . . . . . 11--18
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu Power assessment for tests of the
equality of several proportions . . . . 19--30
Benzion Boukai An explicit expression for the
distribution of the supremum of Brownian
motion with a change point . . . . . . . 31--40
Helmut Finner On the modified $s$-method and
directional errors . . . . . . . . . . . 41--53
R. J. Martin The use of time-series models and
methods in the analysis of agricultural
field trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--81
William M. Bolstad The efficiency of dynamic linear model
estimators applied to a linearly
aggregated time series . . . . . . . . . 83--90
A. M. Kshirsagar and
S. Kocherlakota and
K. Kocherlakota Classification procedures using
principal component analysis and
stepwise discriminant function . . . . . 91--109
Vee Ming Ng Bayesian analysis of linear models
exhibiting changes in mean and precision
at an unknown time point . . . . . . . . 111--120
R. Srivastava and
V. K. Gupta and
A. Dey Robustness of some designs against
missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 121--126
Fabrizio Ruggeri Posterior ranges of functions of
parameters under priors with specified
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--144
Mei Ling Huang Recurrence relations for the
$r$-distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154
Guido E. del Pino A coordinate free approach to score
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--167
Andrzej S. Kozek A nonparametric test of fit of a linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--179
Sally C. Morton Bootstrap confidence intervals in a
complex situation: a sequential paired
clinical trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--195
Jack Cartinhour One-dimensional marginal density
functions of a truncated multivariate
normal density function . . . . . . . . 197--203
Hassen A. Muttlak and
Lynan L. Mc Donald Ranked set sampling with respect to
concomitant variables and with size
biased probability of selection . . . . 205--219
Hamparsum Bozdogan On the information-based measure of
covariance complexity and its
application to the evaluation of
multivariate linear models . . . . . . . 221--278
D. G. Nel and
Cay A. van der Merwe and
B. K. Moser The exact distributions of the
univariate and multivariate
Behrens--Fisher statistics with a
comparison of several solutions in the
univariate case . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--298
Subhash C. Kochar Some partial ordering results on record
values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
H. N. Nagaraja Some reliability properties of order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--316
Ch. A. Charalambides Abel series distributions with
applications to fluctuations of sample
functions of stochastic processes . . . 317--335
Herman and
Neil Burstein Binomial confidence limits adjusted for
a confounding variable . . . . . . . . . 337--346
Tommy Wright Probability proportional to size $ (\pi
p s) $ sampling using ranks . . . . . . 347--362
Z. D. Bai and
Y. H. Wu and
X. R. Chen and
B. Q. Miao On solvability of an equation Arising in
the theory of $m$-estimates . . . . . . 363--380
Simos Meintanis and
Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis Adaptive estimation of the center of
symmetry based on the empirical
characteristic function . . . . . . . . 381--394
Fu-Jen Lin and
Eila Seppänen and
Esa Uusipaikka On pairwise comparisons of the
components of the mean vector in
multivariate normal distribution . . . . 395--411
George Judge and
Robert Bohrer and
Thomas Yancey Some statistical implications of
multivariate inequality constrained
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--430
Yutaka Kano Comparative studies of non-iterative
estimators based on Ihara and Kano's
method in exploratory factor analysis 431--444
I\`ene Gijbels and
Jan Mielniczuk Estimating the density of a copula
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--464
Linda June Davis Collapsibility of likelihood ratio tests
in multidimensional contingency tables 465--476
P. C. Consul On some properties and applications of
quasi-binomial distribution . . . . . . 477--504
C. S. Withers Shrinkage estimates based on orthogonal
decomposition of the sample space . . . 505--526
Shanti S. Gupta and
Lii-Yuh Leu and
TaChen Liang On lower confidence bounds for PCS in
truncated location parameter models . . 527--546
ByoungSeon Choi A derivation of the asymptotic
distribution of the partial
autocorrelation function of an
autoregressive process . . . . . . . . . 547--553
A. J. Baczkowski and
K. V. Mardia A test of spatial symmetry with general
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--572
G. Dikta and
J. K. Ghorai Bootstrap approximation with censored
data under the proportional hazard model 573--581
B. Raja Rao A simple time to tumor distribution and
the `setting the clock back to zero'
property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--598
Eve Bofinger Posterior probability of correct
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--616
K. Govindaraju Certain observations on lot sensitive
sampling plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--627
B. N. Pandey and
H. J. Malik Testing for the mean of the inverse
Gaussian distribution and adaptive
estimation of parameters . . . . . . . . 629--637
James E. Herndon II and
Frank E. Harrell, Jr. The restricted cubic spline hazard model 639--663
Hans Frick On the procedure of Hodges and Lehmann
for testing composite hypotheses of the
mean of a normal distribution with
unknown variance . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--687
Malay Ghosh and
Bikas Kumar Sinha On the consistency between model-and
design-based estimators in survey
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--702
Nobuhiko Terui An $F$-type small sample simultaneous
test for nested linear regression models 703--722
B. L. Agarwal Testing a main effect in a three factor
mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--738
Bikas K. Sinha and
Rita Saharay and
Anis C. Mukhopadhyay Non-additive linear models: estimability
and efficient estimations of interaction 739--764
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Fred L. Bookstein and
Paul D. Sampson and
Ann P. Streissguth and
Helen M. Barr Measuring ``dose'' and ``response'' with
multivariate data using partial least
squares techniques . . . . . . . . . . . 765--804
K. G. Jinadasa and
D. S. Tracy Multivariate linear ultrastructural
relationships model . . . . . . . . . . 805--814
Samuel Kotz and
Norman L. Johnson Some comments on a paper by Aiala Barr 815--819
Stuart R. Lipsitz and
Nan M. Laird and
David P. Harrington Using the jackknife to estimate the
variance of regression estimators from
repeated measures studies . . . . . . . 821--845
K. K. Ferentinos Minimum variance unbiased estimation in
doubly type II censored samples from
families of distributions involving two
truncation parameters . . . . . . . . . 847--856
Stuart Jay Deutsch and
C. C. Wang Estimation and identification
considerations for the multiconsequence
intervention model . . . . . . . . . . . 857--884
Taskin Atilgan On derivation and application of AIC as
a data-based criterion for histograms 885--903
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and
Asit P. Basu A class of tests for exponentiality
against decreasing mean residual life
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--920
Parthasarathy Bagchi and
Norman Draper and
Irwin Guttman Bayesian assessment of assumptions of
regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 921--934
Ming-Chung Yang Compromise between generalized Bayes and
Bayes estimators of Poisson means under
entropy loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--951
Judy L. Palmer, Ph.D. and
Lyle D. Broemeling, Ph.D. A comparison of Bayes and maximum
likelihood estimation of the intraclass
correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 953--975
Mohamed K. Gharraf and
Sumaia A. Al-Nasser A Bayesian group sequential analysis
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--985
Peyton Cook and
Lyle D. Broemeling and
Mohammad Gharaff A Bayesian analysis of the mixed linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987--1002
Roy B. Leipnik A maximum relative entropy principle for
distribution of personal income with
derivations of several known inc.Ome
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1036
D. S. Hooda and
Umed Singh An information improvement generating
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1046
Anwar Hossain Detection of influential observations in
regression model with autocorrelated
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1060
Robert L. Fountain and
Pramod K. Pathak Systematic and nonrandom sampling in the
presence of polynomial trends . . . . . 1061--1071
Dipak K. Dey and
Pei-San Liao Liu Estimation of parameters and reliability
from generalized life models . . . . . . 1073--1099
Cyrus Mohebbi and
Lewis H. Shoemaker An extension of the median test to
analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1117
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Arun Kumar Adhikary Variance estimation with randomized
response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1125
B. Prasad and
H. P. Singh Some improved ratio-type estimators of
finite population variance in sample
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1139
Thomas W. O'Gorman and
Robert F. Woolson The stability of several measures of
association in small contingency tables 1141--1155
Serafettin Cabuk and
Melvin D. Springer Distribution of the quotient of
noncentral normal random variables . . . 1157--1168
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Won Kyung Kim and
L. Billard Asymptotic properties for the
first-order bilinear time series model 1171--1183
Asatoshi Maeshiro Peculiar bias properties of the OLS
estimator when applied to a dynamic
model with autocorrelated disturbances 1185--1204
Norman R. Draper Applied regression analysis bibliography
update 1988--89 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1229
Byoung-Chul Choi and
Donald B. Owen A study of a new process capability
index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1245
Nimai Kumar Chandra and
Arijit Chaudhuri On the efficiency of a testimator for
the Weibull shape parameter . . . . . . 1247--1259
Ronald Bremer Numerical study of the small sample
variances of the MINQUE estimators of
variance components in the two-way
factorial design . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261--1279
José Raúl Martinez and
Av Valparaísoy and
R. Martínez An optimal property of the ``$ (r, k) $
class estimators'' . . . . . . . . . . . 1281--1289
Anant P. Godbole On hypergeometric and related
distributions of order $k$ . . . . . . . 1291--1301
S. H. Ong Mixture formulations of a bivariate
negative binomial distribution with
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303--1322
Yutaka Tanaka and
Eduardo Tostado Castaño Sensitivity analysis in multivariate
methods: Decomposition of an arbitrary
influence into a finite number of
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323--1341
Nashat Saweris and
Masoom M. Ali The distributions of some statistics
associated with two multivariate
hypotheses under violations in the
complex case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1357
A. M. Kshirsagar and
R. P. Gupta Direction and collinearity factors of
Wilks' $A$ --- a review . . . . . . . . 1359--1402
A. M. Hasofer and
G. Z. Stein Testing for multivariate normality after
coordinate transformation . . . . . . . 1403--1418
R. M. Loynes The variance and the range of I.I.D.
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1419--1432
S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi Simultaneous prediction intervals for
regression models with an intercept . . 1433--1441
Lii-Yuh Leu and
TaChen Liang Selection of the best with a preliminary
test for two-parameter exponential
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443--1455
S. Joshi and
M. Shah Sequential analysis applied to testing
the mean of an inverse Gaussian
distribution with known coefficient of
variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1457--1466
M. A. Ali Minimization of model inadequacy when
observations subject to shift in means
and variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1467--1473
Arun Kumar Adhikary A note on interpenetrating subsamples of
unequal sizes drawn with and without
replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1481
Pushpa Lata Gupta and
Ram C. Tripathi Effect of length-biased sampling on the
modeling error . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483--1491
I. V. Basawa and
T. A. Green and
W. P. McCormick and
R. L. Taylor Asymptotic bootstrap validity for finite
Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1510
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton The approximate distribution of four
moment statistics from type III
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1511--1579
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Robert B. Davis and
Anthony Homer and
William H. Woodall Performance of the zone control chart 1581--1587
H. K. Hsieh Inferences on the coefficient of
variation of an inverse Gaussian
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1589--1605
Essam K. Al-Hussaini and
Nagi S. Abd-El-Hakim Estimation of parameters of the inverse
Gaussian--Weibull mixture model . . . . 1607--1622
Donald R. Hoover Cohpasisons of improved Bonferroni and
Sidak/Slepian bounds with applications
to normal Markov processes . . . . . . . 1623--1637
Girish Aras Sequential estimation of the mean of a
first-order autoregressive process . . . 1639--1652
J. K. Ghorai and
Lidia Rejtö Relative deficiency of kernel type
estimators of quantiles based on right
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1653--1670
TaChen Liang Empirical Bayes estimation of binomial
parameter with symmetric priors . . . . 1671--1683
Grace Wahba and
Yonghua Wang When is the optimal regularization
parameter insensitive to the choice of
the loss function? . . . . . . . . . . . 1685--1700
J. C. Koop Systematic sampling of two-dimensional
surfaces and related problems . . . . . 1701--1750
Randhir Singh A study on the role of interviewer in
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1751--1761
B. U. Aithal and
B. N. Nagnur Second order efficiency of the
BAN-estimators for the multinomial
family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1763--1776
M. L. Bansal and
Ravindra Singh An alternative estimator for multiple
characteristics in rhg sampling scheme 1777--1784
K. Zografos and
K. Ferentinos and
T. Papaioannou Divergence statistics: sampling
properties and multinomial goodness of
fit and divergence tests . . . . . . . . 1785--1802
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Vijay K. Rohatgi Unbiased estimation of the common mean
of a multivariate normal distribution 1803--1810
Steven Ascher A survey of tests for exponentiality . . 1811--1825
Kanwar Sen and
Madhu Bala Jain A test for bivariate exponentiality
against BHNBUE alternative . . . . . . . 1827--1835
S. J. M. Brits and
H. H. Lemmer An adjusted Friedman test for the nested
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837--1855
Naota Niki and
Nakagawa Shigekazu and
Hideyuki Inoue Cumulants of random sum distributions 1857--1861
Laurie M. Meaux and
John W. Seanam, Jr. Probability inequalities for quadratic
forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863--1874
Prasanta Basak and
Parthasarathy Bagchi Application of Laplace approximation to
record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1875--1888
R. Kala and
A. Moli\'nska and
K. Moli\'nski Approximate confidence intervals for a
ratio of two variance components . . . . 1889--1898
B. Senyo and
S. K. Adjibolosoo A procedure for improving upon the
performance of the traditional
heteroskedasticity pretest estimator . . 1899--1912
Farid Kianifard and
William H. Swallow A Monte Carlo comparison of five
procedures for identifying outliers in
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 1913--1938
Fred L. Bookstein and
Paul D. Sampson Statistical models for geometric
components of shape change . . . . . . . 1939--1972
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. Cabrera and
G. S. Watson On a spherical median related
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1973--1986
Martin S. Levy and
James W. Neill Testing for lack of fit in linear
multiresponse models based on exact or
near replicates . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987--2002
Paul A. Murtaugh and
Lloyd D. Fisher Bivariate binary models of efficacy and
toxicity in dose-ranging trials . . . . 2003--2020
Jacques Bénasséni Sensitivity coefficients for the
subspaces spanned by principal
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2021--2034
Jie Mi Notes on the MLE of correlation
coefficient in meta analysis . . . . . . 2035--2052
Vijay K. Rohatgi and
Kandasamy Selvavel Moments of order statistics from one
truncation parameter densities . . . . . 2053--2063
G. G. Hamedani and
G. G. Walter Empirical Bayes estimation of the
binomial parameter $n$ . . . . . . . . . 2065--2084
Patricia A. Pepple Hierarchical Bayes estimation of normal
variances with application to a random
effect model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2085--2108
Frances P. Stewart and
Ralph A. Bradley Some adjusted orthogonal, variance
balanced, multidimensional block designs 2109--2144
Sanpei Kageyama and
Dibyen Majumdar Resistant BTIB designs . . . . . . . . . 2145--2158
Shanti S. Gupta and
Lii-Yuh Leu Selecting the fairest of $ K (\geq 2) $
$M$-sided dice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2159--2177
K. Govindaraju Selection of ChSP-1 chain sampling plans
for given acceptable quality level and
limiting quality level . . . . . . . . . 2179--2190
Matoteng M. Ncube and
Raid W. Amin Two parameter cuscore quality control
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2191--2205
Stuart J. Deutsch and
Jeery E. Richards and
James J. Swain Effects of a single outlier on ARMA
identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2207--2227
Joaquin Diaz Bayesian forecasting for $ {\rm AR}(1) $
models with normal coefficients . . . . 2229--2246
Serge B. Provost Alternate test statistics for a
functional errors-in-variables model . . 2247--2259
C. M. Cuadras and
C. Arenas A distance based regression model for
prediction with mixed data . . . . . . . 2261--2279
D. S. Tracy and
V. K. Srivastava Comparison of some linear calibration
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281--2293
Mohamed Madi and
Kam-Wah Tsui Estimation of the common scale of
several shifted exponential
distributions with unknown locations . . 2295--2313
Dayanand N. Naik On detection of outliers in symmetric
normal models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2315--2321
K. L. Mehra and
K. S. Madhava Rao On a class of nonparametric tests for
the treatment vs control problem . . . . 2323--2336
Vijay K. Rohatgi and
A. K. Md Ehsanes Sleh and
Rashpal Ahluwalia and
Ping Ji Locally most powerful tests for the two
sample problem when the combined sample
is Type II censored . . . . . . . . . . 2337--2355
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Donald P. Strickert Estimating consumer acceptance limits 2365--2472
Jiro Hodoshima Gains by the common structural variance 2473--2484
Stefan Zontek and
Witold Klonecki Limiting admissible estimators for
variance components . . . . . . . . . . 2485--2507
H. K. Hseih and
R. M. Korwar Inadmissibility of the uniformly minimum
variance unbiased estimator of the
inverse Gaussian variance . . . . . . . 2509--2516
Ashok Shanubhogue A class of distribution-free tests for
two-way layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2517--2526
Kee-Won Lee Bootstrapping logistic regression models
with random regressors . . . . . . . . . 2527--2539
A. J. van der Merwe and
C. A. van der Merwe Exact-and approximate Bayes credibility
intervals for the one-way analysis of
variance model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2541--2565
M. A. Ali A Bayesian approach to detect
informative observations in an
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2567--2575
Heleno Bolfarine and
Josemar Rodrigues Finite population prediction under a
linear function superpopulation model: a
Bayesian perspective . . . . . . . . . . 2577--2594
Robert B. Bendel and
Bradley P. Carlin Bayes methods in the ecological fallacy
context: estimation of individual
correlation from aggregate data . . . . 2595--2623
Ali S. Hadi and
Mun S. Son Some properties of, and relationships
among, several uncorrelated and
homoscedastic residual vectors . . . . . 2625--2642
Louis Cyr and
Harvey L. Bank and
Philip F. Rust and
Marcia K. Schmehl Comparative characteristics of
estimators of the mean responding cell
density in limiting dilution assays . . 2643--2666
Charles W. Kish, Jr. and
Vernon M. Chinchilli Diagnostics for identifying influential
cases in MANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . 2667--2681
Charles W. Kish, Jr. and
Vernon M. Chinchilli Diagnostics for identifying influential
cases in MANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . 2683--2704
Naveen K. Bansal Comparison of the slope parameters in
errors-in-variables model . . . . . . . 2705--2716
S. Psarakis and
J. Panaretoes The folded $t$ distribution . . . . . . 2717--2734
Bong-Jin Yum and
Sun-Ho Kim Development of life-test sampling plans
for exponential distributions based on
accelerated life testing . . . . . . . . 2735--2743
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. A. Hartigan Partition models . . . . . . . . . . . . 2745--2756
Caterina Dimaki and
Evdokia Xekalaki Identifiability of income distributions
in the context of damage and generating
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2757--2766
Mi Jie Asymptotic results for the Koziol--Green
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2767--2779
J. W. Swanepoel II and
C. E. De Beer A powerful test for uniformity to detect
highly peaked alternative densities . . 2781--2798
Hans Frick The unbiasedness of Hodges and Lehman's
test for a composite hypothesis of the
mean of a distribution with unknown
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2799--2814
ByoungSeon Choi On the block $ L U $ decomposition of
block Toeplitz matrices using the vector
Yule--Walker equations . . . . . . . . . 2815--2827
P. M. Kulkarni Robust Durbin's and portmanteau
goodness-of-fit test statistics and
their limit distributions . . . . . . . 2829--2845
M. Shelton Peiris Analysis of multivariate ARMA processes
with non-stationary innovations . . . . 2847--2852
J. K. Ghorai and
L. M. Pattanaik $ L_1 $-Consistency of the kernel
density estimators based on randomly
right censored data . . . . . . . . . . 2853--2870
Jerzy K. Baksalary and
Pawel R. Pordzik and
Götz Trenkler A note on generalized ridge estimators 2871--2877
Govinda J. Weerakkody and
Dallas E. Johnson Variance component estimation in
multiple regression models having a
nested error structure . . . . . . . . . 2879--2905
G. R. Dargahi-Noubary A method for parameter estimation of
non-linear regression with
autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . . . 2907--2923
Darning Xu On random walks on affine group . . . . 2925--2942
Yutaka Tanaka and
Eduardo Castaño-Tostado Quadratic perturbation expansions of
certain functions of eigenvalues and
eigenvectors and their application to
sensitivity analysis in multivariate
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2943--2965
Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee and
Tathagata Banerjee Combination of multiple scores for
nonparametric testing in multivariate
linear regression set-up . . . . . . . . 2967--2998
Maureen Lahiff and
Kathleen M. Whitcomb Empirical influence functions for
misclassification rates in discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2999--3009
Kenneth B. Schechtman, Ph.D. Triserial correlation . . . . . . . . . 3011--3022
R. Calabria and
M. Guida and
G. Pulcini Bayes estimation of prediction intervals
for a power law process . . . . . . . . 3023--3035
R. Calabria and
G. Pulcini Bayes estimation in exponential censored
samples with incomplete information . . 3037--3049
P. C. Consul Geeta distribution and its properties 3051--3068
Tom Drummer Estimation of proportions and ratios
from line transect data . . . . . . . . 3069--3091
B. K. Kooda and
N. P. Singh and
U. med Singh Estimates of the parameters of Type-II
extreme value distribution from censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3093--3110
Dejuran Richardson A two-sample parametric group sequential
procedure for monitoring clinical trials 3111--3126
P. Zoroa and
J. M. Ruiz and
J. Marín A characterization based on conditional
expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3127--3135
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Nien Fan Zhang Group delay, partial group delay and
index-lag relationship for
multidimensional processes . . . . . . . 3137--3145
Ramesh C. Gupta and
S. N. U. A. Kirmani The role of weighted distributions in
stochastic modeling . . . . . . . . . . 3147--3162
Steven G. From Nonparametric estimation of a change
point in positive shift models . . . . . 3163--3173
Elinor S. Pape Sampling efficiency for an alternating
Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 3175--3178
Bruce K. Koons and
Robert V. Foutz Estimating moving average parameters in
the presence of measurement error . . . 3179--3187
Rahul Mukerjee and
Sanpei Kageyama Robustness group divisible designs . . . 3189--3203
Julia Mortera and
Aristide San Martini Comparison of proportions with
asymmetric prior information . . . . . . 3205--3222
Raghunath Arnab and
Debesh Roy On use of symmetrical balanced
incomplete block design in construction
of sampling design realising
pre-assigned sets of inclusion
probabilities of first two orders. . . . 3223--3232
Patrick D. Bourke Estimating a distribution for each
category of a sensitive variate . . . . 3233--3241
Hsien-Tang Tsai The probabilistic tolerance design for a
subsystem using Taguchi's quadratic loss
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3243--3258
D. R. Jensen and
D. E. Ramirez Dispersion-diminishing transformations 3259--3266
Murari Singh and
Sudhir Gupta Estimating the sum of two ratios of
parameters and an application . . . . . 3267--3282
Nazir Ahmed Chaudhry The weighted jackknife for ratio
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3283--3313
M. S. Son and
H. I. Hamdy On accelerating sequential procedures
for estimating exponential populations 3315--3324
R. L. Taylor and
H. M. Zhang On A strongly consistent nonparametric
density estimator for the deconvolution
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3325--3342
Amarjot Kaur and
Harshinder Singh Estimation of a distribution function
bounded by two known distribution
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3343--3360
Charles S. Locke Use of a more general model for
bioavailability studies . . . . . . . . 3361--3373
Yohanan Wax and
Zvi Gilula A score test for monotonic trend in
hazard rates for grouped survival data
in stratified populations . . . . . . . 3375--3386
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota and
Kathleen Kocherlakota The bivariate logarithmic series
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3387--3432
Enrique Castillo and
José María Sarabia Bivariate distributions with second kind
beta conditionals . . . . . . . . . . . 3433--3445
Hsien-Ming Hung Nonlinear regression analysis for
complex surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . 3447--3470
Fassil Nebebe and
Ah Boon Sim The relative performances of improved
ridge estimators and an empirical Bayes
estimator: some Monte Carlo results . . 3469--3495
D. G. Kabe The exact noncentral distribution of the
generalized multiple correlation matrix 3497--3504
Oliver D. Anderson On the partial autocorrelations for an
explosive process . . . . . . . . . . . 3505--3526
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. G. Bhattacharya and
B. L. S. Prakasa Rao On two-stage shrinkage testimation . . . 3527--3538
Neil C. Schwertman and
Todd Stewart and
Katherine L. Schenk and
Kathy S. Stone A Monte Carlo comparison of tests of
parallelism of the responses over time
of two populations vith non-uniform
observation times . . . . . . . . . . . 3539--3555
Burt Holland and
Nasser K. Ordoukhani Balancing Type I and Type II error
probabilities: further comments on proof
of safety vs. proof of hazard . . . . . 3557--3570
Barry R. Davis and
Robert J. Hardy Upper bounds for Type I and Type II
error rates in conditional power
calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3571--3584
Xuming He Likelihood ratio test for discordancy
with slippage alternatives . . . . . . . 3585--3594
N. Henze and
B. Zirkler A class of invariant consistent tests
for multivariate normality . . . . . . . 3595--3617
Michael McAleer and
M. Hashem Pesaran and
Anil K. Bera Alternative approaches to testing
non-nested models with autocorrelated
disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3619--3644
Denis Kwiatkowski and
Peter Schmidt Dickey-fuller tests with trend . . . . . 3645--3656
Gina Bravo and
MacGibbon Brenda Improved estimators of a location vector
with unknown scale parameter . . . . . . 3657--3670
Kallappa M. Koti Some inequalities in elementary special
functions with applications to
nonparametric statistical inference . . 3671--3676
C. D. Sinclair and
B. D. Spurr and
M. I. Ahmad Modified Anderson--Darling test . . . . 3677--3686
Miquel Salicrú Entropy measures associated with
$j$-divergences . . . . . . . . . . . . 3687--3698
P. C. Consul Two stochastic models for the Geeta
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3699--3706
Hanfeng Chen and
Wei-Yin Loh Uniform robustness against nonnormality
of the $t$ and $F$ tests . . . . . . . . 3707--3723
Jye-Chyi Lu Least Squares estimation for the
multivariate Weibull model of Bougaard
based on accelerated life test of system
and component . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3725--3739
Jerome Klotz Maximum likelihood estimators for the
two way mixed model . . . . . . . . . . 3741--3749
Arnab Raghunath On commutativity of design and model
expectations in randomized response
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3751--3757
Tao-Lin Lee and
Rohan Attele and
Keh-Wei Chen Maximum likelihood estimation in convex
hull models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3759--3777
D. P. Gaver and
P. A. Jacobs and
I. G. O'Muircheartaigh Regression analysis of hierarchical
Poisson-like event rate data:
superpopulation model effect on
predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3779--3797
Kung-Jong Liu Modified product estimators of finite
population mean in finite sampling . . . 3799--3807
S. R. Patel and
M. B. Bhatt Unbiased estimation in type II censored
samples from two-truncation parameter
family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3809--3831
Makarand V. Ratnaparkhi and
James E. Mosimann On the normality of transformed beta and
unit- gamma random variables . . . . . . 3833--3854
Y. S. Sathe A note on the mean of the order
statistics based on independent
exponential random variables . . . . . . 3855--3858
A. Richard Entsuah Randomization procedures for analyzing
clinical trial data with treatment
related withdrawals . . . . . . . . . . 3859--3880
Ohidul Haque Mohammed Preliminary evaluation of the Victorian
zero blood alcohol content legislation
at alcohol times: an Australian case
study in intervention analysis . . . . . 3881--3899
A. Schick and
V. Susarla Inference with paired data and partial
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3901--3913
Yamato Hajime A probabilistic approach to Stirling
numbers of the first kind . . . . . . . 3915--3923
Yohai J. Victor and
Maronna A. Ricardo The maximum bias of robust covariances 3925--3933
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ralph A. Bradley The Florida State University Department
of Statistics: The first fifteen years 3935--3960
Frederick W. Leysieffer The second fifteen years: a continuation
of the chronicle of the Department of
Statistics at the Florida State
University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3961--3983
K. Afsarinejad Repeated measurements designs --- a
review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3985--4028
Osebekwin Asiribo and
John Gurland Coping with variance heterogeneity . . . 4029--4048
Louise H. Boothby and
James K. Brewer Predicting early educational program
placement with discrete discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4049--4060
Mark Brown Weighted sup-norm inequalities and their
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4061--4081
Narasinga Rao Chaganty and
Sanjeev Sabnis Large deviation local limit theorems for
ratio statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 4083--4101
Philip E. Cheng Applications of kernel regression
estimation: survey . . . . . . . . . . . 4103--4134
Ann Clemmens and
Z. Govindarajulu A certain locally most powerful test for
one-way random effects model: full
distribution and power considerations 4135--4151
Richard G. Cornell The evaluation of bioequivalence using
nonparametric procedures . . . . . . . . 4153--4165
Larry Goldstein Poisson approximation and DNA sequence
matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4167--4179
Morgan A. Hanson Solutions for a class of invex
programming problems . . . . . . . . . . 4181--4188
S. K. Katti and
Ferrin Harrison Sampling distribution after splitting
experimental units . . . . . . . . . . . 4189--4198
George Marsaglia and
B. Narasimhan and
Arif Zaman The distance between random points in
rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4199--4212
Duane Meeter Row similarity in binary-valued matrices 4213--4223
Ronald H. Randles and
Dawn Peters Multivariate rank tests for the
two-sample location problem . . . . . . 4225--4238
Thomas W. Reiland Invexity: an updated survey and new
results for nonsmooth functions . . . . 4239--4268
Allan R. Sampson and
David S. Stoffer Regression from another angle . . . . . 4269--4290
Jayaram Sethuraman The asymptotic distribution of the Rényi
maximal correlation . . . . . . . . . . 4291--4298
Moshe Shaked and
Y. L. Tong Positive dependence of random variables
with a common marginal distribution . . 4299--4313
J. Michael Steele Probability and statistics in the
service of computer science:
illustrations using the assignment
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4315--4329
Ram C. Tiwari and
Jyoti N. Zalkikar Nonparametric Bayes estimation of the
survival function from a record of
failures and follow-ups . . . . . . . . 4331--4354
Douglas A. Wolfe and
Angela M. Dean and
Bradley A. Hartlaub Nonparametric rank-based test procedures
for non-additive models in the two-way
layout I. No replications . . . . . . . 4355--4382
Douglas A. Zahn Current challenges in statistics:
large-lecture courses . . . . . . . . . 4383--4418
Arif Zaman and
George Marsaglia Random selection of subsets with
specified element probabilities . . . . 4419--4434
Anonymous Panel on quality and productivity . . . 4435--4454
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
N. F. Zhang and
G. A. Stenback and
D. M. Wardrop Interval estimation of process
capability index c$_{pk}$ . . . . . . . 4455--4470
Angela B. Mariotto Sensitivity of Bayes and empirical Bayes
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4471--4484
William B. Smith and
Amba R. Parsa Contingency tables with structural zeros 4485--4496
Serge Tardif Asymptotic optimality of rank tests for
randomized blocks . . . . . . . . . . . 4497--4513
M. Samanta and
A. Thavaneswaran Non-parametric estimation of the
conditional mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 4515--4524
Marc J. Sobel Complete ranking procedures with
appropriate loss functions . . . . . . . 4525--4544
Ali S. Hadi and
Brian Jersky How fair can employers be? . . . . . . . 4545--4558
K. S. Madhava Rao A one- sample test based on subsamples
medians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4559--4568
John P. Buonaccorsi Double sampling for exact values in the
normal discriminant model with
application to binary regression . . . . 4569--4586
Hu Yang A brief proof on the generalized
variance bound of the relative
efficiency in statistics . . . . . . . . 4587--4590
R. R. Hocking A new approach to variance component
estimation with diagnostic implications 4591--4617
Eduardo Castaño-Tostado and
Yutaka Tanaka Some comments on Escoufier's $ R V
$-coefficient as a sensitivity measure
in principal component analysis . . . . 4619--4626
Charles R. O. Lawoko On the maximum likelihood estimation of
parameters of a spatial discrimination
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4627--4641
A. K. Gupta and
T. Varga Characterization of characterization of
joint density by conditional densities 4643--4652
P. C. Consul New class of location-parameter discrete
probability distributions and their
characterizations . . . . . . . . . . . 4653--4666
V. D. Jayade and
M. S. Prasad Estimation of parameters of mixed
failure time distribution . . . . . . . 4667--4678
Hsien-Tang Tsai Probabilistic tolerance design for a
subsystem under Burr distribution using
Taguchi's loss functions . . . . . . . . 4679--4696
Tran Van Hoa and
A. Chatruvedi Further results on the two-stage
hierarchical information (2SHI)
estimators in the linear regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4697--4704
M. Safiul Haq and
Shahjahan Khan Prediction distribution for a linear
regression model with multivariate
Student-$t$ error distribution . . . . . 4705--4712
M. Safiul Haq and
Shahjahan Khan Structural inference of the parameters
of the heteroscedastic simultaneous
equation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4713--4729
Yoav Benjamini and
Camil Fuchs Conditional versus unconditional
analysis in some regression models . . . 4731--4756
Chebg-Tao Chang and
Joanna Cheng Three-factor symmetrical balanced
designs with full efficiency for main
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4757--4772
Joong-Yang Park Designs for estimating the difference
between two responses . . . . . . . . . 4773--4787
Dieter Rasch Optimum experimental design in nonlinear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4786--4806
David L. Turner An easy way to tell what you are testing
in analysis of variance . . . . . . . . 4807--4832
B. R. Handa and
N. S. Kambo A note on a modified double stage
shrinkage estimator . . . . . . . . . . 4833--4840
Scott D. Grimshaw A unification of tail estimators . . . . 4841--4857
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
H. B. Kushner and
Morris Meisner and
Eugene M. Laska A confidence region with multiple
intervals in multivariate bioassay . . . 1533--1547
H. B. Kushner and
Morris Meisner and
Eugene M. Laska A Bartlett correction factor for a
likelihood ratio statistic in
multivariate bioassay . . . . . . . . . 1549--1555
Mansour M. Abughalous and
Naveen K. Bansal On the minimaxity of the natural
decision rule for selecting the best
variate in a multivariate normal
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557--1567
Engin A. Sungur and
Milorad S. Kovacevic Lower dimensional marginal density
functions of absolutely continuous
truncated multivariate distributions . . 1569--1578
Abdulaziz Elfessi and
Nabendu Pal On location and scale parameters of
exponential distributions with censored
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579--1592
Lawrence S. Mayer and
Steven S. Carroll Modeling the contemporaneous
relationship in a continuous variable
panel model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593--1617
Dominique Haughton Consistency of a class of information
criteria for model selection in
non-linear regression . . . . . . . . . 1619--1629
W. Jahn Criterion and selection of optimal
subsets in the linear regression, two
stage procedures. Part I: Selection in
the univariate multiple model . . . . . 1631--1652
K. Das and
Q. Meneghini and
N. Giri Improved estimation of variance
components in balanced hierarchical
mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1653--1664
Dulal K. Bhaumik and
Pandu M. Kulkarni One-sided tolerance limits for
unbalanced one-way ANOVA random effects
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665--1675
D. V. S. Sastry A series of group divisible designs . . 1677--1682
Zhijun Liu Bootstrapping one way analysis of Rao's
quadratic entropy . . . . . . . . . . . 1683--1703
J. Subramani On invariant quadratic unbiased
estimation of variance components . . . 1705--1730
Yogendra P. Chaubey A study of ratio and product estimators
under a super population model . . . . . 1731--1746
Alan E. Gelfand and
Adrian F. M. Smith Gibbs sampling for marginal posterior
expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747--1766
Madhuri S. Mulekar and
Linda J. Young Approximations for a fixed sample size
selection procedure for negative
binomial populations . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1776
C. Raju Three-stage chain sampling plans . . . . 1777--1801
Nihal Yatawara and
Bovas Abraham and
John F. MacGregor A Kalman filter in the presence of
outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1803--1820
Dankit Nassiuma A note on nonstationary ARMA processes
with infinite variance . . . . . . . . . 1821--1826
N. Ordoukhani and
A. Thavaneswarn Convergence analysis of parametric
identification methods for jump
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827--1837
A. K. Honsi Optimal smoothing parameter of Fourier
series density estimates under an
autoregressive dependence model . . . . 1839--1851
Barry C. Arnold and
H. N. Nagaraja On some properties of bivariate weighted
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853--1860
Ruth Marcus and
Abraham Genizi Simultaneous one-sided tolerance
intervals for sets of contrasts from
normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . 1861--1870
Sudha Jain Estimation in M/E$_r$ /1 queueing
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1871--1879
Fabrizio Ruggeri Robust Bayesian analysis given a lower
bound on the probability of a set . . . 1881--1891
T. S. K. Moothathu and
M. S. Prasad On uniformly consistent estimation of
parametric Lorenz curves . . . . . . . . 1893--1902
Da-Yin Fan On a property of the order statistics of
the uniform distribution . . . . . . . . 1903--1909
Ronald B. Crosier Symmetry in mixture experiments . . . . 1911--1935
A. Adatia and
A. G. Law and
Q. Wang Characterization of a mixture of gamma
distributions via conditional finite
moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1937--1949
Oliver D. Anderson On the partial autocorrelations for an
explosive process . . . . . . . . . . . 1951--1955
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
D. V. Hinkley and
S. Wang Efficiency of robust standard errors for
regression coefficients . . . . . . . . 1--11
T. W. F. Stroud Hierarchical Bayes predictive means and
variances with application to sample
survey inference . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--36
Ulrich Menzefricke A Bayesian analysis of the product of
medians or means from a lognormal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
Joaquin Diaz A Bayesian solution to the multiple
outlier problem in time series . . . . . 45--61
Mohamed Tahir Bayesian sequential estimation of the
ratio of failure rates of two
exponential distributions censored data 63--71
Gideon A. Rudy and
Sister Adele Mareie Rothen The Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistics in
variation testing . . . . . . . . . . . 73--86
Z. Feng and
K. B. Kulasekera Nonparametric estimation of the
percentile residual life function . . . 87--105
Peter A. Lachenbruch and
Philip J. Clements ANOVA, Kruskal--Wallis, normal scores
and unequal variance . . . . . . . . . . 107--126
Critchlow E. Douglas and
Fligner A. Michael On distribution-free multiple
comparisons in the one-way analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139
Soms P. Andrew A note on equality in Anderson's theorem 141--145
Steve Peristiani The $F$-system distribution as an
alternative to multivariate normality:
An application in multivariate models
with qualitative dependent variables . . 147--163
Kazuhiko Kano and
Kazutomo Kawamura On recurrence relations for the
probability function of multivariate
generalized Poisson distribution . . . . 165--178
Stefan Driessen Multiple comparisons with and selection
of the best treatment in (incomplete)
block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--217
Kazuhiro Ohtani Estimation of the variance in a normal
population after the one-sided pre-test
for the mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--234
B. N. Pandey and
G. C. Mishra Weighted estimators for a normal
population variance . . . . . . . . . . 235--247
D. R. Jensen and
D. E. Ramiez Misspecified $ T^2 $ tests. I. Location
and scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--259
Takeuchi Hidekazu Detecting influential observations by
using a new expression of Cook's
distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274
S. N. U. A. Kirmani and
Kathleen Kocherlakota and
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota Estimation of $ \sigma $ and the process
capability index based on subsamples . . 275--291
Lui Kung-Jong A discussion on the limitations of B.
Prasad's unbiased estimator in finite
population sampling . . . . . . . . . . 293--298
S. Sengupta and
Rahul Mukerjee On optimal trend free sampling designs 299--307
Dipak K. Dey and
Chung Younshik Multiparameter estimation in truncated
power series distributions under the
Stein's loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--326
Sen Kanwar and
Bala Jain Madhu A test for the variance residual life 327--331
I. Garisch and
D. J. de Waal and
P. C. N. Groenewald The use of utilities and experts in
decision-making . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--344
C. G. E. Boender and
H. E. Romeijn The multidimensional Markov chain with
prespecified asymptotic means, and
(auto-)covariances . . . . . . . . . . . 345--359
Smith Woollcott and
Ghosh Krishnendu A continuous repeated measurements
model: the experimental design problem
with fixed time constraints . . . . . . 361--372
Ordoukhani Nasser and
A. Thavaneswarn and
M. Samanta Functional version of the delta method
and its application . . . . . . . . . . 373--388
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
John A. Cornell Mixture designs for product improvement
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--416
S. Mark Handcock On cascading latin hypercube designs and
additive models for experiments . . . . 417--439
Raghu N. Kacker and
Eric S. Laferfren and
Michael D. Hill and
Winnie Wong-Ng and
Chawn K. Chiang and
Edwin R. Fuller An efficient experiment to study
superconducting ceramics . . . . . . . . 441--456
Raymond H. Myers Response surface methodology in quality
improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--476
William J. Welch and
Jerome Sacks A system for quality improvement via
computer experiments . . . . . . . . . . 477--495
S. Zacks Inference based on Taguchi's saturated
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--510
Syamala Srinivasan and
Franklin A. Graybill Confidence intervals for proportions of
total variations in unbalanced two-way
components of variance models using
unweighted means . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--526
Neil C. Schwertman and
Kathryn L. Schenk Determining analysis of variance sample
size for detecting specified trends or
interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--538
W. D. Kaigh and
Cheng cheng Subsampling quantile estimators and
uniformity criteria . . . . . . . . . . 539--560
Mohammed A. Shayib and
David H. Young The extreme residuals in gamma
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--577
D. H. Fearn and
E. Nebenzahl On the maximum likelihood ratio method
of deciding between the Weibull and
gamma distributions . . . . . . . . . . 579--593
Kai F. Yu A note on the estimation of the mixing
parameter in a mixture of two
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--609
Mary Maine and
Thomas Boullion and
Gaspard T. Rizzuto Detecting the number of components in a
finite mixture having normal components 611--620
P. R. Parthasarathy and
B. Krishna Kumar A birth and death process with logistic
mean population . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--629
Saleh O. Badahdah and
M. M. Siddiqui Adaptive robust estimation of location
for stable distributions . . . . . . . . 631--652
Austin F. S. Lee and
Naomi S. Fineberg A fitted test for the Behrens--Fisher
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--666
Neuhaus Georg Some linear and nonlinear rank tests for
competing risks models . . . . . . . . . 667--701
David R. Bristol and
M. M. Desu A Partially sequential selection
procedure for comparison with a control 703--710
R. Fox David Interval estimation in calibration
models: an application of Fieller's
theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--720
Luong Andrew and
K. Tak Mak Robust Estimation in a Linear Functional
Relationship Model . . . . . . . . . . . 721--733
P. B. Nagarsenker and
B. N. Nagarsenker On a modified test of equality of scale
parameters of exponential distributions 735--745
S. M. Joshi and
S. P. Nabar Testing the scale parameter of the
exponential distribution with known
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 747--756
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
K. Krishnamoorthy Estimation of normal covariance and
precision matrices with incomplete data 757--770
S. E. Ahmed Combining Poisson means . . . . . . . . 771--789
You-Gan Wang Sequential allocation in clinical trials 791--805
Siddhartha Chib and
Ram C. Tiwari Robust Bayes analysis in normal linear
regression with an improper mixture
prior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--829
D. Morales and
L. Pardo and
V. Quesada Bayesian survival estimation for
incomplete data when the life
distribution is proportionally related
to the censoring time . . . . . . . . . 831--850
Udi E. Makov Bayesian and approximate Bayesian
solutions to simultaneous estimation of
multiple dynamic processes . . . . . . . 851--871
M. Luisa Targhetta Lower bounds for the Bayes risk In
estimating a mixing parameter . . . . . 873--880
Kanwar Sen and
Madhu Bala Jain A new test for bivariate distributions:
exponential vs new-better-than-used
alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--887
D. G. Kabe On a multivariate normal linear
regression hypothesis testing problem
with additional observations . . . . . . 889--898
S. Morgenthaler Confidence bands for the bias of linear
estimators of a function of one variable 899--909
Jiahua Chen and
Jing Qin Some results on generalized regression
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--928
M. L. Tiku and
D. C. Vaughan Testing equality of location parameters
of two exponential distributions from
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 929--944
P. Yageen Thomas and
T. S. K. Moothathu Recurrence relations for moments of
different orders of extremes from gamma
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--950
Shulamith T. Gross and
Martin R. Frankel Confidence limits for small proportions
in complex samples . . . . . . . . . . . 951--975
W. D. Kaigh and
Cheng Cheng Subsampling quantile estimator standard
errors with applications . . . . . . . . 977--995
Hanfeng chen and
Wei-Yin Loh Consistency of the bootstrap for the
transformed two-sample $t$-test . . . . 997--1014
I. V. Basawa and
A. K. Mallik and
W. P. McCornick and
J. H. Reeves and
R. L. Taylor Bootstrap test of significance and
sequential bootstrap estimation for
unstable first order autoregressive
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1026
Shulamith T. Gross Bayesian credibility limits for small
finite population proportions:
stratified and cluster sampling . . . . 1027--1037
Kallappa M. Koti A note on sum--quota sampling . . . . . 1039--1042
P. M. Kulkarni and
Debashis Kushary $ \beta $ Expectation and $ \beta
$-content tolerance intervals for
dependent observations . . . . . . . . . 1043--1054
Timothy C. Krehbiel and
Donald A. Anderson Optimal fractional factorial designs for
estimating interactions of one factor
with all others: $ 3^m $ Series . . . . 1055--1072
F. Yuan and
M. Jimbo and
R. Hara Fuji An extension method for balanced arrays 1073--1085
Rand R. Wilcox A step-down heteroscedastic multiple
comparison procedure . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1097
Richard G. Cornell Nonparametric tests of dispersion for
the two-period crossover design . . . . 1099--1106
J. K. Ghorai Cramér--von Mises statistic for testing
goodness of fit under the proportional
hazards model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107--1126
Jang-Hwan Ko and
Bong-Jin Yum The chi-square approximation approach to
ranking and selection procedures under
type II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1147
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Klaus Haagen and
Giorgio Vittadini Regression component decomposition in
structural analysis . . . . . . . . . . 1153--1161
Salahuddin and
A. G. Hawkes Cross-validation in stepwise regression 1163--1182
Lisa A. Weissfeld and
Susan M. Sereika A multicollinearity diagnostic for
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 1183--1198
Shih-Huang Chan On the calculations of the maximum
likelihood estimates for the polynomial
spline regression model with unknown
knots and $ {\rm AR}(1) $ errors . . . . 1199--1209
Li-Xing Zhu and
Guo-Ying Li A consistent estimator for the supremum
of the projection index based on sliced
inverse regression . . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1223
I. J. Good Serial unblocked designs balanced for
correlation between neighbours, II . . . 1225--1231
Robert J. Boik Scheffés mixed model for multivariate
repeated measures: a relative efficiency
evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1255
D. K. Ghosh and
Alex Thannippara Construction on non-adaptive
hypergeometric group testing designs for
identifying at most two defectives . . . 1257--1272
Yasuki Kikuchi and
Takashi Yanagawa Incorporating historical controls using
a random-effects model with a normal
prior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1291
M. Ahsanullah and
S. N. U. A. Kirmani Characterizations of the exponential
distribution through a lower record . . 1293--1299
David D. Hanagal and
B. K. Kale Large sample tests of independence for
absolutely continuous bivariate
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 1301--1313
Ulhas J. Dixit On the estimation of the power of the
scale parameter of the gamma
distribution in the presence of outliers 1315--1328
Eduardo Castaño-Tostado and
Yutaka Tanaka Sensitivity measures of influence on the
loading matrix in exploratory factor
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329--1343
Anil Mudholkar and
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Deo Kumar Srivastava A construction and appraisal of pooled
trimmed-$t$ statistics . . . . . . . . . 1345--1359
Robert P. McEwen and
Bernard R. Parresol Moment expressions and summary
statistics for the complete and
truncated Weibull distribution . . . . . 1361--1372
M. Pandey and
Jannatual Ferdous and
Md. Borhan Uddin Selection of probability distribution
for life testing data . . . . . . . . . 1373--1388
Demetris L. Antzoulakos and
Andreas L. Philippou A note on the multivariate negative
binomial distributions of order $K$ . . 1389--1399
P. L. H. Yu and
K. Lam Tightness of some confidence and
predictive intervals related to
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401--1408
Richard L. Schmoyer Order-restricted goodness-of-fit tests
based on spacings . . . . . . . . . . . 1409--1425
Mendel Fygenson Optimal sequential estimation for
semi-Markov and Markov renewal processes 1427--1444
C. S. Withers Moment estimates for mixtures with
common scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1445--1461
Richard L. Hughey A survey and comparison of methods for
estimating extreme right tail-area
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1463--1496
I. Gertsbakh and
A. Winterbottom Point and interval estimation of normal
tail probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . 1497--1514
J. L. Jensen and
L. B. Kristensen Saddlepoint approximations to exact
tests and improved likelihood ratio
tests for the gamma distribution . . . . 1515--1532
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C. C. Chao and
A. K. Gupta Testing of homogeneity of diagonal
blocks with blockwise independence . . . 1957--1969
Meena R. Satam A class of new PBIB designs . . . . . . 1971--1976
A. I. Duthie E-optimality and cubic designs . . . . . 1977--1981
Kanwar Sen and
Madhu Bala Jain Bayes estimators of the average failure
rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983--1988
Tien-chung Hu On the law of the iterated logarithm for
arrays of random variables . . . . . . . 1989--1994
D. G. Kabe On Wilks' $A$ factorization noncentral
distribution theory . . . . . . . . . . 1995--2007
M. Dube and
V. K. Srivastava and
H. Toutenburg and
P. Wijekoon Stein-rule estimator under inclusion of
superfluous variables in linear
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 2009--2022
Lee-Ing Tong and
Paul L. Cornelius Studies on the hypothesis testing of the
slope parameter in the simple linear
regression model with one-fold nested
error structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 2023--2043
Paul Yip Conditional inference on a mixture model
for the analysis of count data . . . . . 2045--2057
M. K. Sadaghiani and
J. L. Teugels and
K. U. Leuven Models for two-way contingency tables 2059--2072
L. Watelet and
B. B. Winter Nonparametric estimation of
nonincreasing densities and use of data
from renewal processes . . . . . . . . . 2073--2094
R. C. Tripathi and
B. K. Kale Combined sample scores versus two-sample
scores under censoring . . . . . . . . . 2095--2118
S. R. Patel and
M. B. Bhatt Unbiased estimation in doubly Type II
censored samples from two two-truncation
parameter families . . . . . . . . . . . 2119--2148
M. S. Srivastava and
Yanhong Wu A second order approximation to
Taguchi's online control procedure . . . 2149--2168
T. Krug and
R. J. Martin Information loss on the mean for spatial
processes when some values are missing 2169--2194
G. Chaudhuri and
J. D. Borwankar and
P. R. K. Rao Bhattacharyya distance based linear
discriminant function for stationary
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2195--2205
Martin A. Hamilton Model validation: an annotated
bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2207--2266
Hans Frick On Lachin's formulae for sample sizes of
survival tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2267--2280
A. Thavaneswaran and
M. Samanta and
N. Qrdoukhani A note on recursive smoothers for
semimartingales . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281--2289
Arun Kumar Adhikary On optimality of the Horvitz--Thompson
estimator under a Markov process model 2291--2297
Julián de la Horra Bayesian confidence estimation: an
alternative approach . . . . . . . . . . 2299--2306
Hana Ahmad Sartawi and
Muhammad S. Abu- Salih Bayesian prediction bounds for the Burr
type $X$ model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307--2330
B. Prasad, Research Officer Erratum to ``Some improved ratio type
estimators of population mean and ratio
in finite population sample survey'' . . 2331--2332
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E. D. Mc Cune and
Sandra Luna Mc Cune Jackknifed kernel quantile estimators 2179--2725
M. Rajagopalan and
A. Loganathan Bayes estimates of mixing proportions in
finite mixture distributions . . . . . . 2337--2349
Da-Yin Fan Bayesian acceptance sampling scheme for
pass-fail components . . . . . . . . . . 2351--2355
Youn-Min Chou and
D. B. Owen A likelihood ratio test for the equality
of proportions of two normal populations 2357--2374
V. K. Srivastava and
D. E. A. Giles Unbiased estimation of the mean squared
error of the feasible generalised ridge
regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . 2375--2386
D. B. Holiday Considerations for optimal nonparametric
regression under a generalized error
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2387--2406
J. N. Lye Implications of uncorrelatedness and
independence in linear regression models 2407--2430
Zhao Ouyang and
Hans T. Schreuder and
Junfang Li Regression estimation under sampling
with one unit per stratum . . . . . . . 2431--2449
Frances P. Stewart and
Ralph A. Bradley Some partially variance balanced
structurally incomplete row-column
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2451--2465
B. Re. Victor Babu and
V. L. Narasimhant Construction of second order slope
rotatable designs through balanced
incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 2467--2478
Myron N. Chang Edgeworth expansion for the
Kaplan--Meier estimator . . . . . . . . 2479--2494
Raghunath Arnab Estimation of a finite population total
in two-stage and stratified sampling
under superpopulation models . . . . . . 2495--2503
H. R. Al-Khalidi and
L. J. Hwang Some pitfalls of tests of separate
families of hypotheses: normality vs.
lognormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505--2528
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota and
Kathleen Kocherlakota Process capability index: bivariate
normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 2529--2547
Kanwar Sen and
Madhu Bala Jain Tests for bivariate mean residual life 2549--2558
G. Vijayasree and
Harshinder Singh Simultaneous estimation of two ordered
exponential parameters . . . . . . . . . 2559--2576
Z. Govindarajulu and
A. Nanthakumar Rate of convergence for the distribution
of the Spearman--Karber estimator . . . 2577--2588
T. P. Tripathi and
Shashi Bahl Estimation of mean using double sampling
for stratification and multivariate
auxiliary information . . . . . . . . . 2589--2602
John D. Spurrier Improved bounds for moments of some rank
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2603--2608
James M. Robins and
Anastasios A. Tsiatis Correcting for non-compliance in
randomized trials using rank preserving
structural failure time models . . . . . 2609--2631
Dei- In Tang and
Shang P. Lin Extension of the pool-adjacent-violators
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2633--2643
Michael E. Miller and
J. Richard Landis Evaluation of an analysis approach used
to account for extra-variation in
clustered categorical responses . . . . 2645--2661
C. S. Withers Tests and confidence intervals for the
shape parameter of a gamma distribution 2663--2685
Daniela Calvetti Roundoff error for floating point
representation of real data . . . . . . 2687--2695
John E. Angus A simple asymptotic analysis of Fisher's
$z$-statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2697--2700
Derrick S. Tracy and
Khushnood A. Khan Fourth moment results for MRBP and
related power performance . . . . . . . 2701--2718
E. D. Mc Cune and
Sandra Luna Mc Cune Jackknifed kernel quantile estimators 2719--2725
S. C. Gupta and
O. P. Srivastava A two-dimensional branching process with
migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2727--2736
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Stuart G. Baker Evaluating a new test using a reference
test with estimated sensitivity and
specificity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2739--2752
Hossein Mansouri Distribution-free tests in randomized
blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2753--2773
Necip Doganaksoy and
Frederick W. Faltin and
William T. Tucker Identification of out of control quality
characteristics in a multivariate
manufacturing environment . . . . . . . 2775--2790
Dietrich Von Rosen The growth curve model: a review . . . . 2791--2822
ByoungSeon Choi The asymptotic joint distribution of the
correlation determinant estimates of an
ARMA process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2823--2835
P. C. Joshi and
Shubha Some identities among moments of order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2837--2843
Pinyucen Chen and
Lifang Hsu On a sequential subset selection
procedure for the least probable
multinomial cell . . . . . . . . . . . . 2845--2862
Eiichiro Funo Inadmissibility results of the MLE for
the multinomial problem when the
parameter space is restricted or
truncated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2863--2880
Dale N. Anderson and
Barry C. Arnold Centered distributions with Cauchy
conditionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2881--2889
Aiala Barr On the linear combinations of the means
of inverse Gaussian distributions . . . 2891--2905
S. Joshi and
M. Shah Estimating the mean of an inverse
Gaussian distribution with known
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 2907--2912
Y. S. Sathe A further note on testing for
multisource contamination in
location/scale families . . . . . . . . 2913--2917
Ibrahim Hassan Ibrahim Evaluating the power of the
Mann--Whitney test using the bootstrap
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2919--2931
Kishore Sinha and
Sanpei Kageyama Equiblock-sized efficiency-balanced
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2933--2941
Trevor F. Cox and
Michael A. A. Cox Multidimensional scaling on a sphere . . 2943--2953
B. C. Gupta Some results on main effect plus one
plans for $ 2^m $ factorials . . . . . . 2955--2963
S. Huda On some D$_S$-optimal designs in
spherical regions . . . . . . . . . . . 2965--2985
Manel Cooray Wijesinha and
Andre I. Khuri Robust designs for first-order multiple
design multivariate models . . . . . . . 2987--2999
Naveen K. Bansal On testing linear hypotheses on linear
functional and structural relationships 3001--3019
B. Singh Distribution of variance ratio in
unbalanced random model under
heterogeneity of error variances . . . . 3021--3028
Jeffrey R. Wilson and
William D. Warde An adjusted test for cross-classified
cluster sample data . . . . . . . . . . 3029--3050
Wallace Franck A new measure of association . . . . . . 3051--3070
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Lisa A. Weissfeld and
R. I. St. Laurent and
L. H. Moulton Confidence intervals for the comparison
of two Poisson distributions . . . . . . 307--307
Lap-Ming Wun Regression analysis of autocorrelated
Poisson-distribution data . . . . . . . 3083--3091
R. Rueda and
F. O' Reilly and
V. Pé rez-Abreu Goodness of fit for the Poisson
distribution based on the probability
generating function . . . . . . . . . . 3093--3110
Aydin Ozturk A general algorithm for univariate and
multivariate goodness of fit tests based
on graphical representation . . . . . . 3111--3137
Kanwar Sen and
Madhu Bala Jain A test for bivariate exponentiality
against BIFR alternative . . . . . . . . 3139--3145
Chun Jin and
Nabendu Pal A note on the location parameters of two
exponential distributions under order
restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3147--3158
A. M. Mathai On fractional moments of quadratic
expressions in normal variables . . . . 3159--3174
Daniel Piña and
Agustin Maravall Interpolation, outliers mid inverse
autocorrelations . . . . . . . . . . . . 3175--3186
ByoungSeon Choi On the asymptotic distributions of the
$r$ and $s$ arrays for identifying an
ARMA process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3187--3206
D. K. Massiuma and
N. Ordoukhani Forecasting of some transformed series 3207--3220
Judith A. Giles Pre-testing in a mis-specified
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3221--3238
K. R. Shah and
Sheela S. Deo Missing plot technique in linear models 3239--3252
Dominic F. Vecchia and
Hari K. Iyer Moments of the quartic assignment
statistic with an application to
multiple regression . . . . . . . . . . 3253--3269
M. A. Ali Impacts of auxiliary information on
outliers in regression . . . . . . . . . 3271--3281
Charles W. Ash and
Robert H. Brown Significance levels for use in the
analysis of combination drug trials . . 3283--3292
Michael Haber and
Catherine C. H. Chen and
C. David Williamson Analysis of repeated categorical
responses from fully and partially
cross-classified data . . . . . . . . . 3293--3313
K. N. Ponnuswamy and
M. R. Srinivasan Construction of partial triallel crosses
(PTC) using a class of balanced
incomplete block designs (BIBD) . . . . 3315--3323
T. J. Rao On certain methods of improving ratio
and regression estimators . . . . . . . 3325--3340
Laura A. Aerne and
Charles W. Champ and
Steven E. Rigdon Evaluation of control charts under
linear trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3341--3349
G. Edward Miller Asymptotic test statistics for
coefficients of variation . . . . . . . 3351--3363
M. Pandey and
J. Ferdous and
Md. Borhan Uddin Effect of a new selection procedure on
adaptive estimation . . . . . . . . . . 3365--3379
Han-Chu Liu and
Jer-Yan Lin On selecting a subset containing the
most probable multinomial event . . . . 3381--3387
Jagdish Saran and
Sarita Rani Distributions based on upcrossings,
upward crossings, positive reflections
and their runs in a generalized random
walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3389--3404
S. R. Deshaukh and
M. M. Kale Estimation of probability of extinction
of a multitype branching process . . . . 3405--3419
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Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3421--3422
E. J. G. Pitman Hobart The ``closest'' estimates of statistical
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3423--3437
P. K. Sen Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3439--3443
R. Colin Blyth Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3445--3452
Robert L. Mason Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3453--3456
Robert L. Fountain and
Jerome P. Keating and
C. Radhakrishna Rao An example arising from Berkson's
conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3457--3472
Pranab Kumar Sen and
Tapan K. Nayak and
Ravindra Khattree Comparison of estimators of a dispersion
matrix under generalized Pitman nearness
criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3473--3486
Sanat K. Sarkar On estimating the common mean of several
normal populations under the Pitman
closeness criterion . . . . . . . . . . 3487--3498
Tatsuya Kubokawa Equivariant estimation under the Pitman
closeness criterion . . . . . . . . . . 3499--3523
Shyamal Das Peddada and
Ravindra Khattree Comparison of estimators of the location
parameter using Pitman's closeness
criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3525--3534
Robert L. Fountain Pitman closeness comparison of linear
estimators: a canonical form . . . . . . 3535--3550
Pranab K. Sen and
Debapriya Sengupta On characterizations of Pitman closeness
of some shrinkage estimators . . . . . . 3551--3580
Alessandro Bertuzzi and
Alberto Gandolfi Ridge regression versus OLS by Pitman's
closeness under quadratic and Fisher's
loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3581--3590
Michael D. Conerly and
J. Michael Hardin Shrunken estimators via a Pitman
nearness criterion . . . . . . . . . . . 3591--3604
H. T. David and
Shawki A. Salem Three shrinkage constructions for
Pitman-closeness in the one-dimensional
location case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3605--3627
Robert L. Mason and
Neil W. Blaylock, Jr. Ridge regression estimator comparisons
using Pitman's measure of closeness . . 3629--3641
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
P. K. Sen Pitman-closeness of some preliminary
test and shrinkage estimators . . . . . 3643--3657
Malay Ghosh and
Sen Pranab Kumar Bayesian Pitman closeness . . . . . . . 3659--3678
Tapan K. Nayak Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3679--3684
Dipak K. Dey Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3685--3688
William E. Strawderman Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3689--3691
Anonymous Rejoinder by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3693--3695
Sudip Bose Some properties of posterior Pitman
closeness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3697--3712
Gauri Sankar Datta Pitman closeness for hierarchical Bayes
predictors in mixed linear models . . . 3713--3727
Jerome P. Keating Karlin's corollary: a topological
approach to Pitman's measure . . . . . . 3729--3750
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M. A. Ali Restricted minimum bias linear
estimation in regression . . . . . . . . 3751--3760
So Young Sohn and
Mainak Mazumdar A Monte Carlo study of variable
selection and inferences in a two stage
random coefficient linear regression
model with unbalanced data . . . . . . . 3761--3791
Debasis Kundu Asymptotic properties of the complex
valued non-linear regression model . . . 3793--3803
Yutaka Tanaka and
Shingo Watadani and
Sung Ho Moon Influence in covariance structure
analysis: with an application to
confirmatory factor analysis . . . . . . 3805--3821
A. Vasudeva Rao and
R. R. L. Kantam and
V. L. Narasimham Linear estimation of location and scale
parameters in the generalized gamma
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3823--3848
John Stufken Bayes $A$-optimal and efficient block
designs for comparing test treatments
with a standard treatment . . . . . . . 3849--3862
Khushnood A. Khan and
Derrick S. Tracy Fourth exact moment results for MRBP
tests with two or three treatments . . . 3863--3877
Nelida E. Ferretti and
Diana M. Kelmansky and
Victor J. Yohai Estimators based on ranks for ARMA
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3879--3907
N. Etemadi Maximal inequalities for partial sums of
independent random vectors with multi
dimensional time parameters . . . . . . 3909--3923
M. Donegani and
M. Unternährer Estimation of the variance of an
adaptive estimator by bootstrapping . . 3925--3931
Arun Kumar Adhikary On the performance of the nearest
proportional to size sampling design . . 3933--3941
K. L. Weldon and
D. Potvin Nonparametric recovery of duration
distributions from cross-sectional
sample surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3943--3973
Paul W. Stewart The graphical advantages of finite
interval confidence band procedures . . 3975--3993
Chun Jin and
Nabendu Pal Estimation of location parameters of
several exponential distributions . . . 3995--4003
Mei Ling Huang and
Percy Brill Recurrence relations for the minimum
variance unbiased estimator of the
probability function of the $R$
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4005--4019
Jan Mielniczuk Grade estimation of chi-square
divergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4021--4041
Da-Yin Fan The distribution of the product of
independent beta variables . . . . . . . 4043--4052
James B. McDonald and
Richard M. Bookstaber Option pricing for generalized
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4053--4068
Samuel Y. Dennis III On the hyper-Dirichlet Type 1 and
hyper-Liouville distributions . . . . . 4069--4081
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4083--4083
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William B. Smith Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
C. G. Posse Projection pursuit discriminant analysis
for two groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
C. G. Khatri and
H. I. Patel Analysis of a multicenter trial using a
multivariate approach to a mixed linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39
K. G. Jinadasa and
D. S. Tracy Maximum likelihood estimation for
multivariate normal distribution with
monotone sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50
W. P. McCormick and
N. I. Lyons and
K. Hutcheson Distributional properties of Jaccard's
index of similarity . . . . . . . . . . 51--68
Rianto A. Djojosugito and
Paul L. Speckman Boundary bias correction in
nonparametric density estimation . . . . 69--88
P. C. Consul and
Felix Famoye Generalized Poisson regression model . . 89--109
Yuen-Ching Fanny Ki Multiple shrinkage estimators in
multiple linear regression . . . . . . . 111--136
S. R. Adke and
N. Balakrishna Estimation of the mean of some
stationary Markov sequences . . . . . . 137--159
Kentaro Nomakuchi and
Ning-Zhong Shi A note on the orthant probability of the
elliptically contoured distribution . . 161--167
H. I. Hamdy and
M. Y. Ei-Bassiouni Fixed width interval estimation in a
random one way model . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
Kamel Rakab A nearly optimal two stage procedure . . 197--201
Kamel Rakab A nearly optimal two stage procedure . . 197--201
S. Velilla and
R. Llosa A result in optimal design with
application in particle physics . . . . 203--212
Sik-Yum Lee and
Man-Lai Tang Analysis of structural equation models
with incomplete polytomous data . . . . 213--232
Zhiyi Zhang The robustness of ANOVA with respect to
interactions in some orthogonal block
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--240
B. Raja Rao and
Richard D. Day and
Gary M. Marsh Estimation of relative risks from
individual and ecological correlation
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--268
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
Sally Freels, Ph.D. Eliminating a sparse data problem in
nonparametric bivariate survival
analysis with an application to women's
age at first marriage and age at first
birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--318
Yoshiko Isogawa Comparing multivariate linear functional
relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--331
Varghese T. George and
William D. Johnson Effect of regression to the mean in
multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 333--350
Barry R. Davis and
Robert J. Hardy Repeated confidence intervals and
prediction intervals using stochastic
curtailment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--368
Ravindra Khattree and
Rameshwar D. Gupta Some probability distributions connected
with beta and gamma matrices . . . . . . 369--390
Alberto Luceño A new family of probability
distributions with applications to data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--409
Ram C. Tiwari and
Ram C. Tripathi and
Rainesh C. Gupta Some weighted distributions of order $k$ 411--422
Dan Steinberg and
N. Scott Cardell Estimating logistic regression models
when the dependent variable has no
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--450
David C. Vaughan On the Tiku--Suresh method of estimation 451--469
J. A. Menéndez and
C. Rueda and
B. Salvador Testing non-oblique hypotheses . . . . . 471--484
N. Mukhopadhyay and
A. D. Abid Sequential sampling methodologies for
comparing strata means . . . . . . . . . 485--500
Mohamed Tahir Fixed-width sequential confidence
interval for the correlation coefficient
of a bivariate normal distribution . . . 501--506
T. P. Tripathi and
H. P. Singh A class of unbiased product-type
estimators for the mean suitable for
positive and negative correlation
situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--518
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Ram C. Tripathi Statistical inference based on the
length-biased data for the modified
power series distributions . . . . . . . 519--537
Philippe Capéra\`a Rank tests for scale and tail-weight of
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--545
Brunero Liseo A note on a counterexample against the
likelihood principle . . . . . . . . . . 547--556
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B. Reiser and
D. Faraggi and
I. Guttman Choice of sample size for testing the $
P(X > Y) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--569
Adrienne W. Kemp Heine--Euler extensions of the Poisson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--588
David P. T. Chu Exact distribution of random volume from
beta type-2 random points . . . . . . . 589--597
Tiago J. De Oliveira Intrinsic estimation of the dependence
function in bivariate extremes: a new
and simpler approach . . . . . . . . . . 599--611
Tomá\^s Herbst Estimation of moments under
Koziol--Green model for random
censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--624
Derek O. Chalton and
Cas G. Troskie $Q$ plots, a graphical aid for
regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 625--636
Ian R. Harris and
Donna K. Pauler Locally quadratic log likelihood and
data-based transformations . . . . . . . 637--646
B. Raja Rao Equivalence of the tampered random
variable and the tampered failure rate
models in accelerated lifetesting for a
class of life distributions having the
`setting the clock back to zero
property' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--664
Mark J. Encarnación A note on linear regression functions 665--666
Feifei Wei and
William I. Notz $D$-optimal weighing designs and optimal
chemical balance weighing designs for
estimating the total weight . . . . . . 667--678
A. Levine and
J. Liukkonen and
D. W. Levine Predicting power changes under
transformations in ANOVA tests . . . . . 679--692
Sadao Tomizawa Multiplicative models with further
restrictions on the usual symmetry model 693--710
Paige L. Williams and
Christopher J. Portier Analytic expressions for maximum
likelihood estimators in a nonparametric
model of tumor incidence and death . . . 711--732
T. W. Epps and
Eugene Seneta Maximum-likelihood estimation for
Galton--Watson processes . . . . . . . . 733--748
Lea Friedman A note on estimation in a minimum type
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749--763
Charles W. Champ Steady-state run length analysis of a
Shewhart quality control chart with
supplementary runs rules . . . . . . . . 765--777
Ulrich Menzefricke On the variance of total warranty claims 779--790
Adrienne W. Kemp and
David C. Kemp A group-dynamic model and the lost-games
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--798
Duane Steffey Hierarchical Bayesian modeling with
elicited prior information . . . . . . . 799--821
N. S. Kambo and
B. R. Fanda and
Z. A. Al-Hemyari On Huntsberger type shrinkage estimator 823--841
S. R. Patel and
M. B. Bhatt Unbiastld estimation of parametric
functions in sampling from two
two-truncation parameter families . . . 843--860
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Z. J. Liu Nonparametric estimates of the nuisance
parameter in the LAD tests . . . . . . . 861--881
Mark Carpenter and
Nabendu Pal and
Debashis Kushary Estimation of the smaller and larger of
two exponential location parameters . . 883--895
Lawrence Joseph and
David B. Wolfson Estimation in multi-path change-point
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--913
Eve Bofinger Multiple comparisons with `best' for
multivariate normal populations . . . . 915--941
Jun Shao Some conditions on the design of a
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--952
Anant P. Godbole The exact and asymptotic distribution of
overlapping success runs . . . . . . . . 953--967
L. Baringhaus and
N. Henze An adaptive omnibus test for
exponentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--978
Byung Soo Kim and
Cheolyong Park Some remarks on testing goodness of fit
for the Poisson assumption . . . . . . . 979--995
Sung K. Ahn F-probability plot and its application
to multivariate normality . . . . . . . 997--1023
Layth C. Alwan Effects of autocorrelation on control
chart performance . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1049
Bruno Betr\`o and
Fabrizio Ruggeri Conditional $ \Gamma $-minimax actions
under convex losses . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1066
Linda Tappin Unbiased estimation of the parameter of
a selected binomial population . . . . . 1067--1083
Marc Sobel On selecting the Pareto-optimal subset
of a class of populations . . . . . . . 1085--1102
J. Krauth Confidence intervals for discrete
distributions based on a single
observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103--1114
Jagdish Saran Correction to a result of S. G. Mohanty
and B. R. Handa on a generalized random
walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115--1123
Govinda J. Weerakkody A note on the recovery of inter-block
information in balanced incomplete block
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125--1136
B. C. Gupta On the existence of main effect plus $k$
plans for $ 2^m$ factorials and tables
for main effect plus $1$ and $2$ plans
for $ 2^7$ factorials . . . . . . . . . 1137--1143
Kuldeep Kumar Identification of ARMA models with
non-Gaussian innovations . . . . . . . . 1145--1161
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Carolin Malott Frey and
Keith E. Muller Analysis methods for nonlinear models
with compound-symmetric covariance . . . 1163--1182
R. J. Martin Leverage, influence and residuals in
regression models when observations are
correlated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183--1212
Cary T. Isaki Model bias effects in small area
coverage error estimation . . . . . . . 1213--1231
H. L. MacGillivray Shape properties of the $g$-and-$h$ and
Johnson families . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1250
Aman Ullah The exact density of nonparametric
regression estimators: fixed design case 1251--1254
Rand R. Wilcox Comparing robust regression lines
corresponding to two independent groups 1255--1266
Tommaso Gastaldi Testing a censoring hypothesis through
an identity test . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267--1272
David D. Hanagal Some inference results in bivariate
exponential distributions rased on
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1295
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and
Mohammed A. Shayib On some goodness-of-fit tests for the
normal, logistic and extreme-value
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297--1308
Zoltan Papp Two- sided tolerance limits and
confidence bounds for normal populations 1309--1318
R. N. Rattihalli and
D. T. Shirke An improved confidence region for the
common mean vector of two multivariate
homoscedastic normal distributions . . . 1319--1325
Sat N. Gupta Estimation in long memory time series
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327--1338
V. Kuralmani and
K. Govlndaraju Selection of multiple deferred
(dependent) state sampling plans . . . . 1339--1366
B. Prasad and
H. P. Singh Unbiased estimators of finite population
variance using auxiliary information in
sample surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1367--1376
Kishore Sinha Construction of balanced treatment
incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 1377--1382
Jesús Juan and
Daniel Pefña A simple method to identify significant
effects in unreplicated two-level
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 1383--1403
K. D. S. Young Influence of groups of observations on
Bayes factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405--1426
S. M. Sadooghi- Alvandi and
A. Parsian Estimation of the binomial parameter$_n$
using a LINEX loss function . . . . . . 1427--1439
André Rogatko Bayesian approach for meta-analysis of
controlled clinical trials . . . . . . . 1441--1462
Janos Galambos and
Charles Hagwood The characterization of a distribution
function by the second moment of the
residual life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1463--1468
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Bruce Levin Tests of odds ratio homogeneity with
improved power in sparse fourfold tables 1469--1500
Yutaka Tanaka and
Shingo Watadani Sensitivity analysis in covariance
structure analysis with equality
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A. Phatak and
P. M. Reilly and
A. Penlidis The geometry of $2$-block partial least
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L. Baringhaus and
N. Henze A characterization of and new consistent
tests for symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . 1555--1566
J. Twedt Daniel and
D. S. Gill Comparison of algorithms for replacing
missing data in discriminant analysis 1567--1578
Markku Nurhonen and
Simo Puntanen A property of partitioned generalized
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579--1583
Paul Janssen and
Noël Veraverbeke Bootstrapping $U$-statistics with
estimated parameters . . . . . . . . . . 1585--1603
Dean M. Young and
John W. Seaman, Jr. and
Laurie M. Meaux A characterization of the
independence-distribution-preserving
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multivariate maximum squared-radii
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Andrey Feuerverger and
Sheikh Rahman Some aspects of probability forecasting 1615--1632
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K. Thiagarajah Multi-sample test of equal gamma
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presence of unknown common shape
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Ashish Das and
V. K. Gupta and
Praggya Das E-optimal block designs under
heteroscedastic model . . . . . . . . . 1651--1666
Jingyu Liu Precedence probabilities and their
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667--1682
M. L. Tiku and
N. S. Kambo Estimation and hypothesis testing for a
new family of bivariate nonnormal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1683--1705
M. A. Gomez-Villegas and
E. Gomez Sanchez-Manzano Bayes factor in testing precise
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1707--1715
Raghunath Arnab Estimation of a finite population mean
under superpopulation models . . . . . . 1717--1724
Cathy W. S. Chen Bayesian inferences and forecasting in
bilinear time series models . . . . . . 1725--1743
Paul Chiou Shrinkage estimation of reliability in
the exponential distribution . . . . . . 1745--1758
S. E. Ahmed and
S. O. Badahdah On the estimation of the mean vector of
a multivariate normal distribution under
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1778
Marta García Ben and
Víctor J. Yohai Robust analysis of variance for a
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C. Radhakrishna and
A. V. Dattatreya Rao and
G. V. S. R. Anjaneyulu Estimation of parameters in a
two-component mixture generalized gamma
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Antonio Cuevas and
Gilbert G. Walter On estimation of generalized densities 1807--1821
Jeffrey M. Albert A corrected likelihood ratio statistic
for the multivariate regression model
with antedependent errors . . . . . . . 1823--1843
Pui Lam Leung Estimation of eigenvalues of the scale
matrix of the multivariate $F$
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Yoshimasa Ukita and
Kazuo Noda and
Etsuo Miyaoka On $F$-tests and linear hypothesis in a
general linear model . . . . . . . . . . 1857--1870
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu A method of power assessment for tests
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Fuzhi Yuan Characterization of singular balanced
fractional s$^m$ factorial designs
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maximum number of constraints . . . . . 1891--1907
Da-Hsiang Donald Lien and
N. Balakrishnan and
K. Balasubramanian Moments of order statistics from a
non-overlapping mixture model with
applications to truncated Laplace
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1909--1928
C. G. Bhattacharya and
K. R. Shah Combined estimate of a location
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Christophe Croux and
Peter J. Rousseeuw A class of high-breakdown scale
estimators based on subranges . . . . . 1935--1951
Anwarul H. Joarder and
Mir M. Ali Distribution of the correlation matrix
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M. Masoom Ali Impacts of equi-correlated responses on
multicollinearity . . . . . . . . . . . 1965--1975
S. P. Mukherjee and
A. Chatterjee Stochastic dominance of higher orders
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Nityananda Sarkar A new estimator combining the ridge
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T. Pham-Gia and
N. Turkkan Information loss in a noisy dichotomous
sampling process . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001--2018
V. Soundararajan and
S. Devaraj Arumainayagam Conditional double sampling system . . . 2019--2044
J. Subramani Analysis of means for experimental
designs with missing observations . . . 2045--2057
Markus Abt Some exact optimal designs for linear
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R. J. Kulperger and
S. E. Ahmed A bootstrap theorem for a preliminary
test estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2071--2082
Lam Yeh Nonparametric inference for geometric
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2083--2105
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Reza Modarres and
Robert W. Jernigan Testing the equality of correlation
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2107--2125
P. K. Cheah and
D. A. S. Fraser and
N. Reid and
A. Tapia Third order asymptotics: connections
among test quantities . . . . . . . . . 2127--2133
Ruth Marcus and
Hovav Talpaz Further results on testing homogeneity
of normal means against simple tree
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Anant P. Godbole and
Michelle C. Gornowicz Exact and approximate runs distributions 2151--2167
Harry O. Posten Robustness of the two-sample $t$-test
under violations of the homogeneity of
variance assumption, Part II . . . . . . 2169--2184
P. A. Scarf Estimation for a four parameter
generalized extreme value distribution 2185--2201
K. F. Cheng and
J. W. Wu Estimation of exponential regression
parameters using binary data . . . . . . 2203--2214
Dixi Xue and
James A. Deddens Overdispersed negative binomial
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 2215--2226
Bo Segerstedt On ordinary ridge regression in
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 2227--2246
D. K. Nassiuma and
A. Thavaneswaran Smoothed estimates for nonlinear time
series models with irregular data . . . 2247--2259
M. M. Gabr Recursive estimation of bilinear time
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Alan Pankratz and
Brooks Elliott Identifying rational distributed lag
models using a joint test applied to the
corner table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2279--2292
Leng-Cheng Hwang Empirical Bayes approach to Bayes
sequential estimation: the Poisson and
Bernoulli cases . . . . . . . . . . . . 2293--2308
D. Ratnasabapathi and
A. Thavaneswaran and
Jagbir Singh Optimal estimation of polynomial hazard
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2309--2323
Girish Aras and
Lyn R. Whitaker A sequential scheme to estimate the
optimal age replacement policy . . . . . 2325--2338
K. Govlndaraju and
V. Kuralmani A note on the operating characteristic
curve of the known sigma single sampling
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W. Liu Predictive Screening . . . . . . . . . . 2349--2366
James J. Chen and
David W. Gaylor Dose-response modeling of quantitative
response data for risk assessment . . . 2367--2381
Timothy C. Krehbiel and
Donald A. Anderson The use of a monetary loss function to
determine the optimal fractional
replicate of factorial experiments . . . 2383--2398
Scott D. Grimshaw Estimation of the linear-plateau
segmented regression model in the
presence of measurement error . . . . . 2399--2413
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Norman R. Draper Applied regression analysis bibliography
update 1990--91 . . . . . . . . . . . . 2415--2437
G. R. Dargahi-Noubary Discrimination between Gaussian time
series based on their spectral
differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2439--2458
Lyle D. Broemeling and
Peyton Cook Bayesian analysis of threshold
autoregressions . . . . . . . . . . . . 2459--2482
Mohamed A. Al-Osh and
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly First order autoregressive time series
with negative binomial and geometric
marginals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2483--2492
D. S. Borowiak and
J. P. De Los Reyes Selection of the best in $ 2 \times 2 $
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 2493--2500
B. R. Clarke and
E. J. Godolphin Uncorrelated residuals and an exact test
for two variance components in
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M. S. Patel and
M. M. Manene Step-wise screening of defective factors 2527--2539
Paul Yip and
K. F. Lam A class of non-parametric tests for the
equality of failure rates in a competing
risks model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2541--2556
Dean H. Fearn and
Elliott Nebenzahl Tests for exponentiality against
increasing failure rate average
alternatives with censored data . . . . 2557--2567
Ulrich Menzefricke Designing accelerated life tests when
there is type II censoring . . . . . . . 2569--2590
Jen-Pei Liu and
Shein-Chung Chow On the assessment of variability in
bioavailability/bioequivalence studies 2591--2607
Marc A. Evans and
Douglas G. Bonett Multiple recapture methods when sampling
without replacement in the last occasion 2603--2624
David D. Hanagal and
B. K. Kale Large sample tests for testing symmetry
and independence in some bivariate
exponential models . . . . . . . . . . . 2625--2643
Adnan M. Awad On the Fisher $ \beta $-sufficient
partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2645--2664
G. G. Hamedani Bivariate and multivariate normal
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Carlos Daniel Mimoso Paulino and
Carlos Alberto De Bragança Pereira Bayesian analysis of categorical data
informatively censored . . . . . . . . . 2689--2705
Ruiguang Song On estimating the mean of the selected
uniform population . . . . . . . . . . . 2707--2719
S. R. Patel and
N. P. Patel Mixed effect exponential linear model 2721--2740
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K. Ushizawa and
T. Sugiyama Exact power comparison of three criteria
to assess the independence between two
sets of variates . . . . . . . . . . . . 2741--2756
Peng Qu and
Wei-Yin Loh Application of Box--Cox transformations
to discrimination for the two-class
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2757--2774
Dean A. Follmann Growth curve models with restrictions on
random parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2795
Robert Bohrer and
Kunjung Lai and
Thomas A. Yancey Preliminary test estimation for the
second order autoregression . . . . . . 2797--2807
Augustine C. M. Wong Converting observed likelihood to levels
of significance for transformation
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2809--2823
B. B. Bhattacharyya and
Y. Otsuka and
G. D. Richardson Strong consistency in nonlinear
regression with multiplicative error . . 2825--2831
A. Lawrence Gould and
Weichung Joseph Shih Sample size re-estimation without
unblinding for normally distributed
outcomes with unknown variance . . . . . 2833--2853
Michael Lavine A note on bounding Monte Carlo variances 2855--2860
Josemar Rodrigues The Kullback--Leibler approximation of
the marginal posterior density: An
application to the linear functional
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2861--2868
Da-Hsiang Donald Lien and
David Rearden On the information content of partial
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2869--2880
Syed A. Hossain and
Ram C. Dahiya Estimation of parameters of Yamada et
al. model and modification of the model 2881--2898
M. N. Patel and
A. V. Gajjar Maximum likelihood estimation in
compound exponential failure model with
changing failure rates from Type I
progressively censored and group
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 2899--2908
Ling-Yau Chan $D$-optimal design for a quadratic log
contrast model for experiments with
mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2909--2930
V. Soundararajan and
S. Devaraj Arumainayagam Lot sensitive double sampling plan
(LSDSP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2931--2948
C. H. Lin and
Shashikala Sukhatme On the choice of precedence tests . . . 2949--2968
S. Shirahata and
Y. Sakamoto Estimate of variance of $U$-statistics 2969--2981
Russell F. Kappenman Robust estimation of the ratio of scale
parameters for positive random variables 2983--2996
Abdulaziz Elfessi and
Nabendu Pal Estimation of the smaller and larger of
two uniform scale parameters . . . . . . 2997--3015
Peter F. Thail Score tests in the two-way layout of
counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3017--3036
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Marc Sobel Cross-Validated Assessments of Test
Scoring Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3037--3051
Jeffrey I. Mc Gill The multivariate hazard gradient and
moments of the truncated multinormal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3053--3060
Steven M. Pincus and
Wei-Min Huang Approximate entropy: Statistical
properties and applications . . . . . . 3061--3077
Nuwan Nanayakkaraa On the robustness and Johnson's
modification of the one sample
$T$-Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3079--3096
Dipak K. Dey and
Younshik Chung Compound Poisson distributions:
Properties and estimation* . . . . . . . 3097--3121
Chi-Ying Leung Proportion estimation in mixtures with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3123--3141
Essam K. Al-Hussaini and
Nagi S. Abd-El-Kim Efficiency of schemes of sampling from
the inverse Gaussian--Weibull mixture
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3143--3169
M. Ennis and
D. A. S. Fraser Higher order local unbiasedness with
computer algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 3171--3176
Abdulaziz Elfessi and
Nabendu Pal A note on the common mean of two normal
populations with order restricted
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3177--3184
Abdul J. Sankoh Bayesian optimal stratified sampling
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3185--3196
S. Velilla Influential observations in
transformations: A Bayesian approach . . 3197--3209
William H. Woodall A note on maximum $Z$-scores for control
charts for individuals . . . . . . . . . 3211--3217
Malwane M. A. Ananda Estimating the exponential reliability
function for a system in series with
type II censored data . . . . . . . . . 3219--3227
J. W. H. Swanepoel and
C. F. De Beer A new nonparametric estimator for the
mean of the selected population . . . . 3229--3246
Kamal C. Chanda and
Frits H. Ruymgaart Asymptotic normality of linear
combinations of functions of the
concomitant order statistics . . . . . . 3247--3254
Papanastassiou Demetrios A generalized state space model and its
application to a set of extended Kalman
filter equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 3255--3262
Bhandary Madhusudan Detection of the numbers of outliers
present in a data set using an
information theoretic criterion . . . . 3263--3274
R. Calabria and
M. Guida and
G. Pulcini Power bounds for a test of equality of
trends in $k$ independent power law
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3275--3290
J. H. O' Geran and
H. P. Wynn Multi-stage step-wise group screening 3291--3308
Z. Ouyang and
H. T. Schreuder and
H. G. Li Robust sampling strategies for
regression estimation . . . . . . . . . 3309--3326
T. P. Tripathi and
Y. P. Chaubey Improved estimation of a finite
population mean based on paired
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3327--3333
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Christopher H. Morrell and
Richard A. Johnson Estimation from $k$ independent randomly
truncated samples: application to
neutrino energies . . . . . . . . . . . 3335--3350
Paul S. Horn Quasi-nonparametric upper tolerance
regions based on the bootstrap . . . . . 3351--3367
B. N. Pandey and
Omkar Rai Bayesian estimation of mean and square
of mean of normal distribution using
LINEX loss function . . . . . . . . . . 3369--3391
R. Calabria and
G. Pulcini Bayes probability intervals in a
load-strength model . . . . . . . . . . 3393--3405
Cathy W. S. Chen Bayesian analysis of bilinear time
series models: a Gibbs sampling approach 3407--3425
Youn Min Chou A bivariate noncentral $T$-distribution
with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 3427--3462
Yer van Hui and
Andy H. Lee Assessing influence in time series . . . 3463--3478
Steve Beveridge Least squares estimation of missing
values in time series . . . . . . . . . 3479--3496
James Robison Cox Tables of order statistics of normal
random variables under linear trend . . 3497--3520
Yoshiko Isohgawa Asymptotic distributions of some test
statistics for a linear functional
relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3521--3534
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Joydip Mitra A note on two variance estimators for
Rao--Hartley--Cochran estimator . . . . 3535--3543
D. K. Park and
A. M. Dean Structurally incomplete row-column
designs with adjusted orthogonality . . 3545--3560
Kalyan Kumar Gosuami and
Satyabrata Pal On the construction of orthogonal
factorial designs of resolution IV . . . 3561--3570
J. K. Ghosh and
S. N. Joshi On the asymptotic distribution of an
estimate of the change point in a
failure rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3571--3588
Murray D. Smith Comparing the exact distribution of the
$t$-statistic to Student's distribution
when its constituent normal and
chi-squared variables are dependent . . 3589--3600
Paul H. Garthwaite Preposterior expected loss as a scoring
rule for prior distributions . . . . . . 3601--3619
Anonymous Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 3627--3628
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S. Chakraborti and
Jean D. Gibbons Nonparametric comparison of treatments
with a standard in the one-way layout:
some design considerations . . . . . . . 1--14
John E. Angus Asymptotic theory for bootstrapping the
extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--30
Tommaso Gastaldi and
Tommaso Gastaldi A Kolmogorov--Smirnov test procedure
involving a possibly censored or
truncated sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--39
Kathleen M. Whitcomb and
Maureen Lahiff An investigation of sample influence
functions for the DS estimate of the
optimum error rate in discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--56
O. A. Shalaby Bayesian inference in truncated and
censored exponential distribution and
reliability estimation . . . . . . . . . 57--79
James L. Norris III and
Duane A. Meeter A robust Bayesian lower limit for the
expected number of unobserved classes 81--95
A. Parsian and
N. Sanjari Farsipour and
N. Nematollahi On the minimaxity of Pitman type
estimator under a LINEX loss function 97--113
Norbert Henze A new flexible class of omnibus tests
for exponentiality . . . . . . . . . . . 115--133
M. S. Rahman and
R. P. Gupta Family of transformed chi-square
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146
Timothy S. Vaughan Variable sampling interval NP process
control chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--167
Gauss M. Cordeiro Bartlett corrections and bias correction
for two heteroscedastic regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--188
R. J. Martin Approximations to the determinant term
in Gaussian maximum likelihood
estimation of some spatial models . . . 189--205
S. Sengupta and
Rahul Mukerjee Some optimal sampling designs in the
presence of polynomial trends . . . . . 207--218
Lothar Kreienbrock Generalized measures of dispersion to
solve the allocation problem in
multivariate stratified random sampling 219--239
Alberto Luceño Performance of EWMA versus last
observation for feedback control . . . . 241--255
B. Raja Rao and
C. V. Damaraju and
Jasem M. Alhumoud Covariate effect on the life expectancy
and percentile residual life functions
under the proportional hazards and the
accelerated life models . . . . . . . . 257--281
Julio L. Peixoto Four equivalent definitions of
reparametrizations and restrictions in
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--299
José Galvao Leite and
Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira and
Flávio Wagner Rodrigues Waiting time to exhaust lottery numbers 301--310
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Kao-Tai Tsai and
James A. Koziol Score and Wald tests for the
multivariate growth curve model with
missing data and a patterned covariance
matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--317
Michael Jänner and
Peter Stahlecker A comparison of maximum likelihood and
quasi minimax approach to missing values 319--333
Chun Jin and
Calvin J. Berry Equivariant estimation of a normal mean
vector using a normal concomitant vector
for covariance adjustment . . . . . . . 335--346
D. S. Poskitt and
M. O. Salau Stable spectral factorization with
applications to the estimation of time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--367
K. S. Lim On the stability and ergodicity of a
threshold AR(l) without intercepts . . . 369--373
Michael W. Trosset Optimal shapes for kernel density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--391
Liu Kejian A new class of biased estimate in linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--402
David H. Young and
Saad T. Bakir Estimation efficiency of grouped and
censored observation schemes for a
generalised regression model . . . . . . 403--423
Bahadur Singh and
Michael J. Schell and
F. T. Wright The power functions of the likelihood
ratio tests for a simple tree ordering
in normal means: unequal weights . . . . 425--449
Takemi Yanagimoto and
Eiji Yamamoto A criterion of sensitivity of an
estimating function . . . . . . . . . . 451--460
Harshinder Singh and
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Neeraj Nisra Estimation of parameters of an
exponential distribution when the
parameter space is restricted with an
application to two-sample problem . . . 461--477
Stephen L. Hillis The equivalence of two Buckley--James
variance estimators . . . . . . . . . . 479--484
William A. Link Efficiency and optimal allocation in the
staggered entry design . . . . . . . . . 485--503
W. Liu Simultaneous prediction intervals for
all distances from the ``best'' . . . . 505--518
I. M. R. Van Aarde Semirange tests for shortfall . . . . . 519--536
Perla Subbaiah and
Winson Taam Inference on the capability index: Cpm 537--560
S. O. Esparza and
B. S. Duran Multistate coherent systems and the
three modules theorem . . . . . . . . . 561--573
M. A. G. Viana and
V. Ramakrishnan and
P. S. Levy Bayesian analysis of prevalence from the
results of small screening samples . . . 575--585
Manel Cooray Wijesinha Optimal designs to improve the power of
multiresponse hypothesis tests . . . . . 587--602
B. Abdous Note on the minimum mean integrated
squared error of kernel estimates of a
distribution function and its
derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--609
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Robert L. Fountain and
C. Radhakrishna Rao Further investigations of Berkson's
example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--629
X. R. Chen and
Y. Wu On a necessary condition for the
consistency of the $ L_1 $ estimates in
linear regression models . . . . . . . . 631--639
Henning Knautz and
Joachim Wilde $ R^2 $ in restricted linear models . . 641--645
Hyune-Ju Kim Two-phase regression with nonhomogeneous
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--657
B. Wade Brorsen and
Paul V. Preckei Linear regression with stably
distributed residuals . . . . . . . . . 659--667
Necip Doganaksoy and
Josef Schmee Orthogonal parameters with censored data 669--685
David Giles and
Offer Lieberman Bounds on the effect of
heteroscedasticity on the chow test for
structural change . . . . . . . . . . . 687--703
Felix Famoye Testing for homogeneity: the generalized
Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 705--715
A. I. Duthie A class of $E$-optimal hypercubic
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--722
Ji Zhang and
Dennis D. Boos Testing hypotheses about covariance
matrices using bootstrap methods . . . . 723--739
Sarjinder Singh and
Ravindra Singh Generalized Franklin's model for
randomized response sampling . . . . . . 741--755
Ming Zhao Change-point problems in software and
hardware reliability . . . . . . . . . . 757--768
S. H. Kunchur and
Surekha B. Munoli Estimation of reliability for a
multicomponent survival stress--strength
model based on exponential distributions 769--779
Seiji Nabeya Coincidence of two failure rate models 781--785
Anis I. Kanjo An exact test for NBUE class of survival
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--795
Ruiguang Song Moments of variables summing to gamma
order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--803
E. S. Miazaki and
C. C. Y. Dorea Estimation of the parameters of a time
series subject to the error of rotation
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--825
Miguel Nakamura and
Victor Pérez-Abreu Exploratory data analysis for counts
using the empirical probability
generating function . . . . . . . . . . 827--842
Leszek Marzec and
Pawel Marzec Tests for dispersive comparison of two
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--851
Abdul Lateef Bello Choosing among imputation techniques for
incomplete multivariate data: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--877
Manuel Martinez-Morales and
B. S. Duran A test for randomness based on a
complexity measure . . . . . . . . . . . 879--895
Daniel M. Ennis and
Norman L. Johnson Noncentral and central chi-square, $F$
and beta distribution functions as
special cases of the distribution
function of an indefinite quadratic form 897--905
B. K. Hooda and
N. P. Singh and
Umed Singh On estimation in Fréchet distribution of
$m$-th maxima . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--919
Derek O. Chalton and
Cas. G. Troskie On the compatibility of sample and prior
information in the mixed regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--928
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T. W. Anderson and
R. P. Mentz Evaluation of quadratic forms and traces
for iterative estimation in first-order
moving average models . . . . . . . . . 931--963
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Geert Molenberghs Transformation of non positive
semidefinite correlation matrices . . . 965--984
J. C. Koop Conditional inference about an existing
universe from independent
interpenetrating samples . . . . . . . . 985--1006
Judith A. Giles Estimation of the scale parameter after
a pre-test for homogeneity in a
mis-specified regression model . . . . . 1007--1029
P. Vellaisamy On UMVU estimation following selection 1031--1043
N. S. Altman and
C. P. Paulson Some remarks about the
Gasser--Sroka--Jennen--Steinmetz
variance estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1051
Tomasz Rychlik Sharp bounds on $L$-estimates and their
expectations for dependent samples . . . 1053--1068
Indrani Basak A note on James type robust estimators 1069--1084
W. Liu Conditional probability of correct
selection under the continuum partition
with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1111
J. A. Pardo and
M. L. Menendez and
I. J. Taneja and
L. Pardo Comparison of experiments based on
generalized entropy measures . . . . . . 1113--1132
Broderick O. Oluyede A modified chi-square test for testing
equality of two multinomial populations
against an order restricted alternative 1133--1155
Thomas W. O'Gorman and
Robert F. Woolson The effect of category choice on the
odds ratio and several measures of
association in case-control studies . . 1157--1171
Yoshiko Isogawa On some tests for a multivariate linear
functional relationship with replication 1173--1190
Robert A. Sproule and
M. Kendall and
A. Stuart An alternative reduction formula for the
central moments of the general Bernoulli
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191--1194
Mohan M. Kale and
S. R. Eshmokh Estimation of extinction probability of
a multitype Markov branching process . . 1195--1206
B. Krishna Kumar and
P. R. Parthasarathy On the total sojourn time of particles
in semi-Markov compartmental system with
branching particles . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1220
A. Levine and
J. Liukkonen and
D. W. Levine Decision and choice in transforming data 1221--1233
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J. L. Hodges, Jr. and
Philip H. Ramsey and
Juliet Popper Shaffer Accurate probabilities for the sign test 1235--1255
Günther H. Mehring On optimal tests for general
interval-hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . 1257--1297
P. W. Steyn and
D. J. De Waal Occupancy distributions for testing
marginal homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1314
D. Stemann and
G. Trenkler Leverage and Cochrane--Orcutt estimation
in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1333
Felix Famoye Restricted generalized Poisson
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1354
Meei Pyng Ng A relation between product-limit
estimate and joint-risk estimate . . . . 1355--1369
Wen Jang Hung and
Shun-Hwa Li Characterizations of the Poisson process
using, the variance . . . . . . . . . . 1371--1382
J. K. Ghorai and
L. M. Pattanaik Asymptotically optimal bandwidth
selection Of the kernel density
estimator under The proportional hazards
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1383--1401
Longcheen Huwang A confidence set for the slope in the
Dolby's ultrastructural model . . . . . 1403--1412
Ajit Chaturvedi and
Neeraj Tiwari and
S. K. Pandey Multi-stage estimation of the common
location parameter of several
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 1413--1423
Ross Ihaka Statistical aspects of earthquake source
parameter estimation in the presence of
signal generated noise . . . . . . . . . 1425--1440
C. V. Damaraju Category-specific covariate effects in
longitudinal study designs . . . . . . . 1441--1469
N. Balakrishnan and
P. S. Chan and
M. Ahsanullah Recurrence relations for moments of
record values from generalized extreme
value distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1471--1482
Paul Chiou Empirical Bayes shrinkage estimation of
reliability in the exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483--1494
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Robert D. Mensah and
R. K. Elswick, Jr. and
Vernon M. Chinchilli Consistent estimators of the
variance-covariance matrix of the
GMANOVA model with missing data . . . . 1495--1514
Khursheed Alam and
Roger Abernathy and
Calvin L. Williams Multivariate goodness-of-fit tests based
on statistically equivalent blocks . . . 1515--1533
Timothy S. Vaughan Experimental design for response surface
gradient estimation . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1555
Hina Mehta Malani and
Ying Lu Animal carcinogenicity experiments with
and without serial sacrifice . . . . . . 1557--1584
Douglas G. Bonett and
J. Arthur Woodward Analysis of simple main effects in
fractional factorial experimental
designs of resolution $V$ . . . . . . . 1585--1593
N. Billor and
R. M. Loynes Local influence: a new approach . . . . 1595--1611
Linda M. Haines Optimal design for nonlinear regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1627
Samprit Chatterjee and
Gary Simon Confidentiality guaranteed: a
noninvasive procedure for collecting
sensitive information . . . . . . . . . 1629--1651
Steven G. From Some recurrence relation-based
estimators of the parameters of a
generalized log-series distribution . . 1653--1664
M. S. Aminzadeh Exponentially smoothed control charts
for the inverse-Gaussian process . . . . 1665--1680
Gregory Campbell and
Makarand V. Ratnaparkhi An application of Lomax distributions in
receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
curve analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1681--1687
Barry C. Arnold Logistic processes involving Markovian
minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1699--1707
Judith A. Giles and
David E. A. Giles Preliminary-test estimation of the
regression scale parameter when the loss
function is asymmetric . . . . . . . . . 1709--1733
T. P. Logan and
A. K. Gupta Bayesian discrimination using multiple
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1735--1754
T. Pham-Gia, Ph.D., FIS and
N. Turkkan, P.Eng Bayesian analysis of the difference of
two proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1771
Wang-Shu Lu Estimations in the normal regression
empirical Bayes model . . . . . . . . . 1773--1794
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Kurt S. Riedel and
Kaya Imre Smoothing spline growth curves with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1795--1818
C. Y. Wang Alternative covariance estimates in a
replicated measurement error model with
correlated, heteroscedastic errors . . . 1819--1828
C. Johan Dourleijn Combining estimators from variety trials
that are connected by control varieties
only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829--1847
Dae H. Jang and
Sung H. Park A measure and a graphical method for
evaluating slope rotatability in
response surface designs . . . . . . . . 1849--1863
G. Ihorst and
G. Trenkler MSE-matrix superiority of the mixed over
the least squares estimator in the
presence of outliers . . . . . . . . . . 1865--1877
David H. Young Bias of maximum likelihood estimators of
the response standard deviation in
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879--1891
Randy Eubank and
Edna Schechtman and
Shlomo Yitzhaki A test for second order stochastic
dominance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1893--1905
Eve Bofinger and
Kerrie Mengersen An upper bound on a ratio of variances 1907--1922
Jacques F. Carriere A continuous estimator of a distribution
function that reproduces the empirical
moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1923--1931
Emmanuel Lesaffre and
Brian D. Marx Collinearity in generalized linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1933--1952
David R. Bristol Probabilities and sample sizes for the
two one-sided tests procedure . . . . . 1953--1961
Elias Moreno and
Luis Raul Pericchi On $ \epsilon $-contaminated priors with
quantile and piece-wise unimodality
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963--1978
Karen M. Oberg and
David L. Snyder One-cluster sampling designs for an
autocorrelated population . . . . . . . 1979--1998
J. A. Cano and
J. A. Cano Robustness of the posterior mean in
normal hierarchical models . . . . . . . 1999--2014
M. Salicrú and
M. L. Menendez and
D. Morales and
L. Pardo Asymptotic distribution of $ (h,
\phi)$-entropies . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015--2031
Lap-Ming Wun and
Charles C. Brown An alternative decision rule for quality
control in sequential sampling plans . . 2033--2042
K. K. Suresh and
S. Balamurali Designing of tightened-normal-tightened
(TNT) plans indexed by MAPD . . . . . . 2043--2056
John A. Gillespie and
R. Srinivasan Simultaneous outer and inner tolerance
limits for screening and descriptive
purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2057--2066
B. Raja Rao and
C. V. Damaraju and
Jasem M. Alhumoud Setting the clock back to zero property
of a class of bivariate life
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2067--2080
Raid W. Amin and
Rohan Hemasinha The switching behavior of charts with
variable sampling intervals . . . . . . 2081--2102
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Qiqing Yu and
Eswar Phadia Admissibility of the best invariant
estimator of a distribution function
under the Kolmogorov--Smirnov loss . . . 2103--2124
Danny Dyer and
Rebecca L. Pierce On the choice of the prior distribution
in hypergeometric sampling . . . . . . . 2125--2146
Nobuo Shinozaki and
Yuan-Tsung Chang Minimaxity of empirical Bayes estimators
of the means of independent normal
variables with unequal variances . . . . 2147--2169
Wai-Tung Ho and
Sik-Yum Lee Analysis of structural equation models
with exact and stochastic constraints
using a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . 2171--2183
Francisco A. Pino and
Pedro A. Morettin The consistency of the $ L_1 $ norm
estimates in ARMA models . . . . . . . . 2185--2206
K. D. Ling and
T. Y. Low On the soonest and latest waiting time
distributions: succession quotas . . . . 2207--2221
A. K. Basu and
S. Sen Roy Asymptotic theory of estimation of
parameters in autoregressive models
under general set-up of the roots . . . 2223--2237
A. Buse and
N. K. Dastor The power of two exact tests for
structural change in the presence of
heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 2239--2257
Claudia Czado Norm restricted maximum likelihood
estimators for binary regression models
with parametric link . . . . . . . . . . 2259--2274
Ancop Chaturvedi Ridge regression estimators in the
linear regression models with
non-spherical errors . . . . . . . . . . 2275--2284
Teasung Park Equivalence of maximum likelihood
estimation and iterative two-stage
estimation for seemingly unrelated
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 2285--2296
Josemar Rodrigues and
Heleno Bolfarine and
Francisco Louzada-Neto Comparing several accelerated life
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2297--2308
Eiichi Isogai and
Chikara Uno A note on minimum risk point estimation
of the variance of a normal population 2309--2319
Yageen P. Thomas On some identities involving the moments
of extremes from gamma distribution . . 2321--2326
R. Landon and
L. S. Freedman Estimating correlations between
questionnaires and food records/true
dietary intake . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2327--2340
Yan-Xia Lin and
C. C. Heyde Optimal estimating functions and
Wedderburn's quasi-likelihood . . . . . 2341--2350
Barbara Heine Nonnegative estimation of variance
components in an unbalanced one way
random effects model . . . . . . . . . . 2351--2372
Peter Kooreman Bounds on the regression coefficients
when a covariate is categorized . . . . 2373--2380
H. Finner and
M. Roters Distribution functions and log-concavity 2381--2396
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M. Y. Wong Estimation of the slope in linear
non-normal structural relationships . . 1--32
Ravindra Singh and
N. S. Mangat and
Sarjinder Singh A mail survey design for sensitive
character without using randomization
device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
Spiridon Penev and
Tenko Raykov On choosing estimators in a simple
linear errors-in-variables model . . . . 101--115
Nicholas J. Schork and
M. Anthony Schork Some sampling effects of pairwise
correlated observations on likelihood
ratio tests for the difference between
two means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129
Robert M. Norton Some tests for differences between
proportions where the expected number of
exposures to an inferior treatment is
kept small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--162
S. H. Ong Canonical expansions, correlation
structure, and conditional distributions
of bivariate distributions generated by
mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
Madhusudan Bhandary and
Naveen K. Bansal Detection of outliers in familial data 177--185
Regina Dittrich and
Erhard Reschenhofer and
Immanuel M. Bomse Behaviour of the length test for medium
sample sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
W. Scott Overton and
Stephen V. Stehman Properties of designs for sampling
continuous spatial resources from a
triangular grid . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264
M. S. Srivastava and
Wu Yanhong Local efficiency of moment estimators in
beta-binomial model . . . . . . . . . . 257--261
David D. Hanagal Some inference results in several
symmetric multivariate exponential
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--288
Mohamed T. Madi Multiple step-stress accelerated life
test: the tampered failure rate model 295--306
Gopal Chaudhuri Coefficient of variation for the
$L$-class of life distributions . . . . 331--344
Sahadeb Sarkar and
Dong Wan Shin A note on nonlinear regression for the
autoregressive moving average with
non-iid errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--513
Edward P. Campbell Influence for empirical transforms . . . 730--752
Tomas Herbst On estimation of residual moments under
Koziol--Green model of random censorship 1769--1772
Murray A. Cameron and
T. Rolf Turner Recursive location and scale estimators 2201--2226
D. C. Vaughan and
M. L. Tiku Testing the equality of location
parameters of exponential populations
from censored samples . . . . . . . . . 2567--2581
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S. Devaraj Arumainayagam IQL indexed double sampling plans that
are compatible with MIL-STD-105 D in
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2569--2597
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autocorrelation tests . . . . . . . . . 3907--3916
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Tor D. Tosteson Correcting for nonlinear measurement
errors in the dependent variable in the
general linear model . . . . . . . . . . 2687--2702
Vic Barnett and
Donna Roberts The problem of outlier tests in sample
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2703--2721
Heinz Neudecker and
Liu Shuangzhe Best quadratic and positive semidefinite
unbiased estimation of the variance
matrix of the multivariate normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2723--2732
Kazuhiro Ohtani Distribution and density functions of
the feasible generalized ridge
regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . 2733--2746
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
B. M. Golam Kibria Performance of some new preliminary test
ridge regression estimators and their
properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2747--2764
Ping Zhang On the convergence rate of model
selection criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 2765--2775
Tran Van Hoa and
A. Charurvedi Asymptotic approximations to the gain of
the 2SHI over Stein estimators in linear
regression models when the disturbances
are small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2777--2782
M. Mushfiqur Rashid and
M. Mushfiqur Rashid and
James C. Aubuchon and
Ansuman Bagchi Rank-based analysis of repeated measures
block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2783--2811
Taesung Park and
Seungyeoun Lee and
Robert F. Woolson A test of the missing data mechanism for
repeated measures data . . . . . . . . . 2813--2829
Shakti Banerjee and
Ranjana Malhotra and
Sanpei Kageyama Methods of constructing group divisible
designs with $ k = 3 $ and $4$ . . . . . 2831--2842
James B. McDonald and
Ray D. Nelson Beta estimation in the market model:
skewness and leptokurtosis . . . . . . . 2843--2862
Kazuhiro Ohtani The exact distribution and density
functions of the Stein-type estimator
for normal variance . . . . . . . . . . 2863--2876
A. Parsian and
N. Sanjari Farsipour On the admissibility and inadmissibility
of estimators of scale parameters using
an asymmetric loss function . . . . . . 2877--2901
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N. C. Giri James-stein estimation with constraints
on the norm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2903--2924
Ruben Klein and
S. James Press Image reconstruction by adaptive
Bayesian classification with a locally
proportional prior . . . . . . . . . . . 2925--2940
Robert M. Kunst Stability conditions for a bivariate
arch system which is cointegrated in
mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2941--2953
Silvia Lopes Amplitude estimation in multiple
frequency spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . 2955--2967
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P. N. Jani Consequences of departure from
independence in two component systems
when component life times depend through
FGM model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2969--2981
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process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2999--3011
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M. Rajagopalan Bayes estimates of mixing parameters in
finite mixture distributions . . . . . . 3013--3029
China-Yuan Wang and
Chung-Bow Lee Bayesian analysis for a change in the
intercept of simple linear regression 3031--3050
Zvi Drezner and
Nicholas Farnum A generalized binomial distribution . . 3051--3063
Richard W. Madsen Generalized binomial distributions . . . 3065--3086
Siu Hung Cheung and
Ka Ho Wu and
Burt Holland Simultaneous prediction intervals for
all pairwise differences among several
future sample means . . . . . . . . . . 3087--3096
Neeraj Misra and
Ishwari D. Dimriya Simultaneous confidence intervals for
all distances from the worst and best
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3097--3116
Eve Bofinger and
Mark Bofinger Equivalence of normal means compared
with a control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3117--3141
Hyo-Ii Park Nonparametric rank-order tests for the
right censored and grouped data in
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3143--3158
Jim Y. Wan Asymptotic efficiency of a competing
risks model: A two-sample case . . . . . 3159--3176
Xiao-hua Zhou Maximum likelihood estimators of
sensitivity and specificity corrected
for verification bias . . . . . . . . . 3177--3198
Paul Yip and
K. F. Lam A multivariate nonparametric test for
the equality of failure rates in a
competing risks model . . . . . . . . . 3199--3222
Andrew Lawson On composite intensity score tests . . . 3223--3235
José I. Bravo and
M. Dolores Esteban Nonparametric estimation of survival
functions for doubly censored
observations when the lifetime hazard
rate is proportionally related to the
censoring hazard rates . . . . . . . . . 3237--3253
Fang Dong Asymptotic properties of quantiles for
truncated and contaminated data . . . . 3255--3261
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W. J. Studden Density estimation using spline
projection kernels . . . . . . . . . . . 3263--3285
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James H. Matis Some applications, properties and
conjectures for higher order cumulants
of a Markovian stepping-stone model . . 3305--3319
Alan H. Feiveson Proof of phenomenon $B$ . . . . . . . . 3321--3326
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J. D. Hart and
V. N. LaRiccia Testing goodness of fit via
nonparametric function estimation
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Anant M. Kshirsagar and
Weiying Yuan Estimation of relative potency in
multivariate parallel line bioassays . . 3355--3361
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Ralph L. Kodell Statistical methods of risk assessment
for continuous variables . . . . . . . . 3363--3376
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A. R. Parsa Some aspects of maximum likelihood
estimation of multistage cancer
dose-response models with application 3377--3392
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Micheal R. Domagala Teaching control and capability at Alcoa 3393--3405
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Ida S. Umphers A nonlinear regression model for
describing averaged growth curves of
mice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3405--3418
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Joe E. Ensor Model selection in magnetic resonance
imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3419--3434
Dong Joon Park and
Richard K. Burdick Confidence intervals on the among group
variance component in a simple linear
regression model with a balanced
one-fold nested error structure . . . . 3435--3452
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Penny Stewart Sweeping, alignment and the analysis of
unbalanced data . . . . . . . . . . . . 3453--3471
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Poisson distribution of $ r \times c $
independent samples in the presence of
linear constraints on the vector of
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3473--3490
Ronald H. Bremer Choosing and modeling your mixed linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3491--3521
Mark Von Tress Longitudinal models for polytomous
responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3523--3536
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William B. Smith Scoring under ordered constraints in
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 3537--3551
Qi Zheng and
James H. Matis Approximating discrete multivariate
distributions from known moments . . . . 3553--3567
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H. R. Al-Khalidi and
J. W. McLarty Comparing time trends in a two-arm
longitudinal study with an ordinal
categorical response . . . . . . . . . . 3569--3590
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D. L. Hawkins A smooth adaptive estimator of the mean
of a symmetric or asymmetric
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Chin-Yuan Hu The most powerful location and scale
invariant test under the assumption of
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--26
Choongrak Kim Dispersion statistics in overdispersed
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--45
Donal P. Krouse The power of d'Agostino's $d$ test of
normality against a normal mixture
alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57
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Robert F. O'Brien and
William P. Smith and
John Warren Some aspects of simultaneous inference 59--87
Yoshikazu Takada Conditional properties of prediction
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
Essam K. Al-Hussaini and
Zeinhum F. Jaheen Approximate Bayes estimators applied to
the Burr model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--121
Guadalupe Gómez and
Olga Juli\`a and
Frederic Utzet Asymptotic properties of the left
Kaplan--Meier estimator . . . . . . . . 123--135
Jian-Jian Ren and
Kun-Liang Lu On $L$-estimation in linear models . . . 137--151
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regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--174
Peide Shi and
Li Guoying On the rates of convergence of ``minimum
$ L_1 $-norm'' estimates in a partly
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--196
Shahar Boneh and
Gonzalo R. Mendieta Variable selection in regression models
using principal components . . . . . . . 197--213
Hideo Kozumi Testing equality of the means in two
independent multivariate $t$
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227
S. Dahel and
N. Giri Some distributions related to a
noncentral Wishart distribution . . . . 229--237
Peter C. O' Brien A multivariate generalization of von
Neumann's ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247
ByoungSeon Choi On the covariance matrix estimators of
the white noise process of a vector
autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 249--256
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota and
Kathleen Kocherlakota Confidence intervals for the process
capability ratio based on robust
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
D. S. Coad Sequential tests with covariates with an
application to censored survival data 277--287
Chow Shein-Chung and
Wang Song-Gui On the estimation of variance components
in stability analysis . . . . . . . . . 289--303
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Doug Faries and
Roy Ramura A randomized play-the-winner design for
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Jen-Pei Liu Statistical considerations in
bioequivalence trials . . . . . . . . . 325--339
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Chi Y. H. George and
Kooros Mahjoob Blends of statistical designs for
dose-response studies . . . . . . . . . 341--360
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George Y. H. Chi and
Raymond J. Lipicky On some statistical methods for analysis
of combination drug studies . . . . . . 361--376
Mohammad F. Huque and
Satya D. Dubey A meta-analysis methodology for
utilizing study-level covariate
information from clinical trials . . . . 377--394
Ronald Kershner and
P. H. Ingrid Amara and
M. S. Suzanne Hackett and
Gary Koch Constructing and evaluating a partially
complete crossover design for a
multi-dose study . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--402
K. K. Gordon Lan and
David M. Reboussin and
David L. DeMets Information and information fractions
for design and sequential monitoring of
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--420
Jen-Pei Liu and
Chung-Sing Weng Evaluation of log-transformation in
assessing bioequivalence . . . . . . . . 421--434
Tie-Hua Ng The impact of a preliminary test for
interaction in a $ 2 \times 2 $
factorial trial . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--450
H. I. Patel Dose-response in pharmacokinetics . . . 451--465
Hui Quan and
Weichung J. Shih and
Thomas Capizzi A two-stage sequential design and
analysis for comparing binomial rates
with possibly random dropouts . . . . . 467--484
Steven M. Snapinn Use of the randomization distribution in
the analysis of sequential clinical
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--498
Robert J. Temple, M.D. Special study designs: early escape,
enrichment, studies in non-responders 499--531
Kao-Tai Tsai and
James A. Kozial Assessing multiple endpoints with
ordered alternatives . . . . . . . . . . 533--544
Lianng Yuh and
Stephen J. Ruberg On robust estimation using individual
ratios in bioavailability trials . . . . 545--554
Dean Follmann and
Margaret Wu and
Nancy L. Geller Testing treatment efficacy in clinical
trials with repeated binary measurements
and missing observations . . . . . . . . 557--574
Alan J. Gross Three estimators of the probability of
opiate use from incomplete data . . . . 575--588
Ram B. Jain On the design of clinical trials for
treatment of opiate dependence . . . . . 589--613
Mei-Ling Ting Lee A two-state Markov model . . . . . . . . 615--623
Ram C. Tiwari A nonparametric Bayesian approach to
analysis of drug dependence data . . . . 625--642
T. S. Weng Toward a dynamic analysis of
disease-state transition monitored by
serial clinical laboratory tests . . . . 643--660
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Carl N. Morris Estimation in the generalized linear
empirical Bayes model using the extended
quasi-likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--687
Julián De La Horra and
Carmen Fernández Bayesian robustness of credible regions
in the presence of nuisance parameters 689--699
Paramsothy Silvapulle Testing for $ {\rm AR}(1) $ against $
{\rm IMA}(1, 1) $ disturbances in the
linear regression model . . . . . . . . 701--720
W. K. Li Parameter inference for time series with
regular and seasonal unit roots . . . . 721--733
Qing-Ling Yu and
Richard K. Burdick Confidence intervals on the difference
of Failure intensities from two
Exponential distributions . . . . . . . 735--745
D. L. Hawkins and
C. K. Lakshminarayan An adaptive estimator of location based
on the $t$-family . . . . . . . . . . . 747--761
Abraham Genizi and
Ruth Marcus Some multiple comparison procedures for
comparing treatments within several
groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--779
T. Timothy Chen and
Richard Simon Two multi-step selection procedures with
Possible selection of two treatments of
equal prior preference . . . . . . . . . 781--801
Xishi Wu and
Bojuan Zhao Optimal sampling of hierarchical
screening with inspection errors . . . . 803--814
N. Sambamoorthi and
V. J. Ervin and
G. Thomas Simultaneous prediction intervals for
multinomial logistic regression models 815--829
Pui Lam Leung Improved estimation of functions of the
canonical correlation coefficients . . . 831--840
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Nicholas Farnum A correlated Poisson distribution for
correlated events . . . . . . . . . . . 841--857
Justus F. Seely and
Youngjo Lee A note on the Satterthwaite confidence
interval for a variance . . . . . . . . 859--869
Rajan Gupta and
Larry Lee Estimating the discovery rate in a
continuous time recapture model . . . . 871--881
Anthony Y. C. Kuk and
T. K. Mak A functional approach to estimating
finite population distribution functions 883--896
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M. M. Siddiqui The sampling distribution of the index
of dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--911
R. J. Martin and
J. N. Dwyer Approximations to the covariance
properties of processes averaged over
irregular spatial regions . . . . . . . 913--945
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P. C. Gupta Optimum points of stratification for two
or more stage designs . . . . . . . . . 947--958
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James J. Chen and
Gary E. Moore Comparing distributions of time to onset
of disease in animal tumorigenicity
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959--980
H. I. Patel Group sequential analysis of a clinical
trial with repeated measurements . . . . 981--995
Noël Veraverbeke Bootstrapping quantiles in the
proportional hazards model of random
censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--1007
Chap T. Le and
Patricia M. Grambsch Tests of association between survival
time and a continuous covariate . . . . 1009--1019
Hans Frick A maxmin linear test of normal means and
its application to Lachin's data . . . . 1021--1029
Norbert Henze On Mardia's kurtosis test for
multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . 1031--1045
Norbert Henze The asymptotic behavior of a variant of
multivariate kurtosis . . . . . . . . . 1047--1061
Yuanzhang Li and
Li Shi and
H. Daniel Roth The bias of the commonly-used estimate
of variance in meta-analysis . . . . . . 1063--1085
I. G. Vlachonikolis and
V. G. S. Vasdekis On a class of change-point models in
covariance structures for growth curves
and repeated measurements . . . . . . . 1087--1102
Larry Zaiqian Shen On optimal $B$-robust influence
functions in multidimensional parametric
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103--1122
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T. Swartz Distribution theory and inference for
polynomial-normal densities . . . . . . 1123--1148
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Georgia D. Kollia Generalized Weibull family: a structural
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1171
Jaimie L. Hebert Moments of inverted scale mixtures . . . 1173--1180
Jaimie L. Hebert Generating moments of exponential scale
mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1189
Han-Chu Liu Selecting the best and the second best
multinomial cells . . . . . . . . . . . 1191--1201
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Tapabrata Maiti Variance estimation in model assisted
survey sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1214
Toufik Zoubeidi Optimal allocations in sequential tests
involving two populations with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1225
Sung-Ho Kim A general property among nested, pruned
subtrees of a decision-support tree . . 1227--1238
Mohamed Zahorul Islam and
John E. Hewett Two stage tests for location when
covariates are present . . . . . . . . . 1239--1246
Narinder Kumar and
Amar Nath Gill and
Gobind P. Mehta Distribution-free test for homogeneity
against ordered alternatives . . . . . . 1247--1256
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W. J. Padgett Smooth nonparametric estimation of the
distribution and density functions from
record-breaking data . . . . . . . . . . 1259--1274
Dafeng Chen Unbiasedness of Fourier integral
estimator under weaker assumptions . . . 1275--1281
Berry Wilson Discriminant analysis with stratified
prior probabilities . . . . . . . . . . 1283--1295
Makoto Aoshima Healy's sample size of two-stage
procedure in heteroscedastic
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Jacques F. Carriere A large sample test for one parameter
families of copulas . . . . . . . . . . 1311--1317
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distribution with applications . . . . . 1319--1339
Vijay K. Singh and
Hari P. Singh and
Housila P. Singh and
D. Shukla A general class of chain estimators for
ratio and product of two means of a
finite population . . . . . . . . . . . 1341--1355
Jhon A. Gillespie and
R. Srinivasan Distribution-free simultaneous outer and
inner tolerance limits for screening and
descriptive purposes . . . . . . . . . . 1357--1364
Fred Michael Speed and
Fred Michael Speed, Jr. An ad-hoc diagnostic tool for checking
for interaction in a nonreplicated
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1365--1374
James J. Chen and
Gary E. Moore Impact of surviving time on tests for
carcinogenicity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375--1386
Dong Wah Shin and
Sahadeb Sarkar Likelihood ratio type unit root tests
for $ {\rm AR}(1) $ models with
nonconsecutive observations . . . . . . 1387--1397
Myung Geun Kim Influence curve for the Cholesky root of
a covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . 1399--1412
Gernot Wassmer Testing equivalence in clinical trials
using a new principle for constructing
statistical tests . . . . . . . . . . . 1413--1427
Wen-Tao Huang and
Hung-Lin Fu and
Hsiao-Tien Pao Empirical Bayes estimations for some
distribution families . . . . . . . . . 1429--1445
K. R. Kadiyala and
Dennis Oberhelman A comparison of Stein-like procedures
for estimating linear regression models
with multicollinear data . . . . . . . . 1447--1469
Mansour M. Abughalous and
Naveen K. Bansal On the problem of selecting the best
population in life testing models . . . 1471--1481
Robert M. Hoekstra and
Thomas C. Chenier A note on the box correction factor for
degrees of freedom in certain $F$ tests 1483--1505
Neil C. Schwertman and
Ricardo A. Martinez Approximate Poisson confidence limits 1507--1529
Broderick O. Oluyede A family of bivariate binomial
distributions generated by extreme
Bernoulli distributions . . . . . . . . 1531--1547
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discrete and continuous repeated
measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1547--1564
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Shie-Shien Yang Generalized least squares estimation of
multivariate nonlinear models with
missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565--1579
Chi-Ying Leung Classification of dichotomous and
continuous variables with incomplete
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1581--1592
Sadanori Konishi and
Kunio Shimizu Maximum likelihood estimation of an
intraclass correlation in a bivariate
normal distribution with missing
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593--1604
Andrew Luong Minimum quadratic distances methods for
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605--1615
Biao Zhang Some asymptotic results for the residual
maximum likelihood estimation of the
parameters of a spatial process . . . . 1617--1649
Lloyd J. Edwards An alternative approach to estimation in
the functional measurement error problem 1651--1664
Feng Gao Fitting smoothing splines to data from
multiple sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665--1698
Pen-Yuan Liao and
Elinor S. Pape Mixture model for sampling efficiency of
an alternating Poisson process . . . . . 1699--1703
M. L. Bansal and
Sarjinder Singh and
Ravindra Singh Multi-character survey using randomized
response technique . . . . . . . . . . . 1705--1715
Heliang Fei and
Fanhui Kong Internal estimations for one-and
two-parameter exponential distributions
under multiple Type-II censoring . . . . 1717--1733
Horng-Jinh Chang and
Bor-Shyh Wen The distribution of an actual sample
size increment in stratified random
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1735--1742
Ranhunath Arnab Nonnegative variance estimation in
randomized response surveys . . . . . . 1743--1752
Shashikala Sukhatme and
C. H. Lin Distribution of ranks in a two-sample
problem with right censored data . . . . 1753--1769
F. J. Girón and
E. Caro and
J. I. Domínguez A conjugate family for $ {\rm AR}(1) $
processes with exponential errors . . . 1771--1784
L. I. Pettit Bayesian approaches to the detection of
outliers in Poisson samples . . . . . . 1785--1795
I-Chin Lin and
Lii-Yuh Leu Empirical Bayes rules for selecting the
best exponential population with
location parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 1797--1809
R. Calabria and
G. Pulcini Bayes $2$-sample prediction for the
inverse Weibull distribution . . . . . . 1811--1824
Shigeru Iwata Lower bounds on Bayes factors for a
linear regression model . . . . . . . . 1825--1834
Damaraju Raghavarao and
James B. Wiley Experimental designs for availability
effects and cross effects with one
attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835--1846
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X. R. Chen and
Y. Wu Consistency of $ L_1 $ estimates in
censored linear regression models . . . 1847--1858
Yoshifumi Hyodo Characterization of information matrices
for balanced two-level fractional
factorial designs of odd resolution
derived from two-symbol simple arrays 1859--1874
L. Douglas Case and
Timothy M. Morgan and
C. E. Davis Three-stage designs for monitoring
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1875--1893
Samuel Y. Dennis III On the distribution of products of
independent beta variates . . . . . . . 1895--1913
M. Y. El-Bassiouni Short confidence intervals for variance
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1915--1933
Khan Shahjahan and
M. Safiul Haq $ \beta $-Expectation tolerance region
for the multilinear model with
matrix-$t$ error distribution . . . . . 1935--1951
P. Mukhopadhyay Bayes and minimax procedures for finite
population sampling under measurement
error models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1953--1961
Neeraj Misra and
Ishwari D. Dhariyal Simultaneous selection of extreme
populations: Bayes-$ p^* $ and minimax
rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963--1992
Ishwari D. Dhariyal and
Neeraj Misra Simultaneous selection of extreme
populations: a Bayesian approach . . . . 1993--2027
R. Karan Singh and
S. K. Pandey and
V. K. Srivastava A generalized class of shrinkage
estimators in linear regression when
disturbances are not normal . . . . . . 2029--2064
Boxin Tang A theorem for selecting OA-based latin
hypercubes using a distance criterion 2047--2058
Richard A. Redner and
Kevin Gehringer Function estimation using partitions of
unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2059--2078
S. Devaraj Arumainayagam and
V. Soundararajan Construction and selection of quick
switching double sampling
system-acceptance number tightening . . 2079--2100
Udo Kamps Reliability properties of record values
from non-identically distributed random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2101--2112
Chu-In Charles Lee and
Shi-Yun Shen Convergence rates and powers of six
power-divergence statistics for testing
independence in $2$ by $2$ contingency
table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2113--2126
Theofanis Sapatinas Letter to the editor: A remark on
Consul's (1990) counter-example . . . . 2127--2128
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M. C. Jones On kernel density derivative estimation 2133--2139
Peihua Qiu Estimation of the number of jumps of the
jump regression functions . . . . . . . 2141--2155
Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee and
Sisir Kumar Samanta An alternative approach to variable
selection for prediction . . . . . . . . 2157--2174
T. Pham-Gia Value of the beta prior information . . 2175--2195
Chang-Ha Hwang On estimating the dimensionality in
discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 2197--2215
Gang Wang Almost sure representation for
multivariate $m$-estimators . . . . . . 2217--2229
Alan T. K. Wan The non-optimality of interval
restricted and pre-test estimators under
squared error loss . . . . . . . . . . . 2231--2252
John Tsimikas and
Johnnes Ledolter Reml and best linear unbiased prediction
in state space models . . . . . . . . . 2253--2268
Chap T. Le Some tests for linear trend of variances 2269--2282
L. A. Weissfeld and
H. Schneider Residual analysis for parametric models
fit to censored data . . . . . . . . . . 2283--2297
Ming Zheng and
John P. Klein A self-consistent estimator of marginal
survival functions based on dependent
competing risk data and an assumed
copula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299--2311
Derrick S. Tracy and
Anil K. Srivastava Comparison of operational variants of
Best homogeneous and heterogeneous
estimators in linear regression . . . . 2313--2322
D. Tu and
A. J. Gross Bias reduction for jackknife skewness 2323--2341
H. R. Al-Khalidi On the misspecification of a lognormal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343--2350
T. K. Mak Maximum likelihood estimation of
familial correlations . . . . . . . . . 2351--2365
Mark Carpenter and
Jaimie L. Hebert Estimating the minimum and maximum
location parameters for two
gamma-exponential scale mixtures . . . . 2367--2377
James M. Robins Correcting for non-compliance in
randomized trials using structural
nested mean models . . . . . . . . . . . 2379--2412
Bengt Klefsjö Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 2417--2421
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G. W. Fellingham and
H. D. Tolley and
D. T. Scott Likelihood estimation of missing cell
means in the fixed model analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2429--2447
Syed Shahadat Hossain and
Azmeri Khan Maximum likelihood estimation of
variance components of heteroscedastic
random ANOVA model . . . . . . . . . . . 2449--2467
K. Lam and
P. L. H. Yu A predictive approach for the selection
of a fixed number of good treatments . . 2469--2492
Bruno Sansó and
Luis Raúl Pericchi Large classes of proper priors for
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2493--2501
Tommaso Gastaldi and
Shanti S. Gupta Minimax type procedures for
nonparametric selection of the ``best''
population with partially classified
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2503--2532
Kannan Nandini and
Raychaudhuri Aparna Composite sampling: effectiveness under
a two stage scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 2533--2540
E. Vasantha Kumar and
T. Srivenkataramana A generalization of Midzuno--Sen
sampling scheme for finite populations 2541--2559
James L. Norris III and
Duane A. Meeter A nonparametric estimator of the number
of classes based on a stratified random
sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2561--2580
Alejandro Quintela del Río A plug-in technique in nonparametric
regression with dependence . . . . . . . 2581--2603
Ryuei Nishii Convergence of the Gram--Charier
expansion of the signed log likelihood
ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2605--2614
Takashi Seo and
Takashi Kanda and
Yasunori Fujikoshi The effects on the distributions of
sample canonical correlations under
nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2615--2628
E. S. Jeevanand and
N. Unnikrishnan Nair Estimating $ P[X > Y] $ from exponential
samples containing spurious observations 2629--2642
Dong Wan Shin and
Sahadeb Sarkar Testing for a unit root in an $ {\rm
ARIMA}(p, 1, 0) $ signal observed with $
{\rm MA}(q) $ noise . . . . . . . . . . 2643--2670
Winfried Stute Improved estimation under random
censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2671--2682
Raul E. Macchiavelli and
Steven F. Arnold Variable order ante-dependence models 2683--2699
Norman R. Draper Applied regression analysis bibliography
update 1992--93 . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701--2731
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Hea-Jung Kim and
Koichi Inada On double stage minimum discrimination
information estimators of the interval
constrained normal mean . . . . . . . . 2733--2753
Hideo Kozumi and
Kazuhiro Ohtani The general expressions for the moments
of Lawless and Wang's ordinary ridge
regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . 2755--2774
Mureika A. Roman and
Dupuis J. Debbie Using Laplace transform theory to
estimate knots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2786
Campbell A. Sharyn and
Anant P. Godbole and
Stephanie Schaller Discriminating between sequences of
Bernoulli and Markov--Bernoulli trials 2787--2814
Yuzo Honda Information criteria in identifying
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 2815--2829
Yoshinori Fujii On the influence of unknown covariate on
the binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2831--2840
N. Balakrishnan and
M. Ahsanullah Recurrence relations for single and
product moments of record values from
generalized Pareto distribution . . . . 2841--2852
Dong Shang Chang and
Loon Ching Tang Percentile bounds and tolerance limits
for the Birnbaum--Saunders distribution 2853--2863
Neeraj Misra and
Rajesh Anand and
Harshinder Singh Estimation of the largest location
parameter of exponential distributions 2865--2880
Ping Zhang On the estimation of prediction errors
in logistic regression models . . . . . 2881--2894
P. C. Consul Some bivariate families of Lagrangian
probability distributions . . . . . . . 2895--2906
Kurt Brännäs and
Per Johansson Time series count data regression . . . 2907--2925
Askar H. Choudhury Untransformed first observation problem
in regression model with moving average
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2927--2937
Elena Kulinskaya Large sample results for permutation
tests of association . . . . . . . . . . 2939--2963
Hung Man Ngai and
T. W. F. Stroud Hierarchical Bayes simultaneous
estimation of Poisson means . . . . . . 2965--2991
Byung Hwee Kim and
Glen Meeden Admissible estimation in an one
parameter nonregular family of
absolutely continuous distributions . . 2993--3001
L. R. Goel and
S. Z. Mumtaz Stochastic analysis of a complex system
with an auxiliary unit . . . . . . . . . 3003--3017
B. N. Pandey and
H. J. Malik Some improved estimation for common
variance of two populations . . . . . . 3019--3035
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C. K. Chu Estimation of change-points in a
nonparametric regression function
through kernel density estimation . . . 3037--3062
Azza R. Karmous $M$-estimation of $k$-sample location
parameters; a two-sided preliminary test
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3063--3073
Ronald J. Bosch A note on asymptotics for quantile
smoothing splines . . . . . . . . . . . 3075--3083
Brenda W. Gillespie and
Douglas A. Wolfe Nonparametric two-sample tests for
dispersion differences based on
placements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3085--3103
Andrzej T. Galecki General class of covariance structures
for two or more repeated factors in
longitudinal data analysis . . . . . . . 3105--3119
James A. Calvin One-sided test of a covariance matrix
with a known null value . . . . . . . . 3121--3140
Ke-Hai Yuan and
P. M. Bentler Test of linear trend in eigenvalues of
$k$ covariance matrices with
applications in common principal
components analysis . . . . . . . . . . 3141--3156
W. Liu A new sequential procedure with
elimination for selecting the best of
several normal populations . . . . . . . 3157--3170
Dror M. Rom and
Laira Connell A generalized family of multiple test
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3171--3187
Ranjit M. Passi Linear model estimation errors with
estimated design parameters . . . . . . 3189--3209
Jim Y. Wan Information loss in a competing risks
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3211--3226
Maher B. Qumsiyeh Bootstrapping and empirical Edgeworth
expansions in multiple linear regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3227--3239
P. C. Consul On some probability distributions
associated with random walks . . . . . . 3241--3255
Kazuo Anraku Estimation of odds ratios under order
restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3257--3272
S. H. Kunchur and
Surekha B. Munoli Estimation of reliability in Freund
model for two component system . . . . . 3273--3283
Donal P. Krouse Patterned matrices and the
misspecification robustness of $ 2^{k -
p} $ designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3285--3301
Tapan K. Nayak On randomized response surveys for
estimating a proportion . . . . . . . . 3303--3321
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Peyton Cook and
Lyle D. Broemeling A Bayesian WLS approach to generalized
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3323--3347
Patrick C. Gibbons and
Edward Greenberg Bayesian reconstruction of contingency
tables with partially categorized data 3349--3359
Khursheed Alam and
K. B. Kulasekera On the error term in Bahadur's
representation of an order statistic . . 3361--3371
N. Balakrishnan On order statistics from non-identical
right-truncated exponential random
variables and some applications . . . . 3373--3393
Huiman X. Barnhart and
Allan R. Sampson Overview of multinomial models for
ordinal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3395--3416
Xiaolong Luo and
Bruce W. Turnbull and
Haiyan Cai and
Larry C. Clark Regression for censored survival data
with lag effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 3417--3438
Hua Liang The Berry--Esséen bounds of error
variance estimation in semiparametric
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 3439--3451
C. G. Troskie and
D. O. Chalton and
T. J. Stewart and
M. Jacobs Detection of outliers and influential
observations in regression analysis
using stochastic prior information . . . 3453--3476
Paul W. Vos Likelihood-based measures of influence
for generalized linear models . . . . . 3477--3490
Hwee-Kwan Chow Robust estimation in time series: an
approximation to the Gaussian sum filter 3491--3505
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Tapabrata Maiti Borrowing strength from past data in
small domain prediction by Kalman
filtering --- a case study . . . . . . . 3507--3514
C. K. Chu Binned modified cross-validation with
dependent errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 3515--3537
Stephen J. Trejo A transformation for estimating the
trinomial logit model with grouped data 3539--3548
Pil S. Park and
Anant M. Kshirsagar Distances between normal populations
when covariance matrices are unequal . . 3549--3556
Robert B. Davis and
Chun Jin and
Ying-Yueh Guo Improving the performance of the zone
control chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3557--3565
Dong Wan Shin and
Sahadeb Sarkar Parameter estimation in regression
models with autocorrelated errors using
irregular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3567--3580
Akio Suzukawa and
Yoshiharu Sato Comparison of powers and exact Bahadur
slopes of some tests for dimensionality
in MANOVA models . . . . . . . . . . . . 3581--3591
H. S. Lee Estimates for mean and dispersion
effects in unreplicated factorial
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3593--3608
Josemar Rodrigues and
Arnold Zellner Weighted balanced loss function and
estimation of the mean time to failure 3609--3616
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Barry C. Arnold and
Enrique Castillo and
José Mariá Sarabia General conditional specification models 1--11
Susan Reade Christopher and
Lawrence L. Kupper On the effects of predictor
misclassification in multiple linear
regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 13--37
Sunil K. Dhar Extension of a negative multinomial
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--57
Z. Govindarajulu A brief survey of LMP rank tests for
random effects in one and two-way models 59--73
Piotr Bajorski On some one-sided tests in the
two-sample problem . . . . . . . . . . . 75--86
D. K. Park and
K. R. Shah On connectedness of row-column designs 87--96
Jeffrey H. Dorfman and
Arthur Havenner Model specification tests for balanced
representation state space models . . . 97--119
Bilgehan Güven Maximum likelihood estimation in simple
linear regression with one fold nested
error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
Ie-bin Lian Asymptotics of forced-in variables from
screening processes . . . . . . . . . . 131--151
Madhusudan Bhandary Detection of outliers in linear model
when the regression parameters are
stochastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--173
Ning-Zhong Shi The minimal $ L_1 $ isotonic regression 175--189
Ulrich Menzefricke On the performance of the Gibbs sampler
for the multivariate normal distribution 191--213
Lawrence J. Brunner Using the Gibbs sampler to simulate from
the Bayes estimate of a decreasing
density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--226
Rajesh Singh and
S. K. Upadhyay and
Umesh Singh Bayes estimators for two parameter
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 227--240
Debasis Kunbu Consistency of the undamped exponential
signal model on a restricted parameter
space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--251
S. H. Ong Computation of probabilities of a
generalized log-series and related
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--271
George C. Runger and
Thomas R. Willemain and
Sharad Prabhu Average run lengths for cusum control
charts applied to residuals . . . . . . 273--282
John J. Chai and
Chen Chung Joint effects of errors of measurement
and grouping on the estimated
product--moment correlation . . . . . . 283--294
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Nélida Ferretti and
Diana Kelmansky and
Victor Yohai A goodness-of-fit test based on ranks
for ARMA models . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--318
Shu-Ing Liu Comparison of forecasts for ARMA models
between a random coefficient approach
and a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . 319--333
S. N. Rai and
B. Abraham and
S. Peiris Analysis of short time series with an
over-dispersion model . . . . . . . . . 335--348
C. A. McGilchrist and
T. E. Ragunathan Generalised components of variance
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--361
D. A. Anderson and
W. T. Federer Representation and bounds for the
general fractional factorial . . . . . . 363--373
Hanfeng Chen and
John Q. Su Simultaneous confidence bands for
comparing diagnostic markers . . . . . . 375--393
Viren K. Srivastava and
Kazuhiro Ohtani A comparison of interval constrained
least squares and mixed regression
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--413
Wing K. Fung Graphical summaries for influence of
multiple observations . . . . . . . . . 415--427
V. Dragalin An optimal sequential selection
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--443
Paul Chiou A pooling procedure for the exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--458
P. C. Consul and
Felix Famoye On the generalized negative binomial
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--472
Herwig Friedl and
Norbert Tilg Variance estimates in logistic
regression using the bootstrap . . . . . 473--486
R. Calabria and
G. Pulcini Bayes prediction of number of failures
in Weibull samples . . . . . . . . . . . 487--499
Raül E. Macchiavelli and
Steven F. Arnold Difficulties with the use of penalized
likelihood criteria in antedependence
and polynomial models . . . . . . . . . 501--522
Peter H. Cheng and
Cliff Y. K. Meng A new formula for tail probabilities of
Dunnett's $t$ with unequal sample sizes 523--532
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota Discrete bivariate weighted
distributions under multiplicative
weight function . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--551
Manuel D. Rossetti and
Gordon M. Clark Estimating expected sojourn times for a
Markov renewal process . . . . . . . . . 553--579
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M. N. Mishra and
B. L. S. Prakasa Rao On $ L_1 $-consistency of kernel-type
density estimator for stationary Markov
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--591
J. C. W. Rayner and
D. J. Best and
K. L. Mathews Interpreting the skewness coefficient 593--600
S. Dahel Mean estimation for a partitioned
multinormal distribution . . . . . . . . 601--606
Hea-Jung Kim On a balanced quadratic classification
rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--623
Maurizio Maravalle and
Bruno Simeone A spanning tree heuristic for regional
clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--639
Yachen Lin Asymptotic confidence bands for normal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--652
Park Cheolyong Some remarks on the chi-squared test
with both margins fixed . . . . . . . . 653--631
P. Mukhopadhyay Bayes and minimax estimators for
two-stage sampling from a finite
population under measurement error
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--674
Neeraj Misra and
Ishwari D. Dhariyal Some inadmissibility results for
estimating ordered uniform scale
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--685
Seungyeoun Lee and
Robert A. Wolfe A class of linear nonparametric rank
tests for dependent censoring . . . . . 687--712
Robert Cléroux and
Aziz Lazraq and
Yves Lepage Vector correlation based on ranks and a
nonparametric test of no association
between vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--733
David P. M. Scollnik Bayesian analysis of an intervened
Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 735--754
Chuen-Sheng Cheng A cumulative score control scheme for
detecting process shifts . . . . . . . . 755--774
Norman R. Draper and
Dennis K. J. Lin Characterizing projected designs: repeat
and mirror-image runs . . . . . . . . . 775--795
Anil K. Srivastava and
Derrick S. Tracy and
Praveen Shukla Concentration of estimators of
coefficients in mixed regression model 797--811
M. Bismarck and
L. Gajek An upper bound for the power of a test 813--828
Chris C. Frangos and
William R. Schucany Improved bootstrap confidence intervals
in certain toxicological experiments . . 829--844
Tae-Sung Kim and
Hye-Young Seo A note on some negative dependence
notions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--858
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Richard A. Johnson and
Songyong Sim Nonparametric tests for ordered $c$
sample contaminated distributions . . . 861--879
Rand R. Wilcox Some small-sample results on a bounded
influence rank regression method . . . . 881--888
R. H. Glendinning Model selection for infinite variance
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889--910
Alexandros Karagrigoriou Asymptotic efficiency of model selection
criteria: the nonzero mean Gaussian $
{\rm AR}(\infty) $ case . . . . . . . . 911--930
Rafael Pérez-Ocón and
M. Luz Gámiz-Pérez Conditions on the arrival process to
obtain HNBUE survival using a shock
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--944
Vasant P. Bhapkar Completeness and optimality of marginal
likelihood estimating equations . . . . 945--952
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Deo Kumar Srivastava and
C. Thomas Lin Some $p$-variate adaptations of the
Shapiro--Wilk test of normality . . . . 953--985
Julian De La Horra and
Carmen Fernandez Sensitivity to prior independence via
Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern model . . . 987--996
M. M. Mohit El Din and
K. S. Sultan Recurrence relations for expectations of
functions of order statistics for doubly
truncated distributions and their
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--1010
Cristina Rueda and
Bomfacio Salvador Reduction of risk using restricted
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1022
Jacek Wesolowski and
Mohammad Ahsanullah Conditional specifications of
multivariate Pareto and Student
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1031
K. G. Janardan and
R. Vasudeva and
N. R. Mohan On some special birth processes in
biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1038
Marc Sobel Comparisons of estimators of a slippage
probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1055
Daniel Barry A Bayesian analysis for a class of
penalised likelihood estimates . . . . . 1057--1071
Dean H. Fearn and
Elliott Nebenzahl Using power transformations when
approximating quantiles . . . . . . . . 1073--1093
Juan C. Rodriguez and
Aldo J. Viollaz A Cramér-von Mises type goodness of fit
test with asymmetric weight function . . 1095--1120
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Elena Kulinskaya Large sample results for tests of
association II. Multinomial and
stratified sampling . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1150
Qing-Ling Yu and
Richard K. Burdick Confidence intervals on variance
components in regression models with
balanced $ (q - 1)$-fold nested error
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1167
Agustin Turrero Relative efficiency of a censored
experiment in terms of Fisher
information matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1191
Gilberto A. Paula and
Gauss M. Cordeiro Bias correction and improved residuals
for non-exponential family nonlinear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1210
G. Das and
K. Bez Preliminary test estimators in double
sampling with two auxiliary variables 1211--1226
Carpenter Mark and
Jaimie L. Hebert Estimating the minimum and maximum
location parameters for two
ig-exponential scale mixtures . . . . . 1227--1233
Christopher J. Lloyd Accurate confidence intervals from
recapture experiments . . . . . . . . . 1235--1253
C. P. Lee Forecasting with incomplete data . . . . 1255--1269
Myung Genn Kim Local influence in multivariate
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1278
Sy-Mien Chen and
Nai-Feng Hsu The asymptotic distribution of the
process capability index $ C_{pmk} $ . . 1279--1291
I. B. J. Goudie A plant-capture approach for achieving
complete coverage of a population . . . 1293--1305
Heping Zhang Detecting change points and monitoring
biomedical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307--1324
Belzile Éric and
Jean-François Angers Choice of noninformative priors for the
variance components of an unbalanced
one-way random model . . . . . . . . . . 1325--1341
Virendra K. Srivastava and
Aman Ullah Stein-rule estimation in models with a
lagged-dependent variable . . . . . . . 1343--1353
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton and
Chris Karlof Estimation problems associated with the
three parameter gamma distribution . . . 1355--1376
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Hironori Fujisawa A note on the maximum likelihood
estimators for multivariate normal
distribution with monotone data . . . . 1377--1382
Anthony F. Desmond and
Zhenlin Yang Shortest prediction intervals for the
Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . 1383--1401
Myunghee Cho Paik The em algorithm for the
quasi-likelihood regression model . . . 1403--1430
Myung Geun Kim The influence in comparing covariance
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431--1441
N. Balakrishnan and
K. Balasubramanian Order statistics from non-identical
power function random variables . . . . 1443--1454
T. W. Epps A test of fit for lattice distributions 1455--1479
Paul Chiou and
Chien-Pai Han Conditional interval estimation of the
exponential location parameter following
rejection of a pre-test . . . . . . . . 1481--1492
Ling Chen and
Jie Mi Estimation of non-occurrence probability
in periodic model . . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1505
Z. W. Kmietowicz Significance of the sample lead: some
theoretical and empirical results . . . 1507--1519
Sture Holm Confidence sets of fixed size with
predetermined confidence level . . . . . 1521--1536
G. Dikta Asymptotic normality under the
Koziol--Green model . . . . . . . . . . 1537--1549
A. Sarkar and
P. P. Kanjilal On a method of identification of best
subset model from full AR-model . . . . 1551--1567
Vännman Kerstin On the distribution of the estimated
mean from nonstandard mixtures of
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1569--1584
Mokhtar B. Abdullah Detection of influential observations in
functional errors-in-variables model . . 1585--1595
Raid W. Amin and
Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. and
Bakir Saad Nonparametric quality control charts
based on the sign statistic . . . . . . 1597--1623
Hassan Johaadien and
Constantinos Goutis Approximate maximum likelihood
estimation in the presence of
extra-Poisson variation . . . . . . . . 1625--1636
Alberto Luceño and
Federico De Ceballos Describing extra-binomial variation with
partially correlated models . . . . . . 1637--1653
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Hikaru Hasegawa On risk comparisons of some estimators
in a linear regression model under
Inagaki's loss function and nonnormal
error terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1655--1685
Yasushi Nagata The relationship between the improvement
on the point estimation and the
improvement on the interval estimation
for the disturbance variance in a linear
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687--1704
Govinda J. Weerakkody and
Sumalee Givaruangsawat Estimating the correlation coefficient
in the presence of correlated
observations from a bivariate normal
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1705--1719
James R. Rieck Parameter estimation for ihe
Birnbaum--Saunders distribution based on
symmetrically censored samples . . . . . 1721--1736
Lu Chang-yu Admissibility of inhomogeneous linear
estimators in linear models with respect
to incomplete ellipsoidal restrictions 1737--1742
Austin F. S. Lee Coefficients of Lee--Gurland two-sample
test on normal means . . . . . . . . . . 1743--1768
Jim J. Yang and
John W. Van Ness Breakdown points for redescending
$M$-estimates of location . . . . . . . 1769--1787
Fikri Akdeniz and
Selahattin Kaçiranlar On the almost unbiased generalized Liu
estimator and unbiased estimation of the
bias and MSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1789--1797
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Olcay H-Akman Estimation of reliability under ordered
restriction on the parameters . . . . . 1799--1812
Xiaojing Xiang A strong law of large number for
$L$-statistics in the non-i.d. case . . 1813--1819
Peter W. M. John Optimal foldover designs . . . . . . . . 1821--1827
Essam K. Al-Hussaini and
Zeinhum F. Jaheen Bayesian prediction bounds for the Burr
type XII failure model . . . . . . . . . 1829--1842
Graham J. G. Upton and
Montserrat Guillen Perfect cells, direct models and
contingency table outliers . . . . . . . 1843--1862
Mandar Kale and
S. R. Deshmukh Maximum likelihood estimation in
birth-death process allowing
catastrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863--1873
Norbert Henze and
Bernhard Klar Bootstrap based goodness of fit tests
for the generalized Poisson model . . . 1875--1896
V. Kuralmani and
K. Govindaraju Modified tables for the selection of
double sampling attribute plan indexed
by AQL and LQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1897--1927
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Madhusudan Bhandary Detection of outliers in growth curve
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1923--1940
Aldo J. Viollaz and
Ana M. Sfer and
Stella M. Salvatierra An approximation of the unconditional
error rates of the sample linear
discriminant function . . . . . . . . . 1941--1969
Arnold J. Stromberg Consistency of the least median of
squares estimator in nonlinear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1971--1984
Jiti Gao Asymptotic theory for partly linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985--2009
Jiti Gao Asymptotic properties of some estimators
for partly linear stationary
autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 2011--2026
Mahendran Shitan and
Peter J. Brockwell An asymptotic test for separability of a
spatial autoregressive model . . . . . . 2027--2040
John J. Borkowski Finding maximum $G$-criterion values for
central composite designs on the
hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2041--2058
Hoshino Naoto and
Miyazaki Haruo and
Seki Yoichi On the level probabilities for useful
partially ordered alternatives in the
analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 2059--2071
Wei Liu On the construction of exact lower
confidence bounds on the distance
between any two ranked location
parameters of $K$ populations . . . . . 2073--2085
Heliang Fei and
Fanhui Kong and
Yingcai Tang Estimation for two-parameter Weibull
distribution and extreme-value
distribution under multiply Type-II
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2087--2104
N. Balakrishnan and
Shanti S. Gupta and
S. Panchapakesan Estimation of the location and scale
parameters of the extreme value
distribution based on multiply Type-II
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 2105--2125
Oh Myongsik On maximum likelihood estimation of cell
probabilities in $ 2 \times k $
contingency tables under negative
dependence restrictions with various
sampling schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2127--2143
Aipore R. de Moraes and
Ian R. Dunsmore Predictive comparisons in ordinal models 2145--2164
Aditi Shahane and
Varghese George and
William D. Johnson Effect of bivariate regression toward
the mean in uncontrolled clinical trials 2165--2181
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Rianto A. Djojosugito A cubic smoothing spline based lack of
fit test for nonlinear regression models 2183--2197
R. J. Martin Some results on randomization when
observations are spatially dependent and
the analysis uses generalized
least-squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2199--2210
Chang Yuan-Tsung Two-stage James--Stein estimators of the
mean based on prior knowledge . . . . . 2211--2227
Paul H. Garthwaite and
Keming Yu and
Peter B. Hope Bayesian analysis of a
multiple-recapture model . . . . . . . . 2229--2247
H. A. Howlader and
A. Hossain On Bayesian estimation and prediction
from Rayleigh based on type II censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2251--2259
B. N. Pandey and
H. J. Malik and
P. K. Dubey Bayesian shrinkage estimators for a
measure of dispersion of an inverse
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 2261--2270
David Madigan and
Jonathan Gavrin and
Adrian E. Raftery Eliciting prior information to enhance
the predictive performance of Bayesian
graphical models . . . . . . . . . . . . 2271--2292
Gail E. Tudor and
Timothy M. Morgan Analyzing survival data in conjunction
with time-dependent surrogate endpoints
in clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . 2293--2313
J. V. Deshpande and
S. R. Karia Confidence bounds for the joint survival
function in the dependent competing
risks setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2315--2327
Jerzy Szroeter The exact power function of an exact
test of a regression model against
multiple separate alternatives . . . . . 2329--2339
Robert H. Crouse and
Chun Jin and
R. C. Hanumara Unbiased ridge estimation with prior
information and ridge trace . . . . . . 2341--2354
Pushpa L. Gupta and
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Ram C. Tripathi Inflated modified power series
distributions with applications . . . . 2355--2374
Jian Zhang Asymptotics of the run lengths of two
control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2375--2403
Sunho Lee and
Cheolyong Park and
Bynng Soo Kim Tests for detecting overdispersion in
Poisson models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405--2420
M. N. Patel and
A. V. Gajjar Some results on maximum likelihood
estimators of parameters of exponential
distribution under Type I progressive
censoring with changing failure rates 2421--2435
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Juan C. Correa A new estimator of entropy . . . . . . . 2439--2449
A. Parsian and
N. Nematollahi On the admissibility of ordered Poisson
parameter under the entropy loss
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2451--2467
Anoop Chaturvedi and
Hikaru Hasegawa and
Sheel Asthana Bayesian predictive analysis of the
linear regression model with an
Edgeworth series prior distribution . . 2469--2484
A. Bekker and
J. J. J. Roux Bayesian multivariate normal analysis
with a Wishart prior . . . . . . . . . . 2485--2497
T. B. Swartz and
C. Villegas and
C. J. Martinez On semiparametric pivotal Bayesian
inference for quantiles . . . . . . . . 2499--2515
Kanchan Jain and
Asok K. Nanda On multivariate weighted distributions 2517--2539
Charles L. Dunn Critical values and powers for tests of
uniformity of directions under
multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . 2541--2560
Taesung Park and
Min-Woong Shin A practical extension of the generalized
estimating equation approach for
longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 2561--2579
John J. Borkowski Minimum, maximum, and average spherical
prediction variances for central
composite and Box--Behnken designs . . . 2581--2600
Sudhir Gupta and
Ashish Das and
Sanpei Kageyama Single replicate orthogonal block
designs for circulant partial diallel
crosses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2601--2607
Mammo Woldie and
J. Leroy Folks Calibration for inverse Gaussian
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2609--2620
K. G. Janardan Environmental risk assessment model for
low dose extrapolation . . . . . . . . . 2621--2633
Guibin Li Identification of fractional
differencing autoregressive models . . . 2635--2643
James Fu and
Robert Sproule A generalization of the binomial
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2645--2658
Eiji Yamamoto and
Takemi Yanagimoto A modified likelihood ratio test for the
mean direction in the von Mises
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2659--2678
John D. Spurrier More bounds for moments of some rank
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2679--2682
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Kalyan Das Analysing exponential family based messy
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2683--2699
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Jan G. De Gooijer and
Kurt Brännäs Invertibility of non-linear time series
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701--2714
Will Gersch and
David Stone Multivariate autoregressive time series
modeling: one scalar autoregressive
model at-a-time . . . . . . . . . . . . 2715--2733
José I. Bravo and
Íñigo De Fuentes and
Arturo J. Fernández A semi-parametric estimation of a
survival function from incomplete and
doubly censored data . . . . . . . . . . 2735--2752
M. S. Srivastava Comparison of the inverse and classical
estimators in multi-univariate linear
calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2753--2767
Nai N. Chan and
Li Kim-Hung A matrix identity and its applications
to equivalent hypotheses in linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2769--2777
Peter G. Moffatt Grouped Poisson regression models:
theory and an application to public
house visit frequency . . . . . . . . . 2779--2796
G. Ram Kherwa and
Jagdish Prasad A note on generalized binary proper
efficiency-balanced block designs . . . 2797--2801
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Tapabrata Maiti Asymptotic design-cum-model approach for
convex weighting of direct and indirect
components of small domain predictors 2803--2813
Zhou Yong Bahadur--Kiefer theorems for kernel
smooth product-limit quantile estimator 2815--2828
Aldo J. Viollaz Convergence in weighted supremum norms
of the Skorokhod representation of the
estimated empirical process . . . . . . 2829--2839
Michael W. Trosset and
Barbara N. Sands On the choice of a discrepancy
functional for model selection . . . . . 2841--2863
A. C. M. Wong A simple and accurate inference
procedure for the difference of failure
intensities from two exponential
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2865--2879
Chun Jin Shrinkage estimation of a mean vector in
a two-sample problem . . . . . . . . . . 2881--2888
José-María Sarabia The centered normal conditionals
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2889--2900
David P. M. Scollnik Bayesian analysis of two overdispersed
Poisson regression models . . . . . . . 2901--2918
Tin Chiu Chua and
Kok Leong Chiang An alternative estimator for randomized
response sampling with continuous
distributions from a dichotomous
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2919--2928
Amy Hancock Boyd A minimum cost exponential cusum test 2929--2958
Anonymous Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 2959--2962
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C. A. McGilchrist and
K. K. W. Yau The derivation of BLUP, ML, REML
estimation methods for generalised
linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 2963--2980
Olcay Arslan and
Patrick D. L. Constable and
John T. Kent Convergence Behavior of the EM algorithm
for the multivariate $t$-distribution 2981--3000
Vladimir Katkovnik Nonparametric local polynomial
approximation of the time-varying
frequency and amplitude . . . . . . . . 3001--3025
Sylvie Escolano and
Jean-Louis Golmard and
Alain Mallet A fully nonparametric approach in
survival models with explanatory
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3027--3054
T. Krug and
R. J. Martin Information loss on the dependence
parameter due to incomplete data from a
one-parameter spatial Gaussian process 3055--3072
Mayer Alvo and
Paul Cabilio Approximate and exact distributions of
rank tests for balanced incomplete block
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3073--3121
A. K. Gupta and
D. K. Nagar On testing structure of mean vector of
compound symmetric Gaussian model . . . 3123--3136
Uwe Hassler The periodogram regression: correction
and comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3137--3146
James L. Norris III Sample design for observing classes of
objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3147--3162
F. Brouaye Choosing between two unknown intervals:
an empirical Bayes testing approach to a
classification problem . . . . . . . . . 3163--3181
T. H. Jelenkowska A Bayesian analysis of the multivariate
mixed-linear model . . . . . . . . . . . 3183--3196
Daniel Y. T. Fong and
Paul S. F. Yip A note on information loss in analyzing
a mixture model of count data . . . . . 3197--3209
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William B. Smith Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
Taskin Atilgan Selection of dimension and basis for
density estimation and selection of
dimension, basis and error distribution
for regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--28
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Silvia L. P. Ferrari Bartlett-type corrections for some score
tests in proper dispersion models . . . 29--48
Choongrak Kim Local influence and replacement measure 49--61
John R. Collins and
Shawn X. Liu Asymptotic relative efficiency
comparisions for some robust location
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--82
Carlo Ferreri On a hyperbinomial process . . . . . . . 83--103
Kanta Naito Modification of statistics based on the
empirical characteristic function to
yield asymptotic normality . . . . . . . 105--114
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Suchun Ma Testing the equality of coefficients of
variation in $k$ normal populations . . 115--132
Debasis Kundu and
Amit Mitra Asymptotic theory of least squares
estimator of a nonlinear time series
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
Andy H. Lee and
Yuejen Zhao Sensitivity of Pearson's goodness-of-fit
statistic in generalized linear models 143--157
Eugene Demidenko On the existence of the least squares
estimate in nonlinear growth curve
models of exponential type . . . . . . . 159--182
Nobuo Shinozaki and
Yuan-Tsung Chang Minimaxity of empirical Bayes estimators
shrinking toward the grand mean when
variances are unequal . . . . . . . . . 183--199
S. K. Agarwal and
S. L. Kalla A generalized gamma distribution and its
application in reliability . . . . . . . 201--210
Dong Wan Shin and
Ayanendranath Basu and
Sahadeb Sarkar Small sample comparisons for the blended
weight chi-square goodness-of-fit test
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--226
A. Cabana and
E. M. Cabana Bridge-to-bridge transformations and
Kolmogorov--Smirnov tests . . . . . . . 227--234
Aldo J. Viollaz and
Juan C. Rodriguez A Cramér--von Mises type goodness-of-fit
test with asymmetric weight function.
The Gaussian and exponential cases . . . 235--256
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Wing K. Fung The influence of observations for local
log-odd in linear discriminant analysis 257--268
Simo Puntanen Some matrix results related to a
partitioned singular linear model . . . 269--279
Yazhen Wang and
K. S. Chen The $ L_2 $ risk of an isotonic estimate 281--294
Hongshik Ahn Log-gamma regression modeling 'through
regression trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--311
C. Ming Wang and
Hari K. Lyer Sampling plans for obtaining tolerance
intervals in a balanced one-way
random-effects model . . . . . . . . . . 313--324
I. S. Alalouf The estimation of a proportion in
cluster sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--343
Rafael Pérez-Ocón and
M. Luz Gámiz-Pérez HNBUE property in a shock model with
cumulative damage threshold . . . . . . 345--360
Myron N. Chang Optimal designs for group sequential
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--379
Jürgen Groß On a class of estimators in the general
Gauss--Markov model . . . . . . . . . . 381--388
S. Lalitha and
Anand Mishra Modified maximum likelihood estimation
for Rayleigh distribution . . . . . . . 389--401
Zhenlin Yang Some asymptotic results on Box--Cox
transformation methodology . . . . . . . 403--414
P. C. Consul and
Felix Famoye Lagrangean Katz family of distributions 415--434
Eve Bofinger and
David Bofinger Equivalence to a straight line . . . . . 435--455
Hu Yang Efficiency matrix and the partial
ordering of estimate . . . . . . . . . . 457--468
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Vic Barnett and
Mike G. Kenward Security systems and renewal processes 475--487
John E. Hinkle and
Arnold J. Stromberg Efficient computation of statistical
procedures based on all subsets of a
specified size . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
M. D. Esteban On testing hypotheses with divergence
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--518
Akifumi Yafune and
Makio Ishiguro and
Genshiro Kitagawa Kullback--Leibler information approach
to the optimum measurement point for
Bayesian estimation . . . . . . . . . . 519--536
Peter Thompson Improving the admissibility screen:
evaluating test statistics on the basis
of $p$-values rather than power . . . . 537--553
Philip J. Byrne Multivariate analysis with an
autoregressive covariance model . . . . 555--569
Takahisa Yokoyama Extended growth curve models with
random-effects covariance structures . . 571--584
R. Calabria and
G. Pulcini Point estimation under asymmetric loss
functions for left-truncated exponential
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--600
Erhard Reschenhofer Prediction with vague prior knowledge 601--608
Mohammed A. El-Saidi and
Boyan Dimitrov and
Stefanka Chukova Some moment properties and limit
theorems of the reversed generalized
logistic distribution with applications 609--630
Barry Kurt Moser and
Melinda H. McCann Maximum likelihood and restricted
maximum likelihood estimators as
functions of ordinary least squares and
analysis of variance estimators . . . . 631--646
Cokki Versluis Comparison of tests for bivariate
normality with unknown parameters by
transformation to an univariate
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--665
F. J. Alonso and
J. M. Angulo and
M. C. Bueso Estimation and smoothing from incomplete
data for a class of lattice processes 667--681
Hülya Cing and
Cem Kadilar Estimation and smoothing from incomplete
data for a class of lattice processes 683--683
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G. Draisma and
L. De Hann An estimator for the extreme-value index 685--694
D. Dietrich and
J. Hüsler Minimum distance estimators in extreme
value distributions . . . . . . . . . . 695--703
Geert Gielens and
Stefan Straetmans and
Casper G. De Vries Fat tail distributions and local thin
tail alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . 705--710
Jon Danielsson and
Dennis W. Jansen and
Casper G. De Vries The method of moments ratio estimator
for the tail shape parameter . . . . . . 711--720
Andreia O. Hall Maximum term of a particular
autoregressive sequence with discrete
margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--736
A. A. Balkema and
E. I. Pancheva Decomposition for multivariate extremal
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--758
Ori Rosen and
Ishay Weissman Comparison of estimation methods in
extreme value theory . . . . . . . . . . 759--773
Ishay Weissman and
Ayala Cohen The estimation of the parameter of
uniformly distributed failure-times
under censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--788
M. I. Fraga Alves and
M. Ivette Gomes Statistical choice of extreme value
domains of attraction --- a comparative
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789--811
John H. J. Einmahl Extension to higher dimensions of the
Jaeschke--Eicker result on the
standardized empirical process . . . . . 813--822
H. Drees and
R. D. Reiss Residual life functionals at great age 823--835
Holger Drees Refined Pickands estimators with bias
correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--851
Jürg Hüsler Multivariate option price models and
extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--869
Paul Deheuvels and
Guennady V. Martynov Cramér--von Mises-type tests with
applications to tests of independence
for multivariate extreme-value
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--908
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George C. Ranger and
Frank B. Alt Choosing principal components for
multivariate statistical process control 909--922
M. S. Aminzadeh Inverse-Gaussian acceptance sampling
plans by variables . . . . . . . . . . . 923--935
Hua Liang and
Guohua Zou Asymptotically linear estimation in a
generalized linear model . . . . . . . . 937--945
T. Timothy Chen and
Richard Simon Extension of two-sided test to multiple
treatment trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--965
V. K. Gupta and
Rajender Parsad $A$-Efficient block designs for
comparing two disjoint sets of
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--983
Yasushi Nagata The Neyman accuracy and the Wolfowitz
accuracy of the Stein type confidence
interval for the disturbance variance 985--1004
Lin-An Chen and
Stephen Portnoy Two-stage regression quantiles and
two-stage trimmed least squares
estimators for structural equation
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1032
Aparna Raychaudhuri and
Nandini Kannan Inverse sampling: a composite approach 1033--1042
Dae-Heung Jang and
Ho-Jun Na A graphical method for evaluating
mixture designs with respect to the
slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1058
A. Levine and
J. Liukkonen and
D. W. Levine Equivalent inferences using
transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1072
M. Mountassir and
Y. Lepage A rank test for bivariate location and
scale problem for elliptically symmetric
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1088
Hengqing Tong Convergence rates for empirical Bayes
estimators of parameters in
multi-parameter exponential families . . 1089--1098
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Ram C. Tripathti Weighted bivariate logarithmic series
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099--1117
M. L. Menéndez and
D. Morales and
L. Pardo and
I. Vajda About divergence-based goodness-of-fit
tests in the Dirichlet-multinomial model 1119--1133
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Joydip Mitra Setting confidence intervals by ratio
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1148
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1149
Sy-Men Chen Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1154
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Mare J. Sobel Optimal transitive procedures for
comparing large numbers of parameters 1155--1172
Raghunath Arnab Randomized response trials: a unified
approach for qualitative data . . . . . 1173--1183
Jian Zhang On the sample breakdown robustness of
some nonparametric tests . . . . . . . . 1185--1198
Robert F. Phillips A note on partially adaptive estimation
via a normal mixture . . . . . . . . . . 1199--1206
Mei-Ling Ting Lee Properties and applications of the
Sarmanov family of bivariate
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1222
Kazuhiro Ohtani Exact small sample properties of an
operational variant of the minimum mean
squared error estimator . . . . . . . . 1223--1231
James Cussens Effective sample size in a dichotomous
process with noise . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1246
H. T. Chan and
R. Chinipardaz and
T. F. Cox Discrimination of AR, MA and ARMA time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1260
Hisashi Tanizaki and
Roberto S. Mariano Nonlinear filters based on Taylor series
expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261--1282
Elinor S. Pape and
Ming-Hung Shu Erlang sampling of an alternating
Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283--1288
A. M. Nigm and
N. Y. Abd Al-Wahab Bayesian prediction with a random sample
size for the Burr lifetime distribution 1289--1303
Rand R. Wilcox Estimation in the simple linear
regression model when there is
heteroscedasticity of unknown form . . . 1305--1324
Hengqing Tong Convergence rates for empirical Bayes
estimators of parameters in linear
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1325--1334
Manfred Horn and
Rüdiger Vollandt Subset selection of the best treatment
via many-one tests . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1349
Tim K. Peps and
Martin S. Levy Optimal control designs using predicting
densities for the multivariate linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351--1374
Hyan Suk Lee and
Yogendra P. Chaubey MINQUE of variance components in
generalized linear model with random
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375--1382
Kamel Rekab and
Mohamed Tahir An empirical Bayes procedure for testing
a truncation parameter . . . . . . . . . 1383--1390
Neil H. Timm A note on the MANOVA model with double
linear restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 1391--1395
Dou Long and
Roman Krzysztofowicz Geometry of a correlation coefficient
under a copula . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1397--1404
Norman L. Johnson Letter to the editor: the asymptotic
distribution of the process capability
index $ c_{pmk} $ . . . . . . . . . . . 1405--1405
Sy-mien Chen Response to the ``Letter to the editor'' 1407--1408
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Darcy P. Mays and
Raymond H. Myers Bayesian approach for the design and
analysis of a two level factorial
experiment in the presence of dispersion
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409--1428
Lyle D. Broemeling and
Mary Ann Gregurich A Bayesian alternative to the analysis
of matched categorical responses . . . . 1429--1445
Leonard C. MacLean and
K. Laurence Weldon Estimating multivariate random effects
without replication . . . . . . . . . . 1447--1469
David D. Hanagal A multivariate Pareto distribution . . . 1471--1488
Tony S. Wirjanto and
Robert A. Amano Nonstationary regression models with a
lagged dependent variable . . . . . . . 1489--1503
Adi Raveh and
Gideon Schwarz Simple diagnostic tools for
investigating linear trends in time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1505--1524
John I. Crowell On a score test for pure birth processes
and a Poisson dispersion test . . . . . 1525--1536
Hocine Fellag and
Ryszard Zieli\'nski Bias of the LSE estimator of the first
order autoregressive model under Tukey
contamination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537--1551
Mohammad Z. Raqab Linear predictors of future order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1553--1568
Büning Herbert Adaptive tests for the $c$-sample
location problem --- the case of
two-sided alternatives . . . . . . . . . 1569--1582
Madeline J. Boyle and
John D. Spurrier Simultaneous confidence intervals
between Tukey and Scheffé . . . . . . . . 1583--1593
Douglas J. Taylor and
Keith E. Muller Bias in linear model power and sample
size calculation due to estimating
noncentrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1595--1610
Wei Liu A note on a power function of Tukey'
test for comparing three normal means
with unequal sample sizes . . . . . . . 1611--1616
Kallapa M. Koti and
Gutti Jogesh Babu Sign test for ranked-set sampling . . . 1617--1630
Subhash C. Sharma and
Mukhtar M. Ali Moments of regression $F$-statistics
under non-normality . . . . . . . . . . 1631--1658
Engin A. Sungur and
Yimin Yang Diagonal copulas of Archimedean class 1659--1676
Donald Lien and
David Rearden A property of coefficients of variation
for ordered bivariate log-normal
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1903--1916
Wing K. Fung The influence of observations on
misclassification probability in
multiple discriminant analysis . . . . . 1917--1930
Yoshihiko Maesono A note on biases of jackknife estimators
of third central moments . . . . . . . . 1931--1942
A. Mishra A generalised bivariate binomial
distribution applicable in four-fold
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1943--1956
Dane W. Wu Asymptotic normality of the multiscale
wavelet density estimator . . . . . . . 1957--1970
Jerome P. Keating A statistical method for the serial
comparison of vector cardiograms . . . . 1971--1983
Milton Lo and
Pui Lam Leung Decision theoretic estimation of
functions of the canonical correlation
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985--1995
JoséM Ruiz and
Antonio Guillamón Nonparametrie recursive estimator for
mean residual life and vitality function
under dependence conditions . . . . . . 1997--2011
Pushpa L. Gupta and
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Sergey J. Lvin Analysis of failure time data by Burr
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013--2024
Paul S. F. Yip Effect of plant-capture in a
capture-recapture experiment . . . . . . 2025--2038
Tapan K. Nayak On estimating the conditional
probability of discovering a new species 2039--2056
Omkar Rai A some times pool estimator of mean life
under LINEX loss function . . . . . . . 2057--2067
Jiin-Huarng Guo Distribution-free test for slope in
linear regression model with
replications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2069--2078
Alan T. K. Wan On the bias and mean square error of the
least square estimator in a regression
model with two inequality constraints
and multivariate $t$ error terms . . . . 2079--2091
V. G. S. Vasdekis A note on the difference between two
likelihood based methods in growth
curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2093--2100
Fabio H. Nieto and
Jorge Martínez A recursive approach for estimating
missing observations in an univariate
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2101--2116
J. K. Ghorai and
Sanjoy Ghose On the non-existence of ML estimates in
the negative multinomial distributions
derived from nonstationary Poisson
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2117--2125
Ping Jing and
Li-Xing Zhu Some Blum--Kiefer--Rosenblatt type tests
for the joint independence of variables 2127--2139
Thomas Kelleher A Bayes method for estimating the common
mean of two normal populations . . . . . 2141--2157
Chu-In Charles Lee and
Xiaosong Yan and
Ning-Zhong Shi On the consistency of rank transformed
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2159--2168
Russell Reeve The randomized concentration-controlled
trial: mathematical definitions, a
dose-adjusting algorithm, and sample
size efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . 2169--2188
Amina A. Saleh and
Youngio Lee and
Justus Seely Recovery of inter-block information:
extensions in a two variance component
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2189--2200
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
George C. Runger and
Frank B. Alt and
Douglas C. Montgomery Contributors to a multivariate
statistical process control chart signal 2203--2213
Konstantinos Adamidis and
Sotirios Loukas Estimation in a truncated bivariate
Poisson distribution using the EM
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2215--2222
David M. Reboussin and
David L. DeMets Exact permutation inference for two
sample repeated measures data . . . . . 2223--2238
Myron N. Chang On the asymptotic distribution of an
isotonic window estimator for the
generalized failure rate function . . . 2239--2249
Ingrid Van Keilegom and
Noël Veraverbeke Uniform strong convergence results for
the conditional Kaplan--Meier estimator
and its quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . 2251--2265
Lyle D. Broemeiing and
Mary Ann Gregurich On a Bayesian approach for the
shiftpoint problem . . . . . . . . . . . 2267--2279
Joong Kweon Sohn and
Sang Gil Kang Bayesian estimation procedure in
multiprocess non-linear dynamic
generalized model . . . . . . . . . . . 2281--2296
R. Calabria and
G. Pulcini Maximum likelihood and Bayes prediction
of current system lifetime . . . . . . . 2297--2309
M. Ahsanullah Generalized order statistics from two
parameter uniform distribution . . . . . 2311--2318
R. B. Arellano-Valle and
H. Bolfarine Elliptical structural models . . . . . . 2319--2341
Peter Thompson A bivariate normal example where the
locally most powerful and distantly most
powerful test statistics are beaten
everywhere from a median $p$-value
standpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343--2347
B. M. Golam Kibria On preliminary test ridge regression
estimators for linear restrictions in a
regression model with non-normal
disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2349--2369
Yoshikazu Takada and
Makoto Aoshiina Two-stage procedures for the difference
of two multinormal means with covariance
matrices different only by unknown
scalar multipliers . . . . . . . . . . . 2371--2379
Vani H. Sundaraiyer Estimation of a process capability index
for inverse Gaussian distribution . . . 2381--2393
Dejian Lai and
Wenyaw Chan A note on asymptotic distribution of
permutation statistics from mixing
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2395--2401
M. S. Srivastava Economical process adjustment with
sampling interval . . . . . . . . . . . 2403--2430
Neil Klar Stratified analysis of correlated binary
outcome data: a comparison of model
dependent and robust tests of
significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2431--2458
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Robert V. Hogg and
James A. Calvin Preface: the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics Central Regional Meeting: A
meeting in honor of Robert V. Hogg . . . 2459--2465
Ronald H. Randies and
James A. Calvin The professional contributions of Robert
V. Hogg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2467--2481
Robert V. Hogg Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2483--2484
Robert V. Hogg Thanks for the memories . . . . . . . . 2485--2491
David Madigan and
Steen A. Andersson and
Michael D. Perlman and
Chris T. Volinsky Bayesian model averaging and model
selection for Markov equivalence classes
of acyclic digraphs . . . . . . . . . . 2493--2519
David W. Scott and
Gerald Whittaker Multivariate applications of the ASH in
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2521--2530
John A. Cornell and
Douglas C. Montgomery Fitting models to data: Interaction
versus polynomial? Your choice . . . . . 2531--2555
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Jiannong Wang Marginally oversaturated designs . . . . 2557--2573
Joseph W. McKean and
Joshua D. Naranjo and
Simon J. Sheather An efficient and high breakdown
procedure for model criticism . . . . . 2575--2595
Marianthi Markatou Robust statistical inference: weighted
likelihoods or usual $m$-estimation? . . 2597--2613
Douglas G. Simpson and
Raymond J. Carroll and
Minge Xie and
Daniel J. Guth Weighted logistic regression and robust
analysis of diverse toxicology data . . 2615--2632
Stephen B. Vardeman Independent student projects in
undergraduate engineering statistics and
quality control courses . . . . . . . . 2633--2646
Thomas L. Moore Using student projects in an
introductory course for liberal arts
students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2647--2661
John D. Spurrier and
Don Edwards and
Lori A. Thombs Elementary statistics laboratory . . . . 2663--2673
Lora L. Bohn A review of nonparametric ranked-set
sampling methodology . . . . . . . . . . 2675--2685
Paul R. Rosenbaum Sensitivity analysis for two control
groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2687--2698
W. D. Kaigh Random partition indicator and spacing
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2699--2722
Enrique Del Castillo and
James M. Grayson and
Douglas C. Montgomery and
George C. Runger A review of statistical process control
techniques for short run manufacturing
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2723--2737
Peter R. Nelson and
Paul L. Stephenson Runs tests for group control charts . . 2739--2765
Harry V. Roberts and
Ruey S. Tsay Making control charts more effective by
time series analysis: three illustrative
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2767--2796
Rick L. Edgeman Sprt and cusum results for inverse
Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . 2797--2806
Arthur Cohen and
H. B. Sackrowitz Tests for the umbrella alternative under
normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2807--2817
S. Chakraborti and
T. P. Hettmansperger Multi-sample inference for the
simple-tree alternative based on
one-sample confidence intervals . . . . 2819--2837
Robert B. Miller A future for statistics education --- we
will do more with less . . . . . . . . . 2839--2851
J. Laurie Snell Teaching a chance course . . . . . . . . 2853--2862
Joan B. Garfield Assessing student learning in the
context of evaluating a chance course 2863--2873
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Nariaki Sugiura and
Yoshiharu Takagi Dominating James--Stein positive-part
estimator for normal mean with unknown
covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 2875--2900
Judith A. Giles and
David E. A. Giles and
Kazuhiro Ohtani The exact risks of some pre-test and
Stein-type regression estimators under
balanced loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2901--2924
J. M. Vilar Fernandez and
W. Gonzalez Manteiga Bootstrap test of goodness of fit to a
linear model when errors are correlated 2925--2953
Myung Genu Kim Local influence in Box--Cox
transformation for multivariate
regression data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2955--2969
P. J. Davy and
J. C. W. Rayner Multivariate geometric distributions . . 2971--2987
J. P. Koolaard and
C. R. O. Lawoko The linear and Euclidean discriminant
functions: a comparison via asymptotic
expansions and simulation study . . . . 2989--3011
Wim P. Krijnen and
Tom Wansbeek and
Jos M. F. ten Berge Best linear predictors for factor scores 3013--3025
R. H. Glendinning Identifying infinite variance ARMA
models using a robust
Pukkila--Koreisha--Kallinen strategy . . 3027--3047
Kazuhiro Ohtani On an adjustment of degrees of freedom
in the minimum mean squared error
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3049--3058
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Alan D. Hutson The exponentiated Weibull family: some
properties and a flood data application 3059--3083
Christof Schuster and
Reinhard Meisier Benchmarks derived from quantitative
endpoints --- an approach accounting for
litter effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3085--3099
Peter H. Westfall and
Mithat Gönen Asymptotic properties of ANOVA Bayes
factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3101--3123
B. N. Pandey and
B. P. Singh and
C. S. Mishra Bayes estimation of shape parameter of
classical Pareto distribution under
LIVEX loss function . . . . . . . . . . 3125--3145
Jayanta K. Ghosh and
Shrikant N. Joshi and
Ohiranjit Mukhopadhyay Asymptotics of a Bayesian approach to
estimating change-point in a hazard rate 3147--3166
Steven G. From A new goodness of fit test for the
equality of multinomial cell
probabilities versus trend alternatives 3167--3183
Guohua Pan Distribution-free tests for umbrella
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3185--3194
E. Vasantha Kumar and
T. Srivenkataramana and
K. P. Sri math Use of ranks in probability proportional
to size sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 3195--3215
Jianping Dong and
Qian Ye A minimum variance kernel estimator and
a discrete frequency polygon estimator
for ordinal contingency tables . . . . . 3217--3245
Anonymous Listing of referees for volume 25,
issues 1--12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3247--3250
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
William B. Smith Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
Kyoungah See and
Sung Y. Song and
John Stufken On a class of partially balanced
incomplete block designs with
applications in survey sampling . . . . 1--13
Mary Jane Emond and
John Ritz and
David Oakes Bias in GEE estimates from misspecified
models for longitudinal data . . . . . . 15--32
Shawn X. Liu Restricted optimal designs for linear
and quadratic polynomial regressions . . 33--46
Jitendra Ganju and
James M. Lucas Bias in test statistics when
restrictions in randomization are caused
by factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--63
Bart Michiels and
Geert Molenberghs Protective estimation of longitudinal
categorical data with nonrandom dropout 65--94
Koichi Inada and
Hea-Jung Kim On shrinkage to interval estimators of
the binomial $p$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--112
Qi-guang Wu and
Zhen-yu Jiang The existence of the uniformly minimum
risk equivariant estimator in sure model 113--128
Naoto Hoshino and
Seki Yoichi Nonparametric tests based on contrasts
for $d$-star, bipartite and broom tree
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
Lin Yuan and
H. K. Kesavan Bayesian estimation of Shannon entropy 139--148
Gregory A. Tripsiannis and
Andreas N. Philippou A new multivariate inverse Pólya
distribution of order $k$ . . . . . . . 149--158
Kerstin Vännman Distribution and moments in simplified
form for a general class of capability
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--179
Ulrich Menzefricke Estimation of the correlation among
destructively measured variables . . . . 181--195
Julie A. Letellier Rates of convergence for an estimator of
a density function based on Jacobi
polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--220
David P. M. Scollnik Inference concerning the size of the
zero class from an incomplete Poisson
sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--236
Andrew B. Lawson An angular-radial dependence model for
point process data . . . . . . . . . . . 237--245
Anil Kumar Dhawan and
Amar Nath Gill Simultaneous one-sided confidence
intervals for the ordered pairwise
differences of exponential location
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Mezbahur Rahman and
D. V. Gokhale and
Aman Ullah On testimation of a probability density:
the normal case . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--278
Denise A. Botter and
Gauss M. Cordeiro Bartlett corrections for generalized
linear models with dispersion covariates 279--307
Mark Carpenter and
Jaimie L. Hebert Estimating guaranteed lifetimes of
systems in a random environment . . . . 309--316
T. V. Ramanathan and
M. B. Rajarshi Testing homogeneity over time of a
parameter of a Markov sequence . . . . . 317--330
M. Safiul Haq and
B. M. Golam Kibria Predictive inference for linear and
multivariate linear models with $ {\rm
MA}(1) $ error processes . . . . . . . . 331--353
G. Bruce Schaalje and
Brian D. Beus A reliability index for presence-absence
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374
Simo Puntanen Some further results related to reduced
singular linear models . . . . . . . . . 375--385
Nai N. Chan and
Tsz-Kit Keung Linear hypotheses made explicit . . . . 387--400
Thierry Duchesne and
Jacques Rioux and
Andrew Luong Minimum Cramér--von Mises distance
methods for complete and grouped data 401--420
Rafael Herrerías Pleguezuelo and
Federico Palacios González and
José Caliejón Céspedes A new condition to check the
independence of random variables . . . . 421--428
P. Damien and
P. W. Laud and
A. F. M. Smith Bayesian estimation of unimodal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--440
William E. Griffiths Bayesian predictors for an $ {\rm AR}(1)
$ error model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--448
Patricia Pepple Williamson and
Sharon E. Navard A Bayesian approach for testing
periodicity of dichotomous observations 449--468
F. López-Blázquez and
I. Barranco-Chamorro and
J. L. Moreno-Rebollo UMVU estimation for certain family of
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 469--482
L. Pardo and
D. Morales and
M. Salicrú and
M. L. Menéndez Large sample behavior of entropy
measures when parameters are estimated 483--501
Yasushi Nagata Stein type confidence interval of the
disturbance variance in a linear
regression model with multivariate
Student-$t$ distributed errors . . . . . 503--523
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Keith E. Muller and
Mario chen Mok The distribution of Cook's $d$ statistic 525--546
Maher B. Qumsiyeh Asymptotic expansion for weighted least
squares in linear regression models . . 547--558
Andrew A. Neath and
Joseph E. Cavanaugh Regression and time series model
selection using variants of the Schwarz
information criterion . . . . . . . . . 559--580
Ji\vrí Andél On extrapolation in some non-linear $
{\rm AR}(1) $ processes . . . . . . . . 581--587
Hajime Yamato On the Donnelly--Tavaré--Griffiths
formula associated with the coalescent 589--599
Jun Yu Uniform convergence rates for a nearest
neighbor density estimator under
dependence assumptions . . . . . . . . . 601--616
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Kalyan Das Generalized linear models for beta
correlated binary longitudinal data . . 617--635
Anwar M. Hossain and
Shyamal K. Nath Estimation of parameters in the presence
of outliers for a Burr XII distribution 637--652
Dinesh S. Bhoj Estimation of parameters of the extreme
value distribution using ranked set
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--667
F. J. Alonso and
J. M. Angulo and
M. C. Bueso Application of EM-type algorithms to
spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--683
Malwane M. A. Ananda Bayesian methods for mark-resighting
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--697
Timothy C. Krehbiel and
Donald A. Anderson Sequential analysis of $ 3^m $
supersaturated factorial experiments . . 699--713
G. Edward Miller and
Carol J. Feltz Asymptotic inference for coefficients of
variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--726
Yue Wang and
Lawrence L. Kupper Optimal sample sizes for estimating the
difference in means between two normal
populations treating confidence interval
length as a random variable . . . . . . 727--741
Naurang Singh Mangat and
Ravindra Singh and
Sarjinder Singh Violation of respondent's privacy in
Moors' model --- its rectification
through a random group strategy . . . . 743--754
Guoliang Cao and
Mike West Computing distributions of order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--764
Uwe Schmid Percentile estimators for the
three-parameter Weibull distribution for
use when all parameters are unknown . . 765--785
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Jiti Gao Adaptive parametric test in a
semiparametric regression model . . . . 787--800
M. E. Ghitany and
S. Zhou Asymptotic results for exponential
failure models with imperfect signalling
and covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--820
Wing K. Fung and
M. K. Tang Assessment of local influence in
multivariate regression analysis . . . . 821--837
Keith E. Muller and
Virginia B. Pasour Bias in linear model power and sample
size due to estimating variance . . . . 839--851
Ingrid Van Keilegom and
Noël Veraverbeke Weak convergence of the bootstrapped
conditional Kaplan--Meier process and
its quantile process . . . . . . . . . . 853--869
Kanwar Sen and
Ritu Jain A multivariate generalized
Pólya--Eggenberger probability model ---
first passage approach . . . . . . . . . 871--884
Kangkyun Kim and
Robert V. Foutz Kolmogorov-type tests of goodness-of-fit
against stochastic ordering . . . . . . 885--897
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner Goodness of fit for the ordered
categories discrete uniform distribution 899--909
David D. Hanagal Estimation of reliability when stress is
censored at strength . . . . . . . . . . 911--919
Weiren Wang and
Douglas C. Bice A model with mixed binary responses and
censored observations . . . . . . . . . 921--941
Narinder Kumar A class of two-sample tests for location
based on sub-sample medians . . . . . . 943--951
Tom Britton Limit theorems and tests for within
family clustering in epidemic models . . 953--976
Aiyi Liu On the maximum likelihood estimate for
the drift of Brownian motion following a
symmetric sequential probability ratio
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--989
Antonio Ciampi and
Yves Lechevallier Statistical models as building blocks of
neural networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1009
Ulf Strömberg and
Nedjad Losic and
Jan Lanke Incorporation of a stopping criterion
for futility into the design of a
clinical trial with one interim analysis 1011--1030
Nikolai Kolev and
Leda Minkova Discrete distributions related to
success runs of length $k$ in
multi-state Markov chain . . . . . . . . 1031--1049
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Jong Hyup Lee and
Dong Wan Shin Maximum likelihood estimation for ARMA
models in the presence of ARMA errors 1057--1072
Yuk W. Cheng and
Deborah J. Street Constructions for optimal
non-strongly-balanced change-over
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1082
Yuk W. Cheng and
Deborah J. Street The CGMANOVA Model . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1098
M. Menéndez and
M. Salicrú and
D. Morales and
L. Pardo Divergence measures between populations:
applications in the exponential family 1099--1117
Martin Bilodeau Estimating a multivariate treatment
effect under a biased allocation rule 1119--1124
Michael Evans Bayesian inference procedures derived
via the concept of relative surprise . . 1125--1143
Anoop Chaturvedi and
Hikaru Hasegawa and
Sheel Asthana Bayesian analysis of the linear
regression model with an Edgeworth
series prior distribution . . . . . . . 1145--1164
Li Linxiong Large sample nonparametric estimation of
the mean residual life . . . . . . . . . 1165--1182
André Lucas Robustness of the Student $t$ based
$M$-estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165--1182
Robert J. Blodgett Adding functions to ensure regression
converges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1214
K. Govindaraju Conditional single sampling procedure 1215--1225
Tran Van Hoa and
Anoop Chaturvedi Performance of the 2SHI estimator under
the generalised Pitman nearness
criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227--1238
David D. Hanagal Tests for bivariate exponentiality
against BHNBUE alternatives . . . . . . 1239--1252
M. S. Srivastava and
Yanhong Wu Evaluation of optimum weights and
average run lengths in EWMA control
schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253--1267
J. H. M. Verheijen and
F. P. A. Coolent and
P. van der Laan Combining two classical approaches for
statistical selection . . . . . . . . . 1291--1312
Bing-Yi Jing On the relative performance of the block
bootstrap for dependent data . . . . . . 1313--1328
W. J. Braun and
R. J. Kulperger Properties of a Fourier bootstrap method
for time series . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329--1336
C. W. Kwan and
W. K. Fung Further influence measures in factor
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337--1353
Getachew Asfaw Dagne and
S. James Press Bayesian prediction for small areas
using SUR models . . . . . . . . . . . . 1355--1379
Samprit Chatterjee and
Martin Mächler Robust regression: a weighted least
squares approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1394
Kenneth P. Burnham Distributional results for special cases
of the Jolly--Seber model . . . . . . . 1395--1409
V. K. Singh A generalised stochastic model for the
most recent inter-arrival time . . . . . 1411--1424
Robert M. Kunst Fourth-order moments of augmented arch
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425--1441
Sung-ho Kim Iterative proportional fitting for
nonhierarchical log-linear models . . . 1443--1460
Philip Hans Franses and
Michael McAleer Testing nested and non-nested
periodically integrated autoregressive
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461--1475
G. V. S. R. Anjaneyulu and
D. N. Varma and
V. L. Narasimham A note on second order slope rotatable
designs over all directions . . . . . . 1477--1479
Martin Kulldorff A spatial scan statistic . . . . . . . . 1481--1496
Shiyong Feng and
Guohua Zou Sample rotation method with auxiliary
variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497--1509
R. J. Martin Low-order spatially-distinct latin
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1511--1539
Arturo J. Fernández and
José I. Bravo and
Íñigo De Fuentes Lifetime estimation from doubly censored
data and Dirichlet process prior
knowledge on the observable random
vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541--1558
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Nairanjana Dasgupta and
John D. Spurrier A class of multivariate chi-square
distributions with applications to
comparison with a control . . . . . . . 1559--1573
Yu Shyr and
Anant M. Kshirsagar Stepwise canonical analysis in
categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575--1583
Kunio Shimizu and
Nobuharu Nishii and
Mihoko Minami The multivariate inverse trinomial
distribution as a Lagrangian probability
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1585--1598
Younshik Chung and
Chansoo Kim Simultaneous estimation of the
multivariate normal mean under balanced
loss function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1599--1611
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Arun Kumar Adhikary and
Arup Kumar Seal Small domain estimation by empirical
Bayes and Kalman filtering procedures
--- a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1621
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Marshall Preimer and
Alan D. Hutson On the efficiencies of some common quick
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623--1647
Eugene Dernidenko and
Spiegelman Donna A paradox: more measurement error can
lead to more efficient estimates . . . . 1649--1675
Tom Smith and
Penelope Vounatsou Logistic regression and latent class
models for estimating positivities in
diagnostic assays with poor resolution 1677--1700
Ana F. Militino and
M. Dolores Ugarfe A GM estimation of the location
parameters in a spatial linear model . . 1701--1725
Kazuo Nishimura and
Masaaki Sibuya Extended Stirling family of discrete
probability distributions . . . . . . . 1727--1744
Jan Christoffersson Resampling the autocovariance estimator
in stationary Gaussian processes . . . . 1745--1766
Ashish Das and
Sudhir Gupta Optimal block designs for triallel cross
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1777
B. B. Khare and
S. Srivastava Transformed ratio type estimators for
the population mean in the presence of
nonresponse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779--1791
Sarjinder Singh and
N. S. Mangat and
Ravindra Singh Estimation of size and mean of a
sensitive quantitative variable for a
sub-group of a population . . . . . . . 1793--1804
Arijit Chaudhuri On a pragmatic modification of survey
sampling in three stages . . . . . . . . 1805--1810
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Jie Zhang and
Dennis D. Boos Generalized Cochran--Mantel--Haenszel
test statistics for correlated
categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1813--1837
Bhaskar Bhattacharya Testing multinomial parameters under
order restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . 1839--1865
Hany Zayed and
Dana Quade A note on the distribution of the
resistance of rank tests . . . . . . . . 1867--1875
Hammou El Barmi Testing for or against a trend in odds
ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877--1891
Hyun Suk Lee Random effects models for count data . . 1893--1904
Raul P. Mentz and
Pedro A. Morettin and
Clélia M. C. Toloi Residual variance estimation in moving
average models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1905--1923
Yoshikazu Takada Effects of correlated disturbances of
some regression problems . . . . . . . . 1925--1935
Donal P. Krouse Admissible minimum bias estimation of
response surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 1937--1949
Claudine Legault and
Timothy M. Morgan Analyzing multiple end points with a
two-stage design in clinical trials . . 1951--1969
M. A. Fernández and
C. Rueda and
B. Salvador On the maximum likelihood estimator
under order restrictions in uniform
probability models . . . . . . . . . . . 1971--1980
Peter F. Craigmile and
D. M. Tirrerington Parameter estimation for finite mixtures
of uniform distributions . . . . . . . . 1981--1995
Ching-Cheng Wang and
Stuart Jay Deutsch Existence conditions for purely spatial
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1997--2007
Hajime Yamato A generalization of the
Donnelly--Tavaré--Griffiths formula . . . 2009--2019
Shuanglin Zhang and
Qiuying Sha On the best equivariant estimator of
covariance matrix of a multivariate
normal population . . . . . . . . . . . 2021--2034
Dipak K. Dey and
Sumitra Purkayastha Bayesian approach to change point
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2035--2047
Kerstin Vännman A general class of capability indices in
the case of asymmetric tolerances . . . 2049--2072
Anonymous Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 2073--2074
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Jürgen Groß and
Götz Trenkler On the equality of usual and Amemiya's
partially generalized least squares
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2075--2086
K. G. Janardan A wider class of Lagrange distributions
of the second kind . . . . . . . . . . . 2087--2091
Lin-An Chen and
Tzong- Shi Lee and
Wenyaw Chan Tensor product polynomial splines . . . 2093--2111
Darrell Radson The moving-range chart and
autocorrelated processes . . . . . . . . 2113--2127
Jerzy Bartos and
Marek Kaluszka Note on an improvement in two stage
sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 2129--2139
JÉRÔ Me Saracco An asymptotic theory for sliced inverse
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2141--2171
Larry Z. Shen and
Hussein R. Al- Khalidi Application of boundary calculation
methodologies to group sequential
testing in general parametric models . . 2173--2190
B. N. Pandey Testimator of the scale parameter of the
exponential distribution using LINEX
loss function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2191--2202
Nariaki Sugiura and
Hiroki Ishibayashi Reference prior Bayes estimator for
bivariate normal covariance matrix with
risk comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . 2203--2221
Kitagawa Genshiro Information criteria for the predictive
evaluation of Bayesian models . . . . . 2223--2246
M. S. Ahmed The general class of chain estimators
for the ratio of two means using double
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2247--2254
T. P. Tripathi and
B. B. Khare Estimation of mean vector in presence of
non-response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2255--2269
C. H. Tsairidis and
K. Zografos and
K. Ferentinos Fisher's information matrix and $ \phi
$-divergence for finite and optimal
partitions of the sample space . . . . . 2271--2289
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Chul Gyu Park and
Taesung Park and
Dong Wan Shin Analysis of ordered covariate effects
among groups with repeated measurements 2291--2301
Paul Kabaila Admissible variable-selection procedures
when fitting misspecified regression
models by least squares . . . . . . . . 2299--2306
Heleno Bolfarine and
Claudia R. O. P. Lima and
Monica C. Sandoval Linear calibration in functional
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 2307--2328
Luo Xiaolong and
James M. Boyett Estimations of a threshold parameter in
Cox regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2329--2346
Josemar Rodrigues and
Heleno Bolfarine and
Gauss M. Cordeiro Nonlinear quasi-Bayesian theory and
inverse linear regression . . . . . . . 2347--2361
André Lucas Asymptotic robustness of least median of
squares for autoregressions with
additive outliers . . . . . . . . . . . 2363--2380
Fabio H. Nieto A note on interpolation of ARIMA
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2381--2392
Yanqing Sun Weak convergence of the generalized
parametric empirical processes and
goodness-of-fit tests for parametric
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2393--2413
Parimal Mukhopadhyay Note on UMVSU-estimation under
randomized response model . . . . . . . 2415--2420
R. Calabria and
G. Pulcini Bayes inference for the modulated power
law process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2421--2438
N. S. Kambo and
B. R. Handa and
V. Ravindranath Estimation of the smaller and larger of
truncation parameters of two nonregular
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2439--2456
Andrea Cerioli Comparing three partitions: an
inferential approach based on multi-way
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 2457--2471
Junfang Li and
Jagdish N. Srivastava Optimal $ 2^n $ factorial designs of
parallel flats type . . . . . . . . . . 2473--2488
Sy-Mien Chen and
W. L. Pearn The asymptotic distribution of the
estimated process capability index $
C_{pk} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2489--2497
S. E. Ahmed To pool or not to pool the proportion in
randomized response surveys . . . . . . 2499--2525
Pranesh Kumar and
S. K. Agarwal Alternative estimators for the
population totals in multiple
characteristic surveys . . . . . . . . . 2527--2537
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Takahiro Tsuchiya and
Sadanori Konishi General saddlepoint approximations and
normalizing transformations for
multivariate statistics . . . . . . . . 2541--2563
Sisir Kumar Samanta and
Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee Variable selection for discrimination
among several populations . . . . . . . 2565--2582
C. T. Jose and
B. Ismail Estimation of jump points in
nonparametric regression through
residual analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 2583--2607
Li Linxiong and
Qiqing Yu Self-consistent estimators of survival
functions with doubly-censored data . . 2609--2621
Roberto Baragona and
Francesco Battaglia Testing time series for interpolability
and whiteness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2623--2644
Hidekazu Takeuchi A generalized inverse regression
estimator in multi-univariate linear
calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2645--2669
P. N. Jani and
A. Shanubhogue and
K. Muralidharan Some tests for a Poisson process and
their powers with respect to trend in
the intensity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2671--2688
Julian De La Horra and
Maria Teresa Rodriguez-Bernal Asymptotic behaviour of the posterior
predictive $p$-value . . . . . . . . . . 2689--2699
Pinyuen Chen and
Jun-Lue Zhang An integrated formulation for selecting
the best normal population: the common
and unknown variance case . . . . . . . 2701--2723
Choongrak Kim and
Changkon Hong and
Meeseon Jeong and
Meeyoung Yang Goodness-of-fit test for density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2725--2741
Helena Geys and
Geert Molenberghs and
Louise M. Ryan Pseudo-likelihood inference for
clustered binary data . . . . . . . . . 2743--2767
Camino Gonzalez and
Jesus Juan Obtaining the confounding pattern for $
2^{k - p} $ experiments . . . . . . . . 2769--2777
Adriana Perez and
John J. Lefante Sample size determination and the effect
of censoring when estimating the
arithmetic mean of a lognormal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2779--2801
M. Ahsanullah and
Mohamed Habibullah Test of independence of a class of
bivariate distributions based on mutual
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2803--2816
A. Sahli and
P. Trecourt and
S. Robin One sided acceptance sampling by
variables: the case of the Laplace
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2817--2834
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K. G. Russell and
S. M. Lewis Efficient cross-over designs allowing a
check on the assumption that direct and
carry-over effects do not interact . . . 2835--2854
Yu Shyr and
Anant M. Kshirsagar A formula for a missing plot in a
general incomplete block design, when
recovery of interblock information is
used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2855--2860
Jeffrey S. Buz as Instrumental variable estimation in
nonlinear measurement error models . . . 2861--2877
S. Lauer and
J. Timmer and
D. van Calker and
D. Maier and
J. Honerkamp Optimal weighted Bayesian design applied
to dose-response-curve analysis . . . . 2879--2903
M. S. Srivastava Cusum procedure for monitoring
variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2905--2926
R. L. Streit and
Luginbuhl T. E. Estimation of Gaussian mixtures with
rotationally invariant covariance
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2927--2944
Hsing Yi Chang and
Chirayath M. Stichindran Testing overdispersion in data with
censoring using the mixture of
exponential families . . . . . . . . . . 2945--2966
Chu-Ohih Chen Rank transformations when covariables
are measured with error or mismodelled 2967--2982
P. Delicado and
M. Del Rio Weighted nonparametric regression . . . 2983--2998
Jianbin Chen and
Igor Zurbenko Nonparametric boundary detection . . . . 2999--3014
Hideyuki Douke Group sequential $ \chi^2 $ statistic
for testing the difference of two mean
vectors in clinical trials . . . . . . . 3015--3029
Kanwar Sen and
Sunil Kumar Mathur A bivariate signed rank test for two
sample location problem . . . . . . . . 3031--3050
Gary C. Brown Local influence regression diagnostics
for gamma data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3051--3067
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Biao Zhang Biao Zhang A note on kernel density estimation with
auxiliary information . . . . . . . . . 1--11
R. H. Glendinning Determining the order of an ARMA model
from outlier contaminated data . . . . . 13--40
M. M. Gabr Robust estimation of bilinear time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--53
Xuewei Cui and
Peter W. M. John Time-trend free run orders with the
minimum level changes . . . . . . . . . 55--68
Yilmaz Akdi and
David A. Dickey Periodograms of unit root time series:
distributions and tests . . . . . . . . 69--87
M. L. Aggarwal and
Anita Bansal Robust response surface design for
quantitative and qualitative factors . . 89--106
Göran Goran Arnoldsson A comparison of design alternatives for
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 107--120
Lúcia P. Barroso and
Wilton O. Bussab and
Martin Knott Best linear unbiased predictor in the
mixed model with incomplete data . . . . 121--129
Selahattin Kaçiranlar and
Sadullah Sakallio\uglu and
Fikri Akdeniz Mean squared error comparisons of the
modified ridge regression estimator and
the restricted ridge regression
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--138
K. Venkateswarlu and
K. N. Ponnuswamy Estimation of variance components based
on bio-model of dial lei crosses
(balanced) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--152
Damaraju Raghavarao and
Bei Zhou Universal optimality of UE 3-designs for
a competing effects model . . . . . . . 153--164
O. Gaudoin CPIT goodness-of-fit tests for the
power-law process . . . . . . . . . . . 165--180
Ursula Gather and
Jörg Pawlitschko On Efron's and Gill's version of the
Kaplan--Meier integral . . . . . . . . . 181--192
Shahjahan Khan and
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh Comparison of estimators of means based
on $p$-samples from multivariate
Student-$t$ population . . . . . . . . . 193--210
B. Q. Fang Prior information in optimal allocation
for multinomial population . . . . . . . 211--222
M. E. Ghitany On a recent generalization of gamma
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--233
Kai Fun Yu On estimating subpopulation means . . . 235--273
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Carroll J. Diaz, Jr. and
William D. Johnson An $F$-test for multivariate repeated
measures data with the Wiener stochastic
process pattern in the covariance matrix 275--289
Choongrak Kim and
Woochul Kim Some diagnostic results in nonparametric
density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 291--303
Yoshihiko Maesono An asymptotic representation of a ratio
of two statistics and its applications 305--327
Ding-Hwa Lei and
Stephen B. Vardeman The LRT method of constructing a
two-sided ``variables'' acceptance
region and its comparison with other
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--351
Manuel Morais and
Isabel Natário Improving an upper one-sided $c$-chart 353--364
Ralph A. DeMasi and
Bahjat Qaqish and
Pranab Kumar Sen A family of bivariate failure time
distributions with proportional crude
and conditional hazards . . . . . . . . 365--384
R. P. Gupta and
P. G. Sankaran Bivariate equilibrium distribution and
its applications to reliability . . . . 385--394
Weichung J. Shih and
Jianmin Long Blinded sample size re-estimation with
unequal variances and center effects in
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--408
Chun Jin and
Robert H. Crouse An identity for exponential
distributions with the common location
parameter and its applications . . . . . 409--422
Y. P. Mack Testing for the shoulder condition in
transect sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 423--432
I. B. J. Goudie and
Kenneth H. Pollock and
J. Ashbridge A plant-capture approach for population
size estimation in continuous time . . . 433--451
Huaizhen Qin and
Hengjian Cui and
Yong Li The N.S. conditions for the ratio of two
quadratic forms to have an
$F$-distribution and its applications 453--471
Glen Meeden and
Charles Geyer and
Joseph Long and
Eiichiro Funa The admissibility of the maximum
likelihood estimator for decomposable
log-linear interaction models for
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 473--493
Werner Hürlimann On the characterization of maximum
likelihood estimators for location-scale
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--508
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Silvia L. P. Ferrari Generalized Bartlett correction . . . . 509--527
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Toshio Honda Testing the goodness of fit of a linear
model by kernel regression . . . . . . . 529--546
Alexandre Varbanov Bayesian approach to outlier detection
in multivariate normal samples and
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--557
Tianyong Long and
Rameshwar D. Gupta Alternative linear classification rules
under order restrictions . . . . . . . . 559--575
Yu Shyr A canonical form of Anderson's
classification statistic . . . . . . . . 577--587
E. Gómez and
M. A. Gomez-Viilegas and
J. M. Marín A multivariate generalization of the
power exponential family of
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--600
Donald Lien and
David Rearden Cross moments of extreme observations
from a multivariate lognormal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--607
M. Menendez and
D. Morales and
L. Pardo and
I. Vajda Two approaches to grouping of data and
related disparity statistics . . . . . . 609--633
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
C. A. Rodenberg Estimating an ROC curve in the presence
of non-ignorable verification bias . . . 635--657
Changsoon Park Design of and EWMA charts in a variance
components model . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--672
Anonymous On the number of near-records after the
maximum observation in a continuous
sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--686
L. H. Kao and
S. Chakraborti Nonparametric procedures for comparing
treatments with a control in a
randomized complete block design . . . . 687--704
Pilar H. García-Soidán Edgeworth expansions for triangular
arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--722
Louise Swift The distribution of the low frequency
periodogram ordinates of fractionally
differenced series and their inclusion
in two estimators of the differencing
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--745
I. D. Shetty and
Z. Govindarajulu and
Sharada V. Bhat A class of distribution-free tests for
testing homogeneity against ordered
location alternatives . . . . . . . . . 747--760
Anil Rai and
A. K. Srivastava Estimation of regression coefficient
from survey data based on test of
significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--773
Anonymous Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 775--775
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Wei Pan and
Rick Chappell Estimating survival curves with left
truncated and interval censored data via
the EMS algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 777--793
Robert H. Lyles and
Lawrence L. Kupper Umvu estimators for the population mean
and variance based on random effects
models for lognormal data . . . . . . . 795--818
Hua Liang and
Yong Zhou A modified estimator of error variance
in a partly linear model . . . . . . . . 819--825
Nizam Uddin On optimal two-period repeated
measurements designs . . . . . . . . . . 827--837
Kyoungah See and
Eric P. Smith Testing interaction in three-way ANOVA
tables with a single observation per
cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839--866
O. Frank and
M. L. Menendez and
L. Pardo Asymptotic distributions of weighted
divergence between discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--885
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Pushpa L. Gupta and
Rameshwar D. Gupta Modeling failure time data by Lehman
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--904
Kerstin Wiklander A comparison of two estimators of
dispersion effects . . . . . . . . . . . 905--923
D. J. Dupuis and
M. Tsao A hybrid estimator for generalized
Pareto and extreme-value distributions 925--941
Karim F. Hirji and
Man-Lai Tang A comparison of tests for trend . . . . 943--963
Jae-Hak Lim and
Kun-Liang Lu and
Dong Ho Park Bayesian imperfect repair model . . . . 965--984
W. L. Pearn and
G. H. Lin and
K. S. Chen Distributional and inferential
properties of the process accuracy and
process precision indices . . . . . . . 985--1000
Ramalingam Shanmugam Index method of determining the sample
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Charles J. Colbourn and
Alan C. H. Ling A class of partial triple systems with
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James R. Ohearn Estimating realized random effects . . . 1021--1048
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P. C. Joshi Alternating sums of sub-diagonal product
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M. Molina and
M. González and
M. Mota Bayesian inference for bisexual
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T. Cipra Robust recursive estimation in nonlinear
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Sahib Esa and
Georgi Boshnakov Sufficient statistics for ARMA models
with some fixed parameters . . . . . . . 1083--1099
A. Vijay Kumar and
B. Krishna Kumar and
B. Thilaka On semi-Markov compartmental models with
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Shafeeqah A. Al-Awadhi and
Paul H. Garthwaite An elicitation method for multivariate
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Peter Wessman Some principles for surveillance adopted
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Jae-Hak Lim and
Dong Ho Park A family of tests for trend change in
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Chih-Hsiang Ho Repeated significance tests on
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Sunho Lee Detecting departures from a Poisson
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Rafael Herrerías Pleguezuelo and
Federico Palacios González and
José Callejón Céspedes Using generator function system to check
independence of random variables . . . . 1211--1219
Ian R. Dunsmore and
Zeinab H. Amin Some prediction problems concerning
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Marc S. Paolella and
Svetlozar T. Rachev A tail estimator for the index of the
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Ivan S. F. Chan and
Norman R. Bohidar Exact power and sample size for vaccine
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Weichung J. Shin Group sequential designs using both Type
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categorical data by incorporating
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K. F. Cheng and
H. M. Hsueh and
T. H. Chien Goodness of fit tests with misclassified
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Tai-shing Lau Mixture models in hazard rates
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David M. Whipple and
Charles S. Ho Evaluation of statistical equivalence
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Jen-pei Liu Statistical evaluation of individual
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Jun Shao and
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Roger P. Qu Least squares estimation of regression
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Dale Song and
Weng Kee Wong Optimal two-point designs for the
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Xiaodong Wang Bayesian forecasting and detecting
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Qiqing Yu and
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Terence P. Speed Stochastic modeling of the crossover
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Weng Kee Wong Multiple-objective optimal designs for
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Jan G. De Gooijer Nonparametric forecasting: a comparison
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Yuri Sekiya and
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James H. O. Matis On the coefficient of variation for
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P. David Wilson Longitudinal Poisson regression with
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Alessandra Guglielmi and
Eugenio Melilli Non-informative invariant priors yield
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Ross H. Taplin The reverse Kalman filter . . . . . . . 2547--2558
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Júlia T. Fukushima and
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Ioannis G. Vlachonikolis On the distribution of quadratic forms
and applications in the analysis of
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Robert J. Gray On regression analysis with incomplete
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R. Daniel Meyer and
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Stephen Blyth and
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Jiti Gao and
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Debasis Kundu Hybrid censoring schemes with
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Vic Barnett and
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Paul S. F. Yip The use of a mixture model for
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Arjun K. Gupta and
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F. Lombard A rank test for constancy of a location
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Nariaki Sugiura Generalized Bayes and multiple contrasts
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Debra L. Hydorn and
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Tatsuya Kubokawa Shrinkage and modification techniques in
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Akimichi Takemura and
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Yasunori Fujikoshi Simultaneous confidence intervals in an
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Bimal K. Sinha Exact confidence intervals for a common
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Yoshikazu Takada Lower bounds on the Bayes risk EOR
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Masataka Doi Wald statistic for homogeneity of
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Yasunori Fujikoshi and
Takashi Seo Asymptotic expansions for the joint
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Yutaka Kano Delta method approach in a certain
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Ken-ichi Koike A lower bound for the Bayes risk in the
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Hisao Nagao The risks for usual sequential estimates
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Naoto Niki Vector field representation of
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K. B. Kulasekera Crossing points of failure rates . . . . 87--104
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Getachew Asfaw Dagne Bayesian analysis of hierarchical
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E. Isogai A sequential procedure for estimating
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H. Fujisawa Effects of unpaired data for estimating
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Frédéric Chateau Structured discriminant analysis . . . . 255--266
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K. Srinivasa Rao On a bivariate Poisson distribution . . 267--276
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for interval-scaled data . . . . . . . . 277--296
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Guorui Bian Estimating parameters in autoregressive
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Kiyoshi Inoue Asymptotic improvement of the
Graybill--Deal estimator . . . . . . . . 389--407
Mihoko Minami Inverse relationship and limiting forms
of Lagrange distributions . . . . . . . 409--429
Efthymios G. Tsionas Bayesian analysis of the multivariate
Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 431--451
Pier Luigi Conti and
Yakov Nikitin Asymptotic efficiency of independence
tests based on Gini's rank association
coefficient, Spearman's footrule and
their generalizations . . . . . . . . . 453--465
Jack C. Yue and
Murray K. Clayton Comparing the number of species in two
populations: group sampling case . . . . 467--477
Cristina Azcárate and
Fermín Mallor A nonparametric estimator from autopsy
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--494
Patricia Gimenez and
Heleno Bolfarine and
Enrico A. Colosimo Estimation in Weibull regression model
with measurement error . . . . . . . . . 495--510
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of observations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1020
Daniel B. Hall On Gee-based regression estimators under
first moment misspecification . . . . . 1021--1042
Anthony W. Hughes and
Maxwell L. King An iterative approach to variable
selection based on the Kullback--Leibler
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1057
Seongbaek Yi and
Byoung Seon Choi Solving $2$-D Wiener filtering problem
using the block Cholesky decomposition 1059--1072
Hani M. Samawi and
Raed R. K. Abu Awwad Power estimation for two sample tests
using balanced resampling . . . . . . . 1073--1092
Shuanglin Zhang and
Zhongguo Zheng On the asymptotic normality for $ L_2
$-error of wavelet density estimator
with application . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1104
Yoshiyuki Tsuda The approximation of an unbiased test
with a small level for the
bioequivalence problem . . . . . . . . . 1105--1114
Chris J. Lloyd Estimating a frequency distribution when
the sampling is biased . . . . . . . . . 1115--1132
Tonghui Wang and
Ruichan He An alternative proof for a version of
Cochran's theorem under elliptical
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1144
T. Barranco-Chamorro and
F. Lopez-Blazquez and
J. L. Moreno-Rebollo Estimation in uniform distributions
using orthogonal polynomials . . . . . . 1145--1167
S. N. Nandi and
M. Sreehari Some improvements in Taguchi's economic
method allowing continued quality
deterioration in production process . . 1169--1181
Przeniys\law Grzegorzewski and
Robert Wieczorkowski Entropy-based goodness-of-fit test for
exponentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183--1202
T. H. Jelenkowska Bayesian estimation of the intraclass
correlation coefficients in multivariate
mixed linear model . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1215
Luis Firinguetti A generalized ridge regression estimator
and its finite sample properties . . . . 1217--1229
Ömer Öztürk One-and two-sample sign tests for ranked
set sample selective designs . . . . . . 1231--1245
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Brent D. Burch and
Ian R. Harris Bayesian estimators of the intraclass
correlation coefficient in the one-way
random effects model . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1272
Shunpu Zhang and
Laisheng Wei A note on the convergence rates for
empirical Bayes estimators of parameters
in multiple-parameter exponential
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1291
Baibing Li and
Bart De Moor A family of adaptive robust estimates
based on the symmetrical generalized
logistic distribution . . . . . . . . . 1293--1310
Peijie Wang Phase-shifting common cycles and common
trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311--1329
Moti L. Tiku and
Wing Keung Wong and
Guorui Bian Time series models with asymmetric
innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1360
Monica E. Dumitrescu and
Norma Faris Hubele An entropic framework for the normal
distribution in capability analysis . . 1361--1377
Dirk Nasri-Roudsari Limit distributions of generalized order
statistics under power normalization . . 1379--1389
Sylvio José P. dos Santos and
Gauss M. Cordeiro Corrected Wald test statistics for
one-parameter exponential family models 1391--1414
Mark Finkelstein and
Howard G. Tucker and
Jerry Alan Veeh Confidence intervals for $n$ in the
exponential order statistics problem . . 1415--1433
Mark Kamstra An observation on regression-based
specification tests . . . . . . . . . . 1435--1446
Pau Salsas and
Montserrat Guillen and
Ramon Alemany Perfect value and outlier detection in
logistic binary choice models . . . . . 1447--1460
Anonymous On minimum distance estimation in
two-sample scale problem with right
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461--1477
Yeu-Shiang Huang and
Vicki M. Bier A natural conjugate prior for the
nonhomogeneous Poisson process with an
exponential intensity function . . . . . 1479--1509
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Alan Washburn A dithered K--S statistic . . . . . . . 1535--1546
Zongwei Pu and
Linxiong Li Regression models with arbitrarily
interval-censored observations . . . . . 1547--1563
Naâmane Laib Exponential-type inequalities for
martingale difference sequences.
Application to nonparametric regression
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565--1576
Choongrak Kim and
Woochul Kim and
Byeong U. Park and
Changkon Hong and
Meeseon Jeong Smoothing techniques via the Bézier curve 1577--1597
Sang-Hyun Park and
Dae-Heung Jang Measures for evaluating the effect of
blocking in response surface designs . . 1599--1616
James F. Troendle and
Kai F. Yu Conditional estimation following a group
sequential clinical trial . . . . . . . 1617--1634
Niklas Karlsson Testing for normally in censored
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635--1651
S. James Press and
Kazuo Shigemasu A note on choosing the number of factors 1653--1670
Wataru Sakamoto and
Shingo Shirahata Likelihood-based cross-validation score
for selecting the smoothing parameter in
maximum penalized likelihood estimation 1671--1698
Plotr Pawlas and
Dominik Szynal Recurrence relations for single and
product moments of $k$-th record values
from Pareto, generalized Pareto and Burr
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1699--1709
Tsai-Hung Fan and
Chen-An Tsai A Bayesian method in determining the
order of a finite state Markov chain . . 1711--1730
Emmanuelle Crétois and
Olivier Gaudoin and
Mhamed-Ali El Aroui $U$-plot method for testing the
goodness-of-fit of the power-law process 1731--1747
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Hubert J. Chen A note on the determination of sample
sizes for hypergeometric distributions 1749--1757
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Gianna Age\`o Parameter orthogonality and conditional
profile likelihood: the exponential
power function case . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1768
Jiming Jiang On maximum hierarchical likelihood
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1769--1775
Yanhong Wu and
Yongxia Xu Local sequential testing procedures in a
normal mixture model . . . . . . . . . . 1777--1792
Järgen Wellmann and
Ursula Gather A note on contamination models and
outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1793--1802
Jürgen Groß Local improvement of best linear
unbiased estimation and admissibility
under the weakly singular Gauss--Markov
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1803--1812
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Benzion Boukai and
Peter Enis On the mean squared error, the mean
absolute error and the like . . . . . . 1813--1822
M. B. Bhatt and
S. R. Patel Asymptotic distribution for the order
statistics of a truncated one-parameter
family of distributions . . . . . . . . 1823--1855
M. S. Srivastava On-line control procedures for
integrated moving average process of
order one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857--1882
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B. Ismall Change points in nonparametric
regression functions . . . . . . . . . . 1883--1902
Murray Jorgensen Model-robust parameter dispersions for
iteratively re-weighted least squares 1903--1919
Qi Zheng Solution to the hazard function of some
two-stage carcinogenesis models when
normal cell growth is piecewise linear 1921--1929
Zhengqing Li Group sequential checking of the
proportional hazards assumption based on
a time-dependent covariate . . . . . . . 1931--1943
C. T. Liao Orthogonal three-level parallel flats
designs for user-specified resolution 1945--1960
Raid W. Amin and
Oskar Widmaier Sign control charts with variable
sampling intervals . . . . . . . . . . . 1961--1985
Peter J. Smith and
Lalith W. Peiris Added variable plots for linear
regression with censored data . . . . . 1987--2000
Toshio Honda Root-n-consistent semiparametric
estimation of partially linear models
for weakly dependent observations . . . 2001--2020
Bruno Giraudeau and
Claude Chastang Letter to the editor: Remarks on
Bhandary and Bansal's test for detection
of outliers in familial data . . . . . . 2021--2024
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Hua Liang and
Wolfgang Hardle Large sample theory of the estimation of
the error distribution for a
semiparametric model . . . . . . . . . . 2025--2036
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Camil Fuchs Regular MLEs for nonregular
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2037--2044
Hua Liang and
Lixing Zhu and
Yong Zhou Asymptotically efficient estimation
based on wavelet of expectation value in
a partial linear model . . . . . . . . . 2045--2055
Ramalingam Shanmugam Kullback--Leibler information and
interval estimation . . . . . . . . . . 2057--2063
Paul Chiou Conditional interval estimation of the
extreme-value scale parameter following
rejection of a pre-test . . . . . . . . 2065--2077
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Ila C. Sarkar A proportional hazards modeling of
multisample reliability data . . . . . . 2079--2101
Phil Bowtell and
Mike Patefield Circular functional relationships . . . 2103--2118
Jeanne Kowalski and
Jose R. Mendoza-Blanco and
Xim M. Tu and
Leon J. Gleser On the difference in inference and
prediction between the joint and
independent $F$-error models for
seemingly unrelated regressions . . . . 2119--2140
Michael P. Fay Approximate confidence intervals for
rate ratios from directly standardized
rates with sparse data . . . . . . . . . 2141--2160
P. Udaya Sree and
R. J. R. Swamy Selection of the best generalized
inverse-Gaussian Markov sequence . . . . 2161--2166
K. G. Janardan Estimation of parameters of the GPED . . 2167--2179
Somesh Das Gupta Gini association and pseudo Lorenz curve 2181--2199
Rand R. Wilcox and
Jan Muska Tests of hypotheses about regression
parameters when using a robust estimator 2201--2212
James R. Rieck A moment-generating function with
application to the Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2213--2222
Nikolai Kolev and
Leda Minkova Run and frequency quotas in a
multi-state Markov chain . . . . . . . . 2223--2233
Nikolai Kolev and
Leda Minkova Quotas on runs of successes and failures
in a multi-state Markov chain . . . . . 2235--2248
S. N. Chiu An unbiased estimator for the survival
function of censored data . . . . . . . 2249--2260
Jack C. Yue Generalized two-stage bandit problem . . 2261--2276
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Pham X. Qyang and
Shunpy Zhang Kernel estimation in transect sampling
without the shoulder condition . . . . . 2277--2296
Graciela Estévez-Pérez and
Alejandro Quintela-del-Río Nonparametric estimation of the hazard
function under dependence conditions . . 2294--2331
Juan C. Rodríguez and
Aldo J. Viollaz A weighted Cramér--von Mises statistic
derived from a decomposition of the
Anderson--Darling statistic . . . . . . 2333--2346
Marie Lindkvist Case and event influence on the
proportional hazards assumption . . . . 2347--2366
Jerome Saracco Sliced inverse regression under linear
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2367--2393
Arturo J. Fernández and
José I. Bravo and
Íñigo De Fuentes Parametric estimation of reliability
from incomplete and double censored data 2395--2416
Amar Nath Gill and
Anil Kumar Dhawan A one-sided test for testing homogeneity
of scale parameters against simple
ordered alternative . . . . . . . . . . 2417--2439
Leonie Burgess and
Donald L. Kreher and
Deborah J. Street Small orthogonal main effect plans with
four factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2441--2464
Jian Shi and
Tai-Shing Lau Robust empirical likelihood for linear
models under median constraints . . . . 2456--2476
B. M. Golam Kibria The prediction distribution for the
heteroscedastic multivariate linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2477--2486
Baibing Li and
Bart De Moor More on local influence in principal
components analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2487--2495
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton The asymptotic moment profile and
maximum likelihood: Applications to
gamma and gamma ratio densities . . . . 2497--2508
Christine A. Stidley and
Ronald M. Scharder The analysis of mixed and random effects
models for equireplicate
variance-balanced block designs . . . . 2509--2526
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Oesook Lee Strict stationarity of $ {\rm AR}(p) $
processes generated by nonlinear random
functions with additive perturbations 2527--2537
Yasumasa Matsuda A test of linearity against functional
coefficient autoregressive models . . . 2539--2551
Engin A. Sungur Truncation invariant dependence
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2553--2568
Andre Berchtold The double chain Markov model . . . . . 2569--2589
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Ram C. Dahiya Estimation of parameters for the
truncated exponential distribution . . . 2591--2612
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Santiago Zazo A new formula for the computation of
multivariate factorized moments by using
the joint cumulative distribution
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2613--2622
P. N. Jani and
Mayuri Pandya Bayes estimation of shift point in left
truncated exponential sequence . . . . . 2623--2639
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton The asymptotic kurtosis for maximum
likelihood estimators . . . . . . . . . 2641--2654
M. L. Aggrawal and
Renu Kaul Combined array approach for optimal
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2655--2670
Francisco Aparisi and
Jose Jabaioyes and
Andres Carrion Statistical properties of the LSI
multivariate control chart . . . . . . . 2671--2686
Michael J. Jackson and
John E. Hewett Multivariate analysis of covariance
based on residuals . . . . . . . . . . . 2687--2715
Chul-Ki Kim and
Tze Leung Lai For censored and truncated data . . . . 2717--2747
R. M. Newman and
W. B. Smith and
F. M. Speed Profile parallelism in repeated measures
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2749--2781
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Nariaki Sugiura and
Naoko Takaoka Homogeneity of variances in normal
linear regression with a change point 2785--2801
Hongzi Chen and
Steven Piantadosi Uniqueness of permuted treatment
estimator distributions in the
proportional hazards model . . . . . . . 2803--2819
Tim Swartz Nonparametric goodness-of-fit . . . . . 2821--2841
Bart Michiels and
Geert Molenberghs and
Stuart R. Lipsitz A pattern-mixture odds ratio model for
incomplete categorical data . . . . . . 2843--2869
Carey E. Priebe and
Lenore J. Cowen A generalized Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2871--2878
Renjin Tu Comparison between confidence intervals
of linear regression models with and
without restriction . . . . . . . . . . 2879--2898
Charles J. Monlezun Fitting polynomials to main effects in
multi factor experiments: unequal
spacing and unbalanced data with no
missing cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2899--2916
Myung Hwan Na and
Jae Joo Kim On inference for mean residual life . . 2917--2933
Martin Newby Moments and generating functions for the
absorption distribution and its negative
binomial analogue . . . . . . . . . . . 2935--2945
F. Michael Speed and
William B. Smith and
Rong Chen and
F. Michael Speed, Jr. Analysis of tidal data and datums:
accessible examples of harmonic modeling
with autocorrelation and imputation . . 2947--2965
H. J. Keselman and
James Algina and
Rhonda K. Kowalchuk and
Russell D. Wolfinger The analysis of repeated measurements: a
comparison of mixed-model Satterthwaite
$F$ tests and a nonpooled adjusted
degrees of freedom multivariate test . . 2967--2999
W. F. Scott A weighted Cramér--von Mises statistic,
with some applications to clinical
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3001--3008
E. Järpe Surveillance of the interaction
parameter of the Ising model . . . . . . 3009--3027
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