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Alessandra Giovagnoli and Paola Sebastiani Experimental designs for mean and variance estimation in variance components models . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Alexandre B. Uspensky Some new aspects of analysis and design of experiments in inverse problems of remote meteorological sounding . . . . . 1--10 Ewaryst Rafaj\lwicz Optimum input signals for parameter estimation in systems described by linear integral equations . . . . . . . 11--19 B. C. Sutradhar and R. F. Bartlett An empirical study of the estimation of eigenvalues in connection with non-negative estimation of variance components of a one-way random effect model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--35 Serge B. Provost Estimators for the parameters of a multivariate normal random vector with incomplete data on two subvectors and test of independence . . . . . . . . . . 37--46 Alessandra Salvan Planning sequential clinical trials: a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56 Guy der Megreditchian Meteorological networks optimization from a statistical point of view . . . . 57--75 Olli Varis and Juhani Kettunen and Hannu Sirviö Bayesian influence diagram approach to complex environmental management including observational design . . . . . 77--91 Carla Rossi Survival analysis and prognosis: a comparison of three approaches (for the analysis of nasopharix data) . . . . . . 93--111 R. J. Martin Some results on the $ \Phi_p $-value when errors are correlated . . . . . . . 113--121 Johann Joss and Alfio Marazzi Probabilistic algorithms for least median of squares regression . . . . . . 123--133 Danuta Kachlicka and Stanis\law Mejza Incomplete split-plot experiments --- whole-plot treatments in a row-column design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146 Giuseppe Arbia On second-order non-stationarity in two-dimensional lattice processes . . . 147--160 Anonymous SPSS announces Macintosh package . . . . 161 Anonymous SYSTAT, Inc. announces new Mac MYSTAT with brushing tools . . . . . . . . . . 161--162 Anonymous SYSTAT, Inc. announces new data transfer package for SYSTAT software on IBM-compatible computers . . . . . . . . 162--163 Anonymous SYSTAT, Inc. announces EzPATH, a new casual modeling supplement to SYSTAT software on IBM-compatible computers . . 163 Anonymous Installed base passes 50,000 ``milestone'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164 Anonymous Minitab introduces advanced features for industrial statistics . . . . . . . . . 165--166 Anonymous MicrOsiris for the PC . . . . . . . . . 166--167 Anonymous SIR/Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
B. Abdous Adapting the classical kernel density estimator to data . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178 Stephen Haslett Degrees of freedom and parameter estimability in hierarchical models for sparse complete contingency tables . . . 179--195 Miguel A. Herce An example showing that a new technique for LAV estimation breaks down in certain cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202 G. S. Christensen and S. A. Soliman and A. Rouhi Discussion of ``An example showing that a new technique for LAV estimation breaks down in certain cases'' . . . . . 203--213 Miguel A. Herce Some comments on Christensen, Soliman and Rouhi's ``Discussion \ldots'' . . . 215--216 John B. Cologne and Norman E. Breslow A small sample simulation study of methods for log odds ratio regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--235 Michael Conlon and Ronald G. Thomas A new confidence interval for the difference of two binomial proportions 237--241 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMultiway data analysis: edited by R. Coppi, University of Rome, Italy and S. Bolasco, University of Salerno, Italy, 1989 xiv + 552 pages, Price: US\$136.75/Dfl. 260.00, ISBN 0-444-87410-0 (Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam)} . . . . 248 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStatistical data analysis and inference: edited by Y. Dodge, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1989 xii + 618 pages, Price: US\$131.50/Dfl. 250.00, ISBN 0-444-88029-1 (Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam)} . . . . . . . . 248 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleData exchange: by Steven S. Ross; 411 pages; illustrated; 6'' $ \times $ 9''; paperback; \$24.95 (McGraw-Hill)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleUsing autoCAD with autoLISP: by John D. Hood; 239 pages; illustrated; $ 6 ' \times 9 ' $; spiral-bound paperback: \$29.95 (McGraw-Hill)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Tom Greene The depiction of linear association by matroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--269 Chris C. Frangos and William R. Schucany Jackknife estimation of the bootstrap acceleration constant . . . . . . . . . 271--281 Rudolph S. Parrish Generating random deviates from multivariate Pearson distributions . . . 283--295 James C. Spall and Daniel C. Chin First-order data sensitivity measures with applications to a multivariate signal-plus-noise problem . . . . . . . 297--307 A. H. Welsh A note on the statistical properties of the secant algorithm for calculating rank estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--315 Anonymous Software for statistical and social survey analysis 1989--1990 prepared for the Study Group on Computers in Survey Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--340 Anonymous Call for papers on optimization techniques in statistics . . . . . . . . 341 Anonymous Author index volume 9 (1990) . . . . . . 343--344 Anonymous Package report/review index volume 9 (1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Robert J. Boik A likelihood ratio test for three-mode singular values: upper percentiles and an application to three-way ANOVA . . . 1--9 Hamid Namini and Subir Ghosh On robustness of $ 2^m \times 3^n $ fractional factorial resolution III designs against the unavailability of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16 Wai-Yin Poon and Sik-Yum Lee and Abdelmonem A. Afifi and Peter M. Bentler Analysis of multivariate polytomous variates in several groups via the partition maximum likelihood approach 17--27 Fernando Tusell Testing for interaction in two-way ANOVA tables with no replication . . . . . . . 29--45 S. W. Cheng and F. A. Spiring Some applications of $3$-D scatterplots in data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61 S. W. Cheng and F. A. Spiring Extension of the $ W_u $ statistic with applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69 V. P. Singh and J. F. Cruise and Ming Ma A comparative evaluation of the estimators of the three-parameter lognormal distribution by Monte Carlo simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85 Sangit Chatterjee and Samprit Chatterjee A note on finding extreme points in multivariate space . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92 Anonymous ``Experimental designs for mean and variance estimation in variance components models'': by Alessandra Giovagnoli and Paola Sebastiani, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis \bf 8, 21--28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Anonymous BMDP introduces new add-ons for Solo statistics package . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
Stanley P. Azen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii Erkki P. Liski and Tapio Nummi Prediction in growth curve models using the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108 Mong-Na Lo Huang Optimal extrapolation designs for a partly linear model . . . . . . . . . . 109--115 M. Ahsanullah Some characteristic properties of normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120 Bronis\law Ceranka and Krystyna Katulska Constructions of optimum biased spring balance weighing designs with the diagonal covariance matrix of errors . . 121--131 Wolfgang Polasek Vector distributed lag models with smoothness priors . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141 L. Kannaiah Naidu An adjusted linear estimator . . . . . . 143--151 Colin R. Blyth Temporality in probability and statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162 G. B. Khosrovshahi On trades and designs . . . . . . . . . 163--167 Ramses Abul Naga and Gérard Antille Stability of robust and non-robust principal components analysis . . . . . 169--174 M. Bhaskara Rao and K. Subramanyam The structure of some classes of bivariate distributions and some applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--187 Javad Behboodian Some characterization theorems on symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--192
S. E. Ahmed and A. K. Md. E. Saleh Estimation strategies for the intercept vector in a simple linear multivariate normal regression model . . . . . . . . 193--206 Elvezio Ronchetti Small sample asymptotics: a review with applications to robust statistics . . . 207--223 J. J. J. Roux and A. Bekker Characterizing priors by posterior expectations in multivariate analysis 225--233 Albert Satorra and Peter M. Bentler Model conditions for asymptotic robustness in the analysis of linear relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249 Haruo Yanai Some generalized forms a least squares $g$-inverse, minimum norm $g$-inverse, and Moore--Penrose inverse matrices . . 251--260 Ram C. Tiwari and Jyoti N. Zalkikar Empirical Bayes estimation of the scale parameter in a Pareto distribution . . . 261--270 João Tiago Mexia Best linear unbiased estimates, duality of $F$ tests and the Scheffé multiple comparison method in the presence of controlled heteroscedasticity . . . . . 271--281 Hans-Jürgen Witte Characterizations of distributions of exponential or geometric type by the integrated lack of memory property and record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--288 F.-W. Scholz Characterization of the Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--292 Alan E. Stark An algorithm for computing standard errors from categorical data . . . . . . 293--296 H. Toutenburg and G. Trenkler Mean square error matrix comparisons of optimal and classical predictors and estimators in linear regression . . . . 297--305 M. A. Amaral Turkman and K. F. Turkman Optimal alarm systems for autoregressive processes: a Bayesian approach . . . . . 307--314 Derrick S. Tracy Balanced partitioned matrices and their Kronecker products . . . . . . . . . . . 315--323 Rainer Schwabe Local optimality and global superiority of adaptive designs in linear models . . 325--330 Christina Schneider Structural inference and a modification of Dempster's combination rule . . . . . 331--338 M. M. Shoukri and D. S. Tracy and I. U. H. Mian The effect of kurtosis in the estimation of the parameters of the one-way random effects model from familial data . . . . 339--345 Anonymous Author index volume 10 (1990) . . . . . 347--348 Anonymous Package report/review index volume 10 (1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii Stanley P. Azen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M. C. Jones On correcting for variance inflation in kernel density estimation . . . . . . . 3--15 William Rayens and Tom Greene Covariance pooling and stabilization for classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--42 J. K. Cunningham and R. L. Eubank and T. Hsing $M$-type smoothing splines with auxiliary scale estimation . . . . . . . 43--51 Lawrence H. Moulton and Scott L. Zeger Bootstrapping generalized linear models 53--63 John A. Bunge and John C. Handley Sampling to estimate the number of duplicates in a database . . . . . . . . 65--74 Michael R. Harwell Using randomization tests when errors are unequally correlated . . . . . . . . 75--85 A. Shapiro and J. D. Botha Variogram fitting with a general class of conditionally nonnegative definite functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96 S. A. Soliman and G. S. Christensen and A. H. Rouhi A new algorithm for nonlinear $ L_1 $-norm minimization with nonlinear equality constraints . . . . . . . . . . 97--109 F. G. Boese Estimating and testing with the Bhattacharya plot . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124 Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 125 Peter J. Rousseeuw A diagnostic plot for regression outliers and leverage points . . . . . . 127--129 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 133--139 Anonymous Courses & workshops . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Anonymous Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Mario Romanazzi Influence in canonical variates analysis 143--164 Ehsan S. Soofi and D. V. Gokhale Minimum discrimination information estimator of the mean with known coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 165--177 Song-Gui Wang and Hans Nyquist Effects on the eigenstructure of a data matrix when deleting an observation . . 179--188 Robert Schall and René Gonin Diagnostics for nonlinear $ L_p $-norm estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--198 George H. Guirguis A rational approximation of the inverse normal probability function . . . . . . 199--201 J. A. Menéndez and B. Salvador An algorithm for isotonic median regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204 Ulf Strömberg An algorithm for isotonic regression with arbitrary convex distance function 205--219 Hanns Ackermann BIAS. A program package for biometrical analysis of samples . . . . . . . . . . 223--224 Armin Koch Software presentations at statistical computing '90: Reisensburg, Germany, June 16--19, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227 Anonymous Statistical software: BMDP introduces PC-90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDistribution-free statistics: an application-oriented approach: Krauth, J.: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam (1988), ISBN 0-444-80934-1 (hardback), 0-444-80988-0 (paper-back, \pounds 21.-) . . . . . . . 230 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleRegression estimators a comparative study: Gruber, Marvin H. J.: Academic Press, Inc., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, Boston (1990), ISBN 0-12-304752-8, 347 pp, \$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 G. Pabst Disfree (Manual and 2 diskettes, DOS 2.0 or later).: Krauth, J.: Blosoft, Cambridge (1989), \pounds 250.- . . . . 230--231 Anonymous Society for the advancement of economic theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 232--238 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 238
John Buonaccorsi Measurement errors, linear calibration and inferences for means . . . . . . . . 239--257 R. W. Farebrother A general estimation procedure based on group means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--264 Roger C. Pfaffenberger and Terry E. Dielman Testing normality of regression disturbances: a Monte Carlo study of the Filleben test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--273 Gerhard Tutz Sequential models in categorical regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--295 Johan M. Van Zyl Distributional aspects if a zero correlation is assumed in a paired comparison of means . . . . . . . . . . 297--307 Hideo Hirose Percentile point estimation in the three parameter Weibull distribution by the extended maximum likelihood estimate . . 309--331 Giovanni B. Moneta Implicit construction of McCulloch's $G$ matrix for the numerical evaluation of Fisher information matrixes . . . . . . 333--344 Rahul Mukerjee and Sudhir Gupta Q-designs for bioassays . . . . . . . . 345--350 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356 M. Bismarck Book Review: \booktitleMultiway data analysis: Coppi, R., Bolasco, S. (eds.) (1989): Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, Tokyo: North-Holland. 552 pp. ISBN 0-444-87410-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 M. Bismarck Book Review: \booktitleMedical expert systems using personal computers: Chytil, M. K. Engelbrecht, R. (eds.) (1987): Wilmslow: Sigma Press. 206 pp, ISBN 1-85058-047-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 358--364
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi Yadolah Dodge Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII--VIII Jerome P. Keating and Robert L. Mason and P. K. Sen and C. Radhakrishna Rao Pitman nearness in statistical estimation: a panel discussion on recent developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Jagdish S. Rustagi and Walfredo R. Javier and Jose S. Victoria Trimmed jackknife kernel estimate for the probability density function . . . . 19--26 Nan M. Laird and Thomas A. Louis Smoothing the non-parametric estimate of a prior distribution by roughening: a computational study . . . . . . . . . . 27--37 Victor Kipnis Evaluating the impact of exploratory procedures in regression prediction: a pseudosample approach . . . . . . . . . 39--55 Antonio Ciampi Generalized regression trees . . . . . . 57--78 Gabriela Stangenhaus and Subhash C. Narula Inference procedures for the $ L_1 $ regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85 Yadolah Dodge and Jaromir Antoch and Jana Jure\vcková Computational aspects of adaptive combination of least squares and least absolute deviations estimators . . . . . 87--99 Hilmar Drygas Linear minimax-estimation in linear models with affine and ellipsoidal restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--113 D. N. Shanbhag Extended versions of Deny's theorem via de Finetti's theorem . . . . . . . . . . 115--126 Birgit Dohmann and Michael Falk and Karin Lessenich The random number generators of the Turbo Pascal family . . . . . . . . . . 129--132 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 136--141
O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and M. Sòrensen Information quantities in non-classical settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--158 Herman Chernoff Simple computer intensive methods for estimating parameters of complex models 159--178 D. A. S. Fraser and N. Reid Converting observed likelihood functions to tail probabilities . . . . . . . . . 179--185 Erik W. Grafarend and Burkhard Schaffrin The planar trisection problem and the impact of curvature on non-linear least-squares estimation . . . . . . . . 187--199 Laurie Davies A stochastic model for interlaboratory tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--209 Yadolah Dodge and Jana Jure\vcková Flexible $L$-estimation in the linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--220 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Götz Trenkler Covariance adjustment in biased estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--230 D. V. Chopra Further investigations on balanced arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--237 Micha\l Abrahamowicz and Antonio Ciampi Information theoretic criteria in non-parametric density estimation: Bias and variance in the infinite dimensional case. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247 Marvin Zelen Multinomial response models . . . . . . 249--254 Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 255 JohnA. Nelder Data matrices and multi-way tables . . . 257--259 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--262 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 266--269 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 270
Dipak K. Dey and Lynn Kuo A new empirical Bayes estimator with type II censored data . . . . . . . . . 271--279 Shu-Ing Liu A robust and easy confidence procedure with moderately long-tailed symmetric distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294 Wei-Yin Loh Survival modeling through recursive stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--313 W. Olbricht On mergers of distributions and distributions with exponential tails . . 315--326 Charles Kooperberg and Charles J. Stone A study of logspline density estimation 327--347 Cathie Spino and Marcello Pagano Efficient calculation of the permutation distribution of robust two-sample statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--365 Yadolah Dodge and David J. Hand What should future statistical software look like? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--372 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--378 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 379--383 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 383--385 Anonymous Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Anonymous Author index volume 12 (1991) . . . . . 387--388
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Harold J. Larson Least squares estimation of linear splines with unknown knot locations . . 1--8 David M. Rocke Estimation of variation after outlier rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--20 Sheng G. Shi Accurate and efficient double-bootstrap confidence limit method . . . . . . . . 21--32 Jeremy M. G. Taylor Properties of modelling the error distribution with an extra shape parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46 M. Ferri and M. Piccioni Optimal selection of statistical units: an approach via simulated annealing . . 47--61 Harvey Goldstein and Jon Rasbash Efficient computational procedures for the estimation of parameters in multilevel models based on iterative generalised least squares . . . . . . . 63--71 A. Saltelli and T. Homma Sensitivity analysis for model output: Performance of black box techniques on three international benchmark exercises 73--94 Karan P. Singh and Karan P. Singh and George E. Relyea Computation of noncentral Æ' probabilities: a computer program . . . 95--102 Lutz Edler IASC meeting activities during the 48th session of the ISI in Cairo . . . . . . 105--106 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108 Sung H. Park Book Review: \booktitleStatistical methods in engineering and quality assurance: John, Peter M. W. (1990): Wiley-Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 313 pp., ISBN 0-471-82986-2, 39.80 \pounds . . . . . . 108 N. Victor Book Review: \booktitleTheory and application in computational statistics: Asano, Ch., Niki, N. and Okazaki, T. (eds.): Scientist Inc., Tokyo (1991), ISBN 4-914903-03-2, 290 pp, Yen 5000 (to be sold only in Japan) . . . . . . . . . 108 G. Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleAngewandte lineare algebra (applied linear algebra): Huppert, B.: De Gruyter, Berlin (1990), ISBN 3-11-012107-7, 646 pp, DM 198 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109 H. Toutenburg Book Review: \booktitleMathematical statistics with applications, 4th edition: Mendenhall, W., Wackerly, D. D., Schaeffer, R. L., PWS-KENT Publishing Company, Boston (1990),752 pp,ISBN 0-534-92026-8 . . . . . . . . . 109 G. Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleRegression analysis, theory, methods and applications: Sen, A. and Srivastava, M. Springer, Berlin (1990), 347 pp, ISBN 3-540-97211-0, DM 88 . . . . . . . . . . 109--110 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 113--118 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 118--119 F. Tussell Corrigendum: Testing for interaction in two-way ANOVA tables with no replication 121 Anonymous Second international conference on statistical data analysis based on the $ L_1 $-norm and related methods: August 17--20, 1992, Neuchâtel, Switzerland . . 122
N. Balakrishnan and P. S. Chan Estimation for the scaled half logistic distribution under Type II censoring . . 123--141 W. Feluch and J. Koronacki A note on modified cross-validation in density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151 Anthony J. Hayter Multiple comparisons of three ordered normal means for unbalanced models . . . 153--162 Rand R. Wilcox An improved method for comparing variances when distributions have non-identical shapes . . . . . . . . . . 163--172 David Wypij and Thomas J. Santner Pseudotable methods for the analysis of $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . . . . . 173--190 A. Angelidou and M. G. Strintzis and S. Panas Correction of periodogram method for Power Spectrum estimation . . . . . . . 191--195 Morgan Wang and W. J. Kennedy A numerical method for accurately approximating multivariate normal probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--210 Douglas P. Wiens A note on the computation of robust, bounded influence estimates and test statistics in regression . . . . . . . . 211--220 Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 221 Roel Popping More agreeable software? . . . . . . . . 223--227 Norbert Victor President's statement . . . . . . . . . 228--229 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231 Anonymous Information: National activities in the area of statistical computing: Germany 231 Hilmar Drygas Book Review: \booktitleTheory of random determinants: Girko, V. L. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Doordrecht / Boston / London (1990), ISBN 0-7923-0233-8, xiv + 677 pp., 147 \pounds S. . . . . . . . 231--232 Anonymous Graphics and visualization . . . . . . . 232 Anonymous VI SSDBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Anonymous COMPSTAT 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 234--240 Anonymous Referees for CSDA-1991 . . . . . . . . . 241
Robert Gilchrist Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244 Murray Aitkin Model choice in contingency table analysis using the Posterior Bayes Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--251 Mark P. Becker Exploratory analysis of association models using loglinear models and singular value decompositions . . . . . 253--267 Henri Caussinus and Louis Ferré Comparing the parameters of a model for several units by means of principal component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 269--280 David Edwards Linkage analysis using loglinear models 281--290 J. L. Foulley and M. San Cristobal and D. Gianola and S. Im Marginal likelihood and Bayesian approaches to the analysis of heterogeneous residual variances in mixed linear Gaussian models . . . . . . 291--305 Marc Ivaldi Estimation of errors-in-latent-variable models on business survey data . . . . . 307--318 J. Jansen Statistical analysis of threshold data from experiments with nested errors . . 319--330 A. B. Lawson GLIM and normalising constant models in spatial and directional data analysis 331--348 Christian Holzer and Manfred Precht Multiple comparison procedures for normally distributed ANOVA models in SAS, SPSS, BMDP, and MINITAB . . . . . . 351--358 Marleen Nys An impression of the summer school on `Computational aspects of model choice' 359--361 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363 H.-J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitleExtreme value theory: J. Hüsler, R.-D. Reiss (eds.): Proceedings of a conference held in Oberwolfach Dec. 6--12, 1987. Springer, Berlin etc. (1989) . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364 Anonymous Bulgarian computing statistics section founded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 366--370 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 370--371
J. K. Lindsey and G. Mersch Fitting and comparing probability distributions with log linear models . . 373--384 Brian D. Marx A continuum of principal component generalized linear regressions . . . . . 385--393 E. A. Molina C. and C. J. Skinner Pseudo-likelihood and quasi-likelihood estimation for complex sampling schemes 395--405 Herbert Nagel and Reinhold Hatzinger Diagnostics in some discrete choice models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--414 K. L. Q. Read and C. J. Lawrence and A. Jorio and J. C. Mariana A case study in the modelling of growth 415--429 Martin Rios and Angel Villarroya and Josep M. Oller Rao distance between multivariate linear normal models and their application to the classification of response curves 431--445 Sylvia Schnatter Integration-based Kalman-filtering for a dynamic generalized linear trend model 447--459 D. M. Stasinopoulos and R. A. Rigby Detecting break points in generalised linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--471 A. J. Watkins On models of spatial covariance . . . . 473--481 Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 483 Thomas C. Cierzynski and Stefan v. Weber Simulation experiments with CWA, a new stable regression algorithm, and comparisons with two other stable regression algorithms . . . . . . . . . 485--491 Anonymous Announcing the statistical software guide 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494 Matthias Nagel Book Review: \booktitleStatistical modelling in GLIM: M. Aitkin, D. Anderson, B. Francis and J. Hinde (1989) Oxford Statistical Science Series 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 374 pp, ISBN 0-19-852204-5, ca. DM 52,-(Paperback) 494 Reinhold Kosfeld Book Review: \booktitleSPSS/PC+ Basics and graphic: Brosius, G. (1988) Einführung und praktische Beispiele. Hamburg: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 582 pp, ISBN 3-89028-132-X, ca. DM 68,- . . 494--495 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 Anonymous International symposium on ``Statistical Computing for Agriculture in Developing Countries'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 497--499 Anonymous Courses workshops & summer schools . . . 499--500
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii Ali S. Hadi A new measure of overall potential influence in linear regression . . . . . 1--27 M. K. Kazempour and Franklin A. Graybill Confidence intervals on individual variances in two-way models . . . . . . 29--37 Daniel Zelterman and Ted I. K. Youn Indicator models in social mobility tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--53 Alan Agresti and Stuart Lipsitz and Joseph B. Lang Comparing marginal distributions of large, sparse contingency tables . . . . 55--73 Gérard Antille and Gilbert Ritschard Robust versus classical detection of atypical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88 Murray Aitkin and Brian Francis Fitting the multinomial logit model with continuous covariates in GLIM . . . . . 89--97 Thian S. Kheoh and A. Ian McLeod Comparison of two modified portmanteau tests for model adequacy . . . . . . . . 99--106 Peter J. Rousseeuw and Bert C. van Zomeren A comparison of some quick algorithms for robust regression . . . . . . . . . 107--116 Knut M. Wittkowski Statistical analysis of unbalanced and incomplete designs --- experiences with BMDP and SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124 Volker W. Rahlfs A statistical package with special reference to nonparametric methods . . . 125--126 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSoftstat '89 --- Fortschritte in der Statistik-Software 2: F. Faulbaum, R. Haux and K.-H. Joeckel (1990): Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. 595 pp, ISBN 3-437-50320-0, DM 76.- . . . . . . . . . 128 Anonymous Call for candidates for the board of directors (BoD) of the European regional section (ERS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129 Anonymous Call for attendance . . . . . . . . . . 129 Anonymous IASC representatives in ISI . . . . . . 129 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 130--133 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 133
Wei-Yin Loh Identification of active contrasts in unreplicated factorial experiments . . . 135--148 Wai-sum Chan and William W. S. Wei A comparison of some estimators of time series autocorrelations . . . . . . . . 149--163 Siu Hung Cheung and Burt Holland Extension of Dunnett's multiple comparison procedure with differing sample sizes to the case of several groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--182 Byeong U. Park and Sung S. Chung and Kyung H. Seog An empirical investigation of the shifted power transformation method in density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 183--191 James H. Albert Using a probability plot to summarize a unimodal posterior density . . . . . . . 193--205 Gilbert W. Bassett and Roger W. Koenker A note on recent proposals for computing $ l_1 $ estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 207--211 Joseph Glaz Approximations for tail probabilities and moments of the scan statistic . . . 213--227 D. M. Smith A comparison of algorithms for forming the QR decomposition for use in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--248 Yuh-Wen Soo and Douglas M. Bates Loosely coupled nonlinear least squares 249--259 Robert L. Strawderman and Cyrus Mehta On the validation of exact tests for nonparametric inference . . . . . . . . 263--266 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269 Ramalingam Shanmugam Book Review: \booktitleStatistical image processing and graphics: Edward J. Wegman and Douglas J. DePriest (eds.) (1986): New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc. Press, 321 pp, ISBN 0-8247-7600-3, \$75} 269 Ramalingam Shanmugam Book Review: \booktitle11th advances in reliability technology symposium: Peter Comer (ed.) (1990): New York: Elsevier Applied Science Press, xvii + 346 pp, ISBN 1-85166-484-X, \$348} . . . . . . . 269--270 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMaximum entropy and Bayesian methods: Paul F. Fougere(ed.) (1990): Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, xiii + 480 pp, ISBN 0-7923-0928-6, \$129} . . . . . . . . . 270--271 Anonymous Fourth international workshop on artificial intellegence and statistics: January 3--6, 1993 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--273 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 274--277 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 277--278
Yadolah Dodge Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 \.Ismail Kuban Altmel The design of optimum component test plans in the demonstration of a series system reliability . . . . . . . . . . . 281--292 Carmen D. S. André and Clovis A. Peres and Subhash C. Narula An algorithm for the MSAE estimation of the multistage dose-response model . . . 293--299 Jacob Burbea and Joan del Castillo Geodesic submanifolds of statistical models with location parameters . . . . 301--313 Gilles Celeux and Gérard Govaert A classification EM algorithm for clustering and two stochastic versions 315--332 D. Collombier Generally optimal main-effect fractions of $ U \times V $ designs with $ U + V $ units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342 Ashish Das and Sanpei Kageyama Robustness of BIB and extended BIB designs against the unavailability of any number of observations in a block 343--358 Holger Dette Experimental designs for a class of weighted polynomial regression models 359--373 Terry E. Dielman and Roger C. Pfaffenberger A further comparison of tests of hypotheses in LAV regression . . . . . . 375--384 Yadolah Dodge and Nikolai Roenko Stability of $ L_1 $-norm regression under additional observations . . . . . 385--390 C. C. Y. Dorea and E. S. Miazaki Parameter free limiting distribution for a random optimization algorithm . . . . 391--399 Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 401 John A. Nelder Statistical packages and unbalanced data 403--406 Anonymous P-STAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408 Anonymous 2nd Announcement of the statistical software guide 1992 . . . . . . . . . . 408--410 Anonymous Election of officers of ISAC Executive Committee and election of IASC Council 410--411 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 412--415 Anonymous Courses workshops & summer schools . . . 415--416
Jitka Dupa\vcová Epi-consistency in restricted regression models: the case of a general convex fitting function . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--425 K. Felsenstein Optimal Bayesian design for discrimination among rival models . . . 427--436 László Györfi and Gábor Lugosi Kernel density estimation from ergodic sample is not universally consistent . . 437--442 Alfredo N. Iusem and Marc Teboulle A primal-dual iterative algorithm for a maximum likelihood estimation problem 443--456 Michel Lejeune and Pascal Sarda Smooth estimators of distribution and density functions . . . . . . . . . . . 457--471 Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian and Mohammad B. Rostam Abadi A computer algorithm for generating $3$-designs by the method of trade off 473--476 Hiroshi Morita and Hiroaki Ishii A stochastic improvement method for stochastic programming . . . . . . . . . 477--487 Nam-Ky Nguyen and Alan J. Miller A review of some exchange algorithms for constructing discrete $D$-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--498 Hans Nyquist Restricted $M$-estimation . . . . . . . 499--507 Dimitri A. Stolyarenko Two-dimensional spline approximation on local integral measurements: Analysis and design of acoustic fish surveys . . 509--514 Valentin Todorov Computing the minimum covariance determinant estimator (MCD) by simulated annealing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--525 H. Toutenburg and G. Trenkler and E. Liski Optimal estimation methods under weakened linear restrictions in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--536 Heiner Ritter and Cornella Züll Data exchange between statistical packages using the PC program DBMS/COPY version 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--544 Brian P. Murphy COMPSTAT'92 review: `far sight' . . . . 545--546 Clemens Tilke Statistics for spatial data . . . . . . 547 Andreas Handl Nonlinear multivariate analysis . . . . 548 Matthias Nagel LISP-Stat: an object-oriented environment for statistical computing and dynamic graphics . . . . . . . . . . 548--549 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--551 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 552--554 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 554--555
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi Lawrence H. Moulton and Lisa A. Weissfeld and Roy T. St. Laurent Bartlett correction factors in logistic regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 Leo Breiman Fitting additive models to regression data: Diagnostics and alternative views 13--46 Bernard Van Cutsem and Isak Gath Detection of outliers and robust estimation using fuzzy clustering . . . 47--61 P. C. Saxena and K. Navaneetham Comparison of Chernoff-type face and non-graphical methods for clustering multivariate observations . . . . . . . 63--79 G. Mann and R. Haux Database scheme design for clinical studies based on a semantic data model 81--108 Michael Wiseman An efficient method for computing factor similarity coefficients: a computational note and an algorithm . . . . . . . . . 111--114 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 119--122 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 122 Anonymous Referees for CSDA-1992 . . . . . . . . . 123
Aiala Barr A simultaneous test procedure for comparing several treatments in the analysis of reciprocals . . . . . . . . 125--131 Mortaza Jamshidian and Peter M. Bentler A modified Newton method for constrained estimation in covariance structure analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--146 Dennis K. J. Lin and Norman R. Draper Generating alias relationships for two-level Plackett and Burman designs 147--157 Linda H.-Y. Yau and Sik-Yum Lee and Wai-Yin Poon Covariance structure analysis with three-level data . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178 Mario Romanazzi Jackknife estimation of the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix . . . . . . . . 179--198 Vincent Granville and Mirko K\vrivánek and Jean-Paul Rasson Clustering, classification and image segmentation on the grid . . . . . . . . 199--209 A. Saltelli and T. H. Andres and T. Homma Sensitivity analysis of model output: an investigation of new techniques . . . . 211--238 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--264 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 268--271 Anonymous Courses, Workshops $>$ Summer Schools . . 271
A. Bener and S. Huda Estimation of intraclass correlation when family sizes are unequal . . . . . 273--284 George Ostrouchov and Edward L. Frome A model search procedure for hierarchial models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296 V. Granville and J. P. Rasson A Bayesian filter for a mixture model of noise in image remote sensing . . . . . 297--308 Prem P. Talwar A simulation study of some non-parametric regression estimators . . 309--327 Douglas Bates and Fred Reames and Grace Wahba Getting better contour plots with $S$ and GCVPACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--342 Suojin Wang and H. L. Gray Approximating tail probabilities of noncentral distributions . . . . . . . . 343--352 John Hinde Participant's reflections on meetings: SGCSA conference on survey and statistical computing 24--26 September 1992, Bristol, UK . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Götz Uebe Book Review: \booktitleStatistics tutor, tutorial and computational software for the Behavioural Sciences: J. D. Allen, D. J. Pittenger (1991): New York: John Wiley & Sons, student edition, 215 pp., ISBN 0-471-50280-4, US\$21.95} . . . . . 358--359 Anonymous IASC meetings in Neuchâtel, August 1992 359--360
Jorge Alberto Achcar Inferences for the Birnbaum--Saunders fatigue life model using Bayesian methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--380 Edward J. Bedrick and Chih-Ling Tsai Diagnostics for binomial response models using power divergence statistics . . . 381--392 Jacques Bénasséni Perturbational aspects in correspondence analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--410 Robert J. Boik A comparison of three invariant tests of additivity in two-way classifications with no replications . . . . . . . . . . 411--424 D. Posa A simple description of spatial-temporal processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--437 Xin M. Tu and Donald S. Burdick and Robert E. Albright Regression analysis of data with repeated measurements using the method of successive differences . . . . . . . 439--449 David M. Rocke Almost-exact parametric bootstrap calculation via the saddlepoint approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--460 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 463 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--467 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleExperimental design in biotechnology: P. D. Haaland (1989): New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., ISBN 0-631-15943-6, pp. 248, US\$99.75} 468 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleUncertainty and vagueness in knowledge based systems: R. Kruse, E. Schwecke, J. Heinsohn (1991): numerical methods (Artificial Intelligence). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, ISBN 3-540-54169-1 pp. 491, DM 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSAS system --- eine praxisbezogene einführung: Frank Multrus and Michael Bleicher (1992): Hidelberg: Hüthig Buch Verlag, ISBN 3-7785-2157-8, pp. 241, DM 68 . . . . . 469 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleUnivariate varianzanalysen: P. Zöfel (1992): \booktitleAchtzehn komplette designs. Stuttgart and Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag (UTB für Wissenschaft: Uni--Taschenbücher 1663), ISBN 3-437-40278-1, x + 299 S., 4 Abb., 7 Tafeln, DM 29.80 . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--471 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 472--476 Anonymous Author index volume 15 (1993) . . . . . 479--480
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii William P. Alexander Testing the means of independent normal random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 Peter Hall and Wolfgang Härdle and Léopold Simar On the inconsistency of bootstrap distribution estimators . . . . . . . . 11--18 B. Kalantari and I. Lari and A. Rizzi and B. Simeone Sharp bounds for the maximum of the chi-square index in a class of contingency tables with given marginals 19--34 TaChen Liang Convergence rates for empirical Bayes estimation of the scale parameter in a Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . 35--45 Mervyn G. Marasinghe and Robert J. Boik A three-degree of freedom test of additivity in three-way classifications 47--61 Gilberto A. Paula Assessing local influence in restricted regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79 Douglas M. Hawkins The feasible set algorithm for least median of squares regression . . . . . . 81--101 Henk A. L. Kiers An alternating least squares algorithm for PARAFAC2 and three-way DEDICOM . . . 103--118 John D. Vedder An invertible approximation to the normal distribution function . . . . . . 119--123 Olaf Gefeller and Franz Woltering A general method of estimating measures of association and their asymptotic variances under the multinomial model using standard statistical software . . 127--130 Anonymous Participant's reflections on meetings 131--132 Anonymous Announcing the \booktitleStatistical Software Guide '93/94 . . . . . . . . . 133 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Jaromír Antoch IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 137--140 Anonymous Courses, workshop & summer schools . . . 141--142
Richard B. Davies Nonparametric control for residual heterogeneity in modelling recurrent behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--160 James R. Schott Dimensionality reduction in quadratic discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 161--174 Jenny Baglivo and Donald Olivier and Marcello Pagano Analysis of discrete data: Rerandomization methods and complexity 175--184 D. Contini and G. Lovison The effect of marginal disuniformity on the $ \chi^2 $ approximation to the distribution of Pearson's $ X^2 $ in sparse contingency tables . . . . . . . 185--199 Jos M. F. ten Berge and Paul A. Bekker The isotropic scaling problem in Generalized Procrustes Analysis . . . . 201--204 Charles S. Davis The computer generation of multinomial random variates . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--217 Yasar Yesilcay The BOYS algorithm for determining optimum matching rules . . . . . . . . . 219--234 Anonymous Statistical Software Newsletter . . . . 235 Uwe Haag and Armin Koch and Werner Vach Why and How to Build a Simple Statistical Computing System . . . . . . 237--244 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Anonymous Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDesign and Analysis of Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies: Chow, Shein-Chung and Liu, Jen-Pei (1992): New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 432 pp., ISBN 0-8247-8682-3, \$125.00} . . . . . . . . 246 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleData Quality Control: Theory and Pragmatics: Liepins, Gunar E. and Uppuluri, V. R. R. (eds.) (1990) New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 384 pp, ISBN 0-8247-8354-9, \$89.75 (U.S. and Canada), \$107.50 (all other countries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDatenanalyse mit SPSS: Wittenberg, Reinhard and Cramer, Hans (1992) Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, pp. 200, ISBN 3-8252-1602-0, DM 24.80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSAS kompakt für die Version 6: Göttsche, T. (1992) Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, pp. 192, ISBN 3-437-40281-1, DM 49.- . . . . 248 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--250 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 251--255 Anonymous Courses, Workshops & Summer Schools . . . 255--256
Dan Bradu and Douglas M. Hawkins Sample size requirements for multiple outlier location techniques based on elemental sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--270 Wing-Kam Fung and J. Bacon-Shone Quasi-Bayesian modelling of multivariate outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278 Harry Joe Multivariate dependence measures and data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--297 Santiago Velilla On eigenvalues, case deletion and extremes in regression . . . . . . . . . 299--309 M. P. Wand and Luc Devroye How easy is a given density to estimate? 311--323 Daniel C. Coster Tables of minimum cost, linear trend-free run sequences for two- and three-level fractional factorial designs 325--336 Augustine C. M. Wong Numerical conversion of likelihood to significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--348 Chong-wei Xu and Wei-Kei Shiue Parallel algorithms for least median of squares regression . . . . . . . . . . . 349--362 Ralf Bender Using common statistical program packages for the Friedman test when there are ties among treatments and a multiple comparison procedure is needed 365--369 Anonymous Mihalsin Associates & StatSci new range of multivariate data analysis techniques to be offered . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Anonymous ESRI & StatSci statistical software integrated with ARC/INFO GIS . . . . . . 370--371 Anonymous Poly software international PSI-Plot Version 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Anonymous UNISTAT for windows spreadsheet, statistics, graphics . . . . . . . . . . 371--372 Anonymous PASE '93 4th international workshop on parallel applications in statistics and economics: November 22--26, 1993, Ascona, Switzerland Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita . . . . . . . . 372 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
Magne Aldrin and Erik Bòlviken and Tore Schweder Projection pursuit regression for moderate non-linearities . . . . . . . . 379--403 Oliver D. Anderson Approximate moments to $ O(n^{-2}) $ for the sampled partial autocorrelations from a white noise process . . . . . . . 405--421 Jean-François Durand Generalized principal component analysis with respect to instrumental variables via univariate spline transformations 423--440 Sik-Yum Lee and Wai-Tung Ho Analysis of multisample identified and non-identified structural equation models with stochastic constraints . . . 441--453 Karsten Schmidt On the performance of minimax estimators in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . 455--468 Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 469 Brian P. Murphy and C. M. Randolph Simulation packages today: new user classes and order-of-magnitude breakthroughs in development costs . . . 471--479 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 482--485 Anonymous Courses, Workshops & Summer Schools . . . 485--486 Anonymous Author index of SSNinCSDA: volume 11 (1991) --- volume 16 (1993) . . . . . . 487 Anonymous Book reviews of SSNinCSDA: volume 11 (1991) --- volume 16 (1993) . . . . . . 488 Anonymous Author index volume 16 (1993) . . . . . 489--490
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii N. T. Longford Logistic regression with random coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Ruth M. Mickey and Sarah J. Shema and Pamela M. Vacek and Dianne Y. Bell Analysis of multiple outcome variables measured longitudinally . . . . . . . . 17--33 Michael R. Harwell and Ronald C. Serlin A Monte Carlo study of the Friedman test and some competitors in the single factor, repeated measures design with unequal covariances . . . . . . . . . . 35--49 Alberto Luceño Fast optimization of the exact likelihood of AR and ARMA processes . . 51--63 Peter J. Rousseeuw and Joachim Wagner Robust regression with a distributed intercept using least median of squares 65--76 Benzion Boukai Graphically based interval estimation for the change-point . . . . . . . . . . 77--86 Robert K. Rayner The small-sample power of Durbin's $h$ test revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94 W. Kössler and B. Lenz and H.-J. Lenz ExVar --- exact variable inspection plans in statistical quality control . . 97--99 E. E. Bassett and S. P. Brooks and ByronJ. T. Morgan Minitab macros for multivariate analysis 100--103 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStatistische Graphik: Jürgen R. Geßler (1993): Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-2874-6, pp. 285, DM 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleZur Methodik der räumlichen Interpolation mit geostatistischen Verfahren: U. Heinrich (1992); Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts--Verlag, ISBN 3-8244-2027-9, pp. 124, DM 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStatistik in der Praxis (3. überarbeitete und ergänzte Auflage): Peter Zöfel (1992): Stuttgard Jena: G. Fischer, ISBN 3-8252-1293-9, pp. 422, DM 34.80 . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMathematica als Werkzeug: Stephan Kaufmann (1992): Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-2832-0, pp. 396, DM 54 . . . . . 104--105 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 109--118
Monica E. Bad Dumitrescu and Denis N. En\uachescu and Florentina Th. Hristea On the performances of an outlier test in the case of the exponential distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127 Amy Fisher and Paul S. Horn Robust prediction intervals in a regression setting . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 Jutta Arrenberg Natural ranks in the conditional Wilcoxon rank sum test . . . . . . . . . 141--152 Ricardo Cao and Antonio Cuevas and Wensceslao González Manteiga A comparative study of several smoothing methods in density estimation . . . . . 153--176 Ove Frank and John Örvik Entropy of sums of random digits . . . . 177--184 Douglas M. Hawkins The feasible solution algorithm for least trimmed squares regression . . . . 185--196 Douglas M. Hawkins The feasible solution algorithm for the minimum covariance determinant estimator in multivariate data . . . . . . . . . . 197--210 Armin Koch and Uwe Haag The \booktitleStatistical Software Guide '93/94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--238 Wenzel Matiaske Correspondence Analysis with P-STAT: the Macro COR.ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Günther Pabst Book Review: \booktitleSoftstat' 91 --- Advances in Statistical Software 3: Frank Faulbaum, ed. (1992): 552 pp. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, ISBN 3-437-40280-3 (94.00 DM) and New York: VCH Publishers, ISBN 1-56081-348-2 . . . 240 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleUnivariate Discrete Distributions: N. L. Johnson, S. Kotz and A. W. Kemp (1992): 2nd Edition. New York: John Wiley, ISBN 0-471-54897-9, pp. xx + 564, US\$68.95} 240--241 Johannes Haerting Book Review: \booktitleStatistische Methoden, Planung und Auswertung. 7. überarbeitete Auflage: Lothar Sachs (1993): Berlin: Springer, ISBN 3-540-55821-7, pp. 312, DM 42.00 . . . . 241 Anonymous IASC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--244 Anonymous Participant's reflections on meetings 245--246 Anonymous In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Mortaza Jamshidian and Robert I. Jennrich Conjugate gradient methods in confirmatory factor analysis . . . . . . 247--263 Wai-Yin Poon and Sik-Yum Lee A distribution free approach for analysis of two-level structural equation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--275 Ayala Cohen and Meir Rom A method for hypothesis tests in polychotomous logistic regression . . . 277--288 Valentin Todorov and Neyko Neykov and Plamen Neytchev Robust two-group discrimination by bounded influence regression. A Monte Carlo simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--302 R. Dennis Cook and Sanford Weisberg ARES plots for generalized linear models 303--315 Steven P. Ellis and Maria McDermott Measuring the local dimension of point clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--326 Robert W. Mee and Debashis Kushary Prediction limits for the Weibull distribution utilizing simulation . . . 327--336 Anonymous News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--340 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--344 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 345--349 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 349--350
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W. David Furman and Bruce G. Lindsay Testing for the number of components in a mixture of normal distributions using moment estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 473--492 W. David Furman and Bruce G. Lindsay Measuring the relative effectiveness of moment estimators as starting values in maximizing likelihoods . . . . . . . . . 493--507 Ken Sejling and Henrik Madsen and Jan Holst and Ulla Holst and Jan-Eric Englund Methods for recursive robust estimation of AR parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--536 S. Ejaz Ahmed Improved estimation in a multivariate regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--554 A. Martín Andrés and A. Silva Mato Choosing the optimal unconditioned test for comparing two independent proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--574 Philippe Vieu Choice of regressors in nonparametric estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--594 Anonymous News about statistical software and related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--599 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of statistics --- computational statistics: C. R. Rao, ed. (1993): Amsterdam, London, New York, Tokyo: North Holland, 920 p. ISBN 0-444-88096-8, US\$190.00} 600--602 Siegfried Schmerling Book Review: \booktitleComputer intensive methods in statistics. Series statistics and computing: W. Härdle and L. Simar, eds. (1993): Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag and New York: Springer Verlag, viii + 176 p., 34 Fig., 16 Tab., ISBN 3-7908-0677-3 and 0-387-91443-9, 75,00 DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--603 Siegfried Schmerling Book Review: \booktitleApplications of Fibonacci numbers --- volume 5: G. E. Bergum, A. N. Philippou, A. F. Horadam, eds. (1993): Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, xxxiv + 625 p., 35 Fig., 30 Tab., ISBN 0-7923-2491-9 603 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--606 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 607--609 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 609--610 Anonymous Author index volume 17 (1994) . . . . . 611--612
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Pedro Delicado and Manuel del Río Bootstrapping the general linear hypothesis test . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--316 J. Koronacki and U. Luboi\'nska Estimating the density of a functional of several random variables . . . . . . 317--330 Henk A. L. Kiers and Robert Cléroux and Jos M. F. Ten Berge Generalized canonical analysis based on optimizing matrix correlations and a relation with IDIOSCAL . . . . . . . . . 331--340 Abraham Silvers and Nira Herrmann and Kathy Godfrey and Bruce Roberts and Dan Cerys A prototype statistical advisory system for biomedical researchers I: Overview 341--355 Nira Herrmann and Abraham Silvers and Katherine Godfrey and Bruce Roberts and Daniel Cerys A prototype statistical advisory system for biomedical researchers II: Development of a statistical strategy 357--369 Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 371 Uwe Haag Knowledge-based systems in statistics: critical review of a decade of research 373--375 Allmut Hörmann News about statistical software & related systems: Software news editor . . . . . 376--378 Allmut Hörmann Information: Information editor . . . . 378--380 Lutz Edler IASC news: IASC news editor . . . . . . 380--382 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 383--387 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 387--388
Shixian Qian The structure of isotonic regression class for LAD problems with quasi-order constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--401 Joel K. Jolayemi Convolution of independent binomial variables: an approximation method and a comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 403--417 Karen Kafadar Choosing among two-dimensional smoothers in practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--439 Weng Kee Wong Comparing robust properties of $A$, $D$, $E$ and $G$-optimal designs . . . . . . 441--448 Cherng G. Ding On the computation of the noncentral beta distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 449--455 Peter Verboon and Willem J. Heiser Resistant lower rank approximation of matrices by iterative majorization . . . 457--467 Toine de Wit Interuniversity expertise center ProGAMMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472 Jürgen Kübler Book Review: \booktitleParameter estimation in reliability and life span models: A. Clifford Cohen and Betty Jones Whitten (1988): New York, Marcel Dekker, 312 pages, ISBN 0-8247-7980-0, US\$99.75} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474 Günther Pabst Book Review: \booktitleDeskriptive statistik: P.v.d. Lippe (1993): 468 pp. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, ISBN 3-437-40268-4, Uni--Taschenbücher für Wissenschaft No. 1632, ISBN 3-8252-1632-2, 46.80 DM . . . . . . . . 474 Siegfried Schmerling Book Review: \booktitleNumerical methods for stochastic processes: N. Bouleau and D. Lépingle: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York 1994, 359 p. ISBN 0-471-54641-0, \$63.50.} . . . . . . . . 474 Rudolf Dutter Report on COMPSTAT '94 in Vienna . . . . 475--479 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 480--483 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 483--484
Paul A. Bekker Counting rules for identification in linear structural models . . . . . . . . 485--498 N. I. Fischer and E. Mammen and J. S. Marron Testing for multimodality . . . . . . . 499--512 Wolfgang Kössler Restrictive adaptive tests for the treatment of the two-sample scale problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--524 Debasis Kundu Estimating the parameters of complex-valued exponential signals . . . 525--534 Kwok-Leung Tsui Avoiding unnecessary bias in robust design analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--546 Pascale Tubert-Bitter and Andrew Kramar and Jean-Jacques Chalé and Thierry Moreau Linear rank tests for comparing survival in two groups with crossing hazards . . 547--559 A. D. Gordon Identifying genuine clusters in a classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--581 Allmut Hö News about statistical software & related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585 Lutz Edler IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--590 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 591--594 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 594 Anonymous Author index of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 & 18 (1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 Anonymous Book reviews of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 & 18 (1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 Anonymous Software news of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 & 18 (1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597 Anonymous Author index volume 18 (1994) . . . . . 599--600
Stanley Azen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . V--VI Myung-Sang Moon and Richard F. Gunst Polynomial measurement error modeling 1--21 Lon-Mu Liu and Ki-Kan Chan and Alan L. Montgomery and Mervin E. Muller A system-independent graphical user interface for statistical software . . . 23--44 Ziqiang Yang An algorithm for nonlinear $ L_1 $ curve-fitting based on the smooth approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--52 Richard William Farebrother On hyperplanes of closest fit . . . . . 53--58 Jan \vCwik and Jan Mielniczuk Nonparametric rank discrimination method 59--74 S. Huda and I. H. Khan and Rahul Mukerjee On optimal designs with restricted circular string property . . . . . . . . 75--83 H. Mansouri and G.-H. Chang A comparative study of some rank tests for interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Anonymous Tips & Tricks for using today's statistical software systems efficiently 99--101 Dietrich Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of small data sets: Hand, D. J., Daly, F., Lunn, A. D., McConway, K. J. & Ostrowski, E. (1994): Chapman & Hall, London. xvi + 458 pages, including one diskette with data files (MS-DOS), 40 British Pounds, ISBN 0-412-39920-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Rolf Holle Book Review: \booktitleDesign of experiments. A no-name approach: Lorenzen, T. J. & Anderson, V. L. (1993): Marcel Dekker, New York. 414 pages, US\$59.75, ISBN 0-8247-9077-4} . . . . . 101--102 Anonymous From the bookstore for your library . . 102 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 103--110
Jaromír Antoch and Petr Hájek and Radim Jirou\vsek Tomá\vs Havránek . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113 Jaromír Antoch and Hakan Ekblom Recursive robust regression computational aspects and comparison . . 115--128 P. Bo\vcek and P. Lachout Linear programming approach to LMS-estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--134 William A. Gale Cognition, computation, and formal systems: Some of Tomás Havránek's interests and disambiguating word senses 135--148 P. Hájek and A. Sochorová and J. Zvárová GUHA for personal computers . . . . . . 149--153 Sòren Hòjsgaard and Bo Thiesson BIFROST --- Block recursive models induced from relevant knowledge, observations, and statistical techniques 155--175 Radim Jirou\vsek and Stanislav P\vreu\vcil On the effective implementation of the iterative proportional fitting procedure 177--189 Steffen L. Lauritzen The EM algorithm for graphical association models with missing data . . 191--201 Alfredo Rizzi and Maurizio Vichi Representation, synthesis, variability and data preprocessing of a three-way data set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--222 Nanny Wermuth and D. R. Cox Derived variables calculated from similar joint responses: some characteristics and examples . . . . . . 223--234 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical Software Guide '94/95: edited by Armin Koch and Uwe Haag . . . . . . . . . . . 237--261 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263 Anonymous Calendar: topical deadlines only . . . . 263--264
Ola Hössjer Exact computation of the least trimmed squares estimate in simple linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--282 Zvi Drezner Multirelation --- a correlation among more than two variables . . . . . . . . 283--292 M. Ebneshahrashoob and Milton Sobel Dirichlet analysis for inverse multinomial with both quota and quota-free cells . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--307 Gemai Chen Generalized log-normal distributions with reliability application . . . . . . 309--319 Wing K. Fung A cautionary note on the use of generalized Cook-type measures . . . . . 321--326 D. M. Smith Iterative refinement of parameter estimates and residuals from a regression model fitted using QR decomposition methods . . . . . . . . . 327--349 Ernst Schuster Preference of equivalence tests with standardized mean difference demonstrated by an application . . . . . 353--356 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Anonymous Tips & Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358 Götz Uebe Book Review: \booktitleComputational techniques for Econometrics and Economic Analysis: D. A. Belsley (ed.) (1994) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-2356-4, pp. 248, US\$92} . . 359--360 Dietrich Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleÖkonometrie: Hans Schneeweiß (1990) (4th ed.), Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag. ISBN 3-7908-0486-X, pp. 392, -DM45.- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 Volker Weiberger Book Review: \booktitleUNIX: Einstieg für DOS-Anwender: Taudes, Alfred, Reepmeyer, Jan-Armin, & Bensberg, Frank (1993) Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag. ISBN 3-7908-0700-1, pp 232, DM40.- . . . . . 360--361 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364 Anonymous Urgent: Questionnaire for IASC members 365 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 367--368
E. J. Kontoghiorghes and M. R. B. Clarke An alternative approach for the numerical solution of seemingly unrelated regression equations models 369--377 Haruo Onishi A user-knowledge-based variable selection method for limited information maximum likelihood using principal components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--399 S. S. Kim and S. H. Park Dynamic plots for displaying the roles of variables and observations in regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418 W. J. Krzanowski Selection of variables, and assessment of their performance, in mixed-variable discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 419--431 Berlin Wu Model-free forecasting for nonlinear time series (with application to exchange rates) . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--459 Peter Zörnig and Gabriel Altmann Unified representation of Zipf distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--473 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477 Anonymous Tips & Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478 H.-J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitleStatistical and scientific databases: Zbigniew Michalewicz (ed.) (1991): New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Ellis Horwood. 544 pages, ISBN 0-13-850652-3, \$57.20} . . . . . . 479--481 H.-J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitlePanel data analysis: Baldev Raj and Badi H. Baltagi (eds.) (1992): Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag. ISBN 3-7908-0593-9, 220 pages, DM 128.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--483 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleStatistical distributions: M. Evans, N. Hastings & B. Peacock (1993): (2nd Edition). New: John Wiley. 170 pages, ISBN 0-471-55951-2, \pounds 24.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484 Anonymous From the bookstore for your library . . 484 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 485--490 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 490--492
Karl Anton Froeschl A formal model evaluation approach to the analysis of treatment effects in paired sample data . . . . . . . . . . . 493--517 Douglas M. Hawkins Convergence of the feasible solution algorithm for least median of squares regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--538 J. L. du Plessis and A. J. van der Merwe A Bayesian approach to multivariate and conditional calibration . . . . . . . . 539--552 S. K. Panda and A. Nagabhushanam Fuzzy data distortion . . . . . . . . . 553--562 Haim Shore Fitting a distribution by the first two moments (partial and complete) . . . . . 563--577 A. Martín Andrés and I. Herranz Tejedor Is Fisher's exact test very conservative? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--591 Andreas Krause Electronic services in statistics . . . 595--604 H.-J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitleReliability improvement with design of experiments: Lloyd W. Condra (1993) New York: Marcel Dekker. 400 pages, ISBN 0-8247-8888-5, \$65.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 Brian P. Murphy Reflections on meetings: Whither COMPSTAT? Issues & Challenges on Occasion of the Panel Discussion of COMPSTAT '94, Vienna, August, 25, 1994 . . . . . . . . 606--609 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--612 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 612
Ronald J. Bosch and Yinyu Ye and George G. Woodworth A convergent algorithm for quantile regression with smoothing splines . . . 613--630 Jordi Ocaña and Esteban Vegas Variance reduction for Bernoulli response variables in simulation . . . . 631--640 W. Härdle and B. U. Park Testing increasing dispersion . . . . . 641--653 Paul Jordan Estimation of tolerance limits from reference data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--668 Louis Ferré Selection of components in principal component analysis: a comparison of methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--682 Philip Hans Franses The effects of seasonally adjusting a periodic autoregressive process . . . . 683--704 Hermann Kulmann Notes on the computation of the exact distribution function of the $ \chi^2$- and Related test statistics in the equiprobable case . . . . . . . . . . . 707--710 H.-J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitleNew directions in statistical data analysis and Robustness: S. Morgenthaler, E. Ronchetti, W. A. Stahel (eds.) (1993) Basel, Boston, London: Birkhäuser Verlag. 293 pages, ISBN 3-7643-2923-8, \pounds 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--712 H.-J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitleNeXTSTEP programming, step one: object-oriented applications: Simson L. Garfinkel & Michael K. Mahoney (1993): New York: Springer Verlag. 631 pp. + disk, DM 89.- ISBN 3-540-97884-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 712--713 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--714 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--716 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 716 Anonymous Author index volume 19 (1995) . . . . . 717--719
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi W. Härdle and J. S. Marron Fast and simple scatterplot smoothing 1--17 Ya'acov Ritov PM algorithms for calculating minimum $ \chi^2 $ estimators with partially observed sub-tables . . . . . . . . . . 19--33 W. Liu Fixed-width simultaneous confidence intervals for all-pairwise comparisons 35--44 A. L. Bello Imputation techniques in regression analysis: Looking closely at their implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57 Borko D. Jovanovic and David W. Hosmer and John P. Buonaccorsi Equivalence of several methods for efficient best subsets selection in generalized linear models . . . . . . . 59--64 Suojin Wang One-step saddlepoint approximations for quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74 M. Zaki and F. El Tohamy and A. Hassan Landsat image interpretation . . . . . . 75--97 Volker W. Rahlfs and Helmuth Zimmermann Nonparametric methods in standard statistics packages: the case of the Friedman analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110 Anonymous Tips & Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--114 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 114--118
Terry E. Dielman and Elizabeth L. Rose A bootstrap approach to hypothesis testing in least absolute value regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130 Lloyd J. Edwards and Scott A. Hamilton Errors-in-variables and the Box--Cox transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--140 Jörg Polzehl Projection pursuit discriminant analysis 141--157 Danny Dyer and Rebecca L. Pierce Bayesian HPM intervals for the number of nonconforming items in a lot . . . . . . 159--172 Xingye Lei and Y. B. Peng and F. T. Wright Testing homogeneity of normal means with a simply ordered alternative and dependent observations . . . . . . . . . 173--183 Gunar Schröer and Dietrich Trenkler Exact and randomization distributions of Kolmogorov--Smirnov tests two or three samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--202 V. Granville and J. P. Rasson Bayesian filtering and supervised classification in image remote sensing 203--225 Ivan K\vrivý and Josef Tvrdík The controlled random search algorithm in optimizing regression models . . . . 229--234 Stephan Köhne and Iris Pigeot Book Review: \booktitleResampling-Based Multiple Testing. Examples and Methods for $p$-Value Adjustment: Peter H. Westfall and S. Stanley Young (1993): New York: Wiley, ISBN 0-471-55761-7, pp. 340, \$59.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 238
Eugene Grechanovsky and Ilia Pinsker Conditional $p$-values for the $F$-statistic in a forward selection procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--263 Stephen Black and H. Mansouri On exact distributions of rank tests for ordered alternatives in block designs 265--274 Lee Sik-Yum and Poon Wai-Yin Estimation of factor scores in a two-level confirmatory factor analysis model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--284 V. K. Madan and R. K. Sinha Digital smoothing of census data employing Fourier transforms . . . . . . 285--294 Peter Winker Identification of multivariate AR-models by threshold accepting . . . . . . . . . 295--307 Samuel D. Oman Checking the assumptions in mixed-model analysis of variance: a residual analysis approach . . . . . . . . . . . 309--330 Jeffrey Jarrett Review of a quality control and improvement statistical software system 333--339 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--342
Hideo Hirose Maximum likelihood parameter estimation in the three-parameter gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--354 Dan Bradu and Douglas M. Hawkins An Anscombe type robust regression statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--386 A. Saltelli and T. H. Andres and T. Homma Sensitivity analysis of model output. Performance of the iterated fractional factorial design method . . . . . . . . 387--407 Friedrich Schmid and Mark Trede A distribution free test for the two sample problem for general alternatives 409--419 Enrique Castillo and Ali S. Hadi A method for estimating parameters and quantiles of distributions of continuous random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--439 Dieter Rasch The robustness against parameter variation of exact locally optimum designs in nonlinear regression --- a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--453 Arndt von Haeseler and Michael Schöniger Modelling evolution of autocorrelated sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460 Anonymous Anzstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--462 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 462--464 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 464--465
Emilio Carrizosa and Frank Plastria The determination of a ``least quantile of squares regression line'' for all quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--479 R. Chattamvelli On the doubly noncentral $F$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--489 Paul J. Elson Use of the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm in the calculation of the operating characteristics of group sequential clinical trials . . . . . . . 491--498 Thomas Lumley Efficient execution of Stone's likelihood ratio tests for disease clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--510 Alberto Luceño A family of partially correlated Poisson models for overdispersion . . . . . . . 511--520 W. Gonzalez Manteiga and J. M. Vilar Fernandez Testing linear regression models using non-parametric regression estimators when errors are non-independent . . . . 521--541 L. De Cesare and D. Posa A simulation technique of a non-Gaussian spatial process . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--555 Wing K. Fung Detecting influential observations for estimated probabilities in multiple discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 557--568 Michael A. Hauser and Erhard Reschenhofer Estimation of the fractionally differencing parameter with the $ R / S $ method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--579 Ekkehard Krause and Christoph Bandt and Anne Schulz and Holger Schulz Fractal exponents for the upper airways of mammalian lungs . . . . . . . . . . . 583--590 Gerhard Held Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--592 Rainer. Schlittgen Book Review: \booktitleSurvival analysis: State of the art: John P. Klein and Prem. K. Goel (1992) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, x + 451 pages, ISBN 0-7923-1634-7, \$138.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592--593 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--598
Plamen Nikolov Neytchev SWEEP operator for least-squares subject to linear constraints . . . . . . . . . 599--609 Ricardo Cao and Antonio Cuevas and Ricardo Fraiman Minimum distance density-based estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--631 Joel K. Jolayemi A power function model for determining sample sizes for the operations of multivariate control charts . . . . . . 633--641 Frédérique Kazi-Aoual and Simon Hitier and Robert Sabatier and Jean-Dominique Lebreton Refined approximations to permutation tests for multivariate inference . . . . 643--656 Jukka Öfversten Estimation in mixed models via layer triangular transformation . . . . . . . 657--667 Christian Posse Projection pursuit exploratory data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--687 P. C. Wang and M. H. Chen and S. C. Wei To analyze binary data from mixed-level orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 689--695 Leo Knüsel On the accuracy of the statistical distributions in GAUSS . . . . . . . . . 699--702 Anonymous Software news . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703 Walter Krämer Book Review: \booktitleProbability & Measure: Patrick Billingsley (1995): (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley, ISBN 0-471-00710-2, pp. 593, \pounds 49.95 703 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--711 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712 Anonymous Author index of SSNinCSDA: Volume 19 (1995) -- volume 20 (1995) . . . . . . . 713--716 Anonymous Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 716 Anonymous Author index volume 20 (1995) . . . . . 717--719
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi Anna Clara Monti A new preliminary estimator for MA(1) models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 A. D. Gordon A survey of constrained classification 17--29 Ja-Yong Koo Bivariate B-splines for tensor logspline density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42 Moira A. Mugglestone and Eric Renshaw A practical guide to the spectral analysis of spatial point processes . . 43--65 Peter J. Rousseeuw and Mia Hubert Regression-free and robust estimation of scale for bivariate data . . . . . . . . 67--85 Trygve Almòy A simulation study on comparison of prediction methods when only a few components are relevant . . . . . . . . 87--107 Thomas Scheuchenpflug and Maria Blettner Coding Confusion using PROC LOGISTIC in SAS$^\reg $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--115 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Anonymous Letter to the editor: Knut M. Wittkowski (Tübingen, Germany) wrote on August 22, 1995: Rahlfs, V. W. & Zimmermann, H.: ``Nonparametric methods in standard statistics packages: the case of the Friedman analysis'', SSNinCSDA \bf 20/1, 101--110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117 Anonymous Reply by Volker W. Rahlfs and Helmuth Zimmermann (Munich, Germany): Comment on Knut M. Wittkowski, Letter to the Editor, August 22, 1995 . . . . . . . . 117--118 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced Linear Models: Song-Gui Wang & Shein-Chung Chow: Marcel Dekker, New York, 1994, pp. x + 537, \$165.00, ISBN 0-8247-9169-X} . . . 118--119 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleContinuous univariate distributions: N. L. Johnson, S. Kotz and N. Balakrishnan Vol. 1, 2nd Edition. John Wiley, New York, 1994, pp. xix + 756, Price: \pounds 66.00, ISBN 0-471-58495-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--123 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 123--130 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 130--131
Wim P. Krijnen Algorithms for unweighted least-squares factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--147 Anne Ruiz-Gazen A very simple robust estimator of a dispersion matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162 Alexander Steinwolf Approximation and simulation of probability distributions with a variable kurtosis value . . . . . . . . 163--180 Joo Sung Jung and Bong Jin Yum Construction of exact $D$-optimal designs by tabu search . . . . . . . . . 181--191 Robert Kalaba and Leigh Tesfatsion A multicriteria approach to model specification and estimation . . . . . . 193--214 W. Liu On some single-stage, step-down and step-up procedures for comparing three normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227 A. Koch and U. Haag The \booktitleStatistical Software Guide '95/96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--256 Anonymous IASC-news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--260
Robert A. Wijsman New algorithms for the function $ T(h, a) $ of Owen, with application to bivariate normal and noncentral $t$-probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271 Holger Dette and Stefan Sperlich Some applications of Stieltjes transforms in the construction of optimal designs for nonlinear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--292 Danuta Kachlicka and Stanislaw Mejza Repeated row-column designs with split units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305 Berthold Lausen and Martin Schumacher Evaluating the effect of optimized cutoff values in the assessment of prognostic factors . . . . . . . . . . . 307--326 Biao Zhang Confidence intervals for a distribution function in the presence of auxiliary information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--342 M. J. Brewer and C. G. G. Aitken and M. Talbot A comparison of hybrid strategies for Gibbs sampling in mixed graphical models 343--365 Jean Thioulouse and François Chevenet NetMul, a World-Wide Web user interface for multivariate analysis software . . . 369--372 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374 J. Fassbinder Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondence Analysis Handbook: J.-P. Benzécri (1992) New York: Marcel Dekker, ISBN 0-8247-8437-5, pp. 688, \$150.00} . . . 375 Lutz Edler IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379
Hongshik Ahn Log-normal regression modeling through recursive partitioning . . . . . . . . . 381--398 Lin-An Chen Bivariate regression splines . . . . . . 399--418 Karim F. Hirji and Timothy D. Johnson A comparison of algorithms for exact analysis of unordered $ 2 \times K $ contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429 Tobias Rydén An EM algorithm for estimation in Markov-modulated Poisson processes . . . 431--447 Christopher Cox Nonlinear quasi-likelihood models: applications to continuous proportions 449--461 Terry E. Dielman and Elizabeth L. Rose A note on hypothesis testing in LAV multiple regression: a small sample comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470 T. P. Hutchinson On the generalised Friedman test . . . . 473--476 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--480 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 481--485 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 485--486
Ibrahim Akman and Jan G. De Gooijer Component extraction analysis of multivariate time series . . . . . . . . 487--499 Magne Aldrin Moderate projection pursuit regression for multivariate response data . . . . . 501--531 Alicja Ciok An estimator of Gini Separation Index which is nearly median-unbiased . . . . 533--546 J. M. Fernández-Ponce and R. Infante-Macías and J. Muñoz-Pérez Characterization of lifetime distributions based on a quantile dispersion measure . . . . . . . . . . . 547--561 Alejandro Quintela del Río Comparison of bandwidth selectors in nonparametric regression under dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--580 Rien van der Leeden and Karen Vrijburg and Jan de Leeuw A review of two different approaches for the analysis of growth data using longitudinal mixed linear models: Comparing hierarchical linear regression (ML3, HLM) and repeated measures designs with structured covariance matrices (BMDP5V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--605 Clemens Tilke Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of statistical analyses using S-Plus: Brian S. Everitt (1994): Chapman & Hall, 143 p., \pounds 14.99, ISBN 0-412-56310-X 606 Clemens Tilke Book Review: \booktitleSAS programming for researchers and social scientists: Paul E. Spector: Sage Publications (1993), 167 p. ISBN 0-8039-4984-7 (cloth), ISBN 0-8039-4985-5 (paperback) 606 Plamen Mateev IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--607 Randy Banks Meetings: Association for Survey Computing: Second International Conference On Survey and Statistical Computing London, UK, September 11--13, 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608 Iris Burger Workshop on statistical modelling of discrete data and structures: Munich, Germany, October 24--26, 1996 . . . . . 608
A. Martín Andrés and A. Silva Mato Optimal correction for continuity and conditions for validity in the unconditional chi-squared test . . . . . 609--626 Chi-Ying Leung Error rates for classifying observations based on binary and continuous variables with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--645 Anders Rosenqvist Asymptotic theory for a two-step pseudo-linear Doppler-bearing tracker 647--660 Martin Schumacher and Reinhard Roßner and Werner Vach Neural networks and logistic regression: Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--682 Werner Vach and Reinhard Roßner and Martin Schumacher Neural networks and logistic regression: Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--701 Christoph Berding and Wilhelm Kleider and Rüdiger Gössl DoPE: $D$-optimal planning & experimentation the tool for experimental design in research and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--710 Anonymous Conference on computational statistics and statistical education, Tartu, Estonia, June 2--8, 1996 . . . . . . . . 711 Anonymous Short courses in applied statistics in Barcelona, summer 1996 . . . . . . . . . 711--712 Anonymous Second World Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing February 19 to 22, 1997, Pasadena, CA, USA second announcement and call for contributed papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--715 Anonymous Calendar of meetings new entries only 715--716 Anonymous Author index volume 21 (1996) . . . . . 717--718
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi W. González-Manteiga and C. Sánchez-Sellero and M. P. Wand Accuracy of binned kernel functional approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 A. J. Hayter and W. Liu Exact calculations for the one-sided Studentized range test for testing against a simple ordered alternative . . 17--25 Vincent Granville Discriminant analysis and density estimation on the finite $d$-dimensional grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--51 Todd Ogden and Emanuel Parzen Data dependent wavelet thresholding in nonparametric regression with change-point applications . . . . . . . 53--70 Jian-Xin Pan and Kai-Tai Fang Influential observation in the growth curve model with unstructured covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--87 Rand R. Wilcox Confidence intervals for the slope of a regression line when the error term has nonconstant variance . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
T. Ng Pin An algorithm for quantile smoothing splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--118 Bradley M. Bell and James V. Burke and Alan Schumitzky A relative weighting method for estimating parameters and variances in multiple data sets . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135 H. L. Gray and J. Baek and W. A. Woodward and J. Miller and M. Fisk A bootstrap generalized likelihood ratio test in discriminant analysis . . . . . 137--158 Hsin-Cheng Huang and Noel Cressie Spatio-temporal prediction of snow water equivalent using the Kalman filter . . . 159--175 Yi-Hwei Li and John P. Klein and M. L. Moeschberger Effects of model misspecification in estimating covariate effects in survival analysis for small sample sizes . . . . 177--192 Uwe Beyer and Frank \vSmieja Data exploration with reflective adaptive models . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--211
Salim U. Rehman and A. Shapiro An integral transform approach to cross-variograms modeling . . . . . . . 213--233 Yuh-Ing Chen and Sheng-Shu Cheng and Hong-Long Wang Rank-based comparisons of treatments with a control for repeated measures designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249 Jennifer Hoeting and Adrian E. Raftery and David Madigan A method for simultaneous variable selection and outlier identification in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 251--270 Koon-Shing Kwong and Boris Iglewicz On singular multivariate normal distribution and its applications . . . 271--285 Tjen-Sien Lim and Wei-Yin Loh A comparison of tests of equality of variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--301 Wai-Yin Poon and Hin-Yan Hung Analysis of square tables with ordered categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--322 Oliver Kuss and Armin Koch Meta-analysis macros for SAS . . . . . . 325--333 Walter Krämer Book Review: \booktitleSignal processing with alpha-stable distributions and applications: C. L. Nikias and Min Shoa (1995): Wiley, ISBN 0-471-10647-X, \pounds 50.00, pp. 168 . . . . . . . . . 334 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleMethods of multivariate analysis. Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics: Probability and mathematical statistics section: Alvin C. Rencher (1995): ISBN 0-471-57152-0, \pounds 58.00, xvi + 627 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335 Walter Krämer Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction to computational statistics --- Regression analysis: Robert I. Jennrich (1995): Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-454810-8, \pounds 22.95, pp. 364 335 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 337--342
Cherng G. Ding On the computation of the distribution of the square of the sample multiple correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 345--350 Felix Abramovich and Yoav Benjamini Adaptive thresholding of wavelet coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--361 Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and Sana S. BuHamra Rank tests for two change points . . . . 363--372 Shanti S. Gupta and Tommaso Gastaldi Life testing for multi-component systems with incomplete information on the cause of failure: a study on some inspection strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--393 AndréI. Khuri and Hyuk Joo Kim and Yonghwan Um Quantile plots of the prediction variance for response surface designs 395--407 Dejian Lai Comparison study of AR models of the Canadian lynx data: a close look at BDS statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--423 Nathaniel Schenker and Jeremy M. G. Taylor Partially parametric techniques for multiple imputation . . . . . . . . . . 425--446 Wolfgang Reh and Bernard Scheffler Significance tests and confidence intervals for coefficients of variation 449--452 Julian L. Simon Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--456 Anonymous IAS-News COMPSTAT 1998 . . . . . . . . . 456 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 457--460
Debasis Kundu and G. Murali Model selection in linear regression . . 461--469 Hans-Peter Piepho Weighted estimates of interlaboratory consensus values . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--479 J. H. Venter and S. J. Steel Finding multiple abrupt change points 481--504 Smarajit Bose Classification using splines . . . . . . 505--525 Kenneth Carling Testing for independence in a competing risks model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--535 Gerhard Tutz and Wolfgang Hennevogl Random effects in ordinal regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--557 Roel Popping More agreeable software . . . . . . . . 561--567 Manfred Horn Book Review: \booktitleDesign and analysis of experiments for statistical selection, screening and multiple comparisons: Robert E. Bechhofer, Thomas J. Santner, David M. Goldsman (1995): John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-57427-9, \pounds 45.00, pp. 325 568 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleContinuous univariate distributions: N. L. Johnson, S. Kotz & N. Balakrishnan (1995): Vol. 2, 2nd Edition. John Wiley, New York, ISBN 0-471-58494-0, \pounds 70.00, pp. xix + 719 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--569 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleLinear statistical models: J. H. Stapleton (1995): John Wiley, New York, ISBN 0-471-57150-4 \pounds 50.00, pp. xiii + 449 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--572
J. M. Henshall and D. M. Smith Iterative refinement of the singular-value decomposition solution to the regression equations . . . . . . . . 573--582 M. M. Ojeda and S. F. Juárez-Cerrillo Biplot display for diagnostic in a two-level regression model for growth curve analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--597 Sam Efromovich Adaptive orthogonal series density estimation for small samples . . . . . . 599--617 Yuh-Wen Soo and Douglas M. Bates Multiresponse spline regression . . . . 619--631 Sangit Chatterjee and Matthew Laudato and Lucy A. Lynch Genetic algorithms and their statistical applications: an introduction . . . . . 633--651 Andreas Handl Book Review: \booktitleBiplots: J. C. Gower and D. J. Hand (1996) London: Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0-412-71630-5, \pounds 32.00, pp. 277 . . . . . . . . . 655 Götz Trenkler Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655 Anonymous IASC-News Results of the BoD ERS IASC Elections for the period of 1996--2000 656 Anonymous Compstat '98 24--28 August 1998, Bristol, UK First Call for Papers . . . 656--657 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 658--663 Anonymous Author index of SSNinCSDA: Volume 21 & volume 22 (1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--667 Anonymous Author index volume 22 (1996) . . . . . 669--671
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Pushpa L. Gupta and Ramesh C. Gupta and Ram C. Tripathi Analysis of zero-adjusted count data . . 207--218 Stuart R. Lipsitz and Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and Lynn Sleeper and L. P. Zhao Estimating the joint distribution of repeated binary responses: Some small sample results . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--227 James R. Schott Eigenprojections and the equality of latent roots of a correlation matrix . . 229--238 Shu-Jia Wang and Sik-Yum Lee Sensitivity analysis of structural equation models with equality functional constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256 Victoria C. P. Chen and Anthony J. Hayter Sensitivity analysis of upper confidence bounds on the range of treatment effects 257--262 Karen Kafadar and Philip C. Prorok Computer simulation of randomized cancer screening trials to compare methods of estimating lead time and benefit time 263--291 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296 Anonymous ICM98-CL8: Financial support for mathematicians from Eastern Europe' and the independent states of the former Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--304 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--306
J. Huston McCulloch and Don B. Panton Precise tabulation of the maximally-skewed stable distributions and densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320 Seppo Mustonen A measure for total variability in multivariate normal distribution . . . . 321--334 Jeffrey S. Simonoff and Frederic Udina Measuring the stability of histogram appearance when the anchor position is changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--353 Norman R. Draper and Yonghong (Fred) Yang Generalization of the geometric mean functional relationship . . . . . . . . 355--372 B. D. Jovanovic and D. W. Hosmer A simulation of the performance of $ C_p $ in model selection for logistic and Poisson regression . . . . . . . . . . . 373--379 Terry E. Dielman and Elizabeth L. Rose A note on hypothesis testing in LAV multiple regression: a small sample comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--388 Vatsala V. Karwe and Joseph I. Naus New recursive methods for scan statistic probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--402 A. Mkhadri and G. Celeux and A. Nasroallah Regularization in discriminant analysis: an overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--423 Anonymous List of referees . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Anonymous The leading edge of statistical computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--434 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 434--441 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 441--442
Frank K. Hwang and Paul E. Wright An $ O(n \log n) $ algorithm for the generalized birthday problem . . . . . . 443--451 Tor Jacobson and Rolf Larsson Numerical aspects of a likelihood ratio test statistic for cointegrating rank 453--465 Michael Schemper and Alexandra Kaider A new approach to estimate correlation coefficients in the presence of censoring and proportional hazards . . . 467--476 Paul Chiou Interval estimation of scale parameters following a pre-test for two exponential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--489 Nathalie Caouder and Sylvie Huet Testing goodness-of-fit for nonlinear regression models with heterogeneous variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--507 Anna Lindgren Quantile regression with censored data using generalized $ L_1 $ minimization 509--524 S. G. Meintanis and G. S. Donatos A comparative study of some robust methods for coefficient-estimation in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 525--540 Geert Verbeke and Emmanuel Lesaffre The effect of misspecifying the random-effects distribution in linear mixed models for longitudinal data . . . 541--556 Peter Naeve The referee system: get involved . . . . 559--561 Allmut Hörmann The SSN and the referee system . . . . . 562--563 Ene-Margit Tiit COMPSTAT '96 in Barcelona: the triangle: Computers --- Statistics --- Education 564 Gerald Musiol Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis: Agresti, A. (1996) New York: Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-11338-7, xi + 290 pages, \$90.00} 565 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleThe Elements of Integration and Lebesgue Measure: Robert G. Bartle (1995) Wiley Classics Library Edition. New York: Wiley, pp. 179, \pounds 20.50, ISBN 0-471-04222-6 . . . 565 J. Antoch Book Review: \booktitleA Guide to Chi-Squared Testing: Greenwood, P. E. and Nikulin, M. S. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.pp. 280 + xii, ISBN 0-471-55779-X. AMS 1991 Classification: 62-02, 62F03, 62H15 . . . . . . . . . . 565--566 Anonymous IASC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--569 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 569--573 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574 Anonymous Author index volume 23 (1997) . . . . . 575--576
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi Pieter H. F. M. van Casteren The frequency polygon reconsidered . . . 1--8 A. G. Constantine and N. I. Robinson The Weibull renewal function for moderate to large arguments . . . . . . 9--27 Kai-Tai Fang and Run-Ze Li Some methods for generating both an NT-net and the uniform distribution on a Stiefel manifold and their applications 29--46 Chul Ahn An evaluation of simple methods for the estimation of a common odds ratio in clusters with variable size . . . . . . 47--61 Huseyin Gunes and Dennis C. Dietz and Paul F. Auclair and Albert H. Moore Modified goodness-of-fit tests for the inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 63--77 Mark S. Kaiser Maximum likelihood estimation of link function parameters . . . . . . . . . . 79--87 Donguk Kim and Alan Agresti Nearly exact tests of conditional independence and marginal homogeneity for sparse contingency tables . . . . . 89--104 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical Software Guide '96/97: edited by Armin Koch and Uwe Haag . . . . . . . . . . . 107--131 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 133--135 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Hideo Hirose Maximum likelihood parameter estimation in the three-parameter log-normal distribution using the continuation method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--152 Michael LeBlanc Restricted polynomial regression . . . . 153--167 T. K. Mak and H. Wong and W. K. Li Estimation of nonlinear time series with conditional heteroscedastic variances by iteratively weighted least squares . . . 169--178 A. Adatia Approximate BLUEs of the parameters of the half logistic distribution based on fairly large doubly censored samples . . 179--191 Hartmut Hecker and Peter Wübbelt Clustering by response: CBR . . . . . . 193--215 Maurizio Maravalle and Bruno Simeone and Rosella Naldini Clustering on trees . . . . . . . . . . 217--234 Christian Kastner and Andreas Fieger and Christian Heumann MAREG and WinMAREG A tool for marginal regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 237--241 Massimiliano Giacalone Participant's views of meeting: COMPSTAT '96 in Barcelona: Comments and Impressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247 Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 247--253 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 253--254
Philippe C. Besse and Hervé Cardot and Frédéric Ferraty Simultaneous non-parametric regressions of unbalanced longitudinal data . . . . 255--270 Dan Bradu Identification of outliers by means of $ L_1 $ regression: Safe and unsafe configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--281 Cathy W. S. Chen Detection of additive outliers in bilinear time series . . . . . . . . . . 283--294 Ludwig Fahrmeir and Stefan Wagenpfeil Penalized likelihood estimation and iterative Kalman smoothing for non-Gaussian dynamic regression models 295--320 Ryuei Nishii and Takemi Yanagimoto and Saeko Kusanobu The use of univariate Bayes regression models for spatial smoothing . . . . . . 321--336 Roberta Siciliano and Ab Mooijaart Three-factor association models for three-way contingency tables . . . . . . 337--356 Jos M. F. ten Berge Reduction of asymmetry by rank-one matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--366 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371 Anonymous Net news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate statistical analysis: Narayan C. Giri (1996): New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., xii + 378 pages, ISBN 0-8247-9338-2, US\$135.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 Thomas Bousonville Book Review: \booktitleGenetic algorithms + data structures = evolution programs: Zbigniew Michalewicz (1996): 3rd ed.. New York: Springer, pp. 387, ISBN 3-540-60676-9, 58,00 DM . . . . . . 372--373 Ana Fernández Militino Book Review: \booktitleRobust statistics, data analysis, and computer intensive methods: Rieder, H. (Editor) (1996): New York: Springer, pp. 427, ISBN 0-387-94660-8, \pounds 33.50 . . . 373--374 Anonymous Conference proceedings in teaching computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Anonymous Neural nets versus logistic regression 374 Anonymous Sample copy of \booktitleComputational Statistics and Data Analysis . . . . . . 374 Anonymous IV international summer school on computational statistics organized by the IASC and the Department of Statistical Science Padua, Italy, June--July 4, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376 Anonymous IASC Executive and Council following 51st ISI, Istanbul . . . . . . . . . . . 376 Anonymous IASC program for ISI'99 in Helsinki, Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
R. D. Routledge $P$-values from permutation and $F$-tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--386 Jorge Alberto Achcar and JoséCarlos Fogo A useful reparameterization for the reliability in the Weibull case . . . . 387--400 Helio S. Migon and Vilma M. Tachibana Bayesian approximations in randomized response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--409 J. A. Pardo and M. C. Pardo and M. L. Vicente and M. D. Esteban A statistical information theory approach to compare the homogeneity of several variances . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416 Taesung Park and Morton B. Brown Log-linear models for a binary response with nonignorable nonresponse . . . . . 417--432 Erhard Reschenhofer Generalization of the Kolmogorov--Smirnov test . . . . . . . . 433--441 David R. Bellhouse and Robert Philips and James E. Stafford Symbolic operators for multiple sums . . 443--454 Richard William Farebrother The historical development of the linear minimax absolute residual estimation procedure 1786--1960 . . . . . . . . . . 455--466 Jind\vri\vska He\vrmanská and Miroslav Kárný Bayesian estimation of effective half-life in dosimetric applications . . 467--482 Kang-Mo Jung and Myung Geun Kim and Byung Chun Kim Local influence in maximum likelihood factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--491 Roel Popping The utility of a consultation facility in a program for statistical computing 495--503 Hans J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of statistical analyses using SAS: B. S. Everitt and G. Der (1996) London: Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0-412-71050-1, pp. 158, \pounds 19.99 . . . . . . . . . . . 504 Ana Fernández Militino Book Review: \booktitleRobust statistical procedures, asymptotics and interrelations: Jana Jurecková and Pranab Kumar Sen (1996) New York: Wiley, pp. 466, ISBN 0-471-82221-3, \pounds 50.00 504--505 Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--507 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--510 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 510 Anonymous Author index volume 24 (1997) . . . . . 511--512
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Christophe Croux and Gentiane Haesbroeck An easy way to increase the finite-sample efficiency of the resampled minimum volume ellipsoid estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--141 Gilberto A. Paula and Oscar V. Rojas On restricted hypotheses in extreme value regression models . . . . . . . . 143--157 Keming Yu and M. C. Jones A comparison of local constant and local linear regression quantile estimators 159--166 Thomas E. Bradstreet A Monte Carlo study of Type $I$ error rates for the two-sample Behrens--Fisher problem with and without rank transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179 Mortaza Jamshidian $T$-distribution modeling using the available statistical software . . . . . 181--206 Wilfried Seidel A possible way out of the pitfall of acceptance sampling by variables: Treating variances as unknown . . . . . 207--216 Paul N. Somerville Multiple testing and simultaneous confidence intervals: calculation of constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--233 Frank B. Baker A note on the proper use of the \booktitleNumerical Recipes \tt RAN1 random number generator . . . . . . . . 237--239 Anonymous Software prize for students and young researchers by ASK . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Clemens Tilke Book Review: \booktitlePractical handbook of spatial statistics: Arlinghaus, Sandra Lach (1996): CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-0132-7, pp. 336, \$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241 Iris Pigeot-Kübler Book Review: \booktitleMultiple Comparisons Theory and Methods: Hsu, Jason C. (1996): London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 277, ISBN 0-412-98281-1, \pounds 35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243 Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of Matrices: Lütkepohl, H. (1996): New York: John Wiley & Sons, xvi + 304 pp., ISBN 0-471-96688-6; \pounds 50.00 . . . . . . 243 Clemens Tilke Book Review: \booktitleVARIOWIN --- Software for Spatial Data Analysis in $2$D: Pannatier, Yvan (1996): Springer Verlag, 91 p., ISBN 0-387-94679-9, Hardcover DM 78.00 . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244 Clemens Tilke Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to Disjunctive Kriging and Non-Linear Geostatistics: Rivoirard, Jacques (1994): Clarendon Press, 182 p., ISBN 0-19-874180-4, Hardcover \pounds 27,50 244 Anonymous Net News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245 Anonymous EUROSTAT: New information technologies applied to statistics --- Information highways, multimedia, visualization techniques, computer graphics and signal processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246 Anonymous Society for the Internet in Medicine . . 247 Anonymous IASC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249 Anonymous Workshop on data mining & multidimentional data analysis --- methodologies, software and applications Naples, Italy: November 19, 1997 . . . . 249--250 Anonymous COMPSTAT '98 24 to 28 August 1998, Bristol, UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Ali S. Hadi and Alberto Luceño Maximum trimmed likelihood estimators: a unified approach, examples, and algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--272 Xuesi M. Shao An efficient algorithm for the exact test on unordered $ 2 \times J $ contingency tables with equal column sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--285 Patrick D. Gerard and William R. Schucany Methodology for nonparametric regression from independent sources . . . . . . . . 287--304 T. R. Turner and P. C. Wollan Locating a maximum using isotonic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--320 Karim F. Hirji A review and a synthesis of the fast Fourier transform algorithms for exact analysis of discrete data . . . . . . . 321--336 Richard Valliant and James E. Gentle An application of mathematical programming to sample allocation . . . . 337--360 Sigbert Klinke and Dianne Cook Binning of kernel-based projection pursuit indices in XGobi . . . . . . . . 363--369 Anonymous Guide to Medical Informatics, the Internet and Telemedicine . . . . . . . 370 Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Anonymous Telemedicine forum . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Anonymous Health informatics journal: Year 2000 and healthcare computing --- Call for papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372 Anonymous IASC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375 Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
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Yi-Ju Chen and John Hewett and Yazhen Wang and Jane Johnson A rank test for equality of two multivariate populations vs a particular ordered alternative . . . . . . . . . . 129--144 Andrzej S. Kosinski A procedure for the detection of multivariate outliers . . . . . . . . . 145--161 Michael LeBlanc Resampled quantile functions for error estimation and a relationship to density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176 H. Mansouri Multifactor analysis of variance based on the aligned rank transform technique 177--189 Jef Caers and Jozef Van Dyck Nonparametric tail estimation using a double bootstrap method . . . . . . . . 191--211 Baibing Li and Bart De Moor A corrected normal approximation for the Student's $t$ distribution . . . . . . . 213--216 Roger W. Payne Design keys, pseudo-factors and general balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--229 Ross H. Taplin Alternative equations for combining the results of Kalman filters . . . . . . . 231--238
Cherng G. Ding An efficient algorithm for computing quantiles of the noncentral chi-squared distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259 J. H. Venter and H. Viljoen Identifying multiple discordant observations: a computer intensive approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--273 Rand R. Wilcox Rank-based tests for interactions in a two-way design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--284 J. M. Caridad Ocerin and R. Espejo Mohedano and A. Gallego Segador Automatic aggregation of categories in multivariate contingency tables using information theory . . . . . . . . . . . 285--294 Gudmund Hòst Kriging by local polynomials . . . . . . 295--312 Fabrizia Mealli and Carla Rampichini Estimating binary multilevel models through indirect inference . . . . . . . 313--324 Christian P. Robert and Kerrie L. Mengersen Reparameterisation Issues in Mixture Modelling and their bearing on MCMC algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--343 Roger B. Sidje and William J. Stewart A numerical study of large sparse matrix exponentials arising in Markov chains 345--368
Hedibert Freitas Lopes and Ajax R. Bello Moreira and Alexandra Mello Schmidt Hyperparameter estimation in forecast models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--410 Man-Suk Oh Estimation of posterior density functions from a posterior sample . . . 411--427 Fernando A. Quintana and Jun S. Liu and Guido E. del Pino Monte Carlo EM with importance reweighting and its applications in random effects models . . . . . . . . . 429--444 Zongwu Cai and Chih-Ling Tsai Diagnostics for nonlinearity in generalized linear models . . . . . . . 445--469 Xiangyi Meng and Nathaniel Schenker Maximum likelihood estimation for linear regression models with right censored outcomes and missing predictors . . . . 471--483 R. P. Mentz and P. A. Morettin and C. M. C. Toloi On least-squares estimation of the residual variance in the first-order moving average model . . . . . . . . . . 485--499
Douglas M. Hawkins and David J. Olive Improved feasible solution algorithms for high breakdown estimation . . . . . 1--11 Dankmar Böhning The lower bound method in probit regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--17 R. de Bruin and D. Salomé and W. Schaafsma A semi-Bayesian method for nonparametric density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30 Jia-Juan Liang and Peter M. Bentler A $t$-distribution plot to detect non-multinormality . . . . . . . . . . . 31--44 J. Timmer and M. Lauk and W. Vach and C. H. Lücking A test for a difference between spectral peak frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55 Kelvin K. W. Yau and C. A. McGilchrist Power family of transformation for Cox's regression with random effects . . . . . 57--66 Peter Hall and Berwin A. Turlach Reducing bias in curve estimation by use of weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--86 Francesco Lisi and Rosa A. Schiavo A comparison between neural networks and chaotic models for exchange rate prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--102
J. Beirlant and D. M. Mason and C. Vynckier Goodness-of-fit analysis for multivariate normality based on generalized quantiles . . . . . . . . . 119--142 Mark Farmen and J. S. Marron An assessment of finite sample performance of adaptive methods in density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 143--168 Honghu Liu and Robert E. Weiss and Robert I. Jennrich and Neil S. Wenger PRESS model selection in repeated measures data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--184 Wei Pan and Thomas A. Louis Two semi-parametric empirical Bayes estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--196 Carlos Daniel M. Paulino and Giovani Loiola Silva On the maximum-likelihood analysis of the general linear model in categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204 Jiazhong You A Monte Carlo comparison of several high breakdown and efficient estimators . . . 205--219 Han Son Seo A dynamic plot for the specification of curvature in linear regression . . . . . 221--228
Cécile Contal and John O'Quigley An application of changepoint methods in studying the effect of age on survival in breast cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--270 C. N. Hernández-Flores and J. Artiles-Romero and P. Saavedra-Santana Estimation of the population spectrum with replicated time series . . . . . . 271--280 Tomoyuki Higuchi Applications of quasi-periodic oscillation models to seasonal small count time series . . . . . . . . . . . 281--301 Ethan Reiner and Xavier Paoletti and John O'Quigley Operating characteristics of the standard phase $I$ clinical trial design 303--315 Victoria C. P. Chen Application of orthogonal arrays and MARS to inventory forecasting stochastic dynamic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--341
Ab Mooijaart and Peter G. M. van der Heijden and L. Andries van der Ark A least squares algorithm for a mixture model for compositional data . . . . . . 359--379 Greet Pison and Anja Struyf and Peter J. Rousseeuw Displaying a clustering with CLUSPLOT 381--392 A. J. Hayter and W. Liu A new test against an umbrella alternative and the associated simultaneous confidence intervals . . . 393--401 Markus Neuhäuser and Ludwig A. Hothorn An exact Cochran--Armitage test for trend when dose--response shapes are a priori unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412 Gilberto A. Paula One-sided tests in generalized linear dose--response models . . . . . . . . . 413--427 Wen Hsiang Wei and Wing Kam Fung The mean-shift outlier model in general weighted regression and its applications 429--441 Giuseppe Arbia and Roberto Benedetti and Giuseppe Espa Contextual classification in image analysis: an assessment of accuracy of ICM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--455 T. Oke and J. Lyhagen Small-sample properties of some tests for unit root with data-based choice of the degree of augmentation . . . . . . . 457--469 Anonymous $ G^\star $ Power a general power analysis program for Macintosh OS and MS-DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Anonymous ESBPDF analysis v1.3, probability analysis package for Win32 . . . . . . . 473--474 Anonymous Reference data sets for improving the accuracy of statistical software . . . . 474 Anonymous SMART --- Explorapedia of Statistical and Mathematical Techniques for use in research and technology . . . . . . . . 474--475 Anonymous New Zealand Statistical Association website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476 Anonymous New Internet discussion list --- Inputing missing data . . . . . . . . . 476 Anonymous Recursive-partitioning.com mailing list 476 Anonymous Section IV: New resampling book, Missing data listserv . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476 Anonymous New book on multivariate permutation testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--477 Anonymous Computational intelligence website . . . 477 Sabine Warschburger Book Review: \booktitleNonresponse in household interview surveys: Robert M. Groves and Mick P. Couper (1998): John Wiley, New York, 344 pp., US\$51.00, ISBN 0-471-18245-1} . . . . . . . . . . 477--478 Rainer Schlittgen Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of incomplete multivariate data: J. L. Shafer (1997): Chapman & Hall, London, 430 pp., GB \pounds 39.00, ISBN 0-412-04061-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--479 Anonymous PLS'99 International symposium on PLS methods, 5--6 Oct. 1999 . . . . . . . . 479--481 Anonymous Calendar of meetings --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--490 Anonymous Author index volume 30 (1999) . . . . . 491--492
Dan Coleman and Xioapeng Dong and Johanna Hardin and David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff Some computational issues in cluster analysis with no a priori metric . . . . 1--11 Chris Fraley On computing the largest fraction of missing information for the EM algorithm and the worst linear function for data augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--26 B. D. McCullough and Berry Wilson On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 97 . . . . 27--37 Friedrich Gebhardt Cluster tests for geographical areas with binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--58 Joseph B. Lang Bayesian ordinal and binary regression models with a parametric family of mixture links . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--87 Shili Lin Monte Carlo Bayesian methods for quantitative traits . . . . . . . . . . 89--108
Song Xi Chen Beta kernel estimators for density functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--145 John R. Gleason An accurate, non-iterative approximation for Studentized range quantiles . . . . 147--158 Karim F. Hirji and Timothy D. Johnson Exact inference on stratified two-stage Markov chain models . . . . . . . . . . 159--186 Daesu Park and Thomas R. Willemain The threshold bootstrap and threshold jackknife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--202 Tor Jacobson and Rolf Larsson Bartlett corrections in cointegration testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225 Hojin Moon and Hongshik Ahn and Ralph L. Kodell and Bruce A. Pearce A comparison of a mixture likelihood method and the EM algorithm for an estimation problem in animal carcinogenicity studies . . . . . . . . 227--238
Claus A. Andersson and Rene Henrion A general algorithm for obtaining simple structure of core arrays in $N$-way PCA with application to fluorometric data 255--278 M. J. del Moral and M. J. Valderrama An entropic approach to dimensionality reduction on discrete processes . . . . 279--293 Peter Bühlmann and Hans R. Künsch Block length selection in the bootstrap for time series . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--310 Martín Andrés and Tapia García Optimal unconditional test in $ 2 \times 2 $ multinomial trials . . . . . . . . . 311--321 S. G. Meintanis and G. S. Donatos Finite-sample performance of alternative estimators for autoregressive models in the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . 323--339 Lei Shi and Xueren Wang Local influence in ridge regression . . 341--353
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375 Markus Hegland and Ian McIntosh and Berwin A. Turlach A parallel solver for generalised additive models . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--396 Janis Hardwick and Robert Oehmke and Quentin F. Stout A program for sequential allocation of three Bernoulli populations . . . . . . 397--416 H. Jones and G. Mitra and D. Parkinson and T. Spinks A parallel implementation of the maximum likelihood method in positron emission tomography image reconstruction . . . . 417--439 K. Murphy and M. Clint and R. H. Perrott Re-engineering statistical software for efficient parallel execution . . . . . . 441--456 J. M. Bull and G. D. Riley and J. Rasbash and H. Goldstein Parallel implementation of a multilevel modelling package . . . . . . . . . . . 457--474 A. Christofides and B. Tanyi and S. Christofides and D. Whobrey and N. Christofides The optimal discretization of probability density functions . . . . . 475--486 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--516
Georges A. Darbellay An estimator of the mutual information based on a criterion for conditional independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Alan J. Watkins An algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation in the three parameter Burr XII distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27 Cathy W. S. Chen and Shen-Ming Lee and Ying-Hen Hsieh and Kumnuan Ungchusak A unified approach to estimating population size for a births only model 29--46 Hye-Seung Lee and Jae Won Lee Statistical methods in criminal inference using DNA fingerprints . . . . 47--67 Jae Won Lee and David L. DeMets Estimation following group sequential tests with repeated measurements data 69--77 A. Marazzi and C. Ruffieux The truncated mean of an asymmetric distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--100
Douglas M. Hawkins and David Olive Applications and algorithms for least trimmed sum of absolute deviations regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--134 James R. Schott A test for proportional covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146 Juan Esteban Ramírez Cid and Jorge Alberto Achcar Bayesian inference for nonhomogeneous Poisson processes in software reliability models assuming nonmonotonic intensity functions . . . . . . . . . . 147--159 J. J. Daudin and A. Bar-Hen Selection in discriminant analysis with continuous and discrete variables . . . 161--175 Alberto Luceño Average run lengths and run length probability distributions for cuscore charts to control normal mean . . . . . 177--195 Yutaka Tanaka and Fanghong Zhang $R$-mode and $Q$-mode influence analyses in statistical modelling: relationship between influence function approach and local influence approach . . . . . . . . 197--218
C. Fraley Comments on: D. Coleman, X. Dong, J. Hardin, D. M. Rocke, D. L. Woodruff, ``Some computational issues in cluster analysis with no a priori metric'', Computational Statistics & Data Analysis \bf 31:1--12 (July 1999) . . . . . . . . 131--133 David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff Author's Response: Comments on ``Some computational issues in cluster analysis with no a priori metric'' . . . . . . . 135--136
John R. Gleason A note on a proposed Student $t$ approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--66