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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
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
Edward J. Wegman On the eve of the 21st century: statistical science at a crossroads . . 239--243 D. J. Downing and V. V. Fedorov and W. F. Lawkins and M. D. Morris and G. Ostrouchov Large data series: modeling the usual to identify the unusual . . . . . . . . . . 245--258 Marco Bonetti A new geometric approach to data analysis using the Minkowski polytope 259--271 V. Berry and O. Gascuel and G. Caraux Choosing the tree which actually best explains the data: another look at the bootstrap in phylogenetic reconstruction 273--283 Roberta Siciliano and Francesco Mola Multivariate data analysis and modeling through classification and regression trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--301 Antony Unwin Using your eyes --- making statistics more visible with computers . . . . . . 303--312 John F. Shortle and Max B. Mendel A new method of drawing probability densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--321 H. Malcolm Hudson and Craig Walsh Model fitting for sequences of images 323--335 Douglas B. Clarkson A random effects individual difference multidimensional scaling model . . . . . 337--347 Ellen M. Wijsman Monte Carlo Markov chain methods and model selection in genetic epidemiology 349--360 T. A. Mazzuchi and E. S. Soofi and R. Soyer Computation of maximum entropy Dirichlet for modeling lifetime data . . . . . . . 361--378 Mika Sato-Ilic and Yoshiharu Sato Asymmetric aggregation operator and its application to fuzzy clustering model 379--394 S. Balbi and V. Esposito Rotated canonical analysis onto a reference subspace . . . . . . . . . . . 395--410 George Michailidis and Jan de Leeuw Multilevel homogeneity analysis with differential weighting . . . . . . . . . 411--442 Enrico Capobianco Neural networks and statistical inference: seeking robust and efficient learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--454 Joan F. Hilton A new asymptotic distribution for Hollander's bivariate symmetry statistic 455--463 Jim Bentley and Tammi J. Schneider Statistics and archaeology in Israel . . 465--483 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--512
A. Adatia Estimation of parameters of the half-logistic distribution using generalized ranked set sampling . . . . 1--13 Seung-Ho Kang and Soo Min Park Exact likelihood ratio test of independence of binary responses within clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--23 Luzia A. Trinca and Steven G. Gilmour An algorithm for arranging response surface designs in small blocks . . . . 25--43 Christine M. Anderson-Cook An industrial example using one-way analysis of circular-linear data . . . . 45--57 Felix Famoye Goodness-of-fit tests for generalized logarithmic series distribution . . . . 59--67 Dejian Lai and Guanrong Chen Distribution of controlled Lyapunov exponents: a statistical simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77 P. J. Lindsey and J. K. Lindsey Diagnostic tools for random effects in the repeated measures growth curve model 79--100 Júlia M. P. Soler and Julio M. Singer Optimal covariance adjustment in growth curve models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
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 Ray-Bing Chen and Mong-Na Lo Huang Exact $D$-optimal designs for weighted polynomial regression model . . . . . . 137--149 Shun-Yi Chen and Hubert J. Chen and Cherng G. Ding An ANOVA test for the equivalency of means under unequal variances . . . . . 151--175 John C. Gower Rank-one and rank-two departures from symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188 Markus Neuhäuser and Ludwig A. Hothorn Parametric location-scale and scale trend tests based on Levene's transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--200 Shu-Fei Wu and Hubert J. Chen Two-stage multiple comparisons with the average for normal distributions under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 201--213
Sune Karlsson and Mickael Löthgren Computationally efficient double bootstrap variance estimation . . . . . 237--247 Kenneth Carling Resistant outlier rules and the non-Gaussian case . . . . . . . . . . . 249--258 Jan G. De Gooijer and Ali Gannoun Nonparametric conditional predictive regions for time series . . . . . . . . 259--275 Ivan K\vrivý and Josef Tvrdík and Radek Krpec Stochastic algorithms in nonlinear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--290 C. T. Liao Identification of dispersion effects from unreplicated $ 2^{n - k} $ fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 291--298 Julio Sánchez-Meca and Fulgencio Marín-Martínez Testing the significance of a common risk difference in meta-analysis . . . . 299--313 Eva Ferreira and Vicente Núñez-Antón and Juan Rodríguez-Póo Semiparametric approaches to signal extraction problems in economic time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--333
Z. Y. Chen and Y. C. Chou Computing the noncentral beta distribution with S-system . . . . . . . 343--360 A. C. Atkinson and Tsung-Chi Cheng On robust linear regression with incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380 Tsai-Hung Fan and James O. Berger Robust Bayesian displays for standard inferences concerning a normal mean . . 381--399 Sung-Ho Kim Hyper-EM for large recursive models of categorical variables . . . . . . . . . 401--424 Sandro Nicole Feedforward neural networks for principal components extraction . . . . 425--437 Martin Spiess and Alfred Hamerle A comparison of different methods for the estimation of regression models with correlated binary responses . . . . . . 439--455 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
John H. Drew and Andrew G. Glen and Lawrence M. Leemis Computing the cumulative distribution function of the Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Tetsuhisa Miwa and A. J. Hayter and Wei Liu Calculations of level probabilities for normal random variables with unequal variances with applications to Bartholomew's test in unbalanced one-way models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32 Ranjini Natarajan and Charles E. McCulloch and Nicholas M. Kiefer A Monte Carlo EM method for estimating multinomial probit models . . . . . . . 33--50 Traci E. Clemons and Edwin L. Bradley, Jr. A nonparametric measure of the overlapping coefficient . . . . . . . . 51--61 John R. Gleason A note on a proposed Student $t$ approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--66 Jan Ámos Ví\vsek On the diversity of estimates . . . . . 67--89 Paulo Teles and William W. S. Wei The effects of temporal aggregation on tests of linearity of a time series . . 91--103
Madhuri S. Mulekar and Satya N. Mishra Confidence interval estimation of overlap: equal means case . . . . . . . 121--137 Alan Hartford and Marie Davidian Consequences of misspecifying assumptions in nonlinear mixed effects models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--164 Sauchi Stephen Lee Noisy replication in skewed binary classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--191 Walter W. Piegorsch and R. Webster West and Obaid M. Al-Saidy and Kelly D. Bradley Asymmetric confidence bands for simple linear regression over bounded intervals 193--217 Craig B. Borkowf A new nonparametric method for variance estimation and confidence interval construction for Spearman's rank correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--241 Anny Xiang and Pablo Lapuerta and Alex Ryutov and Jonathan Buckley and Stanley Azen Comparison of the performance of neural network methods and Cox regression for censored survival data . . . . . . . . . 243--257
Nedret Billor and Ali S. Hadi and Paul F. Velleman BACON: blocked adaptive computationally efficient outlier nominators . . . . . . 279--298 Victor De Oliveira Bayesian prediction of clipped Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--314 Venkata K. Jandhyala and Stergios B. Fotopoulos and Nicholas E. Evaggelopoulos A comparison of unconditional and conditional solutions to the maximum likelihood estimation of a change-point 315--334 Kung-Jong Lui Asymptotic conditional test procedures for relative difference under inverse sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--343 Robert M. Price and Douglas G. Bonett Estimating the ratio of two Poisson rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--356 Larry Z. Shen and John O'Quigley Using a one-parameter model to sequentially estimate the root of a regression function . . . . . . . . . . 357--369 Petra M. Kuhnert and Kim-Anh Do and Rod McClure Combining non-parametric models with logistic regression: an application to motor vehicle injury data . . . . . . . 371--386
Antonio Salmerón and Andrés Cano and Serafín Moral Importance sampling in Bayesian networks using probability trees . . . . . . . . 387--413 Anja Struyf and Peter J. Rousseeuw High-dimensional computation of the deepest location . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--426 Pierpaolo D'Urso and Tommaso Gastaldi A least-squares approach to fuzzy linear regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 427--440 Ekkehart Dietz and Dankmar Böhning On estimation of the Poisson parameter in zero-modified Poisson models . . . . 441--459 M. Mittlböck and T. Waldhör Adjustments for $ R^2 $-measures for Poisson regression models . . . . . . . 461--472 R. Orre and A. Lansner and A. Bate and M. Lindquist Bayesian neural networks with confidence estimations applied to data mining . . . 473--493 Hisashi Tanizaki Bias correction of OLSE in the regression model with lagged dependent variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--511 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--548
Yury P. Shimansky Continuous measure of significant linear dimensionality of a waveform set . . . . 1--10 Flávia Landim and Dani Gamerman Dynamic hierarchical models: an extension to matrix-variate observations 11--42 Carey E. Priebe and David J. Marchette Alternating kernel and mixture density estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--65 Kjell Doksum and Ja-Yong Koo On spline estimators and prediction intervals in nonparametric regression 67--82 Myoungshic Jhun and Hyeong-Chul Jeong Applications of bootstrap methods for categorical data analysis . . . . . . . 83--91
Aurelio R. L. Oliveira and Mário A. Nascimento and Christiano Lyra Efficient implementation and benchmark of interior point methods for the polynomial $ L_1 $ fitting problem . . . 119--135 Aaron Childs and N. Balakrishnan Some approximations to the multivariate hypergeometric distribution with applications to hypothesis testing . . . 137--154 Andrew A. Neath and Joseph E. Cavanaugh A regression model selection criterion based on bootstrap bumping for use with resistant fitting . . . . . . . . . . . 155--169 David P. Thorpe and Burt Holland Some multiple comparison procedures for variances from non-normal populations 171--199 Xiao-Hua Zhou and Wanzhu Tu Interval estimation for the ratio in means of log-normally distributed medical costs with zero values . . . . . 201--210 J. M. Vilar Fernández and W. González Manteiga Resampling for checking linear regression models via non-parametric regression estimation . . . . . . . . . 211--231
V. Choulakian and J. Almhana An algorithm for nonmetric discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264 Andrzej T. Galecki and Thomas R. Ten Have and Geert Molenberghs A simple and fast alternative to the EM algorithm for incomplete categorical data and latent class models . . . . . . 265--281 Roger Higdon and Daniel W. Schafer Maximum likelihood computations for regression with measurement error . . . 283--299 Oleg Smirnov and Luc Anselin Fast maximum likelihood estimation of very large spatial autoregressive models: a characteristic polynomial approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--319 D. J. Dupuis Fitting log- $F$ models robustly, with an application to the analysis of extreme values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--333 Thomas W. O'Gorman An adaptive permutation test procedure for several common tests of significance 335--350 Gunter Ritter and Christoph Pesch Polarity-free automatic classification of chromosomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--372
W. James Gauderman and William Navidi A Monte Carlo Newton--Raphson procedure for maximizing complex likelihoods on pedigree data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--415 Ph. Casin A generalization of principal component analysis to $K$ sets of variables . . . 417--428 Jonathan Hartzel and I-Ming Liu and Alan Agresti Describing heterogeneous effects in stratified ordinal contingency tables, with application to multi-center clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--449 Harald Heinzl and Clemens Tempfer A cautionary note on segmenting a cyclical covariate by minimum $P$-value search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--461 Angela Montanari and Laura Lizzani A projection pursuit approach to variable selection . . . . . . . . . . . 463--473 Carey E. Priebe and Daniel Q. Naiman and Leslie M. Cope Importance sampling for spatial scan analysis: computing scan statistic $p$-values for marked point processes 475--485 Ingrid Van Keilegom and Michael G. Akritas and Noël Veraverbeke Estimation of the conditional distribution in regression with censored data: a comparative study . . . . . . . 487--500 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--512 Anonymous Author index volume 35 (2001) . . . . . 513--514
Kenny Y. F. Chan and Stephen M. S. Lee An exact iterated bootstrap algorithm for small-sample bias reduction . . . . 1--13 Gintautas Dzemyda Visualization of a set of parameters characterized by their correlation matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--30 M. A. F. Aboukalam and A. A. Al-Shiha A robust analysis for unreplicated factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 31--46 Moonseong Heo and K. Ruben Gabriel The fit of graphical displays to patterns of expectations . . . . . . . . 47--67 Ana Justel and Daniel Peña Bayesian unmasking in linear models . . 69--84 Eric Renshaw and Aila Särkkä Gibbs point processes for studying the development of spatial-temporal stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 85--105 F. Bartolucci Developments of the Markov chain approach within the distribution theory of runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--118 Claudia Becker and Ursula Gather The largest nonidentifiable outlier: a comparison of multivariate simultaneous outlier identification rules . . . . . . 119--127 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143
Roger Fandom Noubiap and Wilfried Seidel An efficient algorithm for constructing $ \Gamma $-minimax tests for finite parameter spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--161 Luca Scrucca A review and computer code for assessing the structural dimension of a regression model: uncorrelated $2$D views . . . . . 163--177 Richard H. Glendinning Selecting sub-set autoregressions from outlier contaminated data . . . . . . . 179--207 David J. Hand and Hua Gui Li and Niall M. Adams Supervised classification with structured class definitions . . . . . . 209--225 Santiago Velilla On the bootstrap in misspecified regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 227--242 T. E. Clemons Erratum to ``A nonparametric measure of the overlapping coefficient'' [Comput. Statist. Data Anal. \bf 34 (2000) 51--61] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Debasis Kundu and Amit Mitra Estimating the number of signals of the damped exponential models . . . . . . . 245--256 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--278
David M. Bashtannyk and Rob J. Hyndman Bandwidth selection for kernel conditional density estimation . . . . . 279--298 K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton Weibull distributions when the shape parameter is defined . . . . . . . . . . 299--310 Meenakshi Devidas and E. Olus\cegun George Low-dose extrapolation using the power family of response functions . . . . . . 311--317 Paulo J. Ogliari and Dalton F. Andrade Analysing longitudinal data via nonlinear models in randomized block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--332 Alan M. Polansky Bandwidth selection for the smoothed bootstrap percentile method . . . . . . 333--349 James W. Wisnowski and Douglas C. Montgomery and James R. Simpson A Comparative analysis of multiple outlier detection procedures in the linear regression model . . . . . . . . 351--382 Marc Aerts and Gerda Claeskens Bootstrap tests for misspecified models, with application to clustered binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--401 Ibrahim Ahmad and Xiaohong Chen and Qi Li Model check by kernel methods under weak moment conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 403--409 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--423
José Agulló New algorithms for computing the least trimmed squares regression estimator . . 425--439 Antonio Cuevas and Manuel Febrero and Ricardo Fraiman Cluster analysis: a further approach based on density estimation . . . . . . 441--459 Shu-Ing Liu Bayesian model determination for binary-time-series data with applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--473 José Cardoso Neto and Gilberto A. Paula Wald one-sided test using generalized estimating equations approach . . . . . 475--495 Ricardo Cao and Paul Janssen and Noël Veraverbeke Relative density estimation and local bandwidth selection for censored data 497--510 Marilena Furno LAD estimation with random coefficient autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . . . 511--523 Yangxin Huang Interval estimation of the ED$_{50}$ when a logistic dose--response curve is incorrectly assumed . . . . . . . . . . 525--537 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--560 Anonymous Author index volume 36 (2001) . . . . . 561--562
Roberto Baragona and Francesco Battaglia and Claudio Calzini Genetic algorithms for the identification of additive and innovation outliers in time series . . . 1--12 Henrik Aa. Nielsen and Henrik Madsen A generalization of some classical time series tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--31 W. C. Soong Exact simultaneous confidence intervals for multiple comparisons with the mean 33--47 Maurizio Vichi and Henk A. L. Kiers Factorial $k$-means analysis for two-way data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--64 Andreas Christmann and Peter J. Rousseeuw Measuring overlap in binary regression 65--75 Dennis D. Cox and Jeong-Soo Park and Clifford E. Singer A statistical method for tuning a computer code to a data base . . . . . . 77--92 Geert Molenberghs and Geert Verbeke and Herbert Thijs and Emmanuel Lesaffre and Michael G. Kenward Influence analysis to assess sensitivity of the dropout process . . . . . . . . . 93--113 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--134
V. Choulakian Robust $Q$-mode principal component analysis in $ L_1 $ . . . . . . . . . . 135--150 John Geweke and Hisashi Tanizaki Bayesian estimation of state-space models using the Metropolis--Hastings algorithm within Gibbs sampling . . . . 151--170 Amanda Hummer and Song Yang On the extended log-rank estimating function for the censored regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--180 T. Kowalczyk and M. Niewiadomska-Bugaj An algorithm for maximizing Kendall's $ \tau $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--193 Dan Nettleton and T. Banerjee Testing the equality of distributions of random vectors with categorical components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--208 Quinton J. Nottingham and Deborah F. Cook Local linear regression for estimating time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217 T. Friede and F. Miller and W. Bischoff and M. Kieser A note on change point estimation in dose--response trials . . . . . . . . . 219--232 Dong Wan Shin and Chul Gyu Park and Taesung Park Testing for one-sided group effects in repeated measures study . . . . . . . . 233--247 S. J. Steel and N. Louw Variable selection in discriminant analysis: measuring the influence of individual cases . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--260 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274
L. Angelis and E. Bora-Senta and C. Moyssiadis Optimal exact experimental designs with correlated errors through a simulated annealing algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 275--296 J. H. Badsberg and F. M. Malvestuto An implementation of the iterative proportional fitting procedure by propagation trees . . . . . . . . . . . 297--322 Douglas M. Hawkins Fitting multiple change-point models to data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--341 F. W. Kellison and D. R. Halverson Applications of curvature toward the measurement of robustness for data processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--362 T. Eakin and K. Francis and W. Spirduso Decoupling tremor and volitional force control factors in analyses of motor task performance . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372 Orna Intrator and Nathan Intrator Interpreting neural-network results: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--393 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--404
Donald E. K. Martin Applications of an algorithm for the distribution of the number of successes in fourth-order Markovian sequences . . 405--418 David R. Bickel and Dejian Lai Asymptotic distribution of time-series intermittency estimates: applications to economic and clinical data . . . . . . . 419--431 Peter Goos and Martina Vandebroek $D$-optimal response surface designs in the presence of random block effects . . 433--453 Lon-Mu Liu and Siddhartha Bhattacharyya and Stanley L. Sclove and Rong Chen and William J. Lattyak Data mining on time series: an illustration using fast-food restaurant franchise data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--476 Mei Ling Huang On a distribution-free quantile estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--486 Darfiana Nur and Rodney C. Wolff and Kerrie L. Mengersen Phase randomisation: numerical study of higher cumulants behaviour . . . . . . . 487--513 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--542 Anonymous Author index volume 37 (2001) . . . . . 543--544
Josmar Mazucheli and Francisco Louzada-Neto and Jorge A. Achcar Bayesian inference for polyhazard models in the presence of covariates . . . . . 1--14 Dollena S. Hawkins and David M. Allen and Arnold J. Stromberg Determining the number of components in mixtures of linear models . . . . . . . 15--48 Jinook Jeong and Seoung Chung Bootstrap tests for autocorrelation . . 49--69 Ralf Östermark Genetic modelling of multivariate EGARCHX-processes: evidence on the international asset return signal response mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . 71--93 P. C. Wang and D. F. Lin Dispersion effects in signal-response data from fractional factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--111 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123
Majid Mojirsheibani An iterated classification rule based on auxiliary pseudo-predictors . . . . . . 125--138 Ognian K. Asparoukhov and Wojtek J. Krzanowski A comparison of discriminant procedures for binary variables . . . . . . . . . . 139--160 Melody Y. Kiang Extending the Kohonen self-organizing map networks for clustering analysis . . 161--180 Jianrong Wu and Guoyong Jiang Small sample likelihood inference for the ratio of means . . . . . . . . . . . 181--190 M. Xie and B. He and T. N. Goh Zero-inflated Poisson model in statistical process control . . . . . . 191--201 Todd C. Headrick and Ourania Rotou An investigation of the rank transformation in multiple regression 203--215 Michel Meulders and Paul De Boeck and Iven Van Mechelen Probability matrix decomposition models and main-effects generalized linear models for the analysis of replicated binary associations . . . . . . . . . . 217--233 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248
Alberto Luceño and Jaime Puig-Pey An accurate algorithm to compute the run length probability distribution, and its convolutions, for a Cusum chart to control normal mean . . . . . . . . . . 249--261 Hongshik Ahn and Hojin Moon and Sunyoung Kim and Ralph L. Kodell A Newton-based approach for attributing tumor lethality in animal carcinogenicity studies . . . . . . . . 263--283 Carmela Cappelli and Francesco Mola and Roberta Siciliano A statistical approach to growing a reliable honest tree . . . . . . . . . . 285--299 Hatem A. Howlader and Anwar M. Hossain Bayesian survival estimation of Pareto distribution of the second kind based on failure-censored data . . . . . . . . . 301--314 Berlin Wu and Chih-Li Chang Using genetic algorithms to parameters $ (d, r) $ estimation for threshold autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 315--330 Aaron Childs and N. Balakrishnan Series approximations for moments of order statistics using MAPLE . . . . . . 331--347 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--364
Simone Barra and Agostino Di Ciaccio Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366 Jerome H. Friedman Stochastic gradient boosting . . . . . . 367--378 Greg Ridgeway Looking for lumps: boosting and bagging for density estimation . . . . . . . . . 379--392 Harris Drucker Effect of pruning and early stopping on performance of a boosting ensemble . . . 393--406 Simone Borra and Agostino Di Ciaccio Improving nonparametric regression methods by bagging and boosting . . . . 407--420 Theodoros Evgeniou and Tomaso Poggio and Massimiliano Pontil and Alessandro Verri Regularization and statistical learning theory for data analysis . . . . . . . . 421--432 Franco Peracchi On estimating conditional quantiles and distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 433--447 Christian Borgelt and Rudolf Kruse Learning from imprecise data: possibilistic graphical models . . . . . 449--463 Gilbert Saporta Data fusion and data grafting . . . . . 465--473 D. G. T. Denison and N. M. Adams and C. C. Holmes and D. J. Hand Bayesian partition modelling . . . . . . 475--485 Claudio Conversano and Roberta Siciliano and Francesco Mola Generalized additive multi-mixture model for data mining . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--500 Renato Coppi A theoretical framework for Data Mining: the ``Informational Paradigm'' . . . . . 501--515 Jan Larsen and Lars Kai Hansen and Anna Szymkowiak Have and Torben Christiansen and Thomas Kolenda Webmining: learning from the world wide web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--532 Paolo Giudici and Gianluca Passerone Data mining of association structures to model consumer behaviour . . . . . . . . 533--541 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--557 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--560
David B. Allison and Gary L. Gadbury and Moonseong Heo and José R. Fernández and Cheol-Koo Lee and Tomas A. Prolla and Richard Weindruch A mixture model approach for the analysis of microarray gene expression data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20 Chanseok Park and Ayanendranath Basu and Bruce G. Lindsay The residual adjustment function and weighted likelihood: a graphical interpretation of robustness of minimum disparity estimators . . . . . . . . . . 21--33 Mingren Shi and Mark A. Lukas An $ L_1 $ estimation algorithm with degeneracy and linear constraints . . . 35--55 Shelley B. Bull and Carmen Mak and Celia M. T. Greenwood A modified score function estimator for multinomial logistic regression in small samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--74 Reza Modarres Efficient nonparametric estimation of a distribution function . . . . . . . . . 75--95 Mohammad Z. Raqab and Elies Kouider and Qasim M. Al-Shboul Best linear invariant estimators using ranked set sampling procedure: comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 97--105 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126
Alan Agresti and Brian Caffo Measures of relative model fit . . . . . 127--136 Anas Altaleb and Didier Chauveau Bayesian analysis of the Logit model and comparison of two Metropolis--Hastings strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152 David R. Bickel Robust estimators of the mode and skewness of continuous data . . . . . . 153--163 Stephan R. Sain Multivariate locally adaptive density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--186 Didier Concordet and Olivier G. Nunez A simulated pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator for nonlinear mixed models . . 187--201 William J. Browne and David Draper and Harvey Goldstein and Jon Rasbash Bayesian and likelihood methods for fitting multilevel models with complex level-1 variation . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225 John Lawson Regression analysis of experiments with complex confounding patterns guided by the alias matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--241 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--260
James G. Booth and Brian S. Caffo Unequal sampling for Monte Carlo EM algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270 Craig B. Borkowf Computing the nonnull asymptotic variance and the asymptotic relative efficiency of Spearman's rank correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--286 A. M. Dean and S. M. Lewis Comparison of group screening strategies for factorial experiments . . . . . . . 287--297 Yue Fang The compass rose and random walk tests 299--310 Tim Futing Liao Bayesian model comparison in generalized linear models across multiple groups . . 311--327 A. J. Lee and S. O. Nyangoma and G. A. F. Seber Confidence regions for multinomial parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--342 Dae-Heung Jang A graphical method for evaluating slope-rotatability in axial directions for second order response surface designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--349 V. Karioti and C. Caroni Detecting outlying series in sets of short time series . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--370
H. K. T. Ng and P. S. Chan and N. Balakrishnan Estimation of parameters from progressively censored data using EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--386 Man-Suk Oh and Dong Wan Shin and Han Joon Kim Bayesian analysis of regression models with spatially correlated errors and missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 387--400 G. D. Rayner and H. L. MacGillivray Weighted quantile-based estimation for a class of transformation distributions 401--433 Felix Abramovich and Panagiotis Besbeas and Theofanis Sapatinas Empirical Bayes approach to block wavelet function estimation . . . . . . 435--451 Mhamed-Ali El-Aroui and Jean Diebolt On the use of the peaks over thresholds method for estimating out-of-sample quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--475 R. H. Loschi and F. R. B. Cruz An analysis of the influence of some prior specifications in the identification of change points via product partition model . . . . . . . . 477--501 A. Marazzi Bootstrap tests for robust means of asymmetric distributions with unequal shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--528 Reza Modarres and Tapan K. Nayak and Joseph L. Gastwirth Estimation of upper quantiles under model and parameter uncertainty . . . . 529--554 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--573 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--576
Venkata K. Jandhyala and Stergios B. Fotopoulos and Douglas M. Hawkins Detection and estimation of abrupt changes in the variability of a process 1--19 Baibing Li and Elaine B. Martin An approximation to the $F$ distribution using the chi-square distribution . . . 21--26 Samuel E. Buttrey and Ciril Karo Using $k$-nearest-neighbor classification in the leaves of a tree 27--37 R. Dittrich and R. Hatzinger and W. Katzenbeisser Modelling dependencies in paired comparison data: a log-linear approach 39--57 Yangxin Huang and Peter Harris and Simon P. J. Kirby and John C. Dearden A modified Fieller interval for the interval estimation of effective doses for a logistic dose--response curve . . 59--74 N. Jansakul and J. P. Hinde Score Tests for Zero-Inflated Poisson Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--96 Sung-Ho Kim Calibrated initials for an EM applied to recursive models of categorical variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--110 Ju Li and Daniel Zelterman Rank tests of association for exchangeable paired data . . . . . . . . 111--129 Elizabeth Ann Maharaj Comparison of non-stationary time series in the frequency domain . . . . . . . . 131--141 Wei Pan Approximate confidence intervals for one proportion and difference of two proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--157 H. Viljoen and J. H. Venter Identifying multivariate discordant observations: a computer-intensive approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172 Hien T. V. Vu and Matthew W. Knuiman A hybrid ML-EM algorithm for calculation of maximum likelihood estimates in semiparametric shared frailty models . . 173--187 Chris Noble and Steve Sugden Stochastic recurrences of Jackpot Keno 189--205 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--222
Greg Aloupis and Carmen Cortés and Francisco Gómez and Michael Soss and Godfried Toussaint Lower bounds for computing statistical depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--229 Barry C. Arnold and Enrique Castillo and José María Sarabia Exact and near compatibility of discrete conditional distributions . . . . . . . 231--252 Douglas M. Hawkins and Xiangrong Yin A faster algorithm for ridge regression of reduced rank data . . . . . . . . . . 253--262 Ping-Hung Hsieh An exploratory first step in teletraffic data modeling: evaluation of long-run performance of parameter estimators . . 263--283 T. Pupko and D. Graur Fast computation of maximum likelihood trees by numerical approximation of amino acid replacement probabilities . . 285--291 Jeff Racine Parallel distributed kernel estimation 293--302 Keming Yu Quantile regression using RJMCMC algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--315 Woojin Chang and Brani Vidakovic Wavelet estimation of a base-line signal from repeated noisy measurements by vertical block shrinkage . . . . . . . . 317--328 Ralph Mansson and Philip Prescott Missing observations in Youden square designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--338 A. Martín Andrés and M. J. Sánchez Quevedo and A. Silva Mato Asymptotical tests in $ 2 \times 2 $ comparative trials: (unconditional approach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--354 Subhash C. Narula and John F. Wellington Sensitivity analysis for predictor variables in the MSAE regression . . . . 355--373 Shu-Fei Wu and Mao-Yi Cheng A two-sided sequential screening procedure based on individual misclassification error . . . . . . . . 375--391 Jan Beran and Yuanhua Feng SEMIFAR models --- a semiparametric approach to modelling trends, long-range dependence and nonstationarity . . . . . 393--419 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--433
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Douglas G. Bonett and Edith Seier A test of normality with high uniform power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--445 Marieke E. Timmerman and Henk A. L. Kiers Three-way component analysis with smoothness constraints . . . . . . . . . 447--470 Baibing Li and Elaine B. Martin and A. Julian Morris On principal component analysis in $ L_1 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--474 L. A. Trinca and S. G. Gilmour Erratum to ``An algorithm for arranging response surface designs in small blocks'' [Comput. Statist. Data Anal. \bf 33 (2000) 25--43] . . . . . . . . . 475 Dennis Fok and Philip Hans Franses Ordered logit analysis for selectively sampled data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--497 Günther Gediga and Ivo Düntsch Approximation quality for sorting rules 499--526 Yangxin Huang On large-sample parametric approaches for interval estimation of the ED$_{90}$ 527--537 Xin-Yuan Song and Sik-Yum Lee A Bayesian model selection method with applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--557 Lieven Tack and Martina Vandebroek An adjustment algorithm for optimal run orders in design of experiments . . . . 559--577 J. Dippon and P. Fritz and M. Kohler A statistical approach to case based reasoning, with application to breast cancer data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--602 Luc Duchateau and Paul Janssen and Patrick Lindsey and Catherine Legrand and Rosemary Nguti and Richard Sylvester The shared frailty model and the power for heterogeneity tests in multicenter trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--620 Philip Hans Franses and Paul de Bruin On data transformations and evidence of nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--632 R. Rotondi On the influence of the proposal distributions on a reversible jump MCMC algorithm applied to the detection of multiple change-points . . . . . . . . . 633--653 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--664
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Peter Bühlmann and Alexander J. McNeil An algorithm for nonparametric GARCH modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--683 Todd C. Headrick Fast fifth-order polynomial transforms for generating univariate and multivariate nonnormal distributions . . 685--711 B. D. McCullough and Berry Wilson On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2000 and Excel XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--721 Christian Hennig and Norbert Christlieb Validating visual clusters in large datasets: fixed point clusters of spectral features . . . . . . . . . . . 723--739 Peter J. Rousseeuw and Sabine Verboven Robust estimation in very small samples 741--758 Liming Xiang and Siu-Keung Tse and Andy H. Lee Influence diagnostics for generalized linear mixed models: applications to clustered data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--774 Grace Y. Yi and Jianrong Wu and Ying Liu Implementation of higher-order asymptotics to S-plus . . . . . . . . . 775--800 Francisco Cribari-Neto and Alejandro C. Frery and Michel F. Silva Improved estimation of clutter properties in speckled imagery . . . . . 801--824 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--844 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--846
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Jesse L. Barlow and Michael W. Berry and Axel Ruhe and Hongyuan Zha Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 A. Kukush and I. Markovsky and S. Van Huffel Consistent fundamental matrix estimation in a quadratic measurement error model arising in motion analysis . . . . . . . 3--18 Xiaofeng He and Hongyuan Zha and Chris H. Q. Ding and Horst D. Simon Web document clustering using hyperlink structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--45 Marc G. Genton and David J. Gorsich Nonparametric variogram and covariogram estimation with Fourier--Bessel matrices 47--57 Inderjit S. Dhillon and Dharmendra S. Modha and W. Scott Spangler Class visualization of high-dimensional data with applications . . . . . . . . . 59--90 Imola K. Fodor and Chandrika Kamath Dimension reduction techniques and the classification of bent double galaxies 91--122 Xiao-Wen Chang and Christopher C. Paige Numerical linear algebra in the integrity theory of the Global Positioning System . . . . . . . . . . . 123--142 Samuel W. Malone and Pablo Tarazaga and Michael W. Trosset Better initial configurations for metric multidimensional scaling . . . . . . . . 143--156 Henk A. L. Kiers Setting up alternating least squares and iterative majorization algorithms for solving various matrix optimization problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170 S. Georgiou and C. Koukouvinos and S. Stylianou On good matrices, skew Hadamard matrices and optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . 171--184 Jurgen A. Doornik and R. J. O'Brien Numerically stable cointegration analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--193 Hasan Erbay and Jesse L. Barlow and Zhenyue Zhang A modified Gram--Schmidt-based downdating technique for ULV decompositions with applications to recursive TLS problems . . . . . . . . . 195--209 Paolo Foschi and Erricos J. Kontoghiorghes Seemingly unrelated regression model with unequal size observations: computational aspects . . . . . . . . . 211--229 Evelyne Vigneau and El Mostafa Qannari A new algorithm for latent root regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 231--242 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--254
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Mary J. Lindstrom Bayesian estimation of free-knot splines using reversible jumps . . . . . . . . . 255--269 Chih-Ping Chou and P. M. Bentler Model modification in structural equation modeling by imposing constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--287 Lasse Holmström and Panu Erästö Making inferences about past environmental change using smoothing in multiple time scales . . . . . . . . . . 289--309 S. De Iaco and D. E. Myers and D. Posa Space--time variograms and a functional form for total air pollution measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--328 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Dankmar Böhning and Wilfried Seidel Editorial: recent developments in mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--357 Kelvin K. W. Yau and Andy H. Lee and Angus S. K. Ng Finite mixture regression model with random effects: application to neonatal hospital length of stay . . . . . . . . 359--366 Edward Susko Weighted tests of homogeneity for testing the number of components in a mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--378 G. J. McLachlan and D. Peel and R. W. Bean Modelling high-dimensional data by mixtures of factor analyzers . . . . . . 379--388 Chang Xuan Mao and Bruce G. Lindsay Tests and diagnostics for heterogeneity in the species problem . . . . . . . . . 389--398 André Berchtold Mixture transition distribution (MTD) modeling of heteroscedastic time series 399--411 Maja Miloslavsky and Mark J. van der Laan Fitting of mixtures with unspecified number of components using cross validation distance estimate . . . . . . 413--428 Lynette Hunt and Murray Jorgensen Mixture model clustering for mixed data with missing information . . . . . . . . 429--440 Peter Schlattmann Estimating the number of components in a finite mixture model: the special case of homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--451 Sara van de Geer Asymptotic theory for maximum likelihood in nonparametric mixture models . . . . 453--464 O. Pons and M. Lemdani Estimation and test in long-term survival mixture models . . . . . . . . 465--479 Yingwei Peng Fitting semiparametric cure models . . . 481--490 M. L. Dalrymple and I. L. Hudson and R. P. K. Ford Finite Mixture, Zero-inflated Poisson and Hurdle models with application to SIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--504 Jennifer A. Mooney and Peter J. Helms and Ian T. Jolliffe Fitting mixtures of von Mises distributions: a case study involving sudden infant death syndrome . . . . . . 505--513 Marta Morbiducci and Alessandra Nardi and Carla Rossi Classification of ``cured'' individuals in survival analysis: the mixture approach to the diagnostic--prognostic problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--529 Jeroen K. Vermunt and Jay Magidson Latent class models for classification 531--537 J. Croft and J. Q. Smith Discrete mixtures in Bayesian networks with hidden variables: a latent time budget example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--547 Anton K. Formann Latent class model diagnostics --- a review and some proposals . . . . . . . 549--559 Christophe Biernacki and Gilles Celeux and Gérard Govaert Choosing starting values for the EM algorithm for getting the highest likelihood in multivariate Gaussian mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--575 Dimitris Karlis and Evdokia Xekalaki Choosing initial values for the EM algorithm for finite mixtures . . . . . 577--590 Dechavudh Nityasuddhi and Dankmar Böhning Asymptotic properties of the EM algorithm estimate for normal mixture models with component specific variances 591--601 J. Grim and M. Haindl Texture modelling by discrete distribution mixtures . . . . . . . . . 603--615 A. Biggeri and E. Dreassi and C. Lagazio and D. Böhning A transitional non-parametric maximum pseudo-likelihood estimator for disease mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--629 Chukiat Viwatwongkasem and Walailuck Böhning A comparison of risk difference estimators in multi-center studies under baseline-risk heterogeneity . . . . . . 631--644 Thomas Brendan Murphy and Donal Martin Mixtures of distance-based models for ranking data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--655 Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--676 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--678
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Jean-Claude Massé and Jean-François Plante A Monte Carlo study of the accuracy and robustness of ten bivariate location estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26 C. J. Albers and W. Schaafsma Estimating a density by adapting an initial guess . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36 Jean-François Angers and Atanu Biswas A Bayesian analysis of zero-inflated generalized Poisson model . . . . . . . 37--46 Pierpaolo D'Urso Linear regression analysis for fuzzy/crisp input and fuzzy/crisp output data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--72 Jan G. De Gooijer and Bonnie K. Ray Modeling vector nonlinear time series using POLYMARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--90 Charles B. Hall and Jun Ying and Lynn Kuo and Richard B. Lipton Bayesian and profile likelihood change point methods for modeling cognitive function over time . . . . . . . . . . . 91--109 Alon Hazan and Zinoviy Landsman and Udi E. Makov Robustness via a mixture of exponential power distributions . . . . . . . . . . 111--121 Ching-Yung Lee and Shen-Ming Lee and Mei-Jih Gee Estimating survival rates using an extended Ricker's two-release method . . 123--137 Thomas C. M. Lee Smoothing parameter selection for smoothing splines: a simulation study 139--148 M. A. W. Mahmoud and K. S. Sultan and S. M. Amer Order statistics from inverse Weibull distribution and associated inference 149--163 Edwin M. M. Ortega and Heleno Bolfarine and Gilberto A. Paula Influence diagnostics in generalized log-gamma regression models . . . . . . 165--186 Yingwei Peng Estimating baseline distribution in proportional hazards cure models . . . . 187--201 Hsien-Chung Wu Fuzzy estimates of regression parameters in linear regression models for imprecise input and output data . . . . 203--217 Shan Zhao and G. W. Wei Jump process for the trend estimation of time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--241 Patrizia Boracchi and Elia Biganzoli and Ettore Marubini Joint modelling of cause-specific hazard functions with cubic splines: an application to a large series of breast cancer patients . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--262 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows . . . . . . 263--276
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . x--xi David A. Belsley and Erricos John Kontoghiorghes Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278 D. S. G. Pollock Improved frequency selective filters . . 279--297 M. Gilli and P. Winker A global optimization heuristic for estimating agent based models . . . . . 299--312 Marc S. Paolella Computing moments of ratios of quadratic forms in normal variables . . . . . . . 313--331 Jurgen A. Doornik and Marius Ooms Computational aspects of maximum likelihood estimation of autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--348 Spyros Skouras An algorithm for computing estimators that optimize step functions . . . . . . 349--361 Susan Orbe and Eva Ferreira and Juan Rodriguez-Poo An algorithm to estimate time-varying parameter SURE models under different types of restriction . . . . . . . . . . 363--383 Enrico Capobianco Independent Multiresolution Component Analysis and Matching Pursuit . . . . . 385--402 Murat K. Munkin The MCMC and SML estimation of a self-selection model with two outcomes 403--424 Chiara Monfardini An illustration of Cox's non-nested testing procedure for logit and probit models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--444 F. Bartolucci and G. De Luca Likelihood-based inference for asymmetric stochastic volatility models 445--449 Tommaso Proietti Forecasting the US unemployment rate . . 451--476 Daniel Miles and Juan Mora On the performance of nonparametric specification tests in regression models 477--490 Derrick P. Reagle and H. D. Vinod Inference for negativist theory using numerically computed rejection regions 491--512 Dani Gamerman and Ajax R. B. Moreira and Håvard Rue Space-varying regression models: specifications and simulation . . . . . 513--533 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows . . . . . . 535--544
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v A. W. Bowman and A. Azzalini Computational aspects of nonparametric smoothing with illustrations from the SM library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--560 Markus Neuhäuser A note on the exact test based on the Baumgartner--Weiß--Schindler statistic in the presence of ties . . . . . . . . . . 561--568 T. Mark Beasley and Bruno D. Zumbo Comparison of aligned Friedman rank and parametric methods for testing interactions in split-plot designs . . . 569--593 Jan Beirlant and Yuri Goegebeur Regression with response distributions of Pareto-type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--619 Sòren Hòjsgaard Split models for contingency tables . . 621--645 Yufen Huang and Norman R. Draper Transformations, regression geometry and $ R^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--664 Martin Kulldorff and Toshiro Tango and Peter J. Park Power comparisons for disease clustering tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--684 Smarajit Bose Multilayer statistical classifiers . . . 685--701 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--723 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--726
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Friedrich Schmid and Mark Trede Simple tests for peakedness, fat tails and leptokurtosis based on quantiles . . 1--12 Gerhard Tutz and Göran Kauermann Generalized linear random effects models with varying coefficients . . . . . . . 13--28 Chia-Ding Hou and Jengtung Chiang and John Jen Tai A family of simultaneous confidence intervals for multinomial proportions 29--45 Kevin S. Robinson and André I. Khuri Quantile dispersion graphs for evaluating and comparing designs for logistic regression models . . . . . . . 47--62 Santiago Rodríguez Feijoó and Alejandro Rodríguez Caro and Delia Dávila Quintana Methods for quarterly disaggregation without indicators; a comparative study using simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--78 Panos M. Pardalos and J. Chris Sackellares and Leonidas D. Iasemidis and Vitality Yatsenko and Mark C. K. Yang and Deng-Shan Shiau and Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse Statistical information approaches for the modelling of the epileptic brain . . 79--108 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Torsten Hothorn and Berthold Lausen On the exact distribution of maximally selected rank statistics . . . . . . . . 121--137 C. Charles and J. P. Rasson Wavelet denoising of Poisson-distributed data and applications . . . . . . . . . 139--148 Renato Coppi and Pierpaolo D'Urso Three-way fuzzy clustering models for LR fuzzy time trajectories . . . . . . . . 149--177 Rameshwar D. Gupta and Debasis Kundu Discriminating between Weibull and generalized exponential distributions 179--196 Ie-Bin Lian Reducing over-dispersion by generalized degree of freedom and propensity score 197--214 M. L. Menéndez and J. A. Pardo and L. Pardo and K. Zografos On tests of homogeneity based on minimum $ \phi $-divergence estimator with constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234 Joaquín Pacheco and Olga Valencia Design of hybrids for the minimum sum-of-squares clustering problem . . . 235--248 Denise Benton and K. Krishnamoorthy Computing discrete mixtures of continuous distributions: noncentral chisquare, noncentral $t$ and the distribution of the square of the sample multiple correlation coefficient . . . . 249--267 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--282
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v H. K. T. Ng and D. Kundu and N. Balakrishnan Modified moment estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--298 Elsayed A. H. Elamir and Allan H. Seheult Trimmed $L$-moments . . . . . . . . . . 299--314 Peter J. Rousseeuw and Andreas Christmann Robustness against separation and outliers in logistic regression . . . . 315--332 C. J. Swanepoel and W. O. Doku New goodness-of-fit tests for the error distribution of autoregressive time-series models . . . . . . . . . . . 333--340 James W. Wisnowski and James R. Simpson and Douglas C. Montgomery and George C. Runger Resampling methods for variable selection in robust regression . . . . . 341--355 Zhenlin Yang and Stanley P. See and M. Xie Transformation approaches for the construction of Weibull prediction interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--368 Pak Wing Fong and Wai Keung Li On time series with randomized unit root and randomized seasonal unit root . . . 369--395 Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--420
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Edward J. Wegman and Wendy L. Martinez and Jeffrey L. Solka Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422 Deborah F. Swayne and Duncan Temple Lang and Andreas Buja and Dianne Cook GGobi: evolving from XGobi into an extensible framework for interactive data visualization . . . . . . . . . . . 423--444 Michael Böhlen and Linas Bukauskas and Poul Svante Eriksen and Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen and Art\=uras Ma\vzeika and Peter Musaeus and Peer Mylov $3$D visual data mining --- goals and experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--469 Adalbert Wilhelm User interaction at various levels of data displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--494 Pedro M. Valero-Mora and Forrest W. Young and Michael Friendly Visualizing categorical data in ViSta 495--508 Michael Friendly and Ernest Kwan Effect ordering for data displays . . . 509--539 David J. Marchette and Jeffrey L. Solka Using data images for outlier detection 541--552 Antony Unwin and Chris Volinsky and Sylvia Winkler Parallel coordinates for exploratory modelling analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 553--564 Heike Hofmann Constructing and reading mosaicplots . . 565--580 J. A. Dykes and D. M. Mountain Seeking structure in records of spatio-temporal behaviour: visualization issues, efforts and applications . . . . 581--603 Robert M. Edsall The parallel coordinate plot in action: design and use for geographic visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--619 Carey E. Priebe and Jeffrey L. Solka and David J. Marchette and B. Ted Clark Class cover catch digraphs for latent class discovery in gene expression monitoring by DNA microarrays . . . . . 621--632 Edward J. Wegman and Alan Dorfman Visualizing cereal world . . . . . . . . 633--649 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--652
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Joyce C. Niland and Abdelmonem A. Afifi and Erricos John Kontoghiorghes Special Issue in Honour of Stan Azen: a Birthday Celebration . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Paolo Foschi and David A. Belsley and Erricos J. Kontoghiorghes A comparative study of algorithms for solving seemingly unrelated regressions models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--35 D. S. G. Pollock Recursive estimation in econometrics . . 37--75 Myoungshic Jhun and Seuck Heun Song and Byoung Cheol Jung BLUP in the nested panel regression model with serially correlated errors 77--88 Ke-Hai Yuan and Peter M. Bentler Eight test statistics for multilevel structural equation models . . . . . . . 89--107 Achim Zeileis and Christian Kleiber and Walter Krämer and Kurt Hornik Testing and dating of structural changes in practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--123 Sik-Yum Lee and Xin-Yuan Song Maximum likelihood estimation and model comparison of nonlinear structural equation models with continuous and polytomous variables . . . . . . . . . . 125--142 Yutaka Tanaka and Fanghong Zhang and Yuichi Mori Local influence in principal component analysis: relationship between the local influence and influence function approaches revisited . . . . . . . . . . 143--160 F. Ferraty and P. Vieu Curves discrimination: a nonparametric functional approach . . . . . . . . . . 161--173 Zhi Geng and Yang-Bo He and Xue-Li Wang and Qiang Zhao Bayesian method for learning graphical models with incompletely categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--192 Wayne A. Woodward and Stephan R. Sain Testing for outliers from a mixture distribution when some data are missing 193--210 Seung-Chun Lee and Moon Yul Huh A measure of association for complex data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--222 Rand R. Wilcox Inferences based on multiple skipped correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--236 H. Caussinus and M. Fekri and S. Hakam and A. Ruiz-Gazen A monitoring display of multivariate outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--252 Harald Heinzl and Martina Mittlböck Pseudo $R$-squared measures for Poisson regression models with over- or underdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--271 Christophe Croux and Gentiane Haesbroeck Implementing the Bianco and Yohai estimator for logistic regression . . . 273--295 Roger W. Payne General balance, large data sets and extensions to unbalanced treatment structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--304 Verena M. Trenkel Density estimator for strip transects when animals show directional movement and observation speed is slow . . . . . 305--312 Karen Kafadar and Tzulip Phang Transformations, background estimation, and process effects in the statistical analysis of microarrays . . . . . . . . 313--338 Johannes Hüsing and Irina Gana Dresen and Karl-Heinz Jöckel Quest for a sensible null distribution in longitudinal microarray experiments 339--347 Indrani Basak and N. Balakrishnan Robust estimation under progressive censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--376 S. \vZakovi\'c and B. Rustem and S. P. Asprey A parallel algorithm for semi-infinite programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--390 Panos M. Pardalos and Vitaliy Yatsenko and J. Chris Sackellares and Deng-Shan Shiau and Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse and Leonidas D. Iasemidis Analysis of EEG data using optimization, statistics, and dynamical system techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--408 Chooichiro Asano and Akinobu Takeuchi Web-based statistical system by using the DLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--418 N. Victor and M. Kieser Configural frequency analysis and association analyses in contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Anonymous Publisher's note vi . . . . . . . . . . vi Craig B. Borkowf An efficient algorithm for generating two-way contingency tables with fixed marginal totals and arbitrary mean proportions, with applications to permutation tests . . . . . . . . . . . 431--449 Andrew G. Glen and Lawrence M. Leemis and John H. Drew Computing the distribution of the product of two continuous random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--464 Jesús López-Fidalgo and Chiara Tommasi Construction of MV- and SMV-optimum designs for binary response models . . . 465--475 José Mira and María Jesús Sánchez Prediction of deterministic functions: an application of a Gaussian kriging model to a time series outlier problem 477--491 Darren J. Wilkinson and Stephen KH Yeung A sparse matrix approach to Bayesian computation in large linear models . . . 493--516 Panagiotis Besbeas and Byron J. T. Morgan Integrated squared error estimation of normal mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--526 Lynne Stokes and John Plummer Using spreadsheet solvers in sample design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--546
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Jean Gaudart and Bernard Giusiano and Laetitia Huiart Comparison of the performance of multi-layer perceptron and linear regression for epidemiological data . . 547--570 Arthur Gilmour and Brian Cullis and Sue Welham and Beverley Gogel and Robin Thompson An efficient computing strategy for prediction in mixed linear models . . . 571--586 Jinsoo Hwang and Hongsuk Jorn and Jeankyung Kim On the performance of bivariate robust location estimators under contamination 587--601 Do\ugan Argaç Testing for homogeneity in a general one-way classification with fixed effects: power simulations and comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 603--612 Jianhua Guo and Yanping Ma and Ning-Zhong Shi and Tai Shing Lau Testing for homogeneity of relative differences under inverse sampling . . . 613--624 Johanna Hardin and David M. Rocke Outlier detection in the multiple cluster setting using the minimum covariance determinant estimator . . . . 625--638 Marco Marozzi A bi-aspect nonparametric test for the two-sample location problem . . . . . . 639--648 Didier Renard and Geert Molenberghs and Helena Geys A pairwise likelihood approach to estimation in multilevel probit models 649--667 Wen-Tao Huang and Yu-Pin Lin Bayesian sampling plans for exponential distribution based on uniform random censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--691 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--694
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Jeffrey L. Solka and Edward J. Wegman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 John C. Wierman and David J. Marchette Modeling computer virus prevalence with a susceptible-infected-susceptible model with reintroduction . . . . . . . . . . 3--23 Stephan Bohacek and Boris Rozovskii A diffusion model of roundtrip time . . 25--50 Daniel Q. Naiman Statistical anomaly detection via httpd data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--67 Steven L. Scott A Bayesian paradigm for designing intrusion detection systems . . . . . . 69--83 Zoi Tsourti and John Panaretos Extreme-value analysis of teletraffic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--103
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Ayanendranath Basu and Bruce G. Lindsay The iteratively reweighted estimating equation in minimum distance problems 105--124 John C. Handley Computationally efficient approximate likelihood procedures for the Boolean model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--136 Mortaza Jamshidian On algorithms for restricted maximum likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . 137--157 Nicolas Molinari and Jean-François Durand and Robert Sabatier Bounded optimal knots for regression splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178 R. Kelley Pace and James P. LeSage Chebyshev approximation of log-determinants of spatial weight matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--196 Xavier Paoletti and John O'Quigley and Jean Maccario Design efficiency in dose finding studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--214 Francisco Cribari-Neto Asymptotic inference under heteroskedasticity of unknown form . . . 215--233 C. B. Dean and M. D. Ugarte and A. F. Militino Penalized quasi-likelihood with spatially correlated data . . . . . . . 235--248 A. Delaigle and I. Gijbels Practical bandwidth selection in deconvolution kernel density estimation 249--267 Luiz Duczmal and Renato Assunção A simulated annealing strategy for the detection of arbitrarily shaped spatial clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--286 Ramesh C. Gupta and S. H. Ong A new generalization of the negative binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 287--300 Mia Hubert and Katrien Van Driessen Fast and robust discriminant analysis 301--320 Sik-Yum Lee and Liang Xu Influence analyses of nonlinear mixed-effects models . . . . . . . . . . 321--341 Li-Chun Zhang Nonparametric Markov chain bootstrap for multiple imputation . . . . . . . . . . 343--353 Werner Hürlimann Fitting bivariate cumulative returns with copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--372 A. Martín Andrés and I. Herranz Tejedor Exact unconditional non-classical tests on the difference of two proportions . . 373--388
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v M. L. A\"\it-Sidi-Allal and A. Baccini and A. M. Mondot A new algorithm for estimating the parameters and their asymptotic covariance in correlation and association models . . . . . . . . . . . 389--421 S. Georgiou and C. Koukouvinos and S. Stylianou Construction of new skew Hadamard matrices and their use in screening experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--429 A. S. Kozek and J. Yin On Gauss quadrature and partial cross validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--448 Robert M. Price and Douglas G. Bonett An improved confidence interval for a linear function of binomial proportions 449--456 Y.-S. Shih A note on split selection bias in classification trees . . . . . . . . . . 457--466 James D. Stamey and Tom L. Bratcher and Dean M. Young Parameter subset selection and multiple comparisons of Poisson rate parameters with misclassification . . . . . . . . . 467--479 Mónica Bécue-Bertaut and Jérôme Pag\`es A principal axes method for comparing contingency tables: MFACT . . . . . . . 481--503 Ignacio García Lautre and Elena Abascal Fernández A methodology for measuring latent variables based on multiple factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--517 Paolo Giordani and Henk A. L. Kiers Principal Component Analysis of symmetric fuzzy data . . . . . . . . . . 519--548 Dejian Lai Estimating the Hurst effect and its application in monitoring clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--562 A. Merbouha and A. Mkhadri Regularization of the location model in discrimination with mixed discrete and continuous variables . . . . . . . . . . 563--576 Rossella Miglio and Gabriele Soffritti The comparison between classification trees through proximity measures . . . . 577--593 Yu-Shan Shih and Hsin-Wen Tsai Variable selection bias in regression trees with constant fits . . . . . . . . 595--607 W. D. Tan and F. F. Gan and T. C. Chang Using normal quantile plot to select an appropriate transformation to achieve normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--619 Hien T. V. Vu Estimation in semiparametric conditional shared frailty models with events before study entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--637 Sungcheol Yun and Youngjo Lee Comparison of hierarchical and marginal likelihood estimators for binary outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--650 U. Halekoh and W. Vach A Bayesian approach to seriation problems in archaeology . . . . . . . . 651--673 Quanxi Shao Notes on maximum likelihood estimation for the three-parameter Burr XII distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--687
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v S. E. Ahmed and W. J. Krzanowski Biased estimation in a simple multivariate regression model . . . . . 689--696 K. Krishnamoorthy and Jessica Thomson and Yong Cai An exact method of testing equality of several binomial proportions to a specified standard . . . . . . . . . . . 697--707 Anne-Catherine Favre and Alina Matei and Yves Tillé A variant of the Cox algorithm for the imputation of non-response of qualitative data . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--719 H. Sulieman and P. J. McLellan and D. W. Bacon A profile-based approach to parametric sensitivity in multiresponse regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--740 Ayanendranath Basu and Chanseok Park and Bruce G. Lindsay and Haihong Li Some variants of minimum disparity estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--763 Eric Renshaw Metropolis--Hastings from a stochastic population dynamics perspective . . . . 765--786 Ali Chaouche and Jean-Noël Bacro A statistical test procedure for the shape parameter of a generalized Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--803 Hua Liang Comparison of curves based on a Cramér--von Mises statistic . . . . . . . 805--812 Feng Gao and Amita K. Manatunga and Shande Chen Identification of prognostic factors with multivariate survival data . . . . 813--824 M. M. Rueda and A. Arcos and M. D. Martínez-Miranda and Y. Román Some improved estimators of finite population quantile using auxiliary information in sample surveys . . . . . 825--848 James X. Song and James T. Wassell and Asha Kapadia Relative mortality for correlated lifetime data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--864 Chong Yau Fu Combining loglinear model with classification and regression tree (CART): an application to birth data . . 865--874 Christian Hennig and Bernhard Hausdorf Distance-based parametric bootstrap tests for clustering of species ranges 875--895 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--899
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x Chin-Shang Li and Daniel Hunt Regression splines for threshold selection with application to a random-effects logistic dose-response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 Lars Eldén Partial least-squares vs. Lanczos bidiagonalization --- I: analysis of a projection method for multiple regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--31 Xiaoming Huo and Jye-Chyi Lu A network flow approach in finding maximum likelihood estimate of high concentration regions . . . . . . . . . 33--56 Richard J. Bolton and David J. Hand and Martin Crowder Significance tests for unsupervised pattern discovery in large continuous multivariate data sets . . . . . . . . . 57--79 Marco Marozzi A bi-aspect nonparametric test for the multi-sample location problem . . . . . 81--92 David J. Olive A resistant estimator of multivariate location and dispersion . . . . . . . . 93--102 Ali Gannoun and Stéphane Girard and Christiane Guinot and Jérôme Saracco Sliced inverse regression in reference curves estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 103--122 Michael Sherman and Edward Carlstein Confidence intervals based on estimators with unknown rates of convergence . . . 123--139 C. C. Taylor and A. Zempléni Chain plot: a tool for exploiting bivariate temporal structures . . . . . 141--153 Myrtille Vivien and Robert Sabatier A generalization of STATIS-ACT strategy: DO-ACT for two multiblocks tables . . . 155--171 J. F. Walde and G. Tappeiner and U. Tappeiner and E. Tasser and H. W. Holub Statistical aspects of multilayer perceptrons under data limitations . . . 173--188 W. Liu and P. N. Somerville Stepwise multiple tests for successive comparisons of treatment effects . . . . 189--199
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Shinichi Kawai Approximation of some moments in eigenvalue problem including some random variables and its application . . . . . 201--212 Chih-Ping Chou and Dongyun Yang and Mary Ann Pentz and Yih-Ing Hser Piecewise growth curve modeling approach for longitudinal prevention study . . . 213--225 Pierre Duchesne On robust testing for conditional heteroscedasticity in time series models 227--256 Raymond N. Greenwell and Stephen J. Finch Randomized rejection procedure for the two-sample Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistic 257--267 Ivan Kojadinovic Agglomerative hierarchical clustering of continuous variables based on mutual information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--294 Iain Pardoe Model assessment plots for multilevel logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . 295--307 Walter W. Piegorsch Sample sizes for improved binomial confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 309--316 Quanxi Shao and Wai-Cheung Ip and Heung Wong Determination of embedded distributions 317--334 Wen Hsiang Wei Derivatives diagnostics and robustness for smoothing splines . . . . . . . . . 335--356 Paul S. Horn and Douglas A. Wolfe A rank-based goodness-of-fit approach to testing for non-additivity in the two-way layout with no replications . . 357--376 Josef Högel and Martina Kron Comparison of conditional power criteria for early termination of clinical trials 377--395 Steen Magnussen An algorithm for generating positively correlated Beta-distributed random variables with known marginal distributions and a specified correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--406
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi Danh V. Nguyen and David M. Rocke On partial least squares dimension reduction for microarray-based classification: a simulation study . . . 407--425 Cora J. M. Maas and Joop J. Hox The influence of violations of assumptions on multilevel parameter estimates and their standard errors . . 427--440 Hideo Kozumi Posterior analysis of latent competing risk models by parallel tempering . . . 441--458 Tak K. Mak Estimating variances for all sample sizes by the bootstrap . . . . . . . . . 459--467 J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and A. Enguix-González and J. Muñoz-García and A. Pascual-Acosta The Fréchet's metric as a measure of influence in multivariate linear models with random errors elliptically distributed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--491 Andrea Mercatanti Analyzing a randomized experiment with imperfect compliance and ignorable conditions for missing data: theoretical and computational issues . . . . . . . . 493--509 Viviana Giampaoli and Julio da Motta Singer Comparison of two normal populations with restricted means . . . . . . . . . 511--529 Grace Montepiedra and Arthur B. Yeh Two-stage designs for identification and estimation of polynomial models . . . . 531--546 Felix Famoye and Weiren Wang Censored generalized Poisson regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--560 C. Caroni and V. Karioti Detecting an innovative outlier in a set of time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--570 Usha Govindarajulu and Lisa Sullivan and Ralph B. D'Agostino SAS macros for confidence interval estimation for CHD risk prediction by different survival models . . . . . . . 571--592 Hossein Mansouri and Carrie Shaw Nonparametric multiple comparison procedures for ordered parameters in balanced incomplete blocks . . . . . . . 593--604 Paul J. Maiste and Bruce S. Weir Optimal testing strategies for large, sparse multinomial models . . . . . . . 605--620
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v Chul Gyu Park Construction of random vectors of heterogeneous component variables under specified correlation structures . . . . 621--630 Inyoung Kim and Noah Cohen Semiparametric and nonparametric modeling for effect modification in matched studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--643 Egmar Rödel and Wolfgang Kössler Linear rank tests for independence in bivariate distributions --- power comparisons by simulation . . . . . . . 645--660 Jian Tao and Ning-Zhong Shi and Sik-Yum Lee Drug risk assessment with determining the number of sub-populations under finite mixture normal models . . . . . . 661--676 John A. Randal and Peter J. Thomson Maximum likelihood estimation for Tukey's three corners . . . . . . . . . 677--687 Bjòrn-Helge Mevik Assessing the performance of classifiers when classes arise from a continuum . . 689--705 M. Y. El-Bassiouni and H. A. Charif Testing a null variance ratio in mixed models with zero degrees of freedom for error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--719 Lieven Tack and Martina Vandebroek Trend-resistant and cost-efficient cross-over designs for mixed models . . 721--746 Zhiyu Ge and Peter J. Bickel and John A. Rice An approximate likelihood approach to nonlinear mixed effects models via spline approximation . . . . . . . . . . 747--776 Gerhard Tutz Generalized semiparametrically structured mixed models . . . . . . . . 777--800 Orly Manor and David M. Zucker Small sample inference for the fixed effects in the mixed linear model . . . 801--817 Sana S. BuHamra and Noriah M. Al-Kandari and S. E. Ahmed Inference concerning quantile for left truncated and right censored data . . . 819--831 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--835
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Anonymous Call for papers . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Yuichi Nagahara A method of simulating multivariate nonnormal distributions by the Pearson distribution system and estimation . . . 1--29 Xiao-Wen Chang and Leming Qu Wavelet estimation of partially linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--48 A. R. Mugdadi and Ibrahim A. Ahmad A bandwidth selection for kernel density estimation of functions of random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62 Allan B. Clark and Andrew B. Lawson An evaluation of non-parametric relative risk estimators for disease maps . . . . 63--78 Daya K. Nagar and Jie Chen and Arjun K. Gupta Distribution and percentage points of the likelihood ratio statistic for testing circular symmetry . . . . . . . 79--89 Philip Prescott and Ralph Mansson Robustness of diallel cross designs to the loss of one or more observations . . 91--109 Antonio Cuevas and Manuel Febrero and Ricardo Fraiman An ANOVA test for functional data . . . 111--122 Alexander Kukush and Ivan Markovsky and Sabine Van Huffel Consistent estimation in an implicit quadratic measurement error model . . . 123--147 Hyun Gon Noh and Moon Sup Song and Sung Hyun Park An unbiased method for constructing multilabel classification trees . . . . 149--164 Neil C. Schwertman and Margaret Ann Owens and Robiah Adnan A simple more general boxplot method for identifying outliers . . . . . . . . . . 165--174 Lexin Li and R. Dennis Cook and Christopher J. Nachtsheim Cluster-based estimation for sufficient dimension reduction . . . . . . . . . . 175--193 F. Bartolucci and L. Scaccia Testing for positive association in contingency tables with fixed margins 195--210
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Peter Winker and Manfred Gilli Applications of optimization heuristics to estimation and modelling problems . . 211--223 Jorge Cadima and J. Orestes Cerdeira and Manuel Minhoto Computational aspects of algorithms for variable selection in the context of principal components . . . . . . . . . . 225--236 David L. Woodruff and Torsten Reiners Experiments with, and on, algorithms for maximum likelihood clustering . . . . . 237--253 Jamie Alcock and Kevin Burrage A genetic estimation algorithm for parameters of stochastic ordinary differential equations . . . . . . . . . 255--275 R. Baragona and F. Battaglia and D. Cucina Fitting piecewise linear threshold autoregressive models by means of genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 277--295 Karsten Luebke and Claus Weihs Generation of prediction optimal projection on latent factors by a stochastic search algorithm . . . . . . 297--310 Carlotta Orsenigo and Carlo Vercellis Discrete support vector decision trees via tabu search . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322 Alberto Roverato and Sandra Paterlini Technological modelling for graphical models: an approach based on genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--337 Dietmar G. Maringer Finding the relevant risk factors for asset pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--352 Francesco Pattarin and Sandra Paterlini and Tommaso Minerva Clustering financial time series: an application to mutual funds style analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--372 Frank Schlottmann and Detlef Seese A hybrid heuristic approach to discrete multi-objective optimization of credit portfolios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--399
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Manuel Salvador and Pilar Gargallo Automatic monitoring and intervention in multivariate dynamic linear models . . . 401--431 Günter Tirler and Peter Dalgaard and Wolfgang Hörmann and Josef Leydold An error in the Kinderman--Ramage method and how to fix it . . . . . . . . . . . 433--440 Jaeyong Lee and Yongdai Kim A new algorithm to generate beta processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--453 Arie Yeredor and Bart De Moor On homogeneous least-squares problems and the inconsistency introduced by mis-constraining . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--465 Thomas M. Loughin A systematic comparison of methods for combining $p$-values from independent tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--485 W. González Manteiga and M. D. Martínez Miranda and A. Pérez González The choice of smoothing parameter in nonparametric regression through Wild Bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--515 Arnab Bhattacharjee Estimation in hazard regression models under ordered departures from proportionality . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--536 José Cortiñas Abrahantes and Geert Molenberghs and Tomasz Burzykowski and Ziv Shkedy and Ariel Alonso Abad and Didier Renard Choice of units of analysis and modeling strategies in multilevel hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--563 Jennifer S. K. Chan and Yeh Lam and Doris Y. P. Leung Statistical inference for geometric processes with gamma distributions . . . 565--581 Beatriz Vaz de Melo Mendes and Hedibert Freitas Lopes Data driven estimates for mixtures . . . 583--598 Chin-Shang Li and Cheng Cheng Stable classification with applications to microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . 599--609 Danh V. Nguyen On estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses for false discovery rate controlling procedures in exploratory DNA microarray studies . . . . . . . . . 611--637 Alan Agresti and Brian Caffo and Pamela Ohman-Strickland Examples in which misspecification of a random effects distribution reduces efficiency, and possible remedies . . . 639--653
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Arvind Ruggoo and Martina Vandebroek Bayesian sequential $D$- $D$ optimal model-robust designs . . . . . . . . . . 655--673 Jörg Polzehl and Silvelyn Zwanzig On a symmetrized simulation extrapolation estimator in linear errors-in-variables models . . . . . . . 675--688 Cláudia Neves and M. I. Fraga Alves Reiss and Thomas' automatic selection of the number of extremes . . . . . . . . . 689--704 Sofiane Brahim-Belhouari and Amine Bermak Gaussian process for nonstationary time series prediction . . . . . . . . . . . 705--712 N. Chernov and C. Lesort Statistical efficiency of curve fitting algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--728 E. N. Zwane and P. G. M. van der Heijden Semiparametric models for capture--recapture studies with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--743 A. Martín Andrés and A. Silva Mato and J. M. Tapia García and M. J. Sánchez Quevedo Comparing the asymptotic power of exact tests in $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . 745--756 G. Skipka and A. Munk and G. Freitag Unconditional exact tests for the difference of binomial probabilities --- contrasted and compared . . . . . . . . 757--773 Prasad A. Naik and Chih-Ling Tsai Isotonic single-index model for high-dimensional database marketing . . 775--790 Jan Adem and Willy Gochet Aggregating classifiers with mathematical programming . . . . . . . . 791--807 Jianrong Wu and A. C. M. Wong Improved interval estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--821 Rachid Boumaza Discriminant analysis with independently repeated multivariate measurements: an $ L^2 $ approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--843 Hubert J. Chen and Shun-Yi Chen Optimal confidence interval for the largest normal mean with unknown variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--866 Chris M. Theobald and Mike Talbot Bayesian selection of fertilizer level when crop price depends on quality . . . 867--880 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--883
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi and Carlo Lauro Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Bovas Abraham and Giovanni Merola Dimensionality reduction approach to multivariate prediction . . . . . . . . 5--16 Philippe Bastien and Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi and Michel Tenenhaus PLS generalised linear regression . . . 17--46 Garmt Dijksterhuis and Harald Martens and Magni Martens Combined Procrustes analysis and PLSR for internal and external mapping of data from multiple sources . . . . . . . 47--62 M. Hanafi and E. M. Qannari An alternative algorithm to the PLS $B$ problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--67 Nouna Kettaneh and Anders Berglund and Svante Wold PCA and PLS with very large data sets 69--85 Baibing Li and Per A. Hassel and A. Julian Morris and Elaine B. Martin A non-linear nested partial least-squares algorithm . . . . . . . . 87--101 Harald Martens and Endre Anderssen and Arnar Flatberg and Lars Halvor Gidskehaug and Martin Hòy and Frank Westad and Anette Thybo and Magni Martens Regression of a data matrix on descriptors of both its rows and of its columns via latent variables: L-PLSR . . 103--123 Ruy L. Milidiú and Raúl P. Rentería DPLS and PPLS: two PLS algorithms for large data sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--138 Hicham Nocairi and El Mostafa Qannari and Evelyne Vigneau and Dominique Bertrand Discrimination on latent components with respect to patterns. Application to multicollinear data . . . . . . . . . . 139--147 C. Preda and G. Saporta PLS regression on a stochastic process 149--158 Michel Tenenhaus and Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi and Yves-Marie Chatelin and Carlo Lauro PLS path modeling . . . . . . . . . . . 159--205 Huiwen Wang and Qiang Liu and Yongping Tu Interpretation of partial least-squares regression models with VARIMAX rotation 207--219
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Edward L. Boone and Keying Ye and Eric P. Smith Assessment of two approximation methods for computing posterior model probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234 Heather Turner and Trevor Bailey and Wojtek Krzanowski Improved biclustering of microarray data demonstrated through systematic performance tests . . . . . . . . . . . 235--254 R. H. Loschi and F. R. B. Cruz Extension to the product partition model: computing the probability of a change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--268 Hea-Jung Kim A Bayesian approach to paired comparison rankings based on a graphical model . . 269--290 Kane Nashimoto and F. T. Wright Multiple comparison procedures for detecting differences in simply ordered means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--306 Kang-Mo Jung Multivariate least-trimmed squares regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . 307--316 Fred Godtliebsen and Tor Arne Òigård A visual display device for significant features in complicated signals . . . . 317--343 Brajendra C. Sutradhar and Rahul Mukerjee On likelihood inference in binary mixed model with an application to COPD data 345--361 Richard A. Levine and Zhaoxia Yu and William G. Hanley and John J. Nitao Implementing componentwise Hastings algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--389 Andy C. C. Kwan and Ah-Boon Sim and Yangru Wu A comparative study of the finite-sample performance of some portmanteau tests for randomness of a time series . . . . 391--413 Michele La Rocca and Cira Perna Variable selection in neural network regression models with dependent data: a subsampling approach . . . . . . . . . . 415--429 Vladimir Boginski and Sergiy Butenko and Panos M. Pardalos Statistical analysis of financial networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--443
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Leo Knüsel On the accuracy of statistical distributions in Microsoft Excel 2003 445--449 Xiuqing Zhou and Jinde Wang A genetic method of LAD estimation for models with censored data . . . . . . . 451--466 Niel Hens and Marc Aerts and Geert Molenberghs and Herbert Thijs and Geert Verbeke Kernel weighted influence measures . . . 467--487 Paul Chiou and Weiwen Miao Shrinkage estimation for the difference between exponential guarantee time parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--507 Umesh Singh and Pramod K. Gupta and S. K. Upadhyay Estimation of parameters for exponentiated-Weibull family under type-II censoring scheme . . . . . . . . 509--523 S. De Iaco and M. Palma and D. Posa Modeling and prediction of multivariate space--time random fields . . . . . . . 525--547 Nansong Zhang and Bo-cheng Wei and Jin-guan Lin Generalized nonlinear models and variance function estimation . . . . . . 549--570 J. Warwick A data-based method for selecting tuning parameters in minimum distance estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--585 George Michailidis and Jan De Leeuw Homogeneity analysis using absolute deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--603 Yong Cai and K. Krishnamoorthy A simple improved inferential method for some discrete distributions . . . . . . 605--621 Hyeong Chul Jeong and Myoungshic Jhun and Daehak Kim Bootstrap tests for independence in two-way ordinal contingency tables . . . 623--631 Marcus Hutter and Marco Zaffalon Distribution of mutual information from complete and incomplete data . . . . . . 633--657 Irini Moustaki and Ioulia Papageorgiou Latent class models for mixed variables with applications in Archaeometry . . . 659--675
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Xiao-Wen Chang and Leming Qu Erratum to ``Wavelet estimation of partially linear models'' [Computational Statistics and Data Analysis \bf 47/1 (2004) 31--48] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 Al Ozonoff and Marco Bonetti and Laura Forsberg and Marcello Pagano Power comparisons for an improved disease clustering test . . . . . . . . 679--684 Wolfgang Jank Quasi-Monte Carlo sampling to improve the efficiency of Monte Carlo EM . . . . 685--701 Gert Willems and Stefan Van Aelst Fast and robust bootstrap for LTS . . . 703--715 Lei M. Li An algorithm for computing exact least-trimmed squares estimate of simple linear regression with constraints . . . 717--734 P. Congdon Bayesian predictive model comparison via parallel sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 735--753 John S. Preisser and Daniel I. Garcia Alternative computational formulae for generalized linear model diagnostics: identifying influential observations with SAS software . . . . . . . . . . . 755--764 M. Moerbeek Robustness properties of $A$-, $D$-, and $E$-optimal designs for polynomial growth models with autocorrelated errors 765--778 Mingren Shi and Mark A. Lukas Sensitivity analysis of constrained linear $ L_1 $ regression: perturbations to response and predictor variables . . 779--802 Luisa Canal A normal approximation for the chi-square distribution . . . . . . . . 803--808 Hee-Seok Oh and Thomas C. M. Lee Hybrid local polynomial wavelet shrinkage: wavelet regression with automatic boundary adjustment . . . . . 809--819 F. Bartolucci and L. Scaccia The use of mixtures for dealing with non-normal regression errors . . . . . . 821--834 Kirsten Wüst and Meinhard Kieser Including long- and short-term data in blinded sample size recalculation for binary endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--855 Pieter C. N. Groenewald and Lucky Mokgatlhe Bayesian computation for logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--868 Jae Won Lee and Jung Bok Lee and Mira Park and Seuck Heun Song An extensive comparison of recent classification tools applied to microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--885 Arto Voutilainen and Jari P. Kaipio Sequential Monte Carlo estimation of aerosol size distributions . . . . . . . 887--908 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--911
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Matthew A. Bognar Bayesian inference for spatially inhomogeneous pairwise interacting point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Ove Edlund and Håkan Ekblom Computing the constrained $M$-estimates for regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--32 Nagaraj K. Neerchal and Jorge G. Morel An improved method for the computation of maximum likeliood estimates for multinomial overdispersion models . . . 33--43 Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro and Andrew B. Lawson An evaluation of the edge effects in disease map modelling . . . . . . . . . 45--62 David Tritchler and Shafagh Fallah and Joseph Beyene A spectral clustering method for microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76 Wei Gao and Ning-Zhong Shi Estimating cell probabilities under order-restricted odds ratios . . . . . . 77--84 Chong Yau Fu and Jeng-Hsiu Hung and Shih-Hua Liu and Yung-Lin Chien A new algorithm for solving binary discrimination in conditional logistic regression, with two choices of strata 85--97 C. Preda and G. Saporta Clusterwise PLS regression on a stochastic process . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108 Saralees Nadarajah Sums, products, and ratios for the bivariate Lomax distribution . . . . . . 109--129 Yangxin Huang On a family of interval estimators of effective doses . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--146 Murray Jorgensen Minimum message length estimation using EM methods: a case study . . . . . . . . 147--167 Göran Kauermann Penalized spline smoothing in multivariable survival models with varying coefficients . . . . . . . . . . 169--186 Debasis Kundu and Mohammad Z. Raqab Generalized Rayleigh distribution: different methods of estimations . . . . 187--200 Peter Goos and André Kobilinsky and Timothy E. O'Brien and Martina Vandebroek Model-robust and model-sensitive designs 201--216 Jun-mo Nam and Jinheum Kim and Seungyeoun Lee Equivalence of two treatments and sample size determination under exponential survival model with censoring . . . . . 217--226 Bernhard Klar and Simos G. Meintanis Tests for normal mixtures based on the empirical characteristic function . . . 227--242 G. J. Karavasilis and V. K. Kotti and D. S. Tsitsis and V. G. Vassiliadis and A. G. Rigas Statistical methods and software for risk assessment: applications to a neurophysiological data set . . . . . . 243--263 Gintautas Dzemyda Multidimensional data visualization in the statistical analysis of curricula 265--281
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii David A. Belsley and Erricos John Kontoghiorghes Second Special issue on Computational Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285 Giovanni Barone-Adesi and Henrik Rasmussen and Claudia Ravanelli An option pricing formula for the GARCH diffusion model . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--310 J. Chipman and P. Winker Optimal aggregation of linear time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--331 Gianluca Cubadda and Pieter Omtzigt Small-sample improvements in the statistical analysis of seasonally cointegrated systems . . . . . . . . . . 333--348 Bruno Eklund Estimating confidence regions over bounded domains . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360 Emmanuel Flachaire Bootstrapping heteroskedastic regression models: wild bootstrap vs. pairs bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--376 L. G. Godfrey and A. R. Tremayne The wild bootstrap and heteroskedasticity-robust tests for serial correlation in dynamic regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--395 Giles Jewitt and J. Roderick McCrorie Computing estimates of continuous time macroeconometric models on the basis of discrete data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--416 Agnes S. Joseph and Jan F. Kiviet Viewing the relative efficiency of IV estimators in models with lagged and instantaneous feedbacks . . . . . . . . 417--444 Lynda Khalaf and Maral Kichian Exact tests of the stability of the Phillips curve: the Canadian case . . . 445--460 John C. Nankervis Computational algorithms for double bootstrap confidence intervals . . . . . 461--475 Tommaso Proietti New algorithms for dating the business cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--498 M. Rekkas and A. Wong Third-order inference for the Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--525 Andrew D. Sanford and Gael M. Martin Simulation-based Bayesian estimation of an affine term structure model . . . . . 527--554 Mark B. Stewart A comparison of semiparametric estimators for the ordered response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--573 P. A. V. B. Swamy and George S. Tavlas and I-Lok Chang How stable are monetary policy rules: estimating the time-varying coefficients in monetary policy reaction function for the US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--590 E. Vassiliou and I. C. Demetriou An adaptive algorithm for least squares piecewise monotonic data fitting . . . . 591--609 Evdokia Xekalaki and Stavros Degiannakis Evaluating volatility forecasts in option pricing in the context of a simulated options market . . . . . . . . 611--629
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x Yanli Zhao and Patricia M. Grambsch and James D. Neaton Comparison of numerical algorithms for bivariate sequential tests based on marginal criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 631--641 Y. Marhuenda and D. Morales and J. A. Pardo and M. C. Pardo Choosing the best Rukhin goodness-of-fit statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--662 Yann Guédon Hidden hybrid Markov/semi-Markov chains 663--688 Francisco José A. Cysneiros and Gilberto A. Paula Restricted methods in symmetrical linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 689--708 Jin Zhang and Yuehua Wu Likelihood-ratio tests for normality . . 709--721 A. Munk and G. Skipka and B. Stratmann Testing general hypotheses under binomial sampling: the two sample case --- asymptotic theory and exact procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--739 J. Sigut and J. Piñeiro and L. Moreno and J. Estevez and R. Aguilar and R. Marichal A large deviation approach to normality testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--756 Yuwon Kim and Ja-Yong Koo Inverse boosting for monotone regression functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--770 Haruhiko Ogasawara Asymptotic robustness of the asymptotic biases in structural equation modeling 771--783 Yoshio Takane and Heungsun Hwang An extended redundancy analysis and its applications to two practical examples 785--808 David J. Olive Two simple resistant regression estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--819 Peter C. Austin and Michael D. Escobar Bayesian modeling of missing data in clinical research . . . . . . . . . . . 821--836 José A. Díaz-García and Rogelio Ramos-Quiroga and Enrique Cabrera-Vicencio Stochastic programming methods in the response surface methodology . . . . . . 837--848 A. Peters and T. Hothorn and B. Lausen Generalised indirect classifiers . . . . 849--861 Shagufta Aslam and David M. Rocke A robust testing procedure for the equality of covariance matrices . . . . 863--874 Tsung-Chi Cheng Robust regression diagnostics with data transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--891 Yunhee Choi and Hongshik Ahn and James J. Chen Regression trees for analysis of count data with extra Poisson variation . . . 893--915 Angela D'Elia and Domenico Piccolo A mixture model for preferences data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--934 Michael Sherman and Edward Carlstein Addendum to ``Confidence intervals based on estimators with unknown rates of convergence'' [Comp. Stat. and Data \bf 46/1 (2003) 123--139] . . . . . . . . . 935 Nicola Sartori and Alberto Salvan and Karl Thomaseth Multiple imputation of missing values in a cancer mortality analysis with estimated exposure dose . . . . . . . . 937--953 M. Eduarda Silva and Teresa Mendonça and Isabel Silva and Hugo Magalhães Statistical analysis of neuromuscular blockade response: contributions to an automatic controller calibration . . . . 955--968
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix David J. Hand and Wojtek J. Krzanowski Optimising $k$-means clustering results with standard software packages . . . . 969--973 Pedro R. Peres-Neto and Donald A. Jackson and Keith M. Somers How many principal components? stopping rules for determining the number of non-trivial axes revisited . . . . . . . 974--997 M. Egmont-Petersen and A. Feelders and B. Baesens Confidence intervals for probabilistic network classifiers . . . . . . . . . . 998--1019 E. Kuhn and M. Lavielle Maximum likelihood estimation in nonlinear mixed effects models . . . . . 1020--1038 Faming Liang and Chuanhai Liu Efficient MCMC estimation of discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1052 Costas A. Christophi and Reza Modarres Approximating the distribution function of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1067 Torsten Hothorn and Berthold Lausen Bundling classifiers by bagging trees 1068--1078 Nelufa Begum and Maxwell L. King Most mean powerful test of a composite null against a composite alternative . . 1079--1104 Seong Keon Lee On generalized multivariate decision tree by using GEE . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1119 Carlos Daniel Paulino and Giovani Silva and Jorge Alberto Achcar Bayesian analysis of correlated misclassified binary data . . . . . . . 1120--1131 Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and George C. Canavos and Simos G. Meintanis Estimation in the three-parameter inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 1132--1147 Haim Shore Response modeling methodology (RMM) --- maximum likelihood estimation procedures 1148--1172 Cristiano Varin and Gudmund Hòst and Òivind Skare Pairwise likelihood inference in spatial generalized linear mixed models . . . . 1173--1191 Soo Jung Park and Dong Wan Shin and Byeong Uk Park and Woo Chul Kim and Man-Suk Oh Bayesian test for asymmetry and nonstationarity in MTAR model with possibly incomplete data . . . . . . . . 1192--1204 Ivan Kojadinovic Relevance measures for subset variable selection in regression problems based on $k$-additive mutual information . . . 1205--1227 Vishal Varma and Don R. Halverson Applications of unbiased perturbations towards quantifying robustness with pragmatic geometric methods . . . . . . 1228--1243 B. D. McCullough and Berry Wilson On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2003 . . . 1244--1252 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253--1255
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii Jesse L. Barlow and Haesun Park and Patrick J. F. Groenen and Hongyuan Zha 2nd Special issue on matrix computations and statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Xiao-Wen Chang Computation of Huber's $M$-estimates for a block-angular regression problem . . . 5--20 Jan de Leeuw Principal component analysis of binary data by iterated singular value decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39 Achiya Dax The $ \ell_1 $ solution of linear inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--60 Paul H. C. Eilers and Iain D. Currie and Maria Durbán Fast and compact smoothing on large multidimensional grids . . . . . . . . . 61--76 H. Evangelaras and C. Koukouvinos A comparison between the Gröbner bases approach and hidden projection properties in factorial designs . . . . 77--88 John C. Gower An application of the modified Leverrier--Faddeev algorithm to the spectral decomposition of symmetric block-circulant matrices . . . . . . . . 89--106 Sugnet Gardner and John C. Gower and N. J. le Roux A synthesis of canonical variate analysis, generalised canonical correlation and Procrustes analysis . . 107--134 R. M. Lewis and M. W. Trosset Sensitivity analysis of the strain criterion for multidimensional scaling 135--153 Baibing Li Sign eigenanalysis and its applications to optimization problems and robust statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--162 Jia Li and Hongyuan Zha Two-way Poisson mixture models for simultaneous document classification and word clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--180 Ivan Markovsky and Maria Luisa Rastello and Amedeo Premoli and Alexander Kukush and Sabine Van Huffel The element-wise weighted total least-squares problem . . . . . . . . . 181--209 Alwin Stegeman and Jos M. F. Ten Berge Kruskal's condition for uniqueness in Candecomp/Parafac when ranks and $k$-ranks coincide . . . . . . . . . . . 210--220 Yoshio Takane and Haruo Yanai and Heungsun Hwang An improved method for generalized constrained canonical correlation analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--241 Nickolay T. Trendafilov and Ian T. Jolliffe Projected gradient approach to the numerical solution of the SCoTLASS . . . 242--253 Shu Yamada and Michiyo Matsui and Tomomi Matsui and Dennis K. J. Lin and Takenori Takahashi A general construction method for mixed-level supersaturated design . . . 254--265
Anonymous Acknowledgement referees of 2004 . . . . I--III Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Magne Aldrin Improved predictions penalizing both slope and curvature in additive models 267--284 Jixiang Wu and Dongfeng Wu and Johnie N. Jenkins and Jack C. McCarty, Jr. A recursive approach to detect multivariable conditional variance components and conditional random effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--300 Oscar H. Bustos and Alejandro C. Frery Statistical functions and procedures in IDL 5.6 and 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--310 W. C. Ip and Heung Wong and J. Z. Pan and D. F. Li The asymptotic convexity of the negative likelihood function of GARCH models . . 311--331 Johan Lim Permutation procedures with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--345 Peter Congdon Bayesian model choice based on Monte Carlo estimates of posterior model probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--357 F. Husson and J. Pag\`es $I$NDSCAL model: geometrical interpretation and methodology . . . . . 358--378 Matei Demetrescu An extension of the Gauss--Newton algorithm for estimation under asymmetric loss . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--401 B. U. Khan and S. E. Ahmed Comparisons of improved risk estimators of the multivariate mean vector . . . . 402--421 Peter Congdon A model for non-parametric spatially varying regression effects . . . . . . . 422--445 Anita J. van der Kooij and Jacqueline J. Meulman and Willem J. Heiser Local minima in categorical multiple regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--462 Binbing Yu Estimation of shared Gamma frailty models by a modified EM algorithm . . . 463--474 M. Alan Brookhart and Mark J. van der Laan A semiparametric model selection criterion with applications to the marginal structural model . . . . . . . 475--498 Jobst Landgrebe and Frank Bretz and Edgar Brunner Efficient design and analysis of two colour factorial microarray experiments 499--517 Rhonda DeCook and Dan Nettleton and Carol Foster and Eve S. Wurtele Identifying differentially expressed genes in unreplicated multiple-treatment microarray timecourse experiments . . . 518--532 Servane Gey and Jean-Michel Poggi Boosting and instability for regression trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--550 Carey E. Priebe and Michael I. Miller and J. Tilak Ratnanather Segmenting magnetic resonance images via hierarchical mixture modelling . . . . . 551--567 Valderio Anselmo Reisen and Alexandre L. Rodrigues and Wilfredo Palma Estimation of seasonal fractionally integrated processes . . . . . . . . . . 568--582 Yuwon Kim and Ja-Yong Koo Erratum to ``Inverse boosting for monotone regression functions'' [Comput. Statist. Data Anal. \bf 49 (2005) 757--770] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 Soo Jung Park and Dong Wan Shin and Byeong Uk Park and Woo Chul Kim and Man-Suk Oh Corrigendum to ``Bayesian test for asymmetry and nonstationarity in MTAR model with possibly incomplete data'': [Computational Statistics and Data Analysis \bf 49/4 (2005) 1192--1204] . . 584
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Weiliang Qiu and Harry Joe Separation index and partial membership for clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--603 Donald E. K. Martin A recursive algorithm for computing the distribution of the number of successes in higher-order Markovian trials . . . . 604--610 Seong-Ho Kim and Sung-Ho Kim A divide-and-conquer approach in applying EM for large recursive models with incomplete categorical data . . . . 611--641 Berwin A. Turlach An even faster algorithm for ridge regression of reduced rank data . . . . 642--658 Lynn Kuo and Tae Young Yang An improved collapsed Gibbs sampler for Dirichlet process mixing models . . . . 659--674 Hua Liang Estimation in partially linear models and numerical comparisons . . . . . . . 675--687 Daniel Peña and Dolores Redondas Bayesian curve estimation by model averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--709 Jinseog Kim and Yongdai Kim Maximum a posteriori pruning on decision trees and its application to bootstrap BUMPing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--719 J. K. Lindsey and P. J. Lindsey Multivariate distributions with correlation matrices for nonlinear repeated measurements . . . . . . . . . 720--732 Guy Brys and Mia Hubert and Anja Struyf Robust measures of tail weight . . . . . 733--759 Woncheol Jang Nonparametric density estimation and clustering in astronomical sky surveys 760--774 Douglas G. Bonett Approximate confidence interval for standard deviation of nonnormal distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--782 Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Gerhard Tutz Identification of interaction patterns and classification with applications to microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--802 Dong Hoon Lim Robust edge detection in noisy images 803--812 Ming Yuan GACV for quantile smoothing splines . . 813--829 Ivy Jansen and Niel Hens and Geert Molenberghs and Marc Aerts and Geert Verbeke and Michael G. Kenward The nature of sensitivity in monotone missing not at random models . . . . . . 830--858 Roger Hartley and Gauthier Lanot Heterogeneous demand responses to discrete price changes: an application to the purchase of lottery tickets . . . 859--877 Giovanni Lafratta Efficiency evaluation of MEV spatial sampling strategies: a scenario analysis 878--890
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Haruhiko Ogasawara Asymptotic expansion of the sample correlation coefficient under nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--910 Tsai-Yu Lin and Chen-Tuo Liao A $ \beta $-expectation tolerance interval for general balanced mixed linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--925 Ito Wasito and Boris Mirkin Nearest neighbours in least-squares data imputation algorithms with different missing patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--949 Saralees Nadarajah Information matrices for Laplace and Pareto mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . 950--966 Andreas Brezger and Stefan Lang Generalized structured additive regression based on Bayesian $P$-splines 967--991 P. Bertrand and G. Bel Mufti Loevinger's measures of rule quality for assessing cluster stability . . . . . . 992--1015 G. Ayala and I. Epifanio and A. Simó and V. Zapater Clustering of spatial point patterns . . 1016--1032 Zhihui Wang and A. F. Desmond and Xuewen Lu Modified censored moment estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1051 Z. Liu and J. Almhana and V. Choulakian and R. McGorman Online EM algorithm for mixture with application to Internet traffic modeling 1052--1071 John Jen Tai and Chia-Ding Hou On the combination of transmission/disequilibrium test and mean test for linkage detection using affected sib pairs . . . . . . . . . . . 1072--1089 Chih-Chien Yang Evaluating latent class analysis models in qualitative phenotype identification 1090--1104 Luigi Salmaso and Aldo Solari Nonparametric iterated combined tests for genetic differentiation . . . . . . 1105--1112 Tian-Shyug Lee and Chih-Chou Chiu and Yu-Chao Chou and Chi-Jie Lu Mining the customer credit using classification and regression tree and multivariate adaptive regression splines 1113--1130 Norbert Holländer and Martin Schumacher Estimating the functional form of a continuous covariate's effect on survival time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1151
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Rosa M. Abellana and Josep L. Carrasco and Lluís Jover and Carlos Ascaso Improving the convergence rate in conditional autoregressive models . . . 1153--1163 C. Du and D. Kurowicka and R. M. Cooke Techniques for generic probabilistic inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164--1187 Tianming Hu and Sam Yuan Sung A hybrid EM approach to spatial clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188--1205 Saralees Nadarajah and Arjun K. Gupta On the ratio of logistic random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206--1219 Sandra Paterlini and Thiemo Krink Differential evolution and particle swarm optimisation in partitional clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1220--1247 Wilfried Seidel and Krunoslav Sever and Hana \vSev\vciková Efficient calculation of the NPMLE of a mixing distribution for mixtures of exponentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248--1271 Ming Tan and Guo-Liang Tian and Kai Wang Ng Hierarchical models for repeated binary data using the IBF sampler . . . . . . . 1272--1286 Stefan Van Aelst and Xiaogang (Steven) Wang and Ruben H. Zamar and Rong Zhu Linear grouping using orthogonal regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287--1312 Indrani Basak and Prasanta Basak and N. Balakrishnan On some predictors of times to failure of censored items in progressively censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313--1337 Victoria Kehl and Kurt Ulm Responder identification in clinical trials with censored data . . . . . . . 1338--1355 Sik-Yum Lee and Bin Lu and Xin-Yuan Song Assessing local influence for nonlinear structural equation models with ignorable missing data . . . . . . . . . 1356--1377 Xiao-Hua Zhou and Hua Liang Semi-parametric single-index two-part regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1378--1390
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Humberto Barreto and David Maharry Least median of squares and regression through the origin . . . . . . . . . . . 1391--1397 Erik Brodin On quantile estimation by bootstrap . . 1398--1406 Seong S. Chae and William D. Warde Effect of using principal coordinates and principal components on retrieval of clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407--1417 Colin Chen Tests of fit for the three-parameter lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . 1418--1440 V. Choulakian $ L_1 $-norm projection pursuit principal component analysis . . . . . . 1441--1451 Renato Coppi and Pierpaolo D'Urso Fuzzy unsupervised classification of multivariate time trajectories with the Shannon entropy regularization . . . . . 1452--1477 Rosario Dell'Aquila and Elvezio Ronchetti Stock and bond return predictability: the discrimination power of model selection criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 1478--1495 Pierpaolo D'Urso and Paolo Giordani A weighted fuzzy $c$-means clustering model for fuzzy data . . . . . . . . . . 1496--1523 B. Hafidi and A. Mkhadri A corrected Akaike criterion based on Kullback's symmetric divergence: applications in time series, multiple and multivariate regression . . . . . . 1524--1550 José Antonio Roldán Nofuentes and Juan de Dios Luna del Castillo Comparing two binary diagnostic tests in the presence of verification bias . . . 1551--1564 Jesus Orbe and Vicente Núñez-Antón Alternative approaches to study lifetime data under different scenarios: from the PH to the modified semiparametric AFT model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565--1582 Friedrich Schmid and Axel Schmidt Nonparametric estimation of the coefficient of overlapping --- theory and empirical application . . . . . . . 1583--1596 Shun-Fang Wang and Nian-Sheng Tang and Xue-Ren Wang Analysis of the risk difference of marginal and conditional probabilities in an incomplete correlated $ 2 \times 2 $ table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1597--1614 Xiaomi Hu Approximation of partial distribution in renewal function calculation . . . . . . 1615--1624
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Laura Bocci and Donatella Vicari and Maurizio Vichi A mixture model for the classification of three-way proximity data . . . . . . 1625--1654 William J. Browne MCMC algorithms for constrained variance matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1655--1677 Davide Raggi and Silvano Bordignon Comparing stochastic volatility models through Monte Carlo simulations . . . . 1678--1699 Giorgio Tomasi and Rasmus Bro A comparison of algorithms for fitting the PARAFAC model . . . . . . . . . . . 1700--1734 Frank Bretz An extension of the Williams trend test to general unbalanced linear models . . 1735--1748 A. K. Gupta and T. Nguyen and L. Pardo Preliminary Phi-divergence test estimator for multinomial probabilities 1749--1773 Gareth M. James and Ashish Sood Performing hypothesis tests on the shape of functional data . . . . . . . . . . . 1774--1792 Myung Suk Kim and Suojin Wang Sizes of two bootstrap-based nonparametric specification tests for the drift function in continuous time models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1793--1806 Baibing Li and Xiangning Huang Existence and uniqueness of relative incidence estimates in case-series analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1807--1817 Joan G. Staniswalis On fitting generalized non-linear models with varying coefficients . . . . . . . 1818--1839 S. J. Steel and D. W. Uys Influential data cases when the $ C_p $ criterion is used for variable selection in multiple linear regression . . . . . 1840--1854 Biao Zhang A semiparametric hypothesis testing procedure for the ROC curve area under a density ratio model . . . . . . . . . . 1855--1876
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Oliver Kuss On the estimation of the stereotype regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877--1890 Christian Menn and Svetlozar T. Rachev Calibrated FFT-based density approximations for $ \alpha $-stable distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1891--1904 Ana M. Aguilera and Manuel Escabias and Mariano J. Valderrama Using principal components for estimating logistic regression with high-dimensional multicollinear data . . 1905--1924 Elvan Ceyhan and Carey E. Priebe and John C. Wierman Relative density of the random $r$-factor proximity catch digraph for testing spatial patterns of segregation and association . . . . . . . . . . . . 1925--1964 A. Delaigle and I. Gijbels Data-driven boundary estimation in deconvolution problems . . . . . . . . . 1965--1994 E. Deschepper and O. Thas and J. P. Ottoy Regional residual plots for assessing the fit of linear regression models . . 1995--2013 Arturo J. Fernández Bounding maximum likelihood estimates based on incomplete ordered data . . . . 2014--2027 Pilar Iglesias and Hector Jorquera and Wilfredo Palma Data analysis using regression models with missing observations and long-memory: an application study . . . 2028--2043 Sung-Ho Kim Conditional log-linear structures for log-linear modelling . . . . . . . . . . 2044--2064 Rafael Schmidt and Tomas Hrycej and Eric Stützle Multivariate distribution models with generalized hyperbolic margins . . . . . 2065--2096 Timo Similä Self-organizing map visualizing conditional quantile functions with multidimensional covariates . . . . . . 2097--2110 Tomoya Yamada and Takakazu Sugiyama On the permutation test in canonical correlation analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2111--2123 Francesca Di Iorio and Giorgio Calzolari Discontinuities in indirect estimation: an application to EAR models . . . . . . 2124--2136
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x D. S. G. Pollock Introduction to the special issue on statistical signal extraction and filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2137--2145 Carmen Broto and Esther Ruiz Unobserved component models with asymmetric conditional variances . . . . 2146--2166 Agustín Maravall An application of the TRAMO-SEATS automatic procedure; direct versus indirect adjustment . . . . . . . . . . 2167--2190 Mario Mazzocchi Time patterns in UK demand for alcohol and tobacco: an application of the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2191--2205 Tucker McElroy and Andrew Sutcliffe An iterated parametric approach to nonstationary signal extraction . . . . 2206--2231 E. J. Godolphin and Kostas Triantafyllopoulos Decomposition of time series models in state-space form . . . . . . . . . . . . 2232--2246 Chris M. Strickland and Catherine S. Forbes and Gael M. Martin Bayesian analysis of the stochastic conditional duration model . . . . . . . 2247--2267 D. S. G. Pollock Econometric methods of signal extraction 2268--2292 Lorenzo Pascual and Juan Romo and Esther Ruiz Bootstrap prediction for returns and volatilities in GARCH models . . . . . . 2293--2312 Roland Fried and Thorsten Bernholt and Ursula Gather Repeated median and hybrid filters . . . 2313--2338 Hernando Ombao and Moon-ho Ringo Ho Time-dependent frequency domain principal components analysis of multichannel non-stationary signals . . 2339--2360 Jerry Coakley and Ana-María Fuertes and Ron Smith Unobserved heterogeneity in panel time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2361--2380 Mina Aminghafari and Nathalie Cheze and Jean-Michel Poggi Multivariate denoising using wavelets and principal component analysis . . . . 2381--2398 Brandon Whitcher Wavelet-based bootstrapping of spatial patterns on a finite lattice . . . . . . 2399--2421 U. Amato and A. Antoniadis and I. De Feis Dimension reduction in functional regression with applications . . . . . . 2422--2446 Stilian Stoev and Murad S. Taqqu and Cheolwoo Park and George Michailidis and J. S. Marron LASS: a tool for the local analysis of self-similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . 2447--2471 Yujing Zeng and Javier Garcia-Frias A novel HMM-based clustering algorithm for the analysis of gene expression time-course data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2472--2494 Aki Lehtinen Signal extraction for simulated games with a large number of players . . . . . 2495--2507
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Debasis Kundu and Avijit Joarder Analysis of Type-II progressively hybrid censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509--2528 Roger Lafosse and Jos M. F. ten Berge A simultaneous CONCOR algorithm for the analysis of two partitioned matrices . . 2529--2535 Yuichi Nagahara Erratum to ``A method of simulating multivariate nonnormal distributions by the Pearson distribution system and estimation'' [Comput. Statist. Data Anal. \bf 47 (2004) 1--29] . . . . . . . 2536 Jan Purczy\'nki and Przemys\law W\lodarski On fast generation of fractional Gaussian noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2537--2551 L. M. Ainsworth and C. B. Dean Approximate inference for disease mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2552--2570 C. G. G. Aitken and D. Lucy and G. Zadora and J. M. Curran Evaluation of transfer evidence for three-level multivariate data with the use of graphical models . . . . . . . . 2571--2588 Andrés M. Alonso and Elizabeth A. Maharaj Comparison of time series using subsampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2589--2599 A. Batsidis and K. Zografos and S. Loukas Errors in discrimination with monotone missing data from multivariate normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2600--2634 Thomas Bengtsson and Joseph E. Cavanaugh An improved Akaike information criterion for state-space model selection . . . . 2635--2654 P. R. Bouzas and M. J. Valderrama and A. M. Aguilera and N. Ruiz-Fuentes Modelling the mean of a doubly stochastic Poisson process by functional data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2655--2667 Jorge Caiado and Nuno Crato and Daniel Peña A periodogram-based metric for time series classification . . . . . . . . . 2668--2684 Salaheddine El Adlouni and Anne-Catherine Favre and Bernard Bobée Comparison of methodologies to assess the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2685--2701 Ahmed M. Gad and Abeer S. Ahmed Analysis of longitudinal data with intermittent missing values using the stochastic EM algorithm . . . . . . . . 2702--2714 L. G. Godfrey Tests for regression models with heteroskedasticity of unknown form . . . 2715--2733 David I. Harvey and Dick van Dijk Sample size, lag order and critical values of seasonal unit root tests . . . 2734--2751 Alfio Marazzi and Victor J. Yohai Robust Box--Cox transformations based on minimum residual autocorrelation . . . . 2752--2768 J. M. Muiño and E. O. Voit and A. Sorribas GS-distributions: a new family of distributions for continuous unimodal variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2769--2798 S. O. Nyangoma and W.-K. Fung and R. C. Jansen Identifying influential multinomial observations by perturbation . . . . . . 2799--2821 A. R. Rasekh Local influence in measurement error models with ridge estimate . . . . . . . 2822--2834 David N. Sessions and Lonnie K. Stevans Investigating omitted variable bias in regression parameter estimation: a genetic algorithm approach . . . . . . . 2835--2854 Venkat S. Sethuraman and Damaraju Raghavarao and Bikas K. Sinha Optimal $ s^n $ factorial designs when observations within-blocks are correlated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2855--2862 Yury P. Shimansky Continuous significant linear dimensionality: Geometric interpretation and statistical characteristics . . . . 2863--2877 Gerhard Tutz and Florian Leitenstorfer Response shrinkage estimators in binary regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2878--2901 Georges Van Landeghem and Patrick Onghena and Jan Van Damme Separability in the fixed part of multilevel models . . . . . . . . . . . 2902--2919 Eli Walters and Naomi S. Altman and Laura Elnitski Clustering of gene locations . . . . . . 2920--2932 Rand R. Wilcox Pairwise comparisons of dependent groups based on medians . . . . . . . . . . . . 2933--2941 Yongge Tian and Agnes M. Herzberg $A$-minimax and $D$-minimax robust optimal designs for approximately linear Haar-wavelet models . . . . . . . . . . 2942--2951
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix Douglas G. Bonett Confidence interval for a coefficient of quartile variation . . . . . . . . . . . 2953--2957 Guy Mélard and Roch Roy and Abdessamad Saidi Exact maximum likelihood estimation of structured or unit root multivariate time series models . . . . . . . . . . . 2958--2986 Achim Zeileis Implementing a class of structural change tests: an econometric computing approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2987--3008 Xibin Zhang and Maxwell L. King and Rob J. Hyndman A Bayesian approach to bandwidth selection for multivariate kernel density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 3009--3031 Francesco Audrino The impact of general non-parametric volatility functions in multivariate GARCH models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3032--3052 Rahman Azari and Lexin Li and Chih-Ling Tsai Longitudinal data model selection . . . 3053--3066 K. Benhenni and M. Rachdi Nonparametric estimation of the regression function from quantized observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3067--3085 Tobias Dahl and Tormod Næs A bridge between Tucker-$1$ and Carroll's generalized canonical analysis 3086--3098 Orhan Feyzio\uglu and \.I. Kuban Altìnel and Süleyman Özekici The design of optimum component test plans for system reliability . . . . . . 3099--3112 Anil K. Ghosh On optimum choice of $k$ in nearest neighbor classification . . . . . . . . 3113--3123 Avi Giloni and Jeffrey S. Simonoff and Bhaskar Sengupta Robust weighted LAD regression . . . . . 3124--3140 Ramesh C. Gupta and Xue Li Statistical inference for the common mean of two log-normal distributions and some applications in reliability . . . . 3141--3164 Jinheum Kim and Dae Ryong Kang and Chung Mo Nam Logrank-type tests for comparing survival curves with interval-censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3165--3178 Jin-Guan Lin and Bo-cheng Wei Approximate power of score test for variance heterogeneity under local alternatives in nonlinear models . . . . 3179--3198 J. Muñoz-García and J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and L. Pardo Cressie and Read power-divergences as influence measures for logistic regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 3199--3221 H. K. T. Ng and D. Kundu and N. Balakrishnan Point and interval estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution based on Type-II censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3222--3242 Susan M. Paddock and Greg Ridgeway and Rongheng Lin and Thomas A. Louis Flexible distributions for triple-goal estimates in two-stage hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3243--3262 M. Rueda and S. Martínez and H. Martínez and A. Arcos Mean estimation with calibration techniques in presence of missing data 3263--3277 Shohei Shimizu and Aapo Hyvärinen and Patrik O. Hoyer and Yutaka Kano Finding a causal ordering via independent component analysis . . . . . 3278--3293 Damla \cSentürk and Danh V. Nguyen Estimation in covariate-adjusted regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3294--3310 Ardo van den Hout and Peter Kooiman Estimating the linear regression model with categorical covariates subject to randomized response . . . . . . . . . . 3311--3323 K. H. Wu and M. L. Tang and K. M. Lee Multiple testing procedures for analyzing stratified comparative clinical trials using odds ratios . . . 3324--3342 Todd C. Headrick and Abdel Mugdadi On simulating multivariate non-normal distributions from the generalized lambda distribution . . . . . . . . . . 3343--3353 Ning Li and Guoqi Qian and Richard Huggins A latent variable model for estimating disease transmission rate from data on household outbreaks . . . . . . . . . . 3354--3368
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x Doyle H. Boese and Dean M. Young and James D. Stamey Confidence intervals for a binomial parameter based on binary data subject to false-positive misclassification . . 3369--3385 Gilles Celeux and Jean-Michel Marin and Christian P. Robert Iterated importance sampling in missing data problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3386--3404 M. Levine Bandwidth selection for a class of difference-based variance estimators in the nonparametric regression: a possible approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3405--3431 Hui-Yi Lin and Leann Myers Power and Type $I$ error rates of goodness-of-fit statistics for binomial generalized estimating equations (GEE) models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3432--3448 Saralees Nadarajah and M. Masoom Ali The distribution of sums, products and ratios for Lawrance and Lewis's bivariate exponential random variables 3449--3463 W. Sauerbrei and C. Meier-Hirmer and A. Benner and P. Royston Multivariable regression model building by using fractional polynomials: Description of SAS, STATA and R programs 3464--3485 Diana M. Sima and Sabine Van Huffel A class of template splines . . . . . . 3486--3499 David R. Bickel and Rudolf Frühwirth On a fast, robust estimator of the mode: Comparisons to other robust estimators with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 3500--3530 Seong S. Chae and Janice L. DuBien and William D. Warde A method of predicting the number of clusters using Rand's statistic . . . . 3531--3546 Jane L. Harvill and Bonnie K. Ray Functional coefficient autoregressive models for vector time series . . . . . 3547--3566 Helmut Herwartz Testing for random effects in panel data under cross sectional error correlation --- A bootstrap approach to the Breusch Pagan test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3567--3591 Yuan Ji and Kam-Wah Tsui and KyungMann Kim A two-stage empirical Bayes method for identifying differentially expressed genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3592--3604 Takafumi Kanamori and Ichiro Takeuchi Conditional mean estimation under asymmetric and heteroscedastic error by linear combination of quantile regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3605--3618 L. Klebanov and A. Gordon and Y. Xiao and H. Land and A. Yakovlev A permutation test motivated by microarray data analysis . . . . . . . . 3619--3628 Xiaochun Li and Ronghui Xu Empirical and kernel estimation of covariate distribution conditional on survival time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3629--3643 José Alberto Mauricio Exact maximum likelihood estimation of partially nonstationary vector ARMA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3644--3662 James M. McMahon and Enrique R. Pouget and Stephanie Tortu A guide for multilevel modeling of dyadic data with binary outcomes using SAS PROC NLMIXED . . . . . . . . . . . . 3663--3680 Kurex Sidik and Jeffrey N. Jonkman Robust variance estimation for random effects meta-analysis . . . . . . . . . 3681--3701 Kostas Triantafyllopoulos Multivariate discount weighted regression and local level models . . . 3702--3720 Karen Kafadar and Edward J. Wegman Visualizing ``typical'' and ``exotic'' Internet traffic data . . . . . . . . . 3721--3743 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3744--3751
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--x Renato Coppi and Maria A. Gil and Henk A. L. Kiers The fuzzy approach to statistical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Lotfi A. Zadeh Generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU) --- principal concepts and ideas . . . . 15--46 Didier Dubois Possibility theory and statistical reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--69 Hung T. Nguyen and Berlin Wu Random and fuzzy sets in coarse data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--85 C. Baudrit and D. Dubois Practical representations of incomplete probabilistic knowledge . . . . . . . . 86--108 Miguel López-Díaz and Dan A. Ralescu Tools for fuzzy random variables: Embeddings and measurabilities . . . . . 109--114 Giulianella Coletti and Romano Scozzafava Conditional probability and fuzzy information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--132 Reinhard Viertl Univariate statistical analysis with fuzzy data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--147 María Ángeles Gil and Manuel Montenegro and Gil González-Rodríguez and Ana Colubi and María Rosa Casals Bootstrap approach to the multi-sample test of means with imprecise data . . . 148--162 Gil González-Rodríguez and Ana Colubi and María Ángeles Gil A fuzzy representation of random variables: an operational tool in exploratory analysis and hypothesis testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176 J. D. Bermúdez and J. V. Segura and E. Vercher A decision support system methodology for forecasting of time series based on soft computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--191 Christian Döring and Marie-Jeanne Lesot and Rudolf Kruse Data analysis with fuzzy clustering methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--214 Richard J. Hathaway and James C. Bezdek Extending fuzzy and probabilistic clustering to very large data sets . . . 215--234 Wolfgang Näther Regression with fuzzy random data . . . 235--252 Peijun Guo and Hideo Tanaka Dual models for possibilistic regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--266 Renato Coppi and Pierpaolo D'Urso and Paolo Giordani and Adriana Santoro Least squares estimation of a linear regression model with LR fuzzy response 267--286 Pierpaolo D'Urso and Adriana Santoro Fuzzy clusterwise linear regression analysis with symmetrical fuzzy output variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--313 Przemys\law Grzegorzewski The coefficient of concordance for vague data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--322 Olgierd Hryniewicz Goodman--Kruskal $ \gamma $ measure of dependence for fuzzy ordered categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--334 Pierre-Alexandre Hébert and Marie-Hél\`ene Masson and Thierry Den\oeux Fuzzy multidimensional scaling . . . . . 335--359 P. J. F. Groenen and S. Winsberg and O. Rodríguez and E. Diday I-Scal: Multidimensional scaling of interval dissimilarities . . . . . . . . 360--378 Paolo Giordani and Henk A. L. Kiers A comparison of three methods for principal component analysis of fuzzy interval data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--397 Piero P. Bonissone and Anil Varma and Kareem S. Aggour and Feng Xue Design of local fuzzy models using evolutionary algorithms . . . . . . . . 398--416 David Shepherd and Francis K. C. Shi Fuzzy modelling and estimation of economic relationships . . . . . . . . . 417--433 Murat Gülbay and Cengiz Kahraman Development of fuzzy process control charts and fuzzy unnatural pattern analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--451
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--xi Richard William Farebrother A linear programming procedure based on de la Vallée Poussin's minimax estimation procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--456 Hansong Wang and Daniel O. Stram Optimal two-stage genome-wide association designs based on false discovery rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--465 Allou Samé and Christophe Ambroise and Gérard Govaert A classification EM algorithm for binned data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--480 Wim P. Krijnen Convergence of the sequence of parameters generated by alternating least squares algorithms . . . . . . . . 481--489 F. Requena and N. Martín Ciudad A major improvement to the Network Algorithm for Fisher's Exact Test in $ 2 \times c $ contingency tables . . . . . 490--498 Sven Knoth Computation of the ARL for CUSUM--$ S^2 $ schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--512 Thanh N. Tran and Ron Wehrens and Lutgarde M. C. Buydens KNN-kernel density-based clustering for high-dimensional multivariate data . . . 513--525 Friedrich Leisch A toolbox for $K$-centroids cluster analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--544 P. \vCi\vzek and W. Härdle Robust estimation of dimension reduction space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--555 Athanassios Kondylis and Ali S. Hadi Derived components regression using the BACON algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--569 Qinfang Xiang and Jode Edwards and Gary L. Gadbury Interval estimation in a finite mixture model: Modeling $P$-values in multiple testing applications . . . . . . . . . . 570--586 Christophe Biernacki and Gilles Celeux and Gérard Govaert and Florent Langrognet Model-based cluster and discriminant analysis with the MIXMOD software . . . 587--600 Edson Zangiacomi Martinez and Jorge Alberto Achcar and Francisco Louzada-Neto Estimators of sensitivity and specificity in the presence of verification bias: a Bayesian approach 601--611 George Kapetanios Choosing the optimal set of instruments from large instrument sets . . . . . . . 612--620 M. J. Bayarri and M. E. Castellanos and J. Morales MCMC methods to approximate conditional predictive distributions . . . . . . . . 621--640 Yi He and Wei Pan and Jizhen Lin Cluster analysis using multivariate normal mixture models to detect differential gene expression with microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--658 Tzu-Haw Lee and Yu-Shan Shih Unbiased variable selection for classification trees with multivariate responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--667 G. Kokolakis and Ph. Nanopoulos and D. Fouskakis Bregman divergences in the $ m \times k $-partitioning problem . . . . . . . . . 668--678 M. N. M. van Lieshout and R. S. Stoica Perfect simulation for marked point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--698 Hans J. Skaug and David A. Fournier Automatic approximation of the marginal likelihood in non-Gaussian hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--709 Seung-Ho Kang and Yonghee Lee and EunSug Park The sizes of the three popular asymptotic tests for testing homogeneity of two binomial proportions . . . . . . 710--722 Adeniyi J. Adewale and Douglas P. Wiens New criteria for robust integer-valued designs in linear models . . . . . . . . 723--736 V. Choulakian and J. Allard and J. Almhana Robust centroid method . . . . . . . . . 737--746 Wolfgang Jank Ascent EM for fast and global solutions to finite mixtures: an application to curve-clustering of online auctions . . 747--761 A. M. Alonso and J. R. Berrendero and A. Hernández and A. Justel Time series clustering based on forecast densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--776 Thomas Kneib Mixed model-based inference in geoadditive hazard regression for interval-censored survival times . . . . 777--792 Marinela Capanu and Gregory A. Jones and Ronald H. Randles Testing for preference using a sum of Wilcoxon signed rank statistics . . . . 793--796 Dimitrios V. Vougas On unit root testing with smooth transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--800 Guoqing Zheng and Pingjian Zhang Meta-heuristic algorithms for parameter estimation of semi-parametric linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 801--808 David Huard and Guillaume Évin and Anne-Catherine Favre Bayesian copula selection . . . . . . . 809--822 C. J. Pérez and J. Martín and M. J. Rufo MCMC-based local parametric sensitivity estimations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--835 John E. Hinkle and William S. Rayens Reciprocal curves . . . . . . . . . . . 836--858 A. Tscheschel and D. Stoyan Statistical reconstruction of random point patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--871 G. L. Gilardoni Very accurate posterior approximations based on finite mixtures of the hyperparameters conditionals . . . . . . 872--884 Siem Jan Koopman and Marius Ooms Forecasting daily time series using periodic unobserved components time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--903 Alberto Luceño Fitting the generalized Pareto distribution to data using maximum goodness-of-fit estimators . . . . . . . 904--917 Mu Zhu and Ali Ghodsi Automatic dimensionality selection from the scree plot via the use of profile likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--930 Hans-Friedrich Köhn Combinatorial individual differences scaling within the city-block metric . . 931--946 Juha Karvanen Estimation of quantile mixtures via $L$-moments and trimmed $L$-moments . . 947--959 Raydonal Ospina and Francisco Cribari-Neto and Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos Improved point and interval estimation for a beta regression model . . . . . . 960--981 Hubert J. Chen and Miin-Jye Wen Optimal confidence interval for the largest normal mean under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 982--1001 E. M. Silva and G. C. Franco and V. A. Reisen and F. R. B. Cruz Local bootstrap approaches for fractional differential parameter estimation in ARFIMA models . . . . . . 1002--1011 Seung-Chun Lee Interval estimation of binomial proportions based on weighted Polya posterior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012--1021 Miin-Jye Wen and Hubert J. Chen A Studentized range test for the equivalency of normal means under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1022--1038 Reza Modarres and Terrence P. Hui and Gang Zheng Resampling methods for ranked set samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1050 Jin Xu and Arjun K. Gupta Improved confidence regions for a mean vector under general conditions . . . . 1051--1062 Antonio Cuevas and Manuel Febrero and Ricardo Fraiman On the use of the bootstrap for estimating functions with functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1074 P. Goos and A. N. Donev Blocking response surface designs . . . 1075--1088 Arvind Ruggoo and Martina Vandebroek Model-sensitive sequential optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089--1099 M. L. Menéndez and J. A. Pardo and L. Pardo and K. Zografos On tests of independence based on minimum $ \phi $-divergence estimator with constraints: an application to modeling DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100--1118 Arturo J. Fernández Bayesian estimation based on trimmed samples from Pareto populations . . . . 1119--1130 Liang Xu and Sik-Yum Lee and Wai-Yin Poon Deletion measures for generalized linear mixed effects models . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1146 Tathagata Banerjee and Tapabrata Maiti and Pushpal Mukhopadhyay Classification of pathological stage of prostate cancer patients using penalized splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1155 Lili Tian Testing equality of inverse Gaussian means under heterogeneity, based on generalized test variable . . . . . . . 1156--1162 Yi-Ting Hwang and Peir Feng Wei A novel method for testing normality in a mixed model of a nested classification 1163--1183 V. Nikulin Threshold-based clustering with merging and regularization in application to network intrusion detection . . . . . . 1184--1196 Bradley G. Hammill and John S. Preisser A SAS/IML software program for GEE and regression diagnostics . . . . . . . . . 1197--1212 Mark A. Lukas and Mingren Shi Sensitivity analysis of constrained linear $ L_1 $ regression: Perturbations to constraints, addition and deletion of observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1231 Cajo J. F. ter Braak Bayesian sigmoid shrinkage with improper variance priors and an application to wavelet denoising . . . . . . . . . . . 1232--1242 Zhiguang Qian and Alexander Shapiro Simulation-based approach to estimation of latent variable models . . . . . . . 1243--1259 Assi N'Guessan and Azeddine Essai and Modeste N'Zi An estimation method of the average effect and the different accident risks when modelling a road safety measure: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260--1277 Abdelaziz Ouali and Amar Ramdane Cherif and Marie-Odile Krebs Data mining based Bayesian networks for best classification . . . . . . . . . . 1278--1292 Thierry Ané An analysis of the flexibility of Asymmetric Power GARCH models . . . . . 1293--1311 Oriol Roch and Antonio Alegre Testing the bivariate distribution of daily equity returns using copulas. An application to the Spanish stock market 1312--1329 David I. Stern An atmosphere--ocean time series model of global climate change . . . . . . . . 1330--1346 N. Miklós Arató and Ian L. Dryden and Charles C. Taylor Hierarchical Bayesian modelling of spatial age-dependent mortality . . . . 1347--1363 N. T. Longford and M. G. Pittau Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990s . . . . 1364--1383 Afaf M. Mady Some extensions of Langenberg model for clinical trials with delayed observations normally distributed responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1384--1392 E. Sicard and R. Sabatier Theoretical framework for local PLS1 regression, and application to a rainfall data set . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1410 Haiying Chen and Elizabeth A. Stasny and Douglas A. Wolfe An empirical assessment of ranking accuracy in ranked set sampling . . . . 1411--1419 Ana-Maria Fuertes and Elena Kalotychou Early warning systems for sovereign debt crises: the role of heterogeneity . . . 1420--1441 Anonymous Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2003 Faults, Problems, Workarounds and Fixes . . . . 1442--1443
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix Raquel Prado and Francisco Molina and Gabriel Huerta Multivariate time series modeling and classification via hierarchical VAR mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1445--1462 Joaquín Pacheco and Silvia Casado and Laura Núñez and Olga Gómez Analysis of new variable selection methods for discriminant analysis . . . 1463--1478 T. Garlipp and C. H. Müller Detection of linear and circular shapes in image analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 1479--1490 Mohamed Hanafi and Henk A. L. Kiers Analysis of $K$ sets of data, with differential emphasis on agreement between and within sets . . . . . . . . 1491--1508 Jukka Jokinen Fast estimation algorithm for likelihood-based analysis of repeated categorical responses . . . . . . . . . 1509--1522 Amal Helu and Dayanand N. Naik Estimation of interclass correlation via a Kotz-type distribution . . . . . . . . 1523--1534 Jorge González and Francis Tuerlinckx and Paul De Boeck and Ronald Cools Numerical integration in logistic-normal models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1548 Masahiro Kuroda and Michio Sakakihara Accelerating the convergence of the EM algorithm using the vector $ \epsilon $ algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1561 Adeline Samson and Marc Lavielle and France Mentré Extension of the SAEM algorithm to left-censored data in nonlinear mixed-effects model: Application to HIV dynamics model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1562--1574 F. Izsák Maximum likelihood estimation for constrained parameters of multinomial distributions --- Application to Zipf--Mandelbrot models . . . . . . . . 1575--1583 Saralees Nadarajah FIM for Arnold and Strauss's bivariate gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1584--1590 B. Torsney and S. Mandal Two classes of multiplicative algorithms for constructing optimizing distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1591--1601 Annamaria Guolo and Alessandra R. Brazzale and Alessandra Salvan Improved inference on a scalar fixed effect of interest in nonlinear mixed-effects models . . . . . . . . . . 1602--1613 B. A. Wichmann and I. D. Hill Generating good pseudo-random numbers 1614--1622 Jan Schepers and Iven van Mechelen and Eva Ceulemans Three-mode partitioning . . . . . . . . 1623--1642 Yongdai Kim and Sunghoon Kwon and Seuck Heun Song Multiclass sparse logistic regression for classification of multiple cancer types using gene expression data . . . . 1643--1655 F. Frommlet and M. Bogdan and A. Futschik Power analysis of database search using multiple scoring matrices . . . . . . . 1656--1663 Romain Neugebauer and Mark J. van der Laan Causal effects in longitudinal studies: Definition and maximum likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1664--1675 Romain Neugebauer and Mark J. van der Laan G-computation estimation for causal inference with complex longitudinal data 1676--1697 Aila Särkkä and Eric Renshaw The analysis of marked point patterns evolving through space and time . . . . 1698--1718 Tor Arne Òigård and Håvard Rue and Fred Godtliebsen Bayesian multiscale analysis for time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1719--1730 Jen-Wen Lin and A. Ian McLeod Improved Peña--Rodriguez portmanteau test 1731--1738 Eugene Demidenko Criteria for global minimum of sum of squares in nonlinear regression . . . . 1739--1753 Ming Yuan Flexible temporal expression profile modelling using the Gaussian process . . 1754--1764 Christelle Reyn\`es and Robert Sabatier and Nicolas Molinari Choice of B-splines with free parameters in the flexible discriminant analysis context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1778 P. W. Fong and W. K. Li and Hong-Zhi An A simple multivariate ARCH model specified by random coefficients . . . . 1779--1802 G. Storti Minimum distance estimation of $ {\rm GARCH}(1, 1) $ models . . . . . . . . . 1803--1821 Lining Yu and Eberhard O. Voit Construction of bivariate $S$-distributions with copulas . . . . . 1822--1839 Jason H. Stover An algorithm for simulating permutation tests of graph-intersection measures of association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840--1847 Christel Faes and Helena Geys and Marc Aerts and Geert Molenberghs A hierarchical modeling approach for risk assessment in developmental toxicity studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848--1861 J. D. Godolphin The specification of rank reducing observation sets in experimental design 1862--1874 Gianfranco Adimari and Monica Chiogna Partially parametric interval estimation of $ {\em Pr} \{ Y > X \} $ . . . . . . . 1875--1891 Jan G. De Gooijer Detecting change-points in multidimensional stochastic processes 1892--1903 Anne Philippe Bayesian analysis of autoregressive moving average processes with unknown orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1904--1923 Qiang Zhao and Jianguo Sun Semiparametric and nonparametric analysis of recurrent events with observation gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . 1924--1933 Rand R. Wilcox Comparing medians . . . . . . . . . . . 1934--1943 Göran Kauermann and Pavel Khomski Additive two-way hazards model with varying coefficients . . . . . . . . . . 1944--1956 Parminder Singh and Wei Liu A test against an umbrella ordered alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1957--1964 Amit Mitra and Debasis Kundu and Gunjan Agrawal Frequency estimation of undamped exponential signals using genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965--1985 Zeng-Hua Lu The numerical evaluation of the probability density function of a quadratic form in normal variables . . . 1986--1996 Huiping Jiang and Henry L. Gray and Wayne A. Woodward Time-frequency analysis --- $ G(\lambda) $-stationary processes . . . . . . . . . 1997--2028 Tatiana Miazhynskaia and Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and Georg Dorffner Bayesian testing for non-linearity in volatility modeling . . . . . . . . . . 2029--2042 N. Louw and S. J. Steel Variable selection in kernel Fisher discriminant analysis by means of recursive feature elimination . . . . . 2043--2055 Byeongchan Seong and A. K. M. Mahbub Morshed and Sung K. Ahn Additional sources of bias in half-life estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056--2064 Ahmed A. Soliman and A. H. Abd Ellah and K. S. Sultan Comparison of estimates using record statistics from Weibull model: Bayesian and non-Bayesian approaches . . . . . . 2065--2077 Shin-Fu Tsai and Chen-Tuo Liao and Feng-Shun Chai Statistical designs for two-color microarray experiments involving technical replication . . . . . . . . . 2078--2090 Sophie Lambert-Lacroix and Julie Peyre Local likelihood regression in generalized linear single-index models with applications to microarray data . . 2091--2113
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Alessandra Amendola and Christian Francq and Siem Jan Koopman Special Issue on Nonlinear Modelling and Financial Econometrics . . . . . . . . . 2115--2117 J. Arteche Semiparametric estimation in perturbed long memory series . . . . . . . . . . . 2118--2141 Pierre Duchesne Testing for multivariate autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity using wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2142--2163 Cathy W. S. Chen and Richard Gerlach and Mike K. P. So Comparison of nonnested asymmetric heteroskedastic models . . . . . . . . . 2164--2178 Giovanni De Luca and Paola Zuccolotto Regime-switching Pareto distributions for ACD models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2179--2191 Jan Bulla and Ingo Bulla Stylized facts of financial time series and hidden semi-Markov models . . . . . 2192--2209 Myung Suk Kim and Suojin Wang On the applicability of stochastic volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . 2210--2217 Jun Yu and Zhenlin Yang and Xibin Zhang A class of nonlinear stochastic volatility models and its implications for pricing currency options . . . . . . 2218--2231 C. T. Brownlees and G. M. Gallo Financial econometric analysis at ultra-high frequency: Data handling concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2232--2245 Bart Frijns and Peter C. Schotman Nonlinear dynamics in Nasdaq dealer quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2246--2266 Francesco Audrino and Giovanni Barone-Adesi A dynamic model of expected bond returns: a functional gradient descent approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2267--2277 J. Carlos Escanciano and Carlos Velasco Testing the martingale difference hypothesis using integrated regression functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2278--2294 Christoph Hartz and Stefan Mittnik and Marc Paolella Accurate value-at-risk forecasting based on the normal-GARCH model . . . . . . . 2295--2312 Zhengjun Zhang and James Huang Extremal financial risk models and portfolio evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 2313--2338 Zden\vek Hlávka Fast algorithm for nonparametric arbitrage-free SPD estimation . . . . . 2339--2349 Robert C. Jung and Martin Kukuk and Roman Liesenfeld Time series of count data: modeling, estimation and diagnostics . . . . . . . 2350--2364 Cristiano Varin and Paolo Vidoni Pairwise likelihood inference for ordinal categorical time series . . . . 2365--2373
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--vi Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii Matthew K. Davis and Gemai Chen Graphing Kendall's $ \tau $ . . . . . . 2375--2378 Yann Guédon Exploring the state sequence space for hidden Markov and semi-Markov chains . . 2379--2409 Lang Wu A computationally efficient method for nonlinear mixed-effects models with nonignorable missing data in time-varying covariates . . . . . . . . 2410--2419 Binbing Yu and Michael J. Barrett and Hyune-Ju Kim and Eric J. Feuer Estimating joinpoints in continuous time scale for multiple change-point models 2420--2427 Patrick Marsh Goodness of fit tests via exponential series density estimation . . . . . . . 2428--2441 Carole Siani and Christian de Peretti Analysing the performance of bootstrap neural tests for conditional heteroskedasticity in ARCH-M models . . 2442--2460 David M. Mount and Nathan S. Netanyahu and Kathleen Romanik and Ruth Silverman and Angela Y. Wu A practical approximation algorithm for the LMS line estimator . . . . . . . . . 2461--2486 Stefano Merler and Bruno Caprile and Cesare Furlanello Parallelizing AdaBoost by weights dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2487--2498 Aapo Hyvärinen Some extensions of score matching . . . 2499--2512 Manuel Abellanas and Merc\`e Claverol and Ferran Hurtado Point set stratification and Delaunay depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2513--2530 Ruggero Bellio Algorithms for bounded-influence estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2531--2541 Astrid Jullion and Philippe Lambert Robust specification of the roughness penalty prior distribution in spatially adaptive Bayesian $P$-splines models . . 2542--2558 María del Mar Rueda and Antonio Arcos and Juan Francisco Muñoz and Sarjinder Singh Quantile estimation in two-phase sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2559--2572 Marco Di Zio and Ugo Guarnera and Roberto Rocci A mixture of mixture models for a classification problem: the unity measure error . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2573--2585 P. Congdon Bayesian modelling strategies for spatially varying regression coefficients: a multivariate perspective for multiple outcomes . . . . . . . . . 2586--2601 I. B. Lian and C. J. Chang and Y. J. Liang and M. J. Yang and C. S. J. Fann Identifying differentially expressed genes in dye-swapped microarray experiments of small sample size . . . . 2602--2620 Li-Xing Zhu and Megu Ohtaki and Yingxing Li On hybrid methods of inverse regression-based algorithms . . . . . . 2621--2635 María Concepción Ausín and Pedro Galeano Bayesian estimation of the Gaussian mixture GARCH model . . . . . . . . . . 2636--2652 Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez and Alberto Rodríguez-Casal Nonparametric estimation from length-biased data under competing risks 2653--2669 Ping Zhang and Nicoleta Serban Discovery, visualization and performance analysis of enterprise workflow . . . . 2670--2687 Marco J. Lombardi Bayesian inference for $ \alpha $-stable distributions: a random walk MCMC approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2688--2700 Janette F. Walde Valid hypothesis testing in face of spatially dependent data using multi-layer perceptrons and sub-sampling techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701--2719 W. González-Manteiga and M. J. Lombardía and I. Molina and D. Morales and L. Santamaría Estimation of the mean squared error of predictors of small area linear parameters under a logistic mixed model 2720--2733 Yulia R. Gel and Weiwen Miao and Joseph L. Gastwirth Robust directed tests of normality against heavy-tailed alternatives . . . 2734--2746 Ilya Novikov and Bernice Oberman Optimization of large simulations using statistical software . . . . . . . . . . 2747--2752 Michael D. Porter and Donald E. Brown Detecting local regions of change in high-dimensional criminal or terrorist point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2753--2768 Alberto Contreras-Cristán Using the EM algorithm for inference in a mixture of distributions with censored but partially identifiable data . . . . 2769--2781
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii José Antonio Cordeiro Logical operators of some statistical computing packages and missing values 2783--2787 Roger L. Berger Nonstandard operator precedence in Excel 2788--2791 Olcay Arslan Comment on ``Information matrices for Laplace and Pareto mixtures'' by S. Nadarajah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2792--2793 Saralees Nadarajah Reply to the Comment by O. Arslan on ``Information matrices for Laplace and Pareto mixtures'' . . . . . . . . . . . 2794--2795 Debasis Kundu and Rameshwar D. Gupta A convenient way of generating gamma random variables using generalized exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 2796--2802 Hansheng Wang A note on iterative marginal optimization: a simple algorithm for maximum rank correlation estimation . . 2803--2812 B. Fournier and N. Rupin and M. Bigerelle and D. Najjar and A. Iost and R. Wilcox Estimating the parameters of a generalized lambda distribution . . . . 2813--2835 Gunky Kim and Mervyn J. Silvapulle and Paramsothy Silvapulle Comparison of semiparametric and parametric methods for estimating copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2836--2850 Marta Avalos and Yves Grandvalet and Christophe Ambroise Parsimonious additive models . . . . . . 2851--2870 Rafael E. Diaz Comparison of PQL and Laplace 6 estimates of hierarchical linear models when comparing groups of small incident rates in cluster randomised trials . . . 2871--2888 D. Kurowicka and R. M. Cooke Sampling algorithms for generating joint uniform distributions using the vine-copula method . . . . . . . . . . . 2889--2906 Simon Broda and Marc S. Paolella Saddlepoint approximations for the doubly noncentral $t$ distribution . . . 2907--2918 Man-Lai Tang and Kai Wang Ng and Guo-Liang Tian and Ming Tan On improved EM algorithm and confidence interval construction for incomplete $ r \times c $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . 2919--2933 Balgobin Nandram and Daniel Zelterman Computational Bayesian inference for estimating the size of a finite population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2934--2945 Ji-Ping Wang A linearization procedure and a VDM/ECM algorithm for penalized and constrained nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation for mixture models . . . . . 2946--2957 Christos Koukouvinos and Kalliopi Mylona and Dimitris E. Simos Exploring $k$-circulant supersaturated designs via genetic algorithms . . . . . 2958--2968 Ingelin Steinsland Parallel exact sampling and evaluation of Gaussian Markov random fields . . . . 2969--2981 James Stamey and Richard Gerlach Bayesian sample size determination for case-control studies with misclassification . . . . . . . . . . . 2982--2992 Durdu Sertkaya Karasoy and Cem Kadilar A new Bayes estimate of the change point in the hazard function . . . . . . . . . 2993--3001 María Ángeles Gil and Gil González-Rodríguez and Ana Colubi and Manuel Montenegro Testing linear independence in linear models with interval-valued data . . . . 3002--3015 José A. Díaz-García and Ma. Magdalena Garay-Tápia Optimum allocation in stratified surveys: Stochastic programming . . . . 3016--3026 Math J. J. M. Candel Empirical Bayes estimators of the random intercept in multilevel analysis: Performance of the classical, Morris and Rao version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3027--3040 Stergios B. Fotopoulos and Venkata K. Jandhyala and Kim-Heng Chen Non-linear properties of conditional returns under scale mixtures . . . . . . 3041--3056 Martin L. Hazelton and Berwin A. Turlach Reweighted kernel density estimation . . 3057--3069 Ramesh C. Gupta and Suzhong Tian Statistical inference for the risk ratio in $ 2 \times 2 $ binomial trials with structural zero . . . . . . . . . . . . 3070--3084 H. K. T. Ng and K. Gu and M. L. Tang A comparative study of tests for the difference of two Poisson means . . . . 3085--3099 Niels Haldrup and Morten Òrregaard Nielsen Estimation of fractional integration in the presence of data noise . . . . . . . 3100--3114 David J. Olive Prediction intervals for regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3115--3122 Eric Renshaw and Jorge Mateu and Fuensanta Saura Disentangling mark/point interaction in marked-point processes . . . . . . . . . 3123--3144 Mira Park and Jae Won Lee and Choongrak Kim Correspondence analysis approach for finding allele associations in population genetic study . . . . . . . . 3145--3155 D. Michael Cai and Maya Gokhale and James Theiler Comparison of feature selection and classification algorithms in identifying malicious executables . . . . . . . . . 3156--3172 Yan Li and Julia L. Bienias and David A. Bennett Confounding in the estimation of mediation effects . . . . . . . . . . . 3173--3186 Nam H. Tran Fracture orientation characterization: Minimizing statistical modelling errors 3187--3196 Peter Congdon Mixtures of spatial and unstructured effects for spatially discontinuous health outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . 3197--3212 Yuh-Ing Chen and Yu-Mei Chang Identification of the minimum effective dose for right-censored survival data 3213--3222 María José García-Zattera and Alejandro Jara and Emmanuel Lesaffre and Dominique Declerck Conditional independence of multivariate binary data with an application in caries research . . . . . . . . . . . . 3223--3234 Chen-Tuo Liao and Tsai-Yu Lin Robust balanced measurement designs when errors are serially correlated . . . . . 3235--3243 Jing Wang EM algorithms for nonlinear mixed effects models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3244--3256
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii David A. Belsley and Erricos John Kontoghiorghes and Jan R. Magnus The Third Special Issue on Computational Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3258 Russell Davidson and James G. MacKinnon Improving the reliability of bootstrap tests with the fast double bootstrap . . 3259--3281 L. G. Godfrey Alternative approaches to implementing Lagrange multiplier tests for serial correlation in dynamic regression models 3282--3295 Jan F. Kiviet and Jerzy Niemczyk The asymptotic and finite sample distributions of OLS and simple IV in simultaneous equations . . . . . . . . . 3296--3318 Sarah Gelper and Christophe Croux Multivariate out-of-sample tests for Granger causality . . . . . . . . . . . 3319--3329 Mercedes Esteban-Bravo and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz Worst-case estimation for econometric models with unobservable components . . 3330--3354 Simon Broda and Kai Carstensen and Marc S. Paolella Bias-adjusted estimation in the ARX(1) model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3355--3367 Emmanuel Flachaire and Olivier Nuñez Estimation of the income distribution and detection of subpopulations: an explanatory model . . . . . . . . . . . 3368--3380 P. A. V. B. Swamy and Wisam Yaghi and Jatinder S. Mehta and I-Lok Chang Empirical best linear unbiased prediction in misspecified and improved panel data models with an application to gasoline demand . . . . . . . . . . . . 3381--3392 Jérôme Detemple and Marcel Rindisbacher Monte Carlo methods for derivatives of options with discontinuous payoffs . . . 3393--3417 Jae H. Kim and Param Silvapulle and Rob J. Hyndman Half-life estimation based on the bias-corrected bootstrap: a highest density region approach . . . . . . . . 3418--3432 A. Alexandre Trindade and Yun Zhu Approximating the distributions of estimators of financial risk under an asymmetric Laplace law . . . . . . . . . 3433--3447 Ana-Maria Fuertes and Elena Kalotychou On sovereign credit migration: a study of alternative estimators and rating dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3448--3469 Francesco Bartolucci and Valentina Nigro Maximum likelihood estimation of an extended latent Markov model for clustered binary panel data . . . . . . 3470--3483 Alicia Pérez-Alonso A bootstrap approach to test the conditional symmetry in time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3484--3504 John Geweke and Patrick J. F. Groenen and Richard Paap and Herman K. van Dijk Computational techniques for applied econometric analysis of macroeconomic and financial processes . . . . . . . . 3506--3508 Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and Rudolf Frühwirth Auxiliary mixture sampling with applications to logistic models . . . . 3509--3528 John Geweke Interpretation and inference in mixture models: Simple MCMC works . . . . . . . 3529--3550 L. Bauwens and C. M. Hafner and J. V. K. Rombouts Multivariate mixed normal conditional heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 3551--3566 Alan E. Gelfand and Sudipto Banerjee and C. F. Sirmans and Yong Tu and Seow Eng Ong Multilevel modeling using spatial processes: Application to the Singapore housing market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3567--3579 Michael P. Clements and Jae H. Kim Bootstrap prediction intervals for autoregressive time series . . . . . . . 3580--3594 Nalan Gülpìnar and Berc Rustem Robust optimal decisions with imprecise forecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3595--3611 Christiaan Heij and Patrick J. F. Groenen and Dick van Dijk Forecast comparison of principal component regression and principal covariate regression . . . . . . . . . . 3612--3625
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii William K. Bertram and M. Shelton Peiris An example of a misclassification problem applied to Australian equity data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3627--3630 Christopher J. Paciorek Computational techniques for spatial logistic regression with large data sets 3631--3653 Dorin Drignei The computational order of a DACE dynamical model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3654--3665 Emmanuel Jakobowicz and Christian Derquenne A modified PLS path modeling algorithm handling reflective categorical variables and a new model building strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3666--3678 Johan Lim and Xinlei Wang and Michael Sherman An adjustment for edge effects using an augmented neighborhood model in the spatial auto-logistic model . . . . . . 3679--3688 A. Berlinet and Ch. Roland Acceleration schemes with application to the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 3689--3702 Alina Matei and Yves Tillé Computational aspects of order $ \pi p s $ sampling schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 3703--3717 Nickolay T. Trendafilov and Ian T. Jolliffe DALASS: Variable selection in discriminant analysis via the LASSO . . 3718--3736 Bryan Langholz and Jenny Jiao Computational methods for case-cohort studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3737--3748 A. R. Gilmour Mixed model regression mapping for QTL detection in experimental crosses . . . 3749--3764 Chris J. Lloyd Efficient and exact tests of the risk ratio in a correlated $ 2 \times 2 $ table with structural zero . . . . . . . 3765--3775 Yong Wang Maximum likelihood computation based on the Fisher scoring and Gauss--Newton quadratic approximations . . . . . . . . 3776--3787 Toshimitsu Hamasaki and Seo Young Kim Box and Cox power-transformation to confined and censored nonnormal responses in regression . . . . . . . . 3788--3799 Neil C. Schwertman and Rapti de Silva Identifying outliers with sequential fences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3800--3810 Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur A comparative study of the reliability of nine statistical software packages 3811--3831 Kung-Jong Lui Sample size calculation for non-compliance randomized trials with repeated measurements in binary data . . 3832--3843 Yufen Huang and Tzu-Ling Kao and Tai-Ho Wang Influence functions and local influence in linear discriminant analysis . . . . 3844--3861 Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Xia Pan The quality control chart for monitoring multivariate autocorrelated processes 3862--3870 Francesco Giordano and Michele La Rocca and Cira Perna Forecasting nonlinear time series with neural network sieve bootstrap . . . . . 3871--3884 Chen-An Tsai and James J. Chen Kernel estimation for adjusted $p$-values in multiple testing . . . . . 3885--3897 Rodney X. Sturdivant and David W. Hosmer, Jr. A smoothed residual based goodness-of-fit statistic for logistic hierarchical regression models . . . . . 3898--3912 José Cortiñas Abrahantes and Catherine Legrand and Tomasz Burzykowski and Paul Janssen and Vincent Ducrocq and Luc Duchateau Comparison of different estimation procedures for proportional hazards model with random effects . . . . . . . 3913--3930 Christophe Dematte\"\i and Nicolas Molinari and Jean-Pierre Daur\`es Arbitrarily shaped multiple spatial cluster detection for case event data 3931--3945 D. J. Best and J. C. W. Rayner Chi-squared components for tests of fit and improved models for the grouped exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 3946--3954 Donna L. Mohr Bayesian identification of clustered outliers in multiple regression . . . . 3955--3967 V. J. Rayward-Smith Statistics to measure correlation for data mining applications . . . . . . . . 3968--3982 Steve Su Numerical maximum log likelihood estimation for generalized lambda distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3983--3998 Hubert J. Chen and Shun-Yi Chen Erratum to ``The optimal confidence interval for the largest normal mean with unknown variance'' [Computational Statistics and Data Analysis \bf 47 (2004) 845--866] . . . . . . . . . . . . 3999--4000 H. K. T. Ng and D. Kundu and N. Balakrishnan Erratum to ``Point and interval estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution based on Type-II censored samples'': [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis \bf 50 (2006) 3222--3242] . . . . . . . 4001 Donald D. M. Tong and Stephen Buxser and Thomas J. Vidmar Application of a mixture model for determining the cutoff threshold for activity in high-throughput screening 4002--4012 Joost R. Van Ginkel and L. Andries Van der Ark and Klaas Sijtsma and Jeroen K. Vermunt Two-way imputation: a Bayesian method for estimating missing scores in tests and questionnaires, and an accurate approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4013--4027 Mario Cerrato and Nicholas Sarantis A bootstrap panel unit root test under cross-sectional dependence, with an application to PPP . . . . . . . . . . . 4028--4037 R. Gutiérrez and N. Rico and P. Román and F. Torres Approximate and generalized confidence bands for the mean and mode functions of the lognormal diffusion process . . . . 4038--4053 Willi Sauerbrei and Patrick Royston and Karina Zapien Detecting an interaction between treatment and a continuous covariate: a comparison of two approaches . . . . . . 4054--4063 Hakan Demirtas and Lester M. Arguelles and Hwan Chung and Donald Hedeker On the performance of bias--reduction techniques for variance estimation in approximate Bayesian bootstrap imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4064--4068 Giuseppe Arbia and Giovanni Lafratta and Carla Simeoni Spatial sampling plans to monitor the $3$-D spatial distribution of extremes in soil pollution surveys . . . . . . . 4069--4082
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix Arthur Tenenhaus and Alain Giron and Emmanuel Viennet and Michel Béra and Gilbert Saporta and Bernard Fertil Kernel logistic PLS: a tool for supervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction and binary classification . . 4083--4100 Václav \vSmídl and Anthony Quinn On Bayesian principal component analysis 4101--4123 Anne Krampe and Sonja Kuhnt Bowker's test for symmetry and modifications within the algebraic framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4124--4142 P. C. Wang Planning experiments when some specified interactions are investigated . . . . . 4143--4151 Abel Tilahun and Assam Pryseley and Ariel Alonso and Geert Molenberghs Flexible surrogate marker evaluation from several randomized clinical trials with continuous endpoints, using R and SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4152--4163 R. Tsonaka and I. Moustaki Parameter constraints in generalized linear latent variable models . . . . . 4164--4177 Matthew S. Johnson Modeling dichotomous item responses with free-knot splines . . . . . . . . . . . 4178--4192 Amparo Vallejo-Arboleda and José L. Vicente-Villardón and M. P. Galindo-Villardón Canonical STATIS: Biplot analysis of multi-table group structured data based on STATIS-ACT methodology . . . . . . . 4193--4205 Dick van Dijk and Philip Hans Franses and H. Peter Boswijk Absorption of shocks in nonlinear autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 4206--4226 Mortaza Jamshidian and James R. Schott Testing equality of covariance matrices when data are incomplete . . . . . . . . 4227--4239 P. Royston and W. Sauerbrei Improving the robustness of fractional polynomial models by preliminary covariate transformation: a pragmatic approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4240--4253 Jun-Wu Yu and Guo-Liang Tian and Man-Lai Tang Predictive analyses for nonhomogeneous Poisson processes with power law using Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . 4254--4268 Ruta Bajorunaite and John P. Klein Two-sample tests of the equality of two cumulative incidence functions . . . . . 4269--4281 C. L. Alston and K. L. Mengersen and C. P. Robert and J. M. Thompson and P. J. Littlefield and D. Perry and A. J. Ball Bayesian mixture models in a longitudinal setting for analysing sheep CAT scan images . . . . . . . . . . . . 4282--4296 Matthew J. Gurka and Lloyd J. Edwards and Leena Nylander-French Testing transformations for the linear mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4297--4307 Claude Manté Application of resampling and linear spline methods to spectral and dispersional analyses of long-memory processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4308--4323 Michela Baccini and Annibale Biggeri and Corrado Lagazio and Aitana Lertxundi and Marc Saez Parametric and semi-parametric approaches in the analysis of short-term effects of air pollution on health . . . 4324--4336 Majnu John and Carey E. Priebe A data-adaptive methodology for finding an optimal weighted generalized Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon statistic . . . 4337--4353 Felipe Osorio and Gilberto A. Paula and Manuel Galea Assessment of local influence in elliptical linear models with longitudinal structure . . . . . . . . . 4354--4368 Jamal A. Al-Saleh and Satish K. Agarwal Finite mixture of gamma distributions: a conjugate prior . . . . . . . . . . . . 4369--4378 Mi-Ja Woo and T. N. Sriram Robust estimation of mixture complexity for count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4379--4392 Martin L. Hazelton Bias reduction in kernel binary regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4393--4402 L. A. García-Escudero and A. Gordaliza The importance of the scales in heterogeneous robust clustering . . . . 4403--4412 Jiajia Zhang and Yingwei Peng An alternative estimation method for the accelerated failure time frailty model 4413--4423 Yongqiang Tang and Subhashis Ghosal A consistent nonparametric Bayesian procedure for estimating autoregressive conditional densities . . . . . . . . . 4424--4437 Tae Young Yang and Jae Chang Lee Bayesian nearest-neighbor analysis via record value statistics and nonhomogeneous spatial Poisson processes 4438--4449 Kellie J. Archer and Stanley Lemeshow and David W. Hosmer Goodness-of-fit tests for logistic regression models when data are collected using a complex sampling design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4450--4464 Michael Schweinberger and Tom A. B. Snijders Markov models for digraph panel data: Monte Carlo-based derivative estimation 4465--4483 William H. Asquith $L$-moments and $ T L$-moments of the generalized lambda distribution . . . . 4484--4496 Co\cskun Ku\cs A new lifetime distribution . . . . . . 4497--4509 J. Mielniczuk and P. Wojdy\l\lo Estimation of Hurst exponent revisited 4510--4525 Carlos M. Carvalho and Hedibert F. Lopes Simulation-based sequential analysis of Markov switching stochastic volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4526--4542 Wai-Cheung Ip and Heung Wong and Riquan Zhang Generalized likelihood ratio test for varying-coefficient models with different smoothing variables . . . . . 4543--4561 Matthew J. Langdon and Charles C. Taylor and Robert M. West Classification of type I-censored bivariate data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4562--4576 H.-C. Huang and F. Martinez and J. Mateu and F. Montes Model comparison and selection for stationary space--time models . . . . . 4577--4596 D. G. Chen Bootstrapping estimation for estimating relative potency in combinations of bioassays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4597--4604 Florian Leitenstorfer and Gerhard Tutz Knot selection by boosting techniques 4605--4621 Patrick D. Gerard and William R. Schucany An enhanced sign test for dependent binary data with small numbers of clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4622--4632 Jadran Dobri\'c and Friedrich Schmid A goodness of fit test for copulas based on Rosenblatt's transformation . . . . . 4633--4642 G. Iliopoulos and M. Kateri and I. Ntzoufras Bayesian estimation of unrestricted and order-restricted association models for a two-way contingency table . . . . . . 4643--4655 Artur J. Lemonte and Francisco Cribari-Neto and Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos Improved statistical inference for the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4656--4681 Jin Zhang and Yuehua Wu $k$-Sample tests based on the likelihood ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4682--4691 Feng-Chang Xie and Bo-Cheng Wei Diagnostics analysis for log-Birnbaum--Saunders regression models 4692--4706 Michiyo Yamamoto and Takakazu Sugiyama and Hidetoshi Murakami and Fumitake Sakaori Correlation analysis of principal components from two populations . . . . 4707--4716 Henar Urmeneta and Víctor Hernández Random Riemann Sum estimator versus Monte Carlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4717--4730 Mirta Ben\vsi\'c and Kristian Sabo Estimating the width of a uniform distribution when data are measured with additive normal errors with known variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4731--4741 Ana Colubi and Gil González-Rodríguez Triangular fuzzification of random variables and power of distribution tests: Empirical discussion . . . . . . 4742--4750 Peter Hall Book Review: \booktitleNonparametric functional data analysis: Theory and practice, F. Ferraty, P. Vieu, in: Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, Berlin (2006), xx + 268 pp, ISBN 978-0-387-30369-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 4751--4752 Xiaomi Hu Asymptotical distributions, parameters and coverage probabilities of tolerance limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4753--4760 Joseph L. Breeden Modeling data with multiple time dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4761--4785
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii Wenceslao González Manteiga and Philippe Vieu Statistics for Functional Data . . . . . 4788--4792 Anestis Antoniadis and Theofanis Sapatinas Estimation and inference in functional mixed-effects models . . . . . . . . . . 4793--4813 J. A. Cuesta-Albertos and E. del Barrio and R. Fraiman and C. Matrán The random projection method in goodness of fit for functional data . . . . . . . 4814--4831 Hervé Cardot and Christophe Crambes and Alois Kneip and Pascal Sarda Smoothing splines estimators in functional linear regression with errors-in-variables . . . . . . . . . . 4832--4848 Jeng-Min Chiou and Hans-Georg Müller Diagnostics for functional regression via residual processes . . . . . . . . . 4849--4863 Juan Antonio Cuesta-Albertos and Ricardo Fraiman Impartial trimmed $k$-means for functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 4864--4877 Sophie Dabo-Niang and Frédéric Ferraty and Philippe Vieu On the using of modal curves for radar waveforms classification . . . . . . . . 4878--4890 M. Escabias and A. M. Aguilera and M. J. Valderrama Functional PLS logit regression model 4891--4902 Frédéric Ferraty and Philippe Vieu and Sylvie Viguier-Pla Factor-based comparison of groups of curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4903--4910 Jaroslaw Harezlak and Brent A. Coull and Nan M. Laird and Shannon R. Magari and David C. Christiani Penalized solutions to functional regression problems . . . . . . . . . . 4911--4925 Daniel Hlubinka and Lubo\vs Prchal Changes in atmospheric radiation from the statistical point of view . . . . . 4926--4941 Rob J. Hyndman and Md. Shahid Ullah Robust forecasting of mortality and fertility rates: a functional data approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4942--4956 Sara López-Pintado and Juan Romo Depth-based inference for functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4957--4968 Claude Manté and Anne-Françoise Yao and Claude Degiovanni Principal component analysis of measures, with special emphasis on grain-size curves . . . . . . . . . . . 4969--4983 David Nerini and Badih Ghattas Classifying densities using functional regression trees: Applications in oceanology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4984--4993 M. D. Ruiz-Medina and R. Salmerón and J. M. Angulo Kalman filtering from POP-based diagonalization of $ {\rm ARH}(1) $ . . 4994--5008 Rand R. Wilcox and Simon Sheather and Edgar Brunner and Michael G. Schimek Nonparametric and Robust Methods . . . . 5010--5012 Mia Hubert and Sanne Engelen Fast cross-validation of high-breakdown resampling methods for PCA . . . . . . . 5013--5024 R. Wellmann and S. Katina and Ch. H. Müller Calculation of simplicial depth estimators for polynomial regression with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 5025--5040 Carola Werner and Edgar Brunner Rank methods for the analysis of clustered data in diagnostic trials . . 5041--5054 Markus Neuhäuser and Christian Lösch and Karl-Heinz Jöckel The Chen--Luo test in case of heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 5055--5060 Hidetoshi Murakami Lepage type statistic based on the modified Baumgartner statistic . . . . . 5061--5067 Kane Nashimoto and F. T. Wright Nonparametric multiple-comparison methods for simply ordered medians . . . 5068--5076 Xiaojiang Zhan and Thomas P. Hettmansperger Bayesian $R$-estimates in two-sample location models . . . . . . . . . . . . 5077--5089 M. Zetlaoui and N. Picard and A. Bar-Hen Robustness of the estimators of transition rates for size-classified matrix models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5090--5102 S. Taskinen and S. Sirkiä and H. Oja Independent component analysis based on symmetrised scatter matrices . . . . . . 5103--5111 F. Belzunce and A. Castaño and A. Olvera-Cervantes and A. Suárez-Llorens Quantile curves and dependence structure for bivariate distributions . . . . . . 5112--5129 N. L. Glenn and Yichuan Zhao Weighted empirical likelihood estimates and their robustness properties . . . . 5130--5141 Hél\`ene Jacqmin-Gadda and Solenne Sibillot and Cécile Proust and Jean-Michel Molina and Rodolphe Thiébaut Robustness of the linear mixed model to misspecified error distribution . . . . 5142--5154 A. Kovac Smooth functions and local extreme values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5155--5171 Bruno Bertaccini and Roberta Varriale Robust ANalysis Of VAriance: an approach based on the Forward Search . . . . . . 5172--5183 Jana Jure\vcková and Jan Picek Shapiro--Wilk-type test of normality under nuisance regression and scale . . 5184--5191 Karin Neubert and Edgar Brunner A Studentized permutation test for the non-parametric Behrens--Fisher problem 5192--5204
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Dankmar Böhning and Wilfried Seidel and Macro Alfó and Bernard Garel and Valentin Patilea and Günther Walther Advances in Mixture Models . . . . . . . 5205--5210 Chang Xuan Mao Estimating population sizes for capture--recapture sampling with binomial mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . 5211--5219 Brian Caffo and Ming-Wen An and Charles Rohde Flexible random intercept models for binary outcomes using mixtures of normals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5220--5235 Anton K. Formann Mixture analysis of multivariate categorical data with covariates and missing entries . . . . . . . . . . . . 5236--5246 Bettina Grün and Friedrich Leisch Fitting finite mixtures of generalized linear regressions in R . . . . . . . . 5247--5252 Marco Alf\`o and Alessio Farcomeni and Luca Tardella Robust semiparametric mixing for detecting differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments . . . . . . . 5253--5265 Alexandre X. Carvalho and Martin A. Tanner Modelling nonlinear count time series with local mixtures of Poisson autoregressions . . . . . . . . . . . . 5266--5294 Bernard Garel Recent asymptotic results in testing for mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5295--5304 Marco Di Zio and Ugo Guarnera and Orietta Luzi Imputation through finite Gaussian mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5305--5316 Soleiman Kheiri and Alan Kimber and Mohammad Reza Meshkani Bayesian analysis of an inverse Gaussian correlated frailty model . . . . . . . . 5317--5326 G. J. McLachlan and R. W. Bean and L. Ben-Tovim Jones Extension of the mixture of factor analyzers model to incorporate the multivariate $t$-distribution . . . . . 5327--5338 Salvatore Ingrassia and Roberto Rocci Constrained monotone EM algorithms for finite mixture of multivariate Gaussians 5339--5351 C. A. McGrory and D. M. Titterington Variational approximations in Bayesian model selection for finite mixture distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5352--5367 Jeroen K. Vermunt A hierarchical mixture model for clustering three-way data sets . . . . . 5368--5376 K. S. Sultan and M. A. Ismail and A. S. Al-Moisheer Mixture of two inverse Weibull distributions: Properties and estimation 5377--5387 Dimitris Karlis and Valentin Patilea Confidence intervals of the hazard rate function for discrete distributions using mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5388--5401 Alejandro Jara and María José García-Zattera and Emmanuel Lesaffre A Dirichlet process mixture model for the analysis of correlated binary responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5402--5415 P. M. Steiner and M. Hudec Classification of large data sets with mixture models via sufficient EM . . . . 5416--5428 Laurent Bordes and Didier Chauveau and Pierre Vandekerkhove A stochastic EM algorithm for a semiparametric mixture model . . . . . . 5429--5443 Paul H. C. Eilers and M. W. Borgdorff Non-parametric log-concave mixtures . . 5444--5451 M. J. Rufo and C. J. Pérez and J. Martín Bayesian analysis of finite mixtures of multinomial and negative-multinomial distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5452--5466
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--xi Jeffrey S. Rosenthal AMCMC: an R interface for adaptive MCMC 5467--5470 Sonia Malefaki and George Iliopoulos Simulating from a multinomial distribution with large number of categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5471--5476 Juhyun Park On the choice of an auxiliary function in the M/G/$ \infty $ estimation . . . . 5477--5482 Stéphane Robin and Avner Bar-Hen and Jean-Jacques Daudin and Laurent Pierre A semi-parametric approach for mixture models: Application to local false discovery rate estimation . . . . . . . 5483--5493 Dajun Qian and John Kaddis and Joyce C. Niland A matching algorithm for the distribution of human pancreatic islets 5494--5506 Dianxu Ren and Roslyn A. Stone A Bayesian approach for analyzing a cluster-randomized trial with adjustment for risk misclassification . . . . . . . 5507--5518 Ray-Bing Chen and Ying Nian Wu A null space method for over-complete blind source separation . . . . . . . . 5519--5536 R. J. O'Hara Hines and W. G. S. Hines Covariance miss-specification and the local influence approach in sensitivity analyses of longitudinal data with drop-outs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5537--5546 R. Martín-Martín and B. Torsney and J. López-Fidalgo Construction of marginally and conditionally restricted designs using multiplicative algorithms . . . . . . . 5547--5561 Vesna Cojbasic and Andrija Tomovic Nonparametric confidence intervals for population variance of one sample and the difference of variances of two samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5562--5578 C. Xu and G. Gertner Extending a global sensitivity analysis technique to models with correlated parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5579--5590 Johan Pea and Lionel Qualité and Yves Tillé Systematic sampling is a minimum support design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5591--5602 Nicolas Dobigeon and Jean-Yves Tourneret Joint segmentation of wind speed and direction using a hierarchical model . . 5603--5621 Andreas Obereder and Otmar Scherzer and Arne Kovac Bivariate density estimation using BV regularisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5622--5634 A. Durio E. D. Isaia A quick procedure for model selection in the case of mixture of normal densities 5635--5643 Maciej Patan and Barbara Bogacka Optimum experimental designs for dynamic systems in the presence of correlated errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5644--5661 Yong Wang Minimum disparity computation via the iteratively reweighted least integrated squares algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 5662--5672 Nabendu Pal and Jyh-Jiuan Lin and Ching-Hui Chang and Somesh Kumar A revisit to the common mean problem: Comparing the maximum likelihood estimator with the Graybill--Deal estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5673--5681 C. G. G. Aitken and Q. Shen and R. Jensen and B. Hayes The evaluation of evidence for exponentially distributed data . . . . . 5682--5693 Víctor Leiva and Michelli Barros and Gilberto A. Paula and Manuel Galea Influence diagnostics in log-Birnbaum--Saunders regression models with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 5694--5707 Hodaka Numasaki and Hajime Harauchi and Yuko Ohno and Kiyonari Inamura and Satoko Kasahara and Morito Monden and Masato Sakon New classification of medical staff clinical services for optimal reconstruction of job workflow in a surgical ward: Application of spectrum analysis and sequence relational analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5708--5717 Florin Vaida and Anthony P. Fitzgerald and Victor DeGruttola Efficient hybrid EM for linear and nonlinear mixed effects models with censored response . . . . . . . . . . . 5718--5730 K. Krishnamoorthy and Fei Lu and Thomas Mathew A parametric bootstrap approach for ANOVA with unequal variances: Fixed and random models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5731--5742 David Beaudoin and Thierry Duchesne and Christian Genest Improving the estimation of Kendall's tau when censoring affects only one of the variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5743--5764 Jianxin Pan and Robin Thompson Quasi-Monte Carlo estimation in generalized linear mixed models . . . . 5765--5775 Erning Li and Daowen Zhang and Marie Davidian Likelihood and pseudo-likelihood methods for semiparametric joint models for a primary endpoint and longitudinal data 5776--5790 Thomas J. Santner and Vivek Pradhan and Pralay Senchaudhuri and Cyrus R. Mehta and Ajit Tamhane Small-sample comparisons of confidence intervals for the difference of two independent binomial proportions . . . . 5791--5799 Alejandro Quintela-del-Río Plug-in bandwidth selection in kernel hazard estimation from dependent data 5800--5812 Joyee Ghosh and Jerome P. Reiter and Alan F. Karr Secure computation with horizontally partitioned data using adaptive regression splines . . . . . . . . . . . 5813--5820 B. Ceranka and M. Graczyk and K. Katulska On certain $A$-optimal chemical balance weighing designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 5821--5827 Giorgio Vittadini and Simona C. Minotti and Marco Fattore and Pietro G. Lovaglio On the relationships among latent variables and residuals in PLS path modeling: the formative-reflective scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5828--5846 João R. Sato and Pedro A. Morettin and Paula R. Arantes and Edson Amaro, Jr. Wavelet based time-varying vector autoregressive modelling . . . . . . . . 5847--5866 Claudio Agostinelli Robust estimation for circular data . . 5867--5875 Manuela M. Oliveira and João T. Mexia Modelling series of studies with a common structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 5876--5885 Yufen Huang and Mei-Ling Kuo and Tai-Ho Wang Pair-perturbation influence functions and local influence in PCA . . . . . . . 5886--5899 Silvano Bordignon and Massimiliano Caporin and Francesco Lisi Generalised long-memory GARCH models for intra-daily volatility . . . . . . . . . 5900--5912 Fredrik A. Dahl Convergence of random $k$-nearest-neighbour imputation . . . . 5913--5917 Man-Lai Tang and Wai-Yin Poon Statistical inference for equivalence trials with ordinal responses: a latent normal distribution approach . . . . . . 5918--5926 José A. Díaz-García and José Ramón Domínguez-Molina A new family of life distributions for dependent data: Estimation . . . . . . . 5927--5939 Melody Y. Kiang and Michael Y. Hu and Dorothy M. Fisher The effect of sample size on the extended self-organizing map network --- A market segmentation application . . . 5940--5948 Jeffrey S. Racine and James G. MacKinnon Inference via kernel smoothing of bootstrap $P$ values . . . . . . . . . . 5949--5957 Miin-Jye Wen and Shun-Yi Chen and Hubert J. Chen On testing a subset of regression parameters under heteroskedasticity . . 5958--5976 Liming Xiang and Kelvin K. W. Yau and S. K. Tse and Andy H. Lee Influence diagnostics for random effect survival models: Application to a recurrent infection study for kidney patients on portable dialysis . . . . . 5977--5993 Cheolwoo Park and Fred Godtliebsen and Murad Taqqu and Stilian Stoev and J. S. Marron Visualization and inference based on wavelet coefficients, SiZer and SiNos 5994--6012 Alan M. Polansky Detecting change-points in Markov chains 6013--6026 Andrew B. Lawson and Silvia Simeon and Martin Kulldorff and Annibale Biggeri and Corrado Magnani Line and point cluster models for spatial health data . . . . . . . . . . 6027--6043 Gerhard Tutz and Harald Binder Boosting ridge regression . . . . . . . 6044--6059 Ardo van den Hout and Peter G. M. van der Heijden and Robert Gilchrist The logistic regression model with response variables subject to randomized response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6060--6069 Peter M. Hooper Period analysis of variable stars: Temporal dependence and local optima . . 6070--6083 Mahesh Kumar and Nitin R. Patel Clustering data with measurement errors 6084--6101 Luis E. Nieto-Barajas and Stephen G. Walker A Bayesian semi-parametric bivariate failure time model . . . . . . . . . . . 6102--6113 Andrew C. Leon and Donald Hedeker Quintile stratification based on a misspecified propensity score in longitudinal treatment effectiveness analyses of ordinal doses . . . . . . . 6114--6122 Tonglin Zhang and Ge Lin A decomposition of Moran's $I$ for clustering detection . . . . . . . . . . 6123--6137 J. Rodríguez-Avi and A. Conde-Sánchez and A. J. Sáez-Castillo and M. J. Olmo-Jiménez A new generalization of the Waring distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6138--6150 Pedro Galeano The use of cumulative sums for detection of changepoints in the rate parameter of a Poisson Process . . . . . . . . . . . 6151--6165 Hongshik Ahn and Hojin Moon and Melissa J. Fazzari and Noha Lim and James J. Chen and Ralph L. Kodell Classification by ensembles from random partitions of high-dimensional data . . 6166--6179 Guoqi Qian and Xindong Zhao On time series model selection involving many candidate ARMA models . . . . . . . 6180--6196 Helmut Küchenhoff and Wolfgang Lederer and Emmanuel Lesaffre Asymptotic variance estimation for the misclassification SIMEX . . . . . . . . 6197--6211 S. Heim and L. Fahrmeir and P. H. C. Eilers and B. D. Marx $3$D space-varying coefficient models with application to diffusion tensor imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6212--6228 Pankaj K. Choudhary Semiparametric regression for assessing agreement using tolerance bands . . . . 6229--6241 George T. Chang and Guenther Walther Clustering with mixtures of log-concave distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6242--6251 B. Vandewalle and J. Beirlant and A. Christmann and M. Hubert A robust estimator for the tail index of Pareto-type distributions . . . . . . . 6252--6268 Mortaza Jamshidian and Robert I. Jennrich and Wei Liu A study of partial $F$ tests for multiple linear regression models . . . 6269--6284 Aykut Firat and Sangit Chatterjee and Mustafa Yilmaz Genetic clustering of social networks using random walks . . . . . . . . . . . 6285--6294 Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Carolin Strobl Maximally selected Chi-squared statistics and non-monotonic associations: an exact approach based on two cutpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6295--6306 Philippe Lambert Archimedean copula estimation using Bayesian splines smoothing techniques 6307--6320 Michael A. Martin Bootstrap hypothesis testing for some common statistical problems: a critical evaluation of size and power properties 6321--6342 Chang C. Y. Dorea and Cira E. Guevara Otiniano and Raul Matsushita and Pushpa N. Rathie Lévy flight approximations for scaled transformations of random walks . . . . 6343--6354 Faming Liang Use of SVD-based probit transformation in clustering gene expression profiles 6355--6366 Irene Klugkist and Herbert Hoijtink The Bayes factor for inequality and about equality constrained models . . . 6367--6379 Yufeng Liu and Hao Helen Zhang and Cheolwoo Park and Jeongyoun Ahn Support vector machines with adaptive $ L_q $ penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6380--6394 Mónica Benito and Daniel Peña Detecting defects with image data . . . 6395--6403 Samuel Soubeyrand and Joël Chad\oeuf Residual-based specification of a hidden random field included in a hierarchical spatial model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6404--6422 Andreas Baierl and Andreas Futschik and Ma\lgorzata Bogdan and Przemys\law Biecek Locating multiple interacting quantitative trait loci using robust model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 6423--6434 Mary C. Phipps and Peter M. Byron A filter for ``Confidence interval $P$-values'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6435--6446 Alan Agresti and Anna Gottard Nonconservative exact small-sample inference for discrete data . . . . . . 6447--6458 Ryan Gill and Kiseop Lee and Seongjoo Song Computation of estimates in segmented regression and a liquidity effect model 6459--6475 Shigeru Takasaki and Yoshihoro Kawamura Using radial basis function networks and significance testing to select effective siRNA sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 6476--6487 Yanchun Bao and Shuyuan He and Changlin Mei The Koul--Susarla--Van Ryzin and weighted least squares estimates for censored linear regression model: a comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 6488--6497 Dayanand N. Naik and Amal Helu On testing equality of intraclass correlations under unequal family sizes 6498--6510 M. Helena Gonçalves and M. Salomé Cabral and Maria Carme Ruiz de Villa and Eduardo Escrich and Montse Solanas Likelihood approach for count data in longitudinal experiments . . . . . . . . 6511--6520 C. Q. da-Silva and P. V. S. Gomes and M. A. Stradioto Bayesian estimation of survival and capture probabilities using logit link and photoidentification data . . . . . . 6521--6534 James R. Schott A test for the equality of covariance matrices when the dimension is large relative to the sample sizes . . . . . . 6535--6542 Chun-Xia Zhang and Chang-Lin Mei and Jiang-She Zhang An empirical study of a test for polynomial relationships in randomly right censored regression models . . . . 6543--6556 Seung-Hwan Lee On the versatility of the combination of the weighted log-rank statistics . . . . 6557--6564 Javier Roca-Pardiñas and Stefan Sperlich Testing the link when the index is semiparametric --- a comparative study 6565--6581 Yang Yang and Ira M. Longini, Jr. and M. Elizabeth Halloran A data-augmentation method for infectious disease incidence data from close contact groups . . . . . . . . . . 6582--6595 M. Rueda and J. F. Muñoz and S. González and A. Arcos Estimating quantiles under sampling on two occasions with arbitrary sample designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6596--6613 Xiaoning Wang and Alan Schumitzky and David Z. D'Argenio Nonlinear random effects mixture models: Maximum likelihood estimation via the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6614--6623 Enrique González-Dávila and Roberto Dorta-Guerra and Josep Ginebra Simulation-based designs for multiperiod control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6624--6641
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--xi Manfred Gilli and Peter Winker 2nd Special Issue on Applications of Optimization Heuristics to Estimation and Modelling Problems . . . . . . . . . 2--3 George Kapetanios Variable selection in regression models using nonstandard optimisation of information criteria . . . . . . . . . . 4--15 Marc Hofmann and Cristian Gatu and Erricos John Kontoghiorghes Efficient algorithms for computing the best subset regression models for large-scale problems . . . . . . . . . . 16--29 Federico Ambrogi and Nicola Lama and Patrizia Boracchi and Elia Biganzoli Selection of artificial neural network models for survival analysis with Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 30--42 Luiz Duczmal and André L. F. Cançado and Ricardo H. C. Takahashi and Lupércio F. Bessegato A genetic algorithm for irregularly shaped spatial scan statistics . . . . . 43--52 Timur Keskintürk and \cSebnem Er A genetic algorithm approach to determine stratum boundaries and sample sizes of each stratum in stratified sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--67 Thiemo Krink and Sandra Paterlini and Andrea Resti Using differential evolution to improve the accuracy of bank rating systems . . 68--87 Bernd Fitzenberger and Peter Winker Improving the computation of censored quantile regressions . . . . . . . . . . 88--108 Zheng Yang and Zheng Tian and Zixia Yuan GSA-based maximum likelihood estimation for threshold vector error correction model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--120 Anna Staszewska Representing uncertainty about response paths: the use of heuristic optimisation methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132 M. M. Ali Synthesis of the $ \beta $-distribution as an aid to stochastic global optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--149 Christophe Croux and Efstratios Gallopoulos and Stefan Van Aelst and Hongyuan Zha Machine Learning and Robust Data Mining 151--154 Michael W. Berry and Murray Browne and Amy N. Langville and V. Paul Pauca and Robert J. Plemmons Algorithms and applications for approximate nonnegative matrix factorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--173 Jane E. Tougas and Raymond J. Spiteri Updating the partial singular value decomposition in latent semantic indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--183 Hongyuan Zha and Zhenyue Zhang Continuum Isomap for manifold learnings 184--200 S. I. Ao and Michael K. Ng and Pak C. Sham Constrained unidimensional scaling with application to genomics . . . . . . . . 201--210 Shuo Chen and Don Hong and Yu Shyr Wavelet-based procedures for proteomic mass spectrometry data processing . . . 211--220 Roland Fried and Ursula Gather On rank tests for shift detection in time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--233 Tadeusz Bednarski On a robust modification of Breslow's cumulated hazard estimator . . . . . . . 234--238 Jafar A. Khan and Stefan Van Aelst and Ruben H. Zamar Building a robust linear model with forward selection and stepwise procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--248 Lauren McCann and Roy E. Welsch Robust variable selection using least angle regression and elemental set sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--257 Christian Hennig Cluster-wise assessment of cluster stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--271 A. C. Atkinson and M. Riani Exploratory tools for clustering multivariate data . . . . . . . . . . . 272--285 Xiaogang Wang and Weiliang Qiu and Ruben H. Zamar CLUES: a non-parametric clustering method based on local shrinking . . . . 286--298 N. Neykov and P. Filzmoser and R. Dimova and P. Neytchev Robust fitting of mixtures using the trimmed likelihood estimator . . . . . . 299--308 A. N. Dolia and C. J. Harris and J. S. Shawe-Taylor and D. M. Titterington Kernel ellipsoidal trimming . . . . . . 309--324 C. Andy Tsao and Yuan-chin Ivan Chang A stochastic approximation view of boosting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--334 Chien-Ming Huang and Yuh-Jye Lee and Dennis K. J. Lin and Su-Yun Huang Model selection for support vector machines via uniform design . . . . . . 335--346 Andreas Christmann and Ingo Steinwart and Mia Hubert Robust learning from bites for data mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361 Christophe Croux and Kristel Joossens and Aurélie Lemmens Trimmed bagging . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--368 Hans-Hermann Bock and Maurizio Vichi Statistical Learning Methods Including Dimensionality Reduction . . . . . . . . 370--373 Nicolai Meinshausen Relaxed Lasso . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--393 Yoshio Takane and Heungsun Hwang Regularized linear and kernel redundancy analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--405 Timo Similä and Jarkko Tikka Input selection and shrinkage in multiresponse linear regression . . . . 406--422 Jurjen Duintjer Tebbens and Pavel Schlesinger Improving implementation of linear discriminant analysis for the high dimension/small sample size problem . . 423--437 Luca Scrucca Class prediction and gene selection for DNA microarrays using regularized sliced inverse regression . . . . . . . . . . . 438--451 Chunming Zhang and Haoda Fu and Yuan Jiang and Tao Yu High-dimensional pseudo-logistic regression and classification with applications to gene expression data . . 452--470 Daniela G. Cal\`o Gaussian mixture model classification: a projection pursuit approach . . . . . . 471--482 Carolin Strobl and Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Thomas Augustin Unbiased split selection for classification trees based on the Gini Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--501 C. Bouveyron and S. Girard and C. Schmid High-dimensional data clustering . . . . 502--519 Giuliano Galimberti and Gabriele Soffritti Model-based methods to identify multiple cluster structures in a data set . . . . 520--536 Iven Van Mechelen and Jan Schepers A unifying model involving a categorical and/or dimensional reduction for multimode data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--549 J. A. Cumming and D. A. Wooff Dimension reduction via principal variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--565 R. Lombardo and E. J. Beh and L. D'Ambra Non-symmetric correspondence analysis with ordinal variables using orthogonal polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--577 José R. Quevedo and Antonio Bahamonde and Oscar Luaces A simple and efficient method for variable ranking according to their usefulness for learning . . . . . . . . 578--595 Marie Plasse and Ndeye Niang and Gilbert Saporta and Alexandre Villeminot and Laurent Leblond Combined use of association rules mining and clustering methods to find relevant links between binary rare attributes in a large data set . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--613
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix Cristian Gatu and James Gentle and John Hinde and Moon Huh Special Issue on Statistical Algorithms and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--617 Markus Krätzig A software framework for data analysis 618--634 Tom\`as Aluja-Banet and Josep Daunis-i-Estadella and David Pellicer GRAFT, a complete system for data fusion 635--649 Takeshi Fujiwara and Junji Nakano and Yoshikazu Yamamoto Using mathematical expressions in a statistical language . . . . . . . . . . 650--662 Michael Massmann Cobra: a package for co-breaking analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--679 Michael Höhle and Ulrike Feldmann RLadyBug --- an R package for stochastic epidemic models . . . . . . . . . . . . 680--686 Marie Chavent and Yves Lechevallier and Olivier Briant DIVCLUS-T: a monothetic divisive hierarchical clustering method . . . . . 687--701 W. T. P. S. Fernando and D. D. S. Kulatunga On the computation and some applications of multivariate isotonic regression . . 702--712 Josef Tvrdík and Ivan K\vrivý and Ladislav Mi\vsík Adaptive population-based search: Application to estimation of nonlinear regression parameters . . . . . . . . . 713--724 Jens Gramm and Jiong Guo and Falk Hüffner and Rolf Niedermeier and Hans-Peter Piepho and Ramona Schmid Algorithms for compact letter displays: Comparison and evaluation . . . . . . . 725--736 Farid Beninel and Gérard Grélaud Exact algorithms for computing $p$-values of statistics-linear combination of $3$-nomial variables . . 737--749 Byung-Hoon Park and George Ostrouchov and Nagiza F. Samatova Sampling streaming data with replacement 750--762 Thorsten Bernholt and Robin Nunkesser and Karen Schettlinger Computing the least quartile difference estimator in the plane . . . . . . . . . 763--772 Stefano M. Iacus and Giuseppe Porro Missing data imputation, matching and other applications of random recursive partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--789 Guido Consonni and Jean-Michel Marin Mean-field variational approximate Bayesian inference for latent variable models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790--798 Cristian Gatu and Petko I. Yanev and Erricos J. Kontoghiorghes A graph approach to generate all possible regression submodels . . . . . 799--815 D. S. G. Pollock and Tommaso Proietti 2nd Special Issue on Statistical Signal Extraction and Filtering . . . . . . . . 817--820 Bart Bakker and Tom Heskes Learning and approximate inference in dynamic hierarchical models . . . . . . 821--839 Vladimir Shin and Georgy Shevlyakov and Kiseon Kim A new fusion formula and its application to continuous-time linear systems with multisensor environment . . . . . . . . 840--854 Katy Klauenberg and Francesco Lagona Hidden Markov random field models for TCA image analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 855--868 P. G. Howlett and A. Torokhti and C. E. M. Pearce Optimal multilinear estimation of a random vector under constraints of causality and limited memory . . . . . . 869--878 Elizabeth A. Maharaj and Andrés M. Alonso Discrimination of locally stationary time series using wavelets . . . . . . . 879--895 Gianluca Cubadda A unifying framework for analysing common cyclical features in cointegrated time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--906 Camilla Mastromarco and Ulrich Woitek Regional business cycles in Italy . . . 907--918 Claudio Morana Multivariate modelling of long memory processes with common components . . . . 919--934 Tommaso Proietti Signal extraction and filtering by linear semiparametric methods . . . . . 935--958 Howard L. Weinert Efficient computation for Whittaker--Henderson smoothing . . . . . 959--974 A. Maravall and A. del Río Temporal aggregation, systematic sampling, and the Hodrick--Prescott filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--998 Marcos Bujosa and Antonio García-Ferrer and Peter C. Young Linear dynamic harmonic regression . . . 999--1024 K. Triantafyllopoulos and G. P. Nason A Bayesian analysis of moving average processes with time-varying parameters 1025--1046 Sergio Ledesma and Derong Liu and Donato Hernández Two approximation methods to synthesize the power spectrum of fractional Gaussian noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1062 Roland Fried On the robust detection of edges in time series filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1074 Sabine Van Huffel and Chi-Lun Cheng and Nicola Mastronardi and Chris Paige and Alexander Kukush Total Least Squares and Errors-in-variables Modeling . . . . . . 1076--1079 G. A. Watson Robust counterparts of errors-in-variables problems . . . . . . 1080--1089 J. Lampe and H. Voss On a quadratic eigenproblem occurring in regularized total least squares . . . . 1090--1102 Diana M. Sima and Sabine Van Huffel Level choice in truncated total least squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103--1118 Nicola Mastronardi and Dianne P. O'Leary Fast robust regression algorithms for problems with Toeplitz structure . . . . 1119--1131 Mário de Castro and Manuel Galea-Rojas and Heleno Bolfarine Local influence assessment in heteroscedastic measurement error models 1132--1142 H. Schneeweiß and H. Shalabh On the estimation of the linear relation when the error variances are known . . . 1143--1148 Shalabh and Gaurav Garg and Neeraj Misra Restricted regression estimation in measurement error models . . . . . . . . 1149--1166 A. Kukush and I. Markovsky and S. Van Huffel Estimation in a linear multivariate measurement error model with a change point in the data . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1182 Kimmo Vehkalahti and Simo Puntanen and Lauri Tarkkonen Effects of measurement errors in predictor selection of linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183--1195 Michelli Barros and Viviana Giampaoli and Claudia R. O. P. Lima Hypothesis testing in the unrestricted and restricted parametric spaces of structural models . . . . . . . . . . . 1196--1207 Kenichi Kanatani and Yasuyuki Sugaya Performance evaluation of iterative geometric fitting algorithms . . . . . . 1208--1222 Ivo Petras and Igor Podlubny State space description of national economies: the V4 countries . . . . . . 1223--1233 José A. Ramos Applications of TLS and related methods in the environmental sciences . . . . . 1234--1267
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii P.-A. Cornillon and W. Imam and E. Matzner-Lòber Forecasting time series using principal component analysis with respect to instrumental variables . . . . . . . . . 1269--1280 M. González and J. Martín and R. Martínez and M. Mota Non-parametric Bayesian estimation for multitype branching processes through simulation-based methods . . . . . . . . 1281--1291 Jan Kloppenborg Mòller and Henrik Aalborg Nielsen and Henrik Madsen Time-adaptive quantile regression . . . 1292--1303 Quanxi Shao and Yongqin D. Chen and Lu Zhang An extension of three-parameter Burr III distribution for low-flow frequency analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1304--1314 Nicolas Wicker and Jean Muller and Ravi Kiran Reddy Kalathur and Olivier Poch A maximum likelihood approximation method for Dirichlet's parameter estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1322 Paul N. Somerville and Claudia Hemmelmann Step-up and step-down procedures controlling the number and proportion of false positives . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323--1334 James D. Stamey and Doyle H. Boese and Dean M. Young Confidence intervals for parameters of two diagnostic tests in the absence of a gold standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1346 Remus K. W. Ho and Inchi Hu Flexible modelling of random effects in linear mixed models --- A Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1361 J. Brian Gray and Guangzhe Fan Classification tree analysis using TARGET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1362--1372 David J. Marchette and Carey E. Priebe Predicting unobserved links in incompletely observed networks . . . . . 1373--1386 Guei-Feng Tsai and Annie Qu Testing the significance of cell-cycle patterns in time-course microarray data using nonparametric quadratic inference functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1398 Chu-Chih Chen Extended rank analysis of covariance adjusting for local correlations . . . . 1399--1412 Takahiro Hoshino A Bayesian propensity score adjustment for latent variable modeling and MCMC algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1413--1429 K. S. Sultan and G. R. AL-Dayian and H. H. Mohammad Estimation and prediction from gamma distribution based on record values . . 1430--1440 Rolando De la Cruz-Mesía and Fernando A. Quintana and Guillermo Marshall Model-based clustering for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1457 Heung Wong and Wai-cheung Ip and Riquan Zhang Varying-coefficient single-index model 1458--1476 L. Pardo and M. C. Pardo An extension of likelihood-ratio-test for testing linear hypotheses in the baseline-category logit model . . . . . 1477--1489 S. H. Ong and K. Shimizu and Choung Min Ng A class of discrete distributions arising from difference of two random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1490--1499 Eufrásio de A. Lima Neto and Francisco de A. T. de Carvalho Centre and Range method for fitting a linear regression model to symbolic interval data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1500--1515 Arthur Pewsey The wrapped stable family of distributions as a flexible model for circular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1516--1523 Binbing Yu and Yingwei Peng Mixture cure models for multivariate survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1524--1532 Caroline Beunckens and Cristina Sotto and Geert Molenberghs A simulation study comparing weighted estimating equations with multiple imputation based estimating equations for longitudinal binary data . . . . . . 1533--1548 D. Giannikis and I. D. Vrontos and P. Dellaportas Modelling nonlinearities and heavy tails via threshold normal mixture GARCH models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1571 S. T. Bate and E. J. Godolphin and J. D. Godolphin Choosing cross-over designs when few subjects are available . . . . . . . . . 1572--1586 Jun-Wu Yu and Guo-Liang Tian and Man-Lai Tang Statistical inference and prediction for the Weibull process with incomplete observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587--1603 M. Debruyne and M. Hubert and S. Portnoy and K. Vanden Branden Censored depth quantiles . . . . . . . . 1604--1614 M. Concepción Ausín and Michael P. Wiper and Rosa E. Lillo Bayesian prediction of the transient behaviour and busy period in short- and long-tailed GI/G/1 queueing systems . . 1615--1635 Chang Yu and Daniel Zelterman Sums of exchangeable Bernoulli random variables for family and litter frequency data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1636--1649 Lila Ricci and Raúl Martínez Adjusted $ R^2 $-type measures for Tweedie models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1650--1660 P. Delicado and M. N. Goria A small sample comparison of maximum likelihood, moments and $L$-moments methods for the asymmetric exponential power distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1661--1673 A. Golightly and D. J. Wilkinson Bayesian inference for nonlinear multivariate diffusion models observed with error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1674--1693 Peter Filzmoser and Ricardo Maronna and Mark Werner Outlier identification in high dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1694--1711 Sven Serneels and Tim Verdonck Principal component analysis for data containing outliers and missing elements 1712--1727 Moti L. Tiku and M. Qamarul Islam and Hakan S. Sazak Estimation in bivariate nonnormal distributions with stochastic variance functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1728--1745 José Alberto Mauricio Computing and using residuals in time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1746--1763
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii Ajay Jasra and Arnaud Doucet and David A. Stephens and Christopher C. Holmes Interacting sequential Monte Carlo samplers for trans-dimensional simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1791 Andrés M. Alonso and Ana E. Sipols A time series bootstrap procedure for interpolation intervals . . . . . . . . 1792--1805 Makoto Tomita and Masahiro Hatsumichi and Koji Kurihara Identify LD blocks based on hierarchical spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1806--1820 Ammar M. Sarhan and Debasis Kundu Bayes estimators for reliability measures in geometric distribution model using masked system life test data . . . 1821--1836 Marieke E. Timmerman and Cajo J. F. Ter Braak Bootstrap confidence intervals for principal response curves . . . . . . . 1837--1849 Jörn Dannemann and Hajo Holzmann The likelihood ratio test for hidden Markov models in two-sample problems . . 1850--1859 Marcella Corduas and Domenico Piccolo Time series clustering and classification by the autoregressive metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860--1872 Debasis Kundu and Rameshwar D. Gupta Generalized exponential distribution: Bayesian estimations . . . . . . . . . . 1873--1883 Simos G. Meintanis and George Iliopoulos Fourier methods for testing multivariate independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1884--1895 Jean G. Orelien and Lloyd J. Edwards Fixed-effect variable selection in linear mixed models using $ R^2 $ statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1896--1907 Simon J. Sheather and Joseph W. McKean and Kimberly Crimin Sliced mean variance--covariance inverse regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1908--1927 Chun-Xia Zhang and Jiang-She Zhang A local boosting algorithm for solving classification problems . . . . . . . . 1928--1941 Patrick Musonda and Mounia N. Hocine and Heather J. Whitaker and C. Paddy Farrington Self-controlled case series analyses: Small-sample performance . . . . . . . . 1942--1957 Javier Roca-Pardiñas and Carmen Cadarso-Suárez and Pablo G. Tahoces and María J. Lado Assessing continuous bivariate effects among different groups through nonparametric regression models: an application to breast cancer detection 1958--1970 Juha Karvanen and Arto Nuutinen Characterizing the generalized lambda distribution by $L$-moments . . . . . . 1971--1983 Roberto Rocci and Maurizio Vichi Two-mode multi-partitioning . . . . . . 1984--2003 Junfeng Shang and Joseph E. Cavanaugh Bootstrap variants of the Akaike information criterion for mixed model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004--2021 M. Ivette Gomes and Andreia Hall and M. Cristina Miranda Subsampling techniques and the Jackknife methodology in the estimation of the extremal index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2022--2041 Tsung-Chi Cheng and Atanu Biswas Maximum trimmed likelihood estimator for multivariate mixed continuous and categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2042--2065 Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and Monjed Hisham Samuh On multistage ranked set sampling for distribution and median estimation . . . 2066--2078 Víctor Leiva and Marco Riquelme and N. Balakrishnan and Antonio Sanhueza Lifetime analysis based on the generalized Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2079--2097 Madhuri S. Mulekar and John C. Knutson and Jyoti A. Champanerkar How useful are approximations to mean and variance of the index of dissimilarity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2098--2109 Milovan Krnjaji\'c and Athanasios Kottas and David Draper Parametric and nonparametric Bayesian model specification: a case study involving models for count data . . . . 2110--2128 Enrique Castillo and Ali S. Hadi and Beatriz Lacruz and Rosa E. Pruneda Semi-parametric nonlinear regression and transformation using functional networks 2129--2157 Micha Mandel and Rebecca A. Betensky Simultaneous confidence intervals based on the percentile bootstrap approach . . 2158--2165 A. I. McLeod and Y. Zhang Faster ARMA maximum likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2166--2176 Yasmin H. Said and Edward J. Wegman and Walid K. Sharabati and John T. Rigsby RETRACTED: Social networks of author--coauthor relationships . . . . . 2177--2184 Daniele Coin A goodness-of-fit test for normality based on polynomial regression . . . . . 2185--2198 Silvina San Martino and Julio M. Singer and Edward J. Stanek III Performance of balanced two-stage empirical predictors of realized cluster latent values from finite populations: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 2199--2217 A. R. de Leon and Y. Zhu ANOVA extensions for mixed discrete and continuous data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2218--2227 Stéphane Dray On the number of principal components: a test of dimensionality based on measurements of similarity between matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2228--2237 Weiwen Miao and Paul Chiou Confidence intervals for the difference between two means . . . . . . . . . . . 2238--2248 Kellie J. Archer and Ryan V. Kimes Empirical characterization of random forest variable importance measures . . 2249--2260 Hakan Demirtas On imputing continuous data when the eventual interest pertains to ordinalized outcomes via threshold concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2261--2271
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii Yaming Yu Efficient simulation of a bivariate exponential conditionals distribution 2273--2276 Tianni Zhou and Robert Shumway One-step approximations for detecting regime changes in the state space model with application to the influenza data 2277--2291 Yalcin Tuncer and Murat M. Tanik and David B. Allison An overview of statistical decomposition techniques applied to complex systems 2292--2310 Roberta Paroli and Luigi Spezia Bayesian inference in non-homogeneous Markov mixtures of periodic autoregressions with state-dependent exogenous variables . . . . . . . . . . 2311--2330 Linda Hartman and Ola Hössjer Fast kriging of large data sets with Gaussian Markov random fields . . . . . 2331--2349 Alain Celisse and Stéphane Robin Nonparametric density estimation by exact leave-$p$-out cross-validation . . 2350--2368 Roselinde Kessels and Peter Goos and Martina Vandebroek Optimal designs for conjoint experiments 2369--2387 Yong Wang Dimension-reduced nonparametric maximum likelihood computation for interval-censored data . . . . . . . . . 2388--2402 Ingunn Berget and Bjòrn-Helge Mevik and Tormod Næs New modifications and applications of fuzzy $C$-means methodology . . . . . . 2403--2418 Laura Spierdijk Nonparametric conditional hazard rate estimation: a local linear approach . . 2419--2434 F. Giordano and M. L. Parrella Neural networks for bandwidth selection in local linear regression of time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2435--2450 Jean-Baptiste Aubin and Samuela Leoni-Aubin Projection density estimation under a $m$-sample semiparametric model . . . . 2451--2468 Joel Corrêa da Rosa and Alvaro Veiga and Marcelo C. Medeiros Tree-structured smooth transition regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 2469--2488 B. Salvador and M. A. Fernández and I. Martín and C. Rueda Robustness of classification rules that incorporate additional information . . . 2489--2495 Simos G. Meintanis A new approach of goodness-of-fit testing for exponentiated laws applied to the generalized Rayleigh distribution 2496--2503 Andrei Semenov Testing the random walk hypothesis through robust estimation of correlation 2504--2513 Göran Kauermann and Ronghui Xu and Florin Vaida Stacked Laplace-EM algorithm for duration models with time-varying and random effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2514--2528 Vito M. R. Muggeo and Giancarlo Ferrara Fitting generalized linear models with unspecified link function: a $P$-spline approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2529--2537 Hua Liang and Guohua Zou Improved AIC selection strategy for survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 2538--2548 Joseph Sexton and Petter Laake LogitBoost with errors-in-variables . . 2549--2559 Yi He and James S. Hodges Point estimates for variance-structure parameters in Bayesian analysis of hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . 2560--2577 Changyi Park and Ja-Yong Koo and Sujong Kim and Insuk Sohn and Jae Won Lee Classification of gene functions using support vector machine for time-course gene expression data . . . . . . . . . . 2578--2587 Athanassios Kondylis and Joe Whittaker Spectral preconditioning of Krylov spaces: Combining PLS and PC regression 2588--2603 George Streftaris and Bruce J. Worton Efficient and accurate approximate Bayesian inference with an application to insurance data . . . . . . . . . . . 2604--2622 Ignacio López-de-Ullibarri and Ricardo Cao and Carmen Cadarso-Suárez and María J. Lado Nonparametric estimation of conditional ROC curves: Application to discrimination tasks in computerized detection of early breast cancer . . . . 2623--2631 Emily L. Webb and Jonathan J. Forster Bayesian model determination for multivariate ordinal and binary data . . 2632--2649 Shengde Liang and Sudipto Banerjee and Sally Bushhouse and Andrew O. Finley and Bradley P. Carlin Hierarchical multiresolution approaches for dense point-level breast cancer treatment data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2650--2668 Lihua An and S. Ejaz Ahmed Improving the performance of kurtosis estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2669--2681 Myung Suk Kim and Suojin Wang Consistent estimation in regression models for the drift function in some continuous time models . . . . . . . . . 2682--2691 Debasis Kundu and Nandini Kannan and N. Balakrishnan On the hazard function of Birnbaum--Saunders distribution and associated inference . . . . . . . . . . 2692--2702 Xian-Jin Xie and Jane Pendergast and William Clarke Increasing the power: a practical approach to goodness-of-fit test for logistic regression models with continuous predictors . . . . . . . . . 2703--2713 Daisuke Watanabe and Susumu Okada and Yasunori Fujikoshi and Takakazu Sugiyama Large sample approximations for the LR statistic for equality of the smallest eigenvalues of a covariance matrix under elliptical population . . . . . . . . . 2714--2724 N. Balakrishnan and Abbas Rasouli Exact likelihood inference for two exponential populations under joint Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 2725--2738 Patrice Bertail and Stéphan Clémençon Approximate regenerative-block bootstrap for Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . 2739--2756 G. Aneiros-Pérez and J. M. Vilar-Fernández Local polynomial estimation in partial linear regression models under dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2757--2777 Anika Buchholz and Norbert Holländer and Willi Sauerbrei On properties of predictors derived with a two-step bootstrap model averaging approach --- A simulation study in the linear regression model . . . . . . . . 2778--2793 Noel Cressie and Nicolas Verzelen Conditional-mean least-squares fitting of Gaussian Markov random fields to Gaussian fields . . . . . . . . . . . . 2794--2807 Graciela Boente and Daniela Rodriguez Robust bandwidth selection in semiparametric partly linear regression models: Monte Carlo study and influential analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2808--2828 Yue Fang Semi-parametric specification tests for mixing distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2829--2839
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii Alessandra Amendola and David Belsley and Erricos John Kontoghiorghes and Herman K. van Dijk and Yasuhiro Omori and Eric Zivot Special Issue on Statistical and Computational Methods in Finance . . . . 2842--2845 Esther Ruiz and Helena Veiga Modelling long-memory volatilities with leverage effect: A-LMSV versus FIEGARCH 2846--2862 Drew D. Creal Analysis of filtering and smoothing algorithms for Lévy-driven stochastic volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . 2863--2876 Erik Lindström and Jonas Ströjby and Mats Brodén and Magnus Wiktorsson and Jan Holst Sequential calibration of options . . . 2877--2891 Yasuhiro Omori and Toshiaki Watanabe Block sampler and posterior mode estimation for asymmetric stochastic volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . 2892--2910 Chris M. Strickland and Gael M. Martin and Catherine S. Forbes Parameterisation and efficient MCMC estimation of non-Gaussian state space models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2911--2930 Andréas Heinen and Erick Rengifo Multivariate reduced rank regression in non-Gaussian contexts, using copulas . . 2931--2944 Ludovic Giet and Michel Lubrano A minimum Hellinger distance estimator for stochastic differential equations: an application to statistical inference for continuous time interest rate models 2945--2965 M. E. Mancino and S. Sanfelici Robustness of Fourier estimator of integrated volatility in the presence of microstructure noise . . . . . . . . . . 2966--2989 Cathy W. S. Chen and Richard Gerlach and Edward M. H. Lin Volatility forecasting using threshold heteroskedastic models of the intra-day range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2990--3010 Giampiero M. Gallo and Edoardo Otranto Volatility spillovers, interdependence and comovements: a Markov Switching approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3011--3026 Christian Francq and Jean-Michel Zako\"\ian Deriving the autocovariances of powers of Markov-switching GARCH models, with applications to statistical inference 3027--3046 Alessandra Amendola and Giuseppe Storti A GMM procedure for combining volatility forecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3047--3060 Marco Gallegati Wavelet analysis of stock returns and aggregate economic activity . . . . . . 3061--3074 Jerry Coakley and Jian Dollery and Neil Kellard The role of long memory in hedging effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3075--3082 Lorne D. Johnson and Georgios Sakoulis Maximizing equity market sector predictability in a Bayesian time-varying parameter model . . . . . . 3083--3106 L. Dalla Valle and P. Giudici A Bayesian approach to estimate the marginal loss distributions in operational risk management . . . . . . 3107--3127 A. Debón and F. Montes and J. Mateu and E. Porcu and M. Bevilacqua Modelling residuals dependence in dynamic life tables: a geostatistical approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3128--3147 Denis Bolduc and Lynda Khalaf and Érick Moyneur Identification-robust simulation-based inference in joint discrete/continuous models for energy markets . . . . . . . 3148--3161 Patrice Bertrand and Gilbert Saporta Some Recent Trends in Applied Stochastic Modeling and Multidimensional Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3164--3166 Dominique Pastor A theoretical result for processing signals that have unknown distributions and priors in white Gaussian noise . . . 3167--3186 Ana M. Aguilera and Manuel Escabias and Mariano J. Valderrama Forecasting binary longitudinal data by a functional PC-ARIMA model . . . . . . 3187--3197 L. Regad and F. Guyon and J. Maupetit and P. Tufféry and A. C. Camproux A Hidden Markov Model applied to the protein $3$D structure analysis . . . . 3198--3207 Amor Messaoud and Claus Weihs and Franz Hering Detection of chatter vibration in a drilling process using multivariate control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3208--3219 Jean-Jacques Daudin and Tristan Mary-Huard Estimation of the conditional risk in classification: the swapping method . . 3220--3232 Gérard Govaert and Mohamed Nadif Block clustering with Bernoulli mixture models: Comparison of different approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3233--3245 Angela Montanari and Daniela G. Cal\`o and Cinzia Viroli Independent factor discriminant analysis 3246--3254 Mónica Bécue-Bertaut and Jérôme Pag\`es Multiple factor analysis and clustering of a mixture of quantitative, categorical and frequency data . . . . . 3255--3268 Alfonso Iodice D'Enza and Francesco Palumbo and Michael Greenacre Exploratory data analysis leading towards the most interesting simple association rules . . . . . . . . . . . 3269--3281
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix Fabian Scheipl and Sonja Greven and Helmut Küchenhoff Size and power of tests for a zero random effect variance or polynomial regression in additive and linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3283--3299 Fengming M. Chang and Long-Hui Chen and Yueh-Li Chen and Chien-Yu Huang Approximate distribution of demerit statistic --- A bounding approach . . . 3300--3309 Lena Ringstad Olsen and Probal Chaudhuri and Fred Godtliebsen Multiscale spectral analysis for detecting short and long range change points in time series . . . . . . . . . 3310--3330 Roman Werner Lutz and Markus Kalisch and Peter Bühlmann Robustified $ L_2 $ boosting . . . . . . 3331--3341 Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos and Dimitris Karlis Copula model evaluation based on parametric bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . 3342--3353 Ana-Maria Fuertes Sieve bootstrap $t$-tests on long-run average parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 3354--3370 Willem Waegeman and Bernard De Baets and Luc Boullart On the scalability of ordered multi-class ROC analysis . . . . . . . . 3371--3388 J. Sadefo Kamdem and A. Genz Approximation of multiple integrals over hyperboloids with application to a quadratic portfolio with options . . . . 3389--3407 Renate Meyer and Bo Cai and François Perron Adaptive rejection Metropolis sampling using Lagrange interpolation polynomials of degree 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3408--3423 Peter Winker Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of Parallel Computing and Statistics, E. J. Kontoghiorghes (Ed.). Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton (2006) . . . . . . . . . . . 3424--3425 Arturo J. Fernández Reliability inference and sample-size determination under double censoring for some two-parameter models . . . . . . . 3426--3440 Arno\vst Komárek and Emmanuel Lesaffre Generalized linear mixed model with a penalized Gaussian mixture as a random effects distribution . . . . . . . . . . 3441--3458 Enis Siniksaran A geometric interpretation of Mallows' $ C_p $ statistic and an alternative plot in variable selection . . . . . . . . . 3459--3467 Ayman Baklizi Likelihood and Bayesian estimation of $ {\rm Pr}(X < Y) $ using lower record values from the generalized exponential distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3468--3473 Yonghai Li and Daniel W. Schafer Likelihood analysis of the multivariate ordinal probit regression model for repeated ordinal responses . . . . . . . 3474--3492 Charles C. Taylor Automatic bandwidth selection for circular density estimation . . . . . . 3493--3500 Hon Keung Tony Ng and Giovanni Filardo and Gang Zheng Confidence interval estimating procedures for standardized incidence rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501--3516 Maengseok Noh and Youngjo Lee Hierarchical-likelihood approach for nonlinear mixed-effects models . . . . . 3517--3527 Guo-Liang Tian and Man-Lai Tang and Hong-Bin Fang and Ming Tan Efficient methods for estimating constrained parameters with applications to regularized (lasso) logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3528--3542 Takahiro Hoshino Bayesian significance testing and multiple comparisons from MCMC outputs 3543--3559 Juwon Song and Thomas R. Belin Choosing an appropriate number of factors in factor analysis with incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 3560--3569 Dimitrina S. Dimitrova and Vladimir K. Kaishev and Spiridon I. Penev GeD spline estimation of multivariate Archimedean copulas . . . . . . . . . . 3570--3582 Parag C. Pendharkar Maximum entropy and least square error minimizing procedures for estimating missing conditional probabilities in Bayesian networks . . . . . . . . . . . 3583--3602 Tachen Liang and Wen-Tao Huang and Kun-Cheng Yang Locally optimal tests for exponential distributions with type-I censoring . . 3603--3615 Natsuhiko Kumasaka and Ritei Shibata High-dimensional data visualisation: the textile plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3616--3644 Nan-Jung Hsu and Hung-Lin Hung and Ya-Mei Chang Subset selection for vector autoregressive processes using Lasso . . 3645--3657 David J. Nott Predictive performance of Dirichlet process shrinkage methods in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3658--3669 J. D. Nielsen and C. B. Dean Adaptive functional mixed NHPP models for the analysis of recurrent event panel data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3670--3685 S. Bougeard and M. Hanafi and E. M. Qannari Continuum redundancy-- PLS regression: a simple continuum approach . . . . . . . 3686--3696 Xiao Zhang and W. John Boscardin and Thomas R. Belin Bayesian analysis of multivariate nominal measures using multivariate multinomial probit models . . . . . . . 3697--3708 Changyi Park and Ja-Yong Koo and Peter T. Kim and Jae Won Lee Stepwise feature selection using generalized logistic loss . . . . . . . 3709--3718 Nian-Sheng Tang and Man-Lai Tang and Shi-Fang Qiu Testing the equality of proportions for correlated otolaryngologic data . . . . 3719--3729 V. Alba Fernández and M. D. Jiménez Gamero and J. Muñoz García A test for the two-sample problem based on empirical characteristic functions 3730--3748 Xiaoqian Sun and Zhuoqiong He and John Kabrick Bayesian spatial prediction of the site index in the study of the Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project . . . . . . . . 3749--3764 Yangxin Huang Long-term HIV dynamic models incorporating drug adherence and resistance to treatment for prediction of virological responses . . . . . . . . 3765--3778 Shu-Fei Wu Interval estimation for a Pareto distribution based on a doubly type II censored sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 3779--3788 Esa Ollila and Hannu Oja and Visa Koivunen Complex-valued ICA based on a pair of generalized covariance matrices . . . . 3789--3805 Xiaojing Shen and Yunmin Zhu and Lixin Song Linear B-spline copulas with applications to nonparametric estimation of copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3806--3819 Giovana Oliveira Silva and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Vicente G. Cancho and Mauricio Lima Barreto Log-Burr XII regression models with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3820--3842 Jae Keun Yoo A novel moment-based sufficient dimension reduction approach in multivariate regression . . . . . . . . 3843--3851 Leandro A. F. Fernandes and Manuel M. Oliveira and Roberto da Silva Uncertainty propagation: Avoiding the expensive sampling process for real-time image-based measurements . . . . . . . . 3852--3876 María Laura Nores and María del Pilar Díaz Some properties of regression estimators in GEE models for clustered ordinal data 3877--3888
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Rasool Tahmasbi and Sadegh Rezaei A two-parameter lifetime distribution with decreasing failure rate . . . . . . 3889--3901 A. C. M. Wong Approximating the $F$ distribution via a general version of the modified signed log-likelihood ratio statistic . . . . . 3902--3912 Chris Ding and Tao Li and Wei Peng On the equivalence between Non-negative Matrix Factorization and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing . . . . . . . . 3913--3927 Nathan Carter and Charles Hadlock and Dominique Haughton Generating random networks from a given distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3928--3938 Xingcai Zhou and Xinsheng Liu The EM algorithm for the extended finite mixture of the factor analyzers model 3939--3953 Cheolwoo Park and Kee-Hoon Kang SiZer analysis for the comparison of regression curves . . . . . . . . . . . 3954--3970 Yufen Huang and Ching-Ren Cheng and Tai-Ho Wang Pair-perturbation influence functions of nongaussianity by projection pursuit . . 3971--3987 Nalini Ravishanker and Zhaohui Liu and Bonnie K. Ray NHPP models with Markov switching for software reliability . . . . . . . . . . 3988--3999 Galit Shmueli and Wolfgang Jank and Valerie Hyde Transformations for semi-continuous data 4000--4020 Jalmar M. F. Carrasco and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gilberto A. Paula Log-modified Weibull regression models with censored data: Sensitivity and residual analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 4021--4039 P. S. Chan and H. K. T. Ng and N. Balakrishnan and Q. Zhou Point and interval estimation for extreme-value regression model under Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 4040--4058 Zuzana Hrdli\vcková Approximation of powers of some tests in one-way MANOVA type multivariate generalized linear model . . . . . . . . 4059--4075 Bernhard Klingenberg Regression models for binary time series with gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4076--4090 Kung-Jong Lui Notes on interval estimation of risk difference in stratified noncompliance randomized trials: a Monte Carlo evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4091--4103 Insuk Sohn and Sujong Kim and Changha Hwang and Jae Won Lee New normalization methods using support vector machine quantile regression approach in microarray analysis . . . . 4104--4115 Scott E. Coull and Boleslaw K. Szymanski Sequence alignment for masquerade detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4116--4131 P. Román and J. J. Serrano and F. Torres First-passage-time location function: Application to determine first-passage-time densities in diffusion processes . . . . . . . . . . 4132--4146
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Rolf Turner Direct maximization of the likelihood of a hidden Markov model . . . . . . . . . 4147--4160 Ghislain Verdier and Nadine Hilgert and Jean-Pierre Vila Adaptive threshold computation for CUSUM-type procedures in change detection and isolation problems . . . . 4161--4174 S. H. Ong and Wen-Jau Lee Computer generation of negative binomial variates by envelope rejection . . . . . 4175--4183 Susanne Gschlößl and Claudia Czado Does a Gibbs sampler approach to spatial Poisson regression models outperform a single site MH sampler? . . . . . . . . 4184--4202 Dmitry Danilov and Jan R. Magnus On the estimation of a large sparse Bayesian system: the Snaer program . . . 4203--4224 Tarn Duong and Arianna Cowling and Inge Koch and M. P. Wand Feature significance for multivariate kernel density estimation . . . . . . . 4225--4242 Leo Knüsel Chisquare as a rotation criterion in factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 4243--4252 Matthew Stearns and Sarjinder Singh On the estimation of the general parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4253--4271 Solange Mongoué-Tchokoté and Jong-Sung Kim New statistical software for the proportional hazards model with current status data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4272--4286 Roch Roy and Abdessamad Saidi Aggregation and systematic sampling of periodic ARMA processes . . . . . . . . 4287--4304 Holger Dette and Douglas P. Wiens Robust designs for series estimation . . 4305--4324 Kung-Jong Lui and William G. Cumberland Notes on estimation of proportion ratio under a non-compliance randomized trial with missing outcomes . . . . . . . . . 4325--4345 Peter Congdon A bivariate frailty model for events with a permanent survivor fraction and non-monotonic hazards; with an application to age at first maternity 4346--4356 Michael Höhle and Michaela Paul Count data regression charts for the monitoring of surveillance time series 4357--4368 Christian H. Weiß and Rainer Göb Discovering patterns in categorical time series using IFS . . . . . . . . . . . . 4369--4379 Christelle Reyn\`es and Robert Sabatier and Nicolas Molinari and Sylvain Lehmann A new genetic algorithm in proteomics: Feature selection for SELDI-TOF data . . 4380--4394 Lianjie Shu and Wei Jiang and Zhang Wu Adaptive CUSUM procedures with Markovian mean estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4395--4409 Seung-Hwan Lee and Eun-Joo Lee and Bernard Oguna Omolo Using integrated weighted survival difference for the two-sample censored data problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4410--4416 Patrícia L. Espinheira and Silvia L. P. Ferrari and Francisco Cribari-Neto Influence diagnostics in beta regression 4417--4431 Jennifer Poulin and Pierre Duchesne On the power transformation of kernel-based tests for serial correlation in vector time series: Some finite sample results and a comparison with the bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . 4432--4457 Lei Liu and Mark R. Conaway and William A. Knaus and James D. Bergin A random effects four-part model, with application to correlated medical costs 4458--4473 A. Alonso and S. Liti\`ere and G. Molenberghs A family of tests to detect misspecifications in the random-effects structure of generalized linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4474--4486 Wilfredo Palma and Pascal Bondon and José Tapia Assessing influence in Gaussian long-memory models . . . . . . . . . . . 4487--4501 Dragan Juki\'c and Mirta Ben\vsi\'c and Rudolf Scitovski On the existence of the nonlinear weighted least squares estimate for a three-parameter Weibull distribution . . 4502--4511 Qin Wang and Xiangrong Yin A nonlinear multi-dimensional variable selection method for high dimensional data: Sparse MAVE . . . . . . . . . . . 4512--4520 Piotr Juszczak and Niall M. Adams and David J. Hand and Christopher Whitrow and David J. Weston Off-the-peg and bespoke classifiers for fraud detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 4521--4532 Ana Colubi and Gil González-Rodríguez and María José Domínguez-Cuesta and Montserrat Jiménez-Sánchez Favorability functions based on kernel density estimation for logistic models: a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4533--4543 Robert Moskovitch and Yuval Elovici and Lior Rokach Detection of unknown computer worms based on behavioral classification of the host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4544--4566
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii B. D. McCullough Special section on Microsoft Excel 2007 4568--4569 B. D. McCullough and David A. Heiser On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007 . . . 4570--4578 A. Talha Yalta The accuracy of statistical distributions in Microsoft$^\reg $ Excel 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4579--4586 B. D. McCullough Microsoft Excel --- Not The Wichmann--Hill random number generators 4587--4593 Yu-Sung Su It's easy to produce chartjunk using Microsoft $^\reg $ Excel 2007 but hard to make good graphs . . . . . . . . . . 4594--4601 John C. Nash Teaching statistics with Excel 2007 and other spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . . . 4602--4606 Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and Helga Wagner Marginal likelihoods for non-Gaussian models using auxiliary mixture sampling 4608--4624 S. Mukhopadhyay and A. I. Khuri Optimization in a multivariate generalized linear model situation . . . 4625--4634 Michael W. Trosset and Carey E. Priebe The out-of-sample problem for classical multidimensional scaling . . . . . . . . 4635--4642 Michael W. Trosset and Carey E. Priebe and Youngser Park and Michael I. Miller Semisupervised learning from dissimilarity data . . . . . . . . . . . 4643--4657 Chieh-Yuan Tsai and Chuang-Cheng Chiu Developing a feature weight self-adjustment mechanism for a $K$-means clustering algorithm . . . . . 4658--4672 S. Saburi and N. Chino A maximum likelihood method for an asymmetric MDS model . . . . . . . . . . 4673--4684 Edoardo Otranto Clustering heteroskedastic time series by model-based procedures . . . . . . . 4685--4698 David B. Hitchcock and Zhimin Chen Smoothing dissimilarities to cluster binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4699--4711 P. D. McNicholas and T. B. Murphy and M. O'Regan Standardising the lift of an association rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4712--4721 R. McVinish and K. Mengersen Semiparametric Bayesian circular statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4722--4730 Amandine Marrel and Bertrand Iooss and François Van Dorpe and Elena Volkova An efficient methodology for modeling complex computer codes with Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4731--4744 Guo You Qin and Zhong Yi Zhu and Wing K. Fung Robust estimating equations and bias correction of correlation parameters for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 4745--4753 N. Ahlgren and J. Antell Bootstrap and fast double bootstrap tests of cointegration rank with financial time series . . . . . . . . . 4754--4767 Guo-Liang Tian and Kai Wang Ng and Ming Tan EM-type algorithms for computing restricted MLEs in multivariate normal distributions and multivariate $t$-distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 4768--4778 Robert Sabatier and Christelle Reyn\`es Extensions of simple component analysis and simple linear discriminant analysis using genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . 4779--4789 Bin Li and Qingzhao Yu Classification of functional data: a segmentation approach . . . . . . . . . 4790--4800 Hubert J. Chen and Hsiu-Ling Li and Miin-Jye Wen Optimal confidence interval for the largest mean of correlated normal populations and its application to stock fund evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4801--4813 Sik-Yum Lee and Xin-Yuan Song On Bayesian estimation and model comparison of an integrated structural equation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4814--4827 Peihua Qiu A nonparametric procedure for blind image deblurring . . . . . . . . . . . . 4828--4841 Ke-Hai Yuan and Wai Chan Structural equation modeling with near singular covariance matrices . . . . . . 4842--4858 Chunming Zhang and Yuefeng Lu and Tom Johnstone and Terry Oakes and Richard J. Davidson Efficient modeling and inference for event-related fMRI data . . . . . . . . 4859--4871 Lili Tian and Gregory E. Wilding Confidence interval estimation of a common correlation coefficient . . . . . 4872--4877
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Donald E. K. Martin and John A. D. Aston Waiting time distribution of generalized later patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4879--4890 Ji-Hong Zhang and Ling-Yun Wu and Jian Chen and Xiang-Sun Zhang A fast haplotype inference method for large population genotype data . . . . . 4891--4902 Jeffrey A. Nisen and Neil C. Schwertman A simple method of computing the sample size for Chi-square test for the equality of multinomial distributions 4903--4908 E. Di Nardo and G. Guarino and D. Senato Symbolic computation of moments of sampling distributions . . . . . . . . . 4909--4922 Dirk Depril and Iven Van Mechelen and Boris Mirkin Algorithms for additive clustering of rectangular data tables . . . . . . . . 4923--4938 Audrey H. M. A. Cysneiros and Francisco Cribari-Neto and Carlos A. G. Araújo, Jr. On Birnbaum--Saunders inference . . . . 4939--4950 Arne C. Bathke and Solomon W. Harrar and Laurence V. Madden How to compare small multivariate samples using nonparametric tests . . . 4951--4965 L. Cutillo and U. Amato Localized empirical discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4966--4978 J. A. Cuesta-Albertos and A. Nieto-Reyes The random Tukey depth . . . . . . . . . 4979--4988 Antje Jahn-Eimermacher Comparison of the Andersen--Gill model with Poisson and negative binomial regression on recurrent event data . . . 4989--4997 Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis A. Gil-Alana Modelling the US, UK and Japanese unemployment rates: Fractional integration and structural breaks . . . 4998--5013 John A. Randal A reinvestigation of robust scale estimation in finite samples . . . . . . 5014--5021 D. Wang and S.-J. Soong Comparisons of titer estimation methods for multiplexed pneumococcal opsonophagocytic killing assay . . . . . 5022--5032 Alejandro Jara and Fernando Quintana and Ernesto San Martín Linear mixed models with skew-elliptical distributions: a Bayesian approach . . . 5033--5045 Jen\Ho Reiczigel and Zsolt Abonyi-Tóth and Júlia Singer An exact confidence set for two binomial proportions and exact unconditional confidence intervals for the difference and ratio of proportions . . . . . . . . 5046--5053
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii J. Fernando Vera and Jose A. Díaz-García A global simulated annealing heuristic for the three-parameter lognormal maximum likelihood estimation . . . . . 5055--5065 Harry Joe Accuracy of Laplace approximation for discrete response mixed models . . . . . 5066--5074 Celso Rômulo Barbosa Cabral and Heleno Bolfarine and José Raimundo Gomes Pereira Bayesian density estimation using skew Student-$t$-normal mixtures . . . . . . 5075--5090 Koon-Shing Kwong and Yiu-Man Chan On the evaluation of the joint distribution of order statistics . . . . 5091--5099 Carsten H. Botts and Michael J. Daniels A flexible approach to Bayesian multiple curve fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5100--5120 Matias Salibian-Barrera and Stefan Van Aelst Robust model selection using fast and robust bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . 5121--5135 Jiaqiao Hu and Zheng Su Bootstrap quantile estimation via importance resampling . . . . . . . . . 5136--5142 Kane Nashimoto and F. T. Wright Bayesian multiple comparisons of simply ordered means using priors with a point mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5143--5153 P. \vCi\vzek and J. Tamine and W. Härdle Smoothed $L$-estimation of regression function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5154--5162 Marius Hofert Sampling Archimedean copulas . . . . . . 5163--5174 Bhupendra Singh and K. K. Sharma and Anuj Kumar A classical and Bayesian estimation of a $k$-components load-sharing parallel system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5175--5185 M. Hubert and E. Vandervieren An adjusted boxplot for skewed distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5186--5201 Mingan Yang and Timothy Hanson and Ronald Christensen Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of a bivariate density with interval censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5202--5214 Michael Last and Gheorghe Luta and Alex Orso and Adam Porter and Stan Young Pooled ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5215--5228 Keiji Takai and Yutaka Kano Test of independence in a $ 2 \times 2 $ contingency table with nonignorable nonresponse via constrained EM algorithm 5229--5241 W. González-Manteiga and M. J. Lombardía and I. Molina and D. Morales and L. Santamaría Analytic and bootstrap approximations of prediction errors under a multivariate Fay--Herriot model . . . . . . . . . . . 5242--5252 Fetene B. Tekle and Frans E. S. Tan and Martijn P. F. Berger Maximin $D$-optimal designs for binary longitudinal responses . . . . . . . . . 5253--5262 Antonio Forcina Identifiability of extended latent class models with individual covariates . . . 5263--5268 Nam-Ky Nguyen and Min-Qian Liu An algorithmic approach to constructing mixed-level orthogonal and near-orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . 5269--5276 Hansheng Wang and Chenlei Leng A note on adaptive group lasso . . . . . 5277--5286 André Tscheschel and Sung Nok Chiu Quasi-plus sampling edge correction for spatial point patterns . . . . . . . . . 5287--5295 Hui Zou and Ming Yuan Regularized simultaneous model selection in multiple quantiles regression . . . . 5296--5304 Harald Binder and Willi Sauerbrei Increasing the usefulness of additive spline models by knot removal . . . . . 5305--5318 Luke A. Prendergast Trimming influential observations for improved single-index model estimated sufficient summary plots . . . . . . . . 5319--5327 N. Chernov and P. N. Sapirstein Fitting circles to data with correlated noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5328--5337 D. J. Best and J. C. W. Rayner and O. Thas Comparison of some tests of fit for the Laplace distribution . . . . . . . . . . 5338--5343 Ralitza Gueorguieva and Robert Rosenheck and Daniel Zelterman Dirichlet component regression and its applications to psychiatric data . . . . 5344--5355 Xueli Liu and Sheng-Chien Lee and George Casella and Gary F. Peter Assessing agreement of clustering methods with gene expression microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5356--5366 Brooke L. Fridley and Stephen T. Turner and Arlene B. Chapman and Andrei S. Rodin and Eric Boerwinkle and Kent R. Bailey Reproducibility of genotypes as measured by the Affymetrix GeneChip$^\reg $ 100K Human Mapping Array set . . . . . . . . 5367--5374
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix M. Bentarzi and F. Hamdi Mixture periodic autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic models . . . 1--16 Hsiuying Wang Coverage probability of prediction intervals for discrete random variables 17--26 Q. Yu and W. Tang and Y. Ma and S. A. Gamble and X. M. Tu Comparing multiple sensitivities and specificities with different diagnostic criteria: Applications to sexual abuse and sexual health research . . . . . . . 27--37 John W. Lau and Mike K. P. So Bayesian mixture of autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--60 Christiane Belitz and Stefan Lang Simultaneous selection of variables and smoothing parameters in structured additive regression models . . . . . . . 61--81 J. Josse and J. Pag\`es and F. Husson Testing the significance of the RV coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--91 Ignacio Vidal and Pilar Iglesias Comparison between a measurement error model and a linear model without measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . 92--102 Steen Magnussen and Rob Reeves A method for bias-reduction of sample-based MLE of the autologistic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111 Wei Liu and Lang Wu A semiparametric nonlinear mixed-effects model with non-ignorable missing data and measurement errors for HIV viral data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--122 Robert B. Gramacy and Herbert K. H. Lee Gaussian processes and limiting linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--136 H. Herwartz and F. Siedenburg Homogeneous panel unit root tests under cross sectional dependence: Finite sample modifications and the wild bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--150 Ana M. Aguilera and Manuel Escabias and Mariano J. Valderrama Discussion of different logistic models with functional data. Application to Systemic \em Lupus Erythematosus . . . . 151--163 Shurong Zheng Selection of components and degrees of smoothing via lasso in high dimensional nonparametric additive models . . . . . 164--175 Jie Sun and Karen A. Kopciuk and Xuewen Lu Polynomial spline estimation of partially linear single-index proportional hazards regression models 176--188 Javier Fernández-Macho Spectral estimation of a structural thin-plate smoothing model . . . . . . . 189--195 Roberto Dorta-Guerra and Enrique González-Dávila and Josep Ginebra Two-level experiments for binary response data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--208 Kung-Jong Lui and Kuang-Chao Chang Testing homogeneity of risk difference in stratified randomized trials with noncompliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--221 Sohee Oh and K. C. Carriere and Taesung Park Model diagnostic plots for repeated measures data using the generalized estimating equations approach . . . . . 222--232 Shuwen Wan and Biao Zhang Comparing correlated ROC curves for continuous diagnostic tests under density ratio models . . . . . . . . . . 233--245
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Radoslav Harman and Tomá\vs Jurík Computing $c$-optimal experimental designs using the simplex method of linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254 Carlos Rivero and Teofilo Valdes An algorithm for robust linear estimation with grouped data . . . . . . 255--271 Roman Liesenfeld and Jean-François Richard Improving MCMC, using efficient importance sampling . . . . . . . . . . 272--288 Quentin F. Stout Unimodal regression via prefix isotonic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--297 Matthias Schmid and Torsten Hothorn Boosting additive models using component-wise $P$-Splines . . . . . . . 298--311 Holger Dette and Andrey Pepelyshev and Anatoly Zhigljavsky Improving updating rules in multiplicative algorithms for computing $D$-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . 312--320 Ching-Hui Chang and Nabendu Pal Testing on the common mean of several normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . 321--333 Jae Keun Yoo and R. Dennis Cook Response dimension reduction for the conditional mean in multivariate regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--343 Sarantis Tsiaplias Factor estimation using MCMC-based Kalman filter methods . . . . . . . . . 344--353 Pier Luigi Conti and Daniela Marella and Mauro Scanu Evaluation of matching noise for imputation techniques based on nonparametric local linear regression estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--365 N. Balakrishnan and Marco Burkschat and Erhard Cramer and Glenn Hofmann Fisher information based progressive censoring plans . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--380 R. A. Rigby and D. M. Stasinopoulos and C. Akantziliotou A framework for modelling overdispersed count data, including the Poisson-shifted generalized inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 381--393 Mingue Park and HyungJun Cho Minimum MSE regression estimator with estimated population quantities of auxiliary variables . . . . . . . . . . 394--404 Juned Siddique and Thomas R. Belin Using an Approximate Bayesian Bootstrap to multiply impute nonignorable missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415 M. Rauf Ahmad and C. Werner and E. Brunner Analysis of high-dimensional repeated measures designs: the one sample case 416--427 Stelios D. Georgiou Modelling by supersaturated designs . . 428--435 Rolando De la Cruz Bayesian non-linear regression models with skew-elliptical errors: Applications to the classification of longitudinal profiles . . . . . . . . . 436--449 Jalmar M. F. Carrasco and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gauss M. Cordeiro A generalized modified Weibull distribution for lifetime modeling . . . 450--462 A. J. Hayter and Jongphil Kim and W. Liu Critical point computations for one-sided and two-sided pairwise comparisons of three treatment means . . 463--470 Sundarraman Subramanian and Derek Bean The missing censoring indicator model and the smoothed bootstrap . . . . . . . 471--476 Jin Seon Kim and Bong-Jin Yum Selection between Weibull and lognormal distributions: a comparative simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--485 Takuya Yamano and Kodai Sato and Taisei Kaizoji and Jan-Michael Rost and Luká\vs Pichl Symbolic analysis of indicator time series by quantitative sequence alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--495 Zhang Wu and Mei Yang and Wei Jiang and Michael B. C. Khoo Optimization designs of the combined Shewhart-CUSUM control charts . . . . . 496--506 Fabrizia Mealli and Barbara Pacini Comparing principal stratification and selection models in parametric causal inference with nonignorable missingness 507--516 Angelika van der Linde Variational Bayesian functional PCA . . 517--533 George Kapetanios Bootstrap-based tests for deterministic time-varying coefficients in regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--545 Hua Liang and Haiyan Su and Guohua Zou Confidence intervals for a common mean with missing data with applications in an AIDS study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546--553 Chia-Cheng Chen and Huiman X. Barnhart Comparison of ICC and CCC for assessing agreement for data without and with replications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--564 Lyudmila Sakhanenko Testing for ellipsoidal symmetry: a comparison study . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--581
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Lutz Edler and Jae Won Lee and Martina Mittlböck and Joyce Niland and Norbert Victor Computational statistics within clinical research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--585 Michael W. Sill and Allan R. Sampson Drop-the-losers design: Binomial case 586--595 Chul Ahn and Fan Hu and Celette Sugg Skinner Effect of imbalance and intracluster correlation coefficient in cluster randomized trials with binary outcomes 596--602 Andrew C. Leon and Moonseong Heo Sample sizes required to detect interactions between two binary fixed-effects in a mixed-effects linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--608 Daniel L. Gillen A random walk approach for quantifying uncertainty in group sequential survival trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--620 Man-Lai Tang and Maozai Tian Asymptotic confidence interval construction for risk difference under inverse sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--631 Nick R. Parsons and Matthew L. Costa and Juul Achten and Nigel Stallard Repeated measures proportional odds logistic regression analysis of ordinal score data in the statistical software package R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--641 J. Antic and C. M. Laffont and D. Chafa\"\i and D. Concordet Comparison of nonparametric methods in nonlinear mixed effects models . . . . . 642--656 M. J. Costa and J. E. H. Shaw Parametrization and penalties in spline models with an application to survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--670 Daniel Frobish and Nader Ebrahimi Parametric estimation of change-points for actual event data in recurrent events models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--682 Serigne N. Lô and Stephane Heritier and Malcolm Hudson Saddlepoint approximation for semi-Markov processes with application to a cardiovascular randomised study . . 683--698 Pulak Ghosh and Paul S. Albert A Bayesian analysis for longitudinal semicontinuous data with an application to an acupuncture clinical trial . . . . 699--706 John H. Page and Andrea Rotnitzky Estimation of the disease-specific diagnostic marker distribution under verification bias . . . . . . . . . . . 707--717 Werner Adler and Berthold Lausen Bootstrap estimated true and false positive rates and ROC curve . . . . . . 718--729 Frank Konietschke and Edgar Brunner Nonparametric analysis of clustered data in diagnostic trials: Estimation problems in small sample sizes . . . . . 730--741 J. A. Roldán Nofuentes and J. D. Luna del Castillo and M. A. Montero Alonso Determining sample size to evaluate and compare the accuracy of binary diagnostic tests in the presence of partial disease verification . . . . . . 742--755 Tae Young Yang Efficient multi-class cancer diagnosis algorithm, using a global similarity pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--765 Christina M. R. Kitchen and Jing Kroll and Daniel R. Kuritzkes and Erik Bloomquist and Steven G. Deeks and Marc A. Suchard Two-way Bayesian hierarchical phylogenetic models: an application to the co-evolution of gp120 and gp41 during and after enfuvirtide treatment 766--775 Siegfried Kropf and Jürgen Läuter and Daniela Kose and Dietrich von Rosen Comparison of exact parametric tests for high-dimensional data . . . . . . . . . 776--787 Cheng Cheng Internal validation inferences of significant genomic features in genome-wide screening . . . . . . . . . 788--800 Joseph Sexton and Petter Laake Standard errors for bagged and random forest estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 801--811 Gerd K. Rosenkranz Modeling laboratory data from clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812--819 Inmaculada B. Aban and Gary R. Cutter and Nsoki Mavinga Inferences and power analysis concerning two negative binomial distributions with an application to MRI lesion counts data 820--833 Rachel L. O'Connell and H. Malcolm Hudson Risk of mortality after acute myocardial infarction: Performance of model updating methods for application in different geographical regions . . . . . 834--846
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix A. Jamalizadeh and M. Khosravi and N. Balakrishnan Recurrence relations for distributions of a skew-$t$ and a linear combination of order statistics from a bivariate-$t$ 847--852 Huan Liu and Yongqiang Tang and Hao Helen Zhang A new chi-square approximation to the distribution of non-negative definite quadratic forms in non-central normal variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--856 Ibrahim A. Ahmad and Mohammad B. Sepehrifar On testing alternative classes of life distribution with guaranteed survival times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--864 Faming Liang and Jian Zhang Learning Bayesian networks for discrete data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--876 Irene Klugkist and Herbert Hoijtink Obtaining similar null distributions in the normal linear model using computational methods . . . . . . . . . 877--888 Johan Lim and Xinlei Wang and Wanseok Choi Maximum likelihood estimation of ordered multinomial probabilities by geometric programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889--893 Dimitris Karlis A note on the exponential Poisson distribution: a nested EM algorithm . . 894--899 Panagiotis Papastamoulis and George Iliopoulos Reversible Jump MCMC in mixtures of normal distributions with the same component means . . . . . . . . . . . . 900--911 Jooyong Shim and Changha Hwang Support vector censored quantile regression under random censoring . . . 912--919 S. J. Welham and R. Thompson A note on bimodality in the log-likelihood function for penalized spline mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 920--931 Howard L. Weinert A fast compact algorithm for cubic spline smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . 932--940 Junko Murakami Bayesian posterior mean estimates for Poisson hidden Markov models . . . . . . 941--955 Debasis Kundu and Arabin Kumar Dey Estimating the parameters of the Marshall--Olkin bivariate Weibull distribution by EM algorithm . . . . . . 956--965 Yushi Endo and Akimichi Takemura Iterative proportional scaling via decomposable submodels for contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966--978 Nickolay T. Trendafilov and Karen Vines Simple and interpretable discrimination 979--989 Xiaoping Shi and Yuehua Wu and Baiqi Miao Strong convergence rate of estimators of change point and its application . . . . 990--998 Samuel D. Oman Easily simulated multivariate binary distributions with given positive and negative correlations . . . . . . . . . 999--1005 Hisayuki Hara and Akimichi Takemura and Ruriko Yoshida A Markov basis for conditional test of common diagonal effect in quasi-independence model for square contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1014 Lior Rokach Collective-agreement-based pruning of ensembles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1026 M.-L. Feddag and S. Bacci Pairwise likelihood for the longitudinal mixed Rasch model . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1037 Carlos Tenreiro On the choice of the smoothing parameter for the BHEP goodness-of-fit test . . . 1038--1053 S. Chakraborti and S. Eryilmaz and S. W. Human A phase II nonparametric control chart based on precedence statistics with runs-type signaling rules . . . . . . . 1054--1065 Pulak Ghosh and C. L. Bayes and V. H. Lachos A robust Bayesian approach to null intercept measurement error model with application to dental data . . . . . . . 1066--1079 Guang Yong Zou and Wenyi Huang and Xiaohe Zhang A note on confidence interval estimation for a linear function of binomial proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080--1085 Tom Wilderjans and Eva Ceulemans and Iven Van Mechelen Simultaneous analysis of coupled data blocks differing in size: a comparison of two weighting schemes . . . . . . . . 1086--1098 Jeffrey N. Jonkman and Patrick D. Gerard and William H. Swallow Estimating probabilities under the three-parameter gamma distribution using composite sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 1099--1109 Juanjuan Fan and Martha E. Nunn and Xiaogang Su Multivariate exponential survival trees and their application to tooth prognosis 1110--1121 Sung-Ho Kim and Hyemi Choi and Sangjin Lee Estimate-based goodness-of-fit test for large sparse multinomial distributions 1122--1131 Xingzhong Xu and Xiaobo Ding and Shuran Zhao New goodness-of-fit tests based on fiducial empirical distribution function 1132--1141 Cécile Proust-Lima and Pierre Joly and Jean-François Dartigues and Hél\`ene Jacqmin-Gadda Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal outcomes and a time-to-event: a nonlinear latent class approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1142--1154 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Marinho G. Andrade and Mário de Castro Power series generalized nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1166 Juha Karvanen Approximate cost-efficient sequential designs for binary response models with application to switching measurements 1167--1176 Jiajuan Liang and Man-Lai Tang Generalized $F$-tests for the multivariate normal mean . . . . . . . . 1177--1190 Philip Prescott Orthogonal-column Latin hypercube designs with small samples . . . . . . . 1191--1200 James X. Song Sample size for simultaneous testing of rate differences in non-inferiority trials with multiple endpoints . . . . . 1201--1207 Bénédicte Briand and Gilles R. Ducharme and Vanessa Parache and Catherine Mercat-Rommens A similarity measure to assess the stability of classification trees . . . 1208--1217 Chun-Xia Zhang and Jiang-She Zhang and Gai-Ying Zhang Using Boosting to prune Double-Bagging ensembles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1218--1231 Alun Thomas and Peter J. Green Enumerating the decomposable neighbors of a decomposable graph under a simple perturbation scheme . . . . . . . . . . 1232--1238 Abbas Moghimbeigi and Mohammad Reza Eshraghian and Kazem Mohammad and Brian McArdle A score test for zero-inflation in multilevel count data . . . . . . . . . 1239--1248 Felipe Osorio and Gilberto A. Paula and Manuel Galea On estimation and influence diagnostics for the Grubbs' model under heavy-tailed distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249--1263 S. Broda and M. S. Paolella Evaluating the density of ratios of noncentral quadratic forms in normal variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264--1270 Nuno Sepúlveda and Carlos Daniel Paulino and Carlos Penha-Gonçalves Bayesian analysis of allelic penetrance models for complex binary traits . . . . 1271--1283 Z. John Daye and X. Jessie Jeng Shrinkage and model selection with correlated variables via weighted fusion 1284--1298 Jens D. Nielsen and Rafael Rumí and Antonio Salmerón Supervised classification using probabilistic decision graphs . . . . . 1299--1311 Dong Wan Shin and Soo Jung Park and Man-Suk Oh A robust sign test for panel unit roots under cross sectional dependence . . . . 1312--1327 Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid and Essam K. AL-Hussaini Estimation in step-stress accelerated life tests for the exponentiated exponential distribution with type-I censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328--1338 Holger Dette and Rafael Weißbach A bootstrap test for the comparison of nonlinear time series . . . . . . . . . 1339--1349 Cristian Meza and Florence Jaffrézic and Jean-Louis Foulley Estimation in the probit normal model for binary outcomes using the SAEM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350--1360 Xueli Liu and Mark C. K. Yang Simultaneous curve registration and clustering for functional data . . . . . 1361--1376 J. Martín and C. J. Pérez Bayesian analysis of a generalized lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . 1377--1387 Philippe Lambert and Paul H. C. Eilers Bayesian density estimation from grouped continuous data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1388--1399 Frédéric Ferraty and Philippe Vieu Additive prediction and boosting for functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1400--1413 Ahlame Douzal-Chouakria and Alpha Diallo and Françoise Giroud Adaptive clustering for time series: Application for identifying cell cycle expressed genes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1414--1426 D. Leão Pinto, Jr. and R. Aoki and G. F. Silva Statistical analysis of proficiency testing results under elliptical distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1427--1439 Jiujun Zhang and Zhonghua Li and Zhaojun Wang Control chart based on likelihood ratio for monitoring linear profiles . . . . . 1440--1448 Govert E. Bijwaard and Philip Hans Franses The effect of rounding on payment efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1461 Sounak Chakraborty Simultaneous cancer classification and gene selection with Bayesian nearest neighbor method: an integrated approach 1462--1474 Jerome P. Reiter and Anna Oganian and Alan F. Karr Verification servers: Enabling analysts to assess the quality of inferences from public use data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1482 Eitan Menahem and Asaf Shabtai and Lior Rokach and Yuval Elovici Improving malware detection by applying multi-inducer ensemble . . . . . . . . . 1483--1494 Ramesh C. Gupta and Cheng Peng Estimating reliability in proportional odds ratio models . . . . . . . . . . . 1495--1510 Michelli Barros and Gilberto A. Paula and Víctor Leiva An R implementation for generalized Birnbaum--Saunders distributions . . . . 1511--1528 Kung-Jong Lui and Kuang-Chao Chang Corrigendum to: ``Testing homogeneity of risk difference in stratified randomized trials with noncompliance'' [Comput. Statist. Data Anal. \bf 53 (2008) 209--221] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1529
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii David B. Allison and Peter M. Visscher and Guilherme J. M. Rosa and Christopher I. Amos Statistical genetics & statistical genomics: Where biology, epistemology, statistics, and computation collide . . 1531--1534 Diego Salas-Gonzalez and Ercan E. Kuruoglu and Diego P. Ruiz A heavy-tailed empirical Bayes method for replicated microarray data . . . . . 1535--1546 Claudia Angelini and Daniela De Canditiis and Marianna Pensky Bayesian models for two-sample time-course microarray experiments . . . 1547--1565 W. M. Muir and G. J. M. Rosa and B. R. Pittendrigh and Z. Xu and S. D. Rider and M. Fountain and J. Ogas A mixture model approach for the analysis of small exploratory microarray experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1566--1576 Shih-Huang Chan and Wan-Chi Chang A robust ratio estimator of gene expression via inverse-variance weighting for cDNA microarray images . . 1577--1589 Wessel N. van Wieringen and David Kun and Regina Hampel and Anne-Laure Boulesteix Survival prediction using gene expression data: a review and comparison 1590--1603 Stan Pounds and Shesh N. Rai Assumption adequacy averaging as a concept for developing more robust methods for differential gene expression analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1604--1612 Víctor Leiva and Antonio Sanhueza and Diana M. Kelmansky and Elena J. Martínez On the glog-normal distribution and its application to the gene expression problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1621 Alexander Gordon and Linlin Chen and Galina Glazko and Andrei Yakovlev Balancing type one and two errors in multiple testing for differential expression of genes . . . . . . . . . . 1622--1629 Guillemette Marot and Jean-Louis Foulley and Florence Jaffrézic A structural mixed model to shrink covariance matrices for time-course differential gene expression studies . . 1630--1638 Juan P. Steibel and Guilherme J. M. Rosa and Robert J. Tempelman Optimizing design of two-stage experiments for transcriptional profiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1639--1649 Rudolph S. Parrish and Horace J. Spencer III and Ping Xu Distribution modeling and simulation of gene expression data . . . . . . . . . . 1650--1660 Dong Wang and Song Xi Chen Combining quantitative trait loci analyses and microarray data: an empirical likelihood approach . . . . . 1661--1673 Ping Xu and Guy N. Brock and Rudolph S. Parrish Modified linear discriminant analysis approaches for classification of high-dimensional microarray data . . . . 1674--1687 Daniel L. Hunt and Cheng Cheng and Stanley Pounds The beta-binomial distribution for estimating the number of false rejections in microarray gene expression studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1688--1700 Abbas Khalili and Tim Huang and Shili Lin A robust unified approach to analyzing methylation and gene expression data . . 1701--1710 Ella Bingham and Heikki Mannila Complexity control in a mixture model by the Hardy--Weinberg equilibrium . . . . 1711--1719 Julia L. Sharp and John J. Borkowski and Denise Schmoyer and Don S. Daly and Samuel Purvine and William R. Cannon and Gregory B. Hurst Statistically appraising process quality of affinity isolation experiments . . . 1720--1726 Insuk Sohn and Jooyong Shim and Changha Hwang and Sujong Kim and Jae Won Lee Informative transcription factor selection using support vector machine-based generalized approximate cross validation criteria . . . . . . . 1727--1735 Jooyong Shim and Insuk Sohn and Sujong Kim and Jae Won Lee and Paul E. Green and Changha Hwang Selecting marker genes for cancer classification using supervised weighted kernel clustering and the support vector machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1736--1742 Tae Young Yang Simple Bayesian binary framework for discovering significant genes and classifying cancer diagnosis . . . . . . 1743--1754 Laura K. Vaughan and Jasmin Divers and Miguel A. Padilla and David T. Redden and Hemant K. Tiwari and Daniel Pomp and David B. Allison The use of plasmodes as a supplement to simulations: a simple example evaluating individual admixture estimation methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1766 Zhaohai Li and Hong Zhang and Gang Zheng and Joseph L. Gastwirth and Mitchell H. Gail Excess false positive rate caused by population stratification and disease rate heterogeneity in case--control association studies . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1781 Juha Karvanen and Sangita Kulathinal and Dario Gasbarra Optimal designs to select individuals for genotyping conditional on observed binary or survival outcomes and non-genetic covariates . . . . . . . . . 1782--1793 Yan V. Sun and Douglas M. Jacobsen and Stephen T. Turner and Eric Boerwinkle and Sharon L. R. Kardia Fast implementation of a scan statistic for identifying chromosomal patterns of genome wide association studies . . . . 1794--1801 Linda Hartman and Ola Hössjer and Keith Humphreys Utilizing identity-by-descent probabilities for genetic fine-mapping in population based samples, via spatial smoothing of haplotype effects . . . . . 1802--1817 Alun Thomas Estimation of graphical models whose conditional independence graphs are interval graphs and its application to modelling linkage disequilibrium . . . . 1818--1828 Heejong Sung and Fei Ji and Deborah L. Levy and Steven Matthysse and Nancy Role Mendell The power of linkage analysis of a disease-related endophenotype using asymmetrically ascertained sib pairs . . 1829--1842 Jung-Yu Cheng and Shinn-Jia Tzeng Parametric and semiparametric methods for mapping quantitative trait loci . . 1843--1849 Daniel Shriner and Nengjun Yi Deviance information criterion (DIC) in Bayesian multiple QTL mapping . . . . . 1850--1860 N. Usotskaya and B. Ryabko Application of information-theoretic tests for the analysis of DNA sequences based on Markov chain models . . . . . . 1861--1872 Darfiana Nur and David Allingham and Judith Rousseau and Kerrie L. Mengersen and Ross McVinish Bayesian hidden Markov model for DNA sequence segmentation: a prior sensitivity analysis . . . . . . . . . . 1873--1882 P. Narain Transmission Disequilibrium Test (TDT) for a pair of linked marker loci . . . . 1883--1893 N. Verzelen and F. Villers Tests for Gaussian graphical models . . 1894--1905 Nicola Lama and Patrizia Boracchi and Elia Biganzoli Exploration of distributional models for a novel intensity-dependent normalization procedure in censored gene expression data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1906--1922
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii David A. Belsley and Russell Davidson and Erricos John Kontoghiorghes and James G. MacKinnon and Herman K. van Dijk The fourth special issue on Computational Econometrics . . . . . . . 1923--1924 Tomohiro Ando Bayesian inference for the hazard term structure with functional predictors using Bayesian predictive information criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1925--1939 Josu Arteche and Jesus Orbe Using the bootstrap for finite sample confidence intervals of the log periodogram regression . . . . . . . . . 1940--1953 Dietmar Bauer and Martin Wagner Using subspace algorithm cointegration analysis: Simulation performance and application to the term structure . . . 1954--1973 L. Bauwens and F. Galli Efficient importance sampling for ML estimation of SCD models . . . . . . . . 1974--1992 Cathy W. S. Chen and Richard Gerlach and D. C. M. Wei Bayesian causal effects in quantiles: Accounting for heteroscedasticity . . . 1993--2007 Marie-Claude Beaulieu and Jean-Marie Dufour and Lynda Khalaf Finite sample multivariate tests of asset pricing models with coskewness . . 2008--2021 Svetlana Borovkova and Ferry J. Permana Implied volatility in oil markets . . . 2022--2039 T. Bouezmarni and J. V. K. Rombouts Semiparametric multivariate density estimation for positive data using copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2040--2054 Arie ten Cate Solving models with inequalities using standard econometric software . . . . . 2055--2060 Baoline Chen and Peter A. Zadrozny Multi-step perturbation solution of nonlinear differentiable equations applied to an econometric analysis of productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2061--2074 Carl Chiarella and Hing Hung and Thuy-Duong Tô The volatility structure of the fixed income market under the HJM framework: a nonlinear filtering approach . . . . . . 2075--2088 James Davidson and Nigar Hashimzade Type $I$ and type II fractional Brownian motions: a reconsideration . . . . . . . 2089--2106 Suad Elezovi\'c Functional modelling of volatility in the Swedish limit order book . . . . . . 2107--2118 J. D. Godolphin New formulations for recursive residuals as a diagnostic tool in the fixed-effects linear model with design matrices of arbitrary rank . . . . . . . 2119--2128 Markus Haas and Stefan Mittnik and Marc S. Paolella Asymmetric multivariate normal mixture GARCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2129--2154 H. Herwartz and F. Xu A new approach to bootstrap inference in functional coefficient models . . . . . 2155--2167 Dean Fantazzini The effects of misspecified marginals and copulas on computing the value at risk: a Monte Carlo study . . . . . . . 2168--2188 Antonia Febrer and Juan Mora Flexible estimation of wage distributions in the presence of covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2189--2200 Gianna Fig\`a-Talamanca Testing volatility autocorrelation in the constant elasticity of variance stochastic volatility model . . . . . . 2201--2218 Paolo Foschi and Andrea Pascucci Calibration of a path-dependent volatility model: Empirical tests . . . 2219--2235 Ricardo Gimeno and Juan M. Nave A genetic algorithm estimation of the term structure of interest rates . . . . 2236--2250 Luigi Grossi and Fabrizio Laurini A robust forward weighted Lagrange multiplier test for conditional heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 2251--2263 Mia Hubert and Peter Rousseeuw and Tim Verdonck Robust PCA for skewed data and its outlier map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2264--2274 Yonghee Lee and Dong Wan Shin Optimal tests against the alternative hypothesis of panel unit roots . . . . . 2275--2283 Yan Liu and Richard Luger Efficient estimation of copula-GARCH models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2284--2297 Marco J. Lombardi and Giorgio Calzolari Indirect estimation of $ \alpha $-stable stochastic volatility models . . . . . . 2298--2308 Marco J. Lombardi and David Veredas Indirect estimation of elliptical stable distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2309--2324 A. Murphy and M. Izzeldin Bootstrapping long memory tests: Some Monte Carlo results . . . . . . . . . . 2325--2334 Jouchi Nakajima and Yasuhiro Omori Leverage, heavy-tails and correlated jumps in stochastic volatility models 2335--2353 Robin Nunkesser and Roland Fried and Karen Schettlinger and Ursula Gather Online analysis of time series by the $ Q_n $ estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . 2354--2362 J. J. Retzer and E. S. Soofi and R. Soyer Information importance of predictors: Concept, measures, Bayesian inference, and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 2363--2377 P. A. V. B. Swamy and Jatinder S. Mehta and I-Lok Chang and T. S. Zimmerman An efficient method of estimating the true value of a population characteristic from its discrepant estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2378--2389 Teruko Takada Simulated minimum Hellinger distance estimation of stochastic volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2390--2403 Makoto Takahashi and Yasuhiro Omori and Toshiaki Watanabe Estimating stochastic volatility models using daily returns and realized volatility simultaneously . . . . . . . 2404--2426 Emanuele Taufer and Nikolai Leonenko Simulation of Lévy-driven Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes with given marginal distribution . . . . . . . . . 2427--2437
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii G. Kokolakis and D. Fouskakis Importance partitioning in micro-aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . 2439--2445 Sai Santosh Bangalore and Jelai Wang and David B. Allison How accurate are the extremely small $P$-values used in genomic research: an evaluation of numerical libraries . . . 2446--2452 Nivien Shafik and Gerhard Tutz Boosting nonlinear additive autoregressive time series . . . . . . . 2453--2464 Min-Qian Liu and Li Zhang An algorithm for constructing mixed-level $k$-circulant supersaturated designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2465--2470 Jan de Leeuw and Kenneth Lange Sharp quadratic majorization in one dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2471--2484 Tzung-Pei Hong and Chun-Wei Lin and Yu-Lung Wu Maintenance of fast updated frequent pattern trees for record deletion . . . 2485--2499 Karl Mosler and Tatjana Lange and Pavel Bazovkin Computing zonoid trimmed regions of dimension $ d > 2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . 2500--2510 Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid Constant-partially accelerated life tests for Burr type-XII distribution with progressive type-II censoring . . . 2511--2523 Edmond H. C. Wu and Philip L. H. Yu and W. K. Li A smoothed bootstrap test for independence based on mutual information 2524--2536 Lihua An and Sévérien Nkurunziza and Karen Y. Fung and Daniel Krewski and Isaac Luginaah Shrinkage estimation in general linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2537--2549 Jiguo Cao and James O. Ramsay Generalized profiling estimation for global and adaptive penalized spline smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2550--2562 Qiang Wu and Allan R. Sampson Mixture modeling with applications in schizophrenia research . . . . . . . . . 2563--2572 Tatiane F. N. Melo and Silvia L. P. Ferrari and Francisco Cribari-Neto Improved testing inference in mixed linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2573--2582 Michael G. Kenward and James H. Roger An improved approximation to the precision of fixed effects from restricted maximum likelihood . . . . . 2583--2595 Yves G. Berger and Juan F. Muñoz and Eric Rancourt Variance estimation of survey estimates calibrated on estimated control totals --- An application to the extended regression estimator and the regression composite estimator . . . . . . . . . . 2596--2604 Elizabeth J. Malloy and Donna Spiegelman and Ellen A. Eisen Comparing measures of model selection for penalized splines in Cox models . . 2605--2616 Hai-Bin Wang Bayesian estimation and variable selection for single index models . . . 2617--2627 A. Baíllo and J. R. Berrendero and J. Cárcamo Tests for zero-inflation and overdispersion: a new approach based on the stochastic convex order . . . . . . 2628--2639 H. Sulieman and I. Kucuk and P. J. McLellan Parametric sensitivity: a case study comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2640--2652 Petros E. Maravelakis and Philippe Castagliola An EWMA chart for monitoring the process standard deviation when parameters are estimated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2653--2664 Lexin Li Exploiting predictor domain information in sufficient dimension reduction . . . 2665--2672 S. H. Hsieh and S. M. Lee and P. S. Shen Semiparametric analysis of randomized response data with missing covariates in logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . 2673--2692 Yunzhao Luo and Zhonghua Li and Zhaojun Wang Adaptive CUSUM control chart with variable sampling intervals . . . . . . 2693--2701 Bing Xing Wang Testing for the validity of the assumptions in the exponential step-stress accelerated life-testing model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2702--2709 Zeng-Hua Lu Covariate selection in mixture models with the censored response variable . . 2710--2723 Anastasia G. Eleftheraki and Maria Kateri and Ioannis Ntzoufras Bayesian analysis of two dependent $ 2 \times 2 $ contingency tables . . . . . 2724--2732 Hongkun Wang and Yichuan Zhao A comparison of some confidence intervals for the mean quality-adjusted lifetime with censored data . . . . . . 2733--2739 Joanne Thandrayen and Yan Wang A latent variable regression model for capture--recapture data . . . . . . . . 2740--2746 Wojtek J. Krzanowski and David J. Hand A simple method for screening variables before clustering microarray data . . . 2747--2753 Kung-Jong Lui and Kuang-Chao Chang Interval estimation of odds ratio in a stratified randomized clinical trial with noncompliance . . . . . . . . . . . 2754--2766 Federico Ambrogi and Elia Biganzoli and Patrizia Boracchi Estimating crude cumulative incidences through multinomial logit regression on discrete cause-specific hazards . . . . 2767--2779
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii James LeSage and Sudipto Banerjee and Manfred M. Fischer and Peter Congdon Spatial statistics: Methods, models & computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2781--2785 Elvan Ceyhan Overall and pairwise segregation tests based on nearest neighbor contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2786--2808 Liu-Cang Wu and Hui-Qiong Li Summary statistics for measuring the relationship among three types of points in multivariate point patterns . . . . . 2809--2816 Renato Assunção and Thais Correa Surveillance to detect emerging space--time clusters . . . . . . . . . . 2817--2830 Md. Monir Hossain and Andrew B. Lawson Approximate methods in Bayesian point process spatial models . . . . . . . . . 2831--2842 Lionel Cucala A flexible spatial scan test for case event data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2843--2850 Tonglin Zhang and Ge Lin Spatial scan statistics in loglinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2851--2858 Roger Bivand and Werner G. Müller and Markus Reder Power calculations for global and local Moran's $I$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2859--2872 Andrew O. Finley and Huiyan Sang and Sudipto Banerjee and Alan E. Gelfand Improving the performance of predictive process modeling for large datasets . . 2873--2884 David Bolin and Johan Lindström and Lars Eklundh and Finn Lindgren Fast estimation of spatially dependent temporal vegetation trends using Gaussian Markov random fields . . . . . 2885--2896 Badi H. Baltagi and Seuck Heun Song and Jae Hyeok Kwon Testing for heteroskedasticity and spatial correlation in a random effects panel data model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2897--2922 Robert Haining and Jane Law and Daniel Griffith Modelling small area counts in the presence of overdispersion and spatial autocorrelation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2923--2937 M. D. Ugarte and T. Goicoa and A. F. Militino Empirical Bayes and Fully Bayes procedures to detect high-risk areas in disease mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . 2938--2949 Ying C. MacNab and Yi Lin On empirical Bayes penalized quasi-likelihood inference in GLMMs and in Bayesian disease mapping and ecological modeling . . . . . . . . . . 2950--2967 Dae-Jin Lee and María Durbán Smooth-CAR mixed models for spatial count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2968--2979 Oleg A. Smirnov and Luc E. Anselin An $ O(N) $ parallel method of computing the Log-Jacobian of the variable transformation for models with spatial interaction on a lattice . . . . . . . . 2980--2988 Jungsoon Choi and Montserrat Fuentes and Brian J. Reich Spatial--temporal association between fine particulate matter and daily mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2989--3000 Laura A. Hatfield and Richard W. Hoffbeck and Bruce H. Alexander and Bradley P. Carlin Spatiotemporal and spatial threshold models for relating UV exposures and skin cancer in the central United States 3001--3015 Emily L. Kang and Desheng Liu and Noel Cressie Statistical analysis of small-area data based on independence, spatial, non-hierarchical, and hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3016--3032 Gentry White and Sujit K. Ghosh A stochastic neighborhood conditional autoregressive model for spatial data 3033--3046 Peter Congdon Modelling the impact of socioeconomic structure on spatial health outcomes . . 3047--3056 Melanie M. Wall and Xuan Liu Spatial latent class analysis model for spatially distributed multivariate binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3057--3069 Florent Bonneu and Christine Thomas-Agnan Spatial point process models for location--allocation problems . . . . . 3070--3081 L. Bel and D. Allard and J. M. Laurent and R. Cheddadi and A. Bar-Hen CART algorithm for spatial data: Application to environmental and ecological data . . . . . . . . . . . . 3082--3093 Jincao Wu and Tasneem H. Patwa and David M. Lubman and Debashis Ghosh Identification of differentially expressed spatial clusters using humoral response microarray data . . . . . . . . 3094--3102 J. Blasius and M. Greenacre and P. J. F. Groenen and M. van de Velden Special issue on correspondence analysis and related methods . . . . . . . . . . 3103--3106 Michael Greenacre Power transformations in correspondence analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3107--3116 Marike Polak and Willem J. Heiser and Mark de Rooij Two types of single-peaked data: Correspondence analysis as an alternative to principal component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3117--3128 Michel van de Velden and Patrick J. F. Groenen and Jeroen Poblome Seriation by constrained correspondence analysis: a simulation study . . . . . . 3129--3138 Matthijs J. Warrens and Willem J. Heiser Diagnostics for regression dependence in tables re-ordered by the dominant correspondence analysis solution . . . . 3139--3144 Jörg Blasius and Paul H. C. Eilers and John Gower Better biplots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3145--3158 Yoshio Takane and Sunho Jung Regularized nonsymmetric correspondence analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3159--3170 A. Zárraga and B. Goitisolo Simultaneous analysis and multiple factor analysis for contingency tables: Two methods for the joint study of contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 3171--3182 Cajo J. F. ter Braak and Yiannis Kourmpetis and Henk A. L. Kiers and Marco C. A. M. Bink Approximating a similarity matrix by a latent class model: a reappraisal of additive fuzzy clustering . . . . . . . 3183--3193 Maurizio Vichi and Gilbert Saporta Clustering and disjoint principal component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 3194--3208 Mark de Rooij Trend vector models for the analysis of change in continuous time for multiple groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3209--3216 Wayne S. DeSarbo and A. Selin Atalay and Simon J. Blanchard A three-way clusterwise multidimensional unfolding procedure for the spatial representation of context dependent preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3217--3230 J. Fernando Vera and Rodrigo Macías and Willem J. Heiser A dual latent class unfolding model for two-way two-mode preference rating data 3231--3244 Henri Caussinus Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3245--3246 Ken Reed Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3247--3248 Niël J. le Roux Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3249--3251 Antoine de Falguerolles Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3252--3255 Ludovic Lebart Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3256--3257
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Achim Zeileis and Kurt Hornik and Paul Murrell Escaping RGBland: Selecting colors for statistical graphics . . . . . . . . . . 3259--3270 M. J. Rufo and J. Martín and C. J. Pérez Inference on exponential families with mixture of prior distributions . . . . . 3271--3280 Chien-Tai Lin and N. Balakrishnan Exact computation of the null distribution of a test for multiple outliers in an exponential sample . . . 3281--3290 F. Carbonell and K. J. Worsley and N. J. Trujillo-Barreto and M. Vega-Hernandez The geometry of time-varying cross-correlation random fields . . . . 3291--3304 Krishna K. Saha and Roger Bilisoly Testing the homogeneity of the means of several groups of count data in the presence of unequal dispersions . . . . 3305--3313 Guo-Liang Tian and Kai Wang Ng and Kai-Can Li and Ming Tan Non-iterative sampling-based Bayesian methods for identifying changepoints in the sequence of cases of Haemolytic uraemic syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . 3314--3323 Steve Su Confidence intervals for quantiles using generalized lambda distributions . . . . 3324--3333 Lei Yu and Suzanne L. Tyas and David A. Snowdon and Richard J. Kryscio Effects of ignoring baseline on modeling transitions from intact cognition to dementia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3334--3343 Pablo Martínez-Camblor and Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez Non-parametric $k$-sample tests: Density functions vs distribution functions . . 3344--3357 L. Gosoniu and P. Vounatsou and N. Sogoba and N. Maire and T. Smith Mapping malaria risk in West Africa using a Bayesian nonparametric non-stationary model . . . . . . . . . . 3358--3371 Olha Bodnar and Taras Bodnar and Yarema Okhrin Surveillance of the covariance matrix based on the properties of the singular Wishart distribution . . . . . . . . . . 3372--3385 B. Quenneville and S. Fortier and C. Gagné A non-parametric iterative smoothing method for benchmarking and temporal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3386--3396 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Alexandre B. Simas The distribution of Pearson residuals in generalized linear models . . . . . . . 3397--3411 Yafen Liu and Zhen He and Lianjie Shu and Zhang Wu Statistical computation and analyses for attribute events . . . . . . . . . . . . 3412--3425 Norbert Henze and Yakov Nikitin and Bruno Ebner Integral distribution-free statistics of $ L_p $-type and their asymptotic comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3426--3438 Moti L. Tiku and Birdal \cSeno\uglu Estimation and hypothesis testing in BIB design and robustness . . . . . . . . . 3439--3451 Juhyun Park and Theo Gasser and Valentin Rousson Structural components in functional data 3452--3465 Heung Wong and Feng Liu and Min Chen and Wai Cheung Ip Empirical likelihood based diagnostics for heteroscedasticity in partial linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3466--3477 Feng-Chang Xie and Bo-Cheng Wei and Jin-Guan Lin Score tests for zero-inflated generalized Poisson mixed regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3478--3489 Jacobo de Uña Álvarez and Javier Roca Pardiñas Additive models in censored regression 3490--3501 E. S. Soofi and P. C. Nystrom and M. Yasai-Ardekani Executives' perceived environmental uncertainty shortly after 9/11 . . . . . 3502--3515 Mohamed M. Mostafa and Rajan Nataraajan A neuro-computational intelligence analysis of the ecological footprint of nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3516--3531
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Fabian Scheipl and Thomas Kneib Locally adaptive Bayesian $P$-splines with a Normal--Exponential--Gamma prior 3533--3552 Yongzeng Lai Generating inverse Gaussian random variates by approximation . . . . . . . 3553--3559 Safar Parsi and Ismihan Bairamov Expected values of the number of failures for two populations under joint Type-II progressive censoring . . . . . 3560--3570 Sébastien Loisel and Marina Takane Fast indirect robust generalized method of moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3571--3579 Prasanta Basak and Indrani Basak and N. Balakrishnan Estimation for the three-parameter lognormal distribution based on progressively censored data . . . . . . 3580--3592 Ana Pérez and Esther Ruiz and Helena Veiga A note on the properties of power-transformed returns in long-memory stochastic volatility models with leverage effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 3593--3600 Kim-Anh Lê Cao and Agn\`es Bonnet and Sébastien Gadat Multiclass classification and gene selection with a stochastic algorithm 3601--3615 M. D. Ugarte and T. Goicoa and A. F. Militino and M. Durbán Spline smoothing in small area trend estimation and forecasting . . . . . . . 3616--3629 Yin Cui and Yuejiao Fu and Abdulkadir Hussein Group sequential testing of homogeneity in genetic linkage analysis . . . . . . 3630--3639 Laura Forsberg White and Marco Bonetti and Marcello Pagano The choice of the number of bins for the $M$ statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3640--3649 Augustine C. M. Wong and Yan Yan Wu A note on interval estimation of $ P(X < Y) $ using lower record data from the generalized exponential distribution . . 3650--3658 Shuo-Jye Wu and Co\cskun Ku\cs On estimation based on progressive first-failure-censored sampling . . . . 3659--3670 Ying-Zi Fu and Nian-Sheng Tang and Xing Chen Local influence analysis of nonlinear structural equation models with nonignorable missing outcomes from reproductive dispersion models . . . . . 3671--3684 Ahmed Hossain and Joseph Beyene and Andrew R. Willan and Pingzhao Hu A flexible approximate likelihood ratio test for detecting differential expression in microarray data . . . . . 3685--3695 You-Gan Wang and Quanxi Shao and Min Zhu Quantile regression without the curse of unsmoothness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3696--3705 Tao Chen and Elaine Martin and Gary Montague Robust probabilistic PCA with missing data and contribution analysis for outlier detection . . . . . . . . . . . 3706--3716 J. Rodríguez-Avi and A. Conde-Sánchez and A. J. Sáez-Castillo and M. J. Olmo-Jiménez and A. M. Martínez-Rodríguez A generalized Waring regression model for count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3717--3725 M. C. Jones and D. A. Henderson Maximum likelihood kernel density estimation: On the potential of convolution sieves . . . . . . . . . . . 3726--3733
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii Ji-Hyun Kim Estimating classification error rate: Repeated cross-validation, repeated hold-out and bootstrap . . . . . . . . . 3735--3745 Sigrunn H. Sòrbye and Kristian Hindberg and Lena R. Olsen and Håvard Rue Bayesian multiscale feature detection of log-spectral densities . . . . . . . . . 3746--3754 Guang Yong Zou and Julia Taleban and Cindy Y. Huo Confidence interval estimation for lognormal data with application to health economics . . . . . . . . . . . . 3755--3764 Catherine M. Crespi and W. John Boscardin Bayesian model checking for multivariate outcome data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3765--3772 Ori Rosen and Wesley K. Thompson A Bayesian regression model for multivariate functional data . . . . . . 3773--3786 Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos and L. M. Zea Fernandez Influence analysis with homogeneous linear restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 3787--3794 Abdessamad Dine and Denis Larocque and François Bellavance Multivariate trees for mixed outcomes 3795--3804 Rhonda J. Rosychuk and Shofiqul Islam Parameter estimation in a model for misclassified Markov data --- a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3805--3816 Sung Nok Chiu and Kwong Ip Liu Generalized Cramér--von Mises goodness-of-fit tests for multivariate distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3817--3834 José A. Villaseñor-Alva and Elizabeth González-Estrada A bootstrap goodness of fit test for the generalized Pareto distribution . . . . 3835--3841 Fabrizio Laurini and Francesco Pauli Smoothing sample extremes: the mixed model approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3842--3854 Sven Serneels and Tim Verdonck Principal component regression for data containing outliers and missing elements 3855--3863 Joanna H. Shih and Shou-En Lu Semiparametric estimation of a nested random effects model for the analysis of multi-level clustered failure time data 3864--3871 C. Maugis and G. Celeux and M.-L. Martin-Magniette Variable selection in model-based clustering: a general variable role modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3872--3882 Jiajuan Liang and Man-Lai Tang and Ping Shing Chan A generalized Shapiro--Wilk $ \mathbf {W} $ statistic for testing high-dimensional normality . . . . . . . 3883--3891 Chivalai Temiyasathit and Seoung Bum Kim and Sun-Kyoung Park Spatial prediction of ozone concentration profiles . . . . . . . . . 3892--3906
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix Xiaoning Wang and Alan Schumitzky and David Z. D'Argenio Population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic mixture models via maximum a posteriori estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3907--3915 Na You and Chang Xuan Mao On hierarchical loglinear models in capture--recapture studies . . . . . . . 3916--3920 Chiara Brombin and Luigi Salmaso Multi-aspect permutation tests in shape analysis with small sample size . . . . 3921--3931 Arno\vst Komárek A new R package for Bayesian estimation of multivariate normal mixtures allowing for selection of the number of components and interval-censored data 3932--3947 Spyridon J. Hatjispyros and Theodoros Nicoleris and Stephen G. Walker A Bayesian nonparametric study of a dynamic nonlinear model . . . . . . . . 3948--3956 M. D. Jiménez-Gamero and V. Alba-Fernández and J. Muñoz-García and Y. Chalco-Cano Goodness-of-fit tests based on empirical characteristic functions . . . . . . . . 3957--3971 Tatiane F. N. Melo and Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos and Artur J. Lemonte Some restriction tests in a new class of regression models for proportions . . . 3972--3979 Kyle A. Caudle and Edward Wegman Nonparametric density estimation of streaming data using orthogonal series 3980--3986 George von Borries and Haiyan Wang Partition clustering of high dimensional low sample size data based on $p$-values 3987--3998 Jeffrey W. Heath and Michael C. Fu and Wolfgang Jank New global optimization algorithms for model-based clustering . . . . . . . . . 3999--4017 A. Jamalizadeh and Y. Mehrali and N. Balakrishnan Recurrence relations for bivariate $t$ and extended skew-$t$ distributions and an application to order statistics from bivariate $t$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4018--4027 Ben Calderhead and Mark Girolami Estimating Bayes factors via thermodynamic integration and population MCMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4028--4045 Lior Rokach Taxonomy for characterizing ensemble methods in classification tasks: a review and annotated bibliography . . . 4046--4072 Pulak Ghosh and Lan Huang and Binbing Yu and Ram C. Tiwari Semiparametric Bayesian approaches to joinpoint regression for population-based cancer survival data 4073--4082 Bhuvanesh Pareek and Debasis Kundu and Sumit Kumar On progressively censored competing risks data for Weibull distributions . . 4083--4094 Ana M. Bianco and Elena Martínez Robust testing in the logistic regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 4095--4105 Lexin Li and Xiangrong Yin Longitudinal data analysis using sufficient dimension reduction method 4106--4115 Chris M. Strickland and Ian. W. Turner and Robert Denham and Kerrie L. Mengersen Efficient Bayesian estimation of multivariate state space models . . . . 4116--4125 Jesse Frey Confidence bands for the CDF when sampling from a finite population . . . 4126--4132 Jeffrey Pai and Nalini Ravishanker Maximum likelihood estimation in vector long memory processes via EM algorithm 4133--4142 Cibele M. Russo and Gilberto A. Paula and Reiko Aoki Influence diagnostics in nonlinear mixed-effects elliptical models . . . . 4143--4156 Qin Liu and Nancy R. Cook and Anna Bergström and Chung-Cheng Hsieh A two-stage hierarchical regression model for meta-analysis of epidemiologic nonlinear dose--response data . . . . . 4157--4167 Sabine K. Schnabel and Paul H. C. Eilers Optimal expectile smoothing . . . . . . 4168--4177 Yuta Minoda and Takemi Yanagimoto Estimation of a common slope in a gamma regression model with multiple strata: an empirical Bayes method . . . . . . . 4178--4185 Jialiang Li and Yingcun Xia and Mari Palta and Anoop Shankar Impact of unknown covariance structures in semiparametric models for longitudinal data: an application to Wisconsin diabetes data . . . . . . . . 4186--4197 Sounak Chakraborty Bayesian binary kernel probit model for microarray based cancer classification and gene selection . . . . . . . . . . . 4198--4209 Hsiuying Wang Comparison of $p$ control charts for low defective rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4210--4220 Myoungshic Jhun and Inkyung Choi Bootstrapping least distance estimator in the multivariate regression model . . 4221--4227 Simon D. Woodcock and Gary Benedetto Distribution-preserving statistical disclosure limitation . . . . . . . . . 4228--4242 T. Umashanger and T. N. Sriram $ L_2 $ estimation of mixture complexity for count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4243--4254 Eduardo Gutiérrez-Peña and Raúl Rueda and Alberto Contreras-Cristán Objective parametric model selection procedures from a Bayesian nonparametric perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4255--4265 Sung Nok Chiu and Ling Wang Homogeneity tests for several Poisson populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4266--4278 Claire Pinçon and Odile Pons Nonparametric linear tests with multiple events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4279--4289 P. J. Park and J. Manjourides and M. Bonetti and M. Pagano A permutation test for determining significance of clusters with applications to spatial and gene expression data . . . . . . . . . . . . 4290--4300 Giuliano Galimberti and Angela Montanari and Cinzia Viroli Penalized factor mixture analysis for variable selection in clustered data . . 4301--4310 C. A. McGrory and A. N. Pettitt and M. J. Faddy A fully Bayesian approach to inference for Coxian phase-type distributions with covariate dependent mean . . . . . . . . 4311--4321 R. M. Fernández-Alcalá and J. Navarro-Moreno and J. C. Ruiz-Molina Statistical inference for doubly stochastic multichannel Poisson processes: a PCA approach . . . . . . . 4322--4331 Daniel R. Jeske and Veronica Montes De Oca and Wolfgang Bischoff and Mazda Marvasti Cusum techniques for timeslot sequences with applications to network surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4332--4344 Victor De Oliveira and Changxiang Rui On shortest prediction intervals in log-Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . 4345--4357 Hie-Choon Chung and Chien-Pai Han Conditional confidence intervals for classification error rate . . . . . . . 4358--4369 Waleed A. Yousef and Subrata Kundu and Robert F. Wagner Nonparametric estimation of the threshold at an operating point on the ROC curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4370--4383 C. J. Scarrott and G. Tunnicliffe Wilson Spatial multi-taper spectrum estimation for nuclear reactor modelling . . . . . 4384--4402 Feng-Chang Xie and Jin-Guan Lin and Bo-Cheng Wei Diagnostics for skew-normal nonlinear regression models with AR(1) errors . . 4403--4416 Pao-sheng Shen Semiparametric analysis of survival data with left truncation and right censoring 4417--4432 M. Chahkandi and M. Ganjali On some lifetime distributions with decreasing failure rate . . . . . . . . 4433--4440 Artur J. Lemonte and Gauss M. Cordeiro Birnbaum--Saunders nonlinear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4441--4452 Jaakko Peltonen and Jarkko Venna and Samuel Kaski Visualizations for assessing convergence and mixing of Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4453--4470 Giuseppe Arbia and Gianfranco Piras A new class of spatial concentration measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4471--4481 Giovana O. Silva and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gauss M. Cordeiro A log-extended Weibull regression model 4482--4489 Patrick Richard Modified fast double sieve bootstraps for ADF tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4490--4499 Douglas M. Hawkins and Dost Muhammad Khan A procedure for robust fitting in nonlinear regression . . . . . . . . . . 4500--4507 C. Hirotsu Clustering rows and/or columns of a two-way contingency table and a related distribution theory . . . . . . . . . . 4508--4515 Dedi Rosadi Testing for independence in heavy-tailed time series using the codifference function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4516--4529 Jennifer S. K. Chan and Doris Y. P. Leung and S. T. Boris Choy and Wai Y. Wan Nonignorable dropout models for longitudinal binary data with random effects: an application of Monte Carlo approximation through the Gibbs output 4530--4545 Jaap Wieringa and Garmt Dijksterhuis and John Gower and Frederieke van Perlo Generalised Procrustes Analysis with optimal scaling: Exploring data from a power supplier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4546--4554 Barry C. Arnold and Enrique Castillo and José María Sarabia On multivariate order statistics. Application to ranked set sampling . . . 4555--4569 Timothy D. Johnson and Morand Piert A Bayesian analysis of dual autoradiographic images . . . . . . . . 4570--4583 Rashid Ahmed and Munir Akhtar and M. H. Tahir Economical generalized neighbor designs for use in Serology . . . . . . . . . . 4584--4589 Mark Jones and Annette Dobson and Mark Onslow and Brenda Carey Negative binomial mixed models for analysis of stuttering rates . . . . . . 4590--4600
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