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S. E. Geweke Why do you want to know? . . . . . . . . 3--5 R. Kapadia A school poll . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10 M. D. Till On bringing statistics to the non-numerate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13 S. E. Bedford Statistics at the British Glass Industry Research Association . . . . . . . . . . 14--18 Alan C. Ainslie Thoughts on the teaching of statistics 19--20 TAG Whither should you wander? . . . . . . . 21--22 J. A. R. Stone Statistics for students of engineering 23--25 G. K. Kanji and W. Lean A preliminary study of residential prices in Sheffield . . . . . . . . . . 26--31 Warren Gilchrist Polystats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33 A. J. Langner Interlinking of disciplines when teaching mathematics . . . . . . . . . . 34--39 Anonymous Report from the Manchester--Sheffield School of Probability and Statistics . . 40--41 Anonymous Puzzle page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43 Anonymous Notes and news . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47 Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A. Huitson Statistics degree with a difference . . 6
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 A. F. Bissell Statistics and technology I.C.I. (Fibres) Pontypool . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5 W. A. Pridmore Weights & measures --- a story of European statistics . . . . . . . . . . 6--16 H. L. Back and A. Riley A note on the use of a computer in generating examples for practical classes in biometry teaching to non-mathematicians . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18 J. M. Dixie The right tool for the job --- a personal view of course design . . . . . 19--27 D. I. Holmes Graphical techniques in data analysis 27--31 Z. A. Lomnicki Some remarks on how to find problems deserving statistical investigation . . 33--38 D. C. Barber and P. J. Howlett and R. C. Smart Principal component analysis in medical research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--43 P. T. Harris Some statistical aspects of opinion polling and election forecasting . . . . 44--51 P. L. Goldsmith Thirty statistical quotations . . . . . 52--58 P. H. Jackson Remarks on`connectors' and `unifiers' 59--60 A. Huitson Industrial training for statistical students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62 D. I. Holmes A reply to tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64 Anonymous Quiz No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66 D. H. Ward and R. Anthony and J. B. Copas and L. S. Goddard Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 67--69
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Mathematics and statistics . . . . . . . 1--6 M. W. Sasieni Entropy and brand switching . . . . . . 7--13 M. J. Maher The use of statistics and O.R. in transport planning and engineering . . . 14--19 S. E. Bedford Something for nothing . . . . . . . . . 20--23 Greenman Some critical thoughts on weights and measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28 Monica A. Walker Choosing a sample for opinion polls and election forecasting . . . . . . . . . . 33--38 J. D. Griffiths Simulating the value of $ \phi $ . . . . 39--45 O. D. Anderson Statisticians in the red corner, social scientists in the blue . . . . . . . . . 46--51 A. A. Bligh On the mathematical content of courses in applied statistics: calculating the correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 52--64 D. I. Homles Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67 D. Nicholson Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 67
Harvey Goldstein Whose values in educational research? 1--7 J. M. Cobby Statisticians in clover (and other forage crops) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--14 J. N. R. Jeffers Can applied statistics be taught? . . . 17--29 E. Swires-Hennessy Some problems of collecting statistics at the BSO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--38 A. F. Bissell My kind of statistics: raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens . . . . . 39--43 G. W. Smith The statistician in local government . . 44--51 O. D. Anderson Is seasonally adjusting justified? . . . 52--54 Henry R. Neave The teaching of hypothesis-testing . . . 55--63 R. Kapadia The politics of inflation . . . . . . . 64--74 W. A. Pridmore Some critical thoughts --- all squared? 75--83 P. T. Harris A reply to Mrs. M. Walker . . . . . . . 84--85 Anonymous Quiz No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87 P. Sprent and S. C. Pearce and Denis H. Ward Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 88--90 Anonymous QSN newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92 A. S. C. Ehrenberg Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
C. Chatfield A Statistical True Story . . . . . . . . 1--18 A. P. Haws and A. Hedge Some developments in the analysis of public attitude data . . . . . . . . . . 19--29 D. Smale The role of the industrial statistician 30--38 R. E. Bee The mode of composition of a text . . . 39--48 Henry R. Neave Nonparametric testing --- why and how 49--58 O. D. Anderson Naive discrimination in time-series analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66 M. R. Alderson and L. Rushton Information systems in the health service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77 T. F. Cox Optimal policies in the stock market . . 78--88 A. A. Le Roux The need for mathematics in estimating bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--95 P. J. Harrison My kind of statistics . . . . . . . . . 96--98 O. D. Anderson Statistical jemmies . . . . . . . . . . 99--102 Kanji Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 103--104
D. V. Lindley A Survey of Statistical Thought . . . . 1--17 Harvey Goldstein and Gopal Kanji Statistical ethics . . . . . . . . . . . 18--23 J. N. R. Jeffers Discriminant functions: a case study . . 24--38 D. J. Finney Statistics, schools and society . . . . 39--54 A. F. Bissell The Jacknife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 Ms. Rosamund Weatherall Which? statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74 M. Hills Two statistical problems of importance in physical anthropology . . . . . . . . 75--82 Paul Newbold My kind of statistics . . . . . . . . . 83--87 D. J. Smith Teaching Basic Statistics by Mean of Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--94 O. D. Anderson Tales From the Life of Bath: Dr Chatfield's Cover . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102 R. Gilohrist Some comments on the teaching of the likelihood ratio test . . . . . . . . . 103--107 A. Norcliffe and H. Porteous Some comments on the need for mathematics in estimating bias . . . . . 108--110 Anonymous 1975 Current index to Statistics . . . . 117
R. Cane What are Models for? . . . . . . . . . . 1--8 G. H. Freeman The analysis of variance --- has it had its day? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--15 A. F. Bissell Inconsistency of inspection standards --- a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--27 H. L. Porteous The saga of the megalithic yard . . . . 28--39 J. N. R. Jeffers Lake district soils . . . . . . . . . . 40--52 A. S. C. Ehrenberg Three Exercises in Data Presentation . . 53--69 R. A. Harvey The contribution of structural change to manufacturing labour productivity . . . 70--76 J. A. Nelder My kind of statistics . . . . . . . . . 77--81 Suzette Gauvain The Importance of Statistics and Epidemiology in Occupational Health . . 82--101 O. R. Anderson Generalised cost function regression analysis when the errors are not normally distributed . . . . . . . . . . 102--115 I. Cooper Seminar on `Mini Computers', Sheffield 8th December 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . 116--119 Kanji Report of a business statistics seminar 120--121 D. O. Chanter Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 122--123
P. Sprent Fashions in applied statistics . . . . . 1--7 Gordon L. Smith and Christine Michie and James A. Pope Marine Robust estimators of location . . . . . 8--21 G. H. Freeman Consultation and research in a statistics section . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32 A. F. Bissell Nomograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48 D. O. Chanter Communication and the Statistician . . . 49--56 M. R. Sampford My kind of statistics . . . . . . . . . 57--62 W. A. Pridmore The Motion Picture . . . . . . . . . . . 63--81 B. Jones Some Examples of the Use of an Algorithm for Constructing Optimal Block Designs 82--92 O. D. Anderson A Note on Analysing Time Series Data which Accumulate Over Unequal Observation Intervals . . . . . . . . . 91--94 R. A. Harvey Factors Affecting Productivity . . . . . 95--110 Anonymous Letters to the Editor: Mr. Kanji . . . . 111--112
A. F. Bissell An attempt to unify the theory of quality control procedures . . . . . . . 113--128 Peter Cheek Problems with estimating the rate of inflation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136 D. M. Thomson Statistics and the ratemeter . . . . . . 137--145 A. Springall A review of multidimensional scaling . . 146--192 M. Slater Significance tests or Bayesian analysis: an elementary example . . . . . . . . . 193--217 I. G. Dimming 50 Years of biometry at East Malling Q 218--227 A. S. C. Ehrenberg A revised exercise in data processing 228--230 I. S. Wells Probabilistic approach to factual questions: a real case . . . . . . . . . 231--233 Paul Jackson Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 234--237 Gopal Kanchi and A. Huitson Bulletin in Applied Statistics (BIAS) 112
G. H. Freeman Experimental Design from the Time of Fisher to the 1970's . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 Norm A. Campbell Some Practical Aspects of Canonical Variate Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--18 Harvey Goldstein Age, Period and Cohort Effects --- a Confounded Confusion . . . . . . . . . . 19--24 B. Jones Cluster Analysis of Some Social Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--56 Trevor F. Cox Probability and Special Relativity . . . 57--65 C. Chatfield A Report on the 1978 I.O.S. Conference on Time-Series Analysis . . . . . . . . 66--72 B. Mitchell and E. Swires-Hennessy The Census of Production and its Uses 73--88 C. I. Phillips Treatment of Myopia . . . . . . . . . . 89--100 C. Chatfield Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
S. C. Pearce The Fisherian Field Trial Today . . . . 103--111 A. F. Bissell Life Distribution of Expendable Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--136 M. J. R. Healy Does Medical Statistics Exist? . . . . . 137--182 J. N. R. Jeffers Exploratory Data Analysis of Tabulated Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--194 K. F. Jones and N. Kay Pearl's Law and the Growth of the Scottish National Party . . . . . . . . 195--214 R. A. Harvey and S. Morris Output Measures for Productivity Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--221 C. Chatfield Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 222
H. P. Wynn Should Statistics Be Professionalized? 1--9 G. V. Dyke Covariance and Field Experiments . . . . 10--21 K. Ryder But How Was the Experiment Done? . . . . 22--33 J. D. Avery and J. S. Baron A Degree of Difficulty . . . . . . . . . 34--53 K. T. Boyd Multi-Nomial Distributions and Ratio-Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--58 Richard Stone Sigmoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--119 K. T. Boyd Should Statistics Be Professionalized? A Reply to Dr. Wynn . . . . . . . . . . . 120--123 C. I. Phillips Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 124
G. H. Freeman Practical Designs for Eliminating Positional Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 125--140 P. Prescott A Review of Some Robust Data Analysis and Multiple Outlier Detection Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--158 S. M. Lewis and A. M. Dean Factorial Experiments in Resolvable Generalized Cyclic Designs . . . . . . . 159--167 Byron Jones The Computer As a Statistical Consultant 168--195 A. F. Bissell The Reference Test in the UK Average Quantity System . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--202 P. C. Bravo Sampling Inspection By Variables With Known Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--222 K. L. Q. Read and A. A. Noura and R. R. Harris Survival Analysis for a Sequenced Clinical Trial With Covariates . . . . . 223--266 P. F. Chapman and J. G. Fryer Birth Weight and the Linear Statistical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--306
R. Thompson Some Recent Developments in the Analysis and Design of Quantitative Genetic Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 M. J. R. Healy A Subroutine Library for Statisticians 12--25 J. M. Dickey Expert Uncertainty and the Use of Subjective-Probability Models . . . . . 26--56 P. T. Represent Anagramatic Decomposition or I Go to Mop Canadian Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 57--61 J. R. Ashford and Alison Wearing The Assessment of Industrial Health Hazards on the Basis of Observational Data --- Some Statistical Pitfalls . . . 62--81 Eryl Shirley Problems Relating to Experimental Design and Procedures in Laboratory Studies on Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--90 G. Cockayne and G. Kanji and W. Tyson The Collection and Use of Sample Data on Public Transport Demand . . . . . . . . 91--108 Andrew Bercai A Proposal to Resolve a Potential Procedural Inconsistency Affecting Some Parameters in Statistical Inference . . 109--114 P. C. Bravo Amendments and Corrections Sampling Inspection by Variables with Known Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117 Anonymous A new Open University statistics course 118--119
Brian English and Peter Freeman Prehistoric Scottish Fish Bones . . . . 120--133 Frank Yates Rothamsted in the 1930s . . . . . . . . 134--156 G. K. Kanji History of the Development of Statistics in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--167 T. Sharot A Problem in Survey Design --- Changing the Sampling Frame . . . . . . . . . . . 168--178 Dougal Hutchison The Use of Statistics in Government Decision-Making With Particular Reference to the Reports of Royal Commissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--223 R. P. Hope Computer Simulation of a Simple Hypothesis Test a Useful Tool When Teaching a First Statistics Course . . . 224--230 F. R. Oliver Process Time, Pearl's Law, and the Scottish National Party . . . . . . . . 231--237 S. C. Darby The Assessment of Industrial Health Hazards --- Some Comments on the Paper by J. R. Ashford and Alison Wearing . . 238--244 A. Huitson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
A. F. Bissell Ordered Random Fractions for Chronological Sampling . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Andrew Kirby Analysis of Variance in a Descriptive Context: a Geographic Example . . . . . 5--15 D. M. Titterington Irreverent Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18 Jan Vegelius A Note On the Tie Problem for the Siegel--Tukey Non-Parametric Dispersion Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--23 R. J. Gadsden Statistical Analysis of Cometary Data 24--36 Henry R. Neave Teaching Hypothesis-Testing By Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40 Colin Thunhurst Measuring the Health Consequence of Social and Economic Policy . . . . . . . 41--59 E. Shoesmith A Note On Bercai's `Proposal to Resolve A Potential Procedural Inconsistency' 60--66 N. Barker and R. J. Hews and A. Huitson and J. Poloniecki The Two Period Cross Over Trial . . . . 67--115 J. S. Barron Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 117--118 B. Darekar Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121 Alan Reid Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124 Alan Huitson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126 J. N. R. Jeffers Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
P. L. Goldsmith Using Statistics in Man-Made Fibres Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--145 Agnee M. Herzberg An Example of the Use of Andrews' Plots to Detect Time Variations in Model Parameters and to Detect Outlying Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--154 A. F. Bissell Work-In-Progress Audit . . . . . . . . . 155--164 Henry R. Neave A New Look at an Old Test . . . . . . . 165--178 John S. Croucher Anglo--Australian Test Cricket Dismissals 1946--1980 . . . . . . . . . 179--193 J. France and A. P. Haws A Model for Developing a Recreation Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--211 G. F. Raggett A Stochastic Model of the Eyam Plague 212--225 H. L. Back Multiple Choice Answers Generated By Computer for Service Courses in Statistics --- a Useful Compromise On the Chore of `Calculation to Aid the Understanding' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--230 M. C. James Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232 Alan Buitson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235 D. I. Holmes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237 R. C. Hoare Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239 B. Darekar Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241 T. Subba Rao Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--245
Paul A. Games Use of Contrasts in a Design of Experiments --- Anova Course . . . . . . 1--17 Janet Riley and I. Bekele and Brenda Shrewsbury How an Analysis of Variance is Affected by the Degree of Precision of the Data 18--43 F. R. Oliver Imports and the EEC --- Some Regression Estimates Compared . . . . . . . . . . . 44--50 D. Holt Living With a Model . . . . . . . . . . 51--86 A. F. Bissell Grouping of Breaks on a Textile Machine 87--96 Roland E. Ubogu Forecasting Nigerian Governments Expenditures: a Multiple Regression Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124 G. F. Raggett Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127 G. K. Kanji Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129 Alan Huitson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--131 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132 D. I. Holmes Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133 Alan Reid Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
G. H. Freeman Consultancy and Research in Biometrics --- Some Thoughts Inspired By Reading the Biography of R. A. Fisher . . . . . 138--157 Byron J. T. Morgan Illustration of Three-Dimensional Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--166 D. D. V. Morgan and J. L. Zambrano R. Teaching Statistics to Agricultural Engineering Students in Mexico . . . . . 167--174 M. J. Campbell Spectral Analysis Applied to Physiological Signals in Human Subjects 175--193 Stephen T. Buckland Monte Carlo Methods for Confidence Interval Estimation Using the Bootstrap Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--212 Chyau Tuan Sample Survey Methods and Family Income Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--230 H. L. Back and P. W. Murphy A Note on Derived Means of Scaled Data 231--239 Douglas Liddell On the Distributions of $ X^2 $ and $F$ 240--242 L. R. Matthews Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--247 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249 Alan Reed Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251 John Haigh Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253 R. Ahmad Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
D. O. Chanter Curtailed sigmoid dose-response models for fungicide experiments . . . . . . . 2--11 M. R. Clarke An Analytical Approach to Rounding . . . 12--20 T. H. Mangles The Use of Microcomputers in the Teaching of Statistics . . . . . . . . . 21--28 Simon H. Bishop and Byron Jones A Review of Higher Order Crossover Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--50 I. D. Hill Interpreting `Crazy' Estimates . . . . . 51--53 Tony Tricker Effects of Rounding Data Sampled from the Exponential Distribution . . . . . . 54--87 K. A. Yeomans Is there an alternative to the European farm typology? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--119 Anonymous Book Reviwes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Eamonn Mullins Statistics, Plato and the real world . . 136--141 M. Z. Khan and M. Ilyas and I. Saud Entropy and internal information of printed Urdu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--154 Ben Kiregyera Statistics for small-scale industries in East Africa: problems of collection and utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--162 S. Loukas On the delay in publication of papers in scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 163--169 R. R. Harris and E. F. Harding The fiducial argument and Hacking's Principle of Irrelevance . . . . . . . . 170--181 G. R. Crocker and D. E. Wright Teaching hypothesis tests by simulation: a problem oriented approach . . . . . . 182--187 Michael J. Davidson and Tony Bendell Some statistics of statistics . . . . . 188--224 M. S. Dhanoa and J. France A BASIC program for the evaluation of the gamma functions . . . . . . . . . . 225--228 Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 229--230 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
G. H. Freeman The analysis and interpretation of interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10 Peter L. Goldsmith On opinion polls and multi-party elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17 D. J. Hand Statistical expert systems: necessary attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27 P. J. A. Howard and D. M. Howard The application of ridit analysis to phenological observations . . . . . . . 29--35 M. S. Silver Parameter stability and normative market segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--47 G. K. Kanji A mixture model for wind shear data . . 49--58 Frank C. Duckworth and Andrew C. Hill Brain of Britain: brain or chance? . . . 59--69 P. A. Osanaiye Multiple chain-deferred inspection plans and their compatibility with the multiple plans in MIL-STD-105D and equivalent schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81 J. Aleong and D. Howard Extensions of the Duncan's Multiple Range Test for unbalanced data . . . . . 83--90 B. Kiregyera and S. O. Akach and Hani Afifi Application of recapture-sampling technique to the study of Matatu transport operations in Nairobi (Kenya) 91--100 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 John Bound Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 104
J. N. R. Jeffers Data logging in the biological sciences 107--112 Trevor F. Cox and John P. Birchall and Henry Wong Optimising the queuing system for an ear, nose and throat outpatient clinic 113--126 Dennis C. Gilliland On the MacMahon cube law for election results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--135 Eddie Shoesmith Birth-date distribution and statistical significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--145 T. F. Gordon Statistical simulations on the BBC microcomputer: significance tests of the pseudo-random number generator . . . . . 147--155 J. G. Rowell and D. E. Walters A critical appraisal of the analysis of variance for two-way classifications . . 157--169 Ruth Marcus A truncated sequential procedure for estimating the means of insect populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--176 D. Wilkie Simple exponential fitting . . . . . . . 177--179 Jim Bryant Operational Research changes: tales from a parallel universe . . . . . . . . . . 181--187 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
A. F. Bissell Not-so-linear regression (part 1) . . . 3--11 Anil K. Bera and Colin R. Mckenzie Alternative forms and properties of the score test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--25 J. L. Fresen and J. W. Fresen Estimating the parameter in the Pauling equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--37 Wieslaw Madry and Walerian Piotrowski Analysis of the combining ability of two parental groups in incomplete diallel crosses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--48 Laban A. J. Ogallo Stochastic modelling of regional annual rainfall anomalies in East Africa . . . 49--56 D. Wilkie Orthogonal comparisons for Fourier analysis within mixed level factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--66 Leslie T. Oxley Box--Cox power transformations and the demand for money functions in France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands . . . 67--75 K. Ryder Numerical tables: guidelines for presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88 I. Heinrich and B. Sweetman and J. A. D. Anderson Application of an empirically derived classification of `non-specific' low back pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96 David Eurof Walters A note on the economical application of the `exact' test for a contingency table 97--104 D. Wilkie Polynomial and Fourier fits to diurnal variations in ambient temperatures in Bechuanaland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--110 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
D. Harrison and G. K. Kanji and R. J. Gadsden Analysis of variance for circular data 123--138 S. C. Pearce Defective data in the analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147 Thomas H. Wonnacott Bayesian and Classical hypothesis testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--157 Timothy J. Novotny and Lyman L. Mcdonald Model selection using discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--165 Ruth Marcus and B. Raccah Model for the spread of non-persistent virus diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--175 Esben Hòg Estimation of a pure death process with an application to withdrawals and resumptions of automobile insurances . . 177--186 Jacqueline S. Galpin and Douglas M. Hawkins Variable subset selection for optimal regression prediction at a specified point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198 John H. Herbert Data analysis of sales of natural gas to households in the United States . . . . 199--211 Brian Mcculloch and Tony Van Zijl Direct test of Harville's multi-entry competitions model on race-track betting data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220 F. R. Oliver Direct least squares estimation of Phillips's function . . . . . . . . . . 221--225 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
A. F. Bissell Not-so-linear regression (part 2) . . . 3--13 Ruth Marcus and R. Salomon and M. Bar-Joseph The distribution of citrus tristeza virus in citrus groves in Israel . . . . 15--21 R. O. Okafor Maximum likelihood estimation from incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33 Gerald J. Hahn and Michael B. Cockrum Adapting control charts to meet practical needs: a chemical processing application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--52 S. C. Pearce Some simple algorithms for the analysis of variance with non-orthogonal block data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59 Raymond T. Stefani Applications of statistical methods to American football . . . . . . . . . . . 61--73 Z. Seyda Deligonul and A. Erhan Mergen Dependence bias in conventional p-charts and its correction with an approximate lot quality distribution . . . . . . . . 75--81 D. Wilkie Analysis of factorial experiments and least squares polynomial fitting by the method of orthogonal polynomials for any spacing of the levels of the independent variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--89 M. Singh A non-normal class of distribution function for dose-binary response curve* 91--97 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
G. A. Barnard What influences influence? . . . . . . . 107--116 R. Dennis Cook Influence assessment . . . . . . . . . . 117--131 Seymour Geisser Influential observations, diagnostics and discovery tests . . . . . . . . . . 133--142 T. M. F. Smith Influential observations in survey sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152 M. J. Greenacre Influential analysis and presentation of survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--164 M. C. Shewry and H. P. Wynn Maximum entropy sampling . . . . . . . . 165--170 J. Munoz-Garcia and J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and A. Pascual-Acosta Detecting outliers in s-multinomial distributions through adjusted residuals 171--176 U. Balasooriya and Y. K. Tse and Y. S. Liew An empirical comparison of some statistics for identifying outliers and influential observations in linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184 Michael Greenacre I.D.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
A. F. Bissell Not-so-linear regression (part 3) . . . 189--194 Thomas Wonnacott Confidence intervals or hypothesis tests? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201 Bob Van Der Laan and Johan Koerts A logit model for the probability of having non-zero expenses for medical services during a year . . . . . . . . . 203--217 Ron S. Kenett and David M. Steinberg Some experiences teaching factorial design in introductory statistics courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--227 T. M. M. Farley and I. T. Jolliffe Measures of association for two-way contingency tables: two case studies . . 229--237 W. K. Li and H. Wong and Y. V. Hui Fractional modelling on emergency room attendance data . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--249 O. Bouhaddou and C. H. Obled and Tuan Pham Dinh Principal component analysis and interpolation of stochastic processes: methods and simulation . . . . . . . . . 251--267 A. Kinsella and A. Dunne Quantitative assessment of a lung tumour treatment using a multiple regression spline model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273 U. L. Gouranga Rao and Alan Yuk-Pang Tam An empirical study of selection and estimation of alternative models of the Lorenz curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--280 Z. W. Kmietowicz and H. M. K. Rwamasaka Some problems in the calculation of indices of industrial production in developing countries: the case of Uganda, 1963--71 . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--295 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
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K. V. Mardia Directional data analysis: an overview 115--122 G. S. Watson The Langevin distribution on high dimensional spheres . . . . . . . . . . 123--130 H. Arsham Kuiper's $P$-value as a measuring tool and decision procedure for the goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . . . . . 131--135 P. E. Jupp Residuals for directional data . . . . . 137--147 Parthasarathy Bagchi and Irwin Guttman Theoretical considerations of the multivariate von Mises--Fisher distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--169 Michael J. Prentice Using sample principal axes to estimate small circles and ellipses on the sphere 171--177 Nigel Smeeton and Greg Wilkinson The detection of annual clusters in individual patterns of parasuicide . . . 179--182 John C. Haskey The relative orientation of addresses of spouses before their marriage: an analysis of circular data . . . . . . . 183--195 D. Harrison and G. K. Kanji The development of analysis of variance for circular data . . . . . . . . . . . 197--223 Andrew Lawson On tests for spatial trend in a non-homogeneous Poisson process . . . . 225--234 R. M. Clark An evaluation by simulation of alternative estimators for the marginal Fisher distribution . . . . . . . . . . 235--246 John T. Kent and David E. Tyler Maximum likelihood estimation for the wrapped Cauchy distribution . . . . . . 247--254 Andrew Lawson Fitting the von Mises distribution using \tt glim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--260 G. Miller Software Review . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264 C. Bishop Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 C. Bishop Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 A. Huitson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Sumit Patel Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Alan Hiutson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
M. Singh and G. K. Kanji Fitting a non-linear model with errors in both variables and its application 267--274 J. T. Barry An investigation of statistical matching 275--283 Christy Chuang-Stein and Steven F. Francom Some simple log-linear models for the analysis of ordinal response data . . . 285--294 P. A. Osanaiye and S. A. Alebiosu Effects of industrial inspection errors on some plans that utilise the surrounding lot information . . . . . . 295--304 A. F. Bissell and R. J. Williamson Successive difference tests-theory and interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--323 M. K. Williams An intelligent system for experimental design-some ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 325--333 Tommy Johnsson Bootstrap multiple test procedure . . . 335--339 John H. Herbert and Phillip S. Kott Robust variance estimation in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--345 Mike Baxter and Richard Stevenson Discriminating between the Poisson and negative binomial distributions: an application to goal scoring in Association football . . . . . . . . . . 347--354 A. Chowdhury and U. Balasooriya Atypical observations in linear models 355--362 Y. K. Tse Assessing Lund's critical values for testing for outliers in linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 363--366 A. F. Rashed and M. Metwally Simulated and unbiased reliability sampling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--379 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
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K. V. Mardia Markov models and Bayesian methods in image analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130 Richard C. Dubes and Anil K. Jain Random field models in image analysis 131--164 David R. Brillinger and Kenneth H. Downing and Robert M. Glaeser and Guy Perkins Combining noisy images of small crystalline domains in high resolution electron microscopy . . . . . . . . . . 165--175 M. C. Jones and B. W. Silverman An orthogonal series density estimation approach to reconstructing positron emission tomography images . . . . . . . 177--191 R. Molina and B. D. Ripley Using spatial models as priors in astronomical image analysis . . . . . . 193--206 Ulf Grenander and Daniel Macrae Keenan Towards automated image understanding 207--221 Glen Barnett and Susan Crowe and Malcolm Hudson and Pui-Lam Leung and Khairil Notodiputro and Richard Proudfoot and John Sims The use of small scale prototypes in image reconstruction from projections 223--242 B. Roy Frieden Stochastic approaches to inversion problems in optics . . . . . . . . . . . 243--266 W. Qian and D. M. Titterington On the use of Gibbs Markov chain models in the analysis of images based on second-order pairwise interactive distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--281 Wojciech Pieczynski Estimation of context in random fields 283--290 Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292 Anonymous Abstracts News: rankings for research in statistical theory . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Anonymous Book Reivew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
P. Erto Reliability assessments by repair shops via maintenance data . . . . . . . . . . 303--313 Ruth Marcus and Hovav Talpaz and Moshe Bar-Joseph A model for the spread and control of citrus tristeza virus disease . . . . . 315--320 Christy Chuang-Stein and R. John Weaver An evaluation of therapeutic synergism using linear logit models . . . . . . . 321--329 C. Oludhe and L. Ogallo Statistical characteristics of the surface wind speeds over Kenya . . . . . 331--344 A. Veevers and M. C. K. Tweedie Examples of the application of matrix factors of a design matrix . . . . . . . 345--354 Shrikant I. Bangdiwala The teaching of the concepts of statistical tests of hypotheses to non-statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . 355--361 M. Singh Estimation of land equivalent ratios . . 363--371 M. R. Srinivasan An algorithm for inverting matrices whose elements are polynomials . . . . . 373--375 M. O. Ojo Analysis of some prison data . . . . . . 377--383 A. J. Baczkowski and K. V. Mardia A test of spatial independence . . . . . 385--389 J. S. Dagpunar A compact and portable Poisson random variate generator . . . . . . . . . . . 391--393 Julian Besag Digital Image Processing: Towards Bayesian image analysis . . . . . . . . 395--407 Peter Clifford and R. D. Middleton Reconstruction of polygonal images . . . 409--422 K. V. Mardia and T. J. Hainsworth Digital Image Processing: Statistical aspects of moment invariants in image analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--435 Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 437--438 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Andrew Lawson Fitting the von Mises distribution using \tt GLIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442 Andrew Lawson On tests for spatial trend in a non-homogeneous Poisson process . . . . 441
G. J. S. Ross Incomplete variance functions . . . . . 3--8 Z. W. Kmietowicz The significance of the lead in opinion polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--30 A. R. Tricker The effect of rounding on the significance level of certain normal test statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38 Kazuhiro Ohtani On the use of the Box--Cox transformation in a linear regression with a lagged dependent variable . . . . 39--47 Edward F. McEntee An economic rectification plan for a process subject to a random shift into a persistent defective state . . . . . . . 49--54 N. Balakrishnan On the maximum likelihood estimation of the location and scale parameters of exponential distribution based on multiply Type II censored samples . . . 55--61 Trevor F. Cox and Khalifa H. Jaber The generalized likelihood ratio test for the Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . 63--71 Raymond Okafor A biweight approach to estimate currency exchange rate: the Nigerian example . . 73--82 V. Soundararajan and S. Devaraj Arumainayagam Construction and selection of modified quick switching systems . . . . . . . . 83--114 Jeffrey R. Wilson and David L. Turner A multinomial model for cross classified data with a measure of dependency . . . 115--124 S. C. Agarwal and M. N. Das Use of $n$-ary block designs in dialled crosses evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . 125--131 P. S. Gill and M. L. Tiku and David C. Vaughan Inference problems in life testing under multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . 133--147 S. N. Al-Najjar Reparametrization and transformation of a non-linear model relating plant density and crop yield . . . . . . . . . 149--158 A. J. Baczkowski and K. V. Mardia Prediction based upon maximizing squared correlation for stationary processes and simple kriging . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--164 J. S. Dagpunar Sampling from the von Mises distribution via a comparison of random numbers . . . 165--168 D. J. Hand Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173 S. F. Blinkhorn Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174 Alan Huitson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Alan Reid Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 D. J. Hand Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 A. Huitson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Anonymous Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
N. Logothetis Minute-Accumulating Analysis and life testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--185 H. Tong and P. Dabas Cluster of time series models: an example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198 Ralp T. Clarke and J. S. Welton and M. Ladle Estimation of larval feeding rates using normal linear models involving censored and truncated observations . . . . . . . 199--209 A. F. Bissell The eccentrics of political twittering 211--217 A. R. Tricker The effect of rounding on the power level of certain normal test statistics 219--228 M. J. Baxter and H. E. M. Cool and M. P. Heyworth Principal component and correspondence analysis of compositional data: some similarities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--235 K. P. Kalirajan On the estimation of a regression model with fixed and random coefficients . . . 237--244 D. N. Naik Prediction intervals for growth curves 245--254 William F. Roller Partial-order analysis of fiscal capacity of states . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262 S. Kapoor and G. K. Kanji Application of the characterization theory to the mixture model . . . . . . 263--270 P. N. Jones and G. J. Mclachlan Laplace-normal mixtures fitted to wind shear data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--276 Geoffrey S. Watson Permutation tests for the independence of a scalar and a unit vector . . . . . 277--281
B. S. Everitt and C. Merette The clustering of mixed-mode data: a comparison of possible approaches . . . 283--297 G. J. S. Ross Estimation problems of non-linear functional relationships . . . . . . . . 299--306 P. G. N. Digby and K. L. Moore Multivariate analysis of within-group variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--312 Ali S. Hadi Two graphical displays for the detection of potentially influential subsets in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--327 A. R. Tricker The effect of rounding on the significance level and power of certain test statistics for non-normal data . . 329--340 Parthasarathy Bagchi and Irwin Guttman Spuriosity and outliers in directional data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--350 R. A. Ipinyomi Resolvable row-column designs . . . . . 351--355 Demissie Alemayehu and Kjell Doksum Using the bootstrap in correlation analysis, with application to a longitudinal data set . . . . . . . . . 357--368 J. O. Gribbin and S. I. McClean Modelling the duration of spells of withdrawal from a female dominated labour force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--381 Douglas G. Bonett and J. Arthur Woodward Testing residual normality in the ANOVA model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--387 D. N. Hunt and M. J. Bell Semi-iterative missing value estimation 389--396 V. Soundararajan and R. Vijayaraghavan Construction and selection of multiple dependent (deferred) state sampling plan 397--409 Vedula N. Murty Binomial and Poisson probabilities with an HP-28S Scientific Advanced Calculator 411--415 H. Mansouri and Z. Govindarajulu A class of rank tests for interaction in two-way layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--426 K. Govindaraju and K. Subramani Selection of multiple deferred state MDS-1 sampling plans for given acceptable quality level and limiting quality level involving minimum risks 427--434 John H. Herbert and Khoan Dinh An empirical note concerning systematic measurement errors in regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--441 K. V. Mardia On longevity and life-line . . . . . . . 443--448 Gillian M. Arnold Problems with Procrustes analysis . . . 449--451 Alan Huitson Comments on: `Problems with Procrustes analysis' by Gillian M. Arnold . . . . . 451--452
D. J. Hand Expert system and statistics . . . . . . 1--2 K. W. Lawson and P. A. Golder The use of semantic knowledge to enhance statistical software . . . . . . . . . . 3--21 Louis Anthony Cox, Jr. Knowledge-based resolution of conflicting expert opinions . . . . . . 23--34 S. T. Young Tung and J. H. Schuenemeyer An expert system for statistical consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--47 David Biggs and Barry De Ville and Ed Suen A method of choosing multiway partitions for classification and decision trees 49--62 Russell Almond Building blocks for graphical belief models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76 Gerda M. Van Den Berg Ideas of statistical experts on the choice of an analysis method . . . . . . 77--86 Peter Hoschka and Willi Klösgen EXPLORA: content interpretation of data 87--97 Ronald Visser and Nelleke Slooff Knowledge acquisition for a supportive user interface for correspondence analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106 Ivo W. Molenaar and Paul Passchier The Agree Consultant: more agreeable software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120 Radovan Krtolica and Ivan Obradovic and Radmilo Bozinovic SFILTEX: toward an expert system for time-series filter design . . . . . . . 121--137 Lars Rude Andersen and Jens Herman Krebs and Jens Damgaard Andersen STENO: an expert system for medical diagnosis based on graphical models and model search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--153 Mary Deutsch-Mcleish and Paulyn Yao and Tatiana Stirtzinger A study on the use of belief functions for medical expert systems . . . . . . . 155--174 Paul De Greef Analysis of co-operation for consultation systems . . . . . . . . . . 175--184 Calvin L. Williams A clinical application of expert system methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--201
Jeffrey R. Wilson and Patrici M. Wilson A comparison of chi-squared statistics for testing homogeneity of survey data: High School and Beyond survey . . . . . 203--213 Shobha Rao and Asawari Kanade and Smita Joshi and Sharayu Paranjape Application of time series models to detect regulatory patterns in nitrogen output of adult rats . . . . . . . . . . 215--232 A. Martín Andrés and J. D. Luna Del Castillo and I. Herranz Tejedor New critical region tables for Fisher's exact test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--254 J. Arthur Woodward and Douglas G. Bonett Simple main effects in factorial designs 255--264 Wing-Kam Fung A statistical-test-complemented graphical method for detecting multiple outliers in two-way tables . . . . . . . 265--274 Tilak Abeysinghe A seasonal analysis of Chinese births 275--286 A. F. O. Bissell Estimating variation from data with varying element sizes . . . . . . . . . 287--295 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
K. P. Kalirajan and S. K. W. Jayasuriya Simultaneous testing of regression disturbances for heteroscedasticity and non-normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--312 R. Srivastava and V. K. Gupta and A. Dey Robustness of some designs against missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--318 S. Chakraborti Graphical comparison of means with a standard in the one-way layout . . . . . 319--329 Joël Chadoeuf and Jean Baptiste Denis Asymptotic variances for the multiplicative interaction model . . . . 331--353 Ann-Lee Wang Tau Ngau: an analysis and some applications of a Chinese dominoes game 355--360 C. Raju Procedures and tables for the construction and selection of chain sampling plans ChSP-4A(c1, c2)r --- Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--381 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
George Box and Stephen Jones Split-plot designs for robust product experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--26 Amode R. Sen and John P. Thompson Lattice design in the Bow River Recreation Survey . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39 V. Barnett and D. E. Wright Biomedical applications for a generalized linear functional Poisson model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47 A. J. Watkins and K. V. Mardia Maximum likelihood estimation and prediction mean square error in the spatial linear model . . . . . . . . . . 49--59 A. R. Tricker How the one-way analysis of variance model is affected by the degree of precision of the data . . . . . . . . . 61--73 Giovanni Radaelli Using the Cuscore technique in the surveillance of rare health events . . . 75--81 D. Posa The indicator formalism in spatial statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--101 Ashok K. Bansal and Pankaj Sinha Sensitivity of Bayesian sampling inspection schemes to a non-normal prior distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109 L. I. Pettit Probabilities that contaminated normal observations are extreme . . . . . . . . 111--116 Wai-Sum Chan A note on time series model specification in the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--124 C. Raju Procedures and tables for the construction and selection of chain sampling plans ChSP-4A(c1,c2)r-Part 2 125--140 V. Soundararajan and S. Devaraj Arumainayagam Some sampling plans with identical operating characteristic curves . . . . 141--153 Sheng G. Shi and Winson Taam Non-linear canonical correlation analysis with a simulated annealing solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
D. M. Howard Canonical analysis of soil data . . . . 171--181 Peter J. Danaher An application of canonical expansions to media exposure distributions . . . . 183--192 A. F. Bissell Lines through the origin --- is NO INT the answer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--210 J. R. Buxton Some comments on the application of diagnostic techniques in empirical modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--221 S. Hadzivukovic and E. Nikolic-Djoric and K. Cobanovic The choice of perturbation factor in ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--230 H. A. Howlader and G. Weiss Log-logistic survival estimation based on failure-censored data . . . . . . . . 231--240 K. Govindaraju and K. Subramani Selection of a tightened-normal-tightened system for given values of the acceptable quality level and limiting quality level . . . . 241--250 Raymond Stefani and Stephen Clarke Predictions and home advantage for Australian rules football . . . . . . . 251--261 V. Kuralmani and K. Govindaraju Modified tables for the selection of quick switching systems for values of the given acceptable quality level and limiting quality level . . . . . . . . . 263--272 E. Yamamoto and T. Yanagimoto Moment estimators for the beta-binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--283 P. D. L. Constable and K. V. Mardia Size and shape analysis of palmar interdigital areas . . . . . . . . . . . 285--292 K. V. Mardia Erratum: Markov models and Bayesian methods in image analysis . . . . . . . 293
David L. Farnsworth $r$-Invariant curves for linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--303 Z. W. Kmietowicz The significance of the sample lead: alternative proof . . . . . . . . . . . 305--308 A. Baines A simplified approach to determination of optimum conditions experiments . . . 309--321 Derrick Joanes and Christine Gill Interval estimation of a measure of diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--327 V. Soundararajan and R. Vijayaraghavan Procedures and tables for the construction and selection of conditional double sampling plans . . . 329--338 V. Soundararajan and R. Vijayaraghavan Construction and selection of tightened-normal-tightened sampling inspection scheme of type TNT-(n1, n2; c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--349 A. F. Bissell Mean squares in saturated fractional designs revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 351--366 Subir Ghosh and Yi-Jing Duh Determination of optimum experimental conditions using dispersion main effects and interactions of factors in replicated factorial experiments . . . . 367--378 Biswanath Das Small sample properties of a sign test carried out under a Curtailed Inverse Sampling Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390 Sung H. Park and Hyuk J. Kim A measure of slope-rotatability for second order response surface experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . 391--404 Deo Kumar Srivastava and Govind S. Mudholkar and Anil Mudholkar Assessing the significance of difference between two quick estimates of location 405--416 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Michael Mcaleer and Y. K. Tse The robustness of tests of outliers and functional form . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--436 Jun Bai and Anthony J. Jakeman and Michael McAleer Discrimination between nested two- and three-parameter air pollutant frequency distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--453 S. S. Ganguly and U. Naik Nimbalkar Polytomous logistic model for matched pairs case-control design: studies with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--464 A. R. Tricker Estimation of parameters for rounded data from non-normal distributions . . . 465--471 M. Singh and G. K. Kanji and K. S. El-Bizri A note on inverse estimation in non-linear models . . . . . . . . . . . 473--477 Indrani Basak and William R. Balch and Prasanta Basak Skewness: asymptotic critical values for a test related to Pearson's measure . . 479--487 A. Subbarayan On the application of a pure cyclic triple system for plant breeding experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500 S. Huda and M. Shafiq Minimax designs for estimating the slope of a second-order response surface in a cubic region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--507 Sadao Tomizawa A model of symmetry with exponents along every subdiagonal and its application to data on unaided vision of pupils at Japanese elementary schools . . . . . . 509--512 Bo Segerstedt and Hans Nyquist On the conditioning problem in generalized linear models . . . . . . . 513--526 John M. Stonehouse Testing for not-at-home bias in social surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--531 Telba Z. Irony Bayesian estimation for discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--549 J. A. Nelder Models for curves through the origin . . 551--552
Seyda Deligonul Quick specification of acceptance sampling plans for dependent attribute sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11 H. W. Mui and C. W. Chu Forecasting the spot price of gold: combined forecast approaches versus a composite forecast approach . . . . . . 13--23 Lyle D. Broemeling and Peyton Cook Bayesian estimation of the mean of an autoregressive process . . . . . . . . . 25--39 Robert J. Boik Testing additivity in two-way classifications with no replications: the locally best invariant test . . . . 41--55 J. C. Gibbings A generalized iteration method for deriving multiple regression curves of non-linear functions . . . . . . . . . . 57--67 Rune Höglund and Ralf Östermark Multiple input transfer function noise modelling in the time and frequency domain: empirical evidence from Monte Carlo simulations . . . . . . . . . . . 69--93 J. Gates Testing for circularity of spatially located objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--103 P. Prescott and N. R. Draper and A. M. Dean and S. M. Lewis Mixture designs for five components in orthogonal blocks . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117 P. J. A. Howard An analysis of the effects of atmospheric sulphate and ammonium on soil solution chemistry using median polishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126 Geir Storvik Data reduction by separation of signal and noise components for multivariate spatial images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136 J. García-Heras and J. Muñoz-García and A. Pascual-Acosta Criteria for the detection of outliers in the multinomial model . . . . . . . . 137--142 Ian T. Jolliffe and Stephen G. Lukudu The influence of a single observation on some standard test statistics . . . . . 143--151 M. C. South and G. B. Wetherill and M. T. Tham Hitch-hiker's guide to genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--175 J. Chadoeuf and M. Goulard and S. Pellerin A Gibbs point process on a finite series of circles: the insertion of the primary roots of maize around the stem . . . . . 177--185 A. P. White and W. Z. Liu The jack-knife with a stepwise discriminant algorithm --- a warning to BMDP users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190 D. F. Deadman and D. J. Pyle The effect of the abolition of capital punishment upon homicides in Great Britain: an application of intervention analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206 J. M. Asher Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Wai-Yin Poon and Sik-Yum Lee and P. M. Bentler Maximum likelihood estimation in a model with interval data . . . . . . . . . . . 219--227 Graham Upton Testing for outliers in circular data 229--235 Yu-Min Chen and Evan E. Anderson Small sample properties of the logit maximum likelihood estimator: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--250 Michael J. Greenacre Biplots in correspondence analysis . . . 251--269 C. Kandasamy and K. Govindaraju Selection of tightened two-level continuous sampling plans . . . . . . . 271--284 David F. Percy Prediction for generalized linear models 285--291 Z. W. Kmietowicz Reliability of indices of industrial production in developing countries: the case of Zambia, 1980--89 . . . . . . . . 293--309 Peter M. Burrows Grouping normal distributions with unknown parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 311--318 V. Soundararajan and S. Devaraj Arumainayagam Characterization of MIL-STD-105D double sampling plans using normalized OC curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--329 B. S. Everitt Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332 Stephen Buckland Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333 Peter W. F. Smith Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--334 W. D. Ray Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335 Michael Dewey Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336 Paul Blackwell Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337 D. Kilpatrick Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338 David J. Hand Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Winson Taam and Perla Subbaiah and James W. Liddy A note on multivariate capability indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--351 Jon Barry and Mike Nicholson Measuring the probability of patch detection for four spatial sampling designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--362 Kathleen Kocherlakota and Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota A statistical problem arising in ascertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--374 Douglas G. Bonett Sample size determination for p-charts 375--379 Michael J. Prentice Axial regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--391 James A. Koziol and Milton Erman and Boris Pasche and Roza Hajdukovic and Merrill M. Mitler Assessing a changepoint in a sequence of repeated measurements with application to a low-energy emission therapy sleep study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--400 H. J. Khamis A comparative study of the $ \delta $-corrected Kolmogorov--Smirnov test . . 401--421 K. Govindaraju and K. Subramani Selection of multiple deferred (dependent) state sampling plans for given acceptable quality level and limiting quality level . . . . . . . . . 423--428 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
J. Jansen A simple method for fitting a linear model involving variance components . . 435--444 F. F. Gan An optimal design of CUSUM control charts for binomial counts . . . . . . . 445--460 A. P. Gore and V. R. Prayag Index of marine degradation: log-linear model approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--466 V. Kuralmani and K. Govindaraju Selection of conditional sampling plans for given AQL and LQL . . . . . . . . . 467--479 Mohammed Ohidul Haque Problems in estimating non-linear Engel parameters in the absence of appropriate grouped means and average elasticity of variable elasticity Engel functions . . 481--494 C. Raju and M. N. Narasimha Murthy Procedures and tables for the construction and selection of chain sampling plans ChSP-4A(c1, c2)r --- Part 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--511 K. Subramani and K. Govindaraju Selection of modified quick switching systems for given acceptable and limiting quality levels . . . . . . . . 513--524 Damon Berridge Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--526 Anthony G. Pakes Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--527 Yasuko Chikuse Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--528 Damon Berridge Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--529
K. V. Mardia Statistics and images 2: overview . . . 1--5 Bing Cheng and D. M. Titterington A small selection of neural network methods and their statistical connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--37 B. D. Ripley Neural networks and flexible regression and discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . 39--57 J. Kittler Statistical pattern recognition in image analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--75 C. C. Taylor and R. J. Henery Comparative trials in classification of image data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91 Pamela C. Cosman and Robert M. Gray and Richard A. Olshen Vector quantization: clustering and classification trees . . . . . . . . . . 93--108 T. F. Cootes and C. J. Taylor and D. H. Cooper and J. Graham Image search using trained flexible shape models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--139 Michael I. Miller and Sarang Joshi and David R. Maffitt and James G. Mcnally and Ulf Grenander Membranes, mitochondria and amoebae: shape models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--163 Jayashree Subrahmonia and Daniel Keren and David B. Cooper An algebraic and Bayesian technology for object recognition . . . . . . . . . . . 165--205 Jim Kay Wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--224 Tony Lindeberg Scale-space theory: a basic tool for analyzing structures at different scales 225--270 S. Z. Der and R. Chellappa and E. J. M. Rignot Statistical characterization of forward looking infra-red, laser radar and synthetic aperture radar imagery . . . . 273--312 Iain S. Weir and Peter J. Green Modelling data from single-photon emission computerized tomography . . . . 313--337 R. M. Haralick and E. Dougherty and J. Ha and T. Kanungo and S. Karasu and C. K. Lee and L. Rystrom and V. Ramesh and I. Phillips Statistical morphology . . . . . . . . . 341--354 D. Lee and Y. Vardi Experiments with maximum likelihood method for image motion deblurring . . . 355--383 S. Rabe and K. V. Mardia and J. F. Boyce Modelling micro-texture . . . . . . . . 385--406
D. J. Hand Assessing classification rules . . . . . 3 U. Balasooriya and T. Abeysinghe Selecting between gamma and Weibull distributions --- an approach based on predictions of order statistics . . . . 17 H. K. Preisler Analysis of the joint action of two biological compounds on the gypsy moth 29 K. Luijtens and F. Symons and M. Vuylsteke-Wauters Linear and non-linear canonical correlation analysis: an exploratory tool for the analysis of group-structured data . . . . . . . . . 43 B. S. Everitt Exploring multivariate data graphically: a brief review with examples . . . . . . 63 J. F. Reed and D. B. Stark Robustness estimators of location: a classification of linear and adaptive estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 G. Lovison Log-linear modelling of data from matched case-control studies . . . . . . 125 M. S. Ridout A response curve that generalizes the rectangular hypberbola . . . . . . . . . 143 C. Raju and J. Jothikumar A design of chain sampling plan ChSP-1 based on Kullback--Leibler information 153 J. Berny New concepts and applications in growth phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 N. C. Smeeton Marking scheme for the test for logical order in English language testing: is it fair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
R. Lund Annual arrival cycle of Atlantic tropical cyclones . . . . . . . . . . . 195 L. J. Edwards and P. K. Sen Approximating Fisher's information for the functional measurement error model 205 J. Cologne and R. Sposto Smooth piecewise linear regression splines with hyperbolic covariates . . . 221 C. Kandasamy and K. Govindaraju Selection of CSP-V continuous sampling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 H. K. Koesmarno Heuristic fitting algorithm and analytical approximation for estimating linear phase of logistic data . . . . . 255 C. Raju and M. N. Narasimha Murthy Designing ChSP-4(c1, c2) plans . . . . . 267 K. P. Kalirajan and R. T. Shand Estimating technical efficiency with non-neutral shift of the frontier . . . 279 O. A. Ramirez and C. B. Moss and W. G. Boggess Estimation and use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation to model non-normal correlated random variables 289 A. I. Khuri Effect of blocking on the estimation of a response surface . . . . . . . . . . . 305 P. Bagchi Empirical Bayes estimation in directional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 G. S. Watson Distribution of angles between unit vectors and the multiple comparison problem for unit vectors . . . . . . . . 327
M. Y. Wong Robustness of testing the equality of two slopes in simple structural relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Ralph G. O'Brien and Marc W. Heft Discrimination indexes and models for studying sensory functioning in aging 9 Ian T. Jolliffe Rotation of principal components: Choice of normalization constraints . . . . . . 29--35 M. Singh and N. P. Saxena and M. C. Saxena Estimation of pinnule area in chickpea leaves: An errors-in-variables approach 37 J. Bunge and M. Fitzpatrick and J. Handley Comparison of three estimators of the number of species . . . . . . . . . . . 45 I. T. Jolliffe and B. Jones and B. J. T. Morgan Identifying influential observations in hierarchical cluster analysis . . . . . 61--80 A. J. Scallan Asymmetric tolerance distributions: An application of two-piece distributions 81 J. F. Reed and D. B. Stark Robust analysis of variance: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104 S. Devaraj Arumainayagam and V. Soundararajan Construction and selection of quick switching double-sampling system: Sample size tightening . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 H. Wong and W. K. Li Portmanteau test for conditional heteroscedasticity, using ranks of squared residuals . . . . . . . . . . . 121 S. M. Watson and E. Redfern and S. Clark and M. Tight and N. Davies An influence method for outlier detection applied to time series traffic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Z. W. Kmietowicz Exact distribution of the sample lead 151--161 Ram Mudambi and Larry W. Taylor Some non-parametric tests for duration dependence: An application to UK business cycle data . . . . . . . . . . 163 A. D. Gordon Local transformation of facial features 179
Jorge Cadima and Ian T. Jolliffe Loadings and correlations in the interpretation of principal components 203--214 Yuejen Zhao and Andy H. Lee Assessment of influence in non-linear measurement error models . . . . . . . . 215--225 J. N. R. Jeffers The statistician and the computer . . . 227 A. R. Tricker Effect on Bayesian inference of the degree of precision of recorded data . . 235 S. D. Arumainayagam and V. Soundararajan Construction and evaluation of matched quick switching systems . . . . . . . . 245 Peter W. M. John Patterns in residuals for $ 2^n $ designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259 C. Raju and M. N. Narasimha Murthy Procedures and tables for the construction and selection of chain sampling plans ChSP-4A(c1, c2)r --- Part 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Geoffrey S. Watson $ U^2_n $ test for uniformity of discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 273--276 Heleno Bolfarine and Manuel Galea Rojas Structural comparative calibration using the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 David J. Finney Statistical science and effective scientific communication . . . . . . . . 293 D. N. Hunt and E. Li Loss of efficiency in spoilt experiments 309
Lisa H. Ying and Friedrich Pukelsheim and Norman R. Draper Slope rotatability over all directions designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--341 Lisa H. Ying and Friedrich Pukelsheim and Norman R. Draper Slope rotatability over all directions designs for $ k \geq 4 $ . . . . . . . . 343--354 S. C. Pearce Cubic lattices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 R. Chen and O. Hawaleshka and D. R. Strong Analytical approach for determining the cost optimum raw material quality level 375 C. Raju and M. N. Narasimha Murthy Minimum risks chain sampling plans (ChSP-4(c1, c2)) indexed by acceptable quality level and limiting quality level 389 V. S. Sampath Kumar and P. Vasantha Continuous inspection of Markov processes with a clearance interval . . 427
K. F. Jones and N. W. Taylor and E. B. Fosam Statistical approaches for the reliability of structural designs . . . 443 K. F. Jones and I. Marrs and J. Young and C. Townend Investigation and improvement of a process for vacuum-formed ceramic fibre composites, using a fractional 2'' experimental design . . . . . . . . . . 459 F.-J. Vázquez-Polo and A. Hernández Bastida Behaviour of the posterior error rate with partial prior information in auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--476 K. P. Kalirajan and M. B. Obwona Estimating individual response coefficients in varying coefficients regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 477 B. H. Joshi and U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar and S. R. Deshmukh and A. D. Dharmadhikari Prediction of failure --- a case study 485 Ravindra Khattree and Dayanand N. Naik Statistical tests for random effects in staggered nested designs . . . . . . . . 495 D. Wallach Empirical Bayes optimal fertilizer decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 Hirokazu Takada and Aman Ullah and Yu-Min Chen Estimation of the seemingly unrelated regression model when the error covariance matrix is singular . . . . . 517 Kenneth Carling Starting values for the iterative maximum likelihood estimator in survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 Rajaram Gana Ridge regression estimation of the linear probability model . . . . . . . . 537
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 Kenneth H. Pollock and Michael J. Conroy and William S. Hearn Separation of hunting and natural mortality using ring-return models: An overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--566 Charles M. Francis Estimating survival rates from recoveries of birds ringed as young: a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--578 Annette Hoffmann and John R. Skalski Inferential properties of an individual-based survival model using release-recapture data: Sample size, validity and power . . . . . . . . . . . 579--596 E. A. Catchpole and S. N. Freeman and B. J. T. Morgan Modelling age variation in survival and reporting rates for recovery models . . 597--610 K. P. Burnham and D. R. Anderson and G. C. White Selection among open population capture-recapture models when capture probabilities are heterogeneous . . . . 611--624 Bruce H. Pugesek and Chris Nations and Kenneth L. Diem and Roger Pradel Mark-resighting analysis of a California gull population . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--640 S. E. Piper A model of the ring-recovery reporting process for the Cape Griffon Gyps coprotheres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--660 Kenneth H. Pollock and Christine M. Bunck and Scott R. Winterstein and Chiu-Lan Chen A capture-recapture survival analysis model for radio-tagged animals . . . . . 661--672 Joel A. Schmutz and David H. Ward and James S. Sedinger and Eric A. Rexstad Survival estimation and the effects of dependency among animals . . . . . . . . 673--682 Arie J. van Noordwijk On bias due to observer distribution in the analysis of data on natal dispersal in birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--694 Roger Pradel and Evan Cooch and Fred Cooke Transient animals in a resident population of snow geese: Local emigration or heterogeneity? . . . . . . 695--710 Carl James Schwarz and Barbara Ganter and Branta Leucopsis Estimating the movement among staging areas of the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--724 Mark S. Lindberg and James S. Sedinger and Eric A. Rexstad Estimating nest site fidelity of adult female black brant with multi-state modeling and geographic information systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--736 Jay B. Hestbeck Bias in transition-specific survival and movement probabilities estimated using capture-recapture data . . . . . . . . . 737--750 William L. Kendall and James D. Nichols On the use of secondary capture-recapture samples to estimate temporary emigration and breeding proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--762 Michael J. Conroy Comparison of programs MULT, ESTIMATE and BROWNIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--774 R. Pradel and A.-M. Reboulet and A. Viallefont Testing hypotheses and estimating survival from capture histories with CR 775--784 A. Neil Arnason and Carl J. Schwarz POPAN-4: Enhancements to a system for the analysis of mark-recapture data from open populations . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--800 E. A. Catchpole MATLAB: An environment for analyzing ring-recovery and recapture data . . . . 801--816 S. Legendre and J. Clobert ULM, a software for conservation and evolutionary biologists . . . . . . . . 817--834 James D. Nichols and William L. Kendall The use of multi-state capture-recapture models to address questions in evolutionary ecology . . . . . . . . . . 835--846 Anne Viallefont and Evan G. Cooch and Fred Cooke Estimation of trade-offs with capture-recapture models: a case study on the lesser snow goose . . . . . . . . 847--862 Thomas E. Martin and Jean Clobert and David R. Anderson Return rates in studies of life history evolution: Are biases large? . . . . . . 863--876 Jay B. Hestbeck Population study and management of Atlantic Flyway Canada geese . . . . . . 877--890 Tibor Szep Survival rates of Hungarian sand martins and their relationship with Sahel rainfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--904 William J. Peach and Humphrey Q. P. Crick and John H. Marchant The demography of the decline in the British willow warbler population . . . 905--922 N. J. Aebischer Investigating the effects of hunting on the survival of British pigeons and doves by analysis of ringing recoveries 923--934 David F. DeSante and Kenneth M. Burton and James F. Saracco and Brett L. Walker Productivity indices and survival-rate estimates from MAPS, a continent-wide programme of constant-effort mist-netting in North America . . . . . 935--948 David F. Desante Suggestions for future directions for studies of marked migratory landbirds from the perspective of a practitioner in population management and conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--966 Stephen R. Baillie Uses of ringing data for the conservation and management of bird populations: a ringing scheme perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--988 J. Clobert Capture-recapture and evolutionary ecology: a difficult wedding? . . . . . 989--1008 Jean-Dominique Lebreton The future of population dynamic studies using marked individuals: a statistician's perspective . . . . . . . 1009--1030 V. Bauchau and A. J. Van Noordwijk Comparison of survival estimates obtained from three different methods of recapture in the same population of the great tit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1038 Andreas Kaiser Estimating turnover, movements and capture parameters of resting passerines in standardized capture-recapture studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1048 Grey W. Pendleton and John R. Sauer Delineating bird populations using ring recoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1056 Kalev Rattiste and Vilju Lilleleht Survival rates of breeding common gulls in Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1062 Deanna K. Dawson and John R. Sauer and Paul A. Wood and Mauro Berlanga and Marcia H. Wilson and Chandler S. Robbins Estimating bird species richness from capture and count data . . . . . . . . . 1063--1068 J. C. Senar and J. L. Copete Mediterranean house sparrows (\em Passer domesticus) are not used to freezing temperatures: an analysis of survival rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1074 Charles M. Francis How useful are recoveries of North American passerines for survival analyses? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1081 Anonymous Title-page, Volume Contents and Author Index, 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083
George E. P. Box Role of statistics in quality and productivity improvement . . . . . . . . 3--20 S. G. Gilmour and R. Mead Fixing a factor in the sequential design of two-level fractional factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30 Todd L. Walton, Jr. Fill-in of missing data in univariate coastal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--40 Philippe Castagliola Optimized algorithms for computing Wilcoxon's $ T_n $, Wilcoxon's $ W_{m, n} $ and Ansari-Bradley's $ A_{m, n} $ statistics when $m$ and $n$ are small 41--57 Jorge Alberto Achcar and Vera Lucia Damasceno Extreme value regression models: a useful reparameterization for the survival function . . . . . . . . . . . 59--68 R. Vijayaraghavan and V. Soundararajan Procedures and tables for the selection of tightened-normal-tightened (TNT-$ (n; c_1, c_2)$) sampling schemes . . . . . . 69--80 Kwok-Leung Tsui A critical look at Taguchi's modelling approach for robust design . . . . . . . 81--96 Steven B. Caudill Maximum likelihood estimation in a model with interval data: a comment and extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104 Giovanni Radaelli Detection of an unknown increase in the rate of a rare event . . . . . . . . . . 105--114 S. Devaraj Arumainayagam and V. Soundararajan Sampling systems indexed by the crossover point . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124 Ron S. Kenett and Moshe Pollak Data-analytic aspects of the Shiryayev-Roberts control chart: Surveillance of a non-homogeneous Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--137 K. V. Mardia and A. J. Baczkowski and X. Feng and P. A. Millner A study of three-dimensional curves . . 139--148 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
J. N. R. Jeffers Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164 Peter Young and Stuart Parkinson and Matthew Lees Simplicity out of complexity in environmental modelling: Occam's razor revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--210 R. Moss and D. C. Catt and N. G. Bayfield and D. D. French The application of decision theory to sustainable management of an upland Scottish estate . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--230 Amarjot Kaur and G. P. Patil and Susan J. Shirk and Charles Taillie Environmental sampling with a concomitant variable: a comparison between ranked set sampling and stratified simple random sampling . . . 231--255 Timothy G. Gregoire and Oliver Schabenberger A non-linear mixed-effects model to predict cumulative bole volume of standing trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--272 G. H. Freeman and S. D. Jacka and J. E. H. Shaw and J. Q. Smith Modelling the management of underground water assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284 Edwin J. Green and William E. Strawderman A Bayesian growth and yield model for slash pine plantations . . . . . . . . . 285--300 Andrew B. Lawson and Natalie W. Harrington The analysis of putative environmental pollution gradients in spatially correlated epidemiological data . . . . 301--310 R. T. Clarke and M. T. Furse and J. F. Wright and D. Moss Derivation of a biological quality index for river sites: Comparison of the observed with the expected fauna . . . . 311--332 Stuart G. Coles and Francesca Pan The analysis of extreme pollution levels: a case study . . . . . . . . . . 333--348 John F. Bell Application of classification trees to the habitat preference of upland birds 349--360 Mike Nicholson and Jon Barry Survey design for detecting patches . . 361--368
W. Liu Some group sequential procedures for comparing several treatments with a control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--383 Gabriel Huerta and Manuel Mendoza A Bayesian approach to sample size selection in a multiple hypotheses test for the Bernoulli model . . . . . . . . 385--394 S. Chinn Choosing a transformation . . . . . . . 395--404 Wing K. Fung The dependence of voter shares under a two-vote system . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--412 R. A. Sugden and T. M. F. Smith and R. P. Brown Chao's list sequential scheme for unequal probability sampling . . . . . . 413--421 H. K. Koesmarno Class-size percentile transformation for reconstructing a distribution function 423--434 S. Cherry and J. Banfield and W. F. Quimby An evaluation of a non-parametric method of estimating semi-variograms of isotropic spatial processes . . . . . . 435--449 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 W. Liu Some group sequential procedures for comparing several treatments with a control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000--1001
Mark Evans Aspects of maximum likelihood estimation of asymmetric growth curves . . . . . . 467--492 Göran Arnoldsson Optimal allocation for linear combinations of linear predictors in generalized linear models . . . . . . . 493--505 Hammou El Barmi and Ian R. Harris and Ayanendranath Basu Statistical inference concerning weighted Poisson rates under some natural order restrictions . . . . . . . 507--514 S. K. Tse and Geoffrey Tso Efficiencies of maximum likelihood estimators under censoring in life testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--524 P. S. Hammond and P. Rothery Application of computer sampling in the estimation of seal diet . . . . . . . . 525--534 Myung Geun Kim Local influence in multivariate normal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--542 Rose D. Baker Testing for space--time clusters of unknown size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--554 David J. Finney A note on the history of regression . . 555--558 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
J. N. R. Jeffers Multivariate analysis of a reference collection of elm leaves . . . . . . . . 571--588 Jong Hyup Lee Estimation for the autoregressive moving average process observed with noise . . 589--599 Hyean-Seok Jeong and Jong-In Park and Bong-Jin Yum Development of $ (r, T) $ hybrid sampling plans for exponential lifetime distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--608 S. R. Lindsay and G. R. Wood and R. C. Woollons Modelling the diameter distribution of forest stands using the Burr distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--620 Philip A. Scarf and Patrick J. Laycock Estimation of extremes in corrosion engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--644 K. K. Suresh and T. B. Ramkumar Selection of a sampling plan indexed with maximum allowable average outgoing quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--654 K. V. Mardia and A. Coombes and J. Kirkbride and A. Linney and J. L. Bowie On statistical problems with face identification from photographs . . . . 655--676 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 Anonymous Title-page, Volume Contents and Author Index, 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
Sangit Chatterjee and Matthew Laudato Gender and performance of world-class athletes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10 P. L. H. Yu and K. Lam How to predict election winners from a poll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--23 Philip Hans Franses and Bart Hobijn Critical values for unit root tests in seasonal time series . . . . . . . . . . 25--47 C. Raju and J. Jothikumar Procedures and tables for the construction and selection of chain sampling plans $ {\rm ChSP}$-$ 4 A(c_1, c_2)r$. V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--76 Ken Hung A comparison of two large sample confidence intervals for a proportion: A Monte Carlo simulation . . . . . . . . . 77--83 Dhaifalla K. Al-Mutairi and Satish K. Agarwal Distributions of the lifetimes of system components operating under an unknown common environment . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96 M. C. Agrawal and A. B. Sthapit Hierarchic predictive ratio-based and product-based estimators and their efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104 Sergio R. Munoz and Shrikant I. Bangdiwala Interpretation of Kappa- and $B$ statistics measures of agreement . . . . 105--112 Warren Gilchrist Modelling with quantile distribution functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--122 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
L. I. Pettit and J. L. Palmer Seasonal patterns of fertility measures: a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . 139--146 P. Prescott and N. R. Draper and S. M. Lewis and A. M. Dean Further properties of mixture designs for five components in orthogonal blocks 147--156 Tapio Nummi Estimation in a random effects growth curve model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--168 K. E. Basford and G. J. Mclachlan and M. G. York Modelling the distribution of stamp paper thickness via finite normal mixtures: The 1872 Hidalgo stamp issue of Mexico revisited . . . . . . . . . . 169--180 Y. Eric Shao Multiple intervention analysis with application to sales promotion data . . 181--192 Martin Schader and Friedrich Schmid Power of tests for uniformity when limits are unknown . . . . . . . . . . . 193--205 V. Soundararajan and A. L. Christina Selection of single sampling variables plans based on the minimum angle . . . . 207--218 M. Mahibbur Rahman and Z. Govindarajulu A modification of the test of Shapiro and Wilk for normality . . . . . . . . . 219--235 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
L. H. Kao and S. Chakraborti One-sided sign-type non-parametric procedures for comparing treatments with a control in a randomized complete block design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264 H. H. Chen and S. W. Duffy and L. Tabár A mover-stayer mixture of Markov chain models for the assessment of dedifferentiation and tumour progression in breast cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--278 C. V. Rao and S. Hari Krishna A graphical method for testing the equality of several variances . . . . . 279--288 Anita Ghatak Unit roots and structural breaks: The case of India 1900--1988 . . . . . . . . 289--300 H. J. Khamis The $ \delta $-corrected Kolmogorov--Smirnov test for the two-parameter Weibull distribution . . . 301--317 Herbert Büning Robust analysis of variance . . . . . . 319--332 J. Muñoz-García and R. Pino-Mejías and J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and M. D. Cubiles-De-La-Vega Identification of outlier bootstrap samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342 Jill Johnes Inter-university variations in undergraduate non-completion rates: a statistical analysis by subject of study 343--362 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Charles R. Katholi and Anthony Merriweather and Thomas R. Unnasch An analysis of variance type test for comparing clusters of DNA sequences based on randomization test methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--382 Shragga Irmay The relationship between Zipf's law and the distribution of first digits . . . . 383--393 Ravindra Khattree and Dayanand N. Naik and Robert L. Mason Estimation of variance components in staggered nested designs . . . . . . . . 395--408 Eric D. Schoen and Kirsten Wolff Design and analysis of a fractional 41 31 25 split-plot experiment . . . . . . 409--420 Carmen O. Acuña and Joseph Horowitz A statistical approach to the resolution of point sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--435 M. L. Aggarwal and A. Goel and S. R. Chowdhury Catalogue of group structures for two-level fractional factorial designs 437--452 Raviprakash R. Salagame and Russell R. Barton Factorial hypercube designs for spatial correlation regression . . . . . . . . . 453--474 Nien Fan Zhang Detection capability of residual control chart for stationary process data . . . 475--492
Thaddeus Tarpey Estimating principal points of univariate distributions . . . . . . . . 499--512 I. L. Dryden and K. V. Mardia and A. N. Walder Review of the use of context in statistical image analysis . . . . . . . 513--538 Reay-Chen Wang and Chung-Ho Chen Minimum average fraction inspected for continuous sampling plan CSP-1 under inspection error . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--548 Gilles R. Ducharme Consistent selection of the actual model in regression analysis . . . . . . . . . 549--558 E. Ayuga Tellez and C. Ayuga Tellez and C. Gonzalez Garcia and E. Martinez Falero Estimation of, non-parametric regression in the analysis of the anti-inflammatory activity of diverse extracts of Sideritis foetens . . . . . . . . . . . 559--572 Wieslaw Madry A statistical approach to multivariate evaluation of diversity with respect to quantitative characteristics in cereal germplasm collections . . . . . . . . . 573--588 Russell A. Boyles Using the chi-square statistic to monitor compositional process data . . . 589--602 Hisashi Tanizaki Power comparison of non-parametric tests: Small-sample properties from Monte Carlo experiments . . . . . . . . 603--632
Raymond T. Stefani Survey of the major world sports rating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--646 E. M. Qannari and E. Vigneau and M. Semenou New approach in biased regression . . . 647--658 Murari Singh and Michael Jones Estimating time to detect time trends in continuous cropping . . . . . . . . . . 659--670 M. A. Kaboudan Non-traditional analysis of stock returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--688 S. Balamurali and M. Kalyanasundaram Determination of an attribute single sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--696 Vic Barnett and Karen Moore Best linear unbiased estimates in ranked-set sampling with particular reference to imperfect ordering . . . . 697--710 A. I. Khuri Quantile dispersion graphs for analysis of variance estimates of variance components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--722 Ram Mudambi Estimating turning points using polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . 723--732 Eileen M. O'Donnell and G. Geoffrey Vining Mean squared error of prediction approach to the analysis of a combined array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--746 Anonymous Contents and Author Index: Volume 24, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747 Anonymous Contents, Volume 24, 1997 . . . . . . . 748 Anonymous Index of authors, Volume 24, 1997 . . . 751
Anonymous Editorial: 25 years of Applied Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22 Eric M. Hillson and Jack H. Reeves and Charlotte A. McMillan A statistical signalling model for use in surveillance of adverse drug reaction data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--40 Sang-Jun Park and Bong-Jin Yum Optimal design of accelerated life tests under modified stress loading methods 41--62 John M. Stonehouse and Guy J. Forrester Robustness of the $t$ and $U$ tests under combined assumption violations . . 63--74 Siu-Keung Tse and Hak-Keung Yuen Expected experiment times for the Weibull distribution under progressive censoring with random removals . . . . . 75--83 Wai-Yuan Tan and Si Chin Tang and Sho Rong Lee Estimation of HIV seroconversion and effects of age in the San Francisco homosexual population . . . . . . . . . 85--102 K. Govindaraju and S. Balamurali Chain sampling plan for variables inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109 Hongzhu Qiao and Chris P. Tsokos Best efficient estimates of the intensity function of the power law process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120 M. Yahyah and A. Baines and D. N. Joanes Graphical approach to model adequacy based on exact and near replicates . . . 121--129 J. E. Toler and P. M. Burrows Genotypic performance over environmental arrays: a non-linear grouping protocol 131--143 Myung Geun Kim Local influence on a test of linear hypothesis in multiple regression model 145--152
C. A. Glasbey and K. V. Mardia A review of image-warping methods . . . 155--171 Edvin Bredrup and Li-Chun Zhang Imperfectly shuffled decks in bridge . . 173--179 James A. Koziol A non-parametric index of tracking . . . 181--191 James W. Taylor and Derek W. Bunn Combining forecast quantiles using quantile regression: Investigating the derived weights, estimator bias and imposing constraints . . . . . . . . . . 193--206 A. B. M. Zohrul Kabir Estimation of Weibull distribution parameters for irregular interval group failure data with unknown failure times 207--219 Mukhtar M. Ali Probability models on horse-race outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--229 K. V. Mardia Fisher's repeated normal integral function and shape distributions . . . . 231--235 Dalton F. Andrade and Julio M. Singer Profile analysis for randomized complete block experiments . . . . . . . . . . . 237--244 Jin Zhang Tests for multiple upper or lower outliers in an exponential sample . . . 245--255 Jin Zhang and Xueren Wang Unmasking test for multiple upper or lower outliers in normal samples . . . . 257--261 D. R. Anderson and K. P. Burnham and G. C. White Comparison of Akaike information criterion and consistent Akaike information criterion for model selection and statistical inference from capture-recapture studies . . . . . . . 263--282 Victor M. Guerrero and Edmundo Berumen Forecasting electricity consumption with extra-model information provided by consumers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--299
Hans-Joachim Mittag and Dietmar Stemann Gauge imprecision effect on the performance of the X-S control chart . . 307--317 Duolao Wang and Mike Murphy Use of a mixture model for the analysis of contraceptive-use duration among long-term users . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--332 Michael Sherman and F. Michael Speed, Jr. and F. Michael Speed Analysis of tidal data via the blockwise bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--340 R. Vijayaraghavan and V. Soundararajan Design and evaluation of skip-lot sampling inspection plans with double-sampling plan as the reference plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--348 D. K. Ghosh and S. C. Bagui Identification of confounded design and its interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--356 M. M. Shoukri and M. Attanasio and J. M. Sargeant Parametric versus semi-parametric models for the analysis of correlated survival data: a case study in veterinary epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--374 Christopher Todd Edwards Non-parametric procedure for knockout tournaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--385 Sadao Tomizawa and Takashi Seo and Hideharu Yamamoto Power-divergence-type measure of departure from symmetry for square contingency tables that have nominal categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--398 K. Govindaraju and S. Ganesalingam Zero acceptance number quick switching system for compliance sampling . . . . . 399--407 F. Javier Trivez and Javier Nievas Analyzing the effects of level shifts and temporary changes on the identification of ARIMA models . . . . . 409--424 Stan Z. Li Bayesian object matching . . . . . . . . 425--443
K. Govindaraju and S. Balamurali Tightened single-level continuous sampling plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--461 Fritz Efaw Test of alternative strike settlement models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--474 Anita Ghatak Aggregate consumption functions for India: a cointegration analysis under structural changes, 1919--86 . . . . . . 475--488 Gary Koop Carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth: a structural approach . . . . . 489--515 Alexei Dmitrienko and Z. Govindarajulu The `demon' problem of Youden: Exponential case . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--523 Alan D. Hutson Direct estimation of the percentile `$p$-value' for the one-sample median test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--533 C. D. Lai and K. Govindaraju and M. Xie Effects of correlation on fraction non-conforming statistical process control procedures . . . . . . . . . . . 535--543 Alan Veevers Viability and capability indexes for multi-response processes . . . . . . . . 545--558 Nien Fan Zhang Estimating process capability indexes for autocorrelated data . . . . . . . . 559--574 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Anita Ghatak Vector autoregression modelling and forecasting growth of South Korea . . . 579--592 Larisa Matejic Testing for brain anomalies: a hippocampus study . . . . . . . . . . . 593--600 M. Hosseini and R. G. Carpenter and K. Mohammad Identification of outlying height and weight data in the Iranian National Health Survey 1990--92 . . . . . . . . . 601--612 Philip Prescott and Norman R. Draper Mixture designs for constrained components in orthogonal blocks . . . . 613--638 James Carpenter Assessing parameter uncertainty via bootstrap likelihood ratio confidence regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--649 James F. Reed III Contributions to adaptive estimation . . 651--669 M. J. Baxter and N. H. Gale Testing for multivariate normality via univariate tests: a case study using lead isotope ratio data . . . . . . . . 671--683 Christine A. Ribic and Thomas W. Miller Evaluation of alternative model selection criteria in the analysis of unimodal response curves using CART . . 685--698 Christine Gunter and Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher Calculating the total vote where the district magnitude is greater than one: a test of some algorithms using British local election data . . . . . . . . . . 699--706 Uditha Balasooriya and Sutaip L. C. Saw Reliability sampling plans for the two-parameter exponential distribution under progressive censoring . . . . . . 707--714 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715
Vladimir Brajkovic Mechanics of microelectronics examined by design of experiments techniques . . 723--731 Reay-Chen Wang and Chung-Ho Chen Minimum average fraction inspected for short-run CSP-1 plan . . . . . . . . . . 733--738 Ling Chen Improved penalized mean for estimating the mean concentration of contaminants 739--750 Brenton R. Clarke and Toby Lewis An outlier problem in the determination of ore grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--762 Xavier De Luna Projected polynomial autoregression for prediction of stationary time series . . 763--775 Reza Modarres and Joseph L. Gastwirth Hybrid test for the hypothesis of symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--783 Yoshikazu Ojima General formulae for expectations, variances and covariances of the mean squares for staggered nested designs . . 785--799 W. L. Pearn and K. S. Chen New generalization of process capability index $ C_{pk} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--810 Graham Upton Rounding halves . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--816 Grace Montepiedra and Danny Myers and Arthur B. Yeh Application of genetic algorithms to the construction of exact $D$-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--826 D. K. Ghosh and Naimesh R. Desai Robustness of complete diallel crosses plans to the unavailability of one block 827--837 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839 Anonymous Title-page, Volume Contents and Author Index, 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843
Saling Huang and Morton B. Brown A Markov chain model for longitudinal categorical data when there may be non-ignorable non-response . . . . . . . 5--18 L. Y. Chan and M. K. Sandhu Optimal orthogonal block designs for a quadratic mixture model for three components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--34 Wai-Sum Chan and Siu Hung Cheung and Ka Ho Wu Exact joint forecast regions for vector autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 35--44 Guadalupe Gómez and M. Luz Calle Non-parametric estimation with doubly censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--58 W. J. Krzanowski Antedependence models in the analysis of multi-group high-dimensional data . . . 59--67 Donald E. K. Martin and James F. Troendle Paired comparison models applied to the design of the Major League baseball play-offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80 Glen Meeden Interval estimators for the population mean for skewed distributions with a small sample size . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96 Seymour Geisser and Teddy Seidenfeld Remarks on the `Bayesian' method of moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101 Peter Young and Diego Pedregal Recursive and en-bloc approaches to signal extraction . . . . . . . . . . . 103--128 M. F. Ramalhoto and M. Morais Shewart control charts for the scale parameter of a Weibull control variable with fixed and variable sampling intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--160
Joseph Brian Adams Predicting pickle harvests using a parametric feed-forward neural network 165--176 Nedret Billor and R. M. Loynes An application of the local influence approach to ridge regression . . . . . . 177--183 K. Kalirajan Stochastic varying coefficients gravity model: an application in trade analysis 185--193 L. S. Kaushik Partial diallel crosses based on three associate class association schemes . . 195--201 Scott J. Richter and Mark E. Payton Nearly exact tests in factorial experiments using the aligned rank transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--217 James W. Hughes and Elizabeth Savoca Accounting for censoring in duration data: an application to estimating the effect of legal reforms on the duration of medical malpractice disputes . . . . 219--228 R. Vijayaraghavan Procedure for the selection of CSP-M one-level skip-lot sampling inspection plans that have a single sampling plan with acceptance number zero as the reference plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233 Sture Holm and Kerstin Wiklander Simultaneous estimation of location and dispersion in two-level fractional factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 235--242 Peter S. Wludyka and Peter R. Nelson Two non-parametric, analysis-of-means-type tests for homogeneity of variances . . . . . . . . 243--256 K. K. W. Yau and S. K. Ng and M. T. Cheung and M. C. Tung Estimation of surgeon effects in the analysis of post-operative colorectal cancer patients data . . . . . . . . . . 257--272 P. J. Harrison and I. C. H. Lai Statistical process control and model monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--292
Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Atanu Biswas Sequential-type nonparametric test using Mann--Whitney statistics . . . . . . . . 301--308 Reay-Chen Wang and Chung-Ho Chen Designing a variable sampling plan based on Taguchi's loss function . . . . . . . 309--313 G. Galliani and F. Filippini and F. Screpanti A queuing-theory-based approach to evaluate the efficiency of a network of automated stations and of a communication system . . . . . . . . . . 315--326 U. S. Pasaribu and A. G. Hawkes and S. J. Wainwright Statistical assumptions underlying the fitting of the Michaëlis-Menten equation 327--341 Alan D. Hutson Calculating nonparametric confidence intervals for quantiles using fractional order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--353 Takafumi Isogai Power transformation of the $F$ distribution and a power normal family 355--371 K. V. Mardia and R. J. Morris and A. N. Walder and J. J. Koenderink Estimation of torsion . . . . . . . . . 373--381 Wai-Yin Poon and Chi-Ming Lee Sources of heterogeneity in distributions with ordered categorical variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--392 Luis A. Rodriguez-Carvajal and Geoff H. Freeman Multivariate $ A B - B A $ crossover trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--403
Pai-Lien Chen and Estrada J. Bernard and Pranab K. Sen A Markov chain model used in analyzing disease history applied to a stroke study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--422 Kaushik Ghosh and S. Rao Jammalamadaka and Mangalam Vasudaven Change-point problems for the von Mises distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--434 Claes Cassel and Peter Hackl and Anders H. Westlund Robustness of partial least-squares method for estimating latent variable quality structures . . . . . . . . . . . 435--446 Magnar Lillegard and Steinar Engen Exact confidence intervals generated by conditional parametric bootstrapping . . 447--459 Jan R. Magnus and Franc J. G. M. Klaassen The final set in a tennis match: four years at Wimbledon . . . . . . . . . . . 461--468 Sueli A. Mingoti Bayesian estimator for the total number of distinct species when quadrat sampling is used . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--483 Francisco Fernando Ribeiro Ramos Underreporting of purchases of port wine 485--494 Eric D. Schoen Designing fractional two-level experiments with nested error structures 495--508 Stephen Walker The uniform power distribution . . . . . 509--517 Paul Zhang Omnibus test of normality using the $Q$ statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--528 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Herbert Büning Adaptive Jonckheere-type tests for ordered alternatives . . . . . . . . . . 541--551 Jerry D. Dechert and Kenneth E. Case An economic model for clinical quality control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--562 D. K. Ghosh and Naimesh R. Desai Robustness of a complete diallel crosses plan with an unequal number of crosses to the unavailability of one block . . . 563--577 Paul C. Taylor and David J. Hand Finding `superclassifications' with an acceptable misclassification rate . . . 579--590 Habshah Midi Preliminary estimators for robust non-linear regression estimation . . . . 591--600 M. Carme Ruiz de Villa and M. Salomé E. Cabral and Eduardo Escrich Escriche and Montse Solanas A non-parametric regression approach to repeated measures analysis in cancer experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--611 A. J. Scallan Regression modelling of interval-censored failure time data using the Weibull distribution . . . . . 613--618 Alexandra Mello Schmidt and Dani Gamerman and Ajax R. B. Moreira and Pnpe-Rj and Im-Ufrj and Ipea-Rj An adaptive resampling scheme for cycle estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--641 Sharifah Sakinah Aidid and Mick Silver Modelling market shares by segments using volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--660
Jorge Alberto Achcar and Gilberto de Arañjo Pereira Use of exponential power distributions for mixture models in the presence of covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--679 Yssa Dewoody and V. T. Gururaj and Clyde Martin Assessing risk for rare events . . . . . 681--687 L. Duchateau and D. L. Berkvens and G. J. Rowlands Decision rules for small vaccine experiments with binary outcomes based on conditional and expected power and size of the Fisher-exact test . . . . . 689--699 Yue Fang and John Zhang Performance of control charts for autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic processes . . . . . . . 701--714 Peter Harris and Mark Hann and Simon P. J. Kirby and John C. Dearden Interval estimation of the median effective dose for a logistic dose-response curve . . . . . . . . . . 715--722 Ulric Lund Least circular distance regression for directional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--733 K. V. Mardia and A. N. Walder and E. Berry and D. Sharples and P. A. Millner and R. A. Dickson Assessing spinal shape . . . . . . . . . 735--745 A. J. Scallan Fitting a mixture distribution to complex censored survival data using generalized linear models . . . . . . . 747--753 Yuehjen E. Shao and Yue-Fa Lin and Soe-Tsyr Yuan Integrated application of time series multiple-interventions analysis and knowledge-based reasoning . . . . . . . 755--766 I. H. Tajuddin A comparison between two simple measures of skewness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--774
Anonymous Vol. 26 No. 7 September 1999 Contents 1 José Nilo G. Binongo and M. W. A. Smith A bridge between statistics and literature: the graphs of Oscar Wilde's literary genres . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--787 Zhenmin Chen A simple exact method for testing hypotheses about the shape parameter of a log-normal distribution . . . . . . . 789--805 Paul De Bruin and Philip Hans Franses Forecasting power-transformed time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--815 Yadolah Dodge and Ali S. Hadi Simple graphs and bounds for the elements of the hat matrix . . . . . . . 817--823 T. Lehtonen and J.-O. Malmberg Do two competing frequencies differ significantly? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--830 Ralf Òstermark and Rune Höglund Simulating competing cointegration tests in a bivariate system . . . . . . . . . 831--846 Joseph G. Pigeon and Joseph F. Heyse A cautionary note about assessing the fit of logistic regression models . . . 847--853 Peiming Wang and Martin L. Puterman Markov Poisson regression models for discrete time series. Part 1: Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--869 Peiming Wang and Martin L. Puterman Markov Poisson regression models for discrete time series. Part 2: Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--882
S. Balamurali and M. Kalyanasundaram Determination of conditional double sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--902 Chung-Ho Chen Specification limit under a quality loss function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--908 John C. B. Cooper Artificial neural networks versus multivariate statistics: an application from economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--921 Graham W. Horgan Using wavelets for data smoothing: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--932 Juneyoung Lee and Andre I. Khuri Graphical technique for comparing designs for random models . . . . . . . 933--947 K. V. Mardia Directional statistics and shape analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--957 Antonietta Mira Distribution-free test for symmetry based on Bonferroni's measure . . . . . 959--972 Ray Okafor Using an empirical Bayes model to estimate currency exchange rate . . . . 973--983 Paulo M. M. Rodrigues and Denise R. Osborn Performance of seasonal unit root tests for monthly data . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--1004 Rosa Bernardini Papalia Local generalized method of moments estimation based on kernel weights: an application to panel data . . . . . . . 1005--1015 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017
R. D. Baker Application of a new discrete distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--21 S. Balamurali and M. Kalyanasundaram Generalized tightened two-level continuous sampling plans . . . . . . . 23--38 Olcay Arslan and Nedret Billor Robust Liu estimator for regression based on an M-estimator . . . . . . . . 39--47 Jyoti Divecha Search for suitable incomplete block designs for complete diallel cross systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62 Yangxin Huang Simon and P. J. Kirby Peter and Harris John and C. Dearden Interval estimation of the 90% effective dose: a comparison of bootstrap resampling methods with some large-sample approaches . . . . . . . . 63--73 Takafumi Isogai Analysis of factorial experiments for survival data with long-tailed distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--101 Dejian Lai and Barry R. Davis and Robert J. Hardy Fractional Brownian motion and clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--108 J. A. Nelder Functional marginality and response-surface fitting . . . . . . . . 109--112 Erhard Reschenhofer Modification of autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average models for the estimation of persistence 113--118 Jon Vilasuso David and Katz Estimates of the likelihood of extreme returns in international stock markets 119--130 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
David M. Aadland Distribution and interpolation using transformed data . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--156 H. Öztay Ayhan Estimators of vital events in dual-record systems . . . . . . . . . . 157--169 M. Kalyanasundaram and S. Balamurali Determination of variable-lot-size attribute sampling plan indexed by the acceptable quality level and average outgoing quality level for continuous production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175 Alberto Luceno George and E. P. Box Influence of the sampling interval, decision limit and autocorrelation on the average run length in Cusum charts 177--183 Victor M. Guerrero Selecting a linearizing power transformation for time series . . . . . 185--195 Jiin-Huarng Guo Wei-Ming and Luh Normalized Johnson's transformation one-sample trimmed $t$ for non-normality 197--203 R. Southworth and K. V. Mardia and C. C. Taylor Transformation- and label-invariant neural network for the classification of landmark data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--215 Leann Myers and Stephanie T. Broyles Regression coefficient analysis for correlated binomial outcomes . . . . . . 217--234 Tapio Nummi Analysis of growth curves under measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 235--243 J. Tyrcha R. and Sundberg P. and Lindskog B. and Sundstrom Statistical modelling and saddle-point approximation of tail probabilities for accumulated splice loss in fibre-optic networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
J. A. Amaral and M. B. Rosario and M. T. Paixao Data and projections of HIV and AIDS in Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--279 Ying Wang Wong and Siu Hung Cheung Simultaneous pairwise multiple comparisons in a two-way analysis of covariance model . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--291 Kang-Mo Jung Local influence assessment in canonical correlation analysis . . . . . . . . . . 293--301 Trine Kvist and Henrik Gislason and Poul Thyregod Using continuation-ratio logits to analyze the variation of the age composition of fish catches . . . . . . 303--319 Jack C. Lee and Kuo-Ching Liu Bayesian analysis of a general growth curve model with predictions using power transformations and AR(1) autoregressive dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--336 Yeong-Tzay Su and Chyi-Lyi Kathleen Liang Using multivariate rank sum tests to evaluate effectiveness of computer applications in teaching business statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--345 Sifa Mvoi and Yan-Xia Lin Criteria for estimating the variance function used in the asymptotic quasi-likelihood approach . . . . . . . 347--362 Milad Sawiris Optimum grouping and the boundary problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--371 A. M. C. Vieira and J. P. Hinde and C. G. B. Demetrio Zero-inflated proportion data models applied to a biological control assay 373--389
S. Balamurali and K. Govindaraju Modified tightened two-level continuous sampling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--409 Bei-Hung Chang and Stuart Lipsitz and Christine Waternaux Logistic regression in meta-analysis using aggregate data . . . . . . . . . . 411--424 Jan-Olof Johansson Modelling the surface structure of newsprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--438 H. J. Khamis The two-stage $ \delta $-corrected Kolmogorov--Smirnov test . . . . . . . . 439--450 Myung Geun Kim Outliers and influential observations in the structural errors-in-variables model 451--460 C. D. Lai and M. Xie and K. Govindaraju Study of a Markov model for a high-quality dependent process . . . . . 461--473 Shalabh Prediction of values of variables in linear measurement error model . . . . . 475--482 M. M. Shoukri and O. Demirkaya Sample size requirements to test the equality of raters' precision . . . . . 483--494 Zheng Wang An algorithm for generalized monotonic smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--507 Jon Woodroof Bootstrapping: as easy as 1--2--3 . . . 509--517 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
David J. Hand and Niall M. Adams Defining attributes for scorecard construction in credit scoring . . . . . 527--540 Yoshikazu Ojima Generalized staggered nested designs for variance components estimation . . . . . 541--553 Mustafa R. Yilmaz and Sangit Chatterjee Patterns of NBA team performance from 1950 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--566 Alan D. Hutson A composite quantile function estimator with applications in bootstrapping . . . 567--577 Hui Li and Robert A. Malkin An approximate Bayesian up-down method for estimating a percentage point on a dose-response curve . . . . . . . . . . 579--587 Murari Singh and Michael J. Jones Statistical estimation of time-trends in two-course crop rotations . . . . . . . 589--597 Govind S. Mudholkar and Deo Kumar Srivastava A class of robust stepwise alternatives to Hotelling's $ T^2 $ tests . . . . . . 599--619 Kelly H. Zou and W. J. Hall Two transformation models for estimating an ROC curve derived from continuous data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--631 Fred W. Huffer and Cheolyong Park A test for multivariate structure . . . 633--650 Sueli A. Mingoti A stepwise Bayesian estimator for the total number of distinct species in finite populations: sampling by elements 651--670 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Jason Abrevaya Testing for a treatment effect in a heterogeneous population: a modified sign-test statistic and a leapfrog statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--687 J. M. Tapia García and A. Martín Andrés Optimal unconditional critical regions for $ 2 \times 2 $ multinomial trials 689--695 Chung-Ho Chen and Chao-Yu Chou Design of a CSP-1 plan based on regret-balanced criterion . . . . . . . 697--701 Wilfried De Corte Using order statistics to assess the sampling variability of personnel selection utility estimates . . . . . . 703--713 D. K. Ghosh and P. C. Biswas Robust designs for diallel crosses against the missing of one block . . . . 715--723 K. Govindaraju and M. Bebbington Combined continuous lot by lot acceptance sampling plan . . . . . . . . 725--730 Jiin-Huarng Guo and Wei-Ming Luh Testing methods for the one-way fixed effects ANOVA models of log-normal samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--738 Dov Ingman and Boris Lipnik Loss-based optimal control statistics for control charts . . . . . . . . . . . 739--756 G. K. Kanji and Osama Hasan Arif Median rankit control chart by the quantile approach . . . . . . . . . . . 757--770 V. Soundararajan and M. Palanivel Quick switching variables single sampling (QSVSS) system indexed by AQL and AOQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--778 Léopold Simar and Paul W. Wilson A general methodology for bootstrapping in non-parametric frontier models . . . 779--802
A. Martín Andrés and I. Herranz Tejedor On the minimum expected quantity for the validity of the chi-squared test in $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . 807--820 Jesús Gonzalo and Tae-Hwy Lee On the robustness of cointegration tests when series are fractionally integrated 821--827 K. Govindaraju and C. Kandasamy Design of generalized CSP-C continuous sampling plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--841 Wei-Ming Luh and Jiin-Huarng Guo Approximate transformation trimmed mean methods to the test of simple linear regression slope equality . . . . . . . 843--857 Arthur Pewsey Problems of inference for Azzalini's skewnormal distribution . . . . . . . . 859--870 Man-Lai Tang On tests of linearity for dose response data: asymptotic, exact conditional and exact unconditional tests . . . . . . . 871--880 Stephen Salter and Neville Topham Side betting and playing the National Lottery: an exercise in policy design 881--899 R. Vijayaraghavan Design and evaluation of skip-lot sampling plans of type SkSP-3 . . . . . 901--908 George O. Wesolowsky Detecting excessive similarity in answers on multiple choice exams . . . . 909--921 Beatrice Giglio and Eva Riccomagno and Henry P. Wynn Gröbner basis strategies in regression 923--938
Chao-Yu Chou and Chung-Ho Chen and Hui-Rong Liu Economic-statistical design of X\yen charts for non-normal data by considering quality loss . . . . . . . . 939--951 Peter S. Fader and Bruce G. S. Hardie A note on modelling underreported Poisson counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--964 Wei-Ming Luh and Jiin-Huarng Guo Johnson's transformation two-sample trimmed $t$ and its bootstrap method for heterogeneity and non-normality . . . . 965--973 Steen Magnussen Unequal probability sampling in fixed area plots of stem volume with and without prior inclusion probabilities 975--990 Carlos Maté and Rafael Calderón Exploring the characteristics of rotating electric machines with factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1006 J. A. Nelder Quasi-likelihood and pseudo-likelihood are not the same thing . . . . . . . . . 1007--1011 M. K. Sharma Application of PBIB designs in CDC Method IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1019 Ghazi Shukur and Panagiotis Mantalos A simple investigation of the Granger-causality test in integrated-cointegrated VAR systems . . 1021--1031 Siu Keung Tse and Chunyan Yang and Hak-Keung Yuen Statistical analysis of Weibull distributed lifetime data under Type II progressive censoring with binomial removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1043 Peter A. Wright Choosing a lower specification limit for an exponential process with `the larger the better' tolerance: a simple, exact solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1049 Zhenlin Yang and Min Xie Process monitoring of exponentially distributed characteristics through an optimal normalizing transformation . . . 1051--1063
S. A. Al-Awadhi and P. H. Garthwaite Prior distribution assessment for a multivariate normal distribution: an experimental study . . . . . . . . . . . 5--23 P. K. Tsay and A. Chao Population size estimation for capture-recapture models with applications to epidemiological data . . 25--36 Camil Fuchs and Morton B. Brown Summary measurements and screening in clinical trials with replicate observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--51 D. Gregori and C. Rocco and S. Miocic and L. Mestroni Estimating the frequency of familial dilated cardiomyopathy in the presence of misclassification errors . . . . . . 53--62 Krishan Lal and V. K. Gupta and Lalmohan Bhar Robustness of designed experiments against missing data . . . . . . . . . . 63--79 P. J. Lindsey Adapting sample size calculations to repeated measurements in clinical trials 81--89 Dayanand N. Naik and Shantha S. Rao Analysis of multivariate repeated measures data with a Kronecker product structured covariance matrix . . . . . . 91--105 Raffaella Piccarreta A new measure of nominal---ordinal association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120 R. R. L. Kantam and K. Rosaiah and G. Srinivasa Rao Acceptance sampling based on life tests: log-logistic model . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128 Ashis Sengupta and Chandranath Pal On optimal tests for isotropy against the symmetric wrapped stable---circular uniform mixture family . . . . . . . . . 129--143 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--148
Mehmetcik Bayazit and Hafzullah Aksoy Using wavelets for data generation . . . 157--166 Teresa Aparicio and Inmaculada Villanua The asymptotically efficient version of the information matrix test in binary choice models. A study of size and power 167--182 Peter Congdon Predicting adverse infant health outcomes using routine screening variables: modelling the impact of interdependent risk factors . . . . . . 183--197 Abhijit Gupta Optimization of product performance of a paint formulation using a mixture experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--213 Dogan Argaç and Kepher H. Makambi and Joachim Hartung A note on testing the nullity of the between group variance in the one-way random effects model under variance heterogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--222 Jack C. Lee and W. H. Lien Bayesian analysis of a growth curve model with power transformation, random effects and AR(1) dependence . . . . . . 223--238 Youngjo Lee Can we recover information from concordant pairs in binary matched pairs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--246 Donald E. K. Martin Influence functions applied to the estimation of mean rain rate . . . . . . 247--258 Man-Suk Oh and Yong Bin Lim Bayesian analysis of time series Poisson data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--271 Andrew W. Roddam An approximate maximum likelihood procedure for parameter estimation in multivariate discrete data regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--279
M. Arvidsson and P. Kammerlind and A. Hynen and B. Bergman Identification of factors influencing dispersion in split-plot experiments . . 269--283 George Box Statistics for discovery . . . . . . . . 285--299 Roland Caulcutt Why is Six Sigma so successful? . . . . 301--306 P. R. G. Chambers and J. L. Piggott and S. Y. Coleman SPC --- a team effort for process improvement across four Area Control Centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--324 S. Y. Coleman and G. Arunakumar and F. Foldvary and R. Feltham SPC as a tool for creating a successful business measurement framework . . . . . 325--334 David Bruce and Shirley Y. Coleman Improving communication via quantitative management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--341 S. Y. Coleman and A. Gordon and P. R. Chambers SPC--making it work for the gas transportation business . . . . . . . . 343--351 M. A. A. Cox Towards the implementation of a universal control chart and estimation of its average run length using a spreadsheet: an artificial neural network is employed to model the parameters in a special case . . . . . . 353--364 Trevor F. Cox Multidimensional scaling used in multivariate statistical process control 365--378 E. J. Godolphin Observable trend-projecting state-space models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--389 T. N. Goh A pragmatic approach to experimental design in industry . . . . . . . . . . . 391--398 G. Robin Henderson EWMA and industrial applications to feedback adjustment and control . . . . 399--407 M. Weighell and E. B. Martin and A. J. Morris The statistical monitoring of a complex manufacturing process . . . . . . . . . 409--425 Douglas C. Montgomery Opportunities and challenges for industrial statisticians . . . . . . . . 427--439 P. Pongcharoen and D. J. Stewardson and C. Hicks and P. M. Braiden Applying designed experiments to optimize the performance of genetic algorithms used for scheduling complex products in the capital goods industry 441--455 Elsayed A. H. Elamir and Allan H. Seheult Control charts based on linear combinations of order statistics . . . . 457--468 Dave Stewardson and Shirley Coleman Using the Summed Rank Cusum for monitoring environmental data from industrial processes . . . . . . . . . . 469--484 Dave Stewardson and David Porter and Tony Kelly The dangers posed by saddle points, and other problems, when using central composite designs . . . . . . . . . . . 485--495 Carl Scarrott and Granville Tunnicliffe Wilson Building a statistical model to predict reactor temperatures . . . . . . . . . . 497--511 Seung-Ho Kang and Chul Ahn Regression coefficient analysis for correlated binomial outcomes . . . . . . 513--514 Leann Myers and Stephanie T. Broyles Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
I. Bairamov and S. Kotz and M. Bekçi New generalized Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern distributions and concomitants of order statistics . . 521--536 Ling-Yau Chan and Ying-Nan Guan $A$- and $D$-optimal designs for a log contrast model for experiments with mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--546 Francesco Pauli and Stuart Coles Penalized likelihood inference in extreme value analyses . . . . . . . . . 547--560 Steven T. Garren and Richard L. Smith and Walter W. Piegorsch Bootstrap goodness-of-fit test for the beta-binomial model . . . . . . . . . . 561--571 Subrata Ghatak and Jalal U. Siddiki The use of the ARDL approach in estimating virtual exchange rates in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--583 W. J. Krzanowski Data-based interval estimation of classification error rates . . . . . . . 585--595 Yong B. Lim and B. S. So A note on the optimal number of centre runs in a second phase design of response surface methods . . . . . . . . 597--602 Alvaro Montenegro On sample size and precision in ordinary least squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--605 G. Nuel and S. Robin and C. P. Baril Predicting distances using a linear model: the case of varietal distinctness 607--621 Peiming Wang Markov zero-inflated Poisson regression models for a time series of counts with excess zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--632 Seung-Ho Kang and Chul Ahn Regression coefficient analysis for correlated binomial outcomes . . . . . . 633--634 Leann Myers and Stephanie T. Broyles Authors' reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rainer Winkelmann `Under-reporting of purchases of port wine': a correction . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. C. Bagui and D. K. Ghosh Efficiency balanced designs through reinforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--658 Vicente G. Cancho and Heleno Bolfarine Modeling the presence of immunes by using the exponentiated-Weibull model 659--671 Mark E. Glickman Dynamic paired comparison models with stochastic variances . . . . . . . . . . 673--689 Andy H. Lee and John S. Yick and Yer Van Hui Sensitivity of the portmanteau statistic in time series modeling . . . . . . . . 691--702 Francisco Louzada-Neto and Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández The effect of reparametrization on accelerated lifetime tests . . . . . . . 703--711 Terence C. Mills Business cycle asymmetry and duration dependence: an international perspective 713--724 Reik Oberrath and Katrin Böhning-Gaese The Signed Mantel test to cope with autocorrelation in comparative analyses 725--736 Wai-Yin Poon and Man-Lai Tang Influence measure in maximum likelihood estimate for models of lifetime data . . 737--742 Ralph A. Mansson and Philip Prescott Missing values in replicated Latin squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--757 Thomas Wenzel Hits-and-misses for the evaluation and combination of forecasts . . . . . . . . 759--773 Arnold Zellner Remarks on a `critique' of the Bayesian Method of Moments . . . . . . . . . . . 775--778 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--785
Chung-Ho Chen and Te-Shiang Cheng and Chao-Yu Chou Minimum average fraction inspected for TCSP-1 plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--799 Jeongwen Chiang and Ching-Fan Chung and Emily T. Cremers Promotions and the pattern of grocery shopping time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--819 D. K. Ghosh and S. B. Shrivastava A class of BIB designs with repeated blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--833 Tsung-Wu Ho Finite-sample properties of the bootstrap estimator in a Markov-switching model . . . . . . . . . 835--842 F. Huettmann and A. W. Diamond Using PCA scores to classify species communities: an example for pelagic seabird distribution . . . . . . . . . . 843--853 Miguel A. García-Pérez and Vicente Núñez-Antón Small-sample comparisons for powerdivergence goodness-of-fit statistics for symmetric and skewed simple null hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 855--874 Antonio F. B. Costa and M. A. Rahim Economic design of $X$ charts with variable parameters: the Markov chain approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--885 John M. Roberts and Devon D. Brewer Measures and tests of heaping in discrete quantitative distributions . . 887--896 Peter Rothery and David B. Roy Application of generalized additive models to butterfly transect count data 897--909 Stephen G. Walker and Christopher J. Page Generalized ridge regression and a generalization of the C P statistic . . 911--922
Vic Barnett and Maria Cecilia Mendes Barreto Estimators for a Poisson parameter using ranked set sampling . . . . . . . . . . 929--941 Sòren Bisgaard and Murat Kulahci Switching-one-column follow-up experiments for Plackett-Burman designs 943--949 Patrick D. Bourke The geometric CUSUM chart with sampling inspection for monitoring fraction defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951--972 George Box and Ian Hau Experimental designs when there are one or more factor constraints . . . . . . . 973--989 V. R. Prayag and S. A. Chiplonkar A multiple test for comparing two treatments with control: interval hypotheses approach . . . . . . . . . . 991--1001 Hassen A. Muttlak Regression estimators in extreme and median ranked set samples . . . . . . . 1003--1017 Key-Il Shin and Hee-Jeong Kang A study on the effect of power transformation in the ARMA$ (p, q) $ model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1028 X. M. Tu and J. Kowalski and A. Begley and P. Houck and S. Mazumdar and J. Miewald and D. J. Buysse and D. J. Kupfer Data recycling: a response to the changing technology from the statistical perspective with application to psychiatric sleep research . . . . . . . 1029--1049 Samia A. Adham and Stephen G. Walker A multivariate Gompertz-type distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1065 Man-Yu Wong and Shuanglin Zhang Degrees of freedom and the likelihood ratio test for the generalized Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 1067--1074
George A. F. Seber and Carl J. Schwarz Capture-recapture: before and after EURING 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--18 Evan G. Cooch and Emmanuelle Cam and William Link Occam's shadow: levels of analysis in evolutionary ecology--where to next? . . 19--48 James D. Nichols Discussion comments on: ``Occam's shadow: levels of analysis in evolutionary ecology --- where to next?'' by Cooch, Cam and Link . . . . . 49--52 Jean Clobert Capture-recapture and evolutionary ecology: further comments . . . . . . . 53--56 Nigel G. Yoccoz and Kjell E. Erikstad and Jan O. Bustnes and others Costs of reproduction in common eiders (Somateria mollissima): an assessment of relationships between reproductive effort and future survival and reproduction based on observational and experimental studies . . . . . . . . . . 57--64 Ian C. T. Nisbet and Emmanuelle Cam Test for age-specificity in survival of the common tern . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--83 Kenneth H. Pollock The use of auxiliary variables in capture-recapture modelling: an overview 85--102 Gary C. White Discussion comments on: the use of auxiliary variables in capture-recapture modelling. An overview . . . . . . . . . 103--106 S. E. Piper Survival of adult, territorial Longtailed Wagtails \em Motacilla clara: the effects of environmental factors and individual covariates . . . . . . . . . 107--124 Michael J. Conroy and Juan Carlos Senar and Jordi Dom\`enech Analysis of individual- and time-specific covariate effects on survival of \em Serinus serinus in north-eastern Spain . . . . . . . . . . 125--142 Evan G. Cooch Fledging size and survival in snow geese: timing is everything (or is it?) 143--162 Emmanuelle Cam and Bernard Cadiou and James E. Hines and others Influence of behavioural tactics on recruitment and reproductive trajectory in the kittiwake . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--185 S. P. Brooks and E. A. Catchpole and B. J. T. Morgan and others Bayesian methods for analysing ringing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--206 William A. Link and Evan G. Cooch and Emmanuelle Cam Model-based estimation of individual fitness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--224 J. A. Dupuis Prior distributions for stratified capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 225--237 C. J. Schwarz Discussion comments on 'Prior distributions for stratified capture-recapture models' . . . . . . . 239--240 J. A. Dupuis Response to Carl Schwarz . . . . . . . . 241--244 Kenneth P. Burnham and Gary C. White Evaluation of some random effects methodology applicable to bird ringing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--264 Douglas H. Johnson Discussion comments on `Evaluation of some random effects methodology applicable to bird ringing data' by Burnham & White . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266 Alan B. Franklin and David R. Anderson and Kenneth P. Burnham Estimation of long-term trends and variation in avian survival probabilities using random effects models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--287 Anne Loison and Bernt-Erik Sæther and Kurt Jerstad and others Disentangling the sources of variation in the survival of the European dipper 289--304 Richard Barker and David Fletcher and Paul Scofield Measuring density dependence in survival from mark-recapture data . . . . . . . . 305--313 Shirley Pledger and Carl J. Schwarz Modelling heterogeneity of survival in band-recovery data using mixtures . . . 315--327 J. Andrew Royle and William A. Link Random effects and shrinkage estimation in capture-recapture models . . . . . . 329--351 J. D. Lebreton and R. Pradel Cefe Multistate recapture models: modelling incomplete individual histories . . . . 353--369 Andréa. Dhondt Discussion comments 'Multistate recapture models: modelling incomplete individual histories'--why are we doing all this? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372 Mijeom Joe and Kenneth H. Pollock Biomathematics Separation of survival and movement rates in multi-state tag-return and capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 373--384 Jeffrey A. Spendelow and James D. Nichols and James E. Hines and others Modelling postfledging survival and age-specific breeding probabilities in species with delayed maturity: a case study of Roseate Terns at Falkner Island, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . 385--405 Blandine Doligez and Jean Clobert and Richard A. Pettifor and others Costs of reproduction: assessing responses to brood size manipulation on life-history and behavioural traits using multi-state capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--423 Juan Carlos Senar and Michael J. Conroy and Antoni Borras Asymmetric exchange between populations differing in habitat quality: a metapopulation study on the citril finch 425--441 Marlina D. Nasution and Cavell Brownie and Kenneth H. Pollock Optimal allocation of sample sizes between regular banding and radio-tagging for estimating annual survival and emigration rates . . . . . 443--457 Carl James Schwarz Real and quasi-experiments in capture-recapture studies . . . . . . . 459--473 Michael J. Conroy Real and quasi-experiments in capture-recapture studies: suggestions for advancing the state of the art . . . 475--477 David L. Otis and Gary C. White Re-analysis of a banding study to test the effects of an experimental increase in bag limits of mourning doves . . . . 479--495 S. M. Slattery and R. T. Alisauskas Use of the Barker model in an experiment examining covariate effects on first-year survival in Ross's Geese (\em Chen rossii): a case study . . . . . . . 497--508 Thierry Boulinier and Nigel G. Yoccoz and Karen D. McCoy and others Testing the effect of conspecific reproductive success on dispersal and recruitment decisions in a colonial bird: design issues . . . . . . . . . . 509--520 R. T. Alisauskas and M. S. Lindberg Effects of neckbands on survival and fidelity of white-fronted and Canada geese captured as non-breeding adults 521--537 James D. Nichols and James E. Hines Approaches for the direct estimation of $u$ and demographic contributions to $u$ using capture-recapture data . . . . . . 539--568 Richard Barker and Evan Cooch and Carl Schwarz Discussion comments on: `Approaches for the direct estimation of $u$ and demographic contributions to $u$ using capture-recapture data' . . . . . . . . 569--572 James E. Hines and James D. Nichols Investigations of potential bias in the estimation of $u$ using Pradel's (1996) model for capture-recapture data . . . . 573--587 Brett K. Sandercock and Steven R. Beissinger Estimating rates of population change for a neotropical parrot with ratio, mark-recapture and matrix methods . . . 589--607 Victoria J. Dreitz and James D. Nichols and James E. Hines and others The use of resighting data to estimate the rate of population growth of the snail kite in Florida . . . . . . . . . 609--623 E. A. Catchpole and B. J. T. Morgan and A. Viallefont Solving problems in parameter redundancy using computer algebra . . . . . . . . . 625--636 Charles M. Francis and Pertti Saurola Estimating age-specific survival rates of tawny owls--recaptures versus recoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--647 A. Neil Arnason and Carl J. Schwarz POPAN-6: exploring convergence and estimate properties with SIMULATE . . . 649--668 M. Dolores Ugarte Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David I. Harvey and Terence C. Mills Unit roots and double smooth transitions 675--683 M. P. Díaz and A. H. Barchuk and S. Luque and others Generalized linear models to study spatial distribution of tree species in Argentinean arid Chaco . . . . . . . . . 685--694 M. Dharmalingam Construction of Partial Triallel Crosses based on Trojan Square Design . . . . . 695--702 Chul Ahn and Sin-Ho Jung and Seung-Ho Kang Modified regression coefficient analysis for repeated binary measurements . . . . 703--710 Jorge Belaire-Franch and Dulce Contreras-Bayarri Improving cross-correlation tests through re-sampling techniques . . . . . 711--720 Moon Yul Huh and Kiyeol Kim Visualization of multidimensional data using modifications of the Grand Tour 721--728 Zbigniew Kominek Minimum chi-squared estimation of stable distributions parameters: an application to the Warsaw Stock Exchange . . . . . . 729--744 Kelly H. Zou and W. J. Hall On estimating a transformation correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 745--760 James Kepner and Dennis Wackerly Observations on the effect of the prior distribution on the predictive distribution in Bayesian inferences . . 761--769 Man-Suk Oh and Dong Wan Shin Bayesian model selection and parameter estimation for possibly asymmetric and non-stationary time series using a reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--789 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--794
Kelly H. Zou and W. J. Hall Semiparametric and parametric transformation models for comparing diagnostic markers with paired design 803--816 Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Ghazi Shukur Multivariate-based causality tests of twin deficits in the US . . . . . . . . 817--824 C. Agostinelli Robust stepwise regression . . . . . . . 825--840 M. D. Jiménez Gamero and J. M. Muñoz Pichardo and J. Muñoz García and A. Pascual Acosta Rao distance as a measure of influence in the multivariate linear model . . . . 841--854 E. Andres Houseman and Louise Ryan and Jonathan I. Levy and John D. Spengler Autocorrelation in real-time continuous monitoring of microenvironments . . . . 855--872 Jixian Wang and Peter T. Donnan Adjusting for missing record linkage in outcome studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--884 Sung H. Park and Kiho Kim Construction of central composite designs for balanced orthogonal blocks 885--893 K. Hafeez and H. Rowlands and G. Kanji and S. Iqbal Design optimization using ANOVA . . . . 895--906 Herbert Büning Robustness and power of modified Lepage, Kolmogorov--Smirnov and Cramér--von Mises two-sample tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--924 Beverley D. Causey Parametric estimation of the number of classes in a population . . . . . . . . 925--934 Vic Patrangenaru and Kanti V. Mardia A bootstrap approach to Pluto's origin 935--943 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--946
M. E. Ghitany and S. Al-Awadhi Maximum likelihood estimation of Burr XII distribution parameters under random censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955--965 S. Balamurali and M. Kalyanasundaram Construction of a generalized robust Taguchi capability index . . . . . . . . 967--971 E. Andersson Monitoring cyclical processes. A non-parametric approach . . . . . . . . 973--990 Steven B. Caudill and Norman H. Godwin Heterogeneous skewness in binary choice models: predicting outcomes in the men's NCAA basketball tournament . . . . . . . 991--1001 Chung-Ho Chen and Chao-Yu Chou Economic design of continuous sampling plan under linear inspection cost . . . 1003--1009 Claudio J. Verzilli and James R. Carpenter A Monte Carlo EM algorithm for random-coefficient-based dropout models 1011--1021 James E. Mays and Jeffrey B. Birch Smoothing for small samples with model misspecification: nonparametric and semiparametric concerns . . . . . . . . 1023--1045 Daniela Climov and Michel Delecroix and Léopold Simar Semiparametric estimation in single index Poisson regression: a practical approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1070 Yangxin Huang Robustness of interval estimation of the 90% effective dose: bootstrap resampling and some large-sample parametric methods 1071--1081 T. Antoniadou and D. Wallach Evaluating optimal fertilizer rates using plant measurements . . . . . . . . 1083--1099
André I. Khuri Graphical evaluation of the adequacy of the method of unweighted means . . . . . 1107--1119 Patrick D. Bourke A continuous sampling plan using CUSUMs 1121--1133 N. David Yanez III and Richard A. Kronmal and Jennifer C. Nelson and Todd A. Alonzo Analysing change in clinical trials using quasi-likelihoods . . . . . . . . 1135--1145 S. P. Singh and A. K. Srivastava and B. V. S. Sisodia Evaluation of a synthetic method of estimation for small areas . . . . . . . 1147--1151 Loki Natarajan and John O'Quigley Predictive capability of stratified proportional hazards models . . . . . . 1153--1163 Samuel Kotz and J. Renévan Dorp A versatile bivariate distribution on a bounded domain: another look at the product moment correlation . . . . . . . 1165--1179 Alan D. Hutson and Lauren Fishbein and Patricia O'Brien and Peter W. Stacpoole Accounting for plasma levels below detection limits in a one-compartment zero-order absorption pharmacokinetics model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1190 Manuel Galea and Heleno Bolfarine and Filidor Vilcalabra Influence diagnostics for the structural errors-in-variables model under the Student-t distribution . . . . . . . . . 1191--1204 Herwig Friedl and Erwin Stampfer Estimating general variable acceptance sampling plans by bootstrap methods . . 1205--1217 Sangit Chatterjee and Frederick Wiseman and Robert Perez Studying improved performance in golf 1219--1227 Avner Bar-Hen Influence of missing data on compact designs for spacing experiments . . . . 1229--1240 George E. P. Box and Alberto Luceño Feedforward as a supplement to feedback adjustment in allowing for feedstock changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1254
Reiko Aoki and Jorge A. Achcar and Heleno Bolfarine and Julio M. Singer Bayesian analysis of null intercept errors-in-variables regression for pretest/post-test data . . . . . . . . . 3--12 Maria Carapeto and William A. Holt Testing for heteroscedasticity in regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20 D. K. Panda and Rajender Parsad and V. K. Sharma Robustness of complete diallel crossing plans against exchange of one cross . . 21--35 José Eduardo Corrente and Liciana V. A. S. Chalita and Jeanete Alves Moreira Choosing between Cox proportional hazards and logistic models for interval- censored data via bootstrap 37--47 Penelope Vounatsou and Tom Smith and Alan E. Gelfand Spatial modelling of gene frequencies in the presence of undetectable alleles . . 49--62 Dimitris Karlis An EM algorithm for multivariate Poisson distribution and related models . . . . 63--77 James F. Reed III Adjusting for bias in randomized cluster trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85 Håkon Tjelmeland and Kjetill Vassmo Lund Bayesian modelling of spatial compositional data . . . . . . . . . . . 87--100 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--105
Christopher R. Illert Lexigenesis in ancestral south-east Australian Aboriginal language . . . . . 113--143 Kaushik Ghosh and Rao Jammalamadaka and Ram C. Tiwari Semiparametric Bayesian Techniques for Problems in Circular Data . . . . . . . 145--161 Shuo-Jye Wu and Chun-Tao Chang Inference in the Pareto distribution based on progressive Type II censoring with random removals . . . . . . . . . . 163--172 Alan T. K. Wan and Anoop Chaturvedi and Guohuazou Zou Unbiased estimation of the MSE matrices of improved estimators in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189 Man-Suk Oh and Jung Whan Choi and Dai-Gyoung Kim Bayesian inference and model selection in latent class logit models with parameter constraints: an application to market segmentation . . . . . . . . . . 191--204 Yuzhi Cai and Neville Davies A simple diagnostic method of outlier detection for stationary Gaussian time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--223 Kepher H. Makambi Weighted inverse chi-square method for correlated significance tests . . . . . 225--234 Didier Renard and Helena Geys and Geert Molenberghs and Tomasz Burzykowski and Marc Buyse and Tony Vangeneugden and Luc Bijnens Validation of a longitudinally measured surrogate marker for a time-to-event endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--247
Gang Zheng and Mohammad F. Al-Saleh Improving the best linear unbiased estimator for the scale parameter of symmetric distributions by using the absolute value of ranked set samples . . 253--265 Steven Cook The stylized approach to unit root testing: neglected contributions and the cost of simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . 267--272 Tirthankar Dasgupta An economic inspection interval for control of defective items in a hot rolling mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--282 Jacobo De Uña-Álvarez and M. Soledad Otero-GiráLdez and Gema álvarez-Llorente Estimation under length-bias and right-censoring: an application to unemployment duration analysis for married women . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291 Paul Gustafson and Lawrence J. Walker An extension of the Dirichlet prior for the analysis of longitudinal multinomial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--310 Saralees Nadarajah and Samuel Kotz Moments of some J-shaped distributions 311--317 Camino González and Gabriel Palomo Bayesian acceptance sampling plans following economic criteria: an application to paper pulp manufacturing 319--333 Sueli A. Mingoti and Otaviano F. Neves A note on the Zhang omnibus test for normality based on the Q statistic . . . 335--341
Liming Xiang and Andy H. Lee and Siu-Keung Tse Assessing local cluster influence in generalized linear mixed models . . . . 349--359 Patrick J. Barrie A new sports ratings system: the tiddlywinks world ratings . . . . . . . 361--372 Yoshinori Kawasaki and Philip Hans Franses Detecting seasonal unit roots in a structural time series model . . . . . . 373--387 Thaddeus Tarpey Estimating the average slope . . . . . . 389--395 Hajaj A. Al-Oraini and M. A. Rahim Economic statistical design of $x$-$y$ control charts for systems with gamma$ (5, 2)$ in-control times . . . . . . . . 397--409 Getachew Asfaw Dagne The use of power transformations in small area estimation . . . . . . . . . 411--423 José Eduardo Corrente and Maria Del Pilar Díaz Ordinal models and generalized estimating equations to evaluate disease severity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--439 Shakir Hussain and Ghazi Shukur Testing for autocorrelation in non-stationary dynamic systems of equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--454
Steen Magnussen Stepwise estimators for three-phase sampling of categorical variables . . . 461--475 Youngjo Lee and John A. Nelder False parsimony and its detection with GLMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--483 Sifa Mvoi and Yan-Xia Lin Analysis of experiments using the asymptotic quasi-likelihood approach . . 485--505 Arthur B. Yeh and Dennis K. J. Lin and Honghong Zhou and Chandramouliswaran Venkataramani A multivariate exponentially weighted moving average control chart for monitoring process variability . . . . . 507--536 H. Wong and Wai-Cheung Ip and Zhongjie Xie and Xueli Lui Modelling and forecasting by wavelets, and the application to exchange rates 537--553 Christopher Weigand Economically optimal inspection policy with geometric adaptation . . . . . . . 555--569 Abdullah Almasri and Ghazi Shukur An illustration of the causality relation between government spending and revenue using wavelet analysis on Finnish data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--584 Stephen Leary and Atul Bhaskar and Andy Keane Optimal orthogonal-array-based latin hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--598 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--602
R. G. Aykroyd and K. V. Mardia A wavelet approach to shape analysis for spinal curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--623 Ren-Fen Lee and Deng-Yuan Huang On some data oriented robust estimation procedures for means . . . . . . . . . . 625--634 K. D. Patterson and S. M. Heravi The impact of fat-tailed distributions on some leading unit roots tests . . . . 635--667 S. Robin and M. Lecomte and H. Höfte and G. Mouille A procedure for the clustering of cell wall mutants in the model plant Arabidopsis based on Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy . . . . . 669--681 Daniel X. Wang and Michael D. Conerly Evaluation of three lack of fit tests in linear regression models . . . . . . . . 683--696 D. K. Ghosh and P. C. Biswas Complete diallel crosses plans through balanced incomplete block designs . . . 697--708 Siu-Keung Tse and Chunyan Yang Reliability sampling plans for the Weibull distribution under Type II progressive censoring with binomial removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--718
Dimitrios V. Vougas Reconsidering LM unit root testing . . . 727--741 W. J. Krzanowski Non-parametric estimation of distance between groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--750 J. Kowalski and X. M. Tu Trend analysis with response incompatible formats and measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--770 Jian-Xin Pan and Peng Bai Local influence analysis in the growth curve model with Rao's simple covariance structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--781 Chien-Tai Lin and N. Balakrishnan Exact prediction intervals for exponential distributions based on doubly Type-II censored samples . . . . 783--801 Nicolaus Tideman and Reza Kheirandish Structurally consistent probabilities of selecting answers . . . . . . . . . . . 803--811 Duolao Wang and Panuwat Lertsithichai and Kiran Nanchahal and Mohammed Yousufuddin Risk factors of coronary heart disease: a Bayesian model averaging approach . . 813--826 A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon Residuals from deletion in added variable plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--841
Youngjo Lee and John A. Nelder Extended-REML estimators . . . . . . . . 845--856 Kelvin K. W. Yau and Karen C. H. Yip and H. K. Yuen Modelling repeated insurance claim frequency data using the generalized linear mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . 857--865 V. K. Sharma and Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese Minimal balanced repeated measurements designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--872 Sueli A. Mingoti A note on the sample size required in sequential tests for the generalized binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 873--879 Hyun Sook Oh and Seoung-gon Ko and Man-Suk Oh A Bayesian approach to assessing population bioequivalence in a $ 2 \times 2 $ crossover design . . . . . . 881--891 R. Bellio and E. Gori Impact evaluation of job training programmes: selection bias in multilevel models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--907 Peter C. Austin and Michael D. Escobar The use of finite mixture models to estimate the distribution of the health utilities index in the presence of a ceiling effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--923 Rhonda C. Magel and Li Qin A non-parametric test for umbrella alternatives based on ranked-set sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--937 Göran Arnoldsson Optimal designs for beta-binomial logistic regression models . . . . . . . 939--951
Vernon T. Farewell and Agnes M. Herzberg Plaid designs for the evaluation of training for medical practitioners . . . 957--965 Richard J. Stevens Evaluation of methods for interval estimation of model outputs, with application to survival models . . . . . 967--981 Yuzhi Cai and Neville Davies Monitoring the parameter changes in general ARIMA time series models . . . . 983--1001 David L. Thomson and Arie van Noordwijk and Ward Hagemeijer Estimating avian dispersal distances from data on ringed birds . . . . . . . 1003--1008 Seppo Laaksonen Alternative imputation techniques for complex metric variables . . . . . . . . 1009--1020 Luis A. Gil-Alana Estimation of the degree of dependence in the temperatures in the northern hemisphere using semi-parametric techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1031 J. F. Walhin Bivariate Hofmann distributions . . . . 1033--1046 H. Öztay Ayhan Models of response error components in supervised interview-reinterview surveys 1047--1054 Hassen A. Muttlak and Walid S. Al-Sabah Statistical quality control based on ranked set sampling . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1078
Saralees Nadarajah and Kosto Mitov and Samuel Kotz Local dependence functions for extreme value distributions . . . . . . . . . . 1081--1100 Michael Greenacre Singular value decomposition of matched matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1113 Christian Sonesson Evaluations of some Exponentially Weighted Moving Average methods . . . . 1115--1133 Yangxin Huang Selection of number of dose levels and its robustness for binary response data 1135--1146 L. A. Gil-Alana A fractional integration analysis of the population in some OECD countries . . . 1147--1159 Manuel Salvador and Pilar Gargallo Automatic selective intervention in dynamic linear models . . . . . . . . . 1161--1184 Hervé Cardot and Robert Faivre and Michel Goulard Functional approaches for predicting land use with the temporal evolution of coarse resolution remote sensing data 1185--1199 Robert J. Till and David J. Hand Behavioural models of credit card usage 1201--1220 Dejian Lai and Rakesh Sharma and Jerry S. Wolinsky and Ponnada A. Narayana A comparative study of correlation coefficients in spatially MRSI-observed neurochemicals from multiple sclerosis patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221--1229 Rand R. Wilcox Multiple comparisons based on a modified one-step M-estimator . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1241 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1247
Sanaa Isma\"\il A Simple Estimator for the Shape Parameter of the Pareto Distribution with Economics and Medical Applications 3--13 L. Di Scala and L. L. La Rocca and G. Consonni A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for the Evaluation of a Website . . . . . . . . 15--27 L. Pace and A. Salvan and L. Ventura The Effects of Rounding on Likelihood Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--48 Aiyi Liu and Enrique F. Schisterman and Eric Teoh Sample Size and Power Calculation in Comparing Diagnostic Accuracy of Biomarkers with Pooled Assessments . . . 49--59 A. Martín Andrés and I. Herranz Tejedor The Equivalence of Two Proportions Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--72 C. Illert and A. Allison Phono-genesis and the Origin of Accusative Syntax in Proto-Australian Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--104 T. Nummi and J. Möttönen Prediction of Stem Measurements of Scots Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--114 Pedro M. D. C. B. Gouveia and Paulo M. M. Rodrigues Threshold Cointegration and the PPP Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--127
Rand R. Wilcox Inferences Based on a Skipped Correlation Coefficient . . . . . . . . 131--143 Ralph Mansson and Philip Prescott Robustness of a Class of Partial Dialled Cross Designs to the Unavailability of a Complete Block of Observations . . . . . 145--160 Miguel A. García-Pérez and Vicente Núñez-Antón Small-Sample Comparisons for Goodness-of-Fit Statistics in One-Way Multinomials with Composite Hypotheses 161--181 Chung-Ho Chen and Chao-Yu Chou Minimum Average Total Inspection of Variable Lot-size Sampling Plan for Continuous Production . . . . . . . . . 183--189 Claude Lesty and Jocelyne Pleau-Varet and Mich\`ele Kujas Geometric Method and Generalized Linear Models. Two Opposite Multiparametric Approaches Illustrated on a Sample of Pituitary Adenomas . . . . . . . . . . . 191--213 Markus Neuhäuser and Herbert Büning and Ludwig A. Hothorn Maximum Test versus Adaptive Tests for the Two-Sample Location Problem . . . . 215--227 Theodore G. Karrison and Peter C. O'Brien A Rank-Sum-Type Test for Paired Data with Multiple Endpoints . . . . . . . . 229--238 Tom Benton and David Hand and Martin Crowder Two z's are Better than One . . . . . . 239--247
Guillermo Miró-Quesada and Enrique Del Castillo and John J. Peterson A Bayesian Approach for Multiple Response Surface Optimization in the Presence of Noise Variables . . . . . . 251--270 Sadao Tomizawa and Nobuko Miyamoto and Ryo Funato Conditional Difference Asymmetry Model for Square Contingency Tables with Nominal Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 271--277 H. Bayo Lawal Using a GLM to Decompose the Symmetry Model in Square Contingency Tables with Ordered Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 279--303 Yves G. Berger A Simple Variance Estimator for Unequal Probability Sampling without Replacement 305--315 A. A. Kalgonda and S. R. Kulkarni Multivariate Quality Control Chart for Autocorrelated Processes . . . . . . . . 317--327 R. Deardon and S. G. Gilmour and N. A. Butler and K. Phelps and R. Kennedy A Method for Ascertaining and Controlling Representation Bias in Field Trials for Airborne Plant Pathogens . . 329--343 Willem Albers and Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg Empirical Non-Parametric Control Charts: Estimation Effects and Corrections . . . 345--360 Thaddeus Tarpey and Richard D. Sanders Linear Conditional Expectation for Discretized Distributions . . . . . . . 361--372
H. E. T. Holgersson Testing for Multivariate Autocorrelation 379--395 Xia Pan and Jeffrey Jarrett Applying State Space to SPC: Monitoring Multivariate Time Series . . . . . . . . 397--418 Ping Sa and Luminita Razaila One-sided Continuous Tolerance Limits and their Accompanying Sample Size Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--434 Sanjoy Roy Chowdhury Catalogue of Group Structures for Three-level Fractional Factorial Designs 435--444 Petros E. Maravelakis and John Panaretos and Stelios Psarakis EWMA Chart and Measurement Error . . . . 445--455 Rose D. Baker A Modified Knox Test of Space--time Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--463 K. V. Mardia and J. Kirkbride and F. L. Bookstein Statistics of Shape, Direction and Cylindrical Variables . . . . . . . . . 465--479 S. Balamurali and K. Subramani Modified CSP-C Continuous Sampling Plan for Consumer Protection . . . . . . . . 481--494
B. M. Colosimo and R. Pan and E. del Castillo A Sequential Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Set-up Adjustment of a Process over a Set of Lots . . . . . . . 499--520 Darryl Holden Testing the Normality Assumption in the Tobit Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--532 Kui-Yin Cheung and Elspeth Thomson The Demand for Gasoline in China: a Cointegration Analysis . . . . . . . . . 533--544 K. G. Russell and S. M. Lewis and A. Dean Fractional Factorial Designs for the Detection of Interactions between Design and Noise Factors . . . . . . . . . . . 545--552 P. H. Chau and Paul S. F. Yip Non-parametric Back-projection of HIV Positive Tests using Multinomial and Poisson Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--564 Horng-Jinh Chang and Chih-Li Wang and Kuo-Chung Huang Using Randomized Response to Estimate the Proportion and Truthful Reporting Probability in a Dichotomous Finite Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--573 Arthur Pewsey Testing for Circular Reflective Symmetry about a Known Median Axis . . . . . . . 575--585 Key-Il Shin A Multivariate Unit Root Test Based on the Modified Weighted Symmetric Estimator for $ \mbox {VAR}(p) $ . . . . 587--596
Peter Congdon Modelling Trends and Inequality in Small Area Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--622 Wei-Ming Luh and Jiin-Huarng Guo Improved Robust Test Statistic Based on Trimmed Means and Hall's Transformation for Two-way ANOVA Models Under Non-normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--643 D. K. Al-Mutairi Bayesian Computations for Random Environment Models . . . . . . . . . . . 645--659 Gang Zheng Maximizing a Family of Optimal Statistics over a Nuisance Parameter with Applications to Genetic Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--671 Alan D. Hutson Utilizing the Flexibility of the Epsilon-Skew-Normal Distribution for Common Regression Problems . . . . . . . 673--683 Cynthia A. V. Tojeiro and Francisco Louzada-Neto and Heleno Bolfarine A Bayesian Analysis for Accelerated Lifetime Tests Under an Exponential Power Law Model with Threshold Stress 685--691 Chung-Ho Chen Determining the Optimum Process Mean of a One-sided Specification Limit with the Linear Quality Loss Function of Product 693--703 Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay Establishing Optimum Bleaching Conditions for Whitening Canary Wool . . 705--738
Seung-Hoon Yoo A Note on an Approximation of the Mobile Communications Expenditures Distribution Function Using a Mixture Model . . . . . 747--752 M. A. Bakir and B. Altunkaynak The Optimization with the Genetic Algorithm Approach of the Multi-Objective, Joint Economical Design of the $x$ and $R$ Control Charts . . . 753--772 Haobo Ren and Xiao-Hua Zhou and Hua Liang A Flexible Method for Estimating the ROC Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--784 Philip A. Shively Testing for a Unit Root in ARIMA Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--798 Silvia L. P. Ferrari and Francisco Cribari-Neto Beta Regression for Modelling Rates and Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--815 Rosalba Miceli and Lara Lusa and Luigi Mariani Revising a Prognostic Index Developed for Classification Purposes: an Application to Gastric Cancer Data . . . 817--830 James F. Reed III and David B. Stark Robust Two-Sample Statistics for Testing Equality of Means: a Simulation Study 831--854 G. J. M. Rosa and D. Gianola and C. R. Padovani Bayesian Longitudinal Data Analysis with Mixed Models and Thick-tailed Distributions using MCMC . . . . . . . . 855--873
David J. Hand Pattern Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . 883--884 David J. Hand and Richard J. Bolton Pattern Discovery and Detection: a Unified Statistical Methodology . . . . 885--924 Gonzalo Navarro Pattern Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--949 Andrew Lawson and Allan Clark and Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro Developments in General and Syndromic Surveillance for Small Area Health Data 951--966 Joseph Glaz and Zhenkui Zhang Multiple Window Discrete Scan Statistics 967--980 Alexander Von Eye and Eduardo Gutiérrez Peña Configural Frequency Analysis: the Search for Extreme Cells . . . . . . . . 981--997 Cheolwoo Park and J. S. Marron and Vitaliana Rondonotti Dependent SiZer: Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Time Series Models . . . . . . . . . 999--1017 Balaji Padmanabhan The Interestingness Paradox in Pattern Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1035
Steven G. Gilmour Irregular Four-level Response Surface Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1048 Manuel Galea and Víctor Leiva-Sánchez and Gilberto A. Paula Influence Diagnostics in log-Birnbaum--Saunders Regression Models 1049--1064 M. L. Aggarwal and Lih-Yuan Deng and Mithilesh Kumar Jha Some New Residual Treatment Effects Designs for Comparing Test Treatments with a Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1081 Hafzullah Aksoy Using Markov Chains for Non-perennial Daily Streamflow Data Generation . . . . 1083--1094 M. L. Menéndez and J. A. Pardo and L. Pardo Tests of Symmetry in Three-dimensional Contingency Tables Based on Phi-divergence Statistics . . . . . . . 1095--1114 W. L. Pearn and Y. C. Chang and Chien-Wei Wu Distributional and Inferential Properties of the Process Loss Indices 1115--1135 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1139
Genming Shi and N. Rao Chaganty Application of Quasi-Least Squares to Analyse Replicated Autoregressive Time Series Regression Models . . . . . . . . 1147--1156 Jin-Guan Lin and Bo-Cheng Wei and Nan-Song Zhang Varying Dispersion Diagnostics for Inverse Gaussian Regression Models . . . 1157--1170 A. F. B. Costa and M. A. Rahim Monitoring Process Mean and Variability with One Non-central Chi-square Chart 1171--1183 Mu'azu R. Abujiya and Hassen A. Muttlak Quality Control Chart for the Mean using Double Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . . 1185--1201 Seung-Hoon Yoo A Note on a Bayesian Approach to a Dichotomous Choice Environmental Valuation Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1209 David M. Reineke and John S. Crown Estimation of Hazard, Density and Survivor Functions for Randomly Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1225 Clive W. J. Granger and Yongil Jeon Forecasting Performance of Information Criteria with Many Macro Series . . . . 1227--1240 Gordana Derado and Kanti V. Mardia and Vic Patrangenaru and Hilary W. Thompson A Shape-based Glaucoma Index for Tomographic Images . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1248
Don Amos and T. Randolph Beard and Steven B. Caudill A statistical analysis of the handling characteristics of certain sporting arms: frontier regression, the moment of inertia, and the radius of gyration . . 3--16 Neil B. Marks Estimation of Weibull parameters from common percentiles . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24 Chao-Yu Chou and Chung-Ho Chen and Hui-Rong Liu Acceptance control charts for non-normal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36 James F. Reed III Contributions to two-sample statistics 37--44 George E. Halkos and Ilias S. Kevork A comparison of alternative unit root tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--60 Alex Riba and Josep Ginebra Change-point estimation in a multinomial sequence and homogeneity of literary style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74 Jens Nielsen and Henrik Jensen and Per K. Andersen Creating a reference to a complex emergency situation using time series methods: war in Guinea--Bissau 1998--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--86 Jitendra Singh Tomar and Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese On totally balanced block designs for competition effects . . . . . . . . . . 87--97 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
Athanasios C. Micheas and Dipak K. Dey Assessing shape differences in populations of shapes using the complex Watson shape distribution . . . . . . . 105--116 Matthew A. Hall and Matthew S. Mayo The impact of correlated readings on the estimation of the average area under readers' ROC curves . . . . . . . . . . 117--125 J. A. Amaral and E. P. Pereira and M. T. Paixão Data and projections of HIV/AIDS cases in Portugal: an unstoppable epidemic? 127--140 Paul Zhang Multiple imputation of missing data with ante-dependence covariance structure . . 141--155 Victor M. Guerrero Restricted estimation of an adjusted time series: application to Mexico's industrial production index . . . . . . 157--172 Jan Graffelman Enriched biplots for canonical correlation analysis . . . . . . . . . . 173--188 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
S. Hussain and R. Harrison and J. Ayres and S. Walter and J. Hawker and R. Wilson and G. Shukur Estimation and forecasting hospital admissions due to Influenza: Planning for winter pressure. The case of the West Midlands, UK . . . . . . . . . . . 191--205 Sung H. Park and Bum S. Lee and Hyang S. Jung Joint impact of multiple observations on a subset of variables in multiple linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--219 Zhang Wu and Yu Tian and Sheng Zhang Adjusted-loss-function charts with variable sample sizes and sampling intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--242 Duolao Wang and Michael Murphy Identifying Nonlinear Relationships in Regression using the ACE Algorithm . . . 243--258 Ulysses J. Brown III and Dharam S. Rana Generalized exchange and propensity for military service: The moderating effect of prior military exposure . . . . . . . 259--270 Ronald L. Tracy and David P. Doane Using the studentized range to assess kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280 Andrés M. Alonso and Juan J. Romo Forecast of the expected non-epidemic morbidity of acute diseases using resampling methods . . . . . . . . . . . 281--295 Guillermo De León Adams and Pere Grima Cintas and Xavier Tort-Martorell Llabrés Experimentation order in factorial designs with 8 or 16 runs . . . . . . . 297--313 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320
Belén Zalba and Belén Sánchez-valverde and José M. Marín An experimental study of thermal energy storage with phase change materials by design of experiments . . . . . . . . . 321--332 Rolf Aaberge and Li-chun Zhang A class of exact UMP unbiased tests for conditional symmetry in small-sample square contingency tables . . . . . . . 333--340 François Husson and Jérôme Pag\`es Scatter Plot and Additional Variables 341--350 Natasha Yakovchuk and Thomas R. Willemain Monte Carlo comparison of estimation methods for additive two-way tables . . 351--374 Michael I. Zeifman and Dov Ingman Modelling of unexpected shift in SPC . . 375--386 Jadran Dobri\'c and Friedrich Schmid Nonparametric estimation of the lower tail dependence $ \lambda_L $ in bivariate copulas . . . . . . . . . . . 387--407 Dogan Argaç Testing hypotheses on coefficients of variation from a series of two-armed experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--419 Takafumi Isogai Applications of a new power normal family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--436 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--441
Diego Kuonen Studentized bootstrap confidence intervals based on $M$-estimates . . . . 443--460 Thomas P. Ryan and William H. Woodall The most-cited statistical papers . . . 461--474 Mike Nicholson and Jon Barry Target detection from a classical and a Bayesian viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . 475--482 Diane Dancer and Andrew Tremayne R-squared and prediction in regression with ordered quantitative response . . . 483--493 Rand R. Wilcox Estimating the conditional variance of $Y$, given $X$, in a simple regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--502 Gabriel Huerta Multivariate Bayes Wavelet shrinkage and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--542
Jason Dietrich The effects of sampling strategies on the small sample properties of the logit estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--554 Paulo M. M. Rodrigues and Philip Hans Franses A sequential approach to testing seasonal unit roots in high frequency data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--569 John Zhang and Mahmud Ibrahim A simulation study on SPSS ridge regression and ordinary least squares regression procedures for multicollinearity data . . . . . . . . . 571--588 E. Schrevens and H. Coppenolle and K. M. Portier A comparative study between latent class binomial segmentation and mixed-effects logistic regression to explore between-respondent variability in visual preference for horticultural products 589--605 Mark R. Greer Combination forecasting for directional accuracy: an application to survey interest rate forecasts . . . . . . . . 607--615 Man Lai Tang and Ka Ho Wu A unified sequential test procedure for simultaneous testing the equality of several binomial proportions to a specified standard . . . . . . . . . . . 617--624 Christopher R. Illert Origins of linguistic zonation in the Australian Alps. Part 1 --- Huygens' Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--659 Mariam Mahfouz and Pascale Giraudet and Michel Chaput Strategy for a statistical analysis of odour influence on the mammalian olfactory bulb responsiveness . . . . . 661--679 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--682
Saralees Nadarajah A generalized normal distribution . . . 685--694 Xia Pan An alternative approach to multivariate EWMA control chart . . . . . . . . . . . 695--705 Norah R. Al-Ballaa Test for cointegration based on two-stage least squares . . . . . . . . 707--713 M. E. Ghitany and S. Kotz and M. Xie On some reliability measures and their stochastic orderings for the Topp--Leone distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--722 Filidor V. Labra and Reiko Aoki and Heleno Bolfarine Local influence in null intercept measurement error regression under a Student $t$ model . . . . . . . . . . . 723--740 M. A. Alkhamisi and Ghazi Shukur Bayesian analysis of a linear mixed model with AR($p$) errors via MCMC . . . 741--755 Donna L. Mohr Confidence limits for estimates of totals from stratified samples, with application to Medicare Part B overpayment audits . . . . . . . . . . . 757--769 Emilio Gómez-déniz and Francisco J. Vázquez-polo Modelling uncertainty in insurance Bonus--Malus premium principles by using a Bayesian robustness approach . . . . . 771--784
Tsung-Shan Tsou Inferences of variance function --- a parametric robust way . . . . . . . . . 785--796 Juan Miguel Marín and Lluis M. Pl\`a and David Ríos-Insua Forecasting for some stochastic process models related to sow farm management 797--812 Yuehjen E. Shao and John W. Fowler and George C. Runger A note on determining an optimal target by considering the dependence of holding costs and the quality characteristics 813--822 Arturo J. Fernández Progressively censored variables sampling plans for two-parameter exponential distributions . . . . . . . 823--829 C. MantéJ. P. Durbec and J. C. Dauvin A functional data-analytic approach to the classification of species according to their spatial dispersion. Application to a marine macrobenthic community from the Bay of Morlaix (Western English Channel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--840 Yoon Young Jung and Dong Wan Shin and Man-Suk Oh Bayesian analysis of panel data using an MTAR model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--854 Dejian Lai and Shyang-Yun Pamela K. Shiao Comparing two clinical measurements: a linear mixed model approach . . . . . . 855--860 Joseph Brian Adams and Yijin Wert Logistic and neural network models for predicting a hospital admission . . . . 861--869
Duolao Wang and Pengjun Lu Modelling and forecasting mortality distributions in England and Wales using the Lee--Carter model . . . . . . . . . 873--885 André I. Khuri Slack-variable models versus Scheffé's mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--908 Yoeng-Kuan Chang and Deng-Yuan Huang On some robust estimation procedures for quantiles based on data . . . . . . . . 909--927 A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon Identifying multiple influential observations in linear regression . . . 929--946 Jacques Bénasséni A concentration study of principal components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--957 Edward J. Bedrick Graphical modelling and the Mahalanobis distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959--967 Hugh A. Chipman and Hong Gu Interpretable dimension reduction . . . 969--987
Gabriel Nuñez-Antonio and Eduardo Gutiérrez-Peña A Bayesian analysis of directional data using the projected normal distribution 995--1001 W. L. Pearn and M. H. Shu and B. M. Hsu Testing process capability based on $ C_{pm} $ in the presence of random measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1024 M. E. Ghitany and E. K. Al-Hussaini and R. A. Al-Jarallah Marshall--Olkin extended Weibull distribution and its application to censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1034 Marc Callens and Christophe Croux The impact of education on third births. A multilevel discrete-time hazard analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1050 Bìrdal \cSeno\uglu Robust $ 2^k $ factorial design with Weibull error distributions . . . . . . 1051--1066 D. T. Shirke and R. R. Kumbhar and D. Kundu Tolerance intervals for exponentiated scale family of distributions . . . . . 1067--1074 J. López-Fidalgo and J. M. Rodríguez-Díaz and G. Sánchez and M. T. Santos-Martín Optimal designs for compartmental models with correlated observations . . . . . . 1075--1088 Douglas G. Bonett Robust confidence interval for a residual standard deviation . . . . . . 1089--1094
Patrick D. Bourke The \rm RL$_2$ chart versus the $ n p $ chart for detecting upward shifts in fraction defective . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Yoshio Komori Properties of the Weibull cumulative exposure model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--34 Daniel Hunt and Dale Bowman Modeling developmental data using U-shaped threshold dose-response curves 35--47 Lee-Ing Tong and Chien-Hui Yang Analyzing type II censored data obtained from repetitious experiments . . . . . . 49--63 Li-Ping Zhu and Li-Xing Zhu and Shi-Song Mao A non-iterative approach to estimating parameters in a linear structural equation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--78 Markus Neuhäuser An exact test for trend among binomial proportions based on a modified Baumgartner--Weiß--Schindler statistic 79--88 Enrique De Alba and Juan J. Fernández-Durán and M. Mercedes Gregorio-Domínguez Bayesian inference for the mean and standard deviation of a normal population when only the sample size, mean and range are observed . . . . . . 89--99 D. Muthuraj and D. Senthilkumar Designing and construction of tightened-normal-tightened variables sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
Teo Ja\vsi\'c and Douglas Wood Testing for efficiency and non-linearity in market and natural time series . . . 113--138 S. Balamurali and Chi-Hyuck Jun Average outgoing quality of CSP-C continuous sampling plan under short run production processes . . . . . . . . . . 139--154 Yangxin Huang and Hulin Wu A Bayesian approach for estimating antiviral efficacy in HIV dynamic models 155--174 Ashis Sengupta and Fidelis I. Ugwuowo Modelling multi-stage processes through multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 175--188 Alberto Luceño and Jaime Puig-Pey The random intrinsic fast initial response of one-sided CUSUM charts . . . 189--201 Nobuko Miyamoto and Kouji Tahata and Hirokazu Ebie and Sadao Tomizawa Marginal inhomogeneity models for square contingency tables with nominal categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--215 D. J. Spiegelhalter and E. C. Marshall Strategies for inference robustness in focused modelling . . . . . . . . . . . 217--232 Steven Cook A finite-sample sensitivity analysis of the Dickey--Fuller test under local-to-unity detrending . . . . . . . 233--240
Richard Woodhouse Graphical solutions for structural regression assist errors-in-variables modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--255 E. Andersson and D. Bock and M. Frisén Some statistical aspects of methods for detection of turning points in business cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--278 Fong-jung Yu and Jiang-liang Hou Optimization of design parameters for control charts with multiple assignable causes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--290 R. R. L. Kantam and G. Srinivasa Rao and B. Sriram An economic reliability test plan: Log-logistic distribution . . . . . . . 291--296 A. M. Wade and K. Lawrence and W. Mandy and D. Skuse Charting the development of emotion recognition from 6 years of age . . . . 297--315 Rand R. Wilcox Confidence intervals for prediction intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--326 S. Balamurali and Chi-hyuck Jun Repetitive group sampling procedure for variables inspection . . . . . . . . . . 327--338 Kanti V. Mardia and Paul McDonnell and Alf D. Linney Penalized image averaging and discrimination with facial and fishery applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--371
Stefano Barone and Alberto Lombardo Balanced Asymmetrical Nearly Orthogonal Designs for first and second order effect estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 373--386 Murat Kulahci and Sòren Bisgaard A generalization of the alias matrix . . 387--395 Greg F. Piepel A note comparing component-slope, Scheffé; and Cox parameterizations of the linear mixture experiment model . . . . 397--403 Ron S. Kenett On the planning and design of sample surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415 Sungcheol Yun and So Young Sohn and Youngjo Lee Modelling and estimating heavy-tailed non-homogeneous correlated queues: Pareto-inverse gamma HGLM with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--425 Issam K. Samarah and Gamal S. Weheba and Thomas E. Lacy Response surface characterization of the mechanical behavior of impact-damaged sandwich composites . . . . . . . . . . 427--437 Subha Chakraborti Parameter estimation and design considerations in prospective applications of the $ X^- $ chart . . . 439--459 Christopher M. Pomory A note on calculating $P$ values from $ 0.15$--$ 0.005$ for the Anderson--Darling normality test using the $F$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . 461--462 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--466
L. A. McSweeney Monitoring paper production using a spectral control chart designed to detect in the presence of multiple cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--480 Roberta Zizza A measure of output gap for Italy through structural time series models 481--496 Chang C. Y. Dorea and Sueli A. Mingoti Estimating the total number of distinct species using quadrat sampling and under-dependence structure . . . . . . . 497--512 S. S. Ganguly Cumulative logit models for matched pairs case-control design: Studies with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--522 Kaliappa Kalirajan and Shashanka Bhide Bias free measurement of technical efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--533 Jennifer A. Mooney and Ian T. Jolliffe and Peter J. Helms Modelling seasonally varying data: a case study for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--547 J. Peng and C. I. C. Lee and L. Liu Max-min multiple comparison procedure for comparing several dose levels with a zero dose control . . . . . . . . . . . 549--555 M. Khazaee and K. Shafie Regression models for Boolean random sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--567 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--574
Adelaide Figueiredo Two-way analysis of variance for data from a concentrated bipolar Watson distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--581 James D. Stamey and Dean M. Young and Tom L. Bratcher Bayesian sample-size determination for one and two Poisson rate parameters with applications to quality control . . . . 583--594 Tzong-Ru Tsai and Shuo-Jye Wu Acceptance sampling based on truncated life tests for generalized Rayleigh distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--600 Ashish Das and Sudhir Gupta and Sanpei Kageyama $A$-optimal diallel crosses for test versus control comparisons . . . . . . . 601--608 Ian L. Dryden and Rahman Farnoosh and Charles C. Taylor Image segmentation using Voronoi polygons and MCMC, with application to muscle fibre images . . . . . . . . . . 609--622 Martin Arvidsson and Ida Gremyr and Bo Bergman Interpretation of dispersion effects in a robust design context . . . . . . . . 623--627 Petros Hadjicostas Maximizing proportions of correct classifications in binary logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--640 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--644
G. Yi and S. Coleman and Q. Ren CUSUM method in predicting regime shifts and its performance in different stock markets allowing for transaction fees 647--661 Rob Deardon and Steven G. Gilmour and Neil A. Butler and Kath Phelps and Roy Kennedy Designing field experiments which are subject to representation bias . . . . . 663--678 Alan D. Hutson Modifying the exact test for a binomial proportion and comparisons with other approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--690 Shih-Chou Kao and Chuan-Ching Ho and Ying-Chin Ho Transforming the exponential by minimizing the sum of the absolute differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--702 Michael A. Martin and Steven Roberts An evaluation of bootstrap methods for outlier detection in least squares regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--720 Markus Neuhäuser and Ludwig A. Hothorn A robust modification of the ordered-heterogeneity test . . . . . . . 721--727 Alex Riba and Josep Ginebra Diversity of vocabulary and homogeneity of literary style . . . . . . . . . . . 729--741 Farid Zayeri and Anoshirvan Kazemnejad A latent variable regression model for asymmetric bivariate ordered categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--753 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--758
Wen-Den Chen Testing for spurious regression in a panel data model with the individual number and time length growing . . . . . 759--772 Tony Cooper and Mary G. Leitnaker Further exploratory analysis of split-plot experiments to study certain stratified effects . . . . . . . . . . . 773--786 Sanaa A. Ismail and Hesham A. Auda Bayesian and fiducial inference for the inverse Gaussian distribution via Gibbs sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--805 Yuang-Chin Chiang and Lin-An Chen and Hsien-Chueh Peter Yang Symmetric quantiles and their applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--817 E. Ayuga Téllez and A. J. Martín Fernández and C. González García and E. Martínez Falero Estimation of non-parametric regression for dasometric measures . . . . . . . . 819--836 Jixian Wang Optimal parametric design with applications to pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic trials . . . . . . . . . 837--852 Seong-Keon Lee and Seohoon Jin Decision tree approaches for zero-inflated count data . . . . . . . . 853--865 Drgabriel Escarela and Jacques F. Carriére A bivariate model of claim frequencies and severities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--883 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--890
Ayoe Hoff Bootstrapping Malmquist Indices for Danish Seiners in the North Sea and Skagerrak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--907 Masakazu Iwasaki and Hiroe Tsubaki Bivariate Negative Binomial Generalized Linear Models for Environmental Count Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--923 Mak Kaboudan Computational Forecasting of Wavelet-converted Monthly Sunspot Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--941 Murat Küçük and Necati A\ugiralio\uglu Wavelet Regression Technique for Streamflow Prediction . . . . . . . . . 943--960 Kuo-Yuan Liang and Jack C. Lee and Kurt S. H. Shao On the Distribution of the Inverted Linear Compound of Dependent $F$-Variates and its Application to the Combination of Forecasts . . . . . . . . 961--973 Ho-Seog Kang and Kee-Hoon Kang and Sung H. Park Minimax Designs for the Stability of Slope Estimation on Second-order Response Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 975--988 Christopher R. Illert Origins of Linguistic Zonation in the Australian Alps. Part 2 --- Snell's Law 989--1030 Saralees Nadarajah Acknowledgement of Priority: the Generalized Normal Distribution . . . . 1031--1032 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1035
Pradeep George and Madara M. Ogot A Compromise Experimental Design Method for Parametric Polynomial Response Surface Approximations . . . . . . . . . 1037--1050 Steven Cook and Alan Speight International Business Cycle Asymmetry and Time Irreversible Nonlinearities . . 1051--1065 Kamziah Abd Kudus and A. C. Kimber and J. Lapongan A Parametric Model for the Interval Censored Survival Times of \em Acacia Mangium Plantation in a Spacing Trial 1067--1074 Ian G. McHale and Patrick J. Laycock Applications of a General Stable Law Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1084 Eiji Minemura An Interest-rate Model Analysis Based on Data Augmentation Bayesian Forecasting 1085--1104 W. L. Pearn and Y. C. Chang and Chien-Wei Wu Measuring Process Performance Based on Expected Loss with Asymmetric Tolerances 1105--1120 Bradley T. Ewing and Teresa Kerr and Mark A. Thompson Do Flow Rates Respond Asymmetrically to Water Level? Evidence from the Edwards Aquifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1129 Kenneth Rice and David Spiegelhalter A Simple Diagnostic Plot Connecting Robust Estimation, Outlier Detection, and False Discovery Rates . . . . . . . 1131--1147 M. C. Jones Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1151
Alice S. Whittemore A Bayesian False Discovery Rate for Multiple Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 Amy Ming-Fang Yen and Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen Mixture Multi-state Markov Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--21 K. D. Patterson Bias Reduction through First-order Mean Correction, Bootstrapping and Recursive Mean Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--45 Noriah M. Al-Kandari and Sana S. BuHamra and S. E. Ahmed Testing and Merging Information for Effect Size Estimation . . . . . . . . . 47--60 Agnes M. Herzberg and Richard G. Jarrett $A$-Optimal Block Designs with Additional Singly Replicated Treatments 61--70 Housila P. Singh and Mariano Ruiz Espejo Double Sampling Ratio-product Estimator of a Finite Population Mean in Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85 Thorsten Thadewald and Herbert Büning Jarque--Bera Test and its Competitors for Testing Normality --- a Power Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--105 Zhiguo Wang and Jinde Wang and Xue Liang Non-parametric Estimation for NHPP Software Reliability Models . . . . . . 107--119 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127
Howard D. Bondell and Aiyi Liu and Enrique F. Schisterman Statistical Inference Based on Pooled Data: a Moment-Based Estimating Equation Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 Bìrdal \cSeno\uglu Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of Linear Contrasts in Analysis of Covariance with Stochastic Covariates 141--151 A. F. Militino and M. D. Ugarte and T. Goicoa A BLUP Synthetic Versus an EBLUP Estimator: An Empirical Study of a Small Area Estimation Problem . . . . . . . . 153--165 E. Kolaiti and C. Koukouvinos A Comparison of Three-level Orthogonal Arrays in the Presence of a Possible Correlation in Observations . . . . . . 167--175 Yi-Ting Hwang and Peir-Feng Wei A Remark on the Zhang Omnibus Test for Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184 Saralees Nadarajah and Samuel Kotz On the Linear Combination of Laplace and Logistic Random Variables . . . . . . . 185--194 Zeinab H. Amin Tests for the Validity of the Assumption that the Underlying Distribution of Life is Pareto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201 L. Corain and L. Salmaso A Non-parametric Method for Defining a Global Preference Ranking of Industrial Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216 C. A. Glasbey and G. W. A. M. Van Der Heijden Alignment and Sub-pixel Interpolation of Images using Fourier Methods . . . . . . 217--230 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--238
Arup Kumar Das Application of Multivariate Analysis to Increase the Yield of Dry Cell Batteries 239--248 Indranil Mukhopadhyay and Sudipta Chatterjee and Aditya Chatterjee Towards Enhancement of the Economy of a Thermal Power Generating System through Prediction of Plant Efficiency . . . . . 249--259 Mohamed Boutahar and Vêlayoudom Marimoutou and Leíla Nouira Estimation Methods of the Long Memory Parameter: Monte Carlo Analysis and Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--301 Lilian M. De Menezes and Ana Lasaosa Comparing Fits of Latent Trait and Latent Class Models Applied to Sparse Binary Data: An Illustration with Human Resource Management Data . . . . . . . . 303--319 Andreas Diekmann Not the First Digit! Using Benford's Law to Detect Fraudulent Scientific Data . . 321--329 Kang-Mo Jung Least Trimmed Squares Estimator in the Errors-in-Variables Model . . . . . . . 331--338 Jabu S. Sithole and Peter W. Jones Bivariate Longitudinal Model for Detecting Prescribing Change in Two Drugs Simultaneously with Correlated Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--352 Rand R. Wilcox Robust ANCOVA: Some Small-sample Results when there are Multiple Groups and Multiple Covariates . . . . . . . . . . 353--364 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--369
Jan G. De Gooijer Power of the Neyman Smooth Test for Evaluating Multivariate Forecast Densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--381 Mark Evans and Richard E. Johnston Stochastic Modelling of Times to Temperature for Furnaces Supplying Titanium Blooms to a Rolling Mill at TIMET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--397 Haritini Tsangari An Alternative Methodology for Combining Different Forecasting Models . . . . . . 403--421 Larry W. Taylor Nonparametric Estimation of Duration Dependence in Militarized Interstate Disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--441 Shashibhushan B. Mahadik and Digambar T. Shirke On the Superiority of a Variable Sampling Interval Control Chart . . . . 443--458 Jeffrey E. Jarrett and Xia Pan Monitoring Variability and Analyzing Multivariate Autocorrelated Processes 459--469 Perla Subbaiah and George Xia Robustness of Inference for One-sample Problem with Correlated Observations . . 471--486 Andriy Andreev and Antti Kanto and Pekka Malo Computational Examples of a New Method for Distribution Selection in the Pearson System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--506 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--509
Prasun Das and Sasadhar Bera Standardization of Process Norms in Baker's Yeast Fermentation through Statistical Models in Comparison with Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--527 Daniel Gembris and John G. Taylor and Dieter Suter Evolution of Athletic Records: Statistical Effects versus Real Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--545 S. Magnussen and R. Reeves Sample-based Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Autologistic Model . . 547--561 Li-Chu Chien and Tsung-Shan Tsou Regression Diagnostic under Model Misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--575 Seema Jaggi and Cini Varghese and V. K. Gupta Optimal Circular Block Designs for Neighbouring Competition Effects . . . . 577--584 Paul Gustafson and S. Siddarth Describing the Dynamics of Attention to TV Commercials: a Hierarchical Bayes Analysis of the Time to Zap an Ad . . . 585--609 A. Felipe and M. L. Menéndez and L. Pardo Order-restricted Dose-related Trend Phi-divergence Tests for Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--623 Shannon E. Allen and Burt Holland Expected Mean Squares for Hierarchical Factorial Layouts with Population Imbalance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--637 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--643
Patrick Roger and Marie-Helene Broihanne Efficiency of Betting Markets and Rationality of Players: Evidence from the French 6/49 Lotto . . . . . . . . . 645--662 R. B. Arellano-Valle and H. Bolfarine and V. H. Lachos Bayesian Inference for Skew-normal Linear Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . 663--682 Lourdes Pozueta and Xavier Tort-Martorell and Lluis Marco Identifying Dispersion Effects in Robust Design Experiments --- Issues and Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--699 Manoj Chacko and P. Yageen Thomas Estimation of a Parameter of Bivariate Pareto Distribution by Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--714 Chien-Tai Lin and Cheng-Chieh Chou Empirical-distribution-function Tests for the Beta-Binomial Model . . . . . . 715--724 Hongmei Zhang Inferences on the Number of Unseen Species and the Number of Abundant/Rare Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--740 Juan Sun and Lifu Bi and Yaojun Chi and Guowei Huang and Chun Fan and Kazuo Aoki and Akihiro Kono and Tian Hui and Junichi Misumi The Impact of Ovarian Cancer on Life Expectancy in Japan . . . . . . . . . . 741--747 Juan Antonio Cuesta-Albertos and Ricardo Fraiman and Antonio Galves and Jesús Garcia and Marcela Svarc Classifying Speech Sonority Functional Data using a Projected Kolmogorov--Smirnov Approach . . . . . . 749--761 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--769
Trevor Park Alternative Penalty Functions for Penalized Likelihood Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--777 Man Yu Wong and D. R. Cox On the Screening of Large Numbers of Significance Tests . . . . . . . . . . . 779--783 Mohamed El Ghourabi and Mohamed Limam Residual Responses to Change Patterns of Autocorrelated Processes . . . . . . . . 785--798 R. Vijayaraghavan Minimum Size Double Sampling Plans for Large Isolated Lots . . . . . . . . . . 799--806 Carlos Díaz Avalos Spatial Modeling of Habitat Preferences of Biological Species using Markov Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--821 J\=uraté \vsaltyté Benth and Fred Espen Benth and Paulius Jalinskas A Spatial-temporal Model for Temperature with Seasonal Variance . . . . . . . . . 823--841 Zhang Wu and Qinan Wang An NP Control Chart Using Double Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--855 Tee Chin Chang and Fah Fatt Gan Modified Shewhart Charts for High Yield Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--877 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--885
J. A. Roldán Nofuentes and J. D. Luna Del Castillo Risk of Error and the Kappa Coefficient of a Binary Diagnostic Test in the Presence of Partial Verification . . . . 887--898 Neil B. Marks Kolmogorov--Smirnov Test Statistic and Critical Values for the Erlang-3 and Erlang-4 Distributions . . . . . . . . . 899--906 Feng-Chang Xie and Bo-Cheng Wei and Jin-Guan Lin Case-deletion Influence Measures for the Data from Multivariate $t$ Distributions 907--921 Harriet Namata and Ziv Shkedy and Christel Faes and Marc Aerts and Geert Molenberghs and Heide Theeten and Pierre Van Damme and Philippe Beutels Estimation of the Force of Infection from Current Status Data Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models . . . . 923--939 W. L. Pearn and F. K. Wang and C. H. Yen Multivariate Capability Indices: Distributional and Inferential Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--962 Terence C. Mills A Note on Trend Decomposition: The ``Classical'' Approach Revisited with an Application to Surface Temperature Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--972 Edgardo J. Escalante-Vázquez SPC Study of a Brewing Process . . . . . 973--984 Olena Babak and Birgir Hrafnkelsson and Olafur P. Palsson Estimation of the Length Distribution of Marine Populations in the Gaussian-multinomial Setting using the Method of Moments . . . . . . . . . . . 985--991 Wai-Yin Poon and Yat Sun Poon Local Conditional Influence . . . . . . 997--1009 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1017
Dianxu Ren and Roslyn A. Stone A Bayesian Adjustment for Covariate Misclassification with Correlated Binary Outcome Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1034 Pasquale Sarnacchiaro and Antonello D'ambra Explorative Data Analysis and CATANOVA for Ordinal Variables: An Integrated Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1050 Jonggun Lim and Sangun Park Censored Kullback--Leibler Information and Goodness-of-Fit Test with Type II Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1064 Seunggeun Hyun and Yanqing Sun Hypotheses Tests of Strain-specific Vaccine Efficacy Adjusted for Covariate Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1073 J. D. Bermúdez and J. V. Segura and E. Vercher Holt--Winters Forecasting: An Alternative Formulation Applied to UK Air Passenger Data . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1090 Edoardo Otrano and Umberto Triacca Testing for Equal Predictability of Stationary ARMA Processes . . . . . . . 1091--1108 Chien-Wei Wu and M. H. Shu A Bayesian Procedure for Assessing Process Performance Based on Expected Relative Loss with Asymmetric Tolerances 1109--1123 C. Xu and P. A. Dowd and K. V. Mardia and R. J. Fowell and C. C. Taylor Simulating Correlated Marked-point Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125--1134 Gopal K. Kanji and Parvesh K. Chopra Poverty as a System: Human Contestability Approach to Poverty Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1158 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159--1164
Ignacio Vidal and Pilar Iglesias and Manuel Galea Influential Observations in the Functional Measurement Error Model . . . 1165--1183 Pilar Olave and Manuel Salvador Semi-parametric Bayesian Analysis of the Proportional Hazard Rate Model An Application to the Effect of Training Programs on Graduate Unemployment . . . 1185--1205 Alberto Luceño A Universal $ Q Q $-Plot for Continuous Non-homogeneous Populations . . . . . . 1207--1223 David E. Clark and Louise M. Ryan and F. L. Lucas A Multi-state Piecewise Exponential Model of Hospital Outcomes after Injury 1225--1239 Chrys Caroni and Nedret Billor Robust Detection of Multiple Outliers in Grouped Multivariate Data . . . . . . . 1241--1250 Paramjit S. Gill and Tim B. Swartz and Michael Treschow A Stylometric Analysis of King Alfred's Literary Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1258 Daniel Yasumasa Takahashi and Luiz Antonio Baccal and Koichi Sameshima Connectivity Inference between Neural Structures via Partial Directed Coherence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259--1273 Òyvind Langsrud and Kjetil Jòrgensen and Ragni Ofstad and Tormod Næs Analyzing Designed Experiments with Multiple Responses . . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1296 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297--1301
Anonymous Professor Gopal Kanji's retirement as editor of \em Journal of Applied Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8 Rand R. Wilcox \em Post-hoc analyses in multiple regression based on prediction error . . 9--17 Erik Mònness and Kim Pearce and Shirley Coleman Comparing a survey and a conjoint study: the future vision of water intermediaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30 Hongying Dai and Richard Charnigo Omnibus testing and gene filtration in microarray data analysis . . . . . . . . 31--47 Xiaomo Jiang and Sankaran Mahadevan Bayesian validation assessment of multivariate computational models . . . 49--65 Gülser Köksal and Burcu Kantar and Taylan Ali Ula and Murat Caner Testik The effect of Phase I sample size on the run length performance of control charts for autocorrelated data . . . . . . . . 67--87 S. Chakraborti and S. W. Human Properties and performance of the $c$-chart for attributes data . . . . . 89--100 Mahdi A. Alkhamisi and Ghadban Khalaf and Ghazi Shukur The effect of fat-tailed error terms on the properties of systemwise RESET test 101--113 Daniel X. Wang and Michael D. Conerly Evaluating the power of Minitab's data subsetting lack of fit test in multiple linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
R. L. J. Coetzer and D. H. Morgan and H. Maumela Optimization of a catalyst system through the sequential application of experimental design techniques . . . . . 131--147 R. Vijayaraghavan and K. Rajagopal and A. Loganathan A procedure for selection of a gamma-Poisson single sampling plan by attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--160 Kim F. Pearce and Shirley Y. Coleman Modern-day perception of historic footwear and its links to preference . . 161--178 Manuel Galea and JoséA. Díaz-García and Filidor Vilca Influence diagnostics in the capital asset pricing model under elliptical distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192 Emil B. Berendt Contracts, livestock, and the Bernoulli process: an application of statistics to B. Traven's ``Cattle Drive'' . . . . . . 193--202 Pankaj Sinha and Ashok K. Bansal Bayesian optimization analysis with ML-II $ \epsilon $-contaminated prior 203--211 David Bock Aspects on the control of false alarms in statistical surveillance and the impact on the return of financial decision systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--227 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--232
Rafael Pino-Mejías and Mercedes Carrasco-Mairena and Antonio Pascual-Acosta and María-Dolores Cubiles-De-La-Vega and Joaquín Muñoz-García A comparison of classification models to identify the Fragile X Syndrome . . . . 233--244 Raghu Nandan Sengupta Use of asymmetric loss functions in sequential estimation problems for multiple linear regression . . . . . . . 245--261 Francesco Pauli and Laura Rizzi Summer temperature effects on deaths and hospital admissions among the elderly population in two Italian cities . . . . 263--276 P. Angelopoulos and C. Koukouvinos Detecting active effects in unreplicated designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--281 Sung-Soo Kim and Sung H. Park and W. J. Krzanowski Simultaneous variable selection and outlier identification in linear regression using the mean-shift outlier model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291 Tonglin Zhang and Ge Lin Identification of local clusters for count data: a model-based Moran's $I$ test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--306 Anuradha Roy Computation aspects of the parameter estimates of linear mixed effects model in multivariate repeated measures set-up 307--320 Murari Singh and Michael J. Jones Modelling spatial--temporal covariance structures in monocropping barley trials 321--333 Man-Lai Tang and Maozai Tian and Ping-Shing Chan On the bootstrap quantile-treatment-effect test . . . . . 335--350 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--356
Enrique González-Dávila and Josep Ginebra and Roberto Dorta-Guerra Sample size determination for $ 2^{k - r} $ experiments with a binomial response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--367 M. Ruiz and F. J. Girón and C. J. Pérez and J. Martín and C. Rojano A Bayesian model for multinomial sampling with misclassified data . . . . 369--382 Jose Manuel Pavía-Miralles and Beatriz Larraz-Iribas Quick counts from non-selected polling stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--405 Patrícia L. Espinheira and Silvia L. P. Ferrari and Francisco Cribari-Neto On beta regression residuals . . . . . . 407--419 Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay Multivariate attribute control chart using Mahalanobis $ D^2 $ statistic . . 421--429 Abdullah Almasri and Håkan Locking and Ghazi Shukur Testing for climate warming in Sweden during 1850--1999, using wavelets analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--443 Viswanathan Shankar and Shrikant I. Bangdiwala Behavior of agreement measures in the presence of zero cells and biased marginal distributions . . . . . . . . . 445--464 Hsiuying Wang Ranking responses in multiple-choice questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--474 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--479
D. J. Best and J. C. W. Rayner and O. Thas $ X^2 $ and its components as tests of normality for grouped data . . . . . . . 481--492 Dilip Nachane and Jose G. Clavel Forecasting interest rates: a comparative assessment of some second-generation nonlinear models . . . 493--514 Takafumi Isogai and Hiroaki Uchida and Susumu Miyama and Sadao Nishiyama Statistical modeling of enamel rater value data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--535 Stephen W. Duffy and Anne-Helene Olsen and Rhian Gabe and László Tabár and Jane Warwick and Hilary Fielder and Laufey Tryggvadóttir and Olorunsola F. Agbaje Screening opportunity bias in case-control studies of cancer screening 537--546 Steven Cook The sensitivity of robust unit root tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--557 Sat Gupta and Javid Shabbir On improvement in estimating the population mean in simple random sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--566 Adam J. Branscum and Timothy E. Hanson and Ian A. Gardner Bayesian non-parametric models for regional prevalence estimation . . . . . 567--582 Bahadur Singh and Susan Halabi and Michael J. Schell Sample size selection in clinical trials when population means are subject to a partial order: one-sided ordered alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--600
R. Scott Hacker and Abdulnasser Hatemi-J Optimal lag-length choice in stable and unstable VAR models under situations of homoscedasticity and ARCH . . . . . . . 601--615 J. López-Fidalgo and R. Martín-Martín and M. Stehlík Marginally restricted $D$-optimal designs for correlated observations . . 617--632 Rahul Mazumder Fluid flow pattern analysis in a trough region: a nonparametric approach . . . . 633--645 H. Jiang and M. Xie and L. C. Tang Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for parameter estimation of the modified Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 647--658 Valentin Rousson Monotone fitting for developmental variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--670 C. D. Lai and K. Govindaraju Reduction of control-chart signal variability for high-quality processes 671--679 Tapio Nummi and Laura Koskela Analysis of growth curve data by using cubic smoothing splines . . . . . . . . 681--691 Ashis Sengupta and Arnab Kumar Laha A Bayesian analysis of the change-point problem for directional data . . . . . . 693--700 Byoung Cheol Jung and AndréI. Khuri and Juneyoung Lee Comparison of designs for the three-fold nested random model . . . . . . . . . . 701--715
Teresa Alpuim and Abdel El-Shaarawi On the efficiency of regression analysis with AR($p$) errors . . . . . . . . . . 717--737 Philip Prescott and Norman R. Draper $D$-optimal mixture component-amount designs for quadratic and cubic models 739--749 Simos G. Meintanis New inference procedures for generalized Poisson distributions . . . . . . . . . 751--762 Sueli A. Mingoti and Júlia P. De Carvalho and Joab De Oliveira Lima On the estimation of serial correlation in Markov-dependent production processes 763--771 Sigyn Mark and Sture Holm Test and prediction in factorial models with independent variance estimates . . 773--782 Mahmoud A. Mahmoud and William H. Woodall and Robert E. Davis Performance comparison of some likelihood ratio-based statistical surveillance methods . . . . . . . . . . 783--798 Edward L. Boone and Susan J. Simmons and Haikun Bao and Ann E. Stapleton Bayesian hierarchical regression models for detecting QTLs in plant experiments 799--808 A. F. B. Costa and M. A. G. Machado Bivariate control charts with double sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--822 Andrew Robinson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--824
HervéCardot and Philippe Maisongrande and Robert Faivre Varying-time random effects models for longitudinal data: unmixing and temporal interpolation of remote-sensing data . . 827--846 Cody Hamilton and Tom L. Bratcher and James D. Stamey Bayesian subset selection approach to ranking normal means . . . . . . . . . . 847--851 Herbert Büning and Michael Rietz Adaptive bootstrap tests and its competitors in the $c$-sample scale problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--866 P. S. Chan and H. K. T. Ng and N. Balakrishnan Statistical inference for start-up demonstration tests with rejection of units upon observing $d$ failures . . . 867--878 Wen-Den Chen Detecting and identifying interventions with the Whittle spectral approach in a long memory panel data model . . . . . . 879--892 Gemechis D. Djira and Volker Guiard and Frank Bretz Efficient and easy-to-use sample size formulas in ratio-based non-inferiority tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--900 Sermin Elevli and Nevin Uzgören and Birol Elevli Correspondence analysis of repair data: a case study for electric cable shovels 901--908 George E. Halkos and Ilias S. Kevork A sequential procedure for testing the existence of a random walk model in finite samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--925 Donghoh Kim and Youngjo Lee and Hee-Seok Oh A fast wavelet approach for recovering damaged images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--938 Kepher H. Makambi Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--940 Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--942 David Wooff Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--944
Robert G. Aykroyd Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--946 Sugnet Gardner-Lubbe and Ni\=el J. Le Roux and John C. Gowers Measures of fit in principal component and canonical variate analyses . . . . . 947--965 Edward L. Boone and Bronson P. Bullock Spatial correlation matrix selection using Bayesian model averaging to characterize inter-tree competition in loblolly pine trees . . . . . . . . . . 967--977 David Almorza and M. Hortensia García Results of exploratory data analysis in the broken stick model . . . . . . . . . 979--983 Claudia Lautensack Fitting three-dimensional Laguerre tessellations to foam structures . . . . 985--995 Carmen Armero and Antonio López-Quílez and Rut López-Sánchez Bayesian assessment of times to diagnosis in breast cancer screening . . 997--1009 Nicolas Bousquet Diagnostics of prior-data agreement in applied Bayesian analysis . . . . . . . 1011--1029 A. Georgievska and L. Georgievska and A. Stojanovic and N. Todorovic Sovereign rescheduling probabilities in emerging markets: a comparison with credit rating agencies' ratings . . . . 1031--1051 Cristina Rueda-Sabater and Pedro C. Alvarez-Esteban The analysis of age-specific fertility patterns via logistic models . . . . . . 1053--1070 Klara Goethals and Paul Janssen and Luc Duchateau Frailty models and copulas: similarities and differences . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1079
Honghu Liu and Yan Zheng and Jie Shen Goodness-of-fit measures of $ R^2 $ for repeated measures mixed effect models 1081--1092 Lawrence E. Raffalovich and Glenn D. Deane and David Armstrong and Hui-Shien Tsao Model selection procedures in social research: Monte-Carlo simulation results 1093--1114 Donatella Vicari and Johan Rene Van Dorp and Samuel Kotz Two-sided generalized Topp and Leone (TS-GTL) distributions . . . . . . . . . 1115--1129 Terence C. Mills Predicting body fat using weight--height indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1138 Shuo-Jye Wu Estimation of the two-parameter bathtub-shaped lifetime distribution with progressive censoring . . . . . . . 1139--1150 Subburaj Ramasamy and Gopal Govindasamy A software reliability growth model addressing learning . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1168 Stavros Degiannakis ARFIMAX and ARFIMAX-TARCH realized volatility modeling . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1180 Lin-An Chen and Hsien-Chueh Peter Yang and Chau-Shyun Tang Mode type quasi-range and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1192 Abbas Moghimbeigi and Mohammed Reza Eshraghian and Kazem Mohammad and Brian Mcardle Multilevel zero-inflated negative binomial regression modeling for over-dispersed count data with extra zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1202
Zeinab H. Amin Bayesian inference for the Pareto lifetime model under progressive censoring with binomial removals . . . . 1203--1217 Eun Sug Park and Roger E. Smith and Thomas J. Freeman and Clifford H. Spiegelman A Bayesian approach for improved pavement performance prediction . . . . 1219--1238 V. G. Cancho and Reiko Aoki and V. H. Lachos Bayesian analysis for a skew extension of the multivariate null intercept measurement error model . . . . . . . . 1239--1251 M. D. Ugarte and A. F. Militino and T. Goicoa Adjusting economic estimates in business surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253--1265 Zhang Wu and Jianxin Jiao and Ying Liu A binomial CUSUM chart for detecting large shifts in fraction nonconforming 1267--1276 Md. Mostafizur Rahman and Jian-Ping Zhu and M. Sayedur Rahman Impact study of volatility modelling of Bangladesh stock index using non-normal density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1292 Shuo-Jye Wu and Chun-Tao Chang and Kang-Jun Liao and Syuan-Rong Huang Planning of progressive group-censoring life tests with cost considerations . . 1293--1304 Dong Wan Shin and Yoon Young Jung and Man-Suk Oh Double unit root tests for cross-sectionally dependent panel data 1305--1321
Ronny Vallejos Assessing the association between two spatial or temporal sequences . . . . . 1323--1343 M. Jahanshahi and M. H. Sanati and Z. Babaei Optimization of parameters for the fabrication of gelatin nanoparticles by the Taguchi robust design method . . . . 1345--1353 Peter C. Austin The large-sample performance of backwards variable elimination . . . . . 1355--1370 Shaul K. Bar-Lev Point and confidence interval estimates for a global maximum via extreme value theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371--1381 Krishna K. Saha Semiparametric estimation for the dispersion parameter in the analysis of over- or underdispersed count data . . . 1383--1397 P. Angelopoulos and C. Koukouvinos Some robust parameter designs from orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 1399--1408 Arnab Maity and Michael Sherman On adaptive linear regression . . . . . 1409--1422 Jacques A. Pienaar Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1424 Jacques A. Pienaar Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425--1426 Stuart Barber Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1427--1428
A. Mukhopadhyay and A. Iqbal Prediction of mechanical property of steel strips using multivariate adaptive regression splines . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 Min Kim and Bong-Jin Yum Reliability acceptance sampling plans for the Weibull distribution under accelerated Type-I censoring . . . . . . 11--20 JoséDias Curto and JoséCastro Pinto The coefficient of variation asymptotic distribution in the case of non-iid random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--32 P. Angelopoulos and H. Evangelaras and C. Koukouvinos Model identification using 27 runs three level orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . 33--38 Claire L. Weston and John R. Thompson The definition of start time in cancer treatment studies analysed by non-mixture cure models . . . . . . . . 39--52 P. Economou and C. Caroni Fitting parametric frailty and mixture models under biased sampling . . . . . . 53--66 Myung-Hoe Huh and Yong B. Lim Weighting variables in $K$-means clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78 Yih Su and Jing-Shiang Hwang A two-phase approach to estimating time-varying parameters in the capital asset pricing model . . . . . . . . . . 79--89 Jamel Jouini Analysis of structural break models based on the evolutionary spectrum: Monte Carlo study and application . . . 91--110 Ulysses J. Brown III and Stephen B. Knouse and James B. Stewart and Ruby L. Beale The relationship between unit diversity and perceptions of organizational performance in the military . . . . . . 111--120
M. Bebbington and C. D. Lai and R. Zitikis Modeling lactation curves: classical parametric models re-examined and modified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133 Shey-Huei Sheu and Yu-Tai Hsieh The extended GWMA control chart . . . . 135--147 J. M. Vilar and R. Cao and M. C. Ausín and C. González-Fragueiro Nonparametric analysis of aggregate loss models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--166 S. S. K. Haputhantri and J. Moreau and S. Lek Exploring gillnet catch efficiency of sardines in the coastal waters of Sri Lanka by means of three statistical techniques: a comparison of linear and nonlinear modelling techniques . . . . . 167--179 Giovanni Celano Robust design of adaptive control charts for manual manufacturing/inspection workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--203 Malin Albing and Kerstin Vännman Skewed zero-bound distributions and process capability indices for upper specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--221 S. Cabras and M. E. Castellanos Default Bayesian goodness-of-fit tests for the skew-normal model . . . . . . . 223--232 Weiqi Luo Analysing ecological data . . . . . . . 233--234 Stuart Barber Bioinformatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
John Kornak and Bruce Dunham and Deborah A. Hall and Mark P. Haggard Nonlinear voxel-based modelling of the haemodynamic response in fMRI . . . . . 237--253 Wen-Chih Chiu Generally weighted moving average control charts with fast initial response features . . . . . . . . . . . 255--275 Saralees Nadarajah A bivariate distribution with gamma and beta marginals with application to drought data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--301 Li Wang and Scott M. Kowalski and G. Geoffrey Vining Orthogonal blocking of response surface split-plot designs . . . . . . . . . . . 303--321 João Santos and Solange Leite Long-term variability of the temperature time series recorded in Lisbon . . . . . 323--337 Philip Hans Franses and Bert de Groot and Rianne Legerstee Testing for harmonic regressors . . . . 339--346 A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon Deletion residuals in the detection of heterogeneity of variances in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--358
Pablo Martínez-Camblor and Aina Yañez Testing the equality of diagnostic effectiveness of one measure with respect to $k$ different features . . . 359--367 E. Çankaya and N. R. J. Fieller Quantal models: a review with additional methodological development . . . . . . . 369--384 L. Bettendorf and S. A. van der Geest and G. H. Kuper Do daily retail gasoline prices adjust asymmetrically? . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397 Christian H. Weiß Monitoring correlated processes with binomial marginals . . . . . . . . . . . 399--414 S. H. Lin and R. S. Wang Inferences on a linear combination of $K$ multivariate normal mean vectors . . 415--428 Rahim Mahmoudvand and Hossein Hassani Two new confidence intervals for the coefficient of variation in a normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--442 Vitor A. Ozaki and Ralph S. Silva Bayesian ratemaking procedure of crop insurance contracts with skewed distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--452 Qiwei Liang and Huajiang Li and Paul Mendes and Hans Roethig and Kim Frost-Pineda Using bootstrap method to evaluate the estimates of nicotine equivalents from linear mixed model and generalized estimating equation . . . . . . . . . . 453--463 Z. Q. John Lu Bayesian biostatistics and diagnostic medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466 Mukesh Srivastava and M. Abbas Topics in biostatistics . . . . . . . . 467--468 Elisabeth Dévi\`ere Analyzing linguistic data: a practical introduction to statistics using R . . . 471--472
Seung-Hwan Lee Some estimators and tests for accelerated hazards model using weighted cumulative hazard difference . . . . . . 473--482 Lei Shi and Hongyuan Sun and Peng Bai Bayesian confidence interval for difference of the proportions in a $ 2 \times 2 $ table with structural zero 483--494 J. B. Shah and M. N. Patel Bayesian estimation of parameters of mixed geometric failure models from Type I group censored sample . . . . . . . . 495--506 M. Habshah and M. R. Norazan and A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon The performance of diagnostic-robust generalized potentials for the identification of multiple high leverage points in linear regression . . . . . . 507--520 Wanbo Lu and Tzong-Ru Tsai Interval censored sampling plans for the log-logistic lifetime distribution . . . 521--536 A. C. Antonakis and M. E. Sfakianakis Assessing na\"\ive Bayes as a method for screening credit applicants . . . . . . 537--545 Luis F. Martins Unit root tests and dramatic shifts with infinite variance processes . . . . . . 547--571 JoséManuel Herrerías-Velasco and Rafael Herrerías-Pleguezuelo and Johan Renévan Dorp The generalized two-sided power distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--587
Alan D. Hutson and Maurie Markman and Mark F. Brady A permutation test approach to phase II historical control trials . . . . . . . 589--599 Ayman Baklizi and B. M. Golam Kibria One and two sample confidence intervals for estimating the mean of skewed populations: an empirical comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--609 Veena Shetty and Christopher H. Morrell and Samer S. Najjar Modeling a cross-sectional response variable with longitudinal predictors: an example of pulse pressure and pulse wave velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--619 S. Rao Jammalamadaka and Md. Aleemuddin Siddiqi and Kaushik Ghosh Analysis of microtubule dynamics using growth curve models . . . . . . . . . . 621--631 Ammarin Thakkinstian and John R. Thompson and Cosetta Minelli and John Attia Choosing between per-genotype, per-allele, and trend approaches for initial detection of gene--disease association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--646 Gabriel Escarela and Luis Carlos Pérez-Ruíz and Russell J. Bowater A copula-based Markov chain model for the analysis of binary longitudinal data 647--657 Xiaomo Jiang and Sankaran Mahadevan Bayesian inference method for model validation and confidence extrapolation 659--677 F. Javier Trívez and Beatriz Catalán Detecting level shifts in ARMA--GARCH (1,1) Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--697 Ana F. Militino Book Review: \em Time Series Analysis 699--700 Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleAdaptive design theory and implementation using SAS and R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--702 Jacques A. Pienaar Book Review: \booktitleProbability and statistics with R . . . . . . . . . . . 703--704 Jacques A. Pienaar Book Review: \em Control Techniques for Complex Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--708 Jacques A. Pienaar Book Review: \em Random networks for communication: from statistical physics to information systems . . . . . . . . . 707--708
Antonello Maruotti Fairness of the national health service in Italy: a bivariate correlated random effects model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--722 Montezuma Dumangane and Nicoletta Rosati and Anna Volossovitch Departure from independence and stationarity in a handball match . . . . 723--741 Alexander A. Correa and Pere Grima and Xavier Tort-Martorell Experimentation order with good properties for $ 2^k $ factorial designs 743--754 Rabindra Nath Das and Sung H. Park A measure of robust slope-rotatability for second-order response surface experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . 755--767 Binbing Yu Approximating the risk score for disease diagnosis using MARS . . . . . . . . . . 769--778 Loredana Ureche-Rangau and Quiterie de Rorthays More on the volatility-trading volume relationship in emerging markets: The Chinese stock market . . . . . . . . . . 779--799 E. Ciavolino and J. J. Dahlgaard Simultaneous Equation Model based on the generalized maximum entropy for studying the effect of management factors on enterprise performance . . . . . . . . . 801--815 Christoph Hanck Cross-sectional correlation robust tests for panel cointegration . . . . . . . . 817--833
Bo He and Clyde F. Martin Statistical analysis of error for fourth-order ordinary differential equation solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--852 Agustín Hernández Bastida and Emilio Gómez Déniz and JoséMaría Pérez Sánchez Bayesian robustness of the compound Poisson distribution under bidimensional prior: an application to the collective risk model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--869 Carla Machado and Carlos Daniel Paulino and Francisco Nunes Deprivation analysis based on Bayesian latent class models . . . . . . . . . . 871--891 Ganesh Dutta and Premadhis Das and Nripes K. Mandal Optimum covariate designs in split-plot and strip-plot design set-ups . . . . . 893--906 Giovanni De Luca and Giorgia Rivieccio Archimedean copulae for risk measurement 907--924 Filia Vonta The frailty model . . . . . . . . . . . 927--928 Paul D. Baxter An introduction to generalised linear models, third edition . . . . . . . . . 929--930
B. J. Gajewski and R. Lee and M. Bott and U. Piamjariyakul and R. L. Taunton On estimating the distribution of data envelopment analysis efficiency scores: an application to nursing homes' care planning process . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--944 Mohamed Boutahar Comparison of non-parametric and semi-parametric tests in detecting long memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--972 Vito M. R. Muggeo and Massimo Attanasio and Mariano Porcu A segmented regression model for event history data: an application to the fertility patterns in Italy . . . . . . 973--988 P. Singh Multiple comparisons of several populations with more than one control with respect to scale parameter . . . . 989--998 Manisha Pal and Nripes K. Mandal Optimum designs for estimation of optimum point under cost constraint . . 999--1008 Prasun Das and Arup Kumar Das and Saddam Hossain Forecasting models for developing control scheme to improve furnace run length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1019 Muhammad Aslam and Chi-Hyuck Jun A group acceptance sampling plan for truncated life test having Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1027 J. Mazucheli and J. A. Achcar and E. A. Coelho-Barros and F. Louzada-Neto Infant mortality model for lifetime data 1029--1036 N. R. Parsons and S. G. Gilmour and R. N. Edmondson Analysis of robust design experiments with time-dependent ordinal response characteristics: a quality improvement study from the horticulture industry . . 1037--1054
Holger Hürtgen and Daniel Gervini Semiparametric shape-invariant models for periodic data . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1065 E. M. Conlon and B. L. Postier and B. A. Methé and K. P. Nevin and D. R. Lovley Hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis models for cross-platform microarray studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067--1085 G. K. Skinner and G. H. Freeman Soccer matches as experiments: how often does the `best' team win? . . . . . . . 1087--1095 Moawia Alghalith Empirical comparative statics under price and output uncertainty . . . . . . 1097--1100 Corrado Crocetta and Nicola Loperfido Maximum likelihood estimation of correlation between maximal oxygen consumption and the 6-min walk test in patients with chronic heart failure . . 1101--1108 Ofer Harel The estimation of $ R^2 $ and adjusted $ R^2 $ in incomplete data sets using multiple imputation . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1118 Nirian Martín and Leandro Pardo On the asymptotic distribution of Cook's distance in logistic regression models 1119--1146 R. H. Rieger and C. R. Weinberg Testing for violations of the homogeneity needed for conditional logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1157 S. Balamurali and Chi-Hyuck Jun Designing of a variables two-plan system by minimizing the average sample number 1159--1172 M. Dolores Ugarte Longitudinal data analysis . . . . . . . 1175--1176
Silvia Salini and Ron S. Kenett Bayesian networks of customer satisfaction survey data . . . . . . . . 1177--1189 Angela W. W. He and Alan T. K. Wan Predicting daily highs and lows of exchange rates: a cointegration analysis 1191--1204 Chien-Wei Wu and Tsai-Yu Lin A Bayesian procedure for assessing process performance based on the third-generation capability index . . . 1205--1223 Seok-Oh Jeong and Kee-Hoon Kang Nonparametric estimation of value-at-risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1238 Kenneth J. Berry and Janis E. Johnston and Paul W. Mielke, Jr. Exact and resampling probability values for the Piccarreta nominal--ordinal index of association . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1249 Juan Sun and Xiaohui Ouyang and Hidekatsu Yoshioka and Wenli Wang and Chun Fan and Hongwei Li and Jianru Wang and Yalin Liu and Li Su and Heping Ma and Ying liu and Yuwen Zhang and Xingguang Zhang and Xuemei Wang and Yueling Hu A progressive rise in stomach cancer-related mortality rate during 1970--1995 in Japanese individuals over 85 years of age . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1258 Nicholas T. Longford Analysis of all-zero binomial outcomes with borderline and equilibrium priors 1259--1265 Getachew A. Dagne and James Snyder Bayesian hierarchical duration model for repeated events: an application to behavioral observations . . . . . . . . 1267--1279 S. Sampath and V. Varalakshmi and R. Geetha Estimation under systematic sampling schemes for parabolic populations . . . 1281--1292 S. Mukhopadhyay and S. W. Looney Quantile dispersion graphs to compare the efficiencies of cluster randomized designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293--1305 Jonathan R. Bradley and David L. Farnsworth Testing for Mutual Exclusivity . . . . . 1307--1314
Luigi D'Ambra and Onur Köksoy and Biagio Simonetti Cumulative correspondence analysis of ordered categorical data from industrial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1328 Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro and Stefano Bonnini and Luigi Salmaso Employment status and education/employment relationship of PhD graduates from the University of Ferrara 1329--1344 S. B. Caudill and F. G. Mixon, Jr. More on testing the normality assumption in the Tobit Model . . . . . . . . . . . 1345--1352 Y. Zhao and A. H. Lee and V. Burke and K. K. W. Yau Testing for zero-inflation in count series: application to occupational health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353--1359 Christopher R. Gjestvang and Sarjinder Singh An improved randomized response model: estimation of mean . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1367 J. Fredrik Lindström and H. E. T. Holgersson Forecast mean squared error reduction in the VAR(1) process . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1384 J. L. Alfaro and J. Fco. Ortega A comparison of robust alternatives to Hotelling's $ T^2 $ control chart . . . 1385--1396
Kahadawala Cooray and Malwane M. A. Ananda Analyzing survival data with highly negatively skewed distribution: The Gompertz--sinh family . . . . . . . . . 1--11 A. Karagrigoriou and C. Koukouvinos and K. Mylona On the advantages of the non-concave penalized likelihood model selection method with minimum prediction errors in large-scale medical studies . . . . . . 13--24 M. Saleem and M. Aslam and P. Economou On the Bayesian analysis of the mixture of power function distribution using the complete and the censored sample . . . . 25--40 Athanasios C. Micheas and Yuqiang Peng Bayesian Procrustes analysis with applications to hydrology . . . . . . . 41--55 Andrea Beccarini Eliminating the omitted variable bias by a regime-switching approach . . . . . . 57--75 A. Parchami and M. Mashinchi A new generation of process capability indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89 Biagio Simonetti and Eric J. Beh and Luigi D'Ambra The analysis of dependence for three ways contingency tables with ordinal variables: a case study of patient satisfaction data . . . . . . . . . . . 91--103 L. H. A. Dal Bello and A. F. C. Vieira Optimization of a product performance using mixture experiments . . . . . . . 105--117 Marcus B. Perry and Joseph J. Pignatiello Jr. Identifying the time of step change in the mean of autocorrelated processes . . 119--136 R. Fuentes-García and S. G. Walker A new approach to classification . . . . 137--146 Michele Scagliarini Inference on $ C_{pk} $ for autocorrelated data in the presence of random measurement errors . . . . . . . 147--158 K. Ben-Ahmed and A. Bouratbine and M.-A. El-Aroui Generalized linear spatial models in epidemiology: a case study of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tunisia . . . 159--170 Kahadawala Cooray Generalized Gumbel distribution . . . . 171--179
Yangxin Huang A Bayesian approach in differential equation dynamic models incorporating clinical factors and covariates . . . . 181--199 Chin Wen Cheong Estimating the Hurst parameter in financial time series via heuristic approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214 Chee Kian Leong and Weihong Huang Testing for spurious and cointegrated regressions: a wavelet approach . . . . 215--233 Nizar Bouguila and Jian Han Wang and A. Ben Hamza Software modules categorization through likelihood and Bayesian analysis of finite Dirichlet mixtures . . . . . . . 235--252 Gianluca Baio and Marta Blangiardo Bayesian hierarchical model for the prediction of football results . . . . . 253--264 Zongrun Wang and Weitao Wu and Chao Chen and Yanju Zhou The exchange rate risk of Chinese yuan: Using VaR and ES based on extreme value theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--282 Hamdi Akcakoca and Nurhak Sutcu Investigation of the diesel consumption for trucks at an overburden stripping area by SPC study . . . . . . . . . . . 283--298 A. Erhan Mergen and Z. Seyda Deligonul Assessment of acceptance sampling plans using posterior distribution for a dependent process . . . . . . . . . . . 299--307 Walid Gani and Hassen Taleb and Mohamed Limam Support vector regression based residual control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--324 Jing Wang Gibbs sampling in DP-based nonlinear mixed effects models . . . . . . . . . . 325--340 Jan Serroyen and Liesbeth Bruckers and Geert Rogiers and Geert Molenberghs Characterizing persistent disturbing behavior using longitudinal and multivariate techniques . . . . . . . . 341--355 Ana F. Militino Book Review: \booktitleStatistics and data with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Jung Hsien Chang and Mao Wei Hung Liquidity spreads in the corporate bond market: Estimation using a semi-parametric model . . . . . . . . . 359--374 D. Senthilkumar and D. Muthuraj Construction and selection of tightened-normal-tightened variables sampling scheme of type TNTVSS($ n_1 $, $ n_2 $; $k$) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--390 Fawziah S. Alshunnar and Mohammad Z. Raqab and Debasis Kundu On the comparison of the Fisher information of the log-normal and generalized Rayleigh distributions . . . 391--404 Muhammad Aslam and Chi-Hyuck Jun A double acceptance sampling plan for generalized log-logistic distributions with known shape parameters . . . . . . 405--414 Christophe Demattei Le Cam theorem on interval division by randomly chosen points: Pedagogical explanations and application to temporal cluster detection . . . . . . . . . . . 415--424 Ling-Yau Chan and Rahul Mukerjee Interval estimation of a small proportion via inverse sampling . . . . 425--433 C. C. Figueiredo and H. Bolfarine and M. C. Sandoval and C. R. O. P. Lima On the skew-normal calibration model . . 435--451 Chi-Hyuck Jun and Hyeseon Lee and Sang-Ho Lee and S. Balamurali A variables repetitive group sampling plan under failure-censored reliability tests for Weibull distribution . . . . . 453--460 Chung-Ho Chen A note on some modified Pulak and Al-Sultan's model . . . . . . . . . . . 461--472 Angela Montanari and Cinzia Viroli A skew-normal factor model for the analysis of student satisfaction towards university courses . . . . . . . . . . . 473--487 Hakan Demirtas A distance-based rounding strategy for post-imputation ordinal data . . . . . . 489--500 Martín Ríos and Toni Monleón-Getino Application of a Markovian process to the calculation of mean time equilibrium in a genetic drift model . . . . . . . . 501--513 Kanti V. Mardia Bayesian analysis for bivariate von Mises distributions . . . . . . . . . . 515--528
Paul D. Baxter and Paul R. Marchant The cross-product ratio in bivariate lognormal and gamma distributions, with an application to non-randomized trials 529--536 Georgia Kourlaba and Demosthenes Panagiotakos The diagnostic accuracy of a composite index increases as the number of partitions of the components increases and when specific weights are assigned to each component . . . . . . . . . . . 537--554 Muhammad Aslam and Debasis Kundu and Munir Ahmad Time truncated acceptance sampling plans for generalized exponential distribution 555--566 M. M. Nassar and S. M. Khamis and S. S. Radwan Geometric sample size determination in Bayesian analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 567--575 Jorge Cadima and Francisco Lage Calheiros and Isabel P. Preto The eigenstructure of block-structured correlation matrices and its implications for principal component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--589 Francisco Cribari-Neto and Maria da Glória A. Lima Approximate inference in heteroskedastic regressions: a numerical evaluation . . 591--615 H. Jiang and M. Xie and L. C. Tang On MLEs of the parameters of a modified Weibull distribution for progressively type-2 censored samples . . . . . . . . 617--627 Hani M. Samawi and Mohammed Al-Haj Ebrahem and Noha Al-Zubaidin An optimal sign test for one-sample bivariate location model using an alternative bivariate ranked-set sample 629--650 Luís Nobre Pereira and Pedro Simões Coelho Small area estimation of mean price of habitation transaction using time-series and cross-sectional area-level models 651--666 Karl D. Majeske and Terri Lynch-Caris and Janet Brelin-Fornari Quantifying $ R^2 $ bias in the presence of measurement error . . . . . . . . . . 667--677 Anne-Line Balduck and Anita Prinzie and Marc Buelens The effectiveness of coach turnover and the effect on home team advantage, team quality and team ranking . . . . . . . . 679--689 Shola Adeyemi and Thierry J. Chaussalet and Haifeng Xie and Md Asaduzaman Random effects models for operational patient pathways . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--701 Sören Feodor Nielsen Book Review: \em Generalized linear models for insurance data . . . . . . . 703 Z. Q. John Lu Bayesian methods for data analysis, third edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--706
Y. H. Michlin and G. Grabarnik Search boundaries of the truncated discrete sequential test . . . . . . . . 707--724 M. I. Rolfe and K. Mengersen and G. Beadle and K. Vearncombe and B. Andrew and H. L. Johnson and C. Walsh Latent class piecewise linear trajectory modelling for short-term cognition responses after chemotherapy for breast cancer patients . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--738 Marco Morales Lag order selection for an optimal autoregressive covariance matrix estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--748 J. Jacques and C. Biernacki Extension of model-based classification for binary data when training and test populations differ . . . . . . . . . . . 749--766 Hyo-Il Park and Seung-Man Hong A permutation test for multivariate data with grouped components . . . . . . . . 767--778 Hyonggin An and Roderick J. A. Little and Andrea Bozoki A statistical algorithm for detecting cognitive plateaus in Alzheimer's disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--789 Zhiguo Xiao and Jun Shao and Mari Palta GMM in linear regression for longitudinal data with multiple covariates measured with error . . . . . 791--805 Fu-Kwun Wang and Yung-Fu Cheng Robust regression for estimating the Burr XII parameters with outliers . . . 807--819 J. Anzures-Cabrera and J. L. Hutton Competing risks, left truncation and late entry effect in A-bomb survivors cohort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--831 Jan Serroyen and Geert Molenberghs and Marc Aerts and Ellen Vloeberghs and Peter Paul De Deyn and Geert Verbeke Flexible estimation of serial correlation in nonlinear mixed models 833--846 Adriana B. Bortoluzzo and Pedro A. Morettin and Clelia M. C. Toloi Time-varying autoregressive conditional duration model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--864 Emílio Augusto Coelho-Barros and Jorge Alberto Achcar and Josmar Mazucheli Longitudinal Poisson modeling: an application for CD4 counting in HIV-infected patients . . . . . . . . . 865--880
B. D. McCullough and Thomas P. McWilliams Baseball players with the initial ``$K$'' do not strike out more often . . 881--891 J\=uraté \vSaltyté Benth and Fred Espen Benth Analysis and modelling of wind speed in New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--909 Andrew J. Copas and Shaun R. Seaman Bias from the use of generalized estimating equations to analyze incomplete longitudinal binary data . . 911--922 M. Qamarul Islam and Moti L. Tiku Multiple linear regression model with stochastic design variables . . . . . . 923--943 K. M. Matawie and A. Assaf Bayesian and DEA efficiency modelling: an application to hospital foodservice operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--953 Chau-Chen Torng and Chun-Chieh Tseng and Pei-Hsi Lee Non-normality and combined double sampling and variable sampling interval control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955--967 Felix Famoye On the bivariate negative binomial regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--981 Ilmari Juutilainen and Juha Röning How to compare interpretatively different models for the conditional variance function . . . . . . . . . . . 983--997 Nursel Koyuncu and Cem Kadilar On improvement in estimating population mean in stratified random sampling . . . 999--1013 Young-Ju Kim Semiparametric analysis for case-control studies: a partial smoothing spline approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1025 Sandra De Iaco Space--time correlation analysis: a comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1041 Miao-Yu Tsai Extended Bayesian model averaging for heritability in twin studies . . . . . . 1043--1058 Mukesh Srivastava Analysis of variance and covariance: how to choose and construct models for the life sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1060
Shih-Chou Kao Normalization of the origin-shifted exponential distribution for control chart construction . . . . . . . . . . . 1067--1087 Dong Han and Fugee Tsung and Yanting Li and Jinguo Xian Detection of changes in a random financial sequence with a stable distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089--1111 David P. M. Scollnik Bayesian statistical inference for start-up demonstration tests with rejection of units upon observing $d$ failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1121 Kosei Fukuda Parameter changes in GARCH model . . . . 1123--1135 Eva Fi\vserová and Karel Hron Total least squares solution for compositional data using linear models 1137--1152 Elizabeth A. Heron and Cathal D. Walsh Bayesian discrete latent spatial modeling of crack initiation in orthopaedic hip replacement bone cement 1153--1171 Ming-Yuan Leon Li and Chun-Nan Chen Examining the interrelation dynamics between option and stock markets using the Markov-switching vector error correction model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1191 Claudia Castro-Kuriss and Diana M. Kelmansky and Víctor Leiva and Elena J. Martínez On a goodness-of-fit test for normality with unknown parameters and type-II censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1211 Qin Yu and Wan Tang and Sue Marcus and Yan Ma and Hui Zhang and Xin Tu Modeling sensitivity and specificity with a time-varying reference standard within a longitudinal setting . . . . . 1213--1230 Demetrios L. Antzoulakos and Athanasios C. Rakitzis Runs rules schemes for monitoring process variability . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1247
Mahmoud A. Mahmoud and J. P. Morgan and William H. Woodall The monitoring of simple linear regression profiles with two observations per sample . . . . . . . . 1249--1263 Alireza Akbarzadeh Bagheban and Farid Zayeri A generalization of the uniform association model for assessing rater agreement in ordinal scales . . . . . . 1265--1273 A. Bhattacharya Estimating crop yield via Gaussian quadrature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1281 Ming-Hung Shu and Hsien-Chung Wu Monitoring imprecise fraction of nonconforming items using $p$ control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283--1297 Marko Sarstedt and Christian M. Ringle Treating unobserved heterogeneity in PLS path modeling: a comparison of FIMIX-PLS with different data analysis strategies 1299--1318 JrJung Lyu and MingNan Chen Measurement of bivariate attributes using a novel statistical model . . . . 1319--1334 Fabio Principato and Angela Vullo and Domenica Matranga On implementation of the Gibbs sampler for estimating the accuracy of multiple diagnostic tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1354 Aparecida D. P. Souza and Helio S. Migon Bayesian outlier analysis in binary regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1355--1368 M. Aslam and C.-H. Jun and M. Ahmad Design of a time-truncated double sampling plan for a general life distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1379 Matei Demetrescu and Uwe Hassler and Adina I. Tarcolea Testing for stationarity in large panels with cross-dependence, and US evidence on unit labor cost . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1397 Emmanouil Androulakis and Christos Koukouvinos and Kalliopi Mylona and Filia Vonta A real survival analysis application via variable selection methods for Cox's proportional hazards model . . . . . . . 1399--1406 Terence Tai-Leung Chong and Zimu Li and Haiqiang Chen and Melvin J. Hinich An investigation of duration dependence in the American stock market cycle . . . 1407--1416 Dougal Hutchison Book Review: \em Handbook of multilevel analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417--1418 Ilia Vonta Book Review: \em Model selection and model averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . 1419--1420 John Shade Software for data analysis . . . . . . . 1421--1422 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1423
Paresh Kumar Narayan and Stephan Popp A new unit root test with two structural breaks in level and slope at unknown time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425--1438 Yousung Park and Bo-Seung Choi Bayesian analysis for incomplete multi-way contingency tables with nonignorable nonresponse . . . . . . . . 1439--1453 Marc Aerts and Niel Hens and Jeffrey S. Simonoff Model selection in regression based on pre-smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1472 Panagiotis Mantalos and Ghazi Shukur The effect of spillover on the Granger causality test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473--1486 Shiquan Ren and Hong Lai and Wenjing Tong and Mostafa Aminzadeh and Xuezhang Hou and Shenghan Lai Nonparametric bootstrapping for hierarchical data . . . . . . . . . . . 1487--1498 Firoozeh Haghighi and Mikhail Nikulin On the linear degradation model with multiple failure modes . . . . . . . . . 1499--1507 Feng-Chang Xie and Jin-Guan Lin and Bo-Cheng Wei Testing for varying zero-inflation and dispersion in generalized Poisson regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1509--1522 Claire L. Weston and John R. Thompson Modeling survival in childhood cancer studies using two-stage non-mixture cure models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523--1535 Emilio Gómez-Déniz and Enrique Calderín-Ojeda A study of Bayesian local robustness with applications in actuarial statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537--1546 D. J. Best and J. C. W. Rayner and O. Thas Four tests of fit for the beta-binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1547--1554 Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos and Dimitris Karlis Regression in a copula model for bivariate count data . . . . . . . . . . 1555--1568 Claudio Agostinelli and Luisa Bisaglia ARFIMA processes and outliers: a weighted likelihood approach . . . . . . 1569--1584 Xavier Puig and Josep Ginebra and Marti Font The Sichel model and the mixing and truncation order . . . . . . . . . . . . 1585--1603
A. A. M. Nurunnabi and A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon and M. Nasser Identification of multiple influential observations in logistic regression . . 1605--1624 Nandini Kannan and Debasis Kundu and P. Nair and R. C. Tripathi The generalized exponential cure rate model with covariates . . . . . . . . . 1625--1636 Ralf Östermark Concurrent processing of heteroskedastic vector-valued mixture density models . . 1637--1659 D. Todem and Y. Zhang and A. Ismail and W. Sohn Random effects regression models for count data with excess zeros in caries research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1661--1679 Yi-Ting Hwang and Jia-Jung Lai and Shyh-Tyan Ou Evaluations of FWER-controlling methods in multiple hypothesis testing . . . . . 1681--1694 Jesper Rydén and Sven Erick Alm The effect of interaction and rounding error in two-way ANOVA: example of impact on testing for normality . . . . 1695--1701 Douglas H. Jones and Francis A. Méndez Mediavilla A Bayesian method for query approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1715 Jing-Er Chiu and Tsen-I Kuo Control charts for fraction nonconforming in a bivariate binomial process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1728 Assam Pryseley and Koen Mintiens and Katia Knapen and Yves Van der Stede and Geert Molenberghs Estimating precision, repeatability, and reproducibility from Gaussian and non-Gaussian data: a mixed models approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1729--1747 Jie Wang and James D. Stamey A Bayesian algorithm for sample size determination for equivalence and non-inferiority test . . . . . . . . . . 1749--1759 Y. Samimi and A. Aghaie Monitoring heterogeneous serially correlated usage behavior in subscription-based services . . . . . . 1761--1777 Pieter Bastiaan Ober Book Review: \em Modeling with Data . . 1779 Mukesh Srivastava Book Review: \em Analysis of Variance and Covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781--1782 Jennifer Klapper Book Review: \em Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets . . . . . . . . . 1783--1784
Stan Lipovetsky Double logistic curve in regression modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1785--1793 M. A. Graham and S. W. Human and S. Chakraborti A Phase I nonparametric Shewhart-type control chart based on the median . . . 1795--1813 Silvia Figini and Paolo Giudici and Pierpaolo Uberti A threshold based approach to merge data in financial risk management . . . . . . 1815--1824 Claudio Conversano and Domenico Vistocco Analysis of mutual funds' management styles: a modeling, ranking and visualizing approach . . . . . . . . . . 1825--1845 Steffen Unkel and Nickolay T. Trendafilov and Abdel Hannachi and Ian T. Jolliffe Independent exploratory factor analysis with application to atmospheric science data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847--1862 Man-Suk Oh and Dong Wan Shin Bayesian tests for unit root and multiple breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863--1874 Giancarlo Diana and Pier Francesco Perri New scrambled response models for estimating the mean of a sensitive quantitative character . . . . . . . . . 1875--1890 Tai Vo Van and T. Pham-Gia Clustering probability distributions . . 1891--1910 Ross S. Sparks and Tim Keighley and David Muscatello Early warning CUSUM plans for surveillance of negative binomial daily disease counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1911--1929 Govert E. Bijwaard Regularity in individual shopping trips: implications for duration models in marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1931--1945 Rosa Bernardini Papalia Data disaggregation procedures within a maximum entropy framework . . . . . . . 1947--1959
Martín Tanco and Elisabeth Viles and Maria Jesus Álvarez and Laura Ilzarbe Why is not design of experiments widely used by engineers in Europe? . . . . . . 1961--1977 Manuel Galea and David Cademartori and Filidor Vilca The structural Sharpe model under $t$-distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--1990 Yafen Liu and Zhen He and M. Shamsuzzaman and Zhang Wu A combined control scheme for monitoring the frequency and size of an attribute event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1991--2013 Gavin J. S. Ross and Prajneshu and C. Sarada Reparameterization of nonlinear statistical models: a case study . . . . 2015--2026 Jaromír Antoch and Lubos Prchal and Maria Rosaria De Rosa and Pascal Sarda Electricity consumption prediction with functional linear regression using spline estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 2027--2041 Chin Wen Cheong Optimal choice of sample fraction in univariate financial tail index estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2043--2056 Kung-Jong Lui and Kuang-Chao Chang Notes on odds ratio estimation for a randomized clinical trial with noncompliance and missing outcomes . . . 2057--2071 M. P. Gadre and K. A. Joshi and R. N. Rattihalli A side sensitive modified group runs control chart to detect shifts in the process mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2073--2087 Marianne Frisén and Eva Andersson and Linus Schiöler Evaluation of multivariate surveillance 2089--2100 Rosaria Lombardo and Eric J. Beh Simple and multiple correspondence analysis for ordinal-scale variables using orthogonal polynomials . . . . . . 2101--2116 Tobias Verbeke Book Reviews: \em Statistical design and \em Design of comparative experiments 2117--2118 Faisel Yunus Statistics Using SPSS: An Integrative Approach, second edition . . . . . . . . 2119--2120 A. C. Brooms Book Review: \booktitleData Manipulation with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2121--2121 Anonymous Corrigendum: \em A Bayesian adjustment for covariate misclassification with correlated binary outcome data, D. Ren and R. A. Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . 2123--2124 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi
Robert G. Aykroyd Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Laura Gosoniu and Penelope Vounatsou Non-stationary partition modeling of geostatistical data for malaria risk mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13 Chengjie Xiong and Gerald van Belle and Kejun Zhu and J. Philip Miller and John C. Morris A unified approach of meta-analysis: application to an antecedent biomarker study in Alzheimer's disease . . . . . . 15--27 Fahimah Al-Awadhi and Merrilee Hurn and Christopher Jennison Three-dimensional Bayesian image analysis and confocal microscopy . . . . 29--46 Hakan Demirtas and Donald Hedeker Generating multivariate continuous data via the notion of nearest neighbors . . 47--55 Vicente G. Cancho and Josemar Rodrigues and Mário de Castro A flexible model for survival data with a cure rate: a Bayesian approach . . . . 57--70 Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis A. Gil-Alana Fractional integration and impulse responses: a bivariate application to real output in the USA and four Scandinavian countries . . . . . . . . . 71--85 Aurélia Aparecida De Araújo Rodrigues and Eugenio Kahn Epprecht and Maysa Sacramento De Magalhães Double-sampling control charts for attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--112 Li-Chu Chien A robust diagnostic plot for explanatory variables under model mis-specification 113--126 Jeremy Balka and Anthony F. Desmond and Paul D. McNicholas Bayesian and likelihood inference for cure rates based on defective inverse Gaussian regression models . . . . . . . 127--144 E. J. Allen and V. T. Farewell The use of variance components for the assessment of outcome measures in rheumatology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--159 Guillermo de León and Pere Grima and Xavier Tort-Martorell Comparison of normal probability plots and dot plots in judging the significance of effects in two level factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 161--174 Bin Li and R. S. Sanderlin and Rebecca A. Melanson and Qingzhao Yu Spatio-temporal analysis of a plant disease in a non-uniform crop: a Monte Carlo approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--182 J. A. A. Andrade and J. P. Gosling Predicting rainy seasons: quantifying the beliefs of prophets . . . . . . . . 183--193 Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah and Nor Aishah Hamzah and Shamsul Rijal Muhammad Sabri Inflation uncertainty and economic growth: evidence from the LAD ARCH model 195--206 Paul W. Mielke, Jr. and Kenneth J. Berry and Janis E. Johnston Robustness without rank order statistics 207--214
Tony Vangeneugden and Geert Molenberghs and Geert Verbeke and Clarice G. B. Demétrio Marginal correlation from an extended random-effects model for repeated and overdispersed counts . . . . . . . . . . 215--232 A. F. B. Costa and M. A. G. Machado A control chart based on sample ranges for monitoring the covariance matrix of the multivariate processes . . . . . . . 233--245 Kuo-Chin Lin Assessing cumulative logit models via a score test in random effect models . . . 247--259 N. Crato and R. R. Linhares and S. R. C. Lopes $ \alpha $-stable laws for noncoding regions in DNA sequences . . . . . . . . 261--271 T. Banerjee and G. Grover and T. Pensi and D. Banerjee Estimation of hazard of death in vertically transmitted HIV-1-infected children for doubly censored failure times and fixed covariates . . . . . . . 273--285 Aquiles E. G. Kalatzis and Camila F. Bassetto and Carlos R. Azzoni Multicollinearity and financial constraint in investment decisions: a Bayesian generalized ridge regression 287--299 Xu Xiaosi and Chen Ying and Zheng Haitao The comparison of enterprise bankruptcy forecasting method . . . . . . . . . . . 301--308 Heonsang Lim and Bong-Jin Yum Optimal design of accelerated degradation tests based on Wiener process models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--325 P. P. Balestrassi and A. P. Paiva and A. C. Zambroni de Souza and J. B. Turrioni and Elmira Popova A multivariate descriptor method for change-point detection in nonlinear time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--342 C. B. Zeller and V. H. Lachos and F. E. Vilca-Labra Local influence analysis for regression models with scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions . . . . . . . 343--368 K. Triantafyllopoulos Time-varying vector autoregressive models with stochastic volatility . . . 369--382 Christian H. Weiß Detecting mean increases in Poisson INAR(1) processes with EWMA control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--398 Amitava Mukherjee and Barendra Purkait Simultaneous semi-sequential testing of dual alternatives for pattern recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--419 Jun Yang and Min Xie and Thong Ngee Goh Outlier identification and robust parameter estimation in a zero-inflated Poisson model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--430 Andrew Robinson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 A. C. Brooms Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434 Kassim S. Mwitondi Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Wojtek J. Krzanowski and David J. Hand Testing the difference between two Kolmogorov--Smirnov values in the context of receiver operating characteristic curves . . . . . . . . . 437--450 Qingzhao Yu Weighted bagging: a modification of AdaBoost from the perspective of importance sampling . . . . . . . . . . 451--463 Vasyl Golosnoy and Roman Liesenfeld Interval shrinkage estimators . . . . . 465--477 Shande Chen A class of confidence intervals for sequential phase II clinical trials with binary outcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--489 Himadri Ghosh and M. A. Iquebal and Prajneshu Bootstrap study of parameter estimates for nonlinear Richards growth model through genetic algorithm . . . . . . . 491--500 J. López Fidalgo and I. M. Ortiz Rodríguez and Weng Kee Wong Design issues for population growth models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--512 Marco Riquelme and Víctor Leiva and Manuel Galea and Antonio Sanhueza Influence diagnostics on the coefficient of variation of elliptically contoured distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--532 Altaf Hossain and Mohammed Nasser Comparison of the finite mixture of ARMA-GARCH, back propagation neural networks and support-vector machines in forecasting financial returns . . . . . 533--551 Yu-Chang Lin and Chao-Yu Chou Robustness of the EWMA and the combined $X$-EWMA control charts with variable sampling intervals to non-normality . . 553--570 Nasir Abbas and Muhammad Aslam Extending the Bradley--Terry model for paired comparisons to accommodate weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--580 Reza Pakyari Nonparametric mixture analysis of rock crab of the genus \em Leptograpsus . . . 581--589 Jiajia Zhang and Andrew B. Lawson Bayesian parametric accelerated failure time spatial model and its application to prostate cancer . . . . . . . . . . . 591--603 Jianwen Xu and Hu Yang On the restricted almost unbiased estimators in linear regression . . . . 605--617 Suely Ruiz Giolo and Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio A frailty modeling approach for parental effects in animal breeding . . . . . . . 619--629 R. K. Mishra and Zillur Rahman Nonparametric approach to rank global petroleum business opportunities . . . . 631--646
George Saridakis Violent crime and incentives in the long-run: evidence from England and Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--660 Antonio F. B. Costa and Philippe Castagliola Effect of measurement error and autocorrelation on the $ X^- $ chart . . 661--673 Pao-Sheng Shen Semiparametric analysis of transformation models with doubly censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--682 Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah and Ronald W. Butler Tests for symmetry with right censoring 683--693 Liliane Bel and Avner Bar-Hen and Rémy Petit and Rachid Cheddadi Spatio-temporal functional regression on paleoecological data . . . . . . . . . . 695--704 G. Muniz Terrera and A. van den Hout and F. E. Matthews Random change point models: investigating cognitive decline in the presence of missing data . . . . . . . . 705--716 Bi-Min Hsu and Ming-Hung Shu A two-phase method for controlling Erlang-failure processes with high reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--734 Darryl Holden Testing for heteroskedasticity in the tobit and probit models . . . . . . . . 735--744 Peter Congdon Structural equation models for area health outcomes with model selection . . 745--767 Albert Vexler and Shuling Liu and Enrique F. Schisterman Nonparametric-likelihood inference based on cost-effectively-sampled-data . . . . 769--783 Jimin Lee and Seunggeun Hyun Confidence bands for the difference of two survival functions under the additive risk model . . . . . . . . . . 785--797 E. Silva and V. M. Guerrero and D. Peña Temporal disaggregation and restricted forecasting of multiple population time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--815 Z. Rezaei Ghahroodi and M. Ganjali and F. Harandi and D. Berridge Bivariate transition model for analysing ordinal and nominal categorical responses: an application to the Labour Force Survey data . . . . . . . . . . . 817--832 A. Schörgendorfer and L. V. Madden and A. C. Bathke Choosing appropriate covariance matrices in a nonparametric analysis of factorials in block designs . . . . . . 833--850 Diego F. de Bernardini and Laura L. R. Rifo Full Bayesian significance test for extremal distributions . . . . . . . . . 851--863 Miroslav M. Risti\'c Book Review: \em Statistics: A Very Short Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 865 Andreas Rosenblad Book Review: \em The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics . . . . . . . 867--868 Pieter Bastiaan Ober Book Review: \em Asymptotic Theory of Statistics and Probability . . . . . . . 869
Artur J. Lemonte and Alexandre G. Patriota Influence diagnostics in Birnbaum--Saunders nonlinear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--884 Hani M. Samawi and Amal Helu and Robert Vogel A nonparametric test of symmetry based on the overlapping coefficient . . . . . 885--898 Luis Mariano Esteban and Gerardo Sanz and Angel Borque A step-by-step algorithm for combining diagnostic tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--911 Andrés Farall and Ricardo Maronna and Tomás Tetzlaff A mixture model for the detection of \em Neosporosis without a gold standard . . 913--926 Baisuo Jin and Mong-Na Lo Huang and Baiqi Miao Testing for variance changes in autoregressive models with unknown order 927--936 Suzy Van Sanden and Tomasz Burzykowski Evaluation of Laplace distribution-based ANOVA models applied to microarray data 937--950 Eren Demir and Thierry Chaussalet Capturing the re-admission process: focus on time window . . . . . . . . . . 951--960 S. McKay Curtis and Sujit K. Ghosh A variable selection approach to monotonic regression with Bernstein polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961--976 Gunnar Taraldsen Analysis of rounded exponential data . . 977--986 Ao Yuan and Guanjie Chen and Juan Xiong and Wenqing He and Wen Jin and Charles Rotimi Bayesian-frequentist hybrid model with application to the analysis of gene copy number changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987--1005 Guoqing Wu and Chao Chen and Xuefeng Yan Modified minimum covariance determinant estimator and its application to outlier detection of chemical process data . . . 1007--1020 A. R. de Leon and A. Soo and T. Williamson Classification with discrete and continuous variables via general mixed-data models . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1032 Camillo Cammarota The difference-sign runs length distribution in testing for serial independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1043 M. M. Nassar and S. M. Khamis and S. S. Radwan On Bayesian sample size determination 1045--1054 Bidemi Yusuf and Olayinka Omigbodun and Babatunde Adedokun and Odunayo Akinyemi Identifying predictors of violent behaviour among students using the conventional logistic and multilevel logistic models . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1061 Juvêncio S. Nobre and Julio M. Singer Leverage analysis for linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1072 Arthur Pewsey and Kunio Shimizu and Rolando de la Cruz On an extension of the von Mises distribution due to Batschelet . . . . . 1073--1085 Leakemariam Berhe and Göran Arnoldsson $ D_s $-optimal designs for Kozak's tree taper model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1102
E. Bahrami Samani and M. Ganjali Bayesian latent variable model for mixed continuous and ordinal responses with possibility of missing responses . . . . 1103--1116 Pablo Martínez-Camblor Testing the equality among distribution functions from independent and right censored samples via Cramér--von Mises criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117--1131 Chi Tim Ng and Johan Lim and Kyu S. Hahn Testing stochastic orders in tails of contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1149 Jurate Saltyte Benth and Laura Saltyte Spatial-temporal model for wind speed in Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1168 Malin Albing and Kerstin Vännman Elliptical safety region plots for $ C_{pk} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1187 Guillermo Villa and Isabel Molina and Roland Fried Modeling attendance at Spanish professional football league . . . . . . 1189--1206 Frederico Z. Poleto and Julio M. Singer and Carlos Daniel Paulino Comparing diagnostic tests with missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1222 Steen Magnussen and Ron McRoberts A modified bootstrap procedure for cluster sampling variance estimation of species richness . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223--1238 Francisco Louzada-Neto and Vicente G. Cancho and Gladys D. C. Barriga The Poisson-exponential distribution: a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1248 Sara B. Crawford and John J. Hanfelt Testing for qualitative interaction of multiple sources of informative dropout in longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . 1249--1264 Zhensheng Huang Empirical likelihood for generalized partially linear varying-coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265--1275 Arzu Altin Yavuz and Bìrdal \cSeno\uglu Comparison of estimation methods for the finite population mean in simple random sampling: symmetric super-populations 1277--1288 Hamid Shahriari and Orod Ahmadi and Amir H. Shokouhi A two-step robust estimation of the process mean using M-estimator . . . . . 1289--1301 Edson Zangiacomi Martinez and Davi Casale Aragon and Jorge Alberto Achcar A Bayesian model for estimating the malaria transition probabilities considering individuals lost to follow-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303--1309 John Pemberton Book Review: \em Time Series Analysis with Applications in R, Second edition 1311--1312 Jennifer H. Klapper Book Review: \em Introductory Statistics with R, second edition . . . . . . . . . 1312--1313 Miroslav M. Risti\'c Book Review: \em Guide to Teaching Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313--1314 Boran Gazi Book Review: \em Credit Risk Management 1314 Pieter Bastiaan Ober Book Review: \em Modern Regression Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315
Pablo Martínez-Camblor and Carlos Carleos and Norberto Corral Powerful nonparametric statistics to compare $k$ independent ROC curves . . . 1317--1332 Albert Vexler and Jihnhee Yu and Alan D. Hutson Likelihood testing populations modeled by autoregressive process subject to the limit of detection in applications to longitudinal biomedical data . . . . . . 1333--1346 Patrick D. Gerard and Julia L. Sharp Testing for co-directional interactions using union-intersection and intersection-union methods . . . . . . . 1347--1358 Rand R. Wilcox and Tian S. Tian Measuring effect size: a robust heteroscedastic approach for two or more groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1359--1368 Ardian Harri and Keith H. Coble Normality testing: two new tests using L-moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1379 Katsuyuki Takahashi and Isao Shoji An empirical analysis of the volatility of the Japanese stock price index: a non-parametric approach . . . . . . . . 1381--1394 Gleici Castro Perdoná and Francisco Louzada-Neto A general hazard model for lifetime data in the presence of cure rate . . . . . . 1395--1405 Cheolwoo Park and Félix Hernández-Campos and Long Le and J. S. Marron and Juhyun Park and Vladas Pipiras and F. D. Smith and Richard L. Smith and Michele Trovero and Zhengyuan Zhu Long-range dependence analysis of Internet traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407--1433 Giovana O. Silva and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gilberto A. Paula Residuals for log-Burr XII regression models in survival analysis . . . . . . 1435--1445 Yalian Li and Hu Yang Two kinds of restricted modified estimators in linear regression model 1447--1454 Tommaso Proietti Multivariate temporal disaggregation with cross-sectional constraints . . . . 1455--1466 Shih-Chia Liu and Kuo-Szu Chiang and Cheng-Hsiang Lin and Ting-Chin Deng Confidence interval procedures for proportions estimated by group testing with groups of unequal size adjusted for overdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1467--1482 D. Stogiannis and C. Caroni and C. E. Anagnostopoulos and I. K. Toumpoulis Comparing first hitting time and proportional hazards regression models 1483--1492 Zheng Su A class of designs for Phase I cancer clinical trials combining Bayesian and likelihood approaches . . . . . . . . . 1493--1498 José Dias Curto and José Castro Pinto The corrected VIF (CVIF) . . . . . . . . 1499--1507 Jin-Guan Lin and Li-Xing Zhu and Chun-Zheng Cao and Yong Li Tests of heteroscedasticity and correlation in multivariate $t$ regression models with AR and ARMA errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1509--1531
An Creemers and Marc Aerts and Niel Hens and Ziv Shkedy and Frank De Smet and Philippe Beutels Revealing age-specific past and future unrelated costs of pneumococcal infections by flexible generalized estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1547 Vijay Verma and Gianni Betti Taylor linearization sampling errors and design effects for poverty measures and other complex statistics . . . . . . . . 1549--1576 Keunbaik Lee and Sanggil Kang and Xuefeng Liu and Daekwan Seo Likelihood-based approach for analysis of longitudinal nominal data using marginalized random effects models . . . 1577--1590 Ming-Yuan Leon Li and Shang-En Shine Yu Do large firms overly use stock-based incentive compensation? . . . . . . . . 1591--1606 Li-Chu Chien Diagnostic plots in beta-regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1607--1622 Liansheng Tang and Ming Tan and Xiao-Hua Zhou A sequential conditional probability ratio test procedure for comparing diagnostic tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623--1632 Lucia Santana and Filidor Vilca and Víctor Leiva Influence analysis in skew-Birnbaum--Saunders regression models and applications . . . . . . . . 1633--1649 Mitra Rahimzadeh and Ebrahim Hajizadeh and Farzad Eskandari Non-mixture cure correlated frailty models in Bayesian approach . . . . . . 1651--1663 William J. Reed A flexible parametric survival model which allows a bathtub-shaped hazard rate function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665--1680 Yeliz Mert Kantar and Ilhan Usta and Sükrü Acitas A Monte Carlo simulation study on partially adaptive estimators of linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1681--1699 L. H. A. Dal Bello and A. F. C. Vieira Optimization of a product performance using mixture experiments including process variables . . . . . . . . . . . 1701--1715 Afrânio M. C. Vieira and Roseli A. Leandro and Clarice G. B. Demétrio and Geert Molenberghs Double generalized linear model for tissue culture proportion data: a Bayesian perspective . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1731 Chun-Shu Chen and Hong-Ding Yang A joint modeling approach for spatial earthquake risk variations . . . . . . . 1733--1741 Sòren Feodor Nielsen Book Review: \em SAS for data analysis 1743--1744 Long Kang Book Review: \em Time-series data analysis using EViews . . . . . . . . . 1744--1745 Kam Hamidieh Book Review: \em Synthetic CDOs modelling, valuation and risk management 1745--1746 Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \em Probability, Markov chains, queues, and simulation . . . . . 1746 Yinghui Wei and Peter Neal Statement of Withdrawal: Statistical analysis of an endemic disease from a capture-recapture experiment . . . . . . 1747
Anonymous Gopal Kanji Prize 2010 . . . . . . . . . 1749 Ashis SenGupta and Hon Keung Tony Ng Nonparametric test for the homogeneity of the overall variability . . . . . . . 1751--1768 Mahmoud Torabi and Rhonda J. Rosychuk Spatio-temporal modelling using B-spline for disease mapping: analysis of childhood cancer trends . . . . . . . . 1769--1781 O. Collignon and J.-M. Monnez and P. Vallois and F. Codreanu and J.-M. Renaudin and G. Kanny and M. Brulliard and B. E. Bihain and S. Jacquenet and D. Moneret-Vautrin Discriminant analyses of peanut allergy severity scores . . . . . . . . . . . . 1783--1799 Hannes Kazianka and Michael Mulyk and Jürgen Pilz A Bayesian approach to estimating linear mixtures with unknown covariance structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1801--1817 Folefac D. Atem and Ravi K. Sharma and Stewart J. Anderson Fitting bivariate multilevel models to assess long-term changes in body mass index and cigarette smoking . . . . . . 1819--1831 Q. Li and G. Zheng and R. Tiwari Analysis of ordered categorical data with score averaging: with applications to case-control genetic associations . . 1833--1843 Anne C. Black and Ofer Harel and D. Betsy McCoach Missing data techniques for multilevel data: implications of model misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845--1865 John J. Chen and Guangxiang Zhang and Chen Ji and George F. Steinhardt Simple moment-based inferences of generalized concordance correlation . . 1867--1882 Kathryn Bartimote-Aufflick and Peter C. Thomson The analysis of ordinal time-series data via a transition (Markov) model . . . . 1883--1897 Jie Chen and Ayten Yi\ugiter and Kuang-Chao Chang A Bayesian approach to inference about a change point model with application to DNA copy number experimental data . . . 1899--1913 Paul H. Garthwaite and John R. Crawford Inference for a binomial proportion in the presence of ties . . . . . . . . . . 1915--1934 Anandamayee Majumdar and Corinna Gries and Jason Walker A non-stationary spatial generalized linear mixed model approach for studying plant diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1935--1950 Tatiana B. Bordin and Hildete P. Pinheiro and Aluísio Pinheiro Homogeneity tests among groups for microsatellite data . . . . . . . . . . 1951--1962 Younan Chen and Keying Ye A Bayesian hierarchical approach to dual response surface modelling . . . . . . . 1963--1975 Amjad D. Al-Nasser and Mohammad Y. Al-Rawwash and Anas S. Alakhras An approach to setting up a national customer satisfaction index: the Jordan case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1977--1993 Firoozeh Rivaz and Mohsen Mohammadzadeh and Majid Jafari Khaledi Spatio-temporal modeling and prediction of CO concentrations in Tehran City . . 1995--2007 Karimollah Hajian-Tilaki and James A. Hanley and Vahid Nassiri An extension of parametric ROC analysis for calculating diagnostic accuracy when underlying distributions are mixture of Gaussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009--2022 Pär Stockhammar and Lars-Erik Öller On the probability distribution of economic growth . . . . . . . . . . . . 2023--2041 Eylem Deniz and Oguz Akbilgic and J. Andrew Howe Model selection using information criteria under a new estimation method: least squares ratio . . . . . . . . . . 2043--2050 Nader Fallah and Arnold Mitnitski and Kenneth Rockwood Applying neural network Poisson regression to predict cognitive score changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2051--2062 Bhamidipati Narasimha Murthy and Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala and Radhakrishnan Ezhil and Prabhdeep Kaur and Ramachandra Sudha Statistical issues in studying the relative importance of body mass index, waist circumference, waist hip ratio and waist stature ratio to predict type 2 diabetes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2063--2070
S. W. Human and P. Kritzinger and S. Chakraborti Robustness of the EWMA control chart for individual observations . . . . . . . . 2071--2087 Yun Zhao and Andy H. Lee and Kelvin K. W. Yau and Geoffrey J. McLachlan Assessing the adequacy of Weibull survival models: a simulated envelope approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2089--2097 Luis Gutiérrez and Fernando A. Quintana and Dietrich von Baer and Claudia Mardones Multivariate Bayesian discrimination for varietal authentication of Chilean red wine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2099--2109 Thomas J. Smith and Cornelius M. McKenna A weighted test of internal symmetry . . 2111--2118 Rosaria Lombardo and Eric J. Beh and Antonello D'Ambra Studying the dependence between ordinal-nominal categorical variables via orthogonal polynomials . . . . . . . 2119--2132 G. Barbato and E. M. Barini and G. Genta and R. Levi Features and performance of some outlier detection methods . . . . . . . . . . . 2133--2149 I. Albarrán and P. J. Alonso and J. M. Marin Nonlinear models of disability and age applied to census data . . . . . . . . . 2151--2163 R. S. Sparks and T. Keighley and D. Muscatello Optimal exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) plans for detecting seasonal epidemics when faced with non-homogeneous negative binomial counts 2165--2181 Kerry Patterson and Hossein Hassani and Saeed Heravi and Anatoly Zhigljavsky Multivariate singular spectrum analysis for forecasting revisions to real-time data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2183--2211 Carlos Aparecido dos Santos and Jorge Alberto Achcar A Bayesian analysis for the Block and Basu bivariate exponential distribution in the presence of covariates and censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2213--2223 F. Belloc and A. Maruotti and L. Petrella How individual characteristics affect university students drop-out: a semiparametric mixed-effects model for an Italian case study . . . . . . . . . 2225--2239 Beibei Guo and Yuehua Wu and Hong Xie and Baiqi Miao A segmented regime-switching model with its application to stock market indices 2241--2252 Stephen J. Walters and C. Jane Morrell and Pauline Slade Analysing data from a cluster randomized trial (cRCT) in primary care: a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2253--2269 Peng Shi and Wei Zhang A copula regression model for estimating firm efficiency in the insurance industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2271--2287 Yinglei Lai and Baolin Wu and Hongyu Zhao A permutation test approach to the choice of size $k$ for the nearest neighbors classifier . . . . . . . . . . 2289--2302 A. Snoussi SPC for short-run multivariate autocorrelated processes . . . . . . . . 2303--2312 R. A. Hubbard and X. H. Zhou A comparison of non-homogeneous Markov regression models with application to Alzheimer's disease progression . . . . 2313--2326 Dipankor Coondoo and Amita Majumder and Somnath Chattopadhyay District-level poverty estimation: a proposed method . . . . . . . . . . . . 2327--2343 Pao-Sheng Shen Empirical likelihood ratio with doubly truncated data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2345--2353 Gregory E. Wilding and Xueya Cai and Alan Hutson and Zhangsheng Yu A linear model-based test for the heterogeneity of conditional correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2355--2366 Kassim S. Mwitondi Bayesian computation with R . . . . . . 2367--2368 Pieter Bastiaan Ober Book Review: \em Basic statistics . . . 2367--2367 Andrey Kostenko Book Review: \em Picturing the uncertain world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2368--2369 Han Lin Shang Book Review: \em Dynamic linear models with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2369--2370 Sòren Feodor Nielsen Book Review: \em Introductory time series with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2370--2371 Long Kang Book Review: \em Volatility and time series econometrics: essays in honor of Robert Engle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2371--2372
H. Zhang and Y. Xia and R. Chen and D. Gunzler and W. Tang and Xin Tu Modeling longitudinal binomial responses: implications from two dueling paradigms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2373--2390 I. Gijbels and I. Prosdocimi Smooth estimation of mean and dispersion function in extended generalized additive models with application to Italian induced abortion data . . . . . 2391--2411 Hukum Chandra and Nicola Salvati and U. C. Sud Disaggregate-level estimates of indebtedness in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India: an application of small-area estimation technique . . . . 2413--2432 Ricardo S. Ehlers Comparison of Bayesian models for production efficiency . . . . . . . . . 2433--2443 Nicola Lama and Patrizia Boracchi and Elia Biganzoli Partial logistic relevance vector machines in survival analysis . . . . . 2445--2458 Asghar Seif and Alireza Faraz and Cédric Heuchenne and Erwin Saniga and M. B. Moghadam A modified economic-statistical design of the $ T^2 $ control chart with variable sample sizes and control limits 2459--2469 Sandra De Iaco A new space--time multivariate approach for environmental data analysis . . . . 2471--2483 Suzan Gazio\uglu and E. Marian Scott Sensitivity analysis of linear time-invariant compartmental models with steady-state constraint . . . . . . . . 2485--2509 N. T. Longford and Pierpaolo D'Urso Mixture models with an improper component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511--2521 Melody S. Goodman and Yi Li and Ram C. Tiwari Detecting multiple change points in piecewise constant hazard functions . . 2523--2532 Himadri Ghosh and Prajneshu Statistical learning theory for fitting multimodal distribution to rainfall data: an application . . . . . . . . . . 2533--2545 Rakhee Dinubhai Patel and Frederic Paik Schoenberg A graphical test for local self-similarity in univariate data . . . 2547--2562 Chia-Lin Chang and Michael McAleer and Les Oxley How are journal impact, prestige and article influence related? An application to neuroscience . . . . . . 2563--2573 Chi-Shuan Liu and Fang-Chih Tien A single-featured EWMA-$X$ control chart for detecting shifts in process mean and standard deviation . . . . . . . . . . . 2575--2596 Kadri Ulas Akay and Müjgan Tez Alternative modeling techniques for the quantal response data in mixture experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2597--2616 Raymond Hubbard The widespread misinterpretation of $p$-values as error probabilities . . . 2617--2626 Alessio Farcomeni and Alessandra Nardi and Elena Fabrizi Joint analysis of occurrence and time to stability after entrance into the Italian labour market: an approach based on a Bayesian cure model with structured stochastic search variable selection . . 2627--2646 Shuen-Lin Jeng and Yu-Te Liu Adaptive tangent distance classifier on recognition of handwritten digits . . . 2647--2659 K. Fernández-Aguirre and M. I. Landaluce-Calvo and A. Martín-Arroyuelos and J. I. Modroño-Herrán Knowledge extraction from a large on-line survey: a case study for a higher education corporate marketing . . 2661--2679 Ron S. Kenett On the planning and design of sample surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2681
M. J. Faddy and D. M. Smith Analysis of count data with covariate dependence in both mean and variance . . 2683--2694 Ramesh C. Gupta and Debasis Kundu Weighted inverse Gaussian --- a versatile lifetime model . . . . . . . . 2695--2708 Wen-Liang Hung and Yen-Chang Chang Comparison between method of moments and entropy regularization algorithm applied to parameter estimation for mixed-Weibull distribution . . . . . . . 2709--2722 G. B. Cybis and S. R. C. Lopes and H. P. Pinheiro Power of the likelihood ratio test for models of DNA base substitution . . . . 2723--2737 Chang-Xing Ma and Albert Vexler and Enrique F. Schisterman and Lili Tian Cost-efficient designs based on linearly associated biomarkers . . . . . . . . . 2739--2750 Tina Zagar and Vesna Zadnik and Maja Primic Zakelj Local standardized incidence ratio estimates and comparison with other mapping methods for small geographical areas using Slovenian breast cancer data 2751--2761 Solaiman Afroughi and Soghrat Faghihzadeh and Majid Jafari Khaledi and Mehdi Ghandehari Motlagh and Ebrahim Hajizadeh Analysis of clustered spatially correlated binary data using autologistic model and Bayesian method with an application to dental caries of 3--5-year-old children . . . . . . . . . 2763--2774 Silvia Bacci and Valeria Caviezel Multilevel IRT models for the university teaching evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2791 Manuel G. Scotto and Susana M. Barbosa and Andrés M. Alonso Extreme value and cluster analysis of European daily temperature series . . . 2793--2804 Peng Bai and Wen Gan and Lei Shi Bayesian confidence interval for the risk ratio in a correlated 2 $ \times $ 2 table with structural zero . . . . . . 2805--2817 Víctor Leiva and Emilia Athayde and Cecilia Azevedo and Carolina Marchant Modeling wind energy flux by a Birnbaum--Saunders distribution with an unknown shift parameter . . . . . . . . 2819--2838 Athanasios C. Rakitzis and Demetrios L. Antzoulakos On the improvement of one-sided $S$ control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2839--2858 P. G. Sankaran and P. Anisha Shared frailty model for recurrent event data with multiple causes . . . . . . . 2859--2868 Jin Zhang Adaptive normal reference bandwidth based on quantile for kernel density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2869--2880 Martin Huber Testing for covariate balance using quantile regression and resampling methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2881--2899 Chien-Hung Chen and Tsung-Shan Tsou Robust likelihood inferences for multivariate correlated data . . . . . . 2901--2910 Nan Jia and Thomas M. Braun The adaptive accelerated biased coin design for phase I clinical trials . . . 2911--2924 Xinyu Tang and Abdus S. Wahed Comparison of treatment regimes with adjustment for auxiliary variables . . . 2925--2938 Harry Haupt and Kathrin Kagerer and Joachim Schnurbus Cross-validating fit and predictive accuracy of nonlinear quantile regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2939--2954 Roland Langrock Some applications of nonlinear and non-Gaussian state-space modelling by means of hidden Markov models . . . . . 2955--2970 Filippo Domma and Sabrina Giordano and Mariangela Zenga Maximum likelihood estimation in Dagum distribution with censored samples . . . 2971--2985 Alex Karagrigoriou Frailty Models in Survival Analysis . . 2988--2989 Pieter Bastiaan Ober Random Phenomena: Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers 2989--2990 Philippe Castagliola Introduction to Time-Series Modelling 2993--2994 Kassim S. Mwitondi Interpreting Economic and Social Data 2994--2995 Yves Laberge Advising on Research Methods: a Consultant's Companion . . . . . . . . . 2991 Han Lin Shang Bayesian Nonparametrics . . . . . . . . 2990 Kassim S. Mwitondi Data Analysis Using SAS ENTERPRISE GUIDE 2993 Isaac Dialsingh Multiple testing problems in pharmaceutical statistics . . . . . . . 2987 Han Lin Shang Non-Parametric Econometrics . . . . . . 2992 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Paula Brito and A. Pedro Duarte Silva Modelling interval data with Normal and Skew-Normal distributions . . . . . . . 3--20 Wanbo Lu and Daimin Shi A new compounding life distribution: the Weibull--Poisson distribution . . . . . 21--38 Sammy Zahran and Michael A. Long and Kenneth J. Berry Measures of predictor sensitivity for order-insensitive partitioning of multiple correlation . . . . . . . . . . 39--51 Giancarlo Diana and Pier Francesco Perri A calibration-based approach to sensitive data: a simulation study . . . 53--65 Eugene Demidenko Confidence intervals and bands for the binormal ROC curve revisited . . . . . . 67--79 Giovanni Masala Earthquakes occurrences estimation through a parametric semi-Markov approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96 Rabindra Nath Das and Jeong-Soo Park Discrepancy in regression estimates between log-normal and gamma: some case studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111 Charles G. Minard and Wenyaw Chan and David W. Wetter and Carol J. Etzel Trends in smoking cessation: a Markov model approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--127 Claudia Angelini and Daniela De Canditiis and Marianna Pensky Clustering time-course microarray data using functional Bayesian infinite mixture model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--149 Guoyi Zhang and Yan Lu Bias-corrected random forests in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160 Faisal M. Zahid and Shahla Ramzan Ordinal ridge regression with categorical predictors . . . . . . . . . 161--171 Miao-Yu Tsai Assessing inter- and intra-agreement for dependent binary data: a Bayesian hierarchical correlation approach . . . 173--187 R. M. Jacques and N. R. J. Fieller and E. K. Ainscow A classification updating procedure motivated by high-content screening data 189--198 P. Congdon and C. D. Lloyd A spatial random-effects model for interzone flows: commuting in Northern Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--213 Jan C. Schuller The malicious host: a minimax solution of the Monty Hall problem . . . . . . . 215--221 Robert G. Aykroyd Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Linus Schiöler and Marianne Frisén Multivariate outbreak detection . . . . 223--242 Jörg Drechsler New data dissemination approaches in old Europe --- synthetic datasets for a German establishment survey . . . . . . 243--265 Yu-Mei Chang and Chun-Shu Chen and Pao-Sheng Shen A jackknife-based versatile test for two-sample problems with right-censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--277 Kiyotaka Iki and Kouji Tahata and Sadao Tomizawa Measure of departure from marginal homogeneity using marginal odds for multi-way tables with ordered categories 279--295 Julie McIntyre and Ronald P. Barry Bivariate deconvolution with SIMEX: an application to mapping Alaska earthquake density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--308 Y. L. Lio and Tzong-Ru Tsai Estimation of $ \delta = P(X < Y) $ for Burr XII distribution based on the progressively first failure-censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--322 Petros E. Maravelakis Measurement error effect on the CUSUM control chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--336 Helle Sòrensen and Anders Tolver and Maj Halling Thomsen and Pia Haubro Andersen Quantification of symmetry for functional data with application to equine lameness classification . . . . . 337--360 Terence C. Mills Semi-parametric modelling of temperature records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--383 Caiya Zhang and Yanbiao Xiang and Xinmei Shen Some multivariate goodness-of-fit tests based on data depth . . . . . . . . . . 385--397 Michael R. Crager Generalizing the standardized hazard ratio to multivariate proportional hazards regression, with an application to clinical genomic studies . . . . . . 399--417 Marcus B. Perry and Joseph J. Pignatiello, Jr. Identifying the time of change in the mean of a two-stage nested process . . . 419--433 Stephanie N. Dixon and Gerarda A. Darlington and Victoria Edge Applying a marginalized frailty model to competing risks . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--443 Inna Chervoneva and Tingting Zhan and Boris Iglewicz and Walter W. Hauck and David E. Birk Two-stage hierarchical modeling for analysis of subpopulations in conditional distributions . . . . . . . 445--460 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees, 2010--2011 461--465
M. Tariqul Hasan and Gary Sneddon and Renjun Ma Regression analysis of zero-inflated time-series counts: application to air pollution related emergency room visit data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--476 Steven B. Caudill and James E. Long and Franklin G. Mixon Jr. Female athletic participation and income: evidence from a latent class model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--488 Jie Song and Herman W. Raadsma and Peter C. Thomson Evaluation of false discovery rate and power via sample size in microarray studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500 Alessandro Barbiero Interval estimators for reliability: the bivariate normal case . . . . . . . . . 501--512 Joseph Kang and Xiaogang Su and Brian Hitsman and Kiang Liu and Donald Lloyd-Jones Tree-structured analysis of treatment effects with large observational data 513--529 Victor H. Lachos and Celso R. B. Cabral and Carlos A. Abanto-Valle A non-iterative sampling Bayesian method for linear mixed models with normal independent distributions . . . . . . . 531--549 Célia Nunes and Dário Ferreira and Sandra S. Ferreira and João T. Mexia $F$-tests with a rare pathology . . . . 551--561 Reza Drikvandi and Ahmad Khodadadi and Geert Verbeke Testing variance components in balanced linear growth curve models . . . . . . . 563--572 Richard W. Miller Quad folding: a simple idea for the subjective property characterization of large sample sets . . . . . . . . . . . 573--580 Christian H. Weiß Fully observed INAR(1) processes . . . . 581--598 Hsiu-Wen Chen and Weng Kee Wong and Hongquan Xu An augmented approach to the desirability function . . . . . . . . . 599--613 Miguel Angel Uribe-Opazo and Joelmir André Borssoi and Manuel Galea Influence diagnostics in Gaussian spatial linear models . . . . . . . . . 615--630 Miran A. Jaffa and Ayad A. Jaffa and Stuart R. Lipsitz Slope estimation of covariates that influence renal outcome following renal transplant adjusting for informative right censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--642 Hsiuying Wang and Shan-Lin Hung Phylogenetic tree selection by the adjusted $k$-means approach . . . . . . 643--655 H. E. T. Holgersson and Peter S. Karlsson and Rashid Mansoor Estimating mean-standard deviation ratios of financial data . . . . . . . . 657--671 Manabu Kuroki Optimizing a control plan using a structural equation model with an application to statistical process analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--694
J. C. F. de Winter and D. Dodou Factor recovery by principal axis factoring and maximum likelihood factor analysis as a function of factor pattern and sample size . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--710 Irene Rocchetti and Domenica Taruscio and Marco Alf\`o Modeling delay in diagnosis of NF: under reporting, incidence and prevalence estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--721 Kouji Tahata Quasi-asymmetry model for square tables with nominal categories . . . . . . . . 723--729 Rosaria Lombardo and Pietro Amenta and Myrtille Vivien and Robert Sabatier Sensory analysis via multi-block multivariate additive PLS splines . . . 731--743 Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari and Abdul Haq Improved quality control charts for monitoring the process mean, using double-ranked set sampling methods . . . 745--763 Krishna K. Saha and Debaraj Sen and Chun Jin Profile likelihood-based confidence interval for the dispersion parameter in count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--783 Yao Yu and Jun Wang Lattice-oriented percolation system applied to volatility behavior of stock market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--797 Rahim Alhamzawi and Keming Yu Variable selection in quantile regression via Gibbs sampling . . . . . 799--813 Darold T. Barnum and John M. Gleason and Matthew G. Karlaftis and Glen T. Schumock and Karen L. Shields and Sonali Tandon and Surrey M. Walton Estimating DEA confidence intervals with statistical panel data analysis . . . . 815--828 Chun-Xia Zhang and Guan-Wei Wang and Jiang-She Zhang An empirical bias-variance analysis of DECORATE ensemble method at different training sample sizes . . . . . . . . . 829--850 F. Lombard and C. J. Potgieter A multivariate rank test for comparing mass size distributions . . . . . . . . 851--865 P. Berchialla and S. Snidero and A. Stancu and C. Scarinzi and R. Corradetti and D. Gregori Understanding the epidemiology of foreign body injuries in children using a data-driven Bayesian network . . . . . 867--874 Sifat Sharmin and Md. Israt Rayhan Spatio-temporal modeling of infectious disease dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--882 Benjamin Neustifter and Stephen L. Rathbun and Saul Shiffman Mixed-Poisson point process with partially observed covariates: ecological momentary assessment of smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--899 Megan Othus and Yi Li and Ram Tiwari Change-point cure models with application to estimating the change-point effect of age of diagnosis among prostate cancer patients . . . . . 901--911 Yun-Huan Lee and Chun-Shu Chen Autoregressive model selection based on a prediction perspective . . . . . . . . 913--922 Sòren Feodor Nielsen Introduction to general and generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--924 Long Kang Book Review: \booktitleThe Oxford Handbook of Credit Derivatives . . . . . 924--925 Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleExercises and solutions in biostatistical theory . . . 925--926 Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \booktitleTime series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference . . 923
Francesco Lagona and Marco Picone Model-based clustering of multivariate skew data with circular components and missing values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--945 Wei Ning Empirical likelihood ratio test for a mean change point model with a linear trend followed by an abrupt change . . . 947--961 Wei Liu and Lang Wu Two-step and likelihood methods for HIV viral dynamic models with covariate measurement errors and missing data . . 963--978 Susana Mendes and M. José Fernández-Gómez and Mário Jorge Pereira and Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro and M. Purificación Galindo-Villardón An empirical comparison of Canonical Correspondence Analysis and STATICO in the identification of spatio-temporal ecological relationships . . . . . . . . 979--994 Göran Kauermann and Nina Westerheide To move or not to move to find a new job: spatial duration time model with dynamic covariate effects . . . . . . . 995--1009 Adrián Quintero-Sarmiento and Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and Vicente Núñez-Antón Estimating infant mortality in Colombia: some overdispersion modelling approaches 1011--1036 Ali Reza Soltanian and Soghrat Faghihzadeh A generalization of the Grizzle model to the estimation of treatment effects in crossover trials with non-compliance . . 1037--1048 Cibele M. Russo and Gilberto A. Paula and Francisco José A. Cysneiros and Reiko Aoki Influence diagnostics in heteroscedastic and/or autoregressive nonlinear elliptical models for correlated data 1049--1067 Vinicius P. Israel and Hélio S. Migon Stochastic models for greenhouse gas emission rate estimation from hydroelectric reservoirs: a Bayesian hierarchical approach . . . . . . . . . 1069--1086 Marjan Mansourian and Anoshirvan Kazemnejad and Iraj Kazemi and Farid Zayeri and Masoud Soheilian Bayesian analysis of longitudinal ordered data with flexible random effects using McMC: application to diabetic macular Edema data . . . . . . 1087--1100 Sa\"\id Hanchane and Tarek Mostafa Solving endogeneity problems in multilevel estimation: an example using education production functions . . . . . 1101--1114 K. Hron and P. Filzmoser and K. Thompson Linear regression with compositional explanatory variables . . . . . . . . . 1115--1128 C. Kiruthika and R. Chandrasekaran Classification of textile fabrics using statistical multivariate techniques . . 1129--1138 Rob Deardon and Babak Habibzadeh and Hau Yi Chung Spatial measurement error in infectious disease models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1150
Christopher H. Morrell and Larry J. Brant and Shan Sheng and E. Jeffrey Metter Screening for prostate cancer using multivariate mixed-effects models . . . 1151--1175 Liuxia Wang Bayesian principal component regression with data-driven component selection . . 1177--1189 Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gauss M. Cordeiro and Michael W. Kattan The negative binomial-beta Weibull regression model to predict the cure of prostate cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191--1210 Piotr Kulczycki and Ma\lgorzata Charytanowicz and Piotr A. Kowalski and Szymon Lukasik The Complete Gradient Clustering Algorithm: properties in practical applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1224 Florence George and B. M. Golam Kibria Confidence intervals for estimating the population signal-to-noise ratio: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1240 Zhiyong Zhang and John J. McArdle and John R. Nesselroade Growth rate models: emphasizing growth rate analysis through growth curve modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1262 Andrea Cutillo and Claudio Ceccarelli The internal relocation premium: are migrants positively or negatively selected? Evidence from Italy . . . . . 1263--1278 Vlasios Voudouris and Robert Gilchrist and Robert Rigby and John Sedgwick and Dimitrios Stasinopoulos Modelling skewness and kurtosis with the BCPE density in GAMLSS . . . . . . . . . 1279--1293 Ioannis Vrontos Evidence for hedge fund predictability from a multivariate Student's $t$ full-factor GARCH model . . . . . . . . 1295--1321 S. Lalitha and Nirpeksh Kumar Multiple outlier test for upper outliers in an exponential sample . . . . . . . . 1323--1330 Jean-Marc Bardet and Imen Kammoun and Veronique Billat A new process for modeling heartbeat signals during exhaustive run with an adaptive estimator of its fractal parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1351 Xu-Qing Liu and Bo Li General linear estimators under the prediction error sum of squares criterion in a linear regression model 1353--1361 Christian M. Hafner Cross-correlating wavelet coefficients with applications to high-frequency financial time series . . . . . . . . . 1363--1379 Eric J. Beh Exploratory multivariate analysis by example using R . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1382 Georgi N. Boshnakov Using R for data management, statistical analysis, and graphics . . . . . . . . . 1382--1383 Eugenia Stoimenova Robust nonparametric statistical methods 1383--1384 Eugenia Stoimenova Nonparametric statistical inference . . 1384--1385
Shu-Fu Kuo and Yu-Shan Shih Variable selection for functional density trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1395 Jin-Hong Park Nonparametric approach to intervention time series modeling . . . . . . . . . . 1397--1408 I. Ardoino and E. M. Biganzoli and C. Bajdik and P. J. Lisboa and P. Boracchi and F. Ambrogi Flexible parametric modelling of the hazard function in breast cancer studies 1409--1421 A. Martín Andrés and M. Álvarez Hernández and I. Herranz Tejedor Asymptotic two-tailed confidence intervals for the difference of proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1435 Carol Y. Lin and Lance A. Waller and Robert H. Lyles The likelihood approach for the comparison of medical diagnostic system with multiple binary tests . . . . . . . 1437--1454 Margaret R. Donald and Chris Strickland and Clair L. Alston and Rick Young and Kerrie L. Mengersen Comparison of three-dimensional profiles over time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1474 Jianbo Li and Minggao Gu and Tao Hu General partially linear varying-coefficient transformation models for ranking data . . . . . . . . 1475--1488 Sébastien Li-Thiao-Té and Daudin Jean-Jacques and Robin Stéphane Bayesian model averaging for estimating the number of classes: applications to the total number of species in metagenomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1489--1504 Shuyi Jiang Survival in the U.S. petroleum refining industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1505--1530 Jinook Jeong and Byunguk Kang Wild-bootstrapped variance-ratio test for autocorrelation in the presence of heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1531--1542 Federico Palacios-González and Rosa María García-Fernández Interpretation of the coefficient of determination of an ANOVA model as a measure of polarization . . . . . . . . 1543--1555 Nicholas T. Longford and Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli and Riccardo Massari Poverty and inequality in European regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557--1576 Alexander A. Correa and Pere Grima and Xavier Tort-Martorell Experimentation order in factorial designs: new findings . . . . . . . . . 1577--1591 Alan D. Hutson and Gregory E. Wilding Maintaining the exchangeability assumption for a two-group permutation test in the non-randomized setting . . . 1593--1603 Young Joo Yoon and Cheolwoo Park and Erik Hofmeister and Sangwook Kang Group variable selection in cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation data for veterinary patients . . . . . . 1605--1621
Thaung Lwin Modelling of connected processes . . . . 1623--1641 Tatjana Pavlenko and Anders Björkström and Annika Tillander Covariance structure approximation via gLasso in high-dimensional supervised classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643--1666 Yueqin Zhao and Dayanand N. Naik Hypothesis testing with Rao's quadratic entropy and its application to Dinosaur biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667--1680 Anna Klimova and Tamás Rudas Coordinate-free analysis of trends in British social mobility . . . . . . . . 1681--1691 Valentina Mameli and Monica Musio and Erik Sauleau and Annibale Biggeri Large sample confidence intervals for the skewness parameter of the skew-normal distribution based on Fisher's transformation . . . . . . . . 1693--1702 Wafaa Benyelles and Tahar Mourid On a minimum distance estimate of the period in functional autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1718 Lan Zhu and Su Chen and Zhuoxin Jiang and Zhiwu Zhang and Hung-Chih Ku and Xuesong Li and Melinda McCann and Steve Harris and George Lust and Pual Jones and Rory Todhunter Identification of quantitative trait loci for canine hip dysplasia by two sequential multipoint linkage analyses 1719--1731 Huiyun Wu and Qingxia Chen and Lorraine B. Ware and Tatsuki Koyama A Bayesian approach for generalized linear models with explanatory biomarker measurement variables subject to detection limit: an application to acute lung injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1733--1747 Júlia Teles Concordance coefficients to measure the agreement among several sets of ranks 1749--1764 Ghazi Shukur and Zangin Zeebari Median regression for SUR models with the same explanatory variables in each equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1779 Nairanjana Dasgupta and Monte J. Shaffer Many-to-one comparison of nonlinear growth curves for Washington's Red Delicious apple . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781--1795 Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga and Guillermo Henry and Daniela Rodriguez Partly linear models on Riemannian manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1797--1809 Yu-Jau Lin and Y. L. Lio Bayesian inference under progressive type-I interval censoring . . . . . . . 1811--1824 Vasileios Maroulas Error analysis of stochastic flight trajectory prediction models . . . . . . 1825--1841 Han Lin Shang Graphics for statistics and data analysis with R . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843--1844 Ivana Holloway Design and analysis of quality of life studies in clinical trials . . . . . . . 1844--1845 John Paul Gosling Bayesian analysis made simple: An excel GUI for WinBUGS . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845--1846 Zhengfeng Guo Linear model methodology . . . . . . . . 1846--1847 Sòren Feodor Nielsen An elementary introduction to mathematical finance . . . . . . . . . . 1847--1848 Derek S. Young Optimal experimental design with R . . . 1848--1849 A. M. Mosammam The Oxford Handbook of Nonlinear Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849--1850 Chris Beeley Applied Bayesian hierarchical methods 1845 Sebnem Er Multivariate generalized linear models using R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851
Francesca Martella and Maurizio Vichi Clustering microarray data using model-based double $K$-means . . . . . . 1853--1869 F. Lombard and R. K. Maxwell A cusum procedure to detect deviations from uniformity in angular data . . . . 1871--1880 Pao-Sheng Shen Semiparametric mixed-effects models for clustered doubly censored data . . . . . 1881--1892 Gikuang Jeff Chen A simple way to deal with multicollinearity . . . . . . . . . . . 1893--1909 Chung-I Li and Jeh-Nan Pan Sample size determination for estimating multivariate process capability indices based on lower confidence limits . . . . 1911--1920 Ainhoa Oguiza Tovar and Inmaculada Gallastegui Zulaica and Vicente Núñez-Antón Analysis of pseudo-panel data with dependent samples . . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1937 R. L. J. Coetzer and R. F. Rossouw and N. J. Le Roux Efficient maximin distance designs for experiments in mixtures . . . . . . . . 1939--1951 Jorge Alberto Achcar and Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and Eliane R. Rodrigues Weibull and generalised exponential overdispersion models with an application to ozone air pollution . . . 1953--1963 E. Bahrami Samani and Y. Amirian and M. Ganjali Likelihood estimation for longitudinal zero-inflated power series regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965--1974 Loukia Meligkotsidou and Elias Tzavalis and Ioannis D. Vrontos A Bayesian panel data framework for examining the economic growth convergence hypothesis: do the G7 countries converge? . . . . . . . . . . 1975--1990 Hongxia Yang and Jun Wang and Alexsandra Mojslovic Cascade model with Dirichlet process for analyzing multiple dyadic matrices . . . 1991--2003 Enrico A. Colosimo and Maria Arlene Fausto and Marta Afonso Freitas and Jorge Andrade Pinto Practical modeling strategies for unbalanced longitudinal data analysis 2005--2013 Bhim Singh and B. V. S. Sisodia and Anupam Singh and R. P. Kaushal A note on the estimation methods of crop production at the block level . . . . . 2015--2027 N. A. Samat and D. F. Percy Vector-borne infectious disease mapping with stochastic difference equations: an analysis of dengue disease in Malaysia 2029--2046 Silvia Bacci Longitudinal data: different approaches in the context of item-response theory models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2047--2065 H. Zhang and Q. Yu and C. Feng and D. Gunzler and P. Wu and X. M. Tu A new look at the difference between the GEE and the GLMM when modeling longitudinal count responses . . . . . . 2067--2079
Meral Ebegil and Fikri Gökpinar A test statistic to choose between Liu-type and least-squares estimator based on mean square error criteria . . 2081--2096 Jiun-Yi Wang and Li-Ching Chen and Hui-Min Lin Robust methods for detecting familial aggregation of a quantitative trait in matched case-control family studies . . 2097--2111 Sterling McPherson and Celestina Barbosa-Leiker An example of a two-part latent growth curve model for semicontinuous outcomes in the health sciences . . . . . . . . . 2113--2128 Nazif Çalis and Hamza Erol A new per-field classification method using mixture discriminant analysis . . 2129--2140 Youhei Kawasaki and Etsuo Miyaoka A Bayesian inference of $ P(\lambda_1 < \lambda_2) $ for two Poisson parameters 2141--2152 Jiin-Huarng Guo Optimal sample size planning for the Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney and van Elteren tests under cost constraints . . . . . . 2153--2164 Luigi D'Ambra and Antonello D'Ambra and Pasquale Sarnacchiaro Visualizing main effects and interaction in multiple non-symmetric correspondence analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2165--2175 Yulei He and Trivellore E. Raghunathan Multiple imputation using multivariate $ g h $ transformations . . . . . . . . . 2177--2198 H. Fotouhi and M. Golalizadeh Exploring the variability of DNA molecules via principal geodesic analysis on the shape space . . . . . . 2199--2207 Francisco Louzada and Vicente G. Cancho and Mari Roman and José G. Leite A new long-term lifetime distribution induced by a latent complementary risk framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209--2222 Jérôme Kasparian and Antoine Rolland OECD's `Better Life Index': can any country be well ranked? . . . . . . . . 2223--2230 Jonathan Gillard A generalised Box--Cox transformation for the parametric estimation of clinical reference intervals . . . . . . 2231--2245 Yungtai Lo Estimating the prevalence of low-lumbar spine bone mineral density in older men with or at risk for HIV infection using normal mixture models . . . . . . . . . 2247--2258 Wen-Liang Hung and Shou-Jen Chang-Chien and Miin-Shen Yang Self-updating clustering algorithm for estimating the parameters in mixtures of von Mises distributions . . . . . . . . 2259--2274 Hong Li and Wei Ning Multiple comparisons with a control under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . 2275--2283 Taeyoung Park and Robert T. Krafty and Alvaro I. Sánchez Bayesian semi-parametric analysis of Poisson change-point regression models: application to policy-making in Cali, Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2285--2298 Alex Karagrigoriou Statistical inference: The minimum distance approach . . . . . . . . . . . 2299--2300 Hassan S. Bakouch Applied time series analysis . . . . . . 2300--2301 Eliane R. Rodrigues Reversibility and stochastic networks 2301--2302 Yiannis Kamarianakis The Oxford Handbook of Economic Forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2303--2304 Isaac Dialsingh Expansions and asymptotics for statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2304--2305 Rolando de la Cruz Bayesian ideas and data analysis: An introduction for scientists and statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2306--2307 Yves Laberge The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Asset Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307--2308 Theofanis Sapatinas Statistics for high-dimensional data . . 2308--2309 David J. Hand Who's #1? The science of rating and ranking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2309--2310 P. William Hughes Biostatistics: a computing approach . . 2306 Isaac Dialsingh Large-scale inference: empirical Bayes methods for estimation, testing, and prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305 Claire Keeble The R primer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2303 Kassim S. Mwitondi Statistical data mining using SAS applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2302
G. E. Salcedo and R. F. Porto and S. Y. Roa and F. R. Momo A wavelet-based time-varying autoregressive model for non-stationary and irregular time series . . . . . . . 2313--2325 S. Eftekhari Mahabadi and M. Ganjali An index of local sensitivity to non-ignorability for parametric survival models with potential non-random missing covariate: an application to the SEER cancer registry data . . . . . . . . . . 2327--2348 M. C. Pardo and R. Alonso A generalized $Q$--$Q$ plot for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 2349--2362 Nicole White and Helen Johnson and Peter Silburn and Kerrie Mengersen Dirichlet process mixture models for unsupervised clustering of symptoms in Parkinson's disease . . . . . . . . . . 2363--2377 Charles C. Taylor and Kanti V. Mardia and Marco Di Marzio and Agnese Panzera Validating protein structure using kernel density estimates . . . . . . . . 2379--2388 Manoj Kumar Rastogi and Yogesh Mani Tripathi and Shuo-Jye Wu Estimating the parameters of a bathtub-shaped distribution under progressive type-II censoring . . . . . 2389--2411 Samuel Iddi and Geert Molenberghs A joint marginalized multilevel model for longitudinal outcomes . . . . . . . 2413--2430 Mahmoud Torabi Spatial modeling using frequentist approach for disease mapping . . . . . . 2431--2439 Yan Ma On inference for Kendall's $ \tau $ within a longitudinal data setting . . . 2441--2452 Luzia Gonçalves and M. Rosário de Oliveira and Cláudia Pascoal and Ana Pires Sample size for estimating a binomial proportion: comparison of different methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2453--2473 Kanti V. Mardia and John T. Kent and Zhengzheng Zhang and Charles C. Taylor and Thomas Hamelryck Mixtures of concentrated multivariate sine distributions with applications to bioinformatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2475--2492 Matthew Benigni and Reinhard Furrer Spatio-temporal improvised explosive device monitoring: improving detection to minimise attacks . . . . . . . . . . 2493--2508 Alan Kimber and Shah-Jalal Sarker A covariance-based test for shared frailty in multivariate lifetime data 2509--2522 Irina Chis Ster Inference for serological surveys investigating past exposures to infections resulting in long-lasting immunity --- an approach using finite mixture models with concomitant information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2523--2542 Anonymous Gopal Kanji Prize 2011 . . . . . . . . . 2311
Liu-Cang Wu and Zhong-Zhan Zhang and Deng-Ke Xu Variable selection in joint mean and variance models of Box--Cox transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2543--2555 Chang-Shuai Li Analysis of hedging based on co-persistence theory . . . . . . . . . 2557--2567 Elias Zintzaras The power of generalized odds ratio in assessing association in genetic studies with known mode of inheritance . . . . . 2569--2581 Kei Hirose and Tomoyuki Higuchi Creating facial animation of characters via MoCap data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2583--2597 Vera Hofer and Johannes Leitner A bivariate Sarmanov regression model for count data with generalised Poisson marginals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2599--2617 Suzanne V. Landram and Frank G. Landram A computational understanding of partial and part determination coefficients . . 2619--2626 Zangin Zeebari Developing ridge estimation method for median regression . . . . . . . . . . . 2627--2638 Byron J. Gajewski and Robert Lee and Nancy Dunton Data envelopment analysis in the presence of measurement error: case study from the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators$^\reg $ (NDNQI$^\reg $) . . . . . . . . . . . . 2639--2653 Rand R. Wilcox and David M. Erceg-Hurn Comparing two dependent groups via quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2655--2664 Mariagiulia Matteucci and Stefania Mignani and Bernard P. Veldkamp The use of predicted values for item parameters in item response theory models: an application in intelligence tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2665--2683 Osvaldo Venegas and Francisco Rodríguez and Héctor W. Gómez and Juan F. Olivares-Pacheco and Heleno Bolfarine Robust modeling using the generalized epsilon-skew-$t$ distribution . . . . . 2685--2698 S. Mukhopadhyay and I. Das and K. Das Selection of a stroke risk model based on transcranial Doppler ultrasound velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2699--2712 H. E. T. Holgersson and Peter S. Karlsson Three estimators of the Mahalanobis distance in high-dimensional data . . . 2713--2720 Julio C. Ferreira and Marta A. Freitas and Enrico A. Colosimo Degradation data analysis for samples under unequal operating conditions: a case study on train wheels . . . . . . . 2721--2739 Ahmed A. Soliman and A. H. Abd Ellah and N. A. Abou-Elheggag and A. A. Modhesh Estimation of the coefficient of variation for non-normal model using progressive first-failure-censoring data 2741--2758 Yinghui Wei and Peter Neal and Sandra Telfer and Mike Begon Statistical analysis of an endemic disease from a capture-recapture experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2759--2773 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2777--2778 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2775 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi
Robert G. Aykroyd Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Russell J. Bowater and Gabriel Escarela Heterogeneity and study size in random-effects meta-analysis . . . . . . 2--16 Francis Pike and Lisa Weissfeld Joint modeling of censored longitudinal and event time data . . . . . . . . . . 17--27 J. M. Fernández-Ponce and F. Palacios-Rodríguez and M. R. Rodríguez-Griñolo Bayesian influence diagnostics in radiocarbon dating . . . . . . . . . . . 28--39 Antonio S. M. Arroyo and Antonio García-Ferrer and Aránzazu de Juan Fernández and Rocío Sánchez-Mangas Lower posterior death probabilities from a quick medical response in road traffic accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--58 Paul H. Garthwaite and Shafeeqah A. Al-Awadhi and Fadlalla G. Elfadaly and David J. Jenkinson Prior distribution elicitation for generalized linear and piecewise-linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--75 Pablo Martínez-Camblor and Norberto Corral and Jesus María de la Hera Hypothesis test for paired samples in the presence of missing data . . . . . . 76--87 Isabella Sulis and Vincenza Capursi Building up adjusted indicators of students' evaluation of university courses using generalized item response models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--102 K. J. Kachiashvili and M. A. Hashmi and A. Mueed Quasi-optimal Bayesian procedures of many hypotheses testing . . . . . . . . 103--122 Yanchun Bao and Hongsheng Dai and Tao Wang and Sung-Kiang Chuang A joint modelling approach for clustered recurrent events and death events . . . 123--140 Eugenia Nissi and Annalina Sarra A simulation study on the hybrid nature of Tango's index . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--151 Han Lin Shang Functional time series approach for forecasting very short-term electricity demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--168 Donald W. Zimmerman Heterogeneity of variance and biased hypothesis tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--193 S. H. Lin and R. S. Wang Modified method on the means for several log-normal distributions . . . . . . . . 194--208 Xu-Qing Liu and Feng Gao and Zhen-Feng Yu Improved ridge estimators in a linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--220 Cesaltina Pires and Andreia Dionísio and Luís Coelho Estimating utility functions using generalized maximum entropy . . . . . . 221--234
Faping Duan and Daniel Ogden and Ling Xu and Kang Liu and George Lust and Jody Sandler and Nathan L. Dykes and Lan Zhu and Steven Harris and Paul Jones and Rory J. Todhunter and Zhiwu Zhang Principal component analysis of canine hip dysplasia phenotypes and their statistical power for genome-wide association mapping . . . . . . . . . . 235--251 Liyong Fu and Yuancai Lei and Ram P. Sharma and Shouzheng Tang Parameter estimation of nonlinear mixed-effects models using first-order conditional linearization and the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--265 Yuanhua Feng An iterative plug-in algorithm for decomposing seasonal time series using the Berlin Method . . . . . . . . . . . 266--281 Francesca Greselin and Leo Pasquazzi and Ricardas Zitikis Contrasting the Gini and Zenga indices of economic inequality . . . . . . . . . 282--297 Ileana Baldi and Eva Pagano and Paola Berchialla and Alessandro Desideri and Alberto Ferrando and Franco Merletti and Dario Gregori Modeling healthcare costs in simultaneous presence of asymmetry, heteroscedasticity and correlation . . . 298--310 Lai Wei and Alan D. Hutson A comment on sample size calculations for binomial confidence intervals . . . 311--319 J. Andrew Howe and Hamparsum Bozdogan Robust mixture model cluster analysis using adaptive kernels . . . . . . . . . 320--336 Andreas Quatember and Monika Cornelia Hausner A family of methods for statistical disclosure control . . . . . . . . . . . 337--346 Xiting Cao and Baolin Wu and Marshall I. Hertz Empirical null distribution-based modeling of multi-class differential gene expression detection . . . . . . . 347--357 Baolin Wu Sparse cluster analysis of large-scale discrete variables with application to single nucleotide polymorphism data . . 358--367 Dongliang Wang and Alan D. Hutson Joint confidence region estimation of L-moment ratios with an extension to right censored data . . . . . . . . . . 368--379 Peixin Zhao and Liugen Xue Instrumental variable-based empirical likelihood inferences for varying-coefficient models with error-prone covariates . . . . . . . . . 380--396 Ilhan Usta Different estimation methods for the parameters of the extended Burr XII distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--414 Elena Abascal and Vidal Díaz de Rada and Ignacio García Lautre and M. Isabel Landaluce Extending dual multiple factor analysis to categorical tables . . . . . . . . . 415--428 P. Angelopoulos and K. Drosou and C. Koukouvinos An orthogonal arrays approach to robust parameter designs methodology . . . . . 429--437 Vasyl Golosnoy and Jens Hogrefe Signaling NBER turning points: a sequential approach . . . . . . . . . . 438--448 Hea-Jung Kim Optimal asymmetric classification procedures for interval-screened normal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--462 Shuangzhe Liu Econometric methods for labour economics 463--464 Kassim S. Mwitondi Data mining with Rattle and R . . . . . 464--464
Michael Parkinson $z$ Test for the significance of the mean of a stable probability distribution with $ 1 < \alpha \leq 2 $ 465--482 Rashid Mehmood and Muhammad Riaz and Ronald J. M. M. Does Control charts for location based on different sampling schemes . . . . . . . 483--494 M. V. Kulikova and D. R. Taylor Stochastic volatility models for exchange rates and their estimation using quasi-maximum-likelihood methods: an application to the South African Rand 495--507 Enrico Ciavolino and Mariangela Nitti Using the Hybrid Two-Step estimation approach for the identification of second-order latent variable models . . 508--526 Katherine St. Clair and Eric Dunton and John Giudice A comparison of models using removal effort to estimate animal abundance . . 527--545 J. K. Rogers and J. L. Hutton Joint modelling of pre-randomisation event counts and multiple post-randomisation survival times with cure rates: application to data for early epilepsy and single seizures . . . 546--562 Inmaculada Arostegui and Vicente Núñez-Antón and José M. Quintana On the recoding of continuous and bounded indexes to a binomial form: an application to quality-of-life scores 563--582 Doyo G. Enki and Nickolay T. Trendafilov and Ian T. Jolliffe A clustering approach to interpretable principal components . . . . . . . . . . 583--599 S. Subedi and Z. Feng and R. Deardon and F. S. Schenkel SNP selection for predicting a quantitative trait . . . . . . . . . . . 600--613 Dongliang Wang and Alan D. Hutson Smooth bootstrap-based confidence intervals for one binomial proportion and difference of two proportions . . . 614--625 Verena Feirer and Herwig Friedl and Ulrich Hirn Modelling over- and underdispersed frequencies of successful ink transmissions onto paper . . . . . . . . 626--643 Betül Kan and Özlem Alpu and Berna Yazici Robust ridge and robust Liu estimator for regression based on the LTS estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--655 Jacob J. Oleson and Christopher K. Wikle Predicting infectious disease outbreak risk via migratory waterfowl vectors . . 656--673 Sandra E. Melo and Oscar O. Melo Distance-based approach in univariate longitudinal data analysis . . . . . . . 674--692 Akbar Heydarbeygie and Nima Ahmadi Nonparametric methods for the estimation of imputation uncertainty . . . . . . . 693--698
Yang Li and Yichen Qin and Yanming Xie and Feng Tian Grouped penalization estimation of the osteoporosis data in the traditional Chinese medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--711 Nilgun Fescioglu-Unver and Basak Tanyeri A comparison of artificial neural network and multinomial logit models in predicting mergers . . . . . . . . . . . 712--720 B. M. Golam Kibria and Kristofer Månsson and Ghazi Shukur Some ridge regression estimators for the zero-inflated Poisson model . . . . . . 721--735 Hui Lin and Chong Wang and Peng Liu and Derald J. Holtkamp Construction of disease risk scoring systems using logistic group lasso: application to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome survey data . . . . 736--746 Marco Marozzi Adaptive choice of scale tests in flexible two-stage designs with applications in experimental ecology and clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--762 T. Górecki Sequential correction of linear classifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--776 Gavin Shaddick and Haojie Yan and Ruth Salway and Danielle Vienneau and Daphne Kounali and David Briggs Large-scale Bayesian spatial modelling of air pollution for policy support . . 777--794 Mariantonietta Ruggieri and Antonella Plaia and Francesca Di Salvo and Gianna Agró Functional principal component analysis for the explorative analysis of multisite-multivariate air pollution time series with long gaps . . . . . . . 795--807 Sandra De Iaco On the use of different metrics for assessing complex pattern reproductions 808--822 Hukum Chandra Exploring spatial dependence in area-level random effect model for disaggregate-level crop yield estimation 823--842 Ole Klungsòyr and Joe Sexton and Inger Sandanger and Jan F. Nygård A time-varying measurement error model for age of onset of a psychiatric diagnosis: applied to first depressive episode diagnosed by the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--861 Muhammad Faisal and Andreas Futschik and Ijaz Hussain A new approach to choose acceptance cutoff for approximate Bayesian computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--869 Zaizai Yan and Miaomiao Li and Yalu Yan An efficient non-rejective implementation of the $ \pi p s $ sampling designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 870--886 A. J. Hayter Inferences on the difference between future observations for comparing two treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--900 Edoardo Otranto Volatility clustering in the presence of time-varying model parameters . . . . . 901--915 Kassim S. Mwitondi Statistical computing in C++ and R . . . 916--916 Pieter Bastiaan Ober A practitioner's guide to resampling for data analysis, data mining, and modeling 917--917 Pieter Bastiaan Ober Data driven business decisions . . . . . 917--918 Anouar Ben Mabrouk Time series modelling of neuroscience data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--919 Yves Laberge Simulating nature: a philosophical study of computer-simulation uncertainties and their role in climate science and policy advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--920 Mariano Ruiz Espejo Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920--921 Yiannis Kamarianakis Ergodic control of diffusion processes 921--922 Chris Beeley Behavioural research data analysis with R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922--922 A. M. Mosammam Geostatistics: modeling spatial uncertainty, second edition . . . . . . 923--923 Hassan S. Bakouch R for statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--924 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
Kuangnan Fang and Shuangge Ma Three-part model for fractional response variables with application to Chinese household health insurance coverage . . 925--940 Seung-Gu Kim and Jeong-Soo Park and Yung-Seop Lee Identification of target clusters by using the restricted normal mixture model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--960 B. Houlding and J. Haslett Scheduling parallel conference sessions: an application of a novel hybrid clustering algorithm for ensuring constrained cardinality . . . . . . . . 961--971 I-Tang Yu A modification of the Box--Meyer method for finding the active factors in screening experiments . . . . . . . . . 972--984 Connie Stewart Zero-inflated beta distribution for modeling the proportions in quantitative fatty acid signature analysis . . . . . 985--992 Yan Zhou and John A. D. Aston and Adam M. Johansen Bayesian model comparison for compartmental models with applications in positron emission tomography . . . . 993--1016 Nagatomo Nakamura and Takahiro Tsuchiya A model of regression lines through a common point: estimation of the focal point in wind-blown sand phenomena . . . 1017--1031 Antonio Carlos Gonçalves and Renan M. V. R. Almeida and Marcos Pereira Estellita Lins and Carlos P. Samanez Canonical correlation analysis in the definition of weight restrictions for data envelopment analysis . . . . . . . 1032--1043 David M. Zimmer Intertemporal persistence in healthcare spending and utilization: the role of insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1063 M. Ataharul Islam and Abdulhamid A. Alzaid and Rafiqul I. Chowdhury and Khalaf S. Sultan A generalized bivariate Bernoulli model with covariate dependence . . . . . . . 1064--1075 Farzana Noor and Muhammad Aslam Bayesian inference of the inverse Weibull mixture distribution using type-I censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076--1089 Vahid Nassiri and Ignace Loris A generalized quantile regression model 1090--1105 Muhammad Yameen Danish and Muhammad Aslam Bayesian estimation for randomly censored generalized exponential distribution under asymmetric loss functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106--1119 Michael P. McAssey An empirical goodness-of-fit test for multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 1120--1131 Jiong Luo and Zheng Su A note on variance estimation in the Cox proportional hazards model . . . . . . . 1132--1139 Steven Y. Hua and D. L. Hawkins and Jihao Zhou Statistical considerations in bioequivalence of two area under the concentration-time curves obtained from serial sampling data . . . . . . . . . . 1140--1154
Stephan Stahlschmidt and Helmut Tausendteufel and Wolfgang K. Härdle Bayesian networks for sex-related homicides: structure learning and prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1171 Raffaella Calabrese and Silvia Angela Osmetti Modelling small and medium enterprise loan defaults as rare events: the generalized extreme value regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1172--1188 Wan-Min Tsai and Albert Vexler and Gregory Gurevich An extensive power evaluation of a novel two-sample density-based empirical likelihood ratio test for paired data with an application to a treatment study of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and severe mood dysregulation 1189--1208 Donatella Vicari and Maurizio Vichi Multivariate linear regression for heterogeneous data . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1230 Hyokyoung Grace Hong and Jianhui Zhou A multi-index model for quantile regression with ordinal data . . . . . . 1231--1245 Hua Jin and Qi Mo Hip fracture prediction from a new classification algorithm based on recursive partitioning methods . . . . . 1246--1253 Ferra Yanuar and Kamarulzaman Ibrahim and Abdul Aziz Jemain Bayesian structural equation modeling for the health index . . . . . . . . . . 1254--1269 Sebastian Kurtek and Wei Wu and Gary E. Christensen and Anuj Srivastava Segmentation, alignment and statistical analysis of biosignals with application to disease classification . . . . . . . 1270--1288 Debasis Kundu Bayesian analysis for partially complete time and type of failure data . . . . . 1289--1300 Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and Paravaneh Jahani The economic design of multivariate binomial EWMA VSSI control charts . . . 1301--1318 Miler Jerkovic Vera and Bojanic Dubravka and Jorgovanovic Nikola and Ilic Vojin and Petrovacki-Balj Bojana Detecting and removing outlier(s) in electromyographic gait-related patterns 1319--1332 Sophie Bercu and Frédéric Pro\"\ia A SARIMAX coupled modelling applied to individual load curves intraday forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333--1348 Erhard Reschenhofer Robust testing for stationarity of global surface temperature . . . . . . . 1349--1361 K. Suresh Chandra and G. Gopal and M. Ramadurai A stochastic frontier approach to survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 1362--1371 Jiaqi Yang and Wei Zhang and Baolin Wu A note on statistical method for genotype calling of high-throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism arrays 1372--1381 Jing Xu Book Review: \booktitleExpect the unexpected: a first course in biostatistics, by Raluca Balan and Gilles Lamothe, ISBN-13 978-981-4291-32-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 1382--1383 Jing Xu Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to probability with Texas Hold'em examples, by Frederic Paik Schoenberg, ISBN-13 978-1-4398-27680 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1383--1384 Abhay Kumar Tiwari Book Review: \booktitleEconomic time series, edited by William R. Bell, Scott H. Holan, and Tucker S. McElroy, ISBN-13 978-1-4398-4657-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 1384--1385
Ying Chen A powerful test method for analyzing unreplicated factorials . . . . . . . . 1387--1401 Saheli Datta and Raquel Prado and Abel Rodríguez Bayesian factor models in characterizing molecular adaptation . . . . . . . . . . 1402--1424 Z. Rezaei Ghahroodi and M. Ganjali A Bayesian approach for analysing longitudinal nominal outcomes using random coefficients transitional generalized logit model: an application to the labour force survey data . . . . 1425--1445 Kouji Yamamoto and Shota Murakami and Sadao Tomizawa Point-symmetry models and decomposition for collapsed square contingency tables 1446--1452 Anouar BenMabrouk and Olfa Zaafrane Wavelet fuzzy hybrid model for physico-financial signals . . . . . . . 1453--1463 Conghua Cheng and Jinyuan Chen and Jianming Bai Exact inferences of the two-parameter exponential distribution and Pareto distribution with censored data . . . . 1464--1479 Mohammad Z. Raqab Discriminating between the generalized Rayleigh and Weibull distributions . . . 1480--1493 K. H. Makambi Extended tests for non-zero between-study variance . . . . . . . . . 1494--1505 Y. Sertdemir and H. R. Burgut and Z. N. Alparslan and I. Unal and S. Gunasti Comparing the methods of measuring multi-rater agreement on an ordinal rating scale: a simulation study with an application to real data . . . . . . . . 1506--1519 Pao-Sheng Shen Additive hazards model with truncated and doubly censored data . . . . . . . . 1520--1532 Leonardo Soares Bastos and Joel Mauricio Correa da Rosa Predicting Probabilities for the 2010 FIFA World Cup games using a Poisson--Gamma model . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1544 Sukru Acitas and Pelin Kasap and Birdal Seno\uglu and Olcay Arslan One-step $M$-estimators: Jones and Faddy's skewed $t$-distribution . . . . 1545--1560 L. I. Pettit and N. Sothinathan Effect of individual observations on the Box--Cox transformation . . . . . . . . 1561--1571 Jorge González Chapela Things that make us different: analysis of deviance with time-use data . . . . . 1572--1585 Mariana Rodrigues-Motta and Hildete P. Pinheiro and Eduardo G. Martins and Márcio S. Araújo and Sérgio F. dos Reis Multivariate models for correlated count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1586--1596 Sanjay Kumar Singh and Umesh Singh and Dinesh Kumar Bayesian estimation of parameters of inverse Weibull distribution . . . . . . 1597--1607 Saad T. Bakir A subset selection procedure for multinomial distributions . . . . . . . 1608--1618
Claude Manté and Guillaume Bernard and Patrick Bonhomme and David Nerini Application of ordinal correspondence analysis for submerged aquatic vegetation monitoring . . . . . . . . . 1619--1638 Syed Mohsin Ali Kazmi and Muhammad Aslam and Sajid Ali and Nasir Abbas Selection of suitable prior for the Bayesian mixture of a class of lifetime distributions under type-I censored datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1639--1658 Akiko Kada and Zhihong Cai and Manabu Kuroki Medical diagnostic test based on the potential test result approach: bounds and identification . . . . . . . . . . . 1659--1672 Ting-Ting Gang and Jun Yang and Yu Zhao Multivariate control chart based on the highest possibility region . . . . . . . 1673--1681 Luca De Angelis and Leonard J. Paas A dynamic analysis of stock markets using a hidden Markov model . . . . . . 1682--1700 Laura Barbieri Causality and interdependence analysis in linear econometric models with an application to fertility . . . . . . . . 1701--1716 A. Asgharzadeh and Hassan S. Bakouch and L. Esmaeili Pareto Poisson--Lindley distribution with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1734 Hasan Erta\cs and Murat Eriso\uglu and Selahattin Kaçìranlar Detecting influential observations in Liu and modified Liu estimators . . . . 1735--1745 Z. I. Kalaylio\uglu and O. Ozturk Bayesian semiparametric models for nonignorable missing mechanisms in generalized linear models . . . . . . . 1746--1763 Mark Trede and Cornelia Savu Do stock returns have an Archimedean copula? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1764--1778 Zhiyong Zhang Bayesian growth curve models with the generalized error distribution . . . . . 1779--1795 Guillermo Ferreira and Luis M. Castro and Victor H. Lachos and Ronaldo Dias Bayesian modeling of autoregressive partial linear models with scale mixture of normal errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1796--1816 Vishal Maurya and Amar Nath Gill and Parminder Singh Multiple comparisons with a control for exponential location parameters under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1817--1830 Paola Annoni and Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska and Hania Farhan Measuring the impact of the Web: Rasch modelling for survey evaluation . . . . 1831--1851 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
David Canning and Declan French and Michael Moore Non-parametric estimation of data dimensionality prior to data compression: the case of the human development index . . . . . . . . . . . 1853--1863 Jorge Alberto Achcar and Emílio Augusto Coelho-Barros and Josmar Mazucheli Block and Basu bivariate lifetime distribution in the presence of cure fraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864--1874 Wen-Liang Hung and De-Hua Chen Clustering algorithm for proximity-relation matrix and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1875--1892 Rui Fragoso and Maria Leonor da Silva Carvalho Estimation of cost allocation coefficients at the farm level using an entropy approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 1893--1906 R. M. Green and M. S. Bebbington A longitudinal analysis of infant and senescent mortality using mixture models 1907--1920 Arindam Gupta and Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti A new behavioural model for fertility schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1930 Christian H. Weiß Integer-valued autoregressive models for counts showing underdispersion . . . . . 1931--1948 Tiejun Tong and Zeny Feng and Julia S. Hilton and Hongyu Zhao Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses using the pattern of observed $p$-values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1949--1964 Donatella Vicari and Johan René van Dorp On a bounded bimodal two-sided distribution fitted to the Old-Faithful geyser data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965--1978 Edgard M. Maboudou-Tchao and Douglas M. Hawkins Detection of multiple change-points in multivariate data . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--1995 Yanqing Yi and Yuan Yuan An optimal allocation for response-adaptive designs . . . . . . . 1996--2008 Laura Barbieri and Mario Faliva and Maria Grazia Zoia Band-limited component estimation in time-limited economic series . . . . . . 2009--2023 Weihua Zhao and Riquan Zhang and Jicai Liu Robust variable selection for the varying coefficient model based on composite $ L_1 $--$ L_2 $ regression 2024--2040 Nicholas T. Longford Searching for contaminants . . . . . . . 2041--2055 Hossein Zamani and Noriszura Ismail Score test for testing zero-inflated Poisson regression against zero-inflated generalized Poisson alternatives . . . . 2056--2068 Riccardo Borgoni and Valeria Tritto and Daniela de Bartolo Identifying radon-prone building typologies by marginal modelling . . . . 2069--2086
Marcelo Justus dos Santos and Ana Lúcia Kassouf A cointegration analysis of crime, economic activity, and police performance in São Paulo city . . . . . . 2087--2109 Wantanee Surapaitoolkorn Variable dimension via stochastic volatility model using FX rates . . . . 2110--2128 Jose R. S. Santos and Caio L. N. Azevedo and Heleno Bolfarine A multiple group item response theory model with centered skew-normal latent trait distributions under a Bayesian framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2129--2149 S. Faria and F. Gonçalves Financial data modeling by Poisson mixture regression . . . . . . . . . . . 2150--2162 Jacques Bénasséni A concentration approach to sensitivity studies in statistical estimation problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2163--2180 Vesna \'Cojbasi\'c Raji\'c and J. Stanojevi\'c Confidence intervals for the ratio of two variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2181--2187 Hongli Niu and Jun Wang Power-law scaling behavior analysis of financial time series model by voter interacting dynamic system . . . . . . . 2188--2203 Saima Altaf and Muhammad Aslam and Muhammad Aslam Analysis of the amended Davidson model with order effect for paired comparison in the Bayesian paradigm . . . . . . . . 2204--2218 M. Revan Özkale Influence measures in affine combination type regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 2219--2243 Yangxin Huang and Getachew A. Dagne and Jeong-Gun Park Segmental modeling of changing immunologic response for CD4 data with skewness, missingness and dropout . . . 2244--2258 Min Wang and Jing Zhao and Xiaoqian Sun and Chanseok Park Robust explicit estimation of the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2259--2274 Mauro Costantini Forecasting the industrial production using alternative factor models and business survey data . . . . . . . . . . 2275--2289 Hossein Hassani and Saeed Heravi and Gary Brown and Daniel Ayoubkhani Forecasting before, during, and after recession with singular spectrum analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2290--2302 Haydar Demirhan Bayesian estimation of log odds ratios over two-way contingency tables with intraclass correlated cells . . . . . . 2303--2316
Ludovic Seifert and Jean-François Coeurjolly and Romain Hérault and Léo Wattebled and Keith Davids Temporal dynamics of inter-limb coordination in ice climbing revealed through change-point analysis of the geodesic mean of circular data . . . . . 2317--2331 Chor Foon Tang A revisitation of the export-led growth hypothesis in Malaysia using the leveraged bootstrap simulation and rolling causality techniques . . . . . . 2332--2340 Jing-Er Chiu and Chih-Hsin Tsai Properties and performance of one-sided cumulative count of conforming chart with parameter estimation in high-quality processes . . . . . . . . . 2341--2353 Filidor Vilca and Mariana Rodrigues-Motta and Víctor Leiva On a variance stabilizing model and its application to genomic data . . . . . . 2354--2371 Lei Wang and Yukun Liu and Wei Wu and Xiaolong Pu Sequential LND sensitivity test for binary response data . . . . . . . . . . 2372--2384 Lee Fawcett and Neil Thorpe Mobile safety cameras: estimating casualty reductions and the demand for secondary healthcare . . . . . . . . . . 2385--2406 M. H. Lee and H. J. Sadaei and Suhartono Improving TAIEX forecasting using fuzzy time series with Box--Cox power transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2407--2422 Therese Graversen and Steffen Lauritzen Estimation of parameters in DNA mixture analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2423--2436 Coskun Kus and Yunus Akdogan and Shuo-Jye Wu Optimal progressive group censoring scheme under cost considerations for Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . 2437--2450 Ülkü Eriso\uglu and Murat Eriso\uglu and Nazif Çalis Heterogeneous data modeling with two-component Weibull--Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2451--2461 Robert Schall and Dianne Weatherall Accuracy and fairness of rain rules for interrupted one-day cricket matches . . 2462--2479 Alexandros E. Milionis and Evangelia Papanagiotou Decomposing the predictive performance of the moving average trading rule of technical analysis: the contribution of linear and non-linear dependencies in stock returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2480--2494 David A. Wooff and Amin Jamalzadeh Robust and scale-free effect sizes for non-Normal two-sample comparisons, with applications in e-commerce . . . . . . . 2495--2515 Gang Han and Yangxin Huang and Qizhai Li and Lili Chen and Xi Zhang Hybrid Bayesian inference on HIV viral dynamic models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2516--2532 Yao Zhang and Eric T. Bradlow and Dylan S. Small New measures of clumpiness for incidence data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2533--2548
Jiin-Huarng Guo and Wei-Ming Luh Efficient sample size allocation with cost constraints for heterogeneous-variance group comparison 2549--2563 E. Androulakis and C. Koukouvinos A new variable selection method for uniform designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 2564--2578 Ivo Alberink and Annabel Bolck and Sonja Menges Posterior likelihood ratios for evaluation of forensic trace evidence given a two-level model on the data . . 2579--2600 A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon and Ali S. Hadi Identification of multiple high leverage points in logistic regression . . . . . 2601--2616 B. M. Golam Kibria and Shipra Banik Parametric and nonparametric confidence intervals for estimating the difference of means of two skewed populations . . . 2617--2636 Sanying Feng and Liugen Xue Variable selection for partially varying coefficient single-index model . . . . . 2637--2652 Akanksha S. Kashikar and Neelabh Rohan and T. V. Ramanathan Integer autoregressive models with structural breaks . . . . . . . . . . . 2653--2669 Sharif Mahmood and Begum Zainab and A. H. M. Mahbub Latif Frailty modeling for clustered survival data: an application to birth interval in Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2670--2680 Johannes Forkman The use of a reference variety for comparisons in incomplete series of crop variety trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2681--2698 Le Kang and Randy Carter and Kathleen Darcy and James Kauderer and Shu-Yuan Liao A fast Monte Carlo expectation-maximization algorithm for estimation in latent class model analysis with an application to assess diagnostic accuracy for cervical neoplasia in women with atypical glandular cells . . . . . . . . . . . . 2699--2719 Saieed F. Ateya Estimation under modified Weibull distribution based on right censored generalized order statistics . . . . . . 2720--2734 Abdul Aziz Karia and Imbarine Bujang and Ismail Ahmad Fractionally integrated ARMA for crude palm oil prices prediction: case of potentially overdifference . . . . . . . 2735--2748 Gang Wang and Jun Wang and Mingyu Wang Modular-transform based clustering . . . 2749--2759 Emilio Gómez Déniz A new discrete distribution: properties and applications in medical care . . . . 2760--2770 Mikhail Moklyachuk Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in time series forecasting, by Cagdas Hakan Aladag and Erol E\ugrio\uglu, ISBN-13 978-1-60805-373-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 2771--2772 Yves Laberge Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of statistics in clinical oncology . . . . 2772--2773 Eugenia Stoimenova Book Review: \booktitleMethodology in robust and nonparametric statistics, by Jana Jare\vcová, Pranab K. Sen, and Jan Picek, ISBN-13 978-1-4398-4068-9 . . . . 2773--2773 Mark Webster Book Review: \booktitleBayesian statistics, by Peter M. Lee, ISBN 978-1-1183-3257-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 2773--2774 Han Lin Shang The BUGS book: a practical introduction to Bayesian analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2774--2775 Pieter Bastiaan Ober Introduction to linear regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2776 Giovanni C. Porzio Regression analysis by example . . . . . 2776--2777 Claire Keeble Maximum-likelihood estimation for sample surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2777--2777 Mariano Ruiz Espejo Confidence intervals for proportions and related measures of effect size . . . . 2778--2778 Mariano Ruiz Espejo Design and analysis of experiments in the health sciences . . . . . . . . . . 2778--2779 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Robert G. Aykroyd Editor Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Nalan Gülpinar and Kabir Katata Modelling oil and gas supply disruption risks using extreme-value theory and copula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--25 Sung Wan Han and Rickson C. Mesquita and Theresa M. Busch and Mary E. Putt A method for choosing the smoothing parameter in a semi-parametric model for detecting change-points in blood flow 26--45 Xiaowei Yang and Bin Peng and Rongqi Chen and Qian Zhang and Dianwen Zhu and Qing J. Zhang and Fuzhong Xue and Lihong Qi Statistical profiling methods with hierarchical logistic regression for healthcare providers with binary outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--59 Abidemi K. Adeniji and Steven H. Belle and Abdus S. Wahed Incorporating diagnostic accuracy into the estimation of discrete survival function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--72 Xavier Puig and Josep Ginebra A Bayesian cluster analysis of election results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--94 Weihua Zhao and Riquan Zhang and Yazhao Lv and Jicai Liu Variable selection for varying dispersion beta regression model . . . . 95--108 Hani M. Samawi and Robert Vogel Notes on two sample tests for partially correlated (paired) data . . . . . . . . 109--117 E. D. Lozano-Aguilera and María Dolores Estudillo-Martínez and Sonia Castillo-Gutiérrez A proposal for plotting positions in probability plots . . . . . . . . . . . 118--126 Stacia M. DeSantis and Christos Lazaridis and Shuang Ji and Francis G. Spinale Analyzing propensity matched zero-inflated count outcomes in observational studies . . . . . . . . . 127--141 Márcio Poletti Laurini Dynamic functional data analysis with non-parametric state space models . . . 142--163 Boudewijn F. Roukema A first-digit anomaly in the 2009 Iranian Presidential election . . . . . 164--199 Aamir Saghir and Zhengyan Lin Control chart for monitoring multivariate COM--Poisson attributes . . 200--214 Hanieh Panahi and Abdolreza Sayyareh Parameter estimation and prediction of order statistics for the Burr Type XII distribution with Type II censoring . . 215--232
H. E. T. Holgersson and L. Nordström and Ö. Öner Dummy variables vs. category-wise models 233--241 Ting-Li Chen and Stuart Geman Image warping using radial basis functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--258 S. H. Lin Comparing the mean vectors of two independent multivariate log-normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274 Arash Nademi and Rahman Farnoosh Mixtures of autoregressive-autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic models: semi-parametric approach . . . . . . . . 275--293 Tsukasa Hokimoto and Kunio Shimizu A non-homogeneous hidden Markov model for predicting the distribution of sea surface elevation . . . . . . . . . . . 294--319 José A. Fioruci and Ricardo S. Ehlers and Marinho G. Andrade Filho Bayesian multivariate GARCH models with dynamic correlations and asymmetric error distributions . . . . . . . . . . 320--331 Michael McCullough and Thomas L. Marsh and Ron C. Mittelhammer Reconstructing nonlinear structure in regression residuals . . . . . . . . . . 332--350 Ming Zhou and Yongzhao Shao A powerful test for multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--363 A. Asrat Atsedeweyn and K. Srinivasa Rao Linear regression model with new symmetric distributed errors . . . . . . 364--381 Ji-Liang Shiu and Chia-Hung D. Sun The determinants of price in online auctions: more evidence from unbalanced panel data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--392 Xiaoguang Wang and Junhui Fan Variable selection for multivariate generalized linear models . . . . . . . 393--406 Saeid Amiri The resampling of entropies with the application of biodiversity . . . . . . 407--422 Paul J. Plummer and Jie Chen A Bayesian approach for locating change points in a compound Poisson process with application to detecting DNA copy number variations . . . . . . . . . . . 423--438 Krishna K. Saha and Roger Bilisoly and Darius M. Dziuda Hybrid-based confidence intervals for the ratio of two treatment means in the over-dispersed Poisson data . . . . . . 439--453 Bulent Tutmez Analyzing non-stationarity in cement stone pit by median polish interpolation: a case study . . . . . . 454--466
Guo-Liang Tian and Mingqiu Wang and Lixin Song Variable selection in the high-dimensional continuous generalized linear model with current status data 467--483 Alok Kumar Dwivedi and Indika Mallawaarachchi and Soyoung Lee and Patrick Tarwater Methods for estimating relative risk in studies of common binary outcomes . . . 484--500 P. Niloofar and M. Ganjali A new multivariate imputation method based on Bayesian networks . . . . . . . 501--518 Çigdem Aricigil Çilan Latent class analysis for measuring Turkish People's future expectations for Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--529 Wenlin Dai and Tiejun Tong Variance estimation in nonparametric regression with jump discontinuities . . 530--545 Wali Ullah and Yasumasa Matsuda and Yoshihiko Tsukuda Dynamics of the term structure of interest rates and monetary policy: is monetary policy effective during zero interest rate policy? . . . . . . . . . 546--572 Insuk Sohn and Jooyong Shim and Changha Hwang and Sujong Kim and Jae Won Lee Transcription factor-binding site identification and gene classification via fusion of the supervised-weighted discrete kernel clustering and support vector machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--581 A. B. Schmiedt and H. H. Dickert and W. Bleck and U. Kamps Multivariate extreme value analysis and its relevance in a metallographical application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--595 Giancarlo Diana and Saba Riaz and Javid Shabbir Hansen and Hurwitz estimator with scrambled response on the second call 596--611 Mahmoud Torabi Hierarchical Bayesian bivariate disease mapping: analysis of children and adults asthma visits to hospital . . . . . . . 612--621 Francisco Louzada and Mário de Castro and Vera Tomazella and Jhon F. B. Gonzales Modeling categorical covariates for lifetime data in the presence of cure fraction by Bayesian partition structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--634 Najeh Chaâbane A novel auto-regressive fractionally integrated moving average-least-squares support vector machine model for electricity spot prices prediction . . . 635--651 Edgard Nyssen and Wolfgang Jacquet A statistical testing framework for evaluating the quality of measurement processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--659 Yuzhu Tian and Qianqian Zhu and Maozai Tian Inference for mixed generalized exponential distribution under progressively type-II censored samples 660--676 Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and Jorge Alberto Achcar and Liliana Garrido Lopera Bivariate beta regression models: joint modeling of the mean, dispersion and association parameters . . . . . . . . . 677--687 Yi Zhang and Haitao Chu and Donglin Zeng Evaluation of incomplete multiple diagnostic tests, with an application in the colon cancer family registry study 688--700
Andrew Cron and Liang Zhang and Deepak Agarwal Collaborative filtering for massive multinomial data . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--715 Jean-Paul Lucas and Véronique Sébille and Alain Le Tertre and Yann Le Strat and Lise Bellanger Multilevel modelling of survey data: impact of the two-level weights used in the pseudolikelihood . . . . . . . . . . 716--732 Ahmed N. Albatineh and B. M. Golam Kibria and Meredith L. Wilcox and Bashar Zogheib Confidence interval estimation for the population coefficient of variation using ranked set sampling: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--751 Essam A. Ahmed Bayesian estimation based on progressive Type-II censoring from two-parameter bathtub-shaped lifetime model: an Markov chain Monte Carlo approach . . . . . . . 752--768 Lingsong Zhang and Zhengyuan Zhu and J. S. Marron Multiresolution anomaly detection method for fractional Gaussian noise . . . . . 769--784 Show-Lin Chen and Nen-Jing Chen and Rwei-Ju Chuang An empirical study on technical analysis: GARCH $ (1, 1) $ model . . . . 785--801 Hisham Hilow Minimum cost linear trend-free $ 12 $-run fractional factorial designs . . . 802--816 Keya Rani Das and A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon Geometric median and its application in the identification of multiple outliers 817--831 Sajid Ali and Muhammad Riaz On the generalized process capability under simple and mixture models . . . . 832--852 Sharmishtha Mitra and Amit Mitra $M$-estimator-based robust estimation of the number of components of a superimposed sinusoidal signal model . . 853--878 Ping Zeng and Yongyue Wei and Yang Zhao and Jin Liu and Liya Liu and Ruyang Zhang and Jianwei Gou and Shuiping Huang and Feng Chen Variable selection approach for zero-inflated count data via adaptive lasso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--894 Ellinor Fackle-Fornius and Linda Anna Wänström Minimax $D$-optimal designs of contingent valuation experiments: willingness to pay for environmentally friendly clothes . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--908 Jonathan Gillard Book Review: \booktitleThe R book, second edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--909 Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleRisk assessment and decision analysis with Bayesian networks, by N. Fenton and M. Neil, ISBN-13 978-1-4398-0910-5 . . . . . . . 910--910 Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleComputational statistics, second edition, by Geof H. Givens and Jennifer A. Hoeting, ISBN-13 978-0-470-53331-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 910--911 Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleMedical biostatistics, third edition, by Adhaya Indrayan, ISBN-13 978-1-4398-8414-0 . . 911--911 Anshuman Sahu Book Review: \booktitleStatistical methods in customer relationship management, edited by J. Mateu and W. G. Müller, ISBN-13 978-0-470-97429-2 . . . . 912--912 A. M. Mosammam Book Review: \booktitleSpatio-temporal design: advances in efficient data acquisition, by V. Kumar and J. Andrew Petersen, ISBN-13 978-1-119-99320-9 . . 912--913 Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \booktitleUsing the Weibull distribution: Reliability, modeling and inference, by John I. McCool, ISBN-13 978-1-118-21798-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 913--914 Bozidar V. Popovi\'c Book Review: \booktitleA course on statistics for finance, by S. L. Sclove, ISBN-13 978-1-4398-9254-1 . . . . . . . 914--915 Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleApplied categorical and count data analysis, by W. Tang, H. He, and M. X. Tu, ISBN-13 978-1-4398-0624-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 915--915 Cláudia Neves Book Review: \booktitleCategorical data analysis, third edition, by Alan Agresti, ISBN-13 978-0-470-46363-5 . . . 915--916 Mikhail Moklyachuk Book Review: \booktitleExercises in probability, second edition, by Lo\"\ic Chaumont and Marc Yor, ISBN-13 978-1-107-60655-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 916--917 Anonymous Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--928
Shang-Ling Ou and Li-yu Daisy Liu and Yih-Chang Ou Using a genetic algorithm-based RAROC model for the performance and persistence of the funds . . . . . . . . 929--943 K. Facevicová and K. Hron and V. Todorov and D. Guo and M. Templ Logratio approach to statistical analysis of $ 2 \times 2 $ compositional tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944--958 Lee Fawcett and David Walshaw Estimating the probability of simultaneous rainfall extremes within a region: a spatial approach . . . . . . . 959--976 Martin X. Dunbar and Hani M. Samawi and Robert Vogel and Lili Yu Steady-state Gibbs sampler estimation for lung cancer data . . . . . . . . . . 977--988 Kun Li and YongSheng Qian and WenBo Zhao An auxiliary function approach for Lasso in music composition using cellular automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989--997 M. Revan Özkale The relative efficiency of the restricted estimators in linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 998--1027 Nanhua Zhang and Henian Chen and Yuanshu Zou A joint model of binary and longitudinal data with non-ignorable missingness, with application to marital stress and late-life major depression in women . . 1028--1039 Melody S. Goodman and Yi Li and Anne M. Stoddard and Glorian Sorensen Analysis of ordinal outcomes with longitudinal covariates subject to missingness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040--1052 M. Templ and P. Filzmoser Simulation and quality of a synthetic close-to-reality employer-employee population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1072 Matthias Borowski and Nikolaus Rudak and Birger Hussong and Dominik Wied and Sonja Kuhnt and Wolfgang Tillmann On- and offline detection of structural breaks in thermal spraying processes . . 1073--1090 Ilker Ünal and H. Refik Burgut Verification bias on sensitivity and specificity measurements in diagnostic medicine: a comparison of some approaches used for correction . . . . . 1091--1104 S. Mostafa Mokhtari and Hamid Alinejad-Rokny and Hossein Jalalifar Selection of the best well control system by using fuzzy multiple-attribute decision-making methods . . . . . . . . 1105--1121 A. Parchami and B. Sadeghpour-Gildeh and M. Nourbakhsh and M. Mashinchi A new generation of process capability indices based on fuzzy measurements . . 1122--1136 Feridun Tasdan and Meral Cetin A simulation study on the influence of ties on uniform scores test for circular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1146 Feridun Tasdan and Ozgur Yeniay A shift parameter estimation based on smoothed Kolmogorov--Smirnov . . . . . . 1147--1159
Jie Shen and Colin M. Gallagher and QiQi Lu Detection of multiple undocumented change-points using adaptive Lasso . . . 1161--1173 Marek Brabec and Viorel Badescu and Marius Paulescu Cloud shade by dynamic logistic modeling 1174--1188 Mohammad Reza Meshkani and Afshin Fallah and Amir Kavousi Analysis of covariance under inverse Gaussian model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189--1202 Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala and Samuel O. M. Manda and William W. Tigbe and Henry Mwambi and Saverio Stranges Geographic distribution of cardiovascular comorbidities in South Africa: a national cross-sectional analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1216 Kadri Ulas Akay A graphical evaluation of logistic ridge estimator in mixture experiments . . . . 1217--1232 D. M. Sakate and D. N. Kashid Variable selection via penalized minimum $ \phi $-divergence estimation in logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1246 Stephanie Sapp and Mark J. van der Laan and John Canny Subsemble: an ensemble method for combining subset-specific algorithm fits 1247--1259 Guoyi Zhang Improved $R$ and $s$ control charts for monitoring the process variance . . . . 1260--1273 Ying Dong and Lixin Song and Mingqiu Wang and Ying Xu Combined-penalized likelihood estimations with a diverging number of parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274--1285 Rafael Pimentel Maia and Per Madsen and Rodrigo Labouriau Multivariate survival mixed models for genetic analysis of longevity traits . . 1286--1306 Peter Dawson and Paul Downward and Terence C. Mills Olympic news and attitudes towards the Olympics: a compositional time-series analysis of how sentiment is affected by events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307--1314 A. A. M. Nurunnabi and Ali S. Hadi and A. H. M. R. Imon Procedures for the identification of multiple influential observations in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1331 Laurens Beran Hypothesis tests to determine if all true positives have been identified on a receiver operating characteristic curve 1332--1341 Xiao-Feng Wang and Bo Hu and Bin Wang and Kuangnan Fang Bayesian generalized varying coefficient models for longitudinal proportional data with errors-in-covariates . . . . . 1342--1357 Zhengming Xing and Bradley Nicholson and Monica Jimenez and Timothy Veldman and Lori Hudson and Joseph Lucas and David Dunson and Aimee K. Zaas and Christopher W. Woods and Geoffrey S. Ginsburg and Lawrence Carin Bayesian modeling of temporal properties of infectious disease in a college student population . . . . . . . . . . . 1358--1382 Feng-Chang Xie and Jin-Guan Lin and Bo-Cheng Wei Bayesian zero-inflated generalized Poisson regression model: estimation and case influence diagnostics . . . . . . . 1383--1392 Chih-Yueh Wang Partial differential equations for probabilists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1394 Chris Beeley Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1394--1394
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v J. F. Muñoz and E. Álvarez and M. Rueda Optimum design-based ratio estimators of the distribution function . . . . . . . 1395--1407 Bruno Chaves Franco and Philippe Castagliola and Giovanni Celano and Antonio Fernando Branco Costa A new sampling strategy to reduce the effect of autocorrelation on a control chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1408--1421 Tapio Nummi and Tiina Hakanen and Liudmila Lipiäinen and Ulla Harjunmaa and Matti K. Salo and Marja-Terttu Saha and Nina Vuorela A trajectory analysis of body mass index for Finnish children . . . . . . . . . . 1422--1435 Zhi-Sheng Ye and Jian-Guo Li and Mengru Zhang Application of ridge regression and factor analysis in design and production of alloy wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436--1452 Saeed Heravi and Peter Morgan Sampling schemes for price index construction: a performance comparison across the classification of individual consumption by purpose food groups . . . 1453--1470 Wei-Hwa Wu and Hsin-Neng Hsieh Generalized confidence interval estimation for the mean of delta-lognormal distribution: an application to New Zealand trawl survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1471--1485 J. S. K. Chan and W. Y. Wan and P. L. H. Yu A Poisson geometric process approach for predicting drop-out and committed first-time blood donors . . . . . . . . 1486--1503 D. Senthilkumar and B. Esha Raffie Designing and selection of two-plan variables scheme indexed by crossover point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1504--1515 Antonio Martín Andrés and María Álvarez Hernández Two-tailed asymptotic inferences for a proportion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1516--1529 Jalmar M. F. Carrasco and Silvia L. P. Ferrari and Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle Errors-in-variables beta regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1530--1547 Ramesh C. Gupta and Jie Huang Analysis of survival data by a Weibull-generalized Poisson distribution 1548--1564 Yazhao Lv and Riquan Zhang and Weihua Zhao and Jicai Liu Quantile regression and variable selection for the single-index model . . 1565--1577 Rajat Malik and Rob Deardon and Grace P. S. Kwong and Benjamin J. Cowling Individual-level modeling of the spread of influenza within households . . . . . 1578--1592 Ufuk Beyaztas and Aylin Alin and Michael A. Martin Robust BCa--JaB method as a diagnostic tool for linear regression models . . . 1593--1610 P. Angelopoulos and C. Koukouvinos and A. Skountzou A cusum control chart approach for screening active effects in orthogonal-saturated experiments . . . . 1611--1618 Yang-Jin Kim Regression analysis of recurrent events data with incomplete observation gaps 1619--1626
Siti Haslinda Mohd Din and Marek Molas and Jolanda Luime and Emmanuel Lesaffre Longitudinal profiles of bounded outcome scores as predictors for disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a joint modeling approach . . 1627--1644 Tao Lu and Yangxin Huang and Min Wang and Feng Qian A refined parameter estimating approach for HIV dynamic model . . . . . . . . . 1645--1657 Weihua Zhao and Riquan Zhang and Jicai Liu Sparse group variable selection based on quantile hierarchical Lasso . . . . . . 1658--1677 Raffaella Calabrese Optimal cut-off for rare events and unbalanced misclassification costs . . . 1678--1693 Alain Bensoussan and Pierre Bertrand and Alexandre Brouste A generalized linear model approach to seasonal aspects of wind speed modeling 1694--1707 Amjad D. Al-Nasser Two steps generalized maximum entropy estimation procedure for fitting linear regression when both covariates are subject to error . . . . . . . . . . . . 1708--1720 Tahani Coolen-Maturi A new weighted rank coefficient of concordance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1721--1745 M. Qamarul Islam and Fetih Yildirim and Mehmet Yazici Inference in multivariate linear regression models with elliptically distributed errors . . . . . . . . . . . 1746--1766 Xavier de Luna and Mathias Lundin Sensitivity analysis of the unconfoundedness assumption with an application to an evaluation of college choice effects on earnings . . . . . . . 1767--1784 Francisco Louzada and Paulo H. Ferreira and Carlos A. R. Diniz Skew-normal distribution for growth curve models in presence of a heteroscedasticity structure . . . . . . 1785--1798 Abdelmalek Kouadri and Karim Baiche and Mimoun Zelmat Blind source separation filters-based-fault detection and isolation in a three tank system . . . . 1799--1813 Tsai-Hung Fan and Yi-Fu Wang and Yi-Chen Zhang Bayesian model selection in linear mixed effects models with autoregressive(p) errors using mixture priors . . . . . . 1814--1829 Luigi Ippoliti and Simone Di Zio and Arcangelo Merla Classification of biomedical signals for differential diagnosis of Raynaud's phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1830--1847 Pablo Martínez-Camblor and Carlos Carleos and Jesus Á. Baro and Javier Cañón Standard statistical tools for the breed allocation problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1848--1856 Konstantinos C. Fragkos Applied medical statistics using SAS . . 1857--1858 Bozidar V. Popovi\'c Exercises and solutions in statistical theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858--1858
Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gauss M. Cordeiro and Elizabeth M. Hashimoto and Kahadawala Cooray A log-linear regression model for the odd Weibull distribution with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859--1880 Víctor Leiva and Carolina Marchant and Helton Saulo and Muhammad Aslam and Fernando Rojas Capability indices for Birnbaum--Saunders processes applied to electronic and food industries . . . . . 1881--1902 Shun Matsuura Effectiveness of a random compound noise strategy for robust parameter design . . 1903--1918 Rita Esther Zapata-Vázquez and Anthony O'Hagan and Leonardo Soares Bastos Eliciting expert judgements about a set of proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1919--1933 T. Baghfalaki and M. Ganjali and D. Berridge Joint modeling of multivariate longitudinal mixed measurements and time to event data using a Bayesian approach 1934--1955 Yun Lu and Sridhar Hannenhalli and Tom Cappola and Mary Putt An evaluation of Monte--Carlo logic and logicFS motivated by a study of the regulation of gene expression in heart failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1956--1975 Chwu-Shiun Tarng Third-order likelihood-based inference for the log-normal regression model . . 1976--1988 W. Liu and J. C. Hsu and F. Bretz and A. J. Hayter and Y. Han Shelf-life and its estimation in drug stability studies . . . . . . . . . . . 1989--2000 Le Chen and Ao Yuan and Aiyi Liu and Guanjie Chen Longitudinal data analysis using Bayesian-frequentist hybrid random effects model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001--2010 Robert Drake and Apratim Guha A mutual information-based $k$-sample test for discrete distributions . . . . 2011--2027 Jelani Wiltshire and Fred W. Huffer and William C. Parker A general class of test statistics for Van Valen's Red Queen hypothesis . . . . 2028--2043 Federico Andreis and Pier Alda Ferrari Multidimensional item response theory models for dichotomous data in customer satisfaction evaluation . . . . . . . . 2044--2055 Josemar Rodrigues and Gauss M. Cordeiro and Jorge Bazan An extended exponentiated-$G$-negative binomial family with threshold effect 2056--2074 Daniel Thorburn and Can Tongur Assessing direct and indirect seasonal decomposition in state space . . . . . . 2075--2091
Weiyan Mu and Shifeng Xiong Some notes on robust sure independence screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2092--2102 Joseph W. Sakshaug and Trivellore E. Raghunathan Generating synthetic data to produce public-use microdata for small geographic areas based on complex sample survey data with application to the National Health Interview Survey . . . . 2103--2122 A. Rouigueb and S. Chitroub and A. Bouridane Bayesian inference over ICA models: application to multibiometric score fusion with quality estimates . . . . . 2123--2140 Abdul Haq and Jennifer Brown and Elena Moltchanova and Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari Mixed ranked set sampling design . . . . 2141--2156 Jaehee Kim and Sooyoung Cheon Stochastic approximation Monte Carlo Gibbs sampling for structural change inference in a Bayesian heteroscedastic time series model . . . . . . . . . . . 2157--2177 Francis Pike and Lisa A. Weissfeld and Chung-Chou H. Chang Joint modeling of multivariate censored longitudinal and event time data with application to the Genetic Markers of Inflammation Study . . . . . . . . . . . 2178--2191 Jiin Choi and Stewart J. Anderson and Thomas J. Richards and Wesley K. Thompson Prediction of transplant-free survival in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients using joint models for event times and mixed multivariate longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 2192--2205 Jason S. Bergtold and Eberechukwu Onukwugha The probabilistic reduction approach to specifying multinomial logistic regression models in health outcomes research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2206--2221 M. Nitti and E. Ciavolino A deflated indicators approach for estimating second-order reflective models through PLS--PM: an empirical illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2222--2239 Wei Xiong and Maozai Tian A new model selection procedure based on dynamic quantile regression . . . . . . 2240--2256 Lin Liu and Jianbo Li and Riquan Zhang General partially linear additive transformation model with right-censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2257--2269 Feng-Shou Ko Identification of longitudinal biomarkers for survival by a score test derived from a joint model of longitudinal and competing risks data 2270--2281 N. Withanage and A. R. de Leon and C. J. Rudnisky Joint estimation of disease-specific sensitivities and specificities in reader-based multi-disease diagnostic studies of paired organs . . . . . . . . 2282--2297 Octavio Ramirez and Jeff Mullen and Alba J. Collart Insights into the appropriate level of disaggregation for efficient time series model forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . 2298--2311 Marta Blangiardo and Gianluca Baio Evidence of bias in the Eurovision song contest: modelling the votes using Bayesian hierarchical models . . . . . . 2312--2322
R. A. B. Assumpção and M. A. Uribe-Opazo and M. Galea Analysis of local influence in geostatistics using Student's $t$-distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 2323--2341 Julian J. Faraway Regression for non-Euclidean data using distance matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 2342--2357 Maximilian Riedl and Ingo Geishecker Keep it simple: estimation strategies for ordered response models with fixed effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2358--2374 Manoj Kumar Rastogi and Yogesh Mani Tripathi Estimation for an inverted exponentiated Rayleigh distribution under type II progressive censoring . . . . . . . . . 2375--2405 Eduardo Fé Estimation and inference in regression discontinuity designs with asymmetric kernels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406--2417 Kalyan Das and Angshuman Sarkar Robust inference for generalized partially linear mixed models that account for censored responses and missing covariates --- an application to Arctic data analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2418--2436 Ji-Xia Wang and Qing-Xian Xiao Local composite quantile regression estimation of time-varying parameter vector for multidimensional time-inhomogeneous diffusion models . . 2437--2449 Sean L. Simpson and Lloyd J. Edwards and Martin A. Styner and Keith E. Muller Separability tests for high-dimensional, low-sample size multivariate repeated measures data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2450--2461 Amadou Sawadogo and Dominique Lafon and Simplice Dossou Gbété Statistical analysis of rank data from a visual matching of colored textures . . 2462--2482 Riten Mitra and Peter Müller and Yuan Ji and Yitan Zhu and Gordon Mills and Yiling Lu A Bayesian hierarchical model for inference across related reverse phase protein arrays experiments . . . . . . . 2483--2492 Maryam Karimi and Sayed Mohammad Reza Alavi The effect of weight function on hypothesis testing in weighted sampling 2493--2503 Dengke Xu and Zhongzhan Zhang and Liucang Wu Bayesian analysis of joint mean and covariance models for longitudinal data 2504--2514 Su Yun Kang and James McGree and Peter Baade and Kerrie Mengersen An investigation of the impact of various geographical scales for the specification of spatial dependence . . 2515--2538 N. Lu and T. Chen and P. Wu and D. Gunzler and H. Zhang and H. He and X. M. Tu Functional response models for intraclass correlation coefficients . . 2539--2556
Sanku Dey and Tanujit Dey On progressively censored generalized inverted exponential distribution . . . 2557--2576 Jiaqing Xu and Cheng Peng Fitting and testing the Marshall--Olkin extended Weibull model with randomly censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2577--2595 Athanasios Christou Micheas Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of marked non-homogeneous Poisson processes with finite mixtures and inclusion of covariate information . . . . . . . . . 2596--2615 Walmes Marques Zeviani and Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro, Jr. and Wagner Hugo Bonat and Silvia Emiko Shimakura and Joel Augusto Muniz The Gamma-count distribution in the analysis of experimental underdispersed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2616--2626 Shin-Fu Tsai A generalized test variable approach for grain yield comparisons of rice . . . . 2627--2638 Yangyi Xu and Inyoung Kim and Patrick Schaumont Adaptive Bayes sum test for the equality of two nonparametric functions . . . . . 2639--2657 R. Chen and T. Chen and N. Lu and H. Zhang and P. Wu and C. Feng and X. M. Tu Extending the Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon rank sum test to longitudinal regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2658--2675 Michael R. Crager and Gong Tang Patient-specific meta-analysis for risk assessment using multivariate proportional hazards regression . . . . 2676--2695 Delphine Maucort-Boulch and Pascal Roy and Janez Stare On a measure of information gain for regression models in survival analysis 2696--2708 Jonathan Jaeger and Philippe Lambert Bayesian penalized smoothing approaches in models specified using differential equations with unknown error distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2709--2726 Ram C. Kafle and Netra Khanal and Chris P. Tsokos Bayesian age-stratified joinpoint regression model: an application to lung and brain cancer mortality . . . . . . . 2727--2742 Huaiye Zhang and Inyoung Kim and Chun Gun Park Semiparametric Bayesian hierarchical models for heterogeneous population in nonlinear mixed effect model: application to gastric emptying studies 2743--2760 E. Bahrami Samani Sensitivity analysis for the identifiability with application to latent random effect model for the mixed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2761--2776 Bozidar V. Popovi\'c Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding advanced statistical methods . . . . . . 2777--2777 Sòren Feodor Nielsen Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction to analysis of financial data with R . . 2777--2778 Yves Laberge Book Review: \booktitleSelf-organised criticality: theory, models and characterisation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2778--2779 Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleStatistical methods for handling incomplete data . . 2779--2780 Michail Tsagris Book Review: \booktitleStatistics through resampling methods and R, second edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2780--2781 Yves Laberge Book Review: \booktitleRisk modelling in general insurance from principles to practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2781--2782 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Nilesh H. Shah and Alison E. Hipwell and Stephanie D. Stepp and Chung-Chou H. Chang Measures of discrimination for latent group-based trajectory models . . . . . 1--11 Arief Gusnanto and Yudi Pawitan Sparse alternatives to ridge regression: a random effects approach . . . . . . . 12--26 P. Elliott and K. Riggs Confidence regions for two proportions from independent negative binomial distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36 Stan Lipovetsky Analytical closed-form solution for binary logit regression by categorical predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--49 Leena Pasanen and Lasse Holmström Bayesian scale space analysis of temporal changes in satellite images . . 50--70 Evgeny D. Maslennikov and Alexey V. Sulimov and Igor A. Savkin and Marina A. Evdokimova and Dmitry A. Zateyshchikov and Valery V. Nosikov and Vladimir B. Sulimov An intuitive risk factors search algorithm: usage of the Bayesian network technique in personalized medicine . . . 71--87 Douglas M. Hawkins and F. Lombard Segmentation of circular data . . . . . 88--97 Peter Malave and Arkadiusz Sitek Bayesian analysis of a one-compartment kinetic model used in medical imaging 98--113 Afsane Rastegaran and Mohammad Reza Zadkarami A skew-normal random effects model for longitudinal ordinal categorical responses with missing data . . . . . . 114--126 Ronaldo Dias and Nancy L. Garcia and Guilherme Ludwig and Marley A. Saraiva Aggregated functional data model for near-infrared spectroscopy calibration and prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--143 Ying-Ju Chen and Wei Ning and Arjun K. Gupta Jackknife empirical likelihood method for testing the equality of two variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--160 Enrico Ciavolino and Maurizio Carpita and Amjad Al-Nasser Modelling the quality of work in the Italian social co-operatives combining NPCA--RSM and SEM--GME approaches . . . 161--179 Krystallenia Drosou and Andreas Artemiou and Christos Koukouvinos A comparative study of the use of large margin classifiers on seismic data . . . 180--201 Nicholas Apergis and Christina Christou and James E. Payne and James W. Saunoris The change in real interest rate persistence in OECD countries: evidence from modified panel ratio tests . . . . 202--213 Juan Martin Barrios and Eliane R. Rodrigues A queueing model to study the occurrence and duration of ozone exceedances in Mexico City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--230
Zeinab Amin and Maram Salem Bayesian modelling of health insurance losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--251 Wagner Hugo Bonat and Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro, Jr. and Walmes Marques Zeviani Likelihood analysis for a class of beta mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--266 Jairo Alberto Fúquene Patiño A semi-parametric Bayesian extreme value model using a Dirichlet process mixture of gamma densities . . . . . . . . . . . 267--280 Young-Ju Kim Nonparametric estimation of varying-coefficient single-index models 281--291 Xinzhong Bao and Qiuyan Tao and Hongyu Fu Dynamic financial distress prediction based on Kalman filtering . . . . . . . 292--308 Haiyan Zhao and Fred Huffer and Xu-Feng Niu Time-varying coefficient models with ARMA--GARCH structures for longitudinal data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--326 Yan Fang and Ling Liu and JinZhi Liu A dynamic double asymmetric copula generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model: application to China's and US stock market . . . . . . 327--346 Kofi Placid Adragni Independent screening in high-dimensional exponential family predictors' space . . . . . . . . . . . 347--359 Pao-Sheng Shen Median regression model with doubly truncated data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--370 Kouji Tahata and Takuya Yoshimoto Marginal asymmetry model for square contingency tables with ordered categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--379 Bertil Wegmann Bayesian comparison of private and common values in structural second-price auctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--397 T. Górecki Sequential combining in discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--408 Sterling McPherson and Celestina Barbosa-Leiker Biomarker classification derived from finite growth mixture modeling with a time-varying covariate: an example with phosphorus and glomerular filtration rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--427 Lei Shi and Md. Mostafizur Rahman and Wen Gan and Jianhua Zhao Stepwise local influence in generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity models . . . . . . . 428--444 Rahim Alhamzawi Model selection in quantile regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--458 William Hughes Paradoxes in scientific inference . . . 459--460 Abhay Kumar Tiwari Getting started with business analytics 460--461 Prabhanjan Tattar Statistical methods with applications to demography and life insurance . . . . . 461--462 Hassan S. Bakouch Generalized linear models for categorical and continuous limited dependent variables . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
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Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v Muhammad Shahbaz and Aviral Kumar Tiwari and Mohammad Iqbal Tahir Analyzing time-frequency relationship between oil price and exchange rate in Pakistan through wavelets . . . . . . . 690--704 Resit Çelik Stabilizing heteroscedasticity for butterfly-distributed residuals by the weighting absolute centered external variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--721 L. Alamá and D. Conesa and A. Forte and E. Tortosa-Ausina The geography of Spanish bank branches 722--744 Ying-zi Fu and Pei-xiao Chu and Li-ying Lu A Bayesian approach of joint models for clustered zero-inflated count data with skewness and measurement errors . . . . 745--761 Jing Chang and Herbert K. H. Lee Variable selection via a multi-stage strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--774 Mohamed El Ghourabi and Amira Dridi and Mohamed Limam A new financial stress index model based on support vector regression and control chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--788 M. Liu and T. I. Lin Skew-normal factor analysis models with incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 789--805 Fei Yang and Lin Chen and Yang Cheng and Zhenxing Yao and Xu Zhang Urban public transport choice behavior analysis and service improvement policy-making: a case study from the metropolitan city, Chengdu, China . . . 806--816 Gurprit Grover and Vinay K. Gupta Multiple imputation of censored survival data in the presence of missing covariates using restricted mean survival time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--827 M. S. Hamada and B. L. Mitchell and C. T. Necker On uncertainty of a proportion from a stratified random sample of a small population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828--833 Andrew Hoegh and Scotland Leman A spatio-temporal model for assessing winter damage risk to east coast vineyards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834--845 Costas Panagiotakis and Georgios Tziritas A minimum spanning tree equipartition algorithm for microaggregation . . . . . 846--865 Kouji Yamamoto and Fumika Shimada and Sadao Tomizawa Measure of departure from symmetry for the analysis of collapsed square contingency tables with ordered categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--875 Wali Ullah and Yasumasa Matsuda and Yoshihiko Tsukuda Generalized Nelson--Siegel term structure model: do the second slope and curvature factors improve the in-sample fit and out-of-sample forecasts? . . . . 876--904 S. Rao Jammalamadaka and Elvynna Leong Analysis of discrete lifetime data under middle-censoring and in the presence of covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--913 Philip Pallmann \booktitleApplied meta-analysis with R 914--915 Marina A. P. Andrade Statistical analysis of human growth and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--915 Jonathan Gillard Constrained principal component analysis and related techniques . . . . . . . . . 916--916 Paul M. Ramsay Handbook of spatial point-pattern analysis in ecology . . . . . . . . . . 916--917 Mariano Ruiz Espejo Modern survey sampling . . . . . . . . . 917--918 Giuseppe Pandolfo Book Review: \booktitleCircular statistics in R . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--919
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Ekele Alih and Hong Choon Ong An outlier-resistant test for heteroscedasticity in linear models . . 1617--1634 Guanfu Liu and Xiaolong Pu and Lei Wang and Dongdong Xiang CUSUM chart for detecting range shifts when monotonicity of likelihood ratio is invalid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635--1644 Y. Ziane and S. Adjabi and N. Zougab Adaptive Bayesian bandwidth selection in asymmetric kernel density estimation for nonnegative heavy-tailed data . . . . . 1645--1658 Filidor Vilca and Camila Borelli Zeller and Gauss M. Cordeiro The sinh-normal/independent nonlinear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1659--1676 Meesun Sun and Kwanghyun Choi and Sungzoon Cho Estimating the minority class proportion with the ROC curve using Military Personality Inventory data of the ROK Armed Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1677--1689 Deidra A. Coleman and Donald E. K. Martin and Brian J. Reich Multiple window discrete scan statistic for higher-order Markovian sequences . . 1690--1705 Tsung-Shan Tsou and Hsiao-Yun Liu Testing the homogeneity of proportions for clustered binary data without knowing the correlation structure . . . 1706--1715 B. Baris Alkan and Cemal Atakan and Nesrin Alkan A comparison of different procedures for principal component analysis in the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . . . 1716--1722 Waleed Dhhan and Sohel Rana and Habshah Midi Non-sparse $ \epsilon $-insensitive support vector regression for outlier detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1723--1739 Aaron Anderson A Monte Carlo comparison of alternative methods of maximum likelihood ranking in racing sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1740--1756 Mario Hasler Comment on multiple comparisons with a control under heteroscedasticity . . . . 1757--1758 Javier Fernández-Macho Comment on testing for spurious and cointegrated regressions: a wavelet approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1769 Chee Kian Leong Response to the comment on testing for spurious and cointegrated regressions: a wavelet approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 1770--1772 Oguz Akbilgic Classification trees aided mixed regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1773--1781 Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah Saddlepoint $p$-values for a class of tests for comparing competing risks with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1782--1791 S. P. Singh and S. Mukhopadhyay and A. Roy Comparison of three-level cluster randomized trials using quantile dispersion graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 1792--1812 Sanghoo Yoon and Bungon Kumphon and Jeong-Soo Park Spatial modeling of extreme rainfall in northeast Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . 1813--1828 Chien-Lang Chen and Shang-Ling Ou and Chen-Tuo Liao Interval estimation for conformance proportions of multiple quality characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829--1841
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Myung Geun Kim Geometric aspects of deletion diagnostics in multivariate regression 2073--2079 M. G. M. Khan and K. G. Reddy and D. K. Rao Designing stratified sampling in economic and business surveys . . . . . 2080--2099 Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Joydeep Basu and Ganesh Dutta Crossover design in clinical trials for binary response . . . . . . . . . . . . 2100--2114 Juan Ding and Wenjun Xiong Robust group testing for multiple traits with misclassification . . . . . . . . . 2115--2125 Istem Koymen Keser and Ipek Deveci Kocakoç Smoothed functional canonical correlation analysis of humidity and temperature data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2126--2140 Lucia Modugno and Silvia Cagnone and Simone Giannerini A multilevel model with autoregressive components for the analysis of tribal art prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2141--2158 Edwin M. M. Ortega and Artur J. Lemonte and Giovana O. Silva and Gauss M. Cordeiro New flexible models generated by gamma random variables for lifetime modeling 2159--2179 Musie Ghebremichael Joint modeling of correlated binary outcomes: HIV-1 and HSV-2 co-infection 2180--2191 Antonello D'Ambra and Anna Crisci and Pasquale Sarnacchiaro A generalized analysis of the dependence structure by means of ANOVA . . . . . . 2192--2202 H. He and W. Wang and J. Hu and R. Gallop and P. Crits-Christoph and Y. Xia Distribution-free inference of zero-inflated binomial data for longitudinal studies . . . . . . . . . . 2203--2219 Wen-Liang Hung and Shou-Jen Chang-Chien and Miin-Shen Yang An intuitive clustering algorithm for spherical data with application to extrasolar planets . . . . . . . . . . . 2220--2232 M. Teimourian and T. Baghfalaki and M. Ganjali and D. Berridge Joint modeling of mixed skewed continuous and ordinal longitudinal responses: a Bayesian approach . . . . . 2233--2256 A. F. Donneau and M. Mauer and P. Lambert and E. Lesaffre and A. Albert Testing the proportional odds assumption in multiply imputed ordinal longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2257--2279 Gulder Kemalbay and Ismihan Bayramo\uglu (Bairamov) Joint distribution of new sample rank of bivariate order statistics . . . . . . . 2280--2289 Pieter Bastiaan Ober Sequential analysis: hypothesis testing and changepoint detection . . . . . . . 2290--2290 Bozidar V. Popovi\'c Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of univariate and multivariate data analysis with IBM SPSS, second edition 2291--2291
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Zahra Hadidoust and Yaser Samimi and Hamid Shahriari Monitoring and change-point estimation for spline-modeled non-linear profiles in phase II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2520--2530 Julia S. Benoit and Wenyaw Chan and Rachelle S. Doody Joint coverage probability in a simulation study on continuous-time Markov chain parameter estimation . . . 2531--2538 Pablo Martínez-Camblor and Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez and Carmen Díaz Corte Expanded renal transplantation: a competing risk model approach . . . . . 2539--2553 E. Raffinetti and I. Romeo Dealing with the biased effects issue when handling huge datasets: the case of INVALSI data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2554--2570 Daniel F. Linder and Hani Samawi and Lili Yu and Arpita Chatterjee and Yisong Huang and Robert Vogel On stratified bivariate ranked set sampling for regression estimators . . . 2571--2583 Ilaria L. Amerise and Agostino Tarsitano Correction methods for ties in rank correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2584--2596 Zahra Mansourvar and Torben Martinussen and Thomas H. Scheike Semiparametric regression for restricted mean residual life under right censoring 2597--2613 Rubing Liang and Cuizhen Niu and Qiang Xia and Zhiqiang Zhang Nonlinearity testing and modeling for threshold moving average models . . . . 2614--2630 Antonio Lucadamo and Pietro Amenta A proposal for handling ordinal categorical variables in co-inertia analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2631--2638 Antonella Plaia Long-term experiments and strip plot designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2639--2653 Vahid Nekoukhou and Hamid Bidram A new four-parameter discrete distribution with bathtub and unimodal failure rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2654--2670 Sudesh Pundir and R. Amala Detecting diagnostic accuracy of two biomarkers through a bivariate log-normal ROC curve . . . . . . . . . . 2671--2685 Nikolay K. Vitanov and Marcel Ausloos Test of two hypotheses explaining the size of populations in a system of cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2686--2693 Aldo M. Garay and Heleno Bolfarine and Victor H. Lachos and Celso R. B. Cabral Bayesian analysis of censored linear regression models with scale mixtures of normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2694--2714 H. Lu and P. Yin and R. X. Yue and J. Q. Shi Robust confidence intervals for trend estimation in meta-analysis with publication bias . . . . . . . . . . . . 2715--2733 Alan D. Hutson and Gregory E. Wilding and Terry L. Mashtare and Albert Vexler Measures of biomarker dependence using a copula-based multivariate epsilon-skew-normal family of distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2734--2753 Manisha Chakrabarty and Amita Majumder and Jeffrey Racine Household budget-share distributions and welfare implications: an application of multivariate distributional statistics 2754--2768 Markus Neuhäuser Combining the $t$ test and Wilcoxon's rank-sum test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2769--2775 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
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Mohammadreza Meshkani and Afshin Fallah and Amir Kavousi Bayesian analysis of covariance under inverse Gaussian model . . . . . . . . . 280--298 Sonia Ferreira Lopes Toffoli and Dalton Francisco de Andrade and Antonio Cezar Bornia Evaluation of open items using the many-facet Rasch model . . . . . . . . . 299--316 H. D. Vinod New bootstrap inference for spurious regression problems . . . . . . . . . . 317--335 Chandan Saha and Michael P. Jones Type I and Type II error rates in the last observation carried forward method under informative dropout . . . . . . . 336--350 Daniel Ambach Short-term wind speed forecasting in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--369 Aslan Deniz Karaoglan and Nihat Celik A new painting process for vessel radiators of transformer: wet-on-wet . . 370--386
Rose D. Baker and Ian G. McHale An empirical Bayes' procedure for ranking players in Ryder Cup golf . . . 387--395 S. T. Boris Choy and Jennifer S. K. Chan and Udi E. Makov Robust Bayesian analysis of loss reserving data using scale mixtures distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--411 Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan Tests of goodness of fit based on Phi-divergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--429 C. Armero and A. Forte and H. Perpiñán Bayesian longitudinal models for paediatric kidney transplant recipients 430--440 Qing Li Indirect membership function assignment based on ordinal regression . . . . . . 441--460 Chin-Shang Li A test for the linearity of the nonparametric part of a semiparametric logistic regression model . . . . . . . 461--475 Hadi Emami and Mostafa Emami New influence diagnostics in ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--489 John Tyssedal and Shahrukh Hussain Factor screening in nonregular two-level designs based on projection-based variable selection . . . . . . . . . . . 490--508 A. A. M. Nurunnabi and M. Nasser and A. H. M. R. Imon Identification and classification of multiple outliers, high leverage points and influential observations in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--525 Xuejun Ma and Xiaoqun He and Xiaokang Shi A variant of $K$ nearest neighbor quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . 526--537 S. Karagulle and Z. Kalaylioglu A test for detecting etiologic heterogeneity in epidemiological studies 538--549 Shu-Man Shih and Wei-Hwa Wu and Hsin-Neng Hsieh A non-inferiority test for diagnostic accuracy in the absence of the golden standard test based on the paired partial areas under receiver operating characteristic curves . . . . . . . . . 550--562 Sayed Mohammad Reza Alavi and Mahboobeh Tajodini Maximum likelihood estimation of sensitive proportion using repeated randomized response techniques . . . . . 563--571 Vicente G. Cancho and Dipak K. Dey and Francisco Louzada Unified multivariate survival model with a surviving fraction: an application to a Brazilian customer churn data . . . . 572--584
Cheng Wenren and Junfeng Shang Conditional conceptual predictive statistic for mixed model selection . . 585--603 Edoardo Otranto and Massimo Mucciardi and Pietro Bertuccelli Spatial effects in dynamic conditional correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--626 Víctor Leiva and Shuangzhe Liu and Lei Shi and Francisco José A. Cysneiros Diagnostics in elliptical regression models with stochastic restrictions applied to econometrics . . . . . . . . 627--642 Junying Zhang and Riquan Zhang and Zhiping Lu Quantile-adaptive variable screening in ultra-high dimensional varying coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 643--654 Boryana Bogdanova and Ivan Ivanov A wavelet-based approach to the analysis and modelling of financial time series exhibiting strong long-range dependence: the case of Southeast Europe . . . . . . 655--673 Jan Schepers On regression modelling with dummy variables versus separate regressions per group: Comment on Holgersson \em et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--681 S. Zinn and A. Würbach A statistical approach to address the problem of heaping in self-reported income data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682--703 Yue Zhang and Kiros Berhane Dynamic latent trait models with mixed hidden Markov structure for mixed longitudinal outcomes . . . . . . . . . 704--720 J. Andrés Christen and Bruno Sansó and Mario Santana-Cibrian and Jorge X. Velasco-Hernández Bayesian deconvolution of oil well test data using Gaussian processes . . . . . 721--737 Ümit Kuvvetli and Ali Riza Firuzan and Süleyman Alpaykut and Atakan Gerger Determining Six Sigma success factors in Turkey by using structural equation modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--753 Andrea Beccarini Bias correction through filtering omitted variables and instruments . . . 754--766 Xiaofei Ma and Qiuyan Zhong Missing value imputation method for disaster decision-making using $K$ nearest neighbor . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--781
Hsiu-Wen Chen and Weng Kee Wong and Hongquan Xu Data-driven desirability function to measure patients' disease progression in a longitudinal study . . . . . . . . . . 783--795 Xiuli Wang and Mingqiu Wang Variable selection for high-dimensional generalized linear models with the weighted elastic-net procedure . . . . . 796--809 M. L. Nores and M. P. Díaz Bootstrap hypothesis testing in generalized additive models for comparing curves of treatments in longitudinal studies . . . . . . . . . . 810--826 Meng-Ning Lyu and Qing-Shan Yang and Na Yang and Siu-Seong Law Tourist number prediction of historic buildings by singular spectrum analysis 827--846 Leonardo Costa and Adrian Pizzinga and Rodrigo Atherino Modeling and predicting IBNR reserve: extended chain ladder and heteroscedastic regression analysis . . 847--870 Stavros Degiannakis and Alexandra Livada Evaluation of realized volatility predictions from models with leptokurtically and asymmetrically distributed forecast errors . . . . . . 871--892 Rosa Aghdam and Mojtaba Ganjali and Parisa Niloofar and Changiz Eslahchi Inferring gene regulatory networks by an order independent algorithm using incomplete data sets . . . . . . . . . . 893--913 Ismail Onur Baycan The effects of exchange rate regimes on economic growth: evidence from propensity score matching estimates . . 914--924 Özgür Asar and Ozlem Ilk First-order marginalised transition random effects models with probit link function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--942 Diwei Zhou and Ian L. Dryden and Alexey A. Koloydenko and Koenraad M. R. Audenaert and Li Bai Regularisation, interpolation and visualisation of diffusion tensor images using non-Euclidean statistics . . . . . 943--978
T. Chen and K. Knox and J. Arora and W. Tang and J. Kowalski and X. M. Tu Power analysis for clustered non-continuous responses in multicenter trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--995 Pao-sheng Shen Estimation of association parameters in copula models for bivariate left-truncated and right-censored data 996--1010 Rijan Shrestha and Tomasz Kozlowski Inverse uncertainty quantification of input model parameters for thermal-hydraulics simulations using expectation-maximization under Bayesian framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1026 Bao Yiqi and Cibele Maria Russo and Vicente G. Cancho and Francisco Louzada Influence diagnostics for the Weibull-Negative-Binomial regression model with cure rate under latent failure causes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1060 Sang Eun Lee and Key-Il Shin The cut-off point based on underlying distribution and cost function . . . . . 1061--1073 Guohua Yan and M. Tariqul Hasan and Renjun Ma Modeling proportions and marginal counts simultaneously for clustered multinomial data with random cluster sizes . . . . . 1074--1087 B. Martin-Barragan and R. E. Lillo and J. Romo Functional boxplots based on epigraphs and hypographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088--1103 T. Chen and N. Lu and J. Arora and I. Katz and R. Bossarte and H. He and Y. Xia and H. Zhang and X. M. Tu Power analysis for cluster randomized trials with binary outcomes modeled by generalized linear mixed-effects models 1104--1118 Kristofer Månsson and B. M. Golam Kibria and Ghazi Shukur A restricted Liu estimator for binary regression models and its application to an applied demand system . . . . . . . . 1119--1127 Himadri Ghosh and S. Chowdhury and Prajneshu An improved fuzzy time-series method of forecasting based on $L$--$R$ fuzzy sets and its application . . . . . . . . . . 1128--1139 Ayça Çakmak Pehlivanli A novel feature selection scheme for high-dimensional data sets: Four-Staged Feature Selection . . . . . . . . . . . 1140--1154 E. F. Saraiva and A. K. Suzuki and F. Louzada and L. A. Milan Partitioning gene expression data by data-driven Markov chain Monte Carlo . . 1155--1173
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Baba B. Alhaji and Hongsheng Dai and Yoshiko Hayashi and Veronica Vinciotti and Andrew Harrison and Berthold Lausen Bayesian analysis for mixtures of discrete distributions with a non-parametric component . . . . . . . . 1369--1385 Fedya Telmoudi and Mohamed El Ghourabi and Mohamed Limam On conditional risk estimation considering model risk . . . . . . . . . 1386--1399 M. J. Ershadi and R. Noorossana and S. T. A. Niaki Economic-statistical design of simple linear profiles with variable sampling interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1400--1418 J. Machalová and K. Hron and G. S. Monti Preprocessing of centred logratio transformed density functions using smoothing splines . . . . . . . . . . . 1419--1435 Ndéné Ka and Stéphane Mussard $ l_1 $ regressions: Gini estimators for fixed effects panel data . . . . . . . . 1436--1446 Miran A. Jaffa and Mulugeta Gebregziabher and Deirdre K. Luttrell and Louis M. Luttrell and Ayad A. Jaffa Multivariate generalized linear mixed models with random intercepts to analyze cardiovascular risk markers in Type-1 diabetic patients . . . . . . . . . . . 1447--1464 Sylvain Robbiano and Matthieu Saumard and Michel Curé Improving prediction performance of stellar parameters using functional models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465--1476 Soumya Roy and Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay Bayesian $D$-optimal Accelerated Life Test plans for series systems with competing exponential causes of failure 1477--1493 Richard J. Cebula and Fiorentina Angjellari-Dajci and Russell Kashian Are there interregional differences in the response of cigarette smoking to state cigarette excise taxes in the USA? Exploratory analysis . . . . . . . . . . 1494--1507 Luz Marina Rondon and Heleno Bolfarine Bayesian analysis of generalized elliptical semi-parametric models . . . 1508--1524 Junying Chen and Haoyu Zeng and Fei Yang Parameter estimation for employee stock ownerships preference experimental design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1525--1540 Philip Pallmann and Ludwig A. Hothorn Analysis of means: a generalized approach using R . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541--1560 Silvia Bozza and Franco Taroni Posterior likelihood ratios for evaluation of forensic trace evidence given a two-level model on the data by Alberink \em et al. (2013) . . . . . . . 1561--1563 Thomas Holgersson and Louise Nordström and Özge Öner On regression modelling with dummy variables versus separate regressions per group: comment on Holgersson \em et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1564--1565
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Eugenio Brentari and Livia Dancelli and Marica Manisera Clustering ranking data in market segmentation: a case study on the Italian McDonald's customers' preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1959--1976 Pelin Kasap and Birdal Senoglu and Olcay Arslan Stochastic analysis of covariance when the error distribution is long-tailed symmetric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1977--1997 R. Lombardo and E. J. Beh The prediction index of aggregate data 1998--2018 Hsiao-Hsian Gao and Li-Shan Huang Sample size planning for testing significance of curves . . . . . . . . . 2019--2028 Chien-Chia L. Huang and Yow-Jen Jou and Hsun-Jung Cho A new multicollinearity diagnostic for generalized linear models . . . . . . . 2029--2043 Michael Lechner and Nuria Rodriguez-Planas and Daniel Fernández Kranz Difference-in-difference estimation by FE and OLS when there is panel non-response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2044--2052 Kuo-Chin Lin and Yi-Ju Chen Goodness-of-fit tests of generalized linear mixed models for repeated ordinal responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2053--2064 Christophe Corbier Huberian function applied to neurodegenerative disorder gait rhythm 2065--2084 Fernanda B. Rizzato and Roseli A. Leandro and Clarice G. B. Demétrio and Geert Molenberghs A Bayesian approach to analyse overdispersed longitudinal count data 2085--2109 Xun Xiao and Amitava Mukherjee and Min Xie Estimation procedures for grouped data --- a comparative study . . . . . . . . 2110--2130 Jiguang Shao and Sheng Fu On the modes of the negative binomial distribution of order $k$ . . . . . . . 2131--2149
Roberto F. Manghi and Gilberto A. Paula and Francisco José A. Cysneiros On elliptical multilevel models . . . . 2150--2171 Jung-In Seo and Suk-Bok Kang An objective Bayesian analysis of the two-parameter half-logistic distribution based on progressively Type-II censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2172--2190 Muhammad Faisal and Andreas Futschik and Ijaz Hussain and Mitwali Abd-el.Moemen Choosing summary statistics by least angle regression for approximate Bayesian computation . . . . . . . . . . 2191--2202 F. Razie and E. Bahrami Samani and M. Ganjali A latent variable model for analyzing mixed longitudinal $ (k, l)$-inflated count and ordinal responses . . . . . . 2203--2224 Chen Chen and Feng Guo Evaluating the influence of crashes on driving risk using recurrent event models and Naturalistic Driving Study data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2225--2238 S. R. Haile and J.-H. Jeong and X. Chen and Y. Cheng A $3$-parameter Gompertz distribution for survival data with competing risks, with an application to breast cancer data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2239--2253 K. Vaitheeswaran and M. Subbiah and R. Ramakrishnan and T. Kannan A comparison of ordinal logistic regression models using Classical and Bayesian approaches in an analysis of factors associated with diabetic retinopathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2254--2260 Tahani Coolen-Maturi New weighted rank correlation coefficients sensitive to agreement on top and bottom rankings . . . . . . . . 2261--2279 A. M. Elsawah and Hong Qin Asymmetric uniform designs based on mixture discrepancy . . . . . . . . . . 2280--2294 James Sharpe and Nick Fieller Uncertainty in functional principal component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 2295--2309 D.-C. Jhwueng and V. Maroulas Adaptive trait evolution in random environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2310--2324 Yu-Mei Chang and Pao-Sheng Shen and Guan-Wei Liu Confidence intervals for the difference between two median survival times for clustered survival data . . . . . . . . 2325--2345
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Dongbing Lai and Huiping Xu and Daniel Koller and Tatiana Foroud and Sujuan Gao A multivariate finite mixture latent trajectory model with application to dementia studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 2503 Jianhua Ding and Zhongzhan Zhang Bayesian regression on non-parametric mixed-effect models with shape-restricted Bernstein polynomials 2524 Ahmed Hossain and Hafiz T. A. Khan Identification of genomic markers correlated with sensitivity in solid tumors to Dasatinib using sparse principal components . . . . . . . . . . 2538 S. Magnussen and G. Frazer and M. Penner Alternative mean-squared error estimators for synthetic estimators of domain means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2550 L. Bagnato and L. De Capitani and A. Punzo The Kullback--Leibler autodependogram 2574 Yan Fan and Yukun Liu Evaluating the relative merits of competing models based on empirical likelihood ratio test . . . . . . . . . 2595 Ahmed Z. Afify and Haitham M. Yousof and Gauss M. Cordeiro and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Zohdy M. Nofal The Weibull Fréchet distribution and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2608 Stefano Cabras and Juan de Dios Tena Horrillo A Bayesian non-parametric modeling to estimate student response to ICT investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2627 Cheolwoo Park and Yongho Jeon and Kee-Hoon Kang An exploratory data analysis in scale-space for interval-valued data . . 2643 Onur Çoban and Talha Kivanç and Mustafa Özgür Bora and Burcu Özcan and Tamer Sinmazçelik and Sinan Fidan Thermal, viscoelastic and mechanical properties' optimization of polyphenylene sulfide via optimal processing parameters using the Taguchi method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2661 C. Satheesh Kumar and A. Riyaz An order $k$ version of the alternative zero-inflated logarithmic series distribution and its applications . . . 2681 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2696
Nabakumar Jana and Somesh Kumar and Kashinath Chatterjee Bayes estimation for exponential distributions with common location parameter and applications to multi-state reliability models . . . . . 2697--2712 Xiaosun Lu and Yangxin Huang and Rong Zhou Joint analysis of nonlinear heterogeneous longitudinal data and binary outcome: an application to AIDS clinical studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 2713--2728 Visalakshi Jeyaseelan and Tunny Sebastian and Jeyaseelan Lakshmanan and Shrikant I. Bangdiwala Longitudinal data analysis of mean passage time among malnutrition states: an application of Markov chains . . . . 2729--2739 Xia Cai and Khamis Khalid Said and Wei Ning Change-point analysis with bathtub shape for the exponential distribution . . . . 2740--2750 Taeryon Choi and Hea-Jung Kim and Seongil Jo Bayesian variable selection approach to a Bernstein polynomial regression model with stochastic constraints . . . . . . 2751--2771 Tommi Härkänen and Juha Karvanen and Hanna Tolonen and Risto Lehtonen and Kari Djerf and Teppo Juntunen and Seppo Koskinen Systematic handling of missing data in complex study designs --- experiences from the Health 2000 and 2011 Surveys 2772--2790 T. Söküt Açar and M. R. Özkale Influence measures based on confidence ellipsoids in general linear regression model with correlated regressors . . . . 2791--2812 Dawit G. Ayele and Temesgen T. Zewotir Childhood mortality spatial distribution in Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2813--2828 Carolina Marchant and Víctor Leiva and Francisco José A. Cysneiros and Juan F. Vivanco Diagnostics in multivariate generalized Birnbaum--Saunders regression models . . 2829--2849 Kiranmoy Das A semiparametric Bayesian approach for joint modeling of longitudinal trait and event time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2850--2865 Gerhard Tutz and Sebastian Petry Generalized additive models with unknown link function including variable selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2866--2885 Folefac D. Atem and Jing Qian and Jacqueline E. Maye and Keith A. Johnson and Rebecca A. Betensky Multiple imputation of a randomly censored covariate improves logistic regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2886--2896
Hongyue Guo and Xiaodong Liu and Zhubin Sun Multivariate time series prediction using a hybridization of VARMA models and Bayesian networks . . . . . . . . . 2897--2909 N. Nakhaei Rad and G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and G. H. Yari Maximum entropy estimation of income share function from generalized Gini index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2910--2921 T.-F. C. Lu and C.-M. Hsu and K.-H. Shu and S.-C. Weng and C.-M. Chen Joint analysis of longitudinal data and competing terminal events in the presence of dependent observation times with application to chronic kidney disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2922--2940 Xianhua Dai and Wolfgang Karl Härdle and Keming Yu Do maternal health problems influence child's worrying status? Evidence from the British Cohort Study . . . . . . . . 2941--2955 F. Louzada and P. H. Ferreira Modified inference function for margins for the bivariate Clayton copula-based SUN Tobit Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2956--2976 Pedro P. Mota and Manuel L. Esquível Model selection for stock prices data 2977--2987 Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi and Albert Vexler An efficient correction to the density-based empirical likelihood ratio goodness-of-fit test for the inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 2988--3003 Guy Cafri Sparsely clustered survival data: application to the evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of medical devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3004--3014 Antonio Canale and Euloge Clovis Kenne Pagui and Bruno Scarpa Bayesian modeling of university first-year students' grades after placement test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3015--3029 María Concepción Pérez-Cárceles and Juan Cándido Gómez-Gallego and Juan Gómez-García Distribution of cost inefficiency in stochastic frontier approach: evidence from Spanish banking . . . . . . . . . . 3030--3041 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3042--3042
Jie Chen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Jing Cai and Yimin Shi and Bin Liu Inference for a series system with dependent masked data under progressive interval censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 3--15 D. J. Best and J. C. W. Rayner Analysis of ranked data in randomized blocks when there are missing values . . 16--23 Daniel McNeish Missing data methods for arbitrary missingness with small samples . . . . . 24--39 Gwowen Shieh The equivalence of two approaches to incorporating variance uncertainty in sample size calculations for linear statistical models . . . . . . . . . . . 40--56 Shengping Yang and Zhide Fang Beta approximation of ratio distribution and its application to next generation sequencing read counts . . . . . . . . . 57--70 Shaochuan Lu A continuous-time HMM approach to modeling the magnitude-frequency distribution of earthquakes . . . . . . 71--88 Sotirios Bersimis and Stavros Degiannakis and Dimitrios Georgakellos Real-time monitoring of carbon monoxide using value-at-risk measure and control charting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108 Stephan Dlugosz and Simon M. S. Lo and Ralf A. Wilke Competing risks quantile regression at work: in-depth exploration of the role of public child support for the duration of maternity leave . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122 Muhammad Aslam and G. Srinivasa Rao and Liaquat Ahmad and Chi-Hyuck Jun A control chart for multivariate Poisson distribution using repetitive sampling 123--136 J. Hambuckers and C. Heuchenne A robust statistical approach to select adequate error distributions for financial returns . . . . . . . . . . . 137--161 Shakhawat Hossain and Hatem A. Howlader Shrinkage estimation in lognormal regression model for censored data . . . 162--180 Jianmin Liu and Xiaomei Hu and Jinguang Wu Fiscal decentralization, financial efficiency and upgrading the industrial structure: an empirical analysis of a spatial heterogeneity model . . . . . . 181--196
Tatjana Miljkovic and Saleem Shaik and Dragan Miljkovic Redefining standards for body mass index of the US population based on BRFSS data using mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--211 Wen-Liang Hung and De-Hua Chen and Jenn-Hwai Yang Weighting variables in Kohonen competitive learning algorithms . . . . 212--232 Rodrigo R. Pescim and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gauss M. Cordeiro and Morad Alizadeh A new log-location regression model: estimation, influence diagnostics and residual analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 233--252 Shiyi Tu and Min Wang and Xiaoqian Sun Bayesian variable selection and estimation in maximum entropy quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--269 A. Y. Kombo and H. Mwambi and G. Molenberghs Multiple imputation for ordinal longitudinal data with monotone missing data patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--287 Y. T. Hwang and C. H. Huang and W. L. Yeh and Y. D. Shen The weighted general linear model for longitudinal medical cost data --- an application in colorectal cancer . . . . 288--307 YangXia Luo Statistics and recognition for software birthmark based on clustering analysis 308--324 Matthew J. Keefe and Christopher T. Franck and William H. Woodall Monitoring foreclosure rates with a spatially risk-adjusted Bernoulli CUSUM chart for concurrent observations . . . 325--341 Resit Çelik A new test to detect monotonic and non-monotonic types of heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 342--361 Huihui Sun Testing of homogeneity of variance and autocorrelation coefficients of nonlinear mixed models with $ {\rm AR}(1) $ errors based on $M$-estimation 362--375 D. Malathi and S. Muthulakshmi Economic design of acceptance sampling plans for truncated life test using Frechet distribution . . . . . . . . . . 376--384
Tai Vovan $ L^1 $-distance and classification problem by Bayesian method . . . . . . . 385--401 Tarald O. Kvålseth Coefficient of variation: the second-order alternative . . . . . . . . 402--415 Feng-shou Ko Application of trajectories from growth curve in identification of longitudinal biomarker for the multivariate survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--426 Panudet Saengseedam and Nantachai Kantanantha Spatio-temporal model for crop yield forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--440 A. G. Luwanda and H. G. Mwambi A nonlinear mixed-effects model for multivariate longitudinal data with partially observed outcomes with application to HIV disease dynamics . . 441--456 Lili Yu and Hani Samawi and Daniel Linder and Arpita Chatterjee and Yisong Huang and Robert Vogel On stratified bivariate ranked set sampling with optimal allocation for na\"\ive and ratio estimators . . . . . 457--473 Xiaoshuang Zhou and Peixin Zhao and Xiuli Wang Empirical likelihood inferences for varying coefficient partially nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--492 Murat Kulahci and John Tyssedal Split-plot designs for multistage experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--510 Hamideh D. Hamedani and Sara Sadat Moosavi Dealing with big data: comparing dimension reduction and shrinkage regression methods . . . . . . . . . . . 511--532 Krystallenia Drosou and Christos Koukouvinos Proximal support vector machine techniques on medical prediction outcome 533--553 A. Owen and A. C. Smith and P. Osei-Owusu and A. Harland and J. R. Roberts Elite players' perceptions of football playing surfaces: a mixed effects ordinal logistic regression model of players' perceptions . . . . . . . . . . 554--570
Patrick Aboagye-Sarfo and James Cross and Ute Mueller Intervention time series analysis of voluntary, counselling and testing on HIV infections in West African sub-region: the case of Ghana . . . . . 571--582 Thao Nguyentrang and Tai Vovan Fuzzy clustering of probability density functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--601 Michele Rienzner and Francesca Ieva Critical values improvement for the standard normal homogeneity test by combining Monte Carlo and regression approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--619 Trias Wahyuni Rakhmawati and Geert Molenberghs and Geert Verbeke and Christel Faes Local influence diagnostics for generalized linear mixed models with overdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--641 Feng Xu Statistical measurement of the inventory shortage cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642--648 M. Afshari and F. Lak and B. Gholizadeh A new Bayesian wavelet thresholding estimator of nonparametric regression 649--666 Eudoxia Kakarantza and Spyridon D. Symeonides Seemingly unrelated systems of econometric equations . . . . . . . . . 667--684 Seunghon Ham and Sunju Kim and Naroo Lee and Pilje Kim and Igchun Eom and Byoungcheun Lee and Perng-Jy Tsai and Kiyoung Lee and Chungsik Yoon Comparison of data analysis procedures for real-time nanoparticle sampling data using classical regression and ARIMA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--699 Waleed Dhhan and Sohel Rana and Habshah Midi A high breakdown, high efficiency and bounded influence modified GM estimator based on support vector regression . . . 700--714 Maosheng Li and Zhengqiu Liu and Yonghong Zhang and Weijun Liu and Feng Shi Distribution analysis of train interval journey time employing the censored model with shifting character . . . . . 715--733 M. Templ and K. Hron and P. Filzmoser Exploratory tools for outlier detection in compositional data with structural zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734--752 Hani M. Samawi and Haresh Rochani and Daniel Linder and Arpita Chatterjee More efficient logistic analysis using moving extreme ranked set sampling . . . 753--766
Mojtaba Alizadeh and Seyyed Fazel Bagheri and Mohammad Alizadeh and Saralees Nadarajah A new four-parameter lifetime distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--797 Francisco J. Rubio and Keming Yu Flexible objective Bayesian linear regression with applications in survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--810 Kyeongjun Lee and Youngseuk Cho Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimations of the inverted exponentiated half logistic distribution under progressive Type II censoring . . 811--832 Nels Johnson and Inyoung Kim Generalized linear models with covariate measurement error and unknown link function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--852 Taha Alshaybawee and Habshah Midi and Rahim Alhamzawi Bayesian elastic net single index quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . 853--871 Mian Arif Shams Adnan and Shongkour Roy A sequential discrimination procedure for two almost identically shaped wrapped distributions . . . . . . . . . 872--881 Douglas Moura Miranda and Samuel Vieira Conceição A practical method to calculate probabilities: illustrative example from the electronic industry business . . . . 882--896 Rabindra Nath Das and Anis Chandra Mukhopadhyay Correlated random effects regression analysis for a log-normally distributed variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--915 Sukhdev Singh and Yogesh Mani Tripathi and Shuo-Jye Wu Bayesian estimation and prediction based on lognormal record values . . . . . . . 916--940 Xu Guo and Hecheng Wu and Gaorong Li and Qiuyue Li Inference for the common mean of several Birnbaum--Saunders populations . . . . . 941--954
D. Kurz and H. Lewitschnig and J. Pilz Failure probability estimation under additional subsystem information with application to semiconductor burn-in . . 955--967 Yunlu Jiang $S$-estimator in partially linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 968--977 Wen-Liang Hung and Shou-Jen Chang-Chien Learning-based EM algorithm for normal-inverse Gaussian mixture model with application to extrasolar planets 978--999 M. P. Gadre and S. B. Adnaik and R. N. Rattihalli Continuous single attribute control chart for Markov-dependent processes . . 1000--1012 S. Wang and N. G. Cadigan and H. P. Beno\^\it Inference about regression parameters using highly stratified survey count data with over-dispersion and repeated measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1030 I. A. R. de Lara and J. P. Hinde and A. C. de Castro and I. J. O. da Silva A proportional odds transition model for ordinal responses with an application to pig behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1046 I. R. C. Oliveira and G. Molenberghs and G. Verbeke and C. G. B. Demétrio and C. T. S. Dias Negative variance components for non-negative hierarchical data with correlation, over-, and/or underdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1063 C. E. Pertsinidou and G. Tsaklidis and E. Papadimitriou and N. Limnios Application of hidden semi-Markov models for the seismic hazard assessment of the North and South Aegean Sea, Greece . . . 1064--1085 Byron C. Jaeger and Lloyd J. Edwards and Kalyan Das and Pranab K. Sen An $ R^2 $ statistic for fixed effects in the generalized linear mixed model 1086--1105 M. Mahdizadeh and Ehsan Zamanzade New goodness of fit tests for the Cauchy distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106--1121 Rui Fang and Xiaohu Li Nonparametric tests for strictly increasing virtual valuations . . . . . 1122--1136
Connie Stewart An approach to measure distance between compositional diet estimates containing essential zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1152 Diego I. Gallardo and Héctor W. Gómez and Heleno Bolfarine A new cure rate model based on the Yule--Simon distribution with application to a melanoma data set . . . 1153--1164 Tatsuya Kubota and Takeshi Kurosawa Bayesian prediction of unobserved values for Type-II censored data . . . . . . . 1165--1180 Öznur Isçi Güneri and Atilla Göktas and Ugur Kayali Path analysis and determining the distribution of indirect effects via simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1210 Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez and María Rosa Nieto Comparison of bootstrap estimation intervals to forecast arithmetic mean and median air passenger demand . . . . 1211--1224 Izabella A. R. A. Santos and Denise Duarte and Marcelo Azevedo Costa Use of jump process to model mobility in massive multiplayer on-line games . . . 1225--1247 Jouchi Nakajima and Tsuyoshi Kunihama and Yasuhiro Omori Bayesian modeling of dynamic extreme values: extension of generalized extreme value distributions with latent stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 1248--1268 Camillo Cammarota Estimating the turning point location in shifted exponential model of time series 1269--1281 M. Moghimbeygi and M. Golalizadeh Longitudinal shape analysis by using the spherical coordinates . . . . . . . . . 1282--1295 C. Masci and F. Ieva and T. Agasisti and A. M. Paganoni Bivariate multilevel models for the analysis of mathematics and reading pupils' achievements . . . . . . . . . . 1296--1317
Douglas M. Hawkins and F. Lombard Cusum control for data following the von Mises distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1319--1332 Rebecca M. Baker and Tahani Coolen-Maturi and Frank P. A. Coolen Nonparametric predictive inference for stock returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333--1349 Zhongxian Men and Don McLeish and Adam W. Kolkiewicz and Tony S. Wirjanto Comparison of asymmetric stochastic volatility models under different correlation structures . . . . . . . . . 1350--1368 N. Davarzani and L. Golparvar and A. Parsian and R. Peeters Estimation on dependent right censoring scheme in an ordinary bivariate geometric distribution . . . . . . . . . 1369--1384 A. Mahabbati and A. Izady and M. Mousavi Baygi and K. Davary and S. M. Hasheminia Daily soil temperature modeling using `panel-data' concept . . . . . . . . . . 1385--1401 Philip L. H. Yu and Thomas Mathew and Yuanyuan Zhu A generalized pivotal quantity approach to portfolio selection . . . . . . . . . 1402--1420 Xiaojuan Zhu and William Seaver and Rapinder Sawhney and Shuguang Ji and Bruce Holt and Gurudatt Bhaskar Sanil and Girish Upreti Employee turnover forecasting for human resource management based on time series analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1440 Safwan A. Altarazi and Rula M. Allaf Designing and analyzing a mixture experiment to optimize the mixing proportions of polyvinyl chloride composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1465 Yang Lei and Susan Carlson and Lisa N. Yelland and Maria Makrides and Robert Gibson and Byron J. Gajewski Comparison of dichotomized and distributional approaches in rare event clinical trial design: a fixed Bayesian design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1466--1478 Heba S. Mohammed and Saieed F. Ateya and Essam K. Al-Hussaini Estimation based on progressive first-failure censoring from exponentiated exponential distribution 1479--1494 Farag Shuweihdi and Charles C. Taylor and Arief Gusnanto Classification of form under heterogeneity and non-isotropic errors 1495--1508
Ahmed Ghorbel and Wajdi Hamma and Anis Jarboui Dependence between oil and commodities markets using time-varying Archimedean copulas and effectiveness of hedging strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1509--1542 Fang Liu and Peng Zhang and Ibrahim Erkan and Dylan S. Small Bayesian inference for random coefficient dynamic panel data models 1543--1559 Giuseppe Arbia and Giuseppe Espa and Diego Giuliani and Rocco Micciolo A spatial analysis of health and pharmaceutical firm survival . . . . . . 1560--1575 Essam A. Ahmed Estimation and prediction for the generalized inverted exponential distribution based on progressively first-failure-censored data with application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576--1608 Eran A. Barnoy and Hyun J. Kim and David W. Gjertson Complexity in applying spatial analysis to describe heterogeneous air-trapping in thoracic imaging data . . . . . . . . 1609--1629 Rosineide Fernando da Paz and Jorge Luis Bazán and Luis Aparecido Milan Bayesian estimation for a mixture of simplex distributions with an unknown number of components: HDI analysis in Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1630--1643 Ying Liu and Fang Luo and Danhui Zhang and Hongyun Liu Comparison and robustness of the REML, ML, MIVQUE estimators for multi-level random mediation model . . . . . . . . . 1644--1661 Eliud Silva and Víctor M. Guerrero Penalized least squares smoothing of two-dimensional mortality tables with imposed smoothness . . . . . . . . . . . 1662--1679 Fragkiskos Bersimis and Demosthenes Panagiotakos and Malvina Vamvakari Investigating the sensitivity function's monotony of a health-related index . . . 1680--1706
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Qi Zhou and Yoo-Mi Chin and James D. Stamey and Joon Jin Song Bayesian misclassification and propensity score methods for clustered observational studies . . . . . . . . . 1547--1560 Gunther Schauberger and Andreas Groll and Gerhard Tutz Analysis of the importance of on-field covariates in the German Bundesliga . . 1561--1578 Samer A. Kharroubi Valuations of EQ-5D health states: could United Kingdom results be used as informative priors for the United States 1579--1594 Luigi Spezia and Nial Friel and Alessandro Gimona Spatial hidden Markov models and species distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1595--1615 Akash Malhotra and Shailesh Krishna Release velocities and bowler performance in cricket . . . . . . . . . 1616--1627 Kelley M. Kidwell and Nicholas J. Seewald and Qui Tran and Connie Kasari and Daniel Almirall Design and analysis considerations for comparing dynamic treatment regimens with binary outcomes from sequential multiple assignment randomized trials 1628--1651 Yajie Zou and John E. Ash and Byung-Jung Park and Dominique Lord and Lingtao Wu Empirical Bayes estimates of finite mixture of negative binomial regression models and its application to highway safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1652--1669 Joanna Morais and Christine Thomas-Agnan and Michel Simioni Using compositional and Dirichlet models for market share regression . . . . . . 1670--1689 Bogumil Kami\'nski and Przemyslaw Szufel On parallel policies for ranking and selection problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1690--1713 W. Tang and H. He and W. J. Wang and D. G. Chen Untangle the structural and random zeros in statistical modelings . . . . . . . . 1714--1733
Chun-Xia Zhang and Jiang-She Zhang and Guan-Wei Wang and Nan-Nan Ji A novel bagging approach for variable ranking and selection via a mixed importance measure . . . . . . . . . . . 1734--1755 Brandi N. Falley and James D. Stamey and A. Alexander Beaujean Bayesian estimation of logistic regression with misclassified covariates and response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1756--1769 Jin-Jian Hsieh and Jian-Lin Wang Quantile residual life regression based on semi-competing risks data . . . . . . 1770--1780 Osvaldo Loquiha and Niel Hens and Emilia Martins-Fonteyn and Herman Meulemans and Edwin Wouters and Marleen Temmerman and Nafissa Osman and Marc Aerts Joint models for mixed categorical outcomes: a study of HIV risk perception and disease status in Mozambique . . . . 1781--1798 Shahedul A. Khan and Setu C. Kar Generalized bent-cable methodology for changepoint data: a Bayesian approach 1799--1812 Airlane P. Alencar Seasonality of hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases: modelling serial correlation all we need is Poisson . . . 1813--1822 M. S. Paez and S. G. Walker Modeling with a large class of unimodal multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 1823--1845 D. S. Gonçalves and C. L. N. Azevedo and C. Lavor and M. A. Gomes-Ruggiero Bayesian inference for quantum state tomography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846--1871 Mansi Ghodsi and Hossein Hassani and Donya Rahmani and Emmanuel Sirimal Silva Vector and recurrent singular spectrum analysis: which is better at forecasting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1872--1899 Jiang Du and Xiuping Chen and Eddy Kwessi and Zhimeng Sun Model averaging based on rank . . . . . 1900--1919
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Rubén Manso and Rafael Calama and Marta Pardos and Mathieu Fortin A maximum likelihood estimator for left-truncated lifetimes based on probabilistic prior information about time of occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . 2107--2127 Xin Zhao and Zhensheng Huang Varying-coefficient single-index measurement error model . . . . . . . . 2128--2144 Sang Gyu Kwak and Balgobin Nandram and Dal Ho Kim Bayesian inference on contingency tables with uncertainty about independence for small areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2145--2163 Jiajia Chen and Xiaoqin Zhang and Shengjia Li Heteroskedastic linear regression model with compositional response and covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2164--2181 S. Eftekhari Mahabadi and E. Rahimi Jafari Skew-mixed effects model for multivariate longitudinal data with categorical outcomes and missingness . . 2182--2201 Marcel Ausloos and Roy Cerqueti Intriguing yet simple skewness: kurtosis relation in economic and demographic data distributions, pointing to preferential attachment processes . . . 2202--2218 Anthony Zullo and Mathieu Fauvel and Frédéric Ferraty Experimental comparison of functional and multivariate spectral-based supervised classification methods in hyperspectral image . . . . . . . . . . 2219--2237 Julie Ann Lorah Estimating individual-level interaction effects in multilevel models: a Monte Carlo simulation study with application 2238--2255 Ken J. Beath A mixture-based approach to robust analysis of generalised linear models 2256--2268 Achilleas Vassilopoulos and Andreas C. Drichoutis and Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr. and Panagiotis Lazaridis Does the supplemental nutrition assistance program really increase obesity? The importance of accounting for misclassification errors . . . . . . 2269--2278 Guy Cafri and Luo Li and Elizabeth W. Paxton and Juanjuan Fan Predicting risk for adverse health events using random forest . . . . . . . 2279--2294 Thomas Kirschenmann and Paul Damien and Stephen Walker Bayesian estimation of the Cox model under different hazard rate shape assumptions via slice sampling . . . . . 2295--2306
A. Desgagné and P. Lafaye de Micheaux A powerful and interpretable alternative to the Jarque--Bera test of normality based on 2nd-power skewness and kurtosis, using the Rao's score test on the APD family . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307--2327 Raushan Bokusheva Using copulas for rating weather index insurance contracts . . . . . . . . . . 2328--2356 Musie Ghebremichael and Semere Habtemicael Effect of tuberculosis on immune restoration among HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy . . . . 2357--2364 Dilli Bhatta and Balgobin Nandram and Joseph Sedransk Bayesian testing for independence of two categorical variables under two-stage cluster sampling with covariates . . . . 2365--2393 Deepesh Bhati and Sreenivasan Ravi Diagnostic plots for identifying max domains of attraction under power normalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2394--2410 Oliver Cencic and Rudolf Frühwirth Data reconciliation of nonnormal observations with nonlinear constraints 2411--2428 Jun Zhang and Jing Zhang and Xuehu Zhu and Tao Lu Testing symmetry based on empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2429--2454 Xiaojie Xu Causal structure among US corn futures and regional cash prices in the time and frequency domain . . . . . . . . . . . . 2455--2480 Piotr Sulewski Power analysis of independence testing for three-way contingency tables of small sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2481--2498
S. Balamurali and P. Jeyadurga and M. Usha Optimal design of repetitive group sampling plans for Weibull and gamma distributions with applications and comparison to the Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2499--2520 Ruofei Du and Zhide Fang Statistical correction for functional metagenomic profiling of a microbial community with short NGS reads . . . . . 2521--2535 Daniel B. Wright Estimating school effectiveness with student growth percentile and gain score models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2536--2547 J. Kowalski and S. Hao and T. Chen and Y. Liang and J. Liu and L. Ge and C. Feng and X. M. Tu Modern variable selection for longitudinal semi-parametric models with missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2548--2562 Antonio Punzo and Angelo Mazza and Antonello Maruotti Fitting insurance and economic data with outliers: a flexible approach based on finite mixtures of contaminated gamma distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2563--2584 Rodney V. Fonseca and Francisco Cribari-Neto Bimodal Birnbaum--Saunders generalized autoregressive score model . . . . . . . 2585--2606 Md. Moniruzzaman Moni and M. Iftakhar Alam Patient-specific dose finding in phase I clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 2607--2618 S. Ghasemzadeh and M. Ganjali and T. Baghfalaki A Bayesian conditional model for bivariate mixed ordinal and skew continuous longitudinal responses using quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . 2619--2642 Taha Alshaybawee and Rahim Alhamzawi and Habshah Midi and Intisar Ibrahim Allyas Bayesian variable selection and coefficient estimation in heteroscedastic linear regression model 2643--2657 Stephen Reid and Aaron M. Newman and Maximilian Diehn and Ash A. Alizadeh and Robert Tibshirani Genomic feature selection by coverage design optimization . . . . . . . . . . 2658--2676 Jihwan Oh and Faye Zheng and R. W. Doerge and Hyonho Chun Kernel partial correlation: a novel approach to capturing conditional independence in graphical models for noisy data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2677--2696
Luís G. Silva e Silva and Renato M. Assunção COWORDS: a probabilistic model for multiple word clouds . . . . . . . . . . 2697--2717 Chen Peng and Maochao Xu and Shouhuai Xu and Taizhong Hu Modeling multivariate cybersecurity risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2718--2740 Luis Carlos Pérez-Ruiz and Gabriel Escarela Joint regression modeling for missing categorical covariates in generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2741--2759 Mausumi Bose and Kajal Dihidar Privacy protection measures for randomized response surveys on stigmatizing continuous variables . . . 2760--2772 Gregory J. Matthews and Juliet K. Brophy and Maxwell Luetkemeier and Hongie Gu and George K. Thiruvathukal A comparison of machine learning techniques for taxonomic classification of teeth from the Family \bionameBovidae 2773--2787 Mina Mirshahi and Vahid Partovi Nia and Luc Adjengue Automatic odor prediction for electronic nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2788--2799 Cheng Ju and Aurélien Bibaut and Mark van der Laan The relative performance of ensemble methods with deep convolutional neural networks for image classification . . . 2800--2818 Patrick Aboagye-Sarfo and Qun Mai Seasonal analysis of emergency department presentations in Western Australia, 2009/10--2014/15 . . . . . . 2819--2830 Svenja Fischer A seasonal mixed-POT model to estimate high flood quantiles from different event types and seasons . . . . . . . . 2831--2847 Conceição Rocha and Pedro Quelhas Brito Profiles identification on hierarchical tree structure data sets . . . . . . . . 2848--2863 Alexander Hapfelmeier and Kurt Ulm and Bernhard Haller Subgroup identification by recursive segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2864--2887
Xuwen Zhu Variable diagnostics in model-based clustering through variation partition 2888--2905 Durba Bhattacharya and Sourabh Bhattacharya A Bayesian semiparametric approach to learning about gene-gene interactions in case-control studies . . . . . . . . . . 2906--2928 Dal Ho Kim and Jayoun Lee and Yongku Kim Information analysis of local suppression scheme based on a spatial-temporal model . . . . . . . . . 2929--2942 Mike G. Tsionas and Marwan Izzeldin Bayesian CV@R/super-quantile regression 2943--2957 Gerd K. Rosenkranz Empirical Bayes estimators in hierarchical models with mixture priors 2958--2980 J. A. A. Andrade and J. P. Gosling Expert knowledge elicitation using item response theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 2981--2998 Jae-Cheol Park and Jea-Young Lee How to build nomogram for type 2 diabetes using a na\"\ive Bayesian classifier technique . . . . . . . . . . 2999--3011 Longmei Chen and Alan T. K. Wan and Geoffrey Tso and Xinyu Zhang A model averaging approach for the ordered probit and nested logit models with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 3012--3052 Anonymous List of Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . 3053--3056
Ana J. Righetto and Thiago G. Ramires and Luiz R. Nakamura and Pedro L. D. B. Castanho and Christel Faes and Taciana V. Savian Predicting weed invasion in a sugarcane cultivar using multispectral image . . . 1--12 Jeongyoun Ahn and Myung Hee Lee and Jung Ae Lee Distance-based outlier detection for high dimension, low sample size data . . 13--29 Riten Mitra and Ryan Gill and Sinjini Sikdar and Susmita Datta Bayesian hierarchical model for protein identifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--46 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni and Cathy Maugis-Rabusseau and Andrea Rau Clustering transformed compositional data using $K$-means, with applications in gene expression and bicycle sharing system data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--65 Sezen Cekic and Didier Grandjean and Olivier Renaud Multiscale Bayesian state-space model for Granger causality analysis of brain signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--84 Frosso S. Makri and Zaharias M. Psillakis and Anastasios N. Arapis On the concentration of runs of ones of length exceeding a threshold in a Markov chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--100 Marcelo Bourguignon and Josemar Rodrigues and Manoel Santos-Neto Extended Poisson $ {\rm INAR}(1) $ processes with equidispersion, underdispersion and overdispersion . . . 101--118 Bernard Bercu and Sami Capderou and Gilles Durrieu A nonparametric statistical procedure for the detection of marine pollution 119--140 Yolanda M. Gómez and Diego I. Gallardo and Yuri Iriarte and Heleno Bolfarine The Rayleigh--Lindley model: properties and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--163 Byron C. Jaeger and Lloyd J. Edwards and Matthew J. Gurka An $ R^2 $ statistic for covariance model selection in the linear mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--184 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
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Caleb Phillips and Ryan Elmore and Jenny Melius and Pieter Gagnon and Robert Margolis A data mining approach to estimating rooftop photovoltaic potential in the US 385--394 Eliane R. Rodrigues and Mario H. Tarumoto and Guadalupe Tzintzun Application of a non-homogeneous Markov chain with seasonal transition probabilities to ozone data . . . . . . 395--415 Luiz R. Nakamura and Pedro H. R. Cerqueira and Thiago G. Ramires and Rodrigo R. Pescim and R. A. Rigby and Dimitrios M. Stasinopoulos A new continuous distribution on the unit interval applied to modelling the points ratio of football teams . . . . . 416--431 Haiqing Chen and Weihu Cheng and Yaohua Rong and Xu Zhao Fitting the generalized Pareto distribution to data based on transformations of order statistics . . 432--448 Ricardo Puziol de Oliveira and Jorge Alberto Achcar and Danielle Peralta and Josmar Mazucheli Discrete and continuous bivariate lifetime models in presence of cure rate: a comparative study under Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--467 Yihong Zhan and Yanan Zhang and Jiajia Zhang and Bo Cai and James W. Hardin Sample size calculation for a proportional hazards mixture cure model with nonbinary covariates . . . . . . . 468--483 Juliana Scudilio and Vinicius F. Calsavara and Ricardo Rocha and Francisco Louzada and Vera Tomazella and Agatha S. Rodrigues Defective models induced by gamma frailty term for survival data with cured fraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--507 Wei Wang and Zhuo Fang Linear scalar-on-surface random effects regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 508--521 Weiwei Wang and Xianyi Wu and Xiaoqi Zhang and Xiaobing Zhao and Xian Zhou Partial sufficient dimension reduction on joint model of recurrent and terminal events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--541 Fatemeh Hosseini and Omid Karimi Approximate composite marginal likelihood inference in spatial generalized linear mixed models . . . . 542--558 Ozgur Danisman and Umay Uzunoglu Kocer Construction of a semi-Markov model for the performance of a football team in the presence of missing data . . . . . . 559--576 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--579
Clay King and Joon Jin Song Bayesian spatial quantile regression for areal count data, with application on substitute care placements in Texas . . 580--597 Freedom N. Gumedze Use of likelihood ratio tests to detect outliers under the variance shift outlier model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--620 Gul Inan and Mahbub A. H. M. Latif and John Preisser A PRESS statistic for working correlation structure selection in generalized estimating equations . . . . 621--637 Tucker McElroy and Osbert Pang and George Sheldon Custom Epoch Estimation for Surveys . . 638--663 M. Xu and Y. Wu and B. Jin Detection of a change-point in variance by a weighted sum of powers of variances test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--679 C. I. Li and J. N. Pan and M. H. Huang A new demerit control chart for monitoring the quality of multivariate Poisson processes . . . . . . . . . . . 680--699 Josmar Mazucheli and André Felipe Berdusco Menezes and Subrata Chakraborty On the one parameter unit-Lindley distribution and its associated regression model for proportion data . . 700--714 Zoran Vidovi\'c On MLEs of the parameters of a modified Weibull distribution based on record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--724 Jen-Hao Chen and Wen-Liang Hung Parametrizing the Kepler exoplanet period-radius distribution with the bivariate normal inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--736 Pablo Lucas and Issam Malki A note on the modelling and interpretation of a public goods game experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--753 Abdul-Karim Iddrisu and Freedom Gumedze Application of sensitivity analysis to incomplete longitudinal CD4 count data 754--769
Yanbin Ma and Wenhao Gui Pivotal inference for the inverse Rayleigh distribution based on general progressively Type-II censored samples 771--797 Osvaldo Marrero Bayesian analysis of seasonal variation when the sample size and the amplitude are small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--813 Sayantee Jana and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and Jemila S. Hamid Bayesian growth curve model useful for high-dimensional longitudinal data . . . 814--834 S. A. Abu Bakar and S. Nadarajah Risk measure estimation under two component mixture models with trimmed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--852 Hui Nian and Chang Yu and Juan Ding and Huiyun Wu and William D. Dupont and Steve Brunwasser and Tebeb Gebretsadik and Tina V. Hartert and Pingsheng Wu Performance evaluation of propensity score methods for estimating average treatment effects with multi-level treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--873 Hassan S. Bakouch and Muhammad Nauman Khan and Tassaddaq Hussain and Christophe Chesneau A power log-Dagum distribution: estimation and applications . . . . . . 874--892 J. Pecanka and A. W. van der Vaart and M. A. Jonker Modeling association between multivariate correlated outcomes and high-dimensional sparse covariates: the adaptive SVS method . . . . . . . . . . 893--913 Jiang Du and Ruiyuan Cao and Eddy Kwessi and Zhongzhan Zhang Estimation for generalized partially functional linear additive regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914--925 Yanping Qiu and Baosheng Liang Robust logistic regression of family data in the presence of missing genotypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--945 Rand R. Wilcox Multicolinearity and ridge regression: results on type I errors, power and heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 946--957
G. N. Singh and S. Suman A modified two-stage randomized response model for estimating the proportion of stigmatized attribute . . . . . . . . . 958--978 Meiling Hao and Yuanyuan Lin and Xianhui Liu and Wenlu Tang Robust feature screening for high-dimensional survival data . . . . . 979--994 P. Bountzis and E. Papadimitriou and G. Tsaklidis Estimating the earthquake occurrence rates in Corinth Gulf (Greece) through Markovian arrival process modeling . . . 995--1020 Alejandra Tapia and Viviana Giampaoli and Maria del Pilar Diaz and Victor Leiva Sensitivity analysis of longitudinal count responses: a local influence approach and application to medical data 1021--1042 Marie V. Ozanne and Grant D. Brown and Jacob J. Oleson and Iraci D. Lima and Jose W. Queiroz and Selma M. B. Jeronimo and Christine A. Petersen and Mary E. Wilson Bayesian compartmental model for an infectious disease with dynamic states of infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1065 Ahad Malekzadeh and Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei Inferences on the common mean of several heterogeneous log-normal distributions 1066--1083 Artur J. Lemonte and Germán Moreno-Arenas On a multivariate regression model for rates and proportions . . . . . . . . . 1084--1106 A. T. Walden and L. Zhuang Constructing brain connectivity group graphs from EEG time series . . . . . . 1107--1128 Massimiliano Bonamente Probability models of chance fluctuations in spectra of astronomical sources with applications to X-ray absorption lines . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1154
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Johann Ospína-Galindez and Ramón Giraldo and Mercedes Andrade-Bejarano Functional regression concurrent model with spatially correlated errors: application to rainfall ground validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350--1363 Daniel Fernández and Daphna Harel and Panos Ipeirotis and Tara McAllister Statistical considerations for crowdsourced perceptual ratings of human speech productions . . . . . . . . . . . 1364--1384 M. Kazemi and D. Shahsavani and M. Arashi A sure independence screening procedure for ultra-high dimensional partially linear additive models . . . . . . . . . 1385--1403 Rafel Xampeny and Pere Grima and Xavier Tort-Martorell Selecting significant effects in factorial designs: Lenth's method versus the Box--Meyer approach . . . . . . . . 1404--1416 Russell J. Bowater and Ludmila E. Guzmán-Pantoja Bayesian, classical and hybrid methods of inference when one parameter value is special . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417--1437 Piotr Sulewski Some contributions to practice of $ 2 \times 2 $ contingency tables . . . . . 1438--1455 Yoonsuh Jung Nonlinear regression models for heterogeneous data with massive outliers 1456--1477 Xiaoqing Niu and Pengfei Li and Yuejiao Fu Testing homogeneity in a heteroscedastic contaminated normal mixture . . . . . . 1478--1491 Sonal Budhiraja and Biswabrata Pradhan Optimum reliability acceptance sampling plans under progressive type-I interval censoring with random removal using a cost model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1492--1517 Marcella Corduas and Giancarlo Ragozini A statistical procedure for representing state fragility and transition paths . . 1518--1528
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Mark Thackham and Jun Ma On maximum likelihood estimation of the semi-parametric Cox model with time-varying covariates . . . . . . . . 1511--1528 P. Martínez-Camblor and S. Pérez-Fernández and S. Díaz-Coto The role of the $p$-value in the multitesting problem . . . . . . . . . . 1529--1542 Sukhdev Singh and Sanku Dey and Devendra Kumar Statistical inference based on generalized Lindley record values . . . 1543--1561 Ana C. Guedes and Francisco Cribari-Neto and Patrícia L. Espinheira Modified likelihood ratio tests for unit gamma regressions . . . . . . . . . . . 1562--1586 Bo Chang and Harry Joe Copula diagnostics for asymmetries and conditional dependence . . . . . . . . . 1587--1615 Peter W. Marcy and Scott A. Vander Wiel and Curtis B. Storlie and Veronica Livescu and Curt A. Bronkhorst Modeling material stress using integrated Gaussian Markov random fields 1616--1636 Lakshmi Kanta Patra On the improved estimation of a function of the scale parameter of an exponential distribution based on doubly censored sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1637--1651 Abdul Haq and Michael B. C. Khoo Multivariate process dispersion monitoring without subgrouping . . . . . 1652--1675 Tsai-Yu Lin and Chen-Tuo Liao and Yen-Ya Liao Nonconformance probability of an air quality index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1676--1689 Clécio da Silva Ferreira and Víctor H. Lachos and Aldo M. Garay Inference and diagnostics for heteroscedastic nonlinear regression models under skew scale mixtures of normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . 1690--1719
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M. Stehlík and L. M. Grilo and P. K. Jordanova Editorial to special issue V WCDANM 2018 2289--2298 Barry C. Arnold and Matthew A. Arvanitis On bivariate pseudo-exponential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299--2311 Ryan A. Peterson and Joseph E. Cavanaugh Ordered quantile normalization: a semiparametric transformation built for the cross-validation era . . . . . . . . 2312--2327 Salvatore D. Tomarchio and Antonio Punzo Dichotomous unimodal compound models: application to the distribution of insurance losses . . . . . . . . . . . . 2328--2353 Vlad Stefan Barbu and Alex Karagrigoriou and Andreas Makrides Statistical inference for a general class of distributions with time-varying parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2354--2373 Patrícia Antunes and Sandra S. Ferreira and Dário Ferreira and Célia Nunes and João Tiago Mexia Estimation in additive models and ANOVA-like applications . . . . . . . . 2374--2383 Knute D. Carter and Joseph E. Cavanaugh Best-subset model selection based on multitudinal assessments of likelihood improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2384--2420 C. Santos and C. Nunes and C. Dias and J. T. Mexia Models with commutative orthogonal block structure: a general condition for commutativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2421--2430 Nancy Flournoy and Assaf P. Oron Bias induced by adaptive dose-finding designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2431--2442 M. Jabbari Nooghabi Process capability indices in normal distribution with the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2443--2478 Aboubacar Y. Touré and Simplice Dossou-Gbété and Célestin C. Kokonendji Asymptotic normality of the test statistics for the unified relative dispersion and relative variation indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2479--2491 Essam A. Ahmed and Ziyad Ali Alhussain and Mukhtar M. Salah and Hanan Haj Ahmed and M. S. Eliwa Inference of progressively type-II censored competing risks data from Chen distribution with an application . . . . 2492--2524 Lisandro J. Fermín and Jacques Lévy-Véhel Variability and singularity arising from a Piecewise-Deterministic Markov Process applied to model poor patient compliance in the multi-IV case . . . . . . . . . . 2525--2545 Isabel Silva and Maria Eduarda Silva and Cristina Torres Inference for bivariate integer-valued moving average models based on binomial thinning operation . . . . . . . . . . . 2546--2564 Michael Cullan and Scott Lidgard and Beckett Sterner Controlling the error probabilities of model selection information criteria using bootstrapping . . . . . . . . . . 2565--2581 Benjamin Riedle and Andrew A. Neath and Joseph E. Cavanaugh Reconceptualizing the $p$-value from a likelihood ratio test: a probabilistic pairwise comparison of models based on Kullback--Leibler discrepancy measures 2582--2609 Ya. Yu. Nikitin and I. A. Ragozin Goodness-of-fit tests for the logistic location family . . . . . . . . . . . . 2610--2622 M. Li and Q. Guo and W. J. Zhai and B. Z. Chen The linearized alternating direction method of multipliers for low-rank and fused LASSO matrix regression model . . 2623--2640 Célia Nunes and Elsa Moreira and Sandra S. Ferreira and Dário Ferreira and João T. Mexia Considering the sample sizes as truncated Poisson random variables in mixed effects models . . . . . . . . . . 2641--2657 Mario Giacomazzo and Yiannis Kamarianakis Bayesian estimation of subset threshold autoregressions: short-term forecasting of traffic occupancy . . . . . . . . . . 2658--2689 Jaime Arrué and Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and Héctor W. Gómez and Víctor Leiva On a new type of Birnbaum--Saunders models and its inference and application to fatigue data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2690--2710 Rafael Romero and Jose M. Pavía and Jorge Martín and Gerardo Romero Assessing uncertainty of voter transitions estimated from aggregated data. Application to the 2017 French presidential election . . . . . . . . . 2711--2736 Sandra Oliveira and Célia Nunes and Elsa Moreira and Miguel Fonseca and João T. Mexia Balanced prime basis factorial fixed effects model with random number of observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2737--2748 Viktor Witkovský Computing the exact distribution of the Bartlett's test statistic by numerical inversion of its characteristic function 2749--2764 F. J. Marques and C. A. Coelho Testing simultaneously different covariance block diagonal structures --- the multi-sample case . . . . . . . . . 2765--2784 Najme Sharifipanah and Rahim Chinipardaz and Gholam Ali Parham A new class of weighted bimodal distribution with application to gamma-ray burst duration data . . . . . 2785--2807 P. Economou and G. Tzavelas and A. Batsidis Robust inference under r-size-biased sampling without replacement from finite population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2808--2824 Helena Penalva and M. Ivette Gomes and Frederico Caeiro and M. Manuela Neves Lehmer's mean-of-order-$p$ extreme value index estimation: a simulation study and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2825--2845 D. Prata Gomes and M. Manuela Neves Extremal index blocks estimator: the threshold and the block size choice . . 2846--2861 A. Tchorbadjieff and P. Mayster Models induced from critical birth-death process with random initial conditions 2862--2878 Eliana Costa e Silva and Isabel Cristina Lopes and Aldina Correia and Susana Faria A logistic regression model for consumer default risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2879--2894 Olusola Samuel Makinde On rank distribution classifiers for high-dimensional data . . . . . . . . . 2895--2911 A. N. Oliveira and R. Menezes and S. Faria and P. Afonso Mixed-effects modelling for crossed and nested data: an analysis of dengue fever in the state of Goiás, Brazil . . . . . . 2912--2926 Isabel Silva and Hugo Alonso New developments in the forecasting of monthly overnight stays in the North Region of Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . 2927--2940
Junhui Yin and Liucang Wu and Lin Dai Variable selection in finite mixture of regression models using the skew-normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2941--2960 Zs. T. Kosztyán and É. Orbán-Mihálykó and Cs. Mihálykó and V. V. Csányi and A. Telcs Analyzing and clustering students' application preferences in higher education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2961--2983 J. van Doorn and A. Ly and M. Marsman and E.-J. Wagenmakers Bayesian rank-based hypothesis testing for the rank sum test, the signed rank test, and Spearman's $ \rho $ . . . . . 2984--3006 Farzane Hashemi and Mehrdad Naderi and Ahad Jamalizadeh and Tsung-I Lin A skew factor analysis model based on the normal mean-variance mixture of Birnbaum--Saunders distribution . . . . 3007--3029 Mohammad Mahdi Maghami and Mohammad Bahrami and Farkhondeh Alsadat Sajadi On bias reduction estimators of skew-normal and skew-t distributions . . 3030--3052
Jie Chen PhD Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Muhammad Shujaat Nawaz and Muhammad Azam and Muhammad Aslam EWMA and DEWMA repetitive control charts under non-normal processes . . . . . . . 4--40 Xu Zhang and Sean Barnes and Bruce Golden and Paul Smith A continuous-time Markov model for estimating readmission risk for hospital inpatients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--60 Rohan D. Koshti and Kirtee K. Kamalja Parameter estimation of Cambanis-type bivariate uniform distribution with Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 61--83 Philippe Gagnon and Myl\`ene Bédard and Alain Desgagné An automatic robust Bayesian approach to principal component regression . . . . . 84--104 Zhihang Dong and Yen-Chi Chen and Adrian Dobra A statistical framework for measuring the temporal stability of human mobility patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--123 Christophe Chesneau and Hassan S. Bakouch and Tassaddaq Hussain and Bilal A. Para The cosine geometric distribution with count data modeling . . . . . . . . . . 124--137 Muhammad Aslam and Muhammad Ali Raza and Rehan Ahmad Khan Sherwani and Muhammad Farooq and Jun Yong Jeong and Chi-Hyuck Jun A mixed control chart for monitoring failure times under accelerated hybrid censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--153 Chen Feng and Paul Griffin and Shravan Kethireddy and Yajun Mei A boosting inspired personalized threshold method for sepsis screening 154--175 Jan van den Broek Modelling the reproductive power function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--190 Hossein Hassani and Mansi Ghodsi and Xu Huang and Emmanuel Sirimal Silva Is there a causal relationship between oil prices and tourist arrivals? . . . . 191--202
Patrick Borges Estimating the turning point of the log-logistic hazard function in the presence of long-term survivors with an application for uterine cervical cancer data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--213 J. de Sousa and K. Hron and K. Facevicová and P. Filzmoser Robust principal component analysis for compositional tables . . . . . . . . . . 214--233 Yunlu Jiang and Yan Wang and Jiantao Zhang and Baojian Xie and Jibiao Liao and Wenhui Liao Outlier detection and robust variable selection via the penalized weighted LAD-LASSO method . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--246 Sajid Ali Monitoring time and magnitude based on the renewal reward process with a random failure threshold . . . . . . . . . . . 247--284 Fayyaz Bahari and Safar Parsi and Mojtaba Ganjali Reliability of a soccer player based on the bivariate Rayleigh distribution with right censored and ignorable missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--300 Andrea Gabrio Bayesian hierarchical models for the prediction of volleyball results . . . . 301--321 Riccardo D'Alberto and Meri Raggi How much reliable are the integrated `live' data? A validation strategy proposal for the non-parametric micro statistical matching . . . . . . . . . . 322--348 Julio Cezar Souza Vasconcelos and Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro and Edwin Moises Marcos Ortega and Édila Maria de Rezende A new regression model for bimodal data and applications in agriculture . . . . 349--372 Rui Martins and Jorge Caldeira and Inês Lopes and José João Mendes Improving teeth aesthetics using a spatially shared-parameters model for independent regular lattices . . . . . . 373--392
Ji Hwan Cha and F. G. Badía Variables acceptance reliability sampling plan for items subject to inverse Gaussian degradation process . . 393--409 Xia Wang and Joseph Pancras and Dipak K. Dey Investigating emergent nested geographic structure in consumer purchases: a Bayesian dynamic multi-scale spatiotemporal modeling approach . . . . 410--433 Shu Wu and Philippe Castagliola and Giovanni Celano A distribution-free EWMA control chart for monitoring time-between-events-and-amplitude data 434--454 Cheng Zhang and Tapan K. Nayak Post-randomization for controlling identification risk in releasing microdata from general surveys . . . . . 455--470 Alejandro Rodriguez and Gabriel Pino and Rodrigo Herrera A non-parametric statistic for testing conditional heteroscedasticity for unobserved component models . . . . . . 471--497 Nedka Dechkova Nikiforova and Rossella Berni and Gabriele Arcidiacono and Luciano Cantone and Pierpaolo Placidoli Latin hypercube designs based on strong orthogonal arrays and Kriging modelling to improve the payload distribution of trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--516 Farrukh Javed and Stepan Mazur and Edward Ngailo Higher order moments of the estimated tangency portfolio weights . . . . . . . 517--535 Sancharee Basak and Ayanendranath Basu and M. C. Jones On the `optimal' density power divergence tuning parameter . . . . . . 536--556 Julio Cezar Souza Vasconcelos and Cristian Villegas Generalized symmetrical partial linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--572 Tomson Ogwang and Danny I. Cho Olympic rankings based on objective weighting schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 573--582
Han Lin Shang Bayesian bandwidth estimation and semi-metric selection for a functional partial linear model with unknown error density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--604 Özlem Kaymaz and Khaled Alqahtani and Henry M. Wood and Arief Gusnanto Prediction of tumour pathological subtype from genomic profile using sparse logistic regression with random effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--622 Ayan Pal and Sharmishtha Mitra and Debasis Kundu Order restricted classical inference of a Weibull multiple step-stress model . . 623--645 Jamil Ownuk and Hossein Baghishani and Ahmad Nezakati Heavy or semi-heavy tail, that is the question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--668 Guangbao Guo Taylor quasi-likelihood for limited generalized linear models . . . . . . . 669--692 Uchenna C. Nduka and Tobias E. Ugah and Chinyeaka H. Izunobi Robust estimation using multivariate $t$ innovations for vector autoregressive models via ECM algorithm . . . . . . . . 693--711 Subrata Chakraborty and Dhrubajyoti Chakravarty and Josmar Mazucheli and Wesley Bertoli A discrete analog of Gumbel distribution: properties, parameter estimation and applications . . . . . . 712--737 Yang-Jin Kim Joint model for bivariate zero-inflated recurrent event data with terminal events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--749 Qingzhao Yu and Bin Li A multivariate multiple third-variable effect analysis with an application to explore racial and ethnic disparities in obesity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--764
Elham Tabrizi and Ehsan Bahrami Samani and Mojtaba Ganjali General location multivariate latent variable models for mixed correlated bounded continuous, ordinal, and nominal responses with non-ignorable missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--785 Mohammed Alqawba and Norou Diawara Copula-based Markov zero-inflated count time series models with application . . 786--803 António Casimiro Puindi and Maria Eduarda Silva Dynamic structural models with covariates for short-term forecasting of time series with complex seasonal patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--826 Paravee Maneejuk and Woraphon Yamaka Significance test for linear regression: how to test without $P$-values? . . . . 827--845 Mingyue Du and Qingning Zhou and Shishun Zhao and Jianguo Sun Regression analysis of case-cohort studies in the presence of dependent interval censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 846--865 Yoonsuh Jung and Steven N. MacEachern and Hang Joon Kim Modified check loss for efficient estimation via model selection in quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . 866--886 Mingjing Chen and Xiangyong Tan and Jian Wu Time varying factor models with possibly strongly correlated noises . . . . . . . 887--906 Magda Carvalho Pires and Enrico Antônio Colosimo and Guilherme Augusto Veloso and Raquel de Souza Borges Ferreira Interval-censored data with misclassification: a Bayesian approach 907--923 Özge Kuran and M. Revan Özkale Improvement of mixed predictors in linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 924--942 Sárka Vecerová and Arnost Komárek and Luk Bruyneel and Emmanuel Lesaffre Identifying influential observations in a Bayesian multi-level mediation model 943--960
Xu Guo and Yan Wang and Niwen Zhou and Xuehu Zhu Optimal weighted two-sample $t$-test with partially paired data in a unified framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961--976 Nusrat Harun and Bo Cai and Yu Shen A Bayesian semiparametric method for analyzing length-biased data . . . . . . 977--992 Yu Zhang and Xiangzhong Fang On the lengths of $t$-based confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993--1008 Milind A. Phadnis and Matthew S. Mayo Sample size calculations for noninferiority trials for time-to-event data using the concept of proportional time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1032 Zhensheng Huang and Wen Lou Statistical inferences for single-index models with measurement errors . . . . . 1033--1052 Alex Paynter and Amy D. Willis Tuning parameter selection for a penalized estimator of species richness 1053--1070 Vahid Nekoukhou and Ashkan Khalifeh and Hamid Bidram A bivariate discrete inverse resilience family of distributions with resilience marginals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1090 Fang Xia and Stephen L. George and Jing Ning and Liang Li and Xuelin Huang A signature enrichment design with Bayesian adaptive randomization . . . . 1091--1110 Erfan Ghasemi and Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban and Farid Zayeri and Asma Pourhoseingholi and Seyed Mohammadreza Safavi A doubly-inflated Poisson regression for correlated count data . . . . . . . . . 1111--1127 Rhoda Nandai Muse and Satheesh Aradhyula Correlated discrete and continuous outcomes with endogeneity and lagged effects: past season yield impact on improved corn seed adoption . . . . . . 1128--1153
Mahdi Teimouri EM algorithm for mixture of skew-normal distributions fitted to grouped data . . 1154--1179 Ingo Klein and Monika Doll Tests on asymmetry for ordered categorical variables . . . . . . . . . 1180--1198 T. Simková Confidence intervals based on $L$-moments for quantiles of the GP and GEV distributions with application to market-opening asset prices data . . . . 1199--1226 Harsh Tripathi and Sanku Dey and Mahendra Saha Double and group acceptance sampling plan for truncated life test based on inverse log-logistic distribution . . . 1227--1242 Sandile Charles Shongwe and Jean-Claude Malela-Majika and Philippe Castagliola A combined mixed-$s$-skip sampling strategy to reduce the effect of autocorrelation on the $ \bar {X}$ scheme with and without measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1268 Stefano Nasini and Victor Martínez-de-Albéniz Pairwise influences in dynamic choice: network-based model and application . . 1269--1302 Pejman Bordbar and Sodeif Ahadpour Type-I intermittency from Markov binary block visibility graph perspective . . . 1303--1318 Vasileios Alevizakos and Christos Koukouvinos Monitoring of zero-inflated binomial processes with a DEWMA control chart . . 1319--1338 Daniel K. Sewell and Journey Penney and Melissa Jay and Ying Zhang and Jane S. Paulsen Predicting an optimal composite outcome variable for Huntington's disease clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339--1348 Anonymous Correction: A combined mixed-$s$-skip sampling strategy to reduce the effect of autocorrelation on the $ \bar {X}$ scheme with and without measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Zhezhen Jin and Jianguo Sun Editorial to special issue Frontiers of Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1349--1351 Xinwei He and Xiaoqiang Sun and Yongzhao Shao Network-based survival analysis to discover target genes for developing cancer immunotherapies and predicting patient survival . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352--1373 Myeonggyun Lee and Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte and Mengling Liu Empirical evaluation of sub-cohort sampling designs for risk prediction modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1374--1401 Yang Liu and JunJia Zhu and Dennis K. J. Lin A generalized likelihood ratio test for monitoring profile data . . . . . . . . 1402--1415 Antai Wang and Xieyang Jia and Zhezhen Jin Estimation of the cumulative baseline hazard function for dependently right-censored failure time data . . . . 1416--1428 Chunjie Wang and Jingjing Jiang and Linlin Luo and Shuying Wang Bayesian analysis of the Box--Cox transformation model based on left-truncated and right-censored data 1429--1441 Zhengyu Yang and Guo-Liang Tian and Xiaobin Liu and Chang-Xing Ma Simultaneous confidence interval construction for many-to-one comparisons of proportion differences based on correlated paired data . . . . . . . . . 1442--1456 Bojuan Barbara Zhao and Ruijuan Su Determinants of the heavily right-tailed residential housing price in Tianjin . . 1457--1474 Yuna Zhao and Dennis K. J. Lin and Min-Qian Liu Designs for order-of-addition experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1495 Liang Zhu and Xingwei Tong and Dingjiao Cai and Yimei Li and Ryan Sun and Deo K. Srivastava and Melissa M. Hudson Maximum likelihood estimation for the proportional odds model with mixed interval-censored failure time data . . 1496--1512 Jaehong Yu and Hua Zhong Time varying mixed effects model with fused lasso regularization . . . . . . . 1513--1526
Satya Prakash Singh and Pradeep Yadav Optimal allocation of subjects in a matched pair cluster-randomized trial with fixed number of heterogeneous clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1527--1540 Ngan Hoang-Nguyen-Thuy and K. Krishnamoorthy Estimation of the probability content in a specified interval using fiducial approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541--1558 M. I. Alheety and Kristofer Månsson and B. M. Golam Kibria A new kind of stochastic restricted biased estimator for logistic regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1559--1578 Shin-Fu Tsai and Tse-Le Huang Confidence limits for conformance proportions in normal mixture models . . 1579--1602 Kai-Sheng Song Simultaneous statistical modelling of excess zeros, over/underdispersion, and multimodality with applications in hotel industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1603--1627 Yunfei Ye and Dong Han An optimal control chart for finite matrix sequences at some unknown change point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1628--1643 Camillo Cammarota and Alessandro Pinto Variable selection and importance in presence of high collinearity: an application to the prediction of lean body mass from multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance . . . . . . . . 1644--1658 J. P. Burgard and J. Krause and R. Münnich An elastic net penalized small area model combining unit- and area-level data for regional hypertension prevalence estimation . . . . . . . . . 1659--1674 Anne Helby Petersen and Bo Markussen and Karl Bang Christensen Exploratory data structure comparisons: three new visual tools based on principal component analysis . . . . . . 1675--1695 Maurizio Carpita and Silvia Golia Discovering associations between players' performance indicators and matches' results in the European Soccer Leagues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1696--1711
H. Karamikabir and M. Afshari and F. Lak Wavelet threshold based on Stein's unbiased risk estimators of restricted location parameter in multivariate normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1712--1729 Joseph Wu and Mayetri Gupta and Amira I. Hussein and Louis Gerstenfeld Bayesian modeling of factorial time-course data with applications to a bone aging gene expression study . . . . 1730--1754 Jing Zhang and Yanyan Liu Model-free slice screening for ultrahigh-dimensional survival data . . 1755--1774 Lahiru Wickramasinghe and Alexandre Leblanc and Saman Muthukumarana Model-based estimation of baseball batting metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1775--1797 Qazi J. Azhad and Mohd. Arshad and Amit Kumar Misra Estimation of common location parameter of several heterogeneous exponential populations based on generalized order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1798--1815 Opeoluwa F. Oyedele Extension of biplot methodology to multivariate regression analysis . . . . 1816--1832 Soyoung Park and Alicia Carriquiry Quantifying the similarity of $2$D images using edge pixels: an application to the forensic comparison of footwear impressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833--1860 Thomas J. Zhou and Sughra Raza and Kerrie P. Nelson Methods of assessing categorical agreement between correlated screening tests in clinical studies . . . . . . . 1861--1881 Richard Puurbalanta A Clipped Gaussian Geo-Classification model for poverty mapping . . . . . . . 1882--1895
Fernando de Souza Bastos and Wagner Barreto-Souza Birnbaum-Saunders sample selection model 1896--1916 Sugnet Gardner-Lubbe Linear discriminant analysis for multiple functional data analysis . . . 1917--1933 Xingli Yang and Yu Wang and Wennan Yan and Jihong Li Variance estimation based on blocked 3$ \times $2 cross-validation in high-dimensional linear regression . . . 1934--1947 M. S. Eliwa and M. El-Morshedy and Sajid Ali Exponentiated odd Chen-G family of distributions: statistical properties, Bayesian and non-Bayesian estimation with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1948--1974 Masoumeh Shirozhan and Mehrnaz Mohammadpour A dependent counting INAR model with serially dependent innovation . . . . . 1975--1997 Ana R. S. Silva and Caio L. N. Azevedo and Jorge L. Bazán and Juvêncio S. Nobre Augmented-limited regression models with an application to the study of the risk perceived using continuous scales . . . 1998--2021 Corrine F. Elliott and Joshua W. Lambert and Arnold J. Stromberg and Pei Wang and Ting Zeng and Katherine L. Thompson Feasibility as a mechanism for model identification and validation . . . . . 2022--2041 Zequn Sun and Thomas J. Fisher Testing for correlation between two time series using a parametric bootstrap . . 2042--2063 Anonymous Statement of Retraction: A novel alpha power transformed exponential distribution with real-life applications 2064--2064 Muhammad Ijaz and Wali Khan Mashwani and Atilla Göktas and Yuksel Akay Unvan RETRACTED ARTICLE: A novel alpha power transformed exponential distribution with real-life applications . . . . . . I--XVI
Yousri Slaoui Two new nonparametric kernel distribution estimators based on a transformation of the data . . . . . . . 2065--2091 Piotr Sulewski Equal-bin-width histogram versus equal-bin-count histogram . . . . . . . 2092--2111 Katherine Davies and Suvra Pal and Joynob A. Siddiqua Stochastic EM algorithm for generalized exponential cure rate model and an empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . . 2112--2135 Sukru Acitas and Ismail Yenilmez and Birdal Senoglu and Yeliz Mert Kantar Modified maximum likelihood estimator under the Jones and Faddy's skew $t$ -error distribution for censored regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2136--2151 Chong Sheng and Matthias Hwai Yong Tan and Lu Zou Maximum expected entropy transformed Latin hypercube designs . . . . . . . . 2152--2177 Phuong Hanh Tran and Cédric Heuchenne and Huu Du Nguyen and Hél\`ene Marie Monitoring coefficient of variation using one-sided run rules control charts in the presence of measurement errors 2178--2204 Q. F. Xu and X. H. Ding and C. X. Jiang and K. M. Yu and L. Shi An elastic-net penalized expectile regression with applications . . . . . . 2205--2230
A. Göktas and Ö. Akkus Editorial to the special issue: Recent statistical methods for data analysis, applied economics, business & finance . . 2231--2238 Necla Gündüz and Celal Aydin Optimal bandwidth estimators of kernel density functionals for contaminated data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2239--2258 Asuman Yilmaz and Mahmut Kara and Onur Özdemir Comparison of different estimation methods for extreme value distribution 2259--2284 Esmat Jamshidi Eini and Hamid Khaloozadeh Tail conditional moment for generalized skew-elliptical distributions . . . . . 2285--2305 Barry C. Arnold and B. G. Manjunath Statistical inference for distributions with one Poisson conditional . . . . . . 2306--2325 Özlem Türksen A novel perspective for parameter estimation of seemingly unrelated nonlinear regression . . . . . . . . . . 2326--2347 Naoya Yamaguchi and Yuka Yamaguchi and Ryuei Nishii Minimizing the expected value of the asymmetric loss function and an inequality for the variance of the loss 2348--2368 Berivan Çakmak and Fatma Zehra Dogru Optimal B-robust estimators for the parameters of the power Lindley distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2369--2388 Hatice Tul Kubra Akdur Unit-Lindley mixed-effect model for proportion data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2389--2405 O. Ozan Evkaya and Ceylan Yozgatligil and A. Sevtap Selcuk-Kestel CD-vine model for capturing complex dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406--2420 Pakize Taylan and Fatma Yerlikaya-Özkurt and Burcu Bilgiç Uçak and Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber A new outlier detection method based on convex optimization: application to diagnosis of Parkinson's disease . . . . 2421--2440 G. Deliorman and D. Inan Binary particle swarm optimization as a detection tool for influential subsets in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . 2441--2456 Atila Göktas and Özge Akkus and Aykut Kuvat A new robust ridge parameter estimator based on search method for linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2457--2472 Meral Ebegil and Yaprak Arzu Özdemir and Fikri Gökpinar Some Shrinkage estimators based on median ranked set sampling . . . . . . . 2473--2498 Nuriye Sancar and Deniz Inan A new alternative estimation method for Liu-type logistic estimator via particle swarm optimization: an application to data of collapse of Turkish commercial banks during the Asian financial crisis 2499--2514 Emrah Altun The Lomax regression model with residual analysis: an application to insurance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2515--2524 J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and R. Pino-Mejías and J. García-Heras and F. Ruiz-Muñoz and M. Luz González-Regalado A multivariate Poisson regression model for count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2525--2541 Luis A. Gil-Alana and OlaOluwa S. Yaya Testing fractional unit roots with non-linear smooth break approximations using Fourier functions . . . . . . . . 2542--2559 Burak A. Ero\glu and Selim Yildirim On the performance of the variance ratio unit root tests with flexible Fourier form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2560--2579 Beyza Cetin and Idil Yavuz Comparison of forecast accuracy of \bf Ata and exponential smoothing . . . . . 2580--2590 O. Ozan Evkaya and Fatma Sevinç Kurnaz Forecasting drought using neural network approaches with transformed time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2591--2606 Mehmet Ali Balci and Ömer Akgüller and Serdar Can Güzel Hierarchies in communities of UK stock market from the perspective of Brexit 2607--2625 Julide Yildirim and Baris Alpaslan and Erdener Emin Eker The role of social capital in environmental protection efforts: evidence from Turkey . . . . . . . . . . 2626--2642 M. Esra Atukalp Determining the relationship between stock return and financial performance: an analysis on Turkish deposit banks . . 2643--2657 Cenker Burak Metin and Sinem Tugba Sahin Tekin and Yaprak Arzu Özdemir Restricted calibration and weight trimming approaches for estimation of the population total in business statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2658--2672 Paul P. Momtaz Econometric models of duration data in entrepreneurship with an application to start-ups' time-to-funding by venture capitalists (VCs) . . . . . . . . . . . 2673--2694 Bükre Yildirim Külekci and A. Sevtap Selcuk-Kestel Assessment of longevity risk: credibility approach . . . . . . . . . . 2695--2713 Ding-Geng Chen and Haipeng Gao and Chuanshu Ji and Xinguang Chen Stochastic cusp catastrophe model and its Bayesian computations . . . . . . . 2714--2733 Adrien Ehrhardt and Christophe Biernacki and Vincent Vandewalle and Philippe Heinrich and Sébastien Beben Reject inference methods in credit scoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2734--2754 Atif Evren and Elif Tuna and Erhan Ustaoglu and Busra Sahin Some dominance indices to determine market concentration . . . . . . . . . . 2755--2775 Fatma Basoglu Kabran and Kamil Demirberk Ünlü A two-step machine learning approach to predict S&P 500 bubbles . . . . . . . . 2776--2794 Huseyin Guler and Ebru Ozgur Guler Mixed Lasso estimator for stochastic restricted regression models . . . . . . 2795--2808 Asiye Nur Yildirim and Eren Bas and Erol Egrioglu Threshold single multiplicative neuron artificial neural networks for non-linear time series forecasting . . . 2809--2825 Fatma Yerlikaya-Özkurt and Pakize Taylan and Müjgan Tez Estimation in the partially nonlinear model by continuous optimization . . . . 2826--2846 Atacan Erdis and M. Akif Bakir and Muhammed I. Jaiteh A method for detection of Mode-Mixing problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2847--2863 Timothy E. O'Brien and Jack Silcox Efficient experimental design for dose response modelling . . . . . . . . . . . 2864--2888 Atakan Gerger and Ali Riza Firuzan Taguchi based case study in the automotive industry: nonconformity decreasing with use of Six Sigma methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2889--2905 Berna Yazici and Mustafa Cavus A comparative study of computation approaches of the generalized F-test . . 2906--2919 H. A. Rusyda and L. Noviyanti and A. Z. Soleh and A. Chadidjah and F. Indrayatna The design of multiple crop insurance in Indonesia based on revenue risk using the copula model approach . . . . . . . 2920--2930 Adnan Karaibrahimoglu and Seren Ayhan and Mustafa Karaagac and Mehmet Artac Circular analyses of dates on patients with gastric carcinoma . . . . . . . . . 2931--2943 Hao Chen and Minguang Zhang and Lanshan Han and Alvin Lim Hierarchical marketing mix models with sign constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . 2944--2960 Necla Gündüz and Ernest Fokoué Understanding students' evaluations of professors using non-negative matrix factorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2961--2981
Ricardo Puziol de Oliveira and Jorge Alberto Achcar Accurate estimation for extra-Poisson variability assuming random effect models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2982--3001 Hassan S. Bakouch and Meitner Cadena and Christophe Chesneau A new class of skew distributions with climate data analysis . . . . . . . . . 3002--3024 Indranil Ghosh and Filipe Marques and Subrata Chakraborty A new bivariate Poisson distribution via conditional specification: properties and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 3025--3047 Fernando Ferraz do Nascimento and Andreson Almeida Azevedo and Valmaria Rocha da Silva Ferraz Regression models to dependence for exceedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3048--3059 Daniel C. F. Guzmán and Clécio S. Ferreira and Camila B. Zeller Linear censored regression models with skew scale mixtures of normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3060--3085 Pallab Kumar Ghosh Box--Cox power transformation unconditional quantile regressions with an application on wage inequality . . . 3086--3101 E. P. Sreedevi and P. G. Sankaran Nonparametric inference for panel count data with competing risks . . . . . . . 3102--3115 Tao Chen and Qingliang Fan and Kai Liu and Lingshan Le Identifying key factors in momentum in basketball games . . . . . . . . . . . . 3116--3129 Jiajia Chen and Xiaoqin Zhang and Karel Hron Partial least squares regression with compositional response variables and covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3130--3149 Vitor Capdeville and Kelly C. M. Gonçalves and João B. M. Pereira Bayesian factor models for multivariate categorical data obtained from questionnaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3150--3173 Renata Rojas Guerra and Fernando A. Peña-Ramírez and Marcelo Bourguignon The unit extended Weibull families of distributions and its applications . . . 3174--3192 Sungsu Kim and Ashis SenGupta Multimodal exponential families of circular distributions with application to daily peak hours of PM2.5 level in a large city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3193--3207 Thomas J. Smith and David A. Walker and Cornelius M. McKenna A coefficient of discrimination for use with nominal and ordinal regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3208--3219 Jochen Kruppa and Ludwig Hothorn A comparison study on modeling of clustered and overdispersed count data for multiple comparisons . . . . . . . . 3220--3232 Julio López-Laborda and Carmen Marín-González and Jorge Onrubia-Fernández Estimating Engel curves: a new way to improve the SILC-HBS matching process using GLM methods . . . . . . . . . . . 3233--3250 Reza Azimi and Mahdy Esmailian Correction to: The Weibull Fréchet distribution and its applications . . . 3251--3252 Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3253--3254
Cindy Feng Zero-inflated models for adjusting varying exposures: a cautionary note on the pitfalls of using offset . . . . . . 1--23 M. Carmen Pardo and Ying Lu and Alba M. Franco-Pereira Extensions of empirical likelihood and chi-squared-based tests for ordered alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--43 Haiqiang Ma and Jin Yang and Sheng Xu and Chao Liu and Qinyi Zhang Combination of multiple functional markers to improve diagnostic accuracy 44--63 Dariush Najarzadeh Conservative confidence intervals on multiple correlation coefficient for high-dimensional elliptical data using random projection methodology . . . . . 64--85 Shiva S. Dibaj and Alan D. Hutson and Graham W. Warren and Gregory E. Wilding Exact unconditional inference for analyzing contingency tables in finite populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--97 D. Scaldelai and L. C. Matioli and S. R. Santos and M. Kleina MulticlusterKDE: a new algorithm for clustering based on multivariate kernel density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 98--121 Liang Wang and Ke Wu and Yogesh Mani Tripathi and Chandrakant Lodhi Reliability analysis of multicomponent stress-strength reliability from a bathtub-shaped distribution . . . . . . 122--142 María Dolores Esteban and María José Lombardía and Esther López-Vizcaíno and Domingo Morales and Agustín Pérez Small area estimation of expenditure means and ratios under a unit-level bivariate linear mixed model . . . . . . 143--168 Nabakumar Jana and Samadrita Bera Estimation of parameters of inverse Weibull distribution and application to multi-component stress-strength model 169--194 F. Prataviera and A. M. Batista and P. L. Libardi and G. M. Cordeiro and E. M. M. Ortega Joint regression modeling of location and scale parameters of the skew $t$ distribution with application in soil chemistry data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--213 Mariangela Sciandra and Irene Carola Spera A model-based approach to Spotify data analysis: a Beta GLMM . . . . . . . . . 214--229 Han Yu and Rachael Hageman Blair Scalable module detection for attributed networks with applications to breast cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--247 J. C. S. Vasconcelos and G. M. Cordeiro and E. M. M. Ortega The semiparametric regression model for bimodal data with different penalized smoothers applied to climatology, ethanol and air quality data . . . . . . 248--267
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Seema Zubair and Sanjoy K. Sinha Semiparametric methods for incomplete longitudinal count data with an application to health and retirement study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3513--3535 Jeffrey Williams and Raymond R. Hill and Joseph J. Pignatiello Jr. and Eric Chicken Wavelet analysis of variance box plot 3536--3563 Amadou Barry and Karim Oualkacha and Arthur Charpentier A new GEE method to account for heteroscedasticity using asymmetric least-square regressions . . . . . . . . 3564--3590 Aniket Biswas and Gaurangadeb Chattopadhyay and Aditya Chatterjee Bias-corrected estimators for proportion of true null hypotheses: application of adaptive FDR-controlling in segmented failure data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3591--3613 Guillermo Martínez-Flórez and Eliseo Martínez and Roger Tovar-Falón and Héctor W. Gómez A family of bimodal distributions generated by distributions with positive support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3614--3637 Babak Zafari and Tahir Ekin and Fabrizio Ruggeri Multicriteria decision frontiers for prescription anomaly detection over time 3638--3658 Timothy Opheim and Anuradha Roy Doubly multivariate linear models with block exchangeable distributed errors and site-dependent covariates . . . . . 3659--3676 Zhuoran Yang and Liya Fu and You-Gan Wang and Zhixiong Dong and Yunlu Jiang A robust and efficient variable selection method for linear regression 3677--3692 Yonggang Ji and Haifang Shi Shrinkage estimation of fixed and random effects in linear quantile mixed models 3693--3716 Zhen Sheng and Yukun Liu and Pengfei Li and Jing Qin Likelihood ratio test for genetic association study with case-control data under Probit model . . . . . . . . . . . 3717--3731 Garo Panikian and Gabby Colmenares Reverol and Jayne Rhodes and Emma McLarnon and Sarah Keast and Kokouvi Gamado Time series modelling methods to forecast the volume of self-assessment tax returns in the UK . . . . . . . . . 3732--3749 Jiasheng Huang and Yehua Li and Angelique G. Brellenthin and Duck-chul Lee and Xuemei Sui and Steven N. Blair Causal mediation analysis between resistance exercise and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease based on the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study . . . 3750--3767
Junyi Lu and Sebastian Meyer An endemic-epidemic beta model for time series of infectious disease proportions 3769--3783 João Victor B. de Freitas and Juvêncio S. Nobre and Marcelo Bourguignon and Manoel Santos-Neto A new approach to modeling positive random variables with repeated measures 3784--3803 Weiwei Zhuang and Yadong Li and Guoxin Qiu Statistical inference for a relaxation index of stochastic dominance under density ratio model . . . . . . . . . . 3804--3822 Xiaohong He and Lei Wang Ensemble and calibration multiply robust estimation for quantile treatment effect 3823--3845 Xin Yang and Alan D. Hutson and Dongliang Wang A generalized BLUE approach for combining location and scale information in a meta-analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 3846--3867 Piotr Sliwka Markov (Set) chains application to predict mortality rates using extended Milevsky--Promislov generalized mortality models . . . . . . . . . . . . 3868--3888 J. C. Poythress and Cheolwoo Park and Jeongyoun Ahn Dimension-wise sparse low-rank approximation of a matrix with application to variable selection in high-dimensional integrative analyzes of association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3889--3907 Guglielmo D'Amico and Riccardo De Blasis Confidence sets for dynamic poverty indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3908--3927 FuPeng Xie and Philippe Castagliola and YuLong Qiao and XueLong Hu and JinSheng Sun A one-sided exponentially weighted moving average control chart for time between events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3928--3957 Qingzhao Yu and Lu Zhang and Xiaocheng Wu and Bin Li Inference on moderation effect with third-variable effect analysis --- application to explore the trend of racial disparity in oncotype DX test for breast cancer treatment . . . . . . . . 3958--3975 Qiang Zhao and Liang Chen and Jingjing Wu Robust and efficient estimation of GARCH models based on Hellinger distance . . . 3976--4002 Yi-Ching Lee and Junfeng Shang Estimation and selection in linear mixed models with missing data under compound symmetric structure . . . . . . . . . . 4003--4027 Xun Shen and Pongsathorn Raksincharoensak Statistical models of near-accident event and pedestrian behavior at non-signalized intersections . . . . . . 4028--4048
David G. Sinclair and Giles Hooker An expectation maximization algorithm for high-dimensional model selection for the Ising model with misclassified states* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4049--4068 Derya Ersel and Yasemin Kayhan Atilgan An approach for knowledge acquisition from a survey data by conducting Bayesian network modeling, adopting the robust coplot method . . . . . . . . . . 4069--4096 Mahendra Saha and Sanku Dey and Saralees Nadarajah Parametric inference of the process capability index for exponentiated exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 4097--4121 Zhiwen Fang and Wendong Li and Xin Liu and Xiaolong Pu and Dongdong Xiang Online monitoring of high-dimensional binary data streams with application to extreme weather surveillance . . . . . . 4122--4136 F. Prataviera and G. M. Cordeiro and E. M. M. Ortega and E. M. Hashimoto and V. G. Cancho A new regression model for rates and proportions data with applications . . . 4137--4161 A. Beretta and C. Heuchenne and M. Restaino Competing risks proportional-hazards cure model and generalized extreme value regression: an application to bank failures and acquisitions in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4162--4180 Muhammad Qasim and Kristofer Månsson and Pär Sjölander and B. M. Golam Kibria A new class of efficient and debiased two-step shrinkage estimators: method and application . . . . . . . . . . . . 4181--4205 Jimmy Reyes and Jaime Arrué and Osvaldo Venegas and Héctor W. Gómez The modified slash Lindley--Weibull distribution with applications to nutrition data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4206--4224 Danúbia R. Cunha and Jose Angelo Divino and Helton Saulo On a log-symmetric quantile tobit model applied to female labor supply data . . 4225--4253 Nowrin Nusrat and M. S. Rahman Dealing with separation or near-to-separation in the model for multinomial response with application to childhood health seeking behavior data from a complex survey . . . . . . . . . 4254--4277 Jinjuan Wang and Yunpeng Zhao and Larry L. Tang and Claudius Mueller and Qizhai Li A resample-replace lasso procedure for combining high-dimensional markers with limit of detection . . . . . . . . . . . 4278--4293 J. M. Thilini Jayasinghe and Leif Ellingson and Chalani Prematilake Regression models using the LINEX loss to predict lower bounds for the number of points for approximating planar contour shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4294--4313
Vera Liu and Stephen Walker Testing for genetic mutation of seasonal influenza virus . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Kashinath Chatterjee and Christos Koukouvinos and Angeliki Lappa Monitoring process mean and dispersion with one double generally weighted moving average control chart . . . . . . 19--42 Jianghu (James) Dong and Haolun Shi and Liangliang Wang and Ying Zhang and Jiguo Cao Jointly modelling multiple transplant outcomes by a competing risk model via functional principal component analysis 43--59 Honggang Zhang and Jingyong Su and Linlin Tang and Anuj Srivastava Elastic statistical analysis of interval-valued time series . . . . . . 60--85 Shubham Agnihotri and Sanjay Kumar Singh and Umesh Singh Inferences for multiple interval type-I censoring scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--105 J. Bröcker Testing the reliability of forecasting systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--130 Mustafa Ç. Korkmaz and Christophe Chesneau and Zehra Sedef Korkmaz A new alternative quantile regression model for the bounded response with educational measurements applications of OECD countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--154 Chun-Chao Wang and Yi-Ting Hwang and Chung-Chuan Chou and Hui-Ling Lee Misspecification of a binary dependent variable in the logistic model controlling for the repeated longitudinal measures . . . . . . . . . 155--169 Theodoros Perdikis and Stelios Psarakis and Philippe Castagliola and Athanasios C. Rakitzis and Petros E. Maravelakis The EWMA sign chart revisited: performance and alternatives without and with ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--194 Caner Tanis and Bugra Saraçoglu Cubic rank transmuted generalized Gompertz distribution: properties and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--213 Ran Bi and Peng Liu A semi-parametric Bayesian approach for detection of gene expression heterosis with RNA-seq data . . . . . . . . . . . 214--230
Edward L. Boone and Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam and Indranil Sahoo and Ryad Ghanam and Xi Chen and Aiman Hanif Monitoring SEIRD model parameters using MEWMA for the COVID-19 pandemic with application to the state of Qatar . . . 231--246 Hao Ding and Yan Zhang and Yuehua Wu A novel group VIF regression for group variable selection with application to multiple change-point detection . . . . 247--263 Takeshi Emura and Wei-Chern Hsu and Wen-Chi Chou A survival tree based on stabilized score tests for high-dimensional covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--290 Xinyi Wang and Zhenghui Feng Component selection for exponential power mixture models . . . . . . . . . . 291--314 Joris Mulder and John P. T. M. Gelissen Bayes factor testing of equality and order constraints on measures of association in social research . . . . . 315--351 Zezhun Chen and Angelos Dassios and George Tzougas A first-order binomial-mixed Poisson integer-valued autoregressive model with serially dependent innovations . . . . . 352--369 Tao Wang and Xiaona Yang and Yunfei Guo and Zhonghua Li Identification of outlying observations for large-dimensional data . . . . . . . 370--386 Zihang Lu and Wendy Lou Bayesian approaches to variable selection in mixture models with application to disease clustering . . . 387--407 Yasin Altinisik Addressing overdispersion and zero-inflation for clustered count data via new multilevel heterogeneous hurdle models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--433 Robert A. Bettinger Bimodality in reentry latitude predictions for spacecraft in prograde orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--450
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Arnold Stromberg and Jie Chen and Teresa Paula Costa Azinheira Oliveira and Yichuan Zhao and Ramin Moghaddass and Milan Stehlik Editorial to the special issue: statistical perspectives on analytics for COVID-19 data . . . . . . . . . . . 2287--2293 Álvaro Gajardo and Hans-Georg Müller Point process models for COVID-19 cases and deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2294--2309 Siddharth Rawat and Soudeep Deb A spatio-temporal statistical model to analyze COVID-19 spread in the USA . . . 2310--2329 D. Atanasov and Vessela Stoimenova and Nikolay M. Yanev Statistical modelling of COVID-19 pandemic development applying branching processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2330--2342 A. Tchorbadjieff and L. P. Tomov and V. Velev and G. Dezhov and V. Manev and P. Mayster On regime changes of COVID-19 outbreak 2343--2359 Yilmaz Akdi and Yunus Emre Karamanoglu and Kamil Demirberk Ünlü and Cem Bas Identifying the cycles in COVID-19 infection: the case of Turkey . . . . . 2360--2372 Hou-Cheng Yang and Yishu Xue and Yuqing Pan and Qingyang Liu and Guanyu Hu Time fused coefficient SIR model with application to COVID-19 epidemic in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2373--2387 E. Skamnia and P. Economou and S. Bersimis and M. Frouda and A. Politis and P. Alexopoulos Hot spot identification method based on Andrews curves: an application on the COVID-19 crisis effects on caregiver distress in neurocognitive disorder . . 2388--2407 Guannan Wang and Zhiling Gu and Xinyi Li and Shan Yu and Myungjin Kim and Yueying Wang and Lei Gao and Li Wang Comparing and integrating US COVID-19 data from multiple sources with anomaly detection and repairing . . . . . . . . 2408--2434 Estate Khmaladze and Giorgi Kvizhinadze On evolution model for SARS-Cov-2-infected population: the case of New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2435--2449 Fatemeh Elhambakhsh and Kamyar Sabri-Laghaie and Rassoul Noorossana A latent space model and Hotelling's $ T^2 $ control chart to monitor the networks of Covid-19 symptoms . . . . . 2450--2472 Teng Chen and Pawe\l Polak and Stanislav Uryasev Classification and severity progression measure of COVID-19 patients using pairs of multi-omic factors . . . . . . . . . 2473--2503 Peipei Du and Peihua Cao and Xiaodong Yan and Daihai He and Xiaotong Zhang and Weixiang Chen and Jiawei Luo and Ziqian Zeng and Yaolong Chen and Lin Yang and Shu Yang and Xixi Feng A continuous age-specific standardized mortality ratio for estimating the unascertained rates in the early epidemic of COVID-19 in different regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2504--2517 Claire Donnat and Susan Holmes Modeling the heterogeneity in COVID-19's reproductive number and its impact on predictive scenarios . . . . . . . . . . 2518--2546 Ting Tian and Jingwen Zhang and Shiyun Lin and Yukang Jiang and Jianbin Tan and Zhongfei Li and Xueqin Wang Data-driven analysis of the simulations of the spread of COVID-19 under different interventions of China . . . . 2547--2560 Xiaolei Zhang and Renjun Ma Forecasting waved daily COVID-19 death count series with a novel combination of segmented Poisson model and ARIMA models 2561--2574 S. Bacci and R. Fabbricatore and Maria Iannario Latent trait models for perceived risk assessment using a Covid-19 data survey 2575--2598 Bryan Cai and John P. A. Ioannidis and Eran Bendavid and Lu Tian Exact inference for disease prevalence based on a test with unknown specificity and sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . 2599--2623 Peiyi Zhang and Tianning Dong and Ninghui Li and Faming Liang Identification of factors impacting on the transmission and mortality of COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2624--2647 Mohsen Maleki and Hamid Bidram and Darren Wraith Robust clustering of COVID-19 cases across U.S. counties using mixtures of asymmetric time series models with time varying and freely indexed covariates 2648--2662 Kevin D. Dayaratna and Drew Gonshorowski and Mary Kolesar Hierarchical Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling of COVID-19 in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2663--2680
Debasis Kundu A stationary Weibull process and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2681--2700 Kai Qu and Jonathan R. Bradley Bayesian models for spatial count data with informative finite populations with application to the American community survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701--2716 S. M. Patil and H. V. Kulkarni Analysis of medians under two-way model with and without interaction for Birnbaum--Saunders distributed response 2717--2738 Zili Zhang and Christiana Charalambous and Peter Foster Joint modelling of longitudinal measurements and survival times via a multivariate copula approach . . . . . . 2739--2759 M. Martel and M. A. Negrín and F. J. Vázquez-Polo Bayesian heterogeneity in a meta-analysis with two studies and binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2760--2776 Daniel Ries and Alicia Carriquiry Assessing adult physical activity and compliance with 2008 CDC guidelines using a Bayesian two-part measurement error model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2777--2795 Jeyadurga Periyasamypandian and Saminathan Balamurali Determination of new multiple deferred state sampling plan with economic perspective under Weibull distribution 2796--2816 Siti Zahariah and Habshah Midi Minimum regularized covariance determinant and principal component analysis-based method for the identification of high leverage points in high dimensional sparse data . . . . 2817--2835 Jasper Velthoen and Juan-Juan Cai and Geurt Jongbloed Forward variable selection for random forest models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2836--2856
Yajun Mei (Principal Guest Editor) and Jay Bartroff (Co-Editor) and Jie Chen (Co-Editor) and Georgios Fellouris (Co-Editor) and Ruizhi Zhang (Co-Editor) Editorial to the special issue: modern streaming data analytics . . . . . . . . 2857--2861 Michael Baron and Sergey V. Malov Detection and estimation of multiple transient changes . . . . . . . . . . . 2862--2888 Jiuyun Hu and Yajun Mei and Sarah Holte and Hao Yan Adaptive resources allocation CUSUM for binomial count data monitoring with application to COVID-19 hotspot detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2889--2913 Heng-Hui Lue and ShengLi Tzeng Interpretable, predictive spatio-temporal models via enhanced pairwise directions estimation . . . . . 2914--2933 David Lun and Svenja Fischer and Alberto Viglione and Günter Blöschl Significance testing of rank cross-correlations between autocorrelated time series with short-range dependence . . . . . . . . . 2934--2950 Hongzhen Tian and Reuven Zev Cohen and Chuck Zhang and Yajun Mei Active learning-based multistage sequential decision-making model with application on common bile duct stone evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2951--2969 Ka Wai Tsang and Fugee Tsung and Zhihao Xu Knockoff procedure for false discovery rate control in high-dimensional data streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2970--2983 Yinglun Zhan and Ruizhi Zhang and Yuzhen Zhou and Vincent Stoerger and Jeremy Hiller and Tala Awada and Yufeng Ge Rapid online plant leaf area change detection with high-throughput plant image data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2984--2998 Yujie Zhao and Xiaoming Huo and Yajun Mei Hot-spots detection in count data by Poisson assisted smooth sparse tensor decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2999--3029
Jody Krahn and Shakhawat Hossain and Shahedul Khan An efficient estimation approach to joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3031--3047 R. N. Montgomery and L. T. Ptomey and J. D. Mahnken A flexible test for early-stage studies with multiple endpoints . . . . . . . . 3048--3061 Termeh Shafie Goodness of fit tests for random multigraph models . . . . . . . . . . . 3062--3087 Mattia Cefis Observed heterogeneity in players' football performance analysis using PLS-PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3088--3107 Ismet Birbiçer and Ali I. Genç On parameter estimation of the standard omega distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 3108--3124 Yamin Sayyari and Mohammad Reza Molaei and Adel Mehrpooya Complexities of information sources . . 3125--3141 Jan Kalina and Patrik Janácek Testing exchangeability of multivariate distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3142--3156 Minh Thu Bui and Cornelis J. Potgieter and Akihito Kamata Penalized likelihood methods for modeling count data . . . . . . . . . . 3157--3176 Ka Kin Lam and Bo Wang Multipopulation mortality modelling and forecasting: the weighted multivariate functional principal component approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3177--3198
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