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Eric N. West and
Oscar Kempthorne A comparison of the $ \chi^2 $ and
likelihood ratio tests for composite
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--33
G. Arthur Mihram A glossary of simulation terminology . . 35--44
E. O. Martinson and
M. A. Hamdan Maximum likelihood and some other
asymptotically efficient estimators of
correlation in two way contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
Larry E. Toothaker The effect of the joint violation of two
assumptions on the size of the $F$-test
under permutation for the randomized
block design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64
Malcolm S. Taylor Computer construction of cyclic balanced
incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 65--70
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton Small sample properties of the maximum
likelihood estimator associated with
Fisher's linkage problem . . . . . . . . 71--85
Richard G. Krutchkoff The calibration problem and closeness 87--95
Nils Aall Barricell Numerical testing of evolution theories 97--127
D. Jowett and
R. L. Chamberlain and
A. G. Mexas Omnitab --- a simple language for
statistical computations . . . . . . . . 129--147
Merritt N. Sugg and
Kermit Hutcheson Computational algorithm for higher order
moments of multinomial type
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--155
Michael C. Carter and
William O. Williford Some computationai aspects of Bayesian
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--172
George S. Fishman Variance reduction in simulation studies 173--182
I. J. Hall Some comparisons of tests for equality
of variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--194
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
Don T. Phillips and
Charles S. Beightler Procedures for generating gamma variates
with non-integer parameter sets . . . . 197--208
M. B. Golhar The errors of first and second kinds in
Welch--Aspin's solution of the
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 209--224
Edward J. Wegman Nonparametric probability density
estimation: Density estimation methods 225--245
Ronald Suich and
Boris Iglewicz An empirical study of the sample size
distribution of a truncated sequential
$t$-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
G. N. Lauer and
C. P. Han Joint distribution function of certain
ratios of chi-square variates . . . . . 255--260
Carl M. Metzler and
Gary L. Elfring A computer study of nonlinear standard
curves in chemical and biological assays 261--271
R. D. H. Jones and
K. Hinkelmann Sequential analysis of variance for
irregular designs: some Monte Carlo
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--280
W. R. Schucany Order statistics in simulation . . . . . 281--286
H. L. Gray and
T. O. Lewis and
J. L. Poirot Effects of digital approximation in
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--294
Javad Behboodian Information matrix for a mixture of two
normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . 295--314
S. S. Winslow and
J. C. Arnold A stochastic simulation study of a
rank-like test for dispersion which is
distribution-free under location
differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--329
J. E. Norman and
L. E. Cannon A computer program for the generation of
random variables from any discrete
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--348
Takis Papaioannou and
Oscar Kempthorne Parallel tangents and steepest descent
optimization algorithm --- a computer
implementation with application to
linear, partially linear models and
qualitative data . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--376
Eric N. West Approximations for the non-null
distribution of the Pearson $ \chi^2 $
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--393
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Javad Behboodian Information matrix for a mixture of two
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 1--16
F. J. Schuurmann and
V. B. Waikar and
P. R. Krishnaiah Percentage points of the joint
distribution of the extreme roots of the
random matrix $ S_1 (S_1 + S_2)^{-1} $ 17--38
S. W. Custer and
R. R. Jakhotia Robustness and power of linear
regression when variables are
Poisson-distributed . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
J. E. Scholz and
D. R. Barr Tables for unbiased confidence intervals
for ratios of variances when sampling
from two independent normal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--53
Barbara L. Azalost Stochastic simulation study of martin'
distributed lag model . . . . . . . . . 55--64
D. S. Clemm and
P. R. Krishnaiah and
V. B. Waikar Tables for the extreme roots of the
Wishart matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--92
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 83--84
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Harrison D. Weed, Jr. and
Ralph A. Bradley Sequential one-sample grouped signed
rank tests for symmetry: Monte Carlo
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--137
Ronald K. Lohrding Three Kolmogorov--Smirnov-type
one-sample tests with improved power
properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148
Jaakko K. Kihlbergt and
William E. Schotz and
Jay Herson The effect of ignoring a simple
dichotomy in sequential analysis . . . . 149--157
G. K. Bhattacharyya and
Richard Johnson On robustness of rank tests in life
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
P. L. Lodell and
B. S. Duran and
W. A. Coberly On the table look-up in discriminate
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--188
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 189--190
Richard G. Krutchkoff Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 193--195
John J. Beauchamp and
David G. Hoel Some investigations and simulation
studies of canonical analysis . . . . . 197--209
Dinesh S. Bhoj Percentage points of the statistics for
testing hypotheses on mean vectors of
multivariate normal distributions with
missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 211--224
Donald H. Ebbeler A note on estimation in lognormal linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--231
N. Bernstein Backorder calculation for normal demand 233--235
R. Cléroux and
P. Robert An algorithm for maximum likelihood
estimation in incomplete block variance
component models . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--251
Gene H. Golub and
George P. H. Styan Numerical computations for univariate
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--274
Richard F. Gunst and
John T. Webster Density functions of the bivariate
chi-square distribution . . . . . . . . 275--288
David Hogben Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 291--292
K. E. Kemp and
W. J. Conover Robustness and power of the $t$-Test
compared with some nonparametric
alternatives when sampling from a
Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 293--307
Dinesh S. Bhoj On the distribution of a statistic used
for testing a multinormal mean vector
with incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . 309--316
I. J. Hall and
C. B. Sampson One-sided tolerance limits for a normal
population based on censored samples . . 317--324
N. I. Fisher A note on the evaluation of the
incomplete gamma function . . . . . . . 325--332
A. K. Gupta On a test for reality of the covariance
matrix in a complex Gaussian
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342
P. T. Pope and
E. N. Powers A goodness-of-fit test using randomly
selected cell boundaries . . . . . . . . 343--347
Marlin A. Thomas and
Gary W. Gemmill Robustness of confidence coefficients
associated with tolerance limits . . . . 349--355
Malcolm S. Taylor and
Raymond N. Carr Construction of balanced incomplete
block designs with partial cycles of
blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--363
George S. Fishman Variance reduction for normal variates
in Monte Carlo studies . . . . . . . . . 365--374
Kei Takeuchi and
Morris Meisner and
Joseph Wanderling Asymptotic efficiencies of estimators of
location a computational study . . . . . 375--390
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 393--394
M. J. Cross Tables of finite-mean nonsymmetric
stable distributions as computed from
their convergent and asymptotic series 1--27
G. Arthur Mihram Blockinq in simular experimental designs 29--32
B. M. Bennet and
J. B. Birch On the small sample distribution and
power of the log likelihood ratio and
variance tests for the Poisson . . . . . 33--40
D. S. Crosby and
M. P. Weinreb Effect of incorrect atmospheric
statistics on the accuracy of
temperature profiles derived from
satellite measurements . . . . . . . . . 41--51
James B. Mcdonald An approximation of the distribution
function of the LIML identifiability
test statistic using the method of
moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--66
R. E. Schafer On assessing the precision of
simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--69
W. G. Warren The comparison of regressions: A
formulation suited to conversational
mode operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79
Hardeo Sahai and
William O. Thompson Comparisons of approximations to the
percentiles of the $t$, $ \chi^2$, and
$F$ distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 81--93
Paul Brock Call for papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 96--97
Larry T. Frazier An analysis of a Bayes inverse
regression method of confidence
intervals in linear calibration . . . . 99--103
Donald F. Burrill Computational precision in statistics:
variances and covariances . . . . . . . 105--115
J. K. Haseman and
D. G. Hoel Tables of Gehan's generalized Wilcoxon
test with fixed point censoring . . . . 117--135
George P. Mccabe, Jr. and
James N. Arvesen A subset selection procedure for
regression variables . . . . . . . . . . 137--146
Paul S. Levy and
Nathan Mantel Combining unbiased estimates --- a
further examination of some old
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--160
Marlin A. Thomas A simple sequential procedure for
sampling termination in simulation
investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--164
H. F. Martz and
M. G. Lian A survey and comparison of several
empirical Bayes estimators for the
binomial parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 165--178
H. F. Martz, Jr. and
S. J. Kamat A smooth empirical Bayes estimator for
the mean of a multivariate normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--188
Bryant Chow and
James E. Miller and
Peter C. Dickinson Extensions of a Monte-Carlo comparison
of some properties of two rank
correlation coefficients in small
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--195
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 199--200
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 96--97
Kellogg Wilson The sampling distribution of
conservational, conservative and
corrected $F$-ratios in repeated
measures designs with heterogeneity of
covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--215
Ronald D. Schwartz Discriminant analysis and its
application to the stock market . . . . 217--223
Donald J. Wheeler An approximation for simulation of gamma
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--232
M. A. Hanscom and
R. Cléroux The block replacement problem . . . . . 233--248
Walte R. Ellingsen and
James F. Leathrum On-line ridge regression; sequential
biased estimation for nonorthogonal
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--264
Jay Herson Fieller's theorem \em vs. the delta
method for significance intervals for
ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--274
Pandu R. Tadikamalla and
John S. Ramberg An approximate method for generating
gamma and other variates . . . . . . . . 275--282
Thomas M. Gerig and
A. Ronald Gallant Computing methods for linear models
subject to linear parametric constraints 283--296
David G. Hoel and
Milton Sobel and
George H. Weiss Comparison of sampling methods for
choosing the best binomial population
with delayed observations . . . . . . . 299--313
Richard H. Jones Probability estimation using a
multinominal logistic function . . . . . 315--329
F. J. Schuurmann and
P. R. Krishnaiah and
A. K. Chattopadhyay Exact percentage points of the
distribution of the race of a
multivariate beta matrix . . . . . . . . 331--345
C. Scott and
A. K. Md. Esanes Saleh The effect of truncation on the size of
the $t$-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--368
S. Maghsoodloo Eccentricities for which ellipsoidal
probabilities are good approximations to
spherical probabilities . . . . . . . . 369--378
Nanak Chand Effect of truncating the distribution on
a sequential test . . . . . . . . . . . 379--385
Edgar Brunner Tables of critical values of the normal
probability paper test . . . . . . . . . 387--391
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 394--394
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 395--396
Mark A. Franklin and
Amitava Sen Comparison of exact and approximate
variate generation methods for the
Erlang distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
G. K. Kanji Robustness of power in the analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
Ronald K. Lohrding A two sample test of equality of
coefficients of variation or relative
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--36
Richard Simon and
George H. Weiss A class of adaptive sampling schemes for
selecting the better of two binomial
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--47
Dallas R. Wingo The use of interior penalty functions to
overcome lognormal distribution
parameter estimation anomalies . . . . . 49--61
C. Tilquin and
R. Cléroux Periodic replacement with minimal repair
at failure and general cost function . . 63--77
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 83--84
Robert S. Schulman and
Elliot M. Cramer Comparison of the accuracies of some
regression algorithms . . . . . . . . . 85--93
J. E. Dutt and
T. K. Lin A short table for computing normal
orthant probabilities of dimensions $4$
and $5$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--120
M. Whiteside and
B. S. Duran and
T. L. Boullion A comparison of some nonparametric tests
for scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
C. P. Chalmers Generation of correlation matrices with
a given eigen-structure . . . . . . . . 133--139
K. O. Bowman and
J. J. Beauchamp Pitfalls with some gamma variate
simulation routines . . . . . . . . . . 141--154
S. Maghsoodloo Estimates of the quantiles of Kendall's
partial rank correlation coefficient . . 155--164
Michael S. Borowsky Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 167--168
R. A. Waller and
K. E. Kemp Computations of Bayesian $t$-values for
multiple comparisons . . . . . . . . . . 169--171
C. C. Paige and
George P. H. Styan and
Peter G. Wachter Computation of the stationary
distribution of a Markov chain . . . . . 173--186
J. A. Hartigan Printer graphics for clustering . . . . 187--213
Julius Surkis and
Gilbert R. Gordon and
John Hynes A new variance reduction technique for
evaluating system reliability problems
by simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224
B. N. Nagarsenker The exact distribution of the likelihood
ratio criterion for testing equality of
means, variances and covariances . . . . 225--233
Richard E. Nance and
Claude Overstreet, Jr. Implementation of Fortran random number
generators on computers with one's
complement arithmetic . . . . . . . . . 235--243
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 245--246
Gerald R. Chase and
John E. Hewett Double sample tests --- a distribution
free procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257
D. R. Jensen Gaussian approximation to bivariate
Rayleigh distributions . . . . . . . . . 259--267
John Deegan, Jr. A test of the numerical accuracy of some
matrix inversion algorithms commonly
used in least squares programs . . . . . 269--278
Michael C. Carter and
Rudolph S. Parrish An empirical analysis of overshoot
duration times in a stationary Gaussian
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--292
I. K. Crain and
R. E. Miles Monte Carlo estimates of the
distributions of the random polygons
determined by random lines in a plane 293--325
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 327--328
R. S. Rodger Tables of Stein's non-central parameter
$ D \beta; v_1, v_2 $ required to set
power for numerical alternatives to $
H_0 $ tested by two-stage sampling Anova 1--22
A. V. Godambe and
W. L. Harkness Exact and asymptotic distributions of
vectors of column totals relate to
random matrices and their approximations
--- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35
Ruth Marcus The powers of some tests of the equality
of exponential means against an ordered
alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
W. M. Patefield On the validity of approximate
distributions arising in fitting a
linear functional relationship . . . . . 43--60
A. Genizi On estimating the interaction component
of variance from unbalanced data . . . . 61--64
E. Rudolph and
D. M. Hawkins Random number generators in cyclic
queuing applications . . . . . . . . . . 65--71
W. Stucky and
E. Merck and
J. Vollmar Exact probabilities for tied linear rank
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 83--84
K. Raghunandanan and
R. Srinivasan Nonparametric prediction intervals with
controlled tail proportions . . . . . . 85--90
B. M. Bennett and
M. P. Allshouse On an approximation to the power
function of the Mantel Haenszel test for
relative risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97
William Roach and
Roger Wright Optimal antithetic sampling plans . . . 99--114
Heather Goldsmith The exact distributions of the serial
correlation coefficients and an
evaluation on some approximate
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--134
Subhash C. Narula and
Kenneth J. Levy A Monte Carlo comparison of several
methods for analyzing small sample
binomial data in a two-factor experiment
without replication . . . . . . . . . . 135--143
Raymond J. Carroll and
Shanti S. Gupta On the probabilities of rankings of $k$
populations with applications . . . . . 145--157
Malcolm S. Taylor On the power of the extreme spread . . . 159--166
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 167--168
C. P. Quesenberry and
F. L. Miller, Jr. Power studies of some tests for
uniformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--191
Warren Dent Computation of the exact likelihood
function of an Arima process . . . . . . 193--206
Rudolf Dutter Numerical solution of robust regression
problems: computational aspects, a
comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--238
Kenneth J. Levy and
Subhash C. Narula A Monte Carlo comparison of several
methods for analyzing small sample
binomial data in a disproportionate two-
factor experiment without replication 239--244
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 245--246
J. H. Maindonald Least squares computations based on the
Cholesky decomposition of the
correlation matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 247--258
R. W. Madsen A note on a sequential signed-rank test
for symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--265
Subhash C. Narula and
Franz S. Li Approximations to the chi-square
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--277
Martin A. Hamilton Estimating the logistic curve from
grouped data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--301
H. H. Lemmer A distribution-free one-sample test for
dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--320
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 321--322
A. D. Owen On the calculation of the moments of
several econometric estimators . . . . . 1--10
N. J. Krikelis Bayes decision rule for a finite mixed
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18
Hari H. Dayal and
James M. Dickey Numerical evaluation of integrals
involving products of $t$-densities . . 19--27
K. V. Mardia and
P. J. Zemroch Table of maximum likelihood estimates
for the Bingham distribution . . . . . . 29--34
R. Bartels Estimation in a first order
autoregressive scheme with non-normal
stable disturbances . . . . . . . . . . 35--48
S. A. Patil and
D. I. Patel and
J. L. Kovner On bivariate truncated Poisson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--66
M. S. Waterman C1. Least squares with nonnegative
regression coefficients . . . . . . . . 67--70
I. J. Good C2. Does $-2 \log({\rm likelihood
ratio})$ exceed $x^2$? . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Rodney Strand and
Mike Farrell News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 73--74
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
G. Rey and
H. Riedwyl One-sample distribution-free test
statistic $ V(n, k) $ sensitive to
location differences . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
R. L. Greenstreet and
R. B. Madden Design considerations for stratified
finite populations using the linear
least-squares prediction approach . . . 83--100
Michael Hazilla and
V. Kerry Smith Sampling studies with nonlinear
simultaneous equations: a preliminary
appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--114
Kenneth A. Dunning and
James N. Hanson Generalized Pearson distributions and
nonlinear programming . . . . . . . . . 115--128
R. P. Gupta and
G. C. Jain A bivariate Borel--Tanner distribution
and its approximation . . . . . . . . . 129--135
David W. Hosmer, Jr. and
Nathan P. Dick Information and mixtures of two normal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--148
K. Hutcheson C3. Some exact moments of minus twice
the logarithm of the likelihood ratio
for multinomial distributions . . . . . 149--149
R. A. Gaskins and
I. J. Good C4. Compenis on the distribution of the
likelihood ratio statistic for the
equiprobable multinomial . . . . . . . . 150--152
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 153--154
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 155--156
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
B. P. Murphy A note on current methods of
partitioning the contigency x$^2$
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--167
R. Choudary Hanumara and
Edward P. Barry A table of some percentage points of the
distribution of a difference between
independent chi-square variables . . . . 169--181
R. W. Farebrother The computation of three stage least
squares estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 183--187
James R. Pinkert Elimination of computer-induced errors 189--198
William C. Guenther Evaluation of probabilities for the
noncentral distributions and the
difference of two $T$-variables with a
desk calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--206
Chien-pai Han On the computation of noncentral
chi-squared distributions . . . . . . . 207--210
C. F. Banfield Multivariate analysis in Genstat . . . . 211--222
V. P. Bhapkar and
Kenneth W. Patterson A Monte Carlo study of some multivariate
nonparametric statistics for profile
analysis of several samples . . . . . . 223--237
John S. Ramberg and
Pandu R. Tadikamalla On the generation of subsets of order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
C. G. Bhattacharya and
K. R. Shah Interval estimation of treatment
differences in block designs . . . . . . 243--255
Teofilo Gonzales and
Sartaj Sahni and
W. R. Franta An efficient approximate algorithm for
the Kolmogorov--Smirnov and Lilliefors
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--263
Robert John Ballard and
Dennis C. Gilliland On the risk performance of extended
sequence compound rules for
classification between N(-1, 1) and N(1,
1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--280
David W. Hosmer, Jr. A use of mixtures of two normal
distributions in a classification
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294
Harry O. Posten The robustness of the two-sample
$t$-test over the Pearson system . . . . 295--311
I. J. Good C5. Interpolation in tables of the
normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
I. J. Good C6. A minimal-vocabulary algorithm? . . 314--314
I. J. Good C7. Adenine arabinoside therapy . . . . 314--315
D. K. Kahaner and
M. S. Waterman C8. Asymptotics for gamma and beta
percentiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Thomas M. Gerig News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 319--320
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. Norberto Walter Dachs and
Hélio Dos Santos Migon Comparison of tests for the two-way
layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Jack Siemiatycki Mantel's space-time clustering
statistic: computing higher moments and
a comparison of various data transforms 13--31
Martin R. Petersen and
Donald F. Butcher and
Stanley Wearden and
Vincent A. Uthoff A comparison of mean separation
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--54
Thomas B. Vassar II and
Walter H. Carter, Jr. Minimizing average mean squared error: a
comparison of preliminary test
estimation to other procedures . . . . . 55--69
Kenneth J. Levy An empirical study of the cube-root test
for homogeneity of variance with respect
to the effects of non-normality and
power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78
I. J. Good C9. An improvement in the chi-squared
goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . . . . . 79--81
I. J. Good C10. Are maximum-likelihood estimates
invariant? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
I. J. Good C11. The complexity of nutrition advice 81--81
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Bradley W. Dickinson Two recursive estimates of
autoregressive models based on maximum
likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--92
Richard W. Madsen and
John E. Hewett Multi-stage tests based on sequential
ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105
Prem P. Talwar and
James E. Gentle A robust test for the coincidence of
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--113
V. Kerry Smith A note on the power of the
Durbin--Watson test with 2SLS . . . . . 115--122
L. W. Cornwell and
L. A. Aroian and
V. S. Taneja Numerical evaluation of the distribution
of the product of two normal variables 123--131
Richard H. Bartels and
Susan D. Horn and
Albert M. Liebetrau and
William L. Harris A computational investigation of
Conover's Kolmogorov--Smirnov test for
discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 151--166
Anonymous C12. Should outliers be dragged in? . . 163--164
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 165--165
Bruce W. Turnbull and
Haya Kaspi and
Richard L. Smith Adaptive sequential procedures for
selecting the best of several normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Hubert J. Chen On approximations to the inverse
Student's-$t$ distribution function . . 167--180
Kenneth J. Levy A procedure for testing the equality of
$k$ dependent correlation coefficients 181--187
T. A. Derouen and
T. J. Mitchell An application of $G$-minimax techniques
to the problem of fixed precision
estimation of the binomial . . . . . . . 189--197
R. Bartels Generating non- normal stable variates
using limit theorem properties . . . . . 199--212
R. Choudary Hanumara A comparison of estimators of the
precision of two instruments . . . . . . 213--223
Lester W. Johnson Some simulation results for the linear
expenditure system with random marginal
budget shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--236
N. R. Mohberg and
M. Ghosh and
J. E. Grizzle Linear models analysis of small samples
of categorized ordinal response data . . 237--251
R. J. Beckman and
G. L. Tiet jen Maximum likelihood estimation for the
beta distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 253--258
Boris Iglewicz and
David Huang and
Gaston Mendoza Another look at the robustness of
Colton's model for comparing two medical
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--267
A. K. Gupta and
D. S. Tracy Hermite polynomials and truncated
trivariate normal distributions . . . . 269--286
Donald R. Jensen C13. On consistent Cauchy averages . . . 287--289
I. J. Good C14. Moments of the Kolmogorov--Smirnov
one-sample statistic . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
I. J. Good C15. A signs test when estimating
probability densities . . . . . . . . . 290--292
I. J. Good C16. Ethical treatments . . . . . . . . 292--295
I. J. Good C17. Histograms with 2$^n$ classes . . . 295--295
I. J. Good C18. A fuzzy Bayesian method for
estimating probabilities given two
related multinomial distributions . . . 296--299
I. J. Good and
R. A. Gaskins C19. Bayesian oedemology . . . . . . . . 299--301
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
R. G. Easterling and
H. E. Anderson The effect of preliminary normality
goodness of fit tests on subsequent
inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
D. L. McLeish Variations of the Robbins--Monro
procedure for estimating $ {\rm ED}(p) $
in the logit model . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24
Charles R. Katholi On the computation of values of the psi
function from rapidly converging power
series expansions . . . . . . . . . . . 25--42
Kenneth J. Levy Some empirical power results associated
with Welch's robust analysis of variance
technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--48
Kenneth J. Levy An empirical comparison of the ANOVA
$F$-test with alternatives which are
more robust against heterogeneity of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--57
J. S. Dagpunar Sampling of variates from a truncated
gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
D. Bernstein and
S. W. Lagakos Sample size and power determination for
stratified clinical trials . . . . . . . 65--73
N. I. Lyons and
K. Hutcheson C20. Comparing diversities: Gini's index 75--78
W. J. Padgett C21. Comment on inverse Gaussian random
number generation . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
I. J. Good C22. Path analysis and correlation for
power functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Ronald W. Helms News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 83--84
Gilbert R. Gordon and
Julius Surkis A general simulation methodology for
optical bar code evaluation . . . . . . 85--101
Bruce Schmeiser Generation of the maximum (minimum)
value in digital computer simulation . . 103--115
Richard W. Madsen A $k$-Stage test procedure using
$p$-Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--131
P. Van Der Laan and
J. Weima Experimental comparison of the powers of
the two-sample tests of Wilcoxon and
Student under logistic parent
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--144
I. O. Angell and
E. J. Godolphin Implementation of the direct
representation for the maximum
likelihood estimator of a Gaussian
moving average process . . . . . . . . . 145--160
I. J. Good C23. Monozygotic criminals . . . . . . . 161--162
I. J. Good C24. A method for avoiding overflows and
underflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
Ronald W. Helms and
O. D. Anderson News and Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 165--168
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 169--170
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 171--173
John J. Miller Maximum likelihood estimation of
variance components --- a Monte Carlo
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--190
Stanley Lemeshow and
Paul S. Levy Estimating the variances of ratio
estimates in complex sample surveys with
two primary sampling units per stratum
--- a comparison of balanced replication
and jackknife techniques . . . . . . . . 191--205
Min Chiang Wang and
John Van Ryzin Discrete density smoothing applied to
the empirical Bayes estimation of a
Poisson mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--226
Douglas M. Hawkins Fractiles of an extended multiple
outlier test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--236
S. M. Hashemi-Parast and
D. H. Young Distribution free slippage tests for
populations following a Lehmann model 237--251
A. K. Gupta and
V. K. Rohatgi Estimation of the common positive mean
of a multivariate population . . . . . . 253--265
P. Y. Chi Quadratic forms used as non-parametric
two-sample test criteria . . . . . . . . 267--280
Stephen L. Koffler and
Douglas A. Penfield Nonparametric discrimination procedures
for non-normal distributions . . . . . . 281--299
G. Tunnicliffe Wilson Some efficient computational procedures
for high order ARMA models . . . . . . . 301--309
I. J. Good C25. A comment on runs of signs . . . . 311--312
I. J. Good C26. A comparison of some statistical
estimates for the numbers of contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
Cuthbert Daniel C27. Numerical adjustment of sums of
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
I. J. Good C28. The importance of mathematical
consistency, at least in a
discriminiation problem . . . . . . . . 315--316
I. J. Good C29. A comment on Cuthbert Daniel's
adjustment of sums of squares . . . . . 316--316
O. D. Anderson News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 319--320
Yadolah Dodge and
Dibyen Majumdar An algorithm for finding least square
generalized inverses for classification
models with arbitrary patterns . . . . . 1--17
Marianne Frisen A note on alternating estimation in
non-linear regression . . . . . . . . . 19--23
Chien-Pai Han On the computation of noncentral
chi-squared distributions with even
degrees of freedom . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29
Ove Frank Estimating a graph from triad counts . . 31--46
W. O. Williford and
Michael C. Carter and
Janete E. Field A further look at the Bayesian approach
to calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--67
M. G. Kendall C30. Linear relations with all variables
subject to error: rough and ready
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69
M. G. Kendall C31. Monte Carlo for tails . . . . . . . 69--69
M. G. Kendall C33. Contributing cells for high $X^2$
in contingency tables . . . . . . . . . 70--70
M. G. Kendall C34. L. S. Penrose's billiard-table
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
M. G. Kendall C32. Tests for validity of regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
H. A. David C35. Does stronger opposition make it
harder to win? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
Richard G. Krutchkoff C36. Partial censoring . . . . . . . . . 72--72
J. C. Arnold C37. An improved form of multiple-choice
examinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
I. J. Good C38. ``Proper fees'' in multiple-choice
examinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
M. G. Kendall C39. Regression with variable variances 74--74
I. J. Good C40. Partitioning of $X^2$ and of the
likelihood ratio for contingency tables 74--77
I. J. Good C41. On the combination of judgements
concerning quantiles of a distribution
with potential application to the
estimation of mineral resources . . . . 77--79
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 81--81
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Benjamin H. Layne and
Schuyler W. Huck Subdivision techniques in applying the
Bartlett--Kendall test for equal
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--99
Stelios H. Zanakis A simulation study of some simple
estimators for the three-parameter
Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 101--116
R. P. Gupta and
G. C. Jain Modified Borel distributions . . . . . . 117--125
Robert Bartels Fractiles for the nonsymmetric stable
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132
Harry O. Posten The robustness of the one-sample
$t$-test over the Pearson system . . . . 133--149
S. Ganesalingam and
G. J. McLachlan Small sample results for a linear
discriminant function estimated from a
mixture of normal populations . . . . . 151--158
I. J. Good C42. Comment on C41 . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
I. J. Good C43. The Bayesian meaning of invariant
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161
I. J. Good C44. Bayes's billiard-table argument
extended to multinomials . . . . . . . . 161--163
I. J. Good C45. An index of influentiality of a
scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
I. J. Good C46. A voting proposal: power-summing 164--164
I. J. Good C47. A comment on ``proper fees'' (C38) 164--165
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 167--167
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
A. M. Mathai The exact distributions and the exact
percentage points for testing equality
of variances in independent normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--182
N. C. Schwertman and
D. M. Allen Smoothing an indefinite
variance-covariance matrix . . . . . . . 183--194
Amitava Mitra and
Robert F. Ling A Monte Carlo comparison of some ridge
and other biased estimators . . . . . . 195--215
S. D. Al-Saadi and
D. F. Scrimshaw and
D. H. Young Tests for independence of exponential
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--233
C. L. Mallows C48. How many independence hypotheses
are there? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
I. J. Good C49. A Boolean error? . . . . . . . . . 236--238
I. J. Good C50. Predictive sample re-use and the
estimation of probabilities . . . . . . 238--239
Mark E. Johnson C51. Computer generation of the
exponential power distribution . . . . . 239--240
I. J. Good C52. The clustering of random variables 241--243
I. J. Good C53. Partial correlation and spherical
trigonometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Yogendra P. Chaubey Gaussian approximation to a bivariate
quadratic form distribution . . . . . . 253--260
Herbert Rutemiller and
E. Schafer Ray Simulation studies of the power of
Birnbaum's test . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--281
Ivo W. Molenaar Simple approximations to the
Behrens--Fisher distribution . . . . . . 283--288
Anthony C. Segreti and
Walter H. Carter, Jr. and
Galen W. Wampler Monte Carlo evaluation of several
sequential optimization techniques when
the response is time to an event . . . . 289--301
D. I. Pullin Generation of normal variates with given
sample mean and variance . . . . . . . . 303--309
I. J. Good C54. Moments of a generalized gamma
density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Donald C. Aucamp C55. Quick and accurate rule of thumb
for determining the critical value of
the coefficient of correlation . . . . . 311--313
I. J. Good C56. Fractional moments and cumulants:
some unsolved problems . . . . . . . . . 314--315
I. J. Good C57. Further generallzations of $X^2$ 315--315
I. J. Good C58. Generalizations of $X^2$ for
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Sharon L. Myers Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--319
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 320--320
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
V. P. Bhapkar and
Jeffrey H. Schwartz Efficient computation of Bhapkar's $V$
statistic and significance points for
its use in small samples . . . . . . . . 1--14
Karen Yuen Fung A Monte Carlo study of the Studentized
Wilcoxon statistic for the
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 15--24
T. Fearn Aiding the choice of inverse chi prior
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29
Hardeo Sahai A supplement to Sowey's bibliography on
random number generation and related
topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--52
William W. Lau Sequential vs. random retrieval of a
large indexed file . . . . . . . . . . . 53--64
Jugal Ghoral and
Herman Rubin Computational procedure for maximum
penalized likelihood estimate . . . . . 65--78
Sol Weintraub Non-linear least squares fit of the
chi-square and $t$ distributions . . . . 79--84
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 85--86
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
W. S. Jodrey and
E. M. Tory Random sequential packing in $ R^n $ . . 87--93
W. Craig Riddell Estimating switching regressions: a
computational note . . . . . . . . . . . 95--101
Harvey J. Iglarsh and
David C. Cheng Weighted estimators in regression with
multicollinearity . . . . . . . . . . . 103--112
Grete U. Fenstad and
Morten Kjaernes and
Lars WallÒe Robust estimation of standard deviation 113--132
George H. K. Wang and
Michael Hidiroglou and
Wayne A. Fuller Estimation of seemingly unrelated
regression with lagged dependent
variables and autocorrelated errors . . 133--146
Anonymous Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
I. J. Good C59. The number of orderings of $n$
candidates when ties and omissions are
both allowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Cuthbert Daniel C60. A convenient formula for inverting
a frequently occurring matrix . . . . . 160--160
Cuthbert Daniel C61. Extension of s. s. $ (y_1, y_2) =
(1 / 2) (y_1 - y_2)^2 $ to $ n = 3 $ and
$4$ (See C27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161
R. A. Gaskins and
I. J. Good C62. The covariance between the
chi-squareds for the margins of a
contingency table . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
S. Zacks C63. On some inverse moments of
negative-binomial distributions and
their application in estimation . . . . 163--165
I. J. Good C64. The probability distribution of the
gaps between the Mersenne primes . . . . 165--165
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 171--173
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 175--176
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Kenneth N. Berk Forward and backward stepping in
variable selection . . . . . . . . . . . 177--185
Robert V. Foutz A method for constructing exact tests
from test statistics that have unknown
null distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 187--193
Curtis K. Church On grouping sets of exponential
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--204
A. L. Hinde and
R. E. Miles Monte Carlo estimates of the
distributions of the random polygons of
the Voronoi tessellation with respect to
a Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . 205--223
I. Deák Fast procedures for generating
stationary normal vectors . . . . . . . 225--242
R. H. Gardner and
J. E. Pinder III and
R. S. Wood Monte Carlo estimation of percentiles
for the multi-Smirnov test . . . . . . . 243--249
A. D. Hall and
D. F. Nicholls The evaluation of exact maximum
likelihood estimates for Varma models 251--262
G. C. Jain and
R. P. Gupta On certain moment ratios of a class of
discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 263--270
K. N. Andriano On the asymptotic normality and other
large sample properties of Grenander's
mode estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--288
William C. Parr A conditional property of adaptive
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
Hyunshik Lee and
Karen Yuen Fung A Monte Carlo study on the robustness of
the two-sample sequential $t$ test . . . 297--307
D. R. Jensen and
R. V. Foutz C65. On resolving statistical hypotheses 309--312
D. R. Jensen C66. Sharpened Chebychev inequalities 312--315
I. J. Good C67. Another relationship between weight
of evidence and errors of the first and
second kinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
I. J. Good C68. The grading of competitors . . . . 316--318
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 321--321
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Menachem Dishon and
George H. Weiss Small sample comparison of estimation
methods for the beta distribution . . . 1--11
S. D. Al-Saadi and
D. H. Young Estimators for the correlation
coefficient in a bivariate exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20
N. P. Archer The generation of piecewise linear
approximations of probability
distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 21--40
C. P. Quesenberry and
Craige Hales Concentration bands for uniformity plots 41--53
D. G. Johnson and
W. J. Welcht The generation of pseudo- random
correlation matrices . . . . . . . . . . 55--69
George Marsaglia and
I. J. Good C69. Generating a normal sample with
given sample mean and variance . . . . . 71--74
I. J. Good C70. Comment concerning C49. . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 77--78
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Thomas P. Ryan A new method of generating correlation
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
J. Remme and
J. D. F. Habbema and
J. Hermans A simulative comparison of linear,
quadratic and kernel discrimination . . 87--106
H. H. Lemmer An estimator for spread . . . . . . . . 107--117
John T. Sennetti and
Rajesh K. Kakar Field conditions for the use of certain
empirical Bayes estimators . . . . . . . 119--138
James Wyckoff and
Lee J. Bain and
Max Engelhardt Some complete and censored sampling
results for the three-parameter Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--151
I. J. Good C71. Degrees of causation in regression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
I. J. Good C72. Comment concerning C59 . . . . . . 155--156
Phillip Good Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 161--162
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Carl D. Meyer, Jr. and
James M. Shoaf Updating finite Markov chains by using
techniques of group matrix inversion . . 163--181
William Chen On the tests of separate families of
hypotheses with small sample size . . . 183--187
James B. McDonald and
Dennis D. Maynes A Note on the computation of $k$-class
estimators using a least squares
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--196
Hemanta K. Baruah and
G. P. Bhattacharjee A generalization of Anderson's modified
sequential probability ratio test . . . 197--208
Gregg E. Dinse and
S. W. Lagakos The analysis of partially-censored date
from a first-order semi-Markov model . . 209--222
Th. Pfaff and
J. Pfanzagl On the numerical accuracy of
approximations based on Edgeworth
expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--239
Michael Haber A comparative simulation study of the
small sample powers of several goodness
fit test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
Amy H. Poon A Monte Carlo study of the power of some
$k$-sample tests for ordered binomial
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--259
A. N. Pettitt Some results on estimating a
change-point using non-parametric type
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--272
G. J. McLachlan The efficiency of Efron's ``Bootstrap''
Approach Applied to Error Rate
Estimation in Discriminant Analysis . . 273--279
Peter H. Peskun Theoretical tests for choosing the
parameters of the general mixed linear
congruential pseudorandom number
generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--305
I. J. Good C73. The diminishing significance of a
$p$-value as the sample size increases 307--313
I. J. Good C74. Terminology for various kinds of
Bayesian methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--313
Anonymous Editorial Collaborators . . . . . . . . 315--316
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 319--320
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
T. J. V. W. Kotze and
D. V. Gokhale A comparison of the Pearson-$ \chi^2 $
and log-likelihood-ratio statistics for
small samples by means of probability
ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
Craig F. Ansley Computation of the theoretical
autocovariance function for a vector
Arima process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
Gordon B. Hazen and
A. Alan B. Pritsker Formulas for the variance of the sample
mean in finite state Markov processes 25--40
Daniel Mihalko and
Y. L. Tong A sequential regression method in Monte
Carlo studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50
Edward L. Melnick Moments of ranked discrete variables
with an application to independent
Poisson variates . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
M. L. Deaton and
R. V. Foutz C75. Path analysis for complex-valued
random variables with an application to
spectral analysis of time series . . . . 61--65
Haralambos Papageorgiou C76. On probability generating functions
for the absolute difference of two
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--68
I. J. Good C77. Functions of distinct random
vectors having identical distributions 68--70
I. J. Good C78. On Godambe's paradox . . . . . . . 70--72
I. J. Good C79. Vinograde's lemma, singular
decompositions and $k$-frames . . . . . 72--74
I. J. Good C80. Feynman's path integrals and Sewall
Wright's path analysis . . . . . . . . . 74--77
I. J. Good C81. A simplification in ``the causal
calculus'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 79--80
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
A. D. Owent The power of alternative tests for
serial correlation in dynamic models
estimated by instrumental variables . . 81--91
K. G. Russell and
J. A. Eccleston and
G. J. Knudsen Algorithms for the construction of $ (M,
S) $-optimal block designs and
row-column designs . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105
Theodore Christie, Jr. and
Boris Iglewicz Utilization of run lengths in bonus
play-the-winner rules for clinical
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--119
Ove Frank and
Klas Svensson On probability distributions of
single-linkage dendrograms . . . . . . . 121--131
K.-H. Jöckel C82. A comment on the construction of
exact tests from test statistics that
have unknown null distributions . . . . 133--134
Robert V. Foutz C83. On the superiority of Monte Carlo
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
I. J. Good C84. A comment on C49, ``A Boolean
error'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Harold V. Henderson C85. On the inverse of a completely
symmetric matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
V. K. Rohatgi and
Rashpal Ahluwalia C86. Testing equality of variances in
sampling from two normal populations . . 140--142
I. J. Good C87. Roughness penalties, invariant
under rotation for multidimensional
probability density estimation . . . . . 142--144
I. J. Good C88. An approximation of value in the
Bayesian analyses of contingency tables 145--147
I. J. Good C89. The total cost of collecting income
tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
I. J. Good C90. The autocorrelation functions . . . 148--152
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 155--156
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Marcel G. Dagenais and
Tran Cong Liem Numerical approximations of marginals
from ``well-behaved'' joint posteriors 157--173
J. G. De Gooijer An investigation of the moments of the
sample autocovariances and
autocorrelations for general ARMA
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--192
R. Markham Small sample efficiencies of tests based
on the method of $n$ rankings . . . . . 193--207
Anthony C. Segreti and
Walter H. Carter, Jr. and
Galen L. Wampler A Monte Carlo evaluation of the
robustness of several sequential
optimization techniques when the
response is time to an event . . . . . . 209--216
S. D. Al-Saadi and
D. H. Young Critical values of some nonparametric
statistics used for tests of total
stochastic independence . . . . . . . . 217--224
Harri Hietikko Comparison between the least squares,
maximum likelihood and Bayes estimation
of simple ARMA models . . . . . . . . . 225--235
Bernard Clement and
Sukharanyan Chakraborty and
Bimal K. Sinha and
Narayan C. Giri Tests for the mean vector under
intraclass covariance structure . . . . 237--245
Sik-Yum Lee The multiplier method in constrained
estimation of covariance structure
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257
Louise Dionne Small-sample properties of universally
efficient nonparametric estimators of
shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--276
Danny Dyer and
Mickie Sue Harbin An empirical power study of multi-sample
tests for exponentiality . . . . . . . . 277--291
Robert Bartels Truncation bounds for infinite
expansions for the stable distributions 293--302
V. Chris Lakhan Generating autocorrelated pseudo-random
numbers with specific distributions . . 303--309
Anonymous C91. Generalized determinants and
generalized variance . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
I. J. Good C92. Neologisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
I. J. Good and
T. N. Tideman C93. The relevance of imaginary
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--315
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 319--320
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I. N. Vuchkov and
L. N. Boyadjieva Errors in the factor levels and
estimation of regression model
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Roger Weinberg and
Yogesh C. Patel Simulated intraclass correlation
coefficients and their $z$ transforms 13--26
Lon-Mu Liu Estimation of random coefficient
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
S. Maghsoodloo and
L. László Pallos Asymptotic behavior of Kendall's partial
rank correlation coefficient and
additional quantile estimates . . . . . 41--48
I. J. Good C94. When is $g$ positive in the mixed
Dirichlet approach to contingency
tables? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52
I. J. Good C95. The Monte Carlo computation of
Bayes factors for contingency tables . . 52--56
I. J. Good C96. The weight of evidence provided by
uncertain testimony or from an uncertain
event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--60
I. J. Good C97. Generalized determinants and
generalized Jacobians . . . . . . . . . 60--62
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 77--78
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Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Rudolf Dutter and
Peter J. Huber Numerical methods for the nonlinear
robust regression problem . . . . . . . 79--113
Edward E. Gbur The effect of constraints on the
response variable in regression . . . . 115--130
Bo Etiksson Confidence levels using normal
approximation to modified $t$-Statistics
for dependent variables . . . . . . . . 131--148
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
I. J. Good C98. Flexible priors for estimating a
normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 151--153
I. J. Good C99. The probability of a scientific law 153--153
I. J. Good C100. Can scientific induction be
meaningfully questioned? . . . . . . . . 154--154
I. J. Good C101. Dynamic probability does not
contradict \em reductio ad absurdum . . 154--155
I. J. Good C102. An error by Peirce concerning
``weight of evidence'' . . . . . . . . . 155--157
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 167--168
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Daniel Krewski and
Bruce Junkins Sample size determination for the
interval estimation of the mean or
median of a distribution . . . . . . . . 169--179
Rudolph S. Parrish Evaluation of bivariate cumulative
probabilities using moments to fourth
order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--194
H. Joseph Newton and
Marcello Pagano On the stationarity of multiple
autoregressive approximants: theory and
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--208
Pandu R. Tadikamalla On a family of distributions obtained by
the transformation of the gamma
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--214
Samuel D. Oman and
S. Zacks A mixture approximation to the
distribution of a weighted sum of
chi-squared variables . . . . . . . . . 215--224
Raymond Gravel and
Constance Van Eeden Best linear unbiased estimators of the
location of a double quadratic
distribution based on order statistics 225--243
Russell F. Kappenman Estimation of Weibull location . . . . . 245--254
Stepen Vardeman On the small $N$ Performance of
bootstrap and Bayes extended and
unextended set compound rules for
classification between $ N( - 1, 1)$ and
$ N(1, 1)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--271
Robin Sibson and
Adrian Bowyer and
Clive Osmond Studies in the robustness of
multidimensional scaling: Euclidean
models and simulation studies . . . . . 273--296
Randall W. Potter Optimal allocation of computer time in
Monte Carlo studies of interval
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--307
I. J. Good C103. The effect of permutations of rows
and columns on measures of association 309--312
I. J. Good C104. Informational correlations between
two distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
I. J. Good C105. When should marginal cases be
dropped in the interests of simplicity? 314--315
I. J. Good C106. International clinical trials . . 315--315
I. J. Good C107. Some comments about the
Sherman--Foutz test . . . . . . . . . . 316--319
I. J. Good C108. Analogue of chi-squared that is
powerful against bumpy alternatives . . 319--323
I. J. Good C109. A new Monte Carlo computation for
the characteristic function of Pearson's
chi-squared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
I. J. Good C110. Randomly connected genetic nets 324--327
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 331--332
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M. A. Ali and
N. Singh An alternative estimator in inverse
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Aivars Celmins Least square model fitting with
transformation of variable . . . . . . . 17--39
R. Kohn On nesting do loops to any depth . . . . 41--45
Saeed Maghsoodloo C111. The continuity correction for
chi-squared for $2 \times 2$ tables . . 47--51
Lennart Bondesson C112. A normal sample with given sample
mean and variance . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
J. Blass and
V. K. Rohatgi C113. Independence of certain events . . 52--55
I. J. Good C114. On the statistical determination
of authorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--60
I. J. Good C115. Assessment of eye-ball
descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--63
I. J. Good C116. A supplement to chi-squared when
testing homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . 63--67
I. J. Good C117. A Monte Carlo method that will be
impracticable before the year 2001 . . . 67--69
J. C. Arnold and
I. J. Good C118. How to get a large r$^2$ without
really trying . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
I. J. Good The fast calculation of the exact
distribution of Pearson's chi-squared
and of the number of repeats within the
cells of a multinomial by using a Fast
Fourier Transform . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78
I. J. Good Errata and Annenda . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 83--85
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R. Srinivasan and
Robert M. Wharton Confidence bands for the Laplace
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
Steven Ascher and
John Bailar Moments of the Mantel--Valand procedure 101--111
Donald M. Stablein and
Walter H. Carter, Jr. A Monte Carlo study of the effects of
grouping on the analysis of censored
survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123
Marlin A. Thomas and
Audrey E. Taub Calculating binomial probabilities when
the trial probabilities are unequal . . 125--131
Hubert J. Chen and
Paul J. Tsai A class of confidence intervals for the
largest component mean of a multivariate
normal population . . . . . . . . . . . 133--148
Luc Devroye A note on approximations in random
variate generation . . . . . . . . . . . 149--158
R. V. Foutz and
D. R. Jensen and
Y. L. Tong C120. Sharper inequalities for the joint
distributions of quadratic forms . . . . 159--163
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 167--168
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Thoamas F. O'Hara and
David W. Hosmer, Jr. and
Stanley Lemshow and
Stuart C. Hartz A comparison of discriminant function
and maximum likelihood estimates of
logistic coefficients for
categorical-scaled data . . . . . . . . 169--178
Mohamed El Lozy Efficient computation of the
distribution functions of Student's $t$
chi-squared and $f$ to moderate accuracy 179--189
W. J. Padgett An approximate prediction interval for
the mean of future observations from the
inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 191--199
Bruce Levin On the accuracy of a normal
approximation to the power of the
Mantel--Haenszel procedure . . . . . . . 201--218
S. D. Al-Saadi and
D. H. Young A test for independence in a
multivariate exponential distribution
with equal correlation coefficients . . 219--227
Paul N. Somerville and
S. J. Bean A comparison of maximum likelihood and
least squares for the estimation of a
cumulative distribution . . . . . . . . 229--239
Anders H. Westlund and
Hans Stenlund On robust estimation in certainty
equivalence control . . . . . . . . . . 241--269
T. K. Lim and
Karen Yung Fung Sequential $t$ tests based on $m$
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--281
Dankmar Böhning and
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Numerical techniques for estimating
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--293
Nan M. Laird Computation of variance components using
the em algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--303
J. Ansell and
A. Bendell and
S. Humble On the small sample estimation of the
log odds ratio in $2 \times 2$
contingency tables with one set of fixed
margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--320
Anonymous C121. The postulate of honest judgement 321--321
I. J. Good C124. Probability densities versus
discriminant functions . . . . . . . . . 321--323
I. J. Good C122. A paradox in the Neyman--Pearson
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
I. J. Good C123. Are the methods of statistical
mechanics applicable to society? . . . . 322--323
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 325--326
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Menachem Berg and
Robert Cléroux The block replacement problem with
minima! repair and random repair costs 1--7
William D. Bell and
Stuart M. Rothstein and
Wai-Kee Li Empirical study of some non-parametric
tests for dispersion of correlated data 9--15
William J. Welch Algorithmic complexity: three NP-hard
problems in computational statistics . . 17--25
Anil K. Bhargava and
Damon Disch Exact probabilities of obtaining
estimated non-positive definite
between-group covariance matrices . . . 27--32
M. E. O'Neill A comparison of the additive and
multiplicative definitions of
second-order interaction in 2$ \times 2
\times 2$ contingency tables . . . . . . 33--50
Stephen L. Koffler and
Douglas A. Penfield Nonparametric classification based upon
inverse normal scores and rank
transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--68
D. R. Jensen C125. Recovering the Wishart
distribution from its sections . . . . . 69--72
I. J. Good C126. Protom: a projection-tomographic
method for density estimation from
multivariate data . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
I. J. Good C127. When is maximum likelihood
estimation O.K. for a Bayesian? . . . . 75--77
D. R. Jensen C128. An optimal property of $s^2$
charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--81
I. J. Good C129. An index of separateness of
clusters and a permutation test for its
statistical significance . . . . . . . . 81--84
I. J. Good C130. Bayesian likelihood: a point of
terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
I. J. Good and
D. R. Jensen C131. Determining the noncentral Wishart
characteristic function via quadratic
expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
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L. R. Shenton and
K. O. Bowman A Lagrange expansion for the parameters
of Johnson's $ S_u $ . . . . . . . . . . 89--95
James D. Leeper and
Robert F. Woolson Testing hypotheses for the growth curve
model when the data are incomplete . . . 97--107
J. C. M. Giguere and
E. B. Manoukian and
J. M. A. Roy Maximum absolute error for Bartlett's
chi-square approximation . . . . . . . . 109--117
Nils I. Arvidsen and
Tommy Johnson Variance reduction through negative
correlation, a simulation study . . . . 119--127
C. P. Quesenberry and
Chatles Quesenberry, Jr. On the distribution of residuals form
fitted parametric models . . . . . . . . 129--140
W. J. Krzanowski Between-group comparison of principal
components --- some sampling results . . 141--154
David Kahaner and
Gary Tietjen and
Richard Beckman Gaussian-quadrature formulas for $
\int_0^\infty \exp ( - x^2) g(x) \, d x
$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--160
John J. Spitzep Hypothesis testing in models using the
Box--Cox transformation . . . . . . . . 161--170
I. J. Good The cumulants of an analogue of
Pearson's chi-squared . . . . . . . . . 171--181
Patricia N. O'Brien and
Fraderick J. Parenté and
Charles J. Schmitt A Monte Carlo study on the robustness of
four MANOVA criterion tests . . . . . . 183--192
Alan B. Forsythe and
Clauder Archer and
Jan Schwartz Selective use of an instrumental
variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--200
William Chen Simulation on probability points for
testing of lognormal or Weibull
distribution with a small sample . . . . 201--210
Nan M. Laird Empirical Bayes estimates using the
nonparametric maximum likelihood
estimate for the prior . . . . . . . . . 211--220
David H. Richardson and
Robert J. Rohr Experimental evidence on approximations
to two-stage least-squares distributions 221--232
William C. Guenther C132. Trigonometric functions and
combinations from probability
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--237
I. J. Good C133. On the measurement of regret . . . 237--238
I. J. Good C134. A proposal for the improvement of
the refereeing process . . . . . . . . . 238--238
I. J. Good C135. Interactions between indexes of
separateliess . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--242
I. J. Good C136. The irregular shapes of
polypeptide chains . . . . . . . . . . . 243--247
Anonymous Abstracts to forthcoming papers . . . . 249--250
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. J. Beauchamp and
V. E. Kane Robustness of three power transformation
estimation procedures . . . . . . . . . 251--272
Robert Kohn and
Craig Ansley A note on obtaining the theoretical
autocovariances of an ARMA process . . . 273--283
Boris Iglewicz and
Jorge Martinez Outlier detection using robust measures
of scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--293
H. W. Lotwick Simulation of some spatial hard core
models, and the complete packing problem 295--314
Charlie D. Fiskeaux and
Robert F. Ling Tukey smoothers as preprocessors for
positive $ {\rm ar}(1) $ parameter
estimation in the presence of additive
contamination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--331
Mark E. Johnson C137. Computer generation of the
generalized Eyraud distribution . . . . 333--335
I. J. Good C138. The fast calculation of the exact
distribution of Pearson's chi-squared
and of the number of repeats within the
cells of a multinomial by using a Fast
Fourier Transform: an addendum . . . . . 336--337
I. J. Good C139. The standard error of the
estimated ``coverage'' of a sample of
species or vocabulary . . . . . . . . . 337--337
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Harry O. Posten Two-sample Wilcoxon power over the
Pearson system and comparison with the
$t$-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Giovanni Latorre The exact posterior distribution of the
cross-ratio of a $2 \times 2$
contingency table . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
Malcolm S. Taylor and
Mark P. Becker Quantiles of multi-sample Smirnov type
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34
W. Y. Tan On approximating probability
distributions of a statistic of
Brown--Forsythe from normal and
non-normal universes . . . . . . . . . . 35--55
Wei Kei Shiue and
Lee J. Bain Experiment length and sample size for
negative binomial sampling . . . . . . . 57--64
I. J. Good C140. Standardized tail-area
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
I. J. Good and
Golde I. Holtzman C141. On s-fold repeats and their
additive and multiflicative properties 66--69
I. J. Good and
Golde I. Hotzman C142. The moments of the number of
$s$-fold repeats . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
A. D. Hall The relative efficiency of time and
frequency domain estimators in SUR
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
C. Philip Cox and
Chien-Pai Han Testing multivariate means when the
covariance matrix has intraclass
correlation structure . . . . . . . . . 97--107
Eivind Damsleth Estimation in moving average models, why
does it fail? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--128
Maurice C. Bryson and
Mark E. Johnson Constructing and simulating multivariate
distributions using Khintchine's theorem 129--137
Ravinder Nath An investigation of the rank transform
in the multivariate one- sample location
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--155
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 157--159
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R. D. John and
J. Robinson Significance levels and confidence
intervals for permutation tests . . . . 161--173
Richard Franke and
Toke Jayakchandran An empirical investigation of the
properties of a new goodness-of-fit test 175--187
C. G. G. Aitken Kernel methods for the estimation of
discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 189--200
Kishan G. Mehrotra and
Joel E. Michalek and
Thomas White and
Daniel Mihalko Score computation for linear rank
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211
Russell F. Kappenman Parameter estimation via sample reuse 213--222
Seiji Nabeya Asymptotic expansions for the sum of the
series used in sequential analysis . . . 223--240
P. Prescott and
A. T. Walden Maximum likelihood estimation of the
parameters of the three-parameter
generalized extreme-value distribution
from censored samples . . . . . . . . . 241--250
Benedikt Jóhannesson and
Narayan Giri Critical values of the locally optimum
combination of two independent test
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--286
Ralph L. Kodell and
M. Gary Haskin and
Gray W. Shaw and
David W. Gaylor Chronic: A SAS procedure for statistical
analysis of carcinogenesis studies . . . 287--310
I. J. Good C143. Scientific induction: ``universal
and predictive'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
I. J. Good C144. The diminishing significance of a
fixed $p$-value as the sample size
increases: a discrete model . . . . . . 312--3 14
I. J. Good C145. A measure of adhockery . . . . . . 314--314
I. J. Good C146. Correlation between power
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--316
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
N. H. Gordon and
P. F. Ramig Cumulative distribution function of the
sum of correlated chi- squared random
variables The sum of correlated chi-
squared random variables . . . . . . . . 1--9
James H. Albert A pseudo-Bayes confidence region for $p$
Poisson means . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--29
I. N. Vuchkov and
L. N. Boyadjieva The Robustness of experimental designs
against errors in the factor levels . . 31--41
H. M. Hudson Random effects in log-linear models . . 43--50
D. A. Macleod Reconstructed mean squares: A technique
for factorial experiments with many
missing cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61
I. J. Good and
Byron C. Lewis C147. The relationship between an
informational measure of association and
a generalization of one of Yule's
measures for $ 2 \times s $ tables, and
the relevance of generalized
determinants and permanents . . . . . . 63--66
I. J. Good C148. Probability estimation by maximum
penalized likelihood for large
contingency tables and for other
categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
I. J. Good C149. A simple consequence of Daniel
Bernoulli's logarithmic formula for
utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
I. J. Good C150. ``Density'' a point of terminology 68--68
I. J. Good C151. Antisurprise . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
I. J. Good C152. On the number of duplicated
fingerprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--74
Sharon L. Myers Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--77
K. E. Kemp and
Mervyn G. Marasinghe Computational efficiency of Anova
programs based on a reparameterization 79--89
R. Srinivasan and
B. Michael Wharton A comparative study of some methods for
constructing confidence bands on a
normal distribution Function . . . . . . 91--99
Herbert C. Rutemiller and
Ray E. Schafer Unbiased Estimation of . . . . . . . . . 101--112
S. Loukas and
C. D. Kemp On computer sampling from trivariate and
multivariate discrete distributions
Multivariate discrete distributions . . 113--123
C. P. Quesenberry and
E. Jacquelin Dietz Agreement probabilities for some
CPIT--Neyman smooth tests . . . . . . . 125--131
M. C. Jones and
H. W. Lotwick On the errors involved in computing the
empirical characteristic function . . . 133--149
D. R. Jensen C153. The optimality of Hotelling's $
T^2 $ in spherical processes . . . . . . 151--154
I. J. Good C154. A conjecture about the history of
errors of the first and second kinds . . 155--155
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
Subhash C. Narula and
John F. Wellington Selection of variables in linear
regression: a pragmatic approach . . . . 159--172
B. Jóhannesson and
N. Giri Comparison of power functors of some
step-down tests for means with
additional observations . . . . . . . . 173--194
J. Keilson and
D. Petrondas and
U. Sumita and
J. Wellner Significance points for some tests of
uniformity on the sphere . . . . . . . . 195--218
C. Charles Lin and
W. J. Kennedy Computer generated test problems for $
L_p $ estimates in linear models . . . . 219--222
Edna Schechtman Inference in two-phase regression: A
simulation study with nonnormal
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--229
I. J. Good and
Eric P. Smith C155. The early history of the quadratic
index of diversity or repeat rate . . . 231--233
Z. Seyda Deligönul C156. On the independence condition for
the classical variance estimator in an
autoregressive moving-average process 233--236
I. J. Good C157. An improved algorithm for the fast
calculation of the exact distribution of
Pearson's chi-squared . . . . . . . . . 236--242
I. J. Good C158. A note on the extraction of
coefficients from power series . . . . . 243--244
H. Papageorgiou C159. A characterization of the negative
multinomial as a Poisson mixture . . . . 245--247
Ranald W. Helms and
M. Novák News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Ushio Sumita On sums of independent logistic and
folded logistic variants . . . . . . . . 251--274
Osvaldo Marrero The performance of several statistical
tests for seasonality in monthly data 275--296
Bo Eriksson On the construction of confidence limits
for the regression coefficient when the
residuals are dependent . . . . . . . . 297--309
I. J. Good C160. A further comment on
multiple-choice examinations . . . . . . 311--313
I. J. Good C161. When are free observations of
positive expected value . . . . . . . . 313--315
I. J. Good C162. Moments and cumulants of weights
of evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--319
I. J. Good C163. The moments of an exponential . . 320--321
I. J. Good C164. The cumulants of the lognormal
distribution, including some conjectures 321--328
D. L. Mc Leish A note on non-parametric censored
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
J. H. Dodgson The moments and power of the skewness
statistic $ \sqrt {b_1} $ in sampling
from the Gram--Charlier Distribution . . 7--14
Dennis P. Sheehan Approximating estimators of the
first-order autoregression . . . . . . . 15--43
Mahesh Chandra and
Nozer D. Singpurwalla and
Michael A. Stephens Some problems in simulating the
quantiles of the maxima and other
functionals of Gaussian processes . . . 45--57
Michael Aho and
Lee J. Bain and
Max Engelhardt Goodness-of-fit tests for the Weibull
distribution with unknown parameters and
censored sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 59--69
I. J. Good C165. A Correction concerning my
interpretation of Peirce, and the
Bayesian interpretation of
Neyman--Pearson ``hypothesis
determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--84
I. J. Good C166. The moments of weight of evidence
gives intermediate hypotheses . . . . . 74--79
I. J. Good C167. The probability of odd partial
quotients in continued fractions . . . . 79--80
I. J. Good C168. Fractional dimensions, continued
fractions, and Markovity . . . . . . . . 80--84
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
G. M. Hannagan and
P. J. Thomson A note on spectral estimation for ARMA
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
Brian F. Pendleton and
Isadore Newman and
Rodney S. Marshall A Monte Carlo approach to correlational
spuriousness and ratio variables . . . . 93--124
Hyunshik Lee and
Karen Yuen Fung Robust procedures for multi-sample
location problems with unequal group
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--143
F. Murtagh A Probability theory of hierarchic
clustering using random dendrograms . . 145--157
E. Jacqueun Dietz Small sample power of multivariate
nonparametric tests for monotone trend 159--177
Robert E. Bechhofer and
Thomas Frisardi A Monte Carlo study of the performance
of a closed adaptive sequential
procedure for selecting the best
Bernoulli population . . . . . . . . . . 179--213
I. J. Good C169. Barndorff--Nielsen's plausibility
function and a principle of least
surprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--218
I. J. Good C170. A potential misstatement of
Bayes's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
I. J. Good C171. Further combinatorial identities
related to the cumulants of a lognormal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--226
I. J. Good C172. Probabilities of residues for
partial quotients of continued
fractions, and a question about moments 226--227
I. J. Good C173. A Geometry of distributions . . . 227--229
I. J. Good C174. Scientific induction, Jeffreys's
and my approaches compared . . . . . . . 229--231
I. J. Good C175. Hierarchical Bayes, mixed
Dirichlet priors, penalized likelihood,
etc. (see the first paragraph of C174.) 231--234
I. J. Good C176. The Bayes/non-Bayes compromise or
synthesis and Box's current philosophy
(see the first paragraph of C74.) . . . 234--236
I. J. Good C177. The device of imaginary results,
``WHAT IF'', and preposterior analysis
(see the first paragraph of C174) . . . 236--236
I. J. Good C178. Tail trouble when sampling . . . . 237--237
I. J. Good and
C. I. Holtzman C179. The exact distribution of $ \chi^2
$ for a non-equiprobable multinomial . . 238--239
I. J. Good and
C. I. Holtzman C180. Conjectures concerning the
cumulants of the multivariate lognormal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Richard L. Dykstara and
Richard W. Madsen and
Kenneth Fairbanks A nonparametric likelihood ratio test 247--264
N. Balakrishanan Empirical power study of a multi-sample
test of exponentiality based on spacings 265--271
A. C. Kimber Comparison of some robust estimators of
scale in gamma samples with known shape 273--286
N. Singh and
P. Narayan The Likelihood ratio test for the
equality of two-parameter exponential
distributions based on Type II censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--297
W. J. Krzanowski Cross-validatory choice in principal
component analysis; some sampling
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--314
L. G. Sheffield and
R. R. Anderson C181. A note on the randomness of
protein sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Good I. J. C182. The multivariate lognormal
distribution and colored trees . . . . . 316--322
Good I. J. Section Editor C183. A modification, based on
probability density estimation, of the
Sherman--Foutz one-sample test . . . . . 322--322
Daniel J. Gans The search for significance: different
tests on the same data . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Jostein Paulsen Impact of random number generators in
time series Monte Carlo simulation . . . 23--33
J. J. Beauchamp and
V. E. Kane Application of the power-shift
transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--58
Kenneth G. Brownt and
Michael A. Burgess On maximum likelihood and restricted
maximum likelihood approaches to
estimation of variance components . . . 59--77
I. J. Good and
Eric P. Smith C184. The possible bias of the Pearson
chi-squared test in non-equiprobable
cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--82
I. J. Good and
B. C. Lewis C185. Generation of pairs of related
probability vectors . . . . . . . . . . 82--85
I. J. Good C186. The repeat rate with respect to a
given multinomial population, and the
Dirichlet--Multinomial, distribution . . 85--89
I. J. Good C187. Laplace's estimate of the mass of
Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Eric P. Smith C188. On the asymptotic variance of
Socransky's proportional similarity
index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--94
I. J. Good C189. A commonsense design for multiple
comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
I. J. Good Comment concerning the conjectured value
of a determinant occurring in statistics 95--95
Peter W. Glynn Some asymptotic formulas for Markov
chains with applications to simulation 97--112
Bercedis Peterson and
Dana Quade A Monte Carlo investigation into the
properties of a proposed robust
one-sample test of location . . . . . . 113--127
R. James Wilson and
A. Alan and
B. Pritsker Variance reduction in queueing
simulation using generalized concomitant
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--153
Binkley Doris and
Jeffrey B. Birch Estimation of regression coefficients
under model misspecification and
non-normality of errors . . . . . . . . 155--170
J. J. Good C190. Weights of evidence in medical
diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--173
I. J. Good C191. How should tail-area probabilities
be standardized for sample size in
unpaired comparisons? . . . . . . . . . 174--174
I. J. Good C192. One tail versus two-tails, and the
harmonic-mean rule of thumb . . . . . . 174--176
I. J. Good C193. Paired versus unpaired comparisons
and the Hakvunic-mean rule of thumb . . 176--177
Oscar Kempthorne C194. A nearly flat prior, some unsolved
problems, and some comments about
improper priors . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--182
I. J. Good C195. Editorial comment on Kempthorne's
C194 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--184
Wilfried R. Vanhonacker Finite Sample Efficiency in a General
Linear Model with Serially Correlated
Disturbances: A Comparison Disturbances:
A Comparison of Estimators Given Both
Temporally Aggregated and Disaggregated
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--203
C. D. Lal and
T. Moore Probability integrals of a bivariate
gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 205--213
Paul N. Somerville A multiple range subset selection
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--226
Y. K. Tse An empirical comparison of small sample
distributions of estimators of the first
order autoregression . . . . . . . . . . 227--236
Linda Weiser Friedman and
Hershey H. Friedman Tutorial Statistical considerations in
computer simulation: the state of the
art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--263
Norman Matloff and
Robin Rose and
Tai Raymond A comparison of two methods for
estimating optimal weights in regression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--274
Dinesh S. Bhoj On difference of means of correlated
variates with incomplete data on both
responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--289
K. Hutcheson and
N. I. Lyons C196. Diversity: a glance at the
Federalist Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 291--294
I. J. Good C197. The best explicatum for weight of
evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--299
I. J. Good C198. A probability too small to achieve
using a computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
I. J. Good C199. Standardized tail-area
probabilities: a possible interpretation 299--300
I. J. Good C200. The tolerant Bayesian's
interpretation of a tail-area
probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--302
I. J. Good C201. A Bayesian interpretation of
ancillarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--308
I. J. Good C202. Probability applied to Diophantine
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--313
I. J. Good C203. A quick and dirty method for
nonparametric estimation of a density
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314
I. J. Good C204. The early history of the
Fisher--Yates--Irwin formula and
Fisher's 'exact test' . . . . . . . . . 315--319
I. J. Good C205. Monotonic properties of the
moments of a Bayes factor and the
relationship to measures of divergence 320--325
R. H. Norden On the numerical evaluation of the
moments of the distribution of states at
time $t$ in the stochastic logistic
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
S. Humble and
M. J. Knapp Small sample testing of one-shot devices
with exponentially distributed lifetimes 21--36
Z. S. Deligonul and
S. Bilgen Solution of the Volterra equation of
renewal theory with the Galerkin
technique using cubic splines . . . . . 37--45
Rhonda Magel and
F. T. Wright Robust estimates of ordered parameters 47--58
S. C. Guptat An algorithm for constructing nests of 2
factor designs with orthogonal factorial
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--79
Semih Bilgen and
Z. Seyda Deligönul C206. A note on the choice of numerical
integration scheme in solving the
renewal equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Daniel M. Wardrop Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Luc Devroye On the use of probability inequalities
in random variate generation . . . . . . 91--100
R. Franke and
T. Jayachandran Tables for a new multivariate
goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . . . . . 101--114
Stephen W. Looney and
Thomas R. Gulledge, Jr. Regression tests of fit and probability
plotting positions . . . . . . . . . . . 115--127
James H. Albert Empirical Bayes estimation of a set of
binomial probabilities . . . . . . . . . 129--144
S. Loukas Simple methods for computer generation
of bivariate beta random variables . . . 145--152
G. A. Barnard C207. The early history of the
Fisher--Yates--Irwin formula . . . . . . 153--155
I. J. Good C208. A further note on the early
history of the Fisher--Yates--Irwin
formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--159
I. J. Good C209. An error by Neyman noticed by
Dickey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
I. J. Good C210. The only-just effect in
nonparametric procedures, and the
achievement of objectivity by using a
statistician's stooge . . . . . . . . . 160--164
Josef Blass and
Vijay K. Rohatgi C211. On the computation of the moments
of certain statistics by means of
Newton's formula for polynomials . . . . 164--167
I. J. Good and
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton and
G. Szekeres C212. A Poisson sum up to the mean and a
Ramanujan problem . . . . . . . . . . . 167--173
I. J. Good C213. A sharpening of the harmonic-mean
rule of thumb for combining tests ``in
parallel'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--176
I. J. Good C214. The harmonic-mean rule of thumb:
some classes of applications . . . . . . 176--179
I. J. Good C215. Penalized least surprise . . . . . 179--180
Anonymous News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
R. Srinivasan and
B. Michael Wharton Simultaneous confidence intervals for
the logistic distribution . . . . . . . 183--195
Walter R. Pirie and
Howard H. Rauch Simulated efficiencies of tests and
estimators from general linear models
analysis based on ranks: the two-way
layout with interaction . . . . . . . . 197--204
Michael Haber A comparison of tests for the hypothesis
of no three-factor interaction in $2
\times 2 \times 2$ contingency tables 205--215
N. G. Crockett and
V. Gebski A simplified two sample sequential
$t$-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--234
Ravinder Nath and
Benjamin S. Duran A Monte Carlo comparison of some
$t$-tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--260
Dipak K. Dey On simultaneous estimation of parametric
functions in a contingency table . . . . 261--269
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 271--273
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
R. K. Amoh Estimation of a discriminant function
from a mixture of two inverse Gaussian
distributions when sample size is small 275--286
N. Balakrishnan Order statistics from the half logistic
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--309
David G. Hoel and
Robert I. Jennrich Life table analysis with small numbers
of cases: an example-multiple myeloma in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . . . . . . . 311--322
I. J. Good C216. Probabilistic induction is
inevitable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
I. J. Good C217. Tail-area probabilities and Bayes
factors as ``distances'' from the null
hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
I. J. Good C218. A correction concerning degrees of
causation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326
Norman C. Beaulieu C219. Comment on ``Calculating binomial
probabilities when the trial
probabilities are unequal'' . . . . . . 327--328
I. J. Good C220. The number of numerical
multiplications when multiplying
polynomials by recursive bisection . . . 329--331
Raja P. Velu and
Dean W. Wichern Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--340
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Neil C. Schwertman and
William Flynn and
Sallysue Stein and
Kathryn L. Schenk A Monte Carlo study of alternative
procedures for testing the hypothesis of
parallelism for complete and incomplete
growth curve data . . . . . . . . . . . 1--37
R. C. H. Cheng Generation of multivariate normal
samples with given sample mean and
covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 39--49
S. Jeyaratnam and
Abdul Rahman Othman Test of hypothesis in one-way random
effects model with unequal error
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57
Mark C. K. Yang and
Pan-Yu Lai A computational algorithm for the
coverage probability of a first order
autogressive process . . . . . . . . . . 59--74
I. J. Good and
Gordon Tullock C221. On judicial errors . . . . . . . . 75--76
Golde I. Holtzman C222. The measurement of the accuracy of
approximate $p$-values . . . . . . . . . 76--84
I. J. Good C223. The accuracy of Stirling's formula
for $ x! $ when $x$ is small . . . . . . 84--86
I. J. Good C224. A historical note regarding the
mass of Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
I. J. Good C225. Who discovered the God--Koheleth
law? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
I. J. Good C226. A new measure of surprise . . . . 88--89
I. J. Good C227. A historical comment concerning
the index of separateness . . . . . . . 89--90
I. J. Good C228. The number of functionals: a
combinatorial curiosity . . . . . . . . 90--90
I. J. Good C229. Probability density estimation
over subintervals of the range . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Jeffrey D. Hart On the choice of a truncation point in
Fourier series density estimation . . . 95--116
Serpil B. Acar and
A. N. Pettitt Prediction using non-parametric
techniques: some comparisons . . . . . . 117--134
C. F. Ansley and
R. Kohn A structured state space approach to
computing the likelihood of an ARIMA
process and its derivatives . . . . . . 135--169
Bala G. Dharan A priori sample size evaluation and
information matrix computation for time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--177
Ben F. Houston Extended tables on an approximate test
for outliers in linear models . . . . . 179--185
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
W. J. Shih Maximum likelihood estimation and
likelihood ratio test with incomplete
pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--194
John E. Hewett and
Richard Madsen A robust test for comparing three
populations relative to an ordered
alternative with bivariate data . . . . 195--212
Michael Aho and
Lee J. Bain and
Max Engelhardt Goodness-of-fit tests for the Weibull
distribution with unknown parameters and
heavy censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225
I. J. Good and
B. C. Lewis A maximum-likelihood/minimum-discrepancy
method for estimation of multinomial
probabilities when there are related
multinomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--240
Tibor Kutas and
János Tóth A stochastic model of phytoplankton
dynamics in Lake Balaton . . . . . . . . 241--264
Richard L. Dykstra Computational aspects of $l$-projections 265--274
Anders Westlund On the power of some tests for examining
the stability of regression coefficients 275--289
D. M. Titterington and
A. W. Bowman A comparative study of smoothing
procedures for ordered categorical data 291--312
Adrian W. Bowman A comparative study of some kernel-based
nonparametric density estimators . . . . 313--327
J. C. W. Rayner C230. Bias of the Pearson chi-squared
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--331
M. Frisén C231. The forgotten assumption in the
superpopulation model . . . . . . . . . 331--334
I. J. Good C232. Sufftctmcy and weight of evidence 334--336
I. J. Good C233. Fisher and subjectivity . . . . . 336--337
I. J. Good C234. In defense of the law of the
excluded middle, or all logic is
probabilistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--339
I. J. Good C235. Another application of the
Wilcoxon signed-rank test . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Th. Pfaff and
J. Pfanzagl On the accuracy of asymptotic expansions
for power functions . . . . . . . . . . 1--25
Paul N. Somerville A new subset selection method for normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--50
Jerry W. Lewis and
Luis A. Escobar and
James P. Geeghan A consequence of non-orthogonal data . . 51--66
S. Loukas and
H. Papageorgiou Estimation for the bivariate negative
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 67--82
I. J. Good C236. Mathematically natural
generalizations of some measures of
association and dependence for
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 83--91
Wen-Tao Huang Some optimization problems in selection
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--91
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
M. Anthony Wong A bootstrap testing procedure for
investigating the number of
subpopulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--112
Agnes M. Herzberg and
A. V. Tsukanov The Monte-Carlo comparison of two
criteria for the selection of models . . 113--126
Voratas Kachitvichyanukul and
Burce Schmeiser Computer generation of hypergeometric
random variates . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--145
O. Sola Adegboye and
A. K. Gupta On testing against restricted
alternatives for Penrose model . . . . . 147--160
R. Y. Rubinstein and
G. Samorodnitsky Variance reduction by the use of common
and antithetic random variables . . . . 161--180
Arvind K. Shah C237. On the coefficient of
determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--184
I. J. Good C238. Explanatory power depends on more
than probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . 184--186
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
E. Benton Cobb and
J. D. Church Small-sample interval estimation using
quantal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--202
David Young and
Mohamed Abdel Hameed A power transformation regression model
for censored failure time data . . . . . 203--215
David W. Smith and
D. S. Gill and
James J. Hammond Variable selection in multivariate
multiple regression . . . . . . . . . . 217--227
Robert Kohn and
Craig F. Ansley Computing the likelihood and its
derivatives for a Gaussian ARMA model 229--263
Leonard W. Howell An APL program for the distribution of
energy deposition by charged particles
passing through thin absorbers . . . . . 265--284
Keith Berry and
Cliff J. Huang Random pseudo-disturbance generators in
a stochastic simulation of an
econometric model . . . . . . . . . . . 285--302
Sudha Jain $D$-optimum design for logistic model 303--306
Don Edwards Exact simulation-based inference: A
survey, with additions . . . . . . . . . 307--326
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
James H. Albert Simultaneous estimation of Poisson means
under exchangeable and independence
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Christina M. L. Kelton and
W. David Kelton Development of Specific hypothesis tests
for estimated Markov chains . . . . . . 15--39
S. Kocherlakota and
K. Kocherlakota and
N. Balakrishnan Effects of nonnormality on the SPRT for
the correlation coefficient: bivariate
Edgeworth series distribution . . . . . 41--51
Sik-Yum Lee Maximum likelihood estimation of
polychoric correlations in $ r \times s
\times t $ contingency tables . . . . . 53--67
P. I. M. Schmitz and
J. D. F. Habbema and
J. Hermans A Simulation Study of the Performance of
Five Discriminant Analysis Methods for
Mixtures of Continuous and Binary
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--95
Thomas E. Price, Jr. and
D. P. Story Monte Carlo Simulation of Numerical
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--112
Terry J. Woodfield The Selection of Window Widths in Kernel
Nonparametric Regression . . . . . . . . 113--122
K. M. Hassanein and
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
E. F. Brown Best linear unbiased quantile estimators
of the logistic distribution using order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--131
L. R. Shenton and
K. O. Bowman C239. The continued fraction for $ \ln
(z) $: a Stieltjes conjecture . . . . . 133--136
I. J. Good and
Eric P. Smith C240. A continuum of principal component
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--142
I. J. Good C241. The exact distribution of a
statistic for matched $n$-tuples
allowing for ties . . . . . . . . . . . 142--146
Golde I. Holtzman and
I. J. Good C242. Eeaviside's unit function applied
to midrank procedures . . . . . . . . . 146--148
Golde I. Holtzman C243. Computation of the distribution of
Page's criterion, given any
configuration of ties, by a Fast Fourier
Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--154
I. J. Good C244. The probability distribution of
the gaps between the Mersenne primes, II 154--156
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Haim Shore An approximation for the inverse
distribution function of a combination
of random variables, with an application
to operating theatres . . . . . . . . . 157--181
Barry L. Nelson and
Bruce W. Schmeiser Decomposition of some well-known
variance reduction techniques . . . . . 183--209
Richard J. Hathaway A constrained em algorithm for
univariate normal mixtures . . . . . . . 211--230
Robert Pavur and
Ravinder Nath Parametric versus rank transform
procedures in the two-way factorial
experiment: a comparative study . . . . 231--240
M. C. Jones C245. Inverse moments of negative-
binomial distributions . . . . . . . . . 241--243
I. J. Good C246. Very small tails of the $t$
distribution, and significance tests for
clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
I. J. Good and
Eric P. Smith C247. A power series for the tail-area
probability of Student's $t$
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--250
I. J. Good C248. Comment on C244 . . . . . . . . . 250--250
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W. Y. Tan and
M. A. Tabatabai Some robust procedures for comparing
several straight lines under
heteroscedasticity and non-normality . . 251--264
Mao Shisong and
Samuel Kotz and
Norman L. Johnson Estimation by moments in a model of
faulty inspection . . . . . . . . . . . 265--272
Luis A. Escobar and
William Q. Meeker, Jr. Planning accelerated life tests with
Type II censored data . . . . . . . . . 273--297
Max Engelhart and
Lee J. Bain and
Wei-Kei Shuie Statistical analysis of a compound
exponential failure model . . . . . . . 299--315
T. De Wet and
J. W. J. Van Wyk Bootstrap confidence intervals for
regression coefficients when the
residuals are dependent . . . . . . . . 317--327
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John B. Guerard, Jr. and
Carl R. Beidleman Composite forecasting of annual
earnings: an application of biased
regression techniques . . . . . . . . . 1--16
W. Y. Tan and
N. Balakrishnan Bayesian insight into Tiku's robust
procedures based on asymmetric censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31
Donald C. Aucamp A test for the difference of means . . . 33--46
David M. Rocke and
David F. Shanno The scale problem in robust regression
$M$-estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--69
G. Steven Rhiel The effect of non-normality on the use
of the range in estimating the
population standard deviation . . . . . 71--82
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Paul S. Horn and
John S. Schlipf Generating subsets of order statistics
with applications to trimmed means and
means of trimmings . . . . . . . . . . . 83--97
Craig F. Ansley and
Robert Kohn A note on reparameterizing a vector
autoregressive moving average model to
enforce stationarity . . . . . . . . . . 99--106
T. Rudas A Monte Carlo comparison of the small
sample behaviour of the Pearson, the
likelihood ratio and the Cressie--Read
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120
J. Brian Gray A simple graphic for assessing influence
in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--134
Carlo F. Barenghi and
Amir D. Aczel and
Roger J. Best Determining the optimal sample size for
decision making . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--145
James N. Hanson Fitting a curve to data when both
variables are subject to error . . . . . 147--158
Ed McKenzie A note on the derivation of theoretical
autocovariances for ARMA models . . . . 159--162
John C. W. Marsaglia C249. The incomplete gamma function and
Ramanujan's rational approximation to $
e^x $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
I. J. Good C250. ``Saturated model'' or
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Hossein Arsham Generalised K--S confidence regions:
some exact results . . . . . . . . . . . 9--23
George C. Canavos and
Charles H. Smith Sensitivity of a Bayesian inference to
prior assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36
Anil K. Bera and
Colin R. Mckenzie Tests for normality with stable
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--52
Stelios H. Zanakis and
Jerzy Kyparisis A review of maximum likelihood
estimation methods for the
three-parameter Weibull distribution . . 53--73
Robert L. Schaefer Alternative estimators in logistic
regression when the data are collinear 75--91
Telba Z. Ironyt and
Carlos A. B. Pereirat Exact tests for equality of two
proportions: Fisher v. Bayes . . . . . . 93--114
Z. Al-sarraf and
D. H. Young The extreme residuals in logistic
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 115--125
D. I. Clark Efficient calculation of Hodges--Lehmann
estimators of location . . . . . . . . . 127--136
William E. Stein and
Roger C. Pfaffenberger Estimation of error probabilities in
stochastic dominance . . . . . . . . . . 137--165
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Larry M. Pearson A Monte Carlo comparison of Bayesian
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N. Balakrishnan and
S. Puthenpura Best linear unbiased estimators of
location and scale parameters of the
half logistic distribution . . . . . . . 193--204
Diane L. Fairclough and
Ronald W. Helms A mixed linear model with linear
covariance structure: a sensitivity
analysis of maximum likelihood
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--236
Richard M. Engeman and
David L. Otis and
William E. Dusenberry Small sample comparison of Thompson's
estimator to some common bioassay
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--250
Craig F. Ansley and
Robert Kohn Spline smoothing with repeated values 251--258
Richard K. Burdick and
Nancy J. Birch and
Franklin A. Graybill Confidence intervals on measures of
variability in an unbalanced two-fold
nested design with equal subsampling . . 259--272
Sumasu Yamadu and
Kuniharu Kishida and
Keisuke Bekki Notes on poles and convergence rate of
autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 273--293
John J. Lefante, Jr. and
Arvind K. Shah C257. A note on the one-sample $t$-test 295--296
I. J. Good Comments, conjectures, and conclusions
C258. Editorial note on C257 regarding
the $t$-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
R. G. Krutchkoff Comments, conjectures, and conclusions
C259. The mean likelihood estimator . . 297--298
I. J. Good C260. Some Bayes/non-Bayes compromises
based on covert Bayesianism . . . . . . 298--300
I. J. Good C261. The species-sam pling problem
again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
Richard G. Krutchkoff C262. Percentiles by simulation:
reducing time and storage . . . . . . . 304--305
Ronald W. Helms News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 307--311
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Walter W. Piegorsch and
Clarice R. Weinberg Testing synergistic effects for
simultaneous exposures with stratified
dichotomous response . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
Paul S. Horn and
John S. Schlipf Who's being swindled?: a case for
enlightened na\"\iveté . . . . . . . . . 21--36
Mark Marcucci A comparison of the power of some tests
for repeated measurements . . . . . . . 37--53
B. Moazzami and
A. Busse The small sample performance of some
limited information estimators of a
dynamic structural equation with
autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . . . 55--78
Robert R. Rawlings and
Vivian B. Faden and
Barry I. Graubard and
Michael J. Eckardt A study on discriminant analysis
techniques applied to multivariate
lognormal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--100
I. Deak Computing probabilities of rectangles in
case of multinormal distribution . . . . 101--114
A. Sarkar and
A. K. Bhattacharji A Markov model in process control . . . 115--126
Winson Taam and
Brian S. Yandell C263. Small-sample properties of spatial
autocorrelation . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
I. J. Good C270. Newcomb's problem and the
foundations of probability . . . . . . . 127--148
I. J. Good C264. A geometrical approach to the
amalgamation paradox . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
I. J. Good C265. The computer-intensive form of a
Bayes/non-Bayes compromise . . . . . . . 132--133
I. J. Good C266. Recognizability, permutability,
and homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
I. J. Good C267. The 3d monocular effect . . . . . 134--139
I. J. Good C268. The likelihood-ratio approach to
the generalized Behrens--Fisher problem:
one-way Anova under heteroscedasticity 139--145
I. J. Good C269. The newly discovered poem,
possibly by Shakespeare . . . . . . . . 145--146
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P. W. West and
A. W. Davis and
D. A. Ratkowsky Approaches to regression analysis with
multiple measurements from individual
sampling units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--175
T. W. Epps and
Kenneth J. Singleton An omnibus test for the two-sample
problem using the empirical
characteristic function . . . . . . . . 177--203
Richard K. Burdick and
John Eickman Confidence intervals on the among group
variance component in the unbalanced
one-fold nested design . . . . . . . . . 205--219
Wei-Yin Loh Testing multivariate normality by
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--252
R. Ismail and
S. Jeyaratnam and
S. Panchapakesan Estimation of $ p r[X > Y] $ for gamma
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--267
Edna Schechtman and
Gideon Schechtman Estimating the parameters in regression
with uniformly distributed errors . . . 269--281
Subhash C. Narula and
John F. Wellington An algorithm to find all regression
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--281
Shu-Ing Liu Computational efficiency in all possible
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--298
I. J. Good C271. Age of earliest memory: an
informal sampling experiment . . . . . . 299--301
I. J. Good C272. A flexible Bayesian model for
comparing two treatments . . . . . . . . 301--305
I. J. Good C273. A historical comment concerning
the Monte Carlo estimation of $p$-values 306--306
I. J. Good C274. Multinomial prediction and
improved approximations to the shrinking
parameter that maximizes a
Dirichlet--multinomial likelihood . . . 306--311
I. J. Good C275. The maximum of a Bayes factor
against ``independence'' in a
contingency table, and generalizations
to higher dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 312--316
I. J. Good C276. On terminology for matrices of
special forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317
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Rudolph S. Parrish Evaluation and approximation of
multivariate cumulative joint
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--33
Donald C. Aucamp and
Walter J. Eckardt, Jr. Doubling-up in craps and other games of
chance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
Sallie Keller-McNulty and
W. J. Kennedy Error-free computation of the
Moore--Penrose inverse with application
to linear least squares analysis . . . . 45--64
M. M. Shoukri and
D. S. Tracy Bayesian statistical inference in the
Paretian law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--77
Jeffrey S. Simonoff Outlier detection and robust estimation
of scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92
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C. R. Loader and
J. J. Deely Computations of boundary crossing
probabilities for the Wiener process . . 95--105
Zelterman Daniel Estimating percentage points by
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--125
H. A. David and
D. M. Andrews Closed adaptive sequential
paired-comparison selection procedures 127--141
R. Ahmad and
S. M. Mostafa Empirical Bayes estimation of variance
components in balanced random models . . 143--153
Tang Jen and
A. K. Gupta On testing homogeneity of variances for
Gaussian models . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--173
C. D. Kershaw A comparison of estimators of the ED50
in up-and-down experiments . . . . . . . 175--184
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Wilfried R. Vanhonacker Estimating the duration of dynamic
effects with temporally aggregated
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--209
Xi-Ren Cao Sensitivity estimates based on one
realization of a stochastic system . . . 211--232
David H. Young and
Akram M. Al-Abood and
Saad T. Bakir Bias corrected Pearson estimators for
the shape parameter in gamma regression 233--241
Khalaf E. Ahmad Generating random vectors from a
bivariate random walk density function 243--250
James H. Albert Bayesian estimation of odds ratios under
prior hypotheses of independence and
exchangeability . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--268
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Edward Markowski Accurate estimation of standard errors
when comparing simulated power functions 269--275
D. J. Hartfiel Computing limits of convex sets of
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--291
Nahid Khazenie and
Ronald W. Butler Bounds on the $P$-value of the best
fitting regressor variable calculated to
a prespecified accuracy . . . . . . . . 293--306
H. H. Lemmer A modified Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon test
for the two-sample location problem . . 307--319
D. N. Hunt Successive over-relaxation methods in
the analysis of variance . . . . . . . . 321--337
Kenneth J. Kopecky and
Dale L. Preston Improved Monte Carlo estimation of
statistical significance for tests of
trend in rates proportions . . . . . . . 339--361
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Russell F. Kappenman Nonparametric estimation of
dose-response curves with application to
ED 50 estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
A. S. Paulson and
P. Roohan and
P. Sullo Some empirical distribution function
tests for multivariate normality . . . . 15--30
Janis L. Goodlow and
Donald M. Stablein and
Walter H. Carter, Jr. Sample sizes for cancer therapy survival
studies based on response surface
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41
Subhash C. Sharma The effects of autocorrelation among
errors on the consistency property of
OLS estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--62
I. J. Good C277. Some checks on the consistency of
probability judgments and a conjectured
method for improving those judgments . . 63--71
I. J. Good C278. Indices of economic concentration 71--72
D. T. McNichols C279. Maximum likelihood estimation when
sampling without replacement . . . . . . 73--74
I. J. Good and
Eric P. Smith C280. Some general measures of
similarity and their values under
multinormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--79
I. D. Hill C281. $ 95 \% $ Confidence limits for
the median . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
W. J. Shih and
Bruce Binkowitz C282. Median versus geometric mean for
lognormal samples . . . . . . . . . . . 81--83
I. J. Good C283. The calculation of the normal or
error function with normally acceptable
proportional error . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
I. J. Good C284. Confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
I. J. Good C285. A survey of the use of the Fast
Fourier Transform for computing
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--93
I. J. Good C286. Correlation and linearity: some
lapses in exposition . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
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V. K. Klonias and
Nash G. Stephen Numerical techniques in nonparametric
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--126
José M. Quintana and
O'Reilly J. Federico and
Susana Gómez Least squares with inequality
restrictions: a symmetric
positive-definite linear complementarity
problem algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 127--143
Christina M. L. Kelton and
Marlene A. Smith Estimation efficiency for Markov chain
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--165
Balakrishna Hosmane An empirical investigation of chi-square
tests for the hypothesis of no
three-factor interaction in $ I \times J
\times K $ contingency tables . . . . . 167--178
Emin Babakus and
Carl E. Ferguson C287. Ordinal data and LISREL: a note on
significance level . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182
I. J. Good C288. A correction concerning
'ancillarity' for significance tests . . 182--183
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 187--189
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Asatoshi Maeshiro Fatal shortcomings of stationary AR (1)
exogeneous variables in econometric
Monte Carlo tudies of estimators . . . . 191--212
Wei-yin Loh Some modifications of Levene's test of
variance homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . 213--226
J. W. R. Day A new simple straightforward and
practical asymptotic expansion for the
incomplete beta function . . . . . . . . 227--243
A. Sarkar and
B. Kartikeyan Forecasting by Volterra type models . . 245--260
I. J. Good C289. Maximum penalized likelihood for
somewhat parametric estimation . . . . . 261--264
George R. Terrell C290. Chi-squared left-tail
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--266
Carl M. Harris C291. Estimating quantiles by
simulation: a Brownian motion example 266--272
Indushobha N. Chengalur Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
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David J. Groggel and
Robert L. Schaefer and
John H. Skillings The effect of withdrawal censoring on
two-sample tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--302
Anthony Y. C. Kuk Bootstrap Estimators of Variance Under
Sampling with Probability Proportional
to Aggregate Size . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311
Sergio Koreisha and
Tarmo Pukkila Estimation of the Polynomial Matrices of
Vector Moving Average Processes . . . . 313--343
Jerzy K. Baksalary C292. A comment on an admissibility
criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--347
Arvind K. Shah and
John J. Lefante, Jr. C293. A note on using a
hypothesis-dependent variance estimate 347--349
I. J. Good C294. An example of dynamic probability
in number theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Lalit K. Aggarwal C295. Mutually orthogonal $F$-rectangles
of order $ (5, 3; 5 \times 3 - 1)$ . . . 350--353
Arvind K. Shah C296. On estimating the exact variance
of products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
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Aly A. A. Emad-Eldin and
Aydin Öztürk A modified one-sample $Q$--$Q$ plot and
a test for normality . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Voratas Kachitvichyanukul and
Shiow-Wen J. Cheng and
Bruce Schemeiser Fast Poisson and binomial algorithms for
correlation induction . . . . . . . . . 17--33
B. T. Porteous Plotting squared radii: improving the $
\chi^2 $ approximation . . . . . . . . . 35--41
George Ostrouchov and
William Q. Meeker, Jr. Accuracy of approximate confidence
bounds computed from interval censored
Weibull and lognormal data . . . . . . . 43--76
R. D. Snyder Computational aspects of Kalman
filtering with a diffuse prior
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--86
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Eva Skovlund and
Lars Wallöe A sequential two-sample test developed
by stochastic simulation . . . . . . . . 87--104
Youlu Zheng Evaluation and simulation of random
sequential packing density for a small
square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--115
H. Howlader Linear scale estimation . . . . . . . . 117--126
Douglas G. Feig and
Timothy A. Wittig Ridge estimated confidence intervals: a
Monte Carlo evaluation . . . . . . . . . 127--142
Roger Peck and
Jennings W. Linda and
Young M. Dean A comparison of several biased
estimators for improving the expected
error rate of the sample quadratic
discriminant function . . . . . . . . . 143--156
Crawford G. Robert and
Geurts D. Michael and
Rinne J. Heikki Permanent and temporary components of a
time series in market analysis and
forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--177
Ronald W. Helms and
Wei-Min Zheng News and abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
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J. C. W. Rayner and
A. J. Seyb Anova Under Categorisation . . . . . . . 181--193
Martin R. Petersen Post Study Power Estimation by Computer 195--210
D. K. Nagar and
S. K. Jain and
A. K. Gupta On testing circular stationary and
related models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--239
Jang Taek Lee and
Byung Chun Kim A New Approach for the $W$-Matrix . . . 241--254
L. A. Franklin The Complete Exact Null Distribution of
Spearman's Rho for $ n = 12 (1)18 $ . . 578--580
Ibrahim A. Ahmad Jackknife estimation for a family of
life distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 614--211
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James J. Swain and
Sekhar Venkatraman and
James R. Wilson Least-squares estimation of distribution
functions in Johnson's translation
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--297
Alan Dorfman A finite sample comparison of White's
direct and simple tests for
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 299--308
Myoungshic Jhun and
Pui Lam Leung A Monte Carlo method for Foutz's
goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . . . . . 309--316
V. A. Samaranayake and
Lee J. Bain A confidence interval for treatment
component-of-variance with applications
to differences in means of two
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 317--332
Phillip I. Good Editor's note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333
I. J. Good C297. Bayes's red billiard ball is also
a herring, and why Bayes withheld
publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--340
Vijay K. Rohatgi C298. On the moments of $ f(x) $ when
$f$ is discrete . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--343
I. J. Good C299. An inequality for the smallest
singular value of a matrix products . . 343--346
I. J. Good C300. What should be the usual shape of
a loss function? . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347
Adrian E. Raftery and
Elizabeth A. Thompson C301. How many nuclear reactor
accidents? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--350
I. J. Good C302. An early risk assessment for an
atomic reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
I. J. Good C303. The pragmatic irrelevance of De
Finetti's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . 351--353
I. J. Good and
Byron C. Lewis C304. A further note on probability
estimation for pairs of related
multinomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--357
I. J. Good C305. The number of correct significant
digits in a piece of physical numerology 358--359
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Margaret Diponzio Copenhaver and
Burt Holland Computation of the distribution of the
maximum Studentized range statistic with
application to multiple significance
testing of simple effects . . . . . . . 1--15
Steven E. Rigdon and
Asit P. Basu Estimating the intensity function of a
Weibull process at the current time:
failure truncated case . . . . . . . . . 17--38
James J. Swain and
Bruce W. Schmeiser Control variates for Monte Carlo
analysis of nonlinear statistical
models, II: raw moments and variances 39--56
Kim-Hung Li Imputation using Markov chains . . . . . 57--79
W. Y. Tan and
N. Balakrishnan Bayesian approach to robust comparison
of two means based on asymmetric Type-II
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--102
B. S. Everitt A Test of multivariate normality against
the alternative that the distribution is
a mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--115
M. Evans and
T. Swartz Monte Carlo computation of some
multivariate normal probabilities . . . 117--128
Murali Subramaniam and
Lawrence Leemis Confidence interval scatterplots for
evaluating confidence interval
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143
Anonymous Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous Statistical Software . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Phillip I. Good Statistics software for the professional
statistician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--156
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
J. Brian Gray A Classification of influence measures 159--171
Sik-Yum Lee and
Ming-Long Lam Estimation of polychoric correlation
with elliptical latent variables . . . . 173--188
R. C. H. Cheng and
K. M. Thornton Selected percentage points of the Moran
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194
Wing-Kam Fung Critical values for testing in
multivariate statistical outliers . . . 195--212
Jeffrey S. Simonoff and
Chih-Ling Tsai Jackknifing and bootstrapping
quasi-likelihood estimators . . . . . . 213--232
T. G. Robertazzi and
S. C. Schwartz Optimizing the measurement processing
order for linear regression . . . . . . 233--258
R. G. Krutchkoff One-way fixed effects analysis of
variance when the error variances may be
unequal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--271
James P. Lesage and
Stephen D. Simon Centering and scaling of regression
algorithms in the face of
ill-conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--283
Patsy Haccou and
Evert Meelis Testing for the number of change points
in a sequence of exponential random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--298
W. Y. Tan and
M. A. Tabatabai A Modified Winsorized regression
procedure for linear models . . . . . . 299--313
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
A. John Bailer Testing variance equality with
randomization tests . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Galen R. Shorack and
Nhu D. Le Modification of the Mann--Whitney test 9--17
Ian Robinson and
Simon Sheather Weighted selection for the multiset $ X
+ X $ with application to $R$-estimates
and associated confidence limits . . . . 19--35
G. E. Thomas C306. A note on correcting for ties with
Spearman's $p$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Oliver D. Anderson C307. Serial correlation: the bending
moment analogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--44
Richard G. Krutchkoff C308. K-philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46
George Marsaglia and
Arif Zaman and
Youlu Zheng C309. An algorithm for the area of the
union of a collection of convex sets . . 46--49
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz C310. Axiomatic approaches to formulas
for combining likelihoods or evidence 49--54
I. J. Good C311. On the combination of pieces of
evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--58
I. J. Good C312. Yet another argument for the
explicatum of weight of evidence . . . . 58--59
I. J. Good C313. The rate of diagnosing a fault,
for example, in a communication channel 60--61
I. J. Good C314. Chaotics and number theory . . . . 61--62
I. J. Good C315. A suspicious feature of the
Popper/Miller argument . . . . . . . . . 62--63
I. J. Good C316. Interpretation of a large
coefficient of determination . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 65--66
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Phillip Good Editorial Developing statistical
software II: Choosing the statistic. AI
in statistical software . . . . . . . . 71--72
Anthony Y. C. Kuk Double bootstrap estimation of variance
under systematic sampling with
probability proportional to size . . . . 73--82
A. K. Gupta and
D. K. Nagar Asymptotic nonnull distribution of
likelihood ratio statistic for testing
homogeneity of complex multivariate
Gaussian populations . . . . . . . . . . 83--91
E. Benton Cobb Estimation of the Weibull shape
parameter in small-sample bioassay . . . 93--101
Brent Edward Statistical expert systems: an example 103--110
Richard Glendinning The convex hull of the zeros of a random
polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--118
I. J. Good C317. The theorem of corroboration and
undermining, and Popper's demarcation
rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
I. J. Good C318. The paradox of confirmation and
stoogian observations . . . . . . . . . 121--121
I. J. Good C319. Weight of evidence and a
compelling metaprinciple . . . . . . . . 121--123
I. J. Good C320. Weak attacks on transitivity of
preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
I. J. Good C321. The need for a normative theory of
rationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126
I. J. Good C322. Medialized $p$-values . . . . . . 126--127
I. J. Good C323. A test for a specified Markov
model or branching process . . . . . . . 127--128
I. J. Good C324. Erratum to C168 on fractional
dimensions, continued fractions and
Markovity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
I. J. Good C325. Erratum and addendum to C172 . . . 128--129
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Per-olov Edlund On identification of transfer function
models by biased regression methods . . 131--148
S. E. Ahmed and
A. K. Md. E. Saleh Pooling multivariate data . . . . . . . 149--167
R. H. Glendinning An evaluation of the ICM algorithm for
image reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . 169--185
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Vijay K. Rohatgi Estimation of the common mean of a
bivariate normal distribution . . . . . 187--194
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. D. Wilson A smoothed em algorithm for the solution
of Wicksell's corpuscle problem . . . . 195--221
D. S. K. Fok and
D. Crevier Volume estimation by Monte Carlo methods 223--235
J. P. Royston Correcting the Shapiro--Wilk $W$ for
ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--249
Eric P. Smith Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Dale L. Zimmerman Computationally exploitable structure of
covariance matrices and generalized
covariance matrices in spatial models 1--15
D. J. Hartfiel Stochastic box limits for nonhomogeneous
Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--29
Camilla A. Brooks and
George E. Bonney A simulation study of properties of a
regressive logistic model . . . . . . . 31--43
Bruce J. Worton Optimal smoothing parameters for
multivariate fixed and adaptive kernel
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
Eric P. Smith Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Noel Cressie C326. Ergodicity for time series and
spatial processes . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
I. J. Good C327. Addenda for ``The fractional
dimensional theory of continued
fractions'', Proc. Cambridge Philos.
Soc. \bf 37 (1941), 199--228 . . . . . . 64--68
I. J. Good and
G. I. Holtzman and
M. L. Deaton and
L. H. Bernstein C328. Diagnosis of heart attack from two
enzyme measurements by means of
bivariate probability density
estimation: statistical details . . . . 68--76
I. J. Good and
R. V. Foutz C329. The ``Fisher--Poisson trick''
extended to contingency tables . . . . . 76--81
I. J. Good C330. The variability of evaluations of
speculative ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 81--88
I. J. Good C331. An apology to De Finetti . . . . . 88--90
I. J. Good C332. Surprise indexes and $p$-values 90--92
I. J. Good C333. On the judgement of
``numerological'' assertions . . . . . . 92--103
I. J. Good C334. On the neutron and proton masses:
a numerological case study . . . . . . . 103--111
I. J. Good C335. Some numerology for the mass ratio
of proton to electron, and a partially
Bayesian evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 111--115
D. R. Jensen C336. Misspecified location and scale.
I. Student's test . . . . . . . . . . . 115--118
D. R. Jensen C337. Misspecified location and scale.
II. Independence of $ \bar {Y} $ and $
s^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121
D. R. Jensen C338. Misspecified location and scale.
III. The use of $ S^2 $ . . . . . . . . 121--124
R. F. Cameron and
C. F. Clement C339. The probability of a serious
nuclear reactor accident . . . . . . . . 124--126
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. A. McGilchrist Bias of ML and REML estimators in
regression models with ARMA errors . . . 127--136
N. Balakrishnan Approximate maximum likelihood
estimation of the mean and standard
deviation of the normal distribution
based on Type II censored samples . . . 137--148
F. F. Gan Combined cumulative sum and Shewhart
variance charts . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--163
J. H. Venter Estimating the probability of correct
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--176
R. S. Krutchkoff Two-way fixed effects analysis of
variance when the error variances may be
unequal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183
Alex S. Padadopoulos and
Ram C. Tiwari Bayesian bootstrap lower confidence
interval estimation of the reliability
and failure rate . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--192
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Richard A. Strelitz Computing the normalization factor in
Bingham distributions . . . . . . . . . 193--200
Talpaz Hovav and
William P. Alexander and
Richard C. Shumway Estimation of systems of equations
subject to curvature constraints . . . . 201--214
G. Ronning Maximum likelihood estimation of
Dirichlet distributions . . . . . . . . 215--221
Paul F. Velleman and
Pratt Paul A graphical interface for data analysis 223--228
Mark W. Plant and
Richard E. Quandt On the accuracy and cost of numerical
integration in several variables . . . . 229--248
G. Cicchitelli On the robustness of the one-sample $t$
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--258
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
D. A. Elston and
C. A. Glasbey Simulating from a mixture of exponential
distributions with some negatively
weighted components . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Marcel G. Dagenais Small sample performance of parameter
estimators for Tobit models with serial
correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--26
Steven G. From On the performances of some selection
procedures for the best population
assuming parent distributions with
varying tail weight . . . . . . . . . . 27--35
A. Narayann and
Thomas W. Sager Table for the asymptotic distribution of
univariate mode estimators . . . . . . . 37--51
A. P. Sant'anna Generalized inverses in recursive least
squares estimation with multiple
additional observations . . . . . . . . 53--63
Woollcott Smith A maximum likelihood estimator for
totally positive probability tables: a
method for smoothing two-way tables . . 69--73
C. F. De Beer and
J. W. H. Swanepoel A modified Durbin--Watson test for
serial correlation in multiple
regression under nonnormality using the
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
Sani I. Doguwa A comparative study of the
edge-corrected kernel-based nearest
neighbour density estimators for point
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--100
Mokhtar B. Abdullah Robust estimation of a linear functional
relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--123
Mohammed A. Shayib and
David H. Young Modified goodness of fit tests in gamma
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
P. J. Smith A new technique for calculating Fourier
integrals based on the Poisson summation
formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--147
I. Hoeschele A note on local maxima in maximum
likelihood, restricted maximum
likelihood, and Bayesian estimation of
variance components . . . . . . . . . . 149--160
Peter Hall and
Michael A. Martin and
William R. Schucany Better nonparametric bootstrap
confidence intervals for the correlation
coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--172
Pekka J. Korhonen and
Subhash C. Narula The probability distribution of the
ratio of the absolute values of two
normal variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--182
R. V. Lenth and
A. R. Padmanabhan Robust confidence intervals for the
center of a symmetric distribution . . . 183--196
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 197--198
A. M. Thompson and
J. W. Kay and
D. M. Titterington A cautionary note about cross-validatory
choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--216
Kenneth Constantine and
Marvin Karson and
Siu-Keung Tse Bootstrapping estimators of $ P(Y < X) $
in the gamma case . . . . . . . . . . . 217--231
Lealand E. Crabbe and
Brian B. Young Model reduction via the internally
balanced state space representation . . 233--248
K. P. S. Chan and
C. G. G. Aitken Estimation of the Bayes' factor in a
forensic science problem . . . . . . . . 249--264
Jerome P. Keating and
Veronica Czitrom A Comparison of James--Stein regression
with least squares in the Pitman
nearness sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Neil C. Schwertman and
Andrew Neath and
Darien Davis A Monte Carlo study of successive
difference analysis of growth curve data
at random observation times . . . . . . 11--28
C. H. Sim and
P. A. Lee Simulation of negative binomial
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--42
John B. Guerard, Jr. Automatic time series modeling,
intervention analysis, and effective
forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--49
Philip H. Ramsey Determining the best test for the $2
\times 2$ comparative trial . . . . . . 51--65
Wei-kei Shiue and
Lee J. Bain Simple approximate inference procedures
for the mean of the gamma distribution 67--73
Michael D. Conerly and
J. Michael Hardin A comparison of biased regression
estimators using a Pitman nearness
criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--95
R. J. Kulperger On the distribution of the maximum of
Brownian bridges with application to
regression with correlated errors . . . 97--106
Duncan K. H. Fong Ranking and estimation of related means
in two-way models --- a Bayesian
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--117
A. K. Gupta and
T. P. Logan On a multiple observations model in
discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 119--132
Patricia J. Wozniak and
Xiaozhu Li Goodness-of-fit for the two-parameter
Weibull distribution with estimated
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--143
Richard M. Engeman and
Jeffrey F. Bromaghin An approach to estimating density from
line transect data where the animals
move in response to the observer . . . . 145--154
I. J. Good and
I. N. Chengalur C340. A generalization of Rissanen's
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--158
David Johnstone C341. Likelihood logic in orthodox
significance tests . . . . . . . . . . . 158--160
David Johnstone C342. Consistency and relative
plausibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--162
I. J. Good C342.5. The $p$-value trap, an editorial
comment on C342 . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Vijay K. Rohatgi and
Gabor J. Székely C343. An unexpected decomposition of a
symmetric random variable . . . . . . . 162--164
I. J. Good C344. The use of divergent series in
statistical problems . . . . . . . . . . 164--164
I. J. Good and
D. R. Jensen and
Y. V. Hui C345. Numerology for the masses of
elementary verticles [sic]: an updating 164--165
I. J. Good and
N. L. Gilinsky C346. A simple comment concerning the
Galton--Watson--Bienayme process . . . . 165--166
I. J. Good C347. Random-response questionnaires and
lie-detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--168
D. R. Jensen and
Y. V. Hui C348. Properties of $R$ and $ S^2$
charts. I. Dependent statistics . . . . 168--172
D. R. Jensen and
Y. V. Hui C343. Properties of $R$ and $ S^2$
charts. II. Nonstationarity . . . . . . 172--175
Anonymous C350. Errata to C202, 305, 307, 310,
311, and 334 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Howell Tong and
Iris Yeung On testes for threshold-type
nonlinearity in irregularly spaced time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--194
B. Moazzami and
A. Buse Limited information estimator of a
dynamic structural equation with
autocorrelated errors: a correction and
new evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--208
Chan-Lam Lo and
Wai-Keung Li Two new approaches to robust estimation
in time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--255
Joseph T. Tahsoh Estimation of a probit function using a
linear spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Dean M. Young and
John W. Seaman, Jr. and
Danny W. Turner A ratio-of-uniforms method for
generating exponential power variates 13--18
A. Lyambabaje and
S. Tardif and
C. Van Eeden A comparison of several estimators of
the center of a symmetric distribution 19--30
P. W. Mielke, Jr. and
Y. C. Yao On $g$-sample empirical coverage tests:
exact and simulated null distributions
of test statistics with small and
moderate sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--39
N. Balakrishnan and
C. W. Ma A comparative study of various tests for
the equality of two population variances 41--89
J. C. W. Rayner and
B. E. J. Manly and
G. F. Liddell Hierarchic likelihood ratio tests for
equality of covariance matrices . . . . 91--99
Zvi Drezner and
G. O. Wesolowsky On the computation of the bivariate
normal integral . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107
Dror Rom and
Sanat K. Sarkar Approximating probability integrals of
multivariate normal using association
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
K. T. Wallenius and
A. S. Korkotsides Exploratory model analysis using cdf
knotting with applications to
distinguishability, limiting forms, and
moment ratios to the three parameter
Weibull family . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133
Naitee Ting and
Richard K. Burdick and
Franklin A. Graybill and
S. Jeyaratnam and
Tai-Fang C. Lu Confidence intervals on linear
combinations of variance components that
are unrestricted in sign . . . . . . . . 135--143
Ming Chung Liu and
R. Y. Taylor Simulations and computations of
nonparametric density estimates for the
deconvolution problem . . . . . . . . . 145--167
David Wypij and
Thomas J. Santner Interval estimation of the marginal
probability of success for the
beta-binomial distribution . . . . . . . 169--185
Dominique Haughton and
Jonathan Haughton and
Alan J. Izenman Information criteria and harmonic models
in time series analysis . . . . . . . . 187--207
Abunnabi M. Ali and
Md A. K. Ehanses Saleh Estimation of the mean vector of a
multivariate normal distribution under
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--226
Karen George and
M. R. Osborne The efficient computation of linear rank
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--237
Adrienne W. Kemp and
C. David kemp A composition-search algorithm for
low-parameter Poisson generation . . . . 239--244
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
R. Biscay and
P. Valdes and
R. Pascual Modified Fisher's linear discriminant
function with reduction of
dimensionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Lee C. Adkins and
R. Carter Hill An improved confidence ellipsoid for the
linear regression model . . . . . . . . 9--18
A. Narayanan Computer generation of Dirichlet random
vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
Adrian E. Raftery and
Elizabeth A. Thompson C351. What is the probability of a
serious nuclear reactor accident? . . . 31--34
Oliver D. Anderson C353. Applications of simulation in time
series research . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--64
Kishore Sinha C352. Geometrical configurations and
PBIB designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Kishore Sinha and
Sanpei Kageyama C354. On resolvability of duplicate
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Peter A. Lachenbruch C355. A note on goodness-of-link tests 43--45
I. J. Good C356. Multivariate tests after
dimensionality reduction . . . . . . . . 45--45
I. J. Good C357. Isolikelihoods . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
Richard G. Krutchkoff C358. Comparisons using simulation . . . 47--48
I. J. Good C359. Factorial designs and the
programming of games . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
George R. Terrell C360. The half-space problem . . . . . . 50--53
I. J. Good C361. Editorial concerning Terrell's
conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Richard G. Krutchkoff C362. Percentiles: fixed width
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
I. J. Good C363. A Bessel-function inequality
derived by a statistical argument . . . 56--57
Carter Bays C364. Improving a random number
generator: a comparison between two
shuffling methods . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59
Kishore Sinha C365. Some new $E$- and MV-optimal group
divisible designs with unequal block
sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Kishore Sinha and
Sanpei Kageyama C366. Intermediate designs from $ {\rm
BIBD}(s^2, s, 1) $ to $ {\rm BIBD}(s^2 +
s + 1, s + 1, 1) $ . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Kishore Sinha C367. Nearly balanced block designs . . 63--64
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
C. Ming Wang Computing uncertainty measures of
location estimates for autonomous
vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--89
Mark C. K. Yang and
Charles T. C. Mo Coverage probability to the original
data by prediction intervals in simple
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 91--104
Masayuki Honds Comparison of procedures for estimation
of error rates in discriminant analysis
under nonnormal population . . . . . . . 105--115
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly Normalized spacings and goodness-of-fit
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127
Grete U. Fenstad and
Eva Skovlund A two-sample sequential rank test by sen
investigated by stochastic simulation 129--137
Gerhard Tutz Smoothed categorical regression based on
direct kernel estimates . . . . . . . . 139--156
S. Ganeshanandam and
W. J. Krzanowski Error-rate estimation in two-group
discriminant analysis using the linear
discriminant function . . . . . . . . . 157--175
I. J. Good C367. Medialized $p$-values, an earlier
reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177
I. J. Good C368. On the exact distribution of
Pearson's $ \chi^2 $ for the lady
tasting beer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--179
I. J. Good C369. Invariant distance in statistics:
some miscellaneous comments . . . . . . 179--186
I. J. Good C370. A compromise between credibility
and subjective probability . . . . . . . 186--193
Brian D. Marx C371. A correction for C240, Good and
Smith, JSCS \bf 22, pp. 136--142 . . . . 193--193
I. J. Good C372. Fifty years of errors . . . . . . 193--194
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Theodore Karrison Bootstrapping censored data with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--207
Tsai-Hung Fan and
James O. Berger Exact convolution of $t$ distributions,
with applications to Bayesian inference
for a normal mean with $t$ prior
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--228
V. P. Singh and
J. F. Cruise and
Ming Ma A comparative evaluation of the
estimators of the Weibull distribution
by Monte Carlo simulation . . . . . . . 229--241
R. W. Farebrother The cumulants of the logarithm of a
gamma variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
Kenneth Lawrence and
Michael Geurts and
I. Robert Parket Forecasting market share using a
combination of time series data and
explanatory variables . . . . . . . . . 247--253
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Michael D. Geurts and
H. Dennis Tolley Causal partitioning and sales
forecasting accuracy . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Morgan Wang and
William J. Kennedy Comparison of algorithms for bivariate
normal probability over a rectangle
based on self-validated results from
interval analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 13--25
Jen Tang and
Rrjun K. Gupta Testing independence of several groups
of variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--35
Julian J. Faraway Bootstrap selection of bandwidth and
confidence bands for nonparametric
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
F. F. Gan Monitoring observations generated from a
binomial distribution using modified
exponentially weighted moving average
control chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--60
Dong Qian Wang and
J. S. Maritz Note on testing a three state Markov
chain for independence . . . . . . . . . 61--68
Mark D. Schluchter and
Janet T. Elashoff Small-sample adjustments to tests with
unbalanced repeated measures assuming
several covariance structures . . . . . 69--87
Choon-Geol Moon Small sample performance of large sample
tests for Tobit versus $p$-Tobit . . . . 89--97
Peter Hall and
Y. E. Pittelkow Simultaneous bootstrap confidence bands
in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--113
Katheerine B. Ensor and
H. Joseph Newton A recursive in order algorithm for least
squares estimates of an autoregressive
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Leo Breiman and
Charles J. Stone and
Charles Kooperberg Robust confidence bounds for extreme
upper quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--149
Charles C. Taylor Orthogonal series estimators and
cross-validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--158
Benton E. Cobb and
J. D. Church Nonparametric estimators for shift in
quantal bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--170
David Kuo Chuen Lee Corss-validation in semiparametric
models: some Monte Carlo results . . . . 171--187
Keith A. Soper and
Peter H. Westfall Monte Carlo estimation of significance
levels for carcinogenicity tests using
univariate and multivariate models . . . 189--209
Mitchell A. A. Cox and
Trevor F. Cox Interpreting stress in multidimensional
scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--223
Andrew R. Solow A method for approximating multivariate
normal orthant probabilities . . . . . . 225--229
William A. Dembski C373. Reverse diffusion-limited
aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
Brian D. Marx 2374. A continuum of principal component
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
Oliver D. Anderson C375. Finite time-series properties
versus asymptotic theory in
approximating sample serial correlation
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--240
J. E. Cornell and
D. M. Young and
T. L. Bratcher C376. An algorithm for generating
covariance matrices with specified
departures from sphericity . . . . . . . 240--243
I. J. Good C377. Exploratory data analysis . . . . 243--245
I. J. Good C378. Comments concerning the hadron
quantal hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 249--251
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
J. H. Venter and
S. J. Steel Estimation of the mean of the population
selected from $K$ populations . . . . . 1--14
D. J. Hartfiel Component bounds on Markov set-chain
limiting sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
Christina M. L. Kelton and
Marlene A. Smith Statistical inference in nonstationary
Markov models with embedded explanatory
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--44
J. S. Huang Efficient computation of the performance
of bootstrap and jackknife estimators of
the variance of $L$-statistics . . . . . 45--56
Good I. Phillip Most powerful tests for use in matched
pair experiments when data may be
censored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63
Iris Pigeot A simulation study of estimators of a
common odds ratio in several $2 \times
2$ tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--82
Susan A. Weston and
William Q. Meeker Coverage probabilities of nonparametric
simultaneous confidence bands for a
survival function . . . . . . . . . . . 83--97
Marilena Furno Comparison of estimators for
heteroskedastic models . . . . . . . . . 99--107
J. A. Huesemann and
R. R. Stevens Computation of optimal parameters for
bivariate histograms . . . . . . . . . . 109--125
Guy Châtillon and
Louis Laurencelle Percentiles from a set of classes or
from the raw data? An argument based on
the trinomial distribution . . . . . . . 127--138
Hon-Shiang Lau and
Amy Hing-Ling Lau Effective procedures for estimating beta
distribution's parameters and Their
confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 139--150
C. A. McGilchrist and
B. R. Cullis Reml estimation for repeated measures
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163
C. Caroni and
P. Prescott Multivariate outlier tests with
structured covariance matrices . . . . . 165--179
F. F. Gan Ewma control chart under linear drift 181--200
Christina M. L. Kelton and
W. David Kelton A comparison of micro versus macro point
estimators for Markov-process models . . 201--210
John Gates Exact Monte Carlo tests using several
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--218
R. H. Glendinning The convex hull of a dependent
vector-valued process . . . . . . . . . 219--237
Terrance P. Callanan and
David A. Harville Some new algorithms for computing
restricted maximum likelihood estimates
of variance components . . . . . . . . . 239--259
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A. Amey and
A. K. Gupta and
V. Norton and
G. J. Székely On maximum likelihood estimation of the
center of a centrally symmetric convex
domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
Anwar Hossain Influential observations in Anova and
Manova models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--19
Kuang-Chao Chang and
Chien-Pan Han and
D. L. Hawkins Improved estimators of regression
coefficients in measurement error models 21--35
N. G. Shephard Numerical integration rules for
multivariate inversions . . . . . . . . 37--46
Arnold Janssen and
Stephan Brenner Monte Carlo results for conditional
survival tests under randomly censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--62
Subhash C. Narula and
V. A. Sposito and
James E. Gentle Comparison of computer programs for
simple linear $ L_1 $ regression . . . . 63--68
Klaus Miller and
Walter Olbricht On the statistical analysis of grouped
Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--89
A. Adatia Computation of variances and covariances
of order statistics from the geometric
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
Paul W. Eslinger and
Wayne A. Woodward Minimum Hellinger distance estimation
for normal models . . . . . . . . . . . 95--114
Joseph V. Terza and
Ulrich Welland A comparison of bivariate normal
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--127
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Evert Meelis and
Mientje Bressers and
Patsy Haccou Non-parametric testing for the number of
change points in a sequence of
independent random variables . . . . . . 129--137
Oral Capps, Jr. and
William D. Grubbs A Monte Carlo study of collinearity in
linear simultaneous equation models . . 139--162
Karen M. Webster and
Karen M. Campbell Simulation studies: do data generation
techniques play favourites? . . . . . . 163--174
Masanao Aoki C379. Comments on Crabbe and Young . . . 175--178
Leland E. Crabbe and
Brian B. Young C380. A note on time series model
reduction algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 178--185
Kishore Sinha and
Bhagwandas C381. Unequal block-size designs with
orthogonal factorial structure . . . . . 185--187
D. R. Jensen C382. Matrix approximations of given
rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--191
I. J. Good C383. A comment concerning optional
stopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
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Neely E. Atkinson Accurate proportional hazards estimation
in ill-conditioned cases . . . . . . . . 193--203
Xu Mingxian and
John J. Miller and
Edward J. Wegman Parallelizing multiple linear regression
for speed and redundancy: an empirical
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--214
Philip A. Smethurst and
Govind S. Mudholkar Two facets of the Moran statistic . . . 215--220
Gregory P. Decoster and
Douglas W. Mitchell The efficacy of the correlation
dimension technique in detecting
determinism in small samples . . . . . . 221--229
R. S. Nord Irreversible random sequential filling
of lattices by Monte Carlo simulation 231--240
J. N. Lye Finite-sample properties of
limited-information estimators in
misspecified simultaneous equation
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--257
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A. W. Bowman Density based tests for goodness-of-fit 1--13
Bayo H. Lawal A modified $ \chi^2 $ test when some
cells have small expectations in the
multinomial distribution . . . . . . . . 15--27
Hazem D. Maragah and
William H. Woodall The effect of autocorrelation on the
retrospective $X$-chart . . . . . . . . 29--42
Gilberto A. Paula Bias correction for exponential family
nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54
W. Qian and
D. M. Titterington Stochastic relaxations and em algorithms
for Markov random fields . . . . . . . . 55--69
Olcay Akman and
Ramesh C. Gupta A comparison of various estimators of
the mean of an inverse Gaussian
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
Peter A. Lachenbruch The performance of tests when
observations have different variances 83--92
N. S. Altman An iterated Cochrane--Orcutt procedure
for nonparametric regression . . . . . . 93--108
Nader Ebrahimi and
Mohamed Habibullah Testing to determine the underlying
distribution using incomplete
observations when the life time
determine is proportionally related to
the censoring time distribution . . . . 109--118
Duncan K. H. Fong A Bayesian approach to the estimation of
the largest normal mean . . . . . . . . 119--133
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Frank Lad and
James M. Dickey and
Mohammad A. Rahman Numerical application of the fundamental
theorem of prevision . . . . . . . . . . 135--151
Kim-Anh Do A simulation study of balanced and
antithetic bootstrap resampling methods 153--166
Daniela De Angelis and
Alastair Young Bootstrapping the correlation
coefficient: a comparison of smoothing
strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176
Jeff Bromaghin and
Lyman McDonald Systematic encounter sampling: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--191
Timothy C. Brown and
Diana L. Pallant A note on antithetic variates from
discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 193--199
Honggie Kim Measures of influence in correspondence
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--217
D. S. Coad Data-dependent allocation rules a
comparative study of some for Bernoulli
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--231
James A. Calvin and
Richard L. Dykstra An algorithm for restricted maximum
likelihood estimation in balanced
multivariate variance components models 233--246
So Young Sohn Variable selection in a linear growth
curve model with autoregressive
within-individual errors . . . . . . . . 247--255
Oliver D. Anderson C384. Modified order notation with an
example from time series theory . . . . 257--259
Vijay K. Rohatgi and
Gabor J. Szekely C385. On the background of some
correlation inequalities . . . . . . . . 260--262
I. J. Good C386. Ridge regression and the
harmonic-mean rule of thumb . . . . . . 262--262
I. J. Good C387. Further comments concerning the
lady tasting tea or beer: $p$-values and
restricted randomization . . . . . . . . 263--267
I. J. Good C388. A further note on physical
numerology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
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Brian J. Melloy and
John I. Mccool and
Matthew Rosenshine Determining the production lot size for
precision components . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Lawrence J. Emrich and
Marion R. Piedmonte On some small sample properties of
generalized estimating equation
estimates for multivariate dichotomous
outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29
Essam K. Al-Hussaini and
Zeinhum F. Jaheen Bayesian estimation of the parameters,
reliability and failure rate functions
of the Burr Type XII failure model . . . 31--40
Nhu D. Le and
Ruben H. Zamar A global test for effects in 2$^k$
factorial design without replicates . . 41--54
Shu-Yen Ho and
Jerome Klotz Sparse matrix methods for unbalanced
multifactor analysis of variance and
covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--72
Ravinder Nath and
Wade M. Jackson and
Thomas W. Jones A comparison of the classical and the
linear programming approaches to the
classification problem in discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--93
Sani I. Doguwa On the estimation of the point-object
nearest neighbour distribution $ F(y) $
for point processes . . . . . . . . . . 95--107
Geoffrey Poitras Testing regression disturbances for
normality with stable alternatives:
further Monte Carlo evidence . . . . . . 109--123
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Sangit Chatterjee and
Mustafa Yilmaz Use of estimated fractal dimension in
model identification for time series . . 129--141
Man-Suk Oh and
James O. Berger Adaptive importance sampling in Monte
Carlo integration . . . . . . . . . . . 143--168
Rudolph S. Parrish New tables of coefficients and
percentage points for the $w$ test for
normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--185
Ramon C. Littell and
Kenneth M. Portier Robust parametric confidence bands for
distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 187--200
Louis Laurencelle and
Jean-Yves Frigon and
Guy Châtillon Difference between the mean calculated
from raw data and from a frequency
distribution: a new approach . . . . . . 201--218
David Giles and
Offer Lieberman Some properties of the Durbin--Watson
test after a preliminary $t$-test . . . 219--227
Kurt Brännäs Finite sample properties of estimators
and tests in Poisson regression models 229--241
Sabyasachi Basu and
Gregory C. Reinsel A note on properties of spatial
Yule--Walker estimators . . . . . . . . 243--255
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Katrina Sharples and
Norman Breslow Regression analysis of correlated binary
data: some small sample results for the
estimating equation approach . . . . . . 1--20
Ronald L. Horswell and
Stephen W. Looney A comparison of tests for multivariate
normality that are based on measures of
multivariate skewness and kurtosis . . . 21--38
David Whitlark and
Michael Geurts When and how much do average forecasts
improve predictive accuracy . . . . . . 39--45
N. M. Maclaren A limit on the usable length of a
pseudorandom sequence . . . . . . . . . 47--54
Kenneth B. Schechtman Adaptive two-stage sampling in clinical
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64
Albert K. Tsui and
Mukhtar M. Ali Numerical computation of exact moments
of the least squares estimator in a
first-order stationary autoregressive
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--78
Pierre Durilleul and
Pierre Legendre Lack of robustness in two tests of
normality against autocorrelation in
sample data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91
Subhash C. Sharma and
Mukhtar M. Ali Robustness to non-normality of the null
distribution and power of the
Durbin--Watson test in regressions with
and without an intercept . . . . . . . . 93--105
Zehua Chen and
Kim-Anh Do Importance resampling for the smoothed
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--124
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Schneider Helmut and
Shan Lin Bin and
Tang Kwei Comparison of renewal function
estimators for censored data . . . . . . 125--135
J. W. H. Swanepoel and
C. F. De Beer Some new model selection criteria in
simple regression . . . . . . . . . . . 137--149
Jun Bai and
Anthony J. Jakeman and
Michael McAleer Estimating the percentiles of some
misspecified non-nested distributions 151--159
Brian D. Marx A simulation study of two-sample
inference based on one-sample
nonparametric confidence intervals . . . 161--171
Anthony J. Hayter and
Merrilee Hurn Power comparisons between the $F$-test,
the Studentised range test, and an
optimal test of the equality of several
normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185
Eberhard O. Volt and
Puilip F. Rust Tutorial: $S$-system analysis of
continuous univariate probability
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--249
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Carl M. S. Lee On the computation of central and
noncentral beta probabilities . . . . . 1--10
Kim-hung Li Generation of random matrices with
orthonormal columns and multivariate
normal variates with given sample mean
and covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18
R. A. Singhal and
Hardeo Sahai Sampling distribution of the Anova
estimator of between variance component
in samples from a non-normal universe 19--30
Peter N. Jones and
Mclachlan J. Geoffrey Improving the convergence rate of the em
algorithm for a mixture model fitted to
grouped truncated data . . . . . . . . . 31--44
Joan G. Staniswalis and
Brian S. Yandell Locally adaptive smoothing splines . . . 45--53
Michael D. Hurd and
Hoe Kyung Lee Simplified estimation of a nonlinear
simultaneous equations model with
censoring: a Monte Carlo study . . . . . 55--75
Diane L. Fairclough and
William C. Pierni and
Gary J. Ridgway and
Neil C. Schwertman A Monte Carlo comparison of the
smoothing, scoring and em algorithms for
dispersion matrix estimation with
incomplete growth curve data . . . . . . 77--92
Olaf Gefeller and
Holger Dette Nearest neighbour kernel estimation of
the hazard function from censored data 93--101
G. L. Thompson On intercomponent rank tests for the
bivariate two-sample location model . . 103--116
David Alan Grier An extended sweep operator for the cross
validation of variable selection in
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 117--126
N. Balakrishnan Corrigendum to approximate maximum
likelihood estimation of the mean and
standard deviation of the normal
distribution based on Type II censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
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Berlin Wu and
Neng-Hui Shih On the identification problem for
bilinear time series models . . . . . . 129--161
Hui Quan and
Wei-yann Tsai Jackknife for the proportional hazards
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176
S. E. Ahmed Shrinkage preliminary test estimation in
multivariate normal distributions . . . 177--195
Luc Devroye Random variate generation for the
digamma and trigamma distributions . . . 197--216
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton Parameter estimation for the beta
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--228
C. Ming Wang Approximate confidence intervals on
linear combinations of expected mean
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--241
Michael Haber On the expected significance
probabilities and Bahadur efficiencies
of tests for comparing two binomial
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--251
I. J. Good C389. Partial correlation and spherical
trigonometry, II . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
I. J. Good C390. Partial correlation coefficients
are analogous to partial differential
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--256
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Craig F. Ansley and
Robert Kohn and
Chi-Ming Wong The estimation of error standard
deviation in spline regression . . . . . 1--15
Martin Sefton A Lagrange multiplier test of uniformity
against beta alternatives . . . . . . . 17--25
Tomso Ogwang and
U. L. Gouranga Rao A simulation study of structural
estimators of dynamic simultaneous
equations models with autoregressive
disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--46
James H. Albert Bayesian estimation of the polychoric
correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 47--61
Ronald G. Thomas and
Michael Conlon An algorithm for the rapid evaluation of
the power function for Fisher's exact
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--73
Patricia L. Ruppel and
Stephen Buxser Combining and comparing results from
combining and comparing results from
receptor binding assays . . . . . . . . 75--92
James D. Leeper and
Suming W. Chang Comparison of general multivariate and
random-effects models for growth curve
analysis: incomplete-data smallsample
situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--104
Scott E. Atkinson The performance of standard and hybrid
em algorithms for ML estimates of the
normal mixture model with censoring . . 105--115
Debasis Kundu Detecting the number of signals for
undamped exponential models using
information theoretic criteria . . . . . 117--131
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A. J. Lee and
A. J. Scott and
S. C. Soo Comparing Liang--Zeger estimates with
maximum likelihood in bivariate logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--148
Jinn-Jonp Bau and
Hubert J. Chen and
Momiao Xiong Percentage points of the Studentized
range test for dispersion of normal
means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--163
Li-Hsing Shih and
Lawrence M. Leemis Variate generation for a nonhomogeneous
Poisson process with time dependent
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--186
J. M. Bremner A new approach to subset selection for
normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--208
Linda J. Davis Selection of load balancing parameters 209--230
Philip H. Ramsey and
Patricia P. Ramsey Updated version of the critical values
of the standardized fourth moment . . . 231--241
Noyan Turkkan and
T. Pham-Gia Computation of the highest posterior
density interval in Bayesian analysis 243--250
Khaled Za\"\id and
André Rogatko C391. Note on a general algorithm for
constructing Bayesian credible regions 251--255
Pandurang M. Kulkarni and
Arvind K. Shah and
Debashis Kushary C392. On averaging $Y$'s at fixed $X$'s
in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258
D. R. Jensen C393. Power of Student's tests under
spherical errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--261
I. J. Good C394. Tendencies to be sufficient or
necessary causes . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Edward P. Markowski and
Carol A. Markowski C39.5. Evaluation of some alternatives
to the Welch test . . . . . . . . . . . 262--264
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I. N. Chengalur-Smith and
C. Jesse Arnold and
R. Marion Reynolds, Jr. Multiple means Shewhart charts using
variable sampling intervals . . . . . . 1--21
R. Thomas Willemain and
A. Philip Desautels A method to generate autocorrelated
uniform random numbers . . . . . . . . . 23--31
K. Adamidis and
S. Loukas Ml estimation in the Poisson binomial
distribution with grouped data via the
em algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39
J. J. Bau and
J. Hubert Chen and
Kin Lam On using Hartley's statistic to test the
hypothesis of not much difference among
normal variances . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--60
In-Moo Kim A dynamic programming approach to the
estimation of Markov switching
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 61--76
H. Andy Lee and
Yer Van Hui Outliers detection in time series . . . 77--95
Efstathios Paparoditis A comparison of some
autocovariance-based methods of ARMA
model selection: a simulation study . . 97--120
Robert M. Kunst Apparently stable increments in finance
data: could arch effects be the cause? 121--127
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J. H. Venter and
S. J. Steel Simultaneous selection and estimation
for the some zeros family of normal
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--146
Ronald S. Pruitt Small sample comparison of six bivariate
survival curve estimators . . . . . . . 147--167
F. F. Gan An optimal design of EWMA control charts
based on median run length . . . . . . . 169--184
A. Scott Hamilton and
M. G. Jeremy Taylor A comparison of the Box--Cox
transformation method and nonparametric
methods for estimating quantiles in
clinical data with repeated measures . . 185--201
C. R. Dietrich Computationally efficient Cholesky
factorization of a covariance matrix
with block Toeplitz structure . . . . . 203--218
O. T. Ogunyemi and
J. E. Hutton and
P. I. Nelson Approximate Bayes estimators for
stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 219--231
Constantinos Goutis Recovering extra-binomial variation . . 233--242
Christopher Field Tail areas of linear combinations of
chi-squares and non-central chi-squares 243--248
Wei-kei Shiue and
Chong-wei Xu and
B. Charles Rea Bootstrap confidence intervals for
simulation outputs . . . . . . . . . . . 249--255
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Robert Kohn and
Craig F. Ansley Accuracy and efficiency of alternative
spline smoothing algorithms . . . . . . 1--18
William R. Rice and
Steven D. Gaines Calculating $P$-values for Anova with
unequal variances . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Roy F. Bartlett Monte Carlo comparison of Wald's,
likelihood ratio and Rao's tests . . . . 23--33
Chris J. Lloyd Testing recapture model $ M_T $ for
departure from homogeneity . . . . . . . 35--44
F. F. Gan Exponentially weighted moving average
control charts with reflecting
boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--67
Kenneth W. Bauer, Jr. and
James R. Wilson Standardized routing variables: a new
class of control variates . . . . . . . 69--78
Wilkie W. Chaffin and
Steven G. Rhiel The effect of skewness and kurtosis on
the one-sample $T$ test and the impact
of knowledge of the population standard
deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--90
Joan G. Staniswalis and
Thomas A. Severini and
Panagis G. Moschopoulos On a data based power transformation for
reducing skewness . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100
Wolfgang Hörmann The generation of binomial random
variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
R. Van De Ven Estimating the shape parameter for the
negative binomial distribution . . . . . 111--123
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Klaus Pötzelberger and
Klaus Felsenstein On the Fisher information of discretized
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--144
D. J. Hartcfiel Cyclic Markov set-chains . . . . . . . . 145--167
Reza Modarres and
Robert W. Jernigan A robust test for comparing correlation
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--181
Patricia A. Pepple Simultaneous estimation of gamma means
in the presence of a nuisance parameter 183--200
Yash Sikand and
John E. Hewett and
F. T. Wright On the performance of some tests for the
equality of two discrete distributions
with an ordered alternative . . . . . . 201--215
Walter W. Piegorsch and
A. John Bailer Minimum mean-square error quadrature . . 217--234
Norman H. Josephy and
Amir D. Aczel and
Hans R. Künsch Bootstrap estimates of the sample
bivariate autocorrelation and partial
autocorrelation distributions . . . . . 235--249
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C. H. Sim Generation of Poisson and gamma random
vectors with given marginals and
covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Sani I. Doguwa On correlations of neuronal spike
discharges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--24
Nader Ebrahimi Estimating a bivariate survival function
and its marginals under positive
quadrant dependence . . . . . . . . . . 25--35
Jin-chuan Duan and
Jean-guy and
Simonato Multiplicity of solutions in maximum
likelihood factor analysis . . . . . . . 37--47
George S. Donatos and
George C. Michailidis A simulation study of least squares and
ridge estimators for normal and
nonnormal autocorrelated disturbances 49--66
Ramon P. Hernandez and
Richard K. Burdick Confidence intervals and tests of
hypotheses on variance components in an
unbalanced two-factor crossed design
with interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77
I. G. Zurbenko On weakly correlated random numbers
generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88
Tapon Roy C396. An exact confidence interval for
the ratio of means using regression
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
I. J. Good C397. Refutation and rejection versus
inexactification, and other comments
concerning terminology . . . . . . . . . 91--92
I. J. Good C398. $P$-values, luck, and surprise . . 92--94
I. J. Good C399. Trigonometrical factorization of
the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, and
sums of powers of cotangents . . . . . . 94--99
I. J. Good C400. A Tentative measure of
probabilistic causation relevant to the
philosophy of the law . . . . . . . . . 99--105
Gulati Sneh and
S. D. Durham and
W. J. Padgett C401. On bounds for moments of the
brittle fracture distribution . . . . . 105--108
T. P. Hutchinson C102. Second attempts at multiple-choice
test items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--112
T. P. Hutchinson C403. Comments on the multivariate
normal integral . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Mark E. Payton and
Linda J. Young and
J. P. Chandler C404. Using SAS to solve a system of
non-linear equations . . . . . . . . . . 114--117
D. R. Jensen C405. Bivariate correlation in
translation-scale models . . . . . . . . 118--121
D. R. Jensen C406. Lower and upper bounds for
Gaussian measures on $ R^k $ . . . . . . 121--124
Oliver D. Anderson C407. A closer look at an example from
time series theory . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126
Gilles Celeux and
Gérard Govaert Comparison of the mixture and the
classification maximum likelihood in
cluster analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--146
Lydia J. Price and
Wilfried R. Vanhonacker Recursive least-squares approach to data
transferability: exposition and
numerical results . . . . . . . . . . . 147--160
Robert W. Mee Computing factors for uniform
simultaneous confidence bands and
prediction bands and linear regression 161--165
K. D. S. Young Bayesian diagnostics for checking
assumptions of normality . . . . . . . . 167--180
Chi-hyuck Jun Heuristic shrinkage estimators of
Poisson means and a Monte Carlo
comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--193
Christina M. L. Kelton and
W. David Kelton Closure-state specification for
Markov-process models with incomplete
micro data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--217
Lee J. Bain and
Gaoxiong Gan Comparison of expectations of the
extreme of sums and the sum of extremes
from gamma distributions . . . . . . . . 219--225
H. Schneeberger and
K. Fleischer The distribution of the ratio of two
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--240
M. Samiuddin and
M. C. Jones and
G. M. El-sayyad On bin-based density estimation . . . . 241--252
Albert K. Tsui Empirical comparison of finite sample
distribution of the least squares
estimator in a non-stationary
autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Russell F. Kappenman A robust power transformation to
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18
Mehdi Razzaghi and
Mohsen Razzaghi Legendre series estimate of a
distribution function . . . . . . . . . 19--27
B. Bucciarelli and
L. G. Taff and
M. G. Lattanzi A generalization of the moving mean . . 29--46
Hari S. Hariharan and
Raja P. Velu On estimating Dirichlet parameters --- a
comparison of initial values . . . . . . 47--58
M. S. Rahman and
R. P. Gupta Identification and approximation of
distribution by moment ratios . . . . . 59--65
Hon-Shiang Lau and
Amy Hing-Ling Lau The reliability of the
stability-under-addition test for the
stable-Paretian hypothesis . . . . . . . 67--80
J. P. Koolaard and
C. R. O. Lawoko Estimating error rates in discriminant
analysis with correlated training
observations: a simulation study . . . . 81--99
Margaret Kahn A state space method for estimating
frequencies and dampings . . . . . . . . 101--116
Ching-Hui (Charlie) Chang and
Jyh-Jiuan (Grace) Lin and
Nabendu Pal Improvements over the James--Stein
estimator: A risk analysis . . . . . . . 117--126
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Gabriela Stangenhaus and
Subhash C. Narula and
Ferreira F. Pedro Bootstrap confidence intervals for the
minimum sum of absolute errors
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--133
Francis Hsuan and
Burt Holland A modified sweep algorithm for
interchanging between overparameterized
and cell means linear models . . . . . . 135--151
A. L. Bello On the performance of rank transform
discriminant method in error-rate
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--165
Abdul L. Bello A simulation study of imputation
techniques in linear quadratic and
kernel discriminant analyses . . . . . . 167--180
Saleh Amirkhalkhali and
Samad Amirkhalkhali and
Gouranga U. L. Rao A simulation study of estimators of SUR
models with unequal numbers of
observations and with non-normal
disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--194
Lynn Kuo and
Constantin Yiannoutsos Empirical Bayes risk evaluation with
Type II censored data . . . . . . . . . 195--206
Dipak K. Dey and
Fengchun Peng On the choice of prior for the Bayes
estimation in accelerated life testing 207--217
Stephan M. Rudolfer and
Peter C. Watson Evaluation of orthant probabilities for
singular bi- and trivariate normal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--232
Russ Wolfinger and
Michael O'Connell Generalized linear mixed models a
pseudo-likelihood approach . . . . . . . 233--243
Chih-Hsiang Ho Forward and backward tests for an abrupt
change in the intensity of a Poisson
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--252
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So Young Sohn A comparative study of four estimators
for analyzing the random event rate of
the Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
C. R. Dietrich A note on computational issues
associated with restricted maximum
likelihood estimation of covariance
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
David C. Vauchan The exact values of the expected values,
variances and covariances of the order
statistics from the Cauchy distribution 21--32
T. C. Chang and
F. F. Gan Optimal designs of one-sided EWMA charts
for monitoring a process variance . . . 33--48
Chimyung Kwon and
Jeffrey D. Tew Combined correlation methods for
metamodel estimation in multipopulation
simulation experiments . . . . . . . . . 49--75
R. Chattamvelli and
R. Shanmugam An enhanced algorithm for noncentral
T-distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--83
S. E. Ahmed Pooling reliability functions . . . . . 85--101
W. K. Li and
Y. V. Hui Robust residual cross correlation tests
for lagged relations in time series . . 103--109
M. S. Mackisack and
M. R. Osborne and
G. K. Smyth A modified Prony algorithm for
estimating sinusoidal frequencies . . . 111--124
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 125--128
A. P. White Cross validation of nearest neighbour
discriminant analysis --- a warning to
SAS users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
D. J. Best and
D. Graham and
J. C. W. Rayner Estimating correlation from categorized
bivariate normal data . . . . . . . . . 141--149
Lisette R. Bergeron and
Luis A. Escobar Relative efficiencies of some
LR-estimators with Type II censored data
and small samples . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160
C. C. Taylor Simulation methods to estimate smoothing
parameters in image reconstruction . . . 161--177
Jacques Bénasséni Partial additive constant . . . . . . . 179--193
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Gauss M. Cordeiro Matrix formulae for computing improved
score tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--206
R. Chattamvelli Another derivation of two algorithms for
the noncentral $ \chi^2 $ and $f$
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--214
R. H. Byers, Jr. and
L. R. Shenton C406. Surprising approximations to the
half-normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
I. J. Good C407. A comment on the evaluation of
numerology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
D. R. Jensen C408. Uniform Chebychev bounds on $ R^n
$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--221
Mans-Peter Piepho C409. A randomization test for
homoscedasticity in a balanced one-way
layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223
Hans-Peter Piepho C410. a distribution-free test for
homoscedasticity in a two-way layout . . 223--225
L. Barzanti and
C. Corradi C411. A note on the approximate solution
of the Volterra renewal equation using
upper and lower approximations . . . . . 225--228
D. J. Johnstone C412. The evidence required by auditors 228--229
Götz Trenkler C413. On the Moore--Penrose inverse of a
completely symmetric matrix . . . . . . 230--231
David Edelman C414. A confidence interval for an
unknown unimodal density function based
on a sample of size $1$ . . . . . . . . 231--235
I. J. Good C415. A fourth argument for the
explication of causal tendency . . . . . 235--237
I. J. Good C416. Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and
trigonometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
I. J. Good C417. The flybutter effect: the obverse
of the butterfly effect . . . . . . . . 237--238
I. J. Good C418. Fuzzy probability and hierarchical
Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
I. J. Good C419. A key to the topic-independent
philosophy of science . . . . . . . . . 239--240
I. J. Good C420. The existence of sharp null
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
I. J. Good C421. Turing's little theorem is not
really paradoxical . . . . . . . . . . . 242--244
Ling Chen C422. A note on Sutton's composite test
for the mean of asymmetrical
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--249
I. J. Good C423. A comment on the Wilcoxon
sign-rank test and a conjecture
concerning hypothyroidism . . . . . . . 249--250
I. J. Good C424. Significance tests: are they more
important in science than in technology? 250--251
Sergio Wechsler C425. Bayesian note on game theory . . . 251--252
I. J. Good C426. Rationality versus minimax . . . . 253--253
Ian C. Marschner and
Lyndsey F. Watson An improved EMS algorithm for
back-projection of AIDS incidence data 1--20
Diane L. Fairclough and
Neil C. Schwertman Estimation of a positive define general
dispersion matrix from repeated measures
with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--27
Terry E. Dielman and
Elizabeth L. Rose Estimation in least absolute value
regression with autocorrelated errors 29--43
J. P. Small and
D. E. A. Giles and
K. J. White The exact powers of some autocorrelation
tests when relevant regressors are
omitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
Bernhard Schipp and
Götz Trenkler and
Peter Stahlecker Assessing coverage-probabilities for
approximate minimax estimators with
respect to interval restrictions . . . . 59--74
Ping X. Wu and
M. Ishao Bhatti Testing for block effects and
misspecification in regression models
based on survey data . . . . . . . . . . 75--90
C. R. Dietrich and
G. N. Newsam Generating correlated Gaussian random
fields by orthogonal polynomial
approximations to the square root of the
covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 91--109
Peter J. Smith On the calculation of density functions
for certain random geometric series . . 111--117
Ja-Yong Koo and
Youngjo Lee Bivariate B-splines in generalised
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--129
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Mary M. Whiteside and
Byoung Choi and
Mark Eakin and
Henry Crockett Stability of linear programming
solutions using regression coefficients 131--146
Kim-Hung Li A computer implementation of the
Yates--Grundy draw by draw procedure . . 147--151
Patricia J. Wozniak Power of goodness of fit tests for the
two-parameter Weibull distribution with
estimated parameters . . . . . . . . . . 153--161
K. Adamids and
S. Loukas Ml estimation in the bivariate Poisson
distribution in the presence of missing
values via the em algorithm . . . . . . 163--172
Ayanendranath Basu and
Sahadeb Sarkar The trade-off between robustness and
efficiency and the effect of model
smoothing in minimum disparity inference 173--185
Sarah Tseng and
Benjamin M. Adams Monitoring autocorrelated processes with
an exponentially weighted moving average
forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--195
Amit Mitra and
Debasis Kundu and
I. D. Dhariyal and
Neeraj Misra Estimating the ratio of the smaller and
the larger of two uniform scale
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--211
Christina M. L. Kelton Entry and exit in Markov-process models
estimated from macro data, with
applications to shifts between
advertising media . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233
Neil C. Schwertman and
Ricardo Martinez Approximate confidence intervals for the
difference in two Poisson parameters . . 235--247
Uditha Balasooriya and
Veeresh Gadag Tests for upper outliers in the
two-parameter exponential distribution 249--259
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Choudary R. Hanumara A note on the estimation of imprecisions
of two instruments . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Thomas R. Williams and
George C. Runger Statistical process control using level
crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--20
Loon Ching Tang and
Doug Shang Chang Tolerance limits for inverse Gaussian
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29
J. H. Venter and
S. J. Steel Pre-test type estimators for selection
of simple normal models . . . . . . . . 31--48
Michael Geurts and
David Whitlark Partioning a time series to increase
accuracy in marketing response models 49--55
Marcia Polansky Estimation of the parameters of first
order autoregressive process for
balanced repeated measures designs . . . 57--69
David J. Krus and
Jmaes M. Webb Maxwell's demons: simulating probability
distributions with functions of
propositional calculus . . . . . . . . . 71--77
Harry O. Posten A new algorithm for the noncentral $t$
distribution function . . . . . . . . . 79--87
Neol G. Cadigan Bias approximation for maximum
likelihood estimates . . . . . . . . . . 89--95
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Cheng-Sheng Peter Wu and
Yvonne Zubovic A large-scale Monte Carlo study of the
Buckley--James estimator with censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--119
Koon-Shing Kwong Evaluation of the one-sided percentage
points of the singular multivariate
normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 121--135
Peter Foster A comparative study of some bias
correction techniques for kernel- based
density estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152
S. H. Ong Computation of bivariate gamma and
inverted beta distribution functions . . 153--163
Daniel A. Griffith and
Sone Akio Trade-offs associated with normalizing
constant computional simplifications for
estimating spatial statistical models 165--183
C. Caroni and
P. Prescott Union-intersection testing for outliers
in multivariate normal data . . . . . . 185--196
Sanat K. Sarkar and
Steve Snapinn and
Wenjin Wang On improving the min test for the
analysis of combination drug trials . . 197--213
C. Stepniak and
M. Niezgoda Inverting covariance matrices in
unbalanced hierarchical models . . . . . 215--221
Huifen Chen and
Bruce W. Schmeiser Monte Carlo estimation for
guaranteed-coverage non-normal tolerance
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--238
Hui Quan and
Kai F. Yu Sequential testing with interval
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247
Mark R. Conway Importance sampling to evaluate
bivariate probabilities with an
application to sequential Phase II
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--262
Yuedong Wang and
Grace Wahba Bootstrap confidence intervals for
smoothing splines and their comparison
to Bayesian confidence intervals . . . . 263--279
Clifford R. Blair and
Yosef Hochberg Improved Bonferroni procedures for
testing overall and pairwise homogeneity
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--289
John A. Hendrickson, Jr. On the enumeration of rectangular (0,
1)-matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--313
Paula A. Gilberto Influence and residuals in restricted
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 315--331
Y. Wu and
C. A. McGilchrist Recursive computation for repeated
measures models with patterned variance
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--341
Marcel G. Dagenais The performance of alternative
estimators for the probit model with
first-order serial correlation . . . . . 343--351
Marta D. Remmenga and
Dallas E. Johnson A comparison of inference procedures in
unbalanced split-plot designs . . . . . 353--367
Formann K. Anton Small-sample comparison of the exact and
asymptotic upper tail probabilities of
chi-squared goodness-of-fit statistics:
Pearson's $ \chi^2 $, likelihood ratio,
and power-divergence statistic $
(\lambda = 2 / 3) $ . . . . . . . . . . 369--384
Gauss M. Cordeiro Performance of a Bartlett-type
modification for the deviance . . . . . 385--403
Anonymous Editorial collaborators . . . . . . . . 405--407
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Karsten Schmidt and
Peter Stahlecker Reducing the Maximum Risk of Regression
Estimators by Polyhedral Projection . . 1--15
Haim Shore Identifying a Two-Parameter Distribution
by the First two Sample Moment (Partial
and Complete) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32
Denis Hamel and
Jean-Claude Massé A Monte Carlo Study of the Robustness of
Prediction in Growth Curve Models . . . 33--53
Massimo Attanasio and
Weng Kee Wong Transformations for Stabilizing Spread
In a Time Series Model: a Comparative
Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--70
John Lyon and
Chin-Ling Tsai Improved Tests for the First-Order
Autoregressive Model With
Heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 71--83
Alex S. Papadopoulos and
Robert M. Hoekstra Some Robustness Issues In The Bayesian
Analysis of A Weibull Failure Model . . 85--94
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
M. A. M. Ali Mousa Empirical Bayes estimators for the Burr
Type XII accelerated life testing model
based on type-$2$ censored data . . . . 95--103
Stephan M. Rudolfer and
Peter C. Watson and
Emmanuel Lesaffre Are ordinal models useful for
classification? A revised analysis . . . 105--132
Yongxiao Wang and
Jeremy m. G. Taylor Flexible methods for analysing
longitudinal data using piecewise cubic
polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--150
Alan t. K. Wan and
Minxian Yang On the use of the $f$ ratio in a
mis-specified model with an interval
restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--161
O. D. Anderson C427. The precision of approximations to
moments of sample moments . . . . . . . 163--165
Oliver D. Anderson C428. An interesting non-linear
transformation of the theoretical
autocorrelation function . . . . . . . . 165--167
Oliver D. Anderson C429. Finite lengthed time-series
properties versus asymptotic theory in
approximating sample serial correlation
structure: part $2$ . . . . . . . . . . 167--171
Götz Trenkler C430. On the singularity of the sample
covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Rajesh S. Selukar and
Arvind K. Shah and
Satya N. Mishra C431. A simple approach to simultaneous
comparison of normal means . . . . . . . 174--177
D. R. Jensen C432. Efficiency comparisons of central
composite designs . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183
D. R. Jensen C433. Power of Hotelling's $ T^2 $ in
Gaussian mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . 184--187
D. R. Jensen C434. Local bounds on power of $ T^2 $
in scale families . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190
I. J. Good C435. A comment concerning physical
numerology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
I. J. Good C436. An apology related to blurred
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
I. J. Good C437. Haphazardness is not randomness,
and the defeat of Hitler . . . . . . . . 192--192
I. J. Good C438. Reliability always depends on
probability of course . . . . . . . . . 192--193
I. J. Good C439. Dual density functions . . . . . . 193--194
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Peter A. Wright A process capability index sensitive to
skewness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--203
Lloyd J. Edwards Effect of measurement error in testing
separate linear models . . . . . . . . . 205--216
Ma\lgorzata Bogdan Data driven versions of Pearson's
chi-square test for uniformity . . . . . 217--237
D. S. Coad Sequential allocation rules for
multi-armed clinical trials . . . . . . 239--251
Robert G. Turcott and
Peter D. R. Barker and
Malvin C. Teich Long-duration correlation in the
sequence of action potentials in an
insect visual interneuron . . . . . . . 253--271
Anil K. Bera and
Pin T. Ng Tests for normality using estimated
score function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--287
R. Chattamvelli and
M. C. Jones Recurrence relations for noncentral
density, distribution functions and
inverse moments . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--299
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Mokhtar B. Abdullah One-step GM-estimators for orthogonal
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--309
Karlheinz Fleischer Two tests of pseudo random number
generators for independence and uniform
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322
Michael G. Sklar and
Ronald D. Armstrong A piecewise linear approximation
procedure for $ L_p $ norm curve fitting 323--335
Uditha Balasooriya Failure-censored reliability sampling
plans for the exponential distribution 337--349
Steven E. Rigdon An integral equation for the in-control
average run length of a multivariate
exponentially weighted moving average
control chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--365
Thomas M. Loughin A residual bootstrap for regression
parameters in proportional hazards
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--384
N. Balakrishnan and
R. A. Sandhu Recurrence relations for single and
product moments of order statistics from
a generalized half logistic distribution
with applications to inference . . . . . 385--398
Behzad Kamgar-Parsi and
Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi and
Menashe Brosh Distribution and moments of the weighted
sum of uniforms random variables, with
applications in reducing Monte Carlo
simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--414
G. J. McLachian and
D. Scot Asymptotic relative efficiency of the
linear discriminant function under
partial nonrandom classification of the
training data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--426
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J. L. Du Plessis and
A. J. Van Der Merwe Bayesian calibration in meat science
research-estimation of the pH in
postmortem muscle . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Karen J. George and
Joseph W. McKean and
William R. Schucany and
Simon J. Sheather A comparison of confidence intervals
from $R$-estimators in regression . . . 13--22
Steven G. From A two-stage procedure for estimating the
parameters of some discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--39
W. Z. Liu and
A. P. White A comparison of nearest neighbour and
tree-based methods of non-parametric
discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 41--50
D. Rost A simulation study of the weighted
$k$-means cluster procedure . . . . . . 51--63
Ali A. Houshmand and
Srinivasarao Panganamamula An analytical approximation and a neural
network model for optimal sample size in
vendor selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--78
Thomas S. Graves and
James L. Pazdan A permutation test analogue to Tarone's
test for trend in survival analysis . . 79--89
J. K. Ghorai Large sample confidence interval for the
quantiles in the proportional hazards
model of random censorship . . . . . . . 91--102
N. H. Anderson and
D. M. Titterington A comparison of two statistics for
detecting clustering in one dimension 103--125
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Dinh Tuan pham On the discretisation error in the
computation of the empirical
characteristic function . . . . . . . . 129--141
Weng Kee Wong A graphical approach for the
construction of constrained $a$ and
$l$-optimal designs using efficiency
plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152
Per Johansson Tests for serial correlation and
overdispersion in a count data
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--164
James G. Booth and
Ronald W. Butler and
S. Huzurbazar and
Andrew T. A. Wood Saddlepoint approximations for P-values
of some tests of covariance matrices . . 165--180
Neil C. Schwertman and
Nancy J. Carter A more practical Scheffé-type multiple
comparison procedure for commonly
encountered numbers of comparisons . . . 181--196
Shang P. Lin and
Dei-in Tang A hierarchical active constraints search
algorithm for optimal scaling of ordered
categorical responses . . . . . . . . . 197--209
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Elisete C. Q. Aubin and
Silvia L. P. Ferrari Bartlett corrections for one-parameter
exponential family models . . . . . . . 211--231
D. Whitaker A nested simulated annealing algorithm 233--241
Johannah L. Dods and
David E. A. Giles Alternative strategies for `augmenting'
the Dickey--Fuller test: size-robustness
in the face of pre-testing . . . . . . . 243--258
Nalini Ravishanker and
Lilian S. Y. Wu and
Dipak K. Dey Shrinkage estimation in time series
using a bootstrapped covariance estimate 259--267
Ling Chen and
Samuel S. Shapiro An alternative test for normality based
on normalized spacings . . . . . . . . . 269--287
Tsai-Hung Fan Bayesian bootstrap clones for finite
state Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . 289--298
Ian C. Marschner Computation of age-specific HIV
Incidence estimates using the EM
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--312
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Thomas J. Vidmar and
Joseph W. Mckean A Monte Carlo study of robust and least
squares response surface methods . . . . 1--18
C. K. Ng All pairwise comparisons of exponential
location parameters under Type I
censoring --- equal scale parameter case 19--27
Chiang Kao and
J. Y. Wong An exhaustive analysis of prime modulus
multiplicative congruential random
number generators with modulus smaller
than 2$^{15}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35
Nathan R. Wetzel Graphical data modeling methods using
Ceres plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
Jon E. Anderson and
Thomas A. Louis Generating pseudo-random variables from
mixture models by exemplary sampling . . 45--53
Yuejen Zhao and
Andy H. Lee A simulation study of estimators for
generalized linear measurement error
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--74
George C. Runger and
Thomas R. Willemain Using partial ranking information in the
design of small-sample comparisons . . . 75--86
Albeto Luceño and
Francisco J. Gonzalez and
Jaime Puig-Pey Computing optimal adjustment schemes for
the general tool-wear problem . . . . . 87--113
Marilena Furno Small sample behavior of a robust
heteroskedasticity consistent covariance
matrix estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--128
Balgobin Nandram and
Ming-Hui Chen Reparameterizing the generalized linear
model to accelerate Gibbs sampler
convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--144
Bhaskar Bhattacharya and
Balgobin Nandram Bayesian inference for multinomial
populations under stochastic ordering 145--163
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Ayanendranath Basu Robust estimates of ordered means in
normal models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--175
R. Carter Hill and
Phillip A. Cartwright and
Julia F. Arbaugh Bootstrapping estimators for the
seemingly unrelated regressions model 177--196
D. J. Dupuis Estimating the probability of obtaining
nonfeasible parameter estimates of the
generalized Pareto distribution . . . . 197--209
David A. Harville and
Alan G. Zimmermann The posterior distribution of the fixed
and random effects in a mixed-effects
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--229
Oliver Schabenberger and
Timothy G. Gregoire Population-averaged and subjectspecific
approaches for clustered categorical
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--253
Howard R. Clayton The effectiveness of bootstrap methods
in evaluating skewed auditing
populations: a simulation study . . . . 255--264
Anwar Hossain and
Hatem A. Howlader Unweighted least squares estimation of
Weibull parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
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Eric Smith Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
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Byeong U. Park B-Spline deconvolution based on the EM
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Thomas W. Zuehlke Identification by non-linearity in
censored regression models . . . . . . . 289--304
Elizabeth Ann Maharaj A significance test for classifying ARMA
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--331
David M. Nickerson Sequential, accelerated-sequential and
three-stage estimation of the mean of a
first-order stationary autoregressive
process: A Monte Carlo study . . . . . . 333--353
Joshua D. Naranjo More efficient $L$-Estimates . . . . . . 355--361
Alex Hrong-Tai Fai and
Paul L. Cornelius Approximate F-tests of multiple degree
of freedom hypotheses in generalized
least squares analyses of unbalanced
split-plot experiments . . . . . . . . . 363--378
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R. Thompson Investigation of bimodality in
likelihoods and posterior densities . . 379--386
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noncentral chi-square distribution . . . 387--391
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noncentral chi-square distribution . . . 23--29
Lee C. Adkins Prior information in regression: to
choose or not to choose? . . . . . . . . 31--48
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A. D. Lunn Transformations and random variate
generation: generalised
ratio-of-uniforms methods . . . . . . . 49--55
Hak-Keung Yuen and
Siu-Keung Tse Parameters estimation for Weibull
distributed lifetimes under progressive
censoring with random removals . . . . . 57--71
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Dirley M. Dos Santos Fitting a random effects model to
ordinal recurrent events using existing
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--86
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Antonio C. M. Ponce De Leon Discrimination between two binary data
models: sequentially designed
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--100
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Shaolin Li A sampling approach to self-consistent
estimators with arbitrary censored data 101--110
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intervals for multinomial proportions 111--120
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Hong Ling Sampling distribution of the random
consistency index of the analytic
hierarchy process(AHP) . . . . . . . . . 121--131
Xihong Lin and
Norman E. Breslow Analysis of correlated binomial data in
logistic-normal models . . . . . . . . . 133--146
Hanfeng Chen and
Samuel Kotz An asymptotic distribution of Wright's
process capability index sensitive to
skewness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
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S. Yu N-stage splitting for maximum penalized
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Allan S. Cohen Table of percentage points of the
Behrens--Fisher distribution . . . . . . 181--187
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C. A. Mcgilchrist Simulation study of the GLMM method
applied to the analysis of clustered
survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--200
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the logistic distribution based on
doubly censored samples . . . . . . . . 201--211
Qihao Jiang and
Alan J. Gross Asymptotic evaluation of weighted
nonparametric combination procedures . . 213--237
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for density estimation from censored
samples: a simulation . . . . . . . . . 239--245
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II. Comparing second-order designs . . . 251--257
I. J. Good C443. Can the idea of the QH test for
normality be used for testing the
Weibull distribution? . . . . . . . . . 257--263
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Didier Chauveau and
Jean Diebolt Stochastic versions of the em algorithm:
an experimental study in the mixture
case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--314
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Nicole J. M. Blackman Estimators of kappa-exact small sample
properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--336
Herbert Büning and
Wolfgang Kössler Robustness and efficiency of some tests
for ordered alternatives in the
$C$-Sample location problem . . . . . . 337--352
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Byron J. T. Morgan and
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principal components in linear
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nonfeasible parameter estimates of the
generalized extreme-value distribution 23--38
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Ping Sa Testing the variance of symmetric
heavy-tailed distributions . . . . . . . 39--52
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Mikiko Asai and
Syoichi Sasbuchi A simulation study of several tests of
the equality of binomial probabilities
against ordered alternatives . . . . . . 53--75
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procedure for modelling the long-term
behaviour of continuous-time evanescent
random processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--95
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system of seemingly unrelated regression
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--162
Gilles Pag\`es and
Yi-Jun Xiao Sequences with low discrepancy and
pseudo-random numbers: theoretical
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Poisson regression models . . . . . . . 213--228
Anton K. Formann Small-sample comparison of the exact and
asymptotic upper tail probabilities of
chi-squared goodness-of-fit statistics:
the binomial and the mixture binomial 229--249
A. Adatia Approximate blue of the scale parameter
of the Rayleigh distribution based on
doubly censored samples . . . . . . . . 251--271
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K. M. S. Sharma An approach to direct selection of best
subset AR model . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--291
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Enrico A. Colosimo Improved likelihood ratio tests for
exponential censored data . . . . . . . 303--315
Peter Xue-Kun Song Generating dependent random numbers with
given correlations and margins from
exponential dispersion models . . . . . 317--335
H. Al-Nachawati and
I. Alwasel and
A. A. Alzaid Estimating the parameters of the
generalized Poisson AR(1) process . . . 337--352
H. P. Piepho Tests for equality of dispersion in
divariate samples --- review and
empirical comparison . . . . . . . . . . 353--372
Hasik Sunwoo and
Byung-chun Kim Analysis of the unbalanced linear model
based on the balanced model . . . . . . 373--385
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Andrea Saltelli Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
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the presence of stochastic and
subjective uncertainty . . . . . . . . . 3--76
T. H. Andres Sampling methods and sensitivity
analysis for large parameter sets . . . 77--110
Jack P. C. Kleijnen Sensitivity analysis and related
analyses: A review of some statistical
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--142
A. M. H. Meeuwissen and
Tim Bedford Minimally informative distributions with
given rank correlation for use in
uncertainty analysis . . . . . . . . . . 143--174
Stephen C. Hora Sensitivity, uncertainty, and decision
analyses in the prioritization of
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--196
David Rios Insua and
Jacinto Martin and
Les Proll and
Simon French and
Abdellah Salhi Sensitivity analysis in statistical
decision theory: A decision analytic
view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--218
Russell C. H. Cheng and
Wayne Holloand Sensitivity of computer simulation
experiments to errors in input data . . 219--241
Bernd Kraan and
Roger Cooke Post-processing techniques for the joint
CEC/USNRC uncertainty analysis of
accident consequence codes . . . . . . . 243--259
G. Prabhakar Rao and
P. K. Sarkar Sensitivity studies of air scattered
neutron dose from particle accelerators 261--270
C. Ekberg and
I. Lundén-Burö Uncertainty analysis for some actinides
under groundwater conditions . . . . . . 271--284
N. Rahni and
N. Ramdani and
Y. Candau and
P. Dalicieux Application of group screening to
dynamic building energy simulation
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--304
M. S. De Wit Identification of the important
parameters in thermal building
simulation models . . . . . . . . . . . 305--320
Jeffrey A. Shorter and
Herschel A. Rabitz Risk analysis by the guided Monte Carlo
technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--336
Francesca Campolongo and
Albert Gabric The parametric sensitivity of
dimethylsulfide flux in the Southern
Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--352
Jeffrey D. Cawlfield and
Samuel Boateng and
John Piggott and
Ming-Chee Wu Probabilistic sensitivity measures
applied to numerical models of flow and
transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--364
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Aaron Childs and
N. Balakrishnan Comparison of tests for multiple
outliers when sampling from the logistic
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Enivaldo C. Da Rocha and
Jacira Guiro C. Da Rocha and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Bias-corrected maximum likelihood
estimation for the beta distribution . . 21--35
N. Singha and
M. S. Peiris A simulation study on vector ARMA
processes with nonstationary innovation:
a new approach to identification . . . . 37--58
Hany Zayed and
Dana Quade On the resistance of rank correlation 59--81
Sharon L. Lohr and
Michelle Divan Comparison of confidence intervals for
variance components with unbalanced data 83--97
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I. M. Sobol Sensitivity measures, Anova-like
techniques and the use of bootstrap . . 99--120
Essam K. Al-Hussaini and
Magued I. Osman On the median of a finite mixture . . . 121--144
Brett Moore and
K. Krishnamoorthy Combining independent normal sample
means by weighting with their standard
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153
Choudur K. Lakshminarayan and
Chien-Pai Han On estimating the mean In a bivariate
normal distribution With equal or
unequal variances . . . . . . . . . . . 155--170
Amit Mitra and
Debasis Kundu Consistent method for estimating
sinusoidal frequencies: a non-iterative
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--194
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Eloísa Díaz-Francés and
Luis M. Rodríguez Cross-validation of covariance
structures using the Frobenius matrix
distance as a discrepancy function . . . 195--215
Hoonja Lee and
Robert V. Foutz A new spectral model for binary or
categorical-valued time series data . . 217--235
Y. K. Tse and
X. L. Zuo Testing for conditional
heteroscedasticity: some Monte Carlo
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--253
Shyh-Tyan Ou and
Ronald R. Hocking and
Suojin Wang Saddlepoint confidence intervals for
variance components . . . . . . . . . . 255--268
K. E. Ahmad and
H. M. Moustafa and
A. M. Abd-Elrahman Approximate Bayes estimation for
mixtures of two Weibull distributions
under type-2 censoring . . . . . . . . . 269--285
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M. S. Seyedsadr Estimation of general linear-bilinear
models for two-way tables . . . . . . . 287--322
R. J. Ohara Hines A comparison of tests for overdispersion
in generalized linear models . . . . . . 323--342
D. Lynn Kelley and
Shlomo S. Sawilowsky Nonparametric alternatives to the $f$
statistic in analysis of variance . . . 343--359
Carmen D. S. André and
Subash C. Narula and
Clovis A. Peres and
Gilberto A. Ventura Asymptotic properties of the minimum sum
of absolute errors estimators in a
dose-response model . . . . . . . . . . 361--370
Simon J. Sheather and
Joseph W. McKean and
Thomas P. Hettmansperger Finite sample stability properties of
the least median of squares estimator 371--383
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Tomoyuki Higuchi Monte Carlo filter using the genetic
algorithm operators . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Andrew F. Hayes Cautions in testing variance equality
with randomization tests . . . . . . . . 25--31
Chunsheng Ma Saddlepoint approximations for
multinomial distributions, with
applications to the joint . . . . . . . 33--45
Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and
George C. Canavos Estimation in the three-parameter gamma
distribution based on the empirical
moment generation function . . . . . . . 47--62
R. J. O'Hara Hines An Application of retrospective sampling
in the analysis of a very large
clustered data set . . . . . . . . . . . 63--81
Asan M. Polansky Inexact control variates for the
iterated bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . 83--99
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Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg and
Ledwina Teresa Data driven smooth tests for composite
hypotheses comparison of powers . . . . 101--121
R. Kelley pace and
Ronald P. Barry Fast cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--145
A. Neath Andrew and
Kevin Bodden Bayesian nonparametric confidence bounds
for a distribution function . . . . . . 147--160
Marchand Éric On moments of beta mixtures, the
noncentral beta distribution, and the
coefficient of determination . . . . . . 161--178
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Miguel A. Uribe-Opazo and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Second order asymptotics for score tests
in exponential family nonlinear models 179--194
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N. J. Le Roux and
S. J. Steel and
N. Louw Variable selection and error rate
estimation in discriminant analysis . . 195--219
Marcella Corduas Indirect inference for fractional time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--232
Anthony Y. C. Kuk and
Yuk W. Cheng The Monte Carlo Newton--Raphson
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
Piette L'Ecuyer Tests based on sum-functions of spacings
for uniform random numbers . . . . . . . 251--269
Tu Dongsheng Two one-sided tests procedures in
establishing therapeutic equivalence
with binary clinical endpoints: fixed
sample performances and sample size
derformination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--290
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Anne Philippe Processing simulation output by Riemann
sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--314
L. Allison Jones and
William H. Woodall A runs rule alternative to level
crossings in statistical process control 315--331
David C. Hamilton and
Mary L. Lesperance A comparison of estimators of the
proportion nonconforming in univariate
and multivariate normal samples . . . . 333--348
J. W. van der Touw and
R. F. Galbraith and
G. M. Laslett A logistic truncated normal mixture
model for overdispersed binomial data 349--373
Tilmann Gneiting Normal scale mixtures and dual
probability densities . . . . . . . . . 375--384
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W. L. Poston and
J. L. Solka and
E. J. Wegman A parallel algorithm for subset
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Benedikt M. Pötscher and
Andreas J. Novák The distribution of estimators after
model selection: large and small sample
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--56
Yin-Wong Cheung and
Kon S. Lai Power of the augmented Dickey--Fuller
test with information-based lag
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--65
Dale L. Zimmerman and
Vicente Nuúñez-Antón and
Hammou El-Barmi Computational aspects of
likelihood-based estimation of
first-order antedependence models . . . 67--84
Gianfranco Adimari An empirical likelihood statistic for
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95
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Neng-Hui Shih and
Jsen-Shung Lin A conditional simulation method for
estimating the critical component of
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--106
Felix Famoye Computer generation of generalized
negative binomial deviates . . . . . . . 107--122
Daoji Shi and
C. D. Lai Fisher information for Downton's
bivariate exponential distribution . . . 123--127
W. J. Branu and
R. J. Kulperger A bootstrap for point processes . . . . 129--155
I. J. Good C446. The excess of even numbers of
carbon atoms in organic compounds, and
Eddington's fisherman's fallacy: dogs,
hot dogs and astronomers . . . . . . . . 157--160
Sauchi Stephen Lee C447. Combining models to improve
classification rates . . . . . . . . . . 160--164
Eric Marchand C448. A note on the equality $ E (X) = E
[E (X / Y)] $ where $ E (X I Y = y) $ is
constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--168
Patrica Pepple Williamson C449. A note on the random generation of
Dirichlet variates . . . . . . . . . . . 168--173
Askar H. Choudhury C450. Improving a GLS approach for
estimation of autoregressive
moving-average models . . . . . . . . . 173--176
Sauchi Stephen Lee C451. Regularized quadratic discriminant
methods for skewed binary classification 176--180
Sanat K. Sarkar C452. Correction to: \booktitleOn
improving the min test for the analysis
of combination drug trials, JSCS \bf 51
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Russell C. H. Cheng and
Wayne Holland Two-point methods for assessing
variability in simulation output . . . . 183--205
Leann Myers Comparability of the James' second-order
approximation test and the Alexander and
Govern $A$ statistic for non-normal
heteroscedastic data . . . . . . . . . . 207--222
Yu-Sheng Hsu and
Hong Mei Comparisons among three estimation
methods in linear models when
observations are pairwise correlated . . 223--236
Nandini Raghavan and
Dennis D. Cox Adaptive mixture importance sampling . . 237--259
M. Hendi and
H. Al-Nachawati and
M. Montasser and
I. Alwasel An exact test for HNBUE class of life
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--275
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Ronaldo Dias Density estimation via hybrid splines 277--293
Ray D. Nelson and
Rulon D. Pope Improvements in the power of empirical
stochastic dominance comparisons through
kernel density estimation: a Monte Carlo
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--317
Claudia Czado and
Axel Munk Assessing the similarity of
distributions --- finite sample
performance of the empirical Mallows
distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--346
Debasis Kundu Estimating the number of sinusoids and
its performance analysis . . . . . . . . 347--362
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos and
Maria Luiza F. Santos on the second-order bias of parameter
estimates in nonlinear regression models
with Student $t$ errors . . . . . . . . 363--378
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Winson Taam and
Guohua Pan The value of unranked items in the
analysis of incomplete ranking survey 1--14
Lieven Declerck and
Marc Aerts and
Geert Molenberghs Behaviour of the likelihood ratio test
statistic under a Bahadur model for
exchangeable binary data . . . . . . . . 15--38
Martin Spiess A mixed approach for the estimation of
probit models with correlated responses:
some finite sample results . . . . . . . 39--59
Kazuhiro Ohtani Mes performance of the minimum mean
squared error estimators in a linear
regression model when relevant
regressors are omitted . . . . . . . . . 61--75
S. K. Ng and
G. J. McLachlan On modifications to the long-term
survival mixture model in the presence
of competing risks . . . . . . . . . . . 77--96
Balgobin Nandram A Bayesian analysis of the three-stage
hierarchical multinomial model . . . . . 97--126
Chul Gyu Park and
Dong Wan Shin An algorithm for generating correlated
random variables in a class of
infinitely divisible distributions . . . 127--139
Uriel G. Rothblum and
Yehuda Vardi Maximum likelihood estimation of cell
probabilities in constrained multinomial
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--161
Wei Pan Rank invariant tests with left truncated
and interval censored data . . . . . . . 163--174
Zhenlin Yang On robustness of usual confidence region
under transformation misspecification 175--190
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Darcy P. Mays and
Karen R. Schwartz Two-stage central composite designs with
dispersion effects . . . . . . . . . . . 191--218
Jae H. Kim Bootstrap order selection for
autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 219--235
L\`ucia P. Barroso and
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Kalus L. P. Vasconcellos Corrected likelihood ratio tests for von
Mises regression models . . . . . . . . 237--258
David C. Hamilton and
Mary L. Lesperance Calculating the MVUE of the fraction
nonconforming for the bivariate normal 259--270
R. L. Eubank and
J. T. Kim A simple second order smoother . . . . . 271--285
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I. J. Good Comments, conjectures and conclusions 287--312
Carlos A. Escalante-Sanboval and
Jose A. Raynal-Villasenor Multivariate estimation of floods: the
trivariate Gumbel distribution . . . . . 313--340
D. J. Dupuis and
C. A. Field A Comparison of confidence intervals for
generalized extreme-value distributions 341--360
Thomas R. Willemain and
George C. Runger Statistical process control using run
sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--378
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Abdelrahim M. Barham and
S. Jeyaratnam Robust confidence interval for the
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--205
Sergio G. Koreisha and
Tarmo Pukkila The selection of the order and
identification of nonzero elements in
the polynomial matrices of vector
autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . 207--235
Chunsheng Ma Representations, bounds and
approximations for tail probabilities of
multivariate non-central hypergeometric
and negative hypergeometric
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--258
Dongryeon Park Comparison of two response curve
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--269
Marti J. Anderson and
Pierre Legendre An empirical comparison of permutation
methods for tests of partial regression
coefficients in a linear model . . . . . 271--303
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Yukio Yanagisawa Generalization for the distribution of
Hartley's and Nair's \em Fmax statistics 305--318
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Michael Hazilla and
George H. K. Wang A Monte Carlo investigation of the BDS
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--356
Nabendu Pal and
Wooi K. Lom Shrinkage estimation of a correlation
coefficient and two examples with real
life data-sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--373
G. A. Latham and
S. Yu $N$-Stage splitting for maximum
penalized likelihood estimation with
Gaussian data and stationary linear
iterative methods . . . . . . . . . . . 375--393
S. Nadarajah Simulation of multivariate extreme
values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--410
Alan T. K. Wan A note on almost unbiased generalized
ridge regression estimator under
asymmetric loss . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--421
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for future observations from the inverse
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Darcy Mays Near-saturated two-stage designs with
dispersion effects . . . . . . . . . . . 13--35
Eleanne Solorzano and
John Spurrier One-sided simultaneous comparisons with
more than one control . . . . . . . . . 37--46
Richard Dykstra and
Chris Carolan The distribution of the argmax of
two-sided Brownian motion with quadratic
drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58
Guohua Pan On a Levene type test for equality of
two variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--71
Jack Lee and
Y. L. Lio A note on Bayesian estimation and
prediction for the beta-binomial model 73--91
Wang-Shu Lu Testing extra-binomial variations . . . 93--103
Paul Chiou and
Chien-Pai Han Conditional Interval Estimation of the
Ratio of Variance Components following
Rejection of a Pre-test . . . . . . . . 105--119
H. P. Williams and
A. G. Munford Formulae for the $ L_0 $, $ L_1 $ and $
L_\infty $ Norms . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--141
Anthony Y. C. Kuk Laplace Importance Sampling for
Generalized Linear Mixed Models . . . . 143--158
Felix Famoye EDF Tests for the Generalized Poisson
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--168
K. K. W. Yau and
P. S. F. Ma A Simulation Study for the
Binomial-Logit Model with Correlated
Random Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--186
A. K. Gupta and
T. P. Logan and
Jie Chen A Variable Selection Technique in
Discriminant Analysis with Application
in Marketing Data . . . . . . . . . . . 187--199
Seung-Ho Kang and
Jerome H. Klotz Updating exact $P$-values for the
conditional likelihood ratio test of
independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--215
L. I. Pettit and
K. D. S. Young Bayesian analysis for inverse Gaussian
lifetime data with measures of
degradation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--234
S. E. Ahmed Stmultaneous estimation of survivor
functions in exponential lifetme models 235--261
Nancy L. Campbell and
Linda J. Young and
George A. Capuano Analyzing over-dispersed count data in
two-way cross-classification problems
using generalized linear models . . . . 263--281
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M. Ivette Gomes and
Manuela Nevas Some results on the behaviour of Hill's
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--297
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Frank Bretz Numerical computation of multivariate
$t$-probabilities with application to
power calculation of multiple contrasts 103--117
Huifen Chen and
Tsu-Kuang Yang Computation of the sample size and
coverage for guaranteed-coverage
nonnormal tolerance intervals . . . . . 299--320
Erik Holst and
Poul Thyregod A statistical test for the mean squared
error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--347
C. Xiong Step stress model with threshold
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
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Lungi Pace and
Alessandra Salvan Point estimation based on confidence
intervals: exponential families . . . . 1--21
Min Liao and
Toshiyuki Shimokawa A new goodness-of-fit test for Type-I
extreme-value and $2$-parameter Weibull
distributions with estimated parameters 23--48
Christophe Biernacki and
Gérard Govaert Choosing models in model-based
clustering and discriminant analysis . . 49--71
Wan-Kai Pang Modelling binary data: a Gibbs sampling
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--85
Mary Kathryn Cowles and
Gareth O. Roberts and
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Possible biases induced by MCMC
convergence diagnostics . . . . . . . . 87--104
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Pierre Dutilleul The MLE algorithm for the matrix normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--123
Anne Mich\`ele Millar and
David C. Hamilton Modern outlier detection methods and
their effect on subsequent inference . . 125--150
Neil A. Butlet A frequency domain algorithm for maximum
likelihood estimation of Gaussian fields 151--165
A. Ploymenis and
D. M. Titterington A note on the distribution of the
likelihood ratio statistic for normal
mixture models with known proportions 167--175
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Francisco Cribari-Neto On the robustness of analytical and
bootstrap corrections to score tests in
regressions models . . . . . . . . . . . 177--191
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Ro Jin Pak Robust test statistics induced from the
minimum $ L_2 $ distance estimation . . 193--207
Jose Andres Correa and
David B. Wolfson Length-bias: some characterizations and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--219
Marcus A. Agustin Asymptotic and finite-sample properties
of a reliability estimator for a
competing risks system . . . . . . . . . 221--234
David A. McDonald and
Leif K. Sandal Estimating the parameters of stochastic
differential equations using a criterion
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--250
S. Moussa and
M. Moore Monte Carlo estimates of the
distributions of the Poisson Voronoi
tessellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--273
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Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and
Simos G. Meintanis Testing for stability based on the
empirical characteristic function with
applications to financial data . . . . . 275--300
Lisa M. Belue and
Kenneth W. Bauer, Jr. Designing experiments for single output
multilayer perceptrons . . . . . . . . . 301--325
Christian P. Robert and
Tobias Rydén and
D. M. Titterington Convergence controls for MCMC
algorithms, with applications to hidden
Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--355
I. S. Molchanov Diffusion-limited aggregation with jumps
and flights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--381
C. M. Anderson-Cook Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--386
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Xin M. Tu and
Gang Jia and
Jeanne Kowalski and
Silviu A. Bacanu Bayesian regression analysis of data
with censored initiating and terminating
times: applications to aids . . . . . . 1--21
Shean-Tsong Chiu Test of Significance in order selection 23--42
Dong-Bin Jeong and
Sahadeb Sarkar Negative exponential disparity based
family of goodness-of-fit tests for
multinomial models . . . . . . . . . . . 43--61
Alan M. Polansky and
Edsel R. Baker Multistage plug-in bandwidth selection
for kernel distribution function
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--80
Sung-Soo Kim All possible subset regressions using
the triangular decomposition . . . . . . 81--94
So Young Sohn Meta analysis with potentially
correlated marketing study results . . . 95--107
Chris D. Orme and
Simon A. Peters Asymptotic expansions and the
reliability of tests in accelerated
failure time models . . . . . . . . . . 109--132
C. T. J. Dodson Information geodesics for gamma models
of communication clustering . . . . . . 133--146
C.-H. Sim $S$-chart for non-Gaussian variables . . 147--156
S. J. Steel and
N. Louw and
N. J. Le Roux A comparison of the post selection error
rate behaviour of the normal linear and
quadratic discriminant rules . . . . . . 157--172
Param Sothy Silvapulle and
Jan M. Podivinsky The effect of non-normal disturbances
and conditional heteroskedasticity on
multiple cointegration tests . . . . . . 173--189
E. A. Colosimo and
A. F. Silva and
F. R. B. Cruz Bias evaluation in the proportional
hazards model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--201
Ali A. Al-Subaihi A Monte Carlo study of the Friedman and
Conover tests in the single-factor
repeated measures design . . . . . . . . 203--223
Ben Lyons and
Dawn Peters Applying Skovgaard's modified directed
likelihood statistic to mixed linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--242
W. K. Wong and
C. H. Sim Goodness-of-fit test based on empirical
characterisitc function . . . . . . . . 243--269
Riccardo Gatto Multivariate Saddlepoint test for the
wrapped normal model . . . . . . . . . . 271--285
Herbert Büning and
Thorsten Thadewald An adaptive two-sample location-scale
test of Lepage type for symmetric
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--310
Joachim Hartung and
Guido Knapp Confidence intervals for the between
group variance in the unbalanced one-way
random effects model of analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--323
Adnan M. Awad and
Mohammad Z. Raqab Prediction intervals for the future
record values from exponential
distribution: comparative study . . . . 325--340
A. M. Halawa and
M. Y. El Bassiouni Tests of regression coefficients under
ridge regression models . . . . . . . . 341--356
Jesse C. Arnold Virginia Tech Department of Statistics:
the first fifty years . . . . . . . . . 1--17
B. A. Starnes and
Jeffrey B. Birch Asymptotic results for model robust
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--33
Quintion J. Nottingham and
Jeffrey B. Birch and
Barry A. Bodt Local logistic regression an application
to army penetration data . . . . . . . . 35--50
Christine M. Anderson-Cook A second order model for cylindrical
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--65
Chung-Yi Suen and
Hegang Chen A family of regular fractional factorial
designs with maximum resolution . . . . 67--78
James E. Mays and
Jeffrey B. Birch and
Richard L. Einsporn An overview of model-robust regression 79--100
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I. J. Good Turing's anticipation of empirical Bayes
in connection with the cryptanalysis of
the Naval Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
Timothy J. Robinson and
Jeffery B. Birch Model misspecification in parametric
dual modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--126
John A. Cornell Developing mixture models, are we done 127--144
Zachary G. B. Stoumbos and
Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. Robustness to non-normality and
autocorrelation of individuals control
charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--187
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Jonas H. Ellenberg Communication of statistical concepts:
examples in medical collaboration . . . 189--207
Lin Hefang and
Raymond H. Myers and
Ye. Keying Bayesian two-stage optimal design for
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--231
A. Onar and
W. J. Padgett Inverse Gaussian accelerated test models
based on cumulative damage . . . . . . . 233--247
Nien Fan Zhang Statistical control charts for
monitoring the mean of a stationary
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--258
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Assaid A. Christopher and
Birch B. Jeffrey Automatic bandwidth selection in robust
nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 259--272
K. See and
J. Stufken and
S. Y. Song and
A. J. Bailer Relative efficiencies of sampling plans
for selecting a small number of units
from a rectangular region . . . . . . . 273--294
Burt A. David and
Clint W. Coakley Automatic bandwidth selection for
modified $m$-smoother . . . . . . . . . 295--319
Richard G. Krutchkoff Are sufficient statistics sufficient . . 321--329
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Essam K. Al-Hussaini and
Gannat R. Al-Dayian and
Samia A. Adham On finite mixture of two-component
Gompertz lifetime model . . . . . . . . 20--67
Tak K. Mak Heteroscedastic regression models with
non-normally distributed errors . . . . 21--36
Pierre Legendre Comparison of permutation methods for
the partial correlation and partial
Mantel tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--73
Michael E. Kuhl and
James R. Wilson Least squares estimation of
nonhomogeneous Poisson processes . . . . 699--712
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Fortin Ines and
Kuzmics Christoph Optimal window width choice in spectral
density estimation Review and simulation 109--131
Javier Rojo and
Julia Bader On Estimating The Quantile Function For
Distributions Constrained by Star-Shaped
Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--172
Lau Tai-Shing On the heterogeneity of proportions . . 173--188
René J. Van Dorp and
Thomas A. Mazzuchi Solving For the parameters of a beta a
distribution under two quantile
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--201
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Brami El. Hammou and
Nelson I. Paul The monotone density estimators from
selection biased samples . . . . . . . . 203--217
Vikrant Bansal and
John D. Perkins and
Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos Using mathematical programming to
compute singular multivariate normal
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--253
Mary Whiteside and
Mark Eakin and
Byong Choi and
Henry D. Crockett Modified chance constrained linear
programming under uncertainty . . . . . 255--287
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Abdissa Negassa and
Antonio Ciampi and
Michal Abrahamowicz and
Stanley Shapiro and
Jean-François Boivin Tree-structured prognostic
classification for censored survival
data: validation of computationally
inexpensive model selection criteria . . 289--317
Ulric Lund and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka An entropy-based test for goodness of
fit of the von Mises distribution . . . 319--332
M. Y. El-Bassiouni and
M. E. M. Abdelhafez Interval estimation of the mean in a
two-stage nested model . . . . . . . . . 333--350
Andrew Hayen and
Malcolm Quine Calculating the proportion of triangles
in a Poisson--Voronoi tessellation of
the plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--358
Beatriz Vaz De. Melo Mendes Assessing the bias of maximum likelihood
estimates of contaminated GARCH models 359--376
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Alan Genz and
Koon-Shlng Kwong Numerical evaluation of singular
multivariate normal distributions . . . 1--21
Ioannis Ntzoufras and
Jonathan J. Forster and
Petros Dellaportas Stochastic search variable selection for
log-linear models . . . . . . . . . . . 23--37
L. A. Gil-Alana Evaluation of Robinson's (1994) Tests in
finite samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--63
Brandon Whitcher and
Peter Guttorp and
Donald B. Percival Multiscale detection and location of
multiple variance changes in the
presence of long memory . . . . . . . . 65--87
W. John Braun and
Valentin Rousson An autocorrelation criterion for
bandwidth selection in nonparametric
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--101
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Pavel Grabarnik and
Aila Särkkä Interacting neighbour point processes:
Some models for clustering . . . . . . . 103--125
Wafik Youssef Younan and
Maged George Iskander A suggested computational procedure to
Peizer and Pratt's approximation to the
incomplete beta and gamma ratios . . . . 127--134
Patricia Pepple Williamson A Bayesian alternative to the sign test
in the presence of ties . . . . . . . . 135--152
Dinesh S. Bhoj and
Klaus Schiefermayr Approximations to the distribution of
weighted combination of independent
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
Pedro Geoffroy and
Govinda Weerakkody A Poisson-gamma model for two-stage
cluster sampling data . . . . . . . . . 161--172
N. Balakrishnan and
Hon Keung Tony Ng Improved estimation of the correlation
coefficient in a bivariate exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--184
Luisa Bisaglia and
Matteo Grigoletto Prediction intervals for Farima
processes by bootstrap methods . . . . . 185--201
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Ma\lgorzata Bogdan Data driven versions of Neyman's test
for uniformity based on Bayesian rule 203--222
Philip J. Everson Exact Bayesian inference for normal
hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . 223--241
Claudia Czado and
Axel Munk Bootstrap methods for the nonparametric
assessment of population bioequivalence
and similarity of distributions . . . . 243--280
Li-Shan Huang Testing the adequacy of a linear model
\em VIA critical smoothing . . . . . . . 281--294
Robert M. Price and
Douglas G. Bonett Estimating the variance of the sample
median . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--305
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Tony R. Sahama and
Neil T. Diamond Sample size considerations and
augmentation of computer experiments . . 307--319
Ujjwala P. Vijapurkar and
Carol A. Gotway Assessment of forecasts and forecast
uncertainty using feneralized linear
regression models for time series count
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--349
Panagiotis Mantalos and
Ghazi Shukur Booststrapped Johansen tests for
cointegration relationships: a graphical
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--371
Tahsoh T. Joseph Smoothing spline and kernel estimation
of a probit function . . . . . . . . . . 373--389
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Spyros G. Zarkos Heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance
matrix estimation: White's estimator and
the bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--411
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Yudi Pawitan Two-staged estimation of variance
components in generalized linear mixed
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Mihoko V. Bennett and
Thomas R. Willemain Resistant estimation of multivariate
location using minimum spanning trees 19--40
S. H. Alkarni and
M. M. Siddiqui An upper bound for the distribution
function of a positive definite
quadratic form . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--56
Anthony J. Bernard and
Peter S. Wludyka Robust $I$-sample analysis of means type
randomization tests for variances . . . 57--88
Gareth Ambler and
Patrick Royston Fractional polynomial model selection
procedures: investigation of Type I
error rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108
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Mohammad M. Raqab and
M. Ahsanullah Estimation of the location and scale
parameters of generalized exponential
distribution based on order statistics 109--123
Amir Javaheri and
Ali A. Houshmand Average run length comparison of
multivariate control charts . . . . . . 125--140
Gunter Döge Perfect Simulation for Random Sequential
Adsorption of $d$-Dimensional Spheres
with Random Radii . . . . . . . . . . . 141--156
Paulo Soares and
Carlos Daniel Paulino Incomplete categorical data analysis: a
Bayesian perspective . . . . . . . . . . 157--170
Bon K. Sy Information-statistical pattern based
approach for data mining . . . . . . . . 171--201
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Bon K. Sy Probability model selection using
information-theoretic optimization
criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--224
Michael Berger and
Sneh Gulati Record-breaking data: a parametric
comparison of the inverse-sampling and
the random-sampling schemes . . . . . . 225--238
Cathy W. S. Chen and
Yu-Wen Wen On goodness of fit for time series
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256
Gulhan Alpargu and
Pierre Dutilleul Efficiency analysis of ten estimation
procedures for quantitative linear
models with autocorrelated errors . . . 257--275
Laurie M. Meaux and
Dean M. Young and
John W. Seaman, Jr. A comparison of parametric conditional
error-rate estimators for the two-group
linear discriminant function . . . . . . 277--291
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Edward Susko and
Jiahua Chen and
J. D. Kalbfleisch A diagnostic tool for mixture models . . 293--313
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Debasis Kundu Generalized exponential distribution:
different method of estimations . . . . 315--337
Chin-Shang Li Testing for linearity in generalized
linear models using kernel smoothing . . 339--351
Bhaskar Bhattacharya Testing equality of scale parameters
against restricted alternatives for $ m
\geq 3 $ gamma distributions with
unknown common shape parameter . . . . . 353--368
Dale Bowman Effects of correlation in modeling
clustered binary data . . . . . . . . . 369--389
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Vytaras Brazauskas and
Robert Serfling Small sample performance of robust
estimators of tail parameters for Pareto
and exponential models . . . . . . . . . 1--19
Hanfeng Chen and
Grazyna Kamburowska Fitting data to the Johnson system . . . 21--32
Patricia P. Ramsey and
Philip H. Ramsey Least-squares tests of time-series,
invention effects with and without
autocorrelations . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
Syed Shakir Ali Ghazali Modification of Jessen's method $2$ . . 45--54
Peihua Qiu and
Chap Le ROC curve estimation based on local
smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69
Y. Wu An $m$-estimation-based model selection
criterion with a data-oriented penalty 71--87
Kirsten Björkestöl and
Michael B. Dollinger On the moments of a Stahel Donoho robust
multivariate estimator . . . . . . . . . 89--106
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Huang Chunfeng Boundary corrected cubic smoothing
splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--121
Mohammed A. Shayib Estimation procedures and prediction
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--134
Fried Roland Recursive linear mixed models: some
results on shared parameter estimation 135--160
Qian Lianfen and
Wang Suojin Bias-corrected heteroscedasticity robust
covariance matrix (sandwich) estimators 161--174
Melissa Dowd Begg and
Andrea B. Paykin Performance of and software for a
modified Mantel--Haenszel statistic for
correlated data . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--195
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Peter Smith and
Brian Dawkins Estimating the permanent by importance
sampling from a finite population . . . 197--214
J. W. Kuhn and
W. J. Padgett and
J. G. Surles Absolute error criteria for bandwidth
selection in density estimation from
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--230
M. A. Al Osh and
S. J. Lee A simple approach for generating
correlated binary variates . . . . . . . 231--255
Jin Zhang and
Yuehua Wu A family of simple distribution
functions to approximate complicated
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--266
Luis A. Gil-Alana The power of the tests of Robinson
(1994) in the context of fractionally
integrated moving average models . . . . 267--272
N. G. Cadigan and
J. Chen Properties of robust $m$-estimators for
Poisson and negative binomial data . . . 273--288
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Li Gang and
Peter Y. S. shao and
Yining Wang Tests of a normal mean vector with
hypotheses determined by linear
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--298
Z. Y. Chen On the statistical computation of the
sample multiple correlation coefficient 299--324
Hans J. H. Tuenter An algorithm to determine the parameters
of $ S_U $-curves in the Johnson system
of probability distributions by moment
matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--347
Xibin Zhang and
Yiu Kuen Tse Local influence on bandwidth estimation
for kernel smoothing . . . . . . . . . . 349--370
Mezbahur Rahman and
Larry M. Pearson Estimation in two-parameter exponential
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--386
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Magnar Lillegård Tests based on Monte Carlo simulations
conditioned on maximum likelihood
estimates of nuisance parameters . . . . 1--10
Mortaza Jamshidian A Note on parameter and standard error
estimation in adaptive robust regression 11--27
Abdulaziz Elfessi and
Robert H. Hoar Simulation study of a linear
relationship between two variables
affected by errors . . . . . . . . . . . 29--40
N. Balakrishnan and
Hon Keung Tony Ng On estimation of the correlation
coefficient in Moran--Downton
multivariate exponential distribution 41--58
H. Bayo Lawal Modeling symmetry models in square
contingency tables with ordered
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--83
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Frank Bretz and
Anthony J. Hayter and
Alan Genz Critical point and power calculations
for the Studentized range test for
generally correlated means . . . . . . . 85--97
D. J. Dupuis and
C. Winchester More on the four-parameter kappa
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--113
Christopher H. Schmid and
Norma Terrin and
John L. Griffith and
Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr. and
Harry P. Selker Predictive performance of missing data
methods for logistic regression,
classification trees and neural networks 115--140
Nairanjana Dasgupta and
Francis G. Pascual and
John D. Spurrier Small-sample techniques for comparing
several logistic regression slopes to a
standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--161
M. A. M. Ali Mousa Inference and prediction for Pareto
progressively censored data . . . . . . 163--181
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C.-T. Lin and
N. Balakrishnan Exact linear inference for scaled
exponential distribution based on doubly
Type-II censored samples . . . . . . . . 183--199
Zhenlin Yang and
Ronnie T. C. Lee On the failure rate estimation of the
inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 201--213
S. K. Upadhyay and
M. Peshwani Full posterior analysis of three
parameter lognormal distribution using
Gibbs sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--230
Carolina F. Svetliza and
Gilberto A. Paula On diagnostics in log-linear negative
binomial models . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--244
S. J. Lee On the assessment of tolerance limits
under inverse Gaussian distribution . . 245--265
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
L. A. Gil-Alana A joint test of fractional cyclic
integration and a linear time trend . . 269--285
Stephan Morgenthaler and
John W. Tukey Two-way plots: I. The case of straight
line segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--312
Pankaj Choudhari and
Debasis Kundu and
Neeraj Misra Likelihood ratio test for simultaneous
testing of the mean and the variance of
a normal distribution . . . . . . . . . 313--333
Atsu S. S. Dorvlo Component reduction in linear
discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 335--344
Hui-Chin Tang A statistical analysis of the screening
measure of multiple recursive random
number generators of orders one and two 345--356
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Daniel W. Schafer Likelihood Analysis and Flexible
Structural Modeling for Measurement
Error Model Regression . . . . . . . . . 33--45
Silvia M. Ojeda and
Ronny O. Vallejos and
María M. Lucini Performance of Robust RA Estimator for
Bidimensional Autoregressive Models . . 47--62
Kevin Wright and
William J. Kennedy Self-validated Computations for the
Probabilities of the Central Bivariate
Chi-square Distribution and a Bivariate
$F$ Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--75
Dejian Lai and
Guanrong Chen Testing Chaos Based on Empirical
Distribution Function: A Simulation
Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85
Jason A. Osborne and
Thomas A. Severini The Lorenz Curve for Model Assessment in
Exponential Order Statistic Models . . . 87--97
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Thomas R. Willemain and
Mihoko V. Bennett The Distribution of Node Degree in
Maximum Spanning Trees . . . . . . . . . 101--106
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos Nearly Unbiased Maximum Likelihood
Estimation for the Beta Distribution . . 107--118
Robert M. Price and
Douglas G. Bonett Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals
for Difference and Ratio of Medians . . 119--124
Heleno Bolfarine and
Celso R. B. Cabral and
Gilberto A. Paula Distance Tests Under Nonregular
Conditions: Applications to the
Comparative Calibration Model . . . . . 125--140
Lisa M. Sullivan and
Ralph B. D'Agostino Robustness and Power of Analysis of
Covariance Applied to Data Distorted
from Normality by Floor Effects:
Non-Homogeneous Regression Slopes . . . 141--165
A. B. M. Rabiul Alam Beg and
Mervyn Joseph Silvapulle and
Paramsothy Silvapulle Robust Tests Against Smooth Transition
Autoregressive Models . . . . . . . . . 167--178
Carol J. Feltz Customizing Generalizations of the
Kolmogorov--Smirnov Goodness-of-fit Test 179--186
Tomas Pettersson A Comparative Study of Model-based Tests
of Independence for Ordinal Data Using
the Bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--203
Satoshi Aoki Improving Path Trimming in a Network
Algorithm for Fisher's Exact Test in
Two-way Contingency Tables . . . . . . . 205--216
Sujit K. Sahu Bayesian Estimation and Model Choice in
Item Response Models . . . . . . . . . . 217--232
Dongfeng Wu Norm Thresholding Method in Wavelet
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--245
J. W. Lee and
S. J. Jo and
D. L. DeMets and
K. Kim Confidence Intervals Following Group
Sequential Tests in Clinical Trails with
Multivariate Observations . . . . . . . 247--259
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
Asoka Ramanayake and
Arjun Gupta Change Points with Linear Trend Followed
by Abrupt Change for the Exponential
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--278
Colin Gallagher Order identification for Gaussian moving
averages using the covariation . . . . . 279--283
Ronaldo Dias and
Dani Gamerman A Bayesian Approach to Hybrid Splines
Non-Parametric Regression . . . . . . . 285--297
Enrico Colosimo and
Flávio Ferreira and
Maristela Oliveira and
Cleide Sousa Empirical comparisons between
Kaplan--Meier and Nelson--Aalen survival
function estimators . . . . . . . . . . 299--308
Stuart Lipsitz and
Michael Parzen and
Lue Ping Zhao A Degrees-Of-Freedom approximation in
Multiple imputation . . . . . . . . . . 309--318
Balgobin Nandram and
Hyunjoong Kim Marginal Likelihood for a Class of
Bayesian Generalized Linear Models . . . 319--340
Efthymios Tsionas Likelihood-based comparison of stable
Paretian and competing models: Evidence
from daily exchange rates . . . . . . . 341--353
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
S. Rollans and
D. L. McLeish Estimating the Optimum of a Stochastic
System using Simulation . . . . . . . . 357--377
Tian-Jong Hwu and
Chien-Pai Han and
Katherine Rogers The Combination Test for Multivariate
Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton Problems with Maximum Likelihood
Estimation and the 3 Parameter Gamma
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--401
Robert Kunst and
Michael Reutter Decisions on Seasonal Unit Roots . . . . 403--418
Federica Giummole and
Laura Ventura Practical Point Estimation from
Higher-Order Pivots . . . . . . . . . . 419--430
Guohua Pan and
Winson Taam On Generalized Linear Model Method for
Detecting Dispersion Effects in
Unreplicated Factorial Designs . . . . . 431--450
Qiqing Yu and
George Wong How to Find all Buckley--James Estimates
Instead of Just One? . . . . . . . . . . 451--460
Siu-Keung Tse and
Hak-Keung Yuen and
Chunyan Yang Statistical Analysis of Exponential
Lifetimes Under an Integrated Type-II
Interval Censoring Scheme . . . . . . . 461--471
Ajit Tamhane and
Bruce Ankenman and
Ying Yang The beta distribution as a latent
response model for ordinal data (I):
Estimation of location and dispersion
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--494
Guoyong Jiang and
Sanat Sarkar Combination tests for the equality of
the covariance matrices of two dependent
bivariate normals . . . . . . . . . . . 495--505
K. Albertson and
J. Aylen and
K. B. Lim The power of the Durbin--Watson test
when the errors are ${\rm par}(1)$ . . . 507--516
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--518
Ma. Zenia Agustin Generalized hazard-based goodness-of-fit
tests for a repairable system . . . . . 519--531
S. Safi and
A. Zeroual Ma system identification using higher
order cumulants application to modelling
solar radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--548
John Hsu A generalization of the logistic linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--564
Y. Huang and
P. Harris and
S. P. J. Kirby and
J. C. Dearden Improved approaches to interval
estimation of effective doses for a
logistic dose-response curve . . . . . . 565--584
Christophe Croux and
Gentiane Haesbroeck A note on finite-sample efficiencies of
estimators for the minimum volume
ellipsoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--596
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--598
William Andrew Scott Maximum likelihood estimation using the
empirical Fisher information matrix . . 599--611
Ananda Sen Bayesian estimation and prediction of
the intensity of the power law process 613--631
Bryan Manly and
R. I. C. Chris Francis Testing for mean and variance
differences with samples from
distributions that may be non-normal
with unequal variances . . . . . . . . . 633--646
Thomas Lee On algorithms for ordinary least squares
regression spline fitting: A comparative
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--663
Terry Dielman and
Elizabeth Rose Bootstrap versus traditional hypothesis
testing procedures for coefficients in
least absolute value regression . . . . 665--675
N. Balakrishnan and
Chien-Tai Lin Exact linear inference and prediction
for exponential distributions based on
general progressively Type-II censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--686
L. Camarinopoulos and
G. Zioutas Formulating robust regression estimation
as an optimum allocation problem . . . . 687--705
Michael Perakis and
Evdokia Xekalaki A process capability index that is based
on the proportion of conformance . . . . 707--718
Raid Amin and
Kuiyuan Li The effect of autocorrelation on the
EWMA MaxMin tolerance limits . . . . . . 719--735
Daniel Hunt Simulations to improve experimental
designs for $u$-shaped dose-response
modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--746
Robert Downer A permutation alternative and other test
procedures for spatially correlated data
in one-way Anova . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--757
Matteo Grigoletto Weighted transformed hazard Anova for
censored and truncated data . . . . . . 759--773
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--775
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--778
Mohamed Raqab and
Mohamed Madi Bayesian prediction of the total time on
test using doubly censored Rayleigh data 781--789
Biao Zhang An em algorithm for a semiparametric
finite mixture model . . . . . . . . . . 791--802
D. De Vleeschauwer and
M. J. C. Büchli and
A. Van Moffaert and
R. E. Kooij End-to-end queuing delay assessment in
multi-service IP networks . . . . . . . 803--824
Younshik Chung and
Dipak Dey and
Junghoon Jang Semiparametric hierarchical selection
models for Bayesian meta analysis . . . 825--839
Francis Pascual and
Grace Montepiedra On minimax designs when there are two
candidate models . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--862
Thomas Hettmansperger and
Joseph Mckean and
Simon Sheather Finite Sample Performance of tests for
Symmetry of the Errors in a Linear Model 863--879
Jae Lee Importance sampling for signal
extraction model in time series analysis 881--894
Ibrahim Salama and
Dana Quade Computing the distribution of Spearman's
footrule in $ O(n^4) $ time . . . . . . 895--898
Keeyoung Kim and
Byungjin Choi A comparison of estimators for the mean
in the inverse Gaussian distribution
with a known coefficient of variation 899--908
Ghazi Shukur and
David Edgerton The small sample properties of the reset
test as applied to systems of equations 909--924
Nairanjana Dasgupta and
Gongwei Chen Some robustness issues for comparing
multiple logistic regression slopes to a
control for small samples . . . . . . . 925--935
R. Gutiérrez-Jáimez and
J. D. Jiménez-López On the efficiency property of the linear
estimators in the bivariate Pearson Type
VII distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--948
Luis Gil-Alana Logarithmic and power transformations in
the context of fractionally integrated
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--957
Sylvain Maire Reducing variance using iterated control
variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--30
Patricia Ramsey and
Philip Ramsey Comparing least-squares lines for
testing level changes in interrupted
time-series analysis . . . . . . . . . . 31--44
M. Carapeto and
W. Holt and
P. N. Refenes On model complexity and selection . . . 45--57
Min Xie and
Wolfgang Preuss and
Li-Rong Cui Error analysis of some integration
procedures for renewal equation and
convolution integrals . . . . . . . . . 59--70
Chunming Zhang and
Bin Cheng Binning methodology for nonparametric
goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . . . . . 71--82
Marti Anderson and
Cajo Ter Braak Permutation tests for multi-factorial
analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 85--113
Zhenlin Yang and
Min Xie Efficient estimation of the Weibull
shape parameter based on a modified
profile likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . 115--123
Shuo-Jye Wu Estimation for the two-parameter Pareto
distribution under progressive censoring
with uniform removals . . . . . . . . . 125--134
Cem Kadilar and
Cenap Erdem\`\ir Modification of the Akaike information
criterion to account for seasonal
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--143
Anwar Hossain and
William Zimmer Comparison of estimation methods for
Weibull parameters: Complete and
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153
Arjun Gupta and
Tuhao Chen On the sample characterization criterion
for normal distributions . . . . . . . . 155--163
Gülhan Alpargu and
Pierre Dutilleul To be or not to be valid in testing the
significance of the slope in simple
quantitative linear models with
autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . . . 165--180
Patrick Farrell and
T. W. F. Stroud Random balanced resampling: A new method
for estimating variance components in
unbalanced designs . . . . . . . . . . . 181--194
Thomas Love and
Kevin Linderman A Weibull process failure mechanism for
the economic design of MEWMA control
charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--202
Mary Riddel Finite sample properties of
nonstationary binary response models: A
Monte Carlo analysis . . . . . . . . . . 203--222
Andre Acusta and
Paul Eggermont and
Vincent Lariccia An em algorithm for density estimation
with randomly censored data . . . . . . 223--232
Wai-Kwong Cheang and
Gregory Reinsel Finite sample properties of ML and REML
estimators in time series regression
models with long memory noise . . . . . 233--259
Lianfen Qian and
José Correa Estimation of Weibull parameters for
grouped data with competing risks . . . 261--275
N. Balakrishnan and
Chien-Tai Lin On the distribution of a test for
exponentiality based on progressively
Type-II right censored spacings . . . . 277--283
M. Ivette Gomes and
Orlando Oliveira Maximum likelihood revisited under a
semi-parametric context --- estimation
of the tail index . . . . . . . . . . . 285--301
Fikri Akdeniz and
Akio Namba A note on new feasible generalized ridge
regression estimator under the LINEX
loss function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--310
Chanseok Park and
Ayanendranath Basu The generalized Kullback--Leibler
divergence and robust inference . . . . 311--332
Gejza Wimmer and
Viktor Witkovský Between group variance component
interval estimation for the unbalanced
heteroscedastic one-way random effects
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--345
Ricardo Cao and
Jeffrey Hart and
ángeles Saavedra Nonparametric maximum likelihood
estimators for AR and MA time series . . 347--360
Herbert Büning and
Michael Rietz Adaptive bootstrap tests and their
competitors in the $C$-sample location
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
Satish Agarwal and
Jamal Al-Saleh and
D. K. Al-Mutairi An estimator of population total in
multiple characteristics and its
robustness to product moment correlation
coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--386
Ramalingam Shanmugam A package of four edited books on
structural equations modeling . . . . . 387--388
Shuen-Lin Jeng Exact sample size determination in a
Weibull test plan when there is time
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--408
Dimitris Karlis and
Evdokia Xekalaki A zero frequency alternative method to
the moment method of estimation in
finite Poisson mixtures . . . . . . . . 409--427
W. J. Padgett and
Meredith Tomlinson Lower confidence bounds for percentiles
of Weibull and Birnbaum--Saunders
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--443
Bertrand Candelon and
Luis Gil-Alana On finite sample properties of the tests
of Robinson (1994) for fractional
integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--464
Ramalingam Shanmugam \booktitleEncyclopedia of
Environmetrics, Volume 2 . . . . . . . . 465--466
Sven Knoth and
Raid Amin Autocorrelation and tolerance limits . . 467--489
George Iliopoulos and
Dimitris Karlis Simulation from the Bessel distribution
with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 491--506
Sudhir Paul and
Krishna Saha and
Uditha Balasooriya An empirical investigation of different
operating characteristics of several
estimators of the intraclass correlation
in the analysis of binary data . . . . . 507--523
R. N. Watteel and
R. J. Kulperger Nonparametric estimation of the
canonical measure for infinitely
divisible distributions . . . . . . . . 525--542
Ramalingam Shanmugam Biostatistical genetics and genetic
epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--544
Tadeusz Inglot and
Alicja Janic-Wróblewska Data driven chi-square test for
uniformity with unequal cells . . . . . 545--561
Thelma Sáfadi and
Pedro Morettin A Bayesian analysis of autoregressive
models with random normal coefficients 563--573
Mark Van der Laan and
Katherine Pollard and
Jennifer Bryan A new partitioning around medoids
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--584
André Luis Santiago Maia and
Antônio Carlos Braga Junior and
Gauss Cordeiro Corrected likelihood ratio and score
tests for the beta distribution . . . . 585--596
Toni Coombs and
Richard Burdick A comparison of methods for constructing
confidence intervals on contrasts in a
three-factor mixed model . . . . . . . . 597--602
Ling Chen C470. Normality tests based on weighted
order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--606
Richard Krutchkoff C471. Does the law of large numbers
really say that? . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--608
David Harville C472. The expected value of a
conditional variance: An upper bound . . 609--612
I. J. Good C473. Straddling the interquantile range 612--616
Anonymous C475. Erratum to C462 ``More on the
relative efficacy of probability scoring
rules'', JSCS \bf 72, 2002, pp. 11--14 616--616
Anonymous C474. Errors of the fourth kind . . . . 617--617
Shoichi Sasabuchi and
Takashi Miura and
Hitoshi Oda Estimation and test of several
multivariate normal means under an order
restriction when the dimension is larger
than two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--641
Fabián Tibaldi and
José Cortiñas Abrahantes and
Geert Molenberghs and
Didier Renard and
Tomasz Burzykowski and
Marc Buyse and
Max Parmar and
Theo Stijnen and
Russ Wolfinger Simplified hierarchical linear models
for the evaluation of surrogate
endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--658
Efthymios G. Tsionas Bayesian quantile inference . . . . . . 659--674
Shu-Kai S. Fan Implementation of ridge analysis on
quadratic response surfaces . . . . . . 675--684
Sangun Park and
Dongryeon Park Correcting moments for goodness of fit
tests based on two entropy estimates . . 685--694
Ramalingam Shanmugam Case studies in reliability and
maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--695
Hani Samawi and
Walid Abu-Dayyeh More powerful sign test using median
ranked set sample: Finite sample power
comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--708
John Dyer and
Michael Conerly and
B. Michael Adams A simulation study and evaluation of
multivariate forecast based control
charts applied to ARMA processes . . . . 709--724
S. N. Chiu and
I. S. Molchanov and
M. P. Quine Maximum likelihood estimation for
germination-growth processes with
application to neurotransmitters data 725--732
Francis Pascual The random fatigue-limit model in
multi-factor experiments . . . . . . . . 733--752
Lefteris Angelis An evolutionary algorithm for A-optimal
incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 753--771
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--774
Leandro Pardo and
María Del Carmen Pardo Minimum power-divergence estimator in
three-way contingency tables . . . . . . 819--831
Yudi Pawitan and
Jian Huang Constrained clustering of irregularly
sampled spatial data . . . . . . . . . . 853--865
H. M. Moustafa and
S. G. Ramadan On MLE of a nonlinear discriminant
function from a mixture of two Gompertz
distributions based on small sample size 867--885
M. Maswadah Conditional confidence interval
estimation for the inverse Weibull
distribution based on censored
generalized order statistics . . . . . . 887--898
David R. Bickel Robust and efficient estimation of the
mode of continuous data: the mode as a
viable measure of central tendency . . . 899--912
Jochen Einbeck and
Göran Kauermann Online monitoring with local smoothing
methods and adaptive ridging . . . . . . 913--929
Ming Gao Gu and
Liuquan Sun and
Changquan Huang A universal procedure for parametric
frailty models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
C. Caroni and
A. Kimber Detection of frailty in Weibull lifetime
data using outlier tests . . . . . . . . 15--23
N. Balakrishnan and
N. Kannan and
C. T. Lin and
S. J. S. Wu Inference for the extreme value
distribution under progressive Type-II
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--45
H. B. Wong and
F. F. Gan and
T. C. Chang Designs of moving average control chart 47--62
Yoshio Komori and
Hideo Hirose Easy estimation by a new
parameterization for the three-parameter
lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . 63--74
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and
Hani M. Samawi Estimating the variance of a normal
population by utilizing the information
in a sample from a second related normal
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--90
V. P. Singh and
Maqsood Ahmad A comparative evaluation of the
estimators of the three-parameter
generalized Pareto distribution . . . . 91--106
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Debasis Kundu Discriminating between gamma and
generalized exponential distributions 107--121
S. J. Steel and
S. Oosthuizen and
D. W. Uys A measure of post variable selection
error in multiple linear regression, and
its estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--133
David A. Harville Making REML computationally feasible for
large data sets: use of the Gibbs
sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--153
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Stavros Pouloukas Estimation and comparison of lognormal
parameters in the presence of censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--169
Augustine C. M. Wong and
Jianrong Wu and
Xiang Sun Likelihood based inference for the ratio
of gamma means . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--181
G. Tutz and
T. Scholz Semiparametric modelling of
multicategorical data . . . . . . . . . 183--200
R. R. Kumbhar and
D. T. Shirke Tolerance limits for lifetime
distribution of $k$-unit parallel system 201--213
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Spyros G. Zarkos Leverage-adjusted heteroskedastic
bootstrap methods . . . . . . . . . . . 215--232
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--233
Javier Portela and
M. A. Gómez-Villegas Implementation of a robust Bayesian
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248
Markus Orasch and
William Pouliot Tabulating weighted sup-norm functionals
used in change-point analysis . . . . . 249--276
Marilena Furno ARCH tests and quantile regressions . . 277--292
Sujuan Gao Combining binomial data using the
logistic normal model . . . . . . . . . 293--306
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--312
Samineni S. R. Prasad and
Bikash Bhadury Robustness of measures of common cause
sigma in presence of data correlation 313--338
S. R. C. Lopes and
B. P. Olbermann and
V. A. Reisen A comparison of estimation methods in
non-stationary ARFIMA processes . . . . 339--347
Richard A. Levine and
Juanjuan Fan An automated Markov chain Monte Carlo EM
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
Y. K. Tse and
Xibin Zhang A Monte Carlo investigation of some
tests for stochastic dominance . . . . . 361--378
L. C. C. Montenegro and
E. A. Colosimo and
G. M. Cordeiro and
F. R. B. Cruz Bias correction in the Cox regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--386
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--390
Shalabh and
Leon J. Gleser and
Ori Rosen On the usefulness of knowledge of error
variances in the consistent estimation
of an unreplicated ultrastructural model 391--417
Wei Pan and
Kenneth A. Frank An approximation to the distribution of
the product of two dependent correlation
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--443
Ayanendranath Basu and
Smarajit Bose and
Sumitra Purkayastha Robust discriminant analysis using
weighted likelihood estimators . . . . . 445--460
Jin Zhang and
Keming Yu The null distribution of the
likelihood-ratio test for two upper
outliers in a gamma sample . . . . . . . 461--467
Lajos Horváth and
Piotr Kokoszka and
Gilles Teyssi\`ere Bootstrap misspecification tests for
ARCH based on the empirical process of
squared residuals . . . . . . . . . . . 469--485
John T. Chen and
Arjun K. Gupta and
Truc T. Nguyen The density of the skew normal sample
mean and its applications . . . . . . . 487--494
Mahbuba Yeasmin and
Maxwell L. King Test sizes and the importance of finding
global maxima of the likelihood function 495--500
Raymond H. Chan and
Yong Chen and
K. M. Yeung A memory reduction method in pricing
American options . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--511
I. R. Cruz-Medina and
T. P. Hettmansperger Nonparametric estimation in
semi-parametric univariate mixture
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--524
K. M. Eskridge and
S. G. Gilmour and
R. Mead and
N. A. Butler and
D. A. Travnicek Large supersaturated designs . . . . . . 525--542
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--543
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546
Sergio G. Koreisha and
Tarmo Pukkila The specification of vector
autoregressive moving average models . . 547--565
Jan Beirlant and
Tertius De Wet and
Yuri Goegebeur Nonparametric estimation of extreme
conditional quantiles . . . . . . . . . 567--580
Anna Liu and
Yuedong Wang Hypothesis testing in smoothing spline
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--597
Abu T. M. Minhajuddin and
Ian R. Harris and
William R. Schucany Simulating multivariate distributions
with specific correlations . . . . . . . 599--607
Gauss M. Cordeiro Corrected likelihood ratio tests in
symmetric nonlinear regression models 609--620
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--621
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--623
Yue Fang and
Sergio G. Koreisha Forecasting with serially correlated
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 625--649
Olivier Thas and
Jean-Pierre Ottoy An extension of the Anderson--Darling
$k$-sample test to arbitrary sample
space partition sizes . . . . . . . . . 651--665
Steven G. From Approximating the distribution of a
renewal process using generalized
Poisson distributions . . . . . . . . . 667--681
Melinda A. Holt and
James D. Stamey and
John W. Seaman, Jr. and
Dean M. Young A note on tests for interaction in
quantal response data . . . . . . . . . 683--690
Donald W. Zimmerman Inflated statistical significance of
Student's $t$ test associated with small
intersubject correlation . . . . . . . . 691--696
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--700
Peter Wludyka and
Ping Sa A robust $I$-sample analysis of means
type randomization test for variances
for unbalanced designs . . . . . . . . . 701--726
Cathy W. S. Chen and
Jack C. Lee and
Hsiang-Yu Lee and
W. F. Niu Bayesian estimation for time-series
regressions improved with exact
likelihoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--740
Claudia Angelini and
Theofanis Sapatinas Empirical Bayes approach to wavelet
regression using $ \epsilon
$-contaminated priors . . . . . . . . . 741--764
Ramsés H. Mena and
Stephen G. Walker A density function connected with a
non-negative self-decomposable random
variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--775
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--777
Joy King and
Weng Kee Wong Optimal designs for the power logistic
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--791
B. M. Golam Kibria Performance of the shrinkage preliminary
test ridge regression estimators based
on the conflicting of W, LR and LM tests 793--810
Steven Cook and
Neil Manning Size distortion of asymmetric unit root
tests in the presence of level shifts 811--819
Gerald L. Sievers and
Asheber Abebe Rank estimation of regression
coefficients using iterated reweighted
least squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--831
Patricia Pepple Williamson Comparison of testing procedures
utilizing $P$-values and Bayes factors
in some common situations . . . . . . . 833--850
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--851
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--854
Daniel A. Griffith Faster maximum likelihood estimation of
very large spatial autoregressive
models: an extension of the
Smirnov--Anselin result . . . . . . . . 855--866
N. Balakrishnan and
Chien-Tai Lin and
Ping-Shing Chan Exact inference and prediction for
$K$-sample two-parameter exponential
case under general Type-II censoring . . 867--878
H. E. T. Holgersson and
Ghazi Shukur Testing for multivariate
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 879--896
Mark Kane and
John Holt and
Brian Allen Results concerning the generalized
partially linear single-index model . . 897--912
I. J. Good Section Editor Comments, conjectures, and conclusions 913--922
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--923
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review Two books on Geometry in
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--926
Zeinhum F. Jaheen On record statistics from a mixture of
two exponential distributions . . . . . 1--11
Coen A. Bernaards and
Klaas Sijtsma Bias of factor loadings from
questionnaire data with imputed scores 13--23
M. M. Shoukri and
M. A. Chaudhary and
A. Al-Halees Estimating $ P(Y < X) $ when $X$ and $Y$
are paired exponential variables . . . . 25--38
Ramón Artiaga and
Ricardo Cao and
Salvador Naya and
Javier Trillo Nonparametric two-stage plug-in adaptive
smoothing for thermal analysis data . . 39--54
Tae Yoon Kim and
Cheolyong Park and
S. Y. Hwang New view on smoothing parameter selector
in function estimation . . . . . . . . . 55--64
Hanem M. Moustafa The efficiency of a nonlinear
discriminant function based on
unclassified initial samples from a
mixture of two Weibull populations . . . 65--73
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--78
Gwen Aldridge and
Dale Bowman Bayesian bootstrap methods for
developmental toxicity studies . . . . . 81--91
Christopher J. Mecklin and
Daniel J. Mundfrom A Monte Carlo comparison of the Type I
and Type II error rates of tests of
multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . 93--107
B. Aslan and
G. Zech New test for the multivariate two-sample
problem based on the concept of minimum
energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
Javier Cabrera and
Vipul Devas and
Luisa T. Fernholz Target estimation for the logistic
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--140
P. A. G. Van Der Geest The binomial distribution with dependent
Bernoulli trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--154
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
Borek D. Puza and
Terence J. O'neill Length-biased, with-replacement sampling
from an exponential finite population 159--174
Michael Perakis and
Evdokia Xekalaki A process capability index for discrete
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--187
Yadolah Dodge and
Giuseppe Melfi Random number generators and rare events
in the continued fraction of $ \pi $ . . 189--197
Levent Kirisci and
Ali A. Al-Subaihi and
Ralph Tarter Effects of the generalized Box--Cox
transformation on Type I error rate and
power of Hotelling's $ T^2 $ . . . . . . 199--206
Abdullah A. Smadi LS estimation of periodic autoregressive
models with non-Gaussian errors: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
Y. Marhuenda and
D. Morales and
J. A. Pardo and
M. C. Pardo Rukhin's uniformity test based on sample
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--235
Joseph M. Pasia and
Augusto Y. Hermosilla and
Hernando Ombao A useful tool for statistical
estimation: genetic algorithms . . . . . 237--251
Richard A. Levine A note on Markov chain Monte Carlo sweep
strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--262
Terry E. Dielman Least absolute value regression: recent
contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--286
Qin He and
Eberhard O. Voit Estimation and completion of survival
data with piecewise linear models and
$S$-distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 287--305
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review: Statistics and
biomathematics books with health
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--311
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review: Two operations research
books with statistical thoughts . . . . 313--314
N. Balakrishnan and
Chien-Tai Lin Exact inference and prediction for
$k$-sample exponential case under
Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 315--331
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Yong Lu On combining correlated estimators of
the common mean of a multivariate normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--345
Hongmei Zhang and
Hal Stern Investigation of a generalized
multinomial model for species data . . . 347--362
Peter F. Craigmile Approximate wavelet-based simulation of
long memory processes . . . . . . . . . 363--379
Alexander Gluhovsky and
Martin Zihlbauer and
Dimitris N. Politis Subsampling confidence intervals for
parameters of atmospheric time series:
block size choice and calibration . . . 381--389
Gerhard Tutz and
Klaus Hechenbichler Aggregating classifiers with ordinal
response structure . . . . . . . . . . . 391--408
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos and
Sydney Gomes Da Silva Corrected estimates for Student $t$
regression models with unknown degrees
of freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--423
W. Liu and
M. Jamshidian and
Y. Zhang and
F. Bretz Constant width simultaneous confidence
bands in multiple linear regression with
predictor variables constrained in
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--436
E. Di Nardo On the connection between orthant
probabilities and the first passage time
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--445
Stian Lydersen and
Vivek Pradhan and
Pralay Senchaudhuri and
Petter Laake Comparison of exact tests for
association in unordered contingency
tables using standard, mid-$p$, and
randomized test versions . . . . . . . . 447--458
J. N. Corcoran and
U. Schneider Pseudo-perfect and adaptive variants of
the Metropolis--Hastings algorithm with
an independent candidate density . . . . 459--475
Holger Dette and
Robert Kwiecien Finite sample performance of sequential
designs for model identification . . . . 477--495
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review Reliable Books About
Reliability and Related Concepts . . . . 497--500
Somesh Kumar and
Yogesh Mani Tripathi and
Neeraj Misra James--Stein type estimators for ordered
normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--511
Brenton R. Clarke and
Peter L. McKinnon Robust inference and modelling for the
single ion channel . . . . . . . . . . . 513--529
José Rodríguez-Avi and
Antonio Conde-Sánchez and
Ramón Gutiérrez-Jáimez Computational techniques in the study of
discrete distributions generated by the
function $_3 F_2$ . . . . . . . . . . . 531--542
Terrence P. Hui and
Reza Modarres and
Gang Zheng Bootstrap confidence interval estimation
of mean via ranked set sampling linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--553
M. L. Menéndez and
J. A. Pardo and
L. Pardo and
K. Zografos On tests of symmetry, marginal
homogeneity and quasi-symmetry in
two-way contingency tables based on
minimum $ \phi $-divergence estimator
with constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--580
J. Warwick and
M. C. Jones Choosing a robustness tuning parameter 581--588
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--593
João Nicolau Method for simulating non-linear
stochastic differential equations in
$R^1$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--609
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Waldemar A. S. C. Oliveira Numerical evaluation of tests based on
different heteroskedasticity-consistent
covariance matrix estimators . . . . . . 611--628
Mounir Hamza and
Denis Larocque An empirical comparison of ensemble
methods based on classification trees 629--643
Jyh-jiuan Lin and
Nabendu Pal Comparison of normal variance estimators
under multiple criteria and towards a
compromise estimator . . . . . . . . . . 645--665
Lynn R. Lamotte A note on separated data and exact
likelihood-ratio $p$-values in logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--672
Douglas G. Bonett Confidence interval for residual mean
absolute deviation in regression models 673--678
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review: Books on Allied Topics to
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--685
Wasimul Bari and
Brajendra C. Sutradhar On binary longitudinal mixed models in
adaptive clinical trials . . . . . . . . 687--707
Steven Cook and
Neil Manning Unobserved heterogeneity in Markovian
analysis of the size distortion of unit
root tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--729
M. Möhle Simulation algorithms for integrals of a
class of sampling distributions arising
in population genetics . . . . . . . . . 731--749
Kim-Leng Goh and
Maxwell King Pre-checking for non-monotonicity of the
Wald statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--759
Anonymous Book review A review of advanced
biostatistics and statistical genetics
books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--769
David A. Schoenfeld and
Michael Borenstein Calculating the power or sample size for
the logistic and proportional hazards
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--785
Satoshi Aoki and
Akimichi Takemura Markov chain Monte Carlo exact tests for
incomplete two-way contingency tables 787--812
Zen-Yi Chen The $S$-system computation of
non-central gamma distribution . . . . . 813--829
Baki Billah and
Rob J. Hyndman and
Anne B. Koehler Empirical information criteria for time
series forecasting model selection . . . 831--840
Mohamed Z. Raqab and
Mohamed T. Madi Bayesian inference for the generalized
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 841--852
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--855
Tsai-Hung Fan and
Wei-chen Chen Bayesian change points analysis on the
seismic activity in northeastern Taiwan 857--868
Stephen J. Leybourne and
Tae-hwan Kim and
Paul Newbold More powerful modifications of unit root
tests allowing structural change . . . . 869--888
Jerome P. Reiter and
Christine N. Kohnen Categorical data regression diagnostics
for remote access servers . . . . . . . 889--903
Omer Ozturk and
Omer C. Bilgin and
Douglas A. Wolfe Estimation of population mean and
variance in flock management: a ranked
set sampling approach in a finite
population setting . . . . . . . . . . . 905--919
Chris J. Lloyd Estimating test power adjusted for size 921--933
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--939
Seong Ho Kim and
Sung-Ho Kim Fluctuation of estimates in an EM
procedure for categorical data . . . . . 941--957
M. Isabel Reis Santos and
Acácio M. O. Porta Nova Estimation of nonlinear simulation
metamodels using control variates . . . 959--973
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton The asymptotic variance and skewness of
maximum likelihood estimators using
Maple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--986
Noriah M. Al-kandari and
Sana S. BuHamra and
S. E. Ahmed Estimating and testing effect size from
an arbitrary population . . . . . . . . 987--1001
Marc Callens and
Christophe Croux Performance of likelihood-based
estimation methods for multilevel binary
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1017
Anonymous Book review Three books on statistical
power analysis and related ideas . . . . 1019--1020
Alvard Y. Arazyan and
Nabendu Pal On the reliability of a multicomponent
series system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
A. Childs and
N. Balakrishnan and
M. R. Srinivasan Unified scheme for testing for outliers
in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39
Holger Dette and
Kay F. Pilz A comparative study of monotone
nonparametric kernel estimates . . . . . 41--56
Wolfgang Kössler Some $c$-sample rank tests of
homogeneity against umbrella
alternatives with unknown peak . . . . . 57--74
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner Improved testing for the binomial
distribution using chi-squared
components with data-dependent cells . . 75--81
Anonymous Book review Regression and related books
are reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--91
Philip H. Ramsey and
W. A. Gibson Improved communality estimation in
factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--101
Terry E. Dielman Variance estimates and hypothesis tests
in least absolute value regression . . . 103--114
R. Gutiérrez-Jáimez and
J. D. Jiménez-López and
R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez Efficient linear estimation problem in
the bivariate Kotz distribution under
dependence assumptions . . . . . . . . . 115--130
Ronny O. Vallejos and
Gonzalo García-Donato Bayesian analysis of contaminated
quarter plane moving average models . . 131--147
Peter Congdon Bayesian model comparison via parallel
model output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--165
Michael Sherman and
Tatiyana V. Apanasovich and
Raymond J. Carroll On estimation in binary autologistic
spatial models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179
Anonymous Book review Excellent dictionaries and
handbooks useful to statisticians . . . 181--184
Stefan Niermann Evolutionary estimation of parameters of
Johnson distributions . . . . . . . . . 185--193
Michael D. Weber and
Lawrence M. Leemis and
Rex K. Kincaid Minimum Kolmogorov--Smirnov test
statistic parameter estimates . . . . . 195--206
Judith A. Clarke and
Sadaf Mirza A comparison of some common methods for
detecting Granger noncausality . . . . . 207--231
Balgobin Nandram and
Jai Won Choi Bayesian analysis of a two-way
categorical table incorporating
intraclass correlation . . . . . . . . . 233--249
N. Dasgupta and
E. Solorzano and
N. A. Lazar Using numerical methods to find the
least favorable configuration when
comparing $k$ test treatments with both
positive and negative controls . . . . . 251--265
Anonymous Book review A collection of classic
books for multivariate data analysis . . 267--278
Rachida Ouysse Approximate factor models: Finite sample
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--303
Valderio A. Reisen and
Alexandre L. Rodrigues and
Wilfredo Palma Estimating seasonal long-memory
processes: a Monte Carlo study . . . . . 305--316
Lihong Wang and
Jinde Wang Testing and estimating for change in
long memory parameter . . . . . . . . . 317--329
Brian S. Cade and
Jon D. Richards and
Paul W. Mielke, Jr. Rank score and permutation testing
alternatives for regression quantile
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--355
Laura A. McSweeney Comparison of periodogram tests . . . . 357--369
Anonymous Editor's note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--371
R. L. Taylor and
W. J. Padgett The summer research conferences and the
SRCOS: a historical perspective . . . . 373--383
William C. Wojciechowski and
James R. Thompson Market truths: theory versus empirical
simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--395
Robert Lund A seasonal analysis of riverflow trends 397--405
G. M. Davis and
K. B. Ensor Outlier detection in environmental
monitoring network data: an application
to ambient ozone measurements for
Houston, Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--422
Walter W. Piegorsch and
Daniela K. Nitcheva and
R. Webster West Excess risk estimation under multistage
model misspecification . . . . . . . . . 423--430
B. Shi and
K. P. Moloney and
Y. Pan and
V. K. Leonard and
B. Vidakovic and
J. A. Jacko and
F. Sainfort Wavelet classification of high frequency
pupillary responses . . . . . . . . . . 431--445
D. J. Spitzner Use of goodness-of-fit procedures in
high dimensional testing . . . . . . . . 447--457
Darcy P. Mays Bayesian application to the two-stage
near-saturated experimental design
method with dispersion effects . . . . . 459--473
Magne Thoresen Correction for measurement error in
multiple logistic regression: A
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--487
Borek Puza and
Terence O'neill Generalised Clopper--Pearson confidence
intervals for the binomial proportion 489--508
Herman Rubin and
Brad C. Johnson Efficient generation of exponential and
normal deviates . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--518
D. S. Coad and
A. A. Halimeh Sequential procedures for comparing
several normal means . . . . . . . . . . 519--537
Daniel P. Dougherty and
Eric A. Stahlberg and
Wolfgang Sadee Network analysis using transitive
closure: New methods for exploring
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--551
Dedi Rosadi Order identification for Gaussian moving
averages using the codifference function 553--559
Anonymous Book review Multiple view-points of
multivariate books . . . . . . . . . . . 561--565
Luis J. Álvarez and
Nancy L. Garcia and
Eliane R. Rodrigues Comparing the performance of a
reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
algorithm for DNA sequences alignment 567--584
L. P. Ho and
S. N. Chiu Testing the complete spatial randomness
by Diggle's test without an arbitrary
upper limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--591
Yue Fang and
Michael A. Martin and
Terence J. O'neill and
Steven Roberts On the power of Portmanteau serial
correlation tests . . . . . . . . . . . 593--604
Leming Qu Bayesian wavelet estimation of partially
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--617
Chanseok Park and
W. J. Padgett Analysis of strength distributions of
multi-modal failures using the EM
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--636
Douglas G. Bonett Confidence interval for a ratio of
variances in bivariate nonnormal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--644
Livia De Giovanni and
Maurizio Naldi Comparative evaluation of semiparametric
long-memory estimators . . . . . . . . . 645--654
Anonymous Book review Sensational books about six
sigma related concepts and applications 655--659
Dongryeon Park and
Sangun Park Parametric and nonparametric estimators
of ED100 $ \alpha $ . . . . . . . . . . 661--672
Essam K. Al-Hussaini and
Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid Accelerated life tests under finite
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--690
Biao Zhang A score test under a semiparametric
finite mixture model . . . . . . . . . . 691--703
Rand R. Wilcox and
H. J. Keselman Detecting heteroscedasticity in a simple
regression model via quantile regression
slopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--712
Luigi Spezia Bayesian analysis of non-homogeneous
hidden Markov models . . . . . . . . . . 713--725
Glaura C. Franco and
Valdério A. Reisen and
Paula A. Barros Unit root tests using semi-parametric
estimators of the long-memory parameter 727--735
I. J. Good Comments, conjectures and conclusions 737--740
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review Excellent Books about
statistical distributions and
probability theories . . . . . . . . . . 741--753
Timothy D. Perez and
Jeffrey S. Pontius Conventional bootstrap and normal
confidence interval estimation under
adaptive cluster sampling . . . . . . . 755--764
Ullrich Munzel Non-parametric confidence intervals for
shift effects based on paired ranks . . 765--772
Sneh Gulati and
Jie Mi Testing for scale families using total
variation distance . . . . . . . . . . . 773--792
Seung-Hwan Lee and
Eun-Joo Lee On the extended lack-of-fit tests for
the censored regression model . . . . . 793--801
Patrick J. Farrell and
Katrina Rogers-Stewart Comprehensive study of tests for
normality and symmetry: extending the
Spiegelhalter test . . . . . . . . . . . 803--816
Yi-Hau Chen Computationally efficient Monte Carlo EM
algorithms for generalized linear mixed
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--828
Glenn Hofmann and
N. Balakrishnan A nonparametric test for trend based on
initial ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--837
Anonymous Book review Books on philosophy or
foundations of statistical concepts . . 839--845
Man-Lai Tang and
Hon Keung Tony Ng and
Jianhua Guo and
Wai Chan and
Ben Ping-Shing Chan Exact Cochran--Armitage trend tests:
comparisons under different models . . . 847--859
Tahir Khaniyev and
Zulfiyya Mammadova On the stationary characteristics of the
extended model of type ($s$,$S$) with
Gaussian distribution of summands . . . 861--874
David Magis and
Paul Gérard A note on the influence of pairwise
misclassification in two-way tables . . 875--887
Tee-Chin Chang and
Fah-Fatt Gan Monitoring linearity of measurement
gauges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889--911
Patricia P. Ramsey and
Philip H. Ramsey Robust testing of level changes in
interrupted time-series analysis . . . . 913--923
Ricardo J. Rodriguez Finite sequences of St. Petersburg
games: inferences from a simulation
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--933
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review Books about Time Series
and/or Spatial Data Analysis . . . . . . 935--940
Héctor Allende and
Alejandro C. Frery and
Jorge Galbiati and
Luis Pizarro M-estimators with asymmetric influence
functions: the distribution case . . . . 941--956
Malik Beshir Malik A numerical algorithm for computing
exact distribution of a truncated random
variable when truncation points are
assigned point masses . . . . . . . . . 957--965
Yan Sun and
Venkata K. Jandhyala and
Stergios B. Fotopoulos Non-linear mixture models for
cross-sectional financial log returns 967--983
Randall C. Campbell and
R. Carter Hill Imposing parameter inequality
restrictions using the principle of
maximum entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--1000
D. I. Perera and
M. S. Peiris and
J. Robinson and
N. C. Weber Saddlepoint approximation methods for
testing of serial correlation in panel
time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001--1013
Hakan Demirtas A method for multivariate ordinal data
generation given marginal distributions
and correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017--1025
I. J. Good Comments, Conjectures and Conclusions 1027--1030
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review Books about Likelihood and
Asymptotic Statistics . . . . . . . . . 1031--1033
S. F. Yang and
M. A. Rahim Multivariate extension to the economical
design of control chart under Weibull
shock model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1047
S. van Buuren and
J. P. L. Brand and
C. G. M. Groothuis-Oudshoorn and
D. B. Rubin Fully conditional specification in
multivariate imputation . . . . . . . . 1049--1064
Min Tsao $E$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1078
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Vandna Jowaheer Analyzing longitudinal count data from
adaptive clinical trials: a weighted
generalized quasi-likelihood approach 1079--1093
Thomas W. O'Gorman An adaptive test of a subset of
regression coefficients using
permutations of residuals . . . . . . . 1095--1103
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review Selective Books on Software
SAS, SPSS, and Internet Outsourcing . . 1107--1113
Laure Barreda and
Ali Gannoun and
Jérôme Saracco Some extensions of multivariate sliced
inverse regression . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Shuo-Jye Wu and
Yi-Ju Chen and
Chun-Tao Chang Statistical inference based on
progressively censored samples with
random removals from the Burr Type XII
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
Atilla Aslanargun and
Mammadagha Mammadov and
Berna Yazici and
Senay Yolacan Comparison of ARIMA, neural networks and
hybrid models in time series: tourist
arrival forecasting . . . . . . . . . . 29--53
Peter M. W. Gill Efficient calculation of $p$-values in
linear-statistic permutation
significance tests . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61
Alessandra Dalla Valle A test for the hypothesis of
skew-normality in a population . . . . . 63--77
Abdullah Almasri and
Björn Holmquist and
Shakir Hussain Impact of the periodicity and trend on
the FD parameter estimation . . . . . . 79--87
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review Best Bayesian Statistics
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93
Ayrin C. Molefe and
Balakrishna Hosmane Test for link misspecification in
dependent binary regression using
generalized estimating equations . . . . 95--107
Yang-Jin Kim Analysis of panel count data with
measurement errors in the covariates . . 109--117
Christina D. Smith and
Dallas E. Johnson Comparing analyses of unbalanced
split-plot experiments . . . . . . . . . 119--129
Roland Fried Robust location estimation under
dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--147
Show-Li Jan and
Yuh-Ing Chen and
Gwowen Shieh Simultaneous identifications of the
minimum effective dose in each of
several groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--161
Zhiwei Zhang and
Howard E. Rockette An EM algorithm for regression analysis
with incomplete covariate information 163--173
Berna Yazici and
Senay Yolacan A comparison of various tests of
normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review A Review of Design and
Analysis Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--188
Marilena Furno Non-linearity tests based on order
statistics and quantile regressions . . 189--211
Gejza Wimmer and
Viktor Witkovský Univariate linear calibration via
replicated errors-in-variables model . . 213--227
Todd C. Headrick and
Rhonda K. Kowalchuk The power method transformation: its
probability density function,
distribution function, and its further
use for fitting data . . . . . . . . . . 229--249
Wen-Ping Hsieh and
Tzu-Ming Chu and
Russ Wolfinger Comparison of statistical performance of
univariate and bivariate mixed models
for Affymetrix$^\reg {}$ probe level
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264
Steven Cook Co-integration testing using
local-to-unity detrending: the impact of
structural change under the null . . . . 265--270
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--275
P. Gunning and
J. Horgan Improving the Lavallée and Hidiroglou
algorithm for stratification of skewed
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--291
Kristian Jönsson Finite-sample distribution of a
recursively mean-adjusted panel data
unit root test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--303
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
David P. T. Chu and
Wasimul Bari Estimation effects on powers of two
simple test statistics in identifying an
outlier in linear models . . . . . . . . 305--328
Y. Zhang and
W. E. Leithead Approximate implementation of the
logarithm of the matrix determinant in
Gaussian process regression . . . . . . 329--348
Saralees Nadarajah and
Samuel Kotz Jensen's bivariate gamma distribution:
ratios of components . . . . . . . . . . 349--358
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--364
Zhenlin Yang and
Min Xie and
Augustine C. M. Wong A unified confidence interval for
reliability-related quantities of
two-parameter Weibull distribution . . . 365--378
C. Carolan Two-sided Brownian motion with quadratic
drift and its least concave majorant . . 379--387
Tsong-Huey Wu and
Hai-Lin Lu Prediction intervals for an ordered
observation from the logistic
distribution based on censored samples 389--405
A. Felipe and
L. Pardo New family of estimators for the
loglinear model of quasi-independence
based on power-divergence measures . . . 407--420
Panu Erästö and
Lasse Holmström Bayesian analysis of features in a
scatter plot with dependent observations
and errors in predictors . . . . . . . . 421--431
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--441
Juneyoung Lee and
André I. Khuri and
Kee Whan Kim and
Sangkon Lee On the size of the $F$-test for the
one-way random model with heterogeneous
error variances . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--455
Ciprian M. Crainiceanu and
Timothy J. Vogelsang Nonmonotonic power for tests of a mean
shift in a time series . . . . . . . . . 457--476
Xinmin Li and
Guoying Li Comparison of confidence intervals on
the among group variance in the
unbalanced variance component model . . 477--486
M. Ivette Gomes and
Dinis Pestana A simple second-order reduced bias' tail
index estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--502
E. A. Colosimo and
F. R. B. Cruz and
J. L. O. Miranda and
T. Van Woensel Sample size calculation for method
validation using linear regression . . . 505--516
Markus Neuhäuser A comparative study of nonparametric
two-sample tests after Levene's
transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--526
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--530
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Michel Ferreira Da Silva and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Adjusted profile likelihoods for the
Weibull shape parameter . . . . . . . . 531--548
Ya-Yong Tang and
Yeh Lam Numerical solution to an integral
equation in geometric process . . . . . 549--560
Kaspar Rufibach Computing maximum likelihood estimators
of a log-concave density function . . . 561--574
Tzong-Ru Tsai and
Shuo-Jye Wu and
Jyh-Jiuan Lin and
Yi-Ju Chen Alternative estimation procedure in SPC
when the process data are correlated . . 575--583
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner and
O. Thas Goodness of fit for the zero-truncated
Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 585--591
Byeongchan Seong and
Sinsup Cho and
Sung K. Ahn Inference of seasonal cointegration with
linear restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 593--603
Kyoungah See and
Robert B. Noble and
A. John Bailer Comparison of relative efficiencies of
sampling plans excluding certain
neighboring units: a simulation study 605--612
Ayman Baklizi Inference about the mean difference of
two non-normal populations based on
independent samples: a comparative study 613--624
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book review Outstanding Psychometric
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--628
Christian M. Hafner and
Jeroen V. K. Rombouts Estimation of temporally aggregated
multivariate GARCH models . . . . . . . 629--650
Paul Chiou and
Weiwen Miao Shrinkage estimation for the difference
between a control and treatment mean . . 651--662
Vytaras Brazauskas and
Jugal Ghorai Estimating the common parameter of
normal models with known coefficients of
variation: a sensitivity study of
asymptotically efficient estimators . . 663--681
Magne Thoresen and
Petter Laake A simulation study of statistical tests
in logistic measurement error models . . 683--694
Feng-Chang Xie and
Bo-Cheng Wei Diagnostics analysis in censored
generalized Poisson regression model . . 695--708
C. K. Low and
U. Balasooriya Order statistics based sampling design
for reliability sampling . . . . . . . . 709--715
Gwowen Shieh and
Show-Li Jan and
Ronald H. Randles Power and sample size determinations for
the Wilcoxon signed-rank test . . . . . 717--724
Cinzia Viroli Fitting the independent factor analysis
model using the MCMC algorithm . . . . . 725--737
Patricia Pepple Williamson Bayesian equivalence testing for
binomial random variables . . . . . . . 739--755
Huey-Miin Hsueh and
Chen-An Tsai and
James J. Chen Incorporating the number of true null
hypotheses to improve power in multiple
testing: application to gene microarray
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--767
Abdelhakim Aknouche Causality conditions and autocovariance
calculations in PVAR models . . . . . . 769--780
P. Gargallo and
M. Salvador Monitoring changes in exponential family
models: a two-sided Bayesian decision
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--796
Harry Charway and
A. John Bailer Testing multiple-group variance equality
with randomization procedures . . . . . 797--803
Konstantinos Fokianos Density ratio model selection . . . . . 805--819
H. Ogasawara Asymptotic expansion and asymptotic
robustness of the normal-theory
estimators in the random regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--838
Yuichi Shiraishi An upper bound on the convergence time
of the Gibbs sampler in Ising models . . 839--850
Muzaffer Kapanoglu and
Ilker Ozan Koc and
Senol Erdogmus Genetic algorithms in parameter
estimation for nonlinear regression
models: an experimental approach . . . . 851--867
Chad E. Husby and
Elizabeth A. Stasny and
Douglas A. Wolfe and
Jesse Frey Cautionary note on unbalanced ranked-set
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--878
Maria Kelly Venezuela and
Denise Aparecida Botter and
Mônica Carneiro Sandoval Diagnostic techniques in generalized
estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . 879--888
Gabriel Rodríguez Finite sample behaviour of the level
shift model using quasi-differenced data 889--905
S. Whitaker and
T. C. M. Lee An effective method for selecting the
number of components in density mixtures 907--914
R. A. Al-Jarallah and
E. K. Al-Hussaini Bayes inference under a finite mixture
of two-compound Gompertz components
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--927
M. Tan and
G.-L. Tian and
H.-B. Fang An efficient MCEM algorithm for fitting
generalized linear mixed models for
correlated binary data . . . . . . . . . 929--943
G. Shaddick and
L. L. Choo and
S. G. Walker Modelling correlated count data with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--954
K. See and
R. B. Noble and
A. J. Bailer Computing inclusion probabilities to
obtain Horvitz--Thompson estimators for
sampling plans excluding neighbouring
units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955--967
J. Frey A note on a probability involving
independent order statistics . . . . . . 969--975
F. Comte and
Y. Rozenholc and
M.-L. Taupin Finite sample penalization in adaptive
density deconvolution . . . . . . . . . 977--1000
Sung Nok Chiu Correction to Koen's critical values in
testing spatial randomness . . . . . . . 1001--1004
Ramalingam Shanmugam Bioinformatics books are reviewed . . . 1005--1011
N. Balakrishnan and
Ahmed Hossain Inference for the Type II generalized
logistic distribution under progressive
Type II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1031
Kun Chen and
Mai Zhou Computation of the empirical likelihood
ratio from censored data . . . . . . . . 1033--1042
David B. Hitchcock and
James G. Booth and
George Casella The effect of pre-smoothing functional
data on cluster analysis . . . . . . . . 1043--1055
J. Sheng and
P. Qiu $p$-Value calculation for multi-stage
additive tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1064
Patrick J. Farrell and
Matias Salibian-Barrera and
Katarzyna Naczk On tests for multivariate normality and
associated simulation studies . . . . . 1065--1080
S. E. Wright and
R. B. Noble and
A. J. Bailer Equal-precision allocations and other
constraints in stratified random
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081--1089
C. Comas and
J. Mateu On soft and hard particle motions for
stochastic marked point processes . . . 1091--1121
Ramalingam Shanmugam A book on common statistics errors is
reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123--1123
Marco R. Barassi and
Guglielmo Maria Caporale and
Stephen G. Hall A comparison between tests for changes
in the adjustment coefficients in
cointegrated systems . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
J. A. Roldan Nofuentes and
J. D. Luna Del Castillo EM algorithm for comparing two binary
diagnostic tests when not all the
patients are verified . . . . . . . . . 19--35
Artur J. Lemonte and
Alexandre B. Simas and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Bootstrap-based improved estimators for
the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--49
Heather Mitchell and
Michael D. Mckenzie A comparison of alternative techniques
for selecting an optimum ARCH model . . 51--67
Hakan Demirtas and
Sally A. Freels and
Recai M. Yucel Plausibility of multivariate normality
assumption when multiply imputing
non-Gaussian continuous outcomes: a
simulation assessment . . . . . . . . . 69--84
Sin-Ho Jung Sample size calculation for paired
survival data: a simulation method . . . 85--92
Afef Sellami Comparative survey on nonlinear
filtering methods: the quantization and
the particle filtering approaches . . . 93--113
D. H. Green and
J. S. Morgan Asymptotic spatial properties of
stochastic cell growth on a regular
tessellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124
Bingxing Wang Goodness-of-fit test for the exponential
distribution based on progressively
Type-II censored sample . . . . . . . . 125--132
M. Ivette Gomes and
Lígia Rodrigues and
Björn Vandewalle and
Clara Viseu A heuristic adaptive choice of the
threshold for bias-corrected Hill
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--150
Janette Walde and
Mario Larch and
Gottfried Tappeiner Performance contest between MLE and GMM
for huge spatial autoregressive models 151--166
Thierry Alex Mara and
Onimihamina Rakoto Joseph Comparison of some efficient methods to
evaluate the main effect of computer
model factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--178
Grace S. Shieh and
Tsai-Hung Fan and
Hsueh-Ping Chu A Bayesian approach to assessing
differential expression of microarray
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191
Kerrie P. Nelson and
Brian G. Leroux Properties and comparison of estimation
methods in a log-linear generalized
linear mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . 367--384
Grégory Nuel Cumulative distribution function of a
geometric Poisson distribution . . . . . 385--394
V. H. Lachos and
L. C. Montenegro and
H. Bolfarine Inference and local influence assessment
in skew-normal null intercept
measurement error model . . . . . . . . 395--419
Ayman Baklizi Inference about the mean of a skewed
population: a comparative study . . . . 421--435
Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos and
Dimitris Karlis On modeling count data: a comparison of
some well-known discrete distributions 437--457
Jaechoul Lee and
Robert Lund Equivalent sample sizes in time series
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--297
Marilena Furno Misspecification and estimation effect
in the Lagrange multiplier tests for
heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 299--313
Wei Liu and
H. P. Wynn and
A. J. Hayter Statistical inferences for linear
regression models when the covariates
have functional relationships:
polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . 315--324
M. Boulouird and
M. M. Hassani and
A. Zeroual Blind channel identification using
higher-order statistics . . . . . . . . 325--338
Sutaip L. C. Saw and
Jongsay Yong Interval estimation for the exponential
inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 339--349
Jeff T. Terpstra and
Ping Wang Confidence intervals for a population
proportion based on a ranked set sample 351--366
Lianjie Shu An adaptive exponentially weighted
moving average control chart for
monitoring process variances . . . . . . 367--384
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos and
Gilson B. Dourado Nearly unbiased estimation in a
biparametric exponential family . . . . 387--404
Liming Xiang and
Kelvin K. W. Yau and
S. K. Tse Influence diagnostics for stratified
ordinal contingency tables . . . . . . . 405--415
Gheorghe Doros Improving dispersion tests by
symmetrization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--428
Jialiang Li and
Chunming Zhang and
Erik V. Nordheim and
Charles E. Lehner On the multivariate predictive
distribution of multi-dimensional
effective dose: a Bayesian approach . . 429--442
W. González-Manteiga and
M. J. Lombardía and
I. Molina and
D. Morales and
L. Santamaría Bootstrap mean squared error of a
small-area EBLUP . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--462
Paul F. Zantek A Markov-chain method for computing the
run-length distribution of the
self-starting cumulative sum scheme . . 463--473
N. Balakrishnan and
Abbas Rasouli and
N. Sanjari Farsipour Exact likelihood inference based on an
unified hybrid censored sample from the
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 475--488
Jean-François Angers and
Atanu Biswas Bivariate versus univariate ordinal
categorical data with reference to an
ophthalmologic study . . . . . . . . . . 489--502
Deepak Sanjel and
N. Balakrishnan A Laguerre polynomial approximation for
a goodness-of-fit test for exponential
distribution based on progressively
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--513
Ahmed H. Youssef A new estimator for the unit root . . . 515--526
N. Martín and
D. Morales and
L. Pardo Divergence-based confidence intervals in
false-positive misclassification model 527--540
Roberto Baragona and
Domenico Cucina Double threshold autoregressive
conditionally heteroscedastic model
building by genetic algorithms . . . . . 541--558
Steven Cook and
Dimitrios Vougas A weighted symmetric cointegration test 559--565
Alexander J. McNeil Sampling nested Archimedean copulas . . 567--581
Sami Khedhiri Simulation experiments on the
performance of structural change tests
in cointegration . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--593
Daniel Drescher Testing for presence of a latent process
in count series . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--607
Madhusudan Bhandary and
Koji Fujiwara Confidence interval estimation for a
linear contrast in intraclass
correlation coefficients under unequal
family sizes for several populations . . 609--621
Marc D. Breton and
Michael D. Devore and
Donald E. Brown A tool for systematically comparing the
power of tests for normality . . . . . . 623--638
Ian H. Dinwoodie Statistical estimation of internal
available bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . 639--652
Lihong Wang Change-in-mean problem for long memory
time series models with applications . . 653--668
Sharmishtha Mitra and
Debasis Kundu Analysis of left censored data from the
generalized exponential distribution . . 669--679
Alexandra M. Schmidt and
Ma. de Fátima da G. Conceição and
Guido A. Moreira Investigating the sensitivity of
Gaussian processes to the choice of
their correlation function and prior
specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--699
Rand R. Wilcox Some small-sample properties of some
recently proposed multivariate outlier
detection techniques . . . . . . . . . . 701--712
Sophie L\`ebre and
Pierre-Yves Bourguignon An EM algorithm for estimation in the
mixture transition distribution model 713--729
R. W. Butler and
R. K. Sutton and
J. G. Booth and
P. Ohman Strickland Simulation-assisted saddlepoint
approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--745
Edwin M. M. Ortega and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Heleno Bolfarine Deviance residuals in generalised
log-gamma regression models with
censored observations . . . . . . . . . 747--764
Frank Rijmen and
Jirí Vomlel Assessing the performance of variational
methods for mixed logistic regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--779
Byungjin Choi Improvement of goodness-of-fit test for
normal distribution based on entropy and
power comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--788
Michel Ferreira Da Silva and
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Improved likelihood inference for the
shape parameter in Weibull regression 789--811
D. V. Nguyen and
D. Sentürk Multicovariate-adjusted regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813--827
Hsiuying Wang Confidence intervals for the mean of a
normal distribution with restricted
parameter space . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--841
Byeongchan Seong and
Sung K. Ahn and
Yongil Jeon A note on spurious regression in
seasonal time series . . . . . . . . . . 843--851
F. Javier Trívez and
Beatriz Catalán Specification error caused by level
shifts and temporary changes in
ARMA--GARCH models . . . . . . . . . . . 853--868
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--872
W. John Boscardin and
Xiao Zhang and
Thomas R. Belin Modeling a mixture of ordinal and
continuous repeated measures . . . . . . 873--886
Enrique Castillo and
Carmen Castillo and
Ali S. Hadi and
Roberto M\`\inguez Duality and local sensitivity analysis
in least squares, minimax, and least
absolute values regressions . . . . . . 887--909
Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid and
Essam K. Al-Hussaini Step partially accelerated life tests
under finite mixture models . . . . . . 911--924
Jin-Guan Lin and
Yong Li Testing for departures from nominal
dispersion in generalized nonlinear
models with varying dispersion and/or
additive random effects . . . . . . . . 925--939
Alberto Luceño Maximum likelihood vs. maximum goodness
of fit estimation of the three-parameter
Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 941--949
Ruta Bajorunaite and
John P. Klein Comparison of failure probabilities in
the presence of competing risks . . . . 951--966
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--968
I. Herranz Tejedor and
A. Martín Andrés A numerical comparison of several
unconditional exact tests in problems of
equivalence based on the difference of
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--981
Anthony F. Desmond and
Gabriel A. Rodríguez-Yam and
Xuewen Lu Estimation of parameters for a
Birnbaum--Saunders regression model with
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--997
M. P. Gadre and
R. N. Rattihalli Multi-attribute unit and group runs
control chart to identify the process
deterioration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1008
S. Vanbelle and
A. Albert A bootstrap method for comparing
correlated kappa coefficients . . . . . 1009--1015
Krishna K. Saha and
Maxwell L. King An alternative Wald type test for two
linear restrictions with applications to
non-linear models . . . . . . . . . . . 1017--1031
Lichun Wang Life prediction under random censorship 1033--1044
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Borko D. Stosi\'c Maple script for improving test
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1053
M. Mammadov and
E. Tas and
R. E. Omay Accelerating backpropagation using
effective parameters at each step and an
experimental evaluation . . . . . . . . 1055--1064
Xuefeng Liu Parameter expansion for sampling a
correlation matrix: an efficient
GPX--RPMH algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1076
Simos G. Meintanis Tests for generalized exponential laws
based on the empirical Mellin transform 1077--1085
Hyune-Ju Kim and
Binbing Yu and
Eric J. Feuer Inference in segmented line regression:
a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1103
Víctor Leiva and
Antonio Sanhueza and
Pranab K. Sen and
Gilberto A. Paula Random number generators for the
generalized Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1118
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1123
Philip H. Ramsey and
Patricia P. Ramsey Brief investigation of tests of
variability in the two-sample case . . . 1125--1131
Andrew L. Rukhin and
Zeev Volkovich Testing randomness via aperiodic words 1133--1144
Stephan Popp New innovational outlier unit root test
with a break at an unknown time . . . . 1145--1161
Ying-Lin Hsu and
Jau-Chuan Ke and
Ssu-Lang Lee On a redundant repairable system with
switching failure: Bayesian approach . . 1163--1180
Agnieszka Jach and
Piotr Kokoszka Wavelet-based confidence intervals for
the self-similarity parameter . . . . . 1181--1200
K. Nosek and
Z. Szkutnik A power study of $k$-linear-$r$-ahead
recursive residuals test for
change-point in finite sequences . . . . 1201--1213
R. Romero-Villafranca and
L. Zúnica and
R. Romero-Zúnica and
J. A. Pagura One-sided tolerance limits for
unbalanced one-way random effects
models: a generalized Mee and Owen
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1227
Md. Moudud Alam and
Kenneth Carling Computationally feasible estimation of
the covariance structure in generalized
linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 1229--1239
Sung Nok Chiu Reduced Palm distribution generating
function for a spatial point process . . 1241--1250
Panagiotis Mantalos and
Konstantinos Zografos Interval estimation for a binomial
proportion: a bootstrap approach . . . . 1251--1265
Tao Li and
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan Best linear unbiased estimators of
parameters of a simple linear regression
model based on ordered ranked set
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267--1278
Ramalingam Shanmugam A book on the statistical analysis of
cost effectiveness data is reviewed . . 1279--1279
M. E. Ghitany and
D. K. Al-Mutairi Estimation methods for the discrete
Poisson--Lindley distribution . . . . . 1--9
Byoung Cheol Jung and
Myoungshic Jhun and
Sang Moon Han Score tests for overdispersion in the
bivariate negative binomial models . . . 11--24
R. Gutiérrez and
R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez and
A. Nafidi and
E. Ramos Three-parameter stochastic lognormal
diffusion model: statistical computation
and simulating annealing --- application
to real case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--38
Tanweer J. Shapla and
Truc T. Nguyen and
John T. Chen Multilevel attributable risk in
cross-sectional studies . . . . . . . . 39--54
S. Nakamori and
R. Caballero-Águila and
A. Hermoso-Carazo and
J. D. Jiménez-López and
J. Linares-Pérez Signal estimation with nonlinear
uncertain observations using covariance
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66
Christopher R. Bilder and
Joshua M. Tebbs Bias, efficiency, and agreement for
group-testing regression models . . . . 67--80
K. G. Russell and
J. A. Eccleston and
S. M. Lewis and
D. C. Woods Design considerations for small
experiments and simple logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91
Hyeyoung Lee and
Sujit K. Ghosh Performance of information criteria for
spatial models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--106
Ramalingam Shanmugam Books on data mining are reviewed . . . 107--110
R. L. Glele Kaka\"\i and
R. Palm Empirical comparison of error
rate-estimators in logistic discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120
Alfredo García-Hiernaux and
José Casals and
Miguel Jerez Fast estimation methods for time-series
models in state-space form . . . . . . . 121--134
Seung-Hwan Lee and
Eun-Joo Lee On testing equality of two censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--143
Hon Keung Tony Ng and
Zhu Wang Statistical estimation for the
parameters of Weibull distribution based
on progressively Type-I interval
censored sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--159
Balgobin Nandram and
Maria C. S. Toto and
Myron Katzoff Bayesian inference for a stratified
categorical variable allowing all
possible category choices . . . . . . . 161--179
Arthur L. Dryver and
Jantra Sukkasem Validating risk models with a focus on
credit scoring models . . . . . . . . . 181--193
Monica Giulietti and
Jesús Otero and
Jeremy Smith Testing for stationarity in
heterogeneous panel data in the presence
of cross-section dependence . . . . . . 195--203
Simos G. Meintanis Goodness-of-fit testing by transforming
to normality: comparison between
classical and characteristic
function-based methods . . . . . . . . . 205--212
Ramalingam Shanmugam Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Dongming Chen and
Zhenmin Chen Statistical inference about the location
parameter of the three-parameter Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--225
Abdelhakim Aknouche and
Fayçal Hamdi Calculating the autocovariances and the
likelihood for periodic V ARMA models 227--239
M. Tian and
M. L. Tang and
H. K. T. Ng and
P. S. Chan A comparative study of confidence
intervals for negative binomial
proportion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--249
Shalabh and
Chandra Mani Paudel and
Narinder Kumar Consistent estimation of regression
parameters under replicated
ultrastructural model with non-normal
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--274
Mehmed Çelebi A new approach for the genetic algorithm 275--297
D. R. Jensen and
D. E. Ramirez Anomalies in the analysis of calibrated
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--314
Stanislav Anatolyev Robustness of residual-based bootstrap
to the composition of serially
correlated errors . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320
Ramalingam Shanmugam Books on econometrics and marketing are
reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
R. Pino Mejías and
M. D. Jiménez Gamero and
A. Enguix González A Monte Carlo comparison of three
consistent bootstrap procedures . . . . 323--334
Xingzhong Xu and
Xiaobo Ding and
Shuran Zhao The reduction of the average width of
confidence bands for an unknown
continuous distribution function . . . . 335--347
Zijun Wang and
David A. Bessler Finite sample performance of the model
selection approach in co-integration
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
Andrew Balemi and
Alan Lee Comparison of GEE1 and GEE2 estimation
applied to clustered logistic regression 361--378
Carlo Grillenzoni Robust non-parametric smoothing of
non-stationary time series . . . . . . . 379--393
A. Hussein and
J. Liu Parametric estimation of mixtures of two
uniform distributions . . . . . . . . . 395--410
Alexandre B. Simas and
Gauss M. Cordeiro Adjusted Pearson residuals in
exponential family nonlinear models . . 411--425
Ramalingam Shanmugam A book on common statistics errors is
reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Ming-Hsien Caleb Li and
Abbas Al-Refaie The alpha error of the Taguchi method
with $ L_{16} $ array for the LTB
response variable using simulation . . . 645--656
Amparo Baíllo A note on functional linear regression 657--669
Riccardo Gatto Asymptotic approximations to the
distribution of Kendall's sample $ \tau
$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--679
Ja-Yong Koo and
Changyi Park and
Myoungshic Jhun A classification spline machine for
building a credit scorecard . . . . . . 681--689
Junghoon Jang and
Younshik Chung and
Chansoo Kim and
Seongho Song Bayesian meta-analysis using skewed
elliptical distributions . . . . . . . . 691--704
Simon Sai Man Kwok and
Wai Keung Li A note on diagnostic checking of the
double autoregressive model . . . . . . 705--715
Wenjiang J. Fu and
Bani Mallick and
Raymond J. Carroll Why do we observe misclassification
errors smaller than the Bayes error? . . 717--722
Dale Borowiak and
Ashish Das Sensitivity analysis of the
$t$-distribution under truncated normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--729
Wen-Jen Tsay and
Wolfgang Karl Härdle A generalized ARFIMA process with
Markov-switching fractional differencing
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--745
Ramalingam Shanmugam Books on SAS, SPSS, and computing are
reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--750
Borko D. Stosi\'c and
Gauss M. Cordeiro Using Maple and Mathematica to derive
bias corrections for two parameter
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--767
Y. Parlak Demirhan and
H. Demirhan and
S. Bacanli A simulation study on power comparisons
for group sequential tests of
non-parametric statistics . . . . . . . 769--785
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Maria da Glória A. Lima Heteroskedasticity-consistent interval
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--803
Jörg Polzehl and
Stefan Sperlich A note on structural adaptive dimension
reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--818
Zhi-Hui Fu and
Jian Tao and
Ning-Zhong Shi Bayesian estimation in the
multidimensional three-parameter
logistic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--835
Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and
Vicente Núñez-Antón Bayesian modelling of the mean and
covariance matrix in normal nonlinear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--853
Ramalingam Shanmugam Informatics books are reviewed . . . . . 855--858
Amjad D. Al-Nasser and
Ahmed Bani Mustafa Robust extreme ranked set sampling . . . 859--867
David Izraelevitz and
Harry F. Martz and
Deborah A. Leishman and
William L. Gibson On representing second-order uncertainty
in multi-state systems via moments of
mixtures of Dirichlet distributions . . 869--880
Vickneswary Tagore and
Brajendra C. Sutradhar Conditional inference in linear versus
nonlinear models for binary time series 881--897
Pao-Sheng Shen Semiparametric estimation of the
occurrence rate for prevalent survival
data in competing risk models . . . . . 899--908
Feng-Chang Xie and
Bo-Cheng Wei Diagnostics for generalized Poisson
regression models with errors in
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--922
Yong Li and
Jin-Guan Lin Heteroscedasticity diagnostics in
two-phase linear regression models . . . 923--938
Frank Fleischer and
Catherine Gloaguen and
Volker Schmidt and
Florian Voss Simulation of the typical
Poisson--Voronoi--Cox--Voronoi cell . . 939--957
Ramalingam Shanmugam Bioinformatics books are reviewed . . . 959--964
Chansoo Kim and
Keunhee Han Estimation of the scale parameter of the
Rayleigh distribution with multiply
Type-II censored sample . . . . . . . . 965--976
Sai V. Nudurupati and
Asheber Abebe A nonparametric allocation scheme for
classification based on transvariation
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--987
Sanghan Lee and
Johan Lim and
Seung-Jean Kim and
Yongsung Joo Estimating monotone convex functions via
sequential shape modification . . . . . 989--1000
Guglielmo Maria Caporale and
Luis A. Gil-Alana A multivariate long-memory model with
structural breaks . . . . . . . . . . . 1001--1013
Shu-Fei Wu and
Chin-Chuan Wu and
Huan-Min Lin The exact hypothesis test for the shape
parameter of a new two-parameter
distribution with the bathtub shape or
increasing failure rate function under
progressive censoring with random
removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1042
Vandna Jowaheer and
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Gary Sneddon On familial Poisson mixed models with
multi-dimensional random effects . . . . 1043--1062
Ramalingam Shanmugam Tomographic imaging books are reviewed 1063--1066
Yingfu Xie and
Jun Yu and
Bo Ranneby Forecasting using locally stationary
wavelet processes . . . . . . . . . . . 1067--1082
Thomas W. O'Gorman A comparison of several adaptive tests
for paired data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1093
X. C. Zhou and
X. S. Liu The Monte Carlo EM method for estimating
multivariate Tobit latent variable
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1107
E. Castillo and
A. S. Hadi and
R. Mínguez Diagnostics for non-linear regression 1109--1128
Chien-Wei Wu and
Ming-Hung Shu and
W. L. Pearn and
Feng-Tsung Cheng A comparison of methods forcing
loss-based capability index . . . . . . 1129--1141
Tsai-Hung Fan and
N. Balakrishnan and
Chia-Chen Chang The Bayesian approach for highly
reliable electro-explosive devices using
one-shot device testing . . . . . . . . 1143--1154
Samuel Müller and
Kaspar Rufibach Smooth tail-index estimation . . . . . . 1155--1167
Ramalingam Shanmugam Encyclopedia of genetics, genomics,
proteomics and bioinformatics are
reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1172
Muhammad Riaz and
Aamir Saghir A mean deviation-based approach to
monitor process variability . . . . . . 1173--1193
Young-Hyun Ko and
Chi-Hyuck Jun Use of reference distributions when
dealing with unknown regression errors 1195--1204
Andreas Karlsson Bootstrap methods for bias correction
and confidence interval estimation for
nonlinear quantile regression of
longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1218
J. Ahmadi and
N. Balakrishnan Distribution-free confidence intervals
for quantiles and tolerance intervals in
terms of $k$-records . . . . . . . . . . 1219--1233
Shifeng Xiong and
Weiyan Mu Simultaneous confidence intervals for
one-way layout based on generalized
pivotal quantities . . . . . . . . . . . 1235--1244
Wei Zhang and
Ying Zhang and
Kathryn Chaloner and
Jack T. Stapleton Imputation methods for doubly censored
HIV data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245--1257
Shalabh and
H. Toutenburg and
C. Heumann Stein-rule estimation under an extended
balanced loss function . . . . . . . . . 1259--1273
Ramalingam Shanmugam Encyclopedia of Biostatistics are
reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1276
Jialiang Li and
Mari Palta Bandwidth selection through
cross-validation for semi-parametric
varying-coefficient partially linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1286
Haiyan Cai A random cluster algorithm for some
continuous Markov random fields . . . . 1287--1299
A. M. Abouammoh and
Arwa M. Alshingiti Reliability estimation of generalized
inverted exponential distribution . . . 1301--1315
Martina Nardon and
Paolo Pianca Simulation techniques for generalized
Gaussian densities . . . . . . . . . . . 1317--1329
T. Pham-Gia and
N. Turkkan Testing a covariance matrix: exact null
distribution of its likelihood criterion 1331--1340
Qiqing Yu and
George Y. C. Wong An algorithm for the Buckley--James
estimator with interval-censored data 1341--1353
Luis A. Gil-Alana A bivariate fractionally cointegrated
relationship in the context of cyclical
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1355--1370
Abbas Alhakim and
Mufutau Akinwande A multiple stream generator based on de
Bruijn digraph homomorphisms . . . . . . 1371--1380
Markus Neuhäuser and
Roswitha Senske The analysis of multicentre clinical
trials when there is heterogeneity
between centres . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1387
Ramalingam Shanmugam Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences are
reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1389--1392
Shey-Huei Sheu and
Shin-Li Lu Monitoring the mean of autocorrelated
observations with one generally weighted
moving average control chart . . . . . . 1393--1406
J. W. Bian and
H. W. Li and
H. M. Peng An efficient and fast algorithm for
estimating the frequencies of
superimposed exponential signals in
zero-mean multiplicative and additive
noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407--1423
Yuanhua Feng and
Siegfried Heiler A simple bootstrap bandwidth selector
for local polynomial fitting . . . . . . 1425--1439
Taoufik Zoubeidi and
Mustapha Abane Efficient non-parametric sequential
procedures for comparing the rates of
change of two treatments . . . . . . . . 1441--1456
George Tzavelas Maximum likelihood parameter estimation
in the three-parameter gamma
distribution with the use of Mathematica 1457--1466
Jose Manuel Pavia and
Bernardi Cabrer and
Ramon Sala Updating input-output matrices:
assessing alternatives through
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1467--1482
Jesse Frey An algorithm for computing rectangular
multinomial probabilities . . . . . . . 1483--1489
Ramalingam Shanmugam Software and hardware reliability books
are reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1491--1495