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Clement Lam and
Vladimir D. Tonchev Classification of affine resolvable $ 2
- (27, 9, 4) $ designs . . . . . . . . . 187--202
Jay H. Beder Conjectures about Hadamard matrices . . 7--14
Gerhard Dikta The strong law under semiparametric
random censorship models . . . . . . . . 1--10
Issa Fakhre-Zakeri and
Sangyeol Lee On functional limit theorems for
multivariate linear processes with
applications to sequential estimation 11--23
S. D. Durham and
J. D. Lynch A threshold representation for the
strength distribution of a complex load
sharing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--46
Yumi Fujioka and
Yoshihiko Maesono Higher order normalizing transformations
of asymptotic $U$-statistics for
removing bias, skewness and kurtosis . . 47--74
Patrick Ango-Nze and
Ricardo Rios Density estimation in $ L^\infty $ norm
for mixing processes . . . . . . . . . . 75--90
András Antos and
László Györfi and
Michael Kohler Lower bounds on the rate of convergence
of nonparametric regression estimates 91--100
Min-Yu Xie and
Kai-Tai Fang Admissibility and minimaxity of the
uniform design measure in nonparametric
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
Seokhoon Yun A class of Pickands-type estimators for
the extreme value index . . . . . . . . 113--124
Zehua Chen On ranked-set sample quantiles and their
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--135
Yuh-Ing Chen and
Yunchan Chi Multiple comparisons between successive
treatments for randomly right-censored
survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--151
Jian-Xin Pan and
Wing-Kam Fung and
Kai-Tai Fang Multiple outlier detection in
multivariate data using projection
pursuit techniques . . . . . . . . . . . 153--167
TaChen Liang On empirical Bayes tests in a positive
exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 169--181
Marc C. Kennedy A Bayesian approach to computing
posterior distribution and quantile
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--201
Charles El-Nouty and
Armelle Guillou On the smoothed bootstrap . . . . . . . 203--220
C. D. Fuh and
T. H. Fan and
W. L. Hung Balanced importance resampling for
Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--241
Sarjinder Singh and
Ravindra Singh and
Naurang Singh Mangat Some alternative strategies to Moors'
model in randomized response sampling 243--255
Ian R. Harris and
Brent D. Burch Pivotal estimation with applications for
the intraclass correlation coefficient
in the balanced one-way random effects
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
Anonymous Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Anonymous Pages 1-282 (1 January 2000) . . . . . . ??
S. G. Sajjan A note on central limit theorems for
lattice models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--290
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Alan D. Hutson The epsilon-skew-normal distribution for
analyzing near-normal data . . . . . . . 291--309
J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and
F. López-Blázquez and
I. Barranco-Chamorro and
A. Pascual-Acosta Estimating the unknown sample size . . . 311--318
Andrew L. Rukhin and
Brad J. Biggerstaff and
Mark G. Vangel Restricted maximum likelihood estimation
of a common mean and the Mandel--Paule
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--330
Ralf Körner An asymptotic $ \alpha $-test for the
expectation of random fuzzy variables 331--346
Marta Moreno and
Juan Romo Bootstrap tests for unit roots based on
LAD estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--367
Christian Francq and
Jean-Michel Zako\"\ian Covariance matrix estimation for
estimators of mixing weak ARMA models 369--394
Douglas P. Wiens Robust weights and designs for biased
regression models: Least squares and
generalized $M$-estimation . . . . . . . 395--412
G. Giani and
K. Straßburger Multiple comparison procedures for
optimally discriminating between good,
equivalent, and bad treatments with
respect to a control . . . . . . . . . . 413--440
Uttam Bandyopadhyay and
Atanu Biswas Comparison of two treatments with
heterogeneous experimental units . . . . 441--448
Wesley O. Johnson and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Dual group screening . . . . . . . . . . 449--473
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--480
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
Anonymous Pages 283-482 (1 February 2000) . . . . ??
F. López-Blázquez Bounds for the expected value of
spacings from discrete distributions . . 1--9
Chunsheng Ma Convex orders for linear combinations of
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--25
J. Pfanzagl On local uniformity for estimators and
confidence limits . . . . . . . . . . . 27--53
Yijun Zuo and
Robert Serfling On the performance of some robust
nonparametric location measures relative
to a general notion of multivariate
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--79
Sundarraman Subramanian Efficient estimation of regression
coefficients and baseline hazard under
proportionality of conditional hazards 81--94
Gengsheng Qin and
Bing-Yi Jing Asymptotic properties for estimation of
partial linear models with censored data 95--110
Yimin Ma and
N. Balakrishnan Empirical Bayes estimation for
truncation parameters . . . . . . . . . 111--120
Ming-Hui Chen and
Joseph G. Ibrahim and
Qi-Man Shao Power prior distributions for
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 121--137
James F. Troendle Stepwise normal theory multiple test
procedures controlling the false
discovery rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--158
Chul Gyu Park Likelihood ratio test for homogeneity of
steady-state availabilities against
order restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
Tapan K. Nayak On best unbiased prediction and its
relationships to unbiased estimation . . 171--189
Shuangzhe Liu Efficiency comparisons between the OLSE
and the BLUE in a singular linear model 191--200
Kert Viele and
C. Srinivasan Parsimonious estimation of
multiplicative interaction in analysis
of variance using Kullback--Leibler
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--219
Martín H. Félix-Medina Analytical expressions for Rao-Blackwell
estimators in adaptive cluster sampling 221--236
A. A. Dharmadhikari and
A. D. Dharmadhikari and
Kirti R. Shah Comparison of two experimental designs
in reliability studies . . . . . . . . . 237--248
Oleg Seleznjev Spline approximation of random processes
and design problems . . . . . . . . . . 249--262
Yousceek Jeong Asymptotically optimal adaptive designs
in factorial experiments . . . . . . . . 263--283
Ryoh Fuji-Hara and
Nobuko Miyamoto Balanced arrays from quadratic functions 285--293
C. T. Liao and
C. H. Taylor and
H. K. Iyer Optimal balanced measurement designs
when errors are correlated . . . . . . . 295--321
Nizam Uddin Optimal cylindrical-block designs for
correlated observations . . . . . . . . 323--336
Arne Winterhof On the non-existence of generalized
Hadamard matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 337--342
Jay H. Beder Erratum to ``Conjectures About Hadamard
Matrices'' [J Statist. Plann. Inference
\bf 72 (1998) 7--14] . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--351
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Anonymous Pages 1-354 (March 2000) . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
V. Melas Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
D. L. Danilov and
S. M. Ermakov and
J. H. Halton Asymptotic complexity of Monte Carlo
methods for solving linear systems . . . 5--18
R. C. H. Cheng and
J. P. C. Kleijnen and
V. B. Melas Optimal design of experiments with
simulation models of nearly saturated
queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--26
Yuri N. Kashtanov The systematic error in the generations
method for a kernel of mixed sign . . . 27--35
Marvin K. Nakayama Multiple comparisons with the best using
common random numbers for steady-state
simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--48
Rainer Schwabe Optimal designs for a one-way layout
with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
Esteban Vegas and
Joan del Castillo and
Jordi Ocaña Efficiency and exponential models in a
variance-reduction technique for
dichotomous response variables . . . . . 61--74
M. Ahsanullah and
V. B. Nevzorov Generalized spacings of order statistics
from extended sample . . . . . . . . . . 75--83
M. Ahsanullah Generalized order statistics from
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 85--91
Alexander Andronov and
Yuri Merkuryev Optimization of statistical sample sizes
in simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--102
Lawrence D. Brown and
Weng Kee Wong An algorithmic construction of optimal
minimax designs for heteroscedastic
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--114
N. Balakrishnan and
Jun Wang Simple efficient estimation for the
three-parameter gamma distribution . . . 115--126
Katherine Bennett Ensor and
Peter W. Glynn Simulating the maximum of a random walk 127--135
George Haiman Block records and maxima of the
increments of the Wiener process . . . . 137--144
Max Happacher and
Friedrich Pukelsheim Rounding probabilities: maximum
probability and minimum complexity
multipliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
Stefan Heinrich Variance reduction by means of
deterministic computation: collision
estimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
Ian W. McKeague and
Wolfgang Wefelmeyer Markov chain Monte Carlo and
Rao--Blackwellization . . . . . . . . . 171--182
V. Nekrutkin Non-Poisson particle systems and
Boltzmann equations . . . . . . . . . . 183--197
E. V. Shkarupa and
A. V. Voytishek Convergence of discrete-stochastic
numerical procedures with independent or
weakly dependent estimators at grid
nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--211
D. G. Arsenjev and
V. M. Ivanov and
O. Yu. Kul'chitsky Adaptive control of stochastic
calculating processes . . . . . . . . . 213--226
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Anonymous Pages 1-228 (1 April 2000) . . . . . . . ??
Denys Pommeret Orthogonality of the Sheffer system
associated to a Levy process . . . . . . 1--10
Elena Kulinskaya and
Michael B. Dollinger Asymptotics of guarded weights of
evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--29
Stergios B. Fotopoulos Invariance principles for deconvolving
kernel density estimation for stationary
sequences of random variables . . . . . 31--50
Hua Liang Asymptotic normality of parametric part
in partially linear models with
measurement error in the nonparametric
part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--62
Gerda Claeskens and
Marc Aerts Bootstrapping local polynomial
estimators in likelihood-based models 63--80
A. J. Hayter and
Tetsuhisa Miwa and
Wei Liu Combining the advantages of one-sided
and two-sided procedures for comparing
several treatments with a control . . . 81--99
Hyo-Il Park A study on the scores for right censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
Félix Belzunce and
José Candel and
José M. Ruiz Testing mean residual alternatives by
dispersion of residual lives . . . . . . 113--127
Jiajuan Liang and
Runze Li and
Hongbin Fang and
Kai-Tai Fang Testing multinormality based on
low-dimensional projection . . . . . . . 129--141
Patricia Gimenez and
Heleno Bolfarine Comparing consistent estimators in
comparative calibration models . . . . . 143--155
Alan T. K. Wan and
Kazuhiro Ohtani Minimum mean-squared error estimation in
linear regression with an inequality
constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--173
R. B. Arellano-Valle and
M. Galea-Rojas and
P. Iglesias Zuazola Bayesian sensitivity analysis in
elliptical linear regression models . . 175--199
Tatsuya Kubokawa and
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and
Yoshihiko Konno Bayes, minimax and nonnegative
estimators of variance components under
Kullback--Leibler loss . . . . . . . . . 201--214
Jean-Claude Deville and
Yves Tillé Selection of several unequal probability
samples from the same population . . . . 215--227
Xuan Lu and
Yun Meng A new method in the construction of
two-level supersaturated designs . . . . 229--238
Kai-Tai Fang and
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Chang-Xing Ma On the construction of multi-level
supersaturated designs . . . . . . . . . 239--252
Ori Davidov and
Yoel Haitovsky Optimal design for double sampling with
continuous outcomes . . . . . . . . . . 253--263
Feng-Shun Chai and
Dibyen Majumdar Optimal designs for nearest-neighbor
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--275
Clement Lam and
Vladimir D. Tonchev Corrigendum to ``Classification of
affine resolvable $ 2 - (27, 9, 4) $
designs'' [Journal of Statistical
Planning and Inference 56 (1996)
187--202] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--281
Anonymous Pages 1-282 (15 April 2000) . . . . . . ??
Jagdish N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Charles J. Colbourn and
Michel Deza Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
R. J. R. Abel and
F. E. Bennett and
H. Zhang Perfect Mendelsohn designs with block
size six . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--319
G. K. Bennett and
M. J. Grannell and
T. S. Griggs Bi-embeddings of the projective space
PG(3,2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--329
Thomas Bier Difference sets and intercalation pairs 331--348
A. Bonnecaze and
E. Rains and
P. Solé $3$-Colored $5$-Designs and $ Z_4
$-Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--368
Marco Buratti and
Fulvio Zuanni The $1$-rotational Kirkman triple
systems of order 33 . . . . . . . . . . 369--377
K. Chen and
G. Ge and
L. Zhu Starters and related codes . . . . . . . 379--395
J. H. Dinitz and
E. R. Lamken Room square patterns . . . . . . . . . . 397--410
Z. Eslami and
G. B. Khosrovshahi and
B. Tayfeh-Rezaie On halvings of the 2-(10,3,8) design . . 411--419
Ramón M. Figueroa-Centeno and
Arthur T. White Topological models for classical
configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--434
F. Franek and
A. Rosa Two-factorizations of small complete
graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--442
David G. Glynn On the representation of configurations
in projective spaces . . . . . . . . . . 443--456
J. K. Dugdale and
A. J. W. Hilton and
J. Wojciechowski Fractional latin squares, simplex
algebras, and generalized quotients . . 457--504
J. H. Koolen and
A. Munemasa Tight $2$-designs and perfect $1$-codes
in Doob graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--513
C. H. A. Ling and
Y. Lu and
G. H. J. van Rees and
L. Zhu $ V(m, t) $'s for $ m = 4, 5, 6 $ . . . 515--525
T. P. McDonough and
V. C. Mavron and
C. A. Pallikaros Generalised Hadamard matrices and
translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--533
Cheryl L. Olsen and
Donald L. Kreher Steiner graphical $t$-wise balanced
designs of type $ n^r $ . . . . . . . . 535--566
R. S. Rees Mandatory representation designs $ M
R(3, k; v) $ with $k$ even and $v$ odd 567--594
D. R. Stinson and
Tran van Trung and
R. Wei Secure frameproof codes, key
distribution patterns, group testing
algorithms and related structures . . . 595--617
Jianxing Yin Existence of directed GDDs with block
size five and index $ \lambda \geq 2 $ 619--627
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--630
Anonymous Pages 283-630 (1 May 2000) . . . . . . . ??
Zhongxin Zhang and
Barbara A. Burtness and
Daniel Zelterman The maximum negative binomial
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
F. López-Blázquez and
B. Salamanca Miño Binomial approximation to hypergeometric
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29
Bernard A. Mair and
Frits H. Ruymgaart and
Theresa Urrabazo Some comments on Wicksell's problem . . 31--42
D. Fourdrinier and
A. Philippe and
C. P. Robert Estimation of a non-centrality parameter
under Stein-type-like losses . . . . . . 43--54
Dong Wan Shin and
Jong Hyup Lee Consistency of the maximum likelihood
estimators for nonstationary ARMA
regressions with time trends . . . . . . 55--68
Axel Munk An unbiased test for the average
equivalence problem --- the small sample
case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--86
Jack C. Lee and
R. C. Hwang On estimation and prediction for
temporally correlated longitudinal data 87--104
Rosa E. Lillo and
Miguel Martiín Bayesian approach to estimation of
ordered uniform scale parameters . . . . 105--118
J. Kunert and
R. J. Martin Optimality of type I orthogonal arrays
for cross-over models with correlated
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
K. C. Carriere and
Rong Huang Crossover designs for two-treatment
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
Zhide Fang Robust extrapolation designs for biased
polynomial models . . . . . . . . . . . 135--147
Roberto Fontana and
Giovanni Pistone and
Maria Piera Rogantin Classification of two-level factorial
fractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--172
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
Anonymous Pages 1-176 (15 May 2000) . . . . . . . ??
Valeri T. Stefanov On run statistics for binary trials . . 177--185
Melinda McCann and
Sahadeb Sarkar Minimum negative exponential disparity
estimation of mixture proportions . . . 187--197
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez and
Wenceslao González-Manteiga and
Carmen Cadarso-Suárez Kernel distribution function estimation
under the Koziol--Green model . . . . . 199--219
Debasis Kundu and
Sankarshan Basu Analysis of incomplete data in presence
of competing risks . . . . . . . . . . . 221--239
Sanat K. Sarkar A note on the monotonicity of the
critical values of a step-up test . . . 241--249
M. D. Esteban and
A. M. Mayoral and
D. Morales and
J. Morales Some new statistics for testing point
null hypotheses with prior information 251--271
TaChen Liang Counter-examples to ``minimax lower
bounds of empirical Bayes tests'' . . . 273--286
Kazuhiro Ohtani Pre-test double $k$-class estimators in
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 287--299
Seong W. Kim and
Joseph G. Ibrahim Default Bayes factors for generalized
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--315
Claudia Czado and
Axel Munk Noncanonical links in generalized linear
models --- when is the effort justified? 317--345
Jeng-Fu Liu and
Kuang-Chao Chang A note on multiple inverse sampling . . 347--352
Vincent F. Melfi and
Connie Page Estimation after adaptive allocation . . 353--363
Yumi Fujioka and
Yoshihiko Maesono Erratum to: ``Higher order normalizing
transformations of asymptotic
$U$-statistics for removing bias,
skewness and kurtosis'': [J. Statist.
Plann. Inference 83 (2000) 47--74] . . . 365--366
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--373
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Anonymous Pages 177-376 (1 June 2000) . . . . . . ??
Lajos Horváth Approximations for hybrids of empirical
and partial sums processes . . . . . . . 1--18
Denis Conniffe and
John E. Spencer Approximating the distribution of the
maximum partial sum of normal deviates 19--27
Zinoviy Landsman On the minimum of the Fisher information
about the scale parameter and the
singular Sturm--Liouville problem . . . 29--35
Rasul A. Khan A note on Hammersley's estimator of an
integer mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--45
Willem Albers and
Pieta C. Boon and
Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg The asymptotic behavior of tests for
normal means based on a variance
pre-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57
Wanzhu Tu and
Xiao-Hua Zhou Pairwise comparisons of the means of
skewed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--74
Wei Liu and
Tetsuhisa Miwa and
A. J. Hayter Simultaneous confidence interval
estimation for successive comparisons of
ordered treatment effects . . . . . . . 75--86
Ori Davidov and
Marvin Zelen Exact tests for exponential regression 87--97
Malay Ghosh and
Atalanta Ghosh and
Ming-Hui Chen and
Alan Agresti Noninformative priors for one-parameter
item response models . . . . . . . . . . 99--115
Ullrich Munzel and
Edgar Brunner Nonparametric methods in multivariate
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 117--132
Nibia Aires Comparisons between conditional Poisson
sampling and Pareto $ \pi p s $ sampling
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--147
William Maury Duckworth Some binary maximin distance designs . . 149--170
Anonymous Pages 1-170 (1 July 2000) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Simo Puntanen and
George P. H. Styan and
Hans Joachim Werner Two matrix-based proofs that the linear
estimator Gy is the best linear unbiased
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--179
X. R. Chen Studies on consistency of LSE in China 181--188
Lincheng Zhao Some contributions to $M$-estimation in
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--203
D. Stemann and
G. Trenkler Some further results on the efficiency
of the Cochrane-Orcutt-estimator . . . . 205--214
Jun Shao and
J. Sunil Rao The GIC for model selection: a
hypothesis testing approach . . . . . . 215--231
M. Yu and
J. N. K. Rao Inference for nested error linear
regression models with unequal error
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--253
Jinshan Liu MSEM dominance of estimators in two
seemingly unrelated regressions . . . . 255--266
Gao Dao-de and
Huang Rong-Bing Some finite sample properties of Zellner
estimator in the context of $m$
seemingly unrelated regression equations 267--283
Qi-Guang Wu Some results on parameter estimation in
extended growth curve models . . . . . . 285--300
Subir Ghosh and
Lisa D. Fairchild Inference on interactions between
treatments and subjects within groups in
a two-period crossover trial . . . . . . 301--317
Miwako Mishima and
Masakazu Jimbo and
Teruhiro Shirakura On the optimality of orthogonal arrays
in case of correlated errors . . . . . . 319--338
Hong-Zhi An and
Li-Xing Zhu and
Run-Ze Li A mixed-type test for linearity in time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--353
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Anonymous Pages 171-356 (1 August 2000) . . . . . ??
Michael Kohler Inequalities for uniform deviations of
averages from expectations with
applications to nonparametric regression 1--23
Irina Grabovsky and
Lajos Horváth and
Marie Husková Limit theorems for kernel-type
estimators for the time of change . . . 25--56
Marie Husková and
Josef Steinebach Limit theorems for a class of tests of
gradual changes . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--77
Erhard Cramer and
Udo Kamps Relations for expectations of functions
of generalized order statistics . . . . 79--89
K. Zografos Measures of multivariate dependence
based on a distance between Fisher
information matrices . . . . . . . . . . 91--107
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Daoud Bshouty and
Benjamin Reiser Upper bounds for coverage probabilities
of confidence intervals for nonmonotone
parametric functions . . . . . . . . . . 109--118
A. Onar and
W. J. Padgett Accelerated test models with the inverse
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 119--133
Song Yang Functional estimation under interval
censoring case 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--144
J. A. Cristóbal and
J. T. Alcalá Nonparametric regression estimators for
length biased data . . . . . . . . . . . 145--168
Bernhard F. Arnold and
Peter Stahlecker Another view of the Kuks--Olman
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--174
Akio Namba MSE dominance of the PT-2SHI estimator
over the positive-part Stein-rule
estimator in regression . . . . . . . . 175--185
T. Foucart A decision rule for discarding principal
components in regression . . . . . . . . 187--195
Ricardo A. Maronna and
Viíctor J. Yohai Robust regression with both continuous
and categorical predictors . . . . . . . 197--214
Ana Bianco and
Graciela Boente and
Julio di Rienzo Some results for robust GM-based
estimators in heteroscedastic regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--242
Alain Berlinet and
Friedrich Liese and
Igor Vajda Necessary and sufficient conditions for
consistency of $M$-estimates in
regression models with general errors 243--267
V. Guiard and
G. Herrendörfer and
D. Sumpf and
G. Nürnberg About optimal designs for estimating
variance components with ANOVA in
one-way-classification under
non-normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--285
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
Anonymous Pages 1-288 (15 August 2000) . . . . . . ??
Gérard Letac Stationary sequences with simple joint
Poisson distributions . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Ismihan G. Bairamov and
Serkan N. Eryilmaz Distributional properties of statistics
based on minimal spacing and record
exceedance statistics . . . . . . . . . 21--33
Helge Blaker Minimax estimation in linear regression
under restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . 35--55
D. Kundu Estimating the number of signals in the
presence of white noise . . . . . . . . 57--68
M. Branco and
H. Bolfarine and
P. Iglesias and
R. B. Arellano-Valle Bayesian analysis of the calibration
problem under elliptical distributions 69--85
Sudipto Banerjee and
Alan E. Gelfand and
Wolfgang Polasek Geostatistical modelling for spatial
interaction data with application to
postal service performance . . . . . . . 87--105
T. C. Chua and
Albert K. Tsui Procuring honest responses indirectly 107--116
Bengt Rosén On inclusion probabilities for order $
\pi p s $ sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 117--143
Kenny Q. Ye and
William Li and
Agus Sudjianto Algorithmic construction of optimal
symmetric Latin hypercube designs . . . 145--159
Spencer P. Hurd and
Dinesh G. Sarvate On $c$-Bhaskar Rao designs . . . . . . . 161--175
Anonymous Pages 1-176 (1 September 2000) . . . . . ??
Djamal Louani Large deviations for the $ L_1
$-distance in kernel density estimation 177--182
Montserrat Fuentes Predicting integrals of diffusion
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--193
Anna Dembi\'nska and
Jacek Wesolowski Linearity of regression for non-adjacent
record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205
Nora Gürtler and
Norbert Henze Recent and classical goodness-of-fit
tests for the Poisson distribution . . . 207--225
Hidetoshi Shimodaira Improving predictive inference under
covariate shift by weighting the
log-likelihood function . . . . . . . . 227--244
Angelika van der Linde Reference priors for shrinkage and
smoothing parameters . . . . . . . . . . 245--274
Marianna Pensky Adaptive wavelet empirical Bayes
estimation of a location or a scale
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--292
V. R. Padmawar and
K. Vijayan Randomized response revisited . . . . . 293--304
Siegfried Gabler and
Horst Stenger and
X. Mannheim Minimax strategies in survey sampling 305--321
Jitendra Ganju On choosing between fixed and random
block effects in some no-interaction
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--334
Alaattin Erkanli and
Refik Soyer Simulation-based designs for accelerated
life tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--348
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Pages 177-350 (1 October 2000) . . . . . ??
Chi Song Wong and
Hua Cheng Evaluating matrix-variate moments
through higher-order differential forms
and combinatorial algorithms . . . . . . 1--21
Ramesh C. Gupta and
S. N. U. A. Kirmani Residual coefficient of variation and
some characterization results . . . . . 23--31
Craig B. Borkowf On multidimensional contingency tables
with categories defined by the empirical
quantiles of the marginal data . . . . . 33--51
D. S. Coad and
Z. Govindarajulu Corrected confidence intervals following
a sequential adaptive clinical trial
with binary responses . . . . . . . . . 53--64
David Perry Stopping problems for compound processes
with applications to queues . . . . . . 65--75
Jyotirmoy Sarkar and
Sahadeb Sarkar Availability of a periodically inspected
system under perfect repair . . . . . . 77--90
A. Almudevar and
R. N. Bhattacharya and
C. C. A. Sastri Estimating the probability mass of
unobserved support in random sampling 91--105
Runchu Zhang and
DongKwon Park Optimal blocking of two-level fractional
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 107--121
Juneyoung Lee and
André I. Khuri Quantile dispersion graphs for the
comparison of designs for a random
two-way model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--137
Minqian Liu and
Runchu Zhang Construction of $ E(s^2) $ optimal
supersaturated designs using cyclic
BIBDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--150
Roger Fandom Noubiap and
Wilfried Seidel A minimax algorithm for constructing
optimal symmetrical balanced designs for
a logistic regression model . . . . . . 151--168
Webster West Book Review: \booktitleSimulation: a
modeler's approach: J. Thompson; Wiley,
New York, 306 pages, price US\$84.95,
ISBN 0-471-25184-4} . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
S. Lahiri Book Review: \booktitleBootstrap
methods: a practitioner's guide: M. R.
Chernick, Wiley, New York, 1999, pp. xiv
+ 264 (including 84 pages of
Bibliography), price \$74.95 paperback,
ISBN 0-471-34912-7} . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Daijin Ko Book Review: \booktitleApplied survival
analysis: regression modeling of time to
event data: David W. Hosmer, Jr. and
Stanley Lemeshow, Wiley, New York, 1999,
pp. 386 + xiii, price \$84.95 ISBN
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A. M. Dean Book Review: \booktitleFractional
factorial plans: A. Dey and R. Mukerjee:
Wiley, New York, 1999, price \$94.95
paperback, ISBN 0-471-29414-4} . . . . . 177--178
Anonymous Pages 1-178 (1 November 2000) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Marc Aerts and
Ilse Augustyns and
Paul Janssen Central limit theorem for the total
squared error of local polynomial
estimators of cell probabilities . . . . 181--193
Jaromiír Antoch and
Marie Husková Bayesian-type estimators of change
points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--208
P. J. Bickel and
Y. Ritov Non- and semiparametric statistics:
compared and contrasted . . . . . . . . 209--228
Probal Chaudhuri Asymptotic consistency of median
regression trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--238
Paul Deheuvels Nonstandard strong laws for local
quantile processes . . . . . . . . . . . 239--266
Kjell A. Doksum and
Sorana M. Froda Neighborhood correlation . . . . . . . . 267--294
Bert van Es and
Chris A. J. Klaassen and
Karin Oudshoorn Survival analysis under cross-sectional
sampling: length bias and multiplicative
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--312
Václav Fabian New modifications of the Bechhofer
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--322
Marc Hallin and
Christophe Koell and
Bas J. M. Werker Optimal inference for discretely
observed semiparametric
Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes . . . . . 323--340
Xuming He and
Stephen Portnoy Some asymptotic results on bivariate
quantile splines . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--349
Siegfried Heiler and
Yuanhua Feng Data-driven decomposition of seasonal
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--363
Lajos Horváth and
Josef Steinebach Testing for changes in the mean or
variance of a stochastic process under
weak invariance . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--376
Jana Jurecková and
Pranab Kumar Sen Goodness-of-fit tests and second-order
asymptotic relations . . . . . . . . . . 377--397
Hira L. Koul and
Donatas Surgailis Second-order behavior of $M$-estimators
in linear regression with long-memory
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--412
Hua Liang and
Wolfgang Härdle and
Volker Sommerfeld Bootstrap approximation in a partially
linear regression model . . . . . . . . 413--426
David M. Mason and
Tatyana S. Turova Motoo's combinatorial central limit
theorem for serial rank statistics . . . 427--440
Brad McNeney and
Jon A. Wellner Application of convolution theorems in
semiparametric models with non-i.i.d.
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--480
Georg Neuhaus A method of constructing rank tests in
survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 481--497
Alexander Ploner and
Rudolf Dutter New directions in geostatistics . . . . 499--509
B. L. S. Prakasa Rao Bayes estimation for some stochastic
partial differential equations . . . . . 511--524
Michael G. Schimek Estimation and inference in partially
linear models with smoothing splines . . 525--540
Pranab K. Sen The Hájek convolution theorem and
empirical Bayes estimation: parametrics,
semiparametrics and nonparametrics . . . 541--556
Samuli Visuri and
Visa Koivunen and
Hannu Oja Sign and rank covariance matrices . . . 557--575
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--578
Anonymous (Huskova) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Chin-Yuan Hu and
Gwo Dong Lin An inequality for the weighted sums of
pairwise i.i.d. generalized Rayleigh
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Abram Kagan A discrete version of the Stam
inequality and a characterization of the
Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 7--12
Abram Kagan and
R. G. Laha A property of linear forms of
independent random variables related to
uniqueness of linear structure . . . . . 13--20
Tomasz Rychlik Mean-variance bounds for order
statistics from dependent DFR, IFR, DFRA
and IFRA samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--38
M. B. Bhatt and
S. R. Patel On asymptotic distribution for
two-truncation parameter family . . . . 39--46
R. M. Loynes A new measure in local influence . . . . 47--53
Roel Braekers and
Noël Veraverbeke The partial Koziol--Green model with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--71
Dietmar Ferger Exponential and polynomial tailbounds
for change-point estimators . . . . . . 73--109
Mohan Kale and
S. R. Deshmukh Estimation in continuous state-space
branching processes . . . . . . . . . . 111--119
Ibrahim A. Ahmad Moments inequalities of aging families
of distributions with hypotheses testing
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
M. A. van de Wiel and
A. Di Bucchianico Fast computation of the exact null
distribution of Spearman's $ \rho $ and
Page's $L$ statistic for samples with
and without ties . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--145
Sarat C. Dass Propriety of intrinsic priors in
invariant testing situations . . . . . . 147--162
Eiichi Isogai and
Chikara Uno Improved sequential procedures for
estimating the percentile of a normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--174
D. L. Hawkins A proof of the asymptotic normality of
the inverse sampling estimator in finite
population sampling . . . . . . . . . . 175--180
Zehua Chen Ranked-set sampling with regression-type
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--192
Petros Hadjicostas and
George C. Hadjinicola The asymptotic distribution of the
proportion of correct classifications
for a holdout sample in logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--211
Anne Chao and
Paul S. F. Yip and
Shen-Ming Lee and
Wenten Chu Population size estimation based on
estimating functions for closed
capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 213--232
P. Goos and
L. Tack and
M. Vandebroek Optimal designs for variance function
estimation using sample variances . . . 233--252
Kim-Hung Li and
Nai N. Chan $ L_p $-optimality for regression
designs with heteroscedastic errors . . 253--257
Neil A. Butler Properties of optimal polynomial designs
under smoothing spline models . . . . . 259--266
Irad Ben-Gal and
Lev B. Levitin An application of information theory and
error-correcting codes to fractional
factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 267--282
Philip Prescott and
Ralph Mansson Robustness of balanced incomplete block
designs to randomly missing observations 283--296
Arnold Janssen Testing nonparametric statistical
functionals with applications to rank
tests [J. Statist. Plann. Inference \bf
81 (1999) 71--93] . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
O. B. Linton Book Review: \booktitleNonparametric
econometrics: Adrian Pagan and Aman
Ullah; Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1999, price US\$74.95
hardback, ISBN 0-521-35564-8, price
US\$29.95 paperback, ISBN 0-521-58611-9 299--300
Carl Lee Book Review: \booktitleApplied
regression including computing and
graphics: R. Dennis Cook and Sanford
Weisberg; Wiley, New York, 1999, 593pp,
US\$89.95, ISBN 0-471-31711-X} . . . . . 301--303
Hél\`ene Massam Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Statistics: Jun Shao, 530 pages, ISBN
0-387-98674-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Anonymous Author Index Volume 92(2001) . . . . . . 307--308
Anonymous Pages 1-308 (January 2001) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
Anonymous List of referees 2000 . . . . . . . . . vii--xiv
Jan Beirlant and
Luc Devroye and
László Györfi and
Igor Vajda Large deviations of divergence measures
on partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
Nickos Papadatos Expectation bounds on linear estimators
from dependent samples . . . . . . . . . 17--27
M. Asadi and
C. R. Rao and
D. N. Shanbhag Some unified characterization results on
generalized Pareto distributions . . . . 29--50
Kai-Sheng Song Rényi information, loglikelihood and an
intrinsic distribution measure . . . . . 51--69
Kaushik Ghosh and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka A general estimation method using
spacings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--82
Y. S. Sathe and
U. J. Dixit Estimation of $ P[X \leq Y] $ in the
negative binomial distribution . . . . . 83--92
Dimitris Karlis and
Evdokia Xekalaki Robust inference for finite Poisson
mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--115
Itsuro Kakiuchi and
Miyoshi Kimura Robust rank tests for $k$-sample
approximate equality in the presence of
gross errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--138
Marc Hallin and
Ivan Mizera Sample heterogeneity and $M$-estimation 139--160
M. Ivette Gomes and
M. João Martins Generalizations of the Hill estimator
--- asymptotic versus finite sample
behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--180
Arjun K. Gupta and
Asoka Ramanayake Change points with linear trend for the
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 181--195
Kazuo Noda and
Qi-Guang Wu and
Kunio Shimizu Admissibility and inadmissibility of a
generalized Bayes unbiased estimator in
a multivariate linear model . . . . . . 197--210
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Pandurang M. Kulkarni and
Thomas Mathew Multiple use one-sided hypotheses
testing in univariate linear calibration 211--223
Wen-Shuenn Deng and
Chih-Kang Chu and
Ming-Yen Cheng A study of local linear ridge regression
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--238
Dejian Lai and
Lemuel A. Moyé and
Barry R. Davis and
Lisa E. Brown and
Frank M. Sacks Brownian motion and long-term clinical
trial recruitment . . . . . . . . . . . 239--246
Rebecca A. Betensky Optimally selected chi square statistics
for equivalence testing . . . . . . . . 247--257
E. Gutiérrez-Peña and
S. G. Walker A Bayesian predictive approach to model
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--276
Yuan-chin Ivan Chang Sequential confidence regions of
generalized linear models with adaptive
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--293
Thomas Mathew and
Bikas Kumar Sinha Optimal designs for binary data under
logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . 295--307
Fu-Chuen Chang and
Mong-Na Lo Huang and
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Huie-Ching Yang Optimal designs for dual response
polynomial regression models . . . . . . 309--322
Tapan K. Nayak Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Anonymous Author Index Volume 93 (2001) . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Pages 1-326 (February 2001) . . . . . . ??
Viktor Witkovský On the exact computation of the density
and of the quantiles of linear
combinations of $t$ and $F$ random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
Yili Lu and
Barry Storer A tampered Brownian motion process model
for partial step-stress accelerated life
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
James R. Schott Some tests for the equality of
covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . 25--36
Arijit Chaudhuri Using randomized response from a complex
survey to estimate a sensitive
proportion in a dichotomous finite
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Robert A. J. Matthews Why should clinicians care about
Bayesian methods? . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
Dennis V. Lindley Why should clinicians care about
Bayesian methods? . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60
P. Sasieni Why should clinicians care about
Bayesian methods? . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
James Berger Why should clinicians care about
Bayesian methods? . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
R. A. J. Matthews Author's response . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
Michael Goldstein Avoiding foregone conclusions: geometric
and foundational analysis of paradoxes
of finite additivity . . . . . . . . . . 73--87
Joseph B. Kadane and
Mark J. Schervish and
Teddy Seidenfeld Goldstein's dilemma: require countable
additivity or abandon ``prevision of
prevision'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
W. Sudderth Comments on ``Avoiding foregone
conclusions: geometric and foundational
analysis of paradoxes of finite
additivity'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
Mikel Aickin Randomization, balance, and the validity
and efficiency of design-adaptive
allocation methods . . . . . . . . . . . 97--119
Anonymous Pages 1-120 (1 March 2001) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
F. E. Bennett Recent progress on the existence of
perfect Mendelsohn designs . . . . . . . 121--138
Marco Buratti Constructions for point-regular linear
spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--146
Zhenfu Cao On Whiteman's and Storer's difference
sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--154
Yanxun Chang On the existence of BIB designs with
large $ \lambda $ . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
Wende Chen and
Torleiv Klòve Weight hierarchies of linear codes of
dimension 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179
Wensong Chu New constructions of simple and
indecomposable $1$-factorizations of
complete multigraphs . . . . . . . . . . 181--196
Fang-Wei Fu and
Shi-Yi Shen An upper bound for binary constant
weight codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--203
Fang-Wei Fu and
Shi-Yi Shen On the nonperiodic cyclic equivalence
classes of Hamming codes and BCH codes 205--209
Gennian Ge Existence of holey LSSOM of type $ 2^n $
with application to $ G_7 $-packings of
$ k_v $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--218
Gennian Ge On the existence of Room frames of type
$ 2^n u^1 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--230
Haitao Guo and
Tayuan Huang Some classes of four-weight spin models 231--247
Sanpei Kageyama and
Ying Miao Existence of nested designs with block
size five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--254
Torleiv Klòve and
Yuri V. Svirid Diffuse difference triangle sets . . . . 255--276
Mario-Osvin Pavcevi\'c On symmetric $ (69, 17, 4)$-designs
admitting an action of Frobenius groups 277--285
Ruud Pellikaan On the existence of order functions . . 287--301
Weisheng Qiu A theorem for studying the Multiplier
Conjecture and its applications . . . . 303--312
Hao Shen Intersections of Kirkman triple systems 313--325
Sheng Tang and
Hao Shen Embeddings of nearly Kirkman triple
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--333
J. A. Thas Flocks and partial flocks of quadrics: a
survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--348
Hongzeng Wei and
Yibin Zhang The number of solutions to the alternate
matrix equation over a finite field and
a $q$-identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--358
Hongzeng Wei and
Xingfen Zheng The number of solutions to the bilinear
matrix equation over a finite field . . 359--369
Dingjia Xin Analytic approach to coset-leader
decoding leads to extension of the
Welch--Berlekamp theorem . . . . . . . . 371--380
Yunqing Xu and
Huisheng Pei Existence of frame SOLS of type $ a^n
b^1 $ for odd $n$ . . . . . . . . . . . 381--391
Jianxing Yin Packing designs with equal-sized holes 393--403
Shengyuan Zhang Existence of certain class of duadic
group algebra codes . . . . . . . . . . 405--411
Zhao Zhi Zhang A relation between the average Hamming
distance and the average Hamming weight
of binary codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--419
L. Zhu A class of doubly resolvable GDDs from
Baer subplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--427
Anonymous Author Index Volume 94 (2001) . . . . . 429--430
Anonymous (Shen) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
N. M. Singhi and
K. S. Vijayan S. S. Shrikhande and his work: an
appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
Charles J. Colbourn and
Jeffrey H. Dinitz Mutually orthogonal latin squares: a
brief survey of constructions . . . . . 9--48
R. Julian R. Abel and
G. Ge and
Malcolm Greig and
L. Zhu Resolvable balanced incomplete block
designs with block size 5 . . . . . . . 49--65
K. T. Arasu and
S. L. Ma A nonexistence result on difference
sets, partial difference sets and
divisible difference sets . . . . . . . 67--73
R. D. Baker and
G. L. Ebert Singer line orbits in $ {\rm PG}(3, q) $ 75--88
Frank E. Bennett and
Qingde Kang and
Jianguo Lei and
Hantao Zhang Large sets of disjoint pure Mendelsohn
triple systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--115
Aart Blokhuis and
Willem H. Haemers An infinite family of quasi-symmetric
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Iliya Bluskov and
Katherine Heinrich Super-simple designs with $ v \leq 32 $ 121--131
Iliya Bluskov and
Spyros S. Magliveras On the number of mutually disjoint
cyclic designs and large sets of designs 133--142
K. Chen and
G. H. J. van Rees and
L. Zhu $ v(m, t) $ and its variants . . . . . . 143--160
Charles J. Colbourn Minimum weights of point codes of
Steiner triple systems . . . . . . . . . 161--166
Alexander A. Davydov and
Patric R. J. Östergård Recursive constructions of complete caps 167--173
Michel Deza and
Viacheslav Grishukhin Face-regular bifaced polyhedra . . . . . 175--195
Anant P. Godbole and
Heidi C. Graziano Contributions to the problem of
Zarankiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--208
Yury J. Ionin and
Mohan S. Shrikhande On classification of two class partially
balanced designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--228
J. D. Key and
M. J. de Resmini Ternary dual codes of the planes of
order nine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--236
G. B. Khosrovshahi and
Reza Naserasr and
B. Tayfeh-Rezaie Ternary trades and their codes . . . . . 237--243
Clement Lam and
Ying Miao and
Miwako Mishima Cyclically resolvable cyclic Steiner
$2$-systems $ S(2, 4, 52)$ . . . . . . . 245--256
Miwako Mishima and
Masakazu Jimbo and
Sanpei Kageyama Constructions for a certain type of
balanced bipartite block designs . . . . 257--268
D. A. Preece Types of factor in experiments . . . . . 269--282
Tridib K. Dutta and
Bimal K. Roy Construction of some repeated
measurements designs . . . . . . . . . . 283--291
Jin Qian and
D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri Extremal case of
Frankl--Ray--Chaudhuri--Wilson
Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--306
J. J. Seidel Definitions for spherical designs . . . 307--313
L. Storme and
S. K. J. Vereecke The geometric description of a cyclic $
(q - q + 1)$-arc in $ {\rm PG}(q - q -
3, q) $, $q$ square . . . . . . . . . . 315--333
Svetlana Topalova Symmetric $ 2 - (69, 17, 4) $ designs
with automorphisms of order $ 13 $ . . . 335--339
Tran van Trung Recursive constructions for $3$-designs
and resolvable $3$-designs . . . . . . . 341--358
Anonymous Author Index Volume 95 (2001) . . . . . 359--360
Anonymous (Tonchev) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sudhir Gupta and
Rahul Mukerjee Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
A. J. Scott and
C. J. Wild Maximum likelihood for generalised
case-control studies . . . . . . . . . . 3--27
Stephen Senn Cross-over trials in drug development:
theory and practice . . . . . . . . . . 29--40
Niels G. Becker and
Tom Britton Design issues for studies of infectious
diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--66
Edward L. Korn and
David M. Teeter and
Sheldon Baumrind Using explicit clinician preferences in
nonrandomized study designs . . . . . . 67--82
Stuart A. Gansky and
Gary G. Koch Assessing bias of multicenter trials
with incomplete treatment allocation . . 83--107
Janice M. Weinberg and
Stephen W. Lagakos Linear rank tests under general
alternatives, with application to
summary statistics computed from
repeated measures data . . . . . . . . . 109--127
C. Thomas Lin and
Balakrishna S. Hosmane and
Peggy J. Olson and
R. J. Robert J. Padley Analysis of adverse events in titration
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--142
Laurence S. Freedman Confidence intervals and statistical
power of the `Validation' ratio for
surrogate or intermediate endpoints . . 143--153
Michael A. Proschan and
Robert P. McMahon and
Joanna H. Shih and
Sally A. Hunsberger and
Nancy L. Geller and
Genell Knatterud and
Janet Wittes Sensitivity analysis using an imputation
method for missing binary data in
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
Mitchell H. Gail and
David Pee and
Raymond Carroll Effects of violations of assumptions on
likelihood methods for estimating the
penetrance of an autosomal dominant
mutation from kin-cohort studies . . . . 167--177
Dianne M. Finkelstein and
David A. Schoenfeld Comparing treatment strategies using a
synthesized clinical trial: an analysis
of late versus early use of
trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for AIDS
patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--189
R. J. Cook and
J. F. Lawless Some comments on efficiency gains from
auxiliary information for right-censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--202
Zhong-Zhan Zhang and
Takashi Yanagawa Generalized Begun--Reid estimators for
multiple hazard rates . . . . . . . . . 203--220
Werner Vach and
Andreas du Bois and
Kirstin Schulz A stochastic model to analyse risk
factors for emesis in multi-cycle
chemotherapies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--246
Young Jack Lee Post-stratification based direct
adjustment approach to a missing data
problem in clinical trials . . . . . . . 247--262
Christopher Jennison and
Bruce W. Turnbull On group sequential tests for data in
unequally sized groups and with unknown
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--288
Anup Dewanji and
Atanu Biswas An optimal design for simple
illness-death model . . . . . . . . . . 289--300
Anonymous (Gupta) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Hisashi Tanizaki Estimation of unknown parameters in
nonlinear and non-Gaussian state-space
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--323
Bernard Garel Likelihood ratio test for univariate
Gaussian mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--350
Ömer Öztürk and
Douglas A. Wolfe A new ranked set sampling protocol for
the signed rank test . . . . . . . . . . 351--370
B. Levin and
Myunghee Cho Paik The unreasonable effectiveness of a
biased logistic regression procedure in
the analysis of pair-matched
case-control studies . . . . . . . . . . 371--385
Peide Shi and
Kai-Tai Fang and
Chih-Ling Tsai Optimal multi-criteria designs for
Fourier regression models . . . . . . . 387--401
Feng-Shun Chai and
Ashish Das and
Aloke Dey A-optimal block designs for parallel
line assays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--414
W. H. Holzmann and
H. Kharaghani On the orthogonal designs of order 40 415--429
Ted Chang Book Review: \booktitleInterpolation of
spatial data: some theory for kriging:
Michael L. Stein; Springer, New York,
1999, 247 + xvii pages, ISBN
0-387-98629-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--435
Richard McFarland Book Review: \booktitleApplied
multivariate statistics with the SAS
system, Second Edition: R. Khattree and
D. N. Naik; SAS Publishing, Cary, NC,
1999, 338pp., \$39.95 ISBN
1-58025-357-1} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Anonymous Author Index Volume 96 (2001) . . . . . 439--440
Anonymous Pages 301-440 (1 July 2001) . . . . . . ??
Anil K. Bera and
Rahul Mukerjee Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
C. Radhakrishna Rao Two score and 10 years of score tests 3--7
Anil K. Bera and
Yannis Bilias Rao's score, Neyman's $ C(\alpha) $ and
Silvey's LM tests: an essay on
historical developments and some new
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--44
J. K. Ghosh and
Rahul Mukerjee Test statistics arising from quasi
likelihood: Bartlett adjustment and
higher-order power . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
Bing Li Sensitivity of Rao's score test, the
Wald test and the likelihood ratio test
to nuisance parameters . . . . . . . . . 57--66
Denis Conniffe Score tests when a nuisance parameter is
unidentified under the null hypothesis 67--83
Gloria González-Rivera and
Aman Ullah Rao's score test with nonparametric
density estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 85--100
Takesi Hayakawa Rao's statistic for homogeneity of
multiple parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
Luc Anselin Rao's score test in spatial econometrics 113--139
Rahul Mukerjee and
Nancy Reid Comparison of test statistics via
expected lengths of associated
confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 141--151
L. G. Godfrey and
C. D. Orme On improving the robustness and
reliability of Rao's score test . . . . 153--176
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Higher-order asymptotic refinements for
score tests in proper dispersion models 177--190
Masanobu Taniguchi On large deviation asymptotics of some
tests in time series . . . . . . . . . . 191--200
Anonymous (Bera) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Publisher's note . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
I. Dewan and
B. L. S. Prakasa Rao Asymptotic normality for $U$-statistics
of associated random variables . . . . . 201--225
L. Pereira and
H. Ferreira Limit distribution for point processes
of high local maxima . . . . . . . . . . 227--233
Miguel A. Arcones Asymptotic distribution of regression
$M$-estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--261
Sucharita Ghosh Nonparametric trend estimation in
replicated time series . . . . . . . . . 263--274
Di Chen and
Jye-Chyi Lu and
Xiaoming Huo and
Ming Yin Optimum percentile estimating equations
for nonlinear random coefficient models 275--292
T. N. Sriram Fixed size confidence regions for
parameters of threshold AR(1) models . . 293--304
Fulvio De Santis and
Fulvio Spezzaferri Consistent fractional Bayes factor for
nested normal linear models . . . . . . 305--321
Chi Song Wong and
Hua Cheng Estimation in a growth curve model with
singular covariance . . . . . . . . . . 323--342
Deo Kumar Srivastava and
Govind S. Mudholkar Trimmed $ T^2 $: a robust analog of
Hotelling's $ {\cal T}^2 $ . . . . . . . 343--358
Koon-Shing Kwong A modified Dunnett and Tamhane step-up
approach for establishing
superiority/equivalence of a new
treatment compared with $k$ standard
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--366
Charles W. Dunnett and
Manfred Horn and
Rüdiger Vollandt Sample size determination in step-down
and step-up multiple tests for comparing
treatments with a control . . . . . . . 367--384
Eleanne Solorzano and
John D. Spurrier Comparing more than one treatment to
more than one control in incomplete
blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--398
Dizza Bursztyn and
David M. Steinberg Rotation designs for experiments in
high-bias situations . . . . . . . . . . 399--414
Anonymous Author Index Volume 97 (2001) . . . . . 415--416
Anonymous Pages 201-416 (1 September 2001) . . . . ??
S. E. Ahmed and
Deli Li and
Andrew Rosalsky and
Andrei I. Volodin Almost sure $ \lim \sup $ behavior of
bootstrapped means with applications to
pairwise i.i.d. sequences and stationary
ergodic sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Johan Segers Residual estimators . . . . . . . . . . 15--27
Xiaonong Gu and
Thomas Mathew Some characterizations of symmetric
two-principal points . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
H. Finner and
M. Roters Asymptotic sharpness of product-type
inequalities for maxima of random
variables with applications in multiple
comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--56
Zinoviy Landsman Second-order minimax estimation of the
mean value for exponential dispersion
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--71
M. Luz Calle and
Guadalupe Gómez Nonparametric Bayesian estimation from
interval-censored data using Monte Carlo
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--87
N. Balakrishnan and
Jie Mi Order-preserving property of maximum
likelihood estimator . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
Noël Veraverbeke Estimation of the quantiles of the
duration of old age . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
Rong Zhang and
Jeankyung Kim and
Michael Woodroofe Asymptotic analysis of isotonic
estimation for grouped data . . . . . . 107--117
Xuewen Lu and
R. S. Singh and
A. F. Desmond A kernel smoothed semiparametric
survival model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
Kim E. Andersen and
Martin B. Hansen Multiplicative censoring: density
estimation by a series expansion
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--155
Chia-Jui Lai and
C. K. Chu Triple smoothing estimation of the
regression function and its derivatives
in nonparametric regression . . . . . . 157--175
Christophe Pouet An asymptotically optimal test for a
parametric set of regression functions
against a non-parametric alternative . . 177--189
Marc G. Genton The change-of-variance function: a tool
to explore the effects of dependencies
in spatial statistics . . . . . . . . . 191--209
N. Kordzakhia and
G. D. Mishra and
L. Reiersòlmoen Robust estimation in the logistic
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--223
Tapabrata Maiti Robust generalized linear mixed models
for small area estimation . . . . . . . 225--238
Yi-Ping Chang and
Wen-Tao Huang Generalized subset selection procedures
under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . 239--258
F. P. A. Coolen and
P. van der Laan Imprecise predictive selection based on
low structure assumptions . . . . . . . 259--277
Yi Zhao and
Kai-Tai Fang Orthogonal exact designs on a sphere, a
spherical cap, or a spherical belt . . . 279--285
David Bedford and
Roger M. Whitaker A new construction for efficient
semi-Latin squares . . . . . . . . . . . 287--292
Lieven Tack and
Martina Vandebroek $ (D_t, C) $-optimal run orders . . . . 293--310
Anonymous Author Index Volume 98 (2001) . . . . . 311--312
Anonymous Pages 1-312 (1 October 2001) . . . . . . ??
Abram Kagan Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Christophe Aubry and
Ali Souleyman Dabye Asymptotic normality of the minimum
distance estimators for a Poisson
process with a discontinuous intensity
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23
Peter H. Westfall and
Alok Krishen Optimally weighted, fixed sequence and
gatekeeper multiple testing procedures 25--40
Weizhen Wang and
J. T. Gene Hwang A nearly unbiased test for individual
bioequivalence problems using
probability criteria . . . . . . . . . . 41--58
Y. S. Qin and
Y. Wu An estimator of a conditional quantile
in the presence of auxiliary information 59--70
Ioulia Papageorgiou and
K. X. Karakostas Model-complete strategies for sampling
from convex autocorrelated finite
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--89
Yazhen Wang and
Joseph E. Cavanaugh and
Changyong Song Self-similarity index estimation via
wavelets for locally self-similar
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--110
Anonymous Pages 1-110 (1 November 2001) . . . . . ??
Kokyo Choy Outlier detection for stationary time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--127
Sòren Feodor Nielsen Nonparametric conditional mean
imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--150
R. T. Smythe and
M. G. Bickis and
D. Krewski and
K. Y. Fung Efficiency of experimental designs for
comparing two treatments with correlated
binary responses . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--173
J. Calvin Berry On the existence of a unique most
probable category . . . . . . . . . . . 175--182
Jacek Wesolowski and
Arjun K. Gupta Linearity of convex mean residual life 183--191
Fulvio De Santis and
Julia Mortera and
Alessandra Nardi Jeffreys priors for survival models with
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--209
Sundarraman Subramanian Parameter estimation in regression for
long-term survival rate from censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--222
Anonymous Author Index Volume 99 (2001) . . . . . 223--223
Anonymous Pages 111-224 (1 December 2001) . . . . ??
Andre'es M. Alonso and
Daniel Peña and
Juan Romo Forecasting time series with sieve
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Baha-Eldin Khaledi and
Subhash Kochar Dispersive ordering among linear
combinations of uniform random variables 13--21
Germán Aneiros-Pérez and
Alejandro Quintela-del-Riío Plug-in bandwidth choice in partial
linear models with autoregressive errors 23--48
Younshik Chung and
Dipak K. Dey Model determination for the variance
component model using reference priors 49--65
Nino A. Mushkudiani Small nonparametric tolerance regions
for directional data . . . . . . . . . . 67--80
Ted Chang Book Review: \booktitleGeometrical
foundations of asymptotic inference:
Robert E. Kass and Paul W. Vos; Wiley,
New York, 1997, pp. 355 + xii, ISBN:
0-471-82668-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Mark R. Conaway Book Review: \booktitleRegression
Analysis of Count Data: A. Colin Cameron
and P. K. Trivedi; Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, UK, 1998, 411pp., ISBN
0-521-63201-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Mark R. Conaway Book Review: \booktitleOrdinal Data
Modeling: Valen E. Johnson and James H.
Albert; Springer, New York, 1999,
258pp., ISBN 0-387-98718-5 . . . . . . . 87--88
I-Li Lu Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Health Surveys: Edward L. Korn and Barry
I. Graubard; Wiley, New York, 1999,
382pp. Price \$94.50, ISBN
0-471-13773-1} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Pages 1-90 (1 January 2002) . . . . . . ??
Bhu Dev Sharma and
Sat Gupta Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Yûichirô Kakihara Spectral domains of vector harmonizable
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--108
Makoto Aoshima and
Yoshikazu Takada and
Muni S. Srivastava A two-stage procedure for estimating a
linear function of $k$ multinormal mean
vectors when covariance matrices are
unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
J. A. Royle Exchange algorithms for constructing
large spatial designs . . . . . . . . . 121--134
Yogendra P. Chaubey Estimation in inverse Gaussian
regression: comparison of asymptotic and
bootstrap distributions . . . . . . . . 135--143
Randall J. Swift Covariance analysis and associated
spectra for classes of nonstationary
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--157
H. Soedjak Consistent estimation of the bispectral
density function of a harmonizable
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--170
Muhammad El-Taha and
Shaler Stidham Filtration of ASTA: a weak convergence
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--183
Yury J. Ionin and
Mohan S. Shrikhande Fisher's inequality for designs on
regular graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--190
C. J. Colbourn and
D. L. Kreher and
J. P. McSorley and
D. R. Stinson Orthogonal arrays of strength three from
regular $3$-wise balanced designs . . . 191--195
Mark Carpenter Estimation of location extremes within
general families of scale mixtures . . . 197--208
Nitis Mukhopadhyay and
Tumulesh K. S. Solanky Multistage methodologies for comparing
several treatments with a control . . . 209--220
Z. Govindarajulu and
Alexei Dmitrienko Sequential estimation of the variance of
an unknown distribution . . . . . . . . 221--237
Sat Gupta and
Bhisham Gupta and
Sarjinder Singh Estimation of sensitivity level of
personal interview survey questions . . 239--247
M. B. Malyutov and
R. S. Protassov LAN, LAM and convergence of Iterative ML
estimates; optimal design in Gaussian
one-way mixed model . . . . . . . . . . 249--268
Mikhail B. Malyutov Log-efficient search for significant
inputs of linear model . . . . . . . . . 269--280
Arkadii G. D'yachkov and
Vyacheslav V. Rykov Optimal superimposed codes and designs
for Renyi's search model . . . . . . . . 281--302
Ákos Szalkai A combinatorial search problem on
matroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311
Gábor Wiener Search for a majority element . . . . . 313--318
Gyula O. H. Katona Search with small sets in presence of a
liar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--336
A. Kaur and
G. P. Patil and
C. Taillie and
J. Wit Ranked set sample sign test for
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--347
Alexei Dmitrienko and
Z. Govindarajulu Sequential determination of the number
of bootstrap samples . . . . . . . . . . 349--363
Kanwar Sen and
Manju Agarwal Lattice paths combinatorics applied to
transient queue length distribution of $
C_2 $ /M/1 queues and busy period
analysis of bulk queues $ C_2^b $ /M/1 365--397
H. D. Vinod A looser cointegration concept using
fractional integration parameters and
quantification of market responsiveness 399--410
Ravindra Khattree and
Dayanand N. Naik Andrews plots for multivariate data:
some new suggestions and applications 411--425
Thomas Mathew and
Manoj Kumar Sharma Joint confidence regions in the
multivariate calibration problem . . . . 427--441
Laurence S. Freedman Erratum to ``Confidence intervals and
statistical power of the `Validation'
ratio for surrogate or intermediate
endpoints'': [J. Statist. Plann.
Inference \bf 96 (2001) 143--153] . . . 443--443
Anonymous Author Index Volume 100 (2002) . . . . . 445--446
Anonymous Pages 91-446 (1 February 2002) . . . . . ??
S. G. Mohanty Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Heinrich Niederhausen Germain Kreweras, 1918--1998 . . . . . . 3--3
Sri Gopal Mohanty Tadepalli Venkata Narayana 1930--1987 5--5
Manju Agarwal Distribution of number served during a
busy period of GI/M/1 $N$ queues-lattice
path approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--21
W. Böhm Multivariate Lagrange inversion and the
maximum of a persistent random walk . . 23--31
Ch. A. Charalambides The rook numbers of Ferrers boards and
the related restricted permutation
numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
Endre Csáki Some results for two-dimensional random
walk, II. Additive functionals . . . . . 49--56
Larry Ericksen Sum of powers from uniform distribution
moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--79
Svjetlan Fereti\'c A bijective perimeter enumeration of
directed convex polyominoes . . . . . . 81--94
Dani\`ele Gardy Occupancy urn models in the analysis of
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105
Anthony J. Guttmann and
Markus Vöge Lattice paths: vicious walkers and
friendly walkers . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--131
Kanwar Sen Lattice path approach to transient
analysis of M/G/1/$N$ non-Markovian
queues using Cox distributions . . . . . 133--147
Walter Katzenbeisser and
Wolfgang Panny The maximal height of simple random
walks revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--161
Adrienne W. Kemp Random walks and other aspects of the
Bailey-Daum distribution . . . . . . . . 163--168
Adrienne W. Kemp Existence conditions and properties for
the generalized Euler family of
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
C. D. Kemp $q$-Analogues of the hyper-Poisson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
Alan Krinik and
Dan Marcus and
Ray Shiflett and
LiPing Chu Transient probabilities of a single
server priority queueing system . . . . 185--190
A. Kyriakoussis and
M. G. Vamvakari Central and local limit theorems for the
coefficients of polynomials associated
with the Laguerre ones . . . . . . . . . 191--202
Tamás Lengyel On reaching head-to-tail ratios for
balanced and unbalanced coins . . . . . 203--210
Donatella Merlini and
Renzo Sprugnoli and
M. Cecilia Verri Some statistics on Dyck paths . . . . . 211--227
Heinrich Niederhausen Planar walks with recursive initial
conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--253
M. S. Nikulin and
T. I. Smirnov and
V. G. Voinov Multivariate discrete distributions
induced by an urn scheme, linear
Diophantine equations, unbiased
estimating, testing and applications . . 255--266
Alois Panholzer and
Helmut Prodinger Moments of level numbers of leaves in
binary trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--279
Don Rawlings A joint Absorption--Mahonian process . . 281--289
Milton Sobel and
Krzysztof Frankowski Extensions of Gambler's ruin with even
odds: multinomial and other models . . . 291--310
Robert A. Sulanke The Narayana distribution . . . . . . . 311--326
Anonymous Author Index Volume 101 (2002) . . . . . 327--328
Anonymous Pages 1-328 (15 February 2002) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
J. V. Deshpande Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Shashikala Sukhatme Pandurang V. Sukhatme 1911--1997 . . . . 3--24
R. A. Sugden and
T. M. F. Smith Exact linear unbiased estimation in
survey sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--38
J. N. K. Rao Discussion of ``Exact linear unbiased
estimation in survey sampling'' [J.
Statist. Plann. Inference \bf 102(1)
25--38 (2002)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
J. N. Srivastava Discussion of ``Exact linear unbiased
estimation in survey sampling'' by R. A.
Sugden and T. M. F. Smith [J. Statist.
Plann. Inference \bf 102(1) 25--38
(2002)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
M. E. Thompson Comment on Sugden and Smith . . . . . . 43--43
R. A. Sugden and
T. M. F. Smith Rejoinder to discussion of `Exact linear
unbiased estimation in survey sampling' 45--45
D. R. Bellhouse and
J. N. K. Rao Analysis of domain means in complex
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58
Ferry Butar Butar and
P. Lahiri Empirical Bayes estimation of several
population means and variances under
random sampling variances model . . . . 59--69
Mohammad Ashraf Chaudhary and
Pranab Kumar Sen Reconciliation of asymptotics for
unequal probability sampling without
replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
G. S. Datta and
P. Lahiri and
T. Maiti Empirical Bayes estimation of median
income of four-person families by state
using time series and cross-sectional
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--97
Malay Ghosh and
Dal Ho Kim Robust Bayesian analysis with partially
exchangeable priors . . . . . . . . . . 99--107
Leslie Kish Combining multipopulation statistics . . 109--118
Rahul Mukerjee and
Brajendra Chandra Sutradhar On confidence intervals associated with
quasi-likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128
T. J. Rao Mean of ratios or ratio of means or
both? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
Shobha Rao Statistical appraisal of biological
individuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
C. J. Skinner and
J. N. K. Rao Jackknife variance estimation for
multivariate statistics under hot-deck
imputation from common donors . . . . . 149--167
Horst Stenger Regression analysis and random sampling 169--178
T. Srivenkataramana Location-shifts for improved estimation
under Midzuno--Sen sampling scheme . . . 179--187
Vijay Verma Comparability in multi-country survey
programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--210
Anonymous Pages 1-210 (1 March 2002) . . . . . . . ??
Subir Ghosh List of Referees 2001 . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
J. N. Srivastava JSPI: the Silver Jubilee and the 100th
Volume Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--ix
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Lili Tian An entropy characterization of the
inverse Gaussian distribution and
related goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . 211--221
Abram Kagan Sufficiency and ancillarity in
characterization problems . . . . . . . 223--228
Frank Critchley and
Paul Marriott and
Mark Salmon On preferred point geometry in
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--245
Edit Gombay and
Lajos Horváth Rates of convergence for $U$-statistic
processes and their bootstrapped
versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--272
Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and
Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari Multistage ranked set sampling . . . . . 273--286
José R. Berrendero On the global robustness of generalized
$S$-estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--302
Serge B. Provost and
Young-Ho Cheong The distribution of Hermitian quadratic
forms in elliptically contoured random
vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--316
Ömer Öztürk Ranked set sample inference under a
symmetry restriction . . . . . . . . . . 317--336
Jana Jurecková and
Jan Picek and
Pranab Kumar Sen A goodness-of-fit test with nuisance
parameters: numerical performance . . . 337--347
Gabor J. Szekely and
Pranab K. Sen Characterization of diagonal symmetry:
location unknown, and a test based on
allied $U$-processes . . . . . . . . . . 349--358
James W. Neill and
Forrest R. Miller and
Duane D. Brown Maximin clusters for nonreplicated
multiresponse lack of fit tests . . . . 359--375
Kashinath Chatterjee and
Giri Narasimhan Graph-theoretic techniques in
$D$-optimal design problems . . . . . . 377--387
Seokhoon Yun On a generalized Pickands estimator of
the extreme value index . . . . . . . . 389--409
Jesús Martín-Rodríguez and
M. a Purificación Galindo-Villardón and
José L. Vicente-Villardón Comparison and integration of subspaces
from a biplot perspective . . . . . . . 411--423
Joseph B. Kadane and
Elias Moreno and
Maria Eglee Perez and
Luis Raul Pericchi Applying non-parametric robust Bayesian
analysis to non-opinionated judicial
neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--439
Jingdong Xie and
Carey E. Priebe A weighted generalization of the
Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon statistic . . . . 441--466
Kanwar Sen and
Manju Lata Agarwal and
Sonali Chakraborty Generalized Polya-Eggenberger model of
order $k$ via lattice path approach . . 467--476
E. M. Rains and
N. J. A. Sloane and
John Stufken The lattice of $N$-run orthogonal arrays 477--500
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Jagdish N. Srivastava Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
V. S. Varadarajan Some remarks on arithmetic physics . . . 3--13
Anuj Srivastava and
Ulf Grenander and
Gary R. Jensen and
Michael I. Miller Jump-diffusion Markov processes on
orthogonal groups for object pose
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--37
E. J. Williams and
R. K. Watson Martingale generating functions for
Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--49
Peter Hall and
Liang Peng and
Qiwei Yao Moving-maximum models for extrema of
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--63
Soumendra Nath Lahiri and
Yoondong Lee and
Noel Cressie On asymptotic distribution and
asymptotic efficiency of least squares
estimators of spatial variogram
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--85
Morris L. Eaton and
William D. Sudderth Group invariant inference and right Haar
measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--99
Shanti S. Gupta and
Klaus J. Miescke On the performance of subset selection
rules under normality . . . . . . . . . 101--115
Subhash Lele and
Mark L. Taper A composite likelihood approach to
(co)variance components estimation . . . 117--135
Carles M. Cuadras Correspondence analysis and diagonal
expansions in terms of distribution
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--150
Thomas Mathew and
Manoj Kumar Sharma On the construction of multiple use
confidence regions based on combined
information in univariate calibration 151--172
K. R. Parthasarathy On extremal correlations . . . . . . . . 173--180
Arthur Cohen and
H. B. Sackrowitz Directed likelihood ratio tests for
ordered alternatives and inference
results for the star-shaped restriction 181--189
Shanti S. Gupta and
TaChen Liang Selecting the most reliable Poisson
population provided it is better than a
control: a nonparametric empirical Bayes
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--203
Jayanta K. Ghosh and
Tapas Samanta Nonsubjective Bayes testing --- an
overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--223
M. J. Bayarri and
A. M. Mayoral Bayesian analysis and design for
comparison of effect-sizes . . . . . . . 225--243
B. Q. Fang and
A. P. Dawid Nonconjugate Bayesian regression on many
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--261
D. A. S. Fraser and
N. Reid Strong matching of frequentist and
Bayesian parametric inference . . . . . 263--285
A. H. Welsh and
Elvezio Ronchetti A journey in single steps: robust
one-step $M$-estimation in linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--310
Holger Dette A consistent test for heteroscedasticity
in nonparametric regression based on the
kernel method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--329
Edgar Brunner and
Madan L. Puri A class of rank-score tests in factorial
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--360
Yogendra P. Chaubey and
Pranab K. Sen Smooth estimation of multivariate
survival and density functions . . . . . 361--376
M. C. Jones and
N. Balakrishnan How are moments and moments of spacings
related to distribution functions? . . . 377--390
Stefan Ralescu On solutions for global Stein
optimization problems with applications 391--400
Andrej Pázman Results on nonlinear least squares
estimators under nonlinear equality
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--420
N. Rao Chaganty and
Dayanand N. Naik Analysis of multivariate longitudinal
data using quasi-least squares . . . . . 421--436
Noel Cressie and
Leandro Pardo Model checking in loglinear models using
$ \phi $-divergences and MLEs . . . . . 437--453
M. Aerts and
G. Claeskens and
M. P. Wand Some theory for penalized spline
generalized additive models . . . . . . 455--470
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G. Estévez-Pérez and
A. Quintela-del-Riío and
P. Vieu Convergence rate for cross-validatory
bandwidth in kernel hazard estimation
from dependent samples . . . . . . . . . 1--30
S. E. Ahmed Simultaneous estimation of coefficients
of variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--51
John P. Buonaccorsi and
Chii-Dean Lin Berkson measurement error in designed
repeated measures studies with random
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--72
A. C. M. Wong and
J. Wu Small sample asymptotic inference for
the coefficient of variation: normal and
nonnormal models . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--82
Ana Ferreira Optimal asymptotic estimation of small
exceedance probabilities . . . . . . . . 83--102
H. Finner and
K. Straßburger Structural properties of UMPU-tests for
2$ \times $2 tables and some
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--120
Janis Hardwick and
Quentin F. Stout Optimal few-stage designs . . . . . . . 121--145
Ming Yuan and
Jiaqin Chen Deconvolving multidimensional density
from partially contaminated observations 147--160
A. S. Hedayat and
Bo Yan and
J. M. John M. Pezzuto Optimum designs for estimating $ {\rm
ED}_p $ based on raw optical density
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--174
Merlise Clyde and
Kathryn Chaloner Constrained design strategies for
improving normal approximations in
nonlinear regression problems . . . . . 175--196
Eugene Demidenko and
Thér\`ese A. Stukel Efficient estimation of general linear
mixed effects models . . . . . . . . . . 197--219
J. A. Pardo and
L. Pardo and
K. Zografos Minimum $ \phi $-divergence estimators
with constraints in multinomial
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--237
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
Yingshan Zhang and
Lian Duan and
Yiqiang Lu and
Zhongguo Zheng Construction of generalized Hadamard
matrices $ D(r^m (r + 1), r^m(r + 1); p)
$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--258
M. V. Boutsikas and
M. V. Koutras On the number of overflown urns and
excess balls in an allocation model with
limited urn capacity . . . . . . . . . . 259--286
L. Pereira and
H. Ferreira The asymptotic locations of the maximum
and minimum of stationary sequences . . 287--295
J. N. Corcoran and
R. L. Tweedie Perfect sampling from independent
Metropolis--Hastings chains . . . . . . 297--314
Steven J. Kathman and
George R. Terrell Improving Poisson approximations through
tilting and expansion . . . . . . . . . 315--327
M. C. Jones The complementary beta distribution . . 329--337
Mohammad Z. Raqab Inferences for generalized exponential
distribution based on record statistics 339--350
Koon Shing Kwong and
Burt Holland and
Siu Hung Cheung A modified Benjamini--Hochberg multiple
comparisons procedure for controlling
the false discovery rate . . . . . . . . 351--362
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Sanghamitra Pal On certain alternative mean square error
estimators in complex survey sampling 363--375
Naveen K. Bansal and
Klaus J. Miescke Simultaneous selection and estimation in
general linear models . . . . . . . . . 377--390
Jie Q. Guo and
Tong Li Poisson regression models with
errors-in-variables: implication and
treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--401
Toshiya Iwashita and
Takashi Seo An application of Lévy's inversion
formula for higher order asymptotic
expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--416
Yining Wang and
Gang Li A dose finding procedure based on the
multivariate likelihood ratio test . . . 417--425
Fu-Chuen Chang and
Ching-Fu Lay Optimal designs for a growth curve model 427--438
Subir Ghosh and
Lance Teschmacher Comparisons of search designs using
search probabilities . . . . . . . . . . 439--458
Shu Yamada and
Tomomi Matsui Optimality of mixed-level supersaturated
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--468
Lieven Tack and
Peter Goos and
Martina Vandebroek Efficient Bayesian designs under
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 469--483
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Carol E. Marchetti and
C. Thomas Lin Independence characterizations and
testing normality against restricted
skewness-kurtosis alternatives . . . . . 485--501
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Jean-Marc Bernard Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Marco Zaffalon The naive credal classifier . . . . . . 5--21
J. A. Hartigan and
T. B. Murphy Inferred probabilities . . . . . . . . . 23--34
Peter Walley Reconciling frequentist properties with
the likelihood principle . . . . . . . . 35--65
Charles F. Manski Treatment choice under ambiguity induced
by inferential problems . . . . . . . . 67--82
Jean-Marc Bernard Implicative analysis for multivariate
binary data using an imprecise Dirichlet
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--103
Marco Zaffalon Exact credal treatment of missing data 105--122
John Kenney and
Wynn Stirling Nonlinear filtering of convex sets of
probability distributions . . . . . . . 123--147
Thomas Augustin Neyman--Pearson testing under interval
probability by globally least favorable
pairs: Reviewing Huber--Strassen theory
and extending it to general interval
probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--173
Gert de Cooman Precision-imprecision equivalence in a
broad class of imprecise hierarchical
uncertainty models . . . . . . . . . . . 175--198
David Harmanec Generalizing Markov decision processes
to imprecise probabilities . . . . . . . 199--213
Lev V. Utkin and
Sergey V. Gurov Imprecise reliability for some new
lifetime distribution classes . . . . . 215--232
Lotfi A. Zadeh Toward a perception-based theory of
probabilistic reasoning with imprecise
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--264
Robert F. Nau The aggregation of imprecise
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--282
Nuno Crato and
Bonnie K. Ray Semi-parametric smoothing estimators for
long-memory processes with added noise 283--297
Pinyuen Chen A selection procedure for estimating the
number of signal components . . . . . . 299--311
Robert F. Phillips Partially adaptive estimation of
autoregressive processes via a normal
mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--326
Andrew L. Rukhin Asymptotic behavior of posterior
distribution of the change-point
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--345
Satoshi Kuriki and
Hidetoshi Shimodaira and
Tony Hayter On the isotonic range statistic for
testing against an ordered alternative 347--362
Jorge G. Adrover and
Ricardo A. Maronna and
Viíctor J. Yohai Relationships between maximum depth and
projection regression estimates . . . . 363--375
G. Jogesh Babu and
Angelo J. Canty and
Yogendra P. Chaubey Application of Bernstein Polynomials for
smooth estimation of a distribution and
density function . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--392
Michael D. deB. Edwardes Distribution-free tests for cluster
samples of ordinal responses . . . . . . 393--404
Teruhiro Shirakura and
Takeaki Suetsugu and
Takumi Tsuji Construction of main effect plus two
plans for $ 2^m $ factorials . . . . . . 405--415
Fred W. Huffer and
Cheolyong Park The limiting distribution of a test for
multivariate structure . . . . . . . . . 417--431
Ulrich Tamm Lattice paths not touching a given
boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--448
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Jagdish N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Sanpei Kageyama and
Teruhiro Shirakura Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Paul C. Denny and
Rudolf Mathon A census of $ t - (t + 8, t + 2, 4) $
designs, $ 2 \leq t \leq 4 $ . . . . . . 5--19
John P. Morgan and
Sudesh K. Srivastav The completely symmetric designs with
blocksize three . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
Tsutomu Shimata and
Sanpei Kageyama Symmetry of a group divisible design
with $ r = \lambda_1 + 1 $ . . . . . . . 31--37
K. Sinha and
M. K. Singh and
S. Kageyama and
R. S. Singh Some series of rectangular designs . . . 39--46
Takaaki Hishida and
Masakazu Jimbo Constructions of balanced incomplete
block designs with nested rows and
columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
Ryoh Fuji-Hara and
Shinji Kuriki and
Ying Miao and
Satoshi Shinohara Balanced nested designs and balanced
$n$-ary designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--67
C. C. Lindner and
A. Rosa The metamorphosis of $ \lambda $-fold
block designs with block size four into
$ \lambda $-fold triple systems . . . . 69--76
Jeffrey H. Dinitz and
Nabil Shalaby Block disjoint difference families for
Steiner triple systems: $ v \equiv 3
\bmod 6 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--86
R. Fuji-Hara and
Y. Miao and
S. Shinohara Complete sets of disjoint difference
families and their applications . . . . 87--103
Miwako Mishima Cyclic Mendelsohn triple systems with a
cyclic resolution or a cyclic almost
resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--115
Steven Furino and
Sanpei Kageyama and
Alan C. H. Ling and
Ying Miao and
Jianxing Yin Frames with block size four and index
three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--124
Franz Hering and
Stanislaw Mejza An incomplete split-block design
generated by GDPBIBD(2)s . . . . . . . . 125--134
Kazuhiro Ozawa and
Masakazu Jimbo and
Sanpei Kageyama and
Stanislaw Mejza Optimality and constructions of
incomplete split-block designs . . . . . 135--157
V. K. Gupta and
D. V. V. Ramana and
Rajender Parsad Weighted $A$-optimal block designs for
comparing test treatments with controls
with unequal precision . . . . . . . . . 159--175
Dibyen Majumdar and
R. J. Martin Finding optimal designs in the presence
of trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--190
Mike Jacroux On the determination and construction of
$A$- and MV-optimal block designs for
comparing a set of test treatments to a
set of standard treatments . . . . . . . 191--204
Chihiro Hirotsu On an optimal design for an isotonic
inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--213
Sudhir Gupta and
Balakrishna Hosmane and
Murari Singh and
Rajendra Singh Optimal allocation of patients in
titration to fixed dose trials . . . . . 215--223
Song-Gui Wang and
Wen-Qing Ma On exact tests of linear hypothesis in
linear models with nested error
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--233
A. M. Dean and
W. I. Notz and
Lie-Jane Kao A bound for efficiency in multiple
response designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--244
Tania Prvan and
Deborah J. Street An annotated bibliography of application
papers using certain classes of
fractional factorial and related designs 245--269
Masahide Kuwada Norm of alias matrices for balanced
fractional $ 2^m $ factorial designs
when interesting factorial effects are
not aliased with effects not of interest
in estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--286
Feng Shun Chai and
Rahul Mukerjee and
Chung-yi Suen Further results on orthogonal array plus
one run plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--301
Ghulam R. Chaudhry and
Malcolm Greig and
Jennifer Seberry On the $ (v, 5, \lambda)$-family of
Bhaskar Rao designs . . . . . . . . . . 303--327
S. Georgiou and
C. Koukouvinos and
M. Mitrouli and
Jennifer Seberry Necessary and sufficient conditions for
three and four variable orthogonal
designs in order 36 . . . . . . . . . . 329--352
F. E. Bennett and
G. Ge and
H. Zhang and
L. Zhu Holey Steiner pentagon systems and
related designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--373
Win-Chin Lin and
John Stufken Strongly linear trend-free block designs
and $1$-factors of representative graphs 375--386
Shucheng Zhang and
Jianxing Yin Packing of $ k_v $ with certain graphs
of five vertices . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--408
Ying-Lie Jin and
Shinsei Tazawa and
Teruhiro Shirakura Enumeration of connected graphs with cut
vertices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--418
Hedvig Mohácsy and
D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri Candelabra systems and designs . . . . . 419--448
K. Afsarinejad and
A. S. Hedayat Repeated measurements designs for a
model with self and simple mixed
carryover effects . . . . . . . . . . . 449--459
K. Chen and
L. Zhu Existence of $ v(m, t) $ vectors . . . . 461--471
Yasunori Fujikoshi and
Kahoru Futagami and
Junzou Fukunaga and
Takanori Hirata An extension of the product-parts
replacement problem . . . . . . . . . . 473--484
Noboru Hamada and
Tor Helleseth The nonexistence of ternary [97,6,63]
codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--507
Masahide Ohtomo and
Fumikazu Tamari On relative prime number in a sequence
of positive integers . . . . . . . . . . 509--515
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
Richard L. Dykstra and
Tim Robertson and
Mervyn J. Silvapulle Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Pranab K. Sen and
Mervyn J. Silvapulle An appraisal of some aspects of
statistical inference under inequality
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--43
Alan Agresti and
Brent A. Coull The analysis of contingency tables under
inequality constraints . . . . . . . . . 45--73
Carolyn Pillers Dobler The one-way layout with ordered
parameters: a survey of advances since
1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88
Arthur Cohen and
H. B. Sackrowitz Inference for the model of several
treatments and a control . . . . . . . . 89--101
Samruam Chongcharoen and
Bahadur Singh and
F. T. Wright Powers of some one-sided multivariate
tests with the population covariance
matrix known up to a multiplicative
constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--121
Cristina Rueda and
José A. Menéndez and
Bonifacio Salvador Bootstrap adjusted estimators in a
restricted setting . . . . . . . . . . . 123--131
Lin Liu and
Chu-In Charles Lee and
Jianan Peng Max-min multiple comparison procedure
for isotonic dose-response curves . . . 133--141
Dan Nettleton Testing for ordered means in a variation
of the normal mixture model . . . . . . 143--153
Michael D. Perlman and
Lang Wu A class of conditional tests for a
multivariate one-sided alternative . . . 155--171
Michael D. Perlman and
Lang Wu A defense of the likelihood ratio test
for one-sided and order-restricted
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--186
Khalil G. Saikali and
Roger L. Berger More powerful tests for the sign testing
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--205
Michael P. McDermott and
Yining Wang Construction of uniformly more powerful
tests for hypotheses about linear
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--217
Allan R. Sampson and
Harshinder Singh Min and max scorings for two sample
partially ordered categorical data . . . 219--236
Vance W. Berger and
Anastasia Ivanova The bias of linear rank tests when
testing for stochastic order in ordered
categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--247
Richard L. Dykstra and
Joseph B. Lang and
Myongsik Oh and
Tim Robertson Order restricted inference for
hypotheses concerning qualitative
dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--265
Chu-In Charles Lee and
Xiaosong Yan Chi-squared tests for and against
uniform stochastic ordering on
multinomial parameters . . . . . . . . . 267--280
Yazhen Wang and
Jian Huang Limiting distribution for monotone
median regression . . . . . . . . . . . 281--287
E. Doveh and
A. Shapiro and
P. D. Feigin Testing of monotonicity in parametric
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 289--306
Mervyn J. Silvapulle and
Paramsothy Silvapulle and
Ishwar V. Basawa Tests against inequality constraints in
semiparametric models . . . . . . . . . 307--320
Xiaomi Hu and
Subhash C. Kochar and
Hari Mukerjee and
Francisco J. Samaniego Estimation of two ordered mean residual
life functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--341
Jian Huang A note on estimating a partly linear
model under monotonicity constraints . . 343--351
Hammou El Barmi and
Paul I. Nelson A note on estimating a non-increasing
density in the presence of selection
bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--364
B. M. Brown and
T. P. Hettmansperger On the estimation of integral
$f$-squared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--375
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
Anonymous IBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ibc--ibc
Anonymous OBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
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Jagdish N. Srivastava Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
M. Cubedo and
J. M. Oller Hypothesis testing: a model selection
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--21
Rabi Bhattacharya and
Vic Patrangenaru Nonparametic estimation of location and
dispersion on Riemannian manifolds . . . 23--35
Edgar Brunner and
Ullrich Munzel and
Madan L. Puri The multivariate nonparametric
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 37--53
Sara van de Geer M-estimation using penalties or sieves 55--69
George A. Barnard and
John B. Copas Likelihood inference for location,
scale, and shape . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--83
J. Fortiana and
A. Grané A scale-free goodness-of-fit statistic
for the exponential distribution based
on maximum correlations . . . . . . . . 85--97
Hira L. Koul and
Lianfen Qian Asymptotics of maximum likelihood
estimator in a two-phase linear
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--119
Anil K. Bera and
Totok Suprayitno and
Gamini Premaratne On some heteroskedasticity-robust
estimators of variance-covariance matrix
of the least-squares estimators . . . . 121--136
John J. Spinelli and
Richard A. Lockhart and
Michael A. Stephens Tests for the response distribution in a
Poisson regression model . . . . . . . . 137--154
Weijing Wang and
Martin T. Wells Power analysis for linear models with
spherical errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--171
Yutaka Kano Variable selection for structural models 173--187
Luc Pronzato Information matrices with random
regressors. Application to experimental
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--200
Limin Fu and
Douglas G. Simpson Conditional risk models for ordinal
response data: simultaneous logistic
regression analysis and generalized
score tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--217
Charles J. Stone and
Jianhua Z. Huang Free knot splines in concave extended
linear modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--253
Bruce Levin and
Herbert Robbins and
Cun-Hui Zhang Mathematical aspects of estimating two
treatment effects and a common variance
in an assured allocation design . . . . 255--262
Yasunori Fujikoshi Asymptotic expansions for the
distributions of multivariate basic
statistics and one-way MANOVA tests
under nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . 263--282
Juan M. Vilar-Fernández and
José A. Vilar-Fernández Bootstrap of minimum distance estimators
in regression with correlated
disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--299
Efstathios Paparoditis and
Dimitris N. Politis The local bootstrap for Markov processes 301--328
T. Tony Cai On adaptive wavelet estimation of a
derivative and other related linear
inverse problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--349
Kenji Sakiyama and
Masanobu Taniguchi and
Madan L. Puri Asymptotics of tests for a unit root in
autoregression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364
G. E. B. Archer and
D. M. Titterington Parameter estimation for hidden Markov
chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--390
Xiaotong Shen Spline adaptation to smoothness . . . . 391--409
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Jagdish N. Srivastava Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Norman Johnson and
Samuel Kotz Some novel models of distributions over
the unit square . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--30
Adrienne W. Kemp Characterizations involving $ U | (U + v
= m) $ for certain discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41
Alex Sánchez and
Jordi Ocaña and
Frederic Utzet and
Lluiís Serra Comparison of Prevosti genetic distances 43--65
Katuomi Hirano and
Sigeo Aki On $k$-match problems . . . . . . . . . 67--79
Zhidong Bai and
Zehua Chen On the theory of ranked-set sampling and
its ramifications . . . . . . . . . . . 81--99
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez and
Wenceslao González-Manteiga and
Carmen Cadarso-Suárez Chi-squared Goodness-of-fit Theory under
Proportional Censorship . . . . . . . . 101--124
Yanqin Fan and
Oliver Linton Some higher-order theory for a
consistent non-parametric model
specification test . . . . . . . . . . . 125--154
Brahim Ouhbi and
Nikolaos Limnios Nonparametric reliability estimation of
semi-Markov processes . . . . . . . . . 155--165
Hedvig Mohácsy and
D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri A construction for group divisible
$t$-designs with strength $ t \geq 2$
and index unity . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--177
Barry C. Arnold Back to Bayesics . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--187
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Nicola Sartori and
Alessandra Salvan and
Luigi Pace A note on directed adjusted profile
likelihoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Shanti S. Gupta and
Shuyuan He and
Jianjun Li On selection procedures for positive
exponential family distributions based
on type-I censored data . . . . . . . . 11--21
Z. D. Bai and
C. R. Rao and
M. Chow and
D. Kundu An efficient algorithm for estimating
the parameters of superimposed
exponential signals . . . . . . . . . . 23--34
E. Gutiérrez-Peña and
R. Rueda Reference priors for exponential
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--54
Yue Fang GMM tests for the Katz family of
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--73
Weizhen Wang and
Linda H. Zhao Nonparametric tests for the mean of a
non-negative population . . . . . . . . 75--96
L. Gajek and
A. Okolewski Projection bounds on expectations of
record statistics from restricted
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
Biman Chakraborty On multivariate quantile regression . . 109--132
Kiyoshi Inoue Iterative weighted least-squares
estimates in a heteroscedastic linear
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--146
E. E. M. van Berkum and
B. Pauwels $D$-optimal weighted paired comparison
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--157
Yanxun Chang and
Giovanni Lo Faro The flower intersection problem for
Kirkman triple systems . . . . . . . . . 159--177
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P. Lahiri Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
M. J. Bayarri and
J. Morales Bayesian measures of surprise for
outlier detection . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22
Heleno Bolfarine and
Loretta B. Gasco and
Pilar L. Iglesias Inference under representable priors for
Pearson type II models in finite
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
Ming-Hui Chen and
Dipak K. Dey Variable selection for multivariate
logistic regression models . . . . . . . 37--55
Ming-Hui Chen and
Joseph G. Ibrahim and
Qi-Man Shao and
Robert E. Weiss Prior elicitation for model selection
and estimation in generalized linear
mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--76
Jérome A. Dupuis and
Christian P. Robert Variable selection in qualitative models
via an entropic explanatory power . . . 77--94
Richard Evans and
J. Sedransk Bayesian methodology for combining the
results from different experiments when
the specifications for pooling are
uncertain: II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100
Paolo Giudici and
Maura Mezzetti and
Pietro Muliere Mixtures of products of Dirichlet
processes for variable selection in
survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 101--115
Jiming Jiang Empirical best prediction for small-area
inference based on generalized linear
mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127
Elías Moreno and
Brunero Liseo A default Bayesian test for the number
of components in a mixture . . . . . . . 129--142
M. Mouchart and
E. San Martín Specification and identification issues
in models involving a latent
hierarchical structure . . . . . . . . . 143--163
Ioannis Ntzoufras and
Petros Dellaportas and
Jonathan J. Forster Bayesian variable and link determination
for generalised linear models . . . . . 165--180
Marianna Pensky Rates of convergence of empirical Bayes
tests for a normal mean . . . . . . . . 181--196
Yong You and
J. N. K. Rao Pseudo hierarchical Bayes small area
estimation combining unit level models
and survey weights . . . . . . . . . . . 197--208
Sandip Sinharay and
Hal S. Stern Posterior predictive model checking in
hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . 209--221
Pantelis K. Vlachos and
Alan E. Gelfand On the calibration of Bayesian model
choice criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--234
Wanzhu Tu and
Walter W. Piegorsch Empirical Bayes analysis for a
hierarchical Poisson generalized linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248
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P. Lahiri Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Jeremy Aldworth and
Noel Cressie Prediction of nonlinear spatial
functionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--41
Jane L. Meza Empirical Bayes estimation smoothing of
relative risks in disease mapping . . . 43--62
Ferry Butar Butar and
P. Lahiri On measures of uncertainty of empirical
Bayes small-area estimators . . . . . . 63--76
Mostafa Mashayekhi A note on linear empirical Bayes
estimation of finite population means 77--88
Michael D. Larsen Estimation of small-area proportions
using covariates and survey data . . . . 89--98
Paul Gendron and
Balgobin Nandram Modeling heavy-tailed correlated noise
with wavelet packet basis functions . . 99--114
Lynn E. Eberly and
George Casella Estimating Bayesian credible intervals 115--132
Malay Ghosh and
Jungeun Heo Noninformative priors, credible sets and
Bayesian hypothesis testing for the
intraclass model . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--146
T. Banerjee and
Atanu Biswas A new formulation of stress-strength
reliability in a regression setup . . . 147--157
Bani K. Mallick and
Stephen Walker A Bayesian semiparametric transformation
model incorporating frailties . . . . . 159--174
Gauri Sankar Datta and
David Daniel Smith On propriety of posterior distributions
of variance components in small area
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183
Luiz A. Peternelli and
Carlos H. Osório Silva A simulation study of a proposed
graphical diagnostic for assessing
goodness-of-fit . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--194
M. Vannucci and
P. J. Brown and
T. Fearn A decision theoretical approach to
wavelet regression on curves with a high
number of regressors . . . . . . . . . . 195--212
Debasis Bandyopadhyay On the model selection to represent
human capital distribution --- an
empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220
Mary Kathryn Cowles Efficient model-fitting and
model-comparison for high-dimensional
Bayesian geostatistical models . . . . . 221--239
James O. Berger and
Jayanta K. Ghosh and
Nitai Mukhopadhyay Approximations and consistency of Bayes
factors as model dimension grows . . . . 241--258
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Anirban DasGupta and
Herman Rubin Bayes estimates as expanders in one and
two dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Essam K. Al-Hussaini Bayesian predictive density of order
statistics based on finite mixture
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Sanghamitra Pal On a version of cluster sampling and its
practical use . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34
David Birkes and
Shaun S. Wulff Existence of maximum likelihood
estimates in normal variance-components
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--47
F. J. Girón and
M. L. Martiínez and
E. Moreno Bayesian analysis of matched pairs . . . 49--66
M. M. Lutsenko and
S. G. Maloshevskii Minimax confidence intervals for the
binomial parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77
Tomá\vs Vi\vskek The likelihood ratio method for testing
changes in the parameters of double
exponential observations . . . . . . . . 79--111
Jussi Klemelä Lower bounds for the asymptotic minimax
risk with spherical data . . . . . . . . 113--136
Carla Henriques and
Paulo Eduardo Oliveira Estimation of a two-dimensional
distribution function under association 137--150
M. Denuit and
Cl. Lef\`evre and
Ph. Picard Polynomial structures in order
statistics distributions . . . . . . . . 151--178
Chandranath Pal Higher order $ C(\alpha) $ tests with
applications to mixture models . . . . . 179--187
A. Adam Ding and
J. T. Gene Hwang Confidence sets for high-dimensional
empirical linear prediction (HELP)
models with dependent error structure 189--213
Joachim Hartung and
Annette Böckenhoff and
Guido Knapp Generalized Cochran--Wald statistics in
combining of experiments . . . . . . . . 215--237
V. G. S. Vasdekis Form and selection of covariance
adjusted estimators in repeated measures
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--248
Shenghua Kelly Fan and
Kathryn Chaloner A geometric method for singular
$c$-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . 249--257
J. A. John and
K. G. Russell Optimising changeover designs using the
average efficiency factors . . . . . . . 259--268
Vijayan N. Nair and
Li-an Xu Optimal design of experiments for
modeling processes with feedback control
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--284
Gérard Antille and
Holger Dette and
Anna Weinberg A note on optimal designs in weighted
polynomial regression for the classical
efficiency functions . . . . . . . . . . 285--292
H. B. Kushner Allocation rules for adaptive repeated
measurements designs . . . . . . . . . . 293--313
Shao-Wei Cheng and
C. F. J. Wu and
Huaiqing Wu Finding defining generators with extreme
lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--321
Chang-Xing Ma and
Kai-Tai Fang and
Dennis K. J. Lin A note on uniformity and orthogonality 323--334
Boxin Tang and
Lih-Yuan Deng Construction of generalized minimum
aberration designs of 3, 4 and 5 factors 335--340
Ismael Sánchez Efficient tests for unit roots with
prediction errors . . . . . . . . . . . 341--370
Greg Wilson Tides of change: is Bayesianism the new
paradigm in statistics? . . . . . . . . 371--374
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F. Kamali and
Hadi Kharaghani and
G. B. Khosrovshahi Some Bush-type Hadamard matrices . . . . 375--384
V. Bentkus On the dependence of the Berry--Esseen
bound on dimension . . . . . . . . . . . 385--402
Enrique Thomann and
Edward C. Waymire Contingent claims on assets with
conversion costs . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--417
Antonio Lijoi Approximating priors by finite mixtures
of conjugate distributions for an
exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 419--435
Rohana J. Karunamuni and
Shunpu Zhang Empirical Bayes two-action problem for
the continuous one-parameter exponential
family with errors in variables . . . . 437--449
Guohua Zou and
Alan T. K. Wan Admissible and minimax estimation of the
parameter $n$ in the binomial
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--466
Bero Roos Improvements in the Poisson
approximation of mixed Poisson
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--483
Z. D. Bai and
Ling Chen Weighted $W$ test for normality and
asymptotics a revisit of Chen-Shapiro
test for normality . . . . . . . . . . . 485--503
Rohana J. Karunamuni and
Shunpu Zhang Optimal linear Bayes and empirical Bayes
estimation and prediction of the finite
population mean . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--525
Sally W. Thurston and
Donna Spiegelman and
David Ruppert Equivalence of regression calibration
methods in main study/external
validation study designs . . . . . . . . 527--539
M. S. Finkelstein Simple bounds for terminating Poisson
and renewal shock processes . . . . . . 541--549
N. Balakrishnan and
C. R. Rao Some efficiency properties of best
linear unbiased estimators . . . . . . . 551--555
S. Eryilmaz Random threshold models based on
multivariate observations . . . . . . . 557--568
N. Balakrishnan and
C. Charalambides and
N. Papadatos Bounds on expectation of order
statistics from a finite population . . 569--588
Kashinath Chatterjee and
Sudhir Gupta Construction of supersaturated designs
involving $s$-level factors . . . . . . 589--595
Mike Jacroux Some MV-optimal group divisible type
block designs for comparing a set of
test treatments with a set of standard
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--615
D. M. Smith and
M. S. Ridout Optimal designs for criteria involving
log(potency) in comparative binary
bioassays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--632
Sonia Hernández and
Viíctor J. Yohai Combining locally and globally robust
estimates for regression . . . . . . . . 633--661
D. S. G. Pollock Sharp filters for short sequences . . . 663--683
K. C. Yuen and
L. X. Zhu and
N. Y. Tang On the mean residual life regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--698
Richard Huggins and
Hsin-Chou Yang and
Anne Chao and
Paul S. F. Yip Population size estimation using local
sample coverage for open populations . . 699--714
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Jagdish Srivastava Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Ching-Shui Cheng and
Rahul Mukerjee On regular-fractional factorial
experiments in row-column designs . . . 3--20
Tapan K. Nayak Finding optimal estimators in survey
sampling using unbiased estimators of
zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
Hamparsum Bozdogan and
Peter Bearse Information complexity criteria for
detecting influential observations in
dynamic multivariate linear models using
the genetic algorithm . . . . . . . . . 31--44
Sadanori Konishi and
Genshiro Kitagawa Asymptotic theory for information
criteria in model selection-functional
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--61
Albert Satorra and
Heinz Neudecker A matrix equality useful in
goodness-of-fit testing of structural
equation models . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--80
Valerii V. Fedorov and
Agnes M. Herzberg and
Sergei L. Leonov Component-wise dimension reduction . . . 81--93
M. Salicrú and
A. Arcas An algorithm to obtain additive trees
based upon the preservation of the
clusters structure . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105
Gregory C. Reinsel and
Raja P. Velu Reduced-rank growth curve models . . . . 107--129
Ravindra Khattree Antieigenvalues and antieigenvectors in
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--144
R. S. Linder and
H. N. Nagaraja Impact of censoring on sample variances
in a bivariate normal model . . . . . . 145--160
S. Visuri and
E. Ollila and
V. Koivunen and
J. Möttönen and
H. Oja Affine equivariant multivariate rank
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--185
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Anonymous Acknowledgement to the referees of 2001
and 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--xxii
Anatoly Zhigljavsky Probabilistic existence theorems in
group testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--43
Zehua Chen and
Liang Shen Two-layer ranked set sampling with
concomitant variables . . . . . . . . . 45--57
Jianhua Guo and
Zhi Geng and
Ning-Zhong Shi Consecutive collapsibility of logistic
regression coefficients over an ordinal
background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67
Jiming Jiang Empirical method of moments and its
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84
Carmen Anido and
Carlos Rivero and
Teófilo Valdés Recursive estimation in linear models
with general errors and grouped data: a
median-based procedure and related
asymptotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--102
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Thomas Mathew Inferences on the means of lognormal
distributions using generalized
$p$-values and generalized confidence
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--121
Klaus Ziegler On the asymptotic normality of kernel
regression estimators of the mode in the
nonparametric random design model . . . 123--144
W. Dana Flanders and
Huiman X. Barnhart and
Andrzej S. Kosinski An estimated score method for missing
and auxiliary covariates in two stage
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--170
A. Durio and
Ya. Yu Nikitin Local Bahadur efficiency of some
goodness-of-fit tests under skew
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--179
Roel Braekers and
Noël Veraverbeke Testing for the partial Koziol--Green
model with covariates . . . . . . . . . 181--192
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Pete Castelluccio Nonparametric analysis for the ROC areas
of two diagnostic tests in the presence
of nonignorable verification bias . . . 193--213
Yijun Sun and
Bimal K. Sinha and
Dietrich von Rosen and
Qingyuan Meng Nonnegative estimation of variance
components in multivariate unbalanced
mixed linear models with two variance
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234
Robert Castelo and
Arno Siebes A characterization of moral transitive
acyclic directed graph Markov models as
labeled trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--259
T. Bednarski and
M. Nowak Robustness and efficiency of
Sasieni-type estimators in the Cox model 261--272
Kalyan Das and
Nripes K. Mandal and
Bikas K. Sinha Optimal experimental designs for models
with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--285
Xuan Lu and
Wenbiao Hu and
Yan Zheng A systematical procedure in the
construction of multi-level
supersaturated design . . . . . . . . . 287--310
Keyue Ding A lower confidence bound for the change
point after a sequential CUSUM test . . 311--326
Sundarraman Subramanian Semiparametric transformation models and
the missing information principle . . . 327--348
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Hirokazu Yanagihara and
Risa Sekiguchi and
Yasunori Fujikoshi Bias correction of AIC in logistic
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
Nozer D. Singpurwalla Knowledge management and information
superiority (a taxonomy) . . . . . . . . 361--364
Daniel Barry The inclusion of partially reported
studies in a Bayesian meta-analysis . . 365--378
Yi Cheng An application of Edgeworth expansion in
Bayesian inferences: optimal sample
sizes in clinical trials . . . . . . . . 379--396
Anthony W. Hughes and
Maxwell L. King Model selection using AIC in the
presence of one-sided information . . . 397--411
Félix Belzunce and
José-Mariía Ruiz and
Mariía-del-Carmen Ruiz Multivariate properties of random
vectors of order statistics . . . . . . 413--424
Christopher Field and
Julie Zhou Confidence intervals based on robust
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--439
Chen-Pin Wang and
Malay Ghosh Bayesian analysis of bivariate competing
risks models with covariates . . . . . . 441--459
P. Vellaisamy Quantile estimation of the selected
exponential population . . . . . . . . . 461--470
G. Jogesh Babu and
C. R. Rao Confidence limits to the distance of the
true distribution from a misspecified
family by bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . 471--478
Tonglin Zhang and
Michael Woodroofe Credible and confidence sets for
restricted parameter spaces . . . . . . 479--490
Michael Kohler Nonlinear orthogonal series estimates
for random design regression . . . . . . 491--520
Lijian Yang and
Stefan Sperlich and
Wolfgang Härdle Derivative estimation and testing in
generalized additive models . . . . . . 521--542
William F. Christensen and
Yasuo Amemiya Modeling and prediction for multivariate
spatial factor analysis . . . . . . . . 543--564
Tatjana Pavlenko On feature selection,
curse-of-dimensionality and error
probability in discriminant analysis . . 565--584
Cong Han and
Kathryn Chaloner $D$- and $c$-optimal designs for
exponential regression models used in
viral dynamics and other applications 585--601
J. P. Morgan and
Nizam Uddin Optimal row-column design for two
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--622
Chung-yi Suen and
Aloke Dey Construction of asymmetric orthogonal
arrays through finite geometries . . . . 623--635
Zdenek Hlávka Asymptotic properties of robust
three-stage procedure based on bootstrap
for $M$-estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 637--656
Rajeshwari Sundaram Minimum distance estimation in doubly
censored two sample scale model . . . . 657--681
Neeraj Misra and
Edward C. van der Meulen On stochastic properties of $m$-spacings 683--697
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Stéphane Girard and
Pierre Jacob Projection estimates of point processes
boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
J. Pfanzagl An alternative approach to asymptotic
optimality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--47
Wei Liu and
Koon-Shing Kwong A multiple directional decision
procedure for successive comparisons of
treatment effects . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
Masakazu Ando and
Miyoshi Kimura A characterization of the neighborhoods
defined by certain special capacities
and their applications to
bias-robustness of estimates . . . . . . 61--90
C. K. Chu and
Wen-Shuenn Deng An interpolation method for adapting to
sparse design in multivariate
nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 91--111
Eric Chicken Block thresholding and wavelet
estimation for nonequispaced samples . . 113--129
Hari K. Iyer and
D. F. Dominic F. Vecchia and
Paul W. Mielke Higher order cumulants and
Tchebyshev--Markov bounds for $P$-values
in distribution-free matched-pairs tests 131--147
Takafumi Kanamori and
Hidetoshi Shimodaira Active learning algorithm using the
maximum weighted log-likelihood
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162
Weechang Kang and
Dong Wan Shin and
Youngjo Lee Biases of the restricted maximum
likelihood estimators for ARMA processes
with polynomial time trend . . . . . . . 163--176
Huaiqing Wu $D$-optimal designs for combined linear
and trigonometric regression . . . . . . 177--184
Himadri Ghosh and
Ashish Das Optimal diallel cross designs for
estimation of heritability . . . . . . . 185--196
Damaraju Raghavarao and
Yang Xie Split-plot type cross-over designs . . . 197--207
Carlos Velasco Nonparametric frequency domain analysis
of nonstationary multivariate time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--247
Viíctor M. Guerrero and
Daniel Peña Combining multiple time series
predictors: a useful inferential
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--276
Francesca Callegari and
Nunzio Cappuccio and
Diego Lubian Asymptotic inference in time series
regressions with a unit root and
infinite variance errors . . . . . . . . 277--303
Zehua Chen Component reliability analysis of
$k$-out-of-$n$ systems with censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315
Ning Li and
Guoqi Qian and
Richard Huggins A random effects model for diseases with
heterogeneous rates of infection . . . . 317--332
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Mokhtar H. Konsowa and
Tamer F. Oraby Fractal dimensions and random walks on
random trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342
Abram Kagan and
C. Radhakrishna Rao Some properties and applications of the
efficient Fisher score . . . . . . . . . 343--352
Linda M. Haines An approach to simple bargaining games
and related problems . . . . . . . . . . 353--366
M. J. Lombardía and
W. González-Manteiga and
J. M. Prada-Sánchez Bootstrapping the Chambers--Dunstan
estimate of a finite population
distribution function . . . . . . . . . 367--388
Anthony G. Pakes and
Jorge Navarro and
José M. Ruiz and
Yolanda del Aguila Characterizations using weighted
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--420
Y. Wu and
A. K. Gupta Local score tests in mixture exponential
family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--435
Debasis Kundu and
Swagata Nandi Estimating the number of components by a
data independent penalty function
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--450
Charles J. Stone and
Jianhua Z. Huang Statistical modeling of diffusion
processes with free knot splines . . . . 451--474
Rungao Jin and
John Robinson Robust permutation tests for one sample 475--487
Chunsheng Ma Families of spatio-temporal stationary
covariance models . . . . . . . . . . . 489--501
Christine H. Müller and
Neyko Neykov Breakdown points of trimmed likelihood
estimators and related estimators in
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 503--519
Jason J. Z. Liao A functional linear model for comparing
two pharmacokinetics profiles . . . . . 521--535
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Xiangzhong Fang and
Ray Watson and
Wang Yan and
Paul S. F. Yip A procedure for complete fault detection
with a removal process . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Hira L. Koul and
Anton Schick Testing for superiority among two
regression curves . . . . . . . . . . . 15--33
Linyuan Li Non-linear wavelet-based density
estimators under random censorship . . . 35--58
Michael D. Perlman and
Lang Wu On the validity of the likelihood ratio
and maximum likelihood methods . . . . . 59--81
Ramesh C. Gupta On some association measures in
bivariate distributions and their
relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--98
Shuyuan He and
Grace L. Yang Estimation of regression parameters with
left truncated data . . . . . . . . . . 99--122
N. Rao Chaganty Analysis of growth curves with patterned
correlation matrices using quasi-least
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--139
Hong Qin Characterization of generalized
aberration of some designs in terms of
their complementary designs . . . . . . 141--151
Serguei Dachian and
Yury A. Kutoyants On cusp estimation of ergodic diffusion
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--166
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George Iliopoulos Estimation of parametric functions in
Downton's bivariate exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--184
M. R. Madruga and
C. A. B. Pereira and
J. M. Stern Bayesian evidence test for precise
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--198
Jan Beran and
Sucharita Ghosh and
Philipp Sibbertsen Nonparametric $M$-estimation with
long-memory errors . . . . . . . . . . . 199--205
Ali Gannoun and
Jérôme Saracco and
Keming Yu Nonparametric prediction by conditional
median and quantiles . . . . . . . . . . 207--223
Arup Bose and
Snigdhansu Chatterjee Generalized bootstrap for estimators of
minimizers of convex functions . . . . . 225--239
Abd El-Baset A. Ahmad and
Mohammad A. Fawzy Recurrence relations for single moments
of generalized order statistics from
doubly truncated distributions . . . . . 241--249
Lawrence H. Cox On properties of multi-dimensional
statistical tables . . . . . . . . . . . 251--273
Mark J. van der Laan and
Katherine S. Pollard A new algorithm for hybrid hierarchical
clustering with visualization and the
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--303
Zhide Fang and
Douglas P. Wiens Robust regression designs for
approximate polynomial models . . . . . 305--321
Alwell J. Oyet Wavelet designs for estimating
nonparametric curves with
heteroscedastic error . . . . . . . . . 323--343
Fausto Galetto and
Giovanni Pistone and
Maria Piera Rogantin Confounding revisited with commutative
computational algebra . . . . . . . . . 345--363
Ree Dawson and
Philip W. Lavori Comparison of designs for adaptive
treatment strategies: baseline vs.
adaptive randomization . . . . . . . . . 365--385
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M. Kathleen Kerr Stationary Gaussian processes on the
vertices of the $k$-cube . . . . . . . . 1--8
Mohammad Salehi M. Optimal sampling design under a spatial
correlation model . . . . . . . . . . . 9--18
H. M. Barakat and
E. M. Nigm and
M. M. Askar On the trivariate extreme value
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--35
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Lili Tian A test for homogeneity of ordered means
of inverse Gaussian populations . . . . 37--49
Peter B. Gilbert Goodness-of-fit tests for semiparametric
biased sampling models . . . . . . . . . 51--81
M. C. Ausien and
M. P. Wiper and
R. E. Lillo Bayesian estimation for the M/G/1 queue
using a phase-type approximation . . . . 83--101
A. Stepanov Random intervals based on records . . . 103--113
Olcay Arslan Convergence behavior of an iterative
reweighting algorithm to compute
multivariate $M$-estimates for location
and scatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--128
Liang Peng and
Xiao-Hua Zhou Local linear smoothing of receiver
operating characteristic (ROC) curves 129--143
Hammou El Barmi and
Subhash C. Kochar and
Hari Mukerjee and
Francisco J. Samaniego Estimation of cumulative incidence
functions in competing risks studies
under an order restriction . . . . . . . 145--165
Liu-Gen Xue Approximation rates of the error
distribution of wavelet estimators of a
density function under censorship . . . 167--183
Deborah J. Street and
Leonie Burgess Optimal and near-optimal pairs for the
estimation of effects in $2$-level
choice experiments . . . . . . . . . . . 185--199
Holger Dette and
Viatcheslav B. Melas and
Andrey Pepelyshev Optimal designs for estimating
individual coefficients in polynomial
regression --- a functional approach . . 201--219
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Tasos C. Christofides $U$-statistics on associated random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Alan T. K. Wan and
Guohua Zou On unbiased and improved loss estimation
for the mean of a multivariate normal
distribution with unknown variance . . . 17--22
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Jessica Thomson A more powerful test for comparing two
Poisson means . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35
Xiaogang Wang and
Constance van Eeden and
James V. Zidek Asymptotic properties of maximum
weighted likelihood estimators . . . . . 37--54
J. René Van Dorp and
Thomas A. Mazzuchi A general Bayes exponential inference
model for accelerated life testing . . . 55--74
Ursula U. Müller and
Anton Schick and
Wolfgang Wefelmeyer Estimating linear functionals of the
error distribution in nonparametric
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--93
Fuxia Cheng Weak and strong uniform consistency of a
kernel error density estimator in
nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 95--107
Hira L. Koul and
Pingping Ni Minimum distance regression model
checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--141
Sarat C. Dass and
Jaeyong Lee A note on the consistency of Bayes
factors for testing point null versus
non-parametric alternatives . . . . . . 143--152
Georg Neuhaus and
Günter Heimann and
Lixing Zhu Optimal tests for carcinogenicity in a
model with fatal and incidental tumours 153--169
Laurent Bordes Non-parametric estimation under
progressive censoring . . . . . . . . . 171--189
O. Davidov and
A. Goldenshluger Fitting a line segment to noisy data . . 191--206
R. J. Martin and
J. A. Eccleston Variance-balanced designs under
interference for dependent observations 207--223
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H. L. Fu and
F. K. Hwang and
M. Jimbo and
Y. Mutoh and
C. L. Shiue Decomposing complete graphs into $ K_r
\times K_c $'s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--236
Helmut Prodinger On the moments of a distribution defined
by the Gaussian polynomials . . . . . . 237--239
R. C. H. Cheng Threshold estimation in the log-gamma
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--262
Liang Peng Bias-corrected estimators for monotone
and concave frontier functions . . . . . 263--275
Lajos Horváth and
Friedrich Liese $ L_p $-estimators in ARCH models . . . 277--309
Paul Gustafson and
Bertrand Clarke Decomposing posterior variance . . . . . 311--327
Edna Schechtman and
Suojin Wang Jackknifing two-sample statistics . . . 329--340
Inmaculada B. Aban and
Mark M. Meerschaert Generalized least-squares estimators for
the thickness of heavy tails . . . . . . 341--352
Jorge Adrover and
Matias Salibian-Barrera and
Ruben Zamar Globally robust inference for the
location and simple linear regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--375
Pedro F. Delicado and
Juan Romo Random coefficient regressions:
parametric goodness-of-fit tests . . . . 377--400
Sunanda Bagchi Construction of group divisible designs
and rectangular designs from resolvable
and almost resolvable balanced
incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 401--410
Arzu Onar and
W. J. Padgett A penalized local $D$-optimality
approach to design for accelerated test
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--420
Keyue Ding and
Rohana J. Karunamuni A linear empirical Bayes solution for
the calibration problem . . . . . . . . 421--447
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Ibrahim A. Ahmad and
A. R. Mugdadi Further moments inequalities of life
distributions with hypothesis testing
applications: the IFRA, NBUC and DMRL
classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Christian Kleiber Lorenz ordering of order statistics from
log-logistic and related distributions 13--19
François Perron and
Bimal K. Sinha Estimation of variance based on a ranked
set sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
M. A. van de Wiel Exact null distributions of quadratic
distribution-free statistics for two-way
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--40
Tomasz J. Kozubowski and
Anna K. Panorska Testing symmetry under a skew Laplace
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--63
Pier Luigi Conti Bootstrap approximations for Bayesian
analysis of Geo/G/1 discrete-time
queueing models . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--84
Hyoung-Moon Kim and
Bani K. Mallick A Bayesian prediction using the skew
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 85--101
Grzegorz A. Rempala and
Sudesh Srivastav Minimum variance rectangular designs for
$U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--118
José A. Díaz-García and
Graciela González-Farías A note on the Cook's distance . . . . . 119--136
Daniel Coleman and
Yousceek Jeong and
Robert W. Keener A Bayesian criterion for selecting super
saturated screening designs . . . . . . 137--153
Jong-Min Kim and
William D. Warde A stratified Warner's randomized
response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
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J.-Y. Dauxois Bayesian inference for linear growth
birth and death processes . . . . . . . 1--19
E. E. M. van Berkum and
H. N. Linssen and
D. A. Overdijk New critical values for the average
equivalence test . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--35
Dominique Fourdrinier and
Eric Marchand and
William E. Strawderman On the inevitability of a paradox in
shrinkage estimation for scale mixtures
of normals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--51
Yu-Ling Tseng Set-induced minimax estimators for a
multivariate normal mean . . . . . . . . 53--64
Pilar H. García-Soidán and
Manuel Febrero-Bande and
Wenceslao González-Manteiga Nonparametric kernel estimation of an
isotropic variogram . . . . . . . . . . 65--92
P. B. Brockhoff and
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner Partitioning Anderson's statistic for
tied data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--111
Toshio Honda Quantile regression in varying
coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125
M. L. Aggarwal and
Seema Gupta A new method of construction of
multi-level supersaturated designs . . . 127--134
Arturo J. Fernández On estimating exponential parameters
with general type II progressive
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--147
J. S. Marron and
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez SiZer for length biased, censored
density and hazard estimation . . . . . 149--161
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Gary L. Gadbury and
Hari K. Iyer and
Jeffrey M. Albert Individual treatment effects in
randomized trials with binary outcomes 163--174
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Mausumi Bose and
J. K. Ghosh An application of adaptive sampling to
estimate highly localized population
segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--189
Lynn E. Eberly and
Thomas A. Louis Bayes/frequentist compromise decision
rules for Gaussian sampling . . . . . . 191--207
Herman Chernoff Information, for testing the equality of
two probabilities, from the margins of
the 2$ \times $2 table . . . . . . . . . 209--214
Uttam Bandyopadhyay and
Atanu Biswas Randomized allocation procedure for
testing a normal mean with known
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--229
Faouzi El Bantli M-estimation in linear models under
nonstandard conditions . . . . . . . . . 231--248
Yuan-chin Ivan Chang and
Zhiliang Ying Sequential estimation in variable length
computerized adaptive testing . . . . . 249--264
Wenxin Jiang and
Xiangyang Liu Consistent model selection based on
parameter estimates . . . . . . . . . . 265--283
Jiro Hodoshima Tail-thickness in terms of $ {\rm
COV}(X_j^2, X_p^2) $ in the class of
elliptical distributions . . . . . . . . 285--289
Dongchu Sun and
Shawn Ni Bayesian analysis of
vector-autoregressive models with
noninformative priors . . . . . . . . . 291--309
Melanie M. Wall A close look at the spatial structure
implied by the CAR and SAR models . . . 311--324
Edward J. Stanek III and
Julio da Motta Singer and
Viviana Beatriz Lencina A unified approach to estimation and
prediction under simple random sampling 325--338
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Luisa Turrin Fernholz and
David E. Tyler and
Victor Yohai Contemporary data analysis: theory and
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Laurie Davies The one-way-table . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13
C. A. Field Using the $ g h $ distribution to model
extreme wind speeds . . . . . . . . . . 15--22
Dhammika Amaratunga and
Javier Cabrera Mining data to find subsets of high
activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--41
David R. Brillinger and
Haiganoush K. Preisler and
Alan A. Ager and
John G. Kie An exploratory data analysis (EDA) of
the paths of moving animals . . . . . . 43--63
P. L. Davies and
R. Fried and
U. Gather Robust signal extraction for on-line
monitoring data . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--78
Javier Cabrera and
Luisa Turrin Fernholz Multivariate targeting with applications
to ellipse estimation . . . . . . . . . 79--94
Graciela Boente and
Liliana Orellana Robust plug-in estimators in
proportional scatter models . . . . . . 95--110
Zhiqiang Chen and
David E. Tyler On the behavior of Tukey's depth and
median under symmetric stable
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
Luisa T. Fernholz and
Stephan Morgenthaler and
John W. Tukey An outlier nomination method based on
the multihalver . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139
Guozhong He and
Hans-Georg Müller and
Jane-Ling Wang Methods of canonical analysis for
functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--159
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Anja Struyf Characterizing angular symmetry and
regression symmetry . . . . . . . . . . 161--173
Werner A. Stahel Purposes and strategies in regression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186
Jorge Adrover and
Ricardo A. Maronna and
Víctor J. Yohai Robust regression quantiles . . . . . . 187--202
Jorge Adrover and
Ruben H. Zamar Bias robustness of three median-based
regression estimates . . . . . . . . . . 203--227
Ana Bianco and
Graciela Boente Robust estimators in semiparametric
partly linear regression models . . . . 229--252
Xuming He and
Hengjian Cui and
Douglas G. Simpson Longitudinal data analysis using
$t$-type regression . . . . . . . . . . 253--269
Alfio Marazzi and
Victor J. Yohai Adaptively truncated maximum likelihood
regression with asymmetric errors . . . 271--291
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Michael L. Stein Equivalence of Gaussian measures for
some nonstationary random fields . . . . 1--11
Zhaozhi Fan Estimation problems for distributions
with heavy tails . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--40
V. Schmitz Revealing the dependence structure
between $ X_{(1)} $ and $ X_{(n)} $ . . 41--47
Jack C. Lee and
Shu-Hui Lin Generalized confidence intervals for the
ratio of means of two normal populations 49--60
Xin Liu and
Yongzhao Shao Asymptotics for the likelihood ratio
test in a two-component normal mixture
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--81
Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh Steady-state ranked set sampling and
parametric estimation . . . . . . . . . 83--95
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Min Tsao and
Gengsheng Qin New intervals for the difference between
two independent binomial proportions . . 97--115
Thomas Klein Optimal designs for second-degree
Kronecker model mixture experiments . . 117--131
Barry C. Arnold and
Enrique Castillo and
José Mariía Sarabia Compatibility of partial or complete
conditional probability specifications 133--159
V. V. Anh and
N. N. Leonenko and
L. M. Sakhno On a class of minimum contrast
estimators for fractional stochastic
processes and fields . . . . . . . . . . 161--185
Sundarraman Subramanian Survival-rate regression using kernel
conditional Kaplan--Meier estimators . . 187--205
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Uttam Bandyopadhyay and
Atanu Biswas An adaptive allocation for continuous
response using Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney
score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--224
Karine Bertin Minimax exact constant in sup-norm for
nonparametric regression with random
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--242
Ling Chen A conservative, nonparametric estimator
for the 5th percentile of the species
sensitivity distributions . . . . . . . 243--258
Robert Serfling Nonparametric multivariate descriptive
measures based on spatial quantiles . . 259--278
Shiqing Ling and
Liang Peng Hill's estimator for the tail index of
an ARMA model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--293
Takayuki Shiohama and
Masanobu Taniguchi Sequential estimation for time series
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 295--312
B. Clarke and
A. Yuan Partial information reference priors:
derivation and interpretations . . . . . 313--345
Laisheng Wei and
Xiao Ding On empirical Bayes estimation of
variance components in random effects
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--364
B. Ya. Ryabko and
V. S. Stognienko and
Yu. I. Shokin A new test for randomness and its
application to some cryptographic
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--376
Michael Hamers and
Michael Kohler How well can a regression function be
estimated if the distribution of the
(random) design is concentrated on a
finite set? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--394
Imbi Traat and
Lennart Bondesson and
Kadri Meister Sampling design and sample selection
through distribution theory . . . . . . 395--413
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Sam Efromovich Distribution estimation for biased data 1--43
M. L. Huang and
P. H. Brill A distribution estimation method based
on level crossings . . . . . . . . . . . 45--62
D. Dehay and
Yu. A. Kutoyants On confidence intervals for distribution
function and density of ergodic
diffusion process . . . . . . . . . . . 63--73
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Srikanth K. Iyer Approximate self consistency for
middle-censored data . . . . . . . . . . 75--86
Miguel A. Ariño and
Francesc Marmol A permanent-transitory decomposition for
ARFIMA processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--97
Philippe Girard and
Eric Parent The deductive phase of statistical
analysis via predictive simulations:
test, validation and control of a linear
model with autocorrelated errors
representing a food process . . . . . . 99--120
Fulvio De Santis Statistical evidence and sample size
determination for Bayesian hypothesis
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--144
A. P. Martins and
H. Ferreira The extremal index of sub-sampled
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
Taizhong Hu and
Alfred Müller and
Marco Scarsini Some counterexamples in positive
dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--158
Willem Albers and
Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg and
Sri Nurdiati Parametric control charts . . . . . . . 159--184
Pau Bofill and
Carme Torras MBMUDs: a combinatorial extension of
BIBDs showing good optimality behaviour 185--204
A. S. Hedayat and
J. Zhong and
L. Nie Optimal and efficient designs for
$2$-parameter nonlinear models . . . . . 205--217
Yingfu Li and
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Boxin Tang Design catalog based on minimum
$G$-aberration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--230
Lieven Tack and
Martina Vandebroek Budget constrained run orders in optimum
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--249
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T. Augustin and
F. P. A. Coolen Nonparametric predictive inference and
interval probability . . . . . . . . . . 251--272
N. Balakrishnan and
A. Stepanov Two characterizations based on order
statistics and records . . . . . . . . . 273--287
Gang Zheng and
Sangun Park A note on time savings in censored life
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--300
Mohammad Z. Raqab Projection $P$-norm bounds on the
moments of $k$ th record increments . . 301--315
N. Papadatos and
T. Rychlik Bounds on expectations of $L$-statistics
from without replacement samples . . . . 317--336
Elsayed A. H. Elamir and
Allan H. Seheult Exact variance structure of sample
$L$-moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--359
M. Ivette Gomes and
M. João Martins Bias reduction and explicit
semi-parametric estimation of the tail
index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--378
Edward L. Korn and
James F. Troendle and
Lisa M. McShane and
Richard Simon Controlling the number of false
discoveries: application to
high-dimensional genomic data . . . . . 379--398
Haimeng Zhang Asymptotic efficiency of estimation in
the partial Koziol--Green model . . . . 399--408
K. F. Cheng and
L. C. Chen Testing goodness-of-fit of a logistic
regression model with case-control data 409--422
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Audrey H. M. A. Cysneiros and
Francisco Cribari-Neto An improved test for heteroskedasticity
using adjusted modified profile
likelihood inference . . . . . . . . . . 423--437
Su-Ju Yin and
Song-Gui Wang Estimating the parameters of a circle by
heteroscedastic regression models . . . 439--451
Tadeusz Inglot and
Teresa Ledwina On consistent minimax distinguishability
and intermediate efficiency of Cramér-von
Mises test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--474
Mei-Mei Zen and
Min-Hsiao Tsai Criterion-robust optimal designs for
model discrimination and parameter
estimation in Fourier regression models 475--487
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Ajit C. Tamhane and
Peter H. Westfall Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Jie Chen and
Sanat K. Sarkar Multiple testing of response rates with
a control: a Bayesian stepwise approach 3--16
Arthur Cohen and
H. B. Sackrowitz Monotonicity properties of multiple
endpoint testing procedures . . . . . . 17--30
Siegfried Kropf and
Jürgen Läuter and
Markus Eszlinger and
Knut Krohn and
Ralf Paschke Nonparametric multiple test procedures
with data-driven order of hypotheses and
with weighted hypotheses . . . . . . . . 31--47
Charles Lewis and
Dorothy T. Thayer A loss function related to the FDR for
random effects multiple comparisons . . 49--58
Guohua Pan and
Thomas J. Santner Theory of screening procedures to
identify robust product designs using
fractional factorial experiments . . . . 59--84
Katherine S. Pollard and
Mark J. van der Laan Choice of a null distribution in
resampling-based multiple testing . . . 85--100
James A. Rogers and
Jason C. Hsu and
Shili Lin Using the partitioning principle to
construct confidence sets for the
location of a disease gene . . . . . . . 101--118
Sanat K. Sarkar FDR-controlling stepwise procedures and
their false negatives rates . . . . . . 119--137
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Francesca Callegari and
Michael G. Akritas Rank tests for patterned alternatives in
two-way non-parametric analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
F. P. A. Coolen and
K. J. Yan Nonparametric predictive inference with
right-censored data . . . . . . . . . . 25--54
Ruey-Ching Hwang Local polynomial $M$-smoothers in
nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 55--72
Chunming Zhang Assessing the equivalence of
nonparametric regression tests based on
spline and local polynomial smoothers 73--95
M. C. Jones On some expressions for variance,
covariance, skewness and $L$-moments . . 97--106
Malay Ghosh and
Dal Ho Kim and
Myung Joon Kim Asymptotic mean squared error of
constrained James--Stein estimators . . 107--118
Peter Walley and
Renato Pelessoni and
Paolo Vicig Direct algorithms for checking
consistency and making inferences from
conditional probability assessments . . 119--151
U. Schneider and
J. N. Corcoran Perfect sampling for Bayesian variable
selection in a linear regression model 153--171
Atanu Biswas and
Anup Dewanji Scheduling optimal examination times in
a simple illness-death model . . . . . . 173--187
Wei Liu Some simple corrected confidence
intervals following a sequential test 189--205
Marie Husková and
Georg Neuhaus Change point analysis for censored data 207--223
Lajos Horváth and
Marie Husková and
Piotr Kokoszka and
Josef Steinebach Monitoring changes in linear models . . 225--251
Yi-Tzu Lee and
Thomas Mathew Tolerance regions in multivariate linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--271
Ming-Chung Yang and
Ding-Wen Lee and
J. T. Gene Hwang The equivalence of the mid $p$-value and
the expected $p$-value for testing
equality of two balanced Binomial
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--280
Taizhong Hu and
Lingyan Ruan A note on multivariate stochastic
comparisons of Bernoulli random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--288
E. D. Schoen Dispersion-effects detection after
screening for location effects in
unreplicated two-level experiments . . . 289--304
Mingyao Ai and
Runchu Zhang Theory of minimum aberration blocked
regular mixed factorial designs . . . . 305--323
Mike Jacroux A modified minimum aberration criterion
for selecting regular $ 2^{m - k} $
fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 325--336
Kai-Tai Fang and
Aijun Zhang Minimum aberration majorization in
non-isomorphic saturated designs . . . . 337--346
Shenghua Kelly Fan and
Kathryn Chaloner Optimal designs and limiting optimal
designs for a trinomial response . . . . 347--360
Ulrike Graßhoff and
Heiko Großmann and
Heinz Holling and
Rainer Schwabe Optimal designs for main effects in
linear paired comparison models . . . . 361--376
R. J. Martin and
J. A. Eccleston and
B. S. P. Chan Efficient factorial experiments when the
data are spatially correlated . . . . . 377--395
Sundarraman Subramanian A correction note on ``Semiparametric
transformation models and the missing
information principle'' . . . . . . . . 397--399
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Rodolfo de Cristofaro On the foundations of likelihood
principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--411
Arne Bathke The ANOVA $F$ test can still be used in
some balanced designs with unequal
variances and nonnormal data . . . . . . 413--422
Lin-An Chen and
Lanh Tat Tran and
Li-Ching Lin Symmetric regression quantile and its
application to robust estimation for the
nonlinear regression model . . . . . . . 423--440
Ryan Gill and
Michael Baron Consistent estimation in generalized
broken-line regression . . . . . . . . . 441--460
Arnold Janssen Asymptotic relative efficiency of tests
at the boundary of regular statistical
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--477
Housila P. Singh and
Sharad Saxena and
M. Ruiz Espejo Estimation of standard deviation in
normal parent by shrinkage towards an
interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--493
Alfredas Rackauskas and
Charles Suquet Hölder norm test statistics for epidemic
change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--520
Graciela González-Farías and
Armando Domínguez-Molina and
Arjun K. Gupta Additive properties of skew normal
random vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--534
Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and
Olga Cheminade and
Mikhail Nikulin Statistical planning and inference in
accelerated life testing using the CHSS
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--551
Shiling Ruan and
Douglas A. Wolfe and
Gerald S. Frankel Statistical modeling and computer
simulation of intergranular corrosion
growth in AA2024-T3 aluminum alloy . . . 553--568
A. N. Donev Design of experiments in the presence of
errors in factor levels . . . . . . . . 569--585
Gutti Jogesh Babu A note on the bootstrapped empirical
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--589
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A. Di Bucchianico and
M. A. van de Wiel Exact null distributions of
distribution-free quadratic $t$-sample
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Gerhard Dikta and
Jugal Ghorai and
Christian Schmidt The central limit theorem under
semiparametric random censorship models 23--51
Göran Kauermann A note on smoothing parameter selection
for penalized spline smoothing . . . . . 53--69
M. Kaluszka and
A. Okolewski and
K. Szymanska Sharp bounds for $L$-statistics from
dependent samples of random length . . . 71--89
M. J. Rivas and
M. T. Santos and
D. Morales Rényi test statistics for partially
observed diffusion processes . . . . . . 91--102
Gang Zheng and
Sangun Park Another look at life testing . . . . . . 103--117
Michael J. Daniels A class of shrinkage priors for the
dependence structure in longitudinal
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
Liping Liu and
Paul S. F. Yip Proportional trapping-removal models
with contaminated data . . . . . . . . . 131--142
Grace Chiu and
Richard Lockhart and
Richard Routledge Asymptotic theory for bent-cable
regression-the basic case . . . . . . . 143--156
Joachim Hartung and
Guido Knapp On confidence intervals for the
among-group variance in the one-way
random effects model with unequal error
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--177
Alexander Kukush and
Hans Schneeweiss and
Roland Wolf Relative efficiency of three estimators
in a polynomial regression with
measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 179--203
Maciej Wilczy\'nski Minimax estimation in the linear model
with a relative squared error . . . . . 205--212
Debasis Kundu and
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Anubhav Manglick Discriminating between the log-normal
and generalized exponential
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--227
Rajeshwari Natarajan and
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Michael P. McDermott Order restricted inference for the
scale-like inverse Gaussian parameters 229--236
L. Pardo and
M. C. Pardo Nonadditivity in loglinear models using
$ \phi $-divergences and MLEs . . . . . 237--252
Yves G. Berger Variance estimation with Chao's sampling
scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--277
Mark E. Glickman and
Shane T. Jensen Adaptive paired comparison design . . . 279--293
Omer Ozturk Robust joint estimation of location and
scale parameters in ranked set samples 295--308
Jeff T. Terpstra and
Eric J. Nelson Optimal rank set sampling estimates for
a population proportion . . . . . . . . 309--321
Douglas P. Wiens Robust allocation schemes for clinical
trials with prognostic factors . . . . . 323--340
Warren F. Kuhfeld Difference schemes via computerized
searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--346
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Yoshinori Fujii and
Takemi Yanagimoto Pairwise conditional score functions: a
generalization of the Mantel--Haenszel
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Itsuro Kakiuchi and
Miyoshi Kimura Robust slippage rank tests for $k$
location parameters in the presence of
gross errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--29
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Gregory E. Wilding Two Wilson--Hilferty type approximations
for the null distribution of the Blum,
Kiefer and Rosenblatt test of bivariate
independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41
Gwowen Shieh On power and sample size calculations
for Wald tests in generalized linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--59
Carlo Grillenzoni Non-parametric smoothing of
spatio-temporal point processes . . . . 61--78
Frederic Paik Schoenberg Consistent parametric estimation of the
intensity of a spatial-temporal point
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93
Hsiuying Wang Improved confidence estimators for
confidence sets of location parameters 95--107
Peter C. Austin The reliability and validity of Bayesian
measures for hospital profiling: a Monte
Carlo assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122
Andrea Ongaro Size-biased sampling and discrete
nonparametric Bayesian inference . . . . 123--148
David Afshartous and
Jan de Leeuw A predictive density approach to
predicting a future observable in
multilevel models . . . . . . . . . . . 149--164
Trent D. Buskirk and
Sharon L. Lohr Asymptotic properties of kernel density
estimation with complex survey data . . 165--190
Constantinos Petropoulos and
Stavros Kourouklis Estimation of a scale parameter in
mixture models with unknown location . . 191--218
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Huizhen Guo Assessing occupational exposure via the
one-way random effects model with
unbalanced data . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--229
C. R. Rao and
Y. Wu Linear model selection by
cross-validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--240
Matias Salibian-Barrera Estimating the $p$-values of robust
tests for the linear model . . . . . . . 241--257
Chao-Wei Chou and
Wen-Jang Huang A note on characterizations of the
bivariate gamma distribution . . . . . . 259--269
J. G. Surles and
W. J. Padgett Some properties of a scaled Burr type
$X$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280
A. Jalali and
A. G. Hawkes and
L. R. Cui and
F. K. Hwang The optimal consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$:
$G$ line for $ n \leq 2 k $ . . . . . . 281--287
David Causeur Optimal sampling from concomitant
variables for regression problems . . . 289--301
Tasos C. Christofides Randomized response in stratified
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--310
W. H. Holzmann and
H. Kharaghani and
Jennifer Seberry and
B. Tayfeh-Rezaie On orthogonal designs in order 48 . . . 311--325
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Fuxia Cheng Asymptotic distributions of error
density and distribution function
estimators in nonparametric regression 327--349
Lajos Horváth and
Marie Husková Testing for changes using permutations
of $U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 351--371
Simos G. Meintanis Consistent tests for symmetric stability
with finite mean based on the empirical
characteristic function . . . . . . . . 373--380
Johan Segers Generalized Pickands estimators for the
extreme value index . . . . . . . . . . 381--396
Shan Sun and
Minerva Cordero Smooth quantile estimators under strong
mixing: necessary and sufficient
conditions on bandwidth for weak
convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--409
Anne-Catherine Favre and
Alina Matei and
Yves Tillé Calibrated random imputation for
qualitative data . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--425
Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and
Héctor W. Gómez and
Fernando A. Quintana Statistical inference for a general
class of asymmetric distributions . . . 427--443
José A. Díaz-García and
Víctor Leiva-Sánchez A new family of life distributions based
on the elliptically contoured
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--457
Cheng-Der Fuh and
Edward H. Ip Bootstrap and Bayesian bootstrap clones
for censored Markov chains . . . . . . . 459--474
Gustavo L. Gilardoni Accuracy of posterior approximations via
$ \chi^2 $ and harmonic divergences . . 475--487
Walter Krämer Finite sample power of Cliff--Ord-type
tests for spatial disturbance
correlation in linear regression . . . . 489--496
Chris J. Lloyd On comparing the accuracy of competing
tests of the same hypotheses from
simulation data . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--508
Anindya Roy and
Thomas Mathew A generalized confidence limit for the
reliability function of a two-parameter
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 509--517
James Schmeidler Improved algorithms for closed step-down
procedures to test heterogeneity of all
subsets of means . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--526
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Gengsheng Qin A new confidence interval for the
difference between two binomial
proportions of paired data . . . . . . . 527--542
Nibia Aires and
Bengt Rosén On inclusion probabilities and relative
estimator bias for Pareto $ \pi p s $
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--567
Jean-Claude Deville and
Yves Tillé Variance approximation under balanced
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--591
Kashinath Chatterjee and
Kai-Tai Fang and
Hong Qin Uniformity in factorial designs with
mixed levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--607
S. Mandal and
B. Torsney and
K. C. Carriere Constructing optimal designs with
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--621
C. Rodríguez and
I. Ortiz $D$-optimum designs in multi-factor
models with heteroscedastic errors . . . 623--631
Barbara Bogacka and
Francis Wright Non-linear design problem in a chemical
kinetic model with non-constant error
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--648
Yukio Yanagisawa Scaled density models for binary
response data and their $D$- and $ D_s
$-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . . 649--660
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Sudhir Gupta and
Dipak Dey and
Glen Meeden and
Rahul Mukerjee and
Alan Polansky Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Shanti S. Gupta and
Jianjun Li On empirical Bayes procedures for
selecting good populations in a positive
exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 3--18
Robert D. Gibbons and
Dulal K. Bhaumik and
David R. Cox and
Dennis R. Grayson and
John M. Davis and
Rajiv P. Sharma Sequential prediction bounds for
identifying differentially expressed
genes in replicated microarray
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--37
Daniel F. Molefe and
James J. Chen and
Paul C. Howard and
Barbara J. Miller and
Christopher P. Sambuco and
P. Donald Forbes and
Ralph L. Kodell Tests for effects on tumor frequency and
latency in multiple dosing
photococarcinogenicity experiments . . . 39--58
Brian Reck and
J. P. Morgan Optimal design in irregular BIBD
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--84
Glen Meeden A noninformative Bayesian approach to
domain estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 85--92
Jiahua Chen and
John D. Kalbfleisch Modified likelihood ratio test in finite
mixture models with a structural
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107
Steven M. Bortnick and
Angela M. Dean and
Jason C. Hsu Efficiency of block designs for
simultaneous comparison of two test
treatments with a control . . . . . . . 109--124
Z. Govindarajulu Robustness of sample size re-estimation
with interim binary data for
double-blind clinical trials . . . . . . 125--144
Xingqiu Zhao and
Hee-jeong Lim and
Jianguo Sun Estimating equation approach for
regression analysis of failure time data
in the presence of interval-censoring 145--157
Mohand L. Feddag and
Mounir Mesbah Generalized estimating equations for
longitudinal mixed Rasch model . . . . . 159--179
Aparna V. Huzurbazar Flowgraph models: a Bayesian case study
in construction engineering . . . . . . 181--193
S. E. Ahmed Assessing the process capability index
for non-normal processes . . . . . . . . 195--206
Suojin Wang and
Alan H. Dorfman and
Lawrence R. Ernst A new variance estimator for a two-phase
restratified sample with PPS sampling at
both phases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--227
Pankaj K. Choudhary and
H. N. Nagaraja Selecting the instrument closest to a
gold standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--237
Ibrahim A. Ahmad Statistical analysis of old age behavior 239--252
Yoko Tanaka and
P. V. Rao A proportional hazards model for
informatively censored survival times 253--262
Phillip S. Kott Randomization-assisted model-based
survey sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--277
H. Hurd Periodically correlated sequences of
less than full rank . . . . . . . . . . 279--303
Jagdish N. Srivastava Combinatorial Hermitian algebras derived
from Latin squares . . . . . . . . . . . 305--316
Myung Hwan Na and
Jongwoo Jeon and
Dong Ho Park Testing whether failure rate changes its
trend with unknown change points . . . . 317--325
Poduri S. R. S. Rao and
Nicholas A. Zaino Reliability estimation through the
linear mixed effects model . . . . . . . 327--337
Eric V. Slud and
Filia Vonta Efficient semiparametric estimators via
modified profile likelihood . . . . . . 339--367
Nelson Lu and
Dale L. Zimmerman Testing for directional symmetry in
spatial dependence using the periodogram 369--385
Naveen K. Bansal and
Klaus J. Miescke Simultaneous selection and estimation of
the best treatment with respect to a
control in a general linear model . . . 387--404
Romain Neugebauer and
Mark van der Laan Why prefer double robust estimators in
causal inference? . . . . . . . . . . . 405--426
Bo Ranneby and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Alex Teterukovskiy The maximum spacing estimation for
multivariate observations . . . . . . . 427--446
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Jagadish N. Srivastava Foreword (and Preface) . . . . . . . . . 1--1
S. Zacks Herman Chernoff: an appreciation . . . . 3--12
Anonymous Publications of Herman Chernoff . . . . 13--19
Tze Leung Lai and
Tiong Wee Lim Optimal stopping for Brownian motion
with applications to sequential analysis
and option pricing . . . . . . . . . . . 21--47
Peter Whittle Three approaches to sequential analysis
and one to hidden Markov processes . . . 49--62
D. S. Coad and
M. B. Woodroofe Corrected confidence intervals for
adaptive nonlinear regression models . . 63--83
W. J. Studden Elfving's Theorem Revisited . . . . . . 85--94
S. Zacks Some recent results on the distributions
of stopping times of compound Poisson
processes with linear boundaries . . . . 95--109
Robert W. Keener Local information and the design of
sequential hypothesis tests . . . . . . 111--125
David Assaf and
Ester Samuel-Cahn Why is one choice different? . . . . . . 127--132
Murray K. Clayton and
A. John Petkau Evaluation of asymptotic approximations
for a two-stage Bernoulli bandit . . . . 133--148
Anandamayee Majumdar and
Alan E. Gelfand and
Sudipto Banerjee Spatio-temporal change-point modeling 149--166
J. H. J. Einmahl and
B. O. Omolo and
M. L. Puri and
F. H. Ruymgaart Aligned rank statistics for repeated
measurement models with orthonormal
design, employing a Chernoff-Savage
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--182
Charles J. Stone Nonparametric $M$-regression with free
knot splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--206
Glenn Hofmann and
Erhard Cramer and
N. Balakrishnan and
Gerd Kunert An asymptotic approach to progressive
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--227
Sanjay Chaudhuri and
Michael D. Perlman On the bias and mean-square error of
order-restricted maximum likelihood
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--250
Gordon Simons and
Yi-Ching Yao and
Glenn Morton Global Markov models for eukaryote
nucleotide data . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--275
A. B. Olshen and
P. C. Cosman and
A. G. Rodrigo and
P. J. Bickel and
R. A. Olshen Vector quantization of amino acids:
Analysis of the HIV V3 loop region . . . 277--298
Gang Zheng and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Fisher information in randomly sampled
sib pairs and extremely discordant sib
pairs in genetic analysis for a
quantitative trait locus . . . . . . . . 299--315
Jie Peng and
D. Siegmund The admixture model in linkage analysis 317--324
Hildete Prisco Pinheiro and
Aluísio de Souza Pinheiro and
Pranab Kumar Sen Comparison of genomic sequences using
the Hamming distance . . . . . . . . . . 325--339
Mark G. Vangel A numerical approach to the
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 341--350
Ingram Olkin and
Larry Shepp A matrix variance inequality . . . . . . 351--358
Lawrence Brown and
Xuefeng Li Confidence intervals for two sample
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 359--375
Anirban DasGupta The matching, birthday and the strong
birthday problem: a contemporary review 377--389
A. DasGupta and
Herman Rubin Estimation of binomial parameters when
both $n$, $p$ are unknown . . . . . . . 391--404
Melvin J. Hinich and
Murray Wolinsky Normalizing bispectra . . . . . . . . . 405--411
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Andrew L. Rukhin and
Anna Osmoukhina Nonparametric measures of dependence for
biometric data studies . . . . . . . . . 1--18
L. Scaccia and
R. J. Martin Testing axial symmetry and separability
of lattice processes . . . . . . . . . . 19--39
Yo Sheena and
Arjun K. Gupta New estimator for functions of the
canonical correlation coefficients . . . 41--61
T. Tony Cai One-sided confidence intervals in
discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 63--88
Lirong Cui and
M. Xie Availability of a periodically inspected
system with random repair or replacement
times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
Jianjun Li and
Shanti S. Gupta and
Friedrich Liese Convergence rates of empirical Bayes
estimation in exponential family . . . . 101--115
Eliías Moreno and
Francisco Torres and
George Casella Testing equality of regression
coefficients in heteroscedastic normal
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 117--134
Housila P. Singh and
Nidhi Mathur Estimation of population mean when
coefficient of variation is known using
scrambled response technique . . . . . . 135--144
Neil A. Butler Classification of efficient two-level
fractional factorial designs of
resolution IV or more . . . . . . . . . 145--159
José A. Moler and
Fernando Plo and
Miguel San Miguel Adaptive designs and Robbins-Monro
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--174
Sally W. Thurston and
Paige L. Williams and
Russ Hauser and
Howard Hu and
Mauricio Hernandez-Avila and
Donna Spiegelman A comparison of regression calibration
approaches for designs with internal
validation data . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--190
Ming-Dauh Wang and
Seymour Geisser Optimal dichotomization of screening
test variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Audrey H. M. A. Cysneiros and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Corrigendum to ``An improved test for
heteroskedasticity using adjusted
modified profile likelihood inference''
[Journal of Statistical Planning and
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Enrique E. Alvarez Smoothed nonparametric estimation in
window censored semi-Markov processes 209--229
Evdokia Xekalaki and
Caterina Dimaki Identifying the Pareto and Yule
distributions by properties of their
reliability measures . . . . . . . . . . 231--252
Takemi Yanagimoto and
Toshio Ohnishi Standardized posterior mode for the
flexible use of a conjugate prior . . . 253--269
Bernard Garel Asymptotic theory of the likelihood
ratio test for the identification of a
mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--296
Daniel Gervini Robust adaptive estimators for binary
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 297--311
Gregory Gurevich and
Albert Vexler Change point problems in the model of
logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . 313--331
Wenjiang J. Fu Nonlinear GCV and quasi-GCV for
shrinkage models . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--347
Youhei Oono and
Nobuo Shinozaki Estimation of two order restricted
normal means with unknown and possibly
unequal variances . . . . . . . . . . . 349--363
J. P. Reiter Significance tests for multi-component
estimands from multiply imputed,
synthetic microdata . . . . . . . . . . 365--377
M. Mohammad Salehi and
Kuang-Chao Chang Multiple inverse sampling in
post-stratification with subpopulation
sizes unknown: a solution for quota
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--392
Yu-Ling Tsai and
Julie Zhou Discrete $M$-robust designs for
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406
Xianggui Qu and
C. F. Jeff Wu One-factor-at-a-time designs of
resolution $v$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--416
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Viatcheslav B. Melas Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Belkacem Abdous and
Alexandre Berred Mean residual life estimation . . . . . 3--19
Alexander Andronov Monte-Carlo approximation for
probability distribution of monotone
Boolean function . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
A. G. Bart and
V. A. Bart and
A. Steland and
M. L. Zaslavskiy Modeling disease dynamics and survivor
functions by sanogenesis curves . . . . 33--51
E. E. M. van Berkum and
E. J. Habers and
P. M. v. d. Ven and
J. T. M. Wijnen Fractional factorial designs for
two-step production processes . . . . . 53--62
Subir Ghosh and
Heather R. Crosby Subject-treatment interactions in
crossover trials: performance evaluation
of subgrouping methods . . . . . . . . . 63--73
Alexander Martikainen On the strong law of large numbers for
sums over increasing runs . . . . . . . 75--92
Viatcheslav B. Melas On the functional approach to optimal
designs for nonlinear models . . . . . . 93--116
M. Salicrú and
S. Vives and
J. Ocaña Testing the homogeneity of diversity
measures: a general framework . . . . . 117--129
Ansgar Steland Optimal sequential kernel detection for
dependent processes . . . . . . . . . . 131--147
Quentin F. Stout and
Janis Hardwick Optimal screening designs with flexible
cost and constraint structures . . . . . 149--162
Minghui Wang and
Franz Hering Efficiency of split-block designs versus
split-plot designs for hypothesis
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--182
Minghui Wang and
Dieter Rasch and
Rob Verdooren Determination of the size of a balanced
experiment in mixed ANOVA models using
the modified approximate $F$-test . . . 183--201
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Amr Sadek and
Nikolaos Limnios Nonparametric estimation of reliability
and survival function for
continuous-time finite Markov processes 1--21
Tom Bratcher and
Cody Hamilton A Bayesian multiple comparison procedure
for ranking the means of normally
distributed data . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--32
Joseph Ngatchou-Wandji Checking nonlinear heteroscedastic time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--68
Juan Ferrándiz and
Enrique F. Castillo and
Pilar Sanmartín Temporal aggregation in chain graph
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--93
B. Ya. Ryabko and
V. A. Monarev Using information theory approach to
randomness testing . . . . . . . . . . . 95--110
Félix Belzunce and
Xiaohu Li and
José-Francisco Pinar and
José-María Ruiz Tests for the total time on test
transform order . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--121
Boris Brodsky and
Boris Darkhovsky Asymptotically optimal methods of
change-point detection for composite
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--138
Song Yang and
Li Hsu and
Lueping Zhao Combining asymptotically normal tests:
case studies in comparison of two groups 139--158
A. Berred and
V. B. Nevzorov and
S. Wey Normalizing constants for record values
in Archimedean copula processes . . . . 159--172
Enrique Miranda and
Gert de Cooman and
Inés Couso Lower previsions induced by multi-valued
mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--197
Jitendra Ganju and
James M. Lucas Randomized and random run order
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--210
Jong-Min Kim and
William D. Warde A mixed randomized response model . . . 211--221
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Arne Bathke and
Dörte Lankowski Rank procedures for a large number of
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--238
Katarzyna Danielak Distribution-free bounds for
expectations of increments of records 239--247
Nobusumi Sagara Nonparametric maximum-likelihood
estimation of probability measures:
existence and consistency . . . . . . . 249--271
Tae Yoon Kim and
Sangyeol Lee Kernel density estimator for strong
mixing processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
Ma. Zenia N. Agustin and
Edsel A. Peña A basis approach to goodness-of-fit
testing in recurrent event models . . . 285--303
Shaun S. Wulff and
David Birkes Best unbiased estimation of fixed
effects in mixed ANOVA models . . . . . 305--313
A. Kukush and
I. Markovsky and
S. Van Huffel Consistency of the structured total
least squares estimator in a
multivariate errors-in-variables model 315--358
Yoshihiko Maesono Higher-order comparisons of asymptotic
confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 359--379
Lili Tian and
Gregory E. Wilding Confidence intervals of the ratio of
means of two independent inverse
Gaussian distributions . . . . . . . . . 381--386
A. Hassairi and
S. Lajmi and
R. Zine Beta-Riesz distributions on symmetric
cones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--404
Tian Yubin and
Li Guoying and
Yang Jie Saddlepoint approach to inference for
response probabilities under the
logistic response model . . . . . . . . 405--416
Hirokazu Yanagihara and
Chihiro Ohmoto On distribution of AIC in linear
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 417--433
Jack C. Lee and
Tsung I. Lin and
Kuo J. Lee and
Ying L. Hsu Bayesian analysis of Box--Cox
transformed linear mixed models with
ARMA($ p, q$) dependence . . . . . . . . 435--451
Dal Ho Kim and
Sang Gil Kang and
Woo Dong Lee Noninformative priors for the nested
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--462
D. M. Smith and
M. S. Ridout Algorithms for finding locally and
Bayesian optimal designs for binary
dose-response models with control
mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--478
Curtis Tatsuoka Optimal sequencing of experiments in
Bayesian group testing . . . . . . . . . 479--488
Yukiyasu Mutoh On the existence of balanced incomplete
block designs with nested rows and
columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--508
Nizam Uddin Universally optimal structurally
balanced row-column designs with some
empty nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--522
Chung-yi Suen Construction of $ m^4$-run linear graphs
by finite geometries . . . . . . . . . . 523--536
Kejun Chen and
Zhenfu Cao and
Ruizhong Wei Super-simple balanced incomplete block
designs with block size 4 and index 6 537--554
Chung-yi Suen and
Warren F. Kuhfeld On the construction of mixed orthogonal
arrays of strength two . . . . . . . . . 555--560
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N. Balakrishnan and
A. Stepanov A note on the number of observations
near an order statistic . . . . . . . . 1--14
H. M. Barakat and
M. A. El-Shandidy On the computing of the moments of
bivariate order statistics . . . . . . . 15--25
Emmanuel Nowak and
Avner Bar-Hen Influence function and correspondence
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--35
J. D. Stamey and
J. W. Seaman and
D. M. Young Bayesian analysis of complementary
Poisson rate parameters with data
subject to misclassification . . . . . . 36--48
Ori Davidov Estimation from retrospectively
ascertained data-on what to condition? 49--63
Hannes Leeb The distribution of a linear predictor
after model selection: conditional
finite-sample distributions and
asymptotic approximations . . . . . . . 64--89
Éric Marchand and
William E. Strawderman On improving on the minimum risk
equivariant estimator of a scale
parameter under a lower-bound constraint 90--101
M. De Iorio and
M. Lavine Intrinsic autoregressions at multiple
resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--115
Naâmane La\"\ib Kernel estimates of the mean and the
volatility functions in a nonlinear
autoregressive model with ARCH errors 116--139
B. Q. Fang The $t$ statistic of the skew elliptical
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--157
Peter Hall and
Michael Stewart Theoretical analysis of power in a
two-component normal mixture model . . . 158--179
D. F. Andrews and
D. A. S. Fraser and
A. C. M. Wong Computation of distribution functions
from likelihood information near
observed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--193
Vassilis G. S. Vasdekis and
Ioannis G. Vlachonikolis On the difference between ML and REML
estimators in the modelling of
multivariate longitudinal data . . . . . 194--205
Zhiwei Zhang and
Howard E. Rockette On maximum likelihood estimation in
parametric regression with missing
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--223
Jesús Montanero and
Agustín G. Nogales and
José A. Oyola and
Paloma Pérez On the structure of probability measure
families admitting a partially
sufficient $ \sigma $-field . . . . . . 224--235
Paola Bortot and
Alessandra Giovagnoli Up-and-down experiments of first and
second order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--253
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Mausumi Bose and
Kajal Dihidar Sample-size-restrictive adaptive
sampling: an application in estimating
localized elements . . . . . . . . . . . 254--267
Ruichen Jin and
Wei Chen and
Agus Sudjianto An efficient algorithm for constructing
optimal design of computer experiments 268--287
Leonie Burgess and
Deborah J. Street Optimal designs for choice experiments
with asymmetric attributes . . . . . . . 288--301
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A. R. Mugdadi and
I. A. Ahmad Moment inequalities derived from
comparing life with its equilibrium form 303--317
Mohammad Z. Raqab Exact bounds for the mean of total time
on test under type II censoring samples 318--331
Hyun-Joo Kim and
Joseph E. Cavanaugh Model selection criteria based on
Kullback information measures for
nonlinear regression . . . . . . . . . . 332--349
Umesh Singh and
Pramod K. Gupta and
S. K. Upadhyay Estimation of three-parameter
exponentiated-Weibull distribution under
type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 350--372
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Fernando Lucambio and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Improved profile likelihood inference 373--391
Shu-Fei Wu and
Chin-Chuan Wu Two stage multiple comparisons with the
average for exponential location
parameters under heteroscedasticity . . 392--408
M. Ivette Gomes and
Fernanda Figueiredo and
Sandra Mendonça Asymptotically best linear unbiased tail
estimators under a second-order regular
variation condition . . . . . . . . . . 409--433
Arthur Pewsey The large-sample distribution of the
most fundamental of statistical
summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--444
Luis A. Gil-Alana Deterministic seasonality versus
seasonal fractional integration . . . . 445--461
Anuradha Roy and
Ravindra Khattree On discrimination and classification
with multivariate repeated measures data 462--485
Joan del Castillo and
Marta Pérez-Casany Overdispersed and underdispersed Poisson
generalizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--500
Tomasz J. Kozubowski and
Anna K. Panorska A mixed bivariate distribution with
exponential and geometric marginals . . 501--520
J. D. Nielsen and
C. B. Dean Regression splines in the
quasi-likelihood analysis of recurrent
event data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--535
Nelufa Begum and
Maxwell L. King Most mean powerful invariant test for
testing two-dimensional parameter spaces 536--548
Andreas Futschik and
Wen-Tao Huang Confidence sets for the maximizers of
intensity functions . . . . . . . . . . 549--567
Shu-Hui Lin and
Jack C. Lee Generalized inferences on the common
mean of several normal populations . . . 568--582
Zhengyuan Zhu and
Michael L. Stein Spatial sampling design for parameter
estimation of the covariance function 583--603
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S. G. Mohanty Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Endre Csáki István Vincze (1912--1999) and his
contribution to lattice path
combinatorics and statistics . . . . . . 3--17
Demetrios L. Antzoulakos and
Markos V. Koutras On a class of polynomials related to
classical orthogonal and Fibonacci
polynomials with probability
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--39
Cyril Banderier and
Sylviane Schwer Why Delannoy numbers? . . . . . . . . . 40--54
W. Böhm and
W. Katzenbeisser On the number of inversions in bimodal
permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--63
Ch. A. Charalambides Moments of a class of discrete
$q$-distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 64--76
Luca Ferrari and
Renzo Pinzani Lattices of lattice paths . . . . . . . 77--92
S. Georgiou and
C. Koukouvinos Combinatorial designs and codes over
some prime fields . . . . . . . . . . . 93--106
Adrienne W. Kemp Steady-state Markov chain models for
certain $q$-confluent hypergeometric
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120
Alan Krinik and
Gerardo Rubino and
Daniel Marcus and
Randall J. Swift and
Hassan Kasfy and
Holly Lam Dual processes to solve single server
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--147
A. Kyriakoussis and
M. G. Vamvakari A unified treatment for the asymptotic
normality of the coefficients of
polynomials related to orthogonal ones 148--157
S. G. Mohanty Some joint distributions related to the
Galton statistic and runs . . . . . . . 158--164
Heinrich Niederhausen Random walks in octants, and related
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--196
H. K. T. Ng and
N. Balakrishnan Weighted precedence and maximal
precedence tests and an extension to
progressive censoring . . . . . . . . . 197--221
Nickos Papadatos Characterizations of discrete
distributions using the Rao--Rubin
condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--228
Robert A. Sulanke Moments, Narayana numbers, and the cut
and paste for lattice paths . . . . . . 229--244
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David Causeur and
François Husson A $2$-dimensional extension of the
Bradley-Terry model for paired
comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--259
Jean-François Dupuy The proportional hazards model with
covariate measurement error . . . . . . 260--275
Abdelkader Mokkadem and
Mariane Pelletier Moderate deviations for the kernel mode
estimator and some applications . . . . 276--299
Hannu Oja and
Davy Paindaveine Optimal signed-rank tests based on
hyperplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--323
Michail Papathomas and
Anthony O' Hagan Updating beliefs for binary variables 324--338
David Conde and
Miguel A. Fernández and
Bonifacio Salvador A classification rule for ordered
exponential populations . . . . . . . . 339--356
Luisa T. Fernholz and
Stephan Morgenthaler Conditionally least-informative
distributions: the case of the location
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--370
Wai-cheung Ip and
Heung Wong and
Jin-shan Liu Sufficient and admissible estimators in
general multivariate linear model . . . 371--383
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Wolfgang Stadje and
Frank A. van der Duyn Schouten Multinomial group testing models with
incomplete identification . . . . . . . 384--401
Nigel Stallard and
Susan Todd Point estimates and confidence regions
for sequential trials involving
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--419
L. Barabesi and
M. Marcheselli Some large-sample results on a modified
Monte Carlo integration method . . . . . 420--432
Stéphane Girard and
Ludovic Menneteau Central limit theorems for smoothed
extreme value estimates of Poisson point
processes boundaries . . . . . . . . . . 433--460
Q. Shao and
Y. Wu A consistent procedure for determining
the number of clusters in regression
clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--476
Nelly van der Hoeven The probability to select the correct
model using likelihood-ratio based
criteria in choosing between two nested
models of which the more extended one is
true . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--486
J. Wu and
A. C. M. Wong and
K. W. Ng Likelihood-based confidence interval for
the ratio of scale parameters of two
independent Weibull distributions . . . 487--497
Terri L. Byczkowski and
Martin S. Levy Planning a sample survey with a
many-to-many frame structure: an
empirical investigation of the effects
of frame imperfections on estimates of
population totals . . . . . . . . . . . 498--515
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Amitava Saha Optional versus compulsory randomized
response techniques in complex surveys 516--527
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Marc Hallin and
Davy Paindaveine Asymptotic linearity of serial and
nonserial multivariate signed rank
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--32
Taizhong Hu and
Weiwei Zhuang Stochastic comparisons of $m$-spacings 33--42
Fernando López-Blázquez and
Antonia Castaño-Martínez Upper and lower bounds for the
correlation ratio of order statistics
from a sample without replacement . . . 43--52
David Nelson and
Glen Meeden Noninformative nonparametric quantile
estimation for simple random samples . . 53--67
Grzegorz A. Rempala and
Stephen W. Looney Asymptotic properties of a two sample
randomized test for partially dependent
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--89
Junshan Shen and
Shuyuan He Empirical likelihood for truncation
parameter in random truncation model . . 90--107
Biao Zhang Bias-corrected maximum semiparametric
likelihood estimation under logistic
regression models based on case-control
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--124
A. F. Militino and
M. B. Palacios and
M. D. Ugarte Outliers detection in multivariate
spatial linear models . . . . . . . . . 125--146
Titi Obilade A weighted likelihood ratio of two
related negative hypergeometric
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
Subrata Chakraborty and
Kishore K. Das On some properties of a class of
weighted quasi-binomial distributions 159--182
José A. Díaz-García and
Ramón Gutiérrez-Jáimez Distribution of the generalised inverse
of a random matrix and its applications 183--192
J. R. M. Hosking On the characterization of distributions
by their $L$-moments . . . . . . . . . . 193--198
Abram Kagan Quasi-independence of random variables
and a property of the normal and gamma
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--208
Jing Wang and
Marc G. Genton The multivariate skew-slash distribution 209--220
Per Gösta Andersson A conditional perspective of weighted
variance estimation of the optimal
regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . 221--234
R. Huang and
K. C. Carriere Comparison of methods for incomplete
repeated measures data analysis in small
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--247
C. Koukouvinos and
S. Stylianou New classes of $D$-optimal edge designs 248--259
P. S. S. N. V. P. Rao and
S. B. Rao and
Bikas K. Sinha Improved bounds for group testing
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--269
Anna Szczerba-Zubek Association schemes of conjugate
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--281
Hong-Fwu Yu Designing an accelerated degradation
experiment with a reciprocal Weibull
degradation rate . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--297
Gang Zheng and
Reza Modarres A robust estimate of the correlation
coefficient for bivariate normal
distribution using ranked set sampling 298--309
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A. Slabý Expectation of rank statistics under
setup of stochastic inequalities . . . . 311--319
Rajeshwari Sundaram Semiparametric inference for the
proportional odds model with
time-dependent covariates . . . . . . . 320--334
Carmen Armero and
David Conesa Bayesian hierarchical models in
manufacturing bulk service queues . . . 335--354
Adrian Dobra and
Claudia Tebaldi and
Mike West Data augmentation in multi-way
contingency tables with fixed marginal
totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--372
Brunero Liseo and
Nicola Loperfido A note on reference priors for the
scalar skew-normal distribution . . . . 373--389
L. Cavalier Inverse problems with non-compact
operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--400
Jye-Chyi Lu and
Di Chen and
Weixing Zhou Quasi-likelihood estimation for GLM with
random scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--429
Uttam Bandyopadhyay and
Rahul Bhattacharya An optimal sequential procedure in
ethical allocation . . . . . . . . . . . 430--446
Montserrat Fuentes Testing for separability of
spatial-temporal covariance functions 447--466
F. López-Blázquez and
B. Salamanca Miño Bounds for the expected value of records
from discrete distributions . . . . . . 467--474
Nils Åsenblad and
Dietrich von Rosen Analysis of cross-over designs via
growth curve models . . . . . . . . . . 475--497
Malcolm Farrow and
Michael Goldstein Trade-off sensitive experimental design:
a multicriterion, decision theoretic,
Bayes linear approach . . . . . . . . . 498--526
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Ismihan Bairamov and
Serkan Eryilmaz Spacings, exceedances and concomitants
in progressive type II censoring scheme 527--536
Francesco Bravo Bartlett-type adjustments for empirical
discrepancy test statistics . . . . . . 537--554
I. A. Ahmad and
A. Ahmed and
I. Elbatal and
M. Kayid An aging notion derived from the
increasing convex ordering: the NBUCA
class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--569
Omer Ozturk and
Jayant V. Deshpande Ranked-set sample nonparametric quantile
confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 570--577
Athanasios Kottas Nonparametric Bayesian survival analysis
using mixtures of Weibull distributions 578--596
Cristina Butucea and
Karine Tribouley Nonparametric homogeneity tests . . . . 597--639
Junichi Hirukawa and
Masanobu Taniguchi LAN theorem for non-Gaussian locally
stationary processes and its
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--688
Jinfang Wang and
Nobuhiro Taneichi Normalizing unbiased estimating
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--704
Jan Beirlant and
Christel Bouquiaux and
Bas J. M. Werker Semiparametric lower bounds for tail
index estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--729
Michel Delecroix and
Marian Hristache and
Valentin Patilea On semiparametric $M$-estimation in
single-index regression . . . . . . . . 730--769
Yûichirô Kakihara Ergodic decomposition of a stationary
channel operator . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--779
Abdelhakim Necir A functional law of the iterated
logarithm for kernel-type estimators of
the tail index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--802
Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay Maximum likelihood analysis of masked
series system lifetime data . . . . . . 803--838
Byeong U. Park and
Young Kyung Lee and
Tae Yoon Kim and
Cheolyong Park and
Shinto Eguchi On local likelihood density estimation
when the bandwidth is large . . . . . . 839--859
A. H. Welsh and
X. H. Zhou Estimating the retransformed mean in a
heteroscedastic two-part model . . . . . 860--881
Jan Hannig and
Thomas C. M. Lee On Poisson signal estimation under
Kullback--Leibler discrepancy and
squared risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882--908
Willem Albers and
W. C. M. Kallenberg and
Sri Nurdiati Data driven choice of control charts . . 909--941
Daniel Peña and
Victor Yohai A Dirichlet random coefficient
regression model for quality indicators 942--961
Mario J. N. M. Ouwens and
Frans E. S. Tan and
Martijn P. F. Berger A maximin criterion for the logistic
random intercept model with covariates 962--981
Julio Angel Pardo and
Leandro Pardo and
María del Carmen Pardo Testing in logistic regression models
based on $ \phi $-divergences measures 982--1006
Parminder Singh Simultaneous confidence intervals for
the successive ratios of scale
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1019
Siwei Jia A note on the economic management of
inventory or resource under stochastic
prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020--1038
Zilong Lian and
Enrique del Castillo Setup adjustment under unknown process
parameters and fixed adjustment cost . . 1039--1060
Zhuo Yu and
Mark van der Laan Double robust estimation in longitudinal
marginal structural models . . . . . . . 1061--1089
Seidu Inusah and
Tomasz J. Kozubowski A discrete analogue of the Laplace
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090--1102
Dizza Bursztyn and
David M. Steinberg Comparison of designs for computer
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103--1119
S. Mandal and
B. Torsney Construction of optimal designs using a
clustering approach . . . . . . . . . . 1120--1134
J.-P. Gauchi and
A. Pázman Designs in nonlinear regression by
stochastic minimization of functionals
of the mean square error matrix . . . . 1135--1152
Necla Gunduz and
Ben Torsney Some advances in optimal designs in
contingent valuation studies . . . . . . 1153--1165
Man-Lai Tang and
Nian-Sheng Tang and
Vincent J. Carey Sample size determination for $2$-step
studies with dichotomous response . . . 1166--1180
Katsuyuki Hagiwara A consistent model selection for
orthogonal regression under
component-wise shrinkage . . . . . . . . 1181--1195
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Majid Asadi On the mean past lifetime of the
components of a parallel system . . . . 1197--1206
Mehmet Caner M-estimators with non-standard rates of
convergence and weakly dependent data 1207--1219
Nikolai N. Leonenko and
Emanuele Taufer Weak convergence of functionals of
stationary long memory processes to
Rosenblatt-type distributions . . . . . 1220--1236
Daniel Peña and
Pilar Poncela Nonstationary dynamic factor analysis 1237--1257
Keyue Ding and
Yanhong Wu On the biases of change point and change
magnitude estimation after CUSUM test 1258--1280
Cláudia Neves and
Jan Picek and
M. I. Fraga Alves The contribution of the maximum to the
sum of excesses for testing max-domains
of attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281--1301
Yixin Fang and
Lincheng Zhao Approximation to the distribution of LAD
estimators for censored regression by
random weighting method . . . . . . . . 1302--1316
Serge Cohen and
Xavier Guyon and
Olivier Perrin and
Monique Pontier Identification of an isometric
transformation of the standard Brownian
sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317--1330
Hisayuki Tsukuma and
Yoshihiko Konno Alternative estimators of the common
regression matrix in two GMANOVA models
under weighted quadratic losses . . . . 1331--1348
Donald Lien and
N. Balakrishnan Moments and properties of
multiplicatively constrained bivariate
lognormal distribution with applications
to futures hedging . . . . . . . . . . . 1349--1359
Sujit K. Ghosh and
Pabak Mukhopadhyay and
Jye-Chyi (JC) Lu Bayesian analysis of zero-inflated
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1360--1375
TaChen Liang Empirical Bayes testing for a normal
mean: variance unknown case . . . . . . 1376--1393
Qingde Kang and
Yanke Du and
Zihong Tian Decomposition of $ \lambda K_v $ into
some graph with six vertices and seven
edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1394--1409
Steven B. Gillispie Formulas for counting acyclic digraph
Markov equivalence classes . . . . . . . 1410--1432
Iain Pardoe and
Robert R. Weidner Sentencing convicted felons in the
United States: a Bayesian analysis using
multilevel covariates . . . . . . . . . 1433--1455
Iain Pardoe and
Robert R. Weidner Rejoinder to discussants of ``Sentencing
convicted felons in the United States: a
Bayesian analysis using multilevel
covariates'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1456--1461
William J. Browne Discussion on the paper by Pardoe and
Weidner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1462--1465
Jan de Leeuw Comments on Pardoe and Weitner:
sentencing convicted felons in the
United States: a Bayesian analysis using
multilevel covariates . . . . . . . . . 1466--1468
Alan M. Zaslavsky Hierarchical modeling: into statistical
practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469--1472
Mike Jacroux Optimal sequencing of blocked 2m-k
fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 1473--1492
Mingyao Ai and
Guijun Yang and
Runchu Zhang Minimum aberration blocking of regular
mixed factorial designs . . . . . . . . 1493--1511
Francesco Bartolucci and
Giorgio E. Montanari A new class of unbiased estimators of
the variance of the systematic sample
mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1512--1525
S. Sengupta and
Sujay Mukhuti Unbiased variance estimation in a simple
exponential population using ranked set
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1526--1553
Jong-Min Kim and
Joshua M. Tebbs and
Seung-Won An Extensions of Mangat's
randomized-response model . . . . . . . 1554--1567
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Jayant V. Deshpande and
Roger M. Cooke Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1569--1571
Tim Bedford Copulas, degenerate distributions and
quantile tests in competing risk
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1572--1587
Hammou El Barmi and
Subhash Kochar and
John Tsimikas Likelihood ratio tests for and against
ordering of the cumulative incidence
functions in multiple competing risks
and discrete mark variable models . . . 1588--1607
C. Bunea and
T. A. Mazzuchi Competing failure modes in accelerated
life testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1608--1620
Roger M. Cooke and
Oswald Morales-Napoles Competing risk and the Cox proportional
hazard model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1621--1637
Antonio Di Crescenzo and
Maria Longobardi On the NBU ageing notion within the
competing risks model . . . . . . . . . 1638--1654
M. Fiocco and
H. Putter and
C. J. H. van de Velde and
J. C. van Houwelingen Reduced rank proportional hazards model
for competing risks: an application to a
breast cancer trial . . . . . . . . . . 1655--1668
Dario Gasbarra and
S. B. Kulathinal and
Isha Dewan and
Aulikki Nissinen Testing dependence between the failure
time and failure modes: an application
of enlarged filtration . . . . . . . . . 1669--1686
Helge Langseth and
Bo Henry Lindqvist Competing risks for repairable systems:
a data study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687--1700
Bo H. Lindqvist and
Bård Stòve and
Helge Langseth Modelling of dependence between critical
failure and preventive maintenance: the
repair alert model . . . . . . . . . . . 1701--1717
Ram Tiwari and
K. B. Kulasekera and
Chanseok Park Nonparametric tests for cause specific
hazard rates with censored data for
competing risks among several groups . . 1718--1745
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Nancy Flournoy and
W. F. Rosenberger Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747--1748
Misrak Gezmu and
Nancy Flournoy Group up-and-down designs for
dose-finding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1749--1764
John O'Quigley Theoretical study of the continual
reassessment method . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1780
Nigel Stallard Optimal adaptive designs for acute oral
toxicity assessment . . . . . . . . . . 1781--1799
Vladimir Dragalin and
Valerii Fedorov Adaptive designs for dose-finding based
on efficacy-toxicity response . . . . . 1800--1823
Yung-Pin Chen The power of Efron's biased coin design 1824--1835
Anastasia Ivanova Urn designs with immigration: Useful
connection with continuous time
stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 1836--1844
Anastasia Ivanova and
Atanu Biswas and
Anna Lurie Response-adaptive designs for continuous
outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845--1852
Pietro Muliere and
Anna Maria Paganoni and
Piercesare Secchi A randomly reinforced urn . . . . . . . 1853--1874
An-lin Cheng and
Anand N. Vidyashankar Minimum Hellinger distance estimation
for randomized play the winner design 1875--1910
Feifang Hu and
William F. Rosenberger and
Li-Xin Zhang Asymptotically best response-adaptive
randomization procedures . . . . . . . . 1911--1922
Margarida Geraldes and
Vincent Melfi and
Connie Page and
Hui Zhang The doubly adaptive weighted differences
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1923--1939
Janis Hardwick and
Robert Oehmke and
Quentin F. Stout New adaptive designs for delayed
response models . . . . . . . . . . . . 1940--1955
Werner Brannath and
Peter Bauer and
Martin Posch On the efficiency of adaptive designs
for flexible interim decisions in
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1956--1961
Qing Liu and
Gordon Pledger On design and inference for two-stage
adaptive clinical trials with dependent
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1962--1984
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N. Balakrishnan and
Klaus J. Miescke Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985--1985
S. Panchapakesan Shanti Swarup Gupta: His life
(1925--2002) and work . . . . . . . . . 1986--1998
John J. Deely Shanti S. Gupta . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999--2003
Klaus J. Miescke and
Kenneth J. Ryan On the performance of Gupta's subset
selection rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004--2019
Deng-Yuan Huang and
Ren-Fen Lee and
S. Panchapakesan On some variable selection procedures
based on data for regression models . . 2020--2034
Friedrich Liese Selection procedures for sparse data . . 2035--2052
H. Finner and
G. Giani and
K. Straßburger Partitioning principle and selection of
good treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . 2053--2069
Naveen K. Bansal and
Klaus J. Miescke On selecting the best treatment in a
generalized linear model . . . . . . . . 2070--2086
N. Balakrishnan and
H. K. T. Ng and
S. Panchapakesan A nonparametric procedure based on early
failures for selecting the best
population using a test for equality . . 2087--2111
TaChen Liang Simultaneous inspection of variable
equivalence for finite populations . . . 2112--2128
Wen-Tao Huang and
Yi-Ping Chang Some empirical Bayes rules for selecting
the best population with multiple
criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2129--2143
James G. Scott and
James O. Berger An exploration of aspects of Bayesian
multiple testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 2144--2162
Ajit C. Tamhane and
Kunyang Shi and
Klaus Straßburger Power and sample size determination for
a stepwise test procedure for finding
the maximum safe dose . . . . . . . . . 2163--2181
Jason C. Hsu and
Jane Y. Chang and
Tao Wang Simultaneous confidence intervals for
differential gene expressions . . . . . 2182--2196
Anirban DasGupta and
L. R. Haff Asymptotic values and expansions for the
correlation between different measures
of spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2197--2212
Andrew L. Rukhin Gamma-distribution order statistics,
maximal multinomial frequency and
randomization designs . . . . . . . . . 2213--2226
Aaron Childs and
N. Balakrishnan Relations for order statistics from
non-identical logistic random variables
and assessment of the effect of multiple
outliers on the bias of linear
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2227--2253
L. Brown and
A. DasGupta and
L. R. Haff and
W. E. Strawderman The heat equation and Stein's identity:
Connections, applications . . . . . . . 2254--2278
Gary C. McDonald and
S. Panchapakesan A monotonicity property for gamma
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2279--2283
A. J. Hayter Recursive integration methodologies with
statistical applications . . . . . . . . 2284--2296
J. K. Ghosh and
N. L. Hjort and
C. Messan and
R. V. Ramamoorthi Bayesian bivariate survival estimation 2297--2308
Tejas A. Desai and
Pranab K. Sen Information attainable in some randomly
incomplete data models . . . . . . . . . 2309--2326
John J. Deely and
Wesley O. Johnson Inferences for hierarchical models with
partial prior information . . . . . . . 2327--2339
Neeraj Misra and
Edward C. van der Meulen and
Karlien Vanden Branden On some inadmissibility results for the
scale parameters of selected gamma
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2340--2351
Jianjun Li and
Shanti S. Gupta Optimal rate of convergence of monotone
empirical Bayes tests for normal means 2352--2366
Masanobu Taniguchi and
Kousuke Maeda and
Madan L. Puri Statistical analysis of a class of
factor time series models . . . . . . . 2367--2380
Cheolwoo Park and
Woo-Chul Kim Wavelet estimation of a regression
function with a sharp change point in a
random design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2381--2394
Gabriel Katul and
Fabrizio Ruggeri and
Brani Vidakovic Denoising ozone concentration
measurements with BAMS filtering . . . . 2395--2405
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Fernando A. Quintana A predictive view of Bayesian clustering 2407--2429
H. Toutenburg and
Shalabh and
C. Heumann Use of prior information in the form of
interval constraints for the improved
estimation of linear regression models
with some missing responses . . . . . . 2430--2445
Ivet Pitrun and
Maxwell L. King and
Xibin Zhang Smoothing spline based tests for
non-linearity in a partially linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2446--2469
Fateh Chebana Functional asymptotic normality of the $
L_2 $-deviation of the kernel density
estimation indexed by classes of weight
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2470--2505
Lan Xue and
Lijian Yang Estimation of semi-parametric additive
coefficient model . . . . . . . . . . . 2506--2534
Magnus Ekström Sum-functions of spacings of increasing
order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2535--2546
Remigijus Leipus and
George Oppenheim and
Anne Philippe and
Marie-Claude Viano Orthogonal series density estimation in
a disaggregation scheme . . . . . . . . 2547--2571
Carles M. Cuadras and
Daniel Cuadras and
Younes Lahlou Principal directions of the general
Pareto distribution with applications 2572--2583
Youhei Oono and
Nobuo Shinozaki On a class of improved estimators of
variance and estimation under order
restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2584--2605
A. Batsidis and
K. Zografos Statistical inference for location and
scale of elliptically contoured models
with monotone missing data . . . . . . . 2606--2629
Pinyuen Chen A confidence interval for the number of
principal components . . . . . . . . . . 2630--2639
Gemechis Dilba and
Frank Bretz and
Volker Guiard Simultaneous confidence sets and
confidence intervals for multiple ratios 2640--2658
Yongge Tian and
George P. H. Styan Cochran's statistical theorem revisited 2659--2667
Debashis Ghosh and
Wei Chen and
Trivellore Raghunathan The false discovery rate: a variable
selection perspective . . . . . . . . . 2668--2684
Rafaela Dios-Palomares and
Jose A. Roldan A strategy for testing the unit root in
AR(1) model with intercept: a Monte
Carlo experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . 2685--2705
Daniel Peña and
Julio Rodríguez The log of the determinant of the
autocorrelation matrix for testing
goodness of fit in time series . . . . . 2706--2718
Ruby C. Weng and
Michael Woodroofe Approximate confidence sets for a
stationary AR($p$) process . . . . . . . 2719--2745
V. R. Padmawar A note on combining randomized response
and direct response . . . . . . . . . . 2746--2755
Xianggui Qu A maximum estimability criterion for
design classification and selection . . 2756--2769
Hong Qin and
Dan Li Connection between uniformity and
orthogonality for symmetrical factorial
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2770--2782
Luc Pronzato On the sequential construction of
optimum bounded designs . . . . . . . . 2783--2804
S. Georgiou and
C. Koukouvinos and
P. Mantas On multi-level supersaturated designs 2805--2819
St. A. Chatzopoulos and
F. Kolyva-Machera Some $D$-optimal saturated designs for $
3 \times m_2 \times m_3 $ factorials . . 2820--2830
Yanping Wang and
Raymond H. Myers and
Eric P. Smith and
Keying Ye $D$-optimal designs for Poisson
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 2831--2845
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Arijit Chakrabarti and
Jayanta K. Ghosh A generalization of BIC for the general
exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 2847--2872
Cuirong Ren and
Dongchu Sun and
Dipak K. Dey Bayesian and frequentist estimation and
prediction for exponential distributions 2873--2897
Delphine Blanke Adaptive sampling schemes for density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2898--2917
Tadeusz Inglot and
Teresa Ledwina Intermediate efficiency of some max-type
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2918--2935
R. J. Karunamuni and
T. Alberts A locally adaptive transformation method
of boundary correction in kernel density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2936--2960
Athanasios C. Micheas and
Dipak K. Dey and
Kanti V. Mardia Complex elliptical distributions with
application to shape analysis . . . . . 2961--2982
Rajeshwari Sundaram Estimation in two sample randomly
truncated scale model . . . . . . . . . 2983--3006
A. H. Welsh and
T. W. Yee Local regression for vector responses 3007--3031
Haimeng Zhang and
M. Bhaskara Rao and
Rupa C. Mitra On the generalized maximum likelihood
estimator of survival function under
Koziol--Green model . . . . . . . . . . 3032--3051
Abdulhakeem A. H. Eideh and
Gad Nathan Fitting time series models for
longitudinal survey data under
informative sampling . . . . . . . . . . 3052--3069
Alexander Aue Testing for parameter stability in
RCA(1) time series . . . . . . . . . . . 3070--3089
Sean M. O'Brien and
Lawrence L. Kupper and
David B. Dunson Performance of tests of association in
misspecified generalized linear models 3090--3100
A. Vexler Guaranteed testing for epidemic changes
of a linear regression model . . . . . . 3101--3120
Baha-Eldin Khaledi and
Subhash Kochar Weibull distribution: Some stochastic
comparisons results . . . . . . . . . . 3121--3129
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Debasis Kundu On the comparison of Fisher information
of the Weibull and GE distributions . . 3130--3144
Paul Kabaila and
Chris J. Lloyd Improved Buehler limits based on refined
designated statistics . . . . . . . . . 3145--3155
Hafiz M. R. Khan and
M. Safiul Haq and
Serge B. Provost Predictive inference for future
responses given a doubly censored sample
from a two parameter exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3156--3172
Tsung-Shan Tsou Robust Poisson regression . . . . . . . 3173--3186
Yanping Wang and
Eric P. Smith and
Keying Ye Sequential designs for a Poisson
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3187--3202
Max D. Morris and
Leslie M. Moore and
Michael D. McKay Sampling plans based on balanced
incomplete block designs for evaluating
the importance of computer model inputs 3203--3220
Neil A. Butler On the minimum bias response surface
designs of Box and Draper . . . . . . . 3221--3230
M. Liefvendahl and
R. Stocki A study on algorithms for optimization
of Latin hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . 3231--3247
S. T. Bate and
B. Jones The construction of nearly balanced and
nearly strongly balanced uniform
cross-over designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3248--3267
Andries E. Brouwer and
Arjeh M. Cohen and
Man V. M. Nguyen Orthogonal arrays of strength 3 and
small run sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . 3268--3280
Kishore Sinha and
Sanpei Kageyama Constructions of group divisible designs
and related combinatorial structures . . 3281--3286
Damaraju Raghavarao and
James B. Wiley Design strategies for sequential choice
experiments involving economic
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3287--3306
R. A. Sugden and
T. M. F. Smith Domains of study and poststratification 3307--3317
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Valérie Monbet and
Pierre-François Marteau Non parametric resampling for stationary
Markov processes: the local grid
bootstrap approach . . . . . . . . . . . 3319--3338
Michael Kohler Nonparametric regression with additional
measurement errors in the dependent
variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3339--3361
Jong-Il Baek and
Han-Ying Liang Asymptotics of estimators in
semi-parametric model under NA samples 3362--3382
Morris L. Eaton and
Robb J. Muirhead and
Eve H. Pickering Assessing a vector of clinical
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3383--3414
Kyungduk Ko and
Marina Vannucci Bayesian wavelet analysis of
autoregressive fractionally integrated
moving-average processes . . . . . . . . 3415--3434
I. Vidal and
P. Iglesias and
M. D. Branco and
R. B. Arellano-Valle Bayesian sensitivity analysis and model
comparison for skew elliptical models 3435--3457
Yang Xie and
Bradley P. Carlin Measures of Bayesian learning and
identifiability in hierarchical models 3458--3477
Jinhong You and
Xian Zhou Empirical likelihood in a regression
model with noised variables . . . . . . 3478--3497
Holger Drees and
Laurens de Haan and
Deyuan Li Approximations to the tail empirical
distribution function with application
to testing extreme value conditions . . 3498--3538
L. Pace and
A. Salvan and
L. Ventura Likelihood-based discrimination between
separate scale and regression models . . 3539--3553
Luigi Pace and
Alessandra Salvan Adjustments of the profile likelihood
from a new perspective . . . . . . . . . 3554--3564
Jie Mi MLE of parameters of location-scale
distribution for complete and partially
grouped data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3565--3582
Christophe Croux and
Geert Dhaene and
Dirk Hoorelbeke Testing the information matrix equality
with robust estimators . . . . . . . . . 3583--3613
Kwanho Cho and
Wei-Yin Loh Bias and convergence rate of the
coverage probability of prediction
intervals in Box--Cox transformed linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3614--3624
Yanhong Wu Inference for post-change mean by a
CUSUM procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . 3625--3646
Ramesh C. Gupta and
S. N. U. A. Kirmani Stochastic comparisons in frailty models 3647--3658
Asok K. Nanda and
Prasanta Paul Some results on generalized past entropy 3659--3674
Xiangrong Yin and
Efstathia Bura Moment-based dimension reduction for
multivariate response regression . . . . 3675--3688
C. C. Y. Dorea and
L. C. Zhao Exponential bounds for the probability
of wrong determination of the order of a
Markov chain by using the EDC criterion 3689--3697
H. Evangelaras and
E. Kolaiti and
C. Koukouvinos Robust parameter design: Optimization of
combined array approach with orthogonal
arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3698--3709
J. L. Loeppky and
D. Bingham and
R. R. Sitter Constructing non-regular robust
parameter designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3710--3729
M. C. Jones A note on rescalings, reparametrizations
and classes of distributions . . . . . . 3730--3733
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Distribution Course, Jürgen Groß. Peter
Lang, Europaischer Verlag der
Wissenschaften (2004), (xii + 221pp),
ISBN: 3-631-52934-1, US ISBN
0-8204-7348-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3734--3734
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L. Bordes and
C. Breuils Sequential estimation for semiparametric
models with application to the
proportional hazards model . . . . . . . 3735--3759
Jeong-Gun Park and
Hulin Wu Backfitting and local likelihood methods
for nonparametric mixed-effects models
with longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . 3760--3782
Chanseok Park and
W. J. Padgett A general class of cumulative damage
models for materials failure . . . . . . 3783--3801
Gabriel Huerta and
Raquel Prado Structured priors for multivariate time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3802--3821
Yuzo Maruyama and
William Edward Strawderman A new class of minimax generalized Bayes
estimators of a normal variance . . . . 3822--3836
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Zinoviy Landsman Exponential dispersion models:
Second-order minimax estimation of the
mean for unknown dispersion parameter 3837--3851
Qi-Guang Wu and
Kazuo Noda Admissibilities of matrix linear
estimators multivariate linear models 3852--3870
Swagata Nandi and
Debasis Kundu Analyzing non-stationary signals using
generalized multiple fundamental
frequency model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3871--3903
Francesco Battaglia Bias correction for outlier estimation
in time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3904--3930
Mary C. Meyer Consistency and power in tests with
shape-restricted alternatives . . . . . 3931--3947
Paolo Vidoni Response prediction in mixed effects
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3948--3966
Pavel Cízek Least trimmed squares in nonlinear
regression under dependence . . . . . . 3967--3988
Hironori Fujisawa and
Shinto Eguchi Robust estimation in the normal mixture
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3989--4011
C. Andy Tsao Assessing post-data weight of evidence 4012--4025
Meei Pyng Ng and
Martin Donadio Computing inclusion probabilities for
order sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4026--4042
Xiuyuan Yan and
Yu Cheng and
Zhidong Bai Asymptotics of adaptive design with two
alternating generating matrices . . . . 4043--4058
Zhide Fang and
Douglas P. Wiens and
Zheyang Wu Locally $D$-optimal designs for
multistage models and heteroscedastic
polynomial regression models . . . . . . 4059--4070
Chen-Tuo Liao Two-level factorial designs for
searching dispersion factors and
estimating location main effects . . . . 4071--4087
Hongquan Xu and
Sovia Lau Minimum aberration blocking schemes for
two- and three-level fractional
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 4088--4118
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Boris Ryabko and
Jaakko Astola Universal codes as a basis for
nonparametric testing of serial
independence for time series . . . . . . 4119--4128
Gengqian Cai and
Sanat K. Sarkar Modified Simes' critical values under
positive dependence . . . . . . . . . . 4129--4146
K. F. Cheng and
L. C. Chen Fitting logistic regression models with
contaminated case-control data . . . . . 4147--4160
Xun Chen The adjustment of random baseline
measurements in treatment effect
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4161--4175
José A. Díaz-García and
Ramón Gutiérrez Jáimez Wishart and Pseudo-Wishart distributions
under elliptical laws and related
distributions in the shape theory
context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4176--4193
Sudip Bose Estimating the center of symmetry: Is it
always better to use larger sample
sizes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4194--4203
Seongryong Na and
Sangyeol Lee and
Hyeonah Park Sequential empirical process in
autoregressive models with measurement
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4204--4216
A. Berlinet and
I. Vajda On asymptotic sufficiency and optimality
of quantizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 4217--4238
Wolfgang Bischoff and
Frank Miller Efficient lack of fit designs that are
optimal to estimate the highest
coefficient of a polynomial . . . . . . 4239--4249
Maochao Xu and
Xiaohu Li Likelihood ratio order of $m$-spacings
for two samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 4250--4258
Nicola Sartori Bias prevention of maximum likelihood
estimates for scalar skew normal and
skew $t$ distributions . . . . . . . . . 4259--4275
Sangyeol Lee and
T. N. Sriram and
Xinyu Wei Fixed-width confidence interval based on
a minimum Hellinger distance estimator 4276--4292
Weizhen Wang Smallest confidence intervals for one
binomial proportion . . . . . . . . . . 4293--4306
Richard K. Burdick and
Jorge Quiroz and
Hariharan K. Iyer The present status of confidence
interval estimation for one-factor
random models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4307--4325
Felix Abramovich and
Claudia Angelini Testing in mixed-effects FANOVA models 4326--4348
Florentina Bunea and
Marten H. Wegkamp and
Anna Auguste Consistent variable selection in high
dimensional regression via multiple
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4349--4364
Pao-sheng Shen An inverse-probability-weighted approach
to estimation of the bivariate survival
function under left-truncation and
right-censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 4365--4384
Shalabh and
H. Toutenburg Consequences of departure from normality
on the properties of calibration
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4385--4396
Holger Dette and
Ignacio Martinez Lopez and
Isabel M. Ortiz Rodriguez and
Andrey Pepelyshev Maximin efficient design of experiment
for exponential regression models . . . 4397--4418
Wen An Liu and
Qi Min Zhang and
Zan Kan Nie Optimal search procedure on
coin-weighing problem . . . . . . . . . 4419--4435
Bao-Jiang Chen and
Peng-Fei Li and
Min-Qian Liu and
Run-Chu Zhang Some results on blocked regular
$2$-level fractional factorial designs
with clear effects . . . . . . . . . . . 4436--4449
Jian-Feng Yang and
Peng-Fei Li and
Min-Qian Liu and
Run-Chu Zhang $ 2^{(n_1 + n_2) - (k_1 + k_2)} $
Fractional factorial split-plot designs
containing clear effects . . . . . . . . 4450--4458
Anonymous Author index to Volume XXX . . . . . . . 4459--4473
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
H. M. Barakat Limit theory of generalized order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Milena Bieniek and
Dominik Szynal On $k$-th record times, record values
and their moments . . . . . . . . . . . 12--22
F. P. A. Coolen and
P. Coolen-Schrijner Nonparametric predictive comparison of
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33
Surya T. Tokdar and
Jayanta K. Ghosh Posterior consistency of logistic
Gaussian process priors in density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--42
Fulvio Spezzaferri and
Isabella Verdinelli and
Massimo Zeppieri Bayes factors for goodness of fit
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56
Wei Liu and
Mortaza Jamshidian and
Ying Zhang and
Frank Bretz and
Xiaoliang Han Some new methods for the comparison of
two linear regression models . . . . . . 57--67
Magne Thoresen and
Petter Laake On the simple linear regression model
with correlated measurement errors . . . 68--78
Maciej Wilczy\'nski Minimax estimation in linear regression
with ellipsoidal constraints . . . . . . 79--86
I. Molina and
D. Morales Rényi statistics for testing hypotheses
in mixed linear regression models . . . 87--102
Carlos Tenreiro On the asymptotic behaviour of
location-scale invariant
Bickel--Rosenblatt tests . . . . . . . . 103--116
Jinhong You and
Gemai Chen Semiparametric generalized least squares
estimation in partially linear
regression models with correlated errors 117--132
John E. Kolassa and
John Robinson Conditional saddlepoint approximations
for non-continuous and non-lattice
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--147
Yongtao Guan and
Michael Sherman and
James A. Calvin On asymptotic properties of the mark
variogram estimator of a marked point
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--161
Ferdinando Cicalese and
Christian Deppe Perfect minimally adaptive $q$-ary
search with unreliable tests . . . . . . 162--175
Sam Efromovich A lower-bound oracle inequality for a
blockwise-shrinkage estimate . . . . . . 176--183
Pranab K. Mitra and
Bimal K. Sinha On some aspects of estimation of a
common mean of two independent normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--193
Pedro Galeano and
Daniel Peña Covariance changes detection in
multivariate time series . . . . . . . . 194--211
Haitao Zheng and
Ishwar V. Basawa and
Somnath Datta First-order random coefficient
integer-valued autoregressive processes 212--229
Stefan De Wachter and
Richard D. F. Harris and
Elias Tzavalis Panel data unit roots tests: the role of
serial correlation and the time
dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--244
Bruce Levin and
Cheng-Shiun Leu A comparison of two procedures to select
the best binomial population with
sequential elimination of inferior
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--263
Andrew L. Rukhin and
William E. Strawderman Statistical aspects of linkage analysis
in interlaboratory studies . . . . . . . 264--278
Pankaj K. Choudhary and
H. N. Nagaraja Tests for assessment of agreement using
probability criteria . . . . . . . . . . 279--290
Abram Kagan and
Zinoviy Landsman and
C. Radhakrishna Rao Sub- and superadditivity \`a la Carlen
of matrices related to the Fisher
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--298
Wei Wang and
Yannis G. Yatracos Representations of moments using
lower-order conditional moments . . . . 299--305
Mingyao Ai and
Kai-Tai Fang and
Shuyuan He $ E(\chi^2) $-optimal mixed-level
supersaturated designs . . . . . . . . . 306--316
Neil A. Butler Results for two-level fractional
factorial designs of resolution IV or
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--323
Peter Dukes and
Alan C. H. Ling Linear programming bounds for balanced
arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--330
Wei Liu and
Nan Wang A note on Hall's triple sampling
procedure: a multiple sample second
order sequential analogue of the
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 331--343
Jane J. Ye and
Julie Zhou Existence and symmetry of minimax
regression designs . . . . . . . . . . . 344--354
Bruno Lecoutre and
Sébastien Faure A note on new confidence intervals for
the difference between two proportions
based on an Edgeworth expansion . . . . 355--356
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Gengsheng Qin A supplement to: ``A new confidence
interval for the difference between two
binomial proportions of paired data'' 357--358
Xiaohu Li and
Zhouping Li Proof of a conjecture on Spearman's $
\rho $ and Kendall's $ \tau $ for sample
minimum and maximum . . . . . . . . . . 359--361
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Sam Efromovich Adaptive estimation of error density in
nonparametric regression with small
sample size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378
Hongwen Guo and
Hira L. Koul Nonparametric regression with
heteroscedastic long memory errors . . . 379--404
Tae-Hwan Kim and
Christophe Muller Two-stage Huber estimation . . . . . . . 405--418
Romain Neugebauer and
Mark van der Laan Nonparametric causal effects based on
marginal structural models . . . . . . . 419--434
M. Rueda and
S. Martínez and
H. Martínez and
A. Arcos Estimation of the distribution function
with calibration methods . . . . . . . . 435--448
Edie A. Weller and
Donald K. Milton and
Ellen A. Eisen and
Donna Spiegelman Regression calibration for logistic
regression with multiple surrogates for
one exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--461
Elena Kulinskaya and
Michael B. Dollinger Robust weighted one-way ANOVA: Improved
approximation and efficiency . . . . . . 462--472
M. Eugenia Castellanos and
Stefano Cabras A default Bayesian procedure for the
generalized Pareto distribution . . . . 473--483
Tsung I. Lin and
Jack C. Lee Bayesian analysis of hierarchical linear
mixed modeling using the multivariate
$t$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--495
N. Atienza and
J. García-Heras and
J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and
R. Villa On the consistency of MLE in finite
mixture models of exponential families 496--505
Yosihito Maruyama Asymptotic expansions of the null
distributions of some test statistics
for profile analysis in general
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--526
Hong-Dar Isaac Wu A partial score test for difference
among heterogeneous populations . . . . 527--537
André Mas and
Besnik Pumo The ARHD model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--553
E. E. Ioannidis Spectra of bivariate VAR($p$) models . . 554--566
Ke Xu and
Christopher K. Wikle Estimation of parameterized
spatio-temporal dynamic models . . . . . 567--588
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Tasos C. Christofides Item Count Technique in estimating the
proportion of people with a sensitive
feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--593
Y. S. Park and
J. W. Choi and
K. W. Kim A balanced multi-level rotation sampling
design and its efficient composite
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--610
S. Georgiou and
W. H. Holzmann and
H. Kharaghani and
B. Tayfeh-Rezaie Three variable full orthogonal designs
of order 56 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--618
Pi-Wen Tsai and
Steven G. Gilmour and
Roger Mead Three-level main-effects designs
exploiting prior information about model
uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--627
Abdulhakeem A. H. Eideh and
Gad Nathan Corrigendum to ``Fitting time series
models for longitudinal survey data
under informative sampling'': [Journal
of Statistical Planning and Inference
\bf 136 (2006) 3052--3069] . . . . . . . 628--628
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Stefan Ralescu and
George Haiman and
Frits Ruymgaart Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--642
Rabi Bhattacharya and
Maiying Kong Consistency and asymptotic normality of
the estimated effective doses in
bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--658
Manfred Denker and
Susanne Koch On the uniqueness of the maximum of the
paths of random walks . . . . . . . . . 659--668
Jerome H. Friedman and
Peter Hall On bagging and nonlinear estimation . . 669--683
Rudolf Beran Adaptation over parametric families of
symmetric linear estimators . . . . . . 684--696
Gudrun Freitag and
Claudia Czado and
Axel Munk A nonparametric test for similarity of
marginals --- With applications to the
assessment of population bioequivalence 697--711
Nicolai Bissantz and
Hajo Holzmann Estimation of a quadratic regression
functional using the sinc kernel . . . . 712--719
Karthinathan Thangavelu and
Edgar Brunner Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for
stratified samples and Efron's paradox
dice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--737
Nino A. Mushkudiani and
John H. J. Einmahl Generalized probability-probability
plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--752
Jaromír Antoch and
Gérard Grégoire and
Marie Husková Tests for continuity of regression
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--777
Michel Carbon and
Christian Francq and
Lanh Tat Tran Kernel regression estimation for random
fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--798
Magnus Ekström and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka An asymptotically distribution-free test
of symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--810
Ali Khoujmane and
Frits Ruymgaart and
Mikail Shubov The convolution theorem for estimating
linear functionals in indirect
nonparametric regression models . . . . 811--820
George Haiman Estimating the distribution of
one-dimensional discrete scan statistics
viewed as extremes of $1$-dependent
stationary sequences . . . . . . . . . . 821--828
Cristian Preda Regression models for functional data by
reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--840
Jean Diebolt and
Armelle Guillou and
Imen Rached Approximation of the distribution of
excesses through a generalized
probability-weighted moments method . . 841--857
M. Broniatowski and
G. Celant Optimality and bias of some
interpolation and extrapolation designs 858--868
Vladimir Pozdnyakov and
Joseph Glaz A nonparametric repeated significance
test with adaptive target sample size 869--878
Denis Bosq General linear processes in Hilbert
spaces and prediction . . . . . . . . . 879--894
David M. Mason Some observations on the KMT dyadic
scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--906
Niels Becker and
Claude Lef\`evre and
Sergey Utev Estimating protective vaccine efficacy
from large trials with recruitment . . . 907--914
Youri Davydov and
Davar Khoshnevisan and
Zhan Shi and
Ricardas Zitikis Convex rearrangements, generalized
Lorenz curves, and correlated Gaussian
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--934
Andrew Rosalsky On the limiting behavior of tail series 935--944
Anirban DasGupta Extensions to Basu's theorem,
factorizations, and infinite
divisibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--952
Endre Csáki and
Miklós Csörg\Ho and
Zdzis\law Rychlik and
Josef Steinebach On Vervaat and Vervaat-error-type
processes for partial sums and renewals 953--966
Andrew L. Rukhin Non-parametric inference for balanced
randomization designs . . . . . . . . . 967--984
Peter C. B. Phillips and
Yixiao Sun and
Sainan Jin Long run variance estimation and robust
regression testing using sharp origin
kernels with no truncation . . . . . . . 985--1023
P. M. Robinson Nonparametric spectrum estimation for
spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1024--1034
Kai Kopperschmidt and
Winfried Stute The CLT under right censorship and
reporting delays . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1042
Kenichiro Tamaki and
Masanobu Taniguchi Higher order asymptotic option valuation
for non-Gaussian dependent returns . . . 1043--1058
Joseph L. Gastwirth A graphical summary of disparities in
health care and related summary measures 1059--1065
Tze Leung Lai and
Haipeng Xing Nonparametric functionals of spectral
distributions and their applications to
time series analysis . . . . . . . . . . 1066--1075
David R. Brillinger and
Apratim Guha Mutual information in the frequency
domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076--1084
Pando Georgiev and
Anca Ralescu and
Dan Ralescu Cross-cumulants measure for independence 1085--1098
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Xiaoyin Wang and
Chong Z. He and
Dongchu Sun Bayesian population estimation for small
sample capture-recapture data using
noninformative priors . . . . . . . . . 1099--1118
Valeria Sambucini A reference prior for the analysis of a
response surface . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1128
Chin-Fu Hsiao and
Murray K. Clayton Bayes optimal sequential trial designs 1129--1137
Linyuan Li On the minimax optimality of wavelet
estimators with censored data . . . . . 1138--1150
Erwann Rogard and
Andrew Gelman and
Hao Lu Evaluation of multilevel decision trees 1151--1160
Jian-Lun Xu On estimating a survival function under
the generalized proportional hazards
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161--1172
Baha-Eldin Khaledi and
Moshe Shaked Ordering conditional lifetimes of
coherent systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1184
Taoufik Zoubeidi and
Mohamed Y. El-Bassiouni Sequential confidence intervals for
variance components in one-way random
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185--1198
Kye Gilder and
Naitee Ting and
Lili Tian and
Joseph C. Cappelleri and
R. Choudary Hanumara Confidence intervals on intraclass
correlation coefficients in a balanced
two-factor random design . . . . . . . . 1199--1212
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu and
H. P. Wynn Easy-to-construct confidence bands for
comparing two simple linear regression
lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1225
K. K. Jose and
Jikcey Isaac Single use conservative confidence
regions in multivariate controlled
calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226--1235
A. R. Soltani and
M. Azimmohseni Periodograms asymptotic distributions in
periodically correlated processes and
multivariate stationary processes: an
alternative approach . . . . . . . . . . 1236--1242
Marie Husková and
Zuzana Prásková and
Josef Steinebach On the detection of changes in
autoregressive time series I.
Asymptotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1259
Yulia R. Gel and
Andrey Barabanov Strong consistency of the regularized
least-squares estimates of infinite
autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 1260--1277
Melinda H. McCann and
Joshua M. Tebbs Pairwise comparisons for proportions
estimated by pooled testing . . . . . . 1278--1290
Mohammad Z. Raqab Sharp bounds on expectations of second
record increments from decreasing
density families . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291--1301
V. V. Anh and
N. N. Leonenko and
L. M. Sakhno Minimum contrast estimation of random
processes based on information of second
and third orders . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302--1331
Michael Weba Optimal prediction of compound mixed
Poisson processes . . . . . . . . . . . 1332--1342
Céline Delmas and
Jean-Louis Foulley On testing a class of restricted
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1361
Yanqin Feng and
Jinde Wang Likelihood ratio test against simple
stochastic ordering among several
multinomial populations . . . . . . . . 1362--1374
Ollivier Hyrien Pseudo-likelihood estimation for
discretely observed multitype
Bellman-Harris branching processes . . . 1375--1388
Tucker McElroy and
Dimitris N. Politis Moment-based tail index estimation . . . 1389--1406
A. K. Gupta and
T. Nguyen and
L. Pardo Residual analysis and outliers in
loglinear models based on phi-divergence
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407--1423
Konstancja Bobecka and
Jacek Wesolowski Multivariate Matsumoto-Yor property is
rather restrictive . . . . . . . . . . . 1424--1432
Jesse C. Frey New imperfect rankings models for ranked
set sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433--1445
Júlio S. de S. Bueno Filho and
Steven G. Gilmour Block designs for random treatment
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1446--1451
A. S. Hedayat and
H. Pesotan Tools for constructing optimal two-level
factorial designs for a linear model
containing main effects and one
two-factor interaction . . . . . . . . . 1452--1463
John P. McSorley and
Nicholas C. Phillips Complete enumeration and properties of
binary pseudo-Youden designs PYD(9,6,6) 1464--1473
J. P. Morgan and
Valentin Parvu Optimal row-column design for three
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1474--1487
R. Romero-Villafranca and
L. Zúnica and
R. Romero-Zúnica $ D_s $-optimal experimental plans for
robust parameter design . . . . . . . . 1488--1495
Jing Zhang and
Yanxun Chang Existence of BSAs and cyclic BSAs of
block size three . . . . . . . . . . . . 1496--1511
José A. Díaz-García and
Víctor Leiva Erratum to ``A new family of life
distributions based on the elliptically
contoured distributions'': [J. Statist.
Plann. Inference \bf 128(2) (2005)
445--457] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1512--1513
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Sat Gupta and
Satya Mishra Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1515--1515
Yufeng Liu and
Shiling Ruan and
Angela M. Dean Construction and analysis of $ E(s^2) $
efficient supersaturated designs . . . . 1516--1529
Alan Krinik and
Carrie Mortensen Transient probability functions of
finite birth-death processes with
catastrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1530--1543
Iva Chang and
Alan Krinik and
Randall J. Swift Birth-multiple catastrophe processes . . 1544--1559
Luís M. Grilo and
Carlos A. Coelho Development and comparative study of two
near-exact approximations to the
distribution of the product of an odd
number of independent Beta random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1560--1575
Bradley A. Jones and
William Li and
Christopher J. Nachtsheim and
Kenny Q. Ye Model discrimination-another perspective
on model-robust designs . . . . . . . . 1576--1583
Edward J. Dudewicz and
Yan Ma and
Enping (Shirley) Mai and
Haiyan Su Exact solutions to the Behrens--Fisher
Problem: Asymptotically optimal and
finite sample efficient choice among . . 1584--1605
Sat Gupta and
Javid Shabbir On the use of transformed auxiliary
variables in estimating population mean
by using two auxiliary variables . . . . 1606--1611
Rui P. Alberto and
Carlos A. Coelho Study of the quality of several
asymptotic and near-exact approximations
based on moments for the distribution of
the Wilks Lambda statistic . . . . . . . 1612--1626
Yan-Xia Lin An alternative derivation of the Kalman
filter using the quasi-likelihood method 1627--1633
Roger E. Kirk Effect magnitude: a different focus . . 1634--1646
Parminder Singh and
Satya N. Mishra Classifying logistic populations using
sample medians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647--1657
J. P. Morgan and
Brian Reck $E$-optimal design in irregular BIBD
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1658--1668
Nizam Uddin Neighbor properties of some classes of
\em BIBRCs and their efficiencies for
correlated errors . . . . . . . . . . . 1669--1680
Nutan S. Mishra Families of proper generalized neighbor
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1681--1686
Rajender Parsad and
V. K. Gupta and
R. Srivastava Designs for cropping systems research 1687--1703
Chung-yi Suen Some mixed orthogonal arrays obtained by
orthogonal projection matrices . . . . . 1704--1710
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Yongqiang Tang and
Subhashis Ghosal Posterior consistency of Dirichlet
mixtures for estimating a transition
density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1711--1726
Edsel A. Peña and
Elizabeth H. Slate and
Juan R. González Semiparametric inference for a general
class of models for recurrent events . . 1727--1747
Zhong Guan Semiparametric tests for change-points
with epidemic alternatives . . . . . . . 1748--1764
Anton Schick and
Wolfgang Wefelmeyer Root-$n$ consistent density estimators
of convolutions in weighted $ L_1$-norms 1765--1774
Bhaskar Bhattacharya Testing for ordered failure rates under
general progressive censoring . . . . . 1775--1786
Lei Nie Convergence rate of MLE in generalized
linear and nonlinear mixed-effects
models: Theory and applications . . . . 1787--1804
Daniela Jarusková Maximum log-likelihood ratio test for a
change in three parameter Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1805--1815
Grace Y. Yi and
Jerald F. Lawless A corrected likelihood method for the
proportional hazards model with
covariates subject to measurement error 1816--1828
Han-Ying Liang and
Bing-Yi Jing The LIL for the Bickel--Rosenblatt test
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829--1837
Samuel S. Wu and
David H. Annis Asymptotic efficiency of majority rule
relative to rank-sum method for
selecting the best population . . . . . 1838--1850
Seung-Ho Kang and
Jae-Won Lee The size of the Cochran--Armitage trend
test in $ 2 \times C $ contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851--1861
Manuela M. Oliveira and
João Mexia ANOVA-like analysis of matched series of
studies with a common structure . . . . 1862--1870
Yue Wang and
Oliver Bembom and
Mark J. van der Laan Data-adaptive estimation of the
treatment-specific mean . . . . . . . . 1871--1887
Wen-Han Hwang and
Yih-Huei Huang Measurement errors in continuous-time
capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 1888--1899
Gabriela V. Cohen Freue The Pitman estimator of the Cauchy
location parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 1900--1913
Yebin Cheng and
Jan G. De Gooijer On the $u$ th geometric conditional
quantile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1914--1930
Majid Asadi and
Younes Zohrevand On the dynamic cumulative residual
entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1931--1941
Dimitris Karlis and
Loukia Meligkotsidou Finite mixtures of multivariate Poisson
distributions with application . . . . . 1942--1960
Xuerong Wen and
R. Dennis Cook Optimal sufficient dimension reduction
in regressions with categorical
predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1961--1978
Christian Ritz and
Ib. M. Skovgaard Influence on tests with focus on linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--1991
James R. Schott Testing the equality of correlation
matrices when sample correlation
matrices are dependent . . . . . . . . . 1992--1997
Charles F. Manski and
Aleksey Tetenov Admissible treatment rules for a
risk-averse planner with experimental
data on an innovation . . . . . . . . . 1998--2010
Ruibo Sun and
Siu Hung Cheung and
Li-Xin Zhang A generalized drop-the-loser rule for
multi-treatment clinical trials . . . . 2011--2023
A. Hassairi and
S. Lajmi and
R. Zine Riesz inverse Gaussian distributions . . 2024--2033
Kejun Chen and
Ruizhong Wei Super-simple cyclic designs with small
values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2034--2044
Joachim Kunert and
Oliver Sailer Randomization of neighbour balanced
generalized Youden designs . . . . . . . 2045--2055
Min Yang and
Mingue Park Efficient crossover designs for
comparing test treatments with a control
treatment when p=3 . . . . . . . . . . . 2056--2067
Qiao-Zhen Zhang and
Run-Chu Zhang and
Min-Qian Liu A method for screening active effects in
supersaturated designs . . . . . . . . . 2068--2079
H. Evangelaras and
C. Koukouvinos and
E. Lappas Further contributions to nonisomorphic
two level orthogonal arrays . . . . . . 2080--2086
Anindya Roy Book Review: Peter Congdon,
\booktitleApplied Bayesian Modelling,
Wiley, New York, ISBN: 0-471-49600-6,
2001 (x + 531 pp., \$120.00)} . . . . . 2087--2088
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Liang Peng and
Yongcheng Qi Partial derivatives and confidence
intervals of bivariate tail dependence
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2089--2101
Suman Majumdar Uniform $ L_1 $ posterior consistency in
compact Gaussian shift experiments . . . 2102--2114
A. J. Hayter A combination multiple comparisons and
subset selection procedure to identify
treatments that are strictly inferior to
the best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2115--2126
Debasis Kundu On hybrid censored Weibull distribution 2127--2142
Gregory A. Fredricks and
Roger B. Nelsen On the relationship between Spearman's
rho and Kendall's tau for pairs of
continuous random variables . . . . . . 2143--2150
J. S. Huang and
P. S. Shen More maximum likelihood oddities . . . . 2151--2155
Xianggui Qu Statistical properties of Rechtschaffner
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2156--2164
Yung-Pin Chen A note on the relationship between
Spearman's $ \rho $ and Kendall's $ \tau
$ for extreme order statistics . . . . . 2165--2171
Samuel S. Wu and
Mark C. K. Yang Using pilot study information to
increase efficiency in clinical trials 2172--2183
Massimo Guerriero and
Marco F. Sandri A note on the comparison of some
randomized response procedures . . . . . 2184--2190
V. Bagdonavicius and
A. Bikelis and
V. Kazakevicius and
Mikhail Nikulin Analysis of joint multiple failure mode
and linear degradation data with
renewals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2191--2207
David Collins and
Tamás Lengyel and
Gregory P. Tollisen Keeping scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208--2213
Ch. A. Charalambides Distribution of record statistics in a
geometrically increasing population . . 2214--2225
Frosso S. Makri and
Andreas N. Philippou and
Zaharias M. Psillakis Shortest and longest length of success
runs in binary sequences . . . . . . . . 2226--2239
S. H. Lin and
Jack C. Lee and
R. S. Wang Generalized inferences on the common
mean vector of several multivariate
normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . 2240--2249
Kenneth J. Ryan and
Dursun A. Bulutoglu $ E(s^2) $-Optimal supersaturated
designs with good minimax properties . . 2250--2262
Haibo Zhou and
Jinhong You Statistical inference for a
semiparametric measurement error
regression model with heteroscedastic
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2263--2276
Xiaofeng Shao and
Michael Stein and
Jason Ching Statistical comparisons of methods for
interpolating the output of a numerical
air quality model . . . . . . . . . . . 2277--2293
Yu Tang and
Mingyao Ai and
Gennian Ge and
Kai-Tai Fang Optimal mixed-level supersaturated
designs and a new class of combinatorial
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2294--2301
Abu T. M. Minhajuddin and
William H. Frawley and
William R. Schucany and
Wayne A. Woodward Bootstrap tests for multivariate
directional alternatives . . . . . . . . 2302--2315
Anastasia Ivanova and
Nancy Flournoy and
Yeonseung Chung Cumulative cohort design for
dose-finding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2316--2327
Djamel Bellout An adaptive rule for stopping a
discovery process under time censorship 2328--2335
Hokwon Cho Sequential risk-efficient estimation for
the ratio of two binomial proportions 2336--2346
José A. Díaz-García and
Ramón Gutiérrez-Jáimez The distribution of residuals from a
general elliptical linear model . . . . 2347--2354
Boxin Tang Construction results on minimum
aberration blocking schemes for 2m
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2355--2361
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Yanping Xia Inferences on correlation coefficients:
One-sample, independent and correlated
cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2362--2379
Roee Gutman and
Yosef Hochberg Improved multiple test procedures for
discrete distributions: New ideas and
analytical review . . . . . . . . . . . 2380--2393
Brent D. Burch Generalized confidence intervals for
proportions of total variance in mixed
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2394--2404
Shang Zhao and
Douglas A. Wolfe and
Tsai-Shang Huang and
Gerald S. Frankel Generalized model for IGC growth in
aluminum alloys . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405--2412
Dursun A. Bulutoglu Cyclicly constructed $ E(s^2) $-optimal
supersaturated designs . . . . . . . . . 2413--2428
Suzanne R. Dubnicka A confidence interval for the median of
a finite population under unequal
probability sampling: a model-assisted
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2429--2438
Fei Li and
Mike Jacroux Optimal foldover plans for blocked 2m-k
fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 2439--2452
Claudia Kirch Block permutation principles for the
change analysis of dependent data . . . 2453--2474
Yoshihiko Konno Improving on the sample covariance
matrix for a complex elliptically
contoured distribution . . . . . . . . . 2475--2486
Tatsuya Kubokawa and
Hisayuki Tsukuma Estimation in a linear regression model
under the Kullback--Leibler loss and its
application to model selection . . . . . 2487--2508
Lei Liu and
Yu Zhu Partially projected gradient algorithms
for computing nonparametric maximum
likelihood estimates of mixing
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509--2522
Tomonari Sei and
Fumiyasu Komaki Bayesian prediction and model selection
for locally asymptotically mixed normal
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2523--2534
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Viatcheslav B. Melas Editorial Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 2535--2535
J. R. Artalejo and
M. J. Lopez-Herrero A simulation study of a discrete-time
multiserver retrial queue with finite
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2536--2542
N. Balakrishnan and
Qihao Xie Exact inference for a simple step-stress
model with Type-II hybrid censored data
from the exponential distribution . . . 2543--2563
Dario Basso and
Marco Chiarandini and
Luigi Salmaso Synchronized permutation tests in
replicated I$ \times $J designs . . . . 2564--2578
Stefanie Biedermann and
Holger Dette and
Andrey Pepelyshev Optimal discrimination designs for
exponential regression models . . . . . 2579--2592
N. A. Bochkina Wavelet goodness-of-fit test for
dependent data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2593--2612
Ekaterina V. Bulinskaya Some aspects of decision making under
uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2613--2632
Livio Finos and
Luigi Salmaso and
Aldo Solari Conditional inference under simultaneous
stochastic ordering constraints . . . . 2633--2641
N. Golyandina and
E. Osipov The ``Caterpillar''-SSA method for
analysis of time series with missing
values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2642--2653
Janis P. Hardwick and
Quentin F. Stout Response adaptive designs that
incorporate switching costs and
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2654--2665
J. López-Fidalgo and
M. J. Rivas-López MV-optimality standardized through the
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 2666--2680
Simos G. Meintanis A Kolmogorov--Smirnov type test for skew
normal distributions based on the
empirical moment generating function . . 2681--2688
Viatcheslav Melas and
Andrey Pepelyshev On representing maximin efficient
designs by Taylor series . . . . . . . . 2689--2702
Valentin V. Petrov On lower bounds for tail probabilities 2703--2705
Dieter Rasch and
Friedrich Teuscher and
Volker Guiard How robust are tests for two independent
samples? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2706--2720
Peilin Shi and
Jane Ye and
Julie Zhou Discrete minimax designs for regression
models with autocorrelated MA errors . . 2721--2731
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Majid Mojirsheibani Nonparametric curve estimation with
missing data: a general empirical
process approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 2733--2758
Malay Ghosh and
Karabi Sinha Empirical Bayes estimation in finite
population sampling under functional
measurement error models . . . . . . . . 2759--2773
Djalil Chafa\"\i and
Didier Concordet On the strong consistency of asymptotic
$M$-estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2774--2783
M. Rachdi and
P. Vieu Nonparametric regression for functional
data: Automatic smoothing parameter
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2784--2801
Pedro Galeano and
Daniel Peña Improved model selection criteria for
SETAR time series models . . . . . . . . 2802--2814
Sophie Donnet and
Adeline Samson Estimation of parameters in incomplete
data models defined by dynamical systems 2815--2831
Gianfranco Adimari and
Paolo Preo Robust confidence intervals for
log-location-scale models with right
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2832--2849
Linyuan Li and
Yimin Xiao On the minimax optimality of block
thresholded wavelet estimators with long
memory data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2850--2869
J. R. M. Hosking Distributions with maximum entropy
subject to constraints on their
$L$-moments or expected order statistics 2870--2891
Yongcheng Qi On asymptotic normality of sequential
estimators for branching processes with
immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2892--2902
Andrés Ubierna and
Santiago Velilla A goodness-of-fit process for ARMA (p,q)
models based on a modified residual
autocorrelation sequence . . . . . . . . 2903--2919
Lihua Chen and
Panayotis Giannakouros and
Yuhong Yang Model combining in factorial data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2920--2934
Jean-Pierre Vila and
Jean-Pierre Gauchi Optimal designs based on exact
confidence regions for parameter
estimation of a nonlinear regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2935--2953
Serkan Eryilmaz and
Sevcan Demir Success runs in a sequence of
exchangeable binary trials . . . . . . . 2954--2963
Wen-Jang Huang and
Shu-Huey Chang On some characterizations of the mixture
of gamma distributions . . . . . . . . . 2964--2974
Taeryon Choi Alternative posterior consistency
results in nonparametric binary
regression using Gaussian process priors 2975--2983
Yukun Liu and
Minqian Liu and
Runchu Zhang Construction of multi-level
supersaturated design via Kronecker
product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2984--2992
Gauri Sankar Datta On symmetry of finite mixtures of normal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2993--2995
H. B. Zhao Comparing several treatments with a
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2996--3006
Uwe Küchler and
Vyacheslav A. Vasil'iev On parameter estimation of stochastic
delay differential equations with
guaranteed accuracy by noisy
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3007--3023
J. R. M. Hosking Some theory and practical uses of
trimmed $L$-moments . . . . . . . . . . 3024--3039
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Antonio M. Pievatolo and
Gareth O. Roberts and
Bruno Sansó Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3041--3042
M. Concepción Ausín and
Rosa E. Lillo and
Michael P. Wiper Bayesian control of the number of
servers in a GI/M/c queueing system . . 3043--3057
Javier Morales and
M. Eugenia Castellanos and
Asunción M. Mayoral and
Roland Fried and
Carmen Armero Bayesian design in queues: an
application to aeronautic maintenance 3058--3067
Matthew P. S. Gander and
David A. Stephens Stochastic volatility modelling in
continuous time with general marginal
distributions: Inference, prediction and
model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 3068--3081
Hedibert Freitas Lopes and
Carlos Marinho Carvalho Factor stochastic volatility with time
varying loadings and Markov switching
regimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3082--3091
Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos Likelihood-based inference for a class
of multivariate diffusions with
unobserved paths . . . . . . . . . . . . 3092--3102
Ramsés H. Mena and
Stephen G. Walker Stationary mixture transition
distribution (MTD) models via predictive
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3103--3112
Krisztina Vasas and
Péter Elek and
László Márkus A two-state regime switching
autoregressive model with an application
to river flow analysis . . . . . . . . . 3113--3126
Paola Tardelli Occupancy numbers for dynamic
heterogeneous populations: Estimate of
particles lifetimes . . . . . . . . . . 3127--3139
Peter Müller and
Don A. Berry and
Andy P. Grieve and
Michael Smith and
Michael Krams Simulation-based sequential Bayesian
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3140--3150
Athanasios Kottas and
Bruno Sansó Bayesian mixture modeling for spatial
Poisson process intensities, with
applications to extreme value analysis 3151--3163
Stefano F. Tonellato Random field priors for spectral density
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3164--3176
HÅvard Rue and
Sara Martino Approximate Bayesian inference for
hierarchical Gaussian Markov random
field models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3177--3192
Sudipto Banerjee and
Andrew Finley Bayesian multi-resolution modeling for
spatially replicated data sets with
application to forest biomass data . . . 3193--3205
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Anonymous OBC (Editors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Govind S. Mudholkar Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3207--3207
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Alan D. Hutson and
Michael P. McDermott Life and legacy of Samarendra Nath Roy
1906--1964 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3208--3212
Jagdish N. Srivastava Samarendra Nath Roy: an Appreciation . . 3213--3214
Y. S. Sathe Professor S. N. Roy: As I remember him 3215--3215
Alan Agresti and
Anna Gottard Independence in multi-way contingency
tables: S. N. Roy's breakthroughs and
later developments . . . . . . . . . . . 3216--3226
C. Ahn and
G. G. Koch and
L. Paynter and
J. S. Preisser and
F. Seillier-Moiseiwitsch Log-linear models for mutations in the
HIV genome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3227--3239
T. W. Anderson Multiple discoveries: Distribution of
roots of determinantal equations . . . . 3240--3248
Barry C. Arnold and
Enrique Castillo and
José María Sarabia Variations on the classical multivariate
normal theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3249--3260
Gutti Jogesh Babu and
A. R. Padmanabhan Re-sampling methods for testing for
location against unrestricted and
ordered alternatives . . . . . . . . . . 3261--3267
N. Balakrishnan and
Qihao Xie Exact inference for a simple step-stress
model with Type-I hybrid censored data
from the exponential distribution . . . 3268--3290
Mausumi Bose and
John Stufken Optimal crossover designs when carryover
effects are proportional to direct
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3291--3302
Yogendra P. Chaubey and
Haipeng Xu Smooth estimation of survival functions
under mean residual life ordering . . . 3303--3316
Sanjay Chaudhuri and
Michael. D. Perlman Consistent estimation of the minimum
normal mean under the tree-order
restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3317--3335
Ka Lok Chu and
Jarkko Isotalo and
Simo Puntanen and
George P. H. Styan The efficiency factorization multiplier
for the Watson efficiency in partitioned
linear models: Some examples and a
literature review . . . . . . . . . . . 3336--3351
Arthur Cohen and
John Kolassa and
Harold B. Sackrowitz A smooth version of the step-up
procedure for multiple tests of
hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3352--3360
Noel Cressie and
Bruce E. Buxton and
Catherine A. Calder and
Peter F. Craigmile and
Crystal Dong and
Nancy J. McMillan and
Michele Morara and
Thomas J. Santner and
Ke Wang and
Gregory Young and
Jian Zhang From sources to biomarkers: a
hierarchical Bayesian approach for human
exposure modeling . . . . . . . . . . . 3361--3379
Abhijit Dasgupta and
Steven G. Self and
Somesh Das Gupta Non-identifiable parametric probability
models and reparametrization . . . . . . 3380--3393
Anirban DasGupta Stein's identity, Fisher information,
and projection pursuit: a triangulation 3394--3409
J. V. Deshpande and
U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar Comparing relative importance of the
same component in a series system in two
environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3410--3415
Morris L. Eaton and
Robb J. Muirhead On a multiple endpoints testing problem 3416--3429
Stephen E. Fienberg and
Alessandro Rinaldo Three centuries of categorical data
analysis: Log-linear models and maximum
likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . 3430--3445
Daniel P. Gaile and
Alan Hutson and
James Java and
Jeffrey M. Conroy and
Devin McQuaid and
Michael Rossi and
Norma J. Nowak Errors in centering of array data can
induce biases in correlation estimates 3446--3461
E. Olusegun George and
Dale Armstrong and
Paul J. Catalano and
Deo Kumar Srivastava Regression models for analyzing
clustered binary and continuous outcomes
under an assumption of exchangeability 3462--3474
Subir Ghosh and
Hongjie Deng and
Ying Luan Error sum of squares and power
comparisons for model search,
identification and discrimination . . . 3475--3482
R. Gnanadesikan and
J. R. Kettenring and
Srinivas Maloor Better alternatives to current methods
of scaling and weighting data for
cluster analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 3483--3496
Alexander Y. Gordon Explicit formulas for generalized
family-wise error rates and unimprovable
step-down multiple testing procedures 3497--3512
A. K. Gupta and
L. Pardo Phi-divergences and polytomous logistic
regression models: an overview . . . . . 3513--3524
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Rameshwar D. Gupta Proportional reversed hazard rate model
and its applications . . . . . . . . . . 3525--3536
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Debasis Kundu Generalized exponential distribution:
Existing results and some recent
developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3537--3547
W. J. Hall Efficiency of weighted averages . . . . 3548--3556
Lev B. Klebanov and
Andrei Y. Yakovlev A new approach to testing for sufficient
follow-up in cure-rate analysis . . . . 3557--3569
S. N. Lahiri and
A. Chatterjee and
T. Maiti Normal approximation to the
hypergeometric distribution in
nonstandard cases and a sub-Gaussian
Berry--Esseen theorem . . . . . . . . . 3570--3590
Ruojia Li and
Richard A. Johnson and
Sang-Hoon Cho Some properties of a linear combination
CUSUM statistic for controlling a
multivariate mean vector . . . . . . . . 3591--3600
Xiaohu Li and
Moshe Shaked A general family of univariate
stochastic orders . . . . . . . . . . . 3601--3610
A. Luoma and
T. Nummi and
Bikas K. Sinha Optimal designs in random coefficient
cubic regression models . . . . . . . . 3611--3617
Albert W. Marshall and
Ingram Olkin Characterizations of distributions
through coincidences of semiparametric
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3618--3625
Mihoko Minami Multivariate inverse Gaussian
distribution as a limit of multivariate
waiting time distributions . . . . . . . 3626--3633
Pranab K. Mitra and
Bimal K. Sinha A generalized $p$-value approach to
inference on common mean . . . . . . . . 3634--3642
Reza Modarres and
G. P. Patil Hotspot detection with bivariate data 3643--3654
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Hongyue Wang IG-symmetry and $R$-symmetry:
Interrelations and applications to the
inverse Gaussian theory . . . . . . . . 3655--3671
N. Mukhopadhyay and
S. Zacks Bounded risk estimation of linear
combinations of the location and scale
parameters in exponential distributions
under two-stage sampling . . . . . . . . 3672--3686
Junyong Park and
Jayanta K. Ghosh Persistence of plug-in rule in
classification of high dimensional
multivariate binary data . . . . . . . . 3687--3705
Richard F. Potthoff Prediction markets, Bayesian priors, and
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 3706--3721
Dingxi Qiu and
Ajit C. Tamhane A comparative study of the $k$-means
algorithm and the normal mixture model
for clustering: Univariate case . . . . 3722--3740
Pranab Kumar Sen Union-intersection principle and
constrained statistical inference . . . 3741--3752
Ashis SenGupta P3 approach to intersection-union
testing of hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 3753--3766
Jagdish N. Srivastava Further results on Hermitian algebras
derived from latin squares with
potential applications to physics and
chemistry: Unitary matrices that
diagonalize the algebras . . . . . . . . 3767--3777
Muni S. Srivastava and
Tatsuya Kubokawa Empirical Bayes regression analysis with
many regressors but fewer observations 3778--3792
Gy. Terdik and
T. Subba Rao and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka On multivariate nonlinear regression
models with stationary correlated errors 3793--3814
Gregory E. Wilding and
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Georgia D. Kollia Two sets of isotones for comparing tests
of exponentiality . . . . . . . . . . . 3815--3825
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Anonymous OBC (Editors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Viatcheslav B. Melas Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3827--3827
Alexander Andronov On nonparametric estimation of
expectation of random variables function
under dependent observations . . . . . . 3828--3837
Stefanie Biedermann and
Holger Dette and
Wei Zhu Compound optimal designs for percentile
estimation in dose-response models with
restricted design intervals . . . . . . 3838--3847
W. John Boscardin and
Xiaohong Yan and
Weng Kee Wong A reanalysis of a longitudinal
scleroderma clinical trial using
non-ignorable missingness models . . . . 3848--3858
Livio Finos and
Luigi Salmaso FDR- and FWE-controlling methods using
data-driven weights . . . . . . . . . . 3859--3870
Subir Ghosh and
Hongjie Deng and
Ying Luan Effects of noise in performance
comparisons of designs for model
identification and discrimination . . . 3871--3881
Ulrike Graßhoff and
Heiko Großmann and
Heinz Holling and
Rainer Schwabe Design optimality in multi-factor
generalized linear models in the
presence of an unrestricted quantitative
factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3882--3893
Zhezhen Jin $M$-estimation in regression models for
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3894--3903
Che Soong Kim and
Valentina Klimenok and
Sang Cheon Lee and
Alexander Dudin The \em BMAP/\em PH/1 retrial queueing
system operating in random environment 3904--3916
Panagiota Kitsantas and
Myles Hollander and
Lei M. Li Assessing the stability of
classification trees using Florida birth
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3917--3929
Johan H. Koskinen and
Tom A. B. Snijders Bayesian inference for dynamic social
network data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3930--3938
F. Mallor and
P. Mateo and
J. A. Moler A comparison between several adjustment
models to simulated teletraffic data . . 3939--3953
Simos G. Meintanis Test of fit for Marshall-Olkin
distributions with applications . . . . 3954--3963
José Antonio Moler and
Fernando Plo and
Miguel San Miguel A sequential design for a clinical trial
with a linear prognostic factor . . . . 3964--3974
Alex Sánchez and
Miquel Salicrú and
Jordi Ocaña Statistical methods for the analysis of
high-throughput data based on functional
profiles derived from the Gene Ontology 3975--3989
V. Savani and
A. Zhigljavsky Asymptotic distributions of statistics
and parameter estimates for mixed
Poisson processes . . . . . . . . . . . 3990--4002
Thomas Schmelter Considerations on group-wise identical
designs for linear mixed models . . . . 4003--4010
Ansgar Steland Weighted Dickey--Fuller processes for
detecting stationarity . . . . . . . . . 4011--4030
A. Tikhomirov and
T. Stojunina and
V. Nekrutkin Monotonous random search on a torus:
Integral upper bounds for the complexity 4031--4047
Dariusz Uci\'nski and
Barbara Bogacka A constrained optimum experimental
design problem for model discrimination
with a continuously varying factor . . . 4048--4065
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Anonymous OBC (Editors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
Sudhir Gupta and
Manohar Aggarwal and
Lih-Yuan Deng Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Holger Dette and
Andrey Pepelyshev Efficient experimental designs for
sigmoidal growth models . . . . . . . . 2--17
P. M. van de Ven On the equivalence of three estimators
for dispersion effects in unreplicated
two-level factorial designs . . . . . . 18--29
Douglas P. Wiens and
Xiaojian Xu Robust prediction and extrapolation
designs for misspecified generalized
linear regression models . . . . . . . . 30--46
Yu Ding and
Damaraju Raghavarao Hadamard matrix methods in identifying
differentially expressed genes from
microarray experiments . . . . . . . . . 47--55
A. C. Atkinson DT-optimum designs for model
discrimination and parameter estimation 56--64
Xianggui Qu and
Robert Kushler and
Theophilus Ogunyemi (M,S)-optimality in selecting factorial
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79
Chekad Sarami and
Vladimir D. Tonchev Cyclic quasi-symmetric designs and
self-orthogonal codes of length 63 . . . 80--85
Bradley Jones and
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Christopher J. Nachtsheim Bayesian $D$-optimal supersaturated
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92
Douglas P. Wiens and
Julie Zhou Robust estimators and designs for field
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--104
Yangxin Huang and
Hulin Wu Bayesian experimental design for
long-term longitudinal HIV dynamic
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--113
Stephanie M. Pickle and
Timothy J. Robinson and
Jeffrey B. Birch and
Christine M. Anderson-Cook A semi-parametric approach to robust
parameter design . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--131
T. H. Waterhouse and
D. C. Woods and
J. A. Eccleston and
S. M. Lewis Design selection criteria for
discrimination/estimation for nested
models and a binomial response . . . . . 132--144
James H. Wright Two-dimensional balanced sampling plans
excluding adjacent units . . . . . . . . 145--153
Yingfu Li and
M. L. Aggarwal Projection estimation capacity of
Hadamard designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--159
B. Bogacka and
P. Johnson and
B. Jones and
O. Volkov $D$-efficient window experimental
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--168
S. Mukhopadhyay and
A. I. Khuri Comparison of designs for multivariate
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 169--183
Kai-Tai Fang and
Yu Tang and
Jianxing Yin Lower bounds of various criteria in
experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . 184--195
Kuey Chung Choi and
Sudhir Gupta Confounded row-column designs . . . . . 196--202
Ayca Ozol-Godfrey and
Christine Anderson-Cook and
Timothy J. Robinson Fraction of design space plots for
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 203--219
Man V. M. Nguyen Some new constructions of strength 3
mixed orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . 220--233
Giovanni Pistone and
Maria-Piera Rogantin Algebraic statistics of level codings
for fractional factorial designs . . . . 234--244
T. I. Katsaounis and
A. M. Dean A survey and evaluation of methods for
determination of combinatorial
equivalence of factorial designs . . . . 245--258
H. P. Wynn Algebraic solutions to the connectivity
problem for $m$-way layouts:
Interaction-contrast aliasing . . . . . 259--271
Kashinath Chatterjee and
Angshuman Sarkar and
Dennis K. J. Lin Supersaturated designs with high
searching probability . . . . . . . . . 272--277
Min Yang and
John Stufken Optimal and efficient crossover designs
for comparing test treatments to a
control treatment under various models 278--285
William P. Orrick On the enumeration of some $D$-optimal
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--293
Nam-Ky Nguyen and
John J. Borkowski New $3$-level response surface designs
constructed from incomplete block
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--305
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Anonymous OBC (Editors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Sudhir Gupta and
Rahul Mukerjee Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Richard Simon Development and validation of biomarker
classifiers for treatment selection . . 308--320
Mohammad F. Huque and
Mohamed Alosh A flexible fixed-sequence testing method
for hierarchically ordered correlated
multiple endpoints in clinical trials 321--335
S. T. Bate and
B. Jones A review of uniform cross-over designs 336--351
Vladimir Dragalin and
Valerii Fedorov and
Yuehui Wu Adaptive designs for selecting drug
combinations based on efficacy-toxicity
response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--373
J. X. Zhu and
G. J. McLachlan and
L. Ben-Tovim Jones and
I. A. Wood On selection biases with prediction
rules formed from gene expression data 374--386
Ming-Hui Chen and
Joseph G. Ibrahim and
Yueh-Yun Chi A new class of mixture models for
differential gene expression in DNA
microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--404
Daniel Yekutieli False discovery rate control for
non-positively regression dependent test
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415
Wenyu Jiang and
John D. Kalbfleisch Permutation methods in relative risk
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 416--431
Geert Molenberghs and
Tomasz Burzykowski and
Ariel Alonso and
Pryseley Assam and
Abel Tilahun and
Marc Buyse The meta-analytic framework for the
evaluation of surrogate endpoints in
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--449
Pranab Kumar Sen Burden of bioinformatics in medical
research: Statistical perspectives and
controversies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--463
Blythe Durbin and
Sandrine Dudoit and
Mark J. van der Laan A deletion/substitution/addition
algorithm for classification neural
networks, with applications to
biomedical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--488
Yuliya Lokhnygina and
Anastasios A. Tsiatis Optimal two-stage group-sequential
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--499
Mira Park and
Jae Won Lee and
Jung Bok Lee and
Seuck Heun Song Several biplot methods applied to gene
expression data . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--515
Peter F. Thall Some geometric methods for constructing
decision criteria based on
two-dimensional parameters . . . . . . . 516--527
Sander Greenland Maximum-likelihood and closed-form
estimators of epidemiologic measures
under misclassification . . . . . . . . 528--538
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Anonymous OBC (Editors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Willem Albers and
Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg Minimum control charts . . . . . . . . . 539--551
Haipeng Shen and
Zhengyuan Zhu Efficient mean estimation in log-normal
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--567
Qihua Wang Probability density estimation with data
missing at random when covariables are
present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--587
Arne C. Bathke and
Solomon W. Harrar Nonparametric methods in multivariate
factorial designs for large number of
factor levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--610
Zhihong Xiao and
Luqin Liu Laws of iterated logarithm for
quasi-maximum likelihood estimator in
generalized linear model . . . . . . . . 611--617
Richard Huggins Some properties of a nonparametric
estimator of the size of an open
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--623
Min Yang $A$-optimal designs for generalized
linear models with two parameters . . . 624--641
Valentin Parvu and
J. P. Morgan E-optimal designs for three treatments 642--653
D. A. Bulutoglu and
F. Margot Classification of orthogonal arrays by
integer programming . . . . . . . . . . 654--666
Yuejiao Fu and
Jiahua Chen and
Pengfei Li Modified likelihood ratio test for
homogeneity in a mixture of von Mises
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--681
Sanat K. Sarkar and
Tianhui Zhou Controlling Bayes directional false
discovery rate in random effects model 682--693
Anton Schick and
Wolfgang Wefelmeyer Prediction in moving average processes 694--707
Abdelaati Daouia and
Jean-Pierre Florens and
Léopold Simar Functional convergence of quantile-type
frontiers with application to parametric
approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--725
Filipe J. Marques and
Carlos A. Coelho Near-exact distributions for the
sphericity likelihood ratio test
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--741
Howard D. Bondell A characteristic function approach to
the biased sampling model, with
application to robust logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--755
Yolanda Barbáchano and
D. Stephen Coad and
Derek R. Robinson Predictability of designs which adjust
for imbalances in prognostic factors . . 756--767
A. J. Watkins and
A. M. John On constant stress accelerated life
tests terminated by Type II censoring at
one of the stress levels . . . . . . . . 768--786
Giovanni Pistone and
Maria-Piera Rogantin Indicator function and complex coding
for mixed fractional factorial designs 787--802
Aida Toma Minimum Hellinger distance estimators
for multivariate distributions from the
Johnson system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--816
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Shuo-Jye Wu and
Ying-Po Lin and
Shyi-Tien Chen Optimal step-stress test under type I
progressive group-censoring with random
removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--826
Tiee-Jian Wu and
Huang-Yu Chen Estimation in multiple linear regression
Berkson model for processes with
uncorrelated increments . . . . . . . . 827--833
Jie Mi Order statistics and test duration . . . 834--844
N. Balakrishnan and
Anna Dembi\'nska Progressively Type-II right censored
order statistics from discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--856
M. Y. El-Bassiouni and
Taoufik Zoubeidi Adaptive interval estimation in one-way
random effects models . . . . . . . . . 857--872
M. Kateri and
N. Balakrishnan Statistical evidence in contingency
tables analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--887
Wen Cui and
Edward I. George Empirical Bayes vs. fully Bayes variable
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888--900
Yiqiang Lu Generalized partially linear
varying-coefficient models . . . . . . . 901--914
Amor Keziou and
Samuela Leoni-Aubin On empirical likelihood for
semiparametric two-sample density ratio
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--928
Kaushik Ghosh and
Ram C. Tiwari Estimating the distribution function
using $k$-tuple ranked set samples . . . 929--949
J. A. Roldán Nofuentes and
J. D. Luna del Castillo The effect of verification bias on the
comparison of predictive values of two
binary diagnostic tests . . . . . . . . 950--963
Ramesh C. Gupta and
S. N. U. A. Kirmani Characterization based on convex
conditional mean function . . . . . . . 964--970
Mariusz Bieniek Projection bounds on expectations of
generalized order statistics from DD and
DDA families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971--981
P. Vellaisamy and
V. Vijay Collapsibility of regression
coefficients and its extensions . . . . 982--994
Fang Yao Functional approach of flexibly
modelling generalized longitudinal data
and survival time . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1009
N. Balakrishnan and
A. Stepanov Asymptotic properties of numbers of near
minimum observations under progressive
Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 1010--1020
K. Triantafyllopoulos Multivariate stochastic volatility with
Bayesian dynamic linear models . . . . . 1021--1037
Marina S. Paez and
Dani Gamerman and
Flávia M. P. F. Landim and
Esther Salazar Spatially varying dynamic coefficient
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038--1058
Yuri V. Borovskikh and
N. C. Weber Berry--Esseen type bounds for trimmed
$U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1071
Sanat K. Sarkar Two-stage stepup procedures controlling
FDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072--1084
C. Devon Lin and
R. R. Sitter An isomorphism check for two-level
fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 1085--1101
Pankaj K. Choudhary A tolerance interval approach for
assessment of agreement in method
comparison studies with repeated
measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102--1115
Legesse Kassa Debusho and
Linda M. Haines $v$- and $D$-optimal population designs
for the simple linear regression model
with a random intercept term . . . . . . 1116--1130
Fentaw Abegaz and
U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar Modeling statistical dependence of
Markov chains via copula models . . . . 1131--1146
Gwo Dong Lin and
Chin-Yuan Hu On characterizations of the logistic
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1156
Mark Bebbington and
Chin-Diew Lai and
Ricardas Zitikis Estimating the turning point of a
bathtub-shaped failure distribution . . 1157--1166
José A. Adell and
Alberto Lekuona Shortening the distance between
Edgeworth and Berry--Esseen in the
classical case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1178
Mathias Drton and
Michael D. Perlman A SINful approach to Gaussian graphical
model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1200
Radoslav Harman Equivalence theorem for Schur optimality
of experimental designs . . . . . . . . 1201--1209
Sonia Malefaki and
George Iliopoulos On convergence of properly weighted
samples to the target distribution . . . 1210--1225
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Hidetoshi Shimodaira Testing regions with nonsmooth
boundaries via multiscale bootstrap . . 1227--1241
Jorge Navarro Likelihood ratio ordering of order
statistics, mixtures and systems . . . . 1242--1257
Luca Greco and
Walter Racugno and
Laura Ventura Robust likelihood functions in Bayesian
inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258--1270
Michael Goldstein and
Allan Seheult Prior viability assessment for Bayesian
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1286
Célestin C. Kokonendji and
Dominique Miz\`ere and
N. Balakrishnan Connections of the Poisson weight
function to overdispersion and
underdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287--1296
Anurag Prasad and
Debasis Kundu and
Amit Mitra Sequential estimation of the sum of
sinusoidal model parameters . . . . . . 1297--1313
N. Balakrishnan and
Ram C. Tripathi and
Nandini Kannan On the joint distribution of placement
statistics under progressive censoring
and applications to precedence test . . 1314--1324
T. Li and
N. Balakrishnan Some simple nonparametric methods to
test for perfect ranking in ranked set
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325--1338
Douglas P. Wiens and
Xiaojian Xu Robust designs for one-point
extrapolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339--1357
Jyh-Cherng Su and
Nan-Cheng Su and
Wen-Jang Huang Characterizations based on record values
and order statistics . . . . . . . . . . 1358--1367
Richard Charnigo and
Jiayang Sun Testing homogeneity in discrete mixtures 1368--1388
Jean Diebolt and
Laurent Gardes and
Stéphane Girard and
Armelle Guillou Bias-reduced extreme quantile estimators
of Weibull tail-distributions . . . . . 1389--1401
Pierre Dutilleul and
Bernard Pelletier and
Gülhan Alpargu Modified $F$ tests for assessing the
multiple correlation between one spatial
process and several others . . . . . . . 1402--1415
Laurent Gardes and
Stéphane Girard Estimation of the Weibull
tail-coefficient with linear combination
of upper order statistics . . . . . . . 1416--1427
Lionel Qualité A comparison of conditional Poisson
sampling versus unequal probability
sampling with replacement . . . . . . . 1428--1432
Maochao Xu and
Xiaohu Li Negative dependence in frailty models 1433--1441
Gunky Kim and
Mervyn J. Silvapulle and
Paramsothy Silvapulle Estimating the error distribution in
multivariate heteroscedastic time-series
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1442--1458
Santosh C. Sutradhar and
Nagaraj K. Neerchal and
Jorge G. Morel A goodness-of-fit test for overdispersed
binomial (or multinomial) models . . . . 1459--1471
Guijun Yang and
Neil A. Butler Grid representations for $ 2_{\rm IV}^{m
- (m - k)} $ join designs containing
maximum number of clear two-factor
interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1472--1478
M. P. Frías and
F. J. Alonso and
M. D. Ruiz-Medina and
J. M. Angulo Semiparametric estimation of spatial
long-range dependence . . . . . . . . . 1479--1495
Cédric Heuchenne Strong uniform consistency results of
the weighted average of conditional
artificial data points . . . . . . . . . 1496--1515
Lirong Cui and
Alan G. Hawkes A note on the proof for the optimal
consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$:$G$ line for
$ n \leq 2 k$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1516--1520
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Jianjun (David) Li A two-step rejection procedure for
testing multiple hypotheses . . . . . . 1521--1527
Pei-Sheng Lin Efficiency of quasi-likelihood
estimation for spatially correlated
binary data on $ L_p $ spaces . . . . . 1528--1541
Tianyue Zhou and
Xuming He Three-step estimation in linear mixed
models with skew- $t$ distributions . . 1542--1555
Enrique Castillo and
Carmen Castillo and
Ali S. Hadi Sensitivity analysis in ordered and
restricted parameter models . . . . . . 1556--1576
Pierpaolo Brutti and
Fulvio De Santis Robust Bayesian sample size
determination for avoiding the range of
equivalence in clinical trials . . . . . 1577--1591
Brian J. Reich and
James S. Hodges Identification of the variance
components in the general two-variance
linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1592--1604
Helle Sòrensen Small sample distribution of the
likelihood ratio test in the random
effects model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605--1614
Hira L. Koul and
Weixing Song Regression model checking with Berkson
measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 1615--1628
Nigel Stallard and
Susan Todd and
John Whitehead Estimation following selection of the
largest of two normal means . . . . . . 1629--1638
Christos Koukouvinos and
Kalliopi Mylona and
Dimitris E. Simos $ E(s^2) $-optimal and minimax-optimal
cyclic supersaturated designs via
multi-objective simulated annealing . . 1639--1646
M. Burkschat On optimality of extremal schemes in
progressive type II censoring . . . . . 1647--1659
Weihua Zhou and
Robert Serfling Multivariate spatial $U$-quantiles: a
Bahadur--Kiefer representation, a
Theil--Sen estimator for multiple
regression, and a robust dispersion
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1660--1678
Vassilis Karagiannis and
Chronis Moyssiadis A graphical construction of the
$D$-optimal saturated, 3$ \times $ s2
main effect, factorial design . . . . . 1679--1696
Marie Husková and
Claudia Kirch and
Zuzana Prásková and
Josef Steinebach On the detection of changes in
autoregressive time series, II.
Resampling procedures . . . . . . . . . 1697--1721
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and
Somnath Datta Testing equality of survival
distributions when the population marks
are missing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1722--1732
A. V. Ivanov and
N. N. Leonenko Semiparametric analysis of long-range
dependence in nonlinear regression . . . 1733--1753
Dursun A. Bulutoglu and
Kenneth J. Ryan $ E(s^2) $-optimal supersaturated
designs with good minimax properties
when $N$ is odd . . . . . . . . . . . . 1754--1762
Jiaqiao Hu and
Zheng Su Adaptive resampling algorithms for
estimating bootstrap distributions . . . 1763--1777
Magnus Ekström Alternatives to maximum likelihood
estimation based on spacings and the
Kullback--Leibler divergence . . . . . . 1778--1791
Alessandro Baldi Antognini A theoretical analysis of the power of
biased coin designs . . . . . . . . . . 1792--1798
S. J. Hatjispyros and
Theodoros Nicoleris and
Stephen G. Walker Bivariate prior distributions via
branching exchangeable sequences . . . . 1799--1816
Peter Hall and
Xiaoyan Leng and
Hans-Georg Müller Weighted-bootstrap alignment of
explanatory variables . . . . . . . . . 1817--1827
Daniele De Martini and
Fabio Rapallo On multivariate smoothed bootstrap
consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1828--1835
Hanxiang Peng and
Shaoli Wang and
Xueqin Wang Consistency and asymptotic distribution
of the Theil--Sen estimator . . . . . . 1836--1850
Jan Beirlant and
Fernanda Figueiredo and
M. Ivette Gomes and
Björn Vandewalle Improved reduced-bias tail index and
quantile estimators . . . . . . . . . . 1851--1870
Jianhui Zhou and
Zhongyi Zhu and
Wing K. Fung Robust testing with generalized partial
linear models for longitudinal data . . 1871--1883
Joshua M. Tebbs and
Scott A. Roths New large-sample confidence intervals
for a linear combination of binomial
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1884--1893
Lajos Horváth and
Zsuzsanna Horváth and
Wang Zhou Confidence bands for ROC curves . . . . 1894--1904
Jing Xu and
Jinde Wang Two-stage estimation of
inequality-constrained marginal linear
models with longitudinal data . . . . . 1905--1918
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John Ritz and
Eugene Demidenko and
Donna Spiegelman Multivariate meta-analysis for data
consortia, individual patient
meta-analysis, and pooling projects . . 1919--1933
Robert L. Paige and
A. Alexandre Trindade Practical small sample inference for
single lag subset autoregressive models 1934--1949
Gang Li and
Dibyen Majumdar $D$-optimal designs for logistic models
with three and four parameters . . . . . 1950--1959
Nizam Uddin Optimal block designs for three
treatments when observations are
correlated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1960--1966
Zhiqiang Tan Monte Carlo integration with Markov
chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1967--1980
Willem Kruijer and
Aad van der Vaart Posterior convergence rates for
Dirichlet mixtures of beta densities . . 1981--1992
Eugen Paltanea On the comparison in hazard rate
ordering of fail-safe systems . . . . . 1993--1997
David M. Zucker and
Malka Gorfine and
Li Hsu Pseudo-full likelihood estimation for
prospective survival analysis with a
general semiparametric shared frailty
model: Asymptotic theory . . . . . . . . 1998--2016
Malay Ghosh and
Myung Joon Kim and
Dal Ho Kim Constrained Bayes and empirical Bayes
estimation under random effects normal
ANOVA model with balanced loss function 2017--2028
Molin Wang and
John J. Hanfelt Robust modified profile estimating
function with application to the
generalized estimating equation . . . . 2029--2044
Xiaoqian Sun and
Xian Zhou and
Jinglong Wang Confidence intervals for the scale
parameter of exponential distribution
based on Type II doubly censored samples 2045--2058
Chien-Hua Wu and
Shu-Mei Wan and
Mei-Chi Li Randomized response model in a matched
pair study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2059--2066
Krishna K. Saha Analysis of one-way layout of count data
in the presence of over or under
dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2067--2081
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Lili Tian Inferences on the difference and ratio
of the means of two inverse Gaussian
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2082--2089
Peter Congdon A spatial structural equation model for
health outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2090--2105
Thomas Mathew and
Yanping Wu Pilot-pivotal trials for average
bioequivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2106--2116
Mark E. Glickman Bayesian locally optimal design of
knockout tournaments . . . . . . . . . . 2117--2127
Changxiang Rui and
Victor De Oliveira Point and block prediction in
log-Gaussian random fields: the
non-constant mean case . . . . . . . . . 2128--2142
Yongtao Guan A marked point process perspective in
fitting spatial point process models . . 2143--2153
Karen Messer and
Anthony Gamst The asymptotic distribution of the
delete-$d$ Jackknife variance estimator
for smooth functionals . . . . . . . . . 2154--2162
L. Pardo and
M. L. Menéndez On some pre-test and Stein-rule
phi-divergence test estimators in the
independence model of categorical data 2163--2179
Yong-Li Xu and
Di-Rong Chen Learning rates of regularized regression
for exponentially strongly mixing
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2180--2189
P. Yageen Thomas and
N. V. Sreekumar Estimation of location and scale
parameters of a distribution by
$U$-statistics based on best linear
functions of order statistics . . . . . 2190--2200
A. S. Hedayat and
Zhiwu Yan Crossover designs based on type I
orthogonal arrays for a self and simple
mixed carryover effects model with
correlated errors . . . . . . . . . . . 2201--2213
Taizhong Hu and
Huaihou Chen Dependence properties of order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2214--2222
Claudia Tarantola and
Guido Consonni and
Petros Dellaportas Bayesian clustering for row effects
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2223--2235
M. Behbahani and
G. B. Khosrovshahi and
B. Tayfeh-Rezaie On the spectrum of simple $ T(2, 3, v) $
trades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2236--2242
Baha-Eldin Khaledi and
S. Saeed Ahmadi On stochastic comparison between
aggregate claim amounts . . . . . . . . 2243--2251
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Ch. A. Charalambides and
Tomasz Rychlik Distributions and moments of record
values in a sequence of maximally
dependent random variables . . . . . . . 2253--2266
Gisela Tunes-da-Silva and
Pranab K. Sen and
Antonio Carlos Pedroso-de-Lima Estimation of the mean quality-adjusted
survival using a multistate model for
the sojourn times . . . . . . . . . . . 2267--2282
Yongsong Qin and
J. N. K. Rao and
Qunshu Ren Confidence intervals for marginal
parameters under imputation for item
nonresponse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2283--2302
Hee-Seok Oh and
Hyoung-Moon Kim Bayesian automatic polynomial wavelet
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2303--2312
Dimitris Karlis and
Valentin Patilea Bootstrap confidence intervals in
mixtures of discrete distributions . . . 2313--2329
Yong-Dao Zhou and
Jian-Hui Ning Lower bounds of the wrap-around $ L_2
$-discrepancy and relationships between
MLHD and uniform design with a large
size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2330--2339
Tsai-Hung Fan and
Wan-Lun Wang and
N. Balakrishnan Exponential progressive step-stress
life-testing with link function based on
Box--Cox transformation . . . . . . . . 2340--2354
Cheng Peng and
Biao Zhang A note on goodness-of-fit test of
continuation ratio logistic regression
models under case-control data . . . . . 2355--2365
Lee-Shen Chen Selection of the best Bernoulli
population provided it is better than a
control: an empirical Bayes approach . . 2366--2379
Alex Tsodikov and
Solomon Chefo Generalized self-consistency:
Multinomial logit model and Poisson
likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2380--2397
L. Barabesi A design-based randomized response
procedure for the estimation of
population proportion and sensitivity
level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2398--2408
Gert De Cooman and
Enrique Miranda Weak and strong laws of large numbers
for coherent lower previsions . . . . . 2409--2432
Forrest R. Miller and
James W. Neill General lack of fit tests based on
families of groupings . . . . . . . . . 2433--2449
Petra Buzková and
Thomas Lumley Semiparametric log-linear regression for
longitudinal measurements subject to
outcome-dependent follow-up . . . . . . 2450--2461
David D. Hanagal Frailty regression models in mixture
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2462--2468
Denis Larocque and
Jaakko Nevalainen and
Hannu Oja One-sample location tests for multilevel
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2469--2482
Marco Di Marzio and
Charles C. Taylor On boosting kernel regression . . . . . 2483--2498
Delphine Cassart and
Marc Hallin and
Davy Paindaveine Optimal detection of Fechner-asymmetry 2499--2525
Arnold Janssen and
Hülya Ünlü Regions of alternatives with high and
low power for goodness-of-fit tests . . 2526--2543
S. Baratpour and
J. Ahmadi and
N. R. Arghami Characterizations based on Rényi entropy
of order statistics and record values 2544--2551
Anna Dembi\'nska and
N. Balakrishnan The asymptotic distribution of numbers
of observations near order statistics 2552--2562
Robert G. McLeod Optimal block sequences for blocked
fractional factorial split-plot designs 2563--2573
Xin Gao and
Mayer Alvo and
Jie Chen and
Gang Li Nonparametric multiple comparison
procedures for unbalanced one-way
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 2574--2591
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Tze Leung Lai and
Ingram Olkin and
Raja Velu Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Jr. . . . . . 2593--2594
Anthony C. Atkinson Examples of the use of an equivalence
theorem in constructing optimum
experimental designs for random-effects
nonlinear regression models . . . . . . 2595--2606
David R. Brillinger Extending the volatility concept to
point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2607--2614
Arthur Cohen and
H. B. Sackrowitz and
Minya Xu The use of an identity in Anderson for
multivariate multiple testing . . . . . 2615--2621
Richard W. Cottle and
Ingram Olkin Estimating ordered parameters by linear
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2622--2633
Yanming Di and
Michael D. Perlman Detecting linear sequences and
subsequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2634--2648
Firmin Doko and
Jean-Marie Dufour Instrument endogeneity and
identification-robust tests: Some
analytical results . . . . . . . . . . . 2649--2661
Morgan Evans and
Robert Perlmutter and
Larry Shepp Representing a function of two variables
as a superposition over angles of ridge
functions with a given shape via linear
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2662--2680
Leo A. Goodman To split or not to split the US Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals: a simple
statistical argument, counterargument,
and critique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2681--2687
Peter Reinhard Hansen Reduced-rank regression: a useful
determinant identity . . . . . . . . . . 2688--2697
Cheng Hsiao and
A. K. Tahmiscioglu Estimation of dynamic panel data models
with both individual and time-specific
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2698--2721
Jarkko Isotalo and
Simo Puntanen and
George P. H. Styan The BLUE's covariance matrix revisited:
a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2722--2737
Sòren Johansen and
Anders Rygh Swensen Exact rational expectations,
cointegration, and reduced rank
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2738--2748
Satoshi Kuriki and
Akimichi Takemura The tube method for the moment index in
projection pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . 2749--2762
Tze Leung Lai and
Dylan S. Small and
Jia Liu Statistical inference in dynamic panel
data models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2763--2776
Emanuel Parzen United statistics, confidence quantiles,
Bayesian statistics . . . . . . . . . . 2777--2785
Joseph P. Romano and
Azeem M. Shaikh Inference for identifiable parameters in
partially identified econometric models 2786--2807
Paul Shaman Properties of generalized
Levinson--Durbin-Whittle sequences . . . 2808--2814
D. O. Siegmund and
B. Yakir Minimax optimality of the
Shiryayev--Roberts change-point
detection rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2815--2825
Ruey S. Tsay and
Shiqing Ling Canonical correlation analysis for the
vector AR(1) model with ARCH innovations 2826--2836
Raja Velu and
Joseph Richards Seemingly unrelated reduced-rank
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2837--2846
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Man Sik Park and
Montserrat Fuentes Testing lack of symmetry in
spatial-temporal processes . . . . . . . 2847--2866
Michael Falk and
Armelle Guillou and
Gwladys Toulemonde A LAN based Neyman smooth test for
Pareto distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2867--2886
M. C. Jones and
Heungsun Park and
Key-Il Shin and
S. K. Vines and
Seok-Oh Jeong Relative error prediction via kernel
regression smoothers . . . . . . . . . . 2887--2898
Yanqing Yi and
Xikui Wang Asymptotically efficient estimation in
response adaptive trials . . . . . . . . 2899--2905
Georgy Shevlyakov and
Stephan Morgenthaler and
Alexander Shurygin Redescending $M$-estimators . . . . . . 2906--2917
Nora Muler and
Victor J. Yohai Robust estimates for GARCH models . . . 2918--2940
Eric J. Beh Correspondence analysis of aggregate
data: the 2$ \times $2 table . . . . . . 2941--2952
Ao Yuan Some practical issues of adaptive GPU
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2953--2974
Christian H. Weiß Serial dependence and regression of
Poisson INARMA models . . . . . . . . . 2975--2990
Edward J. Stanek III and
Julio M. Singer Predicting random effects with an
expanded finite population mixed model 2991--3004
Holger Dette and
Mareen Marchlewski A test for the parametric form of the
variance function in a partial linear
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3005--3021
Ola Hössjer On the coefficient of determination for
mixed regression models . . . . . . . . 3022--3038
M. C. Jones On reciprocal symmetry . . . . . . . . . 3039--3043
Maria Carmen Iglesias-Pérez and
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez Nonparametric estimation of the
conditional distribution function in a
semiparametric censorship model . . . . 3044--3058
Ruggero Bellio and
Luca Greco and
Laura Ventura Modified quasi-profile likelihoods from
estimating functions . . . . . . . . . . 3059--3068
Yonina C. Eldar and
Jacob Slava Chernoi A pre-test like estimator dominating the
least-squares method . . . . . . . . . . 3069--3085
Jesse Frey Optimal distribution-free confidence
bands for a distribution function . . . 3086--3098
Xiaomi Hu and
Jürgen Hansohm Merge and chop in the computation for
isotonic regressions . . . . . . . . . . 3099--3106
C. Devon Lin and
A. Miller and
R. R. Sitter Folded over non-orthogonal designs . . . 3107--3124
Jayanta Kumar Pal and
Moulinath Banerjee Estimation of smooth regression
functions in monotone response models 3125--3143
Murari Mitra and
M. Z. Anis An $L$-statistic approach to a test of
exponentiality against IFR alternatives 3144--3148
Samuel S. Wu and
Weizhen Wang A note on step-up test in orthogonal
saturated designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3149--3156
Neil A. Butler Defining equations for two-level
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3157--3163
T. Y. Lin and
C. T. Liao Prediction intervals for general
balanced linear random models . . . . . 3164--3175
Wenge Guo and
M. Bhaskara Rao On control of the false discovery rate
under no assumption of dependency . . . 3176--3188
Lei Shi and
Gemai Chen Detection of outliers in multilevel
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3189--3199
Isabella Rodica Ghement and
Marcelo Ruiz and
Ruben Zamar Robust estimation of error scale in
nonparametric regression models . . . . 3200--3216
Michael Kohler Multivariate orthogonal series estimates
for random design regression . . . . . . 3217--3237
Xuewen Lu and
M. D. Burke Nonparametric estimation of linear
functionals of a bivariate distribution
under univariate censoring . . . . . . . 3238--3256
Xu-Qing Liu and
Jian-Ying Rong and
Yu-Ming Zhuang On quadratic prediction problems in
finite populations . . . . . . . . . . . 3257--3268
David I. Warton Which Wald statistic? Choosing a
parameterization of the Wald statistic
to maximize power in $k$-sample
generalized estimating equations . . . . 3269--3282
T. M. Durairajan and
Martin L. William Optimal estimating function for
estimation and prediction in
semi-parametric models . . . . . . . . . 3283--3292
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T. Hayakawa and
S. Kageyama and
M. L. Puri Special issue in Honour of Junjiro Ogawa
(1915--2000): Design of experiments,
multivariate analysis and statistical
inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3293--3293
Jagdish Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3294--3294
Sanpei Kageyama Non-validity of affine $ \alpha
$-resolvability in regular group
divisible designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3295--3298
Bo Jin and
J. P. Morgan Optimal saturated block designs when
observations are correlated . . . . . . 3299--3308
Shintaro Yagi and
Kentaro Mimura and
Masakazu Jimbo A construction of OA(st,t+1,s,t) by
nonlinear functions and some
classification for s=4 . . . . . . . . . 3309--3315
C. C. Lindner and
Antoinette Tripodi The metamorphosis of $ \lambda $-fold $
K_4 - e $ designs into maximum packings
of $ \lambda K_n $ with $4$-cycles, $
\lambda \geq 2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 3316--3325
James H. Wright and
John Stufken New balanced sampling plans excluding
adjacent units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3326--3335
A. S. Hedayat and
Guoqin Su and
W. Elane Streets Statistical scoring procedures
applicable to laboratory performance
evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3336--3349
Tadeusz Cali\'nski and
Sanpei Kageyama On the analysis of experiments in affine
resolvable designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3350--3356
Satoshi Kuriki and
Akimichi Takemura Euler characteristic heuristic for
approximating the distribution of the
largest eigenvalue of an orthogonally
invariant random matrix . . . . . . . . 3357--3378
Yoshihide Kakizawa and
Toshiya Iwashita Hotelling's one-sample and two-sample $
T^2 $ tests and the multivariate
Behrens--Fisher problem under
nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3379--3404
Hiroshi Kurata On principal points for location
mixtures of spherically symmetric
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3405--3418
Junjiro Ogawa and
Ingram Olkin A tale of two countries: the
Craig--Sakamoto--Matusita theorem . . . 3419--3428
Hidehiko Kamiya and
Akimichi Takemura and
Satoshi Kuriki Star-shaped distributions and their
generalizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 3429--3447
Takashi Seo and
Takahiro Nishiyama On the conservative simultaneous
confidence procedures for multiple
comparisons among mean vectors . . . . . 3448--3456
Yasunori Fujikoshi and
Tetsuto Himeno and
Hirofumi Wakaki Asymptotic results in canonical
discriminant analysis when the dimension
is large compared to the sample size . . 3457--3466
Tejas A. Desai and
Pranab K. Sen Information attainable in some randomly
incomplete multivariate response models 3467--3482
Shohei Shimizu and
Yutaka Kano Use of non-normality in structural
equation modeling: Application to
direction of causation . . . . . . . . . 3483--3491
Sigeo Aki and
Katuomi Hirano Waiting time distributions for a run
with additional constraints . . . . . . 3492--3501
Shinto Eguchi and
Takemi Yanagimoto Asymptotical improvement of maximum
likelihood estimators on
Kullback--Leibler loss . . . . . . . . . 3502--3511
N. Balakrishnan and
T. Li Ordered ranked set samples and
applications to inference . . . . . . . 3512--3524
Katsuto Tanaka On the distribution of quadratic
functionals of the ordinary and
fractional Brownian motions . . . . . . 3525--3537
Shogo Kato and
Kunio Shimizu Dependent models for observations which
include angular ones . . . . . . . . . . 3538--3549
Srikanth K. Iyer and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Debasis Kundu Analysis of middle-censored data with
exponential lifetime distributions . . . 3550--3560
Zhenkui Zhang and
Joseph Glaz Bayesian variable window scan statistics 3561--3567
Hiroyuki Taniai and
Masanobu Taniguchi Statistical estimation errors of VaR
under ARCH returns . . . . . . . . . . . 3568--3577
Lajos Horváth and
Piotr Kokoszka and
Ricardas Zitikis Distributional analysis of empirical
volatility in GARCH processes . . . . . 3578--3589
Vytaras Brazauskas and
Bruce L. Jones and
Madan L. Puri and
Ricardas Zitikis Estimating conditional tail expectation
with actuarial applications in view . . 3590--3604
James C. Fu and
W. Y. Wendy Lou Distribution of the length of the
longest common subsequence of two
multi-state biological sequences . . . . 3605--3615
Tomohiro Ando and
Sadanori Konishi and
Seiya Imoto Nonlinear regression modeling via
regularized radial basis function
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3616--3633
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Anonymous OBC (Editors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Fernando López-Blázquez and
Tomasz Rychlik Sharp upper bounds for the expected
values of non-extreme order statistics
from discrete distributions . . . . . . 3635--3646
Agnieszka Goroncy and
Tomasz Rychlik Lower bounds on expectations of positive
$L$-statistics from without-replacement
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3647--3659
Mohammad Z. Raqab and
Majid Asadi On the mean residual life of records . . 3660--3666
Kristi Kuljus and
Dietrich von Rosen Rank covariance matrix estimation of a
partially known covariance matrix . . . 3667--3673
Xin Gao and
Mayer Alvo Nonparametric multiple comparison
procedures for unbalanced two-way
layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3674--3686
José A. Adell and
José M. Anoz Signed binomial approximation of
binomial mixtures via differential
calculus for linear operators . . . . . 3687--3695
S. H. Ong and
Rahul Mukerjee Interval estimation of the population
mean under model uncertainty: Robust
versus empirical statistics . . . . . . 3696--3704
Bo Hu and
Jun Shao Generalized linear model selection using
$ R^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3705--3712
Paolo Vidoni Improved predictive model selection . . 3713--3721
S. G. Meintanis and
Ya. Yu. Nikitin A class of count models and a new
consistent test for the Poisson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3722--3732
K. F. Cheng and
C. K. Chu A local likelihood method for estimating
relative risk functions in case-control
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3733--3748
Ashish Das and
Aloke Dey and
Ling-Yau Chan and
Kashinath Chatterjee On $ E(s^2) $-optimal supersaturated
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3749--3757
Luisa Cutillo and
Yoon Young Jung and
Fabrizio Ruggeri and
Brani Vidakovic Larger posterior mode wavelet
thresholding and applications . . . . . 3758--3773
Jiahua Chen and
Yongsong Qin Test for homogeneity in Hardy-Weinberg
normal mixture model . . . . . . . . . . 3774--3788
Marco Giordan and
Giancarlo Diana Tests for the equality of multinomial
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3789--3796
Jesús López-Fidalgo and
Chiara Tommasi and
Paula Camelia Trandafir Optimal designs for discriminating
between some extensions of the
Michaelis--Menten model . . . . . . . . 3797--3804
Alexander N. Donev and
Randy Tobias and
Farinaz Monadjemi Cost-cautious designs for confirmatory
bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3805--3812
Gregory E. Wilding and
Govind S. Mudholkar A gamma goodness-of-fit test based on
characteristic independence of the mean
and coefficient of variation . . . . . . 3813--3821
T. Hobza and
L. Pardo and
I. Vajda Robust median estimator in logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3822--3840
Dominique Fourdrinier and
Idir Ouassou and
William E. Strawderman Estimation of a mean vector under
quartic loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3841--3857
Colin Gallagher and
Ferebee Tunno A small sample confidence interval for
autoregressive parameters . . . . . . . 3858--3868
Frédérique Letué A semiparametric shock model for a pair
of event-related dependent censored
failure times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3869--3884
Manuel Salvador and
Pilar Gargallo Bayesian monitoring of local residual
autocorrelations taking into account the
run-length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3885--3898
K. Zografos On some entropy and divergence type
measures of variability and dependence
for mixed continuous and discrete
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3899--3914
Pierre Bunouf and
Bruno Lecoutre On Bayesian estimators in multistage
binomial designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 3915--3926
Christian Gagné and
Pierre Duchesne On robust forecasting in dynamic vector
time series models . . . . . . . . . . . 3927--3938
Lexin Li and
Chih-Ling Tsai Constrained regression model selection 3939--3949
Abram Kagan and
Bing Li An identity for the Fisher information
and Mahalanobis distance . . . . . . . . 3950--3959
Alex J. Koning and
Liang Peng Goodness-of-fit tests for a heavy tailed
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3960--3981
Thomas Mathew and
Gitanjali Paul A $p$-value for testing the equivalence
of the variances of a bivariate normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3982--3992
Kurex Sidik and
Jeffrey N. Jonkman Estimation using non-central
hypergeometric distributions in
combining 2$ \times $2 tables . . . . . 3993--4005
P. Martínez-Camblor and
J. De Uña-Álvarez and
N. Corral $k$-Sample test based on the common area
of kernel density estimators . . . . . . 4006--4020
Tetsuji Ohyama and
Jimmy A. Doi and
Takashi Yanagawa Estimating population characteristics by
incorporating prior values in stratified
random sampling/ranked set sampling . . 4021--4032
Caiya Zhang and
Zhengyan Lin On asymptotic properties of the
parameter estimator for a type of SPDE 4033--4040
Pao-Sheng Shen and
Ya-Fang Yan Nonparametric estimation of the
bivariate survival function with
left-truncated and right-censored data 4041--4054
Hui-Qiong Li and
Nian-Sheng Tang and
Liu-Cang Wu Statistical analysis of non-inferiority
via non-zero risk difference in
stratified matched-pair studies . . . . 4055--4067
Ruby C. Weng and
Wen-Chi Tsai Asymptotic posterior normality for
multiparameter problems . . . . . . . . 4068--4080
Julie Zhou $D$-optimal minimax regression designs
on discrete design space . . . . . . . . 4081--4092
Joe Masaro and
Chi Song Wong $D$-optimal designs for correlated
random vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4093--4106
Henry W. Block and
Thomas H. Savits and
Jie Wang Negative dependence and the Simes
inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4107--4110
Yuanyuan Liu and
Qingde Kang The existence of perfect $ T(K_{1, 2p})
$-triple systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 4111--4131
Guodong Xing and
Shanchao Yang Notes on the exponential inequalities
for strictly stationary and positively
associated random variables . . . . . . 4132--4140
Taisuke Otsu Optimal experimental design criterion
for discriminating semiparametric models 4141--4150
Jie Chen and
Min-Qian Liu Optimal mixed-level $k$-circulant
supersaturated designs . . . . . . . . . 4151--4157
Barry C. Arnold and
Enrique Castillo and
José María Sarabia Multivariate distributions defined in
terms of contours . . . . . . . . . . . 4158--4171
N. Balakrishnan and
Donghoon Han Exact inference for a simple step-stress
model with competing risks for failure
from exponential distribution under
Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 4172--4186
A. Jamalizadeh and
N. Balakrishnan On order statistics from bivariate
skew-normal and skew-$ t_\nu $
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4187--4197
F. Franek and
A. Rosa Corrigendum to: `` Two-factorizations of
small complete graphs'': J. Statist.
Plann. Inference \bf 86 (2000), 435--442 4198--4198
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Anonymous OBC (Editors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
Anonymous Special Issue on Metaheuristics,
Combinatorial Optimization and Design of
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Christos Koukouvinos and
Ilias Kotsireas Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
Adeniyi J. Adewale and
Douglas P. Wiens Robust designs for misspecified logistic
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--15
Dursun A. Bulutoglu and
Kenneth J. Ryan $D$-optimal and near $D$-optimal $ 2^k $
fractional factorial designs of
resolution $V$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--22
Neil A. Butler Two-level supersaturated designs for 2k
runs and other cases . . . . . . . . . . 23--29
Jean-Jacques Garroi and
Peter Goos and
Kenneth Sörensen A variable-neighbourhood search
algorithm for finding optimal run orders
in the presence of serial correlation 30--44
Bradley A. Jones and
William Li and
Christopher J. Nachtsheim and
Kenny Q. Ye Model-robust supersaturated and
partially supersaturated designs . . . . 45--53
Chien-Tai Lin and
Sam J. S. Wu and
N. Balakrishnan Planning life tests with progressively
Type-I interval censored data from the
lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . 54--61
Luis B. Morales Constructing $1$-rotational NRDFs
through an optimization approach: new
(46,9,8), (51,10,9) and (55,9,8)-NRBDs 62--68
Robert A. Walker and
Charles J. Colbourn Tabu search for covering arrays using
permutation vectors . . . . . . . . . . 69--80
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Anonymous OBC (Editors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . obc--obc
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--vi
Kazuyoshi Yata and
Makoto Aoshima Double shrink methodologies to determine
the sample size via covariance
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--99
Simos G. Meintanis Goodness-of-fit tests and minimum
distance estimation via optimal
transformation to uniformity . . . . . . 100--108
Nicoleta Serban Clustering confidence sets . . . . . . . 109--124
Taraneh Abarin and
Liqun Wang Second-order least squares estimation of
censored regression models . . . . . . . 125--135
Dejian Lai Testing spatial randomness based on
empirical distribution function: a study
on lattice data . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--142
A. Hassairi and
M. Louati Multivariate stable exponential families
and Tweedie scale . . . . . . . . . . . 143--158
Czes\law St\kepniak Perfect linear models and perfect
parametric functions . . . . . . . . . . 159--163
Jiexiang Li and
Lanh Tat Tran Nonparametric estimation of conditional
expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--175
Ori Davidov and
George Iliopoulos On the existence and uniqueness of the
NPMLE in biased sampling models . . . . 176--183
Eustasio del Barrio and
Arnold Janssen and
Carlos Matrán Resampling schemes with low resampling
intensity and their applications in
testing hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . 184--202
Jixian Wang and
Byron Jones Optimal cross-over designs for nonlinear
mixed models using a first-order
expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--212
Isabel Fraga Alves and
Laurens de Haan and
Cláudia Neves A test procedure for detecting
super-heavy tails . . . . . . . . . . . 213--227
K. Mattheou and
S. Lee and
A. Karagrigoriou A model selection criterion based on the
BHHJ measure of divergence . . . . . . . 228--235
Lu-Hung Chen and
Ming-Yen Cheng and
Liang Peng Conditional variance estimation in
heteroscedastic regression models . . . 236--245
Chandan Saha and
Michael P. Jones Bias in the last observation carried
forward method under informative dropout 246--255
Gert de Cooman and
Enrique Miranda Forward irrelevance . . . . . . . . . . 256--276
Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and
Yusef Abdallah Diab Estimation of the parameters of
Downton's bivariate exponential
distribution using ranked set sampling
scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286
Rafal Kulik Empirical process of long-range
dependent sequences when parameters are
estimated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--294
Hisayuki Tsukuma and
Tatsuya Kubokawa Minimax estimation of normal precisions
via expansion estimators . . . . . . . . 295--309
Yang Zhao Likelihood methods in randomized trials
with noncompliance and subsequent
nonresponse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--316
Jean-François Dupuy and
Eve Leconte A study of regression calibration in a
partially observed stratified Cox model 317--328
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu and
P. Ah-Kine A ray method of confidence band
construction for multiple linear
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 329--334
Sarah Gelper and
Karen Schettlinger and
Christophe Croux and
Ursula Gather Robust online scale estimation in time
series: a model-free approach . . . . . 335--349
Mingxin Wu and
Yijun Zuo Trimmed and Winsorized means based on a
scaled deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--365
Jean-Claude Massé Multivariate trimmed means based on the
Tukey depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--384
Eitan Greenshtein and
Junyong Park and
Guy Lebanon Regularization through variable
selection and conditional MLE with
application to classification in high
dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--395
Ren-Dao Ye and
Song-Gui Wang Inferences on the intraclass correlation
coefficients in the unbalanced two-way
random effects model with interaction 396--410
TaChen Liang Empirical Bayes estimation of $ \theta b
$ in positive exponential families . . . 411--424
Anindya Roy and
Subhashis Ghosal and
William F. Rosenberger Convergence properties of sequential
Bayesian $D$-optimal designs . . . . . . 425--440
B. Wang and
J. Sun Inferences from biased samples with a
memory effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--453
Damla Sentürk and
Danh V. Nguyen Partial covariate adjusted regression 454--468
Yongdai Kim and
Dohyun Kim Bayesian partial likelihood approach for
tied observations . . . . . . . . . . . 469--477
Christos Koukouvinos and
Kalliopi Mylona and
Dimitris E. Simos A hybrid SAGA algorithm for the
construction of $ E(s^2) $-optimal
cyclic supersaturated designs . . . . . 478--485
Xiaojian Xu Robust prediction and extrapolation
designs for censored data . . . . . . . 486--502
Xuelei Sherry Ni and
Xiaoming Huo Another look at Huber's estimator: a new
minimax estimator in regression with
stochastically bounded noise . . . . . . 503--515
Yasutaka Shimizu Model selection for Lévy measures in
diffusion processes with jumps from
discrete observations . . . . . . . . . 516--532
Jia Chen and
Lixin Zhang Asymptotic properties of nonparametric
$M$-estimation for mixing functional
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--546
Alexandre Berred and
Valery Nevzorov Characterizations based on order
statistics under sampling without
replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--557
Guoyou Qin and
Zhongyi Zhu and
Wing K. Fung Robust estimation of covariance
parameters in partial linear model for
longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 558--570
Graciela Boente and
Wenceslao González-Manteiga and
Ana Pérez-González Robust nonparametric estimation with
missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--592
Bartosz Stawiarski Score test of fit for composite
hypothesis in the GARCH(1,1) model . . . 593--616
David Nelson and
Siamak Noorbaloochi Dimension reduction summaries for
balanced contrasts . . . . . . . . . . . 617--628
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Connie M. Borror and
Douglas C. Montgomery Response surface design evaluation and
comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--641
Bradley Jones Discussion of ``Response surface design
evaluation and comparison'' by Christine
Anderson-Cook, Connie Borror and Douglas
Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642--644
Peter A. Parker Discussion --- ``Response surface design
evaluation and comparison'' by Christine
M. Anderson-Cook, Connie M. Borror,
Douglas C. Montgomery . . . . . . . . . 645--646
André I. Khuri Discussion of ``Response surface design
evaluation and comparison'' by Christine
M. Anderson-Cook, Connie M. Borror,
Douglas C. Montgomery . . . . . . . . . 647--649
John J. Borkowski Discussion of ``Response surface design
evaluation and comparison'' by Christine
Anderson-Cook, Connie Borror, and
Douglas Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . 650--652
Greg F. Piepel Discussion of ``Response surface design
evaluation and comparison'' by C. M.
Anderson-Cook, C. M. Borror, and D. C.
Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--656
Peter Goos Discussion of ``Response surface design
evaluation and comparison'' . . . . . . 657--659
James M. Lucas Discussion of ``Response surface design
evaluation and comparison'' by Christine
Anderson-Cook, Connie Borror and Douglas
Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660--661
Anthony C. Atkinson Optimum and other response surface
designs. Comments on ``Response Surface
Design Evaluation and Comparison'' by
Anderson-Cook, Borror and Montgomery . . 662--668
Timothy J. Robinson A discussion of ``Response surface
design evaluation and comparison'' . . . 669--670
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Connie M. Borror and
Douglas C. Montgomery Rejoinder for ``Response surface design
evaluation and comparison'' . . . . . . 671--674
Xiaohui Luo and
Peng-Liang Zhao Comments on ``Z. Govindarajulu (2005)
robustness of sample size re-estimation
with interim binary data for
double-blind clinical trials'' . . . . . 675--676
Z. Govindarajulu Corrigenda to Z. Govindarajulu (2005),
``Robustness of sample size
re-estimation with interim binary data
for doubleblind clinical trials''. J.
Stat. Planning and Inference, vol. \bf
129, pp. 125--144 . . . . . . . . . . . 677--678
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--vi
Jinhong You and
Xian Zhou Partially linear models and polynomial
spline approximations for the analysis
of unbalanced panel data . . . . . . . . 679--695
Zhiwei Zhang Likelihood-based confidence sets for
partially identified parameters . . . . 696--710
Jeffrey D. Blume Bounding sample size projections for the
area under a ROC curve . . . . . . . . . 711--721
Jarkko Isotalo and
Simo Puntanen Linear sufficiency and completeness in
the context of estimating the parametric
function in the general Gauss--Markov
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--733
Xuerong Meggie Wen and
R. Dennis Cook New approaches to model-free dimension
reduction for bivariate regression . . . 734--748
Riquan Zhang Proportional functional coefficient time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749--763
Hong Zhang and
Hanfeng Chen and
Zhaohai Li Large sample interval mapping method for
genetic trait loci in finite regression
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764--779
Chunsheng Ma Construction of non-Gaussian random
fields with any given correlation
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--787
Hemant Ishwaran and
Lancelot F. James and
Mahmoud Zarepour An alternative to the $m$ out of $n$
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788--801
C. Radhakrishna Rao and
Damodar N. Shanbhag and
Theofanis Sapatinas and
M. Bhaskara Rao Some properties of extreme stable laws
and related infinitely divisible random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802--813
Arne Bathke and
Mi-Ok Kim and
Mai Zhou Combined multiple testing by censored
empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 814--827
Allan R. Sampson and
Harshinder Singh and
Lyn R. Whitaker Simultaneous confidence bands for
isotonic functions . . . . . . . . . . . 828--842
Ludwig Fahrmeir and
Thomas Kneib Propriety of posteriors in structured
additive regression models: Theory and
empirical evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 843--859
B. N. Mandal and
Rajender Parsad and
V. K. Gupta and
U. C. Sud A family of distance balanced sampling
plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860--874
Andreia Hall and
Maria da Graça Temido On the max-semistable limit of maxima of
stationary sequences with missing values 875--890
Pang Du and
Chong Gu Penalized pseudo-likelihood hazard
estimation: a fast alternative to
penalized likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 891--899
Jan Beran On parameter estimation for locally
stationary long-memory processes . . . . 900--915
Heung Wong and
Feng Liu and
Min Chen and
Wai Cheung Ip Empirical likelihood based diagnostics
for heteroscedasticity in partially
linear errors-in-variables models . . . 916--929
Auguste Gaddah and
Roel Braekers Weak convergence for the conditional
distribution function in a Koziol--Green
model under dependent censoring . . . . 930--943
Jayanthi Arasan and
Mary Lunn Survival model of a parallel system with
dependent failures and time varying
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944--951
Yongwu Shao and
R. Dennis Cook and
Sanford Weisberg Partial central subspace and sliced
average variance estimation . . . . . . 952--961
A. Chambaz and
A. Garivier and
E. Gassiat A minimum description length approach to
hidden Markov models with Poisson and
Gaussian emissions. Application to order
identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962--977
Fei Zou and
Lei Nie and
Fred. A. Wright and
Pranab K. Sen A robust QTL mapping procedure . . . . . 978--989
Jürg Hüsler and
Deyuan Li Testing asymptotic independence in
bivariate extremes . . . . . . . . . . . 990--998
Hansheng Wang Rank reducible varying coefficient model 999--1011
Hammou Elbarmi and
Vicente Núñez-Antón and
Dale L. Zimmerman Testing for and against a set of
inequality constraints: the $k$-sample
case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012--1022
Jesse Frey and
Osvaldo Marrero and
Douglas Norton Minimum-area confidence sets for a
normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1032
Qihua Wang and
Lili Yao and
Peng Lai Estimation of the area under ROC curve
with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1044
L. Fattorini and
S. Franceschi and
C. Pisani A two-phase sampling strategy for
large-scale forest carbon budgets . . . 1045--1055
Hua He and
Li-Shan Huang Double-smoothing for bias reduction in
local linear regression . . . . . . . . 1056--1072
Xueli Wang and
Zhi Geng and
Hua Chen and
Xianchao Xie Detecting multiple confounders . . . . . 1073--1081
Olivier Lopez Single-index regression models with
right-censored responses . . . . . . . . 1082--1097
Charles L. Anderson and
J. Calvin Berry On a simple measure of dominance . . . . 1098--1108
R. A. Roberts Exact conditional inference for two
uniform populations . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1117
R. J. Karunamuni and
J. Wu Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in
a nonparametric mixture model . . . . . 1118--1133
Yuanyuan Liang and
Keumhee Chough Carri\`ere Multiple-objective response-adaptive
repeated measurement designs for
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1134--1145
Pei-Ling Chu and
Yong Lin and
Weichung Joe Shih Unifying CRM and EWOC designs for phase
I cancer clinical trials . . . . . . . . 1146--1163
Olcay Arslan and
Ali I. Genç A generalization of the multivariate
slash distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1164--1170
Heiko Großmann and
Ulrike Graßhoff and
Rainer Schwabe Approximate and exact optimal designs
for paired comparisons of partial
profiles when there are two groups of
factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171--1179
Jafar Ahmadi and
Mohammad Jafari Jozani and
Éric Marchand and
Ahmad Parsian Bayes estimation based on $k$-record
data from a general class of
distributions under balanced type loss
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1180--1189
Stergios B. Fotopoulos and
Venkata K. Jandhyala and
Li Tan Asymptotic study of the change-point mle
in multivariate Gaussian families under
contiguous alternatives . . . . . . . . 1190--1202
Pilar L. Iglesias and
Yasna Orellana and
Fernando A. Quintana Nonparametric Bayesian modelling using
skewed Dirichlet processes . . . . . . . 1203--1214
Mike Jacroux Blocking in two-level non-regular
fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 1215--1220
Michael Goldstein and
Jonathan Rougier Reified Bayesian modelling and inference
for physical systems . . . . . . . . . . 1221--1239
Anthony O'Hagan Reification and true parameters:
Discussion of Goldstein and Rougier . . 1240--1242
Michael Lavine and
Gabriele C. Hegerl and
Susan Lozier Book Review: \booktitleDiscussion of
reified Bayesian modelling and inference
for physical systems by Michael
Goldstein and Jonathan Rougier . . . . . 1243--1245
J. Q. Smith Comments by J. Q. Smith on Goldstein and
Rougier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246--1247
P. G. Challenor Comments by P. Challenor on Goldstein
and Rougier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248--1248
Max D. Morris and
Dave Higdon Comments on Goldstein and Rougier . . . 1249--1250
Michael Goldstein and
Jonathan Rougier Reified Bayesian modelling: Issues and
opportunities (response to the
discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1256
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Chanchal Kundu and
Asok K. Nanda and
Taizhong Hu A note on reversed hazard rate of order
statistics and record values . . . . . . 1257--1265
Elizabeth L. Smith and
Alec G. Stephenson An extended Gaussian max-stable process
model for spatial extremes . . . . . . . 1266--1275
Jahar L. Bhowmik and
Maxwell L. King Parameter estimation in semi-linear
models using a maximal invariant
likelihood function . . . . . . . . . . 1276--1285
Michael Kohler and
Adam Krzyzak and
Harro Walk Optimal global rates of convergence for
nonparametric regression with unbounded
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1286--1296
Hisayuki Hara and
Akimichi Takemura Bayes admissible estimation of the means
in Poisson decomposable graphical models 1297--1319
Mingue Park and
Wayne A. Fuller The mixed model for survey regression
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320--1331
Graciela Boente and
Ana M. Pires and
Isabel M. Rodrigues Robust tests for the common principal
components model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332--1347
Marvin K. Nakayama Asymptotically valid single-stage
multiple-comparison procedures . . . . . 1348--1356
Han-Ying Liang and
Bing-Yi Jing Asymptotic normality in partial linear
models based on dependent errors . . . . 1357--1371
Li-Shan Huang and
Haiyan Su Nonparametric $F$-tests for nested
global and local polynomial models . . . 1372--1380
Rajeshwari Sundaram Semiparametric inference of proportional
odds model based on randomly truncated
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1393
Shifeng Xiong and
Weiyan Mu On construction of asymptotically
correct confidence intervals . . . . . . 1394--1404
Jan Kowalski Optimal estimation in rotation patterns 1405--1420
Sophie Dabo-Niang and
Noureddine Rhomari Kernel regression estimation in a Banach
space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1434
Viviana Giampaoli and
Julio M. Singer Likelihood ratio tests for variance
components in linear mixed models . . . 1435--1448
M. Ghahramani and
A. Thavaneswaran Combining estimating functions for
volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1461
Yuejiao Fu and
Xiaogang Wang and
Changbao Wu Weighted empirical likelihood inference
for multiple samples . . . . . . . . . . 1462--1473
Guosheng Yin Bayesian goodness-of-fit test for
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1474--1483
David Elal-Olivero and
Héctor W. Gómez and
Fernando A. Quintana Bayesian modeling using a class of
bimodal skew-elliptical distributions 1484--1492
Zhou Yu and
Li-Ping Zhu and
Li-Xing Zhu On splines approximation for sliced
average variance estimation . . . . . . 1493--1505
Denis Bosq A note on asymptotic parametric
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1506--1513
Zhao Yang and
James W. Hardin and
Cheryl L. Addy A score test for overdispersion in
Poisson regression based on the
generalized Poisson-2 model . . . . . . 1514--1521
Yonghui Liu On equality of ordinary least squares
estimator, best linear unbiased
estimator and best linear unbiased
predictor in the general linear model 1522--1529
Stelios D. Georgiou Orthogonal Latin hypercube designs from
generalized orthogonal designs . . . . . 1530--1540
D. S. G. Pollock Realisations of finite-sample
frequency-selective filters . . . . . . 1541--1558
Xiaodong Luo and
Wei-Yann Tsai Nonparametric estimation of bivariate
distribution under right truncation with
application to panic disorder . . . . . 1559--1568
Magnus Ekström and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka Addendum to ``An asymptotically
distribution-free test of symmetry''
[Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference \bf 137 (2007) 799--810] . . . 1569--1571
N. Balakrishnan and
Anna Dembi\'nska Erratum to ``Progressively Type-II right
censored order statistics from discrete
distributions'' [J. Statist. Plann.
Inference \bf 138 (2008) 845--856] . . . 1572--1574
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Anonymous A special issue on the topic of
Degradation, Damage, Fatigue and
Accelerated Life Models in Reliability
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575--1575
Luis A. Escobar and
Fabrice Guerin and
William Q. Meeker and
Mikhail Nikulin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576--1577
Jean-François Dupuy Detecting change in a hazard regression
model with right-censoring . . . . . . . 1578--1586
Yann Dijoux and
Olivier Gaudoin The alert-delay competing risks model
for maintenance analysis . . . . . . . . 1587--1603
Maurizio Guida and
Gianpaolo Pulcini and
Mario Vianello Early inference on reliability of
upgraded automotive components by using
past data and technical information . . 1604--1618
R. d'Ippolito and
M. Hack and
S. Donders and
L. Hermans and
N. Tzannetakis and
D. Vandepitte Improving the fatigue life of a vehicle
knuckle with a reliability-based design
optimization approach . . . . . . . . . 1619--1632
Mei-Ling Ting Lee and
G. A. Whitmore and
Francine Laden and
Jaime E. Hart and
Eric Garshick A case-control study relating railroad
worker mortality to diesel exhaust
exposure using a threshold regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1633--1642
Maxim Finkelstein On damage accumulation and biological
aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643--1648
Vincent Couallier and
Laurent Denis and
Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and
Mikhail Nikulin and
Léo Gerville-Réache Statistical inference through AFT model
for biotechnical systems . . . . . . . . 1649--1656
Julien Chiquet and
Nikolaos Limnios and
Mohamed Eid Piecewise deterministic Markov processes
applied to fatigue crack growth
modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1657--1667
Sergue\"\i Dachian and
Yury A. Kutoyants Hypotheses testing: Poisson versus
stress-release . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1668--1684
Alexander Andronov and
Helen Fioshina and
Maxim Fioshin Statistical estimation for a failure
model with damage accumulation in a case
of small samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 1685--1692
Axel Lehmann Joint modeling of degradation and
failure time data . . . . . . . . . . . 1693--1706
M. J. LuValle Extrapolation and confounding in
accelerated material degradation and
failure studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1707--1721
Jayaram Sethuraman and
Myles Hollander Nonparametric Bayes estimation in repair
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1722--1733
Catherine Huber and
Valentin Solev and
Filia Vonta Interval censored and truncated data:
Rate of convergence of NPMLE of the
density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1734--1749
Reinhard Viertl On reliability estimation based on fuzzy
lifetime data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1750--1755
Bahman Honari and
John Donovan and
Eamonn Murphy Using Bayesian Networks in reliability
evaluation for an $ (r, s)$-out-of-$ (m,
n)$:$F$ distributed communication system 1756--1765
Babakalli M. Alkali and
Tim Bedford and
John Quigley and
Jim Gaw Failure and maintenance data extraction
from power plant maintenance management
databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1766--1776
Watalu Yamamoto and
Lu Jin and
Kazuyuki Suzuki Optimal allocations for load-sharing
$k$-out-of-$n$:$F$ systems . . . . . . . 1777--1781
N. Balakrishnan and
Donghoon Han Optimal step-stress testing for
progressively Type-I censored data from
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 1782--1798
Nasser Fard and
Chenhua Li Optimal simple step stress accelerated
life test design for reliability
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1799--1808
P. Lantiéri and
F. Guérin and
S. Voiculescu LSE method using the CHSS model . . . . 1809--1820
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C. Marteau On the stability of the risk hull method
for projection estimators . . . . . . . 1821--1835
Masakazu Ando and
Itsuro Kakiuchi and
Miyoshi Kimura Robust nonparametric confidence
intervals and tests for the median in
the presence of $ (c,
\gamma)$-contamination . . . . . . . . . 1836--1846
Martin Sköld Improving density estimators of
discretely observed processes by
interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847--1855
Adrienne W. Kemp and
C. David Kemp The $q$-cluster distribution . . . . . . 1856--1866
Eva Boj and
M. Merc\`e Claramunt and
Aurea Grané and
Josep Fortiana Projection error term in Gower's
interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867--1878
P. I. Fierens and
L. C. Rêgo and
T. L. Fine A frequentist understanding of sets of
measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879--1892
Alexander Meister and
Ulrich Stadtmüller and
Christian Wagner Consistent and rate-optimal density
estimation from heteroscedastic data
groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1893--1904
G. Dierckx and
J. Beirlant and
D. De Waal and
A. Guillou A new estimation method for Weibull-type
tails based on the mean excess function 1905--1920
Allan Gut and
Josef Steinebach Truncated sequential change-point
detection based on renewal counting
processes II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1936
Deyuan Li and
Liang Peng Does bias reduction with external
estimator of second order parameter work
for endpoint? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1937--1952
Péter Elek and
András Zempléni Modelling extremes of time-dependent
data by Markov-switching structures . . 1953--1967
Mizanur R. Khondoker and
M. Ataharul Islam Use of log-log survival function in
modeling time-covariate interactions in
Cox regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1968--1973
Jing Zhang and
Yanxun Chang Partitionable sets and cyclic BSECs with
block size four . . . . . . . . . . . . 1974--1979
Guang Cheng Semiparametric additive isotonic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1980--1991
Nan-Jung Hsu and
Henghsiu Tsai Semiparametric estimation for seasonal
long-memory time series using
generalized exponential models . . . . . 1992--2009
P. Angelopoulos and
H. Evangelaras and
C. Koukouvinos Small, balanced, efficient and near
rotatable central composite designs . . 2010--2013
Joseph P. S. Kung and
Anna de Mier and
Xinyu Sun and
Catherine Yan Lattice and Schröder paths with periodic
boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2014--2027
Vytaras Brazauskas and
Bruce L. Jones and
Ricardas Zitikis Robust fitting of claim severity
distributions and the method of trimmed
moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2028--2043
István Berkes and
Edit Gombay and
Lajos Horváth Testing for changes in the covariance
structure of linear processes . . . . . 2044--2063
Abdus S. Wahed Estimation of survival quantiles in
two-stage randomization designs . . . . 2064--2075
Jiezhun Gu and
Subhashis Ghosal Bayesian ROC curve estimation under
binormality using a rank likelihood . . 2076--2083
Neeraj Misra and
Nitin Gupta and
Rameshwar D. Gupta Stochastic comparisons of multivariate
frailty models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2084--2090
Jonathan B. Hill On functional central limit theorems for
dependent, heterogeneous arrays with
applications to tail index and tail
dependence estimation . . . . . . . . . 2091--2110
Anton Grafström Non-rejective implementations of the
Sampford sampling design . . . . . . . . 2111--2114
Carlos Tenreiro Erratum to ``On the asymptotic behaviour
of location-scale invariant
Bickel--Rosenblatt tests'' [J. Statist.
Plann. Inference \bf 137, 103--116,
2007] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2115--2115
Xiaodong Luo and
Wei-Yann Tsai Erratum to ``Nonparametric estimation of
bivariate distribution under right
truncation with application to panic
disorder'' [J. Statist. Plann. Inference
\bf 139 (4) (2009) 1559--1568] . . . . . 2116--2116
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Hu Yang and
Litong Wang and
Lijuan Song Quasi-minimax estimation in the general
linear regression model . . . . . . . . 2117--2125
Yaling Yin and
Christine E. Soteros and
Mikelis G. Bickis A clarifying comparison of methods for
controlling the false discovery rate . . 2126--2137
Chenlei Leng A simple approach for
varying-coefficient model selection . . 2138--2146
Jean-François Plante Asymptotic properties of the MAMSE
adaptive likelihood weights . . . . . . 2147--2161
Su-Yun Huang and
Mei-Hsien Lee and
Chuhsing Kate Hsiao Nonlinear measures of association with
kernel canonical correlation analysis
and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 2162--2174
Mark M. Meerschaert and
Stilian A. Stoev Extremal limit theorems for observations
separated by random power law waiting
times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2175--2188
Halil Tanil An order statistics model based on the
list of top $m$ scores after $l$-th
change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2189--2195
Daniel Peña and
Ruben Zamar and
Guohua Yan Bayesian likelihood robustness in linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2196--2207
Jaroslaw Bartoszewicz and
Magdalena Benduch Some properties of the generalized TTT
transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208--2217
Miroslav M. Risti\'c and
Hassan S. Bakouch and
Aleksandar S. Nasti\'c A new geometric first-order
integer-valued autoregressive
(NGINAR(1)) process . . . . . . . . . . 2218--2226
Weixing Cai and
Pinyuen Chen Partitioning $k$ multivariate normal
populations according to equivalence
with respect to a standard vector . . . 2227--2234
Claudio Agostinelli Bias bound for the minimax estimator . . 2235--2241
Samis Trevezas and
Nikolaos Limnios Variance estimation in the central limit
theorem for Markov chains . . . . . . . 2242--2253
Shuangzhe Liu and
Changyu Lu and
Simo Puntanen Matrix trace Wielandt inequalities with
statistical applications . . . . . . . . 2254--2260
Sam Efromovich Lower bound for estimation of Sobolev
densities of order less 12 . . . . . . . 2261--2268
Shunpu Zhang and
Rohana J. Karunamuni Deconvolution boundary kernel method in
nonparametric density estimation . . . . 2269--2283
Ming Yuan and
Jianhua Z. Huang Regularized parameter estimation of high
dimensional $t$ distribution . . . . . . 2284--2292
Mingyao Ai and
Yunlong Yu and
Shuyuan He Optimality of circular neighbor-balanced
designs for total effects with
autoregressive correlated observations 2293--2304
Luigi Spezia Reversible jump and the label switching
problem in hidden Markov models . . . . 2305--2315
Pierpaolo De Blasi and
Nils Lid Hjort The Bernstein-von Mises theorem in
semiparametric competing risks models 2316--2328
Nicholas T. Longford Inference with the lognormal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2329--2340
Myunghee Cho Paik and
Cuiling Wang Handling missing data by deleting
completely observed records . . . . . . 2341--2350
P. M. van de Ven and
A. Di Bucchianico On the equivalence of definitions for
regular fractions of mixed-level
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 2351--2361
Frederick K. H. Phoa and
Yu-Hui Pan and
Hongquan Xu Analysis of supersaturated designs via
the Dantzig selector . . . . . . . . . . 2362--2372
Liang Peng and
Jingping Yang Jackknife method for intermediate
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2373--2381
José A. Díaz-García and
Ramón Gutiérrez-Jáimez Singular matric and matrix variate $t$
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2382--2387
Mitsunori Kayano and
Sadanori Konishi Functional principal component analysis
via regularized Gaussian basis
expansions and its application to
unbalanced data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2388--2398
José R. Berrendero and
Javier Cárcamo Characterizations of exponentiality
within the HNBUE class and related tests 2399--2406
M. Bilodeau and
P. Lafaye de Micheaux $A$-dependence statistics for mutual and
serial independence of categorical
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2407--2419
Hongjian Zhu and
Feifang Hu Implementing optimal allocation for
sequential continuous responses with
multiple treatments . . . . . . . . . . 2420--2430
Qizhai Li and
Kai Yu Inference of non-centrality parameter of
a truncated non-central chi-squared
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2431--2444
Yongge Tian and
Yoshio Takane On consistency, natural restrictions and
estimability under classical and
extended growth curve models . . . . . . 2445--2458
Abdelkader Mokkadem and
Mariane Pelletier and
Yousri Slaoui The stochastic approximation method for
the estimation of a multivariate
probability density . . . . . . . . . . 2459--2478
Yang Xing and
Bo Ranneby Sufficient conditions for Bayesian
consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2479--2489
Pushpa L. Gupta and
Ramesh C. Gupta Distribution of a linear function of
correlated ordered variables . . . . . . 2490--2497
Richard J. Fox and
David Elgart and
S. Christopher Davis Bayesian credible intervals for response
surface optima . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2498--2501
Kyongryun Kim and
Suojin Wang Second-order variance estimation in
poststratified two-stage sampling . . . 2502--2510
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Fabio Fajardo Molinares and
Valdério Anselmo Reisen and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Robust estimation in long-memory
processes under additive outliers . . . 2511--2525
Zhidong Bai and
Shurong Zheng and
Baoxue Zhang and
Guorong Hu Statistical analysis for rounded data 2526--2542
Changyi Park Convergence rates of generalization
errors for margin-based classification 2543--2551
Nursel Koyuncu and
Cem Kadilar Ratio and product estimators in
stratified random sampling . . . . . . . 2552--2558
Mohamed Ben Farah and
Abdelhamid Hassairi On the Dirichlet distributions on
symmetric matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 2559--2570
Jiancheng Jiang and
J. S. Marron and
Xuejun Jiang Robust centroid based classification
with minimum error rates for high
dimension, low sample size data . . . . 2571--2580
Théophile T. Azomahou Memory properties and aggregation of
spatial autoregressive models . . . . . 2581--2597
Ricardo Leiva and
Anuradha Roy Classification rules for triply
multivariate data with an AR(1)
correlation structure on the repeated
measures over time . . . . . . . . . . . 2598--2613
Ori Davidov and
Amir Herman New tests for stochastic order with
application to case control studies . . 2614--2623
Xiaohu Li and
Xiaoliang Ling and
Ping Li A new stochastic order based upon
Laplace transform with applications . . 2624--2630
Alan Huang and
Rungao Jin and
John Robinson Robust permutation tests for two samples 2631--2642
Qinying He and
H. N. Nagaraja Distribution of concomitants of order
statistics and their order statistics 2643--2655
Heng-Hui Lue Sliced inverse regression for
multivariate response regression . . . . 2656--2664
Arun Krishna and
Howard D. Bondell and
Sujit K. Ghosh Bayesian variable selection using an
adaptive powered correlation prior . . . 2665--2674
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Yin Lin and
Yanping Xia Confidence limits and prediction limits
for a Weibull distribution based on the
generalized variable approach . . . . . 2675--2684
Solomon W. Harrar Asymptotics for tests on mean profiles,
additional information and
dimensionality under non-normality . . . 2685--2705
Jay H. Beder and
Jeb F. Willenbring Invariance of generalized wordlength
patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2706--2714
Hira L. Koul and
Donatas Surgailis Testing of a sub-hypothesis in linear
regression models with long memory
errors and deterministic design . . . . 2715--2730
Daisuke Nagakura Testing for coefficient stability of
AR(1) model when the null is an
integrated or a stationary process . . . 2731--2745
Ren-Dao Ye and
Song-Gui Wang Estimating parameters in extended growth
curve models with special covariance
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2746--2756
Tapan K. Nayak and
Samson A. Adeshiyan A unified framework for analysis and
comparison of randomized response
surveys of binary characteristics . . . 2757--2766
Hu Yang and
Litong Wang An alternative form of the Watson
efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2767--2774
Benedikt M. Pötscher and
Ulrike Schneider On the distribution of the adaptive
LASSO estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2790
José D. Bermúdez and
Ana Corberán-Vallet and
Enriqueta Vercher Forecasting time series with missing
data using Holt's model . . . . . . . . 2791--2799
Jan Beirlant and
Elisabeth Joossens and
Johan Segers Second-order refined
peaks-over-threshold modelling for
heavy-tailed distributions . . . . . . . 2800--2815
Xiaojing Lu and
John T. Chen Exact simultaneous confidence segments
for all contrast comparisons . . . . . . 2816--2822
Ganesh Dutta and
Premadhis Das and
Nripes K. Mandal Optimum covariate designs in partially
balanced incomplete block (PBIB) design
set-ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2823--2835
Jorge L. Ojeda Cabrera and
Ingrid Van Keilegom Goodness-of-fit tests for parametric
regression with selection biased data 2836--2850
Melanie Birke Shape constrained kernel density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2851--2862
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Yanxun Chang and
Giovanni Lo Faro The fine structures of three pairwise
distinct Latin squares . . . . . . . . . 2863--2869
Peter Congdon Adaptive autoregressive priors for area
and time structured mortality data . . . 2870--2884
Somnath Datta and
Ling Lan and
Rajeshwari Sundaram Nonparametric estimation of waiting time
distributions in a Markov model based on
current status data . . . . . . . . . . 2885--2897
Yoshiji Takagi Universal admissibility in second order
asymptotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2898--2906
M. Kateri and
U. Kamps and
N. Balakrishnan A meta-analysis approach for step-stress
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2907--2919
Peng Zhao and
N. Balakrishnan Stochastic comparisons and properties of
conditional generalized order statistics 2920--2932
Heung Wong and
Shaojun Guo and
Min Chen and
Wai-Cheung Ip On locally weighted estimation and
hypothesis testing of
varying-coefficient models with missing
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2933--2951
Yuanyao Ding and
Bo Zhang Optimal portfolio of safety-first models 2952--2962
E. Beutner and
U. Kamps Order restricted statistical inference
for scale parameters based on sequential
order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 2963--2969
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Marinho G. de Andrade Transformed generalized linear models 2970--2987
Raúl Gouet and
F. Javier López and
Gerardo Sanz Limit laws for the cumulative number of
ties for the maximum in a random
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2988--3000
Panayiotis Bobotas and
Stavros Kourouklis Strawderman-type estimators for a scale
parameter with application to the
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 3001--3012
Tsung-I. Lin and
Yun-Jen Wang A robust approach to joint modeling of
mean and scale covariance for
longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 3013--3026
Peng Zhao and
N. Balakrishnan Characterization of MRL order of
fail-safe systems with heterogeneous
exponential components . . . . . . . . . 3027--3037
J. A. Pardo and
M. C. Pardo Selecting and checking a binomial
response generalized linear model using
phi-divergences . . . . . . . . . . . . 3038--3049
Emanuele Taufer and
Nikolai Leonenko Characteristic function estimation of
non-Gaussian Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3050--3063
Takemi Yanagimoto and
Toshio Ohnishi Bayesian prediction of a density
function in terms of $e$-mixture . . . . 3064--3075
Atanu Biswas and
Apratim Guha Time series analysis of categorical data
using auto-mutual information . . . . . 3076--3087
Abdulhakeem Eideh and
Gad Nathan Two-stage informative cluster
sampling-estimation and prediction with
applications for small-area models . . . 3088--3101
N. Balakrishnan and
Po Yang De-aliasing effects using semifoldover
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3102--3111
Alina Matei and
Chris Skinner Optimal sample coordination using
controlled selection . . . . . . . . . . 3112--3121
Yu Miao and
Wen-an Liu Moderate deviations for LS estimator in
simple linear EV regression model . . . 3122--3131
Ryan Gill and
Grzegorz A. Rempala and
Michal Czajkowski Confidence estimation via the parametric
bootstrap in logistic joinpoint
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3132--3141
Yongli Zhang Model selection: a Lagrange optimization
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3142--3159
Meng Zhao and
K. B. Kulasekera Minimax estimation of linear functionals
under squared error loss . . . . . . . . 3160--3176
N. Balakrishnan and
I. S. Triantafyllou and
M. V. Koutras Nonparametric control charts based on
runs and Wilcoxon-type rank-sum
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3177--3192
G. Forchini Some properties of tests for parameters
that can be arbitrarily close to being
unidentified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3193--3199
Ijaz Iqbal and
M. H. Tahir and
Munir Akhtar and
S. S. A. Ghazali and
Javid Shabbir and
N. S. Bukhari Generalized polygonal designs with block
size $3$ and $ \lambda = 1$ . . . . . . 3200--3219
Liangliang Duan and
Feifang Hu Doubly adaptive biased coin designs with
heterogeneous responses . . . . . . . . 3220--3230
Luis A. Escobar and
Yili Hong and
William Q. Meeker Simultaneous confidence bands and
regions for log-location-scale
distributions with censored data . . . . 3231--3245
Haruhiko Ogasawara Asymptotic expansions of the
distributions of the chi-square
statistic based on the asymptotically
distribution-free theory in covariance
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3246--3261
Parminder Singh and
Amar Nath Gill and
Narendra Kumar Distribution of ratio of extreme of
isotonic estimators of chi-square
variables with applications . . . . . . 3262--3269
Daniel Klein and
Ivan Zezula The maximum likelihood estimators in the
growth curve model with serial
covariance structure . . . . . . . . . . 3270--3276
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Rameshwar D. Gupta General frailty model and stochastic
orderings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3277--3287
C. Y. Robert Asymptotic distributions for the
intervals estimators of the extremal
index and the cluster-size probabilities 3288--3309
Pei-Sheng Lin and
Hui-Yun Lee and
Murray Clayton A comparison of efficiencies between
quasi-likelihood and pseudo-likelihood
estimates in non-separable
spatial-temporal binary data . . . . . . 3310--3318
Mingyao Ai and
Lulu Kang and
V. Roshan Joseph Bayesian optimal blocking of factorial
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3319--3328
Xu Zhang and
Mei-Jie Zhang and
Jason P. Fine A mass redistribution algorithm for
right-censored and left-truncated time
to event data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3329--3339
Zhao Yang and
James W. Hardin and
Cheryl L. Addy Testing overdispersion in the
zero-inflated Poisson model . . . . . . 3340--3353
Mingxiang Cao $ \Phi $admissibility for linear
estimators on regression coefficients in
a general multivariate linear model
under balanced loss function . . . . . . 3354--3360
Liang Peng and
Yongcheng Qi Maximum likelihood estimation of extreme
value index for irregular cases . . . . 3361--3376
Sarjinder Singh and
Cheng C. Chen Utilization of higher order moments of
scrambling variables in randomized
response sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 3377--3380
Dursun A. Bulutoglu and
David M. Kaziska A counterexample to Beder's conjectures
about Hadamard matrices . . . . . . . . 3381--3383
Robert M. Dorazio On selecting a prior for the precision
parameter of Dirichlet process mixture
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3384--3390
Richard Fox Erratum ``Bayesian credible intervals
for response surface optima'' [J.
Statist. Plann. Inference \bf 139 (2009)
2498--2501] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3391--3391
Halil Tanil Erratum to ``An order statistics model
based on the list of top $m$ scores
after $l$ th change'' [J. Statist.
Plann. Inference 139 (2009) 2189--2195] 3392--3392
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Ana-Maria Staicu Higher-order approximations for interval
estimation in binomial settings . . . . 3393--3404
Hyejin Shin Partial functional linear regression . . 3405--3418
Paul Kabaila and
Khageswor Giri Confidence intervals in regression
utilizing prior information . . . . . . 3419--3429
P. Lahiri and
Yan Li A new alternative to the standard $F$
test for clustered data . . . . . . . . 3430--3441
Andrey Pepelyshev and
Irene Poli and
Viatcheslav Melas Uniform coverage designs for mixture
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3442--3452
Guodong Xing On the exponential inequalities for
strictly stationary and negatively
associated random variables . . . . . . 3453--3460
Alexander Kukush and
Andrii Malenko and
Hans Schneeweiss Optimality of the quasi-score estimator
in a mean-variance model with
applications to measurement error models 3461--3472
Sol Kaufman and
Jay S. Kaufman and
Richard F. MacLehose Analytic bounds on causal risk
differences in directed acyclic graphs
involving three observed binary
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3473--3487
Yinghua Jin and
Yaohua Wu Minimum $ \phi $-divergence estimator
and hierarchical testing in loglinear
models under product-multinomial
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3488--3500
Enkelejd Hashorva Conditional limits of $ W_p $ scale
mixture distributions . . . . . . . . . 3501--3511
Shunpu Zhang The split sample permutation $t$-tests 3512--3524
Satoshi Aoki and
Akimichi Takemura Some characterizations of affinely
full-dimensional factorial designs . . . 3525--3532
M. Ueki and
K. Fueda A bias correction and acceleration
approach for the problem of regions . . 3533--3542
Joan del Castillo and
Jalila Daoudi The mixture of left-right truncated
normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . 3543--3551
Sanghamitra Pal Rao and Wu's re-scaling bootstrap
modified to achieve extended coverages 3552--3558
David Kraus Adaptive Neyman's smooth tests of
homogeneity of two samples of survival
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3559--3569
María Eugenia Szretter and
Víctor Jaime Yohai The sliced inverse regression algorithm
as a maximum likelihood procedure . . . 3570--3578
Zhi-Wei Pan and
Quan-Wu Xiao Least-square regularized regression with
non-iid sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 3579--3587
Zhihua Sun and
Qihua Wang Checking the adequacy of a general
linear model with responses missing at
random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3588--3604
Josemar Rodrigues and
Mário de Castro and
Vicente G. Cancho and
N. Balakrishnan COM-Poisson cure rate survival models
and an application to a cutaneous
melanoma data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3605--3611
Yong Zhang and
Kejun Chen and
Yigang Sun Super-simple balanced incomplete block
designs with block size 4 and index 9 3612--3624
C. C. Kokonendji and
T. Senga Kiessé and
N. Balakrishnan Semiparametric estimation for count data
through weighted distributions . . . . . 3625--3638
P. Bulla and
P. Muliere and
S. Walker A Bayesian nonparametric estimator of a
multivariate survival function . . . . . 3639--3648
Oscar H. Bustos and
Marcelo Ruiz and
Silvia Ojeda and
Ronny Vallejos and
Alejandro C. Frery Asymptotic behavior of RA-estimates in
autoregressive $2$D processes . . . . . 3649--3664
Jiang Hui Moderate deviations for parameter
estimation in some time inhomogeneous
diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3665--3674
Zhao Yang and
James W. Hardin and
Cheryl L. Addy A note on Dean's overdispersion test . . 3675--3678
Terri L. Byczkowski and
Martin S. Levy When does an imperfect sampling frame
produce more efficient estimators than a
perfect frame? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3679--3689
Jesse Frey Unbiased goodness-of-fit tests . . . . . 3690--3697
Aloke Dey Orthogonally blocked three-level second
order designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3698--3705
Yi-Hau Chen and
David M. Zucker Case-cohort analysis with semiparametric
transformation models . . . . . . . . . 3706--3717
P. Angelopoulos and
H. Evangelaras and
C. Koukouvinos Run orders for efficient two level
experimental plans with minimum factor
level changes robust to time trends . . 3718--3724
Lili Tian and
Albert Vexler and
Li Yan and
Enrique F. Schisterman Confidence interval estimation of the
difference between paired AUCs based on
combined biomarkers . . . . . . . . . . 3725--3732
Taizhong Hu and
Yashi Wang Optimal allocation of active
redundancies in $r$-out-of-$n$ systems 3733--3737
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Anonymous The 8th Tartu conference on multivariate
statistics and the 6th conference on
multivariate distributions with fixed
marginals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3739--3739
Tõnu Kollo Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3740--3740
Barry C. Arnold Flexible univariate and multivariate
models based on hidden truncation . . . 3741--3749
Aleksej Bakshaev Goodness of fit and homogeneity tests on
the basis of $N$-distances . . . . . . . 3750--3758
Lennart Bondesson On univariate and bivariate generalized
gamma convolutions . . . . . . . . . . . 3759--3765
Carles M. Cuadras Constructing copula functions with
weighted geometric means . . . . . . . . 3766--3772
Zdenek Fabián The $t$-information and its use in
multivariate problems and time-series
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3773--3778
R. L. Fountain and
A. Talebi ``Weak'' stochastic orderings and
dependence measures . . . . . . . . . . 3779--3784
Christian Genest and
Jean-Marc Lévesque Estimating correlation from dichotomized
normal variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 3785--3794
Christian Genest and
Johanna Neslehová Analytical proofs of classical
inequalities between Spearman's $ \rho $
and Kendall's $ \tau $ . . . . . . . . . 3795--3798
A. Jamalizadeh and
N. Balakrishnan Order statistics from trivariate normal
and $ t_\nu $-distributions in terms of
generalized skew-normal and skew-$ t_\nu
$ distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . 3799--3819
P. E. Jupp Data-driven tests of uniformity on
product manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . 3820--3829
Ene Käärik and
Meelis Käärik Modeling dropouts by conditional
distribution, a copula-based approach 3830--3835
Meelis Käärik and
Kalev Pärna On the quality of $k$-means clustering
based on grouped data . . . . . . . . . 3836--3841
Alexey Yu. Kharin and
Pavel A. Shlyk Robust multivariate Bayesian forecasting
under functional distortions in the $
\chi^2 $-metric . . . . . . . . . . . . 3842--3846
Nikolai Kolev and
Delhi Paiva Copula-based regression models: a survey 3847--3856
Siegfried Kropf and
Daniela Adolf Rotation test with pairwise distance
measures of sample vectors in a GLM . . 3857--3864
Goele Massonnet and
Paul Janssen and
Luc Duchateau Modelling udder infection data using
copula models for quadruples . . . . . . 3865--3877
Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos and
Dimitris Karlis Finite normal mixture copulas for
multivariate discrete data modeling . . 3878--3890
Violetta E. Piperigou Discrete distributions in the extended
FGM family: the p.g.f. approach . . . . 3891--3899
Marijus Radavicius and
Jurgita Zidanaviciute Semiparametric smoothing of sparse
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 3900--3907
José Antonio Rodríguez-Lallena A class of copulas with piecewise linear
horizontal sections . . . . . . . . . . 3908--3920
Ludger Rüschendorf On the distributional transform, Sklar's
theorem, and the empirical copula
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3921--3927
Kaja Sõstra and
Imbi Traat Optimal domain estimation under
summation restriction . . . . . . . . . 3928--3941
Ivan Zezula On multivariate Gaussian copulas . . . . 3942--3946
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B. Torsney and
R. Martín-Martín Multiplicative algorithms for computing
optimum designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 3947--3961
Mi-Xia Wu and
Kai-Fun Yu and
Ai-Yi Liu Estimation of variance components in the
mixed effects models: a comparison
between analysis of variance and
spectral decomposition . . . . . . . . . 3962--3973
Cheolwoo Park and
Amy Vaughan and
Jan Hannig and
Kee-Hoon Kang SiZer analysis for the comparison of
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3974--3988
Raffaele Argiento and
Alessandra Guglielmi and
Antonio Pievatolo A comparison of nonparametric priors in
hierarchical mixture modelling for AFT
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3989--4005
Natalie Neumeyer and
Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández A simple test for comparing regression
curves versus one-sided alternatives . . 4006--4016
Fang Yao and
Thomas C. M. Lee Automatic and asymptotically optimal
data sharpening for nonparametric
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4017--4030
Xiaofeng Shao and
Bo Li A tuning parameter free test for
properties of space-time covariance
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4031--4038
Yorghos Tripodis and
John P. Buonaccorsi Prediction and forecasting in linear
models with measurement error . . . . . 4039--4050
Bhaskar Bhattacharya Optimal use of historical information 4051--4063
Erhard Cramer and
Trinh-Thai-Hang Tran Generalized order statistics from
arbitrary distributions and the Markov
chain property . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4064--4071
Antonio Di Crescenzo and
Maria Longobardi On cumulative entropies . . . . . . . . 4072--4087
Dulce Gomes and
Luísa Canto e Castro Generalized integer-valued random
coefficient for a first order structure
autoregressive (RCINAR) process . . . . 4088--4097
Victor H. Lachos and
Dipak K. Dey and
Vicente G. Cancho Robust linear mixed models with
skew-normal independent distributions
from a Bayesian perspective . . . . . . 4098--4110
Jing Cao and
J. Jack Lee and
Susan Alber Comparison of Bayesian sample size
criteria: ACC, ALC, and WOC . . . . . . 4111--4122
C. Tommasi Optimal designs for both model
discrimination and parameter estimation 4123--4132
Jialiang Li and
Xiao-Hua Zhou Nonparametric and semiparametric
estimation of the three way receiver
operating characteristic surface . . . . 4133--4142
Yiping Yang and
Liugen Xue and
Weihu Cheng Empirical likelihood for a partially
linear model with covariate data missing
at random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4143--4153
Guido Consonni and
Monia Lupparelli Bayesian model comparison based on
expected posterior priors for discrete
decomposable graphical models . . . . . 4154--4164
Yongsong Qin and
Bruce Smith and
Qingzhu Lei Test for homogeneity in normal mixtures
with unknown means and variances . . . . 4165--4178
Sourabh Bhattacharya and
Ashis SenGupta Bayesian inference for circular
distributions with unknown normalising
constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4179--4192
Laura Panzar and
Harry van Zanten Nonparametric Bayesian inference for
ergodic diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . 4193--4199
X. Wang and
D. Wu The existence of almost difference
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4200--4205
Hua Jin and
Ying Lu Comparison of correlated proportions
based on paired binary data from
clustered samples . . . . . . . . . . . 4206--4212
Hong-Dar Isaac Wu and
Fushing Hsieh Heterogeneity and varying effect in
hazards regression . . . . . . . . . . . 4213--4222
Nanlian Cai and
Yaohui Zheng Some results on generalized ageing
classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4223--4230
Jong-Hyeon Jeong and
Seung-Yeoun Lee A note on the asymptotic relative
efficiency of estimators from the
additive hazards model . . . . . . . . . 4231--4239
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Ijaz Iqbal and
M. H. Tahir Erratum ``Generalized polygonal designs
with block size 3 and $ \lambda = 1 $''
by I. Iqbal et al. [J. Statist. Plann.
Inference 139 (2009) 3200--3219] . . . . 334--334
M. Z. Anis Corrigendum to: ``An $L$-statistic
approach to a test of exponentiality
against IFR alternatives'' [Journal of
Statistical Planning and Inference 138
(2008) 3144--3148] . . . . . . . . . . . 1618--1618
Tianqiao Tang and
Daming Lin and
Dragan Banjevic and
Andrew K. S. Jardine Erratum to ``Availability of a
periodically inspected system under
perfect repair'' [J. Statist. Plann.
Inference \bf 91 (2000) 77--90] . . . . 610--610