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Prof. Oskar Anderson and Prof. Wilhelm Winkler and Prof. Hans Kellerer and Prof. Slawtscho Sagoroff Geleitwort. (German) [Foreword] . . . . 1--2 Dipl.-Math. Dr. W. Hetz and Dipl.-Math. Dr. H. Klinger Untersuchungen zur Frage der Verteilung von Objekten auf Plätze. (German) [Studies on the question of the distribution of objects in places] . . . 3--20 Prof. M. H. Quenouille Discrete autoregressive schemes with varying time-intervals . . . . . . . . . 21--27 S. Danö and E. L. Jensen Production and inventory planning in a fluctuating market . . . . . . . . . . . 28--40 Dr. K.-A. Schäffer and Dipl. Math. M. Nourney Abschätzung der Varianz stetiger Merkmale aus Intervallbreite und Mittelwert. (German) [Estimate of the variance of continuous parameters of interval width and mean] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--56 Anonymous Mitteilungsblatt für mathematische Statistik. (German) [Bulletin of Mathematical Statistics] . . . . . . . . 57--68 M. P. Geppert Das 5. Biometrische Colloquium in Bad Nauheim (24.--26. Januar 1958). (German) [The 5th biometrical colloquium in Bad Nauheim (24--26 Januar 1958)] . . . . . 69--71 M. P. Geppert Gastvorlesung von J. Neyman in Frankfurt/M. und Bad Nauheim. (German) [Guest lecture by J. Neyman in Frankfurt am Main and Bad Nauheim] . . . . . . . . 72--73 H. Münzner and S. Koller and M. Nourney and K.-A. Schäffer Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80 E. Walter Einige einfache nichtparametrische überall wirksame Tests zur Prüfung der Zweistichprobenhypothese mit paarigen Beobachtungen. (German) [Some simple nonparametric universally-effective tests for testing the two-sample hypothesis with paired observations] . . 81--88 Dr. S. K. Nasr A Law of Large Numbers for abstract random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98 Dr. A. Adam Entropie und Streuung. (German) [Entropy and scattering] . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--110 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Die zeichnerische Behandlung von Plänen für messende Prüfung. (German) [The graphical treatment plans for measuring tests] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--129 Dozent Dr. J. Pfanzagl Über die Zerlegung statistischer Reihen. (German) [On the decomposition of statistical series] . . . . . . . . . . 130--147 Dipl.-Ing. H. Moos Berechnung mehrfacher Korrelationen auf elektronischen Rechenmaschinen. (German) [Calculation of multiple correlations on electronic computers] . . . . . . . . . 148--153 Prof. Dr. G. Tintner Eine neue Methode für die Schätzung der logistischen Funktion. (German) [A new method for the estimation of the logistic function] . . . . . . . . . . . 154--157 Dr. I. Vinski Probleme der Berechnung des Volksvermögens. (German) [Problems of calculation of national wealth] . . . . 158--170 L. Schmetterer Bericht über die Spezialtagung über Mathematische Statistik im März 1958 in Oberwolfach. (German) [Report on the Special Session on Mathematical Statistics in March 1958 in Oberwolfach] 173--174 H. Strecker Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Probenahme vom Band . . . . . . . . . . 177--222 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Prof. Sir Ronald A. Fisher Mathematical probability in the natural sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 Dozent Dr. Johann Pfanzagl Ein kombiniertes test & klassifikations-problem . . . . . . . . 11--45 D. B. Jochems and H. Neudecker Micro-economic business test data compared with traditional statistics . . 46--61 Dr. med. Dietrich Stur Die Virusinaktivierung durch Formaldehyd als Trefferereignis. (German) [Virus inactivation by formaldehyde as a hit event] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--77 Anonymous Statistical research monographs . . . . 78--78 Wolff and Franz Ferschl and H. Kregeloh and P. Korndörfer Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88 Prof. Dr. J. Rybarz Ein einfacher Beweis für das dem $ \chi^2$-Verfahren zugrundeliegende Theorem. (German) [A simple proof of the $ \ c h i^2 $ process basic theorem] . . 89--93 Gunnar Kulldorff A problem of maximum likelihood estimation from a grouped sample . . . . 94--99 Dr. Kurt Weichselberger Über die Parameterschätzung bei Kontingenztafeln, deren Randsummen vorgegeben sind (I). (German) [On the parameter estimation in contingency tables whose marginal totals are fixed (I)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--130 Dr. Reimut Wette Regressions- und Kausalanalyse in der Biologie. (German) [Regression and causal analysis in biology] . . . . . . 131--137 H. Linhart Techniques for discriminant analysis with discrete variables . . . . . . . . 138--149 Kurt Pawlik Der maximale Kontingenzkoeffizient im Falle nichtquadratischer Kontingenztafeln. (German) [The maximum contingency in the event of non-square contingency tables] . . . . . . . . . . 150--166 A. Adam Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168 Dr. Werner Uhlmann Zu einem nichtparametrischen Test von E. L. Lehmann. (German) [On a non-parametric test of E. L. Lehmann] 169--185 Frank A. Haight Queueing with reneging . . . . . . . . . 186--197 Dr. Kurt Weichselberger Über die Parameterschätzung bei Kontingenztafeln, deren Randsummen vorgegeben sind (II). (German) [On the parameter estimation in contingency tables whose marginal totals are fixed (II)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--229 H. Heumann and E. Nobis Bestimmung des durchschnittlichen und des wirtschaftlichen Materialverbrauches von Kunststoff bei Kabel- und Leitungsisolierungen. (German) [Determining the average and the economic material consumption of plastics in cable and wire insulation] 230--238 Dr. Adolf Adam Verteilungsmaße und Verteilungsindizes. (German) [Distribution measurements and distribution indices] . . . . . . . . . 239--244 E. Fels and E. Walter and O. Schürz and H. Kregeloh and A. Klingst and A. Adam Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--255 K. Pawlik Der maximale Kontingenzkoeffizient im Falle nichtquadratischer Kontingenztafeln . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Professor Dr. Johann Pfanzagl Tests und Konfidenzintervalle für exponentielle Verteilungen und deren Anwendung auf einige diskrete Verteilungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . 1--25 Dr. Klaus Abt Analyse de covariance et analyse par différences. (French) [ANCOVA analysis and differences] . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--45 Dr. Saad K. Nasr A note on a noise process . . . . . . . 46--52 S. S. Zarkovic On the efficiency of sampling with varying probabilities and the selection of units with replacement . . . . . . . 53--60 Prof. Dr. Rudolf Henn Markowsche Ketten bei Wirtschaftsprozessen. (German) [] . . . 61--73 Dr. Peter Ihm Zur numerischen Integration $n$-dimensionaler Normalverteilungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--78 K. Stange and S. Sagoroff and Dr. Franz Ferschl and Dr. Schwarz Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88 S. Sagoroff Nachruf für Oskar Anderson. (German) [Obituary for Oskar Anderson] . . . . . 89--94 Dr. Klaus Abt Analyse de covariance et analyse par différences. (French) [ANCOVA analysis and differences] . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--116 Dr. G. A. Lienert and O. Ebel Ein Index zur numerischen Bestimmung der Niveau--Eigenschaft eines psychologischen Tests. (German) [] . . . 117--127 B. Schneider Beitrag zur Theorie der Verzweigungsprozesse. (German) [] . . . 128--142 Professor Dr. J. Pfanzagl Über lokal optimale Rang--Tests . . . . . 143--150 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Spannweitenpläne für messende Prüfung im doppelten Wahrscheinlichkeitsnetz. (German) [Span of plans for measuring tests in duplicate probability networks] 151--165 Erich Mittenecker and J. Pfanzagl Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--168 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Über die Existenz überall trennscharfer Tests. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176 Dr. Klaus Abt Analyse de covariance et analyse par différences. (French) [ANCOVA analysis and differences] . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--211 Éva Vas Bemerkungen zur Arbeit von K. Stange über ``Die zeichnerische Behandlung von Plänen für messende Prüfung''. (German) [] . . . 212--214 Dr. Walther Eberl Bemerkung über ein Theorem für additive Mengenfunktionen. (German) [] . . . . . 215--217 Dr. Otto Ludwig Über Erwartungswerte und Varianzen von Ranggrößen in kleinen Stichproben. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--222 Eberhard Brandau and P. Korndörfer and Erich Mittenecker and G. Reißig Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--240 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
K. Stange Verzerrte und unverzerrte Schätzwerte bei messender Prüfung. (German) [] . . . . . 1--29 Dr. R. Wette Bemerkung zur treffertheoretischen Analyse der Virusinaktivierung durch Formaldehyd. (German) [Remarks on the hit-theoretical analysis of virus inactivation by formaldehyde] . . . . . 30--36 Z. A. Lomnicki Tests for departure from normality in the case of linear stochastic processes 37--62 H. Störmer Über einen statistischen Test zur Bestimmung der Parameter einer Lebensdauerverteilung. (German) [] . . . 63--77 Prof. Dr. S. Sagoroff Historical note on the application of mathematics in economics in Germany . . 78--81 K. Weichselberger and A. Adam and F. Ferschl and S. Koller and A. Linder Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--88 B. M. Bennett and P. Hsu Sampling studies on the Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--104 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Über die Existenz überall trennscharfer Tests. (German) [On the universal existence of discriminatory power tests] 105--106 N. K. Jaiswal The queuing system GI/M/I with finite waiting space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--125 H. Linhart Zur Wahl von Variablen in der Trennanalyse. (German) [] . . . . . . . 126--139 W. Vogel Sequentielle Versuchs--Pläne . . . . . . 140--157 Dr. D. Bierlein Simultan stärkste unverfälschte Tests . . 158--168 G. Reißig and O. Ludwig Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--172 Prof. Dr. D. Morgenstern Der Zentrale Grenzwertsatz für Überschreitungswahrscheinlichkeiten. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175 Dr. K. Weichselberger Über ein graphisches Verfahren zur Trennung von Mischverteilungen und zur Identifikation kupierter Normalverteilungen bei großem Stichprobenumfang. (German) [] . . . . . 178--229 Dr. L. Michel Zum Problem der numerischen Bestimmung der Niveau--Eigenschaft eines psychologischen Tests. (German) [] . . . 230--236 Dr. R. Wartmann Trendextrapolation bei Zeitreihen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246 J. Roppert and S. Sagoroff and G. Bruckmann and F. Ferschl and G. Fasching Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--252 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dipl.-Math. R. K. Bauer Der ``Median-Quartile-Test''. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 Dr. J. Hoch Berechnung von linearen Mehrfachkorrelationen mit Hilfe von Adjunktionsmatrizen nach Frisch. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--30 H. Linhart Konfidenzintervalle für den überlappenden Teil zweier Normalverteilungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--48 Professor B. M. Bennett On an exact test for trend in binomial trials and its power function . . . . . 49--53 H. Kellerer and H. Schneeweiß and O. Ludwig and R. E. Quandt and F. Ferschl and J. Pfanzagl and G. Schmid and W. Winkler and G. Reißig and H. Kremser Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--79 Professor Dr. Arthur Linder Ehrung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79 Anonymous Berichtigung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80 J. Ahrens Zur Gesamtheit der symmetrischen $n$-Personen-Spiele. (German) [] . . . . 81--95 Prof. B. M. Bennett and Prof. P. Hsu Sampling studies on a test against trend in binomial data . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--104 J. Canfield On the paradox of confirmation . . . . . 105--118 Prof. Dr. S. Varga Die Anwendung von mathematischen Methoden in der marxistischen politischen Ökonomie und in der Wirtschaftspolitik des Sozialismus. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127 Dr. H. Störmer Ein Test zum Erkennen von Exponentialverteilungen. (German) [] . . 128--137 H. G. Kellerer and J. Pfanzagl Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140 A. Linder Nachruf für Sir Ronald Fisher. (German) [Obituary for Sir Ronald Fisher] . . . . 141--144 J. C. Koop On upper limits to the difference in bias between two ratio estimates . . . . 145--149 Professor Dr. D. Morgenstern Zur Asymptotik des Run-Testes. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--153 Professor B. M. Bennett Note on an exact test for the $ 2 \times 2 $ contingency table using the negative binomial model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--157 L. E. Storm Nested analysis of variance: Review of methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--183 J. Likes Wirksamkeit einiger Schätzungen der Varianz einer Grundgesamtheit mit einem alternativen Merkmale. (German) [] . . . 184--193 Dr. Senior Research Officer D. B. Jochems Forecasting the outcomes of soccer matches: A statistical appraisal of the Dutch experience . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--207 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. Sagoroff Geleitwort. (German) [Foreword] . . . . i--ii Prof. Dr. A. Adam Joseph Hain und unsere zeitgenössische Statistik. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . 1--9 Prof. Dr. O. Anderson and Dipl.-Math. R. K. Bauer Zur verteilungsfreien Ableitung der Streuung von Regressionskoeffizienten ohne Voraussetzung der Nullhypothese. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--17 Prof. Dr. A. Blind Die praktische Bedeutung der Fehlerrechnung bei Stichproben in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Statistik. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--29 T. Dalenius The panel approach to continuous sample survey activity . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--36 W. E. Deming, LL.D., Ph.D. On the correction of mathematical bias by use of replicated designs . . . . . . 37--42 Prof. Dr. E. Fels Statistische Bewertung einer automatischen Anlage zur Suche nach einschlägigen Rechtsvorschriften. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--49 Prof. Dr. R. Gunzert Stichprobenverfahren und Regionalstatistik. (German) [] . . . . . 50--59 Prof. Dr. M. G. Kendall Ill-conditioned matrices in linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--64 Prof. Dr. Dr. S. Koller Typisierung korrelativer Zusammenhänge 65--75 Prof. Dr. A. Linder Trennverfahren bei qualitativen Merkmalen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . 76--83 Prof. Dr. G. Menges Gedanken zur Frage der Stabilität statistischer Entscheidungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--94 Prof. Dr. H. Münzner Konfidenzgrenzen für die Ausschußhäufigkeit bei abschnittsweisen Probeentnahmen und serienweisem Vorkommen der Schlechtstücke. (German) [] . . . . . . . 95--99 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Über die Parallelität von Zeitreihen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--113 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Vergleich der Genauigkeit von zwei Verfahren der Probenahme bei Verkehrszählungen. (German) [] . . . . . 114--132 Prof. Dr. H. Strecker Zur Genauigkeit wirtschaftsstatistischer Größen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142 G. Tintner and J. K. Sengupta Ein verallgemeinerter Geburten- und Todesprozeß zur Erklärung der Entwicklung des deutschen Volkseinkommens, 1851--1939. (German) [] . . . . . . . . 143--147 Prof. Dr. R. Wagenführ Preisparitäten für Investitionsgüter. (German) [Price parities for capital goods] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--154 Prof. Dr. W. Wetzel Univariable mikro-ökonomische Prognosemodelle mit exponentieller Gewichtung der Beobachtungswerte. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--186 Hofrat Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. W. Winkler Von der Demographie zur Demometrie. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
E. M. Fels About probability-like measures for entire theories . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22 W. Uhlmann Ranggrößen als Schätzfunktionen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--40 B. M. Bennett On tests concerning lines and planes in hyperspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--46 Dipl.-Ing. F. Korenjak Vertical models for economic development and cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--70 S. Sagoroff Historical note on the application of mathematics in economics in Germany . . 71--75 Anonymous Preliminary announcement of the IMS Copenhagen meeting . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76 F. Ferschl and W. Oehmisch and M. Behara and O. Heinisch Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--80 Dr. J. C. Koop On the axioms of sample formation and their bearing on the construction of linear estimators in sampling theory for finite universes . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--114 G. E. Noether Note on the Kolmogorov statistic in the discrete case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116 B. M. Bennett Slope ratio assays and confidence limits 117--120 Dipl.-Ing. F. Korenjak Vertical models for economic development and cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--142 Prof. Dr. A. Hampe Joseph Lowe als Statistiker . . . . . . 143--158 O. Heinisch and E. P. Billeter and Saad K. Nasr and K. Krickeberg and Professor Dr. W. Wetzel and H. S. Hoffmann and G. Reissig and Josef Roppert Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--164 J. C. Koop On the axioms of sample formation and their bearing on the construction of linear estimators in sampling theory for finite universes . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--204 H. G. Kellerer Das asymptotische Verhalten des Minimax--Risikos bei wachsendem Stichprobenumfang. (German) [] . . . . . 205--212 F. Rabár and M. Krajcsovits Zur Frage der Produktionsplanung mit der Anwendung mathematischer Methoden in der Serienfertigung. (German) [] . . . . . . 213--230 I. M. Chakravarti Orthogonal and partially balanced arrays and their application in design of experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--243 Anonymous IMS-Tagung 1964 in Bern. (German) [IMS workshop 1964 in Bern] . . . . . . . . . 243--243 W. Wegmüller and W. Oehmisch Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
B. M. Bennett On a test of homogeneity for samples from a negative binomial distribution 1--4 Dipl.-Volkswirt M. D. Jöhnk Erzeugung von betaverteilten und gammaverteilten Zufallszahlen. (German) [Production of beta- and gamma-distributed random numbers] . . . 5--15 F. C. Andrews and D. R. Truax Locally most powerful rank tests for several sample problems . . . . . . . . 16--24 Dozent Dr. W. Uhlmann Mittelwerte und ihre Schätzfunktionen bei zirkulären zufälligen Variablen. (German) [Mean values and their estimators in circular random variables] . . . . . . . 25--47 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Die Berechnung wirtschaftlicher Pläne für messende Prüfung. (German) [] . . . . . . 48--82 Anonymous Gemeinsame Europäische Konferenz von Econometric Society und The Institute of Management Sciences. (German) [] . . . . 83--84 S. Sagoroff Widmung. (German) [Dedication] . . . . . 85--85 Prof. Dr. A. Adam Semiotische und verbandstheoretische Grundzüge einer elementaren Statistik. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--128 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Über die Anwendung mathematischer Methoden in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. (German) [] 129--151 Dr. J. Roppert Ein schnell konvergierendes Iterationsverfahren zur Matrixinversion. (German) [A rapidly converging iterative method for matrix inversion] . . . . . . 152--154 E. Streissler and P. Hoschka Entrepreneurial behaviour in Austria . . 155--184 Prof. Dr. K. Weichselberger Über eine Theorie der gleitenden Durchschnitte und verschiedene Anwendungen dieser Theorie. (German) [] 185--230 D. G. Kabe On tests concerning coefficient matrices of linear restriction with normal regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234 Docent T. Dalenius and Professor B. Matérn Is there a need for a unified theory of random experiments? . . . . . . . . . . 235--247 S. Koller and Professor W. Wegmüller and A. Panzera Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--250 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
O. Hengartner Ausgewählte zwei- und dreidimensionale Prüfverteilungen. (German) [] . . . . . . 1--37 H. Bühlmann Die Risikoaversion als Interpretation und Konstruktionsbasis der Utilitätskurve. (German) [] . . . . . . . 38--46 J. K. Sengupta and C. Millham and G. Tintner On the stability of solutions under error in stochastic linear programming 47--60 H. Von Prillwitz Die Varianz der Prognosen bei Exponentieller Gewichtung der Zeitreihen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . 61--68 G. Schmid and G. Bruckmann and H. Müller-Merbach and G. Fischer and A. Adam and G. Bruckmann and E. M. Meixner and Max-Detlev Jöhnk and M. P. Geppert and O. Pichler Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84 Wilhelm Winkler Übervölkerung, Untervölkerung Begriffe, Verfahren, Tatsachen. (German) [] . . . 85--102 H. L. Le Roy $t$-Test und Vertrauensgrenzen für Pfadkoeffizienten (standardisierte partielle Regressionskoeffizienten). (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104 O. Hengartner Ausgewählte zwei- und dreidimensionale Prüfverteilungen. (German) [] . . . . . . 105--148 R. Kurth Counting as a sequence of Bernoulli trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--152 Anonymous Mitteilung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153 Gunther Tichy and Dr. Gerhart Bruckmann and F. Ferschl and M. Kricke and Hans Prillwitz Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--161 Prof. Dr. A. Adam Semiotische und verbandstheoretische Grundzüge einer elementaren Statistik. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--194 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Die wirtschaftlichste Verteilung des Prüfaufwands auf die zwei Stufen eines Modells mit unterschiedlicher Zahl und Varianz und unterschiedlichen Erhebungskosten der Einheiten zweiter Stufe. (German) [The most cost-effective distribution of test efforts on the two stages of a model with different number and different variance and collection costs of second-stage units] . . . . . . 195--211 S. P. Ghosh Optimum allocation in stratified sampling with replacement . . . . . . . 212--221 L. Råde Some waiting time problems . . . . . . . 222--227 G. Bach Über die Bestimmung von charakteristischen Größen einer Kugelverteilung aus der unvollständigen Verteilung der Schnittkreise. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--233 M. T. Subrahmanya On generalized estimators in sampling from finite populations . . . . . . . . 234--239 J. Roppert and E. M. Fels Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--242 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Prof. Dr. B. M. Bennett Multivariate `analysis of dispersion' in the presence of intra-class correlation 1--5 J. K. Sengupta Recursive constraints and stochastic linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 6--12 D. G. Kabe On the exact distribution of the Fisher--Behrens--Welch statistic . . . . 13--15 H. Linhart Streuungszerlegung für Paar--Vergleiche. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--38 D. Strobel Estimation of the sum of statistical variables by using classes with random limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--45 U. P. Beck Ein optisches Analogiegerät für den tetrachorischen Korrelationskoeffizienten . . . . . . . 46--51 Prof. B. M. Bennett Note on confidence limits for a ratio of bivariate medians . . . . . . . . . . . 52--54 Prof. Dr. R. E. Quandt Old and new methods of estimation and the Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . 55--82 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83 Prof. W. Wegmüller and Dr. W. Leinfellner and G. Fischer Buchbesprcchungen . . . . . . . . . . . 84--88 T. J. Rao On the variance of the ratio estimator for Midzuno--Sen sampling scheme . . . . 89--91 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Ein Näherungsverfahren zur Berechnung optimaler Pläne für messende Prüfung bei bekannten Kosten und bekannter Verteilung der Schlechtanteile in den vorgelegten Liefermengen. (German) [An approximate method for computing optimal plans for measuring tests at a known cost and known distribution of bad play in the deliverables submitted] . . . . . 92--136 J. S. Rustagi An application of queueing theory to a problem of environmental health . . . . 137--144 Prof. Dr. W. Uhlmann Vergleich der hypergeometrischen mit der Binomial--Verteilung. (German) [] . . . 145--158 Anonymous Joint European meeting of the Econometric Society and the Institute of Management Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 159--159 Gunther Tichy Buchbesprechung . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160 Dr. G. Fischer and Dr. J. Roppert Über ein Theorem von Eckart und Young: ``Eine Verallgemeinerung eines Transformationsverfahrens von Jacobi''. (German) [On a theorem of Eckart and Young: ``A generalization of a transformation method of Jacobi''] . . . 161--170 S. K. Gupta Kanpur and J. K. Goyal Kanpur Queues with batch Poisson arrivals and hyper-exponential service time distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--178 K. Krickeberg On Cramér's Theorems Concerning Weak Convergence of Distributions . . . . . . 179--181 Prof. Dr. A. Kälin Versuchsanordnungen in unvollständigen Blöcken mit zusätzlichen Kontrollbehandlungen in jedem Block. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--218 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Thaddeus M. Dillon Hypothesis modification . . . . . . . . 1--14 Giselbert Kramer Entscheidungsproblem, Entscheidungskriterien bei völliger Ungewißheit und Chernoffsches Axiomensystem. (German) [] . . . . . . . 15--38 Dr. H. Schneeberger Identitätstest von Regressionskoeffizienten. (German) [] 39--45 Ing. J. Likes Distribution of Dixon's statistics in the case of an exponential population 46--54 Herbert Studer Prüfung der Annäherung der exakten $ x^2 $ Verteilung durch die stetige $ x^2 $ Verteilung. (German) [] . . . . . . . . 55--78 Christoph Bandelow and S. Sagoroff Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80 Professor Dr. Dietrich Morgenstern Eine diskrete Verteilung für ein Warteschlangenproblem. (German) [] . . . 81--84 G. Tintner and R. Narayanan A multi-dimensional stochastic process for the explanation of economic development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--90 Prof. Dr. J. Aczel and Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Remarks on the measurement of subjective probability and information . . . . . . 91--105 H. Harders Stochastische Approximation der größten unwirksamen Dosis. (German) [Stochastic approximation of the biggest ineffective dose] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--114 M. S. Holla On a Poisson-inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--121 Dr. Boyan Penkov and Dr. Radu Theodorescu Über die spieltheoretische Behandlung von Prüfplänen. (German) [On the game-theoretic treatment of test plans] 122--126 A. M. Mathai and Prof. Dr. R. K. Saxena On a generalized hypergeometric distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132 Samir Kumar Bhattacharya A modified Bessel function model in life testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--144 G. Zahel Notiz über die Genauigkeit von Messungen im Gelände. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . 145--149 Dr. Feichtinger and G. Bruckmann and W. Winkler and A. Linder and W. Nörauer and S. Sagoroff and E. M. Fels Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--156 J. K. Goyal Queues with hyper-Poisson arrivals and bulk exponential service . . . . . . . . 157--167 B. R. K. Kashyap Further results for the double ended queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--186 Prof. Dr. S. Sagoroff Formale Charakteristiken der metrischen Modelle in den empirischen Wissenschaften. (German) [] . . . . . . 187--198 M. P. Singh On the efficiency of systematic sampling in ratio and product estimation . . . . 199--205 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dr. Klaus Abt On the identification of the significant independent variables in linear models 1--15 S. G. Prabhu Ajgaonkar A note on Horvitz's and Thompson's $ T_3 $ class of linear estimators . . . . . . 16--21 B. M. Bennett On estimation of a ratio of multivariate means by non-parametric methods . . . . 22--28 Prof. Dr. Dietrich Morgenstern Mehrdimensionale Überschreitungswahrscheinlichkeiten. (German) [Multidimensional exceedance probabilities] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--33 M. P. Singh Ratio cum product method of estimation 34--42 M. T. Subrahmanya On the positivity of a variance-estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Die wirtschaftlichste Verteilung des Prüfaufwands bei einem Modell mit Zufallskomponenten für zweifache Zerlegung. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . 48--67 Dipl.-Math. Bernhard Wiezorke Auswahlverfahren in der Regressionsanalyse. (German) [] . . . . 68--79 Anonymous Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Dr. Wilhelm Winkler, Ehrenmitglied des Internationalen Statistischen Instituts. (German) [] . . 80--80 Dr. H. Rey Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Paul Lorenz 80 Jahre. (German) [Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Paul Lorenz 80 Years] . . . . . . 80--80 Dr. Klaus Abt On the identification of the significant independent variables in linear models 81--96 S. P. Aggarwal A note on quasi convex programming . . . 97--105 S. P. Aggarwal Parametric linear fractional functionals programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--114 Dr. Herbert Basler Bestimmung kostenoptimaler Prüfpläne mittels des Mini--Max-Prinzips. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--154 D. G. Kabe Minima of vector quadratic forms with applications to statistics . . . . . . . 155--160 Ing. J. Likes Difference of two ordered observations divided by standard deviation in the case of negatively exponential distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--172 S. Subba Rao Queuing with balking and reneging in M/G/1 systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--188 C. Rytz Ausgewählte parameterfreie Prüfverfahren im $2$- und $k$-Stichproben-Fall. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--204 Dr. Norbert Schmitz Zur Existenz gleichmäßig bester unverfälschter Tests bei Exponentialfamilien. (German) [] . . . . 205--212 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Pläne für messende Prüfung bei bekannter Varianz der Fertigung und einem nach oben und unten abgegrenzten Toleranzbereich für die Merkmalwerte. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Prof. Dr. E. M. Fels On denoting arbitrary realizations . . . 1--2 Prof. Dr. H. G. Kellerer Ein Momentenproblem für Familien von Zufallsvariablen. (German) [] . . . . . 3--9 A. M. Mathai and R. K. Saxena Distributions having the gamma properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--16 C. Rytz Ausgewählte parameterfreie Prüfverfahren im $2$- und $k$-Stichproben-Fall. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--71 Kanti Swarup Note on linear fractional functionals programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--77 J. Heubes and A. Linder and P. Sint Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80 Prof. Dr. B. M. Bennett Note on the relative efficiency of a bivariate sign test . . . . . . . . . . 81--85 D. G. Kabe Some aspects of analysis of variance and covariance theory for a certain multivariate complex Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--97 Dr. M. N. Murthy A note on estimation of variance components in a multi-stage sampling design based on interpenetrating sub-samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--103 R. Natarajan Long-run availability of paralleled systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--122 Prem Nath Inaccuracy and coding theory . . . . . . 123--135 Prem Nath Entropy, inaccuracy and information . . 136--148 W. Sahler A survey on distribution-free statistics based on distances between distribution functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--169 C. E. Särndal Some properties of the negative hypergeometric distribution and its limit distributions . . . . . . . . . . 170--190 Z. Sidák A note on distribution-free tests whether two distributions differ only by a parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--195 K. Swarup On varying all the parameters in a linear fractional functionals programming problem . . . . . . . . . . 196--205 Prof. Dr. Werner Uhlmann Kosten-optimale Prüfpläne für die Gut--Schlecht--Prüfung. (German) [] . . . 206--224 A. Kaelin and A. Linder and F. Ferschl and P. Sint Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--234 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Prof. Dr. G. Bergmann Seltene Ereignisse und Poisson--Verteilung. (German) [] . . . . 1--20 A. M. Mathai and R. K. Saxena A short table of the generalized hypergeometric distribution . . . . . . 21--24 Prof. Dr. D. Morgenstern Eine mehrdimensionale Ausdehnung des gewöhnlichen und des kanonischen Korrelationskoeffizienten. (German) [] 25--43 Prof. Dr. D. Morgenstern Grenzwertsätze für die Extrema der Abstände gewisser geordneter Stichproben. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47 P. H. Randolph Optimal stopping rules for multinomial observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--61 G. G. Roussas Asymptotic normality of the maximum likelihood estimate in Markov processes 62--70 Prof. Dr. K. Stange Pläne für messende Prüfung bei unbekannter Varianz der Fertigung und einem nach oben und unten abgegrenzten Toleranzbereich für die Merkmalwerte. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--100 S. Subba Rao Balking and reneging in M/G/1 systems with postponable interruptions . . . . . 101--116 H. Vogt Zur Parameter- und Prozentpunktschätzung von Lebensdauerverteilungen bei kleinem Stichprobenumfang. (German) [] . . . . . 117--131 Anonymous Auszeichnung für Prof. DDr. h. c. Wilhelm Winkler. (German) [Award for Prof. DDr. h. c. William Winkler] . . . . . . . . . 132--132 Anonymous Slawtscho Sagoroff, Leben und Wirken. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--137 Prof. Dr. DDr. h. c. W. Winkler Darstellung und Messung der Bevölkerungs-verteilung im geographischen Raum. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . 138--163 Prof. Dr. E. Streissler A reexamination of the Haavelmo-bias in the least squares estimation of the Keynesian consumption function . . . . . 164--182 Prof. Dr. G. Bruckmann Einige Bemerkungen zur statistischen Messung der Konzentration. (German) [] 183--213 Prof. Dr. G. Derflinger Efficient methods for obtaining the minres and maximum-likelihood solutions in factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 214--231 Prof. S. Heiler and Prof. Dr. K. Weichselberger Über den Permutationstest und ein daraus ableitbares Konfidenzintervall. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--248 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl On the measurability and consistency of minimum contrast estimates . . . . . . . 249--272 Prof. Dr. L. Schmetterer Über ein Problem der stochastischen Approximation und ein Matrixsummierungsverfahren für Zahlenfolgen. (German) [] . . . . . . . 273--276 Prof. Dr. F. Ferschl Probleme und Möglichkeiten einer statistischen Dokumentation. (German) [] 277--292 Prof. J. F. Bennett Ecometrics: An ideal for economics and ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--301 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. P. Aggarwal Transportation technique for a particular convex programming problem 1--5 B. M. Bennett On the power function of the exact test for the $ r \times c $ contingency table 6--8 M. S. Holla Delhi On a noncentral chi-square distribution in the analysis of weapon systems effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--14 D. G. Kabe Testing outliers from an exponential population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--18 H. J. Malik Distribution of product statistics from a Pareto population . . . . . . . . . . 19--22 Dipl.-Psych. H. F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg A nonparametric test for relative spread in $k$ unpaired samples . . . . . . . . 23--29 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Median unbiased estimates for M.L.R.-families . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--39 S. G. Prabhu Ajgaonkar A contribution to the theory of unique estimators for Horvitz and Thompson's classes of linear estimators . . . . . . 40--47 S. Schach The asymptotic distribution of a class of nonparametric test statistics . . . . 48--58 J. K. Sengupta On the active approach of stochastic linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70 M. T. Subrahmanya Modified integer-estimators . . . . . . 71--80 K. Swarup Upper bound problem in linear fractional functionals programming . . . . . . . . 81--85 G. M. Tallis Some extensions of discriminant function analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91 P. Sint and Wilhelm Winkler Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--95 Prof. Dr. H. Bandemer Zur näherungsweisen Bestimmung des optimalen Stichprobenumfanges. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104 Dr. J. C. Koop Estimation of correlation for a finite universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109 H. Lütjohann The stepwise regression algorithm seen from the statistician's point of view 110--125 H. J. Malik Estimation of the parameters of the Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . 126--132 S. K. Nasr On a linear stochastic differential equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Consistent estimation in the presence of incidental parameters . . . . . . . . . 141--148 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. Aczel and D. Z. Djokovi\'c and J. Pfanzagl On the uniqueness of scales derived from canonical representations . . . . . . . 1--8 S. P. Aggarwal Analyses of the solution to a linear fractional functionals programming . . . 9--26 Satya D. Dubey Compound gamma, beta and $F$ distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31 Ove Frank Sampling from overlapping subpopulations 32--42 H. Giger Grundgleichungen der Stereologie I. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--57 Madan Lal Puri and Pranab Kumar Sen On the estimation of location parameters in the multivariate one sample and two sample problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--73 R. K. Rana On a class of correlated queueing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84 W. Sahler Estimation by minimum-discrepancy methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--106 M. T. Subrahmanya A note on non-negative estimators of positive parameters . . . . . . . . . . 107--114 Klaus Winckler Some distribution-free small samples methods for interval estimation and hypothesis testing in linear shock models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--129 Prof. Dr. H. Strecker Ein Beitrag zur Analyse von Zeitreihen: Die Quotientenmethode, eine Variante der ``Variate Difference'' Methode. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--187 Dipl.-Math. R. Michel and Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Asymptotic normality . . . . . . . . . . 188--205 Dr. H. Vogt Zur Definition und Schätzung von Mittelwerten für zufällige Variable auf der Sphäre. (German) [On the definition and estimation of average values for random variables on the sphere] . . . . 206--235 P. Sint and Dr. L. Reisinger and Josef Roppert and S. Sagoroff and Sint and A. Linder and K. Kreiter and W. Winkler Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--244 Wilhelm Winkler Nachruf Giorgio Mortara. (German) [Obituary for Giorgio Mortara] . . . . . 245--245 Gerhart Bruckmann Nachruf Slawtscho Sagoroff. (German) [Obituary for Slawtscho Sagoroff] . . . 246--246 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
K.-A. Schäffer and W. Wetzel Geleitwort. (German) [Foreword] . . . . 1--2 Anonymous Schriftenverzeichnis von Hans Münzner. (German) [List of Publications of Hans Münzner] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 Dr. H. Döring Änderungen der durchschnittlichen Blutdruckwerte in den Jahren 1956--1968. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--13 Dr. G. Heubeck Zufällige oder systematische Unterschiede in den Sterbewahrscheinlichkeiten der Bevölkerung der BRD und der DDR?. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--23 Prof. Dr. H. Kellerer Der Intraclass--Koeffizient --- ein Homogenitätsmaß. (German) [] . . . . . . . 24--28 Prof. Dr. S. Koller Mögliche Aussagen bei Fragen der statistischen Ursachenforschung. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--42 Prof. Dr. D. Lüdeke Produktivitätsorientierte Lohnpolitik und ihre vermutlichen Wirkungen auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland während des Zeitraumes 1952--1966 --- Eine ökonometrische Analyse. (German) [Productivity-oriented wage policy and its probable effects on economic development in the Federal Republic of Germany during the period 1952--1966 --- an econometric analysis] . . . . . . . . 43--68 Prof. Dr. C. Marfels Einige neuere Entwicklungen in der Messung der industriellen Konzentration. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--81 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl The Berry--Esseen bound for minimum contrast estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 82--91 Dr. G. Reichel Erweitertes Bernoulli--Prinzip und Petersburger Spiel. (German) [] . . . . 92--97 Prof. Dr. K.-A. Schäffer Optimale Schichtabgrenzung bei logarithmischer Normalverteilung. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--115 Prof. Dr. P. Schönfeld A useful Central Limit Theorem for $m$-dependent variables . . . . . . . . 116--128 Professor Dr. K. Stange Eine Bemerkung zum optimalen Auswahlsatz bei geschichteten Stichproben. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 Professor Dr. H. Strecker Ein Modell zur Ermittlung von Angabefehlern in statistischen Erhebungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . 141--145 Prof. Dr. E. Walter Über die Methoden der Vaterschaftsbegutachtung. (German) [On methods of assessment of paternity] . . 146--158 Prof. Dr. K. Weichselberger Über die statistischen Eigenschaften von Korrekturen aufgrund repräsentativer Verfahrenskontrollen. (German) [] . . . 159--188 Prof. Dr. W. Wetzel Bemerkungen zur Saisonbereinigung von ökonomischen Zeitreihen. (German) [] . . 189--196 Prof. Dr. G. Wünsche Über die projektive Transformation der logarithmischen Funktionsleiter (Zur graphischen Darstellung von Sterbewahrscheinlichkeiten). (German) [] 197--205 R. K. Tuteja Solution of a transient state, limited space queueing problem with arrival and departure rates depending on queue length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--214 Dr. V. Kurotschka Optimale Versuchspläne bei zweifach klassifizierten Beobachtungsmodellen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--232 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dr. K. Bosch and Prof. Dr. H. Richter Über den Erwartungswert der bis zur Zeit $t$ angekommenen Kunden einer Warteschlange bei gleichverteilten Ankunftszeiten. (German) [] . . . . . . 1--5 E. Landhäusser Elliptische Streuflächen ebener Punkthaufen. (German) [Elliptical scatterers of planar point clusters] . . 6--14 S. G. Prabhu Ajgaonkar On classes of estimators of the variance function of a linear estimator . . . . . 15--20 C. R. Bector Indefinite quadratic fractional functional programming . . . . . . . . . 21--30 L. E. Edlefsen and C. B. Millham On a formulation of discrete, $N$-person non-cooperative games . . . . . . . . . 31--34 Dr. Gustav Feichtinger ''Wahrscheinlichkeitslernen'' in der statistischen Lerntheorie. (German) [] 35--55 Dr. D. Plachky Eine Momentengleichung bei Exponentialfamilien. (German) [] . . . . 56--59 R. K. Tuteja On the queueing problem of correlated arrivals with many servers in a finite waiting space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--68 R. K. Rana Queueing problems with arrivals in General Stream and phase type service 69--80 B. M. Bennett Note on sign tests for equality of means of $k$ bivariate populations . . . . . . 81--83 H. Giger Grundgleichungen der Stereologie II. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--93 Dr. Gustav Feichtinger Über ein $N$-elementiges Modell der Reiz--Stichproben-Theorie mit stetigem Zeitparameter und zwei Antwortklassen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--109 K. Murari A queueing problem with correlated arrivals and correlated phase-type service zur theorie des rangtests . . . 110--119 Dr. Hans Hermann Bock Statistische Modelle und Bayessche Verfahren zur Bestimmung einer unbekannten Klassifikation normalverteilter zufälliger Vektoren. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--132 R. L. Hasija A two warehouse inventory problem . . . 133--136 Prof. Dr. H. Witting Zur Theorie der Rangtests. (German) [] 137--144 Dr. D. K. Kulshrestha Application of discrete transforms in reliability of a parallel redundant system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl On median unbiased estimates . . . . . . 154--173 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Further results on asymptotic normality. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--198 P. Fischer On the inequality $ \Sigma p_i f(p_i) \geq p_i f(q_i) $ . . . . . . . . . . . 199--208 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
B. D. Sharma On amount of information of type-$ \beta $ and other measures . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 G. K. Varma General parametric linear fractional programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17 S. S. Chadha and R. N. Kaul A dual non-linear program . . . . . . . 18--22 B. M. Bennett Tests for marginal symmetry in contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 23--26 K. Murari A queueing problem with arrival and service in batches of variable size . . 27--35 B. M. Bennett On the non-null distribution of Wilcoxon's signed rank test . . . . . . 36--38 N. Singh and N. Bhashyam Effect of the variable offset distance on the kill probability . . . . . . . . 39--47 Dipl.-Math. J. Humburg Wahrscheinlichkeits- und Wettbegriff. (German) [Probability and betting term] 48--53 Prof. Dr. H. Heyer Zum Erschöpftheitsbegriff von D. Blackwell. (German) [On the exhaustion concept of D. Blackwell] . . . . . . . . 54--67 W. Widdra Eine Verallgemeinerung des ``Gesetzes seltener Ereignisse''. (German) [A generalization of the ``Law of Rare Events''] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71 Dr. N. Schmitz A note on the optimality of $k$-stage tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--75 M. Raghavachari A note on the Pareto distribution . . . 76--76 B. M. Bennett On a test of homogeneity for samples from a negative binomial distribution 77--77 Hans Riedwyl Walter Wegmüller . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78 P. Sint and J. Gordesch and L. Reisinger and A. Kaelin and P. Ihm and F. Streit and Karl Trautmann and Karl Trautmann Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl Further results on asymptotic normality II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97 H. Strasser Sufficiency and unbiased estimation . . 98--114 Prof. Dr. P. Gänssler Note on minimum contrast estimates for Markov processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--130 Dr W. Wertz Fehlerabschätzung für eine Klasse von nichtparametrischen Schätzfolgen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--139 Dr. J. Gordesch On the equality of pay-off matrices . . 140--149 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
H. Von Schneeberger Optimale Aufteilung des Stichprobenumfangs bei mehreren Merkmalen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . 1--16 N. Bhashyam Stochastic duels with correlated fire 17--24 S. S. Chadh\`a A generalized upper bounded technique for a linear fractional program . . . . 25--35 P. C. Bagga Two machine scheduling problem when passing allowed . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--40 Prof. Dr. W. Fieger Zur Existenz der höheren Momente von Punktprozessen. (German) [] . . . . . . 41--50 R. P. Gupta Maximum likelihood estimate of the parameters of a truncated inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 51--53 G. M. K. Kpedekpo Recent advances on some aspects of stratified sample design. a review of the literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--64 Gy. Muszély On continuous solutions of a functional inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--69 B. Schips and W. Stier Einige Bemerkungen zu einem Beitrag zur Zeitreihenanalyse von H. Strecker. (German) [Some remarks on a contribution to time series analysis by H. Strecker] 70--73 P. Sint and J. Gordesch and E. Neuwirth and L. Reisinger and F. Streit and E. Fürst and R. Wytek Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80 Miss Sharda A queueing problem with batch arrivals and correlated departures . . . . . . . 81--92 Miss Sharda On a certain type of priority queueing problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--100 Donald J. Wheeler Note on the Kolmogorov statistic for a general discontinuous variable . . . . . 101--102 G. Laube Weak convergence and convergence in the mean of distribution functions . . . . . 103--105 B. H. Goldstein Über eine Anwendung der Potentialtheorie transienter Markoff--Ketten. (German) [] 106--113 Dr. H. Vogt Vergleich zweier Operationscharakteristiken . . . . . . . 114--121 Dr. P. N. Rathie Some characterization theorems for generalized measures of uncertainty and information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--130 P. Seeger The determination of expected mean squares for ANOVA in balanced designs 131--136 H. Linhart Schätzen der Kovarianzdichte stationärer Punktprozesse aus Zählungen. (German) [] 137--147 R. Michel The bound in the Berry--Esséen result for minimum contrast estimates . . . . . . . 148--155 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dr. H. Strasser Eine Bemerkung zur Existenz erwartungstreuer Schätzer. (German) [] 1--5 Prof. Dr. H. Stenger Mehrstufige Stichprobenverfahren . . . . 7--18 Dr. J. C. Koop Notes for a unified theory of estimation for sample surveys taking into account response errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--39 B. D. Sharma and R. Autar Relative information functions and their type $ (\alpha, \beta) $ generalizations 41--50 J. Gordesch and G. Pflug and H.-J. Lenz and H. Strasser and W. Vogel and H. Basler and W. Hazod and A. Linder and G. Feichtinger and F. Ferschl and W. Polasek and H. Drygas and D. Morgenstern and J. Gordesch and P. Sint and et al Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--64 B. Schips and W. Stier Zum Problem der Saisonbereinigung ökonomischer Zeitreihen. (German) [] . . 65--81 Dr. R. Ludwig Bestimmung kostenoptimaler Parameter für den kontinuierlichen Stichprobenplan von Dodge. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . 83--126 T. P. Liu Bayes estimation for the variance of a finite population . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132 Dr. J. P. Dickinson On the resolution of a mixture of observations from two gamma distributions by the method of maximum likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141 Prof. Dr. H. Stenger Schätzbare Parameterfunktionen in der Stichprobentheorie. (German) [] . . . . 143--154 Dr. G. Richter Kostenoptimale Stichprobenpläne für mehrere qualitative Merkmale. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--173 Dipl Mathem. E. v. Collani Zur Wahl eines mehrstufigen Stichprobenplanes. (German) [] . . . . . 175--196 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl A characterization of sufficiency by power functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199 A. R. Padmanabhan Two comments on a paper of Bahadur . . . 201--203 Dipl.-Math. R. Michel Bounds for the efficiency of approximately median unbiased estimates 205--211 Dipl.-Math. H. Zimmermann A note on Bennett's ``Test for marginal symmetry in contingency tables'', Metrika \bf 19, 1972, H. 1, 23--26 . . . 213--214 U. D. Naik On Bayesian optimum allocation in some two phase sampling problems . . . . . . 215--221 Dr. E. Bomsdorf Zur Charakterisierung von Lokalisations-und Dispersionsmaßen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--229 Professor Dr. K. Stange Pläne für messende Prüfung bei Berücksichtigung von ``Vorkenntnissen'' über die Verteilung der Mittelwerte. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--247 Priv.-Doz. Dr. H. Drygas Lineare Modelle und Hochrechnung von Wahlergebnissen. (German) [] . . . . . . 249--255 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dr. H. Basler Eine Untersuchung der Olympia-Lotterie ``Glücksspirale 1971''. (German) [] . . . 1--11 Dr. M. Deistler $z$-Transform and identification of linear econometric models with autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . . . 13--25 B. D. Sharma and R. Autar On information-improvement . . . . . . . 27--34 D. P. Mittal On some functional equations concerning entropy, directed divergence and inaccuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45 J. M. Davenport and J. T. Webster The Behrens--Fisher problem, an old solution revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 47--54 S. G. Prabhu-Ajgaonkar On unordering Horvitz and Thompson's $ T_1 $ class of linear estimators . . . . 55--59 D. Morgenstern and W. Uhlmann and P. Sint Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64 M. A. H. Talukder Response bias and difference estimate in double sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--75 Dr. M. Schaefer Berry--Esseen-type inequality for a special class of distributions . . . . . 77--83 B. C. Gupta Finite moment formulae of $h$-statistics and their estimates . . . . . . . . . . 85--95 E. Pfaffelhuber Moving shift averages for ergodic transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101 L. Diefenbach Eine Bemerkung über das Verhalten der Verbesserungen und ein neuer Vorschlag zur Gewichtung der Meßwerte bei Ausgleichung bedingter direkter Beobachtungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . 103--118 P. Mukhopadhyay An optimum sampling design to base HT-method of estimating a finite population total . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127 Dr. rer. nat. U. Kuß Maximum probability estimators in the case of exponential distribution . . . . 129--146 Dr. A. Chaudhuri A simple method of sampling without replacement with inclusion-probabilities exactly proportional to size . . . . . . 147--152 U. N. Bhat Imbedded Markov chains in queueing systems M/G/1 and GI/M/1 with limited waiting room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--160 Dr. W. Bühler and Dr. T. Deutler Optimal stratification and grouping by dynamic programming . . . . . . . . . . 161--175 W. Polasek and P. Sint and A. Leitsch and E. Neuwirth and W. Polasek and F. Ferschl and G. Feichtinger and L. Reisinger and E. Neuwirth and W. Till and L. Schmetterer and H. Störmer Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188 R. D. Reiss Consistency of a certain class of empirical density functions . . . . . . 189--203 B. D. Sharma and I. J. Taneja Entropy of type $ (\alpha, \beta) $ and other generalized measures in information theory . . . . . . . . . . . 205--215 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
W. Rehder A remark on robustness of linear best estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 Dr. R.-D. Reiss On minimum distance estimators for unimodal densities . . . . . . . . . . . 7--14 I. Thomsen A comparison of approximately optimal stratification given proportional allocation with other methods of stratification and allocation . . . . . 15--25 G. S. Lingappaiah Effect of outliers on the estimation of parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--30 D. P. Mittal On continuous solutions of a functional equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--40 Dr. C. C. Brown The restricted regularity of admissible minimax criteria for many well known parametric statistical problems . . . . 41--63 O. D. Anderson Some new time series results . . . . . . 65--76 Dr. L. Schüler Über die Konsistenz einer Schätzung mehrdimensionaler Dichten auf der Basis trigonometrischer Reihen. (German) [] 77--82 Dr. C. C. Brown A conventional statistical problem with irregular minimax behavior . . . . . . . 83--89 Prof. Dr. H. Strasser A note on efficiency . . . . . . . . . . 91--100 Prof. Dr. H. Schneeweiß Consistent estimation of a regression with errors in the variables . . . . . . 101--115 Prof. Dr. D. Morgenstern Eine zweifache Verallgemeinerung der Pólya-Verteilung und ihre verschiedenen Deutungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . 117--122 F. Ferschl and P. Rice and W. Wetzel and J. Casti and W. Grossmann and B. Rüger Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--126 N. D. Shukla Almost unbiased product-type estimator 127--133 W. K. Chiu On the estimation of data parameters for economic optimum $ 135$--$ 1135$--$ 1135$--$1$-Charts . . . . . . . . . . . 135--147 Dr. L. Schüler and Dr. H. Wolff Zur Schätzung eines Dichtefunktionals. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--154 B. D. Sharma and H. C. Gupta Sub additive measures of relative information and inaccuracy . . . . . . . 155--165 Dr. H. Hilden Die Schätzung des linearen Todesprozesses bei fehlerbehafteten Beobachtungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--191 G. Pflug and Yu. A. Rozanov and W. Vogel and A. Kalliauer and W. Grossmann Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--195 Anonymous Proceedings in Computational Statistics 196--196 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
G. B. Nath Estimation of the parameter of the inverse Gaussian distribution from generalised censored samples . . . . . . 1--6 Prof. Dr. W. Fieger Transformationen, die die Normalverteilung charakterisieren. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--22 G. C. Patni and Dr. K. C. Jain On axiomatic characterization of some non-additive measures of information . . 23--34 A. del Junco and J. M. Steele Moving averages of ergodic processes . . 35--43 Prajneshu Statistical study of a stochastic model of two interacting species . . . . . . . 45--53 J. Gordesch and E. Neuwirth and H. Strasser and J. Ledolter and H. Abele and F. Ferschl and W. Polasek and A. Szöllösi-Nagy and G. Pflug and G. Bonelli and E. Neuwirth and Eberl Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--63 Prof. Dr. K. Bosch Erneuerungsprozesse mit Wartungsstrategien. (German) [] . . . . 65--74 Prof. D. R. Jensen On approximating the distributions of Friedman's $ 75$-$ 175$-$ 175$-$1$ and related statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 75--85 Prof. G. S. Mudholkar and P. Subbaiah and S. George A note on the estimation of two ordered Poisson parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98 D. Dyer Statistical analysis of Fourier coefficients in a restricted harmonic dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105 Professor V. Fabian A modified maximum likelihood test . . . 107--112 Professor H. Myoken and Professor Y. Uchida The generalized ridge estimator and improved adjustments for regression parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--124 G. Erber and G. Knolmayer and J. Gordesch and E. v. Collani and G. Pflug and W. Grossmann Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128 Dr. S. Talwalker A note on characterization by the conditional expectation . . . . . . . . 129--136 J. Steinebach Exponential convergence properties of linear estimators under exponential and uniform distribution . . . . . . . . . . 137--161 Dr. A. Irle Decision theory for continuous observations: Minimax solutions . . . . 163--168 A. I. Dale Convergence in $r$-mean of normalized partial sums in a separable Banach space 169--173 Prof. Dr. L. Knüsel Vergleich zweier Testverfahren zur Symmetrieprüfung in $4$-Felder-Tafeln. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186 O. D. Anderson An appraisal of the Box--Jenkins approach to univariate time series analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--194 H. Unbehauen and B. Göring and B. Bauer Korrektur zu der Buchbesprechung. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
R. Platek and Dr. M. P. Singh A strategy for up-dating continuous surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 R.-D. Reiss Approximate distribution of the maximum deviation of histograms . . . . . . . . 9--26 I. Thomsen Design and estimation problems when estimating a regression coefficient from survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--35 Prof. Dr. W. Fieger Suffizienz bei verschiebungsinvarianten Schätzproblemen. (German) [] . . . . . . 37--48 Dr. H. Vogt Über eine Variante der empirischen Verteilungsfunktion. (German) [] . . . . 49--58 Ms. D. J. Lorah and Prof. R. M. Stark On elementary functions of Pareto variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63 Dr. A. Chaudhuri On estimating the variance of a finite population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--76 Dr. J. Ledolter and Prof. G. E. P. Box Conditions for the optimality of exponential smoothing forecast procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--93 Prof. Dr. D. Landers and Prof. Dr. L. Rogge On nonuniform Gaussian approximation for random summation . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--114 P. Mukhopadhyay Estimating the variance of a finite population under a superpopulation model 115--122 Chr W. Überhuber and R. Schlittgen and G. Pflug and J. Ledolter and J. Gordesch and W. Grossmann and R. Schlittgen and G. Bonelli and A. Linder Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--128 R.-D. Reiss Consistency of minimum contrast estimators in non-standard cases . . . . 129--142 Prof. Dr. D. Morgenstern Erwartungswerte, Varianzen und Kovarianzen mehrerer Maxima der Abstände unabhängiger rechteckverteilter Zufallsvariabler. (German) [] . . . . . 143--148 A. M. Pedgaonkar and S. G. Prabhu-Ajgaonkar Comparison of sampling strategies . . . 149--153 S. R. Patel Minimum variance unbiased estimation of multivariate modified power series distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--161 S. P. Satterthwaite and Dr. T. P. Hutchinson A generalisation of Gumbel's bivariate logistic distribution . . . . . . . . . 163--170 B. Rüger Das maximale signifikanzniveau des Tests: ``Lehne $ H_o $ ab, wenn $k$ unter $n$ gegebenen tests zur ablehnung führen''. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . 171--178 Dipl. Ing. Dr. P. Hackl Nichtparametrisches Schätzen in Lebensdauer --- Untersuchungen bei reduzierter Information. (German) [] . . 179--192 A.-B. El-Sayed Cascaded channels and the equivocation inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--208 S. R. Patel and Dr. S. M. Shah Minimum variance unbiased estimation of left truncated multivariate power series distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--218 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Prof. P. G. Wong and Prof. S. P. Wong An extremal quotient test for exponential distributions . . . . . . . 1--4 Prof. Dr. H. Störmer Über das Testen von Ausschußanteilen mit verallgemeinerten $t$-Tests. (German) [] 5--24 Dr. Sh. Talwalker A note on the characterization of the multivariate normal distribution . . . . 25--30 Prof. Dr. W. Fieger $r$-te Momente von Punktprozessen. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41 J. Ledolter Inference robustness of ARIMA models under non-normality-Special application to stock price data . . . . . . . . . . 43--56 K. Hutcheson and N. I. Lyons The mean and variance of the likelihood ratio criterion for the multinomial distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--61 G. Feichtinger and H. Strelec and G. Pflug and K. H. Keil and P. Fleissner Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64 Prof. Dr. W. Wertz Ankündigung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63 O. D. Anderson A proof of a relationship between the generalized variances for associated autoregressive and moving average processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--70 Prof. Dr. K. Bosch Funktionen homogener Markoffscher Ketten als homogene bzw. inhomogene Markoffsche Ketten. (German) [] . . . . . . . . . . 71--85 S. R. Patel Minimum variance unbiased estimation of left truncated multivariate modified power series distribution . . . . . . . 87--94 R. Schlittgen Use of a median test for a generalized Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 95--103 Dr. A. C. Dallas On the exponential law . . . . . . . . . 105--108 W. Sendler On statistical inference in concentration measurement . . . . . . . 109--122 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124 P.-Th. Wilrich and H. Fleischner and G. Pflug and F. Landler and W. Fauni and H. Strelec and W. Polasek Buchbesprechungen. (German) [Book Reviews] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127 Dr. W. Grossmann Einige Bemerkungen zur Theorie der Maximum Probability Schätzer. (German) [] 129--137 Dr. G. Pflug Stetige stochastische Approximation . . 139--150 Prof. Dr. D. Plachky Bestimmung ungünstigster Dichten durch Minimierung von Abständen bei Verteilungen. (German) [] . . . . . . . 151--155 Prof. Dr. W. Wertz Über ein nichtparametrisches Schätzproblem. (German) [] . . . . . . . 157--167 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Prof. Dr. W. Oberhofer Die Nichtkonsistenz der M.-L. Schätzer im ``Switching Regression'' Problem. (German) [The consistency of the non-M.-L. estimator in the ``switching regression'' problem] . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Dr. A. Irle Locally best tests for Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--28 M. A. Beg On the estimation of PrY$<$X for the two-parameter exponential distribution 29--34 R. Kohn Local identification of ARMAX structures subject to nonlinear constraints . . . . 35--41 D. Pollard The minimum distance method of testing 43--70 E. Neuwirth and F. Ferschl and G. Pflug Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72 Priv.-Doz. Dr. B. Rüger Alternativtests für zwei einfache Hypothesen mit endlich vielen Ergebnissen. (German) [Alternative tests for two simple hypotheses with finitely many results] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--90 Pl. Kannappan A mixed theory of information- IV: Inset-inaccuracy and directed divergence 91--98 V. K. Srivastava A note on the estimation of mean in normal population . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102 F. Pukelsheim Multilinear estimation of skewness and kutosis in linear models . . . . . . . . 103--113 Dr. S. Talwalker On the property of dullness of Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--119 Dr. K. P. Srinath and Dr. M. A. Hidiroglou Estimation of variance in multi-stage sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--125 M. Schader Hierarchical analysis: Classification with ordinal object dissimilarities . . 127--132 M. A. Baxter Minimum variance unbiased estimation of the parameters of the Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--138 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139 Anonymous Important notice . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139 Ag. Dallas Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139 D. Morgenstern and W. Grossmann and W. Polasek and G. Feichtinger and G. Pflug and A. Kalliauer and J. Gordesch Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--143 Anonymous Fehlerhinweis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143 M. Yaqub and A. H. Khan On the distribution of a distance function on the sphere . . . . . . . . . 145--151 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dr. A. Chaudhuri and R. Arnab On non-negative variance-estimation . . 1--12 Dr. D. Gebhardt On the statistical evaluation of hit patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--21 J. Jahn Zur Bewertung von Schätzungen bei der gewöhnlichen Regressionsanalyse. (German) [On the evaluation of estimates in ordinary regression analysis] . . . . . 23--33 P. Janssen Rate of convergence in the Central Limit Theorem and in the Strong law of Large Numbers for von Mises statistics . . . . 35--46 Dr. H. Garrelfs Rangvariable bei Vorliegen von Bindungen. (German) [Rank in the presence of variable bindings] . . . . . 47--52 B. de B. Pereira Choice of a survival model for patients with a brain tumour . . . . . . . . . . 53--61 R. von Chossy and U. G. Oppel Eine Invarianzeigenschaft für Startverteilungen einer Klasse stochastischer Prozesse. (German) [An invariance property for a class of stochastic processes starting distributions] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69 Dr. B. Von Rüger Scharfe untere und obere Schranken für die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Realisation von $k$ unter $n$ Ereignissen. (German) [Sharp lower and upper bounds for the probability of realization of $k$ in $n$ events] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77 Prof. Dr. J. Pfanzagl A special representation of a sufficient randomization kernel . . . . . . . . . . 79--81 Ch. A. Charalambides and H. Papageorgiou On bivariate generalized binomial and negative binomial distributions . . . . 83--92 Dipl.-Math. M. Behl Die messende Prüfung bei Abweichung von der Normalverteilungsannahme. (German) [The measurement test for deviation from the normal distribution assumption] . . 93--107 H. S. Konijn Biases, variances and covariances of raking ratio estimators for marginal and cell totals and averages of observed characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--121 R. M. Sekkappan Subjective Bayesian multivariate stratified sampling from finite populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--132 Asst. Prof. Dr. N. Mukhopadhyay Sequential approach to simultaneous estimation of the mean and variance . . 133--136 F. Ferschl and F. Eicker Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137 Dr. P. Kardos On generalized Bellman's functional equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--149 Dr. A. C. Dallas A characterization using the conditional variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--153 W. Gawronski and U. Stadtmüller Smoothing histograms by means of lattice-and continuous distributions . . 155--164 P. K. Sen and Y. Tsong An invariance principle for progressively truncated likelihood ratio statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--177 Prof. Dr. H. Schneeberger The problem of optimum stratification and allocation with $ q = n / N > 0 $ . . 179--189 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
M. T. Subrahmanya The combined inverse binomial sampling procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Dr. W. Sendler On functionals of order statistics . . . 19--54 Dr. P. Findeisen Die Charakterisierung der Normalverteilung nach Gauß. (German) [The characterization of the Gaussian normal distribution] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--63 H. Heyer and F. Ferschl and A. C. Harvey and P.-Th. Wilrich and W. Grossmann and G. Pflug and A. Linder and K. D. Schmidt Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--70 M. J. Ahsan and S. U. Khan Optimum allocation in multivariate stratified random sampling with overhead cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78 Dr. W. Stadje Some remarks on the average sample number of sequential and non-sequential tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86 Dr. P. Grant Secretary problems with inspection costs as a game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--93 Dr. P. Findeisen Charakterisierung der zweiseitigen Exponentialverteilung. (German) [Characterization of the two-sided exponential distribution] . . . . . . . 95--102 M. A. Beg Optimal tests and estimators for truncated exponential families . . . . . 103--113 Dr. E. Zinzius Ungünstige Verteilungen bei einparametrigen Parameterschätzproblemen. (German) [Unfavorable distributions in one-parameter parameter estimation problems] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--128 Prof. Dr. S. K. Bhattacharya and G. S. Pandey Applications of an inequality involving conditional expectations . . . . . . . . 129--133 N. Henze Verhalten des Chi--Quadrat-Tests für Prüfung der Gleichwahrscheinlichkeit der Lotto--Zahlen bei Nichtgültigkeit der Hypothese. (German) [Behavior of the chi-square test for examination of equal probability of lotto-numbers with nonvalidity of the hypothesis] . . . . . 135--139 R. Dutter and Ch. Mandl and W. Polasek and J. Gordesch Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142 P. Mukhopadhyay Optimum strategies for estimating the variance of a finite population under a superpopulation model . . . . . . . . . 143--158 Dr. E. Kremer Local comparison of linear rank tests, in the Bahadur sense . . . . . . . . . . 159--173 S. Sengupta On interpenetrating samples of unequal sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--188 J. Panaretos An extension of the damage model . . . . 189--194 I. Strauss On the admissibility of estimators for the finite population variance . . . . . 195--202 Dr. P. G. Wong and Dr. S. P. Wong A curtailed test for the shape parameter of the Weibull distribution . . . . . . 203--209 G. Feichtinger and E. J. Hannan and K. D. Schmidt and P. Mandl and L. E. Moses Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
E. O. George and G. S. Mudholkar On the convolution of logistic random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 D. M. Kern Minimum variance unbiased estimation in the Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . 15--19 Professor I. A. Ahmad and Professor P.-E. Lin Consistency of a nonparametric estimation of a density functional . . . 21--29 Dr. W. Stadje Summen von Produkten gemeinsam normalverteilter Zufallsvariablen. (German) [Sums of products of jointly normally distributed random variables] 31--36 Prof. Dr. R. Theodorescu and Prof. R. L. Tweedie Solidarity properties and a Doeblin decomposition for a class of non-Markovian stochastic processes . . . 37--47 L. Bondesson On uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimation when no complete sufficient statistics exist . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--54 Dr. L. Rüschendorf Solution of a statistical optimization problem by rearrangement methods . . . . 55--61 D. Kalin and H. Witting and H. G. Seifert and Prof. Dr. H. Schneeberger and F. Eicker and G. Rothenberger and H. Schoch and O. Richter and H. Rost and P. A. Meyer and G. Leha and E. Dettweiler and H. Heyer and E. Siebert and H. Rieder and et al Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--72 Dr. G. Rothe Block rank statistics . . . . . . . . . 73--83 H. Heyer Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84 Dr. P. Roebruck Zur Optimalität des $F$-Testes für lineare Hypothesen über lineare Modelle mit gemischten Effekten. (German) [On the optimality of $F$-test for linear hypotheses about linear mixed-effects models] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--91 F. Götze and D. Plachky Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92 S. K. Srivastava Predictive estimation of finite population mean using product estimator 93--99 H. Heyer Statistics of random processes. I: General theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100 L. S. Hayre Sequential estimation of the difference between the means of two normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107 M. J. Ryan Decision theory and incomplete knowledge 108--108 K. D. Glazebrook and D. M. Jones Some best possible results for a discounted one armed bandit . . . . . . 109--115 W. Sendler and D. Morgenstern Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116 Prof. Dr. D. Kalin and Prof. Dr. R. Theodorescu On a stopping rule for a class of sequential decision problems . . . . . . 117--123 T. Louton and R. Schassberger Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. G. Prabhu-Ajgaonkar A note on necessary best estimator of order two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Dr. W. Katzenbeisser Die asymptotische Verteilung des Prognosefehlers bei Prognosen mit Hilfe eines dynamischen ökonometrischen Modells höherer als erster Ordnung. (German) [The asymptotic distribution of the forecast error in predictions using a dynamic econometric model of higher than first order] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--23 E. Schaich and D. Morgenstern Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24 T. J. Rao Some aspects of random permutation models in finite population sampling theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32 R. H. Ketellapper and A. E. Ronner Are robust estimation methods useful in the structural errors-in-variables model? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41 O. Krafft and H. Heyer Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42 H. Niemi The invertibility of sampled and aggregated ARMA models . . . . . . . . . 43--50 Prof. Dr. H. Störmer Bemerkungen zu den Sätzen von Jordan. (German) [Comments on Jordan sets] . . . 51--59 H. Strasser and P. Gänssler Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62 D. G. Kabe Classical statistical analysis based on a certain hypercomplex multivariate normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 63--76 Ass. Prof. S. K. Saksena and Prof. A. M. Johnson Best unbiased estimators for the parameters of a two-parameter Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--83 H. Schneeweiß Studien zur angewandten Wirtschaftsforschung und Statistik. (German) [Studies on applied economic research and statistics] . . . . . . . . 84--84 D. Sharma On estimating the variance of a generalized Laplace distribution . . . . 85--88 V. R. Padmawar and P. Mukhopadhyay Estimation of symmetric functions of a finite population . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97 J. Hüsler Extremes and related properties of random sequences and processes . . . . . 98--98 Prof. Dr. D. Landers and Prof. Dr. L. Rogge Natural $ \alpha $-quantiles and conditional $ \alpha $-quantiles . . . . 99--113 F. Haslinger Economic theory of natural resources . . 114--114 Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ch. A. Charalambides Minimum variance unbiased estimation for the zero class truncated bivariate Poisson and logarithmic series distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--123 H.-O. Georgii and F. Pukelsheim Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126 C. H. Kapadia and D. L. Weeks Minimal sufficient statistics for the group divisible partially balanced incomplete block design (GD-PBIBD) with interaction under an Eisenhart Model II 127--144 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dr. B. Arnold Kostenoptimale Prüfpläne bei einem Problem mit drei möglichen Entscheidungen. (German) [Costa-optimized test plans for a problem with three possible decisions] 1--14 S. Holm On the optimality of differentiated SPR tests of composite hypotheses . . . . . 15--33 W. Uhlmann Frontiers in statistical quality control $2$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34 Prof. Dr. Gerd Ronning On the nonnegativity of XX$^+$ and its relevance in econometrics . . . . . . . 35--47 G. A. Edgar Amarts and set function processes . . . 48--48 A. K. Md. E. Saleh and M. M. Ali and D. Umbach Large sample estimation of Pareto quantiles using selected order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56 E. Sonnemann $U$-Optimum row-columns designs for the comparison of two treatments . . . . . . 57--63 S. G. Prabhu-Ajgaonkar A note on necessary best estimator of order two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64 J. Engel Some characterizations of distributions by regression models for ordinal response data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--72 L. Gajek A remark on Lehmann-unbiased estimators for scale resp. Location parameters . . 73--84 A. K. Gupta and C. F. Wong On three and five parameter bivariate beta distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 85--91 E. Reschenhofer A remark on the recursive estimation of ARMA order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96 A. E. Ronner and A. G. M. Steerneman The occurrence of outliers in the explanatory variable considered in an errors-in-variables framework . . . . . 97--107 T. J. Terpstra One-sided and multi-sided rank tests against trend in the case of concordant observers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--123 John D. Hey and W. Wetzel and M. Metivier and D. M. Chibisov and V. K. Malinovski Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--128 B. M. Pötscher The behaviour of the Lagrangian multiplier test in testing the orders of an ARMA-model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--150 Dr. W. Krämer Asymptotische Verteilungen einiger Schätzverfahren bei Trend und Fehlern in den Variablen. (German) [Asymptotic distributions of some estimations in trend and errors in variables] . . . . . 151--162 Prof. Dr. D. Morgenstern Einfache Begündung für die Irrtumswahrscheinlichkeitsschranke der HOMMEL'schen Mehrheitstestkombination. (German) [Simple basis for imploring the probability of error bounds of the majority Hommel test combination] . . . 163--164 M. Vandemaele and N. Veraverbeke Cramér type large deviations for Studentized $U$-statistics . . . . . . . 165--179 H. Linhart and P. Volkers On a criterion for the selection of models for stationary time series . . . 181--196 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
P. A. Lee and S. H. Ong The bivariate non-central negative binomial distributions . . . . . . . . . 1--28 S. H. Ong and P. A. Lee Bivariate non-central negative binomial distribution: Another generalisation . . 29--46 Y. J. Lee and E. J. Dudewicz Robust selection procedures based on vector ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--63 N. Schmitz and D. W. Stroock Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64 D. Sharma and K. Krishnamoorthy An identity concerning a Wishart matrix 65--68 P. Laake Optimal estimates and optimal predictors of finite population characteristics in the presence of nonresponse . . . . . . 69--77 P. Priouret An introduction to the theory of large deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78 Dr. R. Arnab Optimal prediction for a finite population total with connected designs and related model-based results . . . . 79--84 K. Takeuchi and M. Akahira A note on minimum variance . . . . . . . 85--91 M. P. Singh Sampling with unequal probabilities . . 92--92 Dr. B. F. Arnold Procedures to determine optimum two-stage sampling plans by attributes 93--109 R. M. Loynes Statistical extremes and applications 100--100 W. Eberl, Jr. Characterizations of normality in translation classes by properties of Bayes estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--119 P. Hackl Computational methods for parsimonious data fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120 P. Bauer and P. Hackl and G. Hommel and E. Sonnemann Multiple testing of pairs of one-sided hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127 H. Föllmer and K. Wittkowski Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128 P. Mukhopadhyay Estimation under linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--134 Dr. A. J. Viollaz On the reliability of the chi-square test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--142 Dr. U. Mäder Kostenoptimale Prüfpläne für ein quantitatives Merkmal. (German) [Cost-optimized test plans for a quantitative characteristic] . . . . . . 143--163 P. Hackl and W. Hansen Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
M. Akahira and K. Takeuchi Locally minimum variance unbiased estimator in a discontinuous density function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 R. Wiegert Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16 Prof. J. A. Koziol, Ph. D. An alternative formulation of Neyman's smooth goodness of fit tests under composite alternatives . . . . . . . . . 17--24 Dr. Werner Goldmann Risk-efficient nonparametric sequential estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--30 L. Knüsel and J. Michalk Asymptotic expansion of the power function of the two-sample binomial test with and without randomization . . . . . 31--44 M. C. Spruill Optimal extrapolation of derivatives . . 45--60 F. Götze and H. Stenger and U. Dieter and J. W. Thompson Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64 Dr. J. M. Begun Estimates of relative risk . . . . . . . 65--82 N. Mukhopadhyay and A. Mauromoustakos Three-stage estimation procedures for the negative exponential distributions 83--93 R. Borges Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94 S. Bagchi On the $E$-optimality of certain asymmetrical designs under mixed effects model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105 F. Ledrappier Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106 Prof. Dr. A. Irle Largest excess of boundary crossings for martingales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--115 J. Jacod Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116 V. Dupac Quasi-isotonic regression and stochastic approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--123 R. Beran and S. Schach and A. Dress Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127 Dr. Arne Sandström Asymptotic normality of linear functions of concomitants of order statistics . . 129--142 Dr. Franz Konecny The asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimators for marked Poisson processes with a cyclic intensity measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--155 L. Takács Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156 F. Zamudio and Prof. Dr. Malay Ghosh Estimation of multiple Poisson means: A compromise between maximum likelihood and empirical Bayes estimators . . . . . 157--166 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. Bagchi A class of non binary unequally replicated $E$-optimal designs . . . . . 1--12 Y. P. Chaubey and B. Singh Almost unbiased estimation in multiplicative models . . . . . . . . . 13--28 V. R. Padmawar On the completeness of certain classes of two stage sampling strategies . . . . 29--40 Prof. G. G. Hamedani On two recent characterizations of multivariate normal distribution . . . . 41--47 V. Kurotschka Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48 R. Grübel A minimal characterization of the covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52 Prof. Dr. S. Sengupta A comparison between PPSWR and Chaudhuri's IPPS procedures . . . . . . 53--57 W. Wertz and V. Barnett and Sándor Csörg\Ho and K. V. Mardia Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--62 V. Horálek and V. Benes On a special application of the truncation problem . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76 Prof. Dr. H. Stenger Asymptotic expansion of the minimax value in survey sampling . . . . . . . . 77--92 W. Stadje A generalized maximum likelihood characterization of the normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--97 E. von Collani and W. Stute Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98 B. C. Arnold and M. Pourahmadi Conditional characterizations of multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 99--108 A. Shanubhogue Distribution-free test for homogeneity against stochastic ordering . . . . . . 109--119 L. Schmetterer and P. Ressel and H. Heyer and H. Basler Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--125 Prof. G. G. Walter and Prof. G. G. Hamedani Empiric Bayes estimation of hypergeometric probability . . . . . . . 127--143 P. A. Meyer Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144 PD Dr. E. von Collani A unified approach to optimal process control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--159 C. R. Rao Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160 T. Yanagimoto The conditional maximum likelihood estimator of the shape parameter in the gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 161--175 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sudhir Gupta and Murari Singh Analysis of PBIB designs using association matrices . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 Tatsuya Kubokawa PhD Improving on two-stage estimators for scale families . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--13 G. Turnwald Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14 A. K. Gupta and W. R. Javier On testing the dimensionality of regression coefficients . . . . . . . . 15--27 H. Schneeweiß Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28 Norbert Gaffke and Rudolf Mathar A cyclic projection algorithm via duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--54 Dr. Arijit Chaudhuri and Dr. Arun Kumar Adhikary On efficiency of the ratio estimator . . 55--59 H. Strecker and F. Mosteller Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62 Prof. Dr. T. J. Terpstra Asymptotically optimal nonparametric one- and two-way analysis of variance tests for the log linear model under censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--90 Prof. Gary Stevens A nonparametric multiple comparison test for differences in scale parameters . . 91--106 Prof. Sándor Csörg\Ho Consistency of some tests for multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . 107--116 Tuan D. Pham and Professor Dr. Lanh T. Tran Predicting the sample mean by extreme order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--125 G. Kirchgässner and M. Csörg\Ho and L. Rüschendorf Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128 Maria Angeles Gil and Rigoberto Perez and Prof. Dr. Pedro Gil A family of measures of uncertainty involving utilities: Definition, properties, applications and statistical inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--147 H. Bandemer Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148 Lanxiang Chen Monotonicity of the power function and unbiasedness of some likelihood ratio tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--159 M. Denker Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160 Dr. Arun Kumar Adhikary and Dr. Arijit Chaudhuri On two properties of an unequal probability sampling scheme . . . . . . 161--166 G. Dikta and B. Kurtz and Prof. Dr. W. Stute Sequential fixed-width confidence bands for distribution functions under random censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176 Dr. B. Abdous and Prof. Dr. R. Theodorescu On the strong uniform consistency of a new kernel density estimator . . . . . . 177--194 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
L. Chen and J. Eichenauer-Herrmann and J. Lehn Gamma-minimax estimation of a multivariate normal mean . . . . . . . . 1--6 N. Henze An approximation to the limit distribution of the epps-pulley test statistic for normality . . . . . . . . 7--18 Dr. M. Al-Mahmeed and Dr. H. I. Hamdy Sequential estimation of linear models in three stages . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--36 Prof. M. I. Beg and K. Balasubramanian Distributions determined by conditioning on a single order statistic . . . . . . 37--43 J. Mau Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44 I. A. Ahmad and S. C. Kochar Testing whether $F$ is more IFR than $G$ 45--58 H. Heyer and J. de Leeuw Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62 V. R. Prayag and Dr. A. P. Gore Density estimation for randomly distributed circular objects . . . . . . 63--69 H. Heyer Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70 Prof. Dr. J. K. Ghorai and V. Susarla Kernel estimation of a smooth distribution function based on censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--86 S. Gabler and R. Schweigkoffer The existence of sampling designs with preassigned inclusion probabilities . . 87--96 Dr. K. Auinger Quasi goodness of fit tests for lifetime distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--116 S. Gabler and J. L. Teugels and L. Afflerbach and J. Steinebach and P. L. Davies and H. O. Georgii and R. Trost and H. Heyer and H. Strasser Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127 Prof. T. Ramallingam Exact Bahadur efficiencies of tests for superadditivity of the mean function of a non-homogeneous Poisson process . . . 129--143 Shun-ichi Amari Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144 Prof. Dr. T. Royen A probability inequality for ranges and its application to maximum range test procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154 Prof. M. Luisa Targhetta A note on a mixing problem and the Schützenberger inequality . . . . . . . . 155--161 Yuji Nakano Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162 Prof. Dr. M. Jacroux and R. SahaRay On the construction of trend free row-column $2$-level factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--180 Prof. Rahul Mukerjee Optimality of balanced designs for minimum norm quadratic unbiased estimation of variance components . . . 181--188 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Professor A. K. Gupta and Professor D. G. Kabe On some noncentral distribution problems for the mixture of two normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 V. D. Naik and P. C. Gupta A general class of estimators for estimating population mean using auxiliary information . . . . . . . . . 11--17 H. Pruscha Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18 Prof. Dr. E. v. Collani A note on acceptance sampling for variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--36 L. Fahrmeir and H. Kaufmann On Kalman filtering, posterior mode estimation and Fisher scoring in dynamic exponential family regression . . . . . 37--60 Sanpei Kageyama and Olav Kallenberg and G. S. Watson and M. Deistler Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--66 Prof. S. S. Cheng and B. R. Chen The locally MIMSQE of nonnormal error variance in quadratically balanced models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70 S. Sengupta and D. Kundu Admissible unbiased variance estimation in finite population sampling under randomized response . . . . . . . . . . 71--82 Dr. R. Pavur and Dean M. D. M. Young Conditions for invariance of the multivariate versions of Grubbs' test and Bartlett's test under a general dependency structure . . . . . . . . . . 83--97 H. Heyer Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98 Prof. K. M. Hassanein and A. K. Md E. Saleh and E. F. Brown Estimating survivor function using optimally selected order statistics . . 99--115 P. E. Kloeden Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116 Dr. Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly On testing for Lorenz ordering . . . . . 117--124 M. Deistler and G. Koch and G. Pap Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128 N. R. Draper and N. Gaffke and F. Pukelsheim First and second order rotatability of experimental designs, moment matrices, and information surfaces . . . . . . . . 129--161 T. Kusama Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162 T. Shiraishi Hypothesis testing and parameter estimation based on $M$-statistics in $k$ samples with unequal variances . . . 163--178 H. Luschgy Testing one-sided hypotheses for the mean of a Gaussian process . . . . . . . 179--194 S. Gupta and S. Kageyama Type $S$ designs with nested rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--202 Prof. Dr. M. Jacroux A note on the $E$-optimality of block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--214 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
R. Magiera Bayes sequential estimation for an exponential family of processes: A discrete time approach . . . . . . . . . 1--20 K. R. Lee and Prof. C. H. Kapadia Mean squared error efficient estimators of the variance components . . . . . . . 21--26 Dr. J. Eichenauer-Herrmann and Prof. Dr. W. Fieger Minimax estimation under convex loss when the parameter interval is bounded 27--43 Nobuaki Obata Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44 Prof. S. Morgenthaler The bias of least squares polynomial interpolants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55 B. Arnold and W. Wertz and B. M. Pötscher and D. Voss and R. Shimizu and R. Dahlhaus and M. Leitner and O. Krafft and G. Pflug Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--66 Prof. Dr. D. Stoyan Statistical estimation of model parameters of planar Neyman--Scott cluster processes . . . . . . . . . . . 67--74 N. Giri and M. Behara and P. Banerjee Locally minimax test of independence in elliptically symmetrical distributions with additional observations . . . . . . 75--84 S. B. Kim and D. S. Bai Economic design of one-sided screening procedures based on a correlated variable with all parameters unknown . . 85--93 R. Lasser Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94 H. Luschgy Approximations and time-discretization in testing one-sided hypotheses for the mean of a Gaussian process . . . . . . . 95--105 N. R. Draper Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106 K. Balasubramanian and M. I. Beg Distributions determined by conditioning on a pair of order statistics . . . . . 107--112 T. V. Ramanathan and M. B. Rajarshi Rank tests for testing randomness of a regression coefficient in a linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--124 W. Hazod and N. C. Giri and H. Bergström and H. Heyer and P. K. Sen and H. Heyer Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130 K. Selvavel Uniform minimum variance unbiased estimators for bivariate families . . . 131--138 R. Göb Type $A$ operating characteristic functions of defects sampling plans . . 139--153 P. E. Kloeden Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154 N. Mukhopadhyay and T. N. Sriram On sequential comparisons of means of first-order autoregressive models . . . 155--164 S. K. Bar-Lev and P. Enis Variance stabilizing and normalizing transformations for the compound Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--175 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Hafner Construction of minimax-tests for bounded families of probability-densities . . . . . . . . . 1--23 P. J. Bickel Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24 Madhuri S. Mulekar and Linda J. Young A fixed sample size selection procedure for negative binomial populations . . . 25--35 B. Arnold Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36 Holger Dette A new interpretation of optimality for $E$-optimal designs in linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50 Yoshikazu Takada Uniformly most accurate equivariant prediction limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61 L. Birgé and H. H. Bock Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--66 Lothar Heinrich Asymptotic properties of minimum contrast estimators for parameters of Boolean models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--94 Do Sun Bai and Min Koo Lee Economic designs of single and double screening procedures . . . . . . . . . . 95--113 E. Eberle Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114 Jürgen Eichenauer-Herrmann The lattice structure of nonlinear congruential pseudorandom numbers . . . 115--120 N. Mukhopadhyay and A. R. Padmanabhan A note on three-stage confidence intervals for the difference of locations: The exponential case . . . . 121--128 M. S. Bartlett and S. T. Rachev and E. Dettweiler and D. A. Berry and E. Mammen Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136 Kwan R. Lee and C. H. Kapadia Combined unbiased estimators based on $Q$-reduced model . . . . . . . . . . . 137--147 M. Arató Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148 C. H. Lin and Shashikala Sukhatme Two-sample rank tests with truncated populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--172 N. Mukhopadhyay and S. Chattopadhyay and S. K. Sahu Further developments in estimation of the largest mean of $K$ normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--183 B. Anger Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184 R. van de Ven and N. C. Weber Bounds for the median of the negative binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 185--189 D. Pfeifer Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Manfred Riedel and Hans-Joachim Rossberg Characterization of the exponential distribution function by properties of the difference $ X_{k + s \colon n} - X_{k \colon n} $ of order statistics . . 1--19 E. Csáki Analysis of random walks, studies in probability, optimization and statistics 20--20 Vidyasagar Ramchandra and R. Padmawar Stratification, Midzuno--Sen strategy and nonnegative unbiased variance estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--27 H. Heyer Natur und mathematisches Erkennen. (German) [Natural and mathematical cognition] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28 Sunanda Bagchi Optimality and construction of some rectangular designs . . . . . . . . . . 29--41 P. S. R. S. Rao Design and inference in finite population sampling . . . . . . . . . . 42--42 Rainer Göb Bounds for median and $ 50 $ percentage point of binomial and negative binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 Erkki P. Liski and Song-Gui Wang Another look at the naive estimator in a regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 G. Högnäs and H. Heyer and M. Falk Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--70 Joachim Kunert Optimality of block designs with variable block sizes and random block effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81 W. Näther Optimum experimental designs . . . . . . 82--82 Munsup Seoh and Madan L. Puri Berry-Esséen rate in asymptotic normality for perturbed sample quantiles . . . . . 83--98 Byung Hwee Kim Admissibility of generalized Bayes estimators in an one parameter nonregular family . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108 Konstantinos Zografos and Kosmas Ferentinos An information theoretic argument for the validity of the exponential model 109--119 W. Woess and W. Weil and W. Wertz and N. Jacob and P. van der Laan Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--126 Ulhas J. Dixit Bayesian approach to prediction in the presence of outliers for Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136 Norman R. Draper and Friedrich Pukelsheim On third order rotatability . . . . . . 137--161 F. Ferschl Analogy and structure . . . . . . . . . 162--162 W. Albers and W. C. M. Kallenberg and G. D. Otten Setting test limits under prescribed consumer loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--181 K. Burdzy Some aspects of Brownian motion. Part I: Some special functionals . . . . . . . . 182--182 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Do Sun Bai and Hyuck Moo Kwon Economic design of a two-stage screening procedure with a prescribed outgoing quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Maximilian Happacher Exact and approximate $D$-optimal designs in polynomial regression . . . . 19--27 Norbert Gaffke and Berthold Heiligers Optimal and robust invariant designs for cubic multiple regression . . . . . . . 29--48 G. Heinrich and U. Jensen Parameter estimation for a bivariate lifetime distribution in reliability with multivariate extensions . . . . . . 49--65 B. W. Silverman and N. M. Laird and A. Wakolbinger and M. Fukushima and P. C. Consul and D. M. Titterington and W. Fieger and K. Jacobs and H. Drygas Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--78 Anonymous Newly accepted papers . . . . . . . . . 79--97 Dennis K. J. Lin and Norman R. Draper Screening properties of certain two-level designs . . . . . . . . . . . 99--118 Theo K. Dijkstra Pyrrho's lemma, or have it your way . . 119--125 Felix Famoye and P. C. Consul Bivariate generalized Poisson distribution with some applications . . 127--138 H. Heyer and K. D. Elworthy and N. Cressie and R. J. Williams and H. Büning and R. Schassberger and H. Lütkepohl Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148 Friedrich Pukelsheim and Werner Uhlman and Herbert Heyer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149 Andrej Pázman Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151 Alain Le Breton and Alexander Novikov Some results about averaging in stochastic approximation . . . . . . . . 153--171 Norbert Gaffke and Berthold Heiligers Algorithms for optimal design with application to multiple polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190 Philip Hougaard Nonlinear regression and curved exponential families. Improvement of the approximation to the asymptotic distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--202 C. Radhakrishna Rao and L. C. Zhao Recent contributions to censored regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 203--213 Shayle R. Searle An overview of variance component estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--230 Tadeusz Cali\'nski The basic contrasts of a block design with special reference to the recovery of inter-block information . . . . . . . 231--232 Ching-Shui Cheng and Don X. Sun Maximum estimation capacity and minimum aberration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233 Nóra Ní Chuív and Bimal K. Sinha and Zhong Wu Estimation of the location parameter of a Cauchy distribution using a ranked set sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Zbigniew Szkutnik Quasi-maximum likelihood estimation of parameters in a multivariate Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 S. E. Ahmed and V. K. Rohatgi Shrinkage estimation of the proportion in randomized response . . . . . . . . . 17--30 Thomas Flak and Wolfgang Schmid An outlier test for linear processes- II. Large contamination . . . . . . . . 31--42 Yanhong Wu A less sensitive linear detector for the change point based on kernel smoothing method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--55 Mohamed Boutahar and Claude Deniau Least squares estimator for regression models with some deterministic time varying parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 57--67 Birgit Gaschler Consistency and asymptotic normality of maximum likelihood estimation for Gaussian Markov processes from discrete observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--90 A. H. Sharif and S. Csörgö and S. Takenaka and D. Dacunha-Castelle and H. Basler Book-reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100 M. Rueda Garcia and A. Arcos Cebrian Repeated substitution method: The ratio estimator for the population variance 101--105 Thomas Sellke Generalized Gauss--Chebyshev inequalities for unimodal distributions 107--121 Arijit Chaudhuri and Tapabrata Maiti Estimating regression coefficients from survey data by asymptotic design-cum-model based approach . . . . 123--133 Jong-Wuu Wu and L. Y. Ouyang On characterizing distributions by conditional expectations of functions of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--147 Falk Bathe and Jürgen Franz Modelling of repairable systems with various degrees of repair . . . . . . . 149--164 Vladimir Dragalin A simple and effective scanning rule for a multi-channel system . . . . . . . . . 165--182 P. Koeden and R. Viertl and R. Schassberger and G. Casella Book-reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--187 Enrique Del Castillo Run length distributions and economic design of $ \bar X $ charts with unknown process variance . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--201 J. A. Eccleston and J. A. John Orthogonal main effect plans for two and three factors in small blocks . . . . . 203--211 H. Stenger and S. Gabler A minimax property of Lahiri--Midzuno--Sen's sampling scheme 213--220 S. H. Ong On a class of discrete distributions arising from the birth-death-with-immigration process . . 221--235 L. Györfi and I. Vajda and E. van der Meulen Minimum Kolmogorov distance estimates of parameters and parametrized distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--255 Waltraud Kahle Bartlett corrections for the Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--263 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
W. Stute The sequential probability ratio test under random censorship . . . . . . . . 1--8 Andrej Pázman The density of the parameter estimators when the observations are distributed exponentially . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--26 Waltraud Kahle Estimation of the parameters of the Weibull distribution for censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--40 Paul Chiou and Chien-Pai Han Estimation of error variance in one-way random model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51 Do Sun Bai and Min Koo Lee Economic designs of two-sided single and double screening procedures . . . . . . 53--69 Chunsheng Ma Multivariate survival functions characterized by constant product of mean remaining lives and hazard rates 71--83 H. Heyer and H. Rieder and F. Papangelou and A. Janssen and L. Rüschendorf and R. L. Hudson and A. Greven Book-reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--93 Anonymous Newly accepted papers . . . . . . . . . 94--94 M. M. Mohie El-Din and S. E. Abu-Youssef and K. S. Sultan An identity for the product moments of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100 D. R. Jensen Straight-line models in star-shaped mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117 Bernhard F. Arnold An approach to fuzzy hypothesis testing 119--126 Zbigniew Szkutnik Quick consistency of quasi-maximum likelihood estimators in a multivariate Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--134 Rainer Göb An elementary model for statistical lot inspection and its application to sampling by variables . . . . . . . . . 135--163 Rainer Schwabe and Harro Walk On a stochastic approximation procedure based on averaging . . . . . . . . . . . 165--180 U. Gather and M. Schwaiger and W. Uhlmann and H. Heyer and N. Yacob and P. Embrechto and K. Dietz Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--187 Zhenmin Chen Joint confidence region for the parameters of Pareto distribution . . . 191--197 Jürgen Eichenauer-Herrmann Equidistribution properties of inversive congruential pseudorandom numbers with power of two modulus . . . . . . . . . . 199--205 Herbert Vogt The average number of events per time unit and its estimation . . . . . . . . 207--221 Rainer Göb Tests of significance for the mean of a finite lot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--238 Thomas Müller-Gronbach and Rainer Schwabe On optimal allocations for estimating the surface of a random field . . . . . 239--258 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Axel Tenbusch Nonparametric curve estimation with Bernstein estimates . . . . . . . . . . 1--30 M. Luisa Targhetta A two-stage sampling by unequal size samples from two normal populations with unknown variances . . . . . . . . . . . 31--37 Daniel Rost A note on compact differentiability and the $ \delta $-method . . . . . . . . . 39--51 Shuangzhe Liu and Heinz Neudecker Experiments with mixtures: Optimal allocations for Becker's models . . . . 53--66 J. P. Morgan Optimal design for interacting blocks with OAVS incidence . . . . . . . . . . 67--83 G. Ronning and C. C. Heyde and O. O. Aalen and P. Huber and P. A. Loeb and D. L. Burkholder and Kh. Alam and O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and P. E. Kloeden Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--93 N. Mukhopadhyay and T. K. S. Solanky Estimation after sequential selection and ranking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--106 Manuel Franco and Jose M. Ruiz On characterizations of distributions by expected values of order statistics and record values with gap . . . . . . . . . 107--119 Norbert Henze Do components of smooth tests of fit have diagnostic properties? . . . . . . 121--130 Rainer Göb Tests of significance for the average square deviation from target in a finite lot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--169 A. Arcos Cebrián and M. Rueda García Variance estimation using auxiliary information: An almost unbiased multivariate ratio estimator . . . . . . 171--178 N. Obata and L. Arnold and J. P. Buonaccorsi and H. Witting and L. M. Bloom and J. Stark and E. von Collani Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--188 K. Balasubramanian and Aloke Dey Distributions characterized through conditional expectations . . . . . . . . 189--196 Lynn Roy LaMotte On Limits of Uniquely Best Linear Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--211 Arjun K. Gupta and S. Kotz A new process capability index . . . . . 213--224 Isha Dewan and B. L. S. Prakasa Rao Remarks on the Strong Law of Large Numbers for a triangular array of associated random variables . . . . . . 225--234 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and A. R. Padmanabhan and T. K. S. Solanky On estimating the reliability after sequentially estimating the mean: The exponential case . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252 Rainer Schwabe and Weng Kee Wong A relationship between efficiencies of marginal designs and the product design 253--257 Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and Subhash C. Kochar Change point tests based on $U$-statistics with applications in reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--269 H. O. Georgii and H. Prodinger and Y. Chikuse and H. Rost and St. E. Fienberg and P. Imkeller Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Josef Steinebach and Vera R. Eastwood Detecting changes in a multivariate renewal process . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19 Anwar H. Joarder and Mir M. Ali Estimation of the scale matrix of a multivariate $t$-model under entropy loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--32 Jin Zhang and Xueren Wang Selecting the best regression equation via the $P$-value of $F$-test . . . . . 33--40 Joachim Engel The multiresolution histogram . . . . . 41--57 Naveen K. Bansal and Sudhir Gupta On the natural selection rule in general linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--69 Holger Dette A note on the uniform distribution on the $ \arcsin $ points . . . . . . . . . 71--82 Bing-Yi Jing and G. Kallianpur and D. W. Müller and H. Strasser and H. G. Weidner and H. J. Roßberg and M. Akahira Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--92 Erhard Cramer and Udo Kamps The UMVUE of $ P(X < Y) $ based on Type-II censored samples from Weinman multivariate exponential distributions 93--121 Jean-Claude Massé Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation in a non locally compact setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--145 Valery V. Fedorov and Werner G. Müller Another view on optimal design for estimating the point of extremum in quadratic regression . . . . . . . . . . 147--157 Marek Kaluszka and Wlodzimierz Krysicki On decompositions of some random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--175 M. Schäl and E. Sonnemann and P. Gänßler and M. Falk and H. Riedwyl Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--186 Michael Cramer Convergence of a branching type recursion with non-stationary immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--211 Ajit Chaturvedi and Uma Rani Estimation procedures for a family of density functions representing various life-testing models . . . . . . . . . . 213--219 Biao Zhang Estimating a distribution function in the presence of auxiliary information 221--244 Mohammad Z. Raqab and Wael A. Amin A note on reliability properties of $k$-record statistics . . . . . . . . . 245--251 Albrecht Irle and Vladimir Ivanovich Lotov A bound on the expected overshoot for some concave boundaries . . . . . . . . 253--267 R. M. Dudley and H. Heyer and A. Greven and V. Schmidt and R. K. Getoor and W. Wertz Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Willem Albers and Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg and Gertjan D. Otten Accurate test limits under nonnormal measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . 1--33 S. E. Ahmed Large-sample estimation strategies for eigenvalues of a Wishart matrix . . . . 35--45 Frank Krummenauer Limit theorems for multivariate discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--69 Bhaskar Bhattacharya Testing conditional symmetry against one-sided alternatives in square contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 71--84 E. Dettweiler and H. Heyer and Hiroshi Sato and M. Duflo and R. Münnich and W. Grölz and H. Stenger and H. Luschgy and N. Jacob Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--94 Anthony G. Pakes Extreme order statistics on Galton--Watson trees . . . . . . . . . . 95--117 Tobias Rydén Asymptotically efficient recursive estimation for incomplete data models using the observed information . . . . . 119--145 Michael Kohler Nonparametric regression function estimation using interaction least squares splines and comlexity regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--163 Fernando López-Blázquez and Begoña Salamanca-Miño An upper bound for the correlation ratio of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--174 D. Stoyan and J. W. Thompson and P. K. Sen and D. W. Stroock and M. M. A. Ananda and J. Potthoff Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Makoto Aoshima Multivariate multistage methodologies for simultaneous all pairwise comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--201 M. Rueda García and A. Arcos Cebrián and E. Artés Rodríguez Quantile interval estimation in finite population using a multivariate ratio estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--213 Parimal Mukhopadhyay and Rainer Schwabe On the performance of the ordinary least squares method under an error component model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--226 Chunsheng Ma Characteristic properties of multivariate survival functions in terms of residual life distributions . . . . . 227--240 Sarjinder Singh and Anwar H. Joarder Estimation of finite population variance using random non-response in survey sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--249 Ansgar Steland Bootstrapping rank statistics . . . . . 251--264 J. Marion and H. Heyer and R. B. Bapat and M. Stadler and R. Norberg and M. Fukushima and A. Weron and I. Csiszár Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--278 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Christine H. Müller and Andrej Pázman Applications of necessary and sufficient conditions for maximin efficient designs 1--19 Truc T. Nguyen and Khoan T. Dinh Characterizations of normal distributions supporting goodness-of-fit tests based on sample skewness and sample kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30 Sven Knoth Quasi-stationarity of CUSUM schemes for Erlang distributions . . . . . . . . . . 31--48 Dexter C. Whittinghill A note on the robustness of Box--Behnken designs to the unavailability of data 49--52 Saibal Chattopadhyay Sequential estimation of normal mean under asymmetric loss function with a shrinkage stopping rule . . . . . . . . 53--59 Sergey V. Malov Random variables generated by ranks in dependent schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Debasis Kundu and Rameshwar D. Gupta Asymptotic properties of the least squares estimators of a two dimensional model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--97 Sarjinder Singh and Stephen Horn An alternative estimator for multi-character surveys . . . . . . . . 99--107 Di Chen and Jye-Chyi Lu and Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver and Chin-Shang Li Asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimates for a bivariate exponential distribution and mixed censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--125 R. J. Martin and G. Jones and J. A. Eccleston Eight-run two-level factorial designs under dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139 Klaus D. Schmidt Prediction in the linear model: A direct approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--147 A. H. Joarder and S. E. Ahmed Estimation of the scale matrix of a class of elliptical distributions . . . 149--160 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
H. Toutenburg and V. K. Srivastava Estimation of ratio of population means in survey sampling when some observations are missing . . . . . . . . 177--187 Ursula Gather and Jörg Pawlitschko Estimating the survival function under a generalized Koziol--Green model with partially informative censoring . . . . 189--207 Yuzo Maruyama Minimax estimators of a normal variance 209--214 Anna Dembi\'nska and Jacek Wesolowski Linearity of regression for non-adjacent order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--222 Jeng-Fu Liu Two-stage procedures for approximating the expected reward: The negative exponential case . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--230 Vidyasagar Ramchandra Padmawar On estimating nonnegative definite quadratic forms . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--244 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Anonymous Recognition of Referees . . . . . . . . 2--2 S. M. Taheri and Javad Behboodian Neyman--Pearson Lemma for fuzzy hypotheses testing . . . . . . . . . . . 3--17 Lorens Imhof and Olaf Krafft Extending design-optimality from an initial model to augmented models . . . 19--26 Claudia Keseling Conditional distributions of generalized order statistics and some characterizations . . . . . . . . . . . 27--40 Mark E. Payton and Linda J. Young A sequential procedure to test three values of a binomial parameter . . . . . 41--52 Bernhard Klar Goodness-of-fit tests for discrete models based on the integrated distribution function . . . . . . . . . 53--69 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
F. Brodeau Asymptotic results and tests for the choice of approximative models in nonlinear two-phases regression models, heteroscedatic case . . . . . . . . . . 85--105 Donald R. Jensen and Donald E. Ramirez Recovered errors and normal diagnostics in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--119 Majid Asadi Multivariate distributions characterized by a relationship between mean residual life and hazard rate . . . . . . . . . . 121--126 Yadolah Dodge and Valentin Rousson Multivariate $ L_1 $ mean . . . . . . . 127--134 J. S. Huang and Samuel Kotz Modifications of the Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern distributions. A tough hill to climb . . 135--145 Truc T. Nguyen and Khoan T. Dinh Stability of characterizations of normal distributions based on the conditional expected values of the sample skewness and the sample kurtosis . . . . . . . . 147--158 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ludwig Fahrmeir and Rita Künstler Penalized likelihood smoothing in robust state space models . . . . . . . . . . . 173--191 Erkki P. Liski and Arto Luoma and Alexander Zaigraev Distance optimality design criterion in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--211 Peter J. Rousseeuw and Ida Ruts The depth function of a population distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--244 Martin Snethlage Is bootstrap really helpful in point process statistics? . . . . . . . . . . 245--255 Wen-Jang Huang and Jyh-Cherng Su Reverse submartingale property arising from exchangeable random variables . . . 257--262 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Axel Munk Optimal inference for circular variation diminishing experiments with applications to the von-Mises distribution and the Fisher--Efron parabola model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 D. A. Ioannides Estimating the conditional mode of a stationary stochastic process from noisy observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--35 Philip Prescott and Rahim Shahlaee The analysis of ranked data in blocked factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 37--54 Joseph P. Romano and Michael Wolf Subsampling inference for the mean in the heavy-tailed case . . . . . . . . . 55--69 Guohua Zou Variance estimation for unequal probability sampling . . . . . . . . . . 71--82 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ahmad Parsian and N. Sanjari Farsipour Estimation of the mean of the selected population under asymmetric loss function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--107 Lynn Roy LaMotte Collapsibility hypotheses and diagnostic bounds in regression analysis . . . . . 109--119 W. John Braun Run length distributions for estimated attributes charts . . . . . . . . . . . 121--129 Detlef Plachky and Andrew L. Rukhin Nonparametric covariance estimation in multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 131--136 Rainer Göb and Enrique Del Castillo and Klaus Dräger Run length analysis of Shewhart charts applied to drifting processes under an integrative SPC\slash EPC model . . . . 137--161 Tamás Rudas The mixture index of fit and minimax regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--172 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rolf Aaberge UMP unbiased tests for multiparameter testing problems with restricted alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--193 Wolfgang Bischoff Asymptotically optimal tests for some growth curve models under non-normal error structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--203 Leszek Wojtasik and Stefan Zontek On construction of admissible quadratic estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209 Arturo J. Fernández On maximum likelihood prediction based on Type II doubly censored exponential data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--220 Lang Wu and Jaxk Reeves and Michael D. Perlman Some model-restricted shrinkage estimators for contingency tables with missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--245 Wen-Jang Huang and Wen-Ching Chang On a study of the exponential and Poisson characteristics of the Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254 Chang-Xing Ma and Kai-Tai Fang and Erkki Liski A new approach in constructing orthogonal and nearly orthogonal arrays 255--268 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Antony Unwin and Claus Weihs Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Peter J. Huber Contradictions of interactive data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--9 Heike Hofmann Exploring categorical data: interactive mosaic plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--26 Matthew O. Ward and Benjamin N. Lipchak A visualization tool for exploratory analysis of cyclic multivariate data . . 27--37 Sung-Soo Kim and Sunhee Kwon and Dianne Cook Interactive visualization of hierarchical clusters using MDS and MST 39--51 Angelika Blauth and Iris Pigeot and François Bry Interactive analysis of high-dimensional association structures with graphical models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--65 David M. Lane and David W. Scott Simulations, case studies, and an online text: a web-based resource for teaching statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--90 Paul F. Velleman Design principles for technology-based statistics education . . . . . . . . . . 91--104 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Khalaf S. Sultan and Mohamed E. Moshref Record values from generalized Pareto distribution and associated inference 105--116 Sándor Baran A consistent estimator in general functional errors-in-variables models 117--132 Holger Dette and Natalie Neumeyer A note on a specification test of independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--144 Shuangzhe Liu Efficiency comparisons between two estimators based on matrix determinant Kantorovich-type inequalities . . . . . 145--155 Rainer Dahlhaus Graphical interaction models for multivariate time series . . . . . . . . 157--172 Stavros Kourouklis On universal admissibility of scale parameter estimators . . . . . . . . . . 173--179 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anirban DasGupta Best constants in Chebyshev inequalities with various applications . . . . . . . 185--200 Wolfgang Näther On random fuzzy variables of second order and their application to linear statistical inference with fuzzy data 201--221 Feifang Hu and William F. Rosenberger and James V. Zidek Relevance weighted likelihood for dependent data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--243 Ludger Rüschendorf and Ludger Uckelmann Numerical and analytical results for the transportation problem of Monge--Kantorovich . . . . . . . . . . . 245--258 Yijun Zuo A note on finite sample breakdown points of projection based multivariate location and scatter statistics . . . . 259--265 Sarjinder Singh and Stephen Horn Compromised imputation in survey sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Zbigniew Szkutnik Unfolding intensity function of a Poisson process in models with approximately specified folding operator 1--26 Lestaw Gajek and Andrzej Okolewski Sharp bounds on moments of generalized order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--43 Weimin Qian and Volker Mammitzsch Strong uniform convergence for the estimator of the regression function under $ \varphi $-mixing conditions . . 45--61 Mohammad Z. Raqab and Adnan M. Awad Characterizations of the Pareto and related distributions . . . . . . . . . 63--67 Yijun Zuo Finite sample tail behavior of the multivariate trimmed mean based on Tukey--Donoho halfspace depth . . . . . 69--75 Tapio Nummi and Jyrki Möttönen On the analysis of multivariate growth curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
D. Morales and L. Pardo and M. C. Pardo and I. Vajda Extension of the Wald statistic to models with dependent observations . . . 97--113 Arijit Chaudhuri and Arun Kumar Adhikary and Shankar Dihidar Mean square error estimation in multi-stage sampling . . . . . . . . . . 115--131 Edit Gombay $U$-statistics for sequential change detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--145 Nripes K. Mandal and Kirti R. Shah and Bikas K. Sinha Comparison of test vs. control treatments using distance optimality criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--162 Yoshikazu Takada Sequential point estimation of normal mean under LINEX loss function . . . . . 163--171 Bao-Xue Zhang and Bai-Sen Liu Some further remarks on a superiority problem in misspecified restricted singular linear models . . . . . . . . . 173--181 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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N. Chauhan and R. J. Martin Optimal nested row-column designs for blocks of size $ 2 \times 2 $ under dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 M. L. Menéndez and J. A. Pardo and L. Pardo Tests based on $ \phi $-divergences for bivariate symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . 15--29 Zhenmin Chen and Dietmar Ferger and Jie Mi Estimation of the change point of a distribution based on the number of failed test items . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38 Pushpa L. Gupta and Ramesh C. Gupta Failure rate of the minimum and maximum of a multivariate normal distribution 39--49 Patrick D. Bourke Sample size and the Binomial CUSUM Control Chart: the case of 100% inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--70 Hagen Scherb Determination of uniformly most powerful tests in discrete sample spaces . . . . 71--84 Chang-Xing Ma and Kai-Tai Fang A note on generalized aberration in factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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J. Ahmadi and N. R. Arghami On the Fisher information in record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--206 Erkki P. Liski and Alexander Zaigraev A stochastic characterization of Loewner optimality design criterion in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--222 Uwe Jensen and Jürgen Wiedmann Estimation of a survival curve with randomly censored data in the presence of a covariate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--244 Stephan Morgenthaler and John W. Tukey Multipolishing and two-way plots . . . . 245--267 Horng-Jinh Chang and Kuo-Chung Huang Estimation of proportion and sensitivity of a qualitative character . . . . . . . 269--280 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Subir Ghosh and Colleen Burns Two general classes of search designs for factor screening experiments with factors at three levels . . . . . . . . 1--17 Gerda R. J. Arts and Willem Albers and Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg Simultaneous inspection of several product characteristics . . . . . . . . 19--41 Shalabh Estimation of bias and standard error of an improved estimator of normal mean . . 43--51 A. H. Joarder and Sarjinder Singh Estimation of the trace of the scaled covariance matrix of a multivariate $t$-model using a known information . . 53--58 M. Rueda García and A. Arcos Cebrián On estimating the median from survey data using multiple auxiliary information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--76 Helmut Finner and Klaus Strassburger Increasing sample sizes do not always increase the power of UMPU-tests for $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Berthold Heiligers Totally positive regression: $E$-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--213 M. C. Jones Multivariate $t$ and beta distributions associated with the multivariate $F$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--231 K. Chatterjee and Lih-Yuan Deng and Dennis K. J. Lin Two-level search design for main-effect plus two plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--245 H. Toutenburg and Shalabh Use of minimum risk approach in the estimation of regression models with missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 247--259 W. L. Pearn and P. C. Lin and K. S. Chen Estimating process capability index C''pmk for asymmetric tolerances: Distributional properties . . . . . . . 261--279 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--284 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 J. Agulló An exchange algorithm for computing the least quartile difference estimator . . 3--16 Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. and Mo-Yin S. Tam and Keith Knight Quantile models and estimators for data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26 Tadeusz Bednarski Estimation in the generalized Poisson model via robust testing . . . . . . . . 27--36 O. Arslan and O. Edlund and H. Ekblom Algorithms to compute $ C M $- and $S$-estimates for regression . . . . . . 37--51 Luisa Turrin Fernholz Robustness issues regarding content-corrected tolerance limits . . . 53--66 Xuming He and Mi-Ok Kim On marginal estimation in a semiparametric model for longitudinal data with time-independent covariates 67--74 Hira L. Koul Asymptotic distributions of some scale estimators in nonlinear models . . . . . 75--90 Stephan Morgenthaler and Robert Staudte Optimal weights of evidence with bounded influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97 Christine H. Müller Robust estimators for estimating discontinuous functions . . . . . . . . 99--109 G. Pison and S. Van Aelst and G. Willems Small sample corrections for LTS and MCD 111--123 G. Willems and G. Pison and P. J. Rousseeuw and S. Van Aelst A robust Hotelling test . . . . . . . . 125--138 G. J. Lauprete and A. M. Samarov and R. E. Welsch Robust portfolio optimization . . . . . 139--149 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. H. Rezaei and N. R. Arghami Right censoring in a discrete life model 151--160 Rong-Xian Yue and Fred J. Hickernell Designs for smoothing spline ANOVA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--176 Dankmar Böhning and Roumporn Ruangroj A note on the maximum deviation of the scale-contaminated normal to the best normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 177--182 Daya K. Nagar and María Eugenia Castañeda Distribution of correlation coefficient under mixture normal model . . . . . . . 183--190 Manoj Bhargava and Ravindra Singh On the efficiency comparison of certain randomized response strategies . . . . . 191--197 Cini Varghese and A. R. Rao and V. K. Sharma Robustness of Williams Square change-over designs . . . . . . . . . . 199--208 J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and A. Muñoz-Reyes and M. D. Jiménez-Gamero and J. Muñoz-Pichardo Influence diagnostic in survey sampling: Estimating the conditional bias . . . . 209--214 Chikara Uno and Eiichi Isogai Sequential point estimation of the powers of a normal scale parameter . . . 215--232 A. Pázman and J.-B. Denis Measures of nonlinearity for a biadditive ANOVA model . . . . . . . . . 233--245 Enrique Castillo and Ali S. Hadi and Beatriz Lacruz and José María Sarabia Constrained mixture distributions . . . 247--269 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kazuhiro Ozawa and Masakazu Jimbo and Sanpei Kageyama and Stanis\law Mejza Optimality and efficiency of incomplete split-block designs . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Zhenlin Yang and Stanley P. See and Min Xie An investigation of transformation-based prediction interval for the Weibull median life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29 Leila Mohammadi and Willem R. van Zwet Minimax invariant estimation of a continuous distribution function under entropy loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42 Konstancja Bobecka and Jacek Wesolowski Three dual regression schemes for the Lukacs theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 Ismihan Bairamov and Samuel Kotz Dependence structure and symmetry of Huang--Kotz FGM distributions and their extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--72 K. Krishnamoorthy and Brett C. Moore Combining information for prediction in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81 Lalmohan Bhar and V. K. Gupta Robust row-column designs for complete diallel cross experiments . . . . . . . 83--90 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--95 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
María Angeles Gil and María Asunción Lubiano and Manuel Montenegro and María Teresa López Least squares fitting of an affine function and strength of association for interval-valued data . . . . . . . . . . 97--111 Andrej Pázman Optimal design of nonlinear experiments with parameter constraints . . . . . . . 113--130 Sarjinder Singh A new stochastic randomized response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--142 Neeraj Misra and P. K. Choudhary and I. D. Dhariyal and D. Kundu Smooth estimators for estimating order restricted scale parameters of two gamma distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--161 Mong-Na Lo Huang and Kam-Fai Wong $ s^{k - p} $ Fractional factorial designs in $ s^b $ blocks . . . . . . . 163--170 Carlos N. Bouza Estimation of the mean in ranked set sampling with non responses . . . . . . 171--179 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Peter Ullrich Officers, playing cards, and sheep . . . 189--204 Shu Yamada and Dennis K. J. Lin Construction of mixed-level supersaturated design . . . . . . . . . 205--214 Volkmar Henschel Statistical inference in simplicially contoured sample distributions . . . . . 215--228 Chao-Ping Ting Optimal and efficient repeated measurements designs for comparing test treatments with a control . . . . . . . 229--238 Sudesh K. Srivastav and John P. Morgan On the $E$-optimality of truncated block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--245 Dong Wan Shin and Dai-Gyoung Kim and Han Joon Kim Efficiency of the OLSE for regressions on two-dimensional grids with sinusoidal regressors and spatially correlated errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--258 Alexander Zaigraev Shape optimal design criterion in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--273 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--280 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. M. Mayoral and D. Morales and J. Morales and I. Vajda On efficiency of estimation and testing with data quantized to fixed number of cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27 H. Evangelaras and S. Georgiou and C. Koukouvinos Inequivalent projections of Hadamard matrices of orders $ 16 $ and $ 20 $ . . 29--35 Kai-Tai Fang and Gen-Nian Ge and Min-Qian Liu and Hong Qin Construction of minimum generalized aberration designs . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50 Frédéric Carsoule and Philip Hans Franses A note on monitoring time-varying parameters in an autoregression . . . . 51--62 Leila Mohammadi On an admissibility problem involving the moment generating function of the lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . 63--70 Sangun Park On the asymptotic Fisher information in order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80 Bernhard F. Arnold and Oke Gerke Testing fuzzy linear hypotheses in linear regression models . . . . . . . . 81--95 Katja Ickstadt and Uwe Jensen and Michael Kohler and Rolf-Dieter Reiss and G. Last and Jochen Mau and R. Fried Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
G. A. Watson On the linear statistical relationship 105--114 Rita SahaRay and Subir Kumar Bhandari DS-optimal designs in one way ANOVA . . 115--125 Ashish Das and Aloke Dey and Chand K. Midha On a property of orthogonal arrays and optimal blocking of fractional factorial plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--135 J. Kunert and R. J. Martin and S. Pooladsaz Optimal designs under two related models for interference . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--143 Milan Stehlík Distributions of exact tests in the exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 145--164 Essam K. Al-Hussaini and Abd EL-Baset A. Ahmad On Bayesian predictive distributions of generalized order statistics . . . . . . 165--176 Glenn Hofmann and H. N. Nagaraja Fisher information in record data . . . 177--193 Tasos C. Christofides A generalized randomized response technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200 Christine Muller Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201 E. Novak Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202 Anatoly Zhigljavsky Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--205 Inke R. Konig and Andreas Ziegler Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--208 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and Abd-Elnaser S. Abd-Rabou and Noriah M. Al-Kandari Tests for multiple change points under ordered alternatives . . . . . . . . . . 209--221 H. M. Kim and A. K. Md. E. Saleh Preliminary test estimators of the parameters of simple linear model with measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . 223--251 A. Kukush and I. Markovsky and S. Van Huffel Consistent estimation in the bilinear multivariate errors-in-variables model 253--285 Alexander Zaigraev Integral stochastic optimal design criteria in linear models . . . . . . . 287--301 W. L. Pearn and G. H. Lin A Bayesian-like estimator of the process capability index C$_{pmk}$ . . . . . . . 303--312 Erhard Cramer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314 Hans-Otto Georgii Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314 Rolf Kühne Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anastasia Ivanova A play-the-winner-type urn design with reduced variability . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Ahmad Abu-Taleb and M. Bhaskara Rao and Haimeng Zhang Periodic inspection plans: The case of Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 15--30 David M. Steinberg and Nitzan Rabinowitz Optimal seismic monitoring for event location with application to On Site Inspection of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--57 Edith Seier and Douglas Bonett Two families of kurtosis measures . . . 59--70 Wolfgang Näther and Jaroslav Simák Effective observation of random processes using derivatives . . . . . . 71--84 J. René van Dorp and Samuel Kotz Generalized trapezoidal distributions 85--97 Gyula Pap Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Lennart Norell On the optimum number of levels in the one-way model with random effects . . . 213--220 Violetta E. Piperigou and H. Papageorgiou On truncated bivariate discrete distributions: A unified treatment . . . 221--233 Jana Jurecková and Jan Picek and Pranab Kumar Sen Goodness-of-fit test with nuisance regression and scale . . . . . . . . . . 235--258 Mariusz Bieniek and Dominik Szynal Characterizations of distributions via linearity of regression of generalized order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--271 M. Jainz A note on the projection properties of Hadamard matrices obtained by the first Payley construction . . . . . . . . . . 273--277 Kai-Tai Fang and Dennis K. J. Lin and Min-Qian Liu Optimal mixed-level supersaturated design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--291 Erhard Cramer and Udo Kamps Marginal distributions of sequential and generalized order statistics . . . . . . 293--310 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kuo-Chung Huang Mixed random systematic sampling designs 1--11 Rahim Chinipardaz and Trevor Cox Nonparametric discrimination of time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20 P. Filzmoser and R. Viertl Testing hypotheses with fuzzy data: The fuzzy $p$-value . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29 Manuel Montenegro and Ana Colubi and María Rosa Casals and María Ángeles Gil Asymptotic and Bootstrap techniques for testing the expected value of a fuzzy random variable . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--49 H. Evangelaras and S. Georgiou and C. Koukouvinos Evaluation of inequivalent projections of Hadamard matrices of order $ 24 $ . . 51--73 Alexander Kukush and Sabine Van Huffel Consistency of elementwise-weighted total least squares estimator in a multivariate errors-in-variables model AX=B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--97 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
B. M. Golam Kibria and A. K. Md. E. Saleh Preliminary test ridge regression estimators with Student's $t$ errors and conflicting test-statistics . . . . . . 105--124 Haimeng Zhang and M. Bhaskara Rao On generalized maximum likelihood estimation in the proportional hazards model with partially informative censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--136 A. Irle and V. I. Lotov A nonsymmetric sequential test . . . . . 137--146 Felix Belzunce and Jorge Navarro and José M. Ruiz and Yolanda del Aguila Some results on residual entropy function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--161 Ayman Baklizi and Abed El Qader El-Masri Shrinkage estimation of $ P(X < Y) $ in the exponential case with common location parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171 Farzad Eskandari and Mohammad R. Meshkani Empirical Bayes analysis of log-linear models for a generalized finite stationary Markov chain . . . . . . . . 173--191 Kung-Yu Chen and Chien-Tai Lin A note on strategies for bandit problems with infinitely many arms . . . . . . . 193--203 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Willem Albers and Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg Estimation in Shewhart control charts: effects and corrections . . . . . . . . 207--234 J. López-Fidalgo and J. M. Rodríguez-Díaz Elfving's method for $m$-dimensional models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--244 Li Wang and Han-Ying Liang Strong uniform convergence of the recursive regression estimator under $ \phi $-mixing conditions . . . . . . . . 245--261 Reinhard Viertl and Dietmar Hareter Generalized Bayes' theorem for non-precise a-priori distribution . . . 263--273 H. M. Barakat and E. M. Nigm and M. E. El-Adll Asymptotic properties of random extremes under general normalization from nonidentical distributions . . . . . . . 275--287 C. Andy Tsao and Yu-Ling Tseng A statistical treatment of the problem of division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--303 Alice Thomas and K. K. Jose Bivariate semi-Pareto minification processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--313 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Václav Kus Nonparametric density estimates consistent of the order of $ n^{-1 / 2} $ in the $ L_1 $-norm . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Constantinos Petropoulos and Stavros Kourouklis Improved estimation of extreme quantiles in the multivariate Lomax (Pareto II) distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24 Arthur Pewsey The large-sample joint distribution of key circular statistics . . . . . . . . 25--32 Dietmar Ferger Maximal asymptotic power and efficiency of two-sample tests based on generalized $U$-Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--57 Hong Qin and Kai-Tai Fang Discrete discrepancy in factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--72 Jan Beyersmann and Arnold Janssen and Claus-Dieter Mayer Efficient rank tests for semiparametric competing risk models . . . . . . . . . 73--91 Dabuxilatu Wang A note on consistency and unbiasedness of point estimation with fuzzy data . . 93--104 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Fernando López-Blázquez and Antonia Castaño-Martínez Orthogonal expansions for the generalized Cramér--von Mises statistics 211--221 Arijit Chaudhuri Christofides' randomized response technique in complex sample surveys . . 223--228 Ansgar Steland Sequential control of time series by functionals of kernel-weighted empirical processes under local alternatives . . . 229--249 Cini Varghese and V. K. Sharma A series of resolvable $ {\rm PBIB}(3) $ designs with two replicates . . . . . . 251--254 Shaul K. Bar-Lev and Elizabeta Bobovitch and Benzion Boukai A note on randomized response models for quantitative data . . . . . . . . . . . 255--260 Gerhard Osius The association between two random elements: A complete characterization and odds ratio models . . . . . . . . . 261--277 Ming-Yao Ai and Run-Chu Zhang Projection justification of generalized minimum aberration for asymmetrical fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 279--285 Ibrahim A. Ahmad and Wei Liu and Ying Zhang On the finite sample behavior of testing whether new is better than used of a specified age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--294 Yingfu Li and Jiantian Wang Nonregular designs from Hadamard matrices and their estimation capacity 295--303 H. Willie Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--311 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126 Anthony C. Atkinson Efficiencies for optimum designs when transforming the response in nonlinear models with nonconstant variance . . . . 127--138 D. Q. Naiman and H. P. Wynn The algebra of Bonferroni bounds: discrete tubes and extensions . . . . . 139--147 Ch. A. Charalambides Derivation of a joint occupancy distribution via a bivariate inclusion and exclusion formula . . . . . . . . . 149--160 R. A. Bailey Six families of efficient resolvable designs in three replicates . . . . . . 161--173 Dean Crnkovi\'c and Sanja Rukavina Construction of block designs admitting an Abelian automorphism group . . . . . 175--183 R. Craigen and H. Kharaghani A recursive method for orthogonal designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--193 William P. Orrick The maximal $ \{ - 1, 1 \} $-determinant of order $ 15$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--219 Jennifer Seberry and Beata J. Wysocki and Tadeusz A. Wysocki On some applications of Hadamard matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--239 H. Evangelaras and C. Koukouvinos and A. M. Dean and C. A. Dingus Projection properties of certain three level orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . 241--257 Hongquan Xu A catalogue of three-level regular fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 259--281 Vassilis Karagiannis and Chronis Moyssiadis Construction of $D$-optimal $ s_1 \times s_2 \times s_3 $ factorial designs using graph theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--307 Alessandro Baldi Antognini On the speed of convergence of some urn designs for the balanced allocation of two treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--322 Athanassios Katsis Sample size determination of binomial data with the presence of misclassification . . . . . . . . . . . 323--329 Luigi Salmaso and Aldo Solari Multiple aspect testing for case-control designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--340 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sarjinder Singh Survey statisticians celebrate golden jubilee year 2003 of the linear regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Yoshikazu Takada Asymptotic second-order efficiency of three-stage procedure with a warranted confidence level . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--31 Arijit Chaudhuri and Amitava Saha Estimation from two-stage unequal probability sampling with missing units 33--41 C. Auer and J. Kunert On a heuristic analysis of highly fractionated $ 2^n $ factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 José R. Berrendero and Ruben H. Zamar A note on the uniform asymptotic normality of location $M$-estimates . . 55--69 Martin Hillebrand and Christine H. Müller On consistency of redescending $M$-kernel smoothers . . . . . . . . . . 71--90 Mohamed T. Madi Decision theoretic estimation using record statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97 Andrew Jeffrey and Oliver Linton and Thong Nguyen Flexible Term Structure Estimation: Which Method is Preferred? . . . . . . . 99--122 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
L. Nie Strong Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in Generalized Linear and Nonlinear Mixed--Effects Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--143 Marie Husková and Simos G. Meintanis Change Point Analysis based on Empirical Characteristic Functions . . . . . . . . 145--168 V. Grunert da Fonseca and N. R. J. Fieller Distortion in statistical inference: the distinction between data contamination and model deviation . . . . . . . . . . 169--190 Alfredas Racckauskas Hölderian properties of partial sums of regression residuals . . . . . . . . . . 191--205 Heike Trautmann and Claus Weihs On the distribution of the desirability index using Harrington's desirability function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--213 N. Atienza and J. Garcia-Heras and J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo A new condition for identifiability of finite mixture distributions . . . . . . 215--221 Ramesh C. Gupta and Rameshwar D. Gupta and Pushpa L. Gupta Monotonicity of the (reversed) hazard rate of the (maximum) minimum in bivariate distributions . . . . . . . . 223--241 Kashinath Chatterjee and Kai-Tai Fang and Hong Qin A Lower Bound for the Centered $ L_2 $-Discrepancy on Asymmetric Factorials and its Application . . . . . . . . . . 243--255 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kayode S. Adekeye and Joachim Kunert On the Comparison of Run Orders of Unreplicated $ 2^{k - p} $ Designs in the Presence of a Time Trend . . . . . . 257--269 H. Evangelaras and E. Kolaiti and C. Koukouvinos Some orthogonal arrays with $ 32 $ runs and their projection properties . . . . 271--281 Matias Salibian-Barrera The Asymptotics of MM-Estimators for Linear Regression with Fixed Designs . . 283--294 Peter Ruckdeschel A motivation for $ 1 / \sqrt {n}$-shrinking neighborhoods . . . . . . 295--307 Venkata K. Jandhyala and Stergios B. Fotopoulos and Douglas M. Hawkins On the Inconsistency of the Change--Point Estimator for the NE Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--315 Min-Qian Liu and Fred J. Hickernell The Relationship Between Discrepancies Defined on a Domain and on its Subset 317--327 Maria Karlsson Estimators of Regression Parameters for Truncated and Censored Data . . . . . . 329--341 A. García-Pérez Chi-Square Tests Under Models Close to the Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . 343--354 T. Pérez and J. A. Pardo The $ K_\varphi $-Divergence Statistic for Categorical Data Problems . . . . . 355--369 N. Balakrishnan and T. Rychlik Evaluating expectations of $L$-statistics by the Steffensen inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--384 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Alicja Jokiel-Rokita Gamma-Minimax Prediction for the Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . 259--269 Qihua Wang and Lili Yao Estimation in Varying-coefficient Proportional Hazard Regression Model . . 271--288 Hamzeh Torabi and Javad Behboodian and S. Mahmoud Taheri Neyman--Pearson Lemma for Fuzzy Hypotheses Testing with Vague Data . . . 289--304 K. Muralidharan and P. Lathika Analysis of Instantaneous and Early Failures in Weibull Distribution . . . . 305--316 Manoj Chacko and P. Yageen Thomas Concomitants of Record Values Arising from Morgenstern Type Bivariate Logistic Distribution and Some of their Applications in Parameter Estimation . . 317--331 Tsung-Shan Tsou Parametric Robust Test for Several Variances with Unknown Underlying Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--349 H. Evangelaras and C. Koukouvinos and K. Mylona Projection Properties of Hadamard Matrices of Order $ 36 $ Obtained from Paley's Constructions . . . . . . . . . 351--359 Jian-Feng Wang and Li-Xin Zhang A Nonclassical Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Functions of Positively Associated Random Variables . . . . . . 361--378 Parameshwar V. Pandit Locally Most Powerful and Other Rank Tests for Independence --- with a Contaminated Weighted Alternative . . . 379--387 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Udo Kamps and Friedrich Pukelsheim and Jürgen Lehn Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Wolfgang Kössler and Egmar Rödel The Asymptotic Efficacies and Relative Efficiencies of Various Linear Rank Tests for Independence . . . . . . . . . 3--28 Horst Stenger and Siegfried Gabler Optimal Strategies in $2$-Stage Sampling 29--42 Dhanuja Kasturiratna and Truc T. Nguyen and Arjun K. Gupta Characterization of Normal Distribution Related to Two Samples Based on Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52 Peter Goos and Alexander N. Donev $ \mathcal {D} $-optimal Minimum Support Mixture Designs in Blocks . . . . . . . 53--68 Fernando López-Blázquez and Jacek Wesolowski Top- $k$-lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--82 Nairanjana Dasgupta and Rita SahaRay Optimal Allocation for Comparing $k$ Test Treatments to Positive and Negative Control with Unequal Weighting Under $A$-optimality and MV-optimality . . . . 83--92 Xinsheng Liu Likelihood Ratio Test for and Against Nonlinear Inequality Constraints . . . . 93--108 Wolfgang Näther and Andreas Wünsche On the Conditional Variance of Fuzzy Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122 Xue-Min Zi and Min-Qian Liu and Run-Chu Zhang Asymmetrical Factorial Designs Containing Clear Effects . . . . . . . . 123--131 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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K. Krishnamoorthy and Shubhabrata Mukherjee and Huizhen Guo Inference on Reliability in Two-parameter Exponential Stress-strength Model . . . . . . . . . 261--273 Sergiy Shklyar and Hans Schneeweiß and Alexander Kukush Quasi Score is more Efficient than Corrected Score in a Polynomial Measurement Error Model . . . . . . . . 275--295 Mariusz Bieniek Variation diminishing property of densities of uniform generalized order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--309 Yongge Tian and Agnes M. Herzberg Estimation and optimal designs for linear Haar-wavelet models . . . . . . . 311--324 Taizhong Hu and Ying Li Increasing failure rate and decreasing reversed hazard rate properties of the minimum and maximum of multivariate distributions with log-concave densities 325--330 Frantisek Stulajter Mean squared error of the empirical best linear unbiased predictor in an orthogonal finite discrete spectrum linear regression model . . . . . . . . 331--348 M. Rueda and J. F. Muñoz and Y. G. Berger and A. Arcos and S. Martínez Pseudo empirical likelihood method in the presence of missing data . . . . . . 349--367 K. Filipiak and A. Markiewicz Optimal designs for a mixed interference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--386 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Holger Dette and Udo Kamps and Jürgen Lehn Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125 Taras Bodnar and Wolfgang Schmid A test for the weights of the global minimum variance portfolio in an elliptical model . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--143 C. Comas and J. Mateu Growing and reproducing particles evolving through space and time . . . . 145--169 P. A. Patel and R. D. Chaudhari Model-based variance estimation under unequal probability sampling . . . . . . 171--187 Graciela Boente and Ana M. Pires and Isabel M. Rodrigues Estimators for the common principal components model based on reweighting: influence functions and Monte Carlo study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--218 Christian M. Hafner and Helmut Herwartz Analytical quasi maximum likelihood inference in multivariate volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--239 Andreas Karlsson Survey sampling: theory and methods . . 241--242 Sibylle Sturtz Book Review: H. Rue, L. Held: \booktitleGaussian Markov random fields. Theory and applications . . . . . . . . 243--244 Antony Unwin Book Review: Gentle, J., Härdle, W., Mori, Y.: \booktitleHandbook of Computational Statistics: Concepts and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246 Reinhold Kainhofer Book Review: H. Föllmer, A. Schied: \booktitleStochastic finance: an introduction in discrete time. de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics 27 . . . 247--249 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jun-Wu Yu and Guo-Liang Tian and Man-Lai Tang Two new models for survey sampling with sensitive characteristic: design and analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--263 Martina Hancová Natural estimation of variances in a general finite discrete spectrum linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--276 Jorge Navarro and Pedro J. Hernandez Mean residual life functions of finite mixtures, order statistics and coherent systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--298 Serkan Eryilmaz and Alexei Stepanov Runs in an ordered sequence of random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--313 Dong Wan Shin and Oesook Lee Unit root tests for panel MTAR model with cross-sectionally dependent error 315--326 H. N. Nagaraja and Z. A. Abo-Eleneen Fisher information in order statistics and their concomitants in bivariate censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--347 Alessandra Giovagnoli and Johnny Marzialetti and Henry P. Wynn A new approach to inter-rater agreement through stochastic orderings: the discrete case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--370 Amit Choudhury and Arun C. Borthakur Bayesian inference and prediction in the single server Markovian queue . . . . . 371--383 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jaromír Antoch and Marie Husková and Alicja Janic and Teresa Ledwina Data driven rank test for the change point problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Huaihou Chen and Taizhong Hu Multivariate likelihood ratio orderings between spacings of heterogeneous exponential random variables . . . . . . 17--29 Antonio Sanhueza and Víctor Leiva and N. Balakrishnan A new class of inverse Gaussian type distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--49 George P. Yanev and M. Ahsanullah and M. I. Beg Characterizations of probability distributions via bivariate regression of record values . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--64 Bi-Min Hsu and Chien-Wei Wu and Ming-Hung Shu Generalized confidence intervals for the process capability index $ C_{pm} $ . . 65--82 Jiajuan Liang and Kai Wang Ng A method for generating uniformly scattered points on the $ L_p $-norm unit sphere and its applications . . . . 83--98 C. Koukouvinos and P. Mantas and K. Mylona A general construction of $ E(s^2) $-optimal large supersaturated designs 99--110 J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and A. Enguix-González and A. Pascual-Acosta Influence measures on profile analysis with elliptical data through Fr\`echet's metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--127 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Wang-Li Xu and Li-Xing Zhu Goodness-of-fit testing for varying-coefficient models . . . . . . . 129--146 Arijit Chaudhuri and Sanghamitra Pal Estimating sensitive proportions from Warner's randomized responses in alternative ways restricting to only distinct units sampled . . . . . . . . . 147--156 Ewa Synówka-Bejenka and Stefan Zontek A characterization of admissible linear estimators of fixed and random effects in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--172 Ramesh C. Gupta and Mohammad Tajdari and Henrik Bresinsky Some general results for moments in bivariate distributions . . . . . . . . 173--187 Stelios D. Georgiou On the construction of $ E(s^2) $-optimal supersaturated designs . . . . 189--198 Saralees Nadarajah and Arjun K. Gupta A product Pareto distribution . . . . . 199--208 S. Goliforushani and M. Asadi On the discrete mean past lifetime . . . 209--217 V. Seshadri and J. Wesolowski More on connections between Wishart and matrix GIG distributions . . . . . . . . 219--232 N. Balakrishnan and Anna Dembi\'nska and Alexei Stepanov Precedence-type tests based on record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--255 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
José António Santos and M. Manuela Neves A local maximum likelihood estimator for Poisson regression . . . . . . . . . . . 257--270 Somesh Kumar and Yogesh Mani Tripathi Estimating a restricted normal mean . . 271--288 Enkelejd Hashorva A new family of bivariate max-infinitely divisible distributions . . . . . . . . 289--304 Han-Ying Liang and Jong-Il Baek Berry--Esseen bounds for density estimates under NA assumption . . . . . 305--322 Guang-hui Cai Strong laws for weighted sums of NA random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--331 P. G. Sankaran and V. L. Gleeja Proportional reversed hazard and frailty models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342 Nizam Uddin Optimality and efficiency of small chessboard designs for correlated errors 343--350 Daniel J. Nordman An empirical likelihood method for spatial regression . . . . . . . . . . . 351--363 Sangyeol Lee and Taewook Lee Robust estimation for the order of finite mixture models . . . . . . . . . 365--390 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Atanu Biswas and Rahul Bhattacharya Drop-the-loser design in the presence of covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Arne C. Bathke A unified approach to nonparametric trend tests for dependent and independent samples . . . . . . . . . . 17--29 Amadou Sarr and Arjun K. Gupta and Anwar H. Joarder Estimation of the precision matrix of multivariate Pearson type II model . . . 31--44 Beiyan Ou and Julie Zhou Minimax robust designs for field experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54 Tang Qingguo Asymptotic normality of $M$-estimators in a semiparametric model with longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 55--67 Mahdi Doostparast A note on estimation based on record data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Nina Gantert and Christine H. Müller Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84 Steven N. Evans and Alex Gottlieb Hyperdeterminantal point processes . . . 85--99 Franco Flandoli Remarks on uniqueness and strong solutions to deterministic and stochastic differential equations . . . 101--123 D. Baraka and T. Mountford and Y. Xiao Hölder properties of local times for fractional Brownian motions . . . . . . 125--152 Anna Lytova and Leonid Pastur Central limit theorem for linear eigenvalue statistics of the Wigner and the sample covariance random matrices 153--172 Jessica Cariboni and Wim Schoutens Jumps in intensity models: investigating the performance of Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes in credit risk modeling . . . 173--198 Paul Doukhan and Nathanaël Mayo and Lionel Truquet Weak dependence, models and some applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--225 James Robins and Lingling Li and Eric Tchetgen and Aad W. van der Vaart Quadratic semiparametric von Mises calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--247 Anton Schick and Wolfgang Wefelmeyer Convergence rates of density estimators for sums of powers of observations . . . 249--264 Geurt Jongbloed Consistent likelihood-based estimation of a star-shaped distribution . . . . . 265--282 Chad M. Schafer and Kjell A. Doksum Selecting local models in multiple regression by maximizing power . . . . . 283--304 Cristina Sotto and Caroline Beunckens and Geert Molenberghs and Ivy Jansen and Geert Verbeke Marginalizing pattern-mixture models for categorical data subject to monotone missingness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--336 Dragan Banjevic Remaining useful life in theory and practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--349 N. Balakrishnan A synthesis of exact inferential results for exponential step-stress models and associated optimal accelerated life-tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--396 Eva Riccomagno A short history of algebraic statistics 397--418 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Cécile Amblard and Stéphane Girard A new extension of bivariate FGM copulas 1--17 Jafar Ahmadi and Mohammad Jafari Jozani and Éric Marchand and Ahmad Parsian Prediction of $k$-records from a general class of distributions under balanced type loss functions . . . . . . . . . . 19--33 Yadolah Dodge and Joe Whittaker Partial quantile regression . . . . . . 35--57 Jin-Guan Lin and Li-Xing Zhu and Feng-Chang Xie Heteroscedasticity diagnostics for $t$ linear regression models . . . . . . . . 59--77 Hong Qin and Na Zou and Kashinath Chatterjee Connection between uniformity and minimum moment aberration . . . . . . . 79--88 N. Balakrishnan and M. Doostparast and J. Ahmadi Reconstruction of past records . . . . . 89--109 Willem Albers and Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg CUMIN charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--130 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Peter J. Dukes and Alan C. H. Ling Existence of balanced sampling plans avoiding cyclic distances . . . . . . . 131--140 Changliang Zou and Yukun Liu and Zhaojun Wang Comparisons of control schemes for monitoring the means of processes subject to drifts . . . . . . . . . . . 141--163 Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei Comparing means of several treatments with a control when one observation exists per treatment . . . . . . . . . . 165--176 Ella Roelant and Stefan Van Aelst and Gert Willems The minimum weighted covariance determinant estimator . . . . . . . . . 177--204 Josef G. Steinebach Monitoring risk in a ruin model perturbed by diffusion . . . . . . . . . 205--224 I. Ortiz and I. Martínez and C. Rodríguez and Y. del Águila Optimal designs for generalized linear models with biased response . . . . . . 225--237 Mong-Na Lo Huang and Miao-Kuan Huang $ \phi_p$-Optimal designs for a linear log contrast model for experiments with mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
C. Koukouvinos and K. Mylona A general construction of $ E(s^2) $-optimal supersaturated designs via supplementary difference sets . . . . . 257--265 Carlos N. Bouza Ranked set sampling and randomized response procedures for estimating the mean of a sensitive quantitative character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--277 Aiping Hu and Zuoxiang Peng and Yongcheng Qi Joint behavior of point process of exceedances and partial sum from a Gaussian sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295 Salem S. Reyen and John J. Miller and Edward J. Wegman Separating a mixture of two normals with proportional covariances . . . . . . . . 297--314 Jean-François Quessy Theoretical efficiency comparisons of independence tests based on multivariate versions of Spearman's rho . . . . . . . 315--338 Fu-Chuen Chang and Hsiu-Ching Chang and Sheng-Shian Wang $D$-optimal designs for polynomial regression with exponential weight function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--354 Min-Hsiao Tsai Criterion-robust optimal product designs for discrimination between nested response surface models . . . . . . . . 355--367 Tomasz Rychlik Bounds on expectations of small order statistics from decreasing density populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--381 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rong-Xian Yue and Xiao-Dong Zhou Bayesian robust designs for linear models with possible bias and correlated errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Y. Takagi Asymptotics of likelihood ratio statistic for non-inferiority testing under exponential distribution with fixed censoring times . . . . . . . . . 17--31 M. Rueda and I. Sánchez-Borrego and A. Arcos and S. Martínez Model-calibration estimation of the distribution function using nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 33--44 Qiang Chen and Lu Lin and Lixing Zhu Bias-corrected smoothed score function for single-index models . . . . . . . . 45--58 Ramesh C. Gupta and Hui Tao A generalized correlated binomial distribution with application in multiple testing problems . . . . . . . 59--77 M. Arashi and A. K. Md. E. Saleh and S. M. M. Tabatabaey Estimation of parameters of parallelism model with elliptically distributed errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--100 Tsung-Shan Tsou Robust likelihood inferences about regression parameters for general bivariate continuous data . . . . . . . 101--115 M. Sreehari and S. Ravi On extremes of mixtures of distributions 117--123 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Albert Vexler and Chengqing Wu and Kai Fun Yu Optimal hypothesis testing: from semi to fully Bayes factors . . . . . . . . . . 125--138 Fabrizio Durante and Pier Luigi Papini Non-exchangeability of negatively dependent random variables . . . . . . . 139--149 Qizhai Li and Guoying Li and Shifeng Xiong Assessment of cell number for a multinomial distribution with application to genomic data . . . . . . 151--164 María José Presno and Manuel Landajo Computation of limiting distributions in stationarity testing with a generic trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--183 Ana Belén Ramos-Guajardo and Ana Colubi and Gil González-Rodríguez and María Ángeles Gil One-sample tests for a generalized Fréchet variance of a fuzzy random variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--202 Carlos Carleos and Miguel López-Díaz A new family of dispersive orderings . . 203--217 Luc Pronzato One-step ahead adaptive $D$-optimal design on a finite design space is asymptotically optimal . . . . . . . . . 219--238 Karl Friedrich Siburg and Pavel A. Stoimenov A measure of mutual complete dependence 239--251 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jacek Le\'skow and Rafa\l Synowiecki On bootstrapping periodic random arrays with increasing period . . . . . . . . . 253--279 Sonja Kuhnt Breakdown concepts for contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294 Nairanjana Dasgupta and Mike Jacroux and Rita SahaRay Partially replicated fractional factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 295--311 Jorge Navarro and Moshe Shaked Some properties of the minimum and the maximum of random variables with joint logconcave distributions . . . . . . . . 313--317 Jia Chen and Li-Xin Zhang Local linear $M$-estimation for spatial processes in fixed-design models . . . . 319--340 Kuo-Chung Huang Unbiased estimators of mean, variance and sensitivity level for quantitative characteristics in finite population sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--352 Jie Mi Estimation of quantities determined as implicit functions of unknown parameters 353--359 M. K. Sharma and Sileshi Fanta Optimal block designs for diallel crosses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--372 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Han-Ying Liang and Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez Asymptotic normality for estimator of conditional mode under left-truncated and dependent observations . . . . . . . 1--19 Etsuo Miyaoka and Kazuo Noda Necessary conditions for admissibility of matrix linear estimators in a multivariate linear model . . . . . . . 21--35 Agnieszka Stepie\'n-Baran Minimax invariant estimator of a continuous distribution function under a general loss function . . . . . . . . . 37--49 M. Arashi and S. M. M. Tabatabaey Estimation of the location parameter under LINEX loss function: multivariate case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57 Mahdi Tavangar and Majid Asadi A study on the mean past lifetime of the components of $ (n - k + 1)$-out-of-$n$ system at the system level . . . . . . . 59--73 Lucio Barabesi and Marzia Marcheselli Bayesian estimation of proportion and sensitivity level in randomized response procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88 N. Balakrishnan and G. Iliopoulos Stochastic monotonicity of the MLEs of parameters in exponential simple step-stress models under Type-I and Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 89--109 Torsten Harms and Pierre Duchesne On kernel nonparametric regression designed for complex survey data . . . . 111--138 Yadolah Dodge and Iraj Yadegari On direction of dependence . . . . . . . 139--150 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi and M. Khorashadizadeh A view on Bhattacharyya bounds for inverse Gaussian distributions . . . . . 151--161 Jan Mielniczuk and Ma\lgorzata Wojty\'s Estimation of Fisher information using model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--187 Albrecht Irle and Vladimir Lotov On the properties of a multiple sequential test . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--198 Chi-Chung Wen Semiparametric maximum likelihood estimation in Cox proportional hazards model with covariate measurement errors 199--217 Rong-Xian Yue and Kashinath Chatterjee Bayesian $U$-type design for nonparametric response surface prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--231 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah The misclassification error of the maximum likelihood procedure when deciding among a finite choice of distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250 Majid Asadi and Mohammad Z. Raqab The mean residual of record values at the level of previous records . . . . . 251--264 Hassan S. Bakouch and Miroslav M. Risti\'c Zero truncated Poisson integer-valued $ {\rm AR}(1) $ model . . . . . . . . . . 265--280 Radoslav Harman and Frantisek Stulajter Optimal prediction designs in finite discrete spectrum linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. M. McGree and J. A. Eccleston Investigating design for survival models 295--311 Yongge Tian On equalities of estimations of parametric functions under a general linear model and its restricted models 313--330 José Antonio Rodríguez-Lallena and Manuel Úbeda-Flores Multivariate copulas with quadratic sections in one variable . . . . . . . . 331--349 J. P. Keating and R. L. Mason and N. Balakrishnan Percentile estimators in location-scale parameter families under absolute loss 351--367 José M. González-Barrios and Federico O'Reilly and Raúl Rueda Durbin's random substitution and conditional Monte Carlo . . . . . . . . 369--383 Piotr Mikusi\'nski and Michael D. Taylor Some approximations of $n$-copulas . . . 385--414 Xingcai Zhou and Xinsheng Liu and Shuhe Hu Moment consistency of estimators in partially linear models under NA samples 415--432 Qiqing Yu and Cuixian Chen and G. Y. C. Wong The GMLE based Buckley--James estimator with modified case-cohort data . . . . . 433--464 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Enrico Carlini and Fabio Rapallo A class of statistical models to weaken independence in two-way contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22 David Todem and KyungMann Kim On the existence of maximum likelihood estimates in random effects models for clustered multivariate binary data . . . 23--41 Lutz Mattner One optional observation inflates $ \alpha $ by $ 100 / \sqrt {n} $ per cent 43--59 Zuoxiang Peng and Zhongquan Tan and Saralees Nadarajah Almost sure Central Limit Theorem for the products of $U$-statistics . . . . . 61--76 A. García-Pérez Another look at the Tail Area Influence Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--92 Yuan-chin Ivan Chang Sequential estimation in generalized linear models when covariates are subject to errors . . . . . . . . . . . 93--120 Bin Zhou and Qinfeng Xu and Jinhong You Efficient estimation for error component seemingly unrelated nonparametric regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 121--138 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Amitava Saha An optional scrambled randomized response technique for practical surveys 139--149 Chin-Tsang Chiang A more flexible joint latent model for longitudinal and survival time data . . 151--170 Xiuli Wang and Gaorong Li and Lu Lin Empirical likelihood inference for semi-parametric varying-coefficient partially linear EV models . . . . . . . 171--185 Kris Boudt and Derya Caliskan and Christophe Croux Robust explicit estimators of Weibull parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--209 Fukang Zhu and Dehui Wang Estimation and testing for a Poisson autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 211--230 M. C. Pardo Testing equality restrictions in generalized linear models for multinomial data . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--253 Aurea Grané and Josep Fortiana A directional test of exponentiality based on maximum correlations . . . . . 255--274 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Hu Yang and Jianwen Xu Preliminary test Liu estimators based on the conflicting $W$, $ L R$ and $ L M$ tests in a regression model with multivariate Student-$t$ error . . . . . 275--292 Serkan Eryilmaz and Femin Yalçin Distribution of run statistics in partially exchangeable processes . . . . 293--304 Fasheng Sun and Jie Chen and Min-Qian Liu Connections between uniformity and aberration in general multi-level factorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315 José A. Díaz-García and Ramón Gutiérrez-Jáimez Noncentral bimatrix variate generalised beta distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 317--333 N. Balakrishnan and Donghoon Han and G. Iliopoulos Exact inference for progressively Type-I censored exponential failure data . . . 335--358 Claire Coiffard On the Hausdorff dimension of exceptional random sets generated by multivariate spacings . . . . . . . . . 359--371 N. Chernov Fitting circles to scattered data: parameter estimates have no moments . . 373--384 Stavros A. Chatzopoulos and Fotini Kolyva-Machera and Kashinath Chatterjee Optimality results on orthogonal arrays plus $p$ runs for $ s^m$ factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--394 Dedi Rosadi and Manfred Deistler Estimating the codifference function of linear time series models with infinite variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--429 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Vikas Kumar and H. C. Taneja and R. Srivastava A dynamic measure of inaccuracy between two past lifetime distributions . . . . 1--10 Mohsen Madadi and Mahbanoo Tata Shannon information in record data . . . 11--31 Sherzod M. Mirakhmedov and Syed Ikram A. Tirmizi and Muhammad Naeem A Cramér-type large deviation theorem for sums of functions of higher order non-overlapping spacings . . . . . . . . 33--54 Sándor Baran and Gyula Pap Asymptotic inference for a one-dimensional simultaneous autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 55--66 Willem Albers Control charts for health care monitoring under overdispersion . . . . 67--83 Carmen Anido and Carlos Rivero and Teofilo Valdes An algorithm for panel ANOVA with grouped data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--107 Zujun Ou and Kashinath Chatterjee and Hong Qin Lower bounds of various discrepancies on combined designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119 Leng-Cheng Hwang A robust asymptotically optimal sequential estimation procedure for the Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Christine H. Müller Data depth for simple orthogonal regression with application to crack orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--165 Victor De Oliveira and Marco A. R. Ferreira Maximum likelihood and restricted maximum likelihood estimation for a class of Gaussian Markov random fields 167--183 Zhangong Zhou and Rong Jiang and Weimin Qian Variable selection for additive partially linear models with measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--202 Peng Zhao and N. Balakrishnan Dispersive ordering of fail-safe systems with heterogeneous exponential components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--210 Alicja Jokiel-Rokita Bayes sequential estimation for a particular exponential family of distributions under LINEX loss . . . . . 211--219 Karel Hron and Lubomír Kubácek Statistical properties of the total variation estimator for compositional data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--230 Peixin Zhao and Liugen Xue Variable selection for varying coefficient models with measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--245 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah The distribution of the maximum of a first order autoregressive process: the continuous case . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--266 Henryk Zähle Rates of almost sure convergence of plug-in estimates for distortion risk measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--285 Hans Volkmer and G. G. Hamedani On distributions of order statistics and their applications to uniform distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--295 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Moosup Kim and Sangyeol Lee Change point test for tail index for dependent data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--311 Sandra Plancade Model selection for hazard rate estimation in presence of censoring . . 313--347 Chien-Tai Lin and N. Balakrishnan Asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimators based on progressive Type-II censoring . . . . . 349--360 Mohammad Z. Raqab and Tomasz Rychlik Bounds for the mean residual life function of a $k$-out-of-$n$ system . . 361--380 Stephen J. Haslett and Simo Puntanen On the equality of the BLUPs under two linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 381--395 Bernhard F. Arnold and Peter Stahlecker An unexpected property of minimax estimation in the relative squared error approach to linear regression analysis 397--407 Na Li and Xingzhong Xu and Xuhua Liu Testing the constancy in varying-coefficient regression models 409--438 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Werner Uhlmann (1928--2011) . . . . . . 1--3 Mohsen Arefi and Reinhard Viertl and S. Mahmoud Taheri Fuzzy density estimation . . . . . . . . 5--22 Fang Pang and Min-Qian Liu A note on connections among criteria for asymmetrical factorials . . . . . . . . 23--32 Yan Liu and Min-Qian Liu Construction of equidistant and weak equidistant supersaturated designs . . . 33--53 Zhensheng Huang Empirical likelihood for varying-coefficient single-index model with right-censored data . . . . . . . . 55--71 Vikas Kumar and H. C. Taneja On length biased dynamic measure of past inaccuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--84 Sarjinder Singh On the calibration of design weights using a displacement function . . . . . 85--107 Rostyslav Maiboroda and Olena Sugakova Nonparametric density estimation for symmetric distributions by contaminated data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--126 Hira L. Koul and Nao Mimoto A goodness-of-fit test for GARCH innovation density . . . . . . . . . . . 127--149 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Siegfried Gabler and Matthias Ganninger and Ralf Münnich Optimal allocation of the sample size to strata under box constraints . . . . . . 151--161 Enkelejd Hashorva and Alexei Stepanov Limit theorems for the spacings of weak records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--180 Ramesh C. Gupta and N. Balakrishnan Log-concavity and monotonicity of hazard and reversed hazard functions of univariate and multivariate skew-normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--191 A. Abtahi and J. Behboodian and M. Sharafi A general class of univariate skew distributions considering Stein's lemma and infinite divisibility . . . . . . . 193--206 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah Unbiased estimates for a lognormal regression problem and a nonparametric alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--227 Salah Khardani and Mohamed Lemdani and Elias Ould Sa\"\id On the strong uniform consistency of the mode estimator for censored time series 229--241 Nickos Papadatos Linear estimation of location and scale parameters using partial maxima . . . . 243--270 M. Sreehari and R. Vasudeva Characterizations of multivariate geometric distributions in terms of conditional distributions . . . . . . . 271--286 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Jorge M. Arevalillo Exploring the relation between the $ r* $ approximation and the Edgeworth expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1024 Peter Ruckdeschel and Nataliya Horbenko Yet another breakdown point notion: EFSBP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1047 Maria Brigida Ferraro and Paolo Giordani A multiple linear regression model for imprecise information . . . . . . . . . 1049--1068 Katarzyna Filipiak and Dietrich von Rosen On MLEs in an extended multivariate linear growth curve model . . . . . . . 1069--1092 Matti Langel and Yves Tillé Inference by linearization for Zenga's new inequality index: a comparison with the Gini index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1110 Dominik Wied and Matthias Arnold and Nicolai Bissantz and Daniel Ziggel A new fluctuation test for constant variances with applications to finance 1111--1127 Yunyan Wang and Lixin Zhang and Mingtian Tang Re-weighted functional estimation of second-order diffusion processes . . . . 1129--1151 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Dietrich Stoyan Weibull, RRSB or extreme-value theorists? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159 N. Balakrishnan and M. R. Brito and A. J. Quiroz On the goodness-of-fit procedure for normality based on the empirical characteristic function for ranked set sampling data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--177 German Bernhart and Marcos Escobar Anel and Jan-Frederik Mai and Matthias Scherer Default models based on scale mixtures of Marshall--Olkin copulas: properties and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--203 Hira L. Koul and Nao Mimoto and Donatas Surgailis Goodness-of-fit tests for long memory moving average marginal density . . . . 205--224 Feng Li and Lu Lin and Yuxia Su Variable selection and parameter estimation for partially linear models via Dantzig selector . . . . . . . . . . 225--238 Lutz Mattner and Frauke Mattner Confidence bounds for the sensitivity lack of a less specific diagnostic test, without gold standard . . . . . . . . . 239--263 Andrzej Giniewicz and Alicja Jokiel-Rokita Burn-in for a time-transformed exponential model . . . . . . . . . . . 265--285 Zhangong Zhou and Rong Jiang and Weimin Qian LAD variable selection for linear models with randomly censored data . . . . . . 287--300 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Norbert Henze and Udo Kamps Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--301 Zaixing Li Two kinds of variance/covariance estimates in linear mixed models . . . . 303--324 Boxin Tang and Julie Zhou $D$-optimal two-level orthogonal arrays for estimating main effects and some specified two-factor interactions . . . 325--337 V. K. Sharma Universally optimal balanced changeover designs with first residuals . . . . . . 339--346 Karl Michael Schmidt and Anatoly Zhigljavsky An extremal property of the generalized arcsine distribution . . . . . . . . . . 347--355 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah Density estimates of low bias . . . . . 357--379 S. H. Lin The higher order likelihood method for the common mean of several log-normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--392 Krystyna Katulska and Lukasz Smaga $D$-optimal chemical balance weighing designs with autoregressive errors . . . 393--407 Tiefeng Ma and Shuangzhe Liu Estimation of order-restricted means of two normal populations under the LINEX loss function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--425 G. Lesitha and P. Yageen Thomas Estimation of the scale parameter of a log-logistic distribution . . . . . . . 427--448 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Castaño-Martínez and F. López-Blázquez and B. Salamanca-Miño An additive property of weak records from geometric distributions . . . . . . 449--458 Wangli Xu and Xu Guo Nonparametric checks for varying coefficient models with missing response at random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--482 Xin Liu and Rong-Xian Yue A note on $R$-optimal designs for multiresponse models . . . . . . . . . . 483--493 Sa-aat Niwitpong and Dankmar Böhning and Peter G. M. van der Heijden and Heinz Holling Capture-recapture estimation based upon the geometric distribution allowing for heterogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--519 Jafar Ahmadi and N. Balakrishnan On the nearness of record values to order statistics from Pitman's measure of closeness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--541 Leda D. Minkova and N. Balakrishnan Compound weighted Poisson distributions 543--558 Fariba Amiripour and Baha-Eldin Khaledi and Moshe Shaked Stochastic orderings of convolution residuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--576 Alexander Zaigraev and Magdalena Alama-Bu\'cko On optimal choice of order statistics in large samples for the construction of confidence regions for the location and scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--593 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Leila Golparver and Ali Karimnezhad and Ahmad Parsian Optimal rules and robust Bayes estimation of a Gamma scale parameter 595--622 Georgios Psarrakos and Jorge Navarro Generalized cumulative residual entropy and record values . . . . . . . . . . . 623--640 Chao Huang and Jin-Guan Lin and Yan-Yan Ren Testing for the shape parameter of generalized extreme value distribution based on the $ L_q $-likelihood ratio statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--671 Yeting Du and Johanna Neslehová A moment-based test for extreme-value dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--695 Mohammad Ghorbani Cauchy cluster process . . . . . . . . . 697--706 Changli Lu and Yuqin Sun and Yongge Tian On relations between weighted least-squares estimators of parametric functions under a general partitioned linear model and its small models . . . 707--722 Jia-Lin Wei and Jian-Feng Yang On simplifying the calculations leading to designs with general minimum lower-order confounding . . . . . . . . 723--732 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Arif Dowla and Efstathios Paparoditis and Dimitris N. Politis Local block bootstrap inference for trending time series . . . . . . . . . . 733--764 Karim Benhenni and Mustapha Rachdi and Yingcai Su The effect of the regularity of the error process on the performance of kernel regression estimators . . . . . . 765--781 Christoph Gietl and Fabian P. Reffel Accumulation points of the iterative proportional fitting procedure . . . . . 783--798 Karel Hron and Matthias Templ and Peter Filzmoser Estimation of a proportion in survey sampling using the logratio approach . . 799--818 Li Gu and Jian-Feng Yang Construction of nearly orthogonal Latin hypercube designs . . . . . . . . . . . 819--830 Xiao-Rong Yang Estimation of the mean for critical branching process and its bootstrap approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--846 Taras Bodnar and Arjun K. Gupta An exact test for a column of the covariance matrix based on a single observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--855 Fu-Chuen Chang and Lorens Imhof and Yi-Ying Sun Exact $D$-optimal designs for first-order trigonometric regression models on a partial circle . . . . . . . 857--872 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Roberto Colombi and Sabrina Giordano Monotone dependence in graphical models for multivariate Markov chains . . . . . 873--885 Zhaoping Hong and Yuao Hu and Heng Lian Variable selection for high-dimensional varying coefficient partially linear models via nonconcave penalty . . . . . 887--908 M. Rezapour and M. H. Alamatsaz and N. Balakrishnan On properties of dependent progressively Type-II censored order statistics . . . 909--917 Lucio Barabesi and Giancarlo Diana and Pier Francesco Perri Design-based distribution function estimation for stigmatized populations 919--935 Sévérien Nkurunziza Extension of some important identities in shrinkage-pretest strategies . . . . 937--947 Zhanfeng Wang and Yuan-chin Ivan Chang Sequential estimate for linear regression models with uncertain number of effective variables . . . . . . . . . 949--978 M. Kelkin Nama and M. Asadi and Z. Zhang On the residual lifelengths of the remaining components in a coherent system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--996 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
José S. Romeo and Nelson I. Tanaka and Antonio C. Pedroso-de-Lima and Victor H. Salinas-Torres Large sample properties for a class of copulas in bivariate survival analysis 997--1015 Xiaoliang Ling and Ping Li Stochastic comparisons for the number of working components of a system in random environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017--1030 Salima El Kolei Parametric estimation of hidden stochastic model by contrast minimization and deconvolution . . . . . 1031--1081 Lichun Wang and Peng Lai and Heng Lian Polynomial spline estimation for generalized varying coefficient partially linear models with a diverging number of components . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1103 Taras Bodnar and Wolfgang Schmid and Taras Zabolotskyy Asymptotic behavior of the estimated weights and of the estimated performance measures of the minimum VaR and the minimum CVaR optimal portfolios for dependent data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1134 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Nicole Bäuerle and Herold Dehling and Achim Klenke and Götz Kersting and Jens-Peter Kreiss Preface to the GPSD 2012 special issue of \booktitleMetrika . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Marcelo Alvisio and Gregory F. Lawler Note on the existence and modulus of continuity of the $ {\rm SLE}_8 $ curve 5--22 Remco van der Hofstad and Asaf Nachmias Unlacing hypercube percolation: a survey 23--50 Cristina Di Girolami and Giorgio Fabbri and Francesco Russo The covariation for Banach space valued processes and applications . . . . . . . 51--104 C. Lévy-Leduc and M. S. Taqqu Hermite ranks and $U$-statistics . . . . 105--136 R. H. Stockbridge Discussion of dynamic programming and linear programming approaches to stochastic control and optimal stopping in continuous time . . . . . . . . . . . 137--162 Fabienne Comte and Céline Duval and Valentine Genon-Catalot Nonparametric density estimation in compound Poisson processes using convolution power estimators . . . . . . 163--183 V. Bagdonavicius and M. S. Nikulin Goodness-of-fit tests for parametric nonhomogeneous Markov processes . . . . 185--209 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Heiko Groenitz A new privacy-protecting survey design for multichotomous sensitive variables 211--224 Qingming Zou and Zhongyi Zhu $M$-estimators for single-index model using B-spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--246 Wolfgang Riemer and Dietrich Stoyan and Danail Obreschkow Cuboidal dice and Gibbs distributions 247--256 Jan Mielniczuk and Ma\lgorzata Wojty\'s \boldmath $P$-value model selection criteria for exponential families of increasing dimension . . . . . . . . . . 257--284 Dominique Fourdrinier and Othmane Kortbi and William E. Strawderman Generalized Bayes minimax estimators of location vectors for spherically symmetric distributions with residual vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah Simple alternatives for Box--Cox transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--315 Ying Lu and Jiang Du and Zhimeng Sun Functional partially linear quantile regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--332 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Dolati and M. Amini and S. M. Mirhosseini Dependence properties of bivariate distributions with proportional (reversed) hazards marginals . . . . . . 333--347 Serkan Eryilmaz A study on reliability of coherent systems equipped with a cold standby component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--359 João Lita da Silva Strong consistency of least squares estimates in multiple regression models with random regressors . . . . . . . . . 361--375 Lei Yang and Xianyi Wu A new sufficient condition for identifiability of countably infinite mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--387 Rainer Göb and Kristina Lurz Design and analysis of shortest two-sided confidence intervals for a probability under prior information . . 389--413 Zhimeng Sun and Zhi Su and Jingyi Ma Focused vector information criterion model selection and model averaging regression with missing response . . . . 415--432 Jana Jurecková and Radim Navrátil Rank tests in heteroscedastic linear model with nuisance parameters . . . . . 433--450 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gaoge Hu and Shesheng Gao and Yongmin Zhong and Chengfan Gu Random weighting estimation of stable exponent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--468 José A. Díaz-García On Riesz distribution . . . . . . . . . 469--481 David J. Edwards Follow-up experiments for two-level fractional factorial designs via double semifoldover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--507 Céline Lacaux and Aurélie Muller-Gueudin and Radu Ranta and Samy Tindel Convergence and performance of the peeling wavelet denoising algorithm . . 509--537 Tomasz Rychlik Non-positive upper bounds on expectations of small order statistics from DDA and DFRA populations . . . . . 539--557 R. B. Arellano-Valle and Ahad Jamalizadeh and H. Mahmoodian and N. Balakrishnan $L$-statistics from multivariate unified skew-elliptical distributions . . . . . 559--583 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Liesa Denecke and Christine H. Müller New robust tests for the parameters of the Weibull distribution for complete and censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 585--607 Sangun Park On Kullback--Leibler information of order statistics in terms of the relative risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--616 Alicja Jokiel-Rokita and Ryszard Magiera Distributions of stopping times in some sequential estimation procedures . . . . 617--634 Weizhen Wang and Zhongzhan Zhang Asymptotic infimum coverage probability for interval estimation of proportions 635--646 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah Asymptotic properties of $M$-estimators in linear and nonlinear multivariate regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 647--673 Wei Yu and Cuizhen Niu and Wangli Xu An empirical likelihood inference for the coefficient difference of a two-sample linear model with missing response data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--693 HaiYing Wang and Nancy Flournoy and Eloi Kpamegan A new bounded log-linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--720 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bing Guo and Qi Zhou and Runchu Zhang Some results on constructing general minimum lower order confounding $ 2^{n - m} $ designs for $ n \le 2^{n - m - 2} $ 721--732 Tiefeng Ma and Shuangzhe Liu and S. Ejaz Ahmed Shrinkage estimation for the mean of the inverse Gaussian population . . . . . . 733--752 Xiaojian Xu and Xiaoli Shang Optimal and robust designs for trigonometric regression models . . . . 753--769 F. Novoa-Muñoz and M. D. Jiménez-Gamero Testing for the bivariate Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--793 Cuizhen Niu and Xu Guo and Wangli Xu and Lixing Zhu Testing equality of shape parameters in several inverse Gaussian populations . . 795--809 Peng Zhao and Yiying Zhang On the maxima of heterogeneous gamma variables with different shape and scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--836 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Chen Zhang and Alwell Julius Oyet Second order longitudinal dynamic models with covariates: estimation and forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--859 Rasbagh Vasudeva and J. Vasantha Kumari Asymptotic behaviour of near-maxima of Gaussian sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 861--866 Chao Huang and Jin-Guan Lin Modified maximum spacings method for generalized extreme value distribution and applications in real data analysis 867--894 Kiyoshi Inoue and Sigeo Aki On sooner and later waiting time distributions associated with simple patterns in a sequence of bivariate trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--920 Hong Guo and Changliang Zou and Zhaojun Wang and Bin Chen Empirical likelihood for high-dimensional linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--945 P. Yageen Thomas and T. G. Veena Characterizations of bivariate distributions using concomitants of record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--963 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
M. Burkschat and J. Navarro Asymptotic behavior of the hazard rate in systems based on sequential order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--994 Qiqing Yu and Yuting Hsu and Kai Yu A necessary and sufficient condition for justifying non-parametric likelihood with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1011 Shangwei Zhao Model averaging based on James--Stein estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1022 Alicja Jokiel-Rokita and Daniel Lazar and Ryszard Magiera Bayesian prediction in doubly stochastic Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1039 Yinping You and Xiaohu Li and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan On extremes of bivariate residual lifetimes from generalized Marshall--Olkin and time transformed exponential models . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1056 Stelios D. Georgiou and Christos Koukouvinos and Min-Qian Liu U-type and column-orthogonal designs for computer experiments . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1073 Anonymous Help & Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Leonid Torgovitski A Darling--Erd\Hos-type CUSUM-procedure for functional data . . . . . . . . . . 1--27 M. Arashi and B. M. Golam Kibria and A. Tajadod On shrinkage estimators in matrix variate elliptical models . . . . . . . 29--44 Ifigenia Efthimiou and Stelios D. Georgiou and Min-Qian Liu Construction of nearly orthogonal Latin hypercube designs . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57 Christian Goldmann and Bernhard Klar and Simos G. Meintanis Data transformations and goodness-of-fit tests for Type-II right censored samples 59--83 Long Feng and Changliang Zou and Zhaojun Wang and Xianwu Wei and Bin Chen Robust spline-based variable selection in varying coefficient model . . . . . . 85--118
Hira L. Koul and Donatas Surgailis and Nao Mimoto Minimum distance lack-of-fit tests under long memory errors . . . . . . . . . . . 119--143 Leng-Cheng Hwang and Chia-Chen Yang A robust two-stage procedure in Bayes sequential estimation of a particular exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 145--159 Adrian Wilk and Joachim Kunert Optimal crossover designs in a model with self and mixed carryover effects with correlated errors . . . . . . . . . 161--174 Agnieszka Goroncy and Tomasz Rychlik Optimal bounds on expectations of order statistics and spacings from nonparametric families of distributions generated by convex transform order . . 175--204 Adam Dolegowski and Jacek Wesolowski Linearity of regression for overlapping order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--218 D. Moriña and P. Puig and J. Valero A characterization of the innovations of first order autoregressive models . . . 219--225 H. Zakerzadeh and S. H. Moradi Zahraie Admissibility in non-regular family under squared-log error loss . . . . . . 227--236
Dennis Schmidt and Rainer Schwabe On optimal designs for censored data . . 237--257 Dennis Schmidt and Rainer Schwabe Erratum to: On optimal designs for censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259 S. Ashrafi and M. Asadi On the stochastic and dependence properties of the three-state systems 261--281 Alexandre Berred and Alexei Stepanov Asymptotic properties of the number of near minimum-concomitant observations in the case of progressive type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--294 Aiting Shen and Ying Zhang and Andrei Volodin Applications of the Rosenthal-type inequality for negatively superadditive dependent random variables . . . . . . . 295--311 A. E. Dudek Circular block bootstrap for coefficients of autocovariance function of almost periodically correlated time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--335 Francisco Carvalho and João T. Mexia and Carla Santos and Célia Nunes Inference for types and structured families of commutative orthogonal block structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--372
Chang-Yun Lin Construction and selection of the optimal balanced blocked definitive screening design . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--383 N. Balakrishnan and Alexei Stepanov Limit results for concomitants of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397 Franco Pellerey and Saeed Zalzadeh A note on relationships between some univariate stochastic orders and the corresponding joint stochastic orders 399--414 Chanchal Kundu Generalized measures of information for truncated random variables . . . . . . . 415--435 Mariusz Bieniek Optimal evaluations for the bias of trimmed means of $k$ th record values 437--460 Dominique Fourdrinier and William Strawderman Robust minimax Stein estimation under invariant data-based loss for spherically and elliptically symmetric distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--484 Myoung-jae Lee and Maria Karlsson Trimmed and Winsorized semiparametric estimator for left-truncated and right-censored regression models . . . . 485--495
Elena Di Bernardino and Thomas Laloë and Rémi Servien Estimating covariate functions associated to multivariate risks: a level set approach . . . . . . . . . . . 497--526 Elena Di Bernardino and Thomas Laloë and Rémi Servien Erratum to: Estimating covariate functions associated to multivariate risks: a level set approach . . . . . . 527--527 Po Yang and Chang-Yun Lin and William Li Blocked semifoldovers of two-level orthogonal designs . . . . . . . . . . . 529--548 Mohammad Mohammadi and Adel Mohammadpour and Hiroaki Ogata On estimating the tail index and the spectral measure of multivariate $ \alpha $-stable distributions . . . . . 549--561 Edsel A. Peña and Joshua D. Habiger and Wensong Wu Classes of multiple decision functions strongly controlling FWER and FDR . . . 563--595 Yijun Zuo Bahadur representations for bootstrap quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--610 A. Basu and A. Mandal and N. Martin and L. Pardo Robust tests for the equality of two normal means based on the density power divergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--634
Tsung-Shan Tsou and Chi-Chuan Yang Universal surrogate likelihood functions for nonnegative continuous data . . . . 635--646 Samaradasa Weerahandi and Malwane M. A. Ananda Improving the EBLUPs of balanced mixed-effects models . . . . . . . . . . 647--662 Samaradasa Weerahandi and Malwane M. A. Ananda Erratum to: Improving the EBLUPs of balanced mixed-effects models . . . . . 663--663 Barbora Pestová and Michal Pesta Testing structural changes in panel data with small fixed panel size and bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--689 J. Navarro and M. Esna-Ashari and M. Asadi and J. M. Sarabia Bivariate distributions with conditionals satisfying the proportional generalized odds rate model . . . . . . 691--709 Dmytro Furer and Michael Kohler Smoothing spline regression estimation based on real and artificial data . . . 711--746 Ping Shing Chan and Hon Keung Tony Ng and Feng Su Exact likelihood inference for the two-parameter exponential distribution under Type-II progressively hybrid censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--770
Essam K. Al-Hussaini and Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid and Atef F. Hashem One-sample Bayesian prediction intervals based on progressively type-II censored data from the half-logistic distribution under progressive stress model . . . . . 771--783 Lira Pi and H. N. Nagaraja Fisher information in censored samples from folded and unfolded populations . . 785--806 Ji Hwan Cha and Maxim Finkelstein A dynamic stress-strength model with stochastically decreasing strength . . . 807--827 Christian H. Weiß A Poisson INAR(1) model with serially dependent innovations . . . . . . . . . 829--851 N. Balakrishnan and Xiaojun Zhu Inference for the bivariate Birnbaum--Saunders lifetime regression model and associated inference . . . . . 853--872 Jin-Guan Lin and Xue-Ping Chen and Jian-Feng Yang and Xing-Fang Huang and Ying-Shan Zhang Generalized variable resolution designs 873--884 Rendao Ye and Tonghui Wang and Saowanit Sukparungsee and Arjun K. Gupta Tests in variance components models under skew-normal settings . . . . . . . 885--904
Yongge Tian A new derivation of BLUPs under random-effects model . . . . . . . . . . 905--918 Gabriela Ciuperca and Zahraa Salloum Empirical likelihood test in a posteriori change-point nonlinear model 919--952 Qianqian Zhao and Shengli Zhao Mixed-level designs with resolution III or IV containing clear two-factor interaction components . . . . . . . . . 953--965 Yu-Ye Zou and Han-Ying Liang and Jing-Jing Zhang Nonlinear wavelet density estimation with data missing at random when covariates are present . . . . . . . . . 967--995 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani and Gábor J. Székely Schur properties of convolutions of gamma random variables . . . . . . . . . 997--1014 Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and Baha-Eldin Khaledi Multivariate stochastic comparisons of mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1034
Ramesh C. Gupta Properties of additive frailty model in survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and Hong Qin and Kashinath Chatterjee Generalized projection discrepancy and its applications in experimental designs 19--35 Wiltrud Kuhlisch and Magnus Roos and Jörg Rothe and Joachim Rudolph and Björn Scheuermann and Dietrich Stoyan A statistical approach to calibrating the scores of biased reviewers of scientific papers . . . . . . . . . . . 37--57 Xue-Jun Ma and Jing-Xiao Zhang A new variable selection approach for varying coefficient models . . . . . . . 59--72 R. Colombi and A. Forcina Testing order restrictions in contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 73--90 Yogesh Mani Tripathi and Somesh Kumar and Constantinos Petropoulos Estimating the shape parameter of a Pareto distribution under restrictions 91--111 Zhengcheng Zhang and N. Balakrishnan Representations of the inactivity time for coherent systems with heterogeneous components and some ordered properties 113--126
Xuejun Wang and Yi Wu and Shuhe Hu Exponential probability inequality for $m$-END random variables and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--147 Rastislav Rusnacko and Ivan Zezula Connection between uniform and serial correlation structure in the growth curve model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--164 Hira L. Koul and Nao Mimoto and Donatas Surgailis A goodness-of-fit test for marginal distribution of linear random fields with long memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--193 Arnold Janssen and Andreas Knoch Information bounds for nonparametric estimators of $L$-functionals and survival functionals under censored data 195--220 Bojana Milosevi\'c Asymptotic efficiency of new exponentiality tests based on a characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--236 Barbora Pestová and Michal Pesta Erratum to: Testing structural changes in panel data with small fixed panel size and bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Santanu Dutta Distribution function estimation via Bernstein polynomial of random degree 239--263 Xinghui Wang and Shuhe Hu A note on the strong consistency of $M$-estimates in linear models . . . . . 265--266 Liubov Rabyk and Wolfgang Schmid EWMA control charts for detecting changes in the mean of a long-memory process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--301 G. Avlogiaris and A. Micheas and K. Zografos On local divergences between two probability measures . . . . . . . . . . 303--333 Chanchal Kundu and Antonio Di Crescenzo and Maria Longobardi On cumulative residual (past) inaccuracy for truncated random variables . . . . . 335--356 Serkan Eryilmaz Generalized waiting time distributions associated with runs . . . . . . . . . . 357--368
A. García-Pérez A von Mises approximation to the small sample distribution of the trimmed mean 369--388 Christian Francq and Simos G. Meintanis Fourier-type estimation of the power GARCH model with stable-Paretian innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--424 Annabel Prause and Ansgar Steland and Mohammed Abujarad Minimum Hellinger distance estimation for bivariate samples and time series with applications to nonlinear regression and copula-based models . . . 425--455 T. Martin Lukusa and Shen-Ming Lee and Chin-Shang Li Semiparametric estimation of a zero-inflated Poisson regression model with missing covariates . . . . . . . . 457--483
Said Attaoui and Nengxiang Ling Asymptotic results of a nonparametric conditional cumulative distribution estimator in the single functional index modeling for time series data with applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--511 M. Kayid and S. Izadkhah and J. Jarrahiferiz and P. Asghari A mixture model of size-biased distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--529 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and Laurent Bordes and Christian Paroissin and Jean-Christophe Turlot Single change-point detection methods for small lifetime samples . . . . . . . 531--551 Chen Li and Rui Fang and Xiaohu Li Stochastic comparisons of order statistics from scaled and interdependent random variables . . . . 553--578 Frosso S. Makri and Zaharias M. Psillakis On runs of ones defined on a $q$-sequence of binary trials . . . . . 579--602 Michal Pulit A new method of kernel-smoothing estimation of the ROC curve . . . . . . 603--634
Agnieszka Goroncy and Tomasz Rychlik Evaluations of expectations of order statistics and spacings based on IFR distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--657 Hongmei Xie and Keshe Ni and Wenyu Liu Variability ordering of multiplicative frailty models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--670 Jafar Ahmadi and Elham Mirfarah and Ahmad Parsian Robust Bayesian Pitman closeness . . . . 671--691 Longxiang Fang and N. Balakrishnan Likelihood ratio order of parallel systems with heterogeneous Weibull components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--703 Yu. A. Kutoyants and A. Motrunich On multi-step MLE-process for Markov sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--724 Ismihan Bayramoglu On the records of multivariate random sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--747 Christian Bräu and Lothar Heinrich Multivariate Poisson distributions associated with Boolean models . . . . . 749--761
Xiaoyu Che and John Angus A new joint model of recurrent event data with the additive hazards model for the terminal event time . . . . . . . . 763--787 Mátyás Barczy and Kristóf Körmendi and Gyula Pap Statistical inference for critical continuous state and continuous time branching processes with immigration . . 789--816 Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and Jianfei Qiao and Yiying Zhang and Peng Zhao On the skewness of order statistics in multiple-outlier PHR models . . . . . . 817--836 A. Castaño-Martínez and F. López-Blázquez and B. Salamanca-Miño Exceedances of records . . . . . . . . . 837--866 Omer Ozturk and Asuman Turkmen Quantile inference based on clustered data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--893
Katharina Strohriegl and Robert Hable Qualitative robustness of estimators on stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 895--917 Charlotte Dion Nonparametric estimation in a mixed-effect Ornstein--Uhlenbeck model 919--951 Ping Yu and Zhongzhan Zhang and Jiang Du A test of linearity in partial functional linear regression . . . . . . 953--969 Gilles R. Ducharme and Walid Al Akhras Tree based diagnostic procedures following a smooth test of goodness-of-fit . . . . . . . . . . . . 971--989 Peixin Zhao and Xinrong Tang Imputation based statistical inference for partially linear quantile regression models with missing responses . . . . . 991--1009 M. Sharafi and A. R. Nematollahi $ {\rm AR}(1) $ model with skew-normal innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1029
Wu Wang and Zhongyi Zhu Conditional empirical likelihood for quantile regression models . . . . . . . 1--16 Xiang-Jie Li and Xue-Jun Ma and Jing-Xiao Zhang Robust feature screening for varying coefficient models via quantile partial correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--49 Yueqin Wu and Yan Sun Shrinkage estimation of the linear model with spatial interaction . . . . . . . . 51--68 P. Samadi and M. Rezaei and M. Chahkandi On the residual lifetime of coherent systems with heterogeneous components 69--82 Xinghui Wang and Shuhe Hu Asymptotics of self-weighted $M$-estimators for autoregressive models 83--92 Liang Yan and Rui Wang and Xingzhong Xu Fiducial inference in the classical errors-in-variables model . . . . . . . 93--114 V. A. Reisen and C. Lévy-Leduc and M. Bourguignon and H. Boistard Robust Dickey--Fuller tests based on ranks for time series with additive outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--131
Dongying Wang and Shili Ye and Qi Zhou and Runchu Zhang Blocked factor aliased effect-number pattern and column rank of blocked regular designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--152 Thuong T. M. Nguyen A new approach to distribution free tests in contingency tables . . . . . . 153--170 George Tzavelas and Maria Douli and Polychronis Economou Model misspecification effects for biased samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--185 Sanyu Zhou One-sided hyperbolic simultaneous confidence bands for multiple and polynomial regression models . . . . . . 187--200 Radoslav Harman and Eva Benková Barycentric algorithm for computing $D$-optimal size- and cost-constrained designs of experiments . . . . . . . . . 201--225 S. Goli and M. Asadi A study on the conditional inactivity time of coherent systems . . . . . . . . 227--241 Jitka Hrabáková and Václav Kus Notes on consistency of some minimum distance estimators with simulation results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--257
Serkan Eryilmaz The concept of weak exchangeability and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--271 Soumaya Ghnimi and Soufiane Gasmi and Arwa Nasr Reliability parameters estimation for parallel systems under imperfect repair 273--288 Hengzhen Huang and Shuangshuang Zhou and Min-Qian Liu and Zong-Feng Qi Acceleration of the stochastic search variable selection via componentwise Gibbs sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--308 Aloke Dey and Rakhi Singh and Ashish Das Efficient paired choice designs with fewer choice pairs . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317 Anna Dembi\'nska An ergodic theorem for proportions of observations that fall into random sets determined by sample quantiles . . . . . 319--332 Manoj Chacko Bayesian estimation based on ranked set sample from Morgenstern type bivariate exponential distribution when ranking is imperfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--349 Steffen Unkel On the shape of the cross-ratio function in bivariate survival models induced by truncated and folded normal frailty distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--362 Lothar Heinrich and Friedrich Pukelsheim and Vitali Wachtel The variance of the discrepancy distribution of rounding procedures, and sums of uniform random variables . . . . 363--375
Angel G. Angelov and Magnus Ekström Nonparametric estimation for self-selected interval data collected through a two-stage approach . . . . . . 377--399 Arnab Koley and Debasis Kundu On generalized progressive hybrid censoring in presence of competing risks 401--426 Helton Saulo and N. Balakrishnan and Xiaojun Zhu and Jhon F. B. Gonzales and Jeremias Leão Estimation in generalized bivariate Birnbaum--Saunders models . . . . . . . 427--453 F. G. Badía and Ji Hwan Cha On bending (down and up) property of reliability measures in mixtures . . . . 455--482 Constantinos Petropoulos Estimation of the order restricted scale parameters for two populations from the Lomax distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 483--502
M. D. Jiménez-Gamero and A. Batsidis Minimum distance estimators for count data based on the probability generating function with applications . . . . . . . 503--545 Jiang Du and Zhongzhan Zhang and Tianfa Xie Focused information criterion and model averaging in censored quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--570 Christian H. Weiß and Esmeralda Gonçalves and Nazaré Mendes Lopes Testing the compounding structure of the CP--INARCH model . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--603
Aiting Shen and Andrei Volodin Weak and strong laws of large numbers for arrays of rowwise END random variables and their applications . . . . 605--625 Jorge Navarro and Yolanda del Águila Stochastic comparisons of distorted distributions, coherent systems and mixtures with ordered components . . . . 627--648 Majid Asadi A new measure of association between random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--661 Cyrille Joutard Multidimensional strong large deviation results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--683 Dankmar Böhning and Rattana Lerdsuwansri and Heinz Holling Some general points on the $ I^2 $-measure of heterogeneity in meta-analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--695 Zaixing Li and Fei Chen and Lixing Zhu Estimating moments in ANOVA-type mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--715 Lei He and Rong-Xian Yue $R$-optimal designs for multi-factor models with heteroscedastic errors . . . 717--732 R. Gatto Multivariate saddlepoint tests on the mean direction of the von Mises--Fisher distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--747 M. Mesfioui and M. Kayid and S. Izadkhah Stochastic comparisons of order statistics from heterogeneous random variables with Archimedean copula . . . 749--766 Eunju Hwang and Dong Wan Shin Stationary bootstrapping for common mean change detection in cross-sectionally dependent panels . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--787 Katarzyna Filipiak and Augustyn Markiewicz Universally optimal designs under mixed interference models with and without block effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789--804 Lyu Ni and Fang Fang and Fangjiao Wan Adjusted Pearson Chi-Square feature screening for multi-classification with ultrahigh dimensional data . . . . . . . 805--828 Maria Tafiadi and George Iliopoulos Exact inference for the difference of Laplace location parameters . . . . . . 829--861
Minggen Lu Spline-based quasi-likelihood estimation of mixed Poisson regression with single-index models . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Longxiang Fang and N. Balakrishnan Ordering properties of the smallest order statistics from generalized Birnbaum--Saunders models with associated random shocks . . . . . . . . 19--35 Georgios Psarrakos and Antonio Di Crescenzo A residual inaccuracy measure based on the relevation transform . . . . . . . . 37--59 Mohammed Chowdhury and Colin Wu and Reza Modarres Nonparametric estimation of conditional distribution functions with longitudinal data and time-varying parametric models 61--83 Eiichi Isogai and Chikara Uno Three-stage confidence intervals for a linear combination of locations of two negative exponential distributions . . . 85--103
Nil Kamal Hazra and Mithu Rani Kuiti and Maxim Finkelstein and Asok K. Nanda On stochastic comparisons of minimum order statistics from the location-scale family of distributions . . . . . . . . 105--123 Krzysztof Jasi\'nski Relations for product moments and covariances of $k$-th records from discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 125--141 Suvra Pal and Jacob Majakwara and N. Balakrishnan An EM algorithm for the destructive COM--Poisson regression cure rate model 143--171 Julian Górny and Erhard Cramer Modularization of hybrid censoring schemes and its application to unified progressive hybrid censoring . . . . . . 173--210 Kai Liu and Xiaojun Zhu and N. Balakrishnan Exact inference for Laplace distribution under progressive Type--II censoring based on BLUEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--227
Mohammad Z. Raqab and Omar M. Bdair and Fahad M. Al-Aboud Inference for the two-parameter bathtub-shaped distribution based on record data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--253 Jianglin Fang and Wanrong Liu and Xuewen Lu Empirical likelihood for heteroscedastic partially linear single-index models with growing dimensional data . . . . . 255--281 Alexander Zaigraev and Magdalena Alama-Bu\'cko Optimal choice of order statistics under confidence region estimation in case of large samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--305 A. M. Elsawah and Kai-Tai Fang New results on quaternary codes and their Gray map images for constructing uniform designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--336 K. Chatterjee and K. Drosou and S. D. Georgiou and C. Koukouvinos Multi-level and mixed-level $k$-circulant supersaturated designs . . 337--355
Qinqin Hu and Lu Lin Conditional feature screening for mean and variance functions in models with multiple-index structure . . . . . . . . 357--393 Weijia Jia and Weixing Song Goodness-of-fit tests in linear EV regression with replications . . . . . . 395--421 Eric J. Beh and Rosaria Lombardo An algebraic generalisation of some variants of simple correspondence analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--443 Chen Li and Xiaohu Li Preservation of increasing convex/concave order under the formation of parallel/series system of dependent components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--464 Jorge Navarro Stochastic comparisons of coherent systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--482 Chen Li and Rui Fang and Xiaohu Li Publisher Correction: Stochastic comparisons of order statistics from scaled and interdependent random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--483
Indranil Ghosh A complete characterization of bivariate densities using the conditional percentile function . . . . . . . . . . 485--492 Ayanendranath Basu and Abhik Ghosh and Nirian Martin and Leandro Pardo Robust Wald-type tests for non-homogeneous observations based on the minimum density power divergence estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--522 Miao Han and Liuquan Sun and Yutao Liu and Jun Zhu Joint analysis of recurrent event data with additive-multiplicative hazards model for the terminal event time . . . 523--547 Yang Liu and Yukun Liu and Yan Fan and Han Geng Likelihood ratio confidence interval for the abundance under binomial detectability models . . . . . . . . . . 549--568 Shakhawat Hossain and Trevor Thomson and Ejaz Ahmed Shrinkage estimation in linear mixed models for longitudinal data . . . . . . 569--586
N. Henze and C. Kirch and S. G. Meintanis Special Issue with papers from the ``3rd workshop on Goodness-of-fit and change-point problems'' . . . . . . . . 587--588 Michael Messer and Stefan Albert and Gaby Schneider The multiple filter test for change point detection in time series . . . . . 589--607 Ya. Yu. Nikitin Local exact Bahadur efficiencies of two scale-free tests of normality based on a recent characterization . . . . . . . . 609--618 Christian H. Weiß Goodness-of-fit testing of a count time series' marginal distribution . . . . . 619--651 Fang Duan and Dominik Wied A residual-based multivariate constant correlation test . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--687 Gabriela Ciuperca Test by adaptive LASSO quantile method for real-time detection of a change-point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--720 Daniela Jarusková Estimating non-simultaneous changes in the mean of vectors . . . . . . . . . . 721--743
Yusuke Kaino and Masayuki Uchida Hybrid estimators for small diffusion processes based on reduced data . . . . 745--773 K. Krishnamoorthy and Shanshan Lv Highest posterior mass prediction intervals for binomial and Poisson distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--796 Xuejun Wang and Xin Deng and Shuhe Hu On consistency of the weighted least squares estimators in a semiparametric regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--820 Jing Pan and Yuan Yu and Yong Zhou Nonparametric independence feature screening for ultrahigh-dimensional survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--847 Julien Worms and Rym Worms Extreme value statistics for censored data with heavy tails under competing risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--889
Ludwig Baringhaus and Daniel Gaigall Efficiency comparison of the Wilcoxon tests in paired and independent survey samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--930 Ruili Sun and Tiefeng Ma and Shuangzhe Liu A Stein-type shrinkage estimator of the covariance matrix for portfolio selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--952 Maud Delattre and Valentine Genon-Catalot and Catherine Larédo Approximate maximum likelihood estimation for stochastic differential equations with random effects in the drift and the diffusion . . . . . . . . 953--983 Kimberly S. Weems and Paul J. Smith Assessing the robustness of estimators when fitting Poisson inverse Gaussian models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--1004 Sudeep R. Bapat On purely sequential estimation of an inverse Gaussian mean . . . . . . . . . 1005--1024
Tamás F. Móri and Gábor J. Székely Four simple axioms of dependence measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 Aswathy S. Krishnan and S. M. Sunoj and P. G. Sankaran Quantile-based reliability aspects of cumulative Tsallis entropy in past lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--38 Nengxiang Ling and Rui Kan and Philippe Vieu and Shuyu Meng Semi-functional partially linear regression model with responses missing at random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--70 I. Sánchez-Borrego and A. Arcos and M. Rueda Kernel-based methods for combining information of several frame surveys . . 71--86 Xin Liu and Rong-Xian Yue and Weng Kee Wong $D$-optimal designs for multi-response linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 87--98 A. Arriaza and A. Di Crescenzo and M. A. Sordo and A. Suárez-Llorens Shape measures based on the convex transform order . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--124
Shuzhi Zhu and Peixin Zhao Tests for the linear hypothesis in semi-functional partial linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 125--148 Orasa Anan and Dankmar Böhning and Antonello Maruotti On the Turing estimator in capture--recapture count data under the geometric distribution . . . . . . . . . 149--172 Shanshan Lu and Jingjing Wu and Xuewen Lu Efficient estimation of the varying-coefficient partially linear proportional odds model with current status data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--194 Waseem Alnosaier and David Birkes Inner workings of the Kenward--Roger test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--223 Zohreh Pakdaman and Jafar Ahmadi Switching time of the standby component to the $k$-out-of-$n$:$G$ system in the stress-strength setup . . . . . . . . . 225--248 A. N. Kumar and N. S. Upadhye Generalizations of distributions related to $ (k_1, k_2)$-runs . . . . . . . . . 249--268
Shili Ye and Dongying Wang and Runchu Zhang Partial aliased effect number pattern and selection of optimal compromise designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--293 Sayed A. Mostafa and Ibrahim A. Ahmad Kernel density estimation from complex surveys in the presence of complete auxiliary information . . . . . . . . . 295--338 Yo Sheena Estimation of a continuous distribution on the real line by discretization methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--360 Dankmar Böhning and Panicha Kaskasamkul and Peter G. M. van der Heijden A modification of Chao's lower bound estimator in the case of one-inflation 361--384 Nikolay I. Nikolov and Eugenia Stoimenova Asymptotic properties of Lee distance 385--408
Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei and Ahad Malekzadeh On the exact distribution of the likelihood ratio test for testing the homogeneity of scale parameters of several two-parameter exponential distributions: complete and censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--427 George Tzavelas A characterization of the Pareto distribution based on the Fisher information for censored data under non-regularity conditions . . . . . . . 429--440 P. G. Sankaran and M. Dileep Kumar Reliability properties of proportional hazards relevation transform . . . . . . 441--456 Jeonghwan Kim and Woojoo Lee On testing the hidden heterogeneity in negative binomial regression models . . 457--470 Hongbin Zhang and Lang Wu An approximate method for generalized linear and nonlinear mixed effects models with a mechanistic nonlinear covariate measurement error model . . . 471--499 Hossein Negarestani and Ahad Jamalizadeh and Sobhan Shafiei and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan Mean mixtures of normal distributions: properties, inference and application 501--528
Mohammad Reza Kazemi and Ali Akbar Jafari Inference about the shape parameters of several inverse Gaussian distributions: testing equality and confidence interval for a common value . . . . . . . . . . . 529--545 Raúl Alejandro Morán-Vásquez and Silvia L. P. Ferrari Box--Cox elliptical distributions with application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--571 Liuping Hu and Hongyi Li and Zujun Ou Constructing optimal four-level designs via Gray map code . . . . . . . . . . . 573--587 M. Salehi and Z. Shishebor and M. Asadi On the reliability modeling of weighted $k$-out-of-$n$ systems with randomly chosen components . . . . . . . . . . . 589--605 Antonio Di Crescenzo and Suchandan Kayal and Abdolsaeed Toomaj A past inaccuracy measure based on the reversed relevation transform . . . . . 607--631
Ping Yu and Ting Li and Zhongyi Zhu and Zhongzhan Zhang Composite quantile estimation in partial functional linear regression model with dependent errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--656 Amitava Mukherjee and Marco Marozzi A class of percentile modified Lepage-type tests . . . . . . . . . . . 657--689 Arijit Patra and Chanchal Kundu On generalized orderings and ageing classes for residual life and inactivity time at random time . . . . . . . . . . 691--704 Po Yang and William Li Some properties of foldover designs with column permutations . . . . . . . . . . 705--717 Samuel Rosa Equivalence of weighted and partial optimality of experimental designs . . . 719--732 Xu Li and Juxia Xiao and Weixing Song and Jianhong Shi Local linear regression with reciprocal inverse Gaussian kernel . . . . . . . . 733--758
Xiaojun Zhu and N. Balakrishnan and Helton Saulo On the existence and uniqueness of the maximum likelihood estimates of parameters of Laplace Birnbaum--Saunders distribution based on Type-I, Type-II and hybrid censored samples . . . . . . 759--778 Steffen Betsch and Bruno Ebner A new characterization of the Gamma distribution and associated goodness-of-fit tests . . . . . . . . . 779--806 Antonoio Forcina Estimation and testing of multiplicative models for frequency data . . . . . . . 807--822 Taoufik Bouezmarni and Félix Camirand Lemyre and Jean-François Quessy On the large-sample behavior of two estimators of the conditional copula under serially dependent data . . . . . 823--841 Yuxuan Lin and Kai-Tai Fang The main effect confounding pattern for saturated orthogonal designs . . . . . . 843--861 Kai Yang and Yao Kang and Dehui Wang and Han Li and Yajing Diao Modeling overdispersed or underdispersed count data with generalized Poisson integer-valued autoregressive processes 863--889
Gérard Letac Cumulative distribution functions for the five simplest natural exponential families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--902 Takuya Nishino and Hidetoshi Murakami The Cucconi statistic for Type-I censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--929 Matthias Scherer and Henrik Sloot Exogenous shock models: analytical characterization and probabilistic construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--959 Martin Kroll Nonparametric intensity estimation from noisy observations of a Poisson process under unknown error distribution . . . . 961--990 N. Balakrishnan and E. Castilla and N. Martín and L. Pardo Robust estimators for one-shot device testing data under gamma lifetime model with an application to a tumor toxicological data . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1019 Jie Mi Some limit results in estimation of proportion based on group testing . . . 1021--1038
Weiming Yang and Yiping Yang Composite quantile regression estimation of linear error-in-variable models using instrumental variables . . . . . . . . . 1--16 Yaolan Ma and Bo Wei and Wei Huang A nonparametric estimator for the conditional tail index of Pareto-type distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--44 Carlos A. Coelho and Anuradha Roy Testing the hypothesis of a doubly exchangeable covariance matrix . . . . . 45--68 A. García-Pérez Saddlepoint approximations for the distribution of some robust estimators of the variogram . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--91 F. Comte and V. Genon-Catalot Regression function estimation on non compact support in an heteroscesdastic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--128 Liuping Hu and Zujun Ou and Hongyi Li Construction of four-level and mixed-level designs with zero Lee discrepancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--139
Michael Kohler and Reinhard Tent Nonparametric quantile estimation using surrogate models and importance sampling 141--169 Neeraj Misra and Jisha Francis Relative ageing in frailty and resilience models . . . . . . . . . . . 171--196 Cong Cao and Markus Pauly and Frank Konietschke The Behrens--Fisher problem with covariates and baseline adjustments . . 197--215 Xinyi Xu and Jingxiao Zhang Groupwise sufficient dimension reduction via conditional distance clustering . . 217--242 Mathias Lindholm and Felix Wahl On the variance parameter estimator in general linear models . . . . . . . . . 243--254 Yimin Huang and Xiangshun Kong and Mingyao Ai Optimal designs in sparse linear models 255--273
Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and Linas Petkevicius A new multiple outliers identification method in linear regression . . . . . . 275--296 Apostolos Batsidis and María Dolores Jiménez-Gamero and Artur J. Lemonte On goodness-of-fit tests for the Bell distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--319 Ali Karimnezhad and Mahmoud Zarepour A general guide in Bayesian and robust Bayesian estimation using Dirichlet processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--346 Sukanta Dash and Baidya Nath Mandal and Rajender Parsad On the construction of nested orthogonal Latin hypercube designs . . . . . . . . 347--353 Francisco Germán Badía and Hyunju Lee On stochastic comparisons and ageing properties of multivariate proportional hazard rate mixtures . . . . . . . . . . 355--375 Hua Liu and Youquan Pei and Qunfang Xu Estimation for varying coefficient panel data model with cross-sectional dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--410
O. V. Chernoyarov and Yu. A. Kutoyants Poisson source localization on the plane: the smooth case . . . . . . . . . 411--435 Daniel Gaigall Testing marginal homogeneity of a continuous bivariate distribution with possibly incomplete paired data . . . . 437--465 Yang Li and Yongcheng Qi Asymptotic distribution of modularity in networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--484 Xin Liu and Rong-Xian Yue Elfving's theorem for $R$-optimality of experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . 485--498 Hira L. Koul and Fang Li Comparing two nonparametric regression curves in the presence of long memory in covariates and errors . . . . . . . . . 499--517 Marcus Johnen and Stefan Bedbur and Udo Kamps A note on multiple roots of a likelihood equation for Weibull sequential order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--525
Hongyi Li and Hong Qin Quadrupling: construction of uniform designs with large run sizes . . . . . . 527--544 Xianwen Ding and Jiandong Chen and Xueping Chen Regularized quantile regression for ultrahigh-dimensional data with nonignorable missing responses . . . . . 545--568 Yuichi Goto and Masanobu Taniguchi Discriminant analysis based on binary time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--595 Rafa\l Po\locza\'nski and Maciej Wilczy\'nski Minimax estimation of a bivariate cumulative distribution function . . . . 597--615 Longxiang Fang and Wenyu Huang Inequalities for Gaussian random variables under Archimedean copula dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--625 Rafael Weißbach and Lucas Radloff Consistency for the negative binomial regression with fixed covariate . . . . 627--641
Min-Jue Zhang and Rong-Xian Yue Locally $D$-optimal designs for heteroscedastic polynomial measurement error models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--656 Majid Asadi and Somayeh Zarezadeh A unified approach to constructing correlation coefficients between random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--676 Achintya Roy and Nitin Gupta Reliability of a coherent system equipped with two cold standby components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--697 Antonia Castaño-Martínez and Gema Pigueiras and Georgios Psarrakos and Miguel A. Sordo Increasing concave orderings of linear combinations of order statistics with applications to social welfare . . . . . 699--712 Nengxiang Ling and Lingyu Wang and Philippe Vieu Convergence rate of kernel regression estimation for time series data when both response and covariate are functional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--732
Elena Hadjicosta and Donald Richards Integral transform methods in goodness-of-fit testing, I: the gamma distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--777 Xiaoxue Han and Jianbin Chen and Min-Qian Liu and Shengli Zhao Asymmetrical split-plot designs with clear effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--798 Fengli Song and Peng Lai and Baohua Shen Robust composite weighted quantile screening for ultrahigh dimensional discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 799--820 Zanhua Yin Variable selection for sparse logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--836 Jean-François Coeurjolly and Joëlle Rousseau Trépanier The median of a jittered Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--851 Grigoriy Volovskiy and Udo Kamps Maximum product of spacings prediction of future record values . . . . . . . . 853--868
Sangita Das and Suchandan Kayal Ordering extremes of exponentiated location-scale models with dependent and heterogeneous random samples . . . . . . 869--893 Yoichi Miyata and Takayuki Shiohama and Toshihiro Abe Estimation of finite mixture models of skew-symmetric circular distributions 895--922 Jitendra Kumar and Seema Jaggi and Eldho Varghese and Arpan Bhowmik and Cini Varghese First order rotatable designs incorporating differential neighbour effects from experimental units up to distance 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--935 Gongming Shi and Tianfa Xie and Zhongzhan Zhang Statistical inference for the functional quadratic quantile regression model . . 937--960 N. Balakrishnan and A. Stepanov and V. B. Nevzorov North-east bivariate records . . . . . . 961--976 Dengke Xu and Jiang Du Nonparametric quantile regression estimation for functional data with responses missing at random . . . . . . 977--990
Osama Idais and Rainer Schwabe Analytic solutions for locally optimal designs for gamma models having linear predictors without intercept . . . . . . 1--26 Hyunju Lee and Ji Hwan Cha A general multivariate new better than used (MNBU) distribution and its properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--46 Yesim Güney and Y. Tuaç and S. Özdemir and O. Arslan Conditional maximum $ L_q $-likelihood estimation for regression model with autoregressive error terms . . . . . . . 47--74 Qibing Gao and Xiuqing Zhou and Yanqin Feng and Xiuli Du and XiaoXiao Liu An empirical likelihood method for quantile regression models with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--96 Suman Majumder and Adhidev Biswas and Tania Roy and Subir Kumar Bhandari and Ayanendranath Basu Statistical inference based on a new weighted likelihood approach . . . . . . 97--120
Shengli Zhao and Qianqian Zhao Minimum aberration blocked designs with multiple block variables . . . . . . . . 121--140 Igor S. Borisov and Yuliana Yu. Linke and Pavel S. Ruzankin Universal weighted kernel-type estimators for some class of regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--166 Rongjie Jiang and Liming Wang and Yang Bai Optimal model averaging estimator for semi-functional partially linear models 167--194 Marko Voutilainen and Pauliina Ilmonen and Soledad Torres and Ciprian Tudor and Lauri Viitasaari On the ARCH model with stationary liquidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--224 Guangbao Guo and Guoqi Qian and Lu Lin and Wei Shao Parallel inference for big data with the group Bayesian method . . . . . . . . . 225--243 Dankmar Böhning and Helen E. Ogden General flation models for count data 245--261 Ramanathan Gayathri and Enchakudiyil Ibrahim Abdul Sathar On past geometric vitality function of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--280
Mamadou Koné and Annick Valibouze Nearest neighbor balanced block designs for autoregressive errors . . . . . . . 281--312 Fares Qeadan and Ronald Christensen On the equivalence between the LRT and $F$-test for testing variance components in a class of linear mixed models . . . 313--338 Zongliang Hu and Zhishui Hu and Kai Dong and Tiejun Tong and Yuedong Wang A shrinkage approach to joint estimation of multiple covariance matrices . . . . 339--374 Anne Philippe and Caroline Robet and Marie-Claude Viano Random discretization of stationary continuous time processes . . . . . . . 375--400 Philip Dörr and Bruno Ebner and Norbert Henze A new test of multivariate normality by a double estimation in a characterizing PDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--427 Yuzhu Tian and Hongmei Lin and Heng Lian and Zengyan Fan Additive functional regression in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces under smoothness condition . . . . . . . . . . 429--442 Nikolay I. Nikolov and Eugenia Stoimenova Correction to: Asymptotic properties of Lee distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
Rakhi Singh and Angela Dean and Ashish Das and Fangfang Sun $A$-optimal designs under a linearized model for discrete choice experiments 445--465 Xiong Cai and Liugen Xue and Xiaolong Pu and Xingyu Yan Efficient Estimation for Varying-Coefficient Mixed Effects Models with Functional Response Data . . . . . 467--495 Rakhi Singh and Joachim Kunert Efficient crossover designs for non-regular settings . . . . . . . . . . 497--510 Junichi Hirukawa and Sangyeol Lee Asymptotic properties of mildly explosive processes with locally stationary disturbance . . . . . . . . . 511--534 Michael Stephanou and Melvin Varughese On the properties of Hermite series based distribution function estimators 535--559 Benjamin Auder and Elisabeth Gassiat and Mor Absa Loum Least squares moment identification of binary regression mixture models . . . . 561--593 Konrad Furma\'nczyk Estimation of autocovariance matrices for high dimensional linear processes 595--613
Liuqing Yang and Yongdao Zhou and Min-Qian Liu Maximin distance designs based on densest packings . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--634 Eric Han and Majid Mojirsheibani On histogram-based regression and classification with incomplete data . . 635--662 Chun-Lung Su Bayesian multi-way balanced nested MANOVA models with random effects and a large number of the main factor levels 663--692 Jun Jin and Tiefeng Ma and Jiajia Dai New efficient spline estimation for varying-coefficient models with two-step knot number selection . . . . . . . . . 693--712 Xinyang Wang and Dehui Wang and Kai Yang Integer-valued time series model order shrinkage and selection via penalized quasi-likelihood approach . . . . . . . 713--750 Gabriela Oliveira and Wagner Barreto-Souza and Roger W. C. Silva Convergence and inference for mixed Poisson random sums . . . . . . . . . . 751--777 Mengli Zhang and Yang Bai On the use of repeated measurement errors in linear regression models . . . 779--803
Yuna Zhao and Zhiwei Li and Shengli Zhao A new method of finding component orthogonal arrays for order-of-addition experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--824 Christian E. Galarza and Tsung-I Lin and Wan-Lun Wang and Víctor H. Lachos On moments of folded and truncated multivariate Student-$t$ distributions based on recurrence relations . . . . . 825--850 Fritjof Freise and Norbert Gaffke and Rainer Schwabe Convergence of least squares estimators in the adaptive Wynn algorithm for some classes of nonlinear regression models 851--874 Yiming Tang and Yang Bai and Tao Huang Network vector autoregression with individual effects . . . . . . . . . . . 875--893 Ali Laksaci and Elias Ould Sa\"\id and Mustapha Rachdi Uniform consistency in number of neighbors of the $k$ NN estimator of the conditional quantile model . . . . . . . 895--911 Frank P. A. Coolen and Abdullah A. H. Ahmadini and Tahani Coolen-Maturi Imprecise inference based on the log-rank test for accelerated life testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--925 Mengke Li and Yan Fan and Yang Liu and Yukun Liu Diagnostic test meta-analysis by empirical likelihood under a Copas-like selection model . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--947
K. Chatterjee and C. Koukouvinos Construction of mixed-level supersaturated split-plot designs . . . 949--967 Zongyi Hu and Jiaqi Liu and Yi Li and Hongyi Li Uniform augmented $q$-level designs . . 969--995 Kris De Brabanter and Farzad Sabzikar Asymptotic theory for regression models with fractional local to unity root errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--1024 Yongli Sang A Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Approach for Testing the Homogeneity of $K$ Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1048 Rocío Maehara and Heleno Bolfarine and Filidor Vilca and N. Balakrishnan A robust Birnbaum--Saunders regression model based on asymmetric heavy-tailed distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1080 Krzysztof Jasi\'nski The number of failed components in a coherent working system when the lifetimes are discretely distributed . . 1081--1094
H. Evangelaras and S. D. Georgiou Projection properties of two-level supersaturated designs constructed from Hadamard designs using Lin's method . . 1095--1108 Rui Li and Yuanyuan Zhang Two-stage estimation and simultaneous confidence band in partially nonlinear additive model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1140 Berthold-Georg Englert and Michael Evans and Gun Ho Jang and Hui Khoon Ng and David Nott and Yi-Lin Seah Checking for model failure and for prior-data conflict with the constrained multinomial model . . . . . . . . . . . 1141--1168 Zhendong Wang and Xingzhong Xu High-dimensional sphericity test by extended likelihood ratio . . . . . . . 1169--1212 Omid Shojaee and Majid Asadi and Maxim Finkelstein On Some Properties of $ \alpha $-Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1240 Krzysztof Jasi\'nski Some conditional reliability properties of $k$-out-of-$n$ system composed of different types of components with discrete independent lifetimes . . . . . 1241--1251
Weihua Zhao and Rui Li and Heng Lian High-dimensional quantile varying-coefficient models with dimension reduction . . . . . . . . . . 1--19 Panxu Yuan and Xiao Guo High-dimensional inference for linear model with correlated errors . . . . . . 21--52 Lei He and Rong-Xian Yue $ I_L $-optimal designs for regression models under the second-order least squares estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 53--66 Aleksandr Beknazaryan and Peter Adamic On a stochastic order induced by an extension of Panjer's family of discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--91 Yan Sun and Wei Huang Quasi-maximum likelihood estimation of short panel data models with time-varying individual effects . . . . 93--114 Samadrita Bera and Nabakumar Jana On estimating common mean of several inverse Gaussian distributions . . . . . 115--139
Andreas Anastasiou and Piotr Fryzlewicz Detecting multiple generalized change-points by isolating single ones 141--174 Zhensheng Huang and Xing Sun and Riquan Zhang Estimation for partially varying-coefficient single-index models with distorted measurement errors . . . 175--201 Kai Yzenbrandt and Julie Zhou Minimax robust designs for regression models with heteroscedastic errors . . . 203--222 Yujing Shao and Lei Wang Generalized partial linear models with nonignorable dropouts . . . . . . . . . 223--252 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and Ritwik Bhattacharya $D$-optimal joint best linear unbiased prediction of order statistics . . . . . 253--267
Arup Bose and Santanu Dutta Kernel based estimation of the distribution function for length biased data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--287 Cao Xuan Phuong and Le Thi Hong Thuy and Vo Nguyen Tuyet Doan Nonparametric estimation of cumulative distribution function from noisy data in the presence of Berkson and classical errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--322 Matthias Hansmann and Benjamin M. Horn and Stefan Ulbrich Estimation of conditional distribution functions from data with additional errors applied to shape optimization . . 323--343 Haoyu Wang and Chongqi Zhang The mixture design threshold accepting algorithm for generating $ \vec {D} $-optimal designs of the mixture models 345--371 Mamadou Lamine Diop and William Kengne Poisson QMLE for change-point detection in general integer-valued time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--403
Tonghui Pang and Yan Wang and Jian-Feng Yang Asymptotically optimal maximin distance Latin hypercube designs . . . . . . . . 405--418 Ludwig Baringhaus and Rudolf Grübel The quarter median . . . . . . . . . . . 419--458 Joscha Krause and Jan Pablo Burgard and Domingo Morales $ \ell_2$-penalized approximate likelihood inference in logit mixed models for regional prevalence estimation under covariate rank-deficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--489 Sergey Tarima and Nancy Flournoy Most powerful test sequences with early stopping options . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--513 Yasuyuki Hamura and Tatsuya Kubokawa Bayesian predictive density estimation with parametric constraints for the exponential distribution with unknown location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--536
Zhaohui Yan and Shengli Zhao Mixed two- and four-level split-plot designs with combined minimum aberration 537--555 Mingxiang Cao and Yuanjing He A high-dimensional test on linear hypothesis of means under a low-dimensional factor model . . . . . . 557--572 Spiros D. Dafnis and Frosso S. Makri Weak runs in sequences of binary trials 573--603 Yanling Ding and Binghui Liu and Long Feng Rank-based test for slope homogeneity in high-dimensional panel data models . . . 605--626 Mustapha Rachdi and Ali Laksaci and Noriah M. Al-Kandari Expectile regression for spatial functional data analysis (sFDA) . . . . 627--655
Mengmeng Liu and Min-Qian Liu and Jinyu Yang Construction of group strong orthogonal arrays of strength two plus . . . . . . 657--674 Jorge Navarro Prediction of record values by using quantile regression curves and distortion functions . . . . . . . . . . 675--706 Kangqiang Li and Han Bao and Lixin Zhang Robust covariance estimation for distributed principal component analysis 707--732 Camilla Cal\`\i and Maria Longobardi and Barbara Pacchiarotti Asymptotic results for linear combinations of spacings generated by i.i.d. exponential random variables . . 733--752 Bochuan Jiang and Fei Wang and Yaping Wang Construction of uniform mixed-level designs through level permutations . . . 753--770
Marie Husková and Zuzana Prásková and Josef G. Steinebach Estimating a gradual parameter change in an AR(1)-process . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--808 Chunlin Wang and Paul Marriott and Pengfei Li A note on the coverage behaviour of bootstrap percentile confidence intervals for constrained parameters . . 809--831 Omar M. Bdair and Mohammad Z. Raqab Prediction of future censored lifetimes from mixture exponential distribution 833--857 Mickael Albertus Asymptotic $Z$ and chi-squared tests with auxiliary information . . . . . . . 859--883 Rachid Belfadli and Khalifa Es-Sebaiy and Fatima-Ezzahra Farah Statistical analysis of the non-ergodic fractional Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process with periodic mean . . . . . . . . . . . 885--911 Walter Diaz and Carles M. Cuadras An extension of the Gumbel--Barnett family of copulas . . . . . . . . . . . 913--926
O. V. Chernoyarov and A. S. Dabye and Y. A. Kutoyants Non asymptotic expansions of the MME in the case of Poisson observations . . . . 927--950 Mingxing He and Jiahua Chen Consistency of the MLE under a two-parameter Gamma mixture model with a structural shape parameter . . . . . . . 951--975 Yinfen Tang and Tao Su and Zhiyuan Zhang Distribution-free specification test for volatility function based on high-frequency data with microstructure noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--1022 Yu-Wei Chang and Jyun-Ye Tu Bayesian estimation for an item response tree model for nonresponse modeling . . 1023--1047 Akram Fakhari-Esferizi and Saeid Pooladsaz Universally optimal balanced block designs for interference model . . . . . 1049--1061
Ling Peng and Yan Zhu and Wenxuan Zhong Lasso regression in sparse linear model with $ \varphi $-mixing errors . . . . . 1--26 Fuxia Cheng and Hira L. Koul An analog of Bickel--Rosenblatt test for fitting an error density in the two phase linear regression model . . . . . 27--56 Maryam Kelkinnama and Serkan Eryilmaz Some reliability measures and maintenance policies for a coherent system composed of different types of components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--82 Shaul K. Bar-Lev and Gérard Letac A note on the discretization of natural exponential families on the real line 83--90 Sophie Mercier and Carmen Sangüesa A general multivariate lifetime model with a multivariate additive process as conditional hazard rate increment process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--129 Maryam Esna-Ashari and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and Mahdi Alimohammadi HR and RHR orderings of generalized order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--148
Songqiao Tang and Huiyu Wang and Guanao Yan and Lixin Zhang Empirical likelihood based tests for detecting the presence of significant predictors in marginal quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--179 Tin Lok James Ng Penalized maximum likelihood estimator for mixture of von Mises--Fisher distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--203 Krzysztof Jasi\'nski On conditional residual lifetimes of coherent systems consisting of components with discrete lifetimes . . . 205--218 Xueping Chen and Yujie Gai and Xiaodi Wang A-optimal designs for non-parametric symmetrical global sensitivity analysis 219--237 Zhiyun Huang and Zhiming Li and Ge Zhang and Tao Chen Lower-order confounding information of inverse Yates-order designs with three levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--259
Yaohong Yang and Lei Wang Communication-efficient sparse composite quantile regression for distributed data 261--283 Chang-Sheng Liu and Han-Ying Liang Bayesian empirical likelihood of quantile regression with missing observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--313 Holger Dette and Vasyl Golosnoy and Janosch Kellermann The effect of intraday periodicity on realized volatility measures . . . . . . 315--342 Ahmad Younso On the consistency of mode estimate for spatially dependent data . . . . . . . . 343--372 Lin Wang and Hongquan Xu and Min-Qian Liu Fractional factorial designs for Fourier-cosine models . . . . . . . . . 373--390
Libin Jin and Sung Nok Chiu and Jianhua Zhao and Lixing Zhu A constrained maximum likelihood estimation for skew normal mixtures . . 391--419 Takayuki Kawashima and Hironori Fujisawa Robust regression against heavy heterogeneous contamination . . . . . . 421--442 Jana Jure\vcková and Olcay Arslan and Ye\csim Güney and Jan Picek and Martin Schindler and Yetkin Tuaç Nonparametric tests in linear model with autoregressive errors . . . . . . . . . 443--453 Zhan Liu and Xiaoluo Zhao and Yingli Pan Communication-efficient distributed estimation for high-dimensional large-scale linear regression . . . . . 455--485 James H. McVittie and David B. Wolfson and David A. Stephens A note on the partial likelihood estimator of the proportional hazards model for combined incident and prevalent cohort data . . . . . . . . . 487--497
Omid Shojaee and Manoochehr Babanezhad On some stochastic comparisons of arithmetic and geometric mixture models 499--515 Benjamin Gochanour and Sixia Chen and Laura Beebe and David Haziza A semiparametric multiply robust multiple imputation method for causal inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--542 Jorge Navarro and Francesco Buono Predicting future failure times by using quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . 543--576 Qiming Bai and Hongyi Li and Xingyou Huang and Huili Xue Design efficiency for minimum projection uniform designs with $q$ levels . . . . 577--594 Zhiqiang Jiang and Zhensheng Huang and Jing Zhang Functional single-index composite quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . 595--603
Jalal Etminan and Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh and Majid Chahkandi A new light on reliability equivalence factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--625 Sudeep R. Bapat A novel sequential approach to estimate functions of parameters of two gamma populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--641 Tetsuya Kawai and Masayuki Uchida Adaptive inference for small diffusion processes based on sampled data . . . . 643--696 Marius Schmidt Standardized maximin $D$ --- and $c$-optimal designs for the Poisson--Gamma model . . . . . . . . . . 697--721
Simos Meintanis and Bojana Milosevi\'c and Marko Obradovi\'c Bahadur efficiency for certain goodness-of-fit tests based on the empirical characteristic function . . . 723--751 Chongya Yan and Zhiming Li and Mingyao Ai Characterization of three-order confounding via consulting sets . . . . 753--779 Renata Eirini Tsirpitzi and Frank Miller and Carl-Fredrik Burman Robust optimal designs using a model misspecification term . . . . . . . . . 781--804 Huaping Chen and Qi Li and Fukang Zhu A covariate-driven beta-binomial integer-valued GARCH model for bounded counts with an application . . . . . . . 805--826 Frédéric Ouimet A refined continuity correction for the negative binomial distribution and asymptotics of the median . . . . . . . 827--849
Stéphane Canu and Dominique Fourdrinier Data based loss estimation of the mean of a spherical distribution with a residual vector . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--878 Mehrdad Niaparast and Sahar MehrMansour and Rainer Schwabe $V$-optimality of designs in random effects Poisson regression models . . . 879--897 Omar Fetitah and Mohammed Kadi Attouch and Salah Khardani and Ali Righi Robust nonparametric equivariant regression for functional data with responses missing at random . . . . . . 899--929 Kai Yang and Yiwei Zhao and Han Li and Dehui Wang On bivariate threshold Poisson integer-valued autoregressive processes 931--963 Hui Ding and Mei Yao and Riquan Zhang A new estimation in functional linear concurrent model with covariate dependent and noise contamination . . . 965--989
Liu Sisheng and Yang Jing Kernel regression for estimating regression function and its derivatives with unknown error correlations . . . . 1--20 Jiamin Liu and Rui Li and Heng Lian Distributed estimation of functional linear regression with functional responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30 Michael H. Neumann Estimation and bootstrap for stochastically monotone Markov processes 31--59 Ji Hwan Cha and F. G. Badía Poisson generalized Lindley process and its properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74 Haosheng Jiang and Chongqi Zhang Optimal two-level regular fractional factorial split-plot designs when the effects of subplot factors are more important . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--103
Gabriela Ciuperca and Matús Maciak and Michal Pesta Real-time changepoint detection in a nonlinear expectile model . . . . . . . 105--131 Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and Ebrahim Nasiroleslami and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan Comparison of extreme order statistics from two sets of heterogeneous dependent random variables under random shocks . . 133--153 R. Grübel Ranks, copulas, and permutons . . . . . 155--182 Krzysztof Jasi\'nski On the number of failed components in a series-parallel system upon system failure when the lifetimes are DNID discrete random variables . . . . . . . 183--200 Alexander Zaigraev A note on asymptotics of the risk function under confidence region estimation in case of large samples of random size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--209
Paul Janssen and Noël Veraverbeke Nonparametric estimation of univariate and bivariate survival functions under right censoring: a survey . . . . . . . 211--245 Wenchuan Guo and Yongcheng Qi Asymptotic distributions for likelihood ratio tests for the equality of covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . 247--279 Qing Yin and Yu Miao and Zhen Wang and Guangyu Yang Moderate deviation principle of modularity in network . . . . . . . . . 281--298 Gaoming Sun and Xiaozhou Wang and Yibo Yan and Riquan Zhang Robust distributed multicategory angle-based classification for massive data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--323 Omid Shojaee and Seyed Morteza Mohammadi and Reza Momeni Ordering results for the smallest (largest) and the second smallest (second largest) order statistics of dependent and heterogeneous random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--347
Thierry Huillet and Martin Möhle On Bernoulli trials with unequal harmonic success probabilities . . . . . 349--378 Yue Chao and Lei Huang and Xuejun Ma and Jiajun Sun Optimal subsampling for modal regression in massive data . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--409 Daniel Rodenburger Refining analytic approximation based estimation of mixed multinomial probit models by parameter selection . . . . . 411--425 Barry C. Arnold and B. G. Manjunath Bivariate distributions with equi-dispersed normal conditionals and related models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--448 N. Unnikrishnan Nair and S. M. Sunoj and Namitha Suresh Additive hazards quantile model . . . . 449--469
Haruhiko Ogasawara The distribution of the sample correlation coefficient under variance-truncated normality . . . . . . 471--497 Eric J. Beh and Duy Tran and Irene L. Hudson A generalisation of the aggregate association index (AAI): incorporating a linear transformation of the cells of a $ 2 \times 2 $ table . . . . . . . . . . 1--33 Adebowale J. Sijuwade and Swarnita Chakraborty and Nairanjana Dasgupta An inverse Laplace transform oracle estimator for the normal means problem 533--550 Yi Wu and Wei Yu and Xuejun Wang Large deviations for randomly weighted least squares estimator in a nonlinear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--570 R. Vasudeva On the asymptotic behaviour of the joint distribution of the maxima and minima of observations, when the sample size is a random variable . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--584 Wan-Lun Wang and Luis M. Castro and Tsung-I Lin Bayesian multivariate nonlinear mixed models for censored longitudinal trajectories with non-monotone missing values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--605
Majid Mojirsheibani and William Pouliot and Andre Shakhbandaryan On regression and classification with possibly missing response variables in the data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--648 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Anhar Aloufi Second-order (s.o.) multi-stage fixed-width confidence interval (FWCI) estimation strategies for comparing location parameters from two negative exponential (NE) populations: illustrations with cancer data . . . . . 649--680 Raju Bhakta and Priyanka Majumder and Suchandan Kayal and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan Stochastic comparisons of two finite mixtures of general family of distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--712 Qiqing Yu A proper selection among multiple Buckley--James estimates . . . . . . . . 713--728 Mátyás Barczy and Fanni Nedényi and Gyula Pap Mixing convergence of LSE for supercritical AR(2) processes with Gaussian innovations using random scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--756
Özge Kuran and M. Revan Özkale The ridge prediction error sum of squares statistic in linear mixed models 757--773 Marco Capaldo and Antonio Di Crescenzo and Alessandra Meoli Cumulative information generating function and generalized Gini functions 775--803 Xianwen Sun and Lixin Zhang Jackknife model averaging for mixed-data kernel-weighted spline quantile regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--842 Boris Aleksandrov and Christian H. Weiß and Simon Nik and Maxime Faymonville and Carsten Jentsch Modelling and diagnostic tests for Poisson and negative-binomial count time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--887 Hui Li and Min-Qian Liu and Jinyu Yang Bayesian minimum aberration mixed-level split-plot designs . . . . . . . . . . . 889--906 R. Vasudeva On the asymptotic behaviour of the joint distribution of the maxima and minima of observations, when the sample size is a random variable . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--920
Lidan He and Qiang Liu and Zhi Liu and Andrea Bucci Correcting spot power variation estimator via Edgeworth expansion . . . 921--945 Xiao Wang and Lihong Wang A tail index estimation for long memory processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--971 Cao Xuan Phuong and Le Thi Hong Thuy Nonparametric estimation of $ \mathbb {P}(X < Y) $ from noisy data samples with non-standard error distributions . . . . 973--1006 Ibrahim M. Almanjahie and Salim Bouzebda and Zoulikha Kaid and Ali Laksaci The local linear functional $k$ NN estimator of the conditional expectile: uniform consistency in number of neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1035 Shuji Ando Measure of deviancy from marginal mean equality based on cumulative marginal probabilities in square contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1048
Hongchang Hu and Mingqiu Liu and Zhen Zeng Penalized Lq-likelihood estimator and its influence function in generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Yi Wu and Xuejun Wang On Berry--Esséen bound of frequency polygon estimation under $ \rho $-mixing samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--41 Antonio Di Crescenzo and Luca Paolillo and Alfonso Suárez-Llorens Stochastic comparisons, differential entropy and varentropy for distributions induced by probability density functions 43--59 Yuri S. Maluf and Silvia L. P. Ferrari and Francisco F. Queiroz Robust beta regression through the logit transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--81 Lukas Arnroth Bayesian composite $ L^p $-quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--97 Liangwei Qi and Yongdao Zhou Minimum $ \theta $-aberration criterion for designs with qualitative and quantitative factors . . . . . . . . . . 99--117
G. Cleanthous and Athanasios G. Georgiadis and P. A. White Pointwise density estimation on metric spaces and applications in seismology 119--148 Tsz Chai Fung Robust estimation and diagnostic of generalized linear model for insurance losses: a weighted likelihood approach 149--182 Dursun Aydìn and Ersin Yìlmaz and Nur Chamidah and Budi Lestari and I. Nyoman Budiantara Right-censored nonparametric regression with measurement error . . . . . . . . . 183--214 P. Babilua and E. Nadaraya On some properties of one nonparametric estimate of Poisson regression function 215--229 Courtney Drew and Éric Marchand Estimating the suspected larger of two normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--245 Shoko Chisaki and Ryoh Fuji-Hara and Nobuko Miyamoto Optimality and constructions of spanning bipartite block designs . . . . . . . . 247--265 Anonymous Journal navigation . . . . . . . . . . . ??