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N. Balakrishnan Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v C. R. Rao Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii George Casella and Christian P. Robert and Martin T. Wells Mixture models, latent variables and partitioned importance sampling . . . . 1--18 Dibyen Majumdar and R. J. Martin Efficient designs based on orthogonal arrays of type I and type II for experiments using units ordered over time or space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--35 Deborah J. Street and Leonie Burgess Optimal stated preference choice experiments when all choice sets contain a specific option . . . . . . . . . . . 37--45 Clifford K. Ho Probabilistic modeling of percutaneous absorption for risk-based exposure assessments and transdermal drug delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--69 Subhash C. Bagui and Dulal K. Bhaumik Computing Jacobians using exterior products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80 D. Paindaveine A unified and elementary proof of serial and nonserial, univariate and multivariate, Chernoff--Savage results 81--91 Stan Lipovetsky and W. Michael Conklin Thurstone scaling via binary response regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--104 Timotheos Angelidis and Alexandros Benos and Stavros Degiannakis The use of GARCH models in VaR estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--128 G. Salvadori Bivariate return periods via $2$-Copulas 129--144 Anonymous Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Noel Cressie and Olivier Perrin and Christine Thomas-Agnan Likelihood-based estimation for Gaussian MRFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 Yi Lu and José Garrido Doubly periodic non-homogeneous Poisson models for hurricane data . . . . . . . 17--35 Kung-Jong Lui Sample size calculation for testing non-inferiority and equivalence under Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 37--48 Rand R. Wilcox A comparison of six smoothers when there are multiple predictors . . . . . . . . 49--57 Gary K. C. Chan and Hailiang Yang Sensitivity analysis on ruin probabilities with heavy-tailed claims 59--63 Somnath Datta Estimating the mean life time using right censored data . . . . . . . . . . 65--69
Michael R. Delozier and Steven Orlich Discovering influential cases in linear regression with MINITAB: Peeking into multidimensions with a MINITAB macro . . 71--81 David Magis On the influence of misclassified data on results of goodness of fit testing 82--94 Thierry Huillet and Christian Paroissin Estimations of the parameter of a Dirichlet distribution using residual allocation model representations and sampling properties . . . . . . . . . . 95--110 Gunnar Taraldsen A precise estimator for the log-normal mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120 Somesh Kumar and Aditi Kar Gangopadhyay Estimating parameters of a selected Pareto population . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130 Sandrine Dudoit and Mark J. van der Laan Asymptotics of cross-validated risk estimation in estimator selection and performance assessment . . . . . . . . . 131--154
Dejian Lai A comparative study on a permutation statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--167 Mehmet A. Cengiz Bayesian inference for bivariate generalized linear models in diagnosing renal arterial obstruction . . . . . . . 168--174 Masakazu Iwasaki and Hiroe Tsubaki A bivariate generalized linear model with an application to meteorological data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--190 R. J. Karunamuni and T. Alberts On boundary correction in kernel density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--212 Ester Yen and A. F. M. Smith Image recognition via deformable templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225 A. Hassairi and M. Zarai Bhattacharyya matrices and cubic exponential families . . . . . . . . . . 226--232
Riccardo Gatto and Michael Mayer Saddlepoint approximations for some models of circular data . . . . . . . . 233--248 Simon L. Davies and Andrew A. Neath and Joseph E. Cavanaugh Cross validation model selection criteria for linear regression based on the Kullback--Leibler discrepancy . . . 249--266 Chin-Shang Li Using local linear kernel smoothers to test the lack of fit of nonlinear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 267--284 B. Q. Fang Invariant distributions of the multivariate tests in the skew elliptical model . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296 Anuradha Roy and Ravindra Khattree On implementation of a test for Kronecker product covariance structure for multivariate repeated measures data 297--306 Peter G. Bryant An extended Minimum Description Length (MDL) penalty function for binomial proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--315 Anonymous Author Index Volume 2 (2005) . . . . . . 317--318 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . CO2
David Banks and Grace S. Shieh A special issue on Bioinformatics: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii Anonymous Contents list Special Issue . . . . . . ix Seiya Imoto and Tomoyuki Higuchi and Takao Goto and Satoru Miyano Error tolerant model for incorporating biological knowledge with expression data in estimating gene networks . . . . 1--16 Sachiyo Aburatani and Shigeru Saito and Hiroyuki Toh and Katsuhisa Horimoto A graphical chain model for inferring regulatory system networks from gene expression profiles . . . . . . . . . . 17--28 X. Zhu and C. Ambroise and G. J. McLachlan Selection bias in working with the top genes in supervised classification of tissue samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--41 Greg Dyson and C. F. Jeff Wu MAOSA: a new procedure for detection of differential gene expression . . . . . . 42--54 Chuancai Wang and Jun Xie and B. A. Craig Context dependent models for discovery of transcription factor binding sites 55--68 Edward L. Boone and Susan J. Simmons and Keying Ye and Ann E. Stapleton Analyzing Quantitative Trait Loci for the \em Arabidopsis thaliana using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Model Composition with restricted and unrestricted model spaces . . . . . . . 69--78 Susmita Datta and Lara M. DePadilla Feature selection and machine learning with mass spectrometry data for distinguishing cancer and non-cancer samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92 B. Chandra and S. Shanker and Saroj Mishra A new approach: Interrelated two-way clustering of gene expression data . . . 93--102 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . CO2
Sharmishtha Mitra and Amit Mitra Modeling exchange rates using wavelet decomposed genetic neural networks . . . 103--124 Sundarraman Subramanian Survival analysis for the missing censoring indicator model using kernel density estimation techniques . . . . . 125--136 Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil and David L. Banks Data quality: a statistical perspective 137--173 Gautam Choudhury and Madhuchanda Paul A two phases queueing system with Bernoulli vacation schedule under multiple vacation policy . . . . . . . . 174--185 A. J. Hayter and H. P. Wynn and W. Liu Slope modified confidence bands for a simple linear regression model . . . . . 186--192 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . CO2
Jeremy Penzer Diagnosing seasonal shifts in time series using state space models . . . . 193--210 Rand R. Wilcox Comparing robust generalized variances and comments on efficiency . . . . . . . 211--223 Jamal A. Al-Saleh and Satish K. Agarwal Extended Weibull type distribution and finite mixture of distributions . . . . 224--233 Subhash Bagui and Sikha Bagui and A. Chatterjee and K. L. Mehra Classification with multiple independent measurements under a separate sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--251 Alexander G. Tartakovsky and Boris L. Rozovskii and Rudolf B. Blazek and Hongjoong Kim Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--293 Edit Gombay A discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim 294--295 Nitis Mukhopadhyay A discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim 296--298 Mich\`ele Basseville A discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim 299--303 Yajun Mei A discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim 304--306 Shelemyahu Zacks Discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim . . . . . . . 307--309 Vladimir Dragalin Discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim . . . . . . . 310--314 Seong-Hee Kim and James R. Wilson Discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim . . . . . . . 315--319 Albrecht Irle Discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim . . . . . . . 320--322 Hock Peng Chan Discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim . . . . . . . 323--324 Moshe Pollak Discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim . . . . . . . 325--326 Rasul A. Khan Discussion on ``Detection of intrusions in information systems by sequential change-point methods'' by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim . . . . . . . 327--328 Alexander G. Tartakovsky and Boris L. Rozovskii and Rudolf B. Blazek and Hongjoong Kim Authors' response . . . . . . . . . . . 329--340 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . CO2
Nikolaos Limnios and Brahim Ouhbi Nonparametric estimation of some important indicators in reliability for semi-Markov processes . . . . . . . . . 341--350 Donald W. Zimmerman Two separate effects of variance heterogeneity on the validity and power of significance tests of location . . . 351--374 Boris Ryabko and Jaakko Astola Universal codes as a basis for time series testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--397 Gooty Divanji Law of iterated logarithm and almost sure limit points for random sums . . . 398--405 Kung-Jong Lui Sample size calculation based on risk ratio under multiple matching . . . . . 406--415 B. L. S. Prakasa Rao Matrix variance inequalities for multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 416--430 R. J. Martin and T. Di Battista and L. Ippoliti and E. Nissi A model for estimating point sources in spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--443 Lu Lin Quasi Bayesian likelihood . . . . . . . 444--455 J. F. Walhin and J. Paris A mixed Poisson model with varying element sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--463 Samuel Soubeyrand and Joël Chadoeuf and Ivan Sache and Christian Lannou Residual-based specification of the random-effects distribution for cluster data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--482 Lixia Xu and Cihua Liu and Gaoqin Nie Bayesian estimation and the application of long memory stochastic volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--489 Anonymous Author Index Volume 3 (2006) . . . . . . 491--494 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . CO2
Heleno Bolfarine and V. H. Lachos Skew-probit measurement error models . . 1--12 Parameshwar V. Pandit and M. P. Anuradha On testing exponentiality against new better than used of specified age . . . 13--21 Simos G. Meintanis A new goodness-of-fit test for certain bivariate distributions applicable to traffic accidents . . . . . . . . . . . 22--34 Arthur L. Dryver and Steven K. Thompson Adaptive sampling without replacement of clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43 Lei Xu and Sati Mazumdar and Julie Price Covariate adjustment in partial least squares (PLS) regression for the extraction of the spatial-temporal pattern from positron emission tomography data . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--63 D. Neveu and A. Kramar and P. Dujols Corrected asymptotic distribution of statistics based on the multinomial law 64--74 Ofer Harel Inferences on missing information under multiple imputation and two-stage multiple imputation . . . . . . . . . . 75--89 Mikhail Kovtun and Igor Akushevich and Kenneth G. Manton and H. Dennis Tolley Linear latent structure analysis: Mixture distribution models with linear constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--110 Chang Xuan Mao Estimating population sizes by catch-effort methods . . . . . . . . . . 111--119 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . CO2
Sundarraman Subramanian Median regression analysis from data with left and right censored observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--131 David Magis On the detection of influential subsets of categories in goodness of fit testing 132--142 Peter Congdon Model weights for model choice and averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--157 Yo Sheena and Akimichi Takemura An asymptotic expansion of Wishart distribution when the population eigenvalues are infinitely dispersed . . 158--184 M. Kayid A general family of NBU classes of life distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--195 Mir Nabi Pirouzi Fard and Björn Holmquist First moment approximations for order statistics from the extreme value distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--203 David B. Hitchcock Bandwidth-based nonparametric inference 204--216 Ahmed M. Gad and Abeer S. Ahmed Sensitivity analysis of longitudinal data with intermittent missing values 217--226 Nidhan Choudhuri and Subhashis Ghosal and Anindya Roy Nonparametric binary regression using a Gaussian process prior . . . . . . . . . 227--243 A. Hassairi and O. Regaieg On the Tukey depth of an atomic measure 244--249 Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Jan Beran and Abdel-Yazid Karim Dja\"\idja Credit risk modeling based on survival analysis with immunes . . . . . . . . . 251--276 Célestin C. Kokonendji and Clarice G. B. Demétrio and Silvio S. Zocchi On Hinde--Demétrio regression models for overdispersed count data . . . . . . . . 277--291 S. N. Lahiri and K. Furukawa and Y.-D. Lee A nonparametric plug-in rule for selecting optimal block lengths for block bootstrap methods . . . . . . . . 292--321 Biao Zhang Using entropy distance measures for testing odds ratio parameters under logistic regression models based on case-control data . . . . . . . . . . . 322--330 Valentin Rousson and Nicoleta Francisca Gosoniu An $ \mathbb {R} $-square coefficient based on final prediction error . . . . 331--340 Riccardo Gatto and Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka The generalized von Mises distribution 341--353 Junfeng Liu and Dipak K. Dey Hierarchical overdispersed Poisson model with macrolevel autocorrelation . . . . 354--370 Sujit K. Ghosh and Honggie Kim Semiparametric inference based on a class of zero-altered distributions . . 371--383 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Subhash Kochar and Xiaohu Li and Maochao Xu Excess wealth order and sample spacings 385--392 M. K. Patil and D. T. Shirke Testing parameter of the power series distribution of a zero inflated power series model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406 K. Teerapabolarn A bound on the Poisson-binomial relative error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--415 Chang Xuan Mao Testing list effects and diagnosing individual catchabilities in the Rasch model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--422 Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Dhiman Dutta Adaptive nonparametric tests for a single sample location problem . . . . . 423--433 Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Saurav De On a two-treatment adaptive allocation rule for continuous response . . . . . . 434--447 M. Shafiqur Rahman and M. Ataharul Islam Markov structure based logistic regression for repeated measures: an application to diabetes mellitus data 448--460 Koji Yonemoto and Takashi Yanagawa Estimating the Lyapunov exponent from chaotic time series with dynamic noise 461--480 Roelof Helmers and I. Wayan Mangku and Ricardas Zitikis A non-parametric estimator for the doubly periodic Poisson intensity function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--492 Sundarraman Subramanian Censored median regression and profile empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 493--503 Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh A rich learning lesson using the Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--507 Edna Schechtman and Michael Sherman The two-sample $t$-test with a known ratio of variances . . . . . . . . . . . 508--514 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
M. I. Beg and M. Ahsanullah Concomitants of generalized order statistics from Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20 Gautam Choudhury A note on the M$^x$ /G/1 queue with a random set-up time under a restricted admissibility policy with a Bernoulli vacation schedule . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29 Ji-Ping Wang and Bruce G. Lindsay An exponential partial prior for improving nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation in mixture models 30--45 Alan D. Hutson Estimating relative rank correlation: Theory and application . . . . . . . . . 46--55 Christian H. Weiß Visual analysis of categorical time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--71 A. P. Martins and H. Ferreira and L. Pereira Multidimensional outlier-proneness of dependent data and the extremal index 72--82 Malik Beshir Malik Computational procedures for deriving sampling distributions of attribute-contaminated random variables 83--91 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
A. Stavropoulos and C. Caroni Rank test statistics for unbalanced nested designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105 Arusharka Sen and Fang Tan Cure-rate estimation under Case-1 interval censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 106--118 Ouagnina Hili Hellinger distance estimation of general bilinear time series models . . . . . . 119--128 Kung-Jong Lui Estimation of proportion ratio in non-compliance randomized trials with repeated measurements in binary data . . 129--141 Sunil K. Mathur and Pamela F. Smith An efficient nonparametric test for bivariate two-sample location problem 142--159 Gregory E. Wilding and Govind S. Mudholkar Empirical approximations for Hoeffding's test of bivariate independence using two Weibull extensions . . . . . . . . . . . 160--170 M. Ahsanullah and M. I. Beg On characterizing distributions via regression of functions of generalized order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--176 Ouagnina Hili Estimation of a multiple-threshold AR(p) model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--186 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Hiroko Kato Solvang and Masanobu Taniguchi and Tomohiro Nakatani and Shigeaki Amano Classification and similarity analysis of fundamental frequency patterns in infant spoken language acquisition . . . 187--208 Brooke E. Buckley and Walter W. Piegorsch Simultaneous confidence bands for Abbott-adjusted quantal response models in benchmark analysis . . . . . . . . . 209--219 Carlo Grillenzoni Design of kernel $M$-smoothers for spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--237 Jennifer Clarke and Mike West Bayesian Weibull tree models for survival analysis of clinico-genomic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--262 Fabio H. Nieto Forecasting with univariate TAR models 263--276 Aníbal Areia and Manuela M. Oliveira and João T. Mexia Models for a series of studies based on geometrical representation . . . . . . . 277--288 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Jean-Luc Starck and Antoine Llebaria and Tom Loredo Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi Anonymous CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii P. Abrial and Y. Moudden and J.-L. Starck and J. Fadili and J. Delabrouille and M. K. Nguyen CMB data analysis and sparsity . . . . . 289--298 G. Jogesh Babu and A. Mahabal and S. G. Djorgovski and R. Williams Object detection in multi-epoch data . . 299--306 J. Bobin and Y. Moudden and J.-L. Starck and J. Fadili and N. Aghanim SZ and CMB reconstruction using generalized morphological component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--317 Sébastien Bourguignon and Hervé Carfantan New methods for fitting multiple sinusoids from irregularly sampled data 318--327 Y. Boursier and A. Llebaria $3$D dynamic forward modeling of polar plumes using Hidden Markov Trees . . . . 328--339 Samuel Gissot and J.-F. Hochedez Oscillation analysis using optical flow: Application to an EUV movie of the solar corona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--349 S. M. Hojnacki and G. Micela and S. M. LaLonde and E. D. Feigelson and J. H. Kastner An unsupervised, ensemble clustering algorithm: a new approach for classification of X-ray sources . . . . 350--360 A. Jalobeanu and J. A. Gutiérrez and E. Slezak Multi-source data fusion and super-resolution from astronomical images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--372 C. Ordénovic and C. Surace and B. Torrésani and A. Llébaria Detection of glitches and signal reconstruction using Hölder and wavelet analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--386 B. Zhang and M. J. Fadili and J.-L. Starck and S. W. Digel Fast Poisson noise removal by biorthogonal Haar domain hypothesis testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--396 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Gregory E. Wilding and Govind S. Mudholkar Some modifications of the $Z$-tests of normality and their isotones . . . . . . 397--409 Dankmar Böhning A simple variance formula for population size estimators by conditioning . . . . 410--423 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Basil M. de Silva Theory and applications of a new methodology for the random sequential probability ratio test . . . . . . . . . 424--453 P. Vellaisamy and M. Kumar Optimal component test plans for a parallel system based on Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--461 Juha Karvanen Efficient initial designs for binary response data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--473 Kung-Jong Lui and Chii-Dean Lin Sample size determination for cluster randomization phase II trials of dichotomous data . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--485 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Hai-Yen Siew and Kunio Shimizu The generalized symmetric Laplace distribution on the sphere . . . . . . . 487--501 A. M. Abd-Elfattah and Amal S. Hassan and S. G. Nassr Estimation in step-stress partially accelerated life tests for the Burr type XII distribution using type I censoring 502--514 Sundarraman Subramanian and Derek Bean Hazard function estimation from homogeneous right censored data with missing censoring indicators . . . . . . 515--527 C. Caroni Tests for censored paired data . . . . . 528--534 Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Amitava Mukherjee and Barendra Purkait Simultaneous tests for patterned recognition using nonparametric partially sequential procedure . . . . . 535--551 Peter Congdon A spatially adaptive conditional autoregressive prior for area health data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--563 Ilmari Juutilainen and Juha Röning Modelling conditional variance function in industrial data: a case study . . . . 564--575 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Tucker McElroy and Scott Holan Spectral domain diagnostics for testing model proximity and disparity in time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20 Robert J. Boik and Amin Shirvani Principal components on coefficient of variation matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 21--46 J.-Y. Brua Asymptotically efficient estimators for nonparametric heteroscedastic regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60 S. Y. Hwang and I. V. Basawa and I. K. Yeo Local asymptotic normality for bifurcating autoregressive processes and related asymptotic inference . . . . . . 61--69 M. C. Jones Kumaraswamy's distribution: a beta-type distribution with some tractability advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--81 Motoyoshi Nishikawa and Masanobu Taniguchi Discriminant analysis for dynamics of stable processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--96 Jun Li and Daniel R. Jeske and Jeff Pettyjohn Approximate and generalized pivotal quantities for deriving confidence intervals for the offset between two clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Oke Isaiah Adesola Orthogonal experiments in the development of carbon-resin for chloride removal from solutions . . . . . . . . . 109--119 Chrysoula Dimitriou-Fakalou Modelling data observed irregularly over space and regularly in time . . . . . . 120--132 Dulal K. Bhaumik and Anindya Roy and Nicole A. Lazar and Kush Kapur and Subhash Aryal and John A. Sweeney and Dave Patterson and Robert D. Gibbons Hypothesis testing, power and sample size determination for between group comparisons in fMRI experiments . . . . 133--146 Andrew Luong and Louis G. Doray Inference for the positive stable laws based on a special quadratic distance 147--156 S. Vanbelle and A. Albert A note on the linearly weighted kappa coefficient for ordinal scales . . . . . 157--163 Kung-Jong Lui and Kuang-Chao Chang Estimation of risk ratio in a noncompliance randomized clinical trial with trichotomous dose levels . . . . . 164--176 Hare Krishna and Pramendra Singh Pundir Discrete Burr and discrete Pareto distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188 Zeynep I. Kalaylioglu and Sujit K. Ghosh Bayesian unit-root tests for Stochastic Volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . 189--201 Jan Beran and Mark A. Heiler Estimation of a nonparametric regression spectrum for multivariate time series 202--222 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
P. W. Mielke, Jr. and M. A. Long and K. J. Berry and J. E. Johnston $g$-Treatment ridit analyses: Resampling permutation methods . . . . . . . . . . 223--229 Joseph Ngatchou-Wandji Testing for symmetry in multivariate distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--250 Wenyun Li and Zehua Chen A new interval mapping approach based on a general sib-pair regression model with a modified Wald test . . . . . . . . . . 251--261 Muna R. Alkasasbeh and Mohammad Z. Raqab Estimation of the generalized logistic distribution parameters: Comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--279 S. Rao Jammalamadaka and Vasudevan Mangalam A general censoring scheme for circular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--289 Sayang Mohd Deni and Abdul Aziz Jemain and Kamarulzaman Ibrahim Mixed probability models for dry and wet spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--303 Anindya Roy and Wayne A. Fuller and YanYan Zhou A likelihood based estimator for vector autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . 304--319 Masayuki Kumon On the conditions for the existence of ancillary statistics in a curved exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 320--335 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Erhard Cramer Hermite interpolation polynomials and distributions of ordered data . . . . . 337--343 K. Zografos and N. Balakrishnan On families of beta- and generalized gamma-generated distributions and associated inference . . . . . . . . . . 344--362 C. Fauconnier and G. Haesbroeck Outliers detection with the minimum covariance determinant estimator in practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--379 C. Koukouvinos and K. Mylona Group screening method for the statistical analysis of $ E_{fNOD} $-optimal mixed-level supersaturated designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--388 P. Vellaisamy A note on unbiased estimation following selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--396 Hani M. Samawi and Mohammad F. Al-Saleh and Obaid Al-Saidy The matched pair sign test using bivariate ranked set sampling for different ranking based schemes . . . . 397--407 A. G. Patriota and H. Bolfarine and M. de Castro A heteroscedastic structural errors-in-variables model with equation error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--423 Tomás Hobza and Domingo Morales and Leandro Pardo Rényi statistics for testing equality of autocorrelation coefficients . . . . . . 424--436 Linda Strauss and Durland Shumway Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
P. W. Mielke, Jr. and K. J. Berry A note on Cohen's weighted kappa coefficient of agreement with linear weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--446 Jan Beran and Yuanhua Feng and Siegfried Heiler Modifying the double smoothing bandwidth selector in nonparametric regression . . 447--465 S. Soubeyrand and F. Carpentier and N. Desassis and J. Chadoeuf Inference with a contrast-based posterior distribution and application in spatial statistics . . . . . . . . . 466--477 M. Ataharul Islam and Khalaf S. Sultan and Rafiqul I. Chowdhury Estimation and tests for a longitudinal regression model based on the Markov chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--489 Martín H. Félix-Medina and Pedro E. Monjardin Link-tracing sampling with an initial sequential sample of sites: Estimating the size of a hidden human population 490--502 Catalina Stefanescu and Bruce W. Turnbull Likelihood inference for exchangeable continuous data with covariates and varying cluster sizes; use of the Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern model . . . 503--512 Andrey V. Timofeev Non-asymptotic sequential confidence regions with fixed sizes for the multivariate nonlinear parameters of regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--526 V. H. Lachos and V. Garibay and F. V. Labra and R. Aoki A robust multivariate measurement error model with skew-normal/independent distributions and Bayesian MCMC implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--541 Chin-Shang Li Using $P$-splines to test the linearity of partially linear models . . . . . . . 542--552 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
K. Fragiadakis and D. Karlis and S. G. Meintanis Tests of fit for normal inverse Gaussian distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--564 Tomohiro Ando Penalized optimal scoring for the classification of multi-dimensional functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--576 H. Schneeweiss and J. Komlos Probabilistic rounding and Sheppard's correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--593 Sundarraman Subramanian and Gerhard Dikta Inverse censoring weighted median regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--603 Nancy J. Carter and Neil C. Schwertman and Terry L. Kiser A comparison of two boxplot methods for detecting univariate outliers which adjust for sample size and asymmetry . . 604--621 Govind S. Mudholkar and Kobby O. Asubonteng and Alan D. Hutson Transformation of the bathtub failure rate data in reliability for using Weibull-model analysis . . . . . . . . . 622--633 A. Jamalizadeh and H. Mahmoodian and N. Balakrishnan Exact distribution of a linear combination of a variable and order statistics from the other two variables of a trivariate elliptical random vector as a mixture of skew-elliptical distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634--644 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Hassan S. Bakouch Higher-order moments, cumulants and spectral densities of the NGINAR(1) process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 M. Arashi Idea of constructing an image of Bayes action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--29 N. Unnikrishnan Nair and K. K. Sudheesh Characterization of continuous distributions by properties of conditional variance . . . . . . . . . . 30--40 Jean-Pierre Vila and Jean-Pierre Gauchi Local optimality of replications from a minimal $X$-optimal design in regression: a sufficient and quasi-necessary condition . . . . . . . 41--57 Bander Al-Zahrani and Jordan Stoyanov Moment inequalities for HNBRUE with hypothesis testing application . . . . . 58--67 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
K. Teerapabolarn A Poisson-binomial relative error uniform bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--76 W. M. Afify On estimation of the exponentiated Pareto distribution under different sample schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--83 Anton Grafström Entropy of unequal probability sampling designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--97 Brandi A. Greer and Dean M. Young and James D. Stamey Bayesian inference for comparing two Poisson rates using data subject to underreporting and validation data . . . 98--108 L. Sandamali Dharmasena and P. Zeephongsekul Fitting software reliability growth curves using nonparametric regression methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--120 Mansour Aghababaei Jazi and Chin-Diew Lai and Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz A discrete inverse Weibull distribution and estimation of its parameters . . . . 121--132 Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and Hani Samawi On estimating the odds using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . 133--140 Mor Ndongo and Abdou Kâ Diongue and Aliou Diop and Simplice Dossou-Gbété Estimation of long-memory parameters for seasonal fractional ARIMA with stable innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--151 Masayuki Kumon Studies of information quantities and information geometry of higher order cumulant spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--172 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Adrian E. Raftery and Michael D. Ward Special issue on statistical methods for the social sciences: Guest editors' introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174 Stephen E. Fienberg The prehistory of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, with a prequel and epilogue . . . . . . . . . 175--186 Andrew Gelman and Iwin Leenen and Iven Van Mechelen and Paul De Boeck and Jeroen Poblome Bridges between deterministic and probabilistic models for binary data . . 187--209 Jonathan J. Forster Bayesian inference for Poisson and multinomial log-linear models . . . . . 210--224 Aleksandra B. Slavkovi\'c and Juyoun Lee Synthetic two-way contingency tables that preserve conditional frequencies 225--239 Adrian Dobra and Héléne Massam The mode oriented stochastic search (MOSS) algorithm for log-linear models with conjugate priors . . . . . . . . . 240--253 Bryan D. Jones and Chang-Jin Kim and Richard Startz Does Congress realign or smoothly adjust? A discrete switching model of Congressional partisan regimes . . . . . 254--276 N. Sriram and Anthony G. Greenwald and Brian A. Nosek Correlational biases in mean response latency differences . . . . . . . . . . 277--291 Adrian Dobra and Theo S. Eicher and Alex Lenkoski Modeling uncertainty in macroeconomic growth determinants using Gaussian graphical models . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--306 Adam N. Glynn and Jon Wakefield Ecological inference in the social sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--322 Tamás Rudas Informative allocation and consistent treatment selection . . . . . . . . . . 323--337 Donald B. Rubin and Elizabeth R. Zell Dealing with noncompliance and missing outcomes in a randomized trial using Bayesian technology: Prevention of perinatal sepsis clinical trial, Soweto, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--350 Russell J. Steele and Naisyin Wang and Adrian E. Raftery Inference from multiple imputation for missing data using mixtures of normals 351--365 Johan H. Koskinen and Garry L. Robins and Philippa E. Pattison Analysing exponential random graph (p-star) models with missing data using Bayesian data augmentation . . . . . . . 366--384 Isobel Claire Gormley and Thomas Brendan Murphy A mixture of experts latent position cluster model for social network data 385--405 Jude C. Hays and Aya Kachi and Robert J. Franzese, Jr. A spatial model incorporating dynamic, endogenous network interdependence: a political science application . . . . . 406--428 Avranil Sarkar and Stephen E. Fienberg and David Krackhardt Predicting profitability using advice branch bank networks . . . . . . . . . . 429--444 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Panayiotis Bobotas and Stavros Kourouklis On the estimation of a normal precision and a normal variance ratio . . . . . . 445--463 Debasis Kundu and Rameshwar D. Gupta A class of absolutely continuous bivariate distributions . . . . . . . . 464--477 Alexandre G. Patriota and João R. Sato and Betsabé G. Blas Achic Vector autoregressive models with measurement errors for testing Granger causality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--497 S. C. Sharma and Shinjita Agrawal Effectiveness analysis of a system with a special warranty scheme . . . . . . . 498--510 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Sean L. Simpson An adjusted likelihood ratio test for separability in unbalanced multivariate repeated measures data . . . . . . . . . 511--519 M. Ataharul Islam and Rafiqul I. Chowdhury Prediction of disease status: a regressive model approach for repeated measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--540 D. R. Jensen Leverage and subset efficiencies in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--551 Shahid Hamid and B. M. Golam Kibria and Sneh Gulati and Mark Powell and Bachir Annane and Steve Cocke and Jean-Paul Pinelli and Kurt Gurley and Shu-Ching Chen Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida by the public hurricane loss evaluation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--573 Thomas H. Jagger and James B. Elsner Discussion on ``Public Hurricane Loss Evaluation Models: Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida'' by S. Hamid et al. . . . . . . 574--576 Mircea Grigoriu Discussion on ``Public hurricane loss evaluation models: Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida'' by S. Hamid et al. . . . . . . 577--579 Mark E. Johnson Discussion of ``Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida by the Public Hurricane Loss Evaluation Models'' by S. Hamid, B. M. G. Kibria, S. Gulati, M. Powell, B. Annane, S. Cocke, J.-P. Pinelli and S.-C. Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--582 A. H. El-Shaarawi and Shojaeddin Chenouri Discussion on ``Public Hurricane Loss Evaluation Models: Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida'' by S. Hamid et al. . . . . . . 583--586 Jeffrey Pai Discussion on ``Public hurricane loss evaluation models: Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida'' by S. Hamid et al. . . . . . . 587--591 Richard W. Katz Discussion on ``Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida by the public hurricane loss evaluation model'' by S. Hamid et al. 592--595 Shahid Hamid and B. M. Golam Kibria and Sneh Gulati and Mark Powell and Bachir Annane and Steve Cocke and Jean-Paul Pinelli and Kurt Gurley and Shu-Ching Chen Authors' responses to the discussion on ``Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida by the Public Hurricane Loss Evaluation Model'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--600 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Neeraj Tiwari and A. K. Nigam On two-dimensional optimal controlled nearest proportional to size sampling designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--613 Giovana Oliveira Silva and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Vicente G. Cancho Log-Weibull extended regression model: Estimation, sensitivity and residual analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--631 Chrys Caroni Testing for outliers in the power-law growth parameters of sets of recurrent events data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--637 Shaul K. Bar-Lev and Daoud Bshouty and Peter Grünwald and Peter Harremoës Jeffreys versus Shtarkov distributions associated with some natural exponential families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638--643 Alexandre G. Patriota and Artur J. Lemonte and Mário de Castro Influence diagnostics in a multivariate normal regression model with general parameterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--654 Dongliang Wang and Alan D. Hutson and Jeffrey C. Miecznikowski L-moment estimation for parametric survival models given censored data . . 655--667 Poduri S. R. S. Rao Performance of the empirical Bayes estimator for fixed parameters . . . . . 668--672 Matthijs J. Warrens Cohen's kappa can always be increased and decreased by combining categories 673--677 G. Iliopoulos and N. Balakrishnan An odd property of sample median from odd sample sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--686 U. J. Dixit and M. Jabbari Nooghabi Efficient estimation in the Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--691 Shahid Hamid and B. M. Golam Kibria and Sneh Gulati and Mark Powell and Bachir Annane and Steve Cocke and Jean-Paul Pinelli and Kurt Gurley and Shu-Ching Chen Erratum to ``Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida by the public hurricane loss evaluation model [Stat. Methodol. \bf 7 (2010) 552--573] . . . . . . . . . . . . 692 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
David Banks and Prem Goel Introduction to a special issue on statistical data mining . . . . . . . . 1--2 Arthur U. Asuncion and Padhraic Smyth and Max Welling Asynchronous distributed estimation of topic models for document analysis . . . 3--17 Susan M. Buchman and Ann B. Lee and Chad M. Schafer High-dimensional density estimation via SCA: an example in the modelling of hurricane tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--30 Cristina Butucea and Katia Meziani Quadratic functional estimation in inverse problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41 L. Gunter and J. Zhu and S. A. Murphy Variable selection for qualitative interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--55 Yichao Wu and Yufeng Liu Non-crossing large-margin probability estimation and its application to robust SVM via preconditioning . . . . . . . . 56--67 Sounak Chakraborty Bayesian semi-supervised learning with support vector machine . . . . . . . . . 68--82 Ernest Fokoué and Dongchu Sun and Prem Goel Fully Bayesian analysis of the relevance vector machine with an extended hierarchical prior structure . . . . . . 83--96 Li Yu and Joseph S. Verducci and Paul E. Blower The tau-path test for monotone association in an unspecified subpopulation: Application to chemogenomic data mining . . . . . . . . 97--111 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Subhra Sankar Dhar and Probal Chaudhuri On the statistical efficiency of robust estimators of multivariate location . . 113--128 Alexander Y. Gordon A new optimality property of the Holm step-down procedure . . . . . . . . . . 129--135 Yoshihide Kakizawa A note on generalized Bernstein polynomial density estimators . . . . . 136--153 Clécio da Silva Ferreira and Heleno Bolfarine and Víctor H. Lachos Skew scale mixtures of normal distributions: Properties and estimation 154--171 P. Economou On model selection in the case of nested distributions --- An application to frailty models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--184 Salah Haridy and Zhang Wu and Philippe Castagliola Univariate and multivariate approaches for evaluating the capability of dynamic-behavior processes (case study) 185--203 Dewi Rahardja and Yan D. Zhao Likelihood-based confidence intervals for the risk difference of two-sample binary data with a fallible classifier and a gold standard . . . . . . . . . . 204--212 Chrys Caroni Testing for undetected withdrawal in a follow-up study of times to events . . . 213--220 Naâmane La\"\ib and Fateh Chebana A simultaneous test for conditional mean and conditional variance functions in time series models with martingale difference innovations . . . . . . . . . 221--241 S. K. Ghoreishi and M. Alijani Dynamic association modeling in $ 2 \times 2 $ contingency tables . . . . . 242--255 Wei Gao and Zheng Tian and Jiao R. Li Identification of nonlinear VAR models using general conditional independence graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--267 Matthijs J. Warrens Weighted kappa is higher than Cohen's kappa for tridiagonal agreement tables 268--272 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
K. D. Zamba and Akim Adekpedjou Parameter estimation for correlated recurrent events under informative monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--290 Jonathan Gillard Asymptotic variance-covariance matrices for the linear structural model . . . . 291--303 Hani M. Samawi and Robert Vogel Tests of homogeneity for partially matched-pairs data . . . . . . . . . . . 304--313 Linda Strauss Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--317 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Pavel N. Krivitsky and Mark S. Handcock and Martina Morris Adjusting for network size and composition effects in exponential-family random graph models 319--339 U. J. Dixit and M. Jabbari Nooghabi Efficient estimation in the Pareto distribution with the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--355 Andrey Pepelyshev Fixed-domain asymptotics of the maximum likelihood estimator and the Gaussian process approach for deterministic models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--362 Manoj Chacko and P. Yageen Thomas Estimation of parameter of Morgenstern type bivariate exponential distribution using concomitants of order statistics 363--376 Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei and Havva Faghih Inferences for the inflation parameter in the zip distributions: the method of moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--388 Artur J. Lemonte and Alexandre G. Patriota Multivariate elliptical models with general parameterization . . . . . . . . 389--400 Constantinos Petropoulos New classes of improved confidence intervals for the scale parameter of a two-parameter exponential distribution 401--410 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Marcelino A. R. de Pascoa and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gauss M. Cordeiro The Kumaraswamy generalized gamma distribution with application in survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 411--433 Steward Huang and Ashis SenGupta and Keh-Shin Lii Application of Dirichlet mixture of normals in growth curve models . . . . . 434--441 S. Lee and A. Karagrigoriou A divergence test for autoregressive time series models . . . . . . . . . . . 442--450 Ahmed A. Soliman and Abdullah Y. Al-Hossain and Mashail M. Al-Harbi Predicting observables from Weibull model based on general progressive censored data with asymmetric loss . . . 451--461 N. Balakrishnan and J. P. Keating On simultaneous closeness probabilities of order statistics from odd sample sizes to the population median . . . . . 462--467 Hoben Thomas and James Martin Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--471 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Matthijs J. Warrens Cohen's kappa is a weighted average . . 473--484 Debasis Kundu and Rameshwar D. Gupta An extension of the generalized exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 485--496 Célestin C. Kokonendji and Tristan Senga Kiessé Discrete associated kernels method and extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--516 Christian H. Weiß Simultaneous confidence regions for the parameters of a Poisson $ {\rm INAR}(1) $ model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--527 Liqian Peng and Tiejun Tong A note on a two-sample $T$ test with one variance unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--534 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Fionn Murtagh and Tom Loredo and Jean-Luc Starck Editorial for the special issue on astrostatistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 F.-X. Dupé and M. J. Fadili and J.-L. Starck Deconvolution under Poisson noise using exact data fidelity and synthesis or analysis sparsity priors . . . . . . . . 4--18 Miguel Vega and Javier Mateos and Rafael Molina and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos Astronomical image restoration using variational methods and model combination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--31 Sébastien Bourguignon and David Mary and Éric Slezak Processing MUSE hyperspectral data: Denoising, deconvolution and detection of astrophysical sources . . . . . . . . 32--43 M. Petremand and A. Jalobeanu and C. Collet Optimal Bayesian fusion of large hyperspectral astronomical observations 44--54 A. Bijaoui and A. Recio-Blanco and P. de Laverny and C. Ordénovic Parameter estimation from a model grid application to the Gaia RVS spectra . . 55--62 Marc Lachi\`eze-Rey Spin spherical harmonics from Hopf fibration: a symplectic view . . . . . . 63--70 S. Pires and S. Plaszczynski and A. Lavabre Towards a fast, model-independent Cosmic Microwave Background bispectrum estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--84 Antoine Labatie and Jean-Luc Starck and Marc Lachi\`eze-Rey and Pablo Arnalte-Mur Uncertainty in $2$-point correlation function estimators and baryon acoustic oscillation detection in galaxy surveys 85--100 Thomas J. Loredo and James O. Berger and David F. Chernoff and Merlise A. Clyde and Bin Liu Bayesian methods for analysis and adaptive scheduling of exoplanet observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--114 Sudipto Banerjee and Dipak K. Dey Editorial for the special issue on spatial statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116 Lili Zhuang and Noel Cressie Spatio-temporal modeling of sudden infant death syndrome data . . . . . . . 117--143 S. K. Sahu and K. S. Bakar A comparison of Bayesian models for daily ozone concentration levels . . . . 144--157 Nicolas Debarsy and Cem Ertur and James P. LeSage Interpreting dynamic space-time panel data models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--171 Jay M. Ver Hoef Practical considerations for experimental designs of spatially autocorrelated data using computer intensive methods . . . . . . . . . . . 172--184 Ramiro Ruiz-Cárdenas and Marco A. R. Ferreira and Alexandra M. Schmidt Evolutionary Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for optimal monitoring network designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--194 Gunter Spöck and Ijaz Hussain Spatial sampling design based on convex design ideas and using external drift variables for a rainfall monitoring network in Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . 195--210 M. Hitczenko and M. L. Stein Some theory for anisotropic processes on the sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--227 Joon Jin Song and Victor De Oliveira Bayesian model selection in spatial lattice models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--238 Dale L. Zimmerman and Xiangming Fang Estimating spatial variation in disease risk from locations coarsened by incomplete geocoding . . . . . . . . . . 239--250 Souparno Ghosh and Alan E. Gelfand and Thomas Mòlhave Attaching uncertainty to deterministic spatial interpolations . . . . . . . . . 251--264 Brian J. Reich and Montserrat Fuentes Nonparametric Bayesian models for a spatial covariance . . . . . . . . . . . 265--274 Ricardo T. Lemos and Bruno Sansó Conditionally linear models for non-homogeneous spatial random fields 275--284 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
S. Mukhopadhyay and A. I. Khuri Comparison of designs for generalized linear models under model misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--304 Indrani Basak and N. Balakrishnan Estimation for the three-parameter gamma distribution based on progressively censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--319 Lianfen Qian The Fisher information matrix for a three-parameter exponentiated Weibull distribution under type II censoring . . 320--329 Matthijs J. Warrens A family of multi-rater kappas that can always be increased and decreased by combining categories . . . . . . . . . . 330--340 Matthijs J. Warrens The effect of combining categories on Bennett, Alpert and Goldstein's $ \mathbf {S} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--352 Sévérien Nkurunziza Constrained estimation and some useful results in several multivariate models 353--363 Chathuri L. Jayasinghe and P. Zeephongsekul On the nonparametric smooth estimation of the reversed Hazard Rate function . . 364--380 Manoj Kumar Rastogi and Yogesh Mani Tripathi Estimating the parameters of a Burr distribution under progressive type II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--391 Akimichi Takemura and Hisayuki Hara Markov chain Monte Carlo test of toric homogeneous Markov chains . . . . . . . 392--406 Matthijs J. Warrens Equivalences of weighted kappas for multiple raters . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--422 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah Transformations of multivariate Edgeworth type expansions . . . . . . . 423--439 Matthijs J. Warrens Cohen's quadratically weighted kappa is higher than linearly weighted kappa for tridiagonal agreement tables . . . . . . 440--444 Mahtab Hajebi and Sadegh Rezaei and Saralees Nadarajah Confidence intervals for $ P(Y < X) $ for the generalized exponential distribution 445--455 Ori Davidov Ordered inference, rank statistics and combining $p$-values: a new perspective 456--465 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Brahim Brahimi and Abdelhakim Necir A semiparametric estimation of copula models based on the method of moments 467--477 N. Balakrishnan and C. Koukouvinos and C. Parpoula Analysis of a supersaturated design using Entropy Prior Complexity for binary responses via generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--485 Malik Beshir Malik Extensions and developments on the Schilling and Dodge mixed dependent acceptance sampling plans . . . . . . . 486--489 Katharina Lange and Edgar Brunner Sensitivity, specificity and ROC-curves in multiple reader diagnostic trials --- a unified, nonparametric approach . . . 490--500 P. G. Sankaran and M. Manoharan and P. Anisha Nonparametric estimators for a survivor function of paired recurrent events . . 501--512 Hani M. Samawi and Robert Vogel and Wilson Koech Corrigendum to ``Tests of homogeneity for partially matched-pairs data'' [Stat. Methodol. \bf 8 (2011) 304--313] 513 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Poduri S. R. S. Rao Estimation of the best linear unbiased predictor for the mean with unequal sample sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--519 A. J. Hayter Win-probabilities for regression models 520--527 Xueping Hu and Guohua Fang Strong laws of large numbers and mean convergence theorems for randomly weighted sums of arrays under a condition of integrability . . . . . . . 528--536 Artur J. Lemonte and Silvia L. P. Ferrari Local power and size properties of the LR, Wald, score and gradient tests in dispersion models . . . . . . . . . . . 537--554 Aris Spanos Revisiting the Berger location model: Fallacious confidence interval or a rigged example? . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--561 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
William Volterman and Katherine F. Davies and N. Balakrishnan Pitman closeness as a criterion for the determination of the optimal progressive censoring scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--572 Amar Nath Gill and Anju Goyal and Parminder Singh Simultaneous selection of treatments better and worse than the best and worst controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--588 Ayman Alzaatreh and Carl Lee and Felix Famoye On the discrete analogues of continuous distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--603 Min-zhen Wang and Kunio Shimizu On applying Möbius transformation to cardioid random variables . . . . . . . 604--614 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Akim Adekpedjou and Jonathan Quiton and Xuerong Meggie Wen Semiparametric inference with correlated recurrence time data . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Matthijs J. Warrens Conditional inequalities between Cohen's kappa and weighted kappas . . . . . . . 14--22 Giampiero Marra On $p$-values for semiparametric bivariate probit models . . . . . . . . 23--28 Robert J. Gallop and Randall H. Rieger and Scott McClintock and David C. Atkins A model for extreme stacking of data at endpoints of a distribution: Illustration with W-shaped data . . . . 29--45 Gordon J. Bean and Elizabeth A. Dimarco and Laina D. Mercer and Laura K. Thayer and Anindya Roy and Subhashis Ghosal Finite skew-mixture models for estimation of positive false discovery rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--57 M. Rezapour and M. H. Alamatsaz and N. Balakrishnan and E. Cramer On properties of progressively Type-II censored order statistics arising from dependent and non-identical random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--71 Sunil Mathur and Mohammad B. Sepehrifar A new signed rank test based on slopes of vectors for bivariate location problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--84 Anil Gaur and Kalpana K. Mahajan and Sangeeta Arora A nonparametric test for a multi-sample scale problem using ranked-set data . . 85--92 N. Unnikrishnan Nair and P. G. Sankaran Some new applications of the total time on test transforms . . . . . . . . . . . 93--102 Arup Bose and Sreela Gangopadhyay A note on concomitants of records . . . 103--112 Fangpo Wang and Alan E. Gelfand Directional data analysis under the general projected normal distribution 113--127 Erhard Cramer and N. Balakrishnan On some exact distributional results based on Type-I progressively hybrid censored data from exponential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--150 F. Autin and C. Pouet Testing the means of subgroups in the varying mixing weight model . . . . . . 151--169 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Balgobin Nandram and Dilli Bhatta and Dhiman Bhadra and Gang Shen Bayesian predictive inference of a finite population proportion under selection bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 Madhusudan Bhandary and Hongying Dai An alternative test for the equality of variances for several populations in randomised complete block design . . . . 22--35 Sergio Alvarez-Andrade and Salim Bouzebda Strong approximations for weighted bootstrap of empirical and quantile processes with applications . . . . . . 36--52 Bing Han Conditional Akaike information criterion in the Fay--Herriot model . . . . . . . 53--67 Mahboobeh Zangeneh Sirdari and M. Ataharul Islam and Norhashidah Awang A stationarity test on Markov chain models based on marginal distribution 68--76 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah Cornish--Fisher expansions for functionals of the partial sum empirical distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah Expansions for the distribution of asymptotically chi-square statistics . . 16--30 M. I. Beg and M. Ahsanullah and Ramesh C. Gupta Characterizations via regression of generalized order statistics . . . . . . 31--41 Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Shirsendu Mukherjee Test for conditional odds ratio in matching pairs inverse sampling design 42--59 Peixin Zhao and Gaorong Li Modified SEE variable selection for varying coefficient instrumental variable models . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--70 Sourabh Bhattacharya A fully Bayesian approach to assessment of model adequacy in inverse problems 71--83 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
David P. M. Scollnik Comments on two papers concerning estimation of the parameters of the Pareto distribution in the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 Mahdi Teimouri and Saralees Nadarajah Bias corrected MLEs for the Weibull distribution based on records . . . . . 12--24 Vivekananda Roy and Mark S. Kaiser Posterior propriety for Bayesian binomial regression models with a parametric family of link functions . . 25--41 Ian R. Harris A simple approximation to the likelihood interval for a binomial proportion . . . 42--47 Vicente G. Cancho and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and Francisco Louzada and Bao Yiqi The destructive negative binomial cure rate model with a latent activation scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--68 Daisuke Nagakura Explicit vector expression of exact score for time series models in state space form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Solaiman Afroughi and Mehdi Ghandehari Motlagh and Soghrat Faghihzadeh and Majid Jafari Khaledi A model for analyzing spatially correlated binary data clustered in uncorrelated lattices . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Xu Qin and Jiang-She Zhang and Xiao-Dong Yan Model selection of the generalized von Mises distribution based on empirical mode decomposition with data analyses 15--25 Ming Yang and Gideon K. D. Zamba and Joseph E. Cavanaugh Markov regression models for count time series with excess zeros: a partial likelihood approach . . . . . . . . . . 26--38 Salim Bouzebda and Amor Keziou A semiparametric maximum likelihood ratio test for the change point in copula models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--61 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Mun S. Son Ratios $ X / Z $, $ Y / Z $ built from independent random variables $ (X, Y) $ and $Z$ may not always be dependent . . 62--66 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
N. N. Midhu and P. G. Sankaran and N. Unnikrishnan Nair A class of distributions with the linear mean residual quantile function and its generalizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24 Veronica J. Berrocal and Marie Lynn Miranda and Alan E. Gelfand and Sourabh Bhattacharya Synthesizing categorical datasets to enhance inference . . . . . . . . . . . 25--45 Xiaofeng Lv and Rui Li Smoothed empirical likelihood confidence intervals for quantile regression parameters with auxiliary information 46--54 M. Rezapour and N. Balakrishnan Estimators based on trimmed Kendall's tau in multivariate copula models . . . 55--72 A. Asgharzadeh and R. Valiollahi and Mohammad Z. Raqab Estimation of the stress-strength reliability for the generalized logistic distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--94 S. Mitra and A. Ganguly and D. Samanta and D. Kundu On the simple step-stress model for two-parameter exponential distribution 95--114 Boris Ryabko and Daniil Ryabko A confidence-set approach to signal denoising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--120 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Indranil Ghosh and N. Balakrishnan Partial or complete characterization of a bivariate distribution based on one conditional distribution and partial specification of the mode function of the other conditional distribution . . . 1--13 Germán Ibacache-Pulgar and Gilberto A. Paula and Manuel Galea On influence diagnostics in elliptical multivariate regression models with equicorrelated random errors . . . . . . 14--31 Scott D. Crawford Efficient estimation in a regression model with missing responses . . . . . . 32--46 Alessandro Barbiero An alternative discrete skew Laplace distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--67 Kwun Chuen Gary Chan A note about the identifiability of causal effect estimates in randomized trials with non-compliance . . . . . . . 68--71 G. Rajesh and E. I. Abdul-Sathar and K. R. Muraleedharan Nair and K. V. Reshmi Bivariate extension of dynamic cumulative residual entropy . . . . . . 72--82 N. Balakrishnan and Ghobad Barmalzan and Abedin Haidari Uniformly most powerful test with two-dimensional minimal sufficient statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--89 Somak Dutta and Sourabh Bhattacharya Markov chain Monte Carlo based on deterministic transformations . . . . . 100--116 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Yuan Xu and Laura L. E. Cowen and Caleb Gardner Group heterogeneity in the Jolly--Seber-Tag-Loss model . . . . . . 3--16 B. A. Hubbard and D. J. Cole and B. J. T. Morgan Parameter redundancy in capture-recapture-recovery models . . . 17--29 R. King and R. S. McCrea A generalised likelihood framework for partially observed capture-recapture-recovery models . . . 30--45 Jay M. Ver Hoef and Michael F. Cameron and Peter L. Boveng and Josh M. London and Erin E. Moreland A spatial hierarchical model for abundance of three ice-associated seal species in the eastern Bering Sea . . . 46--66 Elise F. Zipkin and Jeffery B. Leirness and Brian P. Kinlan and Allan F. O'Connell and Emily D. Silverman Fitting statistical distributions to sea duck count data: Implications for survey design and abundance estimation . . . . 67--81 M. B. Hooten and E. M. Hanks and D. S. Johnson and M. W. Alldredge Temporal variation and scale in movement-based resource selection functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--98 Souparno Ghosh and David M. Bell and James S. Clark and Alan E. Gelfand and Paul G. Flikkema Process modeling for soil moisture using sensor network data . . . . . . . . . . 99--112 Andrew L. Thurman and Jun Zhu Variable selection for spatial Poisson point processes via a regularization method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125 W. B. Leeds and C. K. Wikle and J. Fiechter Emulator-assisted reduced-rank ecological data assimilation for nonlinear multivariate dynamical spatio-temporal processes . . . . . . . 126--138 Grace S. Chiu and Anton H. Westveld A statistical social network model for consumption data in trophic food webs 139--160 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Yogesh Mani Tripathi and Somesh Kumar and C. Petropoulos Improved estimators for parameters of a Pareto distribution with a restricted scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Luis M. Castro and Victor H. Lachos and Guillermo P. Ferreira and Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle Partially linear censored regression models using heavy-tailed distributions: a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . 14--31 Alba M. Franco-Pereira and Moshe Shaked The total time on test transform and the decreasing percentile residual life aging notion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--40 Neeraj Misra and Mohd. Arshad Selecting the best of two gamma populations having unequal shape parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--63 Christophe Chesneau and Isha Dewan and Hassan Doosti Nonparametric estimation of a two dimensional continuous-discrete density function by wavelets . . . . . . . . . . 64--78 Cecilia Earls and Giles Hooker Bayesian covariance estimation and inference in latent Gaussian process models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--100 Sanku Dey and Biswabrata Pradhan Generalized inverted exponential distribution under hybrid censoring . . 101--114 Andrew M. Raim and Minglei Liu and Nagaraj K. Neerchal and Jorge G. Morel On the method of approximate Fisher scoring for finite mixtures of multinomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--130 Marco A. R. Ferreira and Nilotpal Sanyal Bayesian optimal sequential design for nonparametric regression via inhomogeneous evolutionary MCMC . . . . 131--141 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Nitis Mukhopadhyay Independent ratios $ X / Z $ when $ Y / Z $ are (in)dependent but $ (X, Y), Z $ are dependent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Salim Bouzebda and Khalid Chokri Statistical tests in the partially linear additive regression models . . . 4--24 Fumiya Akashi Empirical likelihood approach toward discriminant analysis for dynamics of stable processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--43 Nileshkumar H. Jadhav and Dattatraya N. Kashid and Subhash R. Kulkarni Subset selection in multiple linear regression in the presence of outlier and multicollinearity . . . . . . . . . 44--59 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Soumendra Lahiri and Min-ge Xie Preface to the Professor Kesar Singh Memorial Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 G. Jogesh Babu Kesar Singh's contributions to statistical methodology . . . . . . . . 2--10 Monika Bhattacharjee and Arup Bose Consistency of large dimensional sample covariance matrix under weak dependence 11--26 Anirvan Chakraborty and Probal Chaudhuri The deepest point for distributions in infinite dimensional spaces . . . . . . 27--39 Anirban DasGupta and S. N. Lahiri and Jordan Stoyanov Sharp fixed $n$ bounds and asymptotic expansions for the mean and the median of a Gaussian sample maximum, and applications to the Donoho--Jin model 40--62 Jyotishka Datta and Jayanta K. Ghosh Bootstrap --- an exploration . . . . . . 63--72 Arthur Cohen and Yingqiu Ma and Harold Sackrowitz and Kesar Singh Multiple testing and interval estimates of correlated correlations . . . . . . . 73--78 Robert Serfling and Shanshan Wang General foundations for studying masking and swamping robustness of outlier identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--90 Dominique Fourdrinier and William Strawderman and Martin T. Wells On completeness of the general linear model with spherically symmetric errors 91--104 Guang Yang and Dungang Liu and Regina Y. Liu and Minge Xie and David C. Hoaglin Efficient network meta-analysis: a confidence distribution approach . . . . 105--125 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Jan Beran and Georg Mainik On estimating extremal dependence structures by parametric spectral measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22 Gladys D. C. Barriga and Francisco Louzada The zero-inflated Conway--Maxwell--Poisson distribution: Bayesian inference, regression modeling and influence diagnostic . . . . . . . . 23--34 Anurag Ghosh and Soumalya Mukhopadhyay and Sandipan Roy and Sourabh Bhattacharya Bayesian inference in nonparametric dynamic state-space models . . . . . . . 35--48 Hui He and Na Zhou and Ruiming Zhang On estimation for the Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58 Salim Bouzebda General tests of independence based on empirical processes indexed by functions 59--87 Polychronis Economou and George Tzavelas Kullback--Leibler divergence measure based tests concerning the biasness in a sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--108 Chi Tim Ng and Chi Wai Yu Modified SCAD penalty for constrained variable selection problems . . . . . . 109--134 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Sankha Muthu Poruthotage Multiple crossing sequential fixed-size confidence region methodologies for a multivariate normal mean vector . . . . 135--155 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei A note on the simultaneous confidence intervals for the successive differences of exponential location parameters under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 Jiyeon Lee and Sangyeol Lee and Siyun Park Maximum entropy test for GARCH models 8--16 Chang Xuan Mao and Nan Yang and Jinhua Zhong On the Chao and Zelterman estimators in a binomial mixture model . . . . . . . . 17--22 Saralees Nadarajah and Sergey Bityukov and Nikolai Krasnikov Confidence distributions: a review . . . 23--46 Xiang Zhan and Debashis Ghosh Incorporating auxiliary information for improved prediction using combination of kernel machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Mohsen Khosravi and Debasis Kundu and Ahad Jamalizadeh On bivariate and a mixture of bivariate Birnbaum--Saunders distributions . . . . 1--17 Youngseuk Cho and Hokeun Sun and Kyeongjun Lee Exact likelihood inference for an exponential parameter under generalized progressive hybrid censoring scheme . . 18--34 Silvia Joekes and Marcelo Smrekar and Emanuel Pimentel Barbosa Extending a double sampling control chart for non-conforming proportion in high quality processes to the case of small samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--49 Tao Chen and Kenneth A. Couch An approximation of logarithmic functions in the regression setting . . 50--58 Daniel Klein and Ivan Zezula Maximum likelihood estimators for extended growth curve model with orthogonal between-individual design matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--72 Peixin Zhao and Yiping Yang Semiparametric empirical likelihood tests in varying coefficient partially linear models with repeated measurements 73--87 Shyamal K. De and Michael Baron Sequential tests controlling generalized familywise error rates . . . . . . . . . 88--102 David Han Estimation in step-stress life tests with complementary risks from the exponentiated exponential distribution under time constraint and its applications to UAV data . . . . . . . . 103--122 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Tony Siu Tung Wong Diagnostic check for heavy tail in linear time series . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 A. Satty and H. Mwambi and G. Molenberghs Different methods for handling incomplete longitudinal binary outcome due to missing at random dropout . . . . 12--27 M. Rezapour and N. Balakrishnan Some properties of stochastic volatility model that are induced by its volatility sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--36 A. I. Khuri and S. Mukhopadhyay and M. A. Khuri Approximating moments of continuous functions of random variables using Bernstein polynomials . . . . . . . . . 37--51 Shakhawat Hossain and S. Ejaz Ahmed and Kjell A. Doksum Shrinkage, pretest, and penalty estimators in generalized linear models 52--68 J. R. M. Hosking and N. Balakrishnan A uniqueness result for $ \mathbf {L} $-estimators, with applications to $L$-moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80
Sangyeol Lee and Byungsoo Kim Copula parameter change test for nonlinear AR models with nonlinear GARCH errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22 Dian-tong Kang Further results on closure properties of LPQE order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35 Christophe Chesneau and Maher Kachour and Dimitris Karlis On some distributions arising from a generalized trivariate reduction scheme 36--50 Zhensheng Huang and Quanxi Shao and Zhen Pang and Bingqing Lin Adaptive testing for the partially linear single-index model with error-prone linear covariates . . . . . 51--58 Anne Philip and P. Yageen Thomas On concomitants of order statistics arising from the extended Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern bivariate logistic distribution and its application in estimation . . . . . . . 59--73 K. K. Sudheesh and P. Anisha and C. M. Deemat A simple approach for testing constant failure rate against different ageing classes for discrete data . . . . . . . 74--88 Hironori Fujisawa and Toshihiro Abe A family of skew distributions with mode-invariance through transformation of scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98 Bernard Chalmond A macro-DAG structure based mixture model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--118 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Mingqiu Wang Nonconvex penalized ridge estimations for partially linear additive models in ultrahigh dimension . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Mohammad Nourmohammadi and Mohammad Jafari Jozani and Brad C. Johnson Distribution-free tolerance intervals with nomination samples: Applications to mercury contamination in fish . . . . . 16--33 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Swarnali Banerjee Sequential negative binomial problems and statistical ecology: a selected review with new directions . . . . . . . 34--60 Serge B. Provost and Hyung-Tae Ha Differentiated logdensity approximants 61--71 Kahadawala Cooray A study of moments and likelihood estimators of the odd Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--83 Jaya Krishnakumar and David Neto Testing for the cointegration rank in threshold cointegrated systems with multiple cointegrating relationships . . 84--102 Armelle Guillou and Stéphane Loisel and Gilles Stupfler Estimating the parameters of a seasonal Markov-modulated Poisson process . . . . 103--123 B. L. S. Prakasa Rao Filtered fractional Poisson processes 124--134 Tomasz J. Kozubowski and Anna K. Panorska and Matthew L. Forister A discrete truncated Pareto distribution 135--150 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
S. K. Ghoreishi and M. R. Meshkani Dynamic Bayesian analysis of generalized odds ratios assuming multivariate skew-normal distribution for the error terms in the system equation . . . . . . 1--11 Esmaeil Shirazi and Hassan Doosti Multivariate wavelet-based density estimation with size-biased data . . . . 12--19 Yujie Gai and Jun Zhang and Gaorong Li and Xinchao Luo Statistical inference on partial linear additive models with distortion measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 20--38 N. Unnikrishnan Nair and P. G. Sankaran Multivariate discrete scalar hazard rate 39--50 Ekele Alih and Hong Choon Ong Cluster-based $ L_2 $ re-weighted regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--81 Aya A. Mitani and Allison W. Kurian and Amar K. Das and Manisha Desai Navigating choices when applying multiple imputation in the presence of multi-level categorical interaction effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--99 Panayiotis Bobotas and Maria Kateri The step-stress tampered failure rate model under interval monitoring . . . . 100--122 Wenhao Gui and Meiping Xu Double acceptance sampling plan based on truncated life tests for half exponential power distribution . . . . . 123--131 Tamás Rudas Directionally collapsible parameterizations of multivariate binary distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--145
Balgobin Nandram and Jiani Yin Bayesian predictive inference under a Dirichlet process with sensitivity to the normal baseline . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Kaushik Mahata and Amit Mitra and Sharmishtha Mitra Consistency of $M$-estimators of nonlinear signal processing models . . . 18--36 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Gwo Dong Lin and Chin-Diew Lai and K. Govindaraju Correlation structure of the Marshall--Olkin bivariate exponential distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 W. Kössler and Narinder Kumar An adaptive test for the two-sample scale problem where the common quantile may be different from the median . . . . 10--17 Anup Dewanji and P. G. Sankaran and Debasis Sengupta and Bappa Karmakar Regression analysis of competing risks data with general missing pattern in failure types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--31 Athanasios C. Rakitzis and Philippe Castagliola and Petros E. Maravelakis A two-parameter general inflated Poisson distribution: Properties and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--50 M. Kayid and S. Izadkhah and H. Alhalees Combination of mean residual life order with reliability applications . . . . . 51--69 Julian Górny and Erhard Cramer Exact likelihood inference for exponential distributions under generalized progressive hybrid censoring schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--94 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc Afshin Almasi and Mohammad Reza Eshraghian and Abbas Moghimbeigi and Abbas Rahimi and Kazem Mohammad and Sadegh Fallahigilan Multilevel zero-inflated Generalized Poisson regression modeling for dispersed correlated count data . . . . 1--14 Pao-sheng Shen Analysis of transformation models with doubly truncated data . . . . . . . . . 15--30 Mehrdad Vossoughi and S. M. T. Ayatollahi and Mina Towhidi and Seyyed Taghi Heydari A distribution-free test of parallelism for two-sample repeated measurements . . 31--44 Michael Espendiller and Maria Kateri A family of association measures for $ 2 \times 2 $ contingency tables based on the $ \phi $-divergence . . . . . . . . 45--61
H. M. Barakat and A. R. Omar A note on domains of attraction of the limit laws of intermediate order statistics under power normalization . . 1--7 Marcelo Bourguignon and Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos A new skew integer valued time series process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--19 G. Avlogiaris and A. Micheas and K. Zografos On testing local hypotheses via local divergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--42 Ehssan Ghashim and Éric Marchand and William E. Strawderman On a better lower bound for the frequentist probability of coverage of Bayesian credible intervals in restricted parameter spaces . . . . . . 43--57 Bahman Tarvirdizade and Mohammad Ahmadpour Estimation of the stress--strength reliability for the two-parameter bathtub-shaped lifetime distribution based on upper record values . . . . . . 58--72 Cathy W. S. Chen and Mike K. P. So and Jessica C. Li and Songsak Sriboonchitta Autoregressive conditional negative binomial model applied to over-dispersed time series of counts . . . . . . . . . 73--90 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Kent R. Riggs and Phil D. Young and Dean M. Young Confidence ellipsoids for the primary regression coefficients in two seemingly unrelated regression models . . . . . . 1--13 Dian-Tong Kang and Lei Yan On the dynamic cumulative residual quantile entropy ordering . . . . . . . 14--35 Satya Prakash Singh and Siuli Mukhopadhyay Bayesian optimal cluster designs . . . . 36--52 Kung-Jong Lui Notes on estimation in Poisson frequency data under an incomplete block crossover design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--62 Miguel A. Sordo and Marilia C. de Souza and Alfonso Suárez-Llorens Testing variability orderings by using Gini's mean differences . . . . . . . . 63--76 Alexander Katzur and Udo Kamps Homogeneity testing via weighted affinity in multiparameter exponential families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--90 Jingjing Yin and Yi Hao and Hani Samawi and Haresh Rochani Rank-based kernel estimation of the area under the ROC curve . . . . . . . . . . 91--106 Chantal Larose and Ofer Harel and Katarzyna Kordas and Dipak K. Dey Latent class analysis of incomplete data via an entropy-based criterion . . . . . 107--121 Yunyun Qian and Zhensheng Huang Statistical inference for a varying-coefficient partially nonlinear model with measurement errors . . . . . 122--130 N. Nematollahi and R. Farnoosh and Z. Rahnamaei Location-scale mixture of skew-elliptical distributions: Looking at the robust modeling . . . . . . . . . 131--146 Chi Tim Ng and Seungyoung Oh and Youngjo Lee Going beyond oracle property: Selection consistency and uniqueness of local solution of the generalized linear model 147--160 Xiaojuan Kang and Tizheng Li Efficient estimation of varying coefficient models with serially correlated errors . . . . . . . . . . . 161--184 Sanku Dey and Sukhdev Singh and Yogesh Mani Tripathi and A. Asgharzadeh Estimation and prediction for a progressively censored generalized inverted exponential distribution . . . 185--202 Viani A. Biatat Djeundje Systematic deviation in smooth mixed models for multi-level longitudinal data 203--217 Dian-tong Kang Some new results on the LQE ordering . . 218--235 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Sun-Hee Kim and Lei Li and Christos Faloutsos and Hyung-Jeong Yang and Seong-Whan Lee HeartCast: Predicting acute hypotensive episodes in intensive care units . . . . 1--13 David Stiburek Sequential testing of hypotheses about drift for Gaussian diffusions . . . . . 14--30 Elvan Ceyhan Edge density of new graph types based on a random digraph family . . . . . . . . 31--54 Lei Yan and Dian-tong Kang Some new results on the Rényi quantile entropy ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--70 Sarah E. Holte and Eva K. Lee and Yajun Mei Symmetric directional false discovery rate control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--82 Juan Carlos Bustamante and Edixon Chacón Estimation and goodness-of-fit in latent trait models: a comparison among theoretical approaches . . . . . . . . . 83--95 Nadine Hilgert and Ghislain Verdier and Jean-Pierre Vila Change detection for uncertain autoregressive dynamic models through nonparametric estimation . . . . . . . . 96--113 Michael Brimacombe Large sample convergence diagnostics for likelihood based inference: Logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--130 Clécio S. Ferreira and Víctor H. Lachos Nonlinear regression models under skew scale mixtures of normal distributions 131--146 Sudipta Das and Anup Dewanji and Debasis Sengupta Discrete time software reliability modeling with periodic debugging schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--159 Félix Almendra-Arao and José Juan Castro-Alva and Hortensia Reyes-Cervantes Constructing tests to compare two proportions whose critical regions guarantee to be Barnard convex sets . . 160--171 Shikai Luo and Subhashis Ghosal Forward selection and estimation in high dimensional single index models . . . . 172--179 Xiang Zhan and Debashis Ghosh A novel power-based approach to Gaussian kernel selection in the kernel-based association test . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--191 Rasul A. Khan Estimating the integer mean of a normal model related to binomial distribution 192--202 Gregory E. Wilding and Mark C. Baker Inference procedures about population correlations under order restrictions 203--216 Shin Zhu Sim and Seng Huat Ong A generalized inverse trinomial distribution with application . . . . . 217--233 Mohamed Chaouch and Naâmane La\"\ib and Elias Ould Sa\"\id Nonparametric $M$-estimation for right censored regression model with stationary ergodic data . . . . . . . . 234--255 Najmeh Bathaee and Hamid Sheikhzadeh Non-parametric Bayesian inference for continuous density hidden Markov mixture model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--275 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc