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Volume 1, Number 1, February, 1930
Volume 1, Number 2, May, 1930
Volume 1, Number 3, August, 1930
Volume 1, Number 4, November, 1930
Volume 2, Number 1, February, 1931
Volume 2, Number 2, May, 1931
Volume 2, Number 3, August, 1931
Volume 2, Number 4, November, 1931
Volume 3, Number 1, February, 1932
Volume 3, Number 2, May, 1932
Volume 3, Number 3, August, 1932
Volume 3, Number 4, November, 1932
Volume 4, Number 1, February, 1933
Volume 4, Number 2, May, 1933
Volume 4, Number 3, August, 1933
Volume 4, Number 4, November, 1933
Volume 5, Number 1, March, 1934
Volume 5, Number 2, June, 1934
Volume 5, Number 3, September, 1934
Volume 5, Number 4, December, 1934
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 1935
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 1935
Volume 6, Number 3, September, 1935
Volume 6, Number 4, December, 1935
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 1936
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 1936
Volume 7, Number 3, September, 1936
Volume 7, Number 4, December, 1936
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1937
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 1937
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 1937
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 1937
Volume 9, Number 1, March, 1938
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 1938
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 1938
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 1938
Volume 10, Number 1, March, 1939
Volume 10, Number 2, June, 1939
Volume 10, Number 3, September, 1939
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 1939
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1940
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1940
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 1940
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1940
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 1941
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 1941
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1941
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 1941
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 1942
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 1942
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 1942
Volume 13, Number 4, December, 1942
Volume 14, Number 1, March, 1943
Volume 14, Number 2, June, 1943
Volume 14, Number 3, September, 1943
Volume 14, Number 4, December, 1943
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1944
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1944
Volume 15, Number 3, September, 1944
Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1944
Volume 16, Number 1, March, 1945
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 1945
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1945
Volume 16, Number 4, December, 1945
Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1946
Volume 17, Number 2, June, 1946
Volume 17, Number 3, September, 1946
Volume 17, Number 4, December, 1946
Volume 18, Number 1, March, 1947
Volume 18, Number 2, June, 1947
Volume 18, Number 3, September, 1947
Volume 18, Number 4, December, 1947
Volume 19, Number 1, March, 1948
Volume 19, Number 2, June, 1948
Volume 19, Number 3, September, 1948
Volume 19, Number 4, December, 1948
Volume 20, Number 1, March, 1949
Volume 20, Number 2, June, 1949
Volume 20, Number 3, September, 1949
Volume 20, Number 4, December, 1949
Volume 21, Number 1, March, 1950
Volume 21, Number 2, June, 1950
Volume 21, Number 3, September, 1950
Volume 21, Number 4, December, 1950
Volume 22, Number 1, March, 1951
Volume 22, Number 2, June, 1951
Volume 22, Number 3, September, 1951
Volume 22, Number 4, December, 1951
Volume 23, Number 1, March, 1952
Volume 23, Number 2, June, 1952
Volume 23, Number 3, September, 1952
Volume 23, Number 4, December, 1952
Volume 24, Number 1, March, 1953
Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1953
Volume 24, Number 3, September, 1953
Volume 24, Number 4, December, 1953
Volume 25, Number 1, March, 1954
Volume 25, Number 2, June, 1954
Volume 25, Number 3, September, 1954
Volume 25, Number 4, December, 1954
Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1955
Volume 26, Number 2, June, 1955
Volume 26, Number 3, September, 1955
Volume 26, Number 4, December, 1955
Volume 27, Number 1, March, 1956
Volume 27, Number 2, June, 1956
Volume 27, Number 3, September, 1956
Volume 27, Number 4, December, 1956
Volume 28, Number 1, March, 1957
Volume 28, Number 2, June, 1957
Volume 28, Number 3, September, 1957
Volume 28, Number 4, December, 1957
Volume 29, Number 1, March, 1958
Volume 29, Number 2, June, 1958
Volume 29, Number 3, September, 1958
Volume 29, Number 4, December, 1958
Volume 30, Number 1, March, 1959
Volume 30, Number 2, June, 1959
Volume 30, Number 3, September, 1959
Volume 30, Number 4, December, 1959
Volume 31, Number 1, March, 1960
Volume 31, Number 2, June, 1960
Volume 31, Number 3, September, 1960
Volume 31, Number 4, December, 1960
Volume 32, Number 1, March, 1961
Volume 32, Number 2, June, 1961
Volume 32, Number 3, September, 1961
Volume 32, Number 4, December, 1961
Volume 33, Number 1, March, 1962
Volume 33, Number 2, June, 1962
Volume 33, Number 3, September, 1962
Volume 33, Number 4, December, 1962
Volume 34, Number 1, March, 1963
Volume 34, Number 2, June, 1963
Volume 34, Number 3, September, 1963
Volume 34, Number 4, December, 1963
Volume 35, Number 1, March, 1964
Volume 35, Number 2, June, 1964
Volume 35, Number 3, September, 1964
Volume 35, Number 4, December, 1964
Volume 36, Number 1, February, 1965
Volume 36, Number 2, April, 1965
Volume 36, Number 3, June, 1965
Volume 36, Number 4, August, 1965
Volume 36, Number 5, October, 1965
Volume 36, Number 6, December, 1965
Volume 37, Number 1, February, 1966
Volume 37, Number 2, April, 1966
Volume 37, Number 3, June, 1966
Volume 37, Number 4, August, 1966
Volume 37, Number 5, October, 1966
Volume 37, Number 6, December, 1966
Volume 38, Number 1, February, 1967
Volume 38, Number 2, April, 1967
Volume 38, Number 3, June, 1967
Volume 38, Number 4, August, 1967
Volume 38, Number 5, October, 1967
Volume 38, Number 6, December, 1967
Volume 39, Number 1, February, 1968
Volume 39, Number 2, April, 1968
Volume 39, Number 3, June, 1968
Volume 39, Number 4, August, 1968
Volume 39, Number 5, October, 1968
Volume 39, Number 6, December, 1968
Volume 40, Number 1, February, 1969
Volume 40, Number 2, April, 1969
Volume 40, Number 3, June, 1969
Volume 40, Number 4, August, 1969
Volume 40, Number 5, October, 1969
Volume 40, Number 6, December, 1969
Volume 41, Number 1, February, 1970
Volume 41, Number 2, April, 1970
Volume 41, Number 3, June, 1970
Volume 41, Number 4, August, 1970
Volume 41, Number 5, October, 1970
Volume 41, Number 6, December, 1970
Volume 42, Number 1, February, 1971
Volume 42, Number 2, April, 1971
Volume 42, Number 3, June, 1971
Volume 42, Number 4, August, 1971
Volume 42, Number 5, October, 1971
Volume 42, Number 6, December, 1971
Volume 43, Number 1, February, 1972
Volume 43, Number 2, April, 1972
Volume 43, Number 3, June, 1972
Volume 43, Number 4, August, 1972
Volume 43, Number 5, October, 1972
Volume 43, Number 6, December, 1972
Volume 1, Number 2, March, 1973
Volume 1, Number 3, May, 1973
Volume 1, Number 4, July, 1973
Volume 1, Number 5, September, 1973
Volume 2, Number 6, November, 1974
Volume 3, Number 3, May, 1975
Volume 4, Number 4, July, 1976
Volume 4, Number 6, November, 1976
Volume 7, Number 1, January, 1979
Volume 7, Number 2, March, 1979
Volume 8, Number 4, July, 1980
Volume 8, Number 6, November, 1980
Volume 23, Number 2, April, 1995
Volume 43, Number 3--4, December, 1956
Volume 61, Number 1, April, 1974
Volume 34, Number 207, September, 1939
Volume 11, Number 1, 1949
Volume 45, Number 2, June, 2008


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 1, Number 1, February, 1930

                Wilford I. King   The \booktitleAnnals of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                 S. D. Wicksell   Remarks on Regression  . . . . . . . . . 3--13
                    B. L. Shook   Synopsis of Elementary Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--41
                 Joseph Berkson   Bayes' Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--56
         Statistical Department   A Mathematical Theory of Seasonals . . . 57--72
                      J. Shohat   Stieltjes Integrals in Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--94
           William Dowell Baten   Simultaneous Treatment of Discrete and
                                  Continuous Probability by Use of
                                  Stieltjes Integrals  . . . . . . . . . . 95--100
                      Anonymous   Editorial: Fundamentals of the Theory of
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 1, Number 2, May, 1930

                Ralph W. Powell   Successive Integration as a Method for
                                  Finding Long Period Cycles . . . . . . . 123--136
                Edwin D. Mouzon   Equimodal Frequency Distributions  . . . 137--158
                  Harry S. Will   On Fitting Curves to Observational
                                  Series by the Method of Differences  . . 159--190
                Luis R. Salvosa   Tables of Pearson's Type III Function    191--198 + 1--125

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 1, Number 3, August, 1930

                  L. R. Salvosa   Table III: Derivatives of the
                                  Standardized Type III Function . . . . . 127--187
                 Edward L. Dodd   The Use of Linear Functions to Detect
                                  Hidden Periods in Data Separated into
                                  Small Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--223
                    B. L. Shook   Synopsis of Elementary Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--259
                   H. C. Carver   Editorial: Fundamentals of The Theory of
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--274

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 1, Number 4, November, 1930

               Mordecai Ezekiel   The Sampling Variability of Linear and
                                  Curvilinear Regressions: A First
                                  Approximation to the Reliability of the
                                  Results Secured by the Graphic
                                  ``Successive Approximation'' Method  . . 275--315, 317--333
                    G. A. Baker   Transformations of Bimodal
                                  Distriburtions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--344
                Edgar Z. Palmer   Error and Unreliability in Seasonals . . 345--351
                Richard A. Robe   Modification of the Link Relative and
                                  Interpolation Methods of Determining
                                  Seasonal Variation . . . . . . . . . . . 352--363


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 2, Number 1, February, 1931

             L. von Bortkiewicz   The Relations between Stability and
                                  Homogeneity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
               Edward C. Molina   Bayes' Theorem: An Expository
                                  Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--37
                    H. L. Rietz   On Certain Properties of Frequency
                                  Distributions Obtained by a Linear
                                  Fractional Transformation of the
                                  Variates of a Given Distribution . . . . 38--47
                  Paul R. Rider   On Small Samples from Certain Non-Normal
                                  Universes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--65
             Hilda Frost Dunlap   An Empirical Determination of the
                                  Distribution of Means, Standard
                                  Deviations and Correlation Coefficients
                                  Drawn from Rectangular Populations . . . 66--81
                      Anonymous   Editorial: The Interdependence of
                                  Sampling and Frequency Distribution
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--98
                 Cecil C. Craig   Note on the Distribution of Means of
                                  Samples of $N$ Drawn from a Type A
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 2, Number 2, May, 1931

                  A. L. O'Toole   On Symmetric Functions and Symmetric
                                  Functions of Symmetric Functions . . . . 102--149
              Harold D. Griffin   Fundamental Formulas for the Doolittle
                                  Method, Using Zero-Order Correlation
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--153
                 Cecil C. Craig   On A Property of the Semi-Invariants of
                                  Thiele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--164
                   T. N. Thiele   I. The Law of Causality  . . . . . . . . 165--169
                   T. N. Thiele   II. Laws of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 169--172
                   T. N. Thiele   III. Tabular Arrangements  . . . . . . . 172--174
                   T. N. Thiele   IV. Curves of Errors . . . . . . . . . . 174--179
                   T. N. Thiele   V. Functional Laws of Errors . . . . . . 179--186
                   T. N. Thiele   VI. Laws of Errors: Expressed by
                                  Symmetrical Functions  . . . . . . . . . 186--194
                   T. N. Thiele   VII. Relations between Functional Laws
                                  of Errors and Half-Invariants  . . . . . 194--199
                   T. N. Thiele   VIII. Laws of Errors of Function of
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--217
                   T. N. Thiele   IX. Free Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 217--228
                   T. N. Thiele   X. Adjustment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--235
                   T. N. Thiele   XI. Adjustment by Correlates . . . . . . 235--241
                   T. N. Thiele   XII. Adjustment by Elements  . . . . . . 241--258
                   T. N. Thiele   XIII. Special Auxiliary Methods  . . . . 258--280
                   T. N. Thiele   XIV. The Theory of Probability . . . . . 280--283
                   T. N. Thiele   XV. The Formal Theory of Probability . . 283--293
                   T. N. Thiele   XVI. The Determination of Probabilities
                                  a Priori and a Posteriori  . . . . . . . 293--301
                   T. N. Thiele   XVII. Mathematical Expectation and Its
                                  Mean Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--308
                   T. N. Thiele   Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   T. N. Thiele   Editor's Note  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 2, Number 3, August, 1931

           William Dowell Baten   Correction for the Moments of a
                                  Frequency Distribution in Two Variables  309--319
                John Rice Miner   The Standard Error of a Multiple
                                  Regression Equation  . . . . . . . . . . 320--323
                 Cecil C. Craig   Sampling in the Case of Correlated
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--332
                    G. A. Baker   The Relation Between the Means and
                                  Variances, Means Squared and Variances
                                  in Samples from Combinations of Normal
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--354
               Joshua L. Bailey   A Table to Facilitate the Fitting of
                                  Certain Logistic Curves  . . . . . . . . 355--359
               Harold Hotelling   The Generalization of Student's Ratio    360--378

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 2, Number 4, November, 1931

      Emanuel Henry Hildebrandt   Systems of Polynomials Connected with
                                  the Charlier Expansions and the Pearson
                                  Differential and Difference Equations    379--439
                   R. J. Wherry   A New Formula for Predicting the
                                  Shrinkage of the Coefficient of Multiple
                                  Correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--457
            Walter A. Hendricks   The Use of the Relative Residual in the
                                  Application of the Method of Least
                                  Squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--478
                      Anonymous   Editor's Note  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--479
                      Anonymous   Reprint and Translation From
                                  \booktitleNordisk Forsäkringstidskrift
                                  1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--492


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 3, Number 1, February, 1932

                    G. A. Baker   Distribution of the Means Divided By the
                                  Standard Deviations of Samples From
                                  Non-Homogeneous Populations  . . . . . . 1--9
              Robert W. Burgess   A Statistical Approach to Mathematical
                                  Formulation of Demand-Supply-Price
                                  Relationships  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--19
                  H. M. Feldman   The Distributions of the Precision
                                  Constant and Its Square in Samples of $
                                  \eta $ From a Normal Population  . . . . 20--31
                   R. Henderson   A Postulate for Observations . . . . . . 32--39
                     Paul Horst   A Short Method for Solving for a
                                  Coefficient of Multiple Correlation  . . 40--44
              Thomas N. Jenkins   A Short Method and Tables for the
                                  Calculation of the Average and Standard
                                  Deviation of Logarithmic Distributions   45--55
                  A. L. O'Toole   On Symmetric Functions of More Than One
                                  Variable and of Frequency Functions  . . 56--63
              Albert Wertheimer   A Generalized Error Function . . . . . . 64--77

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 3, Number 2, May, 1932

                  J. B. Coleman   A Coefficient of Linear Correlation
                                  Based on the Method of Least Squares and
                                  the Line of Best Fit . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
                John L. Carlson   A Study of the Distribution of Means
                                  Estimated From Small Samples by the
                                  Method of Maximum Likelihood for
                                  Pearson's Type II Curve  . . . . . . . . 86--107
               Robert E. Moritz   A New Theory of Depreciation of Physical
                                  Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--125
                 Allen T. Craig   The Simultaneous Distribution of Mean
                                  and Standard Deviation in Small Samples  126--140
           Harold Hotelling and   
            Leonard M. Solomons   The Limits of a Measure of Skewness  . . 141--142

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 3, Number 3, August, 1932

             Arthur H. Copeland   The Theory of Probability from the Point
                                  of View of Admissible Numbers  . . . . . 143--156
            Walter A. Hendricks   Relative Residuals Considered as
                                  Weighted Simple Residuals in the
                                  Application of the Method of Least
                                  Squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--162
                    S. S. Wilks   Moments and Distributions of Estimates
                                  of Population Parameters from
                                  Fragmentary Samples  . . . . . . . . . . 163--195
                    S. S. Wilks   On the Sampling Distribution of the
                                  Multiple Correlation Coefficient . . . . 196--203
        Herrick E. H. Greenleaf   Curve Approximation by Means of
                                  Functions Analogous to the Hermite
                                  Polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--255

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 3, Number 4, November, 1932

                 Charles Jordan   Approximation and Graduation According
                                  to the Principle of Least Squares by
                                  Orthogonal Polynomials . . . . . . . . . 257--357
                 Raymond Garver   Concerning the Limits of a Measure of
                                  Skewness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
                Harry C. Carver   Editorial: Trapezoidal Rule for
                                  Computing Seasonal Indices . . . . . . . 361--367


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 4, Number 1, February, 1933

                  A. L. O'Toole   On the System of Curves for Which the
                                  Method of Moments is the Best Method of
                                  Fitting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
                   Pae-Tsi Yuan   On the Logarithmic Frequency
                                  Distribution and the Semi-Logarithmic
                                  Correlation Surface  . . . . . . . . . . 30--74
                 Elmer B. Royer   A Simple Method for Calculating Mean
                                  Square Contingency . . . . . . . . . . . 75--78

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 4, Number 2, May, 1933

                  A. L. O'Toole   A Method of Determining the Constants in
                                  the Bimodal Fourth Degree Exponential
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93
                 Cecil C. Craig   On the Tchebychef Inequality of
                                  Bernstein  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--102
                Carl H. Fischer   On Correlation Surfaces of Sums with a
                                  Certain Number of Random Elements in
                                  Common . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--126
                 Allen T. Craig   On the Correlation Between Certain
                                  Averages from Small Samples  . . . . . . 127--142
                  A. L. O'Toole   On the Degree of Approximation of
                                  Certain Quadrature Formulas  . . . . . . 143--153

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 4, Number 3, August, 1933

                    H. T. Davis   Polynomial Approximation by the Method
                                  of Least Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--195
           H. Milicer Gruzewska   The Precision of the Weighted Average    196--215
               Margaret Merrell   On Certain Relationships Between $
                                  \beta_1 $ and $ \beta_2 $ for the Point
                                  Binomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--228
                      Anonymous   Editorial: Note on the Computation and
                                  Modification of Moments  . . . . . . . . 229--239

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 4, Number 4, November, 1933

                  H. P. Lawther   The Extended Probability Theory for the
                                  Continuous Variable with Particular
                                  Application to the Linear Distribution   241--262
              John R. Abernethy   On the Elimination of Systematic Errors
                                  Due to Grouping  . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--277
                Carl H. Fischer   On Multiple and Partial Correlation
                                  Coefficients of a Certain Sequence of
                                  Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--284
                 Selby Robinson   An Experiment Regarding the $ \chi^2 $
                                  Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
         George Middleton Brown   On Sampling from Compound Populations    288--342


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 5, Number 1, March, 1934

            Helen M. Walker and   
                   Vera Sanford   The Accuracy of Computation with
                                  Approximate Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
           William Dowell Baten   Combining Two Probability Functions  . . 13--20
               Herbert A. Toops   On the Systematic Fitting of Straight
                                  Line Trends by Stencil and Calculating
                                  Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29
                 Robert Schmidt   Statistical Analysis of One-Dimensional
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--72
                   H. C. Carver   Editorial: A New Type of Average for
                                  Security Prices  . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 5, Number 2, June, 1934

               Walter Andersson   On A New Method of Computing Non-Linear
                                  Regression Curves  . . . . . . . . . . . 81--106
            Walter A. Hendricks   The Standard Error of Any Analytic
                                  Function of a Set of Parameters
                                  Evaluated By the Method of Least Squares 107--112
                    G. A. Baker   Transformation of Non-Normal Frequency
                                  Distributions Into Normal Distributions  113--123
               Richmond T. Zoch   Invariants and Covariants of Certain
                                  Frequency Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--135
                    E. R. Enlow   Quadrature of the Normal Curve . . . . . 136--145
                  A. L. O'Toole   Editorial: On a Best Value of $R$ in
                                  Samples of $R$ from a Finite Population
                                  of $N$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--152
                   H. C. Carver   Editorial: Punched Card Systems and
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--160

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 5, Number 3, September, 1934

                  Sewall Wright   The Method of Path Coefficients  . . . . 161--215
              John W. Boldyreff   Mathematical Foundation for a Method of
                                  Statistical Analysis of Household
                                  Budgets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--226
               Harry S. Pollard   On the Relative Stability of the Median
                                  and Arithmetic Mean, with Particular
                                  Reference to Certain Frequency
                                  Distributions Which Can Be Dissected
                                  into Normal Distributions  . . . . . . . 227--262

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 5, Number 4, December, 1934

               Solomon Kullback   An Application of Characteristic
                                  Functions to the Distribution Problem of
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--307
                 Frank M. Weida   On Measures of Contingency . . . . . . . 308--319
                    R. J. Myers   Note on Koshal's Method of Improving the
                                  Parameters of Curves by the Use of the
                                  Method of Maximum Likelihood . . . . . . 320--323
            Alan E. Treloar and   
               Marian A. Wilder   The Adequacy of ``Student's'' Criterion
                                  of Deviations in Small Sample Means  . . 324--341


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 1935

               Richmond T. Zoch   Some Interesting Features of Frequency
                                  Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
                    W. T. Lewis   A Reconsideration of Sheppard's
                                  Corrections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
                 Frank H. Byron   The Point Binomial and Probability Paper 21--26
                   Nilan Norris   Inequalities Among Averages  . . . . . . 27--29
               Hyman M. Feldman   Mathematical Expectation of Product
                                  Moments of Samples Drawn From a Set of
                                  Infinite Populations . . . . . . . . . . 30--52

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 1935

                     Y. K. Wong   An Application of Orthogonalization
                                  Process to the Theory of Least Squares   53--75
               Solomon Kullback   A Note on the Analysis of Variance . . . 76--77
            Walter A. Hendricks   A Problem Involving the Lexis Theory of
                                  Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--82
                     Paul Horst   A Method for Determining the
                                  Coefficients of a Characteristic
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
              Dwight W. Chapman   The Generalized Problem of Correct
                                  Matchings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95
                  W. J. Kirkham   Moments About the Arithmetic Mean of a
                                  Binomial Frequency Distribution  . . . . 96--101
                 Frank M. Weida   On Certain Distribution Functions When
                                  the Law of the Universe is Poisson's
                                  First Law of Error . . . . . . . . . . . 102--110
                      Anonymous   Errata: On Certain Distribution
                                  Functions When the Law of the Universe
                                  is Poisson's First Law of Error  . . . . 110--110

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 6, Number 3, September, 1935

                      J. Neyman   On the Problem of Confidence Intervals   111--116
            Walter A. Hendricks   Analysis of Variance Considered as an
                                  Application of Simple Error Theory . . . 117--126
                    G. A. Baker   Note on the Distributions of the
                                  Standard Deviations and Second Moments
                                  of Samples From a Gram--Charlier
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--130
                   I. H. Barkey   On the Finite Differences of a
                                  Polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
                John L. Roberts   Some Practical Interpolation Formulas    133--142
                      Anonymous   Errata: Some Practical Interpolation
                                  Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
                 Grace Strecker   On Evaluating a Coefficient of Partial
                                  Correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
                      Lee Byrne   A Theory of Validation for Derivative
                                  Specifications and Check Lists . . . . . 146--157
               Solomon Kullback   A Note on Sheppard's Corrections . . . . 158--159
                     J. L. Doob   The Limiting Distributions of Certain
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--169

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 6, Number 4, December, 1935

               Richmond T. Zoch   On the Postulate of the Arithmetic Mean  171--182
               Robert J. Wherry   The Shrinkage of the Brown--Spearman
                                  Prophecy Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
                    S. S. Wilks   The Likelihood Test of Independence in
                                  Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 190--196
                    G. A. Baker   The Probability That the Mean of a
                                  Second Sample Will Differ from the Mean
                                  of a First Sample By Less Than a Certain
                                  Multiple of the Standard Deviation of
                                  the First Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--201
               Solomon Kullback   On Samples From a Multivariate Normal
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--213
            William R. Thompson   On a Criterion for the Rejection of
                                  Observations and the Distribution of the
                                  Ratio of Deviation to Sample Standard
                                  Deviation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--219
            Everett H. Larguier   On Certain Coefficients Used in
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 220--226
                      Anonymous   Notice of the Organization of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
                      Anonymous   1935 Directory of Subscribers to the
                                  \booktitleAnnals of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--232


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 1936

                 Cecil C. Craig   On the Frequency Function of $ x y $ . . 1--15
                 Cecil C. Craig   A New Exposition and Chart for the
                                  Pearson System of Frequency Curves . . . 16--28
           Harold Hotelling and   
        Margaret Richards Pabst   Rank Correlation and Tests of
                                  Significance Involving No Assumption of
                                  Normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43
                John L. Roberts   The Elimination of Perpetual Calendars   44--46
                     Y. K. Wong   On Standard Error for the Line of Mutual
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--50
               Solomon Kullback   The Distribution Laws of the Difference
                                  and Quotient of Variables Independently
                                  Distributed in Pearson Type III Laws . . 51--53
                      Anonymous   Report of the Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute of Mathematical
                                  Statistics at St. Louis  . . . . . . . . 54--54

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 1936

                 Cecil C. Craig   Sheppard's Corrections for a Discrete
                                  Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61
                 Ching-Lai Shen   Fundamentals of the Theory of Inverse
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--112

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 7, Number 3, September, 1936

                 John W. Fertig   On a Method of Testing the Hypothesis
                                  That an Observed Sample of $n$ Variables
                                  and of Size $N$ Has Been Drawn From a
                                  Specified Population of the Same Number
                                  of Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
            William R. Thompson   On Confidence Ranges for the Median and
                                  Other Expectation Distributions for
                                  Populations of Unknown Distribution Form 122--128
        Walter A. Hendricks and   
                  Kate W. Robey   The Sampling Distribution of the
                                  Coefficient of Variation . . . . . . . . 129--132
                 H. R. Grummann   Some Notes on Exponential Analysis . . . 133--144
                    H. L. Rietz   On the Frequency Distribution of Certain
                                  Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153
                      Anonymous   Editorial: The Fundamental Nature and
                                  Proof of Sheppard's Adjustments  . . . . 154--163

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 7, Number 4, December, 1936

           Harry Sylvester Will   On a General Solution for the Parameters
                                  of Any Function With Application to the
                                  Theory of Organic Growth . . . . . . . . 165--190
            Everett H. Larguier   On a Method for Evaluating the Moments
                                  of a Bernoulli Distribution  . . . . . . 191--195
              Carl-Erik Quensel   A Method of Determining the Regression
                                  Curve When the Marginal Distribution is
                                  of the Normal Logarithmic Type . . . . . 196--201
                 Stuart C. Dodd   The Standard Error of a ``Social Force'' 202--209
            Walter A. Hendricks   An Approximation to ``Student's''
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--221


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1937

                John L. Roberts   Applications of Two Osculatory Formulas  1--4
                  C. H. Forsyth   Some Simple Developments in the Use of
                                  the Coefficient of Stability . . . . . . 5--11
                 Edward L. Dodd   Internal and External Means Arising From
                                  the Scaling of Frequency Functions . . . 12--20
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Moments of Any Rational Integral
                                  Isobaric Sample Moment Function  . . . . 21--65
                John L. Roberts   A Coefficient of Correlation Between
                                  Scholarship and Salaries . . . . . . . . 66--68
             William J. Kirkham   Note on the Derivation of the Multiple
                                  Correlation Coefficient  . . . . . . . . 68--71
                Chester C. Camp   Note on Numerical Evaluation of Double
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
                 Allen T. Craig   Report of the Annual Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 1937

                Felix Bernstein   Regression and Correlation Evaluated by
                                  a Method of Partial Sums . . . . . . . . 77--89
                 Burton H. Camp   Methods of Obtaining Probability
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--102
                   John Riordan   Moment Recurrence Relations for
                                  Binomial, Poisson and Hypergeometric
                                  Frequency Distributions  . . . . . . . . 103--111
              Albert Wertheimer   Note on Zoch's Paper on the Postulate of
                                  the Arithmetic Mean  . . . . . . . . . . 112--115
                    C. E. Clark   Note on the Binomial Distribution  . . . 116--117
                   Nilan Norris   Convexity Properties of Generalized Mean
                                  Value Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120
                 Dinsmore Alter   A Simple Form of Periodogram . . . . . . 121--126

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 1937

               Solomon Kullback   On Certain Distributions Derived From
                                  the Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . 127--144
              Jan K. Wisniewski   A Problem in Least Squares . . . . . . . 145--148
                   Paul G. Hoel   A Significance Test for Component
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--158
               William G. Madow   Contributions to the Theory of
                                  Comparative Statistical Analysis. I.
                                  Fundamental Theorems of Comparative
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--176
               Richmond T. Zoch   Reply to Mr. Wertheimer's Paper  . . . . 177--178

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 1937

                George A. Baker   Correlation Surfaces of Two or More
                                  Indices When the Components of the
                                  Indices are Normally Distributed . . . . 179--182
                  Leo A. Aroian   The Type B Gram--Charlier Series . . . . 183--192
             John W. Fertig and   
            Elizabeth A. Proehl   A Test of a Sample Variance Based on
                                  Both Tail Ends of the Distribution . . . 193--205
                 Frank S. Beale   On the Polynomials Related to the
                                  Differential Equation $ \frac {1}{y}
                                  \frac {dy}{dx} = \frac {a_0 + a_1x}{b_0
                                  + b_1x + b_2x^2} \equiv \frac {N}{D} $   206--223
                  Paul S. Dwyer   The Simultaneous Computation of Groups
                                  of Regression Equations and Associated
                                  Multiple Correlation Coefficients  . . . 224--231
                      Anonymous   Constitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--234
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
                      Anonymous   Directory of \insttitleInstitute of
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 236--238


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 9, Number 1, March, 1938

                  Paul S. Dwyer   Combined Expansions of Products of
                                  Symmetric Power Sums and of Sums of
                                  Symmetric Power Products with
                                  Application to Sampling  . . . . . . . . 1--47
                 Allen T. Craig   On the Independence of Certain Estimates
                                  of Variance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
            Joseph A. Greenwood   Variance of a General Matching Problem   56--59
                    S. S. Wilks   The Large-Sample Distribution of the
                                  Likelihood Ratio for Testing Composite
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
                   M. Ziaud-Din   On Differential Operator Developed by
                                  O'Toole  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
                 Nathan Keyfitz   Graduation by a Truncated Normal . . . . 66--67
                     B. H. Camp   Notice to Subscribers of the
                                  \booktitleAnnals of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Allen T. Craig   Report of the Annual Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 1938

                      J. Neyman   Tests of Statistical Hypotheses Which
                                  are Unbiased in the Limit  . . . . . . . 69--86
           Harold Hotelling and   
              Lester R. Frankel   The Transformation of Statistics to
                                  Simplify their Distribution  . . . . . . 87--96
                  Paul S. Dwyer   On Combined Expansions of Products of
                                  Symmetric Power Sums and of Sums of
                                  Symmetric Power Products with
                                  Applications to Sampling (Continued) . . 97--132
                     E. G. Olds   Distributions of Sums of Squares of Rank
                                  Differences for Small Numbers of
                                  Individuals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--148
                  D. B. De Lury   Note on Correlations . . . . . . . . . . 149--151

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 1938

                 Edward L. Dodd   Interior and Exterior Means Obtained by
                                  the Method of Moments  . . . . . . . . . 153--157
                   Paul G. Hoel   On the Chi-Square Distribution for Small
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--165
                    S. S. Wilks   Shortest Average Confidence Intervals
                                  from Large Samples . . . . . . . . . . . 166--175
                   A. C. Olshen   Transformations of the Pearson Type III
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--200
               Daisy M. Starkey   A Test of the Significance of the
                                  Difference Between Means of Samples from
                                  Two Normal Populations Without Assuming
                                  Equal Variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--213
                   Nilan Norris   Some Efficient Measures of Relative
                                  Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--220
                 Burton H. Camp   Notes on the Distribution of the
                                  Geometric Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--226
                    H. M. Bacon   Note on a Formula for the Multiple
                                  Correlation Coefficient  . . . . . . . . 227--229

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 1938

                      P. L. Hsu   Notes on Hotelling's Generalized $T$ . . 231--243
                        A. Wald   Generalization of the Inequality of
                                  Markoff  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--255
                   R. von Mises   A Modification of Bayes' Problem . . . . 256--259
                Hilda Geiringer   On the Probability Theory of Arbitrarily
                                  Linked Events  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--271
                    S. S. Wilks   Fiducial Distributions in Fiducial
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--280
            William R. Thompson   Biological Applications of Normal Range
                                  and Associated Significance Tests in
                                  Ignorance of Original Distribution Forms 281--287
                  Paul S. Dwyer   The Computation of Moments with the Use
                                  of Cumulative Totals . . . . . . . . . . 288--304
                  Louis Guttman   A Note on the Derivation of Formulae for
                                  Multiple and Partial Correlation . . . . 305--308
               Clyde A. Bridger   Note on Regression Functions in the Case
                                  of Three Second Order Random Variables   309--313


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 10, Number 1, March, 1939

                Alfred J. Lotka   A Contribution to the Theory of
                                  Self-Renewing Aggregates, With Special
                                  Reference to Industrial Replacement  . . 1--25
                 Allen T. Craig   On the Mathematics of the Representative
                                  Method of Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 26--34
                      J. Neyman   On a New Class of ``Contagious''
                                  Distributions, Applicable in Entomology
                                  and Bacteriology . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--57
                    B. L. Welch   On Confidence Limits and Sufficiency,
                                  with Particular Reference to Parameters
                                  of Location  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--69
                   J. F. Kenney   The Regression Systems of Two Sums
                                  Having Random Elements in Common . . . . 70--73
              Albert Wertheimer   A Note on Confidence Intervals and
                                  Inverse Probability  . . . . . . . . . . 74--76
               Solomon Kullback   Note on a Matching Problem . . . . . . . 77--80
                    A. T. Craig   Report of the Annual Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 81--83
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 84--90
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 91--92
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
                      Anonymous   Directory of \insttitleInstitute of
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 95--98

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 10, Number 2, June, 1939

                   R. von Mises   The Limits of a Distribution Function if
                                  Two Expected Values are Given  . . . . . 99--104
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Confidence Limits for Continuous
                                  Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 105--118
                George W. Brown   On the Power of the $ L_1 $ Test for
                                  Equality of Several Variances  . . . . . 119--128
                 M. S. Bartlett   Complete Simultaneous Fiducial
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
                     G. Tintner   On Tests of Significance in Time Series  139--143
                Alfred J. Lotka   On an Integral Equation in Population
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--161
                   C. Eisenhart   The Interpretation of Certain Regression
                                  Methods and Their Use in Biological and
                                  Industrial Research  . . . . . . . . . . 162--186
                     A. M. Mood   Note on the $ L_1 $ Test for Many
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190
                    C. D. Smith   On Tchebycheff Approximation for
                                  Decreasing Functions . . . . . . . . . . 190--192
                 Dinsmore Alter   Correction of Sample Moment Bias Due to
                                  Lack of High Contact and to Histogram
                                  Grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--195
               E. V. Huntington   Frequency Distribution of Product and
                                  Quotient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--198
               Harold D. Larsen   Moments About the Arithmetic Mean of a
                                  Hypergeometric Frequency Distribution    198--201
                Hilda Geiringer   Errata: ``On the Probability Theory of
                                  Arbitrarily Linked Events''  . . . . . . 202--202

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 10, Number 3, September, 1939

                 M. A. Girshick   On the Sampling Theory of Roots of
                                  Determinantal Equations  . . . . . . . . 203--224
                S. S. Wilks and   
                     J. F. Daly   An Optimum Property of Confidence
                                  Regions Associated with the Likelihood
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--235
                    J. Lukomski   On Some Properties of Multidimensional
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--246
              George B. Dantzig   On a Class of Distributions that
                                  Approach the Normal Distribution
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
                 Edward L. Dodd   The Length of the Cycles which Result
                                  from the Graduation of Chance Elements   254--264
                    H. L. Rietz   On the Distribution of the ``Student''
                                  Ratio for Small Samples from Certain
                                  Non-Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . 265--274
              M. G. Kendall and   
             B. Babington Smith   The Problem of $m$ Rankings  . . . . . . 275--287
           J. Stevens Stock and   
              Lester R. Frankel   The Allocation of Samplings Among
                                  Several Strata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--293
                   J. A. Joseph   On the Coefficients of the Expansion of
                                  $ X^{(n)} $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--296
        Joseph A. Greenwood and   
              T. N. E. Greville   On the Probability of Attaining a Given
                                  Standard Deviation Ratio in an Infinite
                                  Series of Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 1939

                   Abraham Wald   Contributions to the Theory of
                                  Statistical Estimation and Testing
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--326
                  D. M. Starkey   The Distribution of the Multiple
                                  Correlation Coefficient in Periodogram
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--336
                 M. D. McCarthy   On the Application of the $Z$-Test to
                                  Randomized Blocks  . . . . . . . . . . . 337--359
            Arnold N. Lowan and   
                  Jack Laderman   On the Distribution of Errors in $
                                  N^{th} $ Tabular Differences . . . . . . 360--364
                  B. A. Lengyel   On Testing the Hypothesis that Two
                                  Samples Have Been Drawn from a Common
                                  Normal Population  . . . . . . . . . . . 365--375
                  Jack Laderman   The Distribution of ``Student's'' Ratio
                                  for Samples of Two Items Drawn from
                                  Non-Normal Universes . . . . . . . . . . 376--379
               J. B. D. Derksen   On Some Infinite Series Introduced by
                                  Tschuprow  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--383
                   R. A. Fisher   A Note on Fiducial Inference . . . . . . 383--388
               Solomon Kullback   A Note on Neyman's Theory of Statistical
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--390
                   C. Eisenhart   A Note on a Priori Information . . . . . 390--393
               Morris C. Bishop   A Note on Computation for Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--399
                      Anonymous   Announcement Concerning Computation of
                                  Mathematical Tables  . . . . . . . . . . 399--401


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1940

                 Joseph F. Daly   On the Unbiased Character of
                                  Likelihood-Ratio Tests for Independence
                                  in Normal Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--32
                Paul L. Dressel   Statistical Seminvariants and Their
                                  Estimates with Particular Emphasis on
                                  Their Relation to Algebraic Invariants   33--57
                   Paul G. Hoel   The Errors Involved in Evaluating
                                  Correlation Determinants . . . . . . . . 58--65
                    P. S. Dwyer   The Cumulative Numbers and Their
                                  Polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
                Gertrude M. Cox   Enumeration and Construction of Balanced
                                  Incomplete Block Configurations  . . . . 72--85
                Milton Friedman   A Comparison of Alternative Tests of
                                  Significance for the Problem of $m$
                                  Rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92
                  W. G. Cochran   Note on an Approximate Formula for the
                                  Significance Levels of $Z$ . . . . . . . 93--95
                   Abraham Wald   A Note on the Analysis of Variance with
                                  Unequal Class Frequencies  . . . . . . . 96--100
               William G. Madow   The Distribution of Quadratic Forms in
                                  Non-Central Normal Random Variables  . . 100--103
                Louis Olshevsky   Two Properties of Sufficient Statistics  104--106
                    W. D. Evans   Note on the Moments of a Binomially
                                  Distributed Variate  . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
                  Paul R. Rider   Report of the Annual Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 110--115
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 116--117
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
                      Anonymous   Directory of the \insttitleInstitute of
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 120--123

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1940

               William G. Madow   Limiting Distributions of Quadratic and
                                  Bilinear Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--146
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   On a Test Whether Two Samples are from
                                  the Same Population  . . . . . . . . . . 147--162
                 Edward L. Dodd   The Substitutive Mean and Certain
                                  Subclasses of this General Mean  . . . . 163--176
                 Cecil C. Craig   The Product Semi-Invariants of the Mean
                                  and a Central Moment in Samples  . . . . 177--185
              George B. Dantzig   On the Non-Existence of Tests of
                                  ``Student's'' Hypothesis Having Power
                                  Functions Independent of $ \sigma $  . . 186--192
            Olav Reiersôl   A Method for Recurrent Computation of
                                  all the Principal Minors of a
                                  Determinant, and its Application in
                                  Confluence Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 193--198
                    W. J. Dixon   A Criterion for Testing the Hypothesis
                                  that Two Samples are from the Same
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--204
                John W. Mauchly   Significance Test for Sphericity of a
                                  Normal $n$-Variate Distribution  . . . . 204--209
                S. Kullback and   
                     A. Frankel   A Simple Sampling Experiment on
                                  Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
               A. C. Cohen, Jr.   The Numerical Computation of the Product
                                  of Conjugate Imaginary Gamma Functions   213--218
                    G. A. Baker   Comparison of Pearsonian Approximations
                                  with Exact Sampling Distributions of
                                  Means and Variances in Samples from
                                  Populations Composed of the Sums of
                                  Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 219--224
                   W. E. Bleick   A Least Squares Accumulation Theorem . . 225--226

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 1940

                  N. L. Johnson   Parabolic Test for Linkage . . . . . . . 227--253
                George W. Brown   Reduction of a Certain Class of
                                  Composite Statistical Hypotheses . . . . 254--270
               Harold Hotelling   The Selection of Variates for Use in
                                  Prediction with Some Comments on the
                                  General Problem of Nuisance Parameters   271--283
                   Abraham Wald   The Fitting of Straight Lines if Both
                                  Variables are Subject to Error . . . . . 284--300
            Robert R. Singleton   A Method for Minimizing the Sum of
                                  Absolute Values of Deviations  . . . . . 301--310
               Joseph A. Pierce   A Study of a Universe of $n$ Finite
                                  Populations with Application to
                                  Moment-Function Adjustments for Grouped
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--334
                  W. G. Cochran   The Analysis of Variance when
                                  Experimental Errors Follow the Poisson
                                  or Binomial Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--347
            Bradford F. Kimball   Orthogonal Polynomials Applied to Least
                                  Square Fitting of Weighted Observations  348--352
                    P. S. Dwyer   Combinatorial Formulas for the $r$ th
                                  Standard Moment of the Sample Sum, of
                                  the Sample Mean, and of the Normal Curve 353--355
                     E. G. Olds   On a Method of Sampling  . . . . . . . . 355--358
                Max A. Woodbury   Rank Correlation when There are Equal
                                  Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--362
                 P. S. Olmstead   Note on Theoretical and Observed
                                  Distributions of Repetitive Occurrences  363--366

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1940

                     A. M. Mood   The Distribution Theory of Runs  . . . . 367--392
                Hilda Geiringer   A Generalization of the Law of Large
                                  Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--401
                  M. G. Kendall   Conditions for Uniqueness in the Problem
                                  of Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--409
                      C. T. Hsu   On Samples from a Normal Bivariate
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--426
          W. Edwards Deming and   
           Frederick F. Stephan   On a Least Squares Adjustment of a
                                  Sampled Frequency Table When the
                                  Expected Marginal Totals are Known . . . 427--444
                   Nilan Norris   The Standard Errors of the Geometric and
                                  Harmonic Means and Their Application to
                                  Index Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--448
                    A. W. Brown   A Note on the Use of a Pearson Type III
                                  Function in Renewal Theory . . . . . . . 448--453
              Evan Johnson, Jr.   Estimates of Parameters by Means of
                                  Least Squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--456
               Harold Hotelling   The Teaching of Statistics . . . . . . . 457--470
              W. Edwards Deming   Discussion of Professor Hotelling's
                                  Paper  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--471
                      Anonymous   Resolutions on the Teaching of
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
                      Anonymous   Report of the Hanover Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 475--478
                      Anonymous   Report of the War Preparedness Committee
                                  of the \insttitleInstitute of
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 479--484


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 1941

                   Abraham Wald   Asymptotically Most Powerful Tests of
                                  Statistical Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 1--19
               Harold Hotelling   Experimental Determination of the
                                  Maximum of a Function  . . . . . . . . . 20--45
                      J. Neyman   On a Statistical Problem Arising in
                                  Routine Analyses and in Sampling
                                  Inspections of Mass Production . . . . . 46--76
      Franklin E. Satterthwaite   A Concise Analysis of Certain Algebraic
                                  Forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--83
                Paul L. Dressel   A Symmetric Method of Obtaining Unbiased
                                  Estimates and Expected Values  . . . . . 84--90
                    S. S. Wilks   Determination of Sample Sizes for
                                  Setting Tolerance Limits . . . . . . . . 91--96
                 Frank S. Beale   On a Certain Class of Orthogonal
                                  Polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--103
                    P. S. Dwyer   The Skewness of the Residuals in Linear
                                  Regression Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . 104--110
             Arthur J. Kavanagh   Note on the Adjustment of Observations   111--114
               Robert D. Gordon   The Estimation of a Quotient when the
                                  Denominator is Normally Distributed  . . 115--118
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Note on Confidence Limits for Continuous
                                  Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 118--119
                    P. R. Rider   Report of the Chicago Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 123--125

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 1941

                 Edward L. Dodd   The Cyclic Effects of Linear Graduations
                                  Persisting in the Differences of the
                                  Graduated Values . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
                    A. Wald and   
                 R. J. Brookner   On the Distribution of Wilks' Statistic
                                  for Testing the Independence of Several
                                  Groups of Variates . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152
           John von Neumann and   
                 R. H. Kent and   
            H. R. Bellinson and   
                     B. I. Hart   The mean square successive difference    153--162
                   E. J. Gumbel   The Return Period of Flood Flows . . . . 163--190
                   R. von Mises   On the Foundations of Probability and
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--205
                     J. L. Doob   Probability as Measure . . . . . . . . . 206--214
               R. von Mises and   
                     J. L. Doob   Discussion of Papers on Probability
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--217
                  Leo A. Aroian   Continued fractions for the incomplete
                                  Beta function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--223
                 Cecil C. Craig   Note on the Distribution of Non-Central
                                  $t$ with an Application  . . . . . . . . 224--228
            Frederick Mosteller   Note on an Application of Runs to
                                  Quality Control Charts . . . . . . . . . 228--232
                    G. A. Baker   Test of Homogeneity for Normal
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--236
                 W. Mac Stewart   A Note on the Power of the Sign Test . . 236--239
                 J. D. Williams   Moments of the Ratio of the Mean Square
                                  Successive Difference to the Mean Square
                                  Difference in Samples From a Normal
                                  Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1941

                   Willy Feller   On the Integral Equation of Renewal
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--267
                     A. M. Mood   On the Joint Distribution of the Medians
                                  in Samples from a Multivariate
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--278
                  Chung Tsi Hsu   Samples from Two Bivariate Normal
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--292
                    L. C. Young   On randomness in ordered sequences . . . 293--300
                 Edward Paulson   On Certain Likelihood-Ratio Tests
                                  Associated with the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--306
                L. B. Tuckerman   On the Mathematically Significant
                                  Figures in the Solution of Simultaneous
                                  Linear Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--316
                J. C. McPherson   On Mechanical Tabulation of Polynomials  317--327
                  Kai Lai Chung   On the Probability of the Occurrence of
                                  at Least $m$ Events Among $n$ Arbitrary
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--338
                 Cecil C. Craig   A Note on Sheppard's Corrections . . . . 339--345
                   Abraham Wald   On the Analysis of Variance in Case of
                                  Multiple Classifications with Unequal
                                  Class Frequencies  . . . . . . . . . . . 346--350
              T. N. E. Greville   The Frequency Distribution of a General
                                  Matching Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--354
                   Paul G. Hoel   On Methods of Solving Normal Equations   354--359
              Paul A. Samuelson   Conditions That the Roots of a
                                  Polynomial be Less Than Unity in
                                  Absolute Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--364
               Robert D. Gordon   Values of Mills' Ratio of Area to
                                  Bounding Ordinate and of the Normal
                                  Probability Integral for Large Values of
                                  the Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--366

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 1941

               John von Neumann   Distribution of the ratio of the mean
                                  square successive difference to the
                                  variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--395
                   Abraham Wald   Some Examples of Asymptotically Most
                                  Powerful Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--408
                  J. H. Curtiss   On the Distribution of the Quotient of
                                  Two Chance Variables . . . . . . . . . . 409--421
                 Edward L. Dodd   Some Generalizations of the Logarithmic
                                  Mean and of Similar Means of Two
                                  Variates Which Become Indeterminate When
                                  the Two Variates are Equal . . . . . . . 422--428
                  Leo A. Aroian   A Study of R. A. Fisher's $z$
                                  Distribution and the Related $F$
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--448
                  Paul S. Dwyer   The Doolittle Technique  . . . . . . . . 449--458
                 Joseph F. Daly   A Problem in Estimation  . . . . . . . . 459--461
                 A. Kolmogoroff   Confidence limits for an unknown
                                  distribution function  . . . . . . . . . 461--463
                  M. G. Kendall   Corrections to a Paper on the Uniqueness
                                  Problem of Moments . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465
                      Anonymous   Announcement Concerning Computation of
                                  Mathematical Tables  . . . . . . . . . . 465--467
                  Edwin G. Olds   Report of the Chicago Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 470--473
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 474--474


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 1942

                 R. L. Anderson   Distribution of the Serial Correlation
                                  Coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
              Tjalling Koopmans   Serial Correlation and Quadratic Forms
                                  in Normal Variables  . . . . . . . . . . 14--33
      Franklin E. Satterthwaite   A Generalized Analysis of Variance . . . 34--41
               Paul H. Anderson   Distributions in Stratified Sampling . . 42--52
                   S. Bernstein   Solution of a Mathematical Problem
                                  Connected with the Theory of Heredity    53--61
                 Burton H. Camp   Some Recent Advances in Mathematical
                                  Statistics, I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--73
                 Cecil C. Craig   Recent Advances in Mathematical
                                  Statistics, II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--85
               John von Neumann   A further remark concerning the
                                  distribution of the ratio of the mean
                                  square successive difference to the
                                  variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
               E. F. Beckenbach   Convexity Properties of Generalized Mean
                                  Value Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--90
                  Eugene Lukacs   A Characterization of the Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
           Carlos E. Dieulefait   Note on a Method of Sampling . . . . . . 94--97
                Carl H. Fischer   A Sequence of Discrete Variables
                                  Exhibiting Correlation Due to Common
                                  Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
                  Edwin G. Olds   Report of the New York Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 102--106
                  Edwin G. Olds   Report of the Dallas Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
                  Edwin G. Olds   Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasurer
                                  of the \insttitleInstitute . . . . . . . 107--109
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 110--113

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 1942

                Alfred J. Lotka   The Progeny of an Entire Population  . . 115--126
                   Abraham Wald   Asymptotically Shortest Confidence
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
                    P. S. Dwyer   Grouping Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--155
                   R. von Mises   On the Correct Use of Bayes' Formula . . 156--165
           Frederick F. Stephan   An Iterative Method of Adjusting Sample
                                  Frequency Tables When Expected Marginal
                                  Totals are Known . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--178
                    A. A. Hasel   Estimation of Volume in Timber Stands by
                                  Strip Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--206
                 B. I. Hart and   
               John von Neumann   Tabulation of the Probabilities for the
                                  Ratio of the Mean Square Successive
                                  Difference to the Variance . . . . . . . 207--214
                 Irving W. Burr   Cumulative Frequency Functions . . . . . 215--232
                 Edward Paulson   An Approximate Normalization of the
                                  Analysis of Variance Distribution  . . . 233--235
                 M. A. Girshick   Note on the Distribution of Roots of a
                                  Polynomial with Random Complex
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
                Hilda Geiringer   A Note on the Probability of Arbitrary
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--245
                 Z. W. Birnbaum   An Inequality for Mill's Ratio . . . . . 245--246

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 1942

                   J. Wolfowitz   Additive Partition Functions and a Class
                                  of Statistical Hypotheses  . . . . . . . 247--279
           Henry Scheffé   On the Theory of Testing Composite
                                  Hypotheses with One Constraint . . . . . 280--293
                   I. L. Battin   On the Problem of Multiple Matching  . . 294--305
                 H. B. Mann and   
                        A. Wald   On the Choice of the Number of Class
                                  Intervals in the Application of the Chi
                                  Square Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--317
            Bradford F. Kimball   Limited Type of Primary Probability
                                  Distribution Applied to Annual Maximum
                                  Flood Flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--325
      Franklin E. Satterthwaite   Linear Restrictions on Chi-Square  . . . 326--331
                  A. T. Lonseth   Systems of Linear Equations with
                                  Coefficients Subject to Error  . . . . . 332--337
                  Kai-Lai Chung   On Mutually Favorable Events . . . . . . 338--349
                Hilda Geiringer   Observations on Analysis of Variance
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--369

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 13, Number 4, December, 1942

           Henry Scheffé   On the Ratio of the Variances of Two
                                  Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 371--388
                   Abraham Wald   Setting of Tolerance Limits When the
                                  Sample is Large  . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--399
                    S. S. Wilks   Statistical Prediction with Special
                                  Reference to the Problem of Tolerance
                                  Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--409
            F. E. Satterthwaite   Generalized Poisson Distribution . . . . 410--417
                  Henry B. Mann   The construction of orthogonal Latin
                                  squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--423
                P. A. Samuelson   A Method of Determining Explicitly the
                                  Coefficients of the Characteristic
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--429
                  J. H. Curtiss   A Note on the Theory of Moment
                                  Generating Functions . . . . . . . . . . 430--433
                   Abraham Wald   On the Power Function of the Analysis of
                                  Variance Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--439
                 Edward Paulson   A Note on the Estimation of Some Mean
                                  Values for a Bivariate Distribution  . . 440--445
                     B. I. Hart   Significance Levels for the Ratio of the
                                  Mean Square Successive Difference to the
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--447
                 M. A. Girshick   A Correction: ``Note on the Distribution
                                  of Roots of a Polynomial with Random
                                  Complex Coefficients'' . . . . . . . . . 447--447
                  Edwin G. Olds   Report of the Poughkeepsie Meeting of
                                  the \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . 448--449
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 450--453


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 14, Number 1, March, 1943

               Harold Hotelling   Some New Methods in Matrix Calculation   1--34
           Henry Scheffé   On Solutions of the Behrens--Fisher
                                  Problem, Based on the $t$-Distribution   35--44
                   Abraham Wald   An Extension of Wilks' Method for
                                  Setting Tolerance Limits . . . . . . . . 45--55
               Alfred M. Peiser   Asymptotic Formulas for Significance
                                  Levels of Certain Distributions  . . . . 56--62
                  Kai Lai Chung   Generalization of Poincaré's Formula in
                                  the Theory of Probability  . . . . . . . 63--65
             Frieda S. Swed and   
                   C. Eisenhart   Tables for testing randomness of
                                  grouping in a sequence of alternatives   66--87
                 Allen T. Craig   A Note on the Best Linear Estimate . . . 88--90
                 Edward Paulson   A Note on Tolerance Limits . . . . . . . 90--93
                  Leo A. Aroian   A New Approximation to the Levels of
                                  Significance of the Chi-Square
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
                 Cecil C. Craig   Annual Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
                  Edwin G. Olds   Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasurer
                                  of the \insttitleInstitute . . . . . . . 100--102
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 102--104
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 14, Number 2, June, 1943

                  J. H. Curtiss   On Transformations Used in the Analysis
                                  of Variance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--122
                  Kai Lai Chung   On Fundamental Systems of Probabilities
                                  of a Finite Number of Events . . . . . . 123--133
                   Abraham Wald   On the Efficient Design of Statistical
                                  Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--140
              D. S. Villars and   
                 T. W. Anderson   Some Significance Tests for Normal
                                  Bivariate Distributions  . . . . . . . . 141--148
               Herbert A. Simon   Symmetric Tests of the Hypothesis that
                                  the Mean of One Normal Population
                                  Exceeds that of Another  . . . . . . . . 149--154
                   Paul G. Hoel   On Indices of Dispersion . . . . . . . . 155--162
                   E. J. Gumbel   On Serial Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . 163--178
              Paul A. Samuelson   Fitting general Gram--Charlier series    179--187
             Harold C. Mathisen   A Method of Testing the Hypothesis that
                                  Two Samples are from the Same Population 188--194
                 Allen T. Craig   Note on the Independence of Certain
                                  Quadratic Forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--197
               Irving Kaplansky   A Characterization of the Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--201
                      Anonymous   Special Courses in Statistical Quality
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
                      Anonymous   Report of the New York Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 204--204

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 14, Number 3, September, 1943

                  W. G. Cochran   The Comparison of Different Scales of
                                  Measurement for Experimental Results . . 205--216
                 H. B. Mann and   
                        A. Wald   On Stochastic Limit and Order
                                  Relationships  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--226
           Henry Scheffé   On a Measure Problem Arising in the
                                  Theory of Non-Parametric Tests . . . . . 227--233
                  Kai Lai Chung   Further Results on Probabilities of a
                                  Finite Number of Events  . . . . . . . . 234--237
                   R. von Mises   On the Problem of Testing Hypotheses . . 238--252
                   E. J. Gumbel   On the Reliability of the Classical
                                  Chi-Square Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--263
                    H. F. Dodge   A Sampling Inspection Plan for
                                  Continuous Production  . . . . . . . . . 264--279
                   J. Wolfowitz   On the Theory of Runs with some
                                  Applications to Quality Control  . . . . 280--288
                   Paul G. Hoel   The Accuracy of Sampling Methods in
                                  Ecology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--300
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
                 Edward G. Olds   Report of the Washington Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
                    Howard Hand   Report of the First Meeting of the
                                  Pittsburgh Chapter of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 303--304

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 14, Number 4, December, 1943

           Henry Scheffé   Statistical Inference in the
                                  Non-Parametric Case  . . . . . . . . . . 305--332
           Morris H. Hansen and   
             William N. Hurwitz   On the Theory of Sampling from Finite
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--362
                  Walter Bartky   Multiple Sampling with Constant
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--377
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   An exact test for randomness in the
                                  non-parametric case, based on serial
                                  correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--388
                      W. Feller   On a General Class of ``Contagious''
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--400
                     H. B. Mann   On the Construction of Sets of
                                  Orthogonal Latin Squares . . . . . . . . 401--414
              Alexander M. Mood   On the Dependence of Sampling Inspection
                                  Plans Upon Population Distributions  . . 415--425
                 T. W. Anderson   On Card Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--435
                 Robert Dorfman   The Detection of Defective Members of
                                  Large Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . 436--440
               Harold Hotelling   Further Points on Matrix Calculation and
                                  Simultaneous Equations . . . . . . . . . 440--441
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--443
                  Edwin G. Olds   Report on the New Brunswick Meeting of
                                  the \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . 444--445
                    Howard Hand   Report on the Second Meeting of the
                                  Pittsburgh Chapter of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 445--445
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 445--447
                      Anonymous   Directory of the \insttitleInstitute of
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 448--468


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1944

           William G. Madow and   
               Lillian H. Madow   On the Theory of Systematic Sampling, I  1--24
                Hilda Geiringer   On the Probability Theory of Linkage in
                                  Mendelian Heredity . . . . . . . . . . . 25--57
                  H. Levene and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   The covariance matrix of runs up and
                                  down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--69
                  H. E. Robbins   On the Measure of a Random Set . . . . . 70--74
                Frank E. Grubbs   On the Distribution of the Radial
                                  Standard Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
                  Paul S. Dwyer   A Matrix Presentation of Least Squares
                                  and Correlation Theory with Matrix
                                  Justification of Improved Methods of
                                  Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
           Benjamin Epstein and   
              C. West Churchman   On the Statistics of Sensitivity Data    90--96
                   J. Wolfowitz   Note on Runs of Consecutive Elements . . 97--98
               Albert H. Bowker   Note on Consistency of a Proposed Test
                                  for the Problem of Two Samples . . . . . 98--101
                A. R. Crathorne   Henry Lewis Rietz --- In Memoriam  . . . 102--108
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
                    C. C. Craig   Annual Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
                  Edwin C. Olds   Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasurer
                                  of the \insttitleInstitute . . . . . . . 113--114
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 114--116
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--118

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1944

               Wilfrid J. Dixon   Further Contributions to the Problem of
                                  Serial Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . 119--144
                   Abraham Wald   On a Statistical Problem Arising in the
                                  Classification of an Individual into One
                                  of Two Groups  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--162
                   J. Wolfowitz   Asymptotic distribution of runs up and
                                  down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
            H. Hurwitz, Jr. and   
                         M. Kac   Statistical Analysis of Certain Types of
                                  Random Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--181
                 Paul R. Halmos   Random Alms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--189
                 T. A. Bancroft   On Biases in Estimation Due to the Use
                                  of Preliminary Tests of Significance . . 190--204
                  Joseph Ullman   The Probability of Convergence of an
                                  Iterative Process of Inverting a Matrix  205--213
                Herbert Robbins   On Distribution-free Tolerance Limits in
                                  Random Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--216
          H. Scheffé and   
                    J. W. Tukey   A formula for sample sizes for
                                  population tolerance limits  . . . . . . 217--217
              T. N. E. Greville   A Generalization of Waring's Formula . . 218--219
                   H. G. Landau   Note on the Variance and Best Estimates  219--221
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--225
                    W. G. Madow   Report on the Washington Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 226--227

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 15, Number 3, September, 1944

                     J. L. Doob   The Elementary Gaussian Processes  . . . 229--282
                   Abraham Wald   On Cumulative Sums of Random Variables   283--296
               Harold Hotelling   Some Improvements in Weighing and Other
                                  Experimental Techniques  . . . . . . . . 297--306
               Boyd Harshbarger   On the Analysis of a Certain Six-By-Six
                                  Four-Group Lattice Design  . . . . . . . 307--320
                  H. E. Robbins   On the Expected Values of Two Statistics 321--323
                  A. T. Lonseth   On Relative Errors in Systems of Linear
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
                 Louis M. Court   A Reciprocity Principle for the
                                  Neyman--Pearson Theory of Testing
                                  Statistical Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 326--327
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
           Herbert S. Zuckerman   An inequality due to H. Hornich  . . . . 328--329
                   Abraham Wald   Note on a Lemma  . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--333
         J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr.   A Note on Skewness and Kurtosis  . . . . 333--335
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
                    P. S. Dwyer   Report on the Wellesley Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 338--339
                      Anonymous   Amendments to the Constitution and
                                  By-Laws of the \insttitleInstitute . . . 340--341
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 342--343

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1944

             T. W. Anderson and   
                 M. A. Girshick   Some Extensions of the Wishart
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--357
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Statistical Tests Based on Permutations
                                  of the Observations  . . . . . . . . . . 358--372
            F. E. Satterthwaite   Error Control in Matrix Calculation  . . 373--387
                    Emma Lehmer   Inverse Tables of Probabilities of
                                  Errors of the Second Kind  . . . . . . . 388--398
                      L. C. Hsu   Some Combinatorial Formulas with
                                  Applications to Probable Values of a
                                  Polynomial-Product and to Differences of
                                  Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--413
                   E. J. Gumbel   Ranges and Midranges . . . . . . . . . . 414--422
            Bradford F. Kimball   Note on Asymptotic Value of Probability
                                  Distribution of Sum of Random Variables
                                  which are Greater than a Set of
                                  Arbitrarily Chosen Numbers . . . . . . . 423--427
               Harold Hotelling   Note on a matric theorem of A. T. Craig  427--429
           Henry Scheffé   A note on the Behrens--Fisher problem    430--432
              T. N. E. Greville   On Multiple Matching with One Variable
                                  Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--434
                  W. G. Cochran   Review: E. S. Pearson, John Wishart,
                                  \booktitle``Student's'' Collected Papers 435--438


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 16, Number 1, March, 1945

                      P. L. Hsu   The Approximate Distributions of the
                                  Mean and Variance of a Sample of
                                  Independent Variables  . . . . . . . . . 1--29
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Sampling Inspection Plans for Continuous
                                  Production which Insure a Prescribed
                                  Limit on the Outgoing Quality  . . . . . 30--49
           Frederick F. Stephan   The Expected Value and Variance of the
                                  Reciprocal and Other Negative Powers of
                                  a Positive Bernoullian Variate . . . . . 50--61
                         M. Kac   Random Walk in the Presence of Absorbing
                                  Barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67
                   R. von Mises   On the Classification of Observation
                                  Data into Distinct Groups  . . . . . . . 68--73
      Milton da Silva Rodrigues   On an Extension of the Concept of Moment
                                  with Applications to Measures of
                                  Variability, General Similarity, and
                                  Overlapping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
                  Henry B. Mann   On a Problem of Estimation Occurring in
                                  Public Opinion Polls . . . . . . . . . . 85--90
              Kai-Lai Chung and   
                   Lietz C. Hsu   A Combinatorial Formula and its
                                  Application to the Theory of Probability
                                  of Arbitrary Events  . . . . . . . . . . 91--95
                Carl F. Kossack   On the Mechanics of Classification . . . 95--98
                 T. A. Bancroft   Note on an Identity in the Incomplete
                                  Beta Function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--102
             Walter A. Shewhart   Annual Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasurer
                                  of the \insttitleInstitute . . . . . . . 105--106
              W. G. Cochran and   
               W. E. Deming and   
                P. S. Dwyer and   
                    T. Koopmans   Report of the Membership Committee of
                                  the \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . 107--108
                C. I. Bliss and   
              W. G. Cochran and   
               W. E. Deming and   
             P. S. Olmstead and   
                    S. S. Wilks   Progress Report of the Committee on
                                  Post-War Development of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 112--113
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 1945

                        A. Wald   Sequential Tests of Statistical
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--186
          H. Scheffé and   
                    J. W. Tukey   Non-parametric estimation. I. Validation
                                  of order statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
                  Henry B. Mann   On a Test for Randomness Based on Signs
                                  of Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--199
               Irving Kaplansky   The Asymptotic Distribution of Runs of
                                  Consecutive Elements . . . . . . . . . . 200--203
                      P. L. Hsu   On the Approximate Distribution of
                                  Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--210
                   Herman Rubin   On the Distribution of the Serial
                                  Correlation Coefficient  . . . . . . . . 211--215
                    F. V. Waugh   A Note Concerning Hotelling's Method of
                                  Inverting a Partitioned Matrix . . . . . 216--217
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--220

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1945

              Ralph J. Brookner   Choice of One Among Several Statistical
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--242
                  Charles Stein   A Two-Sample Test for a Linear
                                  Hypothesis Whose Power is Independent of
                                  the Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--258
         Frederick V. Waugh and   
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Compact Computation of the Inverse of a
                                  Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--271
           Irving Kaplansky and   
                   John Riordan   Multiple Matching and Runs by the
                                  Symbolic Method  . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--277
                      P. L. Hsu   On the Power Functions of the $ E^2
                                  $-Test and the $ T^2 $-Test  . . . . . . 278--286
                   Abraham Wald   Some Generalizations of the Theory of
                                  Cumulative Sums of Random Variables  . . 287--293
                      K. Kishen   On the Design of Experiments for
                                  Weighing and Making Other Types of
                                  Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--300
                      W. Feller   Note on the Law of Large Numbers and
                                  ``Fair'' Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
                Gerhard Tintner   A Note on Rank, Multicollinearity and
                                  Multiple Regression  . . . . . . . . . . 304--308
               William G. Madow   Note on the Distribution of the Serial
                                  Correlation Coefficient  . . . . . . . . 308--310
                     H. B. Mann   Note on a Paper by C. W. Cotterman and
                                  L. H. Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
                    P. S. Dwyer   Report of the Rutgers Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 317--318

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 16, Number 4, December, 1945

                      W. Feller   On the Normal Approximation to the
                                  Binomial Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 319--329
               J. Bronowski and   
                      J. Neyman   The Variance of the Measure of a
                                  Two-Dimensional Random Set . . . . . . . 330--341
                  H. E. Robbins   On the Measure of a Random Set. II . . . 342--347
                  Reinhold Baer   Sampling from a Changing Population  . . 348--361
                   Paul G. Hoel   Testing the Homogeneity of Poisson
                                  Frequencies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--368
                      L. C. Hsu   Some Combinatorial Formulas on
                                  Mathematical Expectation . . . . . . . . 369--380
                       S. Vajda   On the Constituent Items of the
                                  Reduction and the Remainder in the
                                  Method of Least Squares  . . . . . . . . 381--386
               Boyd Harshbarger   On the Analysis of a Certain Six-By-Six
                                  Four-Group Lattice Design Using the
                                  Recovery of Inter-Block Information  . . 387--390
                Hilda Geiringer   Further Remarks on Linkage Theory in
                                  Mendelian Heredity . . . . . . . . . . . 390--393
                Hilda Geiringer   On the Definition of Distance in the
                                  Theory of the Gene . . . . . . . . . . . 393--398
              Clifford E. Berry   A Criterion of Convergence for the
                                  Classical Iterative Method of Solving
                                  Linear Simultaneous Equations  . . . . . 398--400
                         M. Kac   A Remark on Independence of Linear and
                                  Quadratic Forms Involving Independent
                                  Gaussian Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 400--401
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 402--404


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1946

            George W. Brown and   
                  John W. Tukey   Some distributions of sample means . . . 1--12
             M. A. Girshick and   
        Frederick Mosteller and   
                   L. J. Savage   Unbiased Estimates for Certain Binomial
                                  Sampling Problems with Applications  . . 13--23
                 P. S. Olmstead   Distribution of sample arrangements for
                                  runs up and down . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--33
                 Paul R. Halmos   The Theory of Unbiased Estimation  . . . 34--43
                  John E. Walsh   Some Significance Tests Based on Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--52
            Felix Cernuschi and   
              Louis Castagnetto   Chains of Rare Events  . . . . . . . . . 53--61
                  J. H. Curtiss   A Note on Some Single Sampling Plans
                                  Requiring the Inspection of a Small
                                  Number of Items  . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--70
                 Joseph F. Daly   On the Use of the Sample Range in an
                                  Analogue of Student's $t$-Test . . . . . 71--74
                  John W. Tukey   An inequality for deviations from
                                  medians  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--78
                   E. J. Gumbel   On the Independence of the Extremes in a
                                  Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--81
                 Paul Peach and   
                 S. B. Littauer   A Note on Sampling Inspection  . . . . . 81--84
                David Blackwell   On an Equation of Wald . . . . . . . . . 84--87
                     H. B. Mann   Correction to the Paper ``On a Problem
                                  of Estimation Occurring in Public
                                  Opinion Polls''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Report on the Cleveland Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 92--94
                      Anonymous   Annual Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 95--113
                      Anonymous   Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasurer
                                  of the \insttitleInstitute . . . . . . . 114--115
                      Anonymous   Annual Report of the Editor  . . . . . . 116--116
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 117--118
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 17, Number 2, June, 1946

                 M. A. Girshick   Contributions to the Theory of
                                  Sequential Analysis. I . . . . . . . . . 123--143
                  Louis Guttman   An Approach for Quantifying Paired
                                  Comparisons and Rank Order . . . . . . . 144--163
                  W. G. Cochran   Relative Accuracy of Systematic and
                                  Stratified Random Samples for a Certain
                                  Class of Populations . . . . . . . . . . 164--177
          Charles D. Ferris and   
            Frank E. Grubbs and   
             Chalmers L. Weaver   Operating Characteristics for the Common
                                  Statistical Tests of Significance  . . . 178--197
                 J. R. Vatnsdal   Minimal Variance and its Relation to
                                  Efficient Moment Tests . . . . . . . . . 198--207
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Tolerance Limits for a Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--215
             Henry Goldberg and   
                 Harriet Levine   Approximate formulas for the percentage
                                  points and normalization of $t$ and $
                                  \chi^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--225
                 Burton H. Camp   The Effect on a Distribution Function of
                                  Small Changes in the Population Function 226--231
                    C. I. Bliss   An Experimental Design for Slope-Ratio
                                  Assays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--237
               Albert H. Bowker   Computation of Factors for Tolerance
                                  Limits on a Normal Distribution when the
                                  Sample is Large  . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--240
            David F. Votaw, Jr.   The Probability Distribution of the
                                  Measure of a Random Linear Set . . . . . 240--244
               Edmund Churchill   Information Given by Odd Moments . . . . 244--246
                  John E. Walsh   Some Order Statistic Distributions for
                                  Samples of Size Four . . . . . . . . . . 246--248
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--253
                    S. Kullback   Report on the April Meeting of the
                                  Washington Chapter of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 254--255

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 17, Number 3, September, 1946

                    S. S. Wilks   Sample Criteria for Testing Equality of
                                  Means, Equality of Variances, and
                                  Equality of Covariances in a Normal
                                  Multivariate Distribution  . . . . . . . 257--281
                 M. A. Girshick   Contributions to the Theory of
                                  Sequential Analysis, II, III . . . . . . 282--298
            Bradford F. Kimball   Sufficient Statistical Estimation
                                  Functions for the Parameters of the
                                  Distribution of Maximum Values . . . . . 299--309
               D. Blackwell and   
                 M. A. Girshick   On Functions of Sequences of Independent
                                  Chance Vectors with Applications to the
                                  Problem of the ``Random Walk'' in $k$
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--317
              John W. Tukey and   
                    S. S. Wilks   Approximation of the distribution of the
                                  product of beta variables by a single
                                  beta variable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--324
               Edward C. Molina   Some Fundamental Curves for the Solution
                                  of Sampling Problems . . . . . . . . . . 325--335
                  Louis Guttman   Enlargement Methods for Computing the
                                  Inverse Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--343
                   D. J. Finney   The Frequency Distribution of Deviates
                                  from Means and Regression Lines in
                                  Samples from a Multivariate Normal
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--349
                      P. L. Hsu   On the Asymptotic Distributions of
                                  Certain Statistics Used in Testing the
                                  Independence Between Successive
                                  Observations from a Normal Population    350--354
              A. George Carlton   Estimating the Parameters of a
                                  Rectangular Distribution . . . . . . . . 355--358
                  John E. Walsh   On the Power Function of the Sign Test
                                  for Slippage of Means  . . . . . . . . . 358--362
                 J. D. Williams   An Approximation to the Probability
                                  Integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--365
                    G. A. Baker   Distribution of the Ratio of Sample
                                  Range to Sample Standard Deviation for
                                  Normal and Combinations of Normal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--369
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--376

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 17, Number 4, December, 1946

            Frederick Mosteller   On Some Useful ``Inefficient''
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--408
                 T. W. Anderson   The Non-Central Wishart Distribution and
                                  Certain Problems of Multivariate
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--431
              Alexander M. Mood   On Hotelling's Weighing Problem  . . . . 432--446
                  Kai-Lai Chung   The Approximate Distribution of
                                  Student's Statistic  . . . . . . . . . . 447--465
                   Abraham Wald   Some Improvements in Setting Limits for
                                  the Expected Number of Observations
                                  Required by a Sequential Probability
                                  Ratio Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--474
                   Paul G. Hoel   The Efficiency of the Mean Moving Range  475--482
                   J. Wolfowitz   Confidence Limits for the Fraction of a
                                  Normal Population which Lies Between Two
                                  Given Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--488
                   J. Wolfowitz   On Sequential Binomial Estimation  . . . 489--493
                   Abraham Wald   Differentiation Under the Expectation
                                  Sign in the Fundamental Identity of
                                  Sequential Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 493--497
                  Charles Stein   A Note on Cumulative Sums  . . . . . . . 498--499
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 500--504
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--513
                    P. S. Dwyer   Report on the Ithaca Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 514--515
                    P. S. Dwyer   Report of the Princeton Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 516--517
                      Anonymous   Members of the \insttitleInstitute of
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 518--556


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 18, Number 1, March, 1947

                 M. S. Bartlett   The General Canonical Correlation
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
            Elliott W. Montroll   On the Theory of Markoff Chains  . . . . 18--36
           L. A. Santaló   On the First Two Moments of the Measure
                                  of a Random Set  . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--49
                 H. B. Mann and   
                  D. R. Whitney   On a Test of Whether one of Two Random
                                  Variables is Stochastically Larger than
                                  the Other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--60
                 W. Kozakiewicz   On the Convergence of Sequences of
                                  Moment Generating Functions  . . . . . . 61--69
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                 J. Raymond and   
                H. S. Zuckerman   A Generalization of Tshebyshev's
                                  Inequality to Two Dimensions . . . . . . 70--79
                  R. B. Leipnik   Distribution of the Serial Correlation
                                  Coefficient in a Circularly Correlated
                                  Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
                  John E. Walsh   Concerning the Effect of Intraclass
                                  Correlation on Certain Significance
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--96
                  E. L. Lehmann   On Families of Admissible Tests  . . . . 97--104
                David Blackwell   Conditional Expectation and Unbiased
                                  Sequential Estimation  . . . . . . . . . 105--110
                   E. L. Welker   The Distribution of the Mean . . . . . . 111--117
                    B. L. Welch   On the Studentization of Several
                                  Variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--122
     Félix Cernuschi and   
              Louis Castagnetto   Probability Schemes with Contagion in
                                  Space and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--127
                  Edmund Pinney   Fitting Curves with Zero or Infinite End
                                  Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
                   J. Wolfowitz   Consistency of Sequential Binomial
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--135
                    Will Feller   Review: Harald Cramér,
                                  \booktitleMathematical Methods of
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--139
                 M. S. Bartlett   Review: \booktitleThe Advanced Theory of
                                  Statistics. Vol. I; Maurice G. Kendall,
                                  \booktitleThe Advanced Theory of
                                  Statistics. Vol II . . . . . . . . . . . 139--142
                  John W. Tukey   Review: Statistical Research Group
                                  [Columbia University, for the Office of
                                  Scientific Research and Development],
                                  \booktitleSequential Analysis of
                                  Statistical Data: Applications . . . . . 142--144
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--148
                    P. S. Dwyer   Report on the Boston Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
                  W. G. Cochran   Annual Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1946 . . . . . . 150--155
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Report of the Secretary-Treasurer of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1946 . . . . . . 156--158
                    S. S. Wilks   Annual Report of the Editor for 1946 . . 159--159
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 160--161
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--164

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 18, Number 2, June, 1947

           Harald Cramér   Problems in Probability Theory . . . . . 165--193
           Anthony P. Morse and   
                Frank E. Grubbs   The Estimation of Dispersion from
                                  Differences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--214
                   J. Wolfowitz   The Efficiency of Sequential Estimates
                                  and Wald's Equation for Sequential
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--230
                  John H. Smith   Estimation of Linear Functions of Cell
                                  Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--254
                 Sten Malmquist   A Statistical Problem Connected with the
                                  Counting of Radioactive Particles  . . . 255--264
                  Leo A. Aroian   The Probability Function of the Product
                                  of Two Normally Distributed Variables    265--271
                     A. Zygmund   A Remark on Characteristic Functions . . 272--276
               D. Blackwell and   
                 M. A. Girshick   A Lower Bound for the Variance of Some
                                  Unbiased Sequential Estimates  . . . . . 277--280
                  John E. Walsh   An Extension to Two Populations of an
                                  Analogue of Student's $t$-Test Using the
                                  Sample Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--285
               Albert H. Bowker   On the Norm of a Matrix  . . . . . . . . 285--288
              M. Fréchet   Definition of the Probable Deviation . . 288--290
              M. Fréchet   The General Relation Between the Mean
                                  and the Mode for a Discontinuous Variate 290--293
                   T. E. Harris   Note on Differentiation Under the
                                  Expectation Sign in the Fundamental
                                  Identity of Sequential Analysis  . . . . 294--295
                   L. J. Savage   A Uniqueness Theorem for Unbiased
                                  Sequential Binomial Estimation . . . . . 295--297
                  H. E. Robbins   Acknowledgment of Priority: ``On the
                                  Measure of a Random Set, [Parts I and
                                  II]''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 298--300
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--305
                    P. S. Dwyer   Report on the Atlantic City Meeting of
                                  the \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . 306--308

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 18, Number 3, September, 1947

                   R. von Mises   On the Asymptotic Distribution of
                                  Differentiable Statistical Functions . . 309--348
             Philip J. McCarthy   Approximate Solutions for Means and
                                  Variances in a Certain Class of Box
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--383
                   E. J. Gumbel   The Distribution of the Range  . . . . . 384--412
        Cecil Hastings, Jr. and   
        Frederick Mosteller and   
              John W. Tukey and   
              Charles P. Winsor   Low moments for small samples: a
                                  comparative study of order statistics    413--426
              Charles Stein and   
                   Abraham Wald   Sequential Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Mean of a Normal Distribution with Known
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--433
           Henry Scheffé   A Useful Convergence Theorem for
                                  Probability Distributions  . . . . . . . 434--438
                     M. Kac and   
               A. J. F. Siegert   An Explicit Representation of a
                                  Stationary Gaussian Process  . . . . . . 438--442
                    E. N. Oberg   Approximate Formulas for the Radii of
                                  Circles which Include a Specified
                                  Fraction of a Normal Bivariate
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--447
                 Edward Paulson   A Note on the Efficiency of the Wald
                                  Sequential Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--450
                   C. Truesdell   A note on the Poisson--Charlier
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--454
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 455--462
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--464
                      Anonymous   Correction: Members of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 18, Number 4, December, 1947

                  E. L. Lehmann   On Optimum Tests of Composite Hypotheses
                                  with One Constraint  . . . . . . . . . . 473--494
           Paul S. Olmstead and   
                  John W. Tukey   A corner test for association  . . . . . 495--513
                George W. Brown   Discriminant Functions . . . . . . . . . 514--528
                  John W. Tukey   Non-parametric estimation. II.
                                  Statistically equivalent blocks and
                                  tolerance regions--the continuous case   529--539
            Bradford F. Kimball   Some Basic Theorems for Developing Tests
                                  of Fit for The Case of the
                                  Non-Parametric Probability Distribution
                                  Function, I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--548
                   Abraham Wald   An Essentially Complete Class of
                                  Admissible Decision Functions  . . . . . 549--555
                   Paul G. Hoel   Discriminating Between Binomial
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--564
                 Allen T. Craig   Bilinear Forms in Normally Correlated
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--573
                    S. Kullback   On the Charlier Type B series  . . . . . 574--581
                George W. Brown   On Small-Sample Estimation . . . . . . . 582--585
                   Abraham Wald   A Note on Regression Analysis  . . . . . 586--589
                  Aurel Wintner   On the Shape of the Angular Case of
                                  Cauchy's Distribution Curves . . . . . . 589--593
                   G. E. Albert   A Note on the Fundamental Identity of
                                  Sequential Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 593--596
                  D. S. Villars   A Significance Test and Estimation in
                                  the Case of Exponential Regression . . . 596--600
                  John E. Walsh   On the Power Efficiency of a $t$-Test
                                  Formed by Pairing Sample Values  . . . . 601--604
                Maurice H. Belz   Note on the Liapounoff Inequality for
                                  Absolute Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--605
              T. N. E. Greville   Remark on the Note ``A Generalization of
                                  Waring's Formula'' . . . . . . . . . . . 605--606
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 607--611
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--615
                    C. C. Craig   Report on the New Haven Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 616--618


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 19, Number 1, March, 1948

               David G. Kendall   On the Generalized ``Birth-and-Death''
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
               Paul I. Richards   Probability of Coincidence for Two
                                  Periodically Recurring Events  . . . . . 16--29
                  John W. Tukey   Nonparametric estimation. III.
                                  Statistically equivalent blocks and
                                  multivariate tolerance regions--the
                                  discontinuous case . . . . . . . . . . . 30--39
                   Abraham Wald   Asymptotic Properties of the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimate of an Unknown
                                  Parameter of a Discrete Stochastic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--46
                    D. N. Nanda   Distribution of a Root of a
                                  Determinantal Equation . . . . . . . . . 47--57
            Frederick Mosteller   A $k$-sample slippage test for an
                                  extreme population . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
                   Paul G. Hoel   On the Uniqueness of Similar Regions . . 66--71
                Herbert Robbins   Convergence of Distributions . . . . . . 72--76
                 Z. W. Birnbaum   On Random Variables with Comparable
                                  Peakedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
                H. Burke Horton   A method for obtaining random numbers    81--85
                  W. M. Kincaid   Note on the Error in Interpolation of a
                                  Function of Two Independent Variables    85--88
                  Kai-Lai Chung   On a Lemma by Kolmogoroff  . . . . . . . 88--91
                  John W. Tukey   Approximate weights  . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
                  John E. Walsh   On the Use of the Non-Central
                                  $t$-Distribution for Comparing
                                  Percentage Points of Normal Populations  93--94
                      Anonymous   The Teaching of Statistics . . . . . . . 95--115
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 116--121
                 M. A. Girshick   Review: Abraham Wald,
                                  \booktitleSequential Analysis  . . . . . 122--123
            Frederick Mosteller   Review: George W. Snedecor,
                                  \booktitleStatistical Methods  . . . . . 124--126
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
                      Anonymous   Report on the Berkeley Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Report on the New York Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 133--136
                      Anonymous   Report on the Chicago Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
                    Will Feller   Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1947 . . . . . . 137--140
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Report of the Secretary-Treasurer of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1947 . . . . . . 141--143
                    S. S. Wilks   Report of the Editor for 1947  . . . . . 144--144
                      Anonymous   Constitution and By-Laws of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
                      Anonymous   By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--149

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 19, Number 2, June, 1948

              W. G. Cochran and   
                    C. I. Bliss   Discriminant Functions with Covariance   151--176
                      W. Feller   On the Kolmogorov--Smirnov limit
                                  theorems for empirical distributions . . 177--189
                Alfred J. Lotka   Application of Recurrent Series in
                                  Renewal Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--206
                  W. M. Kincaid   Solution of Equations by Interpolation   207--219
                   Abraham Wald   Estimation of a Parameter When the
                                  Number of Unknown Parameters Increases
                                  Indefinitely with the Number of
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--227
                   John Gurland   Inversion Formulae for the Distribution
                                  of Ratios  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--237
                  O. Kempthorne   The Factorial Approach to the Weighing
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--245
                    Jack Silber   Multiple Sampling for Variables  . . . . 246--256
                         M. Kac   On the Characteristic Functions of the
                                  Distributions of Estimates of Various
                                  Deviations in Samples from a Normal
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--261
                       G. Rasch   A Functional Equation for Wishart's
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--266
                Herbert Robbins   The Distribution of a Definite Quadratic
                                  Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--270
                Howard L. Jones   Exact Lower Moments of Order Statistics
                                  in Small Samples from a Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--273
                      L. C. Hsu   Note on an Asymptotic Expansion of the
                                  $n$ th Difference of Zero  . . . . . . . 273--277
                  Louis Guttman   An Inequality for Kurtosis . . . . . . . 277--278
                     N. Smirnov   Table for Estimating the Goodness of Fit
                                  of Empirical Distributions . . . . . . . 279--281
                     A. M. Mood   Review: Truman Lee Kelley,
                                  \booktitleFundamentals of Statistics . . 282--284
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--289
                 S. B. Littauer   Report on the New York Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 290--291

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 19, Number 3, September, 1948

              Wassily Hoeffding   A Class of Statistics with
                                  Asymptotically Normal Distribution . . . 293--325
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Optimum Character of the Sequential
                                  Probability Ratio Test . . . . . . . . . 326--339
                    D. N. Nanda   Limiting Distribution of a Root of a
                                  Determinantal Equation . . . . . . . . . 340--350
               William G. Madow   On a Source of Downward Bias in the
                                  Analysis of Variance and Covariance  . . 351--359
                Herbert Robbins   Mixture of Distributions . . . . . . . . 360--369
               Benjamin Epstein   Some Applications of the Mellin
                                  Transform in Statistics  . . . . . . . . 370--379
              G. W. Housner and   
                  J. F. Brennan   The Estimation of Linear Trends  . . . . 380--388
             Philip Hartman and   
                  Aurel Wintner   On the Effect of Decimal Corrections on
                                  Errors of Observation  . . . . . . . . . 389--393
                 K. S. Banerjee   Weighing Designs and Balanced Incomplete
                                  Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--399
                Leon H. Herbach   Bounds for Some Functions Used in
                                  Sequentially Testing the Mean of a
                                  Poisson Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 400--405
                Herbert Robbins   The Distribution of Student's $t$ When
                                  the Population Means are Unequal . . . . 406--410
                  Louis Guttman   A Distribution-Free Confidence Interval
                                  for the Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--413
              E. Cansado Maceda   On the Compound and Generalized Poisson
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--416
           Gottfried E. Noether   On Confidence Limits for Quantiles . . . 416--419
                   Eli S. Marks   A Lower Bound for the Expected Travel
                                  Among $m$ Random Points  . . . . . . . . 419--422
                    H. M. Bacon   A Matrix Arising in Correlation Theory   422--424
                    W. J. Dixon   Table of Normal Probabilities for
                                  Intervals of Various Lengths and
                                  Locations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--426
                   G. E. Albert   Correction to ``A Note on the
                                  Fundamental Identity of Sequential
                                  Analysis'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--427
                    S. Kullback   Correction to ``On the Charlier Type $B$
                                  Series'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 428--435
                 Leonid Hurwicz   Review: John von Neumann, Oskar
                                  Morgenstern, \booktitleThe Theory of
                                  Games and Economic Behavior  . . . . . . 436--437
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--443
                      Anonymous   Report on the Berkeley Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 444--446

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 19, Number 4, December, 1948

            David F. Votaw, Jr.   Testing Compound Symmetry in a Normal
                                  Multivariate Distribution  . . . . . . . 447--473
                   T. E. Harris   Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 474--494
              E. L. Lehmann and   
                       C. Stein   Most Powerful Tests of Composite
                                  Hypotheses. I. Normal Distributions  . . 495--516
              Paul S. Dwyer and   
                 M. S. Macphail   Symbolic Matrix Derivatives  . . . . . . 517--534
               William G. Madow   On the Limiting Distributions of
                                  Estimates Based on Samples from Finite
                                  Universes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--545
              Wassily Hoeffding   A Non-Parametric Test of Independence    546--557
              Herman O. A. Wold   On Prediction in Stationary Time Series  558--567
                 Burton H. Camp   Generalization to $N$ Dimensions of
                                  Inequalities of the Tchebycheff Type . . 568--574
                 R. L. Plackett   Boundaries of Minimum Size in Binomial
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--580
                   R. B. Murphy   Non-Parametric Tolerance Limits  . . . . 581--589
                  Leo A. Aroian   The Fourth Degree Exponential
                                  Distribution Function  . . . . . . . . . 589--592
                   G. F. Cramer   An Approximation to the Binomial
                                  Summation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592--594
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 595--602
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--606
                    P. S. Dwyer   Adoption of the New Constitution . . . . 607--607
                   K. J. Arnold   Report on the Madison Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 608--610


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 20, Number 1, March, 1949

                     G. R. Seth   On the Variance of Estimates . . . . . . 1--27
              E. L. Lehmann and   
                       C. Stein   On the Theory of Some Non-Parametric
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--45
             T. W. Anderson and   
                   Herman Rubin   Estimation of the Parameters of a Single
                                  Equation in a Complete System of
                                  Stochastic Equations . . . . . . . . . . 46--63
                  John E. Walsh   Some Significance Tests for the Median
                                  which are Valid Under Very General
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--81
            H. Burke Horton and   
             R. Tynes Smith III   A direct method for producing random
                                  digits in any number system  . . . . . . 82--90
                  Howard Levene   On a Matching Problem Arising in
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
                 Edward Paulson   A Multiple Decision Procedure for
                                  Certain Problems in the Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
               Benjamin Epstein   A Modified Extreme Value Problem . . . . 99--103
               Agnes Berger and   
                   Abraham Wald   On Distinct Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 104--109
            Bradford F. Kimball   An Approximation to the Sampling
                                  Variance of an Estimated Maximum Value
                                  of Given Frequency Based on Fit of
                                  Doubly Exponential Distribution of
                                  Maximum Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--113
                     A. M. Mood   Tests of Independence in Contingency
                                  Tables as Unconditional Tests  . . . . . 114--116
                  Edwin G. Olds   The $ 5 \% $ Significance Levels for
                                  Sums of Squares of Rank Differences and
                                  a Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
           Bertil Matérn   Independence of Non-Negative Quadratic
                                  Forms in Normally Correlated Variables   119--120
          Hermann von Schelling   A Formula for the Partial Sums of Some
                                  Hypergeometric Series  . . . . . . . . . 120--122
                    G. A. Baker   The Variance of the Proportions of
                                  Samples Falling within a Fixed Interval
                                  for a Normal Population  . . . . . . . . 123--124
                     Joseph Lev   The Point Biserial Coefficient of
                                  Correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
                   H. J. Godwin   A Note on Kac's Derivation of the
                                  Distribution of the Mean Deviation . . . 127--127
                   A. M. Peiser   Correction to ``Asymptotic Formulas for
                                  Significance Levels of Certain
                                  Distributions''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 130--143
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--150
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Election of Officers and Council and
                                  Revision of By-Laws  . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
                 Z. W. Birnbaum   Report on the Seattle Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
              W. R. Van Voorhis   Report on the Cleveland Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 152--156
                   Abraham Wald   Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1948 . . . . . . 156--160
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Report of the Secretary-Treasurer of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1948 . . . . . . 160--163
                    S. S. Wilks   Report of the Editor for 1948  . . . . . 163--164

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 20, Number 2, June, 1949

                   Abraham Wald   Statistical Decision Functions . . . . . 165--205
                  Richard Otter   The Multiplicative Process . . . . . . . 206--224
             Paul R. Halmos and   
                   L. J. Savage   Application of the Radon--Nikodym
                                  Theorem to the Theory of Sufficient
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--241
                Frank E. Grubbs   On Designing Single Sampling Inspection
                                  Plans  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--256
                  John E. Walsh   On the Range-Midrange Test and Some
                                  Tests with Bounded Significance Levels   257--267
                Herman Chernoff   Asymptotic Studentization in Testing of
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--278
                   H. J. Godwin   Some Low Moments of Order Statistics . . 279--285
                     P. Erd\Hos   On a Theorem of Hsu and Robbins  . . . . 286--291
            Kôsaku Yosida   Brownian Motion on the Surface of the
                                  $3$-Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--296
                Aryeh Dvoretzky   On the Strong Stability of a Sequence of
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--299
                 K. S. Banerjee   A Note on Weighing Design  . . . . . . . 300--304
                 John M. Howell   Control Chart for Largest and Smallest
                                  Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--309
                  John W. Tukey   Sufficiency, truncation and selection    309--311
                Max A. Woodbury   On a Probability Distribution  . . . . . 311--313
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                H. S. Zuckerman   A Graphical Determination of Sample Size
                                  for Wilks' Tolerance Limits  . . . . . . 313--316
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 317--320
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--324
                      Anonymous   Correction: News and Notices . . . . . . 324--324
                 S. B. Littauer   Report on the New York Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
                      Anonymous   Constitution of the \insttitleInstitute
                                  of Mathematical Statistics . . . . . . . 327--330
                      Anonymous   By-Laws of the \insttitleInstitute of
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 330--331

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 20, Number 3, September, 1949

               William G. Madow   On the Theory of Systematic Sampling, II 333--354
               M. H. Quenouille   Problems in Plane Sampling . . . . . . . 355--375
                R. P. Boas, Jr.   Representation of Probability
                                  Distributions by Charlier Series . . . . 376--392
                     J. L. Doob   Heuristic Approach to the
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov Theorems . . . . . . 393--403
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Pearsonian Correlation Coefficients
                                  Associated with Least Squares Theory . . 404--416
                   John Riordan   Inversion Formulas in Normal Variable
                                  Mapping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--425
           Morris H. Hansen and   
             William N. Hurwitz   On the Determination of Optimum
                                  Probabilities in Sampling  . . . . . . . 426--432
                 P. G. Hoel and   
                 R. P. Peterson   A Solution to the Problem of Optimum
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--438
                    Gunnar Blom   A Generalization of Wald's Fundamental
                                  Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--444
              Brockway McMillan   Spread of Minima of Large Samples  . . . 444--447
                    Edgar Reich   On the Convergence of the Classical
                                  Iterative Method of Solving Linear
                                  Simultaneous Equations . . . . . . . . . 448--451
                 T. A. Bancroft   Some Recurrence Formulae in the
                                  Incomplete Beta Function Ratio . . . . . 451--455
           Gottfried E. Noether   On a Theorem by Wald and Wolfowitz . . . 455--458
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                  F. C. Andrews   On Sums of Symmetrically Truncated
                                  Normal Random Variables  . . . . . . . . 458--461
               Mary Agnes Hatke   A Certain Cumulative Probability
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--463
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 464--469
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--474
                   J. L. Hodges   Report on the Berkeley Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 475--476

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 20, Number 4, December, 1949

                 E. W. Barankin   Locally Best Unbiased Estimates  . . . . 477--501
               Milton Sobel and   
                   Abraham Wald   A Sequential Decision Procedure for
                                  Choosing One of Three Hypotheses
                                  Concerning the Unknown Mean of a Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--522
                  John W. Tukey   Moments of random group size
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--539
                   J. Wolfowitz   The Power of the Classical Tests
                                  Associated with the Normal Distribution  540--551
            Herbert Robbins and   
                E. J. G. Pitman   Application of the Method of Mixtures to
                                  Quadratic Forms in Normal Variates . . . 552--560
               M. H. Quenouille   The Joint Distribution of Serial
                                  Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . . . 561--571
                 Leo A. Goodman   On the Estimation of the Number of
                                  Classes in a Population  . . . . . . . . 572--579
                  John E. Walsh   Concerning compound randomization in the
                                  binary system  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--589
               Benjamin Epstein   The Distribution of Extreme Values in
                                  Samples whose Members are Subject to a
                                  Markoff Chain Condition  . . . . . . . . 590--594
                   Abraham Wald   Note on the Consistency of the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimate  . . . . . . . . . . 595--601
                   J. Wolfowitz   On Wald's Proof of the Consistency of
                                  the Maximum Likelihood Estimate  . . . . 601--602
               Herbert T. David   A Note on Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . 603--608
            Robert E. Greenwood   Numerical Integration for Linear Sums of
                                  Exponential Functions  . . . . . . . . . 608--611
                    Arthur Sard   Smoothest Approximation Formulas . . . . 612--615
                  John E. Walsh   On the Power Function of the ``Best''
                                  $t$-Test Solution of the Behrens--Fisher
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--618
                     R. C. Bose   A Note on Fisher's Inequality for
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Designs  . . . 619--620
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 620--624
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--626
                Harris T. Guard   Report on the Boulder Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 626--628


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 21, Number 1, March, 1950

                  E. L. Lehmann   Some Principles of the Theory of Testing
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
                Frank E. Grubbs   Sample Criteria for Testing Outlying
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--58
             R. L. Anderson and   
                 T. W. Anderson   Distribution of the Circular Serial
                                  Correlation Coefficient for Residuals
                                  from a Fitted Fourier Series . . . . . . 59--81
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Bayes Solutions of Sequential Decision
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--99
                K. C. S. Pillai   On the Distributions of Midrange and
                                  Semi-Range in Samples from a Normal
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--105
               S. S. Shrikhande   The Impossibility of Certain Symmetrical
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Designs  . . . 106--111
                Richard F. Link   The Sampling Distribution of the Ratio
                                  of Two Ranges from Independent Samples   112--116
           Frank J. Massey, Jr.   A Note on the Estimation of a
                                  Distribution Function by Confidence
                                  Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
        Frederick Mosteller and   
                  John W. Tukey   Significance levels for a $k$-sample
                                  slippage test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
               Jack Sherman and   
           Winifred J. Morrison   Adjustment of an Inverse Matrix
                                  Corresponding to a Change in One Element
                                  of a Given Matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
                   Albert Noack   A Class of Random Variables with
                                  Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 127--132
               E. J. Gumbel and   
                   R. D. Keeney   The Geometric Range for Distributions of
                                  Cauchy's Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--137
              T. N. E. Greville   Remark on W. M. Kincaid's ``Note on the
                                  Error in Interpolation of a Function of
                                  Two Independent Variables''  . . . . . . 137--138
                     P. Erd\Hos   Remark on my Paper ``On a Theorem of Hsu
                                  and Robbins''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--151
                      Anonymous   Report of the New York Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitutes . . . . . . . . . . 151--155
                Carl H. Fischer   Minutes of the Annual Membership
                                  Meeting, New York, December 28, 1949 . . 155--155
                      J. Neyman   Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1949 . . . . . . 155--160
                Carl H. Fischer   Report of the Secretary-Treasurer of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1949 . . . . . . 160--163
                    S. S. Wilks   Report of the Editor of the
                                  \booktitleAnnals for 1949  . . . . . . . 163--164

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 21, Number 2, June, 1950

             T. C. Koopmans and   
             O. Reiersòl   The Identification of Structural
                                  Characteristics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--181
          J. L. Hodges, Jr. and   
                  E. L. Lehmann   Some Problems in Minimax Point
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--197
             P. V. Krishna Iyer   The Theory of Probability Distributions
                                  of Points on a Lattice . . . . . . . . . 198--217
                   J. Wolfowitz   Minimax Estimates of the Mean of a
                                  Normal Distribution with Known Variance  218--230
      Gottfried Emanuel Noether   Asymptotic Properties of the
                                  Wald--Wolfowitz Test of Randomness . . . 231--246
               E. J. Gumbel and   
               H. von Schelling   The Distribution of the Number of
                                  Exceedances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
            Bradford F. Kimball   On the Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  Sum of Powers of Unit Frequency
                                  Differences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--271
                 Z. W. Birnbaum   Effect of Linear Truncation on a
                                  Multinormal Population . . . . . . . . . 272--279
                 E. W. Barankin   Extension of a Theorem of Blackwell  . . 280--284
             Elizabeth L. Scott   Note on Consistent Estimates of the
                                  Linear Structural Relation Between Two
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--288
               Maria Castellani   On Multinomial Distributions with
                                  Limited Freedom: A Stochastic Genesis of
                                  Pareto's and Pearson's Curves  . . . . . 289--293
                   R. D. Narain   On the Completely Unbiassed Character of
                                  Tests of Independence in Multivariate
                                  Normal Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--298
                     G. R. Seth   On the Distribution of the Two Closest
                                  Among a Set of Three Observations  . . . 298--301
                      W. Feller   Errata: ``On the Kolmogorov--Smirnov
                                  Limit Theorems for Empirical
                                  Distributions''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 302--315
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--317
                Herbert Robbins   Report of the Chapel Hill Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 317--319

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 21, Number 3, September, 1950

                     M. Lo\`eve   Fundamental Limit Theorems of
                                  Probability Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 321--338
                     B. Sherman   A Random Variable Related to the Spacing
                                  of Sample Values . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--361
              Raghu Raj Bahadur   On a Problem in the Theory of $k$
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--375
              E. L. Lehmann and   
                  Charles Stein   Completeness in the Sequential Case  . . 376--385
                  John E. Walsh   Some Estimates and Tests Based on the
                                  $r$ Smallest Values in a Sample  . . . . 386--397
                       Leo Katz   On the relative efficiencies of BAN
                                  estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--405
                  Charles Stein   Unbiased Estimates with Minimum Variance 406--415
        Robert E. Greenwood and   
                Mark O. Glasgow   Distribution of Maximum and Minimum
                                  Frequencies in a Sample Drawn from a
                                  Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . 416--424
                    R. C. Davis   Derivation of a Broad Class of
                                  Consistent Estimates . . . . . . . . . . 425--431
                    D. N. Nanda   Distribution of the Sum of Roots of a
                                  Determinantal Equation under a Certain
                                  Condition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--439
              F. J. Massey, Jr.   A Note on the Power of a Non-Parametric
                                  Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--443
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                  D. G. Chapman   On Optimum Selections from Multinormal
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--447
               J. M. Hammersley   The Distribution of Distance in a
                                  Hypersphere  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--452
                  R. K. Zeigler   A Note on the Asymptotic Simultaneous
                                  Distribution of the Sample Median and
                                  the Mean Deviation from the Sample
                                  Median . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--455
                Osmer Carpenter   Note on the Extension of Craig's Theorem
                                  to Non-Central Variates  . . . . . . . . 455--457
          Hermann von Schelling   A Second Formula for the Partial Sum of
                                  Hypergeometric Series Having Unity as
                                  the Fourth Argument  . . . . . . . . . . 458--460
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--467
                   J. K. Arnold   Report of the Chicago Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 467--468

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 21, Number 4, December, 1950

          Raghu Raj Bahadur and   
                Herbert Robbins   The Problem of the Greater Mean  . . . . 469--487; 22, 310 (1951)
                    W. J. Dixon   Analysis of Extreme Values . . . . . . . 488--506
                    Uttam Chand   Distributions Related to Comparison of
                                  Two Means and Two Regression
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--522
               E. J. Gumbel and   
                   R. D. Keeney   The Extremal Quotient  . . . . . . . . . 523--538
                    A. E. Paull   On a Preliminary Test for Pooling Mean
                                  Squares in the Analysis of Variance  . . 539--556
               A. C. Cohen, Jr.   Estimating the Mean and Variance of
                                  Normal Populations from Singly Truncated
                                  and Doubly Truncated Samples . . . . . . 557--569
             T. W. Anderson and   
                   Herman Rubin   The Asymptotic Properties of Estimates
                                  of the Parameters of a Single Equation
                                  in a Complete System of Stochastic
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--582
                  John E. Walsh   Some Nonparametric Tests of Whether the
                                  Largest Observations of a Set are too
                                  Large or too Small . . . . . . . . . . . 583--592
                 Nils Blomqvist   On a Measure of Dependence Between two
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--600
             Douglas G. Chapman   Some two Sample Tests  . . . . . . . . . 601--606
          Murray F. Freeman and   
                  John W. Tukey   Transformations related to the angular
                                  and the square root  . . . . . . . . . . 607--611
              T. N. E. Greville   Remark on the Article ``On a Class of
                                  Distributions that Approach the Normal
                                  Distribution Function'' by George B.
                                  Dantzig  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--613
                Yukiyosi Kawada   Independence of Quadratic forms in
                                  Normally Correlated Variables  . . . . . 614--615
                 John M. Howell   Errata to ``Control Chart for Largest
                                  and Smallest Values''  . . . . . . . . . 615--616
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 616--620
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--622
                   J. L. Hodges   Report of the Berkeley Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 622--624


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 22, Number 1, March, 1951

               A. Dvoretzky and   
                    A. Wald and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Elimination of Randomization in Certain
                                  Statistical Decision Procedures and
                                  Zero-Sum Two-Person Games  . . . . . . . 1--21
                 Colin R. Blyth   On Minimax Statistical Decision
                                  Procedures and their Admissibility . . . 22--42
                    R. C. Davis   On Minimum Variance in Nonregular
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--57
             Harman Leon Harter   On the Distribution of Wald's
                                  Classification Statistic . . . . . . . . 58--67
                    W. J. Dixon   Ratios Involving Extreme Values  . . . . 68--78
                S. Kullback and   
                  R. A. Leibler   On Information and Sufficiency . . . . . 79--86
          George B. Dantzig and   
                   Abraham Wald   On the Fundamental Lemma of Neyman and
                                  Pearson  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--93
                  N. L. Johnson   Estimators of the Probability of the
                                  Zero Class in Poisson and Certain
                                  Related Populations  . . . . . . . . . . 94--101
              Walter T. Federer   Testing Proportionality of Covariance
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--106
                 M. S. Bartlett   An Inverse Matrix Adjustment Arising in
                                  Discriminant Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 107--111
                David Blackwell   On a Theorem of Lyapunov . . . . . . . . 112--114
                 Masami Ogawara   A Note on the Test of Serial Correlation
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--118
                   Agnes Berger   Remark on Separable Spaces of
                                  Probability Measures . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
               E. J. Gumbel and   
            J. Arthur Greenwood   Table of the Asymptotic Distribution of
                                  the Second Extreme . . . . . . . . . . . 121--124
           Frank J. Massey, Jr.   The Distribution of the Maximum
                                  Deviation Between two Sample Cumulative
                                  Step Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
                R. M. Redheffer   A Note on the Surprise Index . . . . . . 128--130
                 Burton H. Camp   Approximation to the Point Binomial  . . 130--131
               C. Chandra Sekar   A Theorem on the Correlation Coefficient
                                  for Samples of Three when the Variables
                                  are Independent  . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
               Benjamin Epstein   Correction to ``The Distribution of
                                  Extreme Values in Samples whose Members
                                  are Subject to a Markoff Chain
                                  Condition''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 134--144
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--149
                   K. J. Arnold   Report of the Chicago Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 149--157
                   K. J. Arnold   Minutes of the Annual Membership
                                  Meeting, Chicago, December 27, 1950  . . 157--158
                     J. L. Doob   Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1950 . . . . . . 159--160
                Carl H. Fischer   Report of the Secretary-Treasurer of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1950 . . . . . . 161--163
                 T. W. Anderson   Report of the Editor of the
                                  \booktitleAnnals for 1950  . . . . . . . 163--164
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 164--164

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 22, Number 2, June, 1951

                  E. L. Lehmann   Consistency and Unbiasedness of Certain
                                  Nonparametric Tests  . . . . . . . . . . 165--179
                  E. S. Keeping   A Significance Test for Exponential
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--198
                 Wolfgang Wasow   On the Duration of Random Walks  . . . . 199--216
            Stanley L. Isaacson   On the Theory of Unbiased Tests of
                                  Simple Statistical Hypotheses Specifying
                                  the Values of Two or More Parameters . . 217--234
               S. S. Shrikhande   Designs for Two-Way Elimination of
                                  Heterogeneity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--247
                D. A. S. Fraser   Generalized Hit Probabilities with a
                                  Gaussian Target  . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--255
               A. C. Cohen, Jr.   Estimation of Parameters in Truncated
                                  Pearson Frequency Distributions  . . . . 256--265
                     A. M. Mood   On the Distribution of the
                                  Characteristic Roots of Normal
                                  Second-Moment Matrices . . . . . . . . . 266--273
                  D. R. Whitney   A Bivariate Extension of the $U$
                                  Statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--282
                       S. Vajda   Relations Between Variously Defined
                                  Effects and Interactions in Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--288
                   Agnes Berger   On Uniformly Consistent Tests  . . . . . 289--293
            D. A. S. Fraser and   
                R. Wormleighton   Nonparametric estimation. IV . . . . . . 294--298
                   Paul G. Hoel   Conditional Expectation and the
                                  Efficiency of Estimates  . . . . . . . . 299--301
               K. Nagabhushanam   Linear Transformations and the
                                  Product-Moment Matrix  . . . . . . . . . 302--304
           Frank J. Massey, Jr.   A Note on a Two Sample Test  . . . . . . 304--306
                    Albert Sade   An Omission in Norton's List of $ 7
                                  \times 7 $ Squares . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
                 Randal H. Cole   Relations Between Moments of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--310
          Raghu Raj Bahadur and   
                Herbert Robbins   Correction to ``The Problem of the
                                  Greater Mean'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
             P. V. Krishna Iyer   Errata: ``The theory of probability
                                  distributions of points on a lattice''   310--310
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 310--317
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--322
                   Jack Moshman   Report of the Oak Ridge Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 322--325
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 325--325

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 22, Number 3, September, 1951

                 T. W. Anderson   Estimating Linear Restrictions on
                                  Regression Coefficients for Multivariate
                                  Normal Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 327--351
                  J. Neyman and   
             Elizabeth L. Scott   On Certain Methods of Estimating the
                                  Linear Structural Relation . . . . . . . 352--361
                 Nils Blomqvist   Some Tests Based on Dichotomization  . . 362--371
                D. A. S. Fraser   Sequentially Determined Statistically
                                  Equivalent Blocks  . . . . . . . . . . . 372--381
                F. N. David and   
                  N. L. Johnson   A Method of Investigating the Effect of
                                  Nonnormality and Heterogeneity of
                                  Variance on Tests of the General Linear
                                  Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--392
                David Blackwell   On the Translation Parameter Problem for
                                  Discrete Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 393--399
            Herbert Robbins and   
                   Sutton Monro   A Stochastic Approximation Method  . . . 400--407
                  John E. Walsh   Some Bounded Significance Level
                                  Properties of the Equal-Tail Sign Test   408--417
               E. J. Gumbel and   
                  L. H. Herbach   The Exact Distribution of the Extremal
                                  Quotient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--426
                 William Feller   The Asymptotic Distribution of the Range
                                  of Sums of Independent Random Variables  427--432
              N. L. Johnson and   
                   C. A. Rogers   The Moment Problem for Unimodal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--439
                    R. C. Davis   Note on Uniformly Best Unbiased
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--445
               G. S. Watson and   
                      J. Durbin   Exact Tests of Serial Correlation using
                                  Noncircular Statistics . . . . . . . . . 446--451
          Hermann von Schelling   Distribution of the Ordinal Number of
                                  Simultaneous Events which Last During a
                                  Finite Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--455
             Robert G. D. Steel   Minimum Generalized Variance for a set
                                  of Linear Functions  . . . . . . . . . . 456--460
                   J. Wolfowitz   On $ \varepsilon $-Complete Classes of
                                  Decision Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 461--465
                   P. Frank and   
                      J. Kiefer   Almost Subminimax and Biased Minimax
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--468
                K. C. S. Pillai   On the Distribution of an Analogue of
                                  Student's $t$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--472
                Herman Chernoff   A property of some type A regions  . . . 472--474
                    C. M. Stein   A Property of Some Tests of Composite
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
                Paul B. Simpson   Note on the Estimation of a Bivariate
                                  Distribution Function  . . . . . . . . . 476--478
                 W. Kozakiewicz   On the Necessary and Sufficient
                                  Conditions for the Convergence of a
                                  Sequence of Moment Generating Functions  478--480
                   H. C. Picard   A Note on the Maximum Value of Kurtosis  480--482
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 483--488
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--492
                     A. M. Mood   Report of the Santa Monica Meeting of
                                  the \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . 492--494
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 495--495

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 22, Number 4, December, 1951

                   Jerzy Neyman   Existence of Consistent Estimates of the
                                  Directional Parameter in a Linear
                                  Structural Relation Between Two
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--512
                    Uttam Chand   Test Criteria for Hypotheses of Symmetry
                                  of a Regression Matrix . . . . . . . . . 513--522
               Sigeiti Moriguti   Extremal Properties of Extreme Value
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--536
                    P. G. Guest   The Fitting of Polynomials by the Method
                                  of Weighted Grouping . . . . . . . . . . 537--548
       A. S. Krishnamoorthy and   
               M. Parthasarathy   A Multivariate Gamma-Type Distribution   549--557
              Wassily Hoeffding   A Combinatorial Central Limit Theorem    558--566
                 Robert V. Hogg   On Ratios of Certain Algebraic Forms . . 567--572
                   Max Halperin   Normal Regression Theory in the Presence
                                  of Intra-Class Correlation . . . . . . . 573--580
         Douglas G. Chapman and   
                Herbert Robbins   Minimum Variance Estimation Without
                                  Regularity Assumptions . . . . . . . . . 581--586
                  E. L. Lehmann   A General Concept of Unbiasedness  . . . 587--592
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                 Fred H. Tingey   One-Sided Confidence Contours for
                                  Probability Distribution Functions . . . 592--596
               G. E. Albert and   
               Ralph B. Johnson   On the Estimation of Central Intervals
                                  which Contain Assigned Proportions of a
                                  Normal Univariate Population . . . . . . 596--599
                  A. W. Kimball   On Dependent Tests of Significance in
                                  the Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . 600--602
           Gottfried E. Noether   On a Connection Between Confidence and
                                  Tolerance Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . 603--604
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 604--612
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--617
                   K. J. Arnold   Report of the Minneapolis Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 617--621
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 621--621


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 23, Number 1, March, 1952

                   J. Wolfowitz   Abraham Wald, 1902--1950 . . . . . . . . 1--13
                    Karl Menger   The Formative Years of Abraham Wald and
                                  His Work in Geometry . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
                     G. Tintner   Abraham Wald's Contributions to
                                  Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
                      Anonymous   The Publications of Abraham Wald . . . . 29--33
                  Howard Levene   On the Power Function of Tests of
                                  Randomness Based on Runs up and Down . . 34--56
              W. S. Connor, Jr.   On the Structure of Balanced Incomplete
                                  Block Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--71
                Howard L. Jones   Formulas for the Group Sequential
                                  Sampling of Attributes . . . . . . . . . 72--87
                    S. Kullback   An Application of Information Theory to
                                  Multivariate Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 88--102
            Ralph Allan Bradley   Corrections for Nonnormality in the Use
                                  of the Two-Sample $t$- and $F$-Test at
                                  High Significance Levels . . . . . . . . 103--113
             M. A. Girshick and   
                   Herman Rubin   A Bayes Approach to a Quality Control
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--125
                   Jack Moshman   Testing a Straggler Mean in a Two-Way
                                  Classification Using the Range . . . . . 126--132
                   J. Hemelrijk   Note on Wilcoxon's Two-Sample Test when
                                  Ties are Present . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
                  J. Neyman and   
             Elizabeth L. Scott   Correction to ``On Certain Methods of
                                  Estimating the Linear Structural
                                  Relation'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 135--148
                  J. M. Cameron   Results of some tests of randomness on
                                  pseudo-random on numbers (preliminary
                                  report)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--152
            Churchill Eisenhart   Report of the Washington Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 152--155
                 S. B. Littauer   Report of the Boston Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute  . . . . . . . . . . 155--159
                  C. H. Fischer   Minutes of the Annual Membership
                                  Meeting, Boston, December 28, 1951 . . . 159--160
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Report of the President of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1951 . . . . . . 160--164
                Carl H. Fischer   Report of the Secretary-Treasurer of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute for 1951 . . . . . . 164--166
                 T. W. Anderson   Report of the Editor of the
                                  \booktitleAnnals for 1951  . . . . . . . 166--167
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 167--168

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 23, Number 2, June, 1952

              Wassily Hoeffding   The Large-Sample Power of Tests Based on
                                  Permutations of Observations . . . . . . 169--192
             T. W. Anderson and   
                  D. A. Darling   Asymptotic theory of certain `goodness
                                  of fit' criteria based on stochastic
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--212
            Herman Chernoff and   
           Henry Scheffé   A Generalization of the Neyman--Pearson
                                  Fundamental Lemma  . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225
                   Max Halperin   Maximum Likelihood Estimation in
                                  Truncated Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . 226--238
                 Edward Paulson   On the Comparison of Several
                                  Experimental Categories with a Control   239--246
                      H. Weiler   On the Most Economical Sample Size for
                                  Controlling the Mean of a Population . . 247--254
                     G. Elfving   Optimum Allocation in Linear Regression
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262
            Rosedith Sitgreaves   On the Distribution of two Random
                                  Matrices used in Classification
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--270
                       Leo Katz   The Distribution of the Number of
                                  Isolates in a Social Group . . . . . . . 271--276
              Monroe D. Donsker   Justification and Extension of Doob's
                                  Heuristic Approach to the
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov Theorems . . . . . . 277--281
                  Edwin G. Olds   A Note on the Convolution of Uniform
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--285
               Sigeiti Moriguti   A Lower Bound for a Probability Moment
                                  of any Absolutely Continuous
                                  Distribution with Finite Variance  . . . 286--289
                    G. A. Baker   Uniformity Field Trials when Differences
                                  in Fertility Levels of Subplots are not
                                  Included in Experimental Error . . . . . 289--293
                     K. A. Bush   A Generalization of a Theorem due to
                                  MacNeish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
                  Lee B. Harris   On a Limiting Case for the Distribution
                                  of Exceedances, with an Application to
                                  Life-Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--298
                Richard F. Link   Correction to ``The Sampling
                                  Distribution of the Ratio of Two Ranges
                                  from Independent Samples'' . . . . . . . 298--299
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--312
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 313--313

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 23, Number 3, September, 1952

             William G. Cochran   The $ \chi^2 $ test of goodness of fit   315--345
                Milton E. Terry   Some Rank Order Tests which are most
                                  Powerful Against Specific Parametric
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--366
                 R. C. Bose and   
                   W. S. Connor   Combinatorial Properties of Group
                                  Divisible Incomplete Block Designs . . . 367--383
                  Edgar P. King   The Operating Characteristic of the
                                  Control Chart for Sample Means . . . . . 384--395
          J. L. Hodges, Jr. and   
                  E. L. Lehmann   The use of Previous Experience in
                                  Reaching Statistical Decisions . . . . . 396--407
                  E. L. Lehmann   On the Existence of Least Favorable
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--416
                D. A. S. Fraser   Sufficient Statistics and Selection
                                  Depending on the Parameter . . . . . . . 417--425
                     K. A. Bush   Orthogonal Arrays of Index Unity . . . . 426--434
           Frank J. Massey, Jr.   Distribution Table for the Deviation
                                  Between two Sample Cumulatives . . . . . 435--441
                  Eugene Lukacs   The Stochastic Independence of Symmetric
                                  and Homogeneous Linear and Quadratic
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--449
                  D. A. Darling   On a Test for Homogeneity and Extreme
                                  Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--456; correction, 24, 135--136 (1953)
                   J. Wolfowitz   On the Stochastic Approximation Method
                                  of Robbins and Monro . . . . . . . . . . 457--461
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Stochastic Estimation of the Maximum of
                                  a Regression Function  . . . . . . . . . 462--466
             Fausto I. Toranzos   An Asymmetric Bell-Shaped Frequency
                                  Curve  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--469
              Murray Rosenblatt   Remarks on a Multivariate Transformation 470--472
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 472--483
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--491
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 491--491

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 23, Number 4, December, 1952

                Herman Chernoff   A Measure of Asymptotic Efficiency for
                                  Tests of a Hypothesis Based on the sum
                                  of Observations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--507
                 R. C. Bose and   
                     K. A. Bush   Orthogonal Arrays of Strength two and
                                  three  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--524
             William H. Kruskal   A Nonparametric test for the Several
                                  Sample Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--540
                  E. L. Lehmann   Testing Multiparameter Hypotheses  . . . 541--552
          Raghu Raj Bahadur and   
                 Leo A. Goodman   Impartial Decision Rules and Sufficient
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--562
                    E. F. Drion   Some Distribution-Free Tests for the
                                  Difference Between two Empirical
                                  Cumulative Distribution Functions  . . . 563--574
                D. A. S. Fraser   Confidence Bounds for a set of Means . . 575--585
                      J. Kiefer   Sequential Minimax Estimation for the
                                  Rectangular Distribution with Unknown
                                  Range  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--593
                F. N. David and   
                  N. L. Johnson   Extension of a Method of Investigating
                                  the Properties of Analysis of Variance
                                  Tests to the Case of Random and Mixed
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--601
                   W. S. Connor   Some Relations among the Blocks of
                                  Symmetrical Group Divisible Designs  . . 602--609
                 Edward Paulson   An Optimum Solution to the $k$-Sample
                                  Slippage Problem for the Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--616
                  M. Rosenblatt   Limit Theorems Associated with Variants
                                  of the von Mises Statistic . . . . . . . 617--623
                   F. G. Foster   A Markov Chain Derivation of Discrete
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--627
                      J. Kiefer   On Minimum Variance Estimators . . . . . 627--629
            D. A. S. Fraser and   
                  Irwin Guttman   Bhattacharyya Bounds without Regularity
                                  Assumptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--632
                 Leo A. Goodman   On the analysis of samples from $k$
                                  lists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--634
                 Z. A. Lomnicki   The Standard Error of Gini's Mean
                                  Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--637
              F. J. Massey, Jr.   Correction to ``A Note on the Power of a
                                  Nonparametric Test'' . . . . . . . . . . 637--638
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 638--647
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--655
                      Anonymous   Institutional Members  . . . . . . . . . 655--655
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 655--655


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 24, Number 1, March, 1953

                 Z. W. Birnbaum   Distribution-free Tests of fit for
                                  Continuous Distribution Functions  . . . 1--8
               G. E. Albert and   
                   Lewis Nelson   Contributions to the Statistical Theory
                                  of Counter Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--22
                  E. L. Lehmann   The Power of Rank Tests  . . . . . . . . 23--43
                D. A. S. Fraser   Nonparametric Tolerance Regions  . . . . 44--55
                 Leo A. Goodman   Sequential Sampling Tagging for
                                  Population Size Problems . . . . . . . . 56--69
                      J. Kiefer   On Wald's Complete Class Theorems  . . . 70--75
                  O. Kempthorne   A Class of Experimental Designs Using
                                  Blocks of Two Plots  . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
              William F. Taylor   Distance Functions and Regular Best
                                  Asymptotically Normal Estimates  . . . . 85--92
              Wassily Hoeffding   On the Distribution of the Expected
                                  Values of the Order Statistics . . . . . 93--100
               William G. Madow   On the Theory of Systematic Sampling,
                                  III. Comparison of Centered and Random
                                  Start Systematic Sampling  . . . . . . . 101--106
               Sigeiti Moriguti   A Modification of Schwarz's Inequality
                                  with Applications to Distributions . . . 107--113
                 Leo A. Goodman   A Simple Method for Improving some
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--117
             Melvin D. Springer   Joint Sampling Distribution of the Mean
                                  and Standard Deviation for Probability
                                  Density Functions of Doubly Infinite
                                  Range  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--122
              H. O. Hartley and   
           S. S. Shrikhande and   
                   W. B. Taylor   A Note on Incomplete Block Designs with
                                  Row Balance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--126
              Wassily Hoeffding   A Lower Bound for the Average Sample
                                  Number of a Sequential Test  . . . . . . 127--130
                 M. R. Sampford   Some Inequalities on Mill's Ratio and
                                  Related Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
                 Robert F. Tate   On a Double Inequality of the Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--134
                  John E. Walsh   Correction to ``Some Nonparametric Tests
                                  of Whether the Largest Observations of a
                                  set are too Large or too Small'' . . . . 134--135
                   W. S. Connor   Correction to ``On the Structure of
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Designs''  . . 135--135
                  D. A. Darling   Correction to ``On a Test for
                                  Homogeneity and Extreme Values'' . . . . 135--136
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 136--147
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--165
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 165--165

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1953

                 R. C. Bose and   
           S. S. Shrikhande and   
             K. N. Bhattacharya   On the Construction of Group Divisible
                                  Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . 167--195
              Brockway McMillan   The Basic Theorems of Information Theory 196--219
                      S. N. Roy   On a Heuristic Method of Test
                                  Construction and its use in Multivariate
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--238
                  D. A. Darling   On a Class of Problems Related to the
                                  Random Division of an Interval . . . . . 239--253
               A. Dvoretzky and   
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Sequential Decision Problems for
                                  Processes with Continuous time
                                  Parameter. Testing Hypotheses  . . . . . 254--264
                David Blackwell   Equivalent Comparisons of Experiments    265--272
                   Lionel Weiss   Testing one Simple Hypothesis Against
                                  Another  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--281
                Julius Lieblein   On the Exact Evaluation of the Variances
                                  and Covariances of Order Statistics in
                                  Samples from the Extreme-Value
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--287
                D. A. S. Fraser   Generalized Hit Probabilities with a
                                  Gaussian Target, II  . . . . . . . . . . 288--294
                    S. G. Allen   A Class of Minimax Tests for One-sided
                                  Composite Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . 295--298
            Bradford F. Kimball   Note on Computation of Orthogonal
                                  Predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
                    Meyer Dwass   On the Asymptotic Normality of Certain
                                  Rank Order Statistics  . . . . . . . . . 303--306
                 Casper Goffman   Note on the Variation of Means . . . . . 307--309
                        Des Raj   On Mill's Ratio for the Type III
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--312
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--318
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 318--318

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 24, Number 3, September, 1953

                   Milton Sobel   An Essentially Complete Class of
                                  Decision Functions for Certain Standard
                                  Sequential Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 319--337
               David G. Kendall   Stochastic Processes Occurring in the
                                  Theory of Queues and their Analysis by
                                  the Method of the Imbedded Markov Chain  338--354
                   F. G. Foster   On the Stochastic Matrices Associated
                                  with Certain Queuing Processes . . . . . 355--360
                   H. L. Royden   Bounds on a Distribution Function when
                                  its First $n$ Moments are Given  . . . . 361--376
           Kulendra N. Majumdar   On some Theorems in Combinatorics
                                  Relating to Incomplete Block Designs . . 377--389
               D. A. S. Frasher   The Behrens--Fisher Problem for
                                  Regression Coefficients  . . . . . . . . 390--402
               A. Dvoretzky and   
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Sequential Decision Problems for
                                  Processes with Continuous Time
                                  Parameter. Problems of Estimation  . . . 403--415
                   John Gurland   Distribution of Quadratic Forms and
                                  Ratios of Quadratic Forms  . . . . . . . 416--427
                Mark Lotkin and   
                 Russell Remage   Scaling and Error Analysis for Matrix
                                  Inversion by Partitioning  . . . . . . . 428--439
                   H. S. Konijn   On Certain Classes of Statistical
                                  Decision Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . 440--448; corrections 25, 170--171 (1954)
                 Donald B. Owen   A Double Sample Test Procedure . . . . . 449--457
           Benjamin Epstein and   
                 Chia Kuei Tsao   Some Tests Based on Ordered Observations
                                  from two Exponential Populations . . . . 458--466
                    W. J. Dixon   Power Functions of the Sign Test and
                                  Power Efficiency for Normal Alternatives 467--473
              E. L. Lehmann and   
                    C. M. Stein   The Admissibility of Certain Invariant
                                  Statistical Tests Involving a
                                  Translation Parameter  . . . . . . . . . 473--479
            Gerald J. Lieberman   A Note on Dodge's Continuous Inspection
                                  Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--484
                 Z. W. Birnbaum   On the Power of a One-Sided Test of Fit
                                  for Continuous Probability Functions . . 484--489
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 490--499
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--510
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 511--511

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 24, Number 4, December, 1953

                  S. N. Roy and   
                     R. C. Bose   Simultaneous Confidence Interval
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--536
              Ulf Grenander and   
              Murray Rosenblatt   Statistical Spectral Analysis of Time
                                  Series Arising from Stationary
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 537--558
             Robert R. Bush and   
            Frederick Mosteller   A Stochastic Model with Applications to
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--585
                Herman Chernoff   Locally Optimal Designs for Estimating
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--602
                  J. H. Cadwell   The Distribution of Quasi-Ranges in
                                  Samples From a Normal Population . . . . 603--613
                  N. L. Johnson   Some Notes on the Application of
                                  Sequential Methods in the Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--623
              D. A. Darling and   
               A. J. F. Siegert   The First Passage Problem for a
                                  Continuous Markov Process  . . . . . . . 624--639
               B. M. Seelbinder   On Stein's Two-stage Sampling Scheme . . 640--649
                Herbert Solomon   Distribution of the Measure of a Random
                                  Two-dimensional Set  . . . . . . . . . . 650--656
           Harald Cramér   Richard von Mises' Work in Probability
                                  and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--662
                   S. Rosenbaum   Tables for a Nonparametric Test of
                                  Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--668
                Donald R. Truax   An Optimum Slippage Test for the
                                  Variances of $k$ Normal Distributions    669--674
                  Nathan Mantel   An Extension of the Buffon Needle
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--677
                   Lionel Weiss   A Higher Order Complete Class Theorem    677--680
                      J. Kiefer   Correction of a Proof: On Wald's
                                  Complete Class Theorems  . . . . . . . . 680--680
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 680--693
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--705
                      Anonymous   Minutes of the Business Meeting,
                                  Kingston, Ontario, September 3, 1953 . . 705--707
                      Anonymous   Institutional Members  . . . . . . . . . 708--708
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 708--708


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 25, Number 1, March, 1954

             Douglas G. Chapman   The Estimation of Biological Populations 1--15
            Robert E. Bechhofer   A Single-Sample Multiple Decision
                                  Procedure for Ranking Means of Normal
                                  Populations with known Variances . . . . 16--39
                    A. T. James   Normal Multivariate Analysis and the
                                  Orthogonal Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--75
                   E. J. Gumbel   The Maxima of the Mean Largest Value and
                                  of the Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
              H. O. Hartley and   
                    H. A. David   Universal Bounds for Mean Range and
                                  Extreme Observation  . . . . . . . . . . 85--99
               W. S. Connor and   
               W. H. Clatworthy   Some Theorems for Partially Balanced
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--112
                Salem H. Khamis   On the Reduced Moment Problem  . . . . . 113--122
                 A. de la Garza   Spacing of Information in Polynomial
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--130
                   J. Wolfowitz   Generalization of the Theorem of
                                  Glivenko--Cantelli . . . . . . . . . . . 131--138
                  R. M. Sundrum   On Lehmann's Two-Sample Test . . . . . . 139--145
                   S. Rosenbaum   Tables for a Nonparametric Test of
                                  Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--150
                  Esther Seiden   On the Problem of Construction of
                                  Orthogonal Arrays  . . . . . . . . . . . 151--156
                 Allan Birnbaum   Admissible Tests for the Mean of a
                                  Rectangular Distribution . . . . . . . . 157--161
                William Kruskal   The Monotonicity of the Ratio of Two
                                  Noncentral $t$ Density Functions . . . . 162--165
                Stanley W. Nash   An extension of the Borel--Cantelli
                                  lemma  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--167
                  Herschel Weil   The Distribution of Radial Error . . . . 168--170
                   H. S. Konijn   Correction to ``On Certain Classes of
                                  Statistical Decision Procedures''  . . . 170--171
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 171--178
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--201
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 201--201

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 25, Number 2, June, 1954

                   J. Wolfowitz   Estimation by the Minimum Distance
                                  Method in Nonparametric Stochastic
                                  Difference Equations . . . . . . . . . . 203--217
                    M. N. Ghosh   Asymptotic Distribution of Serial
                                  Statistics and Applications to Problems
                                  of Nonparametric Tests of Hypotheses . . 218--251
                  Ulf Grenander   On the Estimation of Regression
                                  Coefficients in the Case of an
                                  Autocorrelated Disturbance . . . . . . . 252--272
        Robert E. Bechhofer and   
                   Milton Sobel   A Single-Sample Multiple Decision
                                  Procedure for Ranking Variances of
                                  Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 273--289
                   G. E. P. Box   Some Theorems on Quadratic Forms Applied
                                  in the Study of Analysis of Variance
                                  Problems, I. Effect of Inequality of
                                  Variance in the One-Way Classification   290--302
                     F. Downton   Least-Squares Estimates Using Ordered
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--316
                   A. E. Sarhan   Estimation of the Mean and Standard
                                  Deviation by Order Statistics  . . . . . 317--328
                   I. Olkin and   
                      S. N. Roy   On Multivariate Distribution Theory  . . 329--339
                   G. E. Albert   On the Computation of the Sampling
                                  Characteristics of a General Class of
                                  Sequential Decision Problems . . . . . . 340--356
                  N. L. Johnson   Sequential Procedures in Certain
                                  Component of Variance Problems . . . . . 357--366
           Franklin A. Graybill   On Quadratic Estimates of Variance
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--372
                 B. Epstein and   
                       M. Sobel   Some Theorems Relevant to Life Testing
                                  from an Exponential Distribution . . . . 373--381
                 Julius R. Blum   Approximation Methods which Converge
                                  with Probability one . . . . . . . . . . 382--386
            Gopinath Kallianpur   A Note on the Robbins--Monro Stochastic
                                  Approximation Method . . . . . . . . . . 386--388
              Eugene Lukacs and   
                  Edgar P. King   A Property of the Normal Distribution    389--394
                      Anonymous   Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
                David Blackwell   On Optimal Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 394--397
            Raymond P. Peterson   Density Unbiased Point Estimates . . . . 398--401
              M. V. Jambunathan   Some properties of Beta and Gamma
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--405
               D. F. Barrow and   
               A. C. Cohen, Jr.   On Some Functions Involving Mill's Ratio 405--408
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 408--414
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--421
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 421--421

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 25, Number 3, September, 1954

                  R. R. Bahadur   Sufficiency and Statistical Decision
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--462
                    K. L. Chung   On a Stochastic Approximation Method . . 463--483
                   G. E. P. Box   Some Theorems on Quadratic Forms Applied
                                  in the Study of Analysis of Variance
                                  Problems, II. Effects of Inequality of
                                  Variance and of Correlation Between
                                  Errors in the Two-Way Classification . . 484--498
                  H. E. Daniels   A Distribution-Free Test for Regression
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--513
                     A. M. Mood   On the Asymptotic Efficiency of Certain
                                  Nonparametric Two-Sample Tests . . . . . 514--522
                 Sten Malmquist   On Certain Confidence Contours for
                                  Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 523--533
                   Paul G. Hoel   Confidence Bands for Polynomial Curves   534--542
                   S. G. Ghurye   Random Functions Satisfying Certain
                                  Linear Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--554
               Benjamin Epstein   Truncated Life Tests in the Exponential
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--564
            K. C. S. Pillai and   
             K. V. Ramachandran   On the Distribution of the Ratio of the
                                  ith Observation in an Ordered Sample
                                  from a Normal Population to an
                                  Independent Estimate of the Standard
                                  Deviation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--572
                Herman Chernoff   On the Distribution of the Likelihood
                                  Ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--578
            Herman Chernoff and   
                  E. L. Lehmann   The Use of Maximum Likelihood Estimates
                                  in $ \chi^2 $ Tests for Goodness of Fit  579--586
                 Chia Kuei Tsao   An Extension of Massey's Distribution of
                                  the Maximum Deviation Between Two-Sample
                                  Cumulative Step Functions  . . . . . . . 587--592
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                       H. Rubin   On Distribution-Free Statistics  . . . . 593--598
                   Marvin Zelen   A Note on Partially Balanced Designs . . 599--602
                 Robert F. Tate   Correlation Between a Discrete and a
                                  Continuous Variable. Point-Biserial
                                  Correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--607
                W. L. Nicholson   A Computing Formula for the Power of the
                                  Analysis of Variance Test  . . . . . . . 607--610
                    W. J. Dixon   Power Under Normality of Several
                                  Nonparametric Tests  . . . . . . . . . . 610--614
                Herbert Robbins   A Remark on the Joint Distribution of
                                  Cumulative Sums  . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--616
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 616--620
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--630
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 630--630

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 25, Number 4, December, 1954

                  H. E. Daniels   Saddlepoint Approximations in Statistics 631--650
            C. Radhakrishna Rao   A General Theory of Discrimination When
                                  the Information About Alternative
                                  Population Distributions is Based on
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--670
                    J. R. Green   A Confidence Interval for Variance
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--686
                 Chia Kuei Tsao   A Simple Sequential Procedure for
                                  Testing Statistical Hypotheses . . . . . 687--702
            R. S. G. Rutherford   On a Contagious Distribution . . . . . . 703--713
                   T. A. Jeeves   Identification and Estimation of Linear
                                  Manifolds in $n$-Dimensions  . . . . . . 714--723
                Fred C. Andrews   Asymptotic Behavior of Some Rank Tests
                                  for Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . 724--736
                 Julius R. Blum   Multidimensional Stochastic
                                  Approximation Methods  . . . . . . . . . 737--744
                    S. Kullback   Certain Inequalities in Information
                                  Theory and the Cramér--Rao Inequality . . 745--751
                      S. N. Roy   Some Further Results in Simultaneous
                                  Confidence Interval Estimation . . . . . 752--761
               Benjamin Epstein   Tables for the Distribution of the
                                  Number of Exceedances  . . . . . . . . . 762--768
                  Henry Teicher   On the Factorization of Distributions    769--774
                  Henry Teicher   On the Convolution of Distributions  . . 775--778
                   Lionel Weiss   Sequential Procedures that Control the
                                  Individual Probabilities of Coming to
                                  the Various Decisions  . . . . . . . . . 779--784
                     R. G. Laha   On a Characterisation of the Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784--787
          J. L. Hodges, Jr. and   
                  E. L. Lehmann   Matching in Paired Comparisons . . . . . 787--791
                  Lucien Le Cam   Note on a theorem of Lionel Weiss  . . . 791--794
                     R. D. Lord   The Distribution of Distance in a
                                  Hypersphere  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794--798
                   G. S. Watson   Extreme Values in Samples from
                                  $m$-Dependent Stationary Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--800
                  M. Zia ud-Din   Expression of the $k$-Statistics $ k_9$
                                  and $ K_{10}$ in Terms of Power Sums and
                                  Sample Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800--803
                  J. H. Cadwell   The Probability Integral of Range for
                                  Samples from a Symmetrical Unimodal
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--806
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 806--814
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 814--824
                      Anonymous   Minutes of Membership Meeting, September
                                  12, 1954 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--826
                      Anonymous   Institutional Members  . . . . . . . . . 826--826
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 826--826


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1955

                  D. A. Darling   The Cramér--Smirnov test in the
                                  parametric case  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
                 Allan Birnbaum   Characterizations of Complete Classes of
                                  Tests of Some Multiparametric
                                  Hypotheses, with Applications to
                                  Likelihood Ratio Tests . . . . . . . . . 21--36
            James F. Hannan and   
                Herbert Robbins   Asymptotic Solutions of the Compound
                                  Decision Problem for Two Completely
                                  Specified Distributions  . . . . . . . . 37--51
          Wassily Hoeffding and   
           Joan Raup Rosenblatt   The Efficiency of Tests  . . . . . . . . 52--63
           Gottfried E. Noether   On a Theorem of Pitman . . . . . . . . . 64--68
                      L. Le Cam   An Extension of Wald's Theory of
                                  Statistical Decision Functions . . . . . 69--81
           Benjamin Epstein and   
                   Milton Sobel   Sequential Life Tests in the Exponential
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--93
                 Chia Kuei Tsao   Rank Sum Tests of Fit  . . . . . . . . . 94--104
                   S. G. Ghurye   Random Functions Satisfying Certain
                                  Linear Relations, II . . . . . . . . . . 105--111
                    John T. Chu   On the Distribution of the Sample Median 112--116
                K. C. S. Pillai   Some New Test Criteria in Multivariate
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--121
                   John Gurland   Distribution of Definite and of
                                  Indefinite Quadratic Forms . . . . . . . 122--127
                 James Pachares   Note on the Distribution of a Definite
                                  Quadratic Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
                  Esther Seiden   On the Maximum Number of Constraints of
                                  an Orthogonal Array  . . . . . . . . . . 132--135; correction 27 (1956), 204
                   Paul G. Hoel   On a Sequential Test for the General
                                  Linear Hypothesis  . . . . . . . . . . . 136--139
              R. R. Bahadur and   
                  E. L. Lehmann   Two Comments on ``Sufficiency and
                                  Statistical Decision Functions'' . . . . 139--142
                   Lionel Weiss   A Note on Confidence Sets for Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--144
                        D. Basu   An Inconsistency of the Method of
                                  Maximum Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
                    Meyer Dwass   A Note on Simultaneous Confidence
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
                  Henry Teicher   An Inequality on Poisson Probabilities   147--149
           John E. Maxfield and   
              Robert S. Gardner   Note on Linear Hypotheses with
                                  Prescribed Matrix of Normal Equations    149--150
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 150--162
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--188
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 188--188

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 26, Number 2, June, 1955

                     M. Kac and   
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   On Tests of Normality and Other Tests of
                                  Goodness of Fit Based on Distance
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--211
                 R. C. Bose and   
               W. H. Clatworthy   Some Classes of Partially Balanced
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--232
        J. Arthur Greenwood and   
                   David Durand   The Distribution of Length and
                                  Components of the Sum of $n$ Random Unit
                                  Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--246
              Sylvain Ehrenfeld   On the Efficiency of Experimental
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--255
                Jerome Blackman   On the Approximation of a Distribution
                                  Function by an Empiric Distribution  . . 256--267
              Wassily Hoeffding   The Extrema of the Expected Value of a
                                  Function of Independent Random Variables 268--275
             M. A. Girshick and   
                   H. Rubin and   
                  R. Sitgreaves   Estimates of Bounded Relative Error in
                                  Particle Counting  . . . . . . . . . . . 276--285
                  R. R. Bahadur   A Characterization of Sufficiency  . . . 286--293
                   John Gurland   Distribution of the Maximum of the
                                  Arithmetic Mean of Correlated Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--300
                 Evelyn Fix and   
              J. L. Hodges, Jr.   Significance Probabilities of the
                                  Wilcoxon Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--312
                 W. L. Root and   
                  T. S. Pitcher   On the Fourier Series Expansion of
                                  Random Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--318
                  Eugene Lukacs   A Characterization of the Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--324
            W. A. Thompson, Jr.   The Ratio of Variances in a Variance
                                  Components Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--329
                Julius Lieblein   On Moments of Order Statistics from the
                                  Weibull Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 330--333
                    Meyer Dwass   On the Asymptotic Normality of Some
                                  Statistics Used in Non-Parametric Tests  334--339
                   D. Teichroew   Empirical Power Functions for
                                  Nonparametric Two-Sample Tests for Small
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--344
                        D. Basu   A Note on the Theory of Unbiased
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--348
                   Lionel Weiss   On Confidence Intervals of Given Length
                                  for the Mean of a Normal Distribution
                                  with Unknown Variance  . . . . . . . . . 348--352
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--360
               Charles Lawrence   Report of the Treasurer for 1954 . . . . 361--364
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 364--364

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 26, Number 3, September, 1955

            David Blackwell and   
               Albert H. Bowker   Meyer Abraham Girshick 1908--1955  . . . 365--367
                  Joseph Putter   The Treatment of Ties in Some
                                  Nonparametric Tests  . . . . . . . . . . 368--386
                     K. C. Seal   On a Class of Decision Procedures for
                                  Ranking Means of Normal Populations  . . 387--398
                  E. L. Lehmann   Ordered Families of Distributions  . . . 399--419
          Manohar Narhar Vartak   On an Application of Kronecker Product
                                  of Matrices to Statistical Designs . . . 420--438
          Wassily Hoeffding and   
               S. S. Shrikhande   Bounds for the Distribution Function of
                                  a Sum of Independent, Identically
                                  Distributed Random Variables . . . . . . 439--449
                 Om P. Aggarwal   Some Minimax Invariant Procedures for
                                  Estimating a Cumulative Distribution
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--463
                Arthur Grad and   
                Herbert Solomon   Distribution of Quadratic Forms and Some
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--477
                 J. A. McFadden   URN Models of Correlation and a
                                  Comparison with the Multivariate Normal
                                  Integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--489
                  R. R. Bahadur   Statistics and Subfields . . . . . . . . 490--497
      Walter L. Deemer, Jr. and   
            David F. Votaw, Jr.   Estimation of Parameters of Truncated or
                                  Censored Exponential Distributions . . . 498--504
                   A. E. Sarhan   Estimation of the Mean and Standard
                                  Deviation by Order Statistics. Part II   505--511
                       Leo Katz   Probability of Indecomposability of a
                                  Random Mapping Function  . . . . . . . . 512--517
                  Charles Stein   A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for
                                  Admissibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--522
              J. L. Hodges, Jr.   A Bivariate Sign Test  . . . . . . . . . 523--527
                     J. R. Blum   On the Convergence of Empiric
                                  Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 527--529
                 Irving W. Burr   Calculation of Exact Sampling
                                  Distribution of Ranges from a Discrete
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--532
                   Lionel Weiss   The Stochastic Convergence of a Function
                                  of Sample Successive Differences . . . . 532--536
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 536--542
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--549
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 549--549

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 26, Number 4, December, 1955

                  Jack Laderman   On the Asymptotic Behavior of Decision
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--575
                   A. E. Sarhan   Estimation of the Mean and Standard
                                  Deviation by Order Statistics. Part III  576--592
                John T. Chu and   
               Harold Hotelling   The Moments of the Sample Median . . . . 593--606
                    H. D. Brunk   Maximum Likelihood Estimates of Monotone
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--616
                  J. M. Shapiro   Error Estimates for Certain Probability
                                  Limit Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--630
                 Kameo Matusita   Decision Rules, Based on the Distance,
                                  for Problems of Fit, Two Samples, and
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--640
                Miriam Ayer and   
                H. D. Brunk and   
                G. M. Ewing and   
                 W. T. Reid and   
               Edward Silverman   An Empirical Distribution Function for
                                  Sampling with Incomplete Information . . 641--647
              J. L. Hodges, Jr.   On the Noncentral Beta-Distribution  . . 648--653
                David Blackwell   On Transient Markov Processes with a
                                  Countable Number of States and
                                  Stationary Transition Probabilities  . . 654--658
 George Gerard den Broeder, Jr.   On Parameter Estimation for Truncated
                                  Pearson Type III Distributions . . . . . 659--663
             Albert Ross Eckler   Rotation Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . 664--685
        Gerald J. Lieberman and   
                Herbert Solomon   Multi-Level Continuous Sampling Plans    686--704
                 Grace E. Bates   Joint Distributions of Time Intervals
                                  for the Occurrence of Successive
                                  Accidents in a Generalized Pólya Scheme   705--720
            W. A. Thompson, Jr.   On the Ratio of Variances in the Mixed
                                  Incomplete Block Model . . . . . . . . . 721--733
              D. V. Huntsberger   A Generalization of a Preliminary
                                  Testing Procedure for Pooling Data . . . 734--743
                      A. R. Sen   On the Selection of $n$ Primary Sampling
                                  Units From a Stratum Structure $ (n
                                  \geqq 2)$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744--751
                   D. A. Sprott   Balanced Incomplete Block Designs and
                                  Tactical Configurations  . . . . . . . . 752--758
                  Esther Seiden   Further Remark on the Maximum Number of
                                  Constraints of an Orthogonal Array . . . 759--763
                     S. Sherman   A Theorem on Convex Sets with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--767
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 767--775
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 776--785
                      Anonymous   Institutional Members  . . . . . . . . . 785--785
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 785--785


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 27, Number 1, March, 1956

                Herman Chernoff   Large-Sample Theory: Parametric Case . . 1--22
           Henry Scheffé   A ``Mixed Model'' for the Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
                  John W. Tukey   Keeping moment-like sampling
                                  computations simple  . . . . . . . . . . 37--54
                   Robert Hooke   Symmetric Functions of a Two-way Array   55--79
                   Robert Hooke   Some Applications of Bipolykays to the
                                  Estimation of Variance Components and
                                  their Moments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--98
              Murray Rosenblatt   On the Estimation of Regression
                                  Coefficients of a Vector-Valued Time
                                  Series with a Stationary Residual  . . . 99--121
                    S. Kullback   An Application of Information Theory to
                                  Multivariate Analysis, II  . . . . . . . 122--146
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   On the Characteristics of the General
                                  Queueing Process, with Applications to
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--161
            D. A. S. Fraser and   
                  Irwin Guttman   Tolerance Regions  . . . . . . . . . . . 162--179
             J. H. B. Kemperman   Generalized Tolerance Limits . . . . . . 180--186
                     R. G. Laha   On a Characterization of the Stable Law
                                  with Finite Expectation  . . . . . . . . 187--195
               Ruric E. Wheeler   A Variable Probability Distribution
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--199
                   Herman Rubin   Uniform Convergence of Random Functions
                                  with Applications to Statistics  . . . . 200--203
                  Esther Seiden   Correction to ``On the Maximum Number of
                                  Constraints of an Orthogonal Array'' . . 204--204
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 204--223
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--249
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 249--249

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 27, Number 2, June, 1956

           Henry Scheffé   Alternative Models for the Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--271
              Samuel Karlin and   
                   Herman Rubin   The Theory of Decision Procedures for
                                  Distributions with Monotone Likelihood
                                  Ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--299
                   H. S. Konijn   On the Power of Certain Tests for
                                  Independence in Bivariate Populations    300--323
          J. L. Hodges, Jr. and   
                  E. L. Lehmann   The Efficiency of Some Nonparametric
                                  Competitors of the $t$-Test  . . . . . . 324--335
               Chin Long Chiang   On Regular Best Asymptotically Normal
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--351
                    Meyer Dwass   The Large-Sample Power of Rank Order
                                  Tests in the Two-Sample Problem  . . . . 352--374
              D. G. Chapman and   
               C. O. Junge, Jr.   The Estimation of the Size of a
                                  Stratified Animal Population . . . . . . 375--389
           Russell N. Bradt and   
                  Samuel Karlin   On the Design and Comparison of Certain
                                  Dichotomous Experiments  . . . . . . . . 390--409
                   D. Teichroew   Tables of Expected Values of Order
                                  Statistics and Products of Order
                                  Statistics for Samples of Size Twenty
                                  and Less from the Normal Distribution    410--426
               A. E. Sarhan and   
                B. G. Greenberg   Estimation of Location and Scale
                                  Parameters by Order Statistics from
                                  Singly and Doubly Censored Samples . . . 427--451
                   A. B. Clarke   A Waiting Line Process of Markov Type    452--459
                   G. E. Albert   Accurate Sequential Tests on the Mean of
                                  an Exponential Distribution  . . . . . . 460--470
                W. L. Nicholson   On the Normal Approximation to the
                                  Hypergeometric Distribution  . . . . . . 471--483
                     Martin Fox   Charts of the power of the $F$-test  . . 484--497
             Douglas G. Chapman   Estimating the Parameters of a Truncated
                                  Gamma Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 498--506
              Robert M. Kozelka   Approximate Upper Percentage Points for
                                  Extreme Values in Multinomial Sampling   507--512
                Jerome Blackman   An Extension of the Kolmogorov
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--520
             K. V. Ramachandran   On the Simultaneous Analysis of Variance
                                  Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--528
                 Robert V. Hogg   On the Distribution of the Likelihood
                                  Ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--532
                   Cyrus Derman   An Application of Chung's Lemma to the
                                  Kiefer--Wolfowitz Stochastic
                                  Approximation Procedure  . . . . . . . . 532--536
             John E. Freund and   
               Arthur N. Pozner   Some Results on Restricted Occupancy
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--540
                D. A. S. Fraser   A Vector Form of the
                                  Wald--Wolfowitz--Hoeffding Theorem . . . 540--543
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 543--552
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--566
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 567--567

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 27, Number 3, September, 1956

               Mervin E. Muller   Some Continuous Monte Carlo Methods for
                                  the Dirichlet Problem  . . . . . . . . . 569--589
              I. Richard Savage   Contributions to the Theory of Rank
                                  Order Statistics-the Two-Sample Case . . 590--615
                  Charles Stein   The Admissibility of Hotelling's $ T^2
                                  $-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--623
             J. W. Archbold and   
                  N. L. Johnson   A Method of Constructing Partially
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Designs  . . . 624--632
                   D. A. Sprott   A Note on Combined Interblock and
                                  Intrablock Estimation in Incomplete
                                  Block Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--641
               A. Dvoretzky and   
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Asymptotic Minimax Character of the
                                  Sample Distribution Function and of the
                                  Classical Multinomial Estimator  . . . . 642--669
           Norman C. Severo and   
                  Edwin G. Olds   A Comparison of Tests on the Mean of a
                                  Logarithmico-Normal Distribution with
                                  Known Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--686
               W. C. Healy, Jr.   Two-Sample Procedures in Simultaneous
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--702
                 Chia Kuei Tsao   Distribution of the Sum in Random
                                  Samples from a Discrete Population . . . 703--712
              Wassily Hoeffding   On the Distribution of the Number of
                                  Successes in Independent Trials  . . . . 713--721
                  John W. Tukey   Variances of variance components. I.
                                  Balanced designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--736
                   S. R. Searle   Matrix Methods in Components of Variance
                                  and Covariance Analysis  . . . . . . . . 737--748
                  S. N. Roy and   
           Marvin A. Kastenbaum   On the Hypothesis of No ``Interaction''
                                  In a Multi-way Contingency Table . . . . 749--757
            Bradford F. Kimball   The Bias in Certain Estimates of the
                                  Parameters of the Extreme-Value
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758--767
            David M. G. Wishart   A Queueing System with $ \chi^2 $
                                  Service-Time Distribution  . . . . . . . 768--779
                      J. T. Chu   Errors in Normal Approximations to the $
                                  t, \tau, $ and Similar Types of
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--789
                     R. G. Laha   On the Stochastic Independence of Two
                                  Second-Degree Polynomial Statistics in
                                  Normally Distributed Variates  . . . . . 790--796
           Herbert T. David and   
             William H. Kruskal   The WAGR Sequential $t$-Test Reaches a
                                  Decision with Probability One  . . . . . 797--805
            Herman Chernoff and   
            Gerald J. Lieberman   The Use of Generalized Probability Paper
                                  for Continuous Distributions . . . . . . 806--818
                Seymour Geisser   The Modified Mean Square Successive
                                  Difference and Related Statistics  . . . 819--824
             K. V. Ramachandran   On the Tukey Test for the Equality of
                                  Means and the Hartley Test for the
                                  Equality of Variances  . . . . . . . . . 825--831
              Murray Rosenblatt   Remarks on Some Nonparametric Estimates
                                  of a Density Function  . . . . . . . . . 832--837
                D. A. S. Fraser   Sufficient Statistics with Nuisance
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--842
            W. A. Thompson, Jr.   A Note on the Balanced Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842--846
               Oscar Kempthorne   The Efficiency Factor of an Incomplete
                                  Block Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846--849
               J. St-Pierre and   
                      A. Zinger   The Null Distribution of the Difference
                                  Between the Two Largest Sample Values    849--851
                   Lionel Weiss   A Certain Class of Solutions to a Moment
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--853
                     K. C. Seal   On Minimum Variance Among Certain Linear
                                  Functions of Order Statistics  . . . . . 854--855
                      S. N. Roy   A Note on ``Some Further Results in
                                  Simultaneous Confidence Interval
                                  Estimation'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856--858
                Seymour Geisser   A Note on the Normal Distribution  . . . 858--859
                    S. Kullback   Correction to ``An Application of
                                  Information Theory to Multivariate
                                  Analysis, II'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860--860
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 860--874
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--878
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 878--878

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 27, Number 4, December, 1956

                   Cyrus Derman   Stochastic Approximation . . . . . . . . 879--886
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimator in the Presence of Infinitely
                                  Many Incidental Parameters . . . . . . . 887--906
           Jerome Cornfield and   
                  John W. Tukey   Average values of mean squares in
                                  factorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--949
                 M. B. Wilk and   
                  O. Kempthorne   Some Aspects of the Analysis of
                                  Factorial Experiments in a Completely
                                  Randomized Design  . . . . . . . . . . . 950--985
                  D. V. Lindley   On a Measure of the Information Provided
                                  by an Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . 986--1005
                   L. H. Wegner   Properties of Some Two-Sample Tests
                                  Based on a Particular Measure of
                                  Discrepancy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1016
             Helen Bozivich and   
             T. A. Bancroft and   
                  H. O. Hartley   Power of Analysis of Variance Test
                                  Procedures for Certain Incompletely
                                  Specified Models, I  . . . . . . . . . . 1017--1043
               D. L. Burkholder   On a Class of Stochastic Approximation
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1059
                R. N. Bradt and   
              S. M. Johnson and   
                      S. Karlin   On Sequential Designs for Maximizing the
                                  Sum of $n$ Observations  . . . . . . . . 1060--1074
                 Donald B. Owen   Tables for Computing Bivariate Normal
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1090
                     Koichi Ito   Asymptotic Formulae for the Distribution
                                  of Hotelling's Generalized $ T^2_0 $
                                  Statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1105
                K. C. S. Pillai   Some Results Useful in Multivariate
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106--1114
              R. R. Bahadur and   
              Leonard J. Savage   The Nonexistence of Certain Statistical
                                  Procedures in Nonparametric Problems . . 1115--1122
            Patrick Billingsley   Asymptotic Distributions of Two Goodness
                                  of Fit Criteria  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123--1129
                     I. J. Good   The Surprise Index for the Multivariate
                                  Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 1130--1135
                John W. Hamblen   Distributions of Roots of Quadratic
                                  Equations with Random Coefficients . . . 1136--1143
                      D. R. Cox   A Note on Weighted Randomization . . . . 1144--1151
                   J. Wolfowitz   On Stochastic Approximation Methods  . . 1151--1156
                E. J. G. Pitman   On the Derivatives of a Characteristic
                                  Function at the Origin . . . . . . . . . 1156--1160
               Charles Standish   $N$-Dimensional Distributions Containing
                                  a Normal Component . . . . . . . . . . . 1161--1165
                   Lionel Weiss   A Certain Class of Tests of Fit  . . . . 1165--1170
               Harry Weingarten   On the Probability of Large Deviations
                                  for Sums of Bounded Chance Variables . . 1170--1174
                   C. Kraft and   
                      L. Le Cam   A Remark on the Roots of the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Equation  . . . . . . . . . . 1174--1177
                   Lionel Weiss   On the Uniqueness of Wald Sequential
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1178--1181
                    V. N. Murty   A Note on Bhattacharyya Bounds for the
                                  Negative Binomial Distribution . . . . . 1182--1183
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1186
                      Anonymous   Statistical Research Monographs  . . . . 1186--1186
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187--1197
                      Anonymous   Report of the Detroit Meeting of the
                                  \insttitleInstitute of Mathematical
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198--1211
                      Anonymous   Institutional Members  . . . . . . . . . 1212--1212
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1212--1212


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 28, Number 1, March, 1957

                  E. L. Lehmann   A Theory of some Multiple Decision
                                  Problems, I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--25
             Ralph Palmer Agnew   Estimates for Global Central Limit
                                  Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--42
                  John W. Tukey   Variances of variance components. II.
                                  The unbalanced single classification . . 43--56
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   Lionel Weiss   Some Properties of Generalized
                                  Sequential Probability Ratio Tests . . . 57--74
                   J. Wolfowitz   The Minimum Distance Method  . . . . . . 75--88
             T. W. Anderson and   
                 Leo A. Goodman   Statistical Inference about Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--110
             M. A. Girshick and   
                  S. Karlin and   
                   H. L. Royden   Multistage Statistical Decision
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--125
                     R. G. Laha   On a Characterization of the Normal
                                  Distribution from Properties of Suitable
                                  Linear Statistics  . . . . . . . . . . . 126--139
             Z. A. Lomnicki and   
                  S. K. Zaremba   On the Estimation of Autocorrelation in
                                  time Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--158
                 Chia Kuei Tsao   Approximations to the Power of Rank
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172
                      J. T. Chu   Some Uses of Quasi-Ranges  . . . . . . . 173--180
                    Meyer Dwass   Modified Randomization Tests for
                                  Nonparametric Hypotheses . . . . . . . . 181--187
         Balkrishna V. Sukhatme   On Certain Two-sample Nonparametric
                                  Tests for Variances  . . . . . . . . . . 188--194
               G. E. P. Box and   
                   J. S. Hunter   Multi-Factor Experimental Designs for
                                  Exploring Response Surfaces  . . . . . . 195--241
                 J. R. Blum and   
                   Lionel Weiss   Consistency of Certain Two-Sample Tests  242--246
                Walter L. Smith   A Note on Truncation and Sufficient
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--252
                 Emanuel Parzen   A Central Limit Theorem for Multilinear
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 252--256
                 R. L. Wine and   
                 John E. Freund   On the Enumeration of Decision Patterns
                                  Involving $n$ Means  . . . . . . . . . . 256--259
                     B. Sherman   Percentiles of the $ \omega_n $
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--261
                     I. J. Good   On the serial test for random sequences  262--264
                    H. Wold and   
                P. Faxér   On the Specification Error in Regression
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267
                  T. S. Pitcher   Sets of Measures not Admitting Necessity
                                  and Sufficient Statistics or Subfields   267--268
                   D. A. Sprott   Correction to ``A Note on Combined
                                  Interblock and Intrablock Estimation in
                                  Incomplete Block Designs'' . . . . . . . 269--269
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--279
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 279--279

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 28, Number 2, June, 1957

                  Samuel Karlin   Pólya Type Distributions, II  . . . . . . 281--308
         Jagdish Sharan Rustagi   On Minimizing and Maximizing a Certain
                                  Integral with Statistical Applications   309--328
                 Emanuel Parzen   On Consistent Estimates of the Spectrum
                                  of a Stationary Time Series  . . . . . . 329--348
         Clyde Young Kramer and   
            Ralph Allan Bradley   Intra-Block Analysis for Factorials in
                                  Two-Associate Class Group Divisible
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--361
               M. C. K. Tweedie   Statistical Properties of Inverse
                                  Gaussian Distributions. I  . . . . . . . 362--377
                  John W. Tukey   Variances of variance components. III.
                                  Third moments in a balanced single
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--384
                Werner Gautschi   Some Remarks on Systematic Sampling  . . 385--394
                  C. Derman and   
                S. Littauer and   
                     H. Solomon   Tightened Multi-Level Continuous
                                  Sampling Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--404
                     R. G. Laha   On Some Characterization Problems
                                  Connected with Linear Structural
                                  Relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--414
              Robert A. Wijsman   Random Orthogonal Transformations and
                                  their use in Some Classical Distribution
                                  Problems in Multivariate Analysis  . . . 415--423
                    Meyer Dwass   On the Distribution of Ranks and of
                                  Certain Rank Order Statistics  . . . . . 424--431
                  John E. Walsh   Estimating Future from Past in Life
                                  Testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--441
                   Leo Katz and   
                James H. Powell   Probability Distributions of Random
                                  Variables Associated with a Structure of
                                  the Sample Space of Sociometric
                                  Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--448
            David Blackwell and   
              J. L. Hodges, Jr.   Design for the Control of Selection Bias 449--460
                Meyer Dwass and   
                  Henry Teicher   On Infinitely Divisible Random Vectors   461--470
                B. McMillan and   
                     J. Riordan   A Moving Single Server Problem . . . . . 471--478
                  G. H. Freeman   Some Further Methods of Constructing
                                  Regular Group Divisible Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--487
                     J. Roy and   
                     R. G. Laha   On Partially Balanced Linked Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--493
                G. Szekeres and   
                    F. E. Binet   On Borel Fields Over Finite Sets . . . . 494--498
                    Leo Breiman   On Transient Markov Chains with
                                  Application to the Uniqueness Problem
                                  for Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . 499--503
                   John Wishart   An Approximate Formula for the
                                  Cumulative $z$-Distribution  . . . . . . 504--510
                   D. Teichroew   The Mixture of Normal Distributions with
                                  Different Variances  . . . . . . . . . . 510--512
                A. J. Thomasian   Metrics and Norms on Spaces of Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--514
               Peter W. M. John   Divergent Time Homogeneous Birth and
                                  Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--517
                D. A. S. Fraser   A Regression Analysis Using the
                                  Invariance Method  . . . . . . . . . . . 517--520
                David Blackwell   On Discrete Variables whose Sum is
                                  Absolutely Continuous  . . . . . . . . . 520--521
                      W. D. Ray   A Proof that the Sequential Probability
                                  Ratio Test (S.P.R.T.) of the General
                                  Linear Hypothesis Terminates with
                                  Probability Unity  . . . . . . . . . . . 521--523
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 523--533
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--545
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 545--545

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 28, Number 3, September, 1957

                  E. L. Lehmann   A Theory of Some Multiple Decision
                                  Problems. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--572
                      J. Kiefer   Invariance, Minimax Sequential
                                  Estimation, and Continuous Time
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--601
                  John W. Tukey   On the comparative anatomy of
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--632
                   H. Steinhaus   The Problem of Estimation  . . . . . . . 633--648
               M. V. Johns, Jr.   Non-Parametric Empirical Bayes
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--669
                  V. E. Bene\vs   On Queues with Poisson Arrivals  . . . . 670--677
       Franklin A. Graybill and   
               George Marsaglia   Idempotent matrices and quadratic forms
                                  in the general linear hypothesis . . . . 678--686
                  John W. Tukey   Some examples with fiducial relevance    687--695
               M. C. K. Tweedie   Statistical Properties of Inverse
                                  Gaussian Distributions. II . . . . . . . 696--705
               M. E. Solari and   
                     A. A. Anis   The Mean and Variance of the Maximum of
                                  the Adjusted Partial Sums of a Finite
                                  Number of Independent Normal Variates    706--716
                  Eugene Lukacs   Remarks Concerning Characteristic
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--723
                Seymour Geisser   The Distribution of the Ratios of
                                  Certain Quadratic Forms in Time Series   724--730
         A. Clifford Cohen, Jr.   Restriction and Selection in Multinormal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--741
              J. D. Bankier and   
                  R. E. Walpole   Components of Variance Analysis for
                                  Proportional Frequencies . . . . . . . . 742--753
                  J. M. Shapiro   Sums of Independent Truncated Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--761
               R. C. Burton and   
                   W. S. Connor   On the Identity Relationship for
                                  Fractional Replicates of the $ 2^n $
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--767
                    Edgar Reich   Waiting Times When Queues are in Tandem  768--773
                  Irwin Guttman   On the Power of Optimum Tolerance
                                  Regions when Sampling from Normal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--778
                   Lionel Weiss   The Convergence of Certain Functions of
                                  Sample Spacings  . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--782
                   Lionel Weiss   The Asymptotic Power of Certain Tests of
                                  Fit Based on Sample Spacings . . . . . . 783--786
                  T. Austin and   
                   R. Fagen and   
                  T. Lehrer and   
                      W. Penney   The Distribution of the Number of
                                  Locally Maximal Elements in a Random
                                  Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786--790
               J. M. Hammersley   Percolation Processes: Lower Bounds for
                                  the Critical Probability . . . . . . . . 790--795
                   Cyrus Derman   Non-Parametric Up-and-down
                                  Experimentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--798
                  John S. White   Approximate Moments for the Serial
                                  Correlation Coefficient  . . . . . . . . 798--802
         K. V. Ramachandran and   
                   C. G. Khatri   On a Decision Procedure Based on the
                                  Tukey Statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . 802--806
                    W. J. Dixon   Estimates of the Mean and Standard
                                  Deviation of a Normal Population . . . . 806--809
                    Leo Breiman   The Individual Ergodic Theorem of
                                  Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 809--811
                    Leo Breiman   A Counterexample to a Theorem of
                                  Kolmogorov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--814
                D. A. S. Fraser   On the Combining of Interblock and
                                  Intrablock Estimates . . . . . . . . . . 814--816
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 816--818
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 818--822
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 822--822

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 28, Number 4, December, 1957

                  D. A. Darling   The Kolmogorov--Smirnov, Cramér--von
                                  Mises tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--838
                  Samuel Karlin   Pólya-type Distributions, III:
                                  Admissibility for Multi-Action Problems  839--860
                     I. J. Good   Saddle-point Methods for the Multinomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861--881
                   Motoo Kimura   Some Problems of Stochastic Processes in
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882--901
          D. E. W. Schumann and   
                  R. A. Bradley   The Comparison of the Sensitivities of
                                  Similar Experiments: Theory  . . . . . . 902--920
                 Emanuel Parzen   On Choosing an Estimate of the Spectral
                                  Density Function of a Stationary Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--932
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                 Orval M. Klose   Bounds for the Variance of the
                                  Mann--Whitney Statistic  . . . . . . . . 933--945
                Reed Dawson and   
                     I. J. Good   Exact Markov Probabilities from Oriented
                                  Linear Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946--956
            Shanti S. Gupta and   
                   Milton Sobel   On a Statistic which Arises in Selection
                                  and Ranking Problems . . . . . . . . . . 957--967
              I. Richard Savage   Contributions to the Theory of Rank
                                  Order Statistics --- The ``Trend'' Case  968--977
               David Durand and   
            J. Arthur Greenwood   Random Unit Vectors II: Usefulness of
                                  Gram--Charlier and Related Series in
                                  Approximating Distributions  . . . . . . 978--986
                  John W. Tukey   Sums of random partitions of ranks . . . 987--992
                    A. T. James   The Relationship Algebra of an
                                  Experimental Design  . . . . . . . . . . 993--1002
                    H. D. Block   Estimates of Error for Two Modifications
                                  of the Robbins--Monro Stochastic
                                  Approximation Process  . . . . . . . . . 1003--1010
            David Blackwell and   
               Lambert Koopmans   On the Identifiability Problem for
                                  Functions of Finite Markov Chains  . . . 1011--1015
                   Lionel Weiss   Tests of Fit in the Presence of Nuisance
                                  Location and Scale Parameters  . . . . . 1016--1020
                     K. Sarkadi   On the Distribution of the Number of
                                  Exceedances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1023
                    H. Blasbalg   Transformation of the Fundamental
                                  Relationships in Sequential Analysis . . 1024--1028
              Leonard J. Savage   When Different Pairs of Hypotheses have
                                  the Same Family of Likelihood-Ratio Test
                                  Regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1028--1032
                Andrew Sterrett   On the Detection of Defective Members of
                                  Large Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1036
                A. Bruce Clarke   Maximum Likelihood Estimates in a Simple
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036--1040
                D. A. S. Fraser   Most Powerful Rank-type Tests  . . . . . 1040--1043
               Norman C. Severo   Asymptotic Behavior of Tests on the Mean
                                  of a Logarithmico-Normal Distribution
                                  with Known Variance  . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1046
                  John S. White   A $t$-Test for the Serial Correlation
                                  Coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046--1048
                   J. G. Wendel   Groups and conditional Monte Carlo . . . 1048--1052
               Harry Weingarten   Tables for Type A Critical Regions . . . 1052--1053
               Ralph G. Stanton   A Note on BIBDS  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054--1055
                     I. J. Good   Corrections to ``The Surprise Index for
                                  the Multivariate Normal Distribution''   1055--1055
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1056--1075
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076--1097
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1097--1098
                      Anonymous   Institutional Members  . . . . . . . . . 1098--1098


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 29, Number 1, March, 1958

                  Samuel Karlin   Pólya Type Distributions IV. Some
                                  Principles of Selecting a Single
                                  Procedure from a Complete Class  . . . . 1--21
                   Marvin Zelen   The Use of Group Divisible Designs for
                                  Confounded Asymmetrical Factorial
                                  Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--40
                   Harry Kesten   Accelerated Stochastic Approximation . . 41--59
         Balkrishna V. Sukhatme   Testing the Hypothesis That Two
                                  Populations Differ Only in Location  . . 60--78
               A. E. Sarhan and   
                B. G. Greenberg   Estimation of Location and Scale
                                  Parameters by Order Statistics from
                                  Singly and Doubly Censored Samples: Part
                                  II. Tables for the Normal Distribution
                                  for Samples of Size $ 11 \leqq n \leqq
                                  15 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--105
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Generalizations of a Gaussian Theorem    106--117
                H. Chernoff and   
                     H. Teicher   A Central Limit Theorem for Sums of
                                  Interchangeable Random Variables . . . . 118--130
                 R. L. Plackett   Linear Estimation from Censored Data . . 131--142
             John G. Kemeny and   
                J. Laurie Snell   Semimartingales of Markov Chains . . . . 143--154
                   S. G. Ghurye   Note on Sufficient Statistics and
                                  Two-Stage Procedures . . . . . . . . . . 155--166
                   S. R. Searle   Sampling Variances of Estimates of
                                  Components of Variance . . . . . . . . . 167--178
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                    Ronald Pyke   On Some Distributions Related to the
                                  Statistic $ D^+_n $  . . . . . . . . . . 179--187
                    Meyer Dwass   On Several Statistics Related to
                                  Empirical Distribution Functions . . . . 188--191
          Charlotte T. Striebel   On the Efficiency of Estimates of Trend
                                  in the Ornstein Uhlenbeck Process  . . . 192--200
               Ingram Olkin and   
                  John W. Pratt   Unbiased Estimation of Certain
                                  Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . . . 201--211
                    Leo Breiman   Transient Atomic Markov Chains with a
                                  Denumerable Number of States . . . . . . 212--218
             J. W. Archbold and   
                  N. L. Johnson   A Construction for Room's Squares and an
                                  Application in Experimental Design . . . 219--225
               Ingram Olkin and   
                  John W. Pratt   A Multivariate Tchebycheff Inequality    226--234
            Shanti S. Gupta and   
                   Milton Sobel   On Selecting a Subset Which Contains All
                                  Populations Better Than a Standard . . . 235--244
            Stanis\law Trybu\la   Some Problems of Simultaneous Minimax
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--253
             P. V. Krishna Iyer   A Theorem on Factorial Moments and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--261
                   W. S. Connor   The Uniqueness of the Triangular
                                  Association Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 262--266
                     B. Sherman   The Limiting Distribution of Brownian
                                  Motion in a Bounded Region with
                                  Instantaneous Return . . . . . . . . . . 267--273
            Shanti S. Gupta and   
                   Milton Sobel   On the Distribution of a Statistic Based
                                  on Ordered Uniform Chance Variables  . . 274--281
           Franklin A. Graybill   Determining Sample Size for a Specified
                                  Width Confidence Interval  . . . . . . . 282--287
                 M. A. Girshick   An Extension of the Optimum Property of
                                  the Sequential Probability Ratio Test    288--290
                      V. R. Rao   A Note on Balanced Designs . . . . . . . 290--294
                    P. G. Guest   The Spacing of Observations in
                                  Polynomial Regression  . . . . . . . . . 294--299
                 Emanuel Parzen   Conditions That a Stochastic Process be
                                  Ergodic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
               Gerald D. Berndt   Power Functions of the Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--306
                 A. W. Marshall   The Small Sample Distribution of $ n
                                  \omega^2_n $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--309
                   Lionel Weiss   Limiting Distributions of Homogeneous
                                  Functions of Sample Spacings . . . . . . 310--312
                David Blackwell   Another Countable Markov Process with
                                  Only Instantaneous States  . . . . . . . 313--316
                   Lionel Weiss   Spacings Generated by Mixed Samples  . . 316--318
                Jerome Blackman   Correction to ``An Extension of the
                                  Kolmogorov Distribution''  . . . . . . . 318--322
             J. H. B. Kemperman   Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--324
                      Anonymous   Abstracts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--328
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--350
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 350--350

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 29, Number 2, June, 1958

                   J. Wolfowitz   Information Theory for Mathematicians    351--356
                      D. R. Cox   Some Problems Connected with Statistical
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--372
                   Jerome Sacks   Asymptotic Distribution of Stochastic
                                  Approximation Procedures . . . . . . . . 373--405
                  Samuel Karlin   Admissibility for Estimation with
                                  Quadratic Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--436
                    H. D. Brunk   On the Estimation of Parameters
                                  Restricted by Inequalities . . . . . . . 437--454
               David L. Wallace   Intersection Region Confidence
                                  Procedures with an Application to the
                                  Location of the Maximum in Quadratic
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--475
                 Leo A. Goodman   Exact Probabilities and Asymptotic
                                  Relationships for Some Statistics from
                                  $m$-th Order Markov Chains . . . . . . . 476--490
                  S. N. Roy and   
                 R. E. Bargmann   Tests of Multiple Independence and the
                                  Associated Confidence Bounds . . . . . . 491--503
                 Allan Birnbaum   Sequential Tests for Variance Ratios and
                                  Components of Variance . . . . . . . . . 504--514
                  J. M. Shapiro   Sums of Powers of Independent Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--522
       Franklin A. Graybill and   
              William E. Pruitt   The Staircase Design: Theory . . . . . . 523--533
                  R. R. Bahadur   A Note on the Fundamental Identity of
                                  Sequential Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 534--543
          Isidore Fleischer and   
              Anthony Kooharian   On the Statistical Treatment of
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 544--549
                    Des Raj and   
                Salem H. Khamis   Some Remarks on Sampling with
                                  Replacement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--557
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                  R. C. McCarty   A Distribution-Free Upper Confidence
                                  Bound for $ \Pr \{ Y < X \} $, Based on
                                  Independent Samples of $X$ and $Y$ . . . 558--562
                    Edgar Reich   On the integrodifferential equation of
                                  Takács. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--570
               Morton Kupperman   Probabilities of Hypotheses and
                                  Information-Statistics in Sampling from
                                  Exponential-Class Populations  . . . . . 571--575
                W. L. Nicholson   On the Distribution of $ 2 \times 2 $
                                  Random Normal Determinants . . . . . . . 575--580
                  John W. Tukey   A smooth invertibility theorem . . . . . 581--584
                 M. M. Siddiqui   On the Inversion of the Sample
                                  Covariance Matrix in a Stationary
                                  Autoregressive Process . . . . . . . . . 585--588
                  John W. Tukey   A problem of Berkson, and minimum
                                  variance orderly estimators  . . . . . . 588--592
                    Leo Breiman   An Elementary Theorem Concerning
                                  Stationary Ergodic Processes . . . . . . 592--595
                   Lionel Weiss   A Test of Fit for Multivariate
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--599
             Paul N. Somerville   Tables for Obtaining Non-parametric
                                  Tolerance Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--601
                  John E. Walsh   Nonparametric Estimation of Sample
                                  Percentage Point Standard Deviation  . . 601--604
                George P. Steck   A Uniqueness Property Not Enjoyed by the
                                  Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 604--606
                   Herman Rubin   Estimation of a Regression Line with
                                  Both Variables Subject to Error Under an
                                  Unusual Identification Condition . . . . 606--608
             Robert V. Hogg and   
                 Allen T. Craig   On the Decomposition of Certain $ \chi^2
                                  $ Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--610
               G. E. P. Box and   
               Mervin E. Muller   A note on the generation of random
                                  normal deviates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--611
          V. S. Varadarajan and   
                   R. Ranga Rao   On a Theorem in Metric Spaces  . . . . . 612--613
                  John W. Tukey   Bias and confidence in not-quite large
                                  samples (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . 614--614
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 614--623
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--631
                      Anonymous   Report of the Gatlinburg, Tennessee
                                  Meeting of the \insttitleInstitute . . . 631--634
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 634--634

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 29, Number 3, September, 1958

               David L. Wallace   Asymptotic Approximations to
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--654
             Douglas G. Chapman   A Comparative Study of Several One-Sided
                                  Goodness-of-Fit Tests  . . . . . . . . . 655--674
                      J. Kiefer   On the Nonrandomized Optimality and
                                  Randomized Nonoptimality of Symmetrical
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--699
          Wassily Hoeffding and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Distinguishability of Sets of
                                  Distributions. (The case of independent
                                  and identically distributed chance
                                  variables) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--718
                H. O. Lancaster   The Structure of Bivariate Distributions 719--736
                    Ronald Pyke   On Renewal Processes Related to Type I
                                  and Type II Counter Models . . . . . . . 737--754
                 R. F. Tate and   
                     R. L. Goen   Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation for
                                  the Truncated Poisson Distribution . . . 755--765
                     B. V. Shah   On Balancing in Factorial Experiments    766--779
                George P. Steck   A Table for Computing Trivariate Normal
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--800
                   D. S. Robson   Admissible and Minimax Integer-Valued
                                  Estimators of an Integer-Valued
                                  Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--812
               J. Aitchison and   
                   S. D. Silvey   Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of
                                  Parameters Subject to Restraints . . . . 813--828
                  S. N. Roy and   
                 R. F. Potthoff   Confidence Bounds on Vector Analogues of
                                  the ``Ratio of Means'' and the ``Ratio
                                  of Variances'' for Two Correlated Normal
                                  Variates and Some Associated Tests . . . 829--841
               Herbert T. David   A three-sample Kolmogorov--Smirnov test  842--851
                 M. M. Siddiqui   Distribution of a Serial Correlation
                                  Coefficient Near the Ends of the Range   852--861
           Charles E. Clark and   
             G. Trevor Williams   Distributions of the Members of an
                                  Ordered Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--870
           Leonard S. Feldt and   
            Moharram W. Mahmoud   Power Function Charts for Specifying
                                  Numbers of Observations in Analyses of
                                  Variance of Fixed Effects  . . . . . . . 871--877
                   Irving Weiss   Limiting Distributions in Some Occupancy
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878--884
            Seymour Geisser and   
           Samuel W. Greenhouse   An Extension of Box's Results on the Use
                                  of the $F$ Distribution in Multivariate
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--891
                  Edwin L. Crow   A Property of Additively Closed Families
                                  of Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . 892--897
                 Colin R. Blyth   Note on Relative Efficiency of Tests . . 898--903
                    John Mandel   A Note on Confidence Intervals in
                                  Regression Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 903--907
               A. M. Kshirsagar   A Note on Incomplete Block Designs . . . 907--910
                     V. L. Mote   On a Minimax Property of a Balanced
                                  Incomplete Block Design  . . . . . . . . 910--914
                   J. N. K. Rao   A Characterization of the Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914--919
            W. A. Thompson, Jr.   A Note on P.B.I.B. Design Matrices . . . 919--922
                     R. G. Laha   On a Factorization Theorem in the Theory
                                  of Analytic Characteristic Functions . . 922--926
                     A. V. Boyd   Bounds for Mills' Ratio for the Type III
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--929
                 Manfred Kochen   On the Commutativity of Operators in
                                  Stochastic Models for Learning . . . . . 930--933
        Ralph Allan Bradley and   
             Clyde Young Kramer   Addenda to ``Intra-Block Analysis for
                                  Factorials in Two-Associate Class Group
                                  Divisible Designs''  . . . . . . . . . . 933--935
                  John S. White   Acknowledgment of Priority: A $t$-Test
                                  for the Serial Correlation Coefficient   935--935
                   H. S. Konijn   Correction to ``On the Power of Certain
                                  Tests for Independence in Bivariate
                                  Populations''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--936
           Herbert T. David and   
             William H. Kruskal   Correction to ``The WAGR Sequential
                                  $T$-Test Reaches a Decision with
                                  Probability One''  . . . . . . . . . . . 936--936
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 936--939
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--946
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 946--946

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 29, Number 4, December, 1958

                  Leonard Cohen   On Mixed Single Sample Experiments . . . 947--971
            Herman Chernoff and   
              I. Richard Savage   Asymptotic Normality and Efficiency of
                                  Certain Nonparametric Test Statistics    972--994
                 A. P. Dempster   A High Dimensional Two Sample
                                  Significance Test  . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1010
                    Paul Schmid   On the Kolmogorov and Smirnov limit
                                  theorems for discontinuous distribution
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1027
              Robert A. Wijsman   Incomplete Sufficient Statistics and
                                  Similar Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1028--1045
             Thomas S. Ferguson   A Method of Generating Best
                                  Asymptotically Normal Estimates with
                                  Application to the Estimation of
                                  Bacterial Densities  . . . . . . . . . . 1046--1062
                  G. H. Freeman   Families of Designs for Two Successive
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1078
               Wm. Jackson Hall   Most Economical Multiple-Decision Rules  1079--1094
                Olive Jean Dunn   Estimation of the Means of Dependent
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1111
                C. J. Burke and   
                  M. Rosenblatt   A Markovian Function of a Markov Chain   1112--1122
                 Leo A. Goodman   Asymptotic Distributions of
                                  ``Psi--Squared'' Goodness of Fit
                                  Criteria for $m$-th Order Markov Chains  1123--1133
                   Paul G. Hoel   Efficiency Problems in Polynomial
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1134--1145
          A. G. Constantine and   
                    A. T. James   On the General Canonical Correlation
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146--1166
                  E. L. Lehmann   Significance Level and Power . . . . . . 1167--1176
                         J. Roy   Step-Down Procedure in Multivariate
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1187
                  John S. White   The Limiting Distribution of the Serial
                                  Correlation Coefficient in the Explosive
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188--1197
            Salomon Bochner and   
                  Tatsuo Kawata   A Limit Theorem for the Periodogram  . . 1198--1208
            David Blackwell and   
                Leo Breiman and   
                A. J. Thomasian   Proof of Shannon's Transmission Theorem
                                  for Finite-State Indecomposable Channels 1209--1220
              Sujit Kumar Mitra   On the Limiting Power Function of the
                                  Frequency Chi-Square Test  . . . . . . . 1221--1233
                   N. U. Prabhu   Some Exact Results for the Finite Dam    1234--1243
                      R. Radner   Minimax Estimation for Linear
                                  Regressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1244--1250
                 M. M. Siddiqui   Covariances of Least-Squares Estimates
                                  When Residuals are Correlated  . . . . . 1251--1256
               L. Takács   On a Probability Problem in the Theory
                                  of Counters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257--1263
              Jacques St-Pierre   Distribution of Linear Contrasts of
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264--1268
                    J. W. Pratt   Admissible One-Sided Tests for the Mean
                                  of a Rectangular Distribution  . . . . . 1268--1271
                   Jack Moshman   A Method for Selecting the Size of the
                                  Initial Sample in Stein's Two Sample
                                  Procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1275
              V. S. Varadarajan   On a Problem in Measure-Spaces . . . . . 1275--1278
                   G. D. Berndt   Correction to ``Power Functions of the
                                  Gamma Distribution'' . . . . . . . . . . 1278--1278
               Morton Kupperman   Correction to ``Probabilities of
                                  Hypotheses and Information-Statistics in
                                  Sampling From Exponential-Class
                                  Populations''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1278--1278
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1291
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292--1308
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1308--1308


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 30, Number 1, March, 1959

                   Oscar Wesler   Invariance Theory and a Modified Minimax
                                  Principle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
                 R. C. Bose and   
                 Dale M. Mesner   On Linear Associative Algebras
                                  Corresponding to Association Schemes of
                                  Partially Balanced Designs . . . . . . . 21--38
               S. S. Shrikhande   On a Characterization of the Triangular
                                  Association Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 39--47
                     B. V. Shah   On a Generalisation of the Kronecker
                                  Product Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--54
                       M. Stone   Application of a Measure of Information
                                  to the Design and Comparison of
                                  Regression Experiments . . . . . . . . . 55--70
                 Colin R. Blyth   Note on Estimating Information . . . . . 71--79
              Morris H. DeGroot   Unbiased Sequential Estimation for
                                  Binomial Populations . . . . . . . . . . 80--101
        Robert E. Bechhofer and   
           Salah Elmaghraby and   
                   Norman Morse   A Single-Sample Multiple-Decision
                                  Procedure for Selecting the Multinomial
                                  Event Which Has the Highest Probability  102--119
               Harry Kesten and   
                   Norman Morse   A Property of the Multinomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--127
                   Oscar Wesler   A Classification Problem Involving
                                  Multinomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--133
               L. Takács   On the Limiting Distribution of the
                                  Number of Coincidences Concerning
                                  Telephone Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . 134--142
                    Edgar Reich   On the integrodifferential equation of
                                  Takács. II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--148
                   H. P. Kramer   Symmetrizable Markov Matrices  . . . . . 149--153
                 Leo A. Goodman   On Some Statistical Tests for $M$ th
                                  Order Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . 154--164
           Edmund Eisenberg and   
                     David Gale   Consensus of Subjective Probabilities:
                                  The Pari-Mutuel Method . . . . . . . . . 165--168
            Gopinath Kallianpur   A Note on Perfect Probability  . . . . . 169--172
Pedro Egydio de Oliveira Carvalho   On the Distribution of the
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov $D$-Statistic  . . . 173--176
                R. Gnanadesikan   Equality of More Than Two Variances and
                                  of More Than Two Dispersion Matrices
                                  Against Certain Alternatives . . . . . . 177--184
              Robert A. Wijsman   On the Theory of BAN Estimates . . . . . 185--191
                Olive Jean Dunn   Estimation of the Medians for Dependent
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--197
              William R. Gaffey   A Consistent Estimator of a Component of
                                  a Convolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--205
                 Om P. Aggarwal   Bayes and Minimax Procedures in Sampling
                                  From Finite and Infinite Populations ---
                                  I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--218
                   Gunnar Ekman   An Approximation Useful in Univariate
                                  Stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--229
             Om P. Aggarwal and   
                  Irwin Guttman   Truncation and Tests of Hypotheses . . . 230--238
               A. M. Kshirsagar   Bartlett Decomposition and Wishart
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
                     Ray Mickey   Some Bounds on the Distribution
                                  Functions of the Largest and Smallest
                                  Roots of Normal Determinantal Equations  242--243
                  S. Karlin and   
          R. G. Miller, Jr. and   
                   N. U. Prabhu   Note on a Moving Single Server Problem   243--246
               A. M. Kshirsagar   Distribution of the ``Blocks Adjusted
                                  for Treatments'' Sum of Squares in
                                  Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . 246--249
                   D. A. Sprott   A Series of Symmetrical Group Divisible
                                  Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . 249--251
             Nicolaas H. Kuiper   Alternative Proof of a Theorem of
                                  Birnbaum and Pyke  . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
                  Paul R. Rider   Quasi-Ranges of Samples from an
                                  Exponential Population . . . . . . . . . 252--254
               Ralph G. Stanton   Acknowledgment of Priority . . . . . . . 254--254
              Robert A. Wijsman   Correction to ``Random Orthogonal
                                  Transformations and Their Use in Some
                                  Classical Distribution Problems in
                                  Multivariate Analysis''  . . . . . . . . 254--254
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 269--269

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 30, Number 2, June, 1959

                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Optimum Designs in Regression Problems   271--294
            Damaraju Raghavarao   Some Optimum Weighing Designs  . . . . . 295--303
                  S. N. Roy and   
                R. Gnanadesikan   Some Contributions to Anova in One or
                                  More Dimensions: I . . . . . . . . . . . 304--317
                  S. N. Roy and   
                R. Gnanadesikan   Some Contributions to Anova in One or
                                  More Dimensions: II  . . . . . . . . . . 318--340
                     R. F. Tate   Unbiased Estimation: Functions of
                                  Location and Scale Parameters  . . . . . 341--366
                   John J. Gart   An extension of the Cramér-Rao inequality 367--380
                     A. V. Fend   On the Attainment of Cramér--Rao and
                                  Bhattacharyya Bounds for the Variance of
                                  an Estimate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--388
                   S. D. Silvey   The Lagrangian Multiplier Test . . . . . 389--407
           Charles H. Kraft and   
              John W. Pratt and   
                  A. Seidenberg   Intuitive Probability on Finite Sets . . 408--419
                      J. Kiefer   $K$-Sample Analogues of the
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov and Cramér--von Mises
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--447
             J. H. B. Kemperman   Asymptotic Expansions for the Smirnov
                                  Test and for the Range of Cumulative
                                  Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--462
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Asymptotic Minimax Character of the
                                  Sample Distribution Function for Vector
                                  Chance Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--489
                  Herbert Scarf   Bayes Solutions of the Statistical
                                  Inventory Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 490--508
                  J. G. Mauldon   A Generalization of the
                                  Beta-Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . . 509--520
                 Bernard Harris   Determining Bounds on Integrals with
                                  Applications to Cataloging Problems  . . 521--548
                  John W. Pratt   On a General Concept of ``In
                                  Probability''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--558
          Charlotte T. Striebel   Densities for Stochastic Processes . . . 559--567
                    Ronald Pyke   The Supremum and Infimum of the Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--576
                  S. N. Roy and   
                         J. Roy   A Note on a Class of Problems in
                                  `Normal' Multivariate Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--581
              Irwin D. J. Bross   Note on an Application of the
                                  Schumann--Bradley Table  . . . . . . . . 581--583
                    A. Devinatz   On a theorem of Lévy-Raikov . . . . . . . 583--586
                  M. O. Glasgow   Note on the Factorial Moments of the
                                  Distribution of Locally Maximal Elements
                                  in a Random Sample . . . . . . . . . . . 586--590
                   Lionel Weiss   The Limiting Joint Distribution of the
                                  Largest and Smallest Sample Spacings . . 590--593
                 A. P. Dempster   Generalized $ D^+_n $ Statistics . . . . 593--597
              Robert A. Wijsman   Applications of a Certain Representation
                                  of the Wishart Matrix  . . . . . . . . . 597--601
                  C. Derman and   
                       J. Sacks   On Dvoretzky's Stochastic Approximation
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--606
                   J. R. Isbell   On a Problem of Robbins  . . . . . . . . 606--610
           Charles E. Clark and   
             G. Trevor Williams   Addenda: Distributions of the Members of
                                  an Ordered Sample  . . . . . . . . . . . 610--610
                   J. N. K. Rao   Acknowledgment of Priority: A
                                  Characterization of the Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--610
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 611--625
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--639
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 639--640

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 30, Number 3, September, 1959

               Herman Rubin and   
               Howard G. Tucker   Estimating the Parameters of a
                                  Differential Process . . . . . . . . . . 641--658
            Gopinath Kallianpur   A Problem in Optimum Filtering with
                                  Finite Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--669
             A. V. Balakrishnan   On a Characterization of Covariances . . 670--675
                 T. W. Anderson   On Asymptotic Distributions of Estimates
                                  of Parameters of Stochastic Difference
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676--687
               Edgar J. Gilbert   On the Identifiability Problem for
                                  Functions of Finite Markov Chains  . . . 688--697
           Donald P. Gaver, Jr.   Imbedded Markov Chain Analysis of a
                                  Waiting-Line Process in Continuous Time  698--720
             Ralph Palmer Agnew   Asymptotic Expansions in Global Central
                                  Limit Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--737
               D. L. Burkholder   On the Existence of a Best Approximation
                                  of One Distribution Function by Another
                                  of a Given Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--742
                Albert Madansky   Bounds on the Expectation of a Convex
                                  Function of a Multivariate Random
                                  Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--746
               T. L. Austin and   
                R. E. Fagen and   
               W. F. Penney and   
                   John Riordan   The Number of Components in Random
                                  Linear Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--754
                Herman Chernoff   Sequential Design of Experiments . . . . 755--770
                 R. C. Bose and   
                   R. L. Carter   Complex Representation in the
                                  Construction of Rotatable Designs  . . . 771--780
               S. S. Shrikhande   The Uniqueness of the $ \mathrm {L}_2 $
                                  Association Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 781--798
       Franklin A. Graybill and   
                 David L. Weeks   Combining Inter-Block and Intra-Block
                                  Information in Balanced Incomplete
                                  Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--805
                 John H. MacKay   Asymptotically Efficient Tests Based on
                                  the Sums of Observations . . . . . . . . 806--813
                G. A. Watterson   Linear Estimation in Censored Samples
                                  from Multivariate Normal Populations . . 814--824
                   M. Ziaud-Din   The expression of $k$-statistic $
                                  k_{11}$ in terms of power sums and
                                  sample moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--828
               Howard G. Tucker   A generalization of the
                                  Glivenko--Cantelli theorem . . . . . . . 828--830
                  John S. White   The Limiting Distribution of the Serial
                                  Correlation Coefficient in the Explosive
                                  Case II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--834
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 835--837
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--844
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 844--844

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 30, Number 4, December, 1959

              Robert J. Buehler   Some Validity Criteria for Statistical
                                  Inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--863
               David L. Wallace   Conditional Confidence Level Properties  864--876
                  Charles Stein   An Example of Wide Discrepancy Between
                                  Fiducial and Confidence Intervals  . . . 877--880
                  E. L. Lehmann   Optimum Invariant Tests  . . . . . . . . 881--884
                   M. Zelen and   
                     L. S. Joel   The Weighted Compounding of Two
                                  Independent Significance Tests . . . . . 885--895
            D. Guthrie, Jr. and   
               M. V. Johns, Jr.   Bayes Acceptance Sampling Procedures for
                                  Large Lots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--925
                  Irwin Guttman   Optimum Tolerance Regions and Power When
                                  Sampling From Some Non-Normal Universes  926--938
                Leon H. Herbach   Properties of Model II-Type Analysis of
                                  Variance Tests, A: Optimum Nature of the
                                  $F$-Test for Model II in the Balanced
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--959
                Werner Gautschi   Some Remarks on Herbach's Paper,
                                  ``Optimum Nature of the $F$-Test for
                                  Model II in the Balanced Case''  . . . . 960--963
               Wm. Jackson Hall   The Most-Economical Character of Some
                                  Bechhofer and Sobel Decision Rules . . . 964--969
                  Charles Stein   The Admissibility of Pitman's Estimator
                                  of a Single Location Parameter . . . . . 970--979
                 H. Leon Harter   The Use of Sample Quasi-Ranges in
                                  Estimating Population Standard Deviation 980--999
               Frederic M. Lord   The Joint Cumulants of True Values and
                                  Errors of Measurement  . . . . . . . . . 1000--1004
                R. Wormleighton   Some Tests of Permutation Symmetry . . . 1005--1017
              I. Richard Savage   Contributions to the Theory of Rank
                                  Order Statistics --- The One-Sample Case 1018--1023
                    Meyer Dwass   The Distribution of a Generalized $
                                  \mathrm {D}^+_n $ Statistic  . . . . . . 1024--1028
                   Jerome Klotz   Null Distribution of the Hodges
                                  Bivariate Sign Test  . . . . . . . . . . 1029--1033
                  John E. Walsh   Exact Nonparametric Tests for Randomized
                                  Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034--1040
                     B. V. Shah   A Generalisation of Partially Balanced
                                  Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . 1041--1050
          Manohar Narhar Vartak   The Non-Existence of Certain PBIB
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1062
                  Junjiro Ogawa   A Necessary Condition for Existence of
                                  Regular and Symmetrical Experimental
                                  Designs of Triangular Type, with
                                  Partially Balanced Incomplete Blocks . . 1063--1071
                H. A. David and   
               Beverly E. Arens   Optimal Spacing in Regression Analysis   1072--1081
             D. A. Gardiner and   
          A. H. E. Grandage and   
                    R. J. Hader   Third Order Rotatable Designs for
                                  Exploring Response Surfaces  . . . . . . 1082--1096
                 R. C. Bose and   
               Norman R. Draper   Second Order Rotatable Designs in Three
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1112
            David Blackwell and   
              J. L. Hodges, Jr.   The Probability in the Extreme Tail of a
                                  Convolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1120
               David L. Wallace   Bounds on Normal Approximations to
                                  Student's and the Chi-Square
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1130
                   Gunnar Ekman   Approximate Expressions for the
                                  Conditional Mean and Variance Over Small
                                  Intervals of a Continuous Distribution   1131--1134
            K. C. S. Pillai and   
                Tito A. Mijares   On the Moments of the Trace of a Matrix
                                  and Approximations to its Distribution   1135--1140
                  E. N. Gilbert   Random Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1141--1144
             E. M. L. Beale and   
                  C. L. Mallows   Scale Mixing of Symmetric Distributions
                                  with Zero Means  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145--1151
                    Otto Han\vs   Measurability of Extensions of
                                  Continuous Random Transforms . . . . . . 1152--1157
               S. G. Ghurye and   
               David L. Wallace   A Convolutive Class of Monotone
                                  Likelihood Ratio Families  . . . . . . . 1158--1164
                     R. G. Laha   On the Laws of Cauchy and Gauss  . . . . 1165--1174
                  C. Derman and   
           M. V. Johns, Jr. and   
                G. J. Lieberman   Continuous Sampling Procedures Without
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175--1191
                      T. Kawata   Some Convergence Theorems for Stationary
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 1192--1214
                   Mark Kac and   
                  David Slepian   Large Excursions of Gaussian Processes   1215--1228
            David Blackwell and   
                Leo Breiman and   
                A. J. Thomasian   The Capacity of a Class of Channels  . . 1229--1241
                David Blackwell   Infinite Codes for Memoryless Channels   1242--1244
                  N. L. Johnson   A Proof of Wald's Theorem on Cumulative
                                  Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245--1247
                  V. P. Bhapkar   A Note on Multiple Independence Under
                                  Multivariate Normal Linear Models  . . . 1248--1251
                 William Feller   Non-Markovian Processes with the
                                  Semigroup Property . . . . . . . . . . . 1252--1253
               Shu-teh Chen Moy   Successive Recurrence Times in a
                                  Stationary Process . . . . . . . . . . . 1254--1257
                   C. G. Khatri   On the Mutual Independence of Certain
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258--1262
               Gerald S. Rogers   A Note on the Stochastic Independence of
                                  Functions of Order Statistics  . . . . . 1263--1264
                  Leo A. Aroian   Correction Notes: Corrections to
                                  ``Continued Fractions for the Incomplete
                                  Beta Function''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265--1265
               A. Dvoretzky and   
                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Correction Notes: Corrections to
                                  ``Sequential Decision Problems for
                                  Processes with Continuous Time
                                  Parameter-Testing Hypothesis'' . . . . . 1265--1265
                   John Gurland   Correction Notes: Corrections to
                                  ``Distribution of the Maximum of the
                                  Arithmetic Mean of Correlated Random
                                  Variables''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265--1266
                 Charles Jordan   Correction Notes: Corrections to
                                  ``Approximation and Graduation According
                                  to the Principle of Least Squares by
                                  Orthogonal Polynomials'' . . . . . . . . 1266--1266
                  Paul R. Rider   Correction Notes: Corrections to
                                  ``Quasi-Ranges in Samples from an
                                  Exponential Population'' . . . . . . . . 1266--1267
                     B. V. Shah   Correction Notes: Corrections to ``On
                                  Balancing in Factorial Experiments'' . . 1267--1267
                George P. Steck   Correction Notes: Corrections to ``A
                                  Table for Computing Trivariate Normal
                                  Probabilities''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267--1267
               Howard G. Tucker   Correction Notes: Corrections to ``A
                                  Generalization of the Glivenko--Cantelli
                                  Theorem''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267--1268
              Robert A. Wijsman   Correction Notes: Corrections to ``On
                                  the Theory of BAN Estimates''  . . . . . 1268--1270
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1278
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1286
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1286--1286


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 31, Number 1, March, 1960

                  Henry B. Mann   The Algebra of a Linear Hypothesis . . . 1--15
                  J. D. Bankier   An Operational Approach to the $r$-Way
                                  Crossed Classification . . . . . . . . . 16--22
               Norman R. Draper   Second Order Rotatable Designs in Four
                                  or More Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33
                     B. V. Shah   A Matrix Substitution Method of
                                  Constructing Partially Balanced Designs  34--42
                  R. R. Bahadur   Some Approximations to the Binomial
                                  Distribution Function  . . . . . . . . . 43--54
                  Henry Teicher   On the Mixture of Distributions  . . . . 55--73
                  John W. Pratt   On Interchanging Limits and Integrals    74--77
                    S. K. Katti   Moments of the Absolute Difference and
                                  Absolute Deviation of Discrete
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--85
          Rupert G. Miller, Jr.   Priority Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--103
                 J. Keilson and   
                   A. Kooharian   On Time Dependent Queuing Processes  . . 104--112
                 R. C. Bose and   
            Roy R. Kuebler, Jr.   A Geometry of Binary Sequences
                                  Associated with Group Alphabets in
                                  Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 113--139
              Lucien Le Cam and   
              Lorraine Schwartz   A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for
                                  the Existence of Consistent Estimates    140--150
                  Alan T. James   The Distribution of the Latent Roots of
                                  the Covariance Matrix  . . . . . . . . . 151--158
                   Lionel Weiss   Two-Sample Tests for Multivariate
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--164
                 T. W. Anderson   A Modification of the Sequential
                                  Probability Ratio Test to Reduce the
                                  Sample Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--197
                Sam C. Saunders   Sequential Tolerance Regions . . . . . . 198--216
                R. Wormleighton   A Useful Generalization of the Stein
                                  Two-Sample Procedure . . . . . . . . . . 217--221
                  J. M. Shapiro   Sums of Small Powers of Independent
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--224
                     K. Sarkadi   On the Median of the Distribution of
                                  Exceedances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--226
                  Paul S. Dwyer   Correction Notes: Correction to
                                  ``Generalizations of a Gaussian
                                  Theorem''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
                R. Gnanadesikan   Correction Notes: Correction to and
                                  Comment on ``Equality of More Than Two
                                  Variances and of More Than Two
                                  Dispersion Matrices Against Certain
                                  Alternatives'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
                 H. Leon Harter   Correction Notes: Correction to ``The
                                  Use of Sample Quasi-Ranges in Estimating
                                  Population Standard Deviation''  . . . . 228--228
       A. S. Krishnamoorthy and   
               M. Parthasarathy   Correction Notes: Correction to ``A
                                  Multivariate Gamma-Type Distribution''   229--229
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 230--246
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--267
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 268--268

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 31, Number 2, June, 1960

                   J. Hemelrijk   The Statistical Work of David Van
                                  Dantzig (1900--1959) . . . . . . . . . . 269--275
                  R. R. Bahadur   Stochastic Comparison of Tests . . . . . 276--295
              Samuel Karlin and   
                   Donald Truax   Slippage Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 296--324
               D. L. Burkholder   Effect on the Minimal Complete Class of
                                  Tests of Changes in the Testing Problem  325--331
               Morris Skibinsky   Some Properties of a Class of Bayes
                                  Two-Stage Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--351
              Wassily Hoeffding   Lower Bounds for the Expected Sample
                                  Size and the Average Risk of a
                                  Sequential Procedure . . . . . . . . . . 352--368
          B. L. van der Waerden   Sampling Inspection as a Minimum Loss
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--384
                    W. J. Dixon   Simplified Estimation from Censored
                                  Normal Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--391
                     J. Roy and   
              I. M. Chakravarti   Estimating the Mean of a Finite
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--398
                     H. Linhart   A Measure of Predictive Precision in
                                  Regression Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 399--404
                     H. Witting   A Generalized Pitman Efficiency for
                                  Nonparametric Tests  . . . . . . . . . . 405--414
               U. V. R. Rao and   
               I. R. Savage and   
                       M. Sobel   Contributions to the Theory of Rank
                                  Order Statistics: The Two-Sample
                                  Censored Case  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--426
                        M. Fisz   On a Result by M. Rosenblatt Concerning
                                  the von Mises--Smirnov Test  . . . . . . 427--429
                   Walter Vogel   A Sequential Design for the Two Armed
                                  Bandit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--443
                   Walter Vogel   An Asymptotic Minimax Theorem for the
                                  Two Armed Bandit Problem . . . . . . . . 444--451
                A. J. Thomasian   An Elementary Proof of the AEP of
                                  Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 452--456
             H. Furstenberg and   
                      H. Kesten   Products of Random Matrices  . . . . . . 457--469
           Melvin Katz, Jr. and   
                A. J. Thomasian   An Exponential Bound for Functions of a
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--474
                   N. U. Prabhu   Application of Storage Theory to Queues
                                  with Poisson Arrivals  . . . . . . . . . 475--482
             Albert W. Marshall   A One-Sided Analog of Kolmogorov's
                                  Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--487
         Albert W. Marshall and   
                   Ingram Olkin   A One-Sided Inequality of the Chebyshev
                                  Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--491
                  A. J. Hoffman   On the Uniqueness of the Triangular
                                  Association Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 492--497
                      Anonymous   Note [On the Uniqueness and
                                  Nonuniqueness of the Triangular
                                  Association Schemes] . . . . . . . . . . 497--497
               L. C. A. Corsten   Proper Spaces Related to Triangular
                                  Partially Balanced Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--501
                     B. V. Shah   Balanced Factorial Experiments . . . . . 502--514
                  John Lamperti   The First-Passage Moments and the
                                  Invariant Measure of a Markov Chain  . . 515--517
           Marshall Freimer and   
                   Bernard Gold   Note on the Distribution of Locally
                                  Maximal Elements in a Random Sample  . . 518--518
              I. Richard Savage   Contributions to the Theory of Rank
                                  Order Statistics: Computation Rules for
                                  Probabilities of Rank Orders . . . . . . 519--520
               Wadie F. Mikhail   An Inequality for Balanced Incomplete
                                  Block Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--522; addendum, 1213
                    G. P. Steck   Acknowledgement of Priority: A
                                  Uniqueness Property Not Enjoyed by the
                                  Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 523--523
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 524--539
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--556
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 556--556

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 31, Number 3, September, 1960

                     J. R. Blum   Werner Gautschi, 1927--1959  . . . . . . 557--557
            David Blackwell and   
                Leo Breiman and   
                A. J. Thomasian   The Capacities of Certain Channel
                                  Classes Under Random Coding  . . . . . . 558--567
            K. R. Parthasarathy   On the Estimation of the Spectrum of a
                                  Stationary Stochastic Process  . . . . . 568--573
              Edward Nelson and   
                   Dale Varberg   Expectations of Functionals on a
                                  Stochastic Process . . . . . . . . . . . 574--578
                       J. Sacks   Ergodocity [sic] of Queues in Series . . 579--588
                   G. F. Newell   Queues for a Fixed-Cycle Traffic Light   589--597
                   Harold Ruben   Probability Content of Regions Under
                                  Spherical Normal Distributions, I  . . . 598--618
               Marvin Zelen and   
               Norman C. Severo   Graphs for Bivariate Normal
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--624
                     D. L. Heck   Charts of Some Upper Percentage Points
                                  of the Distribution of the Largest
                                  Characteristic Root  . . . . . . . . . . 625--642
               Jerzy Neyman and   
             Elizabeth L. Scott   Correction for Bias Introduced by a
                                  Transformation of Variables  . . . . . . 643--655
                 L. Schmetterer   On a Problem of J. Neyman and E. Scott   656--661
             Allan Birnbaum and   
          William C. Healy, Jr.   Estimates with Prescribed Variance Based
                                  on Two-Stage Sampling  . . . . . . . . . 662--676
              Robert A. Wijsman   A Monotonicity Property of the
                                  Sequential Probability Ratio Test  . . . 677--684
                 Hirofumi Uzawa   Locally Most Powerful Rank Tests for
                                  Two-Sample Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 685--702
                     C. B. Bell   On the Structure of Distribution-Free
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--709
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                     R. A. Hall   Small Sample Distributions for
                                  Multi-Sample Statistics of the Smirnov
                                  Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--720
              Samuel Karlin and   
                 Frank Proschan   Pólya Type Distributions of Convolutions  721--736
          J. L. Hodges, Jr. and   
                  Lucien Le Cam   The Poisson Approximation to the Poisson
                                  Binomial Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 737--740
                  V. P. Bhapkar   Confidence Bounds Connected with Anova
                                  and Manova for Balanced and Partially
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Designs  . . . 741--748
                 Gideon Schwarz   A Class of Factorial Designs with
                                  Unequal Cell-Frequencies . . . . . . . . 749--755
            Damaraju Raghavarao   A Generalization of Group Divisible
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--771
          Manohar Narhar Vartak   Relations Among the Blocks of the
                                  Kronecker Product of Designs . . . . . . 772--778
                      P. V. Rao   The Dual of a Balanced Incomplete Block
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--785
       Franklin A. Graybill and   
                    V. Seshadri   On the Unbiasedness of Yates' Method of
                                  Estimation Using Interblock Information  786--787
            Damaraju Raghavarao   On the Block Structure of Certain \bf
                                  PBIB Designs with Two Associate Classes
                                  Having Triangular and $ L_2 $
                                  Association Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . 787--791
                     K. R. Shah   Optimality Criteria for Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--794
                 C. B. Bell and   
            David Blackwell and   
                    Leo Breiman   On the Completeness of Order Statistics  794--797
                    Ronald Pyke   On Centering Infinitely Divisible
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--800
                    Leo Breiman   The Strong Law of Large Numbers for a
                                  Class of Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . 801--803
                      A. Ghosal   Emptiness in the Finite Dam  . . . . . . 803--808
                    Leo Breiman   Correction Notes: Correction to ``The
                                  Individual Ergodic Theorem of
                                  Information Theory'' . . . . . . . . . . 809--810
               David L. Wallace   Correction Notes: Correction to ``Bounds
                                  on Normal Approximations to Student's
                                  and the Chi-Square Distributions'' . . . 810--810
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 811--823
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--833
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 833--834

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 31, Number 4, December, 1960

                 Allen T. Craig   Our Silver Anniversary . . . . . . . . . 835--837
               G. E. P. Box and   
                  D. W. Behnken   Simplex-Sum Designs: A Class of Second
                                  Order Rotatable Designs Derivable From
                                  Those of First Order . . . . . . . . . . 838--864
               Norman R. Draper   Third Order Rotatable Designs in Three
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--874
               Norman R. Draper   A Third Order Rotatable Design in Four
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--877
            Damaraju Raghavarao   Some Aspects of Weighing Designs . . . . 878--884
                 A. P. Dempster   Random Allocation Designs I: On General
                                  Classes of Estimation Methods  . . . . . 885--905
                    J. P. Imhof   A Mixed Model for the Complete Three-Way
                                  Layout with Two Random-Effects Factors   906--928
                 M. M. Siddiqui   Tests for Regression Coefficients When
                                  Errors are Correlated  . . . . . . . . . 929--938
                  S. N. Roy and   
                 Whitfield Cobb   Mixed Model Variance Analysis with
                                  Normal Error and Possibly Non-Normal
                                  Other Random Effects: Part I: The
                                  Univariate Case  . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--957
                  S. N. Roy and   
                 Whitfield Cobb   Mixed Model Variance Analysis with
                                  Normal Error and Possibly Non-Normal
                                  Other Random Effects: Part II: The
                                  Multivariate Case  . . . . . . . . . . . 958--968
                 Richard Warren   An Associated Polynomial for Least
                                  Squares Approximations . . . . . . . . . 969--981
            Lambert H. Koopmans   Asymptotic Rate of Discrimination for
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 982--994
               Shu-teh Chen Moy   Equalities for Stationary Processes
                                  Similar to an Equality of Wald . . . . . 995--1000
         Albert W. Marshall and   
                   Ingram Olkin   Multivariate Chebyshev Inequalities  . . 1001--1014
              R. R. Bahadur and   
                   R. Ranga Rao   On Deviations of the Sample Mean . . . . 1015--1027
                 R. G. Laha and   
                  E. Lukacs and   
                      M. Newman   On the Independence of a Sample Central
                                  Moment and the Sample Mean . . . . . . . 1028--1033
                   J. G. Wendel   Order Statistics of Partial Sums . . . . 1034--1044
                 Bernard Harris   Probability Distributions Related to
                                  Random Mappings  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1062
                   Max Halperin   Some Asymptotic Results for a Coverage
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1076
               D. F. Votaw, Jr.   Statistical Programming  . . . . . . . . 1077--1083
         Donald F. Morrison and   
                    H. A. David   The Life Distribution and Reliability of
                                  a System with Spare Components . . . . . 1084--1094
               Richard Cohn and   
        Frederick Mosteller and   
              John W. Pratt and   
               Maurice Tatsuoka   Maximizing the Probability That Adjacent
                                  Order Statistics of Samples from Several
                                  Populations Form Overlapping Intervals   1095--1104
              Nico F. Laubscher   Normalizing the Noncentral $t$ and $F$
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1112
                   Harold Ruben   Probability Content of Regions Under
                                  Spherical Normal Distributions, II: The
                                  Distribution of the Range in Normal
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1121
                 H. Leon Harter   Tables of Range and Studentized Range    1122--1147
                     Koichi Ito   Asymptotic Formulae for the Distribution
                                  of Hotelling's Generalized $ T_0^2 $
                                  Statistic. II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148--1153
                 L. Schmetterer   On Unbiased Estimation . . . . . . . . . 1154--1163
                 Donald Richter   Two-Stage Experiments for Estimating a
                                  Common Mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164--1173
               A. R. Ansari and   
                  R. A. Bradley   Rank-Sum Tests for Dispersions . . . . . 1174--1189
                  Bruce M. Hill   A Relationship Between Hodges' Bivariate
                                  Sign Test and a Non-Parametric Test of
                                  Daniels  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190--1192
                  M. H. DeGroot   Minimax Sequential Tests of Some
                                  Composite Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1200
                    Jack Nadler   Inverse Binomial Sampling Plans When an
                                  Exponential Distribution is Sampled with
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1204
                    H. A. David   A Conservative Property of Binomial
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1207
                  V. P. Godambe   An Optimum Property of Regular Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimation  . . . . . . . . . 1208--1211
             Om P. Aggarwal and   
                  Irwin Guttman   Correction Notes: Corrections to
                                  ``Truncation and Tests of Hypotheses''   1213--1213
               Wadie F. Mikhail   Acknowledgment of Priority: An
                                  Inequality for Balanced Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1213
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1217
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219--1254
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1254--1254


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 32, Number 1, March, 1961

               L. Takács   Charles Jordan, 1871--1959 . . . . . . . 1--11
            Patrick Billingsley   Statistical Methods in Markov Chains . . 12--40
                     I. J. Good   The Frequency Count of a Markov Chain
                                  and the Transition to Continuous Time    41--48
                     B. R. Bhat   On the Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  ``PSI-Squared'' Goodness of Fit Criteria
                                  for Markov Chains and Markov Sequences   49--58
                     B. R. Bhat   Some Properties of Regular Markov Chains 59--71
                  V. P. Bhapkar   Some Tests for Categorical Data  . . . . 72--83
                 James Pachares   Tables for Unbiased Tests on the
                                  Variance of a Normal Population  . . . . 84--87
                     Jack Capon   Asymptotic Efficiency of Certain Locally
                                  Most Powerful Rank Tests . . . . . . . . 88--100
                  John S. White   The Nonparametric Ordering: $ (1001)
                                  \rightarrow (0110) $ . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
               A. M. Kshirsagar   The Non-Central Multivariate Beta
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--111
                 Allan Birnbaum   A Unified Theory of Estimation, I  . . . 112--135
                 Morris W. Katz   Admissible and Minimax Estimates of
                                  Parameters in Truncated Spaces . . . . . 136--142
                  Paul R. Rider   The Method of Moments Applied to a
                                  Mixture of Two Exponential Distributions 143--147
                 Leo A. Goodman   Snowball Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . 148--170
                   Harold Ruben   Probability Content of Regions Under
                                  Spherical Normal Distributions, III: The
                                  Bivariate Normal Integral  . . . . . . . 171--186
                Herbert Robbins   Recurrent Games and the Petersburg
                                  Paradox  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--194
                      M. M. Rao   Consistency and Limit Distributions of
                                  Estimators of Parameters in Explosive
                                  Stochastic Difference Equations  . . . . 195--218
                        J. Gani   First Emptiness of Two Dams in Parallel  219--229
                    P. D. Finch   The Transient Behaviour of a Coincidence
                                  Variate in Telephone Traffic . . . . . . 230--234
                 John R. Kinney   First Passage Times of a Generalized
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--243
                  Henry Teicher   Identifiability of Mixtures  . . . . . . 244--248
                     I. J. Good   An Asymptotic Formula for the
                                  Differences of the Powers at Zero  . . . 249--256
               J. H. Abbott and   
                     J. R. Blum   On a Theorem of Rényi Concerning Mixing
                                  Sequences of Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . 257--260
       Franklin A. Graybill and   
            Robert A. Hultquist   Theorems Concerning Eisenhart's Model II 261--269
               S. Ehrenfeld and   
                       S. Zacks   Randomization and Factorial Experiments  270--297
                      J. Kiefer   Optimum Designs in Regression Problems,
                                  II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--325
                       M. Stone   Non-Equivalent Comparisons of
                                  Experiments and Their Use for
                                  Experiments Involving Location
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--332
                    S. K. Katti   Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio for
                                  Testing Multivariate Linear Hypotheses   333--335
           Melvin Katz, Jr. and   
                A. J. Thomasian   A Bound for the Law of Large Numbers for
                                  Discrete Markov Processes  . . . . . . . 336--337
                   J. G. Wendel   The Non-Absolute Convergence of
                                  Gil--Pelaez' Inversion Integral  . . . . 338--339
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 340--342
                      Anonymous   Change of Editorship . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--355
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 355--355

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 32, Number 2, June, 1961

                D. Dugué   Georges Darmois, 1888--1960  . . . . . . 357--360
                    Haim Hanani   The Existence and Construction of
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Designs  . . . 361--386
                 A. P. Dempster   Random Allocation Designs II:
                                  Approximate Theory for Simple Random
                                  Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--405
                  D. W. Behnken   Sampling Moments of Means from Finite
                                  Multivariate Populations . . . . . . . . 406--413
                 Allan Birnbaum   On the Foundations of Statistical
                                  Inference: Binary Experiments  . . . . . 414--435
            H. R. van der Vaart   Some Extensions of the Idea of Bias  . . 436--447
                   I. Olkin and   
                     R. F. Tate   Multivariate Correlation Models with
                                  Mixed Discrete and Continuous Variables  448--465
               W. C. Healy, Jr.   Limits for a Variance Component with an
                                  Exact Confidence Coefficient . . . . . . 466--476
                 P. G. Hoel and   
                  E. M. Scheuer   Confidence Sets for Multivariate Medians 477--484
                 J. R. Blum and   
                  J. Kiefer and   
                  M. Rosenblatt   Distribution Free Tests of Independence
                                  Based on the Sample Distribution
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--498
                     P. Whittle   Some Exact Results for One-Sided
                                  Distribution Tests of the
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov Type . . . . . . . . 499--505
          Jaroslav Hájek   Some Extensions of the
                                  Wald--Wolfowitz--Noether Theorem . . . . 506--523
               Eve Bofinger and   
                 V. J. Bofinger   The gap test for random sequences  . . . 524--534
                     I. J. Good   The Multivariate Saddlepoint Method and
                                  Chi-Squared for the Multinomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--548
                   H. D. Miller   A Generalization of Wald's Identity with
                                  Applications to Random Walks . . . . . . 549--560
          Robert Bartoszy\'nski   A Characterization of the Weak
                                  Convergence of Measures  . . . . . . . . 561--576
                    Samuel Kotz   Exponential Bounds on the Probability of
                                  Error for a Discrete Memoryless Channel  577--582
                 L. H. Koopmans   An Exponential Bound on the Strong Law
                                  of Large Numbers for Linear Stochastic
                                  Processes with Absolutely Convergent
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--586
                Frank A. Haight   Expected Utility for Queues Servicing
                                  Messages with Exponentially Decaying
                                  Utility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--593
            Patrick Billingsley   On the Coding Theorem for the Noiseless
                                  Channel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--601
                  M. H. DeGroot   The Essential Completeness of the Class
                                  of Generalized Sequential Probability
                                  Ratio Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--605
              James B. MacQueen   A Problem in Survival  . . . . . . . . . 605--610
                     D. Slepian   First Passage Time for a Particular
                                  Gaussian Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--612
                    K. L. Chung   A Note on the Ergodic Theorem of
                                  Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 612--614
                      C. Derman   Remark Concerning Two-State Semi-Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--616
                   D. A. Sprott   An Example of an Ancillary Statistic and
                                  the Combination of Two Samples by Bayes'
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--618
                     I. J. Good   Corrections Notes: Corrections to
                                  ``Saddle-point Methods for the
                                  Multinomial Distribution'' . . . . . . . 619--619
                  Bruce M. Hill   Correction Notes: Corrections to ``A
                                  Relationship Between Hodges' Bivariate
                                  Sign Test and a Non-Parametric Test of
                                  Daniels''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--619
             P. V. Krishna Iyer   Correction Notes: Corrections to ``The
                                  Theory of Probability Distributions of
                                  Points on a Lattice''  . . . . . . . . . 619--619
             P. V. Krishna Iyer   Correction Notes: Corrections to ``A
                                  Theorem on Factorial Moments and Its
                                  Applications'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--620
                   Harold Ruben   Correction Notes: Corrections to
                                  ``Probability Content of Regions Under
                                  Spherical Normal Distributions, II: The
                                  Distribution of the Range in Normal
                                  Samples''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--620
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 621--639
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--650
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 650--650

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 32, Number 3, September, 1961

                    Herman Wold   Oskar Anderson, 1887--1960 . . . . . . . 651--660
                D. A. S. Fraser   On Fiducial Inference  . . . . . . . . . 661--676
               H. J. Godwin and   
                  S. K. Zaremba   A Central Limit Theorem for Partly
                                  Dependent Variables  . . . . . . . . . . 677--686
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
             Albert W. Marshall   Some Multivariate Chebyshev Inequalities
                                  with Extensions to Continuous Parameter
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--703
                     C. B. Bell   Maximal Independent Stochastic Processes 704--708
             John G. Kemeny and   
                J. Laurie Snell   On Markov Chain Potentials . . . . . . . 709--715
                G. A. Watterson   Markov Chains with Absorbing States: A
                                  Genetic Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--729
                   V. K. Murthy   Estimation of the Spectrum . . . . . . . 730--738
            Lajos Takács   On a Coincidence Problem Concerning
                                  Particle Counters  . . . . . . . . . . . 739--756
                   N. U. Prabhu   On the Ruin Problem of Collective Risk
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--764
                    B. Weesakul   The Random Walk Between a Reflecting and
                                  an Absorbing Barrier . . . . . . . . . . 765--769
                C. R. Heathcote   On the Queueing Process M/G/1  . . . . . 770--773
               Arthur E. Albert   The Sequential Design of Experiments for
                                  Infinitely Many States of Nature . . . . 774--799
                      P. V. Rao   Analysis of a Class of PBIB Designs with
                                  More than Two Associate Classes  . . . . 800--808
       Mohamad Salahuddin Ahmed   On a Locally most Powerful Boundary
                                  Randomized Similar Test for the
                                  Independence of Two Poisson Variables    809--827
                   Max Halperin   Confidence Intervals from Censored
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828--837
                   Lionel Weiss   Tests of Fit Based on the Number of
                                  Observations Falling in the Shortest
                                  Sample Spacings Determined by Earlier
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--845
                  V. P. Bhapkar   Some Nonparametric Median Procedures . . 846--863
            H. R. van der Vaart   On Certain Characteristics of the
                                  Distribution of the Latent Roots of a
                                  Symmetric Random Matrix Under General
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864--873
                  Alan T. James   The Distribution of Noncentral Means
                                  with Known Covariance  . . . . . . . . . 874--882
                 B. K. Shah and   
                   C. G. Khatri   Distribution of a Definite Quadratic
                                  Form for Non-Central Normal Variates . . 883--887
                Shanti S. Gupta   Percentage Points and Modes of Order
                                  Statistics from the Normal Distribution  888--893
                   G. Marsaglia   Expressing a random variable in terms of
                                  uniform random variables . . . . . . . . 894--898
                   G. Marsaglia   Generating exponential random variables  899--900
                    Glen Baxter   A Combinatorial Lemma for Complex
                                  Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--904
                   T. Cacoullos   A Combinatorial Derivation of the
                                  Distribution of the Truncated Poisson
                                  Sufficient Statistic . . . . . . . . . . 904--905
                B. Brainerd and   
                 T. V. Narayana   A Note on Simple Binomial Sampling Plans 906--908
                    V. N. Murty   An Inequality for Balanced Incomplete
                                  Block Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908--909
               Norman R. Draper   Third Order Rotatable Designs in Three
                                  Dimensions: Some Specific Designs  . . . 910--913
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 914--926
              Ernest M. Scheuer   Correction to Abstract ``Moments of the
                                  Radial Error'': Abstracts of Papers  . . 926--926
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--950
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 950--950

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 32, Number 4, December, 1961

                 Emanuel Parzen   An Approach to Time Series Analysis  . . 951--989
                  E. L. Lehmann   Some Model I Problems of Selection . . . 990--1012
                David B. Duncan   Bayes Rules for a Common Multiple
                                  Comparisons Problem and Related
                                  Student-$t$ Problems . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1033
                H. E. Reinhardt   The Use of Least Favorable Distributions
                                  in Testing Composite Hypotheses  . . . . 1034--1041
                   Paul G. Hoel   Asymptotic Efficiency in Polynomial
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042--1047
                    C. Villegas   Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a
                                  Linear Functional Relationship . . . . . 1048--1062
          J. Edward Jackson and   
               Ralph A. Bradley   Sequential $ \chi^2 $- and $ T^2 $-tests 1063--1077
                 H. Leon Harter   Estimating the Parameters of Negative
                                  Exponential Populations from One or Two
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078--1090
                  V. P. Godambe   On the Two Sample Problem: A Heuristic
                                  Method for Constructing Tests  . . . . . 1091--1107
                  V. P. Bhapkar   A Nonparametric Test for the Problem of
                                  Several Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108--1117
              Peter A. W. Lewis   Distribution of the Anderson--Darling
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118--1124
                        S. John   Errors in Discrimination . . . . . . . . 1125--1144
                  S. N. Roy and   
                  W. F. Mikhail   On the Monotonic Character of the Power
                                  Functions of Two Multivariate Tests  . . 1145--1151
                Tito A. Mijares   The Moments of Elementary Symmetric
                                  Functions of the Roots of a Matrix in
                                  Multivariate Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 1152--1160
                   S. R. Searle   Variance Components in the Unbalanced
                                  $2$-Way Nested Classification  . . . . . 1161--1166
            Sidney Addelman and   
               Oscar Kempthorne   Some Main-Effect Plans and Orthogonal
                                  Arrays of Strength Two . . . . . . . . . 1167--1176
                  Esther Seiden   On a Geometrical Method of Construction
                                  of Partially Balanced Designs with Two
                                  Associate Classes  . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1180
              I. M. Chakravarti   On Some Methods of Construction of
                                  Partially Balanced Arrays  . . . . . . . 1181--1185
                  G. H. Freeman   Some Further Designs of Type O:PP  . . . 1186--1190
               D. L. Burkholder   Sufficiency in the Undominated Case  . . 1191--1200
      M. P. Schützenberger   On a Special Class of Recurrent Events   1201--1213
                  Henry Teicher   Maximum Likelihood Characterization of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214--1222
               Roger S. Pinkham   On the Distribution of First Significant
                                  Digits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223--1230
                    Ronald Pyke   Markov Renewal Processes: Definitions
                                  and Preliminary Properties . . . . . . . 1231--1242
                    Ronald Pyke   Markov Renewal Processes with Finitely
                                  Many States  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1259
                   H. D. Miller   A Convexity Property in the Theory of
                                  Random Variables Defined on a Finite
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260--1270
            G. Sankaranarayanan   Limit Distributions in the Theory of
                                  Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1285
            Lajos Takács   The Transient Behavior of a Single
                                  Server Queuing Process with Recurrent
                                  Input and Gamma Service Time . . . . . . 1286--1298
          Charlotte T. Striebel   Efficient Estimation of a Regression
                                  Parameter for Certain Second Order
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1313
               J. F. C. Kingman   Two Similar Queues in Parallel . . . . . 1314--1323
               F. G. Foster and   
                    K. M. Nyunt   Queues with batch departures. I  . . . . 1324--1332
                    Jack Karush   On the Chapman--Kolmogorov equation  . . 1333--1337
            N. Donald Ylvisaker   A Generalization of a Theorem of
                                  Balakrishnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337--1339
                       M. Stone   The Opinion Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339--1342
            Patrick Billingsley   Corrections to ``Statistical Methods in
                                  Markow Chains''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1343
                    H. A. David   Corrections to ``A Conservative Property
                                  of Binomial Tests''  . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1343
                  V. P. Godambe   Acknowledgment of Priority . . . . . . . 1343--1344
                  N. L. Johnson   Correction to ``A Proof of Wald's
                                  Theorem on Cumulative Sums'' . . . . . . 1344--1344
                   C. G. Khatri   Correction to ``On the Mutual
                                  Independence of Certain Statistics'' . . 1344--1344
                 John R. Kinney   Correction and Acknowledgment of
                                  Priority to ``First Passage Times for a
                                  Generalized Random Walk''  . . . . . . . 1345--1345
                   D. Teichroew   Correction to ``Tables of Expected
                                  Values of Order Statistics and Products
                                  of Order Statistics for Samples of Size
                                  Twenty and Less from the Normal
                                  Distribution'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345--1345
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1346--1352
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353--1365
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1365--1365


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 33, Number 1, March, 1962

                  John W. Tukey   The future of data analysis  . . . . . . 1--67
                     Marek Fisz   Infinitely Divisible Distributions:
                                  Recent Results and Applications  . . . . 68--84
            Patrick Billingsley   Limit Theorems for Randomly Selected
                                  Partial Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--92
               Simeon M. Berman   A Law of Large Numbers for the Maximum
                                  in a Stationary Gaussian Sequence  . . . 93--97
                  V. E. Bene\vs   A ``Renewal'' Limit Theorem for General
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 98--113
              David A. Freedman   Mixtures of Markov Processes . . . . . . 114--118
                   Harold Ruben   Some Aspects of the
                                  Emigration--Immigration Process  . . . . 119--129
                 John R. Kinney   A Transient Discrete Time Queue with
                                  Finite Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--136
                B. J. Flehinger   A General Model for the Reliability
                                  Analysis of Systems Under Various
                                  Preventive Maintenance Policies  . . . . 137--156
                 M. M. Siddiqui   Approximations to the Moments of the
                                  Sample Median  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--168
                K. S. Srikantan   Recurrence Relations Between the PDF's
                                  of Order Statistics, and Some
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
                   John Riordan   Enumeration of Linear Graphs for
                                  Mappings of Finite Sets  . . . . . . . . 178--185
                A. R. Kamat and   
                    Y. S. Sathe   Asymptotic Power of Certain Test
                                  Criteria (Based on First and Second
                                  Differences) for Serial Correlation
                                  between Successive Observations  . . . . 186--200
                  K. R. Gabriel   Ante-dependence Analysis of an Ordered
                                  Set of Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--212
                 Bob E. Ellison   A Classification Problem in which
                                  Information about Alternative
                                  Distributions is Based on Samples  . . . 213--223
                 Gideon Schwarz   Asymptotic Shapes of Bayes Sequential
                                  Testing Regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--236
                  R. H. Farrell   Bounded Length Confidence Intervals for
                                  the Zero of a Regression Function  . . . 237--247
           Václav Fabian   On Multiple Decision Methods for Ranking
                                  Population Means . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--254
                 T. W. Anderson   The Choice of the Degree of a Polynomial
                                  Regression as a Multiple Decision
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--265
                 T. W. Anderson   Least Squares and Best Unbiased
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--272
            W. A. Thompson, Jr.   The Problem of Negative Estimates of
                                  Variance Components  . . . . . . . . . . 273--289
            Seymour Geisser and   
                  Nathan Mantel   Pairwise Independence of Jointly
                                  Dependent Variables  . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
                  John W. Pratt   A Note on Unbiased Tests . . . . . . . . 292--294
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 295--312
                      Anonymous   Change in Reference Style  . . . . . . . 313--314
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--324
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 324--324

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 33, Number 2, June, 1962

                  Tore Dalenius   Recent Advances in Sample Survey Theory
                                  and Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--349
              H. O. Hartley and   
                   J. N. K. Rao   Sampling with Unequal Probabilities and
                                  without Replacement  . . . . . . . . . . 350--374
                Herman Chernoff   The Scoring of Multiple Choice
                                  Questionnaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--393
                  E. S. Pearson   Some Thoughts on Statistical Inference   394--403
                  M. H. DeGroot   Uncertainty, Information, and Sequential
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--419
             T. W. Anderson and   
                  R. R. Bahadur   Classification into two Multivariate
                                  Normal Distributions with Different
                                  Covariance Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 420--431
                  S. N. Roy and   
                R. Gnanadesikan   Two-Sample Comparisons of Dispersion
                                  Matrices for Alternatives of
                                  Intermediate Specificity . . . . . . . . 432--437
                 Edward Paulson   A Sequential Procedure for Comparing
                                  Several Experimental Categories with a
                                  Standard or Control  . . . . . . . . . . 438--443
                 W. R. Blischke   Moment Estimators for the Parameters of
                                  a Mixture of Two Binomial Distributions  444--454
               Richard H. Jones   Spectral Analysis with Regularly Missed
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--461
              T. A. Magness and   
                  J. B. McGuire   Comparison of Least Squares and Minimum
                                  Variance Estimates of Regression
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--470
               Regina C. Elandt   Exact and Approximate Power Function of
                                  the Non-Parametric Test of Tendency  . . 471--481
          J. L. Hodges, Jr. and   
                  E. L. Lehmann   Rank Methods for Combination of
                                  Independent Experiments in Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--497
                   Jerome Klotz   Nonparametric Tests for Scale  . . . . . 498--512
               Judah Rosenblatt   Some Modified Kolmogorov--Smirnov Tests
                                  of Approximate Hypotheses and their
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--524
                    H. D. Brunk   On the Range of the Difference between
                                  Hypothetical Distribution Function and
                                  Pyke's Modified Empirical Distribution
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--532
               S. G. Ghurye and   
                   Ingram Olkin   A Characterization of the Multivariate
                                  Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 533--541
                   Harold Ruben   Probability Content of Regions Under
                                  Spherical Normal Distributions, IV: The
                                  Distribution of Homogeneous and
                                  Non-Homogeneous Quadratic Functions of
                                  Normal Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--570
               R. N. Curnow and   
                  C. W. Dunnett   The Numerical Evaluation of Certain
                                  Multivariate Normal Integrals  . . . . . 571--579
            George J. Resnikoff   Tables to Facilitate the Computation of
                                  Percentage Points of the Non-Central
                                  $t$-Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--586
                     C. B. Bell   Mutual Information and Maximal
                                  Correlation as Measures of Dependence    587--595
               D. L. Burkholder   On the Order Structure of the Set of
                                  Sufficient Subfields . . . . . . . . . . 596--599
                B. Kurkjian and   
                       M. Zelen   A Calculus for Factorial Arrangements    600--619
            Damaraju Raghavarao   Symmetrical Unequal Block Arrangements
                                  with two Unequal Block Sizes . . . . . . 620--633
                 Robert Cogburn   Conditional Probability Operators  . . . 634--658
                   R. Ranga Rao   Relations between Weak and Uniform
                                  Convergence of Measures with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--680
               Simeon M. Berman   An Extension of the Arc Sine Law . . . . 681--684
                  John Lamperti   An Invariance Principle in Renewal
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--696
                 M. M. Siddiqui   Games Associated with a Renewal Process  697--701
                      P. E. Ney   A Random Interval Filling Problem  . . . 702--718
                David Blackwell   Discrete Dynamic Programming . . . . . . 719--726
                  Arthur Albert   Estimating the Infinitesimal Generator
                                  of a Continuous Time, Finite State
                                  Markov Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--753
             Betty J. Flehinger   A Markovian Model for the Analysis of
                                  the Effects of Marginal Testing on
                                  System Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . 754--766
                 J. Keilson and   
                   A. Kooharian   On the General Time Dependent Queue with
                                  a Single Server  . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--791
                      J. Kiefer   Two More Criteria Equivalent to
                                  $D$-Optimality of Designs  . . . . . . . 792--796
                  Frank McNolty   A Contour-Integral Derivation of the
                                  Non-Central Chi-Square Distribution  . . 796--800
                   C. G. Khatri   A Characterization of the Inverse
                                  Gaussian Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 800--803
                   A. Joffe and   
                   Jerome Klotz   Null Distribution and Bahadur Efficiency
                                  of the Hodges Bivariate Sign Test  . . . 803--807
               Judah Rosenblatt   Note on Multivariate Goodness-of-fit
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--810
               Charles E. Antle   The Uniqueness of the Spacing of
                                  Observations in Polynomial Regression
                                  for Minimax Variance of the Fitted
                                  Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810--811
                  D. A. Darling   Correction Notes: Correction to ``On a
                                  class of Problems Related to the Random
                                  Division of an Interval''  . . . . . . . 812--812
                  John W. Tukey   Correction Notes: Correction to ``The
                                  Future of Data Analysis''  . . . . . . . 812--812
                   John Gurland   Correction Notes: Correction to
                                  ``Distribution of Definite and of
                                  Indefinite Quadratic Forms'' . . . . . . 813--813
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 814--833
                      Anonymous   Correction to Abstract . . . . . . . . . 833--833
                      Anonymous   Change in Reference Style  . . . . . . . 834--835
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 836--846

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 33, Number 3, September, 1962

                 Dorian Feldman   Contributions to the ``Two-Armed
                                  Bandit'' Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--856
                      R. Radner   Team Decision Problems . . . . . . . . . 857--881
            David Blackwell and   
                  Lester Dubins   Merging of Opinions with Increasing
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882--886
               D. L. Burkholder   Successive Conditional Expectations of
                                  an Integrable Function . . . . . . . . . 887--893
               Simeon M. Berman   Limiting Distribution of the Maximum
                                  Term in Sequences of Dependent Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894--908
                    Glen Baxter   On a Generalization of the Finite
                                  Arcsine Law  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--915
              David A. Freedman   Invariants Under Mixing which Generalize
                                  de Finetti's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . 916--923
              David A. Freedman   Poisson Processes with Random Arrival
                                  Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--929
                  John J. Birch   Approximations for the Entropy for
                                  Functions of Markov Chains . . . . . . . 930--938
                G. A. Watterson   Some Theoretical Aspects of Diffusion
                                  Theory in Population Genetics  . . . . . 939--957
                  E. N. Gilbert   Random Subdivisions of Space into
                                  Crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958--972
                    P. D. Finch   On the Transient Behavior of a Queueing
                                  System with Bulk Service and Finite
                                  Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973--985
             Thomas S. Ferguson   Location and Scale Parameters in
                                  Exponential Families of Distributions    986--1001
                   C. G. Khatri   Conditions for Wishartness and
                                  Independence of Second Degree
                                  Polynomials in a Normal Vector . . . . . 1002--1007
                   K. V. Mardia   Multivariate Pareto Distributions  . . . 1008--1015
                W. T. Wells and   
             R. L. Anderson and   
                   John W. Cell   The Distribution of the Product of Two
                                  Central or Non-Central Chi-Square
                                  Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016--1020
           Beno\^\it Mandelbrot   The Role of Sufficiency and of
                                  Estimation in Thermodynamics . . . . . . 1021--1038
     Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee   Sequential Inference Procedures of
                                  Stein's Type for a Class of Multivariate
                                  Regression Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1064
                 Emanuel Parzen   On Estimation of a Probability Density
                                  Function and Mode  . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1076
            N. Donald Ylvisaker   On Linear Estimation for Regression
                                  Problems on Time Series  . . . . . . . . 1077--1084
                    J. P. Imhof   Testing the Hypothesis of no Fixed
                                  Main-Effects in Scheffé's Mixed Model . . 1085--1095
              Bruce Marvin Hill   A Test of Linearity Versus Convexity of
                                  a Median Regression Curve  . . . . . . . 1096--1123
          Jaroslav Hájek   Asymptotically Most Powerful Rank-Order
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124--1147
                 T. W. Anderson   On the Distribution of the Two-Sample
                                  Cramér--von Mises Criterion . . . . . . . 1148--1159
               Herbert T. David   The Sample Mean Among the Moderate Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1160--1166
                  John E. Walsh   Distribution-Free Tolerance Intervals
                                  for Continuous Symmetrical Populations   1167--1174
            D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri   Application of the Geometry of Quadrics
                                  for Constructing PBIB Designs  . . . . . 1175--1186
                    E. W. Stacy   A Generalization of the Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187--1192
           Kulendra N. Majindar   Improved Bounds on a Measure of Skewness 1192--1194
               Lincoln E. Moses   Use of Wilcoxon Test Theory in
                                  Estimating the Distribution of a Ratio
                                  by Monte Carlo Methods . . . . . . . . . 1194--1197
                     D. G. Kabe   On the Exact Distribution of a Class of
                                  Multivariate Test Criteria . . . . . . . 1197--1200
           Kulendra N. Majindar   On the Parameters and Intersection of
                                  Blocks of Balanced Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200--1205
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1206--1212
                      Anonymous   Change in Reference Style  . . . . . . . 1213--1214
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1226

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 33, Number 4, December, 1962

           Harald Cramér   A. I. Khinchin's work in mathematical
                                  probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227--1237
                B. Ramachandran   On the Order and the Type of Entire
                                  Characteristic Functions . . . . . . . . 1238--1255
             Thomas S. Ferguson   A Representation of the Symmetric
                                  Bivariate Cauchy Distribution  . . . . . 1256--1266
                    M. V. Menon   A Characterization of the Cauchy
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267--1271
               Ingram Olkin and   
                   Herman Rubin   A Characterization of the Wishart
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1272--1280
             J. R. McGregor and   
                      Y. Y. Hui   Limiting Distributions Associated with
                                  Certain Stochastic Learning Models . . . 1281--1285
                 D. B. Owen and   
                    G. P. Steck   Moments of Order Statistics from the
                                  Equicorrelated Multivariate Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1286--1291
          Zakkula Govindarajulu   Exact Lower Moments of Order Statistics
                                  in Samples from the Chi-Distribution
                                  ($1$ d.f.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292--1305
               G. F. Newell and   
                  M. Rosenblatt   Zero Crossing Probabilities for Gaussian
                                  Stationary Processes . . . . . . . . . . 1306--1313
                 Julian Keilson   Queues Subject to Service Interruption   1314--1322
                   R. M. Loynes   Stationary Waiting-Time Distributions
                                  for Single-Server Queues . . . . . . . . 1323--1339
            Lajos Takács   The Time Dependence of a Single-Server
                                  Queue with Poisson Input and General
                                  Service Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340--1348
            David R. Brillinger   Examples Bearing on the Definition of
                                  Fiducial Probability with a Bibliography 1349--1355
               Judah Rosenblatt   Testing Approximate Hypotheses in the
                                  Composite Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1356--1364
             P. K. Bhattacharya   Some Properties of the Least Squares
                                  Estimator in Regression Analysis when
                                  the Predictor Variables are Stochastic   1365--1374
          I. M. Chakravarti and   
                F. C. Leone and   
                   J. D. Alanen   Asymptotic Relative Efficiency of Mood's
                                  and Massey's Two Sample Tests Against
                                  Some Parametric Alternatives . . . . . . 1375--1383
                  J. A. Lechner   Optimum Decision Procedures for a
                                  Poisson Process Parameter  . . . . . . . 1384--1402
         Rosalie C. Woodall and   
             Badrig M. Kurkjian   Exact Operating Characteristic for
                                  Truncated Sequential Life Tests in the
                                  Exponential Case . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403--1412
              R. H. Appleby and   
                   R. J. Freund   An Empirical Evaluation of Multivariate
                                  Sequential Procedure for Testing Means   1413--1420
                  M. N. Das and   
               V. L. Narasimham   Construction of Rotatable Designs
                                  Through Balanced Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1439
                    M. S. Patel   On Constructing the Fractional
                                  Replicates of the $ 2^m $ Designs with
                                  Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1440--1449
                    Meyer Dwass   A Fluctuation Theorem for Cyclic Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1450--1454
                 Bernard Harris   Determining Bounds on Expected Values of
                                  Certain Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 1454--1457
                   K. C. Chanda   On Bounds of Serial Correlations . . . . 1457--1460
             Donald F. Morrison   On the Distribution of Sums of Squares
                                  and Cross Products of Normal Variates in
                                  the Presence of Intra-class Correlation  1461--1463
               Wadie F. Mikhail   On a Property of a Test for the Equality
                                  of Two Normal Dispersion Matrices
                                  Against One-sided Alternatives . . . . . 1463--1465
               Somesh Das Gupta   Correction Notes: Correction to Abstract
                                  of ``Optimal Classification Rules'':
                                  Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1466--1466
            G. Sankaranarayanan   Correction Notes: Correction to ``Limit
                                  Distributions in the Theory of
                                  Counters'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1466--1466
              Wassily Hoeffding   Review: Samuel S. Wilks,
                                  \booktitleMathematical Statistics  . . . 1467--1473
                      D. R. Cox   Review: Samuel S. Wilks,
                                  \booktitleMathematical Statistics  . . . 1473--1476
                   John Riordan   Review: F. N. David, D. E. Barton,
                                  \booktitleCombinatorial Chance . . . . . 1477--1479
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1480--1506
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1507--1527


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 34, Number 1, March, 1963

           D. L. Burkholder and   
                  R. A. Wijsman   Optimum Properties and Admissibility of
                                  Sequential Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
            Theodore K. Matthes   On the Optimality of Sequential
                                  Probability Ratio Tests  . . . . . . . . 18--21
          Piotr Witold Mikulski   On the Efficiency of Optimal
                                  Nonparametric Procedures in the Two
                                  Sample Case  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
               Herbert T. David   The Sample Mean Among the Extreme Normal
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--55
                   Ruth Z. Gold   Tests Auxiliary to $ \chi^2 $ Tests in a
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--74
            B. J. Trawinski and   
                    H. A. David   Selection of the Best Treatment in a
                                  Paired-Comparison Experiment . . . . . . 75--91
                 Peter J. Huber   A Remark on a Paper of Trawinski and
                                  David Entitled: ``Selection of the Best
                                  Treatment in a paired-Comparison
                                  Experiment'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--94
                     E. J. Burr   Distribution of the Two-Sample
                                  Cramér--von Mises Criterion for Small
                                  Equal Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--101
               A. E. Sarhan and   
            B. G. Greenberg and   
                  Junjiro Ogawa   Simplified Estimates for the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--116
                 M. M. Siddiqui   Optimum Estimators of the Parameters of
                                  Negative Exponential Distributions from
                                  One or Two Order Statistics  . . . . . . 117--121
                 T. W. Anderson   Asymptotic Theory for Principal
                                  Component Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 122--148
                   D. N. Lawley   On Testing a Set of Correlation
                                  Coefficients for Equality  . . . . . . . 149--151
                  N. R. Goodman   Statistical Analysis Based on a Certain
                                  Multivariate Complex Gaussian
                                  Distribution (An Introduction) . . . . . 152--177
                  N. R. Goodman   The Distribution of the Determinant of a
                                  Complex Wishart Distributed Matrix . . . 178--180
                     D. G. Kabe   Some Results on the Distribution of Two
                                  Random Matrices Used in Classification
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--185
                     B. K. Shah   Distribution of Definite and of
                                  Indefinite Quadratic Forms from a
                                  Non-Central Normal Distribution  . . . . 186--190
               Ralph Hoyt Bacon   Approximations to Multivariate Normal
                                  Orthant Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . 191--198
             F. J. Anscombe and   
                   R. J. Aumann   A Definition of Subjective Probability   199--205
                  John Lamperti   On a Class of Stochastic Processes . . . 206--212
               Richard H. Jones   Stochastic Processes on a Sphere . . . . 213--218
                Leonard E. Baum   On Convergence to + $ \infty $ in the
                                  Law of Large Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
               D. Blackwell and   
             C. Ryll-Nardzewski   Non-Existence of Everywhere Proper
                                  Conditional Distributions  . . . . . . . 223--225
                Thomas A. Brown   Entropy and Conjugacy  . . . . . . . . . 226--232
                 Jack Hachigian   Collapsed Markov Chains and the
                                  Chapman--Kolmogorov Equation . . . . . . 233--237
                   Harold Ruben   The Estimation of a Fundamental
                                  Interaction Parameter in an
                                  Emigration--Immigration Process  . . . . 238--259
                   A. Joffe and   
                      P. E. Ney   Convergence Theorems for Multiple
                                  Channel Loss Probabilities . . . . . . . 260--273
                Bernt P. Stigum   Dynamic Stochastic Processes . . . . . . 274--283
                  Arthur Albert   A Mathematical Theory of Pattern
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--299
       Gregory E. Masterson and   
                Seymour Sherman   On Queues in Tandem  . . . . . . . . . . 300--307
                    Leo Breiman   The Poisson Tendency in Traffic
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--311
                 Melvin L. Katz   The Probability in the Tail of a
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--318
             James H. Stapleton   A Characterization of the Uniform
                                  Distribution on a Compact Topological
                                  Group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--326
                   J. R. Kinney   The Convex Hull of Plane Brownian Motion 327--329
                  T. S. Pitcher   On the Sample Functions of Processes
                                  which Can be Added to a Gaussian Process 329--333
                    H. W. Gould   Note on Two Binomial Coefficient Sums
                                  Found by Riordan . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--335
              R. S. Pinkham and   
                     M. B. Wilk   Tail Areas of the $t$-Distribution from
                                  a Mills'-Ratio-Like Expansion  . . . . . 335--337
                A. J. Thomasian   A Finite Criterion for Indecomposable
                                  Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
                    Edgar Reich   Note on Queues in Tandem . . . . . . . . 338--341
            David R. Brillinger   A Note on the Re-Use of Samples  . . . . 341--343
                Shmuel Friedman   On Stochastic Approximations . . . . . . 343--346
                 William Knight   The Use of the Range in Place of the
                                  Standard Deviation in Stein's Test . . . 346--347
                  Esther Seiden   On Necessary Conditions for the
                                  Existence of Some Symmetrical and
                                  Unsymmetrical Triangular \bf PBIB
                                  Designs and \bf BIB Designs  . . . . . . 348--351
              T. A. Magness and   
                  J. B. McGuire   Acknowledgment of Priority: ``Comparison
                                  of Least Squares and Minimum Variance
                                  Estimates of Regression Parameters'' . . 352--352
                G. A. Watterson   Correction to ``Some Theoretical Aspects
                                  of Diffusion Theory in Population
                                  Genetics'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
                    H. A. David   Review: J. Arthur Greenwood, H. O.
                                  Hartley, \booktitleGuide to Tables in
                                  Mathematical Statistics  . . . . . . . . 353--354
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 355--358
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--374
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 374--374

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 34, Number 2, June, 1963

          Richard E. Barlow and   
         Albert W. Marshall and   
                 Frank Proschan   Properties of Probability Distributions
                                  with Monotone Hazard Rate  . . . . . . . 375--389
                 Y. S. Chow and   
                Herbert Robbins   A Renewal Theorem for Random Variables
                                  which are Dependent or Non-Identically
                                  Distributed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--395
           M. V. Johns, Jr. and   
              R. G. Miller, Jr.   Average Renewal Loss Rates . . . . . . . 396--401
              Charles Hobby and   
                    Ronald Pyke   Combinatorial Results in
                                  Multi-dimensional Fluctuation Theory . . 402--404
                      G. Lehner   One Dimensional Random Walk with a
                                  Partially Reflecting Barrier . . . . . . 405--412
                 J. R. Blum and   
               D. L. Hanson and   
                   S. V. Parter   On a Class of Simple Random Walks  . . . 413--415
               Simeon M. Berman   A Markov Process on Binary Numbers . . . 416--423
           Frederick J. Beutler   Multivariate Wide-sense Markov Processes
                                  and Prediction Theory  . . . . . . . . . 424--438
                      F. Eicker   Central Limit Theorems for Families of
                                  Sequences of Random Variables  . . . . . 439--446
                      F. Eicker   Asymptotic Normality and Consistency of
                                  the Least Squares Estimators for
                                  Families of Linear Regressions . . . . . 447--456
                      P. E. Ney   The Limit of a Ratio of Convolutions . . 457--461
           Harold J. Larson and   
                 T. A. Bancroft   Sequential Model Building for Prediction
                                  in Regression Analysis, I  . . . . . . . 462--479
               G. S. Watson and   
               M. R. Leadbetter   On the Estimation of the Probability
                                  Density, I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--491
            David R. Brillinger   Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for
                                  a Statistical Problem to be Invariant
                                  Under a Lie Group  . . . . . . . . . . . 492--500
         Hans Bühlmann and   
                 Peter J. Huber   Pairwise Comparison and Ranking in
                                  Tournaments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--510
                 Peter J. Huber   Pairwise Comparison and Ranking: Optimum
                                  Properties of the Row Sum Procedure  . . 511--520
               D. M. Mahamunulu   Sampling Variances of the Estimates of
                                  Variance Components in the Unbalanced
                                  $3$-way Nested Classification  . . . . . 521--527
                  A. J. Hoffman   On the Duals of Symmetric
                                  Partially-Balanced Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--531
                H. O. Lancaster   Correlations and Canonical Forms of
                                  Bivariate Distributions  . . . . . . . . 532--538
               M. Skibinsky and   
                        L. Cote   On the Inadmissibility of Some Standard
                                  Estimates in the Presence of Prior
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--548
                 Edward Paulson   A Sequential Decision Procedure for
                                  Choosing One of $k$ Hypotheses
                                  Concerning the Unknown Mean of a Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--554
              J. N. Darroch and   
                   S. D. Silvey   On Testing More than One Hypothesis  . . 555--567
                       M. Stone   The posterior $t$ distribution . . . . . 568--573
                  John W. Pratt   Shorter Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Mean of a Normal Distribution with Known
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--586
                 Sakti P. Ghosh   Post Cluster Sampling  . . . . . . . . . 587--597
          J. L. Hodges, Jr. and   
                  E. L. Lehmann   Estimates of Location Based on Rank
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--611
                   K. C. Chanda   On the Efficiency of Two-sample
                                  Mann--Whitney Test for Discrete
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--617
               Judah Rosenblatt   Tests and Confidence Intervals Based on
                                  the Metric $ d_2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . 618--623
                   Jerome Klotz   Small Sample Power and Efficiency for
                                  the One Sample Wilcoxon and Normal
                                  Scores Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--632
          Zakkula Govindarajulu   On Moments of Order Statistics and
                                  Quasi-ranges from Normal Populations . . 633--651
               Andre G. Laurent   Conditional Distribution of Order
                                  Statistics and Distribution of the
                                  Reduced $i$ th Order Statistic of the
                                  Exponential Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 652--657
             Allan Birnbaum and   
                    Jack Dudman   Logistic Order Statistics  . . . . . . . 658--663
                     J. W. Moon   On the Line-Graph of the Complete
                                  Bigraph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--667
                  Richard Isaac   A General Version of Doeblin's Condition 668--671
                 T. W. Anderson   A Test for Equality of Means when
                                  Covariance Matrices are Unequal  . . . . 671--672
               Judah Rosenblatt   Correction Notes: Correction to
                                  ``Testing Approximate Hypotheses in the
                                  Composite Case'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--673
                 B. K. Shah and   
                   C. G. Khatri   Correction Notes: Correction to
                                  ``Distribution of a Definite Quadratic
                                  Form for Non-central Normal Variates''   673--673
                  George Hadley   Review: Kenneth J. Arrow, Samuel Karlin,
                                  Herbert Scarf, \booktitleStudies in
                                  Applied Probability and Management
                                  Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--677
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 678--695
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--704

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 34, Number 3, September, 1963

                  J. Kiefer and   
                       J. Sacks   Asymptotically Optimum Sequential
                                  Inference and Design . . . . . . . . . . 705--750
                   Jerome Sacks   Generalized Bayes Solutions in
                                  Estimation Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 751--768
                       S. Zacks   On a Complete Class of Linear Unbiased
                                  Estimators for Randomized Factorial
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--779
               S. Ehrenfeld and   
                       S. Zacks   Optimal Strategies in Factorial
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--791
                Shanti S. Gupta   Probability Integrals of Multivariate
                                  Normal and Multivariate $t$  . . . . . . 792--828
                Shanti S. Gupta   Bibliography on the Multivariate Normal
                                  Integrals and Related Topics . . . . . . 829--838
              M. H. DeGroot and   
                      M. M. Rao   Bayes Estimation with Convex Loss  . . . 839--846
                Sam C. Saunders   On the Sample Size and Coverage for the
                                  Ji\vrina Sequential Procedure  . . . . . 847--856
                Sam C. Saunders   Some Applications of the Ji\vrina
                                  Sequential Procedure to Observations
                                  with Trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--865
                    S. P. Ghosh   Optimum Stratification with Two
                                  Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--872
                 A. P. Dempster   Multivariate Theory for General Stepwise
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--883
                 A. P. Dempster   Further Examples of Inconsistencies in
                                  the Fiducial Argument  . . . . . . . . . 884--891
                  W. D. Ray and   
             A. E. N. T. Pitman   Chebyshev Polynomial and Other New
                                  Approximations to Mills' Ratio . . . . . 892--902
            L. E. Blumenson and   
                   K. S. Miller   Properties of Generalized Rayleigh
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--910
                     I. J. Good   Maximum Entropy for Hypothesis
                                  Formulation, Especially for
                                  Multidimensional Contingency Tables  . . 911--934
                 Robert V. Hogg   On the Independence of Certain Wishart
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--939
                   G. M. Tallis   Elliptical and Radial Truncation in
                                  Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 940--944
                   V. J. Chacko   Testing Homogeneity Against Ordered
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--956
                  E. L. Lehmann   Robust Estimation in Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957--966
                 Morris W. Katz   Estimating Ordered Probabilities . . . . 967--972
               Lincoln E. Moses   Rank Tests of Dispersion . . . . . . . . 973--983
                  Gene H. Golub   Comparison of the Variance of Minimum
                                  Variance and Weighted Least Squares
                                  Regression Coefficients  . . . . . . . . 984--991
          Ole Barndorff-Nielsen   On the Limit Behaviour of Extreme Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 992--1002
                 Julian Keilson   The First Passage Time Density for
                                  Homogeneous Skip-free Walks on the
                                  Continuum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1011
                   V. K. Murthy   Estimation of the Cross-Spectrum . . . . 1012--1021
            S. W. Dharmadhikari   Functions of Finite Markov Chains  . . . 1022--1032
            S. W. Dharmadhikari   Sufficient Conditions for a Stationary
                                  Process to be a Function of a Finite
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1041
            Leonard E. Baum and   
                 Melvin L. Katz   On the Influence of Moments on the
                                  Asymptotic Distribution of Sums of
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042--1044
                  A. M. Hasofer   On the Integrability, Continuity and
                                  Differentiability of a Family of
                                  Functions Introduced by L. Takacs  . . . 1045--1049
                    G. P. Patil   Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation and
                                  Certain Problems of Additive Number
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050--1056
            Suresh K. Tharthare   Right Angular Designs  . . . . . . . . . 1057--1067
             K. S. Banerjee and   
                  W. T. Federer   On Estimates for Fractions of a Complete
                                  Factorial Experiment as Orthogonal
                                  Linear Combinations of the Observations  1068--1078
                   Ester Samuel   Asymptotic Solutions of the Sequential
                                  Compound Decision Problem  . . . . . . . 1079--1094
                   Ester Samuel   Note on a Sequential Classification
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1097
              R. J. Buehler and   
                A. P. Feddersen   Note on a conditional property of
                                  Student's $t$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1098--1100
                   Ryoji Tamura   On a Modification of Certain Rank Tests  1101--1103
               Simeon M. Berman   Note on Extreme Values, Competing Risks
                                  and Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . 1104--1106
                 Melvin L. Katz   Note on the Berry--Esseen theorem  . . . 1107--1108
                    D. Kerridge   Bounds for the Frequency of Misleading
                                  Bayes Inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1110
                Leonard E. Baum   Acknowledgment of Priority: ``On
                                  Convergence to $ + \infty $ in the Law
                                  of Large Numbers'' . . . . . . . . . . . 1111--1111
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1112--1132
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1146
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1146--1146

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 34, Number 4, December, 1963

                Meyer Dwass and   
                  Samuel Karlin   Conditioned Limit Theorems . . . . . . . 1147--1167
             J. H. B. Kemperman   A Wiener--Hopf Type Method for a General
                                  Random Walk with a Two-Sided Boundary    1168--1193
              David A. Freedman   Invariants Under Mixing Which Generalize
                                  de Finetti's Theorem: Continuous Time
                                  Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194--1216
               J. F. C. Kingman   Poisson Counts for Random Sequences of
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217--1232
              Charles Hobby and   
                    Ronald Pyke   Combinatorial Results in Fluctuation
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1242
              David L. Jagerman   The autocorrelation function of a
                                  sequence uniformly distributed modulo
                                  $1$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1252
                Calvin C. Moore   The Degree of Randomness in a Stationary
                                  Time Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253--1258
               Joel N. Franklin   The Covariance Matrix of a Continuous
                                  Autoregressive Vector Time-Series  . . . 1259--1264
                  Henry Teicher   Identifiability of Finite Mixtures . . . 1265--1269
              A. G. Constantine   Some Non-Central Distribution Problems
                                  in Multivariate Analysis . . . . . . . . 1270--1285
                Masashi Okamoto   An Asymptotic Expansion for the
                                  Distribution of the Linear Discriminant
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1286--1301
                   K. C. Chanda   Asymptotic Expansions for a Class of
                                  Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 1302--1307
                     A. Reitsma   On Approximations to Sampling
                                  Distributions of the Mean for Samples
                                  From Non-Normal Populations  . . . . . . 1308--1314
                H. O. Lancaster   Correlation and Complete Dependence of
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1321
                 David H. Evans   Multiplex Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 1322--1346
          Robert P. Abelson and   
                  John W. Tukey   Efficient utilization of non-numerical
                                  information in quantitative analysis:
                                  General theory and the case of simple
                                  order  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1369
                   Ester Samuel   An Empirical Bayes Approach to the
                                  Testing of Certain Parametric Hypotheses 1370--1385
              David A. Freedman   On the Asymptotic Behavior of Bayes'
                                  Estimates in the Discrete Case . . . . . 1386--1403
              Sigmund J. Amster   A Modified Bayes Stopping Rule . . . . . 1404--1413
                 A. P. Dempster   On a Paradox Concerning Inference About
                                  a Covariance Matrix  . . . . . . . . . . 1414--1418
               Gunnar Kulldorff   Estimation of One or Two Parameters of
                                  the Exponential Distribution on the
                                  Basis of Suitably Chosen Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1419--1431
                Earl L. Diamond   The Limiting Power of Categorical Data
                                  Chi-Square Tests Analogous to Normal
                                  Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . 1432--1441
            Constance Van Eeden   The Relation Between Pitman's Asymptotic
                                  Relative Efficiency of Two Tests and the
                                  Correlation Coefficient Between Their
                                  Test Statistics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1442--1451
                 J. R. Blum and   
               Judah Rosenblatt   On Multistage Estimation . . . . . . . . 1452--1458
             P. K. Bhattacharya   On an Analog of Regression Analysis  . . 1459--1473
                 Rajinder Singh   Existence of Bounded Length Confidence
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1474--1485
         Charles DeWitt Roberts   An Asymptotically Optimal Sequential
                                  Design for Comparing Several
                                  Experimental Categories with a Control   1486--1493
                  E. L. Lehmann   Asymptotically Nonparametric Inference:
                                  An Alternative Approach to Linear Models 1494--1506
                  E. L. Lehmann   Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for a
                                  Shift Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1507--1512
                Saul Blumenthal   The Asymptotic Normality of Two Test
                                  Statistics Associated with the
                                  Two-Sample Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1513--1523
                    N. Giri and   
                  J. Kiefer and   
                       C. Stein   Minimax Character of Hotelling's $ T^2 $
                                  Test in the Simplest Case  . . . . . . . 1524--1535
                   Tjoe-Tie Teh   Minimax Theorems on Conditionally
                                  Compact Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1536--1540
                  R. A. Wijsman   Existence, Uniqueness and Monotonicity
                                  of Sequential Probability Ratio Tests    1541--1548
                Laurence Herbst   Almost Periodic Variances  . . . . . . . 1549--1557
                  Junjiro Ogawa   On the Null-Distribution of the
                                  $F$-Statistic in a Randomized Balanced
                                  Incomplete Block Design Under the Neyman
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1558--1568
                 George Zyskind   Some Consequences of randomization in a
                                  Generalization of the Balanced
                                  Incomplete Block Design  . . . . . . . . 1569--1581
                   Harold Ruben   A New Result on the Distribution of
                                  Quadratic Forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1582--1584
                   W. S. Connor   The Conditional Distribution of Sets of
                                  Tests on a System Simulated From Tests
                                  on its Components  . . . . . . . . . . . 1585--1587
                R. M. Phatarfod   Application of Methods in Sequential
                                  Analysis to Dam Theory . . . . . . . . . 1588--1592
                  J. Hannan and   
                    W. Harkness   Normal Approximation to the Distribution
                                  of Two Independent Binomials,
                                  Conditional on Fixed Sum . . . . . . . . 1593--1595
            Richard F. Potthoff   Use of the Wilcoxon Statistic for a
                                  Generalized Behrens--Fisher Problem  . . 1596--1599
                   R. L. Graham   A Combinatorial Theorem for Partial Sums 1600--1602
             Thomas S. Ferguson   Correction Notes: Correction to
                                  ``Location and Scale Parameters in
                                  Exponential Families of Distributions''  1603--1603
                   K. V. Mardia   Correction Notes: Correction to
                                  ``Multivariate Pareto Distributions''    1603--1603
                    Ronald Pyke   Review: E. B. Dynkin, D. E. Brown,
                                  \booktitleTheory of Markov Processes; E.
                                  B. Dynkin, Joseph Wloka, \booktitleDie
                                  Grundlagen der Theorie der Markoffschen
                                  Prozesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1604--1609
                    V. E. Benes   Review: Thomas L. Saaty, Elements of
                                  Queueing Theory, \booktitlewith
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1610--1612
                Albert Madansky   Review: Marvin Zelen,
                                  \booktitleStatistical Theory of
                                  Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1614
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1615--1629
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1630--1659
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1659--1659


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 35, Number 1, March, 1964

                Herbert Robbins   The Empirical Bayes Approach to
                                  Statistical Decision Problems  . . . . . 1--20
                    N. Giri and   
                      J. Kiefer   Local and Asymptotic Minimax Properties
                                  of Multivariate Tests  . . . . . . . . . 21--35
                  R. H. Farrell   Asymptotic Behavior of Expected Sample
                                  Size in Certain One Sided Tests  . . . . 36--72
                 Peter J. Huber   Robust Estimation of a Location
                                  Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--101
                 Madan Lal Puri   Asymptotic efficiency of a class of
                                  $c$-sample tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--121
                    K. L. Mehra   Rank Tests for Paired-Comparison
                                  Experiments Involving Several Treatments 122--137
                 S. Bhuchongkul   A Class of Nonparametric Tests for
                                  Independence in Bivariate Populations    138--149
                     C. B. Bell   Some Basic Theorems of Distribution-Free
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--156
                Leo Breiman and   
              Lucien Le Cam and   
              Lorraine Schwartz   Consistent Estimates and Zero-One Sets   157--161
             John Breakwell and   
                Herman Chernoff   Sequential Tests for the Mean of a
                                  Normal Distribution II (Large $t$) . . . 162--173
                 Edward Paulson   A Sequential Procedure for Selecting the
                                  Population with the Largest Mean from
                                  $k$ Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . 174--180
                        N. Giri   On the Likelihood Ratio Test of a Normal
                                  Multivariate Testing Problem . . . . . . 181--189
                 A. P. Dempster   Tests for the Equality of Two Covariance
                                  Matrices in Relation to a Best Linear
                                  Discriminator Analysis . . . . . . . . . 190--199
               S. Das Gupta and   
             T. W. Anderson and   
                G. S. Mudholkar   Monotonicity of the Power Functions of
                                  Some Tests of the Multivariate Linear
                                  Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--205
             T. W. Anderson and   
                   S. Das Gupta   Monotonicity of the Power Functions of
                                  Some Tests of Independence between Two
                                  Sets of Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--208
                     A. P. Basu   Effect of Truncation on a Test for the
                                  Scale Parameter of the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
                  John Ross and   
                 R. A. Weitzman   The Twenty-Seven Per Cent Rule . . . . . 214--221
                   P. K. Pathak   On Sampling Schemes Providing Unbiased
                                  Ratio Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--231
        William C. Guenther and   
               Paul J. Terragno   A Review of the Literature on a Class of
                                  Coverage Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 232--260
               Ingram Olkin and   
                   Herman Rubin   Multivariate Beta Distributions and
                                  Independence Properties of the Wishart
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--269
                Elliot A. Tanis   Linear Forms in the Order Statistics
                                  from an Exponential Distribution . . . . 270--276
                Samuel Kotz and   
                  John W. Adams   Distribution of Sum of Identically
                                  Distributed Exponentially Correlated
                                  Gamma-Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--283
              E. Williamson and   
               M. H. Bretherton   Tables of the Logarithmic Series
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--297
                  D. Hogben and   
              R. S. Pinkham and   
                     M. B. Wilk   The Moments of a Variate Related to the
                                  Non-Central $t$  . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--314
                  D. Hogben and   
              R. S. Pinkham and   
                     M. B. Wilk   An Approximation to the Distribution of
                                  $Q$ (A Variate Related to the
                                  Non-Central $t$) . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--318
               Simeon M. Berman   Limiting Distribution of the Maximum of
                                  a Diffusion Process  . . . . . . . . . . 319--329
               Howard G. Tucker   On Continuous Singular Infinitely
                                  Divisible Distribution Functions . . . . 330--335
                   Kenneth Berk   An Evaluation of a Functional on
                                  Infinitely Divisible Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--340
                   Cyrus Derman   On Sequential Control Processes  . . . . 341--349
             Donald L. Iglehart   Multivariate Competition Processes . . . 350--361
            N. Donald Ylvisaker   Lower Bounds for Minimum Covariance
                                  Matrices in Time Series Regression
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--368
                   John Riordan   The Enumeration of Election Returns by
                                  Number of Lead Positions . . . . . . . . 369--379
                  J. N. Darroch   On the Traffic-light Queue . . . . . . . 380--388
              D. Raghavarao and   
          K. Chandrasekhara Rao   Cubic Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--397
                     S. M. Shah   An Upper Bound for the Number of
                                  Disjoint Blocks in Certain PBIB Designs  398--407
                 R. C. Bose and   
               J. N. Srivastava   On a Bound Useful in the Theory of
                                  Factorial Designs and Error Correcting
                                  Codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--414
                      P. M. Lee   On the Axioms of Information Theory  . . 415--418
                    L. A. Shepp   A Local Limit Theorem  . . . . . . . . . 419--423
                    L. A. Shepp   A Limit Law Concerning Moving Averages   424--428
            S. W. Dharmadhikari   Exchangeable Processes which are
                                  Functions of Stationary Markov Chains    429--430
                Marcel F. Neuts   Generating Functions for Markov Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--434
      Charles Henry Johnson and   
               John Leroy Folks   A Property of the Method of Steepest
                                  Ascent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--437
       Franklin A. Graybill and   
            Terrence L. Connell   Sample Size Required for Estimating the
                                  Variance Within $d$ Units of the True
                                  Value  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--440
            Dennis C. Gilliland   A Note on the Maximization of a
                                  Non-central Chi-Square Probability . . . 441--442
                   M. F. Smiley   The Spectral Theorem for Finite Matrices
                                  and Cochran's Theorem  . . . . . . . . . 443--444
              Agnes M. Herzberg   Two Third Order Rotatable Designs in
                                  Four Dimensions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
                    Oystein Ore   Review: F. N. David, Games,
                                  \booktitleGods and Gambling. The Origins
                                  and History of Probability and
                                  Statistical Ideas from the Earliest
                                  Times to the Newtonian Era . . . . . . . 447--447
                      C. Derman   Review: D. R. Cox, \booktitleRenewal
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--449
               Rupert G. Miller   Review: Lajos Takacs,
                                  \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--453
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 454--462
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--474
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 474--474

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 35, Number 2, June, 1964

                  Alan T. James   Distributions of Matrix Variates and
                                  Latent Roots Derived from Normal Samples 475--501
               Simeon M. Berman   Limit Theorems for the Maximum Term in
                                  Stationary Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 502--516
                     Jack Capon   Radon--Nikodym Derivatives of Stationary
                                  Gaussian Measures  . . . . . . . . . . . 517--531
                 L. H. Koopmans   On the Coefficient of Coherence for
                                  Weakly Stationary Stochastic Processes   532--549
              Charles Hobby and   
            N. Donald Ylvisaker   Some Structure Theorems for Stationary
                                  Probability Measures on Finite State
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--556
    Howard H. Stratton, Jr. and   
               Howard G. Tucker   Limit Distributions of a Branching
                                  Stochastic Process . . . . . . . . . . . 557--565
             M. Rosenblatt-Roth   Some Theorems Concerning the Strong Law
                                  of Large Numbers for Non-Homogeneous
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--576
          Richard E. Barlow and   
                 Frank Proschan   Comparison of Replacement Policies, and
                                  Renewal Theory Implications  . . . . . . 577--589
              David J. Sakrison   A Continuous Kiefer--Wolfowitz Procedure
                                  for Random Processes . . . . . . . . . . 590--599
                 Peter D. Welch   On Pre-Emptive Resume Priority Queues    600--612
                 M. B. Wilk and   
                R. Gnanadesikan   Graphical Methods for Internal
                                  Comparisons in Multiresponse Experiments 613--631
                 Leo A. Goodman   Interactions in Multidimensional
                                  Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 632--646
    Irene Monahan Trawinski and   
                 R. E. Bargmann   Maximum Likelihood Estimation with
                                  Incomplete Multivariate Data . . . . . . 647--657
                   M. Zelen and   
                     W. Federer   Applications of the Calculus for
                                  Factorial Arrangements II: Two Way
                                  Elimination of Heterogeneity . . . . . . 658--672
            Damaraju Raghavarao   Singular Weighing Designs  . . . . . . . 673--680
               Klaus Hinkelmann   Extended Group Divisible Partially
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Designs  . . . 681--695
                       S. Zacks   Generalized Least Squares Estimators for
                                  Randomized Fractional Replication
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--704
                 G. A. F. Seber   Orthogonality in Analysis of Variance    705--710
             K. S. Banerjee and   
                  W. T. Federer   Estimates of Effects for Fractional
                                  Replicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--715
                 Leo A. Goodman   Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
                                  Contrasts Among Multinomial Populations  716--725
                  E. L. Lehmann   Asymptotically Nonparametric Inference
                                  in some Linear Models with One
                                  Observation per Cell . . . . . . . . . . 726--734
                     C. B. Bell   A Characterization of Multisample
                                  Distribution-Free Statistics . . . . . . 735--738
        W. A. Thompson, Jr. and   
            Russell Remage, Jr.   Rankings from Paired Comparisons . . . . 739--747
           O. P. Srivastava and   
             W. L. Harkness and   
                   J. B. Bartoo   Asymptotic Distribution of Distances
                                  Between Order Statistics from Bivariate
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--754
                 J. W. Thompson   A Property of Some Symmetric Two-Stage
                                  Sequential Procedures  . . . . . . . . . 755--761
                 Bob E. Ellison   On Two-Sided Tolerance Intervals for a
                                  Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 762--772
                 G. A. F. Seber   The Linear Hypothesis and Large Sample
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--779
                    C. Villegas   Confidence Region for a Linear Relation  780--788
                    M. N. Ghosh   On the admissibility of some tests of
                                  MANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789--794
                   P. K. Pathak   Sufficiency in Sampling Theory . . . . . 795--808
               J. C. Mott-Smith   Two Estimates of the Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--816
                    M. W. Birch   A new proof of the Pearson--Fisher
                                  theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--824
              Irwin Guttman and   
                 George C. Tiao   A Bayesian Approach to Some Best
                                  Population Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 825--835
                    J. Hartigan   Invariant Prior Distributions  . . . . . 836--845
                      J. Fabius   Asymptotic Behavior of Bayes' Estimates  846--856
                 Zalman Usiskin   Max-Min Probabilities in the Voting
                                  Paradox  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--862
                David Blackwell   Memoryless Strategies in Finite-Stage
                                  Dynamic Programming  . . . . . . . . . . 863--865
             Richard F. Gebhard   A Limit Theorem for Random Interval
                                  Sampling of a Stochastic Process . . . . 866--868
                  Richard Isaac   Non-Singular Recurrent Markov Processes
                                  have Stationary Measures . . . . . . . . 869--871
                 Tom S. Pitcher   On Adding Independent Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872--873
                    P. J. Burke   The Dependence of Delays in Tandem
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--875
               Richard Sinkhorn   A Relationship Between Arbitrary
                                  Positive Matrices and Doubly Stochastic
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876--879
                 K. S. Banerjee   A Note on Idempotent Matrices  . . . . . 880--882
                  A. J. Hoffman   On the Line Graph of the Complete
                                  Bipartite Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--885
           Charles H. Kraft and   
            Constance van Eeden   Bayesian Bio-Assay . . . . . . . . . . . 886--890
                   Paul Switzer   Significance Probability Bounds for Rank
                                  Orderings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--894
               Peter W. M. John   Pseudo-Inverses in the Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--896
               Peter W. M. John   Balanced Designs with Unequal Numbers of
                                  Replicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--899
                        Des Raj   On Double Sampling for PPS Estimation    900--902
                  E. S. Pearson   Review: Donald B. Owen,
                                  \booktitleHandbook of Statistical Tables 903--906
                    B. L. Welch   Review: M. O. Locks, M. J. Alexander, B.
                                  J. Byars, New Tables of the Non-central
                                  $t$ Distribution; D. B. Owen,
                                  \booktitleFactors for One-Sided
                                  Tolerance Limits and for Variables
                                  Sampling Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--910
               Oscar Kempthorne   Review: M. C. Chakrabarti,
                                  \booktitleMathematics of Design and
                                  Analysis of Experiments  . . . . . . . . 911--912
                    Edgar Reich   Review: Vaclav E. Benes,
                                  \booktitleGeneral Stochastic Processes
                                  in the Theory of Queues  . . . . . . . . 913--914
                   Alex M. Mood   Review: I. Richard Savage,
                                  \booktitleBibliography of Nonparametric
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--916
               David G. Kendall   Review: John Riordan,
                                  \booktitleStochastic Service Systems . . 917--919
                  Ulf Grenander   Review: B. V. Gnedenko, B. D. Seckler,
                                  \booktitleThe Theory of Probability  . . 920--922
             T. W. Anderson and   
                 M. A. Girshick   Corrections to ``Some Extensions of the
                                  Wishart Distribution'' . . . . . . . . . 923--923
                 T. W. Anderson   Corrections to ``The Non-Central Wishart
                                  Distribution and Certain Problems of
                                  Multivariate Statistics''  . . . . . . . 923--924
              Charles Hobby and   
                    Ronald Pyke   Correction to ``Combinatorial Results in
                                  Fluctuation''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--924
                     D. G. Kabe   Corrections to: ``Some Results on the
                                  Distribution of Two Random Matrices used
                                  in Classification Procedures'' . . . . . 924--924
                 H. Leon Harter   Correction to ``Estimating the
                                  Parameters of Negative Exponential
                                  Population from One or Two Order
                                  Statistics'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--925
                Samuel Kotz and   
                  John W. Adams   Acknowledgment of Priority: Distribution
                                  of Sum of Identically Distributed
                                  Exponentially Correlated Gamma-Variables 925--925
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 926--940
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--948

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 35, Number 3, September, 1964

                  R. H. Farrell   Estimators of a Location Parameter in
                                  the Absolutely Continuous Case . . . . . 949--998
                H. Chernoff and   
                       S. Zacks   Estimating the Current Mean of a Normal
                                  Distribution which is Subjected to
                                  Changes in Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1018
                 Martin Fox and   
                   Herman Rubin   Admissibility of Quantile Estimates of a
                                  Single Location Parameter  . . . . . . . 1019--1030
                    M. N. Ghosh   Uniform Approximation of Minimax Point
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1047
                 Edward Paulson   Sequential Estimation and Closed
                                  Sequential Decision Procedures . . . . . 1048--1058
             T. W. Anderson and   
                   S. Das Gupta   A Monotonicity Property of the Power
                                  Functions of Some Tests of the Equality
                                  of Two Covariance Matrices . . . . . . . 1059--1063
                     K. R. Shah   Use of Inter-Block Information to Obtain
                                  Uniformly Better Estimators  . . . . . . 1064--1078
                Peter J. Bickel   On Some Alternative Estimates for Shift
                                  in the $P$-Variate One Sample Problem    1079--1090
                     E. J. Burr   Small-Sample Distributions of the
                                  Two-sample Cramér--von Mises' $ W^2 $ and
                                  Watson's $ U^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1098
               Elizabeth H. Yen   On Two-Stage Non-Parametric Estimation   1099--1114
             W. L. Harkness and   
                        L. Katz   Comparison of the Power Functions for
                                  the Test of Independence in $ 2 \times 2
                                  $ Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . 1115--1127
                 T. W. Anderson   On Bayes Procedures for a Problem with
                                  Choice of Observations . . . . . . . . . 1128--1135
             John P. Comer, Jr.   Some Stochastic Approximation Procedures
                                  for Use in Process Control . . . . . . . 1136--1146
               F. G. Foster and   
             A. G. A. D. Perera   Queues with batch departures. II . . . . 1147--1156
                   S. D. Silvey   On a Measure of Association  . . . . . . 1157--1166
                    P. S. Dwyer   Properties of Polykays of Deviates . . . 1167--1173
                P. S. Dwyer and   
                    D. S. Tracy   A Combinatorial Method for Products of
                                  Two Polykays with Some General Formulae  1174--1185
                Tito A. Mijares   On Elementary Symmetric Functions of the
                                  Roots of a Multivariate Matrix:
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186--1198
             Thomas S. Ferguson   A Characterization of the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1199--1207
                 G. K. Eagleson   Polynomial Expansions of Bivariate
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1208--1215
                    J. Pfanzagl   On the Topological Structure of Some
                                  Ordered Families of Distributions  . . . 1216--1228
                    J. L. Denny   On Continuous Sufficient Statistics  . . 1229--1233
          Richard E. Barlow and   
             Albert W. Marshall   Bounds for Distributions with Monotone
                                  Hazard Rate, I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234--1257
          Richard E. Barlow and   
             Albert W. Marshall   Bounds for Distributions with Monotone
                                  Hazard Rate, II  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258--1274
                 Sidney C. Port   Some Theorems on Functionals of Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1290
            David Blackwell and   
                 David Freedman   The Tail $ \sigma $-Field of a Markov
                                  Chain and a Theorem of Orey  . . . . . . 1291--1295
             T. W. Anderson and   
                   A. M. Walker   On the Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  Autocorrelations of a Sample from a
                                  Linear Stochastic Process  . . . . . . . 1296--1303
                  J. Sethuraman   On the Probability of Large Deviations
                                  of Families of Sample Means  . . . . . . 1304--1316
                  J. N. Darroch   On the Distribution of the Number of
                                  Successes in Independent Trials  . . . . 1317--1321
                   G. F. Newell   Asymptotic Extremes for $m$-Dependent
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322--1325
             Giorgio Dall'Aglio   Present Value of a Renewal Process . . . 1326--1331
                  R. H. Farrell   Limit Theorems for Stopped Random Walks  1332--1343
               D. Blackwell and   
                   P. Deuel and   
                    D. Freedman   The Last Return to Equilibrium in a
                                  Coin-tossing Game  . . . . . . . . . . . 1344--1344
            David Blackwell and   
                 David Freedman   A Remark on the Coin Tossing Game  . . . 1345--1347
           R. M. Blumenthal and   
                   R. K. Getoor   A Theorem on Stopping Times  . . . . . . 1348--1350
                 Sidney C. Port   Escape Probability for a Half Line . . . 1351--1355
            Lajos Takács   An Application of a Ballot Theorem in
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1356--1358
           Charles H. Kraft and   
            Constance van Eeden   A Fluctuation Theorem and a
                                  Distribution-free Test . . . . . . . . . 1359--1360
                L. Danziger and   
                    S. A. Davis   Tables of Distribution-free Tolerance
                                  Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1365
                Lee J. Bain and   
                 David L. Weeks   A Note on the Truncated Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1366--1367
               Gerald S. Rogers   An Application of a Generalized Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1368--1370
                      J. Kiefer   Review: Maurice G. Kendall, Alan Stuart,
                                  \booktitleThe Advanced Theory of
                                  Statistics, Volume 2, ``Inference and
                                  Relationship.''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371--1380
                  Tore Dalenius   Review: William G. Cochran,
                                  \booktitleSampling Techniques  . . . . . 1381--1382
                S. K. Mitra and   
                      C. R. Rao   Review: A. E. Sarhan, B. G. Greenberg,
                                  \booktitleContributions to Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1383--1385
                  E. N. Gilbert   Review: H. A. David, \booktitleThe
                                  Method of Paired Comparisons . . . . . . 1386--1387
                        N. Giri   Correction Notes: Correction to ``On the
                                  Likelihood Ratio of a Normal
                                  Multivariate Testing Problem'' . . . . . 1388--1388
                H. O. Lancaster   Correction Notes: Correction to ``The
                                  Structure of Bivariate Distributions''   1388--1388
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1389--1408
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409--1417
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1417--1417

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 35, Number 4, December, 1964

                     L. Le. Cam   Sufficiency and Approximate Sufficiency  1419--1455
                       L. Brown   Sufficient Statistics in the Case of
                                  Independent Random Variables . . . . . . 1456--1474
                    N. Giri and   
                      J. Kiefer   Minimax Character of the $ R^2 $-Test in
                                  the Simplest Case  . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1490
          Jaroslav Hájek   Asymptotic Theory of Rejective Sampling
                                  with Varying Probabilities from a Finite
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1491--1523
             Friedrich Gebhardt   On the Risk of Some Strategies for
                                  Outlying Observations  . . . . . . . . . 1524--1536
                 Leon J. Gleser   On a Measure of Test Efficiency Proposed
                                  by R. R. Bahadur . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537--1544
                  R. R. Bahadur   On Fisher's Bound for Asymptotic
                                  Variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1545--1552
                 P. G. Hoel and   
                      A. Levine   Optimal Spacing and Weighting in
                                  Polynomial Prediction  . . . . . . . . . 1553--1560
               D. L. Hanson and   
                 L. H. Koopmans   Tolerance Limits for the Class of
                                  Distributions with Increasing Hazard
                                  Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1561--1570
         Charles DeWitt Roberts   An Asymptotically Optimal Fixed Sample
                                  Size Procedure for Comparing Several
                                  Experimental Categories with a Control   1571--1575
                   Jerome Klotz   Small Sample Power of the Bivariate Sign
                                  Tests of Blumen and Hodges . . . . . . . 1576--1582
              John H. Park, Jr.   Variations of the Non-central $t$ and
                                  Beta Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1593
          Rupert G. Miller, Jr.   A Trustworthy Jackknife  . . . . . . . . 1594--1605
                   Ester Samuel   Convergence of the Losses of Certain
                                  Decision Rules for the Sequential
                                  Compound Decision Problem  . . . . . . . 1606--1621
              Dennis V. Lindley   The Bayesian Analysis of Contingency
                                  Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1622--1643
             F. V. Atkinson and   
               J. D. Church and   
                      B. Harris   Decision Procedures for Finite Decision
                                  Problems Under Complete Ignorance  . . . 1644--1655
                     B. R. Bhat   Bayes Solution of Sequential Decision
                                  Problem for Markov Dependent
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1656--1662
                 Eugene Dayhoff   On the Equivalence of Polykays of the
                                  Second Degree and $ \Sigma $'s . . . . . 1663--1672
               Ignacy Kotlarski   On Bivariate Random Variables Where The
                                  Quotient of Their Coordinates Follows
                                  Some Known Distribution  . . . . . . . . 1673--1684
               I. G. Abrahamson   Orthant Probabilities for the
                                  Quadrivariate Normal Distribution  . . . 1685--1703
        K. C. Sreedharan Pillai   On the Moments of Elementary Symmetric
                                  Functions of the Roots of Two Matrices   1704--1712
                 J. R. Blum and   
               Judah Rosenblatt   On Random Sampling From a Stochastic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1713--1717
                    Meyer Dwass   Extremal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 1718--1725
                  John Lamperti   On Extreme Order Statistics  . . . . . . 1726--1737
                James R. McCord   On Asymptotic Moments of Extreme
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1738--1745
                Ronald Pyke and   
               Ronald Schaufele   Limit Theorems for Markov Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1746--1764
                 L. H. Koopmans   On the Multivariate Analysis of Weakly
                                  Stationary Stochastic Processes  . . . . 1765--1780
                  Richard Isaac   A Uniqueness Theorem for Stationary
                                  Measures of Ergodic Markov Processes . . 1781--1786
                    C. Villegas   On qualitative probability $ \sigma
                                  $-algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1787--1796
              William E. Pruitt   Eigenvalues of Non-Negative Matrices . . 1797--1800
                   C. G. Khatri   Distribution of the `Generalised'
                                  Multiple Correlation Matrix in the Dual
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1801--1806
                   C. G. Khatri   Distribution of the Largest or the
                                  Smallest Characteristic Root Under Null
                                  Hypothesis Concerning Complex
                                  Multivariate Normal Populations  . . . . 1807--1810
                     Dan Chazan   A Note on Convergence of Sub-Martingales 1811--1814
                   K. V. Mardia   Some Results on the Order Statistics of
                                  the Multivariate Normal and Pareto Type
                                  1 Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1815--1818
                Leo Breiman and   
               Zivia S. Wurtele   Convergence Properties of a Learning
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819--1822
   Torbjörn Thedéen   A Note on the Poisson Tendency in
                                  Traffic Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1823--1824
                   C. F. Crouse   Note on Mood's Test  . . . . . . . . . . 1825--1826
               J. C. Mott-Smith   Correction Note: Correction to ``Two
                                  Estimates of the Binomial Distribution'' 1827--1827
         Leopold K. Schmetterer   Review: A. Rényi,
                                  \booktitleWahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung,
                                  mit einem Anhang über Informationstheorie
                                  (German) [Probability Theory, with an
                                  Appendix on Information Theory]  . . . . 1828--1831
                 Boris Gnedenko   Review: Murray Rosenblatt,
                                  \booktitleRandom Processes . . . . . . . 1832--1833
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1834--1852
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853--1880


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 36, Number 1, February, 1965

                 T. W. Anderson   Samuel Stanley Wilks, 1906--1964 . . . . 1--23
                      Anonymous   The Publications of S. S. Wilks  . . . . 24--27
                Herman Chernoff   Sequential Test for the Mean of a Normal
                                  Distribution. III. (Small $t$) . . . . . 28--54
                Herman Chernoff   Sequential Tests for the Mean of a
                                  Normal Distribution IV (Discrete Case)   55--68
         Albert W. Marshall and   
                 Frank Proschan   Maximum Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Distributions with Monotone Failure Rate 69--77
                   Arthur Cohen   Estimates of Linear Combinations of the
                                  Parameters in the Mean Vector of a
                                  Multivariate Distribution  . . . . . . . 78--87
                      Dan Bradu   Main-Effect Analysis of the General
                                  Non-Orthogonal Layout with any Number of
                                  Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--97
                   C. G. Khatri   Classical Statistical Analysis Based on
                                  a Certain Multivariate Complex Gaussian
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--114
                   C. G. Khatri   A Test for Reality of a Covariance
                                  Matrix in a Certain Complex Gaussian
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--119
                    O. P. Bagai   The Distribution of the Generalized
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--130
                  Ulf Grenander   Some Direct Estimates of the Mode  . . . 131--138
            Shanti S. Gupta and   
             Mrudulla N. Waknis   A System of Inequalities for the
                                  Incomplete Gamma Function and the Normal
                                  Integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--149
                Seymour Geisser   Bayesian Estimation in Multivariate
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--159
                Peter J. Bickel   On Some Asymptotically Nonparametric
                                  Competitors of Hotelling's $ T^2 $ . . . 160--173
         Arnljot Hòyland   Robustness of the Hodges--Lehmann
                                  Estimates for Shift  . . . . . . . . . . 174--197
          Subha Bhuchongkul and   
                  Madan L. Puri   On the Estimation of Contrasts in Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--202
                 C. B. Bell and   
                   K. A. Doksum   Some New Distribution-Free Statistics    203--214
             Carol E. Fuchs and   
                    H. T. David   Poisson Limits of Multivariate Run
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--225
                David Blackwell   Discounted Dynamic Programming . . . . . 226--235
               D. E. Barton and   
                  C. L. Mallows   Some Aspects of the Random Sequence  . . 236--260
                  R. Borges and   
                    J. Pfanzagl   One-Parameter Exponential Families
                                  Generated by Transformation Groups . . . 261--271
                  Bradley Efron   Increasing Properties of Pólya Frequency
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--279
                  J. Sethuraman   On the Probability of Large Deviations
                                  of the Mean for Random Variables in $
                                  D[0, 1] $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--285
         Howard Rumsey, Jr. and   
               Edward C. Posner   Joint Distributions with Prescribed
                                  Moments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--298
             Bengt von Bahr and   
             Carl-Gustav Esseen   Inequalities for the $r$ th Absolute
                                  Moment of a Sum of Random Variables, $ 1
                                  \leqq r \leqq 2$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
                  John Lamperti   On Limit Theorems for Gaussian Processes 304--310
                Frank B. Knight   Distribution of the Absolute Maximum for
                                  Certain Brownian Motions . . . . . . . . 311--312
               M. S. Srivastava   On the Complex Wishart Distribution  . . 313--315
         Carl-Erik Särndal   A Theorem on Rank Orders for Two
                                  Censored Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--321
    Miklós Csörg\Ho   Some Rényi Type Limit Theorems for
                                  Empirical Distribution Functions . . . . 322--326
                        Des Raj   On Sampling Over Two Occasions with
                                  Probability Proportionate to Size  . . . 327--330
                 Dale M. Mesner   A Note on the Parameters of PBIB
                                  Association Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . 331--336
                     S. M. Shah   Bounds for the Number of Common
                                  Treatments Between Any Two Blocks of
                                  Certain PBIB Designs . . . . . . . . . . 337--342
                   I. Olkin and   
                     R. F. Tate   Correction Note: Correction to
                                  ``Multivariate Correlation Models with
                                  Mixed Discrete and Continuous
                                  Variables''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--344
                    M. W. Birch   Acknowledgment of Priority: ``A New
                                  Proof of the Pearson--Fisher Theorem''   344--344
                  G. Kallianpur   Review: Ulf Grenander,
                                  \booktitleProbabilities on Algebraic
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--347
                      E. Lukacs   Review: Yu. V. Linnik, M. L. Gruel,
                                  \booktitleDecomposition des Lois de
                                  Probabilities; Yu. V. Linnik, S. J.
                                  Taylor, \booktitleDecomposition of
                                  Probability Distributions  . . . . . . . 347--350
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 351--365
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--368
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 368--368

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 36, Number 2, April, 1965

              Wassily Hoeffding   Asymptotically Optimal Tests for
                                  Multinomial Distributions  . . . . . . . 369--401
               Jerzy Neyman and   
            Herman Chernoff and   
                  D. G. Chapman   Discussion of Hoeffding's Paper  . . . . 401--408
                   R. K. Getoor   Additive Functionals and Excessive
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--422
                    V. Strassen   The Existence of Probability Measures
                                  with Given Marginals . . . . . . . . . . 423--439
                       M. Stone   Right Haar Measure for Convergence in
                                  Probability to Quasi Posterior
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--453
              David A. Freedman   On the Asymptotic Behavior of Bayes
                                  Estimates in the Discrete Case II  . . . 454--456
                 Y. S. Chow and   
                Herbert Robbins   On the Asymptotic Theory of Fixed-Width
                                  Sequential Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--462
                 Leon J. Gleser   On the Asymptotic Theory of Fixed-Size
                                  Sequential Confidence Bounds for Linear
                                  Regression Parameters  . . . . . . . . . 463--467
                 T. W. Anderson   Some Optimum Confidence Bounds for Roots
                                  of Determinantal Equations . . . . . . . 468--488
                  Melvin Hinich   Large-Sample Estimation of an Unknown
                                  Discrete Waveform Which is Randomly
                                  Repeating in Gaussian Noise  . . . . . . 489--508
           M. R. Leadbetter and   
                    J. D. Cryer   On the Mean Number of Curve Crossings by
                                  Non-Stationary Normal Processes  . . . . 509--516
                     J. Feldman   Integral Kernels and Invariant Measures
                                  for Markoff Transition Functions . . . . 517--523
            S. W. Dharmadhikari   A Characterisation of a Class of
                                  Functions of Finite Markov Chains  . . . 524--528
                  T. S. Pitcher   The Behavior of Likelihood Ratios of
                                  Stochastic Processes Related by Groups
                                  of Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . 529--534
                     R. S. Bucy   Recurrent Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--545
                  Charles Stone   A Local Limit Theorem for Nonlattice
                                  Multi-Dimensional Distribution Functions 546--551
                     Y. S. Chow   Local Convergence of Martingales and the
                                  Law of Large Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 552--558
               D. L. Hanson and   
                 L. H. Koopmans   On the Convergence Rate of the Law of
                                  Large Numbers for Linear Combinations of
                                  Independent Random Variables . . . . . . 559--564
              Richard E. Barlow   Bounds on Integrals with Applications to
                                  Reliability Problems . . . . . . . . . . 565--574
                 W. J. Hall and   
              R. A. Wijsman and   
                    J. K. Ghosh   The Relationship Between Sufficiency and
                                  Invariance with Applications in
                                  Sequential Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 575--614
                 Adnan F. Ifram   On the Asymptotic Behavior of Densities
                                  with Applications to Sequential Analysis 615--637
              H. O. Hartley and   
                   Aaron Booker   Nonlinear Least Squares Estimation . . . 638--650
            G. P. Bhattacharjee   Effect of Non-Normality on Stein's Two
                                  Sample Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--663
                        N. Giri   On the Complex Analogues of $ T^2 $- and
                                  $ R^2 $-Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--670
                     D. G. Kabe   Generalization of Sverdrup's Lemma and
                                  its Applications to Multivariate
                                  Distribution Theory  . . . . . . . . . . 671--676
                 M. M. Siddiqui   Approximations to the Distribution of
                                  Quadratic Forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--682
               Norman Y. Luther   Decomposition of Symmetric Matrices and
                                  Distributions of Quadratic Forms . . . . 683--690
                  Bradley Efron   Note on Decision Procedures for Finite
                                  Decision Problems Under Complete
                                  Ignorance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--697
                   Ester Samuel   Note on Estimating Ordered Parameters    698--702
               E. M. Bolger and   
                 W. L. Harkness   Characterizations of Some Distributions
                                  by Conditional Moments . . . . . . . . . 703--705
             J. R. McGregor and   
                    J. V. Zidek   Limiting Distributions of Response
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706--707
                   John Riordan   A Recurrence for Permutations without
                                  Rising or Falling Successions  . . . . . 708--710
                    Haim Hanani   A Balanced Incomplete Block Design . . . 711--711
                Olive Jean Dunn   A property of the multivariate $t$
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--714
               Fred Andrews and   
                   Kumar Jogdeo   Correction Note: Correction to Abstract
                                  ``Asymptotic Efficiency of Certain
                                  Distance Criteria''  . . . . . . . . . . 715--715
           Frederick J. Beutler   Review: P. Whittle, \booktitlePrediction
                                  and Regulation by Linear Least-Squares
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--718
               Lincoln E. Moses   Review: John E. Walsh,
                                  \booktitleHandbook of Nonparametric
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--722
                 D. J. A. Welsh   Review: Theodore E. Harris,
                                  \booktitleThe Theory of Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--725
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 726--736
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--744
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 744--745

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 36, Number 3, June, 1965

                  J. Kiefer and   
                    R. Schwartz   Admissible Bayes Character of $ T^2 -,
                                  R^2 - $, and Other Fully Invariant Tests
                                  for Classical Multivariate Normal
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--770
                   R. M. Dudley   Gaussian Processes on Several Parameters 771--788
                 Y. S. Chow and   
            Herbert Robbins and   
                  Henry Teicher   Moments of Randomly Stopped Sums . . . . 789--799
           Lester E. Dubins and   
              David A. Freedman   A Sharper Form of the Borel--Cantelli
                                  Lemma and the Strong Law . . . . . . . . 800--807
                 Bengt von Bahr   On the Convergence of Moments in the
                                  Central Limit Theorem  . . . . . . . . . 808--818
              A. Ionescu Tulcea   On the lifting property. V . . . . . . . 819--828
                   J. A. Bather   Invariant Conditional Distributions  . . 829--846
                Peter J. Bickel   On Some Robust Estimates of Location . . 847--858
                      S. N. Ray   Bounds on the Maximum Sample Size of a
                                  Bayes Sequential Procedure . . . . . . . 859--878
                   Ester Samuel   Sequential Compound Estimators . . . . . 879--889
                D. A. S. Fraser   On Information in Statistics . . . . . . 890--896
               Herbert T. David   Order statistics and statistics of
                                  structure $ (d) $  . . . . . . . . . . . 897--906
            Shanti S. Gupta and   
              Bhupendra K. Shah   Exact Moments and Percentage Points of
                                  the Order Statistics and the
                                  Distribution of the Range From the
                                  Logistic Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 907--920
             M. Rosenblatt-Roth   Quantiles and Medians  . . . . . . . . . 921--925
                Salem H. Khamis   Some Basic Properties of the Incomplete
                                  Gamma Function Ratio . . . . . . . . . . 926--937; correction, 1584
                 W. L. Harkness   Properties of the Extended
                                  Hypergeometric Distribution  . . . . . . 938--945
            Peter J. Bickel and   
                Joseph A. Yahav   Renewal Theory in the Plane  . . . . . . 946--955
              David A. Freedman   Bernard Friedman's Urn . . . . . . . . . 956--970
              Perry A. Scheinok   Spectral Analysis with Randomly Missed
                                  Observations: The Binomial Case  . . . . 971--977
                  G. G. Roussas   Asymptotic Inference in Markov Processes 978--992
                   R. M. Loynes   Extreme Values in Uniformly Mixing
                                  Stationary Stochastic Processes  . . . . 993--999
                     Dana Quade   On the Asymptotic Power of the
                                  One-Sample Kolmogorov--Smirnov Tests . . 1000--1018
                  W. J. Conover   Several $k$-sample Kolmogorov--Smirnov
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1026
                   V. K. Murthy   Estimation of Probability Density  . . . 1027--1031
                   V. K. Murthy   Estimation of Jumps, Reliability and
                                  Hazard Rate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032--1040
                  Ulf Grenander   A Limit Theorem for Sums of Minima of
                                  Stochastic Variables . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1042
            N. Donald Ylvisaker   The Expected Number of Zeros of a
                                  Stationary Gaussian Process  . . . . . . 1043--1046
                 K. J. Craswell   Density Estimation in a Topological
                                  Group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1048
         D. O. Loftsgaarden and   
              C. P. Quesenberry   A Nonparametric Estimate of a
                                  Multivariate Density Function  . . . . . 1049--1051
               E. J. Gumbel and   
              P. G. Carlson and   
                  C. K. Mustafi   A Note on Midrange . . . . . . . . . . . 1052--1054
                 Mir M. Ali and   
                    Lai K. Chan   Some Bounds for Expected Values of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1057
                  S. K. Zaremba   Note on the Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1058--1060
                        N. Giri   On the Likelihood Ratio Test of a Normal
                                  Multivariate Testing Problem II  . . . . 1061--1065
                   W. H. Marlow   Factorial Distributions  . . . . . . . . 1066--1068
    Miklós Csörg\Ho   Correction Notes: Correction to ``Some
                                  Rényi Type Limit Theorems for Empirical
                                  Distribution Functions'' . . . . . . . . 1069--1069
                 Eugene Dayhoff   Correction Notes: Correction to ``On the
                                  Equivalence of Polykays of the Second
                                  Degree and $ \Sigma $'s''  . . . . . . . 1069--1069
           P. R. Krishnaiah and   
                 J. V. Armitage   Correction Notes: Correction to Abstract
                                  ``Tables for the Distribution of the
                                  Maximum of Correlated Chi-Square
                                  Variates with One Degree of Freedom''    1069--1069
                  D. A. Darling   Review: Harald Bergström, \booktitleLimit
                                  Theorems for Convolutions  . . . . . . . 1070--1072
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1087
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088--1094
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1095--1095

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 36, Number 4, August, 1965

                   Paul G. Hoel   Minimax Designs in Two Dimensional
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1106
                    L. A. Shepp   Distinguishing a Sequence of Random
                                  Variables from a Translate of Itself . . 1107--1112
    Miklós Csörg\Ho   Some Smirnov Type Theorems of
                                  Probability Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1119
              M. Rosenblatt and   
                 J. W. Van Ness   Estimation of the Bispectrum . . . . . . 1120--1136
                 J. A. Hartigan   The Asymptotically Unbiased Prior
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1152
             George A. Anderson   An Asymptotic Expansion for the
                                  Distribution of the Latent Roots of the
                                  Estimated Covariance Matrix  . . . . . . 1153--1173
                   S. Das Gupta   Optimum Classification Rules for
                                  Classification into Two Multivariate
                                  Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 1174--1184
                   Arthur Cohen   A Hybrid Problem on the Exponential
                                  Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185--1206
              T. K. Matthes and   
                    D. R. Truax   Optimal Invariant Rank Tests for the
                                  $k$-Sample Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1222
                  W. J. Conover   A $k$-sample model in order statistics   1223--1235
                M. Raghavachari   The Two-Sample Scale Problem When
                                  Locations are Unknown  . . . . . . . . . 1236--1242
            Joseph L. Gastwirth   Asymptotically Most Powerful Rank Tests
                                  for the Two-Sample Problem with Censored
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1247
           Kay Knight Mazuy and   
                   W. S. Connor   Student's $t$ in a Two-Way
                                  Classification with Unequal Variances    1248--1255
                David White and   
            Robert A. Hultquist   Construction of Confounding Plans for
                                  Mixed Factorial Designs  . . . . . . . . 1256--1271
                  S. M. Samuels   On the Number of Successes in
                                  Independent Trials . . . . . . . . . . . 1272--1278
                 Barry W. Brown   On the Iterative Method of Dynamic
                                  Programming on a Finite Space Discrete
                                  Time Markov Process  . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1285
                    Alex Heller   On Stochastic Processes Derived From
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1286--1291
                    Glen Baxter   Generalizations of the Maximal Ergodic
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292--1293
                 Sidney C. Port   A Simple Probabilistic Proof of the
                                  Discrete Generalized Renewal Theorem . . 1294--1297
                  Charles Stone   On Moment Generating Functions and
                                  Renewal Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298--1301
                  Tim Robertson   A Note on the Reciprocal of the
                                  Conditional Expectation of a Positive
                                  Random Variable  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302--1305
                M. Raghavachari   On the Efficiency of the Normal Scores
                                  Test Relative to the $F$-Test  . . . . . 1306--1307
        H. Robert van der Vaart   A Note on Wilks' Internal Scatter  . . . 1308--1312
                H. O. Lancaster   Pairwise Statistical Independence  . . . 1313--1317
             T. W. Anderson and   
                   S. Das Gupta   Correction Notes: Correction to ``A
                                  Monotonicity Property of the Power
                                  Functions of Some Tests of the Equality
                                  of Two Covariance Matrices'' . . . . . . 1318--1318
                       S. Kumar   Correction Notes: Correction to Abstract
                                  ``A Group-Testing Problem''  . . . . . . 1318--1318
                  D. A. Darling   Review: Frank Spitzer,
                                  \booktitlePrinciples of Random Walk  . . 1319--1320
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1321--1329
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330--1337
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1338--1338

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 36, Number 5, October, 1965

                    H. D. Brunk   Conditional Expectation Given A $ \sigma
                                  $-Lattice and Applications . . . . . . . 1339--1350
            David R. Brillinger   An Introduction to Polyspectra . . . . . 1351--1374
       Carter Vincent Smith and   
                    Ronald Pyke   The Robbins--Isbell Two-Armed-Bandit
                                  Problem with Finite Memory . . . . . . . 1375--1386
            Herman Chernoff and   
                      S. N. Ray   A Bayes Sequential Sampling Inspection
                                  Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1407
                  Leon S. White   Markovian Decision Models for the
                                  Evaluation of a Large Class of
                                  Continuous Sampling Inspection Plans . . 1408--1420
                J. MacQueen and   
                R. M. Redheffer   Some Applications of Monotone Operators
                                  in Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1425
              William F. Trench   On the Extrapolation of a Special Class
                                  of Stationary Time Series  . . . . . . . 1426--1432
               Marius Iosifescu   Sampling Entropy for Random Homogeneous
                                  Systems with Complete Connections  . . . 1433--1436
             Donald L. Iglehart   Limit Theorems for Queues with Traffic
                                  Intensity One  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1449
                  Henry Teicher   On Random Sums of Random Vectors . . . . 1450--1458
               Ignacy Kotlarski   On the Generalized Mellin Transform of a
                                  Complex Random Variable and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1459--1467
               G. E. P. Box and   
                 George C. Tiao   Multiparameter Problems From a Bayesian
                                  Point of View  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1468--1482
                   Paul G. Hoel   Optimum Designs for Polynomial
                                  Extrapolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483--1493
                 William Knight   A Method of Sequential Estimation
                                  Applicable to the Hypergeometric,
                                  Binomial, Poisson, and Exponential
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1494--1503
            Britain J. Williams   The Effect of Truncation on Tests of
                                  Hypotheses for Normal Populations  . . . 1504--1510
               C. G. Khatri and   
                K. C. S. Pillai   Some Results on the Non-Central
                                  Multivariate Beta Distribution and
                                  Moments of Traces of Two Matrices  . . . 1511--1520
              William H. Lawton   Some Inequalities for Central and
                                  Non-Central Distributions  . . . . . . . 1521--1525
                H. A. David and   
                   F. W. Wolock   Cyclic Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1526--1534
            Suresh K. Tharthare   Generalized Right Angular Designs  . . . 1535--1553
             James B. Robertson   On a Problem in Non-Linear Prediction
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1554--1555
                  R. E. Strauch   Conditional Expectations of Random
                                  Variables Without Expectations . . . . . 1556--1559
                Eugene Wong and   
                    Moshe Zakai   On the Convergence of Ordinary Integrals
                                  to Stochastic Integrals  . . . . . . . . 1560--1564
                   H. J. Weiner   Asymptotic Properties of an Age
                                  Dependent Branching Process  . . . . . . 1565--1568
                   H. J. Weiner   An Integral Equation in Age Dependent
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 1569--1573
                 D. N. Shanbhag   A Note on Queueing Systems with
                                  Erlangian Service Time Distributions . . 1574--1578
                  J. N. Darroch   An Optimal Property of Principal
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579--1582
                Peter J. Bickel   Correction Notes: Corrections to ``On
                                  Some Asymptotically Non-Parametric
                                  Competitors of Hotelling's $ T^2 $'' . . 1583--1583
                  D. G. Chapman   Correction Notes: Correction to ``A
                                  Comparative Study of Several One-Sided
                                  Goodness-of-Fit Tests''  . . . . . . . . 1583--1583
                Salem H. Khamis   Correction Notes: Correction to ``Some
                                  Basic Properties of the Incomplete Gamma
                                  Function Ratio'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 1584--1584
               M. S. Srivastava   Correction Notes: Correction to Abstract
                                  ``On a Multivariate Slippage Problem''   1584--1584
                Walter L. Smith   Review: Emanuel Parzen,
                                  \booktitleStochastic Processes . . . . . 1585--1591
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1592--1615
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1616--1624
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1624--1625

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 36, Number 6, December, 1965

                  J. Kiefer and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   On a Theorem of Hoel and Levine on
                                  Extrapolation Designs  . . . . . . . . . 1627--1655
       Harald Cramér and   
               M. R. Leadbetter   The Moments of the Number of Crossings
                                  of a Level by a Stationary Normal
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1656--1663
             Bruce McK. Johnson   The Ergodicity of Series Queues with
                                  General Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . 1664--1676
          Howard M. Taylor, III   Markovian Sequential Replacement
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1677--1694
          Václav Dupa\vc   A Dynamic Stochastic Approximation
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1695--1702
                 Frank Proschan   Peakedness of Distributions of Convex
                                  Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1706
              V. P. Godambe and   
                    V. M. Joshi   Admissibility and Bayes Estimation in
                                  Sampling Finite Populations. I . . . . . 1707--1722
                    V. M. Joshi   Admissibility and Bayes Estimation in
                                  Sampling Finite Populations. II  . . . . 1723--1729
                    V. M. Joshi   Admissibility and Bayes Estimation in
                                  Sampling Finite Populations. III . . . . 1730--1742
               J. F. Hannan and   
                J. R. Van Ryzin   Rate of Convergence in the Compound
                                  Decision Problem for Two Completely
                                  Specified Distributions  . . . . . . . . 1743--1752
                 Peter J. Huber   A Robust Version of the Probability
                                  Ratio Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1753--1758
                   Jerome Klotz   Alternative Efficiencies for Signed Rank
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1766
               Harvey J. Arnold   Small Sample Power of the One Sample
                                  Wilcoxon Test for Non-Normal Shift
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1778
          Michael E. Tarter and   
              Virginia A. Clark   Properties of the Median and Other Order
                                  Statistics of Logistic Variates  . . . . 1779--1786
                 Bob E. Ellison   Multivariate-Normal Classification with
                                  Covariances Known  . . . . . . . . . . . 1787--1793
            Govind S. Mudholkar   A Class of Tests with Monotone Power
                                  Functions for Two Problems in
                                  Multivariate Statistical Analysis  . . . 1794--1801
               M. S. Srivastava   Some Tests for the Intraclass
                                  Correlation Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 1802--1806
               S. S. Shrikhande   On a Class of Partially Balanced
                                  Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . 1807--1814
              Junjiro Ogawa and   
                     Goro Ishii   The Relationship Algebra and the
                                  Analysis of Variance of a Partially
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Design . . . . 1815--1828
                 K. S. Banerjee   On Hotelling's Weighing Designs Under
                                  Autocorrelation of Errors  . . . . . . . 1829--1834
            Leonard E. Baum and   
            Patrick Billingsley   Asymptotic Distributions for the Coupon
                                  Collector's Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 1835--1839
               D. L. Hanson and   
                 L. H. Koopmans   Convergence Rates for the Law of Large
                                  Numbers for Linear Combinations of
                                  Exchangeable and $^\ast $-Mixing
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 1840--1852
                   George Burke   A Uniform Ergodic Theorem  . . . . . . . 1853--1858
                   Paul Switzer   A Random Set Process in the Plane with a
                                  Markovian Property . . . . . . . . . . . 1859--1863
                   Norton Starr   On an Operator Limit Theorem of Rota . . 1864--1866
                       J. Sacks   A note on the sequential $t$-test  . . . 1867--1869
                 Adnan F. Ifram   Hypergeometric Functions in Sequential
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1870--1872
                 William Knight   A Lemma for Multiple Inference . . . . . 1873--1874
                    T. Sugiyama   On the Distribution of the Latent
                                  Vectors for Principal Component Analysis 1875--1876
                 M. Bhaskar Rao   A note on incomplete block designs with
                                  $ b = v $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877--1877
              Robert J. Buehler   The Limit of the $n$ th Power of a
                                  Density  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1878--1882
              W. Edwards Deming   Principles of Professional Statistical
                                  Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1883--1900
                 C. B. Bell and   
                   K. A. Doksum   Acknowledgment of Priority: Some New
                                  Distribution-Free Statistics . . . . . . 1901--1901
                   J. J. McCall   Review: Richard E. Barlow, Frank
                                  Proschan, Larry C. Hunter,
                                  \booktitleMathematical Theory of
                                  Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1902--1904
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1905--1907
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1908--1926
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1926--1927


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 37, Number 1, February, 1966

                  E. L. Lehmann   On a Theorem of Bahadur and Goodman  . . 1--6
               Gus W. Haggstrom   Optimal Stopping and Experimental Design 7--29
                Joseph A. Yahav   On Optimal Stopping  . . . . . . . . . . 30--35
                   Norman Starr   The Performance of a Sequential
                                  Procedure for the Fixed-Width Interval
                                  Estimation of the Mean . . . . . . . . . 36--50
                 Robert H. Berk   Limiting Behavior of Posterior
                                  Distributions when the Model is
                                  Incorrect  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--58
                     R. N. Rich   A Statistical Basis for Approximation
                                  and Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--65
               Jerome Sacks and   
               Donald Ylvisaker   Designs for Regression Problems with
                                  Correlated Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . 66--89
                    M. Tainiter   Sequential Hypothesis Tests for
                                  $r$-Dependent Marginally Stationary
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--97
          I. Richard Savage and   
               Milton Sobel and   
               George Woodworth   Fine Structure of the Ordering of
                                  Probabilities of Rank Orders in the Two
                                  Sample Case  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--112
           Peter E. Nüesch   On the Problem of Testing Location in
                                  Multivariate Populations for Restricted
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119
                 C. B. Bell and   
                   K. A. Doksum   ''Optimal'' One-Sample Distribution-Free
                                  Tests and Their Two-Sample Extensions    120--132
                 C. B. Bell and   
                J. M. Moser and   
                  Rory Thompson   Goodness Criteria for Two-Sample
                                  Distribution-Free Tests  . . . . . . . . 133--142
    A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and   
                     Mir M. Ali   Asymptotic Optimum Quantiles for the
                                  Estimation of the Parameters of the
                                  Negative Exponential Distribution  . . . 143--151
                 M. B. Wilk and   
            R. Gnanadesikan and   
                 Elizabeth Lauh   Scale Parameter Estimation from the
                                  Order Statistics of Unequal Gamma
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--176
                     D. C. Boes   On the Estimation of Mixing
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188
                   T. Cacoullos   On a Class of Admissible Partitions  . . 189--195
                   H. S. Konijn   Statistical Reproduction of Orderings
                                  and Translation Subfamilies  . . . . . . 196--202
               Norman Morse and   
             Richard Sacksteder   Statistical Isomorphism  . . . . . . . . 203--214
              A. G. Constantine   The Distribution of Hotelling's
                                  Generalised $ T_0^2 $  . . . . . . . . . 215--225
                 Eugene Dayhoff   Generalized Polykays, an Extension of
                                  Simple Polykays and Bipolykays . . . . . 226--241
              Agnes M. Herzberg   Cylindrically Rotatable Designs  . . . . 242--247
                  S. M. Samuels   On a Chebyshev-Type Inequality for Sums
                                  of Independent Random Variables  . . . . 248--259
               M. R. Leadbetter   On Crossings of Levels and Curves by a
                                  Wide Class of Stochastic Processes . . . 260--267
              David A. Freedman   Equivalence and Singularity for Friedman
                                  Urns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
                  Charles Stone   On Absolutely Continuous Components and
                                  Renewal Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
               Cyrus Derman and   
               Ralph E. Strauch   A Note on Memoryless Rules for
                                  Controlling Sequential Control Processes 276--278
                S. Kullback and   
                  M. A. Khairat   A Note on Minimum Discrimination
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
                W. Molenaar and   
                 W. R. van Zwet   On Mixtures of Distributions . . . . . . 281--283
               Roger A. Shorack   Recursive Generation of the Distribution
                                  of the Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon
                                  $U$-Statistic Under Generalized Lehmann
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--286
                    H. A. David   A Note on ``A $k$-Sample Model in Order
                                  Statistics'' by W. J. Conover  . . . . . 287--288
                    M. V. Menon   Another Characteristic Property of the
                                  Cauchy Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 289--294
                   R. M. Loynes   On Idempotent Matrices . . . . . . . . . 295--296
               Ingram Olkin and   
                   Herman Rubin   Correction Note: Correction to
                                  ``Multivariate Beta Distributions and
                                  Independence Properties of the Wishart
                                  Distribution'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
                  M. Rosenblatt   Review: Richard Bellman,
                                  \booktitleStochastic Processes in
                                  Mathematical Physics and Engineering . . 298--300
                   Harold Ruben   Review: Kenneth S. Miller,
                                  \booktitleMultidimensional Gaussian
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--307
                   G. S. Watson   Review: Frederick Mosteller, David L.
                                  Wallace, \booktitleInference and
                                  Disputed Authorship: The Federalist  . . 308--312
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 313--315
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--318
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 318--319

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 37, Number 2, April, 1966

                    L. A. Shepp   Radon-Nikodým derivatives of Gaussian
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--354
                 A. P. Dempster   New Methods for Reasoning Towards
                                  Posterior Distributions Based on Sample
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374
              David A. Freedman   A Note on Mutual Singularity of Priors   375--381
                     Y. S. Chow   On the Moments of Some One-sided
                                  Stopping Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--387
                 Y. S. Chow and   
                     H. Teicher   On Second Moments of Stopping Rules  . . 388--392
                M. Frank Norman   Limiting Distributions for Some Random
                                  Walks Arising in Learning Models . . . . 393--405
                     S. C. Port   A System of Denumerably Many Transient
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--411
                J. R. Van Ryzin   The Compound Decision Problem with $ m
                                  \times n $ Finite Loss Matrix  . . . . . 412--424
                 Adnan F. Ifram   On the Sample Size and Simplification of
                                  a Class of Sequential Probability Ratio
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--434
              Sylvain Ehrenfeld   On a Minimal Essentially Complete Class
                                  of Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--440
             Friedrich Gebhardt   On the Effect of Stragglers on the Risk
                                  of Some Mean Estimators in Small Samples 441--450
             Dorian Feldman and   
               Howard G. Tucker   Estimation of Non-Unique Quantiles . . . 451--457
                   Arthur Cohen   All Admissible Linear Estimates of the
                                  Mean Vector  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--463
                 Leon J. Gleser   A Note on the Sphericity Test  . . . . . 464--467
                   C. G. Khatri   On Certain Distribution Problems Based
                                  on Positive Definite Quadratic Functions
                                  in Normal Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . 468--479
            Sheldon James Press   Linear Combinations of Non-Central
                                  Chi-Square Variates  . . . . . . . . . . 480--487
               Joseph B. Kadane   Some Equivalence Classes in Paired
                                  Comparisons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--494
                 J. A. Hartigan   Probabilistic Completion of a Knockout
                                  Tournament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--503
                   C. C. Ganser   Infinitely Differentiable Positive
                                  Definite Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 504--508
             Lawrence H. Harper   A Family of Combinatorial Identities . . 509--512
              Harold J. Kushner   A Note on the Maximum Sample Excursions
                                  of Stochastic Approximation Processes    513--516
                  Harry Dym and   
                 Eugene M. Luks   On the Mean Duration of a Ball and Cell
                                  Game; A First Passage Problem  . . . . . 517--521
                      Harry Dym   A Note on Limit Theorems for the Entropy
                                  of Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--524
                Hiralal Agrawal   Some Generalizations of Distinct
                                  Representatives with Applications to
                                  Statistical Designs  . . . . . . . . . . 525--528
                 P. A. P. Moran   Review: N. U. Prabhu, \booktitleQueues
                                  and Inventories  . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--530
             Charlotte Striebel   Review: Norman T. J. Bailey,
                                  \booktitleThe Elements of Stochastic
                                  Processes with Applications to the
                                  Natural Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--531
               Mervin E. Muller   Review: J. M. Hammersley, D. C.
                                  Handscomb, \booktitleMonte Carlo
                                  Methods; Yu. A. Shreider,
                                  \booktitleMethods of Statistical
                                  Testing/Monte Carlo Method . . . . . . . 532--538
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 539--555
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--564
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 564--565

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 37, Number 3, June, 1966

                Dale E. Varberg   Convergence of Quadratic Forms in
                                  Independent Random Variables . . . . . . 567--576
                  R. R. Bahadur   A Note on Quantiles in Large Samples . . 577--580
                  R. H. Farrell   Bounded Length Confidence Intervals for
                                  the $p$-Point of a Distribution
                                  Function, II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--585
                  R. H. Farrell   Bounded Length Confidence Intervals for
                                  the $p$-Point of a Distribution
                                  Function, III  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--592
         P. V. Ramachandramurty   On Some Nonparametric Estimates for
                                  Shift in the Behrens--Fisher Situation   593--610
                   Ryoji Tamura   Multivariate Nonparametric
                                  Several-Sample Tests . . . . . . . . . . 611--618
                   Kjell Doksum   Asymptotically Minimax Distribution-free
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--628
                    V. M. Joshi   Admissibility of Confidence Intervals    629--638
              M. Ray Mickey and   
                Morton B. Brown   Bounds on the Distribution Functions of
                                  the Behrens--Fisher Statistic  . . . . . 639--642
                 R. B. Hora and   
                  R. J. Buehler   Fiducial Theory and Invariant Estimation 643--656
                 Sakti P. Ghosh   Polychotomy Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 657--665
                  G. H. Freeman   Some Non-Orthogonal Partitions of $ 4
                                  \times 4, 5 \times 5 $ and $ 6 \times 6
                                  $ Latin Squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--681
            N. Donald Ylvisaker   On a theorem of Cramér and Leadbetter . . 682--685
              David A. Freedman   On Two Equivalence Relations between
                                  Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686--689
                S. Johansen and   
                      J. Karush   On the Semimartingale Convergence
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--694
                Bernt P. Stigum   A theorem on the Galton--Watson process  695--698
                    C. C. Heyde   Some Renewal Theorems with Application
                                  to a First Passage Problem . . . . . . . 699--710
                 L. H. Koopmans   Convergence Rates for the Law of Large
                                  Numbers for Linear Combinations of
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--719
                   Paul G. Hoel   A Simple Solution for Optimal Chebyshev
                                  Regression Extrapolation . . . . . . . . 720--725
                   J. Wolfowitz   Remark on the Optimum Character of the
                                  Sequential Probability Ratio Test  . . . 726--727
               Lester E. Dubins   A Note on Upcrossings of Semimartingales 728--728
                     N. C. Jain   A Note on Invariant Measures . . . . . . 729--732
           P. R. Krishnaiah and   
                M. Haseeb Rizvi   A Note on Recurrence Relations between
                                  Expected Values of Functions of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--734
                Myles Hollander   An Asymptotically Distribution-free
                                  Multiple Comparison Procedure ---
                                  Treatments vs. Control . . . . . . . . . 735--738
               Hira Lal Agrawal   Comparison of the Bounds of the Number
                                  of Common Treatments between Blocks of
                                  Certain Partially Balanced Incomplete
                                  Block Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--740
                 Tom R. Houston   Sequential counterbalancing in Latin
                                  squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--743
                 Peter W. Zehna   Invariance of Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744--744
              David J. Sakrison   Correction Notes: Correction to ``A
                                  Continuous Kiefer--Wolfowitz Procedure
                                  for Random Processes'' . . . . . . . . . 745--745
                 Robert H. Berk   Correction Notes: Correction to Limiting
                                  Behavior of Posterior Distributions when
                                  the Model is Incorrect . . . . . . . . . 745--746
                 Eugene Dayhoff   Correction Notes: Correction to
                                  ``Generalized Polykays, an Extension of
                                  Simple Polykays and Bipolykays'' . . . . 746--746
                  D. V. Lindley   Review: Richard von Mises, Hilda
                                  Geiringer, \booktitleMathematical Theory
                                  of Probability and Statistics  . . . . . 747--754
                   D. L. Hanson   Review: Klaus Krickeberg,
                                  \booktitleProbability Theory . . . . . . 755--756
                     D. B. Owen   Review: L. N. Bolshev, V. N. Smirnov,
                                  \booktitleMathematical Statistical
                                  Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--758
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 759--775
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 776--781
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 781--781

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 37, Number 4, August, 1966

              Samuel Karlin and   
             William J. Studden   Optimal Experimental Designs . . . . . . 783--815
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                J. D. Esary and   
                 A. W. Marshall   A Stochastic Characterization of
                                  Wear-out for Components and Systems  . . 816--825
               Siv Carlsson and   
                  Ulf Grenander   Some Properties of Statistical
                                  Reliability Functions  . . . . . . . . . 826--836
           Lester E. Dubins and   
              David A. Freedman   Invariant Probabilities for Certain
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--848
               J. R. Kinney and   
                  T. S. Pitcher   Dimensional Properties of a Random
                                  Distribution Function on the Square  . . 849--854
          Walter A. Rosenkrantz   A Local Limit Theorem for a Certain
                                  Class of Random Walks  . . . . . . . . . 855--859
                  R. H. Farrell   Limit theorems for stopped random walks.
                                  II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860--865
                 Julian Keilson   A Limit Theorem for Passage Times in
                                  Ergodic Regenerative Processes . . . . . 866--870
               Ralph E. Strauch   Negative Dynamic Programming . . . . . . 871--890
           Aaron S. Goldman and   
                  R. K. Zeigler   Comparisons of Some Two Stage Sampling
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--897
                      A. Levine   A Problem in Minimax Variance Polynomial
                                  Extrapolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898--903
                Saul Blumenthal   Contributions to Sample Spacings Theory,
                                  I: Limit Distributions of Sums of Ratios
                                  of Spacings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904--924
                Saul Blumenthal   Contributions to Sample Spacings Theory,
                                  II: Tests of the Parametric Goodness of
                                  Fit and Two-sample Problems  . . . . . . 925--939
         P. V. Ramachandramurty   On the Pitman Efficiency of One-sided
                                  Kolmogorov and Smirnov Tests for Normal
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940--944
           George E. Haynam and   
          Zakkula Govindarajulu   Exact Power of Mann--Whitney Test for
                                  Exponential and Rectangular Alternatives 945--953
                   J. Van Ryzin   The Sequential Compound Decision Problem
                                  with $ m \times n $ Finite Loss Matrix   954--975
                   J. Van Ryzin   Repetitive Play in Finite Statistical
                                  Games with Unknown Distributions . . . . 976--994
                    T. Sugiyama   On the Distribution of the Largest
                                  Latent Root and the Corresponding Latent
                                  Vector for Principal Component Analysis  995--1001
                     B. K. Shah   On the Bivariate Moments of Order
                                  Statistics from a Logistic Distribution  1002--1010
          Zakkula Govindarajulu   Characterization of Normal and
                                  Generalized Truncated Normal
                                  Distributions Using Order Statistics . . 1011--1015
                     S. M. Shah   On the Block Structure of Certain
                                  Partially Balanced Incomplete Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016--1020
                 K. S. Banerjee   Singularity in Hotelling's Weighing
                                  Designs and a Generalized Inverse  . . . 1021--1032
             K. S. Banerjee and   
                  W. T. Federer   On Estimation and Construction in
                                  Fractional Replication . . . . . . . . . 1033--1039
                  Charles Stone   The Growth of a Recurrent Random Walk    1040--1041
                   Ashok Maitra   A Note on Undiscounted Dynamic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042--1044
              M. T. Subrahmanya   A Note on a Biased Estimator in Sampling
                                  with Probability Proportional to Size
                                  with Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1047
            Damaraju Raghavarao   Duals of Partially Balanced Incomplete
                                  Block Designs and some Nonexistence
                                  Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048--1052
                Leon Jay Gleser   Correction Note: Correction to ``On the
                                  Asymptotic Theory of Fixed-Size
                                  Sequential Confidence Bounds for Linear
                                  Regression Parameters''  . . . . . . . . 1053--1055
                Herman Chernoff   Review: Dennis V. Lindley, Introduction
                                  to Probability and Statistics from a
                                  Bayesian Viewpoint, \booktitleVols. 1
                                  and 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056--1059
                     F. Spitzer   Review: K. Ito, H. P. Mc Kean,
                                  \booktitleDiffusion Processes and their
                                  Sample Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060--1062
                  W. J. LeVeque   Review: J. Kubilius, Gretchen Burgie,
                                  Susan Schuur, \booktitleProbabilistic
                                  Methods in the Theory of Numbers . . . . 1063--1065
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1066--1078
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1085
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1085--1086

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 37, Number 5, October, 1966

           Lawrence David Brown   On the Admissibility of Invariant
                                  Estimators of One or More Location
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1136
                  E. L. Lehmann   Some Concepts of Dependence  . . . . . . 1137--1153
          I. Richard Savage and   
                  J. Sethuraman   Stopping Time of a Rank-Order Sequential
                                  Probability Ratio Test Based on Lehmann
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1154--1160
               W. Schaafsma and   
                     L. J. Smid   Most Stringent Somewhere Most Powerful
                                  Tests Against Alternatives Restricted by
                                  a Number of Linear Inequalities  . . . . 1161--1172
                   Norman Starr   On the Asymptotic Efficiency of a
                                  Sequential Procedure for Estimating the
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1185
                 Om P. Aggarwal   Bayes and Minimax Procedures for
                                  Estimating the Arithmetic Mean of a
                                  Population with Two-stage Sampling . . . 1186--1195
                  Z. Kander and   
                       S. Zacks   Test Procedures for Possible Changes in
                                  Parameters of Statistical Distributions
                                  Occurring at Unknown Time Points . . . . 1196--1210
                  H. Kesten and   
                   B. P. Stigum   A Limit Theorem for Multidimensional
                                  Galton--Watson Processes . . . . . . . . 1211--1223
          Millu Rosenblatt-Roth   Some Limit Theorems for Non-homogeneous
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1224--1236
             Eugene R. Rodemich   Spectral Estimates Using Nonlinear
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237--1256
               John W. Van Ness   Asymptotic Normality of Bispectral
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257--1272
               Robert H. Rodine   Perfect Probability Measures and Regular
                                  Conditional Probabilities  . . . . . . . 1273--1278
                  Tim Robertson   A Representation for Conditional
                                  Expectations Given $ \sigma $-Lattices   1279--1283
         Arthur F. Veinott, Jr.   On Finding Optimal Policies in Discrete
                                  Dynamic Programming with No Discounting  1284--1294
              Michael Woodroofe   Statistical Properties of the Number of
                                  Positive Sums  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295--1304
                J. L. Allen and   
                  J. A. Beekman   A Statistical Test Involving a Random
                                  Number of Random Variables . . . . . . . 1305--1311
               C. G. Khatri and   
                K. C. S. Pillai   On the Moments of the Trace of a Matrix
                                  and Approximations to Its Non-Central
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312--1318
                   P. C. Consul   On the Exact Distributions of the
                                  Likelihood Ratio Criteria for Testing
                                  Linear Hypotheses About Regression
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319--1330
              Vida L. Greenberg   Robust Estimation in Incomplete Blocks
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1337
            Frank B. Martin and   
                 George Zyskind   On Combinability of Information from
                                  Uncorrelated Linear Models by Simple
                                  Weighting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338--1347
              R. G. Stanton and   
                   R. C. Mullin   Inductive Methods for Balanced
                                  Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . 1348--1354
              Esther Seiden and   
                    Rita Zemach   On Orthogonal Arrays . . . . . . . . . . 1355--1370
                 M. Bhaskar Rao   Weighing designs when $n$ is odd . . . . 1371--1381
                       S. Zacks   Randomized Fractional Weighing Designs   1382--1395
                   D. G. Austin   A Sample Function Property of
                                  Martingales  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1396--1397
                  C. H. Kapadia   On the Block Structure of Singular Group
                                  Divisible Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . 1398--1400
             C. Ramankutty Nair   On Partially Linked Block Designs  . . . 1401--1406
                  John W. Pratt   Acknowledgment of Priority: On
                                  Interchanging Limits and Integrals . . . 1407--1407
               Ronald K. Getoor   Review: E. B. Dynkin, J. Fabins, V.
                                  Greenberg, A. Maitra, G. Majone,
                                  \booktitleMarkov Processes, Volumes I
                                  and II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1408--1409
                      Peter Ney   Review: W. Smith, W. Wilkinson,
                                  \booktitleProceedings of Symposium on
                                  Congestion Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . 1410--1411
                David Middleton   Review: Ralph Deutsch,
                                  \booktitleEstimation Theory  . . . . . . 1412--1413
                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Papers  . . . . . . . . . . 1414--1433
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1434--1436
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1436--1437

Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 37, Number 6, December, 1966

                Ronald Pyke and   
               Ronald Schaufele   The Existence and Uniqueness of
                                  Stationary Measures for Markov Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1439--1462
                  H. Kesten and   
                   B. P. Stigum   Additional Limit Theorems for
                                  Indecomposable Multidimensional
                                  Galton--Watson Processes . . . . . . . . 1463--1481
                     Y. S. Chow   Some Convergence Theorems for
                                  Independent Random Variables . . . . . . 1482--1493
               D. L. Burkholder   Martingale Transforms  . . . . . . . . . 1494--1504
           Lester E. Dubins and   
              David A. Freedman   On the Expected Value of a Stopped
                                  Martingale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1505--1509
                  R. H. Farrell   Limit theorems for stopped random walks.
                                  III  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1510--1527
                  D. Newton and   
                       W. Parry   On a Factor Automorphism of a Normal
                                  Dynamical System . . . . . . . . . . . . 1528--1533
                   J. H. Venter   On Dvoretzky Stochastic Approximation
                                  Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1534--1544
                   Cyrus Derman   Denumerable State Markovian Decision
                                  Processes-Average Cost Criterion . . . . 1545--1553
            Leonard E. Baum and   
                     Ted Petrie   Statistical Inference for Probabilistic
                                  Functions of Finite State Markov Chains  1554--1563
                  M. T. Boswell   Estimating and Testing Trend in a
                                  Stochastic Process of Poisson Type . . . 1564--1573
          Richard E. Barlow and   
                 Frank Proschan   Inequalities for Linear Combinations of
                                  Order Statistics from Restricted
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574--1592
          Richard E. Barlow and   
                 Frank Proschan   Tolerance and Confidence Limits for
                                  Classes of Distributions Based on
                                  Failure Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593--1601
                  Arthur Albert   Fixed Size Confidence Ellipsoids for
                                  Linear Regression Parameters . . . . . . 1602--1630
               Hirokichi Kud\=o   On the Property (W) of the Class of
                                  Statistical Decision Functions . . . . . 1631--1642
                   Wayne Nelson   Minimax Solution of Statistical Decision
                                  Problems by Iteration  . . . . . . . . . 1643--1657
                    V. M. Joshi   Admissibility and Bayes Estimation in
                                  Sampling Finite Populations-IV . . . . . 1658--1670
                J. K. Ghosh and   
                 Rajinder Singh   Unbiased Estimation of Location and
                                  Scale Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671--1675
                    C. Villegas   On the Asymptotic Efficiency of Least
                                  Squares Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 1676--1683
           J. Tiago de Oliveira   Quasi-Linearly Invariant Prediction  . . 1684--1687
                       S. Zacks   Sequential Estimation of the Mean of a
                                  Log-Normal Distribution Having a
                                  Prescribed Proportional Closeness  . . . 1688--1696
                   Kumar Jogdeo   On Randomized Rank Score Procedures of
                                  Bell and Doksum  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1697--1703
          William D. Lawing and   
                    H. T. David   Likelihood Ratio Computations of
                                  Operating Characteristics  . . . . . . . 1704--1716
        A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh   Estimation of the Parameters of the
                                  Exponential Distribution Based on
                                  Optimum Order Statistics in Censored
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1735
            Govind S. Mudholkar   On Confidence Bounds Associated with
                                  Multivariate Analysis of Variance and
                                  Non-Independence Between Two Sets of
                                  Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1736--1746
                     Dana Quade   On Analysis of Variance for the
                                  $K$-Sample Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1747--1758
               Pranab Kumar Sen   On a Distribution-free Method of
                                  Estimating Asymptotic Efficiency of a
                                  Class of Non-parametric Tests  . . . . . 1759--1770
     Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee   A Bivariate Sign Test for Location . . . 1771--1782
                  Esther Seiden   A Note on Construction of Partially
                                  Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with
                                  Parameters $ v = 28 $, $ n_1 = 12 $, $
                                  n_2 = 15 $, and $ p^2_{11} = 4 $ . . . . 1783--1789
             Gordon B. Crawford   Characterization of Geometric and
                                  Exponential Distributions  . . . . . . . 1790--1795
                Thomas M. Cover   The Probability that a Random Game is
                                  Unfair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1796--1799
                    J. L. Denny   Convergence Properties of Convergence
                                  with Probability One . . . . . . . . . . 1800--1802
                 Ragnar Ericson   On Moments of Cumulative Sums  . . . . . 1803--1805
               Howard J. Weiner   Monotone Convergence of Moments in Age
                                  Dependent Branching Processes  . . . . . 1806--1808
             Richard Morton and   
                M. Raghavachari   On a Theorem of Karlin Regarding
                                  Admissibility of Linear Estimates in
                                  Exponential Populations  . . . . . . . . 1809--1813
                  Terrence Fine   On the Hodges and Lehmann Shift
                                  Estimator in the Two Sample Problem  . . 1814--1818
             P. K. Bhattacharya   Estimating the Mean of a Multivariate
                                  Normal Population with General Quadratic
                                  Loss Function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819--1824
                      F. Eicker   A Multivariate Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Random Linear Vector Forms . . . . . . . 1825--1828
                    V. Seshadri   A Characteristic Property of the
                                  Multivariate Normal Distribution . . . . 1829--1831
                    V. Seshadri   Comparison of Combined Estimators in
                                  Balanced Incomplete Blocks . . . . . . . 1832--1835
                 K. S. Banerjee   On Non-randomized Fractional Weighing
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836--1841
               Peter W. M. John   On Identity Relationships for $ 2_{n -
                                  r} $ Designs Having Words of Equal
                                  Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842--1843
                  D. Vere-Jones   Note on a Theorem of Kingman and a
                                  Theorem of Chung . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844--1846
                    S. N. Singh   Correction Note: Correction to Abstract
                                  ``A Test of Inflation in Poisson
                                  Distribution'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847--1847
                   N. U. Prabhu   Review: D. R. Cox, H. D. Miller,
                                  \booktitleThe Theory of Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848--1851
                   E. J. Hannan   Review: D. R. Cox, P. A. W. Lewis,
                                  \booktitleThe Statistical Analysis of
                                  Series of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852--1853
                   Cyrus Derman   Review: G. De Leve,
                                  \booktitleGeneralized Markovian Decision
                                  Processes --- Parts I and II . . . . . . 1854--1855
                   Frank Knight   Review: Paul A. Meyer,
                                  \booktitleProbability and Potentials . . 1856--1857
                      Anonymous   Abstracts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858--1866
                      Anonymous   News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867--1887
                      Anonymous   Publications Received  . . . . . . . . . 1887--1888


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 38, Number 1, February, 1967

              David A. Freedman   Some Invariance Principles for
                                  Functionals of a Markov Chain  . . . . . 1--7
                  R. A. Wijsman   General Proof of Termination with
                                  Probability One of Invariant Sequential
                                  Probability Ratio Tests Based on
                                  Multivariate Normal Observations . . . . 8--24
               Simeon M. Berman   An Occupation Time Theorem for the
                                  Angular Component of Plane Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--31
                R. P. Boas, Jr.   Lipschitz Behavior and Integrability of
                                  Characteristic Functions . . . . . . . . 32--36
                Leon E. Borgman   Random Hydrodynamic Forces on Objects    37--51
            Herman Chernoff and   
        Joseph L. Gastwirth and   
               M. V. Johns, Jr.   Asymptotic Distribution of Linear
                                  Combinations of Functions of Order
                                  Statistics with Applications to
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--72
               P. J. Bickel and   
              J. L. Hodges, Jr.   The Asymptotic Theory of Galton's Test
                                  and a Related Simple Estimate of
                                  Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--89
                K. L. Mehra and   
                     J. Sarangi   Asymptotic Efficiency of Certain Rank
                                  Tests for Comparative Experiments  . . . 90--107
                Saul Blumenthal   Limit Theorems for Functions of Shortest
                                  Two-Sample Spacings and a Related Test   108--116
                 Edward Paulson   Sequential Procedures for Selecting the
                                  Best One of Several Binomial Populations 117--123
                Morris L. Eaton   Some Optimum Properties of Ranking
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--137
                   Paul Switzer   Reconstructing Patterns from Sample Data 138--154
               Morris Skibinsky   Adequate Subfields and Sufficiency . . . 155--161
                 M. M. Siddiqui   A bivariate $t$ distribution . . . . . . 162--166
              Agnes M. Herzberg   Cylindrically Rotatable Designs of Types
                                  $1$, $2$ and $3$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176
              Agnes M. Herzberg   A Method for the Construction of Second
                                  Order Rotatable Designs in $k$
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
                   J. H. Venter   An extension of the Robbins--Monro
                                  procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--190
           Václav Fabian   Stochastic Approximation of Minima with
                                  Improved Asymptotic Speed  . . . . . . . 191--200
                  J. W. Carlyle   Identification of State-calculable
                                  Functions of Finite Markov Chains  . . . 201--205
        Frederick W. Leysieffer   Functions of Finite Markov Chains  . . .