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Volume 1, Number 1, April, 1959P. C. Wickens The Australian Journal of Statistics . . 1--2 H. Campion A Congratulatory Message from the Royal Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 2--2 F. G. Jarrett Estimation of Resource Productivities As Illustrated by a Survey of the Lower Murray Valley Dairying Area . . . . . . 3--11 M. A. Hanson A Problem in Economic Allocation of Effort in Fault Detection . . . . . . . 12--18 H. O. Lancaster Generation Life Tables for Australia . . 19--33 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
G. M. Tallis Sampling Errors of Genetic Correlation Coefficients Calculated from Analyses of Variance and Covariance . . . . . . . . 35--43 H. Weiler Note on Harmonic and Geometric Means . . 44--46 P. A. P. Moran The Power of a Cross-Over Test for the Artificial Stimulation of Rain . . . . . 47--52 H. O. Lancaster Zero Correlation and Independence . . . 53--56 H. S. Konijn Basing Decisions on an Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--72
H. Weiller Means and Standard Deviations of a Truncated Normal Bivariate Distribution 73--81 H. S. Konijn Models Used in Statistical Studies of Relations Between Uncontrolled Variables 82--93 D. P. Sharp The Role of Research in a Firm's Decision to Enter a Market and in Its Subsequent Operations . . . . . . . . . 94--99 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
E. J. Hannan The Estimation of Seasonal Variation . . 1--15 H. S. Konjin Multiple Comparison with Controls . . . 16--18 A. G. L. Elliott Calibration of a Flip Tester . . . . . . 19--31 E. A. Cornish Fiducial Limits for Parameters in Compound Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . 32--40 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
M. A. Hanson Errors and Stochastic Variations in Linear Programming . . . . . . . . . . . 41--46 H. S. Konijn Some Remarks on Regression Analysis with Uncontrolled Regressors . . . . . . . . 47--52 G. N. Wilkinson Comparison of Missing Value Procedures 53--65 G. M. Tallis The Sampling Errors of Estimated Genetic Regression Coefficients and the Errors of Predicted Genetic Gains . . . . . . . 66--77 Milo\vs Jílek and Otakar Líka\vr Tolerance Limits of the Normal Distribution with Known Variance and Unknown Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83 J. C. H. Dewdney A Note on Seasonal Swings in Mortality in Australia, 1861--1955 . . . . . . . . 84--90 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
H. O. Lancaster Mortality at Young Adult Ages --- a Relative Maximum . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96 F. H. W. Morley An Effect of Genotype X Environment Interactions on Estimation of Genotypic Covariances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101 C. E. V. Leser Demand Functions for Nine Commodity Groups in Australia . . . . . . . . . . 102--113 P. C. Wickens Abridged Life Tables for the Australian States, 1953--1955 . . . . . . . . . . . 114--121 A. M. W. Verhagen Growth Curves and Their Functional Form 122--127 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130 Anonymous Short Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
D. J. Finney and M. R. Sampford The Comparison of Linear Regressions for Sets of Correlated Variates . . . . . . 1--19 H. O. Lancaster The Combination of Probabilities: an Application of Orthonormal Functions . . 20--33 Anonymous Short Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous Editorial Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Eve Bofinger and V. J. Bofinger A Runs Test for Sequences of Random Digits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--41 G. Gregory Contingency Tables with a Dependent Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47 P. J. Claringbold The Use of Orthogonal Polynomials in the Partition of Chi-Square . . . . . . . . 48--63 M. A. Hanson A Duality Theorem in Non-Linear Programming with Non-Linear Constraints 64--72 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--75 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
H. S. Konijn Non-Parametric, Robust and Short-Cut Methods in Regression and Structural Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--87 P. A. P. Moran Path Coefficients Reconsidered . . . . . 87--93 G. H. Jowett The Analysis of Continuously Generated Time Series Date of the Type Produced by Recording Instruments . . . . . . . . . 94--107 G. N. Wilkinson The Eighth Moment and Cumulant of the Distribution for Normal Samples of the Skewness Coefficient $ \gamma = k_3 k_2^{-3 / 2} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--114 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
A. W. Beattie Truncation in Two Variates to Maximize a Function of the Means of a Normal Multivariate Distribution . . . . . . . 1--3 J. S. Maritz Confidence Regions for Regression Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--10 L. R. Saunders The Prediction of a Random Time Series Affected by a Prescribed Time Function 11--24 M. A. Hamdan The Powers of Certain Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--40 Sir Ronald A. Fisher Confidence Limits for a Cross-Product Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
G. M. Tallis and S. S. Y. Young Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Parameters of the Normal, Log-Normal, Truncated Normal and Bivariate Normal Distributions from Grouped Data . . . . 49--54 J. Gani and G. F. Yeo On the Age Distribution of $n$ Ranked Elements After Several Replacements . . 55--60 L. N. Balaam and R. D. Hunter The Analysis of a Series of Wheat Varietal Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--70 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
L. R. Saunders The Dynamics of a Simple Non-Linear Prediction System . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85 R. W. Bennett Sizes of the $ \chi^2 $ Test in the Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . 86--88 K. R. W. Brewer and G. C. Udny Samples of Two Units Drawn with Unequal Probabilities Without Replacement . . . 89--100 S. K. Bhattacharya On a Probit Analogue Used in a Life-Test Based on the Weibull Distribution . . . 101--105 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--110
W. J. Ewens Two Asymptotic Results in Sequential Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 K. R. W. Brewer A Model of Systematic Sampling with Unequal Probabilities . . . . . . . . . 5--13 M. A. Hanson An Algorithm for Convex Programming . . 14--19 V. K. Sethi A Note on Optimum Stratification of Populations for Estimating the Population Means . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--33 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35 P. A. P. Moran The Australian Statistical Society . . . 36--36 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Anonymous Note on Editorial Policy: Note on Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i A. M. W. Verhagen The ``Caution-Level'' in Multiple Tests of Significance . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48 B. D. Craven Some Results for the Bulk Service Queue 49--56 D. N. Shanbhag On Queues with Poisson Service Time . . 57--61 L. N. Balaam Multiple Comparisons --- a Sampling Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--84 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
K. R. W. Brewer Ratio Estimation and Finite Populations: Some Results Deducible from the Assumption of an Underlying Stochastic Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105 J. N. K. Rao and G. Tintner On the Variate Difference Method . . . . 106--116 Alan Powell Serial Dependence in Annual Demands for Fodder Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--124 N. S. Stenhouse Errata and Addendum . . . . . . . . . . 125--126 B. S. Niven The Joint Distribution of the Sample Mean and the Sample Range . . . . . . . 127--132 L. H. Day A Note on the Measurement of Divorce, with Special Reference to Australian Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142 H. S. Konijn Note on the Non-Existence of a Maximum Likelihood Estimate . . . . . . . . . . 143--146 Peter W. M. John Extended Complete Block Designs . . . . 147--152 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--159 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
T. W. Anderson Some Approaches to the Statistical Analysis of Time Series . . . . . . . . 1--11 P. J. Staff The Displaced Poisson Distribution . . . 12--20 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
J. A. Lambert Estimation of Parameters in the Three-Parameter Lognormal Distribution 29--32 H. O. Lancaster Bibliography of Vital Statistics in Australia and New Zealand . . . . . . . 33--99 Anonymous Honorary Life Member . . . . . . . . . . 100--100 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--107 Anonymous Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Eve Bofinger Variance-Covariance Formulae and Estimation for Markov Chains . . . . . . 109--116 Jean M. Williams and H. Weiler Further Charts for the Means of Truncated Normal Bivariate Distributions 117--129 M. A. Hamdan A Smooth Test of Goodness of Fit Based on the Walsh Functions . . . . . . . . . 130--136 B. D. Haig Letter To The Editor: Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
Victor Chew Effects of Correlated Errors on Variate-Difference Estimates of Error Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 C. R. Heathcote Random Walks and a Price Support Scheme 7--14 U. N. Bhat Customer Overflow in Queues with Finite Waiting Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--19 V. J. Bofinger The $k$-Sample Slippage Problem . . . . 20--31 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32 Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia: The Statistical Society of Australia . . 33--36
D. Kerridge A Probabilistic Derivation of the Non-Central $ \chi^2 $ Distribution . . 37--39 H. O. Lancaster and T. A. I. Brown Sizes of the $ \chi^2 $ Test in the Symmetrical Multinomials . . . . . . . . 40--44 D. Singh and B. D. Singh Some Contributions to Two-Phase Sampling 45--47 D. N. Shanbhag On the Asymptotic Behaviour of a Single-Server Queue . . . . . . . . . . 48--53 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Eve Bofinger and V. J. Bofinger The Correlation of Maxima in Samples Drawn from a Bivariate Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--61 C. A. Wilkins Some Remarks on a Certain Process . . . 62--66 Leon L. Wegge Identifiability Criteria for a System of Equations As a Whole . . . . . . . . . . 67--77 M. L. Tiku Series Expansions for the Doubly Non-Central $F$-Distribution . . . . . . 78--89 Kanti Swarup Some Aspects of Linear Fractional Functionals Programming . . . . . . . . 90--104 P. R. Krishnaiah Simultaneous Tests for the Equality of Variances Against Certain Alternatives 105--109 J. Robinson The Distribution of a General Quadratic Form in Normal Variates . . . . . . . . 110--114 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114 H. O. Lancaster Symmetry in Multivariate Distributions 115--126 G. P. B. Bhattacharjee Distribution of Range in Non-Normal Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--141 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--150
P. A. P. Moran Estimation from Inequalities . . . . . . 1--8 D. R. McNeil Grouping Corrections for Sequential Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21 D. G. Kabe Some Results for the Normal Multivariate Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27 A. D. Joffe A Note on the Number of Dust Particles in a Sample of Air-Borne Mine Dust . . . 28--31 M. S. Holla Notes: Bayesian Estimates of the Reliability Function . . . . . . . . . . 32--35 Anonymous News And Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37 Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia: Annual Report of the Central Council for 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
D. Vere-Jones Simple Stochastic Models for the Release of Quanta of Transmitter from a Nerve Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--63 N. T. Drane Fuel and Power Price Indexes, Australian Manufacturing, 1908--9 to 1960--61 . . . 64--79 G. Rai Cumulative Sum Control Charts for Truncated Normal Distributions . . . . . 80--86 D. G. Kabe Complex Analogues of Some Results in Classical Normal Multivariate Regression Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--91 E. Seneta Quasi-Stationary Behaviour in the Random Walk with Continuous Time . . . . . . . 92--98 D. G. Kabe Complex Analogues of Some Classical Noncentral Multivariate Distributions 99--103 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--115
H. O. Lancaster Forerunners of the Pearson $ \chi^2 $ 117--126 J. W. James Incomplete Sampling for Selection of a Fixed Proportion . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137 Charles Price Australian Migration Statistics, 1959--65 (with special reference to Settler Gain and Loss) . . . . . . . . . 138--153 H. C. Jain An Inventory Problem Applied to a Rental Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--162 E. Cinlar Decomposition of a Semi-Markov Process Under a Markovian Rule . . . . . . . . . 163--170 Anonymous Honorary Life Member . . . . . . . . . . 171--172 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--179 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
E. Seneta On Imbedding Discrete Chains in Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 M. S. Avadhani and B. V. Sukhatme Controlled Sampling with Varying Probabilities with and Without Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--15 S. Subba Rao The Effect of Postponable Interruptions on a M/G/1 System with Impatient Customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--34 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34 Eliyahu Scheinberg The Sampling Variance of the Relative Efficiency of Indirect to Direct Selection When Using Variance-Covariance Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40 Anonymous Honorary Life Member . . . . . . . . . . 41--41 Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia: Annual Report of the Central Council for 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
M. L. Tiku A Note on Estimating the Location and Scale Parameters of the Exponential Distribution from a Censored Sample . . 49--54 S. John Estimators for the Comparison of Sampling Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56 M. S. Chikkagoudar Sampling with Preliminary Random Stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70 W. Dent A Model for the Allocation of Sales Dates to Australian Wool Selling Centres 71--81 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--88 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Yu. V. Linnik On Certain Connections Between Algebraic Geometry and Statistics . . . . . . . . 89--92 E. Seneta On the Maxima of Absorbing Markov Chains 93--102 D. F. Nicholls Estimation of the Spectral Density Function When Testing for a Jump in the Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--108 M. S. Chikkagoudar On PPS Sampling with and Without Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--118 G. K. Eagleson and H. O. Lancaster The Regression System of Sums with Random Elements in Common . . . . . . . 120--125 J. Robinson and L. N. Balaam Variance Heterogeneity and Error Correlation in Factorial Experiments . . 126--130 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132 Anonymous The Australian Journal of Statistics Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
M. S. Avadhani and B. V. Sukhatme Simplified Procedures for Designing Controlled Simple Random Sampling . . . 1--7 Erhan Çinlar Some Joint Distributions for Markov Renewal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 8--20 D. G. Kabe On the Distribution of the Regression Coefficient Matrix of a Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23 B. N. Nagnur Asymptotically Optimal Sequential Tests for Simple and Composite Hypotheses . . 24--30 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--40 D. W. Maitland Sir Stanley Carver 1897--1967 . . . . . 41--43 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43 Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia: Annual Report of the Central Council for 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47 Anonymous The Australian Journal of Statistics Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
M. A. Hamdan The Variance of the Components of Chi-Square in Contingency Tables . . . . 49--55 S. G. Prabhu-Ajgaonkar The Theory of Univariate Sampling on Successive Occasions Under the General Correlation Pattern . . . . . . . . . . 56--63 M. L. Tiku Estimating the Parameters of Normal and Logistic Distributions from Censored Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--74 M. N. Das and A. C. Kulshreshtha On Derivation of Initial Blocks of B.I.B. Designs with More Than One Initial Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82 H. O. Lancaster The Median of $ \chi $ . . . . . . . . . 83--83 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--102 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103 Anonymous 37th Session of the International Statistical Institute . . . . . . . . . 103--104 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
S. R. Kulkarni On the Optimal Asymptotic Tests for the Effects of Cloud Seeding on Rainfall (1). The Case of Fixed Effects . . . . . 105--115 P. R. Krishnaiah and P. K. Pathak A Note on Confidence Bounds for Certain Ratios of Characteristic Roots of Covariance Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 116--119 N. E. Day The Use of Taylor Series in Sequential Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--124 A. M. W. Verhagen A Perspective in Statistical Inference 125--137 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--143 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143 Anonymous The Australian Journal of Statistics Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
S. L. Mehndiratta A Generalization of a Theorem of Sinha on Supports of a Convex Function . . . . 1--6 D. F. Nicholls Testing for a Jump in Co-Spectra . . . . 7--13 Robert Bartoszynski and Howard D'Abrera A Model of Age-Dependent Inheritance . . 14--28 G. K. Eagleson A Characterization Theorem for Positive Definite Sequences on the Krawtchouk Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--38 S. R. Kulkarni On the Optimal Asymptotic Tests for the Effects of Cloud Seeding on Rainfall (2). The Case of Variable Effects . . . 39--51 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58 Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
D. Singh and O. P. Kathuria On Two-Stage Successive Sampling . . . . 59--66 D. Vere-Jones Some Limit Theorems for Evanescent Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78 C. G. Khatri and M. C. Jaiswal Testing the Equality of Parameters in the Distributions When the Range Depends Upon the Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84 P. Mandl and E. Seneta The Theory of Non-Negative Matrices in a Dynamic Programming Problem . . . . . . 85--96 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--103 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105 Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia: Annual Report of the Central Council for 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--109 Anonymous The Australian Journal of Statistics Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
C. A. McGilchrist Testing for Plant Competition . . . . . 111--119 John E. Walsh Sample Sizes for Approximate Independence Between Sample Median and Largest (Or Smallest) Order Statistic 120--122 P. D. Praetz Australian Share Prices and the Random Walk Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--139 T. P. Tripathi A Regression-Type Estimator in Sampling with PPS and with Replacement . . . . . 140--148 M. L. Tiku Doubly Non-Central $t$ Distribution . . 149--154 M. S. Chikkagoudar Inverse Sampling Without Replacement . . 155--165 M. P. Quine and E. Seneta A Limit Theorem for the Galton--Watson Process with Immigration . . . . . . . . 166--173 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--178
V. J. Bofinger The Correlation of Maxima in Several Bivariate Non-Normal Distributions . . . 1--7 Gordon P. Wright Some Optimal Ordering Policies for Inventory Systems with Stochastic Lead Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--12 D. R. Jensen The Joint Distribution of Quadratic Forms and Related Distributions . . . . 13--22 Surendra K. Srivastava A Two-Phase Sampling Estimator in Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--27 P. M. Wu A Note on Storage with Deterministic Outputs and Inputs Subject to Breakdown 28--32 J. A. Lambert Estimation of Parameters in the Four-Parameter Lognormal Distribution 33--43 E. G. Enns A Stochastic Superposition Process and an Integral Inequality for Distributions with Monotone Hazard Rates . . . . . . . 44--49 N. E. Day A Numerical Study of Some Sequential Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57 A. M. Kshirsagar and Y. P. Gupta Distribution of the Number of Markovian Renewals in an Arbitrary Interval . . . 58--63 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Peter W. M. John A Three-Quarter Fraction of the $ 4^3 $ Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77 A. H. Pollard Some Hypothetical Models in Systems of Tertiary Education . . . . . . . . . . . 78--91 A. H. Pollard Minimum Rate of Progress Formulae at Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--103 A. Grassia Optimum Allocation in Multi-Way Classifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--111 Robert L. Heiny and M. M. Siddiqui Estimation of the Parameters of a Normal Distribution When the Mean Is Restricted to an Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--117 Tran Van Hoa Notes on the Estimation of the CES Production Function by Planar Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--123 Anonymous Corrigenda: A Regression-type Estimator in Sampling with PPS and with Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131 Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia: Annual Report of the Central Council for 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
C. A. McGilchrist and A. G. L. Elliott Generalized Inverses in Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140 J. L. Roughan and H. H. Evans Editing Time Series . . . . . . . . . . 141--149 A. M. Hasofer On the Derivative and the Upcrossings of the Rayleigh Process . . . . . . . . . . 150--151 Umesh D. Naik Bayesian Comparisons of the Origins of Translated Exponential Distributions . . 152--159 W. D. Wallis A Constuction for Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . 160--161 R. C. Griffiths Positive Definite Sequences and Canonical Correlation Coefficients . . . 162--165 A. C. Kulshreshtha and A. Dey A New Weighing Design . . . . . . . . . 166--168 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
N. L. Johnson Comparison of Some Tests of Sample Censoring of Extreme Values . . . . . . 1--6 Anonymous The Effects of Variations in the Components of Change on the Size and Structure of the Australian Population: 1911--66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--18 K. C. Kakwani The Bias of the Three-Stage Least-Squares Estimators in Simultaneous Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--26 B. C. Griffiths Orthogonal Polynomials on the Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . 27--35 H. O. Lancaster The Multiplicative Definition of Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--44 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
C. E. Salmond The Estimation of Parameters of a Model Which are Implicitly Defined from their Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63 P. P. Preston Estimating the Mixing Distribution by Piece-Wise Polynomial Arcs . . . . . . . 64--76 Mary H. Begier and M. A. Hamdan Correlation in a Bivariate Normal Distribution with Truncation in Both Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--82 Jeffrey J. Hunter Further Studies on Two Queues in Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--93 Richard J. Cowan A Road with no Overtaking . . . . . . . 94--116 Anonymous Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
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H. O. Lancaster Bibliography of Vital Statistics in Australia: a Second List . . . . . . . . 1--25 Anonymous Corrigenda To Original Bibliography . . 26--26 G. F. Yeo On a Model of Cell Colony Formation . . 27--34 John F. Reynolds On Estimating the Parameters of a Birth-Death Process . . . . . . . . . . 35--43 C. G. Chakrabarti A Note on the Significance of Sufficiency in Thermodynamics . . . . . 44--48 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50 D. Vere-Jones Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--64
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K. R. W. Brewer and R. W. Mellor The Effect of Sample Structure on Analytical Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152 C. M. Young Editing a Large-Scale Demographic Survey --- The Experience of the Melbourne Family Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--166 Ross A. Williams Variable Weight Distributed Lags: Housing Completions in Australia . . . . 167--179 Kenneth S. Miller Serial Correlation and Spectral Moment Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--184 Fred Calitz Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Parameters of the Three-Parameter Lognormal Distribution --- a Reconsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--190 Nancy L. Ferguson Comparison of Three Non-Parametric Tests for Bivariate Interchangeability . . . . 191--209 G. J. Mclachlan An Asymptotic Expansion of the Expectation of the Estimated Error Rate in Discriminant Analysis . . . . . . . . 210--214 A. M. Hasofer The Joint Distribution of the Envelope of a Gaussian Process and Its Derivative 215--216 Tran Van Hoa Corrigenda: Notes on the Estimation of the CES Production Function by Planar Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217 S. R. Kulkarni Corrigenda: On the Optimal Asymptotic Tests for the Effects of Cloud Seeding on Rainfall. (2) The Case of Variable Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217 Anonymous Obituary: Edmund Alfred Cornish (1909--1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--220 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--231 Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 232--232
C. G. Khatri On Testing the Equality of Location Parameters in $k$ Censored Exponential Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 David Thomas and Nancy Ferguson Some Tests for Independence . . . . . . 11--19 G. C. L. Searle A Note on a Sequential Group $t$-Test 20--25 Grace J. Kelleher Exact Two-Sample Median Tests When One ``Sample'' Value Possibly from a Different Population . . . . . . . . . . 26--29 G. S. Lingappaiah Prediction in Samples from the Gamma Distribution As Applied to Life Testing 30--32 I. V. Basawa Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Parameters in Renewal and Markov-Renewal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43 Denise R. Osborn The Distribution of Price Changes on the Sydney Stock Exchange . . . . . . . . . 44--49 A. K. Nigam A Note on Optimum Chemical Balance Weighing Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52 R. C. Griffiths A Characterization of the Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56 R. L. Sandland A Note on Some Applications of the Truncated Geometric Distribution . . . . 57--58 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--70
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J. S. Maritz Aligning of Estimates: an Alternative to Empirical Bayes Methods . . . . . . . . 135--143 W. K. Chiu Selecting the $m$ Populations with Largest Means from $k$ Normal Populations with Unknown Variances . . . 144--147 E. G. Phadia Best Invariant Confidence Bands for a Continuous Cumulative Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--152 Dallas E. Johnson On the Moments of the Characteristic Roots of a Noncentral ($ 2 \times 2$) Wishart Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155 Stanley R. Pliska A Dynamic Programming Model for Optimal Observations of a Discrete Time Linear Stochastic Process . . . . . . . . . . . 156--162 M. I. Beg and S. N. U. A. Kirmani On a Characterization of Exponential and Related Distributions . . . . . . . . . 163--166 Norfleet W. Rives, Jr. A Note on the Demographic Impact of Contraception in a Mathematical Model of Human Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . 167--173 F. E. Binet Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 174--174 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--186 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Eve Bofinger Estimation of a Density Function Using Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 M. P. Quine and J. Robinson Rates of Convergence for Some Statistics from Empirical Distribution Functions 8--11 Ravindra Singh A Note on Optimum Stratification in Sampling with Varying Probabilities . . 12--21 Arijit Chaudhubi Some Properties of Estimators Based on Sampling Schemes with Varying Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28 D. J. Best The Difference Between Two Poisson Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--33 H. O. Lancaster The Multiplicative Definition of Interaction an Addendum . . . . . . . . 34--36 K. E. Aggaewal Analysis of EGD and Hypercubic Designs As Factorial Experiments . . . . . . . . 36--42 Hardeo Sahai and Alcedo A. Ramírez Martínez Some Formal Bayes Estimators of Variance Components in a Crossed Classification Random Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 43--48 Sanpei Kageyama and Goeo Ishu A Note on Bib Designs . . . . . . . . . 49--50 D. A. Preece Bibliography of Designs for Experiments in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 51--55 B. J. Williams Obituary: Maurice H. Belz (1897--1975) 56--57 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
J. H. Pollard Modelling Human Populations for Projection Purposes --- Some of the Problems and Challenges . . . . . . . . 63--76 Raj S. Chhikara Optimum Tests for Comparison of Two Inverse Gaussian Distribution Means . . 77--83 M. A. Hamdan and R. S. Schulman On Point Multiserial Correlation . . . . 84--86 O. D. Anderson On a Paper by Davies, Pate and Frost Concerning Maximum Autocorrelations for Moving Average Processes . . . . . . . . 87--90 D. J. Daley Certain Bounds Concerning Characteristic Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93 N. S. Barnett A Note on a Generating Function Relation 94--95 Richard L. Tweedie Relations Between Ergodicity and Mean Drift for Markov Chains . . . . . . . . 96--102 A. C. Gleeson and J. B. Douglas Quadrat Sampling and the Estimation of Neyman Type A and Thomas Distributional Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--113 W. K. Chiu Corrigendum: Selecting the $m$ Populations with Largest Means from $k$ Normal Populations with Unknown Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--120
P. A. P. Moran Statistical Society of Australia Special Lecture (October 28th, 1975): What Should a Professor of Statistics Do? . . 121--133 D. Veee-Jones Statistical Aspects of the Estimation of Earthquake Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--147 John McDonald and Peter Monk An Analysis of the Statistical Discrepancy in the Australian Quarterly National Accounts* . . . . . . . . . . . 148--160 G. J. McLachlan Some Expected Values for the Error Rates of the Sample Quadratic Discriminant Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--165 Kenneth E. W. Brewer A Simple Procedure for Sampling $ \pi $ pswor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--172 E. L. Chambers and C. E. Heathcote A Linear Model with Errors Lacking a Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185 D. A. Preece and W. B. Hall Balanced Designs for Row-And-Column Experiments with Two Non-Interacting Sets of Treatments, One Set Not Being Applied to All the Rows . . . . . . . . 186--191 Eve Bofinger Non-Parametric Estimation of Density for Regularly Varying Distributions . . . . 192--195 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
J. Gani Some Aspects in the Development of Statistics in Australia . . . . . . . . 1--20 E. K. Foreman and W. McLennan and D. G. Leaver and M. W. Dickinson Why General Survey Systems --- Australian GSS Progress and Prospects 21--36 D. Holt and T. M. F. Smith The Design of Surveys for Planning Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44 T. Yanagawa and S. Shirahata Ranked Set Sampling Theory with Selective Probability Matrix . . . . . . 45--52 G. M. Talus and P. L. Chesson The Relationship Between a Class of Asymptotically Normal Estimators and Goodness of Fit Tests . . . . . . . . . 53--61 James E. Beinmuth Recursive Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 62--72 O. D. Anderson An Improved Approach to Inverting the Autocovariance Matrix of a General Mixed Autoregressive Moving Average Time Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75 C. S. Wuhees On the Convergence of Empirical Processes of Mixing Variables . . . . . 76--83 Warren Dent Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--100
H. A. David Statistical Society of Australia the Knibbs Lecture for 1976 (July 27th, 1976): The Theory of Competing Risks . . 101--110 Anonymous Invited Discussion of the Paper . . . . 110--114 R. W. Cole The Census of Population and Housing, 30 June 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--130 Bishwa Nath Mukherjee Techniques of Covariance Structural Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--150 K. C. Tan and A. P. Gore A Distribution-Free Test for Two-Way Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--157 Teruhiro Shirakura A Note on the Norm of Alias Matrices in Fractional Replication . . . . . . . . . 158--160 E. H. Court A Note on Theil's Use of Incomplete Prior Information in Regression Analysis 161--162 M. A. Hamdan and D. R. Jensen A Bivariate Binomial Distribution and Some Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 163--169 Douglas M. Hawkins and Samuel Kotz A Clocking Property of the Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--172 Babry C. Arnold and Glen Meeden A Characterization of the Uniform Distribution Based on Summation Modulo One, with Application to Fractional Backlogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--188
Peter D. Finch Rough Analysis and Spurious Accuracy . . 1--21 J. R. Davis Using the Sydney Area Transportation Study Data for Social Research . . . . . 22--31 George A. Milliken and Dale Rasmuson A Heuristic Technique for Testing for the Presence of Interaction in Nonreplicated Factorial Experiments . . 32--38 E. R. Williams Iterative Analysis of Generalized Lattice Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42 Hubert J. Chen Non-Existence of an Exact $ \beta $-Confidence Interval for a Scale Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--55 S. K. Perng and John D. Groves Two Sequential Procedures for Partitioning a Set of One-Parameter Exponential Populations with Respect to a Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--60 Kenneth S. Kaminsky Best Prediction of Exponential Failure Times When Items May Be Replaced . . . . 61--62 M. Breth Growth Processes: a Study of Progressive Payments on Building Contracts . . . . . 63--69 H. N. Nagaraja On a Characterization Based on Record Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--73 Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--80 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
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H. O. Lancaster Statistical Society of Australia Special Lecture: (July 12th, 1977): World Mortality Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--42 D. R. Cox Statistical Society of Australia the Knibbs Lecture for 1977: (September 5th, 1977): Foundations of Statistical Inference: the Case for Eclecticism . . 43--59 E. J. G. Pitman The Cramér--Rao Inequality . . . . . . . 60--74 M. E. O'Neill Asymptotic Distributions of the Canonical Correlations from Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82 Annie Chacko and A. Dey On the Estimation of Total Weight in Chemical Balance Weighing Designs . . . 83--86 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87 Anonymous Honorary Life Member . . . . . . . . . . 88--88 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--97
W. T. Federer and O. O. Ladipo A Component of Variance Due to Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--110 D. A. Preece and R. A. Bailey and H. D. Patterson A Randomization Problem in Forming Designs with Superimposed Treatments . . 111--125 John McDonald On the Relationship Between the Optimal Extrapolative and Other Expectations Generating Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 126--135 Patrick Mcdonnell and F. Lancaster Jones and Paul Duncan-Jones Notes on the Australian Occupational Classification As a Social Science Research Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--142 Robert V. Horn From Social Statistics to Social Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152 B. M. Brown and D. G. Kildea Asymptotically Equivalent Forms of Hodges--Lehmann-Type Estimates in Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--160 R. L. Chambers and C. R. Heathcote A Linear Model with Errors Lacking a Variance II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--175 H. N. Nagaraja On the Expected Values of Record Values 176--182 R. C. Griffiths On a Bivariate Triangular Distribution 183--185 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--190 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--193
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W. E. Norton Information Problems and Economic Advising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--124 G. A. Watterson and R. Anderson Detecting Natural Selection: the Stepwise Mutation Model with Heterosis 125--142 Noel Cressie Relaxing Assumptions in the One Sample $t$-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--153 B. M. Brown Median Estimates in Simple Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--165 Barrie D. Spurr The Exact Distribution of the Bell--Doksum Test of Independence . . . 166--171 B. M. DeSilva and R. C. Griffiths A Test of Independence for Bivariate Symmetric Stable Distributions . . . . . 172--177 H. K. Baruah and G. P. Bhattacharjee A Modification of the Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Testing a Normal Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--187 K. Byth and G. J. McLachlan Logistic Regression Compared to Normal Discrimination for Non-Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--196 A. C. Gleeson and C. A. McGilchrist Bilateral Processes on a Rectangular Lattice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--206 M. Breth Quantile Estimation and Probability Coverages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--211 Ravindra M. Phatarfod The Bottomless Dam with Seasonal Inputs 212--217 E. W. H. Ho Model-Unbiasedness and the Horvitz--Thompson Estimator in Finite Population Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 218--225 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--233 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
G. J. McLachlan and J. N. Holt The Covariance Analysis of Some Censored Survival Data from a Large Scale Study of Melanoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--249 Ruth Marcus Two-Stage Procedures for Testing Homogeneity of Means Against Ordered Alternatives in One-Way ANOVA with Common Unknown Variance . . . . . . . . 250--259 M. L. Tiku Goodness of Fit Statistics Based on the Spacings of Complete or Censored Samples 260--275 D. R. Weer and A. P. Basu Testing for Independence in Multivariate Exponential Distributions . . . . . . . 276--288 P. A. P. Moran Testing the Largest of a Set of Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . . . 289--297 Michio Hatanaka Note: a Note on the Application of the Kalman Filter to Regression Models with Some Parameters Varying Over Time and Others Unvarying . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--306 I. W. Saunders An Approximate Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Chain Binomial Models . . 307--316 Dan A. Watson and Saul Blumenthal A Two Stage Procedure for Estimating the Size of a Truncated Exponential Sample 317--327 Jagbir Singh Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation of Probability Densities . . . . . . . . . 328--331 Masafumi Akahira and Kei Takeuchi Note: a Note on Prediction Sufficiency (Adequacy) and Sufficiency . . . . . . . 332--335 Marc Moore Random Sampling in Pattern Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--340 C. E. Särndal Two Model-Based Inference Arguments in Survey Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--348 Raghunath Arnab Two-Stage Sampling Over Two Occasions 349--357 Kesar Singh Note: a Note on Sample Quantile Processes of Finite Populations . . . . 358--363 A. Dey and M. Singh Some Series of Efficiency Balanced Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--367 Anonymous Obituary: Douglas William Maitland (1925--1980) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--376 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--378
C. C. Heyde Presidential Address: Looking Forward into the 1980's: a Personal View of the Problems and Prospects for the Statistical Profession . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Peter Brosnan On Estimating Internal Migration for Open Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--20 N. A. Campbell Graphical Comparison of Covariance Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--37 G. R. Dargahi-Noubary An Application of Discrimination When Covariance Matrices are Proportional . . 38--44 S. B. Nandi The Exact Null Distribution of Bartlett's Criterion . . . . . . . . . . 45--51 A. Maritz A Simple Test for the Independence of Sets of Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57 M. E. O'Neill A Note on the Canonical Correlations from Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . 58--66 Masafumi Akahira On Asymptotic Deficiency of Estimators 67--72 D. Collett and T. Lewis Discriminating Between the von Mises and Wrapped Normal Distributions . . . . . . 73--79 P. Narayan On Bounds for Probability Generating Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--90 R. P. Littlejohn Length-Biassed Sampling from a Finite Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94 T. Srivenkataramana and D. S. Tracy Extending Product Method of Estimation to Positive Correlation Case in Surveys 95--100 Y. P. Sabharwal and B. R. Gupta Peak Points in a Symmetrically Correlated Random Walk . . . . . . . . . 101--108 Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to H. O. Lancaster 109--109 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--136 Anonymous Referees' Services 1980 . . . . . . . . 137--137
K. R. W. Brewer Estimating Marihuana Usage Using Randomized Response --- Some Paradoxical Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148 M. L. Tiku A Goodness of Fit Statistic Based on the Sample Spacings for Testing a Symmetric Distribution Against Symmetric Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--158 Carlos M. Jarque A Test for Heteroscedasticity in a Limited Dependent Variable Model . . . . 159--163 An Hong-Zhi Asymptotic Properties of an Estimate of the Prediction Error Variance . . . . . 164--176 R. A. Maller A Theorem on Products of Random Variables, with Application to Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--185 Kuang-Fu Cheng and Pi-Erh Lin Nonparametric Estimation of a Regression Function: Limiting Distribution . . . . 186--195 Radu Theodorescu and Hans Wolff Sequential Estimation of Expectations in the Presence of Trend . . . . . . . . . 196--203 R. Morton Optimal Estimating Equations with Applications to Insect Development Times 204--213 Ruth Marcus Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Monotone Contrasts of Normal Means . . . 214--223 Alan E. Gelfand An Estimation Problem with Poisson Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--231 C. D. Lai On Conditional Correlation Coefficients of a Wold Markov Process of Gamma Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--237 Donald St. P. Richards A Characterization of a Matric-Variate Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 238--239 David Griffiths and Christine Schafer Closeness of Grassia's Transformed Gammas and the Beta Distribution . . . . 240--246 H. L. MacGillivray The Mean, Median, Mode Inequality and Skewness for a Class of Densities . . . 247--250 B. D. Sivazlian A Class of Multivariate Distributions 251--255 B. C. Gupta Checks on Yates's Algorithm for a 2\TM Factorial Experiment . . . . . . . . . . 256--258 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--272 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--272
C. C. Heyde Trends in the Statistical Sciences . . . 273--286 R. H. Tuckwell Anomalies in the Gambling Market . . . . 287--295 Peter D. Finch A Descriptive Interpretation of Standard Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--299 R. M. J. Heuts Asymptotic Robustness of Prediction Intervals of ARIMA Models to Deviations from Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--308 Peter Praetz A Note on the Effect of Autocorrelation on Multiple Regression Statistics . . . 309--313 M. Breth Simultaneous Tolerance Limits and a Unified Approach to some Nonparametric Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--327 S. K. Perng and David P. Hasza and C. Paik Sequential Fixed-Width Confidence Interval for a Function of the Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--336 J. G. Shanthikumar On Level Crossing Analysis of Queues . . 337--342 Shingo Shirahata A Simple Test Procedure When Data are Given by $n$ Independent Blocks . . . . 343--351 N. I. Fisher One-Sample Probability Plots . . . . . . 352--359 R. Arnab Sampling on Two Occasions with Varying Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--364 V. K. Sharma A Class of Experimental Designs Balanced for First Residuals . . . . . . . . . . 365--370 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--381 Anonymous Corrigendum: Douglas William Maitland 381--381
J. Gani An Adventure in Publishing: Eighteen Years of the Applied Probability Trust 1--17 Roger Jones Variations in Household Telephone Access: Implications for Telephone Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--32 Peter J. Brockwell and Paul W. Mielke, Jr. and John Robinson On Non-Normal Invariance Principles for Multi-Response Permutation Procedures 33--41 K. S. Madhava Rao and A. P. Gore Nonparametric Tests for Intercept in Linear Regression Problems . . . . . . . 42--50 J. K. Ghorai and H. Rubin and H. Rubin Bayes Risk Consistency of Nonparametric Bayes Density Estimates . . . . . . . . 51--66 William C. Parr and H. Dennis Tolley Jackknifing in Categorical Data Analysis 67--79 David J. Scott Contiguity of Probability Measures . . . 80--88 Anthony G. Pakes Some Remarks on the Paper by Theodorescu and Wolff: ``Sequential Estimation of Expectations in the Presence of Trend'' 89--97 Irene L. Hudson Large Sample Inference for Markovian Exponential Families with Application to Branching Processes with Immigration . . 98--112 Sanpei Kageyama Remark on Construction of Efficiency-Balanced Designs . . . . . . 113--115 P. D. Finch Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 116--118 Anonymous Honorary Life Members . . . . . . . . . 119--121 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--134
M. L. Thornett The Role of Randomization in Model-Based Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--145 Peter D. Finch Comments on Paper by M. L. Thornett: The role of randomization in model based inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147 M. L. Thornett Two Views of Randomization?: Response to Peter Finch's comments . . . . . . . . . 148--150 Sòren Asmussen On the Role of a Certain Eigenvalue in Estimating the Growth Rate of a Branching Process . . . . . . . . . . . 151--159 Prakash Narayan On the Extinction Time of a Continuous time Markov Branching Process . . . . . 160--164 G. K. Agrafiotis Stochastic Multigrade Population Models in Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . . 165--170 Roger G. Jones The Use of Multiplicity in a Household Survey of Disabilities . . . . . . . . . 171--178 Miles G. Nicholls Short Term Prediction of Student Numbers in the Victorian Secondary Education System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--190 H. L. Agrawal and Jagdish Prasad Some Methods of Construction of GD--RC and Rectangular-RC Designs . . . . . . . 191--200 Clive L. Morley A Simulation Study of the Powers of Three Multiple Comparison Statistics . . 201--210 M. Samiuddin A Note on an Unbiased Test of Homogeneity of Variances . . . . . . . . 211--215 Rameshwar D. Gupta and Donald St P. Richards Series Expansion for a Hypergeometric Function of Matrix Argument with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--220 C. D. Lai Meixner Classes and Meixner Hyper-Geometric Distributions . . . . . 221--233 P. M. Robinson On the Convergence of the Horvitz--Thompson Estimator . . . . . . 234--238 J. S. Shonkwiler The Joint Treatment of Exact and Stochastic Restrictions . . . . . . . . 239--244 V. V. Anh Estimated Generalized Least Squares for a Heteroscedastic Regression Model . . . 245--254 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--274
Alan J. Lee On Incomplete $U$-Statistics Having Minimum Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--282 B. M. Brown Robustness Against Inequality of Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295 Sándor Csörgö Bolyai and Peter Hall Estimable Versions of Griffiths' Measure of Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--308 Shibdas Bandyopadhyay Covariate Classification Using Dependent Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317 B. M. Brown and J. S. Maritz Distribution-Free Methods in Regression 318--331 A. D. Gordon An Investigation of two Sequence-Comparison Statistics . . . . . 332--342 Peter D. Finch Difficulties of Interpretation with Markov Chain Models . . . . . . . . . . 343--349 Robin R. Lamacraft and W. B. Hall Tables of Cyclic Incomplete Block Designs: $ r = k $ . . . . . . . . . . . 350--360 H. O. Lancaster Bibliography of Vital Statistics in Australia: a Third List . . . . . . . . 361--380 Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to P. A. P. Moran 383--383 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--400
P. D. Feigin and R. L. Tweedie and C. Belyea Weighted Area Techniques for Explicit Parameter Estimation in Multi-Stage Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 Shirley A. Cassing and Kenneth J. White An Examination of the Eigenvector Condition in the Durbin--Watson Test . . 17--22 Maxwell L. King Testing for Moving Average Regression Disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--34 I. V. Basawa and Niels Becker Remarks on Optimal Inference for Markov Branching Processes: a Sequential Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--46 Irene L. Hudson Asymptotic Tests for the Continuous Time Markov Branching Process with Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57 G. S. Rogers and D. G. Kabe On the Noncentral Distribution of a Random Matrix Useful in Classification Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--63 Vic Barnett Reduced Distance Measures and Transformations in Processing Multivariate Outliers . . . . . . . . . 64--75 M. Beth Notes: Notes on Confidence Regions for a Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84 L. J. Wei Tests for Independence in the Presence of Missing Values . . . . . . . . . . . 85--90 P. A. P. Moran Testing the Concordance of Events with Their Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . 91--95 R. M. Clark and B. J. Morrison A Normal Approximation to the Fisher Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--104 A. P. Clarke and W. Marwood An Analytic Form for the Cumulative Distribution Function of the Bell--Doksum Statistic . . . . . . . . . 105--108 S. J. Sheather and J. S. Maritz An Estimate of the Asymptotic Standard Error of the Sample Median . . . . . . . 109--122 Masafumi Akahira Asymptotic Deficiency of the Jackknife Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129 Anonymous A Stochastic Logistic Model with Time Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--135 H. Papageorgiou On Characterizing Some Bivariate Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 136--144 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--162 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--164 Irene L. Hudson Corrigendum: Large Sample Inference for Markovian Exponential Families with Application to Branching Processes with Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165 Anonymous Referees' Services 1982 . . . . . . . . 167--167 E. J. G. Pitman Professor E. J. Williams . . . . . . . . 169--170
E. J. Williams Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--173 M. S. Bartlett Examples of Minimum Variance Estimation 174--181 I. V. Basawa Recent Trends in Asymptotic Optimal Inference for Dependent Observations . . 182--190 Niels G. Becker Analysis of Data from a Single Epidemic 191--197 Eve Bofinger Multiple Comparisons and Selection . . . 198--207 P. J. Brockwell and J. M. Gani and S. I. Resnick Catastrophe Processes with Continuous State-Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--226 R. M. Clark Estimation of Parameters in the Marginal Fisher Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 227--237 B. M. Brown Minimum Significance and Distribution Free Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--248 Harry Cohn On the Convergence Result for the Supercritical Bellman--Harris Process 249--255 G. K. Eagleson A Robust Test for Multiple Comparisons of Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . 256--263 W. J. Ewens An Estimation Paradox Arising in Population Genetics Theory . . . . . . . 264--272 Ian Gordon Ancillarity and Minimal Sufficiency . . 273--777 Peter Hall On the Reduction of Bias in Density Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--286 E. J. Hannan and L. Kavalieris The Convergence of Autocorrelations and Autoregressions . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--297 H. O. Lancaster Special Joint Distributions of Meixner Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--309 M. I. Leedow and R. L. Tweedie Weighted Area Techniques for the Estimation of the Parameters of a Growth Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--320 C. A. McGilchrist and R. L. Sandland and J. L. Hennessy Generalized Inverses Used in Recursive Estimation of the General Linear Model 321--328 I. M. MacPhee and H.-J. Schuh A Galton--Watson Branching Process in Varying Environments with Essentially Constant Offspring Means and Two Rates of Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--338 P. A. P. Moran A New Expansion for the Multivariate Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 339--344 Anthony G. Pakes Some Properties of a Random Linear Difference Equation . . . . . . . . . . 345--357 J. Robinson Approximations to Some Test Statistics for Permutation Tests in a Completely Randomized Design . . . . . . . . . . . 358--369 E. Seneta The Weighted Median and Multiple Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--377 T. P. Speed Cumulants and Partition Lattices . . . . 378--388 G. S. Watson Distributions in $R$ with Rotational Symmetries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--394 G. A. Watterson Some Statistical Distributions of Use in Analysing Bird Count Data . . . . . . . 395--401 Ben Zehnwirth Credibility Theory: a Concise Partial Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--411
Irene L. Hudson Asymptotic Tests for Growth Curve Models with Autoregressive Errors . . . . . . . 413--424 N. C. Weber and A. H. Welsh Jackknifing the General Linear Model . . 425--436 Sándor Csörgö Gil--Pelaez--Rosén Transformation of Data 437--441 M. H. Pesaran Note: a Note on the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Regression Models with First Order Moving Average Errors with Roots on the Unit Circle . . . . . . . . 442--448 Stephen Beveridge On a Test of Fit in Time Series Models 449--452 Madan L. Puri and Dan A. Ralescu Improving Upon the Best Invariant Estimator in Multivariate Location Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--462 Pi-Erh Lin and Amany Mousa Minimax Estimation of a Multivariate Normal Mean Under a Convex Loss Function 463--466 Anant M. Kshirsagar and Thomas M. Davis Direction and Collinearity Factors of Wilk's $A$ Associated with the Growth Curve Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--481 Shibdas Bandyopadhyay Admissibility of Likelihood Ratio Rules in Covariate Classification Using Dependent Samples . . . . . . . . . . . 482--486 A. N. Pettitt Inference for Censored Matched Pairs Using Signed Ranks . . . . . . . . . . . 487--495 G. H. Pollard An Analysis of Classical and Tie-Breaker Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--505 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--516
Niels G. Becker Estimating Population Size from Capture-Recapture Experiments in Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 A. D. Barbour and Peter Hall Stein's Method and the Berry--Esséen Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--15 Jayant V. Deshpandé and Kalpana Kusum A Test for the Nonparametric Two Sample Scale Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--24 H. Papageorgiou Characterizations of Multinomial and Negative Multinomial Mixtures by Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29 Peter J. Brockwell and Paul W. Mielke Asymptotic Distributions of Matched-Paris Permutation Statistics Based on Distance Measures . . . . . . . 30--38 P. A. P. Moran The Monte Carlo Evaluation of Orthant Probabilities for Multivariate Normal Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--44 Pamela Williams Regional Economic-Demographic Modelling and Projection: Review of an International Conference . . . . . . . . 45--57 B. M. Brown and S. I. Resnick Rank Tests for Multivariate Trend . . . 58--67 Ravindra M. Phatarfod The Infinitely Deep Dam with Seasonal Markov Inflows --- a Simplifying Modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74 H. Bayo Lawal and Graham J. G. Upton On the Use of $X$ As a Test of Independence in Contingency Tables with Small Cell Expectations . . . . . . . . 75--85 N. A. Campbell Canonical Variate Analysis --- a General Model Formulation . . . . . . . . . . . 86--96 Tzen-Ping Liu Existence of a Sen--Yates--Grundy Form for a Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109
K. S. Kaminsky and E. M. Luks and P. I. Nelson Strategy, Nontransitive Dominance and the Exponential Distribution . . . . . . 111--118 G. M. Saha and Sanpei Kageyama Balanced Arrays and Weighing Designs . . 119--124 Stephen L. Koffler and Douglas A. Penfield A $K$-Sample Extension to Fligner's Class of Tests for Scale . . . . . . . . 125--132 K. C. Bhuyan A Group of Split-Plot Designs with a Heteroscedastic Model . . . . . . . . . 133--141 N. I. Fisher and D. J. Best Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Fisher's Distribution on the Sphere . . . . . . . 142--150 K. J. A. Revfeim Generating Mechanisms Of, and Parameter Estimators For, the Extreme Value Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--159 Mark Berman Combining Information from Linear Models on Possibly Different Scales . . . . . . 160--168 Jun S. Huang The Autoregressive Moving Average Model for Spatial Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 169--178 A. C. Bora Change-Over Designs with Errors Following a First Order Autoregressive Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--188 Sándor Csörgö and Peter Hall The Komlós--Major--Tusnády Approximations and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . 189--218 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--225 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225
A. Houtman and T. P. Speed and A. C. Nielsen The Analysis of Multistrata Designed Experiments with Incomplete Data . . . . 227--246 A. M. Hasofer and D. Veneziano and H. Banon Risk Analysis in More Than One Dimension 247--254 M. Samanta Efficient Estimation of Parameters in the $K$ Sample Problem with Equal But Unknown Population Coefficients of Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262 Dean Isaacson and Glen Meeden Better Priors for Bayesian Bettors . . . 263--271 G. S. Watson The Calculation of Confidence Regions for Eigenvectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--276 Madan L. Puri and Dan A. Ralescu and Stefan S. Ralescu Linear Minimax Estimators for Estimating a Function of the Parameter . . . . . . 277--283 Niels Becker and Caroline Finch On a Stochastic Model for an Irreversible System of Compartments . . 284--289 Clifford H. Spiegelman A New Statistic for Detecting Influential Observations in a Scheffé Type Calibration Curve . . . . . . . . . 290--297 H. C. Agrawal and C. R. Nair Reduced Residue Classes Cyclic PBIB Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--309 Gordon Fisher and Michael McAleer The Geometry of Specification Error . . 310--322 V. K. Srivastava and D. E. A. Giles Exact Finite-Sample Properties of a Pre-Test Estimator in Ridge Regression 323--336 D. Ratcliff and E. R. Williams and T. P. Speed A Note on the Analysis of Covariance in Balanced Incomplete Block Designs . . . 337--341 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--347
E. K. Foreman Survey Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19 A. J. Fischer and R. D. Lewis Deliberately Biasing Survey Questions 20--35 R. G. Jarrett and S. Liow and B. J. T. Morgan Density Function Approximation with Particular Reference to the Distribution of Overlap of Circles . . . . . . . . . 36--43 Jeffrey D. Hart Data-Based Choice of the Smoothing Parameter for a Kernel Density Estimator 44--52 P. J. Diggle and N. I. Fisher and A. J. Lee A Comparison of Tests of Uniformity for Spherical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59 P. A. P. Moran Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities --- Another Special Case 60--67 Merran A. Evans and Maxwell L. King Critical Value Approximations for Tests of Linear Regression Disturbances . . . 68--83 M. A. Cameron and G. K. Eagleson A New Procedure for Assessing Large Sets of Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--95 Ian R. James On the Invariance of Isometry Under Unequal Scale Changes . . . . . . . . . 96--101 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--110
Leslie Kish Sample Surveys Versus Experiments, Controlled Observations, Censuses, Registers, and Local Studies . . . . . . 111--122 B. M. Brown Grouping Problems in Distribution-Free Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--134 Arijit Chaudhuri and Bahul Mukerjee Domain Estimation in Finite Populations 135--137 Subhash C. Sharma The Effects of Correlation Among Observations on the Accuracy of Approximating the Distribution of Sample Mean by Its Asymptotic Distribution . . 138--150 Vic Barnett Detection and Testing of Different Types of Outlier in Linear Structural Relationaships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--162 S. Shirahata and K. Wakimoto and T. Tarumi A Goodness of Fit Test Based on the Linked Line Chart . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171 W. N. Venable The Multiple Correlation Coefficient and Fisher's $A$ Statistic . . . . . . . . . 172--182 Stephen Haslett Recursive Estimation of the General Linear Model with Dependent Errors and Multiple Additional Observations . . . . 183--188 M. Samanta Minimum MSE Estimation by Linear Combinations of Order Statistics . . . . 189--194 Pranesh Kumar and V. K. Gupta and S. K. Agarwal On Variance Estimation in Unequal Probability Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 195--201 C. J. Lloyd On External Ancillarity . . . . . . . . 202--220 A. P. Verbyla A Note on the Inverse Covariance Matrix of the Autoregressive Process . . . . . 221--224 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--229 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
M. Breth On Estimating the Spread of a Distribution About Its Regression Slopes 231--235 G. A. Feeney and P. K. Sen Extreme Value Theory for Certain Non-Stationary Sequences . . . . . . . . 236--245 Ian Gordon Error Rates for Orthogonal Contrasts After a Significant $F$-Test . . . . . . 246--251 A. P. Gore and Ashok Shanubhogue A Test of Homogeneity Against Scale Alternatives Using Subsample Extrema . . 252--258 Tsushung A. Hua On the Performance of Kolmogorov--Smirnov Tests on Stable Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--263 C. J. Lloyd Ancillaries Sufficient for the Sample Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--272 S. M. Manjunath Characterization of Efficient Sequential Schemes for Population Growth Models . . 273--282 Terence J. O'Neill and G. M. Tallis and P. Leppard The Epidemiology of a Disease Using Hazard Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--297 V. K. Sharma and M. N. Das On Resolvable Incomplete Block Designs 298--302 Yoshihiro Yajima On Estimation of Long-Memory Time Series Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--320 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--324 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--325
Leslie Kish Timing of Surveys for Public Policy . . 1--12 D. J. Best and N. I. Fisher Goodness-of-Fit and Discordancy Tests for Samples from the Watson Distribution on the Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--31 G. H. Brown Multistage Sampling for Raw Wool Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--45 Stephen M. Scariano Estimating the Maximum (Minimum) of a Quadratic Function Under Certain Correlation Patterns . . . . . . . . . . 46--51 R. A. Maller Some Asymptotic Properties of the Simple Loglinear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--71 P. V. Rao and J. D. Lees Weighted Median Estimates for Response Surface Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--78 R. A. Ipinyomi Equineighboured Experimental Designs . . 79--88 Timothy C. Brown and Donald I. Cartwright and G. K. Eagleson Correlations and Characterizations of the Uniform Distribution . . . . . . . . 89--96 M. Aerts and H. Callaert The Convergence Rate of Sequential Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals for Regular Functionals . . . . . . . . . . 97--106 J. Tang and A. K. Gupta Exact Distribution of Certain General Test Statistics in Multivariate Analysis 107--114 M. Breth Independent Component Nonparamentric Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--123 John L. Hopper The Contribution of W. H. Archer to Vital Statistics in the Colony of Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--137 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--141 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
D. J. Daley and E. Seneta Modelling Examination Marks . . . . . . 143--153 E. R. Williams Row and Column Designs with Contiguous Replicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--163 M. Samanta On Asymptotic Optimality of Some Tests for Exponential Distributions . . . . . 164--172 A. H. Welsh On the Use of the Empirical Distribution and Characteristic Function to Estimate Parameters of Regular Variation . . . . 173--181 E. R. Williams Neighbour Analysis of Uniformity Data 182--191 Ray Watson and Ian Gordon On Quantiles of Sums . . . . . . . . . . 192--199 B. Ceranka and K. Katulska Optimum Singular Spring Balance Weighing Designs with Non-Homogeneity of the Variances of Errors for Estimating the Total Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--205 M. C. Jones A Moment Identity . . . . . . . . . . . 206--212 N. I. Fisher Robust Comparison of Dispersions for Samples of Directional Data . . . . . . 213--219 Simon Fitzpatrick and Richard G. Jarrett Upper Bounds for the Harmonic Mean, with an Application to Experimental Design 220--229 S. Yitnosumarto and M. E. O'Neill On Levene's Tests of Variance Homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--241 M. C. Jones Expressions for Inverse Moments of Positive Quadratic Forms in Normal Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--250 G. G. Agarwal and Sanjay Kumar Construction of Balanced Ternary Designs 251--255 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--264
R. L. Tweedie Working with Official Statistics: Some SIROMATH Experiences . . . . . . . . . . 265--286 Dennis Trewin and David Leaver Working with Official Statistics: Some SIROMATH Experience --- a Rejoinder . . 287--293 D. F. Nicholls and C. R. Heathcote and R. B. Cunningham The Evaluation of Long Term Trend I . . 294--313 Stefan Ralescu Asymptotic Representations of the Multivariate Empirical Distribution Function and Applications . . . . . . . 314--334 Rouh-jane Chou Small Sample Theory of the Langevin Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--344 S. M. Tam Optimal Prediction in Stochastic Regression Models with Application to the Analysis of Repeated Surveys . . . . 345--353 Peter Hall and Ben Selinger Statistical Significance: Balancing Evidence Against Doubt . . . . . . . . . 354--370 J. N. Darroch and P. I. McCloud Category Distinguishability and Observer Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--388 A. P. Verbyla A Note on a Partition of the Likelihood Ratio Test for Autoregressive Covariance Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--399 Wolfgang Schmid The Multiple Outlier Problem in Time Series Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--413 Stavros Kourouklis On a Simultaneous Characterization of the Poisson and Bernoulli Distributions 414--417 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--423 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423 Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--424
Thomas P. Hettmansperger Why Not Try a Robust Regression? . . . . 1--18 Peter Hall and D. M. Titterington On Smoothing Sparse Multinomial Data . . 19--37 B. L. S. Prakasa Rao and M. Sreehari On a Characterization of Poisson Distribution Through Inequalities of Chernoff-Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41 M. Shelton Peiris A Note on the Predictors of Differenced Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--48 Ashis SenGupta On Tests for Equicorrelation Coefficient of a Standard Symmetric Multivariate Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 49--59 Alan J. Rogers On the Derivation of Efficiency Results in Linear Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 60--65 Simon J. Sheather A New Method of Estimating the Asymptotic Standard Error of the Hodges--Lehmann Estimator Based on Generalized Least Squares . . . . . . . 66--83 K. G. Russell and J. A. Eccleston The Construction of Optimal Balanced Incomplete Block Designs When Adjacent Observations are Correlated . . . . . . 84--90 Hannu Oja On Permutation Tests in Multiple Regression and Analysis of Covariance Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100 H. O. Lancaster Finiteness of the Variances in Characterizations of the Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Alexa F. Laurence and Byron J. T. Morgan Selection of the Transformation Variable in the Laplace Transform Method of Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--127 Fabian C. Okafor and Raghunath Arnab Some Strategies of Two-Stage Sampling for Estimating Population Ratios Over two Occasions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--142 Niels Becker and Paul Yip Nonparametric Inference for a Partially Observed Compartmental Process . . . . . 143--150 C. Hirotsu and Agnes M. Herzberg Optimal Allocation of Observations for Inference on $k$ Ordered Normal Population Means . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--165 Miklós Csörgö and Lnos Horváth and Pál Révész On the Optimality of Estimating the Tail Index and a Naive Estimator . . . . . . 166--178 P. N. Kokic On Tests of Uniformity for Randomly Distributed Arcs on a Circle . . . . . . 179--187 M. N. Deshpande and S. G. Prabhu-Ajgaonkar A Generalisation of Midzuno's Sampling Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--192 Masaaki Kijima Some Results for Uniformizable Semi-Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . 193--207 O. S. Adegboye A Classification Rule Whose Probability of Misclassification is Independent of the Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--213 L. J. Wei and M. W. Knuiman A One-Sided Rank Test for Multivariate Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--219 G. K. Robinson Letter to the Editor: Instructions to Referees --- Do we need some? . . . . . 220--221 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--230 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Andy H. Lee Diagnostic Displays for Assessing Leverage and Influence in Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--243 Rahul Mukerjee and T. J. Rao and K. Vijayan Regression Type Estimators Using Multiple Auxiliary Information . . . . . 244--254 Paul T. Jackway and Rosalie A. Boyce Response Inducing Techniques for Mail Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--263 J. B. Copas and M. C. Jones Regression Shrinkage Methods and Autoregressive Time Series Prediction 264--277 Stephan Morgenthaler Confidence Intervals for Scale . . . . . 278--292 K. G. Russell and J. A. Eccleston The Construction of Optimal Imcomplete Block Designs When Observations Within a Block are Correlated . . . . . . . . . . 293--302 Mark F. Collins A Permutation Test for Planar Regression 303--308 E. R. Williams A Note on Change-Over Designs . . . . . 309--316 M. W. Knuiman and T. P. Speed Incorporating Previous Results into the Analysis of General Balanced Designed Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--333 D. S. Poskitt Bayes ARMA Model Determination: Some Empirical Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 334--347 Eve Bofinger Step Down Procedures for Comparison with a Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--364 Sanpei Kageyama Letter to the Editor: Recommendation of Binary Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366 Anonymous Books Reviews: Books Reviews . . . . . . 367--370 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
John C. Duffy and Jennifer J. Waterton Randomised Response Vs. Direct Questioning: Estimating the Prevalence of Alcohol Related Problems in a Field Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 T. P. Speed The Role of Statisticians in CSIRO: Past, Present and Future . . . . . . . . 15--34 C. J. Lloyd Some Issues Arising from the Analysis of $ 2 \times 2 $ Contingency Tables . . . 35--46 D. K. Ghosh and P. K. Karmakar Some Series of Efficiency Balanced Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--51 Peter James Smith Asymptotic Properties of Linear Regression Estimators Under a Fixed Censorship Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--66 H. Arsham Nonparametric Reliability Estimation Based on a Few Ordered Observations . . 67--77 J. A. Eccleston and J. A. John Adjusted Orthogonal Nested Row-Column Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--84 C. A. McGilchrist and B. R. Cullis Properties of the Patterned Vech Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--92 R. M. Phatarfod and Aidan Sudbury A Simple Sequential Wilcoxon Test . . . 93--106 R. Arnab Variance Estimation in Multi-Stage Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110 Stavros Kourouklis Asymptotic Optimality of Likelihood Ratio Tests for Exponential Distributions Under Type II Censoring 111--114 Oliver D. Anderson Letter to the Editor: Referees Are Also Human . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--121 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123
Dorothy A. Anderson Some Models for Overdispersed Binomial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--148 R. L. Chambers and L. Woyzbun and R. Pillig Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Gross Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162 Christopher J. Lloyd Applications and Extensions of Basu's Results on Maximal Ancillarity . . . . . 163--173 H. Meister and O. Moeschlin The Reduction of Risks for Set-Valued Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--182 Fima C. Klebaner The Unemployment Rate When the Labour Market Is Modelled by a Markov Chain . . 183--188 V. V. Anh On the Hildreth-Houck Estimator for Random Coefficient Regression Models . . 189--195 S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi A Note on the Efficiency of Proportional Stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--199 Carmelo Giaccotto and Subhash C. Sharma Jackknife Tests for Heteroscedasticity in the General Linear Model . . . . . . 200--216 Junji Nakano and Shigemi Tagami Delay Estimation by a Hilbert Transform Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--227 S. Lianto and C. A. McGilchrist Cholesky Decomposition of a Variance Matrix in Repeated Measures Analysis . . 228--234 Murray D. Smith Convergent Series Expressions for Inverse Moments of Quadratic Forms in Normal Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--259 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--261 Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
P. J. Danaher Parameter Estimation and Applications for a Generalisation of the Beta-Binomial Distribution . . . . . . . 263--275 B. M. Brown Kendall's Tau and Contingency Tables . . 276--291 Anant M. Kshirsagar A Note on Multivariate Linear Models with Non-Additivity . . . . . . . . . . 292--298 Paul Yip Inference About the Mean of a Poisson Distribution in the Presence of a Nuisance Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306 A. K. Gupta and D. K. Nagar Nonnull Distribution of Likelihood Ratio Criterion for Testing Multisample Sphericity in the Complex Case . . . . . 307--318 H. L. MacGillivray and K. P. Balanda The Relationships Between Skewness and Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--337 Heleno Bolfarine and Josemar Rodrigues On the Simple Projection Predictor in Finite Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 338--341 Brian S. Yandell and Lajos Horváth Bootstrapped Multi-Dimensional Product Limit Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--358 A. K. Gupta and J. Tang On a General Distribution Theory for a Class of Likelihood Ratio Criteria . . . 359--366 Fabian C. Okafor Ratio-To-Size Estimators of Mean Per Subunit in Two-Stage Sampling Over Two Occasions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--378 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--387 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--389
Anonymous Publications of J. Gani . . . . . . . . 1--13 P. A. P. Moran Combinations of Events: Some Notes on Permanents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20 Lennart Råde Combinations of Events: On Games with $D$- and $T$-Events . . . . . . . . . . 21--26 E. Seneta Combinations of Events: Degree, Iteration and Permutation in Improving Bonferroni-Type Bounds . . . . . . . . . 27--38 Norman T. J. Bailey Epidemics: Statistical Problems in the Modelling and Prediction of HIV/AIDS . . 41--55 K. Dietz Epidemics: The First Epidemic Model: a Historical Note on P. D. En'ko . . . . . 56--65 J. R. Blake Fitting and Modelling: Mathematical Theory of Cavitation Bubble Dynamics . . 69--89 F. R. de Hoog and R. S. Anderssen Fitting and Modelling: Convergence of Kernel Functions for Cubic Smoothing Splines on Non-Equispaced Grids . . . . 90--99 W. J. Ewens Fitting and Modelling: Problems of Statistical Modelling in Human Genetics 100--106 David Gates and Mark Westcott Fitting and Modelling: Point Processes with a Clustering Transition . . . . . . 107--122 D. Vere-Jones Fitting and Modelling: On the Variance Properties of Stress Release Models . . 123--135 Mary Ellen Bock and Herbert Solomon Quadratic Forms and Chi-Squared: Distributions of Quadratic Forms . . . . 139--149 M. J. Buckley and G. K. Eagleson Quadratic Forms and Chi-Squared: an Approximation to the Distribution of Quadratic Forms in Normal Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--159 Toby Lewis Quadratic Forms and Chi-Squared: a Simple Improved-Accuracy Normal Approximation for $ \chi^2 $ . . . . . . 160--167 Niels Becker Statistical Inference: The Role of Conditional Inference . . . . . . . . . 171--178 Peter Hall and Michael Martin Statistical Inference: On the Bootstrap and Two-Sample Problems . . . . . . . . 179--192 C. R. Heathcote Statistical Inference: The Problem of Misclassification of Mortality Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204 Norman L. Johnson and Samuel Kotz Statistical Inference: Effects of Errors in Inspection on a Binary Method for Isolating Nonconforming Items . . . . . 205--214 Richard Morton Statistical Inference: Analysis of Generalized Linear Models with Nested Strata of Variation . . . . . . . . . . 215--224 J. T. Wood and E. R. Williams and T. P. Speed Statistical Inrefence: Non-Orthogonal Block Structure in Two-Phase Designs . . 225--237 Takewki Hida Stochastic Functionals: White Noise Analysis and Stochastic Functional Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 241--246 Yoshifusa Ito Stochastic Functionals: Differential Operators Arising from Translation of Poisson Functionals . . . . . . . . . . 247--258 Sidney I. Resnick Structure of Distributions: Association and Multivariate Extreme Value Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271 D. N. Shanbhag Structure of Distributions: The Davidson--Kendall Problem and Related Results on the Structure of the Wishart Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--280 E. J. Hannan and C. H. Hesse Time Series: Rates of Convergence for the Quantile Function of a Linear Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295 D. F. Nicholls and A. L. Pope Time Series: Bias in the Estimation of Multivariate Autoregressions . . . . . . 296--309
C. C. Heyde and E. Seneta Preface: The Bicentennial History Issue of the \booktitleAustralian Journal of Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 E. Seneta Silhouettes in Early Australian Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--22 C. C. Heyde Official Statistics in the Late Colonial Period Leading on to the Work of the First Commonwealth Statistician, G. H. Knibbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--43 John D. Kerr Introduction of Statistical Design and Analysis by the Queensland Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations . . . . . . . 44--53 J. B. F. Field and F. E. Speed and T. P. Speed and J. M. Williams Biometrics in the CSIR: 1930--1940 . . . 54--76 D. B. Duncan Australian Biometry and Multiple Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--98 H. O. Lancaster Statistical Society of New South Wales 99--109 E. J. Williams A Survey of Experimental Design in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--130
R. Dunstan and R. L. Chambers Estimating Distribution Functions from Survey Data with Limited Benchmark Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 R. B. Cunningham and C. R. Heathcote Estimating a Non-Gaussian Regression Model with Multicollinearity . . . . . . 12--17 P. J. Solomon On Components of Variance and Modelling Exceedances Over a Threshold . . . . . . 18--24 Keith Wise and Paul Kabaila The Estimation of Plutonium Concentrations in Soil . . . . . . . . . 25--41 Niels Becker and Paul Yip Analysis of Variations in an Infection Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--52 Alan J. Rogers Minimum Distance and Induced Statistics for Testing Inequalities . . . . . . . . 53--61 H. T. Kiivefu and N. A. Campbell Covariance Models for Lattice Data . . . 62--77 Rick L. Edgeman Inverse Gaussian Control Charts . . . . 78--84 R. A. Ipinyomi Partially Equineighboured Designs . . . 85--94 Z. Govindarajulu and H. C. Howard Uniform Asymptotic Expansions Applied to Sequential $t$- and $ t^2$-Tests . . . . 95--104 Shande Chen and Govind S. Mudholkar A Remark on Testing Significance of an Observed Correlation Matrix . . . . . . 105--110 Nam-Ky Nguyen and Aloke Dey Computer Aided-Construction of $D$-Optimal $ 2^m$ Fractional Designs of Resolution $V$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--117 Richard Jarrett A Review of Bounds for the Efficiency Factor of Block Designs . . . . . . . . 118--129 Charles Hagwood A Renewal Theorem in Multidimensional Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--137 Evan J. Williams and Paul Yip Conditional Inference About an Equicorrelation Coefficient . . . . . . 138--142 M. H. Rossiter The Sojourn Time Distribution of an Alternating Renewal Process . . . . . . 143--152 R. M. Huggins The Sign Test for Stochastic Processes 153--165 Peter J. Diggle and Michael F. Hutchinson On Spline Smoothing with Autocorrelated Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--182 Peter J. Diggle and John B. Donnelly A Selected Bibliography on the Analysis of Repeated Measurements and Related Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--193 R. Morton On the Efficiency of the Quasi-Likelihood Estimators for Exponential Families with Extra Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--199 J. Robinson Limit Theorems for Standardized Partial Sums of Weakly Exchangeable Arrays . . . 200--214 A. H. Welsh Concomitant Scale Estimation in Regression Problems with Increasing Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--247 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--250
Murray Hannah and Niels Becker and Jacob Rich and Charles Castle Estimation of the Conditional Probability of Tuberculosis Given the Response of a Mantoux Test . . . . . . . 253--267 Randhir Singh Method of Estimation for Sampling from Incomplete Frames . . . . . . . . . . . 269--276 Krystyna Katulska On the Estimation of Total Weight in Singular Spring Balance Weighing Designs Under the Covariance Matrix of Errors $ s^2 G $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286 Sadao Tomizawa Decompositions for Conditional Symmetry Model into Palindromic Symmetry and Modified Marginal Homogeneity Models . . 287--296 Kerrie Mengersen and Eve Bofinger Selecting the $t$ Best Populations --- Scale Parameter Case . . . . . . . . . . 297--307 Masaaki Kijima On Transition Probabilities of Skip-Free Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--314 Rohan Karunamuni On Empirical Bayes Stopping Times . . . 315--326 Vijay K. Rohatgi Unbiased Estimation of Parametric Functions in Sampling from Two One-Truncation Parameter Families . . . 327--332 Getachew Zergaw A Sequential Method of Constructing Optimal Block Designs . . . . . . . . . 333--342 P. N. Kokic A Berry--Esseen Bound for the Ratio Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--348 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--362
Geoff Adams and Ray Watson A Discrete Time Parametric Model for the Analysis of Failure Time Data . . . . . 365--384 Asraul Hoque The Efficiency of the Cochrane--Orcutt Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--392 P. C. N. Groenewald and D. J. de Waal Bayesian Tests for Some Precise Hypotheses on Multi-Normal Means . . . . 393--408 O. Sola Adegboye and A. K. Gupta On Testing Against Restricted Alternatives for the Variances of Gaussian Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--415 William R. Schucany and Daniel M. Bankson Small Sample Variance Estimators for $U$-Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--426 Tibor Pogány An Approach to the Sampling Theorem for Continuous Time Processes . . . . . . . 427--432 S. Ganeshanandam and W. J. Krzanowski On Selecting Variables and Assessing Their Performance in Linear Discriminant Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--447 Niels Becker and Barry McDonald and Celestine Khoo Optimal Designs for Fitting a Proportional Hazards Regression Model to Data Subject to Censoring . . . . . . . 449--468 Jingyu Liu and H. A. David Quantiles of Sums and Expected Values of Ordered Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--474 Yoshihiko Maesono Lower Bounds for the Normal Approximation of a Sum of Independent Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--485 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--496 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--496
Anonymous Introduction: Introduction . . . . . . . 1--7 D. J. Smith and A. J. Callaghan Definitional Aspects of Measurement of Unemployment --- a Comparative Study of the Australian Longitudinal Survey and Other Sources of Youth Unemployment Data 9--24 Dennis Trewin and Garth Bode and Peter Boal and Debbie Newton An Automatic Interaction Detection Analysis on Unemployed Youth . . . . . . 25--45 Paul Miller and Paul Volker Socioeconomic Influences on Educational Attainment: Evidence and Implications for the Tertiary Education Finance Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--70 Bruce Bradbury and Ian McRae and Lyn Woyzbun Families and Early Labour Market Experience: an Analysis of Siblings . . 71--97 Heather Prior and John J. Beggs Influence of Family Background on the Educational and Labour-Force Outcomes of Year 12 School-Leavers . . . . . . . . . 99--124 John Larum and John J. Beggs What Drives Australian Teenage Labour Force Participation? . . . . . . . . . . 125--142 K. R. Sawyer Non-Parametric Estimation and Testing of Econometric Models of Duration: an Application to the Australian Longitudinal Survey . . . . . . . . . . 143--164 William Dunsmuir and Richard Tweedie and Lloyd Flack and Kerrie Mengersen Modelling of Transitions Between Employment States for Young Australians 165--196 Ian R. James Unemployment Duration: Modelling and Estimation with Particular Reference to the Australian Longitudinal Survey . . . 197--212 E. Ann Eyland and Lester W. Johnson The Transition from Full-Time Study to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225
Masaaki Kijima On the Unimodality of Transition Probabilities in Markov Chains . . . . . 1--10 L. A. Weissfeld and H. Schneider Influence Diagnostics for the Normal Linear Model with Censored Data . . . . 11--20 Maxwell L. King The Power of Student's $t$ Test: Can a Non-Similar Test Do Better? . . . . . . 21--27 J. B. Carlin An Algorithmic Approach to Bayesian Linear Model Calculations . . . . . . . 29--43 Subhash C. Kochar and R. P. Gupta Distribution-Free Tests Based on Sub-Sample Extrema for Testing Against Positive Dependence . . . . . . . . . . 45--51 Jun Shao and Shein-Chung Chow Test for Treatment Effect Based on Binary Data with Random Sample Sizes . . 53--70 Muhammad Khalid Pervaiz and C. J. Skinner A Monte Carlo Comparison of Elliptical-Theory and Other Tests for Equality of Covariance Matrices . . . . 71--86 Muhammad I. Bhatti and Maxwell L. King A Beta-Optimal Test of the Equicorrelation Coefficient . . . . . . 87--97 Michael B. Dollinger and Robert G. Staudte The Construction of Equileverage Designs for Multiple Linear Regression . . . . . 99--118 Ken Sharpe Book Review: \booktitleThe Teaching of Practical Statistics, by C. W. Anderson and R. M. Loynes . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121 Ian W. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of Infectious Disease Data. by Niels G. Becker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123 H. Cohn Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced Probability Theory. by Janos Galambos 124--125 Kerrie Mengersen and Eve Bofinger Corrigendum: Selecting the $t$ Best Populations --- Scale Parameter Case . . 127--127
Govind S. Mudholkar and Philip A. Smethurst Empirically Accelerated Convergence of the Spacings Statistics to Normality . . 129--138 Peter Hall and A. H. Welsh The Rate of Convergence in the Normal Approximation for the Wilcoxon $R$-Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--150 Oliver D. Anderson Teaching Statistics: a Talk About Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--161 Peter J. Danaher A Markov Chain Model for Magazine Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176 Nicholas I. Fisher and Peter Hall On Bootstrap Hypothesis Testing . . . . 177--190 Graham Pollard A Method for Determining the Asymptotic Efficiency of Some Sequential Probability Ratio Tests . . . . . . . . 191--204 Stephen Haslett Covariances for Fixed Interval Smoothed Kalman Filter Parameter Estimates . . . 205--216 Xuming He Estimating the Root of a Nonparametric Regression Function in a Robust Fashion 217--225 A. P. Verbyla A Conditional Derivation of Residual Maximum Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230 Tue Tjur A New Upper Bound for the Efficiency Factor of a Block Design . . . . . . . . 231--237 Ravindra Khattree and Rameshwar D. Gupta Estimation of Realized Signal to Noise Ratio for a Pair of Multivariate Signals 239--246 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253 Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to C. C. Heyde . . 259--260 Les M. Irwig and Hennie T. Groeneveld and Judy M. Simpson Correcting for Measurement Error in an Exposure-Response Relationship Based on Dichotomising a Continuous Dependent Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--269 Ioannis I. Gerontidis On the Variance-Covariance Matrix in Markovian Manpower Systems in Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280 Masafumi Akahira and Kei Takeuchi Loss of Information Associated with the Order Statistics and Related Estimators in the Double Exponential Distribution Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--291 Paul Michels and Götz Trenkler Testing the Stability of Regression Coefficients Using Generalized Recursive Residuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--312 H. S. Konijn Note on Point and Interval Estimation and Prediction for Normal Equicorrelated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316 David J. Scott and Wang Dong Qian An Iterative Method for Estimation of Parameters in a Clustered Sampling Model 317--325 G. K. Robinson A Role for Variograms . . . . . . . . . 327--335 Sudhir Gupta and Rahul Mukerjee On Incomplete Block Designs for Symmetric Parallel Line Assays . . . . . 337--344 Deborah J. Street and J. A. Eccleston and William H. Wilson Tables of Small Optimal Repeated Measurements Designs . . . . . . . . . . 345--359 M. C. Jones Variable Kernel Density Estimates and Variable Kernel Density Estimates . . . 361--371 K. L. Mehra and N. G. N. Prasad and K. S. Madhava Rao A Class of Nonparametric Tests for the One-Sample Location Problem . . . . . . 373--392 S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi Estimation of the Parameter of a Poisson Distribution Using a LINEX Loss Function 393--398 Nam-Ky Nguyen and Aloke Dey Computer-Aided Construction of Small $ (M, S) $-Optimal Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--410 K. R. W. Brewer and S. M. Tam Is the Assumption of Uniform Intra-Class Correlation Ever Needed? . . . . . . . . 411--423 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--442
R. L. Tweedie Pitman Medal Awarded to E. J. Hannan . . 1--4 C. A. Mcgilchrist and L. J. Hills A Semi-Markov Model for Ear Infection 5--16 O. A. Adekola A Note on Asymptotic Posterior Normality for Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . 17--21 Clifford M. Hurvich and Jeffrey S. Simonoff and Scott L. Zeger Variance Estimation for Sample Autocovariances: Direct and Resampling Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--42 Nuwan Nanayakkara and Noel Cressie Combining Two Unbiased Estimators of a Common Mean of Two Normal Populations 43--56 Gordon K. Smyth Exponential Dispersion Models and the Gauss--Newton Algorithm . . . . . . . . 57--64 Subir Ghosh and Yi-Jing Duh Adjusting Residuals in Estimation of Dispersion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74 Bo-Cheng Wei Some Second Order Asymptotics in Nonlinear Regression . . . . . . . . . . 75--84 V. V. Anh and K. E. Lunney Spectral Representation and Ergodicity of Asymptotically Stationary Processes 85--94 V. T. Prabhakaran and V. K. Mahajan On an Identity for Finding Moments of Sample Moments of Bivariate Normal Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--117 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
R. G. Jarrett Pitman Medal Awarded to P. G. Hall . . . 122--124 Niels G. Becker and Mads Melbye Use of a Log-Linear Model to Compute the Empirical Survival Curve from Interval-Censored Data, with Application to Data on Tests for HIV Positivity . . 125--133 O. A. Adekola Asymptotic Posterior Normality for Stochastic Processes: a Non-Ergodic Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--144 Radhey S. Singh James--Stein Rule Estimators in Linear Regression Models with Multivariate-$t$ Distributed Error . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158 Neil T. Diamond The Use of a Class of Foldover Designs As Search Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 159--166 Shailaja R. Deshmukh Bernoulli Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176 Sukalyan Sengupta Some Simple Approximations for the Doubly Noncentral $z$ Distribution . . . 177--181 Eve Bofinger Selecting ``Demonstrably Best'' or ``Demonstrably Worst'' Exponential Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--190 Ian C. Marschner Heterogeneity Among Susceptibles in Epidemic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--207 Richard M. Huggins and Ian C. Marschner Robust Analysis of the Bifurcating Autoregressive Model in Cell Lineage Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--220 Ian C. Marschner Robust Estimation for Epidemic Models 221--240 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--248 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Sing Kai Lo On the Analysis and Application of Measures of Linkage Disequilibrium . . . 249--259 R. M. Clark and A. G. Harcourt Randomisation and the 1975 Senate Ballot Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--278 W. R. Catchpole and E. A. Catchpole Estimating Biomass in a Vegetation Mosaic Using Double Sampling with Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--289 Stavros Kourouklis Bahadur Efficiency of Likelihood Ratio and Related Tests in Nonregular Models 291--298 R. J. Martin and J. A. Eccleston Efficient Block Designs for Correlated Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--311 A. C. Davison and P. W. F. Smith and J. Whittaker An Exact Conditional Test for Covariance Selection Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--318 Mervyn J. Silvapulle Robust Ridge Regression Based on an $M$-Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--333 Anthony J. Hayter and Glenn Stone Distribution Free Multiple Comparisons for Monotonically Ordered Treatment Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--346 A. N. Gill and G. P. Mehta Selection Procedures for Scale Parameters Using Two-Sample $U$-Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--362 B. M. Brown and M. J. Pella The Grouping Problem in Distribution-Free Planar Regression . . 363--372 O. D. Anderson All the Gaussian White Noise Serial Covariance Moments to Order Four . . . . 373--396 Jun Bai and Anthony J. Jakeman and Michael McAleer A New Approach to Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Three-Parameter Gamma and Weibull Distributions . . . . . . . 397--410 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--426 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
M. Pithuncharurnlap and K. E. Basford and B. R. Cullis Nearest Neighbour Analysis of Unequally Replicated Trials . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 Flavio Lewgoy and Alan E. Stark Experimental Search for Sexual Isolation in Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17 D. Ruppert and M. P. Wand Correcting for Kurtosis in Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29 Prem S. Puri and Harshinder Singh Estimation of a Distribution Function Dominating Stochastically a Known Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . 31--38 Somesh Kumar and Divakar Sharma Estimating the Common Mean of a Bivariate Normal Population . . . . . . 39--46 S. R. Patel and M. B. Bhatt Unbiased Estimation of Parametre Functions in Sampling from One- and Two-Truncation Parameter Families . . . 47--54 M. N. Goria On the Fourth Root Transformation of Chi-Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 Eve Bofinger Comparisons and Selection of Two-Parameter Exponential Populations 65--75 Ian W. Saunders and John A. Eccleston Experimental Design for Continuous Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89 Alan C. Gleeson and John A. Eccleston On the Design of Field Experiments Under a One-Dimensional Neighbour Model . . . 91--97 P. M. Kulkarni Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Tests for First-Order Threshold Autoregressive Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104 Young-Won Kim and I. V. Basawa Empirical Bayes Estimation for First-Order Autoregressive Processes . . 105--114 S. R. Adke and N. Balakrishna Renewal Counting Process Induced by a Discrete Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . 115--121 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125 Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Niels G. Becker Statistical Challenges of AIDS: (The 1990 Knibbs Lecture, Canberra, 27 November 1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--144 B. R. Cullis and A. P. Verbyla Nonlinear Regression Modelling and Time Dependent Covariates in Repeated Measures Experiments . . . . . . . . . . 145--160 L. A. Weissfeld and Anant M. Kshirsagar A Modified Growth Curve Model and Its Application to Clinical Studies . . . . 161--168 Anthony Y. C. Kuk A Semiparametric Mixture Model for the Analysis of Competing Risks Data . . . . 169--180 Lan C. Marschner Robust Methods for Dependent Cell Pedigree Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--198 C. C. Heyde and Y.-X. Lin On Quasi-Likelihood Methods and Estimation for Bunching Processes and Heteroscedastic Regression Models . . . 199--206 Ravindra Khattree Estimation of Guarantee Time and Mean Life After Warranty for Two-Parameter Exponential Failure Model . . . . . . . 207--215 H. Tobing and C. A. McGilchrist Recursive Residuals for Multivariate Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 217--232 P. N. Jones and G. J. McLachlan Fitting Finite Mixture Models in a Regression Context . . . . . . . . . . . 233--240 Christopher Lloyd Effective Conditioning . . . . . . . . . 241--260 L. R. Saunders An Exact Formula for the Symmetrical Incomplete Beta Function Where the Parameter Is an Integer or Half-Integer 261--264 Paul Yip Goodness of Fit Tests for Heterogeneity in a Capture-Recapture Experiment . . . 265--271 Graham H. Pollard The Optimal Test for Selecting the Greater of Two Binomial Probabilities 273--284 Govinda J. Weerakkody Testing Hypotheses About the Common Mean of Two Normal Populations . . . . . . . 285--293 Muhammad Khalid Pezvaiz and C. J. Skinner Multivariate Analysis of Clustered Survey Data: Testing Equality of Covariance Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 295--306 Anthony G. Pakes and Ravindra Khattree Length-Biasing, Characterizations of Laws and the Moment Problem . . . . . . 307--322 Anthony G. Pakes On Characterizations Through Mixed Sums 323--340 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--344
Bruce M. Brown and Evan J. Williams Conversations with Edwin J. G. Pitman 345--360 H. T. Kiiveri and N. A. Campbell Allocation of Remotely Sensed Data Using Markov Models for Image Data and Pixel Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374 Ross S. Sparks Quality Control with Multivariate Data 375--390 Sangit Chatterjee and A. Narayanan A New Approach to Discrimination and Classification Using a Hausdorff Type Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--406 Rameshwar D. Gupta and Harshinder Singh Pitman Nearness Comparisons of Estimates of Two Ordered Normal Means . . . . . . 407--414 P. S. Gill Balanced Change-Over Designs for Autocorrelated Observations . . . . . . 415--420 Eden K. H. Wu and Denis H. Y. Leung Asymptotic Minimax Properties of $L$-Estimators of Scale . . . . . . . . 421--432 Merran A. Evans Burr Critical Value Approximations for Tests of Autocorrelation and Heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 433--442 Yoong-Sin Lee and Moy Chee Lee On the Derivation and Computation of the Cornish--Fisher Expansion . . . . . . . 443--450 Alphonse K. A. Amey and A. K. Gupta Testing Sphericity Under a Mixture Model 451--460 Joseph G. Brahim and Sanford Weisberg Incomplete Data in Generalized Linear Models with Continuous Covariates . . . 461--470 R. J. Carroll and Peter Hall Semiparametric Comparison of Regression Curves Via Normal Likelihoods . . . . . 471--487 K. Balasubramanian and N. Balakrishnan and H. J. Malik Operator Methods in Order Statistics . . 489--496 H. T. Kiiveri Fitting Spatial Correlation Models: Approximating a Likelihood Approximation 497--512 D. Huang and V. V. Anh Estimation of Spatial ARMA Models . . . 513--530 P. K. Pollett and D. Vere Jones A Note on Evanescent Processes . . . . . 531--536 M. A. M. Ali Mousa The Bootstrap Risk of Linear Empirical Bayes Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--544 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--558
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to A. T. James . . 1--4 R. A. Maller Factorial Analysis of Recidivist Data 5--18 J. Bélanger and D. Gagnon Classification and Proportion Estimation 19--28 Alan H. Dorfman A Comparison of Design-Based and Model-Based Estimators of the Finite Population Distribution Function . . . . 29--41 R. M. Huggins On the Robust Analysis of Variance Components Models for Pedigree Data . . 43--57 Andrew Luong and José Garrido Minimum Quadratic Distance Estimation for a Parametric Family of Discrete Distributions Defined Recursively . . . 59--67 Andrew T. A. Wood Estimation of the Concentration Parameters of the Fisher Matrix Distribution on $ 50 (3) $ and the Bingham Distribution on $ S_q $, $ q \geq 2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--79 R. M. Huggins Asymptotic Inference for a Class of Chain Binomial Models . . . . . . . . . 81--87 M. C. Jones Do Not Weight for Heteroscedasticity in Nonparametric Regression . . . . . . . . 89--92 Suojin Wang Saddlepoint Methods for Bootstrap Confidence Bands in Nonparametric Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--101 Mark R. Segal and Bernard Rosner and Albert G. S. Liou and Jan P. Schouten Parameter Estimation for Low-Order Auto-Regressive Models with Missing Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--118 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127 Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services 128--128
A. W. F. Edwards Mendel, Galton, Fisher . . . . . . . . . 129--140 T. Bednarski and B. R. Clarke Trimmed Likelihood Estimation of Location and Scale of the Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--153 Roger Koenker and José A. F. Machado and Christopher L. Skeels and A. H. Welsh Amemiya's Form of the Weighted Least Squares Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 155--174 S. Froda and A. Luong Nonparametric Estimation for Competing Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183 O. Sola Adegboye The Optimal Classification Rule for Exponential Populations . . . . . . . . 185--194 Heleno Bolfarine and Mönica C. Sandoval Prediction of the Finite Population Distribution Function Under Gaussian Superpopulation Models . . . . . . . . . 195--204 Paul Kabaila Some Properties of Profile Bootstrap Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 205--214 A. C. Davison and Peter Hall On Studentizing and Blocking Methods for Implementing the Bootstrap with Dependent Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224 TaChen Liang and N. Balakrishnan A Characterization of Geometric Distributions Through Conditional Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--228 E. R. Williams and J. A. John Upper Bounds for Latinized Designs . . . 229--236 J. A. John and D. Whitaker Construction of Resolvable Row-Column Designs Using Simulated Annealing . . . 237--245 Anonymous Obituaries: S. Lipton, E. J. G. Pitman 246--246 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--256
D. J. Best Extended Analysis for Ranked Data . . . 257--262 M. Pithuncharurnlap and K. E. Basford and W. T. Federer Neighbour Analysis with Adjustment for Interplot Competition . . . . . . . . . 263--270 Murray D. Smith Expectations of Ratios of Quadratic Forms in Normal Variables: Evaluating Some Top-Order Invariant Polynomials . . 271--282 G. W. Horgan and J. Haslett Nonparametric Estimation of Angular Distributions from Cartesian Observations with Error . . . . . . . . 283--292 Rahul Mukerjee and Sujit K. Basu Inverse Sampling for Domain Estimation in a Stratified Population . . . . . . . 293--302 Michael G. Akritas and Indrani Basak and Myung Hwi Lee Robust Estimation Under Type II Censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--318 M. C. Jones Kernel Density Estimation When the Bandwidth Is Large . . . . . . . . . . . 319--326 Yu Hayakawa Interrelationships Between $ l_P $-Isotropic Densities and $ l_P $-Isotropic Survival Functions, and De Finetti Representations of Schur-Concave Survival Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 327--332 N. A. Campbell and H. T. Kiiveri Canonical Variate Analysis with Spatially-Correlated Data . . . . . . . 333--344 Jeffrey M. Albert and Anant M. Kshirsagar The Reduced-Rank Growth Curve Model for Discriminant Analysis of Longitudinal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--357 E. R. Williams and J. T. Wood Testing the Significance of Genotype--Environment Interaction . . . 359--362 Nam-Ky Nguyen and E. R. Williams An Algorithm for Constructing Optimal Resolvable Row-Column Designs . . . . . 363--370 W. N. Venables and J. A. Eccleston Randomized Search Strategies for Finding Optimal or Near Optimal Block and Row-Column Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 371--382 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--389 O. D. Anderson Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Joe Gani Obituary: Edward James Hannan . . . . . 1--8 Joe Kerkvliet Estimating a Logit Model with Randomized Data: the Case of Cocaine Use . . . . . 9--20 C. D. Mathers and R. S. Harris and P. A. L. Lancaster A Cusum Scheme Based on the Exponential Distribution for Surveillance of Rare Congenital Malformations . . . . . . . . 21--30 A. M. Richardson and A. H. Welsh Asymptotic Properties of Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) Estimates for Hierarchical Mixed Linear Models . . . . 31--43 Brenton R. Clarke Empirical Evidence for Adaptive Confidence Intervals and Identification of Outliers Using Methods of Trimming 45--58 Eve Bofinger Should We Estimate the Probability of Correct Selection? . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66 Angelika van der Linde On Cross-Validation for Smoothing Splines in the Case of Dependent Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--73 R. A. Moyeed and P. J. Diggle Rates of Convergence in Semi-Parametric Modelling of Longitudinal Data . . . . . 75--93 Dean M. Young and Patrick L. Odell and John W. Seaman, Jr. On the Independence of the Sample Mean and Translation-Invariant Statistics for Matrix Normal Distributions . . . . . . 95--100 Z. Govindarajulu and H. C. Howard Asymptotic Expansions Applied to $F$-Test Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 101--113 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114 Rahul Mukerjee and S. Sengupta $A$-Optimal Run Orders with a Linear Trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--122 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--128 Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to E. J. Williams 129--132
G. M. Laslett and C. J. Lloyd and G. K. Robinson Encounters with Statistical Inference --- an Interview with Evan Williams . . 133--152 John L. Hopper and John D. Mathews A Multivariate Normal Model for Pedigree and Longitudinal Data and the Software `Fisher' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--176 N. A. Campbell and S. L. Furby Variable Selection Along Canonical Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183 A. J. Yeo and G. F. Yeo Selecting Satisfactory Secretaries . . . 185--198 Ian Gordon Sample Size for Two Independent Proportions: a Review . . . . . . . . . 199--209 Sneh Gulati and W. J. Padgett Nonparametric Quantile Estimation from Record-Breaking Data . . . . . . . . . . 211--223 Clint W. Coakley and Thomas P. Hettmansperger The Maximum Resistance of Tests . . . . 225--233 Ian W. Saunders An Algorithm for Choosing the Sampling Times for an Experiment on a Continuous Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--244 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--251 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to J. M. Gani . . . 253--255 G. M. Tallis A Stochastic Model for Team Golf Competitions with Applications to Handicapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269 Richard M. Huggins and Danuta Z. Loesch Applications of Robust Estimation for Variance Components Models:The Detection of Major Gene Effects in Finger Ridge Counts in Normal and Fragile X Families 271--286 Naveen K. Bansal and M. Bhandary Robust $M$-Estimation of the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient . . . . . . . . 287--301 Yan-Xia Lin The Relationship Between Quasi-Score and Locally $E$-Sufficient Estimating Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311 Alan T. K. Wan The Sampling Performance of Inequality Restricted and Pre-Test Estimators in a Mis-Specified Linear Model . . . . . . . 313--325 Bo-Cheng Wei On Confidence Regions of Embedded Models in Regular Parametric Families (A Geometric Approach) . . . . . . . . . . 327--338 M. P. Quine Probability Approximations for Divisible Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 339--349 Roel J. G. Wilms and Jan G. F. Thiemann Characterizations of Shift-Invariant Distributions Based on Summation Modulo One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--354 Bing-Yi Jing Bahadur Slopes for Comparisons of Tests Based on Resampling . . . . . . . . . . 355--362 Hans-Peter Piepho On Tests for Interaction in a Nonreplicated Two-Way Layout . . . . . . 363--369 John A. Eccleston and Deborah J. Street An Algorithm for the Construction of Optimal or Near-Optimal Change-Over Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--378 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--385 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Philip L. H. Yu and Richard Cowan A Statistical Model for Duplicate Tournaments in Games of Luck and Skill 1--17 K. L. Mengersen and R. L. Tweedie and B. Biggerstaff The Impact of Method Choice on Meta-Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--44 R. V. Lenth and M. Markatou and J. Tsimikas Robust Tests Based on the Sample Characteristic Function . . . . . . . . 45--60 S. Zhou and R. A. Maller and T. P. Speed On a Shared Allele Test of Random Mating 61--72 Alan T. K. Wan The Optimal Critical Value of a Pre-Test for an Inequality Restriction in a Mis-Specified Regression Model . . . . . 73--81 J. Pusz A Regression Characterisation of the Meixner Hypergeometric Distribution . . 83--87 E. B. Fosam and T. Sapatinas Characterisations of Some Income Distributions Based on Multiplicative Damage Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93 A. L. Bello Missing Values, Imputation and Error Rate Estimators in Discriminant Analysis 95--104 E. J. Hannan and L. Kavalieris A Note on ARMA Parameterisation* . . . . 105--110 Nizam Uddin and Dexter C. Whittinghill The Robustness of Binary and Non-Binary Balanced Nested Row-Column Designs Under the Unavailability of Blocks: a Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Philip N. Kokic and Lynelle Moon and Jane Gooday and Ray L. Chambers Estimating Temporal Farm Income Distributions Using Spatial Smoothing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143 Neil S. Barnett and Ian S. Gomm and Len Armour Location of the Optimal Sampling Point for the Quality Assessment of Continuous Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152 J. S. Maritz A Permutation Paired Test Allowing for Missing Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159 Joel Boularan and Louis Ferre and Philippe Vieu Location of Particular Points in Non-Parametric Regression Analysis . . . 161--168 K. Vijayan and P. Mukhopadhyay and S. Bhattacharyya On Non-Negative Unbiased Estimation of Quadratic Forms in Finite Population Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178 Toby Lewis and Nicholas I. Fisher Estimating the Angle Between the Mean Directions of Two Spherical Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191 R. A. Moyeed Spline Smoother As a Dynamic Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204 R. Van de Ven and N. C. Weber Log-Linear Models for Mean and Dispersion in Mixed Poisson Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--216 N. David Yanez III and Jeffrey R. Wilson Comparison of Quasi-Likelihood Models for Overdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . 217--231 J. C. W. Rayner and D. J. Best Smooth Tests for the Bivariate Poisson Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--245 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--252
D. J. Daley Two-Moment Scaling Formulae for Aggregating Examination Marks . . . . . 253--272 J. D. Biggins and K. K. Yue A Likelihood Approach to Scaling Examination Marks . . . . . . . . . . . 273--282 Ross Sparks and Roy Ballantyne Quality Control Methods in Large-Scale Assessment Procedures Using `Double-Marking' or `Partial Double-Marking' . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--298 Ian R. James and Stephen J. Hogan and Simon A. Mallal Analysis of Doubly Censored Data and the HIV Incubation Period Distribution in Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . 299--312 Ling Chen A One-Sided Trimmed Mean Estimator for the Mean of Positively Skewed Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--322 Suzanne Sommer and Robert G. Staudte Robust Variable Selection in Regression in the Presence of Outliers and Leverage Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--336 Bing-Yi Jing Some Resampling Procedures Under Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--344 Neil T. Diamond Some Properties of a Foldover Design . . 345--352 I. W. Saunders and J. A. Eccleston and R. J. Martin An Algorithm for the Design of $2$ Factorial Experiments on Continuous Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--365 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--374 Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
W. McLennan The Product of the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 1995 Knibbs Lecture, Canberra, 28 November 1995 . . . . . . . 1--14 David Steel and Joe Vella and Peter Harrington Quality Issues in Telephone Surveys: Coverage, Non-Response and Quota Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--34 Arijit Chaudhuri and Tapabrata Maiti and Debesh Roy A Note on Competing Variance Estimators in Randomised Response Surveys . . . . . 35--42 Horng JinhChang and Der HsinLiang A Two-Stage Unrelated Randomised Response Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . 43--51 C. A. McGilchrist and K. K. W. Yau Survival Analysis with Time Dependent Frailty Using a Longitudinal Model . . . 53--60 Norbert Henze and Bernhard Klar Properly Rescaled Components of Smooth Tests of Fit Are Diagnostic . . . . . . 61--74 Pil S. Paek and Anant M. Kshirsagar Chance of Misclassification in the Case of Several Normal Populations . . . . . 75--82 Anant M. Kshirsagar and Joanna Chung-in Cheng A New Measure of Rotatability of Response Surface Designs . . . . . . . . 83--89 H. Monod and J-M. Aza\"\is and R. A. Bailey Valid Randomisation for the First-Difference Analysis . . . . . . . 91--106 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
Asraul Hoque Multiperiod Forecasting Analysis of a Dynamic Model for a Small Sample . . . . 113--129 T. M. Ng and W. K. Li Tests for Seasonal Differencing with an Unknown Break-Point . . . . . . . . . . 131--153 Anton Schick $ \sqrt n$-Consistent Estimation in a Random Coefficient Autoregressive Model 155--160 Guohua Pan Distribution-Free Confidence Procedure for Umbrella Orderings . . . . . . . . . 161--172 J. Z. Wang and P. Cooke and S. Li Determination of Domains of Attraction Based on a Sequence of Maxima . . . . . 173--181 Jeremy M. G. Taylor and William G. Cumberland and Xiangyi Meng Components of Variance Models with Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--191 Dean M. Young and Leah M. Lehman and Laurie M. Meaux Independence Distribution-Preserving Nonnegative-Definite Covariance Structures for the Sample Variance . . . 193--200 Sarjinder Singh and A. H. Joarder and Maxwell L. King Regression Analysis Using Scrambled Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211 Mario Lefebvre and Richard Labib Hitting Lines and Circles with Diffusion Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--222 D. A. Preece Multi-Factor Balanced Block Designs with Complete Adjusted Orthogonality for All Pairs of Treatment Factors . . . . . . . 223--230 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
Pak F. Tang and Neil S. Barnett Dispersion Control for Multivariate Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--251 Pak F. Tang and Neil S. Barnett Dispersion Control for Multivariate Processes --- Some Comparisons . . . . . 253--273 Lise Manchester Empirical Influence for Robust Smoothing 275--290 A. M. Hasofer and J. Z. Wang Estimation of Quantiles for a Fréchet-Type Distribution . . . . . . . . 291--298 Theofanis Sapatinas On the Generalized Rao--Rubin Condition and Some Variants . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306 Gilberto A. Paula Influence Diagnostics in Proper Dispersion Models . . . . . . . . . . . 307--316 Y. Chaiyapong and C. J. Lloyd Improved Inference from Recapture Experiments with Behavioural Response Through Modelling and Auxiliary Experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--331 N. T. Longford Model-Based Variance Estimation in Surveys with Stratified Clustered Design 333--352 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--358
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to W. J. Ewens . . 1--3 Ayoub Saei and C. A. McGilchrist Random Threshold Models Applied to Inflated Zero Class Data . . . . . . . . 5--16 You-Gan Wang and Ming Yin Estimation for the General Sample Selection Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24 Bing-Yi Jing and John Robinson Two-Sample Nonparametric Tilting Method 25--34 W. J. Krzanowski and D. J. Hand Assessing Error Rate Estimators: the Leave-One-Out Method Reconsidered . . . 35--46 Song Xi Chen Empirical Likelihood-Based Kernel Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56 M. C. Jones and R. J. Karunamuni Fourier Series Estimation for Length Biased Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68 Jacek Wesolowski and Mohammad Ahsanullah On Characterizing Distributions Via Linearity of Regression for Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--78 W. Liu On a Multiple Three-Decision Procedure for Comparing Several Treatments with a Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92 D. R. Jensen Conditioning and Concentration of Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 93--104 Peter G. Moffatt Global Log-Concavity of the Likelihood in Models with Grouped Discrete Data . . 105--112 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--118 Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services 119--120
David Vere-Jones Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, 1912--1995 a Personal Tribute . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128 Bo-Cheng Wei and Hong-Tu Zhu Some Second Order Asymptotics in Exponential Family Non-Linear Regression Models (A Geometric Approach) . . . . . 129--148 Richard Morton and Mike Patefield and Phil Bowtell Estimating Equations and Non-Linear Functional Relationships . . . . . . . . 149--167 Wei Liu Stepwise Tests When the Test Statistics Are Independent . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177 Anthony G. Pakes and Fred W. Steutel On the Number of Records Near the Maximum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192 Paul Kabaila and Chris J. Lloyd Tight Upper Confidence Limits from Discrete Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204 Chihiro Hirotsu Two-Way Change-Point Model and Its Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--218 Michikazu Sato Some Remarks on the Mean, Median, Mode and Skewness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--224 You-Gan Wang Error Bounds for Calculation of the Gittins Indices . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--233 Guohua Zou Letters to the Editor: Two-stage Randomized Response Procedures as Single Stage Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236 Norman R. Draper and Friedrich Pukelsheim Letters to the Editor: Kshirsagar & Cheng's Rotatability Measure . . . . . . 236--238 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--244 Simon J. Sheather Editorial Announcement: New Journal Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
G. D. Lin and J. S. Huang Orginal Article: The Cube of a Logistic Distribution Is Indeterminate . . . . . 247--252 Ramakrishna Kakarala and Geoffrey S. Watson Orginal Article: Lower Bounds for the Divergence of Directional and Axial Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--260 Goran Kauermann Orginal Article: a Note on Multivariate Logistic Models for Contingency Tables 261--276 Anoop Chaturvedi and Hikaru Hasegawa and Sheel Asthana Orginal Article: Bayesian Analysis of the Linear Regression Model with Non-Normal Disturbances . . . . . . . . 277--293 Nalini Ravishanker and Bonnie K. Ray Orginal Article: Bayesian Analysis of Vector ARFIMA Processes . . . . . . . . 295--311 R. J. Hyndman and M. P. Wand Orginal Article: Nonparametric Autocovariance Function Estimation . . . 313--324 Patricia Gimenez and Heleno Bolfarine Orginal Article: Corrected Score Functions in Classical Error-In-Variables and Incidental Parameter Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--344 M. K. Tang and Wing K. Fung Orginal Article: Case-Deletion Diagnostics for Test Statistics in Multivariate Regression . . . . . . . . 345--353 D. J. Best and J. C. W. Rayner Orginal Article: Goodness of Fit for the Binomial Distribution . . . . . . . . . 355--364 Geoff Robinson Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 365--366 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--370 Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 371--371 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Jennifer S. K. Chan and Anthony Y. C. Kuk and James Bell and Charles Mc Gilchrist The Analysis of Methadone Clinic Data Using Marginal and Conditional Logistic Models with Mixture or Random Effects 1--10 A. G. Chetwynd and P. J. Diggle On Estimating the Reduced Second Moment Measure of a Stationary Spatial Point Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15 Toshiyuki Sato and Yoshihide Kakizawa and Masanobu Taniguchi Large Deviation Results for Statistics of Short- and Long-memory Gaussian Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--29 J. L. Hay and A. N. Pettitt The Added Variable Plot for a Time Series of Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42 Denis Heng-Yan Leung and You-Gan Wang Bias Reduction using Stochastic Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52 Christopher A. Field and A. H. Welsh Robust Confidence Intervals for Regression Parameters . . . . . . . . . 53--64 Soon-Kwi Kim and Richard Huggins Diagnostics for Autocorrelated Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 65--71 Hongsheng Gao and Peter Smith Some Bounds on the Distribution of Certain Quadratic Forms in Normal Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81 H. M. Barakat Weak Limit of the Sample Extremal Quotient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--93 M. Gharib Some Estimates for the Rate of Convergence in the Multidimensional Central Limit Theorem for Homogeneous Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102 Kentaro Nomakuchi A Generalization of the Childs--Moran Result for Orthoscheme Probabilities . . 103--109 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110 J. A. John and E. R. Williams $t$-Latinized Designs . . . . . . . . . 111--118 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128
R. M. Huggins and D. Z. Loesch and N. H. Hoang A Comparison of Methods of Fitting Models to Twin Data . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 Srikanta Chatterjee and Claudio Michelini Household Consumption Equivalence Scales: Some Estimates from New Zealand Household Expenditure and Income Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--150 Quang M. Bui and Richard M. Huggins Robust Inference for the Bivariate Bifurcating Autoregressive Model . . . . 151--163 Xiaomi Hu An Exact Algorithm for Projection onto a Polyhedral Cone . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--170 Hikaru Hasegawa Risk Comparison of Inequality Constrained Estimators in the Heteroscedastic Linear Model . . . . . . 171--180 Kazuhiro Ohtani and Alan T. K. Wan On the Sampling Performance of an Improved Stein Inequality Restricted Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--187 Paul Kabaila The Choice of Statistic on Which to Base Tight Upper Confidence Limits . . . . . 189--196 H. S. Konijn Certain Inverse Multivariate Hypergeometric and Multinomial Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204 Ioan Cuculescu and Radu Theodorescu Multiplicative Strong Unimodality . . . 205--214 Geoffrey F. Yeo Interview Costs in the Secretary Problem 215--219 T. Pham-Gia Distribution of the Stopping Time in Bayesian Sequential Sampling . . . . . . 221--227 Somnath Datta and William P. McCormick and George Mathew Nonlinear Autoregression with Positive Innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--239 Mausumi Bose Designs with Repeated Measurements on Any Number of Units over Varying Periods 241--248 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--255 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Nicholas I. Fisher and Peter Hall Tributes and Obituary: Tribute: Geoffrey Stuart Watson (3 December 1921--3 January 1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--268 J. Wells Applications: Oversampling Through Households or Other Clusters: Comparisons of Methods for Weighting the Oversampled Elements . . . . . . . . . . 269--278 Rodney Strachan and Maxwell King and Sarjinder Singh Theory and Methods: Likelihood-based Estimation of the Regression Model with Scrambled Responses . . . . . . . . . . 279--290 Sarjinder Singh and Stephen Horn and Sadeq Chowdhury Theory and Methods: Estimation of Stigmatized Characteristics of a Hidden Gang in a Finite Population . . . . . . 291--298 You-Gan Wang Theory and Methods: Growth Curves with Explanatory Variables and Estimation of the Effect of Tagging . . . . . . . . . 299--304 Patrick E. B. FitzGerald and Matthew W. Knuiman Theory and Methods: Estimation in Regressive Logistic Regression Analyses of Familial Data with Missing Outcomes 305--316 Andrzej S. Kozek Theory and Methods: on Minimum Distance Estimation Using Kolmogorov--Lévy Type Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--334 Sumalee Givaruangsawat and Govinda J. Weerakkody and Patrick D. Gerard Theory and Methods: Hypothesis Testing in Two-Stage Cluster Sampling . . . . . 335--344 Yuejen Zhao and Andy H. Lee Theory and Methods: Influence Diagnostics for Simultaneous Equations Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--358 L. Y. Chan and J. H. Meng and Y. C. Jiang and Y. N. Guan Theory and Methods: $D$-Optimal Axial Designs for Quadratic and Cubic Additive Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--372 M. S. Ahmed Theory and Methods: a Note on Regression-Type Estimators Using Multiple Auxiliary Information . . . . . 373--376 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--383 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous Announcement Notice: Pitman Medal Awarded to E. Seneta . . . . . . . . . . 385--387 E. A. Catchpole and B. R. Anderson Applications: Comparing the Performances of NSW and Victorian Students in a First-Year Mathematics Course (with Discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--406 Carol J. Feltz Theory & Methods: Generalizations of the $ \delta $-Corrected Kolmogorov--Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test . . . . . . . . . . 407--413 Ömer Öztürk Theory & Methods: a Robust and Almost Fully Efficient $M$-Estimator . . . . . 415--424 Damaraju Raghavarao and James B. Wiley Theory & Methods: Estimating Main Effects with Pareto Optimal Subsets . . . . . . 425--432 I. Pigeot and H. Strugholtz Theory & Methods: Jackknifing the Mantel--Haenszel Estimator in Sparse Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 433--441 Andreas Futschik and Georg Ch. Pflug Theory & Methods: Distance Testing for Selecting the Best Population . . . . . 443--464 Eric J. Beh and Pamela J. Davy Theory & Methods: Partitioning Pearson's Chi-Squared Statistic for a Completely Ordered Three-Way Contingency Table . . 465--477 Chunsheng Ma and John Robinson Theory & Methods: Saddlepoint Approximation for Sample and Bootstrap Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--486 N. R. Draper and J. A. John Theory & Methods: Response Surface Designs Where Levels of Some Factors are Difficult to Change . . . . . . . . . . 487--495 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--505 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506 Anonymous Index: Index to Articles and Book Reviews in Volume 40 . . . . . . . . . . 507--512
Simon Sheather Editorial: Retirement of Daryl Daley as Technical Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Denny Meyer and Tim Napier-Munn Applications: Optimal Experiments for Time-Dependent Mineral Processes . . . . 3--17 Graham B. McBride Applications: Equivalence Tests Can Enhance Environmental Science and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29 Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 30--30 V. A. Vignaux and J. L. Scott Theory & Methods: Simplifying Regression Models Using Dimensional Analysis . . . 31--41 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42 Andrew Balemi and Alan Lee Theory & Methods: Some Properties of the Liang--Zeger Method Applied to Clustered Binary Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58 Jiin-Huarng Guo Theory & Methods: a Nonparametric Test for the Parallelism of Two First-Order Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 59--65 Herbert Büning and Wolfgang Kössler Theory & Methods: The Asymptotic Power of Jonckheere-Type Tests for Ordered Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77 V. T. Stefanov and A. G. Pakes Theory & Methods: Explicit Distributional Results in Pattern Formation II . . . . 79--90 M. B. Dollinger and E. Kulinskaya and R. G. Staudte Theory & Methods: Guarded Weights of Evidence and Acceptability Profiles Based on Signs: I. Permutation Arguments (With Discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . 91--110 J. A. John and K. G. Russell and E. R. Williams and D. Whitaker Theory & Methods: Resolvable Designs with Unequal Block Sizes . . . . . . . . . . 111--116 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--126
Des Nicholls Oration Lecture: Presidential Address: Statistics into the 21st century (with discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139 Alan Lee Applications: Modelling rugby league data via bivariate negative binomial regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--152 Lynette Hunt and Murray Jorgensen Theory & Methods: Mixture model clustering using the Multimix program 154--171 Rameshwar D. Gupta and Debasis Kundu Theory & Methods: Generalized exponential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--188 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos Theory & Methods: Second-order biases of the maximum likelihood estimates in von Mises regression models . . . . . . . . 189--198 Sarjinder Singh and Stephen Horn and Sadeq Chowdhury and Frank Yu Theory & Methods: Calibration of the estimators of variance . . . . . . . . . 199--212 Konstantinos Adamidis Theory & Methods: an EM algorithm for estimating negative binomial parameters 213--221 A. M. Hasofer and S. Li Theory & Methods: Estimation for Type II domain of attraction based on the $W$ statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--232 Eric J. Beh and Pamela J. Davy Theory & Methods: Partitioning Pearson's chi-squared statistic for a partially ordered three-way contingency table . . 233--246 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253 V. T. Stefanov and A. G. Pakes Corrigenda: Explicit Distributional Results in Pattern Formation II . . . . 254--254
Murray J. Mackinnon and Ned Glick Applications: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases --- an Overview 255--275 E. R. Williams and J. A. John and D. Whitaker Applications: Example of Block Designs for Plant and Tree Breeding Trials . . . 277--284 Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: an Analysis of Two-Dimensional Agricultural Field Trials in the Presence of Outliers and Fertility Jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--297 Christopher J. Lloyd and Yongyuth Chaiyapong Theory & Methods: Choosing Sampling Effort for Recapture Experiments with Behavioural Response . . . . . . . . . . 299--304 Andy H. Lee and John S. Yick Theory & Methods: a Perturbation Approach to Outlier Detection in Two-Way Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315 Murray D. Smith and Peter G. Moffatt Theory & Methods: Fisher's Information on the Correlation Coefficient in Bivariate Logistic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--330 Paul Kabaila Theory & Methods: an Efficient Simulation Method for the Computation of a Class of Conditional Expectations . . . . . . . . 331--336 Bernhard Klar Theory & Methods: Model Selection for a Family of Discrete Failure Time Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--352 Robert A. R. King and H. L. MacGillivray Theory & Methods: a Starship Estimation Method for the Generalized $ \lambda $ Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--374 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Indexes for Volumes 40 and 41 . . . . . Russell B. Millar and Trevor J. Willis Applications: Estimating the Relative Density of Snapper in and around a Marine Reserve Using a Log-Linear Mixed-Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 383--394 J. A. Brown Theory & Methods: a Comparison of Two Adaptive Sampling Designs . . . . . . . 395--403 L. N. Sahoo and Pournamasi Panda Theory & Methods: a Class of Estimators Using Auxiliary Information in Two-Stage Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--410 Bryan F. J. Manly and R. I. C. Chris Francis Theory & Methods: Analysis of Variance by Randomization when Variances are Unequal 411--429 George Tzavelas Theory & Methods: a Characterization of the Normal Family of Distributions Based on the Bias of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--438 Zhihui Liu Theory & Methods: Set Compound Estimation Under Entropy Loss . . . . . . . . . . . 439--450 M. B. Dollinger and E. Kulinskaya and R. G. Staudte Theory & Methods: Guarded Weights of Evidence and Acceptability Profiles Based on Signs: II. Asymptotic Results 451--461 Vo Anh and Rodney Wolff and Jiti Gao and Quang Tieng Theory & Methods: Local Linear Kernel Regression with Long-Range Dependent Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--479 Eve Bofinger Theory & Methods: Homogeneity of Two Straight Lines: Equivalence Approach Using Fitted Regressions . . . . . . . . 481--491 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--501 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 502--502
J. Durbin The Foreman Lecture: The State Space Approach to Time Series Analysis and its Potential for Official Statistics (with Discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23 Ross S. Sparks Applications: Cusum Charts for Ar1 Data: are they worth the Effort? . . . . . . . 25--42 Lesley Hunt Theory & Methods: Why do we do it? Statisticians and the Practice of Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58 A. E. Koudou and D. Pommeret Theory & Methods: a Construction of Lancaster Probabilities with Margins in the Multidimensional Meixner Class . . . 59--66 Paul Kabaila and Chris J. Lloyd Theory & Methods: Profile upper Confidence Limits from Discrete Data . . 67--79 Michael E. O'Neill and Ky Mathews Theory & Methods: a Weighted Least Squares Approach to Levene's Test of Homogeneity of Variance . . . . . . . . 81--100 David C. Blest Theory & Methods: Rank Correlation --- an Alternative Measure . . . . . . . . . . 101--111 Brenton R. Clarke and David K. Gamble and Tadeusz Bednarski Theory & Methods: a Note on Robustness of the $ \beta $-Trimmed Mean . . . . . . . 113--117 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . Claudio Michelini Applications: New Zealand Consumption Equivalence Scales from Quasi-unit Record Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--144 Rob J. Hyndman and Gary K. Grunwald Applications: Generalized Additive Modelling of Mixed Distribution Markov Models with Application to Melbourne's Rainfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158 Janet Bishop and David Die and You-Gan Wang Applications: a Generalized Estimating Equations Approach for Analysis of the Impact of New Technology on a Trawl Fishery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--177 Ludwig Baringhaus and Nora Gürtler and Norbert Henze Theory & Methods: Weighted Integral Test Statistics and Components of Smooth Tests of Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192 Chris J. Lloyd Theory & Methods: Fitting ROC Curves Using Non-linear Binomial Regression . . 193--204 David Ruppert and Raymond J. Carroll Theory & Methods: Spatially-adaptive Penalties for Spline Fitting . . . . . . 205--223 A. G. Constantine and J. B. F. Field and N. I. Robinson Theory & Methods: Probabilities of Failure in Mixed Acceptance Sampling Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--233 Mausumi Bose and Bhramar Mukherjee Theory & Methods: Cross-over Designs in the Presence of Higher Order Carry-overs 235--244 Rahul Mukerjee and T. J. Rao and K. Vijayan Letters: Rejoinder to Ahmed, M. S. (1998). ``A note on regression-type estimators using multiple auxiliary information'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 0--0 Don J. Bennett and David Steel An Evaluation of a Large-scale CATI Household Survey Using Random Digit Dialling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--270 Francis Parisi and Robert Lund Seasonality and Return Periods of Landfalling Atlantic Basin Hurricanes 271--282 Adrian Baddeley and Rolf Turner Practical Maximum Pseudolikelihood for Spatial Point Patterns: (with Discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--322 Di Chen and Jye-Chyi Lu and Chin-Shang Li and Jinho Park Parameter Estimation for Bivariate Shock Models with Singular Distribution for Censored Data with Concomitant Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--336 S. R. Deshmukh Markov Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--345 Rinaldo Artes and Gilberto A. Paula and Ronald Ranvaud Analysis of Circular Longitudinal Data Based on Generalized Estimating Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--358 Xiaomi Hu Tests for Monotonic Intensity in a Poisson Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--365 Paul S. F. Yip and Qizhi Chen A Partial Likelihood Estimator of Vaccine Efficacy . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--374 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382
Duangkamon Chotikapanich and William E. Griffiths Applications: Posterior Distributions for the Gini Coefficient Using Grouped Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--392 S. J. Lee Theory & Methods: On Estimators of Scale and Dispersion in Neighbourhoods of Parametric Families . . . . . . . . . . 393--405 Giorgio E. Montanari Theory & Methods: Conditioning on Auxiliary Variable Means in Finite Population Inference . . . . . . . . . . 407--421 R. M. Huggins and I. V. Basawa Theory & Methods: Inference for the Extended Bifurcating Autoregressive Model for Cell Lineage Studies . . . . . 423--432 Josemar Rodrigues and José Galvão Leite and Luis A. Milan Theory & Methods: an Empirical Bayes Inference for the von Mises Distribution 433--440 Naomi Altman Theory & Methods: Krige, Smooth, Both or Neither?: (with Discussion) . . . . . . 441--461 Richard Fraccaro and Rob J. Hyndman and Alan Veevers Theory & Methods: Residual Diagnostic Plots for Checking for Model Mis-specification in Time Series Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--477 Gary K. Grunwald and Rob J. Hyndman and Leanna Tedesco and Richard L. Tweedie Theory & Methods: Non-Gaussian Conditional Linear $ {\rm Ar}(1) $ Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--495 Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 497--498 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--506 Anonymous Index: Index to Volume 42, 2000 . . . . 507--509 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 510--510
Anonymous Announcement Notice: Pitman Medal for 2000 Awarded to Graham Wilkinson . . . . 1--3 Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 4--4 Simon Sheather Editorial Announcement . . . . . . . . . 5--6 Samuel O. M. Manda A Comparison of Methods for Analysing a Nested Frailty Model to Child Survival in Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16 Gwo Dong Lin A Note on the Characterization of Positive Linnik Laws . . . . . . . . . . 17--20 Charles F. Dunkl and Donald E. Ramirez Computation of the Generalized $F$ Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31 Sarjinder Singh and Anwar H. Joarder and D. S. Tracy Median Estimation Using Double Sampling 33--46 Fuchun Huang and Yosihiko Ogata Comparison of Two Methods for Calculating the Partition Functions of Various Spatial Statistical Models . . . 47--65 Ömer Öztürk A Generalization of Ahmad's Class of Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon Statistics . . . 67--74 Marti J. Anderson and John Robinson Permutation Tests for Linear Models . . 75--88 K. B. Kulasekera and J. Wang A Test of Equality of Regression Curves Using Gâteaux Scores . . . . . . . . . . 89--99 Anthony G. Pakes and Wen-Liang Hung and Jong-Wuu Wu Criteria for the Unique Determination of Probability Distributions by Moments . . 101--111 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112 F. S. Chai and C. T. Liao Three Parallel Flats Designs for Two-level Factorial Experiments . . . . 113--119 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Alison Smith and Brian Cullis and Arthur Gilmour Applications: The Analysis of Crop Variety Evaluation Data in Australia . . 129--145 R. Dennis Cook and Xiangrong Yin Theory & Methods: Special Invited Paper: Dimension Reduction and Visualization in Discriminant Analysis (with discussion) 147--199 M. P. Ng and E. R. Williams Theory & Methods: Joint-regression Analysis for Incomplete Two-way Tables 201--206 Carol J. Feltz and Gerald A. Goldin Theory & Methods: Partition-based Goodness-of-fit Tests on the Line and the Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--220 Simeon M. Berman Theory & Methods: Approximate Identifiability, Moments and Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--230 Karl Mosler and Wilfried Seidel Theory & Methods: Testing for Homogeneity in an Exponential Mixture Model . . . . 231--247 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--255 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Chris Lloyd Announcement Notice: Simon Sheather Completes Term as Managing Editor and Theory & Methods Editor . . . . . . . . . 257--258 Basil M. De Silva and Greg R. Pond and Tim B. Swartz Applications: Estimation of the Magnitude of Victory in One-day Cricket RMIT University, Mayo Clinic Rochester and Simon Fraser University . . . . . . 259--268 Xichuan (Mark) Zhang and Craig H. McLaren and Caleb C. S. Leung Applications: an Easter Proximity Effect: Modelling and Adjustment . . . . 269--280 Mohammad M. Salehi and George A. F. Seber Theory & Methods: a New Proof of Murthy's Estimator which Applies to Sequential Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--286 Thomas W. O'Gorman Theory & Methods: Adaptive Estimation Using Weighted Least Squares . . . . . . 287--297 Paul Kabaila Theory & Methods: On the Order of Data Reductions by Ancillarity and by Sufficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301 Paul Kabaila and John Byrne Theory & Methods: Exact Short Confidence Intervals from Discrete Data . . . . . . 303--309 S. S. Hossain and H. A. Muttlak Theory & Methods: Selected Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--325 Eric J. Beh Theory & Methods: Partitioning Pearson's Chi-squared Statistic for Singly Ordered Two-way Contingency Tables . . . . . . . 327--333 Sadao Tomizawa and Nobuko Miyamoto and Yusuke Hatanaka Theory & Methods: Measure of Asymmetry for Square Contingency Tables Having Ordered Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 335--349 Sadeq R. Chowdhury and C. A. McGilchrist Theory & Methods: Analysis of Contingency Tables with Clustered Observations . . . 351--358 Eka Shinjikashvili Theory & Methods: $ \epsilon $-Repetitions of the Maximum Residuals in an $ {\rm Ar}(1)$ Model . . . . . . . 359--365 Nam-Ky Nguyen Theory & Methods: Cutting Experimental Designs into Blocks . . . . . . . . . . 367--374 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--381 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Announcement: Editorial Announcement: Inaugural Editor's Award . . . . . . . . 383--383 Mike Doherty Applications: The Surrogate Henderson Filters in X-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--392 David Vere-Jones and Murray J. MacKinnon and Brian Silverstone Applications: Harold Silverstone: a Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--398 Jeffrey T. Terpstra and Joseph W. McKean and Joshua D. Naranjo Theory & Methods: Weighted Wilcoxon Estimates for Autoregression . . . . . . 399--419 Eve Bofinger and Wei Liu Theory & Methods: Selecting Closest to Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--430 Melissa J. Dobbie and A. H. Welsh Theory & Methods: Modelling Correlated Zero-inflated Count Data . . . . . . . . 431--444 Gemai Chen and Min Chen Theory & Methods: On a Class of Nonlinear $ {\rm Ar}(P) $ Models with Nonlinear Arch Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--454 D. R. Jensen Theory & Methods: Recovering Information from Incremental Responses . . . . . . . 455--459 Ashis SenGupta and Arnab Kumar Laha Theory & Methods: The Slippage Problem for the Circular Normal Distribution . . 461--471 John M. Marriott and Nancy M. Spencer Theory & Methods: a Note on Bayesian Prediction from the Regression Model with Informative Priors . . . . . . . . 473--480 Lin-An Chen and Kuo-Yuan Liang and Chwen-Chi Liu Theory & Methods: Two-Stage Welsh's Trimmed Mean for the Simultaneous Equations Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--492 Rameshwar D. Gupta and Debasis Kundu Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 493--493 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--499 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500 Anonymous Index: Index to Volume 43, 2001 . . . . 501--503 Anonymous Index: Keyword Index for Volumes 42 and 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--510
Chris J. Lloyd Editorial announcements . . . . . . . . 1--2 Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 2--2 Garry J. Tee Oration Lecture: Applications: Nineteenth and early twentieth century statistics: Some New Zealand connections 3--12 A. H. Welsh Theory & Methods: Incomplete detection in enumeration surveys: Whither distance sampling? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--22 Thomas C. M. Lee Theory & Methods: Tree-based wavelet regression for correlated data using the minimum description length principle . . 23--39 Wen-Han Hwang and Anne Chao and Paul S. F. Yip Theory & Methods: Continuous-time capture-recapture models with time variation and behavioural response . . . 41--54 Richard M. Huggins Theory & Methods: a parametric empirical Bayes approach to the analysis of capture-recapture experiments . . . . . 55--62 Mohammad M. Salehi and George A. F. Seber Theory & Methods: Unbiased estimators for restricted adaptive cluster sampling . . 63--74 Chris J. Lloyd Theory & Methods: Semi-parametric estimation of ROC curves based on binomial regression modelling . . . . . 75--86 Peihua Qiu Theory & Methods: Fitting a semi-parametric model based on two sources of information . . . . . . . . . 87--97 Guorui Bian Theory & Methods: Bayesian estimates in a one-way ANOVA random effects model . . . 99--108 Wei Liu and Nan Wang and Suojin Wang Theory & Methods: Approximations of distributions for some standardized partial sums in sequential analysis . . 109--119 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Quanxi Shao and N. A. Campbell Applications: Modelling trends in groundwater levels by segmented regression with constraints . . . . . . 129--141 B. M. Brown Theory & Methods: On the importance of being smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--154 Richard Gerlach and Ron Bird and Anthony Hall Theory & Methods: Bayesian variable selection in logistic regression: predicting company earnings direction 155--168 Alexandra P. Bremner and Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: Modified classification and regression tree splitting criteria for data with interactions . . . . . . . 169--176 Kelvin K. W. Yau and Andy H. Lee and Angus S. K. Ng Theory & Methods: a zero-augmented gamma mixed model for longitudinal data with many zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183 Nian-Sheng Tang and Bo-Cheng Wei and Xue-Ren Wang Theory & Methods: Detection of influential observations in nonlinear reproductive dispersion models . . . . . 185--192 Jye-Chyi Lu and Di Chen and Nianci Gan Theory & Methods: Semi-parametric modelling and likelihood estimation with estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . 193--212 R. Willink Theory & Methods: Effect on probabilities and quantiles of adding a quantity with small variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220 Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and Gang Zheng Theory & Methods: Estimation of bivariate characteristics using ranked set sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--232 Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and Simos Meintanis Theory & Methods: Estimating the parameters of Poisson-exponential models 233--245 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--255
Ian Westbrooke and Lisa Jones Applications: Imputation of Maori Descent for Electoral Calculations in New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--265 Ian Westbrooke and Michael Ryan Applications: The Mathematics of Electoral District Allocation in New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276 Gerda Claeskens and Peter Hall Theory & Methods: Data Sharpening for Hazard Rate Estimation . . . . . . . . . 277--283 John M. Neuhaus Theory & Methods: Bias due to Ignoring the Sample Design in Case-Control Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--293 Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: Pseudo--Modelling of Outliers for Estimation of Regression and Time Series Models . . . . . . . . . 295--310 Kang--Mo Jung Theory & Methods: a Diagnostic Method for Principal Components Tests . . . . . . . 311--318 John L. Knight and Stephen E. Satchell and Jun Yu Theory & Methods: Estimation of the Stochastic Volatility Model by the Empirical Characteristic Function Method 319--335 Etsuo Kumagai and Nobuo Inagaki and Kiyoshi Inoue Theory & Methods: On Efron's Parameterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--343 Francisco A. M. De Souza and Gilberto A. Paula Theory & Methods: Deviance Residuals for an Angular Response . . . . . . . . . . 345--356 Subir Ghosh and Colleen Burns Theory & Methods: Comparison of Four New General Classes of Search Designs . . . 357--366 Yunchan Chi Theory & Methods: Ordered Tests for Right-Censored Survival Data . . . . . . 367--380 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Eugene Seneta In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster, AO FAA, 1 February 1913--2 December 2001 . . . . . . . . . 385--400 Ning Li and Guoqi Qian and Richard Huggins Analysis of Between-Household Heterogeneity in Disease Transmission from Data on Outbreak Sizes . . . . . . 401--411 Paul S. Clarke and P. F. Tate An Application of Non-Ignorable Non-Response Models for Gross Flows Estimation in the British Labour Force Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--425 B. M. Brown and T. P. Hettmansperger Kruskal--Wallis, Multiple Comparisons and Efron Dice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--438 Ri\vcardas Zitikis and Joseph L. Gastwirth The Asymptotic Distribution of the $S$--Gini Index . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--446 Roger P. Littlejohn and James R. Webster Periodogram Analysis of Censored Time Series from a Designed Experiment . . . 447--455 J. A. John and K. Ruggiero and E. R. Williams $ \alpha_n$-Designs . . . . . . . . . . 457--465 Meei Pyng Ng and Ray Watson Dealing with Ties in Failure Time Data 467--478 Axel Munk and Frits Ruymgaart Minimax Rates for Estimating the Variance and its Derivatives in Non-Parametric Regression . . . . . . . 479--488 Hien T. V. Vu and Matthew W. Knuiman Estimation in Semiparametric Marginal Shared Gamma Frailty Models . . . . . . 489--501 Adrian Baddeley and Rolf Turner Addendum to A. Baddeley & R. Turner (2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 504--504 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506 Anonymous Indexes, Volume 44 . . . . . . . . . . . 507--509
Anonymous Pitman Medal for 2002 awarded to Terry Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Chris Lloyd Inaugural Editor's Award . . . . . . . . 5--5 G. M. Tallis and P. Leppard and T. J. O'Neill Applications: a Note on the Sensitivities of Self-reporting and Screen Detection of Primary Breast Tumours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--18 R. J. Martin and L. M. Platts and A. B. Seddon and E. C. Stillman Applications: The Design and Analysis of a Mixture Experiment on Glass Durability 19--27 Stephan R. Sain Theory & Methods: a New Characterization and Estimation of the Zero-bias Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--42 A. James O'Malley and John J. Deely Theory & Methods: Bayesian Measures of the Minimum Detectable Concentration of an Immunoassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--65 Stephen O. Nyangoma Theory & Methods: Bias in Multinomial Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--82 Katarzyna Danielak and Tomasz Rychlik Theory & Methods: Exact Bounds for the Bias of Trimmed Means . . . . . . . . . 83--96 Barbara S. P. Chan and J. A. Eccleston Theory & Methods: On the Construction of Nearest--Neighbour Balanced Row--Column Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--106 M. G. M. Khan and E. A. Khan and M. J. Ahsan Theory & Methods: an Optimal Multivariate Stratified Sampling Design Using Dynamic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--113 M. L. Menéndez and J. A. Pardo and L. Pardo Theory & Methods: Tests for Bivariate Symmetry Against Ordered Alternatives in Square Contingency Tables . . . . . . . 115--123 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126 Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 127--127 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
David Griffiths and Chandra Gulati and Jim Ollis Applications: Statistical Control for Road Pavements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 Ross H. Taplin Applications: Teaching Statistical Consulting Before Statistical Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--152 Denis Larocque and Serge Tardif and Constance van Eeden Theory & Methods: an Affine-Invariant Generalization of the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test for the Bivariate Location Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--165 Chris J. Lloyd and Paul Kabaila Theory & Methods: On the Optimality and Limitations of Buehler Bounds . . . . . 167--174 David C. Blest Theory & Methods: a New Measure of Kurtosis Adjusted for Skewness . . . . . 175--179 Narelle F. Smith and Deborah J. Street Theory & Methods: The Use of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs in Designing Randomized Response Surveys . . . . . . 181--194 Wiktor Oktaba Theory & Methods: The General Multivariate Gauss--Markov Model of the Incomplete Block Design . . . . . . . . 195--205 Paul S. F. Yip and Xiangzhong Fang and Yong Zhou and Yan Wang Theory & Methods: Sequential Procedure for Fixed Accuracy Estimation of the Population Size in Recapture Sampling 207--216 Fuchun Huang Theory & Methods: Prediction Error Property of the Lasso Estimator and its Generalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--228 Satoshi Aoki and Akimichi Takemura Theory & Methods: Minimal Basis for a Connected Markov Chain over $ 3 \times 3 \times K $ Contingency Tables with Fixed Two-Dimensional Marginals . . . . . . . 229--249 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250 Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 251--252 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
Tsung I. Lin and Jack C. Lee Applications: On modelling data from degradation sample paths over time . . . 257--270 Martin L. Hazelton Theory & Methods: Variable kernel density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--284 Arthur Cohen and David Madigan and Harold B. Sackrowitz Theory & Methods: Effective directed tests for models with ordered categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--300 Marti J. Anderson and John Robinson Theory & Methods: Generalized discriminant analysis based on distances 301--318 Yves G. Berger and Mohammed E. H. Tirari and Yves Tillé Theory & Methods: Towards optimal regression estimation in sample surveys 319--329 Jong-Il Baek and Tae-Sung Kim and Han-Ying Liang Theory & Methods: On the convergence of moving average processes under dependent conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--342 Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau and Lin-An Chen Theory & Methods: a multivariate parallelogram and its application to multivariate trimmed means . . . . . . . 343--352 Victor De Oliveira Theory & Methods: a note on the correlation structure of transformed Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . 353--366 Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Atanu Biswas Theory & Methods: Non-parametric group sequential designs in randomized clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--376 David Whitaker Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 377--378 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--381 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Ross Sparks Applications: Monitoring for Increases in Process Variance . . . . . . . . . . 383--394 Matthew Stephens and Peter Donnelly Theory and Methods: Ancestral Inference in Population Genetics Models with Selection (with Discussion) . . . . . . 395--430 Brent Henderson and Richard Jarrett Theory and Methods: Models with Errors due to Misreported Measurements . . . . 431--444 Robin Thompson and Brian Cullis and Alison Smith and Arthur Gilmour Theory and Methods: a Sparse Implementation of the Average Information Algorithm for Factor Analytic and Reduced Rank Variance Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--459 Naâmane La\"\ib Theory and Methods: Non-Parametric Testing of Conditional Variance Functions in Time Series . . . . . . . . 461--475 Chin-Shang Li Theory and Methods: a Lack-of-Fit Test for Heteroscedastic Regression Models via Cosine-Series Smoothers . . . . . . 477--489 Yu Hayakawa and Philip D. O'Neill and Darren Upton and Paul S. F. Yip Theory and Methods: Bayesian Inference for a Stochastic Epidemic Model with Uncertain Numbers of Susceptibles of Several Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502 M. G. M. Khan Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 503--504 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506 Anonymous Indexes for Volume 45 . . . . . . . . . 507--510
Chris Lloyd Inaugural Editor's Award . . . . . . . . 1--2 Phil Pollett and Peter Taylor Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Joe Gani On the Occasion of the Presentation of the SSAI Festschrift to Daryl John Daley 5--11 J. Gani A Versatile Birth--Death Model Applicable to Four Distinct Problems . . 13--21 Peter Whittle The Distribution of Species Numbers in a Controlled Environment . . . . . . . . . 23--27 Anthony G. Pakes Convergence and Divergence of Random Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--40 Stephan Böhm and Lothar Heinrich and Volker Schmidt Kernel Estimation of the Spectral Density of Stationary Random Closed Sets 41--51 C. C. Heyde Asymptotics and Criticality for a Correlated Bernoulli Process . . . . . . 53--57 Geoff M. Laslett and J. Paige Eveson and Tom Polacheck Estimating the Age at Capture in Capture-Recapture Studies of Fish Growth 59--66 Dietrich Stoyan and Helga Stoyan and Gunter Döge Statistical Analyses and Modelling of the Mixing Process of Euro Coins in Germany and Europe . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77 J. F. C. Kingman Powers and Products of Regenerative Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86 Stephen J. Cornell and Valerie S. Isham Ultimate Extinction of the Promiscuous Bisexual Galton--Watson Metapopulation 87--98 Peter Hall and Nader Tajvidi Prediction Regions for Bivariate Extreme Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--112 Phil Pollett and Hanjun Zhang Existence and Uniqueness of $Q$-Processes with a Given Finite $ \mu $-Invariant Measure . . . . . . . . . . 113--120 Naoto Miyoshi and Tomasz Rolski Ross-Type Conjectures on Monotonicity of Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--131 David Vere-Jones and Frederic Paik Schoenberg Rescaling Marked Point Processes . . . . 133--143 Aleksandras Baltr\=unas and Claudia Klüppelberg Subexponential Distributions --- Large Deviations with Applications to Insurance and Queueing Models . . . . . 145--154 R. A. Vesilo Long-Range Dependence of Markov Renewal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--171 M. R. Leadbetter and G. V. Spaniolo Reflections on Rice's Formulae for Level Crossings --- History, Extensions and Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--180 Frank G. Ball and Robin K. Milne Applications of Simple Point Process Methods to Superpositions of Aggregated Stationary Processes . . . . . . . . . . 181--196
P. B. Brockhoff and D. J. Best and J. C. W. Rayner Applications: an Application of Extended Analysis for Ranked Data with Ties . . . 197--204 Murray Jorgensen Applications: Using Multinomial Mixture Models to Cluster Internet Traffic . . . 205--218 Robin Insley and Lucia Mok and Tim Swartz Theory & Methods: Issues Related to Sports Gambling . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--232 Noel Cressie and Sylvia Richardson and Isabelle Jaussent Theory & Methods: Ecological Bias: Use of Maximum-Entropy Approximations . . . . . 233--255 Joseph E. Cavanaugh Theory & Methods: Criteria for Linear Model Selection Based on Kullback's Symmetric Divergence . . . . . . . . . . 257--274 V. V. Anh and V. P. Knopova and N. N. Leonenko Theory & Methods: Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes with Cyclical Long-Range Dependence . . . . . . . . . 275--296 Jacek Weso\lowski and Mohammad Ahsanullah Theory & Methods: Switching Order Statistics through Random Power Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--303 Liang Peng and Yongcheng Qi Theory & Methods: Estimating the First- and Second-Order Parameters of a Heavy-Tailed Distribution . . . . . . . 305--312 Aleksander M. Iksanov and Che Soong Kim Theory & Methods: New Explicit Examples of Fixed Points of Poisson Shot Noise Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--321 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
Sue Welham and Brian Cullis and Beverley Gogel and Arthur Gilmour and Robin Thompson Applications: Prediction in linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--347 Michael E. O'Neill and Peter C. Thomson and Brent C. Jacobs and Phil Brain and Ruth C. Butler and Heather Turner and Bernadetha Mitakda Applications: Fitting and comparing seed germination models with a focus on the inverse normal distribution . . . . . . 349--366 Alexandra P. Bremner and Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: Performance of localized regression tree splitting criteria on data with discontinuities 367--381 Nyongesa L. Kennedy Theory & Methods: Testing for the presence of disease by pooling samples 383--390 Graham Hepworth Theory & Methods: Mid-$P$ confidence intervals based on the likelihood ratio for proportions estimated by group testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--405 Biao Zhang Theory & Methods: Assessing goodness-of-fit of categorical regression models based on case-control data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--423 J. Huh and B. U. Park Theory & Methods: Detection of a change point with local polynomial fits for the random design case . . . . . . . . . . . 425--441 Omer Ozturk and Douglas A. Wolfe and Roxana Alexandridis Theory & Methods: Multi-sample inference for simple-tree alternatives with ranked-set samples . . . . . . . . . . . 443--455 J. S. Huang and G. D. Lin Theory & Methods: Estimating the population median using only a central subset of observations . . . . . . . . . 457--462 Paul Kabaila and Chris J. Lloyd Theory & Methods: Buehler confidence limits and nesting . . . . . . . . . . . 463--469 Ibrahim A. Ahmad and Ibrahim A. Alwasel Theory & Methods: Goodness-of-fit testing of a weak memoryless property of life distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--481 Mohammad Salehi M. and George A. F. Seber Theory & Methods: a general inverse sampling scheme and its application to adaptive cluster sampling . . . . . . . 483--494 R. Willink Theory & Methods: Approximating the difference of two $t$-variables for all degrees of freedom using truncated variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--504 Saharon Rosset and Ji Zhu Theory & Methods: Corrected proof of the result of `A prediction error property of the Lasso estimator and its generalization' by Huang (2003) . . . . 505--510 Michael A. Martin Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--512 Gael M. Martin Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--514 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 515--515
Oliver Mayo Knibbs Lecture for 2002: To What Extent Has Fisher's Research Program Been Fulfilled in Australia? . . . . . . . . 517--529 Chris J. Lloyd and Donald Frommer Applications: Estimating the False Negative Fraction for a Multiple Screening Test for Bowel Cancer When Negatives Are Not Verified . . . . . . . 531--542 Russell B. Millar Applications: Simulated Maximum Likelihood Applied to Non-Gaussian and Nonlinear Mixed Effects and State--Space Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--554 P. C. N. Groenewald and A. C. Schoeman Theory & Methods: Bayesian Detection and Analysis of Changing Transition Matrices of Stationary Markov Chains . . . . . . 555--567 M. P. Salganik and M. P. Wand and N. Lange Theory & Methods: Comparison of Feature Significance Quantile Approximations . . 569--581 Alexandra P. Bremner and Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: Performance of a Localized Tree Splitting Criterion in Tree Averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--599 Richard M. Huggins and Danuta Z. Loesch Theory & Methods: Robust Non-Parametric Estimation of Genotype--Phenotype Relationships in Human Pedigrees . . . . 601--613 Pierre Legendre and François-Joseph Lapointe Theory & Methods: Assessing Congruence among Distance Matrices: Single-Malt Scotch Whiskies Revisited . . . . . . . 615--629 H. K. T. Ng and N. Balakrishnan Theory & Methods: Wilcoxon-Type Rank-Sum Precedence Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--648 Brenton R. Clarke and Christopher J. Milne Theory & Methods: Small Sample Bias Correction for Huber's Proposal-$2$ Scale $M$-Estimator . . . . . . . . . . 649--656 Kunihiro Baba and Ritei Shibata and Masaaki Sibuya Theory & Methods: Partial Correlation and Conditional Correlation As Measures of Conditional Independence . . . . . . . . 657--664 Katarzyna Danielak and Mohammad Z. Raqab Theory & Methods: Sharp Bounds for Expectations of $k$ th Record Increments 665--673 Atanu Biswas and Anup Dewanji Theory & Methods: a Randomized Longitudinal Play-The-Winner Design for Repeated Binary Data . . . . . . . . . . 675--684 Malay Naskar and Kalyan Das Theory & Methods: Inference in Dirichlet Process Mixed Generalized Linear Models by Using Monte Carlo EM . . . . . . . . 685--701 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 702--702 Anonymous Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--708
Anonymous Pitman Medal for 2004 Awarded to Adrian Baddeley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Edward Cripps and David Nott and William T. M. Dunsmuir and Christopher Wikle Applications: Space--Time Modelling of Sydney Harbour Winds . . . . . . . . . . 3--17 Len Thomas and Stephen T. Buckland and Ken B. Newman and John Harwood Theory & Methods: a Unified Framework for Modelling Wildlife Population Dynamics 19--34 P. Besbeas and S. N. Freeman and B. J. T. Morgan Theory & Methods: The Potential of Integrated Population Modelling . . . . 35--48 Jean-Dominique Lebreton Theory & Methods: Dynamical and Statistical Models for Exploited Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--63 Darryl I. Mackenzie Theory & Methods: Was It There? Dealing with Imperfect Detection for Species Presence/Absence Data . . . . . . . . . 65--74 Hal Caswell Theory & Methods: Sensitivity Analysis of the Stochastic Growth Rate: Three Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--85 Rob J. Hyndman and Maxwell L. King and Ivet Pitrun and Baki Billah Theory & Methods: Local Linear Forecasts Using Cubic Smoothing Splines . . . . . 87--99 David B. Flynn and Simone D. Grose and Gael M. Martin and Vance L. Martin Theory & Methods: Pricing Australian S&P200 Options: a Bayesian Approach Based on Generalized Distributional Forms . . 101--117 C. L. Wright and J. A. John and D. Whitaker and E. R. Williams Theory & Methods: Construction of Resolvable Row-Column Designs Based on Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
P. G. Ridall and A. N. Pettitt Applications: Bayesian Hidden Markov Models for Longitudinal Counts . . . . . 129--145 Xiangrong Yin Theory & Methods: Non-Parametric Estimation of Direction in Single-Index Models with Categorical Predictors . . . 147--161 James D. Stamey and Dean M. Young Theory & Methods: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for a Poisson Rate Parameter with Misclassified Counts . . . . . . . 163--172 Di Chen and Jye-Chyi Lu and Shu Chuan Lin Theory & Methods: Asymptotic Distributions of Semiparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimators with Estimating Equations for Group-Censored Data . . . 173--192 Bhaswati Ganguli and John Staudenmayer and M. P. Wand Theory & Methods: Additive Models with Predictors Subject to Measurement Error 193--202 Ayman Baklizi Theory & Methods: a Continuously Adaptive Rank Test for Shift in Location . . . . 203--209 J. C. W. Rayner and O. Thas Theory & Methods: More Informative Testing for Bivariate Symmetry . . . . . 211--217 Todd C. Headrick and Bruno D. Zumbo Theory & Methods: On Optimizing Multi-Level Designs: Power Under Budget Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--229 Raghunath Arnab and Sarjinder Singh Theory & Methods: a Note on Variance Estimation for the Generalized Regression Predictor . . . . . . . . . . 231--234 Sorana Froda and Gino Colavita Theory & Methods: Estimating Predator-Prey Systems Via Ordinary Differential Equations with Closed Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--254 Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
G. Jasso and S. Kotz In Memoriam: Norman Lloyd Johnson: 9 January 1917--18 November 2004 . . . . . 257--258 K. G. Russell and David Griffiths Theory & Methods: a Lotto Systems Problem 259--267 D. S. Poskitt and Jing Zhang Theory & Methods: Estimating Components in Finite Mixtures and Hidden Markov Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--286 Yan Wang Theory & Methods: a Semiparametric Regression Model with Missing Covariates in Continuous-Time Capture-Recapture Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--297 Paul S. F. Yip and Liqun Xi and Richard Arnold and Yu Hayakawa Theory & Methods: a Beta-Binomial Model for Estimating the Size of a Heterogeneous Population . . . . . . . . 299--308 Darfiana Nur and Kerrie L. Mengersen and Rodney C. Wolff Theory & Methods: Phase Randomization: a Convergence Diagnostic Test for MCMC . . 309--323 Stephen Walker Theory & Methods: a Note on Bayes Factors 325--328 Jae-Hak Lim and Dae-Kyung Kim and Dong Ho Park Theory & Methods: Tests for Detecting More Nbu-Ness at a Specific Age . . . . 329--337 Ayoub Saei and Ray Chambers Theory & Methods: Modelling Truncated and Clustered Count Data . . . . . . . . . . 339--349 M. Luz Calle and Guadalupe Gómez Theory & Methods: a Semiparametric Hierarchical Method for a Regression Model with an Interval-Censored Covariate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364 Yves G. Berger Theory & Methods: Variance Estimation with Highly Stratified Sampling Designs with Unequal Probabilities . . . . . . . 365--373 Patrick J. Farrell and Sarjinder Singh Theory & Methods: Model-Assisted Higher-Order Calibration of Estimators of Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--383 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Ken Brewer Historical & General Interest: Anomalies, Probings, Insights: Ken Foreman's Role in the Sampling Inference Controversy of the Late 20th Century . . . . . . . . . 385--399 Patrick Graham Applications: Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling of Social Variation in the Age Dependence of Disability Prevalence . . 401--424 Christopher R. Heathcote and Borek D. Puza Theory & Methods: Estimating Processes of Counts from Cross-Sectional Aggregate Data, with an Application to Multistate Life Tables and Health Expectancies . . 425--439 G. R. Wood and C. D. Lai and C. G. Qiao Theory & Methods: Estimation of a Proportion Using Several Independent Samples of Binomial Mixtures . . . . . . 441--448 Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: a Robust Bayes Factor for Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . 449--462 Samuel Müller Theory & Methods: Two-Stage Support Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--472 Cathy W. S. Chen and Mike K. P. So and Richard H. Gerlach Theory & Methods: Assessing and Testing for Threshold Nonlinearity in Stock Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--488 Abdelkader Mokkadem and Mariane Pelletier and Julien Worms Theory & Methods: Large and Moderate Deviations Principles for Kernel Estimation of a Multivariate Density and Its Partial Derivatives . . . . . . . . 489--502 Filia Vonta Theory & Methods: Efficient Estimation in Regression Frailty or Transformation Models Based on an Algorithm . . . . . . 503--514 Joaquim Pinto da Costa and Carlos Soares Theory & Methods: a Weighted Rank Measure of Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--529 Tim R. L. Fry and Mark N. Harris Theory & Methods: The Dogit Ordered Generalized Extreme Value Model . . . . 531--542 I. Bairamov and M. Ahsanullah and Anthony G. Pakes Theory & Methods: a Characterization of Continuous Distributions Via Regression on Pairs of Record Values . . . . . . . 543--547 Paul Kabaila Theory & Methods: On the Coverage Probability of Confidence Intervals in Regression After Variable Selection . . 549--562 John Byrne Theory & Methods: a New Short Exact Geometric Confidence Interval . . . . . 563--569 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 570--570 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--576
Chin-Yuan Hu and Aleksander M. Iksanov and Gwo Dong Lin and Oleg K. Zakusylo The Hurwitz Zeta Distribution . . . . . 1--6 Antonio Cuevas and Wenceslao González-Manteiga and Alberto Rodríguez-Casal Plug-In Estimation of General Level Sets 7--19 Han-Ying Liang and Jong-Il Baek Weighted Sums of Negatively Associated Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31 Robert Lund and Qin Shao and Ishwar Basawa Parsimonious Periodic Time Series Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--47 David Woods and Susan Lewis All-Bias Designs for Polynomial Spline Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58 Liang Peng and Yongcheng Qi A New Calibration Method of Constructing Empirical Likelihood-Based Confidence Intervals for the Tail Index . . . . . . 59--66 Robin K. S. Hankin and Alan Lee A New Family of Non-Negative Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78 Haimeng Zhang and M. Bhaskara Rao Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Linear Models with Equi-Correlated Random Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93 Subir K. Bhandari and Ayanendranath Basu and Sahadeb Sarkar Robust Inference in Parametric Models Using the Family of Generalized Negative Exponential Disparities . . . . . . . . 95--114 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anne Chao and Tsung-Jen Shen and Wen-Han Hwang Application of Laplace's Boundary-Mode Approximations to Estimate Species and Shared Species Richness . . . . . . . . 117--128 Natalie Neumeyer and Holger Dette and Eva-Renate Nagel Bootstrap Tests for the Error Distribution in Linear and Nonparametric Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 129--156 Shen-Ming Lee and Cathy W. S. Chen and Richard H. Gerlach and Li-Hui Huang Estimation in Ricker's Two-Release Method: a Bayesian Approach . . . . . . 157--169 Patrick Corr and Rebecca Kippen The Case for Parity and Birth-Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--200 James D. Stamey and Dean M. Young and Doyle Boese A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Poisson Rate and Reporting-Probability Inference Using Double Sampling . . . . 201--212 Andreas Berzel and Gillian Z. Heller and Walter Zucchini Estimating the Number of Visits to the Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--224 Jenting Wang and John S. J. Hsu Bayesian Analysis of the Additive Mixed Model for Randomized Block Designs . . . 225--236 Edward Cripps and Robert Kohn and David Nott Bayesian Subset Selection and Model Averaging Using a Centred and Dispersed Prior for the Error Variance . . . . . . 237--252 Yoshiji Takagi Second Order Asymptotic Comparison of Estimators Under Universal Domination Criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--267 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Tomasz \.Z\kad\lo On Prediction of Total Value in Incompletely Specified Domains . . . . . 269--283 Luke A. Prendergast Detecting Influential Observations in Sliced Inverse Regression Analysis . . . 285--304 Bhramar Mukherjee A Note on Sampling Designs for Random Processes with No Quadratic Mean Derivative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--319 Zeng-Hua Lu and Bruce M. Brown An Exclusive Regressors Binary Mixture Model with an Application to Labour Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--333 William E. Griffiths and Ma. Rebecca Valenzuela Gibbs Samplers for a Set of Seemingly Unrelated Regressions . . . . . . . . . 335--351 Brenton R. Clarke and Daniel D. Schubert An Adaptive Trimmed Likelihood Algorithm for Identification of Multivariate Outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--371 Katarina Domijan and Murray Jorgensen and Jeff Reid Semi-Mechanistic Modelling in Nonlinear Regression: a Case Study . . . . . . . . 373--392 Stephen Haslett and R. B. Millar and K. B. Newman and Martyn Plummer and A. H. Welsh Invited Discussion of the Paper by Domijan, Jorgensen & Reid . . . . . . . . 393--413 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
K. Byth and D. R. Cox and P. Forder Applications: Assessing the Relationship Between Symptoms of Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis and Pollen Counts 417--428 Amitava Saha Theory & Methods: a Generalized Two-Stage Randomized Response Procedure in Complex Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--443 Simon N. Wood Theory & Methods: On Confidence Intervals for Generalized Additive Models Based on Penalized Regression Splines . . . . . . 445--464 Julian D. Taylor and Ar\=unas P. Verbyla Theory & Methods: Asymptotic Likelihood Approximations Using a Partial Laplace Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--476 R. T. Elmore and T. P. Hettmansperger and F. Xuan Theory & Methods: a Fully Nonparametric Test for One-Way Layouts . . . . . . . . 477--490 H. Choi and Y. K. Lee and B. U. Park and K. S. Yu Theory & Methods: Local Polynomial Quasi-Likelihood Regression on Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--506 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507 Anonymous Indexes for Volume 48 . . . . . . . . . i--iii
Sue J. Welham and Brian R. Cullis and Michael G. Kenward and Robin Thompson A Comparison of Mixed Model Splines for Curve Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23 Lyle C. Gurrin and Paul R. Burton A Comparison of the Imprecise Beta Class, the Randomized Play-The-Winner Rule and the Triangular Test for Clinical Trials with Binary Responses 25--35 Miguel González and Manuel Mota and Alfonso Ramos Moment Estimation in the Class of Bisexual Branching Processes with Population-Size Dependent Mating . . . . 37--50 Mohammad Z. Raqab Bounds on the Bias of Winsorized Means 51--60 E. R. Williams and J. A. John Construction of Crossover Designs with Correlated Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 61--68 Jin Zhang Likelihood Moment Estimation for the Generalized Pareto Distribution . . . . 69--77 Arthur Pewsey and Toby Lewis and M. C. Jones The Wrapped $t$ Family of Circular Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91 Dominique Dehay and Jian-Feng Yao On Likelihood Estimation for Discretely Observed Markov Jump Processes . . . . . 93--107 Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Reviews: \booktitleApplied Optimal Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110 Dr Melissa Dobbie Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anthony G. Pakes and Jorge Navarro Distributional Characterizations Through Scaling Relations . . . . . . . . . . . 115--135 Carlo Grillenzoni Pattern Recognition Via Robust Smoothing with Application to Laser Data . . . . . 137--153 Chenlei Leng and Shuangge Ma Accelerated Failure Time Models with Nonlinear Covariates Effects . . . . . . 155--172 Carrie Wager and Florin Vaida and Göran Kauermann Model Selection for Penalized Spline Smoothing Using Akaike Information Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190 Wen-Han Hwang and Richard Huggins Application of Semiparametric Regression Models in the Analysis of Capture-Recapture Experiments . . . . . 191--202 Christian Genest and Jean-François Plante Letter to the Editor: Re: Pinto da Costa, J. & Soares, C. (2005). A weighted rank measure of correlation . . . . . . 203--204 Joaquim Pinto da Costa and Carlos Soares Letter to the Editor: Rejoinder to letter to the Editor from C. Genest and J-F. Plante concerning `Pinto da Costa, J. & Soares, C. (2005). A weighted rank measure of correlation.' . . . . . . . . 205--207 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Antonio Lijoi and Igor Prünster and Stephen G. Walker On Convergence Rates for Nonparametric Posterior Distributions . . . . . . . . 209--219 Catriona M. Queen and Ben J. Wright and Casper J. Albers Eliciting a Directed Acyclic Graph for a Multivariate Time Series of Vehicle Counts in a Traffic Network . . . . . . 221--239 Iain Pardoe and R. Dennis Cook A Graphical Diagnostic for Variance Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250 Mark Bebbington and Chin-Diew Lai and Ri\vcardas Zitikis Bathtub-Type Curves in Reliability and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--265 Frédéric Ferraty and André Mas and Philippe Vieu Nonparametric Regression on Functional Data: Inference and Practical Aspects 267--286 Adam J. Branscum and Wesley O. Johnson and Mark C. Thurmond Bayesian Beta Regression: Applications to Household Expenditure Data and Genetic Distance Between Foot-And-Mouth Disease Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--301 Danping Liu and Paul S. F. Yip and Richard M. Huggins Nonparametric Method for Estimating the Size of an Open Population Using Marginal Data from Repeated Multiple Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--320 Gunky Kim and Mervyn J. Silvapulle and Paramsothy Silvapulle Semiparametric Estimation of the Error Distribution in Multivariate Regression Using Copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--336 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337
Ayman Baklizi Testing Symmetry Using a Trimmed Longest Run Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--347 Nguyen Van Quang and Le Van Thanh On the Strong Law of Large Numbers Under Rearrangements for Sequences of Blockwise Orthogonal Random Elements in Banach Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--357 Gerda Claeskens and Christophe Croux and Johan Van Kerckhoven Prediction-Focused Model Selection for Autoregressive Models . . . . . . . . . 359--379 Partha Sarathi Dey and Ayanendranath Basu On the Power Breakdown of the Negative Exponential Disparity Tests . . . . . . 381--384 Syed Shakir Ali Ghazali and Chris J. Skinner and M. H. Tahir Three-Way Stratification Sampling Design When One of the Stratifying Variables Is Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--395 M. C. Wheldon and M. J. Anderson and B. W. Johnson Identifying Treatment Effects in Multi-Channel Measurements in Electroencephalographic Studies: Multivariate Permutation Tests and Multiple Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . 397--413 M. Concepcion Ausin and Hedibert F. Lopes Bayesian Estimation of Ruin Probabilities with a Heterogeneous and Heavy-Tailed Insurance Claim-Size Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--434 S. Ejaz Ahmed and Kjell A. Doksum and S. Hossain and Jinhong You Shrinkage, Pretest and Absolute Penalty Estimators in Partially Linear Models 435--454 Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized Additive Models: an Introduction in R, by Simon N. Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 457--457 Anonymous Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--461
Tucker Mcelroy and Dimitris N. Politis A Fine-Tuned Estimator of a General Convergence Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 J. M. McGree and J. A. Eccleston Probability-Based Optimal Design . . . . 13--28 Cathy W. S. Chen and F. C. Liu and Mike K. P. So Heavy-Tailed-Distributed Threshold Stochastic Volatility Models in Financial Time Series . . . . . . . . . 29--51 Glenis J. Crane and John van der Hoek Conditional Expectation Formulae for Copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--67 Khageswor Giri and Paul Kabaila The Coverage Probability of Confidence Intervals in $ 2^r $ Factorial Experiments After Preliminary Hypothesis Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--79 Paul W. Vos and Suzanne Hudson Problems with Binomial Two-Sided Tests and the Associated Confidence Intervals 81--89 Anonymous Pitman Medal for 2005 and 2006 . . . . . 91--94 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Germán Aneiros-Pérez Semi-Parametric Analysis of Covariance Under Dependence Conditions Within Each Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123 Chang Xuan Mao Lower Bounds to the Population Size When Capture Probabilities Vary Over Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--134 S. T. Boris Choy and Jennifer S. K. Chan Scale Mixtures Distributions in Statistical Modelling . . . . . . . . . 135--146 J. Gani and R. J. Swift Approximating Carrier-Borne Epidemics 147--159 A. James O'Malley and Murray H. Smith and William A. Sadler A Restricted Maximum Likelihood Procedure for Estimating the Variance Function of an Immunoassay . . . . . . . 161--177 M. P. Wand and J. T. Ormerod On Semiparametric Regression with O'Sullivan Penalized Splines . . . . . . 179--198 R. Willink A Closed-Form Expression for the Pearson Type IV Distribution Function . . . . . 199--205 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Ismihan Bairamov and Serkan Eryilmaz Joint Behaviour of Precedences and Exceedances in Random Threshold Models 209--216 Natalia Stepanova and Shu Wang Asymptotic Efficiency of the Blest-Type Tests for Independence . . . . . . . . . 217--233 J. C. W. Rayner and O. Thas and B. De Boeck A Generalized Emerson Recurrence Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240 Lihong Wang Change-Point Detection with Rank Statistics in Long-Memory Time-Series Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256 Kasper K. Berthelsen and Jesper Mòller Non-Parametric Bayesian Inference for Inhomogeneous Markov Point Processes . . 257--272 Gaowen Wang and Wei-Lin Mao Unit Root Testing in the Presence of Heavy-Tailed GARCH Errors . . . . . . . 273--292 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
David G. Butler and John A. Eccleston and Brian R. Cullis On an Approximate Optimality Criterion for the Design of Field Experiments Under Spatial Dependence . . . . . . . . 295--307 Paul Kabaila and Jarrod Tuck Confidence Intervals Utilizing Prior Information in the Behrens--Fisher Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--328 Chris J. Lloyd Exact $P$-Values for Discrete Models Obtained by Estimation and Maximization 329--345 Hua Liang and Yongsong Qin Empirical Likelihood-Based Inferences for Partially Linear Models with Missing Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--359 R. Gay and D. S. Poskitt Optimal Semiparametric Inference for the Tail Index Based on Ratios of the Largest Extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380 Deyuan Li On the Probability of Being Maximal . . 381--394 Housila P. Singh and Sunil Kumar A Regression Approach to the Estimation of the Finite Population Mean in the Presence of Non-Response . . . . . . . . 395--408 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Pitman Medal for 2008 . . . . . . . . . 1--7 M. P. Wand Invited Paper: Semiparametric Regression and Graphical Models . . . . . . . . . . 9--41 Scott D. Foster and Ar\=unas P. Verbyla and Wayne S. Pitchford Contributed Papers: Estimation, Prediction and Inference for the Lasso Random Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 43--61 Rob Salmond Contributed Papers: Weekday-Only Polling and Partisan Support Levels: Evidence from New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76 Alec G. Stephenson Contributed Papers: High-Dimensional Parametric Modelling of Multivariate Extreme Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88 Mariusz Bieniek Contributed Papers: a Note on Characterizations of Distributions by Regressions of Non-Adjacent Generalized Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99 Yan Wang and Joanne Thandrayen Contributed Papers: Multiple-Record Systems Estimation Using Latent Class Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
G. Alastair Young Invited Paper: Routes to Higher-Order Accuracy in Parametric Inference . . . . 115--126 M. A. Hidiroglou and J. N. K. Rao and David Haziza Contributed Papers: Variance Estimation in Two-Phase Sampling . . . . . . . . . 127--141 Kais Hamza Contributed Papers: an Exact Test for Hazard Similarity . . . . . . . . . . . 143--159 Jiti Gao and Degui Li and Zhengyan Lin Contributed Papers: Robust Estimation in Parametric Time Series Models Under Long- and Short-Range-Dependent Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--181 Samuel Müller and Céline Vial Contributed Papers: Partially Linear Model Selection by the Bootstrap . . . . 183--200 Jeremy Penzer and Mingjin Wang and Qiwei Yao Contributed Papers: Approximating Volatilities by Asymmetric Power GARCH Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--225 C. A. McGrory and D. M. Titterington Contributed Papers: Variational Bayesian Analysis for Hidden Markov Models . . . 227--244 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Suzanne R. Dubnicka Kernel Density Estimation with Missing Data and Auxiliary Variables . . . . . . 247--270 Paul Kabaila and Khageswor Giri Upper Bounds on the Minimum Coverage Probability of Confidence Intervals in Regression After Model Selection . . . . 271--287 Hiep Duc and Bin Jalaludin and Geoff Morgan Associations Between Air Pollution and Hospital Visits for Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly in Sydney Using Bayesian Statistical Methods . . . . . . 289--303 Xingzhong Xu and Xiaobo Ding and Shuran Zhao A New Confidence Band for Continuous Cumulative Distribution Functions . . . 305--318 Danh V. Nguyen and Damla \cSentürk Covariate-Adjusted Regression for Longitudinal Data Incorporating Correlation Between Repeated Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--333 Eric J. Beh and Thomas B. Farver An Evaluation of Non-Iterative Methods for Estimating the Linear-By-Linear Parameter of Ordinal Log-Linear Models 335--352 Ardo Van Den Hout and Irene Klugkist Accounting for Non-Compliance in the Analysis of Randomized Response Data . . 353--372 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373
Anthony G. Pakes Numbers of Observations Near Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--395 M. Weatherall and R. M. Pickering and Scott Harris Graphical Sensitivity Analysis with Different Methods of Imputation for a Trial with Probable Non-Ignorable Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--413 Muhammad Akram and Rob J. Hyndman and J. Keith Ord Exponential Smoothing and Non-Negative Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--432 Gordon K. Smyth and Ar\=unas P. Verbyla Leverage Adjustments for Dispersion Modelling in Generalized Nonlinear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--448 Ian R. Gordon and Peter Hall Estimating a Parameter When It Is Known That the Parameter Exceeds a Given Value 449--460 Heidi Wouters and Olivier Thas and Jean-Pierre Ottoy Data-Driven Smooth Tests and a Diagnostic Tool for Lack-of-Fit for Circular Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--480 Christopher R. Heathcote and Borek D. Puza and Steven P. Roberts The Use of Aggregate Data to Estimate Gompertz-Type Old-Age Mortality in Heterogeneous Populations . . . . . . . 481--497 S. J. Haslett and K. Govindaraju Cloning Data: Generating Datasets with Exactly the Same Multiple Linear Regression Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--503 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 505--505
Miguel López-Díaz A Stochastic Ordering for Random Variables with Applications . . . . . . 1--16 Paul S. F. Yip and Ray Watson and K. S. Chan and Eric H. Y. Lau and Feng Chen and Ying Xu and Liqun Xi and Derek Y. T. Cheung and Brian Y. T. Ip and Danping Liu Estimation of the Number of People in a Demonstration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26 Eric J. Beh and Luigi D'Ambra Non-Symmetrical Correspondence Analysis with Concatenation and Linear Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--44 Michael A. Martin and Steven Roberts and Letian Zheng Delete-$2$ and Delete-$3$ Jackknife Procedures for Unmasking in Regression 45--60 Pu Chen and Chih-Ying Hsiao Subsampling the Johansen Test with Stable Innovations . . . . . . . . . . . 61--73 Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and Amalia Jácome Pumar Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Cumulative Hazards for Missing Population Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91 Jian Tao and Man-Lai Tang and Ning-Zhong Shi A Stepwise Confidence Interval Procedure Based on an Asymmetric Loss Function with Applications to Toxicological Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107 Yan Shen and Min Xie and Loon Ching Tang On the Change Point of the Mean Residual Life of Series and Parallel Systems . . 109--121 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Sue J. Welham and Beverley J. Gogel and Alison B. Smith and Robin Thompson and Brian R. Cullis Applications Paper: a Comparison of Analysis Methods for Late-Stage Variety Evaluation Trials . . . . . . . . . . . 125--149 R. Paroli and L. Spezia Theory and Methods Papers: Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and Segmentation Algorithms in Hidden Markov Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--166 Nikos Tzavidis and Stefano Marchetti and Ray Chambers Theory and Methods Papers: Robust Estimation of Small-Area Means and Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--186 K. Mattheou and A. Karagrigoriou Theory and Methods Papers: a New Family of Divergence Measures for Tests of Fit 187--200 K. B. Kulasekera and Wei Lin Theory and Methods Papers: Error Variance Estimation for the Single-Index Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--219 John M. Maheu and Jonathan J. Reeves and Xuan Xie Theory and Methods Papers: Forecasting Volatility in the Presence of Model Instability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--237 M. P. Wand and J. T. Ormerod Corrigendum: On Semiparametric Regression with O'Sullivan Penalised Splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239 Eric J. Beh and Thomas B. Farver Corrigendum: An Evaluation of Non-Iterative Methods for Estimating the Linear-By-Linear Parameter of Ordinal Log-Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Ross Sparks Applications Papers: Two-Pass Cusum to Identify Age-Cluster Outbreaks . . . . . 245--260 Vassilly Voinov and Evgeniy Voinov and Roza Rakhimova Applications Papers: Poisson Versus Binomial: Appointment of Judges to the U.S. Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274 Pulak Ghosh and Timothy Hanson Theory and Methods Papers: a Semiparametric Bayesian Approach to Multivariate Longitudinal Data . . . . . 275--288 Pulak Ghosh and Paramjit Gill and Saman Muthukumarana and Tim Swartz Theory and Methods Papers: a Semiparametric Bayesian Approach to Network Modelling Using Dirichlet Process Prior Distributions . . . . . . 289--302 David Haziza and Guillaume Chauvet and Jean-Claude Deville Theory and Methods Papers: Sampling and Estimation in the Presence of Cut-Off Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--319 J. Gani Theory and Methods Papers: Modelling Epidemic Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . 321--329 D. J. Daley Theory and Methods Papers: Comment on the Paper by Gani . . . . . . . . . . . 330--334 A. H. Welsh Theory and Methods Papers: Comment on the Paper by Gani . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336 Anonymous Theory and Methods Papers: Gani's Response to Daley and Welsh . . . . . . 337--337 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
S. J. Haslett and G. Jones Application Papers: Small-Area Estimation of Poverty: the Aid Industry Standard and Its Alternatives . . . . . 341--362 Paul H. Garthwaite and Emmanuel Mubwandarikwa Application Papers: Selection of Weights for Weighted Model Averaging . . . . . . 363--382 E. Beutner and E. Cramer Application Papers: Nonparametric Meta-Analysis for Minimal-Repair Systems 383--401 Peter Hall and Hugh Miller Theory and Methods Papers: Sequential, Bottom-Up Variable Selection for High-Dimensional Classification . . . . 403--421 Zhidong Bai and Jiaqi Chen and Jianfeng Yao Theory and Methods Papers: On Estimation of the Population Spectral Distribution from a High-Dimensional Sample Covariance Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 423--437 Edward J. Bedrick and Winston K. Crandall Theory and Methods Papers: Model Selection Criteria for Loglinear Models 439--449 Hiroaki Ogata and Masanobu Taniguchi Theory and Methods Papers: an Empirical Likelihood Approach for Non-Gaussian Vector Stationary Processes and Its Application to Minimum Contrast Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--468 Bill Venables Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to Data Technologies. by Paul Murrell . . . 469--470 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Fiona Steele Invited Paper with Discussion: Multilevel Discrete-Time Event History Models with Applications to the Analysis of Recurrent Employment Transitions . . 1--20 Michele Haynes Invited Paper with Discussion: Discussion on the Paper by Steele . . . 20--23 James Brown Invited Paper with Discussion: Discussion on the Paper by Steele . . . 23--24 Fiona Steele Invited Paper with Discussion: Steele's Response to Haynes and Brown . . . . . . 24--26 Chris J. Lloyd and Max V. Moldovan Theory and Methods Papers: Constructing More Powerful Exact Tests of Equivalence from Binary Matched Pairs . . . . . . . 27--42 Brendan P. M. McCabe and Gael M. Martin and Keith Freeland Theory and Methods Papers: a Quasi-Locally Most Powerful Test for Correlation in the Conditional Variance of Positive Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--62 Yanyu Zhang and Jialiang Li Theory and Methods Papers: Combining Multiple Markers for Multi-Category Classification: an ROC Surface Approach 63--78 David A. Rolls and Owen D. Jones Theory and Methods Papers: Testing for Continuous Local Martingales Using the Crossing Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--107 Megan J. Pledger and R. Hugh Morton Applications Paper: Modelling the 2004 Super 12 Rugby Union Competition . . . . 109--121 Mike Kenward Book Review: \booktitleAntedependence Models for Longitudinal Data, by Dale L. Zimmerman and Vicente A. Núñez--Antón . . . 123--124 Ivy Liu Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of Ordinal Categorical Data, 2nd edn by Alan Agresti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126 Wei Liu Book Review: \booktitleTesting Statistical Hypotheses of Equivalence and Noninferiority, 2nd edn, by Stefan Wellek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127 J. T. Wood Book Review: \booktitleEnvironmental and Ecological Statistics with R, by Song S. Qian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
Liang Peng Theory and Methods Papers: Empirical Likelihood Methods for the Gini Index 131--139 Mahmoud Torabi Theory and Methods Papers: Small Area Estimation Using Survey Weights with Functional Measurement Error in the Covariate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--155 Christian Genest and Johanna Ne\vslehová and Noomen Ben Ghorbal Theory and Methods Papers: Estimators Based on Kendall's Tau in Multivariate Copula Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--177 Chew Lian Chua and G. C. Lim and Penelope Smith Theory and Methods Papers: a Bayesian Simulation Approach to Inference on a Multi-State Latent Factor Intensity Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--195 Franti\vsek Rublík and Ján Somor\vcík Theory and Methods Papers: Affine-Equivariant Spatial Median and Its Use in the Multivariate Multi-Sample Location Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--215 Neelabh Rohan and T. V. Ramanathan Theory and Methods Papers: Order Selection in ARMA Models Using the Focused Information Criterion . . . . . 217--231 Paul J. Hewson Applications Papers: Analysis of Head Injuries Using a Bayesian Vector Generalized Additive Model . . . . . . . 233--246 Tetsuji Tonda and Kenichi Satoh and Teruyuki Nakayama and Kota Katanoda and Tomotaka Sobue and Megu Ohtaki Applications Papers: a Nonparametric Mixed-Effects Model for Cancer Mortality 247--256 Jim Young Letter to Editor: Re: Duc, H., Jalaludin, B. & Morgan, G. (2009). Associations between air pollution and hospital visits for cardiovascular diseases in the elderly in Sydney using Bayesian statistical methods . . . . . . 257--259 Hiep Duc and Bin Jalaludin and Geoff Morgan Letter to Editor: Reply to comment on `Associations between air pollution and hospital visits for cardiovascular diseases in the elderly in Sydney using Bayesian statistical methods' . . . . . 259--261 A. H. Welsh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Inference: an Integrated Bayesian/Likelihood Approach, by Murray Aitkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264 David Scott Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R, by O. Jones, R. Maillardet and A. Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--265 Pierre Alliot Book Review: \booktitleHidden Markov Models for Time Series: an Introduction Using R, by W. Zucchini and I. L. Macdonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266 Val Gebski Book Review: \booktitleDesign and Analysis of Clinical Trials with Time-to-Event Endpoints edited, by Karl E. Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Robert M. Mnatsakanov and Shengqiao Li and E. James Harner Theory and Methods Papers: Estimation of Multivariate Shannon Entropy Using Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--288 Oskar Maria Baksalary and Götz Trenkler Theory and Methods Papers: Between Olse and Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--303 Sarah E. Neville and M. J. Palmer and M. P. Wand Theory and Methods Papers: Generalized Extreme Value Additive Model Analysis Via Mean Field Variational Bayes . . . . 305--330 José E. Chacón and Tarn Duong Theory and Methods Papers: Unconstrained Pilot Selectors for Smoothed Cross-Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--351 N. I. Fisher and A. J. Lee Applications Papers: Getting the `Correct' Answer from Survey Responses: a Simple Application of the EM Algorithm 353--364 Joanne L. C. Chia and Adrian Baddeley Applications Papers: Estimating a Ratio of Means from Bivariate Counts with Applications in Stereology . . . . . . . 365--387 Eric J. Beh Book Review: \booktitleBiplots in Practice, by Michael Greenacre . . . . . 389--391 Malcolm Hudson Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing Seasonal Health Data, by Adrian G. Barnett and Annette J. Dobson . . . . . 391--393 Spiridon Penev Book Review: \booktitleLinear Causal Modeling with Structural Equations, by Stanley Mulaik . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--395 Daniel Walsh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Image Processing and Multidimensional Modeling, by Paul Fieguth . . . . . . . 395--396 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Campbell Award 2010 . . . . . . . . . . 399--401 Wen-Han Hwang and Richard Huggins Theory and Methods Papers: a Semiparametric Model for a Functional Behavioural Response to Capture in Capture--Recapture Experiments . . . . . 403--421 Jim E. Griffin and Philip J. Brown Theory and Methods Papers: Bayesian Hyper-Lassos with Non-Convex Penalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--442 Stefania Gubbiotti and Fulvio De Santis Theory and Methods Papers: a Bayesian Method for the Choice of the Sample Size in Equivalence Trials . . . . . . . . . 443--460 G. Peter Y. Clarke and Katia T. Stefanova Applications Papers: Optimal Design for Early-Generation Plant-Breeding Trials with Unreplicated or Partially Replicated Test Lines . . . . . . . . . 461--480 B. R. Clarke and D. K. Gamble and T. Bednarski Corrigendum: On a Note on Robustness of the $ \beta $-Trimmed Mean . . . . . . . 481--481 Robert Staudte and Luke Prendergast Book Review: \booktitleRobust Methods in Biostatistics, by Stephane Heritier, Eva Cantoni, Samuel Copt and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--486 Emlyn Williams Book Review: \booktitleComputer-Assisted Statistics Textbooks --- Experiments in Agriculture and Biology, by W. Douglas Stirling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487 Ian C. Marschner Book Review: \booktitleMonte Carlo Simulation for the Pharmaceutical Industry: Concepts, Algorithms and Case Studies by Mark Chang . . . . . . . . . 487--489 Scott A. Sisson Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of Spatial Statistics, by A. E. Gelfand, P. Diggle, P. Guttorp and M. Fuentes . . . 489--491 David Fletcher Book Review: \booktitleR Through Excel: a Spreadsheet Interface for Statistics, Data Analysis, and Graphics, by Richard M. Heiberger and Erich Neuwirth . . . . 491--492 G. Wood Book Review: \booktitleThe Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Genetics. by Nan M. Laird and Christoph Lange . . . . . . 492--493 Eric J. Beh Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding Biplots, by John Gower, Sugnet Gardner-Lubbe and Niël Le Roux . . . . . 493--494 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495
Lyle C. Gurrin and Lidija Turkovic Applications Papers: Combining Individual Participant Data and Summary Statistics from Both Continuously Valued and Binary Variables to Estimate Regression Parameters . . . . . . . . . 1--21 Stuart H. Hurlbert and Celia M. Lombardi Applications Papers: Lopsided Reasoning on Lopsided Tests and Multiple Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--42 Fatemeh Hosseini and Mohsen Mohammadzadeh Applications Papers: Bayesian Prediction for Spatial Generalised Linear Mixed Models with Closed Skew Normal Latent Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--62 Xin Huang and Gengsheng Qin and Yan Yuan and Xiao-hua Zhou Theory and Methods Papers: Confidence Intervals for the Difference Between Two Partial AUCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79 Persi Diaconis and Robert Griffiths Theory and Methods Papers: Exchangeable Pairs of Bernoulli Random Variables, Krawtchouk Polynomials, and Ehrenfest Urns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--101 Nicola Salvati and Hukum Chandra and Ray Chambers Theory and Methods Papers: Model-Based Direct Estimation of Small-Area Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--123 Chris Lloyd Book Review: \booktitleLogistic Regression Models, by J. M. Hilbe . . . 125--126 Bruce Brown Book Review: \booktitlePermutation Tests for Complex Data: Theory, Applications and Software, by F. Pesarin and L. Salmaso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127 Erica Brittain Book Review: \booktitleDesign and Analysis of Non-inferiority Trials, by Mark D. Rothmann, Brian L. Wiens and Ivan S. F. Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Campbell Award 2011 . . . . . . . . . . 133--136 Eric J. Beh and Rosaria Lombardo Theory and Methods Papers: a Genealogy of Correspondence Analysis . . . . . . . 137--168 Jessica Kasza and Gary Glonek and Patty Solomon Theory and Methods Papers: Estimating Bayesian Networks for High-Dimensional Data with Complex Mean Structure and Random Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--187 Ahmed N. Albatineh and Hafiz M. R. Khan and Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj Theory and Methods Papers: On the Equivalence of Some Indices of Similarity: Implication for Binary Presence/Absence Data . . . . . . . . . 189--198 Anna Dembi\'nska Theory and Methods Papers: Limit Theorems for Proportions of Observations Falling into Random Regions Determined by Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 199--210 Chongqi Zhang and Wengkee Wong and Heng Peng Theory and Methods Papers: Dual-Objective Optimal Mixture Designs 211--222 James Chipperfield and Julia Chessman and Russell Lim Theory and Methods Papers: Combining Household Surveys Using Mass Imputation to Estimate Population Totals . . . . . 223--238 Ji Young Kim Theory and Methods Papers: Parametric Fractional Imputation for Non-Ignorable Categorical Missing Data with Follow-Up 239--250 Sally Galbraith Book Review: \booktitleApplied Missing Data Analysis, by Craig K. Enders . . . 251--251 Geoff Cumming Book Review: \booktitleApplied Meta-Analysis for Social Science Research, by Noel A. Card . . . . . . . 252--253 Michael A. Martin Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction to Bootstrap Methods with Applications to R, by M. R. Chernick and R. A. LaBudde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255 Zudi Lu Book Review: \booktitleShort-Memory Linear Processes and Econometric Applications, by Kairat T. Mynbaev . . . 255--257 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Roland Langrock Applications Papers: Flexible Latent-State Modelling of Old Faithful's Eruption Inter-Arrival Times in 2009 . . 261--279 Geoffrey Decrouez and Andrew P. Robinson Applications Papers: Confidence Intervals for the Weighted Sum of Two Independent Binomial Proportions . . . . 281--299 Ricardo Cao and José A. Vilar and Juan M. Vilar Applications Papers: Generalised Variance Function Estimation for Binary Variables in Large-Scale Sample Surveys 301--324 Carlo Grillenzoni Applications Papers: Evaluation of Recursive Detection Methods for Turning Points in Financial Time Series . . . . 325--342 Andreas Kiermeier and Ar\=unas P. Verbyla and Richard G. Jarrett Applications Papers: Estimating a Single Shelf-Life for Multiple Batches . . . . 343--358 Shakhawat Hossain and Ejaz Ahmed Applications Papers: Shrinkage and Penalty Estimators of a Poisson Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--373 Philip Kokic and Kenton Lawson and Lisa Elliston and Chun Liang and Walter Shafron Applications Papers: a Comparison of Two Methods of Linking Spatial and Economic Data from Farm Surveys . . . . . . . . . 375--390 Ian James Book Review: \booktitleDynamic Mixed Models for Familial Longitudinal Data 391--392 \'Saunak Sen Book Review: Bayesian Modeling in Bioinformatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393 Kris M. Jamsen and Lyle C. Gurrin Book Review: \booktitleApplied Bayesian Hierarchical Methods . . . . . . . . . . 393--393 Andrew Martin Book Review: \booktitleControversial Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials 393--394 Paul Kabaila Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of Statistical Inference . . 394--395 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous 2012 Pitman Medal: Professor Alan Welsh, FAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400 Rosalba Radice Applications Paper: a Bayesian Approach to Modelling Reticulation Events with Application to the Ribosomal Protein Gene rps11 of Flowering Plants . . . . . 401--426 Julian D. Taylor and Ar\=unas P. Verbyla and Colin Cavanagh and Marcus Newberry Theory and Methods Papers: Variable Selection in Linear Mixed Models Using an Extended Class of Penalties . . . . . 427--449 Jakob Bergman and Björn Holmquist Theory and Methods Papers: a Measure of Dependence Between Two Compositions . . 451--461 Zhouping Li and Xiping Wang and Wang Zhou Theory and Methods Papers: Empirical Likelihood for Compound Poisson Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--474 Eric J. Beh and Thomas B. Farver Theory and Methods Papers: The Box--Cox Transformation and Non-Iterative Estimation Methods for Ordinal Log-Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . 475--484 Jean-François Plante and Gitte Bjòrg Windfeldt Theory and Methods Papers: Using Predictive Risk for Process Control . . 485--504 A. H. Welsh Book Review: \booktitleThe Epistemology of Statistical Science . . . . . . . . . 505--507 M. P. Wand Book Review: \booktitleSmoothing Splines: Methods and Applications . . . 507--508 Steven Roberts Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Thinking in Epidemiology . . . . . . . . 508--509 Lyle Broemeling Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Evaluation of Diagnostic Performance: Topics in ROC Analysis . . . . . . . . . 509--510 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 511--511
Tristan Senga Kiessé and Dominique Miz\`ere Application Paper: Weighted Poisson and Semiparametric Kernel Models Applied to Parasite Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 John C. W. Rayner and Olivier Thas and Peter Pipelers and Eric J. Beh Theory and Methods Papers: Calculating Bivariate Orthonormal Polynomials By Recurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24 Robert L. Paige and A. Alexandre Trindade Theory and Methods Papers: Fast and Accurate Inference for the Smoothing Parameter in Semiparametric Models . . . 25--41 Shesheng Gao and Yongmin Zhong and Chengfan Gu Theory and Methods Papers: Random Weighting Estimation of Confidence Intervals for Quantiles . . . . . . . . 43--53 Petra Kuhnert Book Review: \booktitleRecursive Partitioning and Applications . . . . . 55--56 Stephane Heritier Book Review: \booktitleDesign and Analysis of Quality of Life Studies in Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57 Ross Maller Book Review: \booktitleCompeting Risks and Multistate Models with R . . . . . . 57--60 Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleMaximum Likelihood Estimation for Sample Surveys 60--61 You-Gan Wang Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized Estimating Equations . . . . . . . . . . 61--61 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Campbell Award 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 65--67 Osvaldo Anacleto and Catriona Queen and Casper J. Albers Application Paper: Forecasting Multivariate Road Traffic Flows Using Bayesian Dynamic Graphical Models, Splines and Other Traffic Variables . . 69--86 M. Atikur Rahman Khan and D. S. Poskitt Theory and Methods Papers: a Note on Window Length Selection in Singular Spectrum Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 87--108 Yongsong Qin and Qingzhu Lei and Lijun Luo Theory and Methods Papers: Empirical Likelihood for Nonparametric Models Under Linear Process Errors . . . . . . 109--128 Andrea Mercatanti Theory and Methods Papers: a Likelihood-Based Analysis for Relaxing the Exclusion Restriction in Randomized Experiments with Noncompliance . . . . . 129--153 Yuzhi Cai Theory and Methods Papers: a Quantile Survival Model for Censored Data . . . . 155--172 Xiangmei Ma and Liming Xiang Theory and Methods Papers: Testing for the Presence of a Cure Fraction in Clustered Interval-Censored Survival Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190 Anthony G. Pakes Book Review: \booktitleAbraham De Moivre: Setting the Stage for Classical Probability and its Applications . . . . 191--197 Gillian Z. Heller Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized Linear Mixed Models: Modern Concepts, Methods and Applications . . . . . . . . 197--198 Geoff Jones Book Review: \booktitleJoint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data: with Applications in R . . . . . . . . . 198--199 Gentry White Book Review: \booktitleCriminal Justice Forecasts of Risk: a Machine Learning Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--201 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Barbara R. Holland Invited Paper: The Rise of Statistical Phylogenetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--220 Waruni Abeysekera and Paul Kabaila and Oguzhan Yilmaz Application Papers: The Coverage Probability of Confidence Intervals in One-Way Analysis of Covariance after Two $F$ Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234 Natalie Karavarsamis and Andrew P. Robinson and Graham Hepworth and Andrew J. Hamilton and Geoffrey W. Heard Application Papers: Comparison of Four Bootstrap-Based Interval Estimators of Species Occupancy and Detection Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252 E. R. Williams and H. P. Piepho Theory and Methods Papers: a Comparison of Spatial Designs for Field Variety Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--258 Paul Kabaila and Khageswor Giri Theory and Methods Papers: Further Properties of Frequentist Confidence Intervals in Regression that Utilize Uncertain Prior Information . . . . . . 259--270 Sangah Jung and Sangun Park Theory and Methods Papers: Simplified Maximum Likelihood Inference Based on the Likelihood Decomposition for Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--283 Graham R. Wood and David J. Saville Theory and Methods Papers: a Geometric Examination of Linear Model Assumptions 285--303 J. C. W. Rayner and D. J. Best Theory and Methods Papers: Extended ANOVA and Rank Transform Procedures . . 305--319 Giampiero Marra and Georgios Papageorgiou and Rosalba Radice Theory and Methods Papers: Estimation of a Semiparametric Recursive Bivariate Probit Model with Nonparametric Mixing 321--342 Peter Baade Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of Statistics in Clinical Oncology . . . . 343--343 William Browne Book Review: Bayesian Item Response Modeling: Theory and Applications . . . 344--344 Mark Bebbington Book Review: \booktitleEvent History Analysis with R . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--346 Carl Scarrott Book Review: \booktitleExtreme Value Methods with Applications to Finance . . 346--348 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
Jeff Ching-Fu Hsieh and Susanna M. Cramb and James M. McGree and Peter D. Baade and Nathan A. M. Dunn and Kerrie L. Mengersen Application Papers: Bayesian Spatial Analysis for the Evaluation of Breast Cancer Detection Methods . . . . . . . . 351--367 Shahedul A. Khan and Grace S. Chiu and Joel A. Dubin Application Papers: Therapeutic Hypothermia: Quantification of the Transition of Core Body Temperature Using the Flexible Mixture Bent-Cable Model for Longitudinal Data . . . . . . 369--385 Tae Yoon Kim and Jeongcheol Ha and Sun Young Hwang and Cheolyong Park and Zhi-Ming Luo Theory and Methods Papers: Central Limit Theorems for Reduced $U$-Statistics Under Dependence and Their Usefulness 387--399 Asheber Abebe and Joseph W. McKean Theory and Methods Papers: Weighted Wilcoxon Estimators in Nonlinear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--420 Wei Liu and Sanyu Zhou and Frank Bretz Theory and Methods Papers: Exact Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Quadratic and Cubic Polynomial Regression with Applications in Dose Response Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--434 Guoqi Qian and Xiaoping Shi and Yuehua Wu Theory and Methods Papers: a Statistical Test of Change-Point in Mean that Almost Surely Has Zero Error Probabilities . . 435--454 Gülesen Üstünda\ug \cSiray and Selma Toker Theory and Methods Papers: Restricted Two Parameter Ridge Estimator . . . . . 455--469 A. H. Welsh and Dan Hedlin and Markus G. \vSova Theory and Methods Papers: The Stabilisation of Model Parameter Estimates from Repeated Surveys with Rare Observations . . . . . . . . . . . 471--491 Glenn Stone Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for High-Dimensional Data: Methods, Theory and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--493 William M. Bolstad Book Review: \booktitleThe BUGS Book: a Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--495 Murray Jorgensen Book Review: \booktitleA Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed . . . 495--497 Brenton R. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleMethodology in Robust and Nonparametric Statistics . . 497--499 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 501--501
Thomas Lumley and Alastair Scott Invited Paper: Tests for Regression Models Fitted to Survey Data . . . . . . 1--14 Abdulkadir A. Hussein and Sévérien Nkurunziza and Katrina Tomanelli Applications Paper: Nonparametric Shrinkage Estimation for Aalen's Additive Hazards Model . . . . . . . . . 15--26 Klairung Samart and Ray Chambers Applications Paper: Linear Regression With Nested Errors Using Probability-Linked Data . . . . . . . . 27--46 Christopher S. Withers and Saralees Nadarajah Theory and Methods Papers: Confidence Intervals for Linear Combinations of Poisson Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58 Keunbaik Lee and Jae Keun Yoo Theory and Methods Papers: Canonical Correlation Analysis Through Linear Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--72 Chong You and John T. Ormerod and Samuel Müller Theory and Methods Papers: On Variational Bayes Estimation and Variational Information Criteria for Linear Regression Models . . . . . . . . 73--87 E. R. Williams and J. A. John and D. Whitaker Theory and Methods Papers: Construction of more Flexible and Efficient $P$--rep Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96 Bruce Brown Book Review: \booktitleConfidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size . . . . . . . . 97--98 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous NZSA Awards 2013: Campbell Award 2013 101--102 Anonymous NZSA Awards 2013: NZSA Research Awards 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103 Aurore Delaigle Invited Paper: Nonparametric Kernel Methods with Errors-in-Variables: Constructing Estimators, Computing them, and Avoiding Common Mistakes . . . . . . 105--124 R. Gambacorta and M. Iannario and R. Valliant Applications Paper: Design-Based Inference in a Mixture Model for Ordinal Variables for a Two Stage Stratified Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--143 J. L. Scealy and A. H. Welsh Theory and Methods Papers: Colours and Cocktails: Compositional Data Analysis 2013 Lancaster Lecture . . . . . . . . . 145--169 Karl Gerald van den Boogaart and Juan José Egozcue and Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn Theory and Methods Papers: Bayes Hilbert Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--194 Scott D. Patterson Book Review: \booktitleDesign and Analysis of Bridging Studies . . . . . . 195--196 Geoff Jones Book Review: \booktitleLatent Markov Models for Longitudinal Data . . . . . . 196--197 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Takaki Iwata Applications Papers: Decomposition of Seasonality and Long-term Trend in Seismological Data: a Bayesian Modelling of Earthquake Detection Capability . . . 201--215 Haifen Li and Jiajia Zhang and Yincai Tang Applications Papers: Smooth Semi-nonparametric Analysis for Mixture Cure Models and Its Application to Breast Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--235 Chunpeng Fan and Donghui Zhang Applications Papers: Robust Small Sample Inference for Generalised Estimating Equations: an Application of the ANOVA-type Test . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--255 Gavin J. Melville and Alan H. Welsh Applications Papers: Model-based Prediction In Ecological Surveys Including Those with Incomplete Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--281 Taewook Lee and Cheolwoo Park and Young Joo Yoon Theory and Methods Papers: Bridge Estimation for Linear Regression Models with Mixing Properties . . . . . . . . . 283--302 Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding Advanced Statistical Methods . . . . . . 303--303 Paul Murrell Book Review: \booktitleThe R Student Companion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304 Barry Milne Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Disclosure Control . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
D. Prangle and M. G. B. Blum and G. Popovic and S. A. Sisson Invited Papers: Diagnostic tools for approximate Bayesian computation using the coverage property . . . . . . . . . 309--329 John M. Neuhaus and Charles E. McCulloch Invited Papers: Covariate Decomposition Methods for Longitudinal Missing-at-Random Data and Predictors Associated with Subject-Specific Effects 331--345 Mohammad Moradi and Jennifer A. Brown and Weilong Guo Applications Paper: Adaptive Cluster Sampling in Two-stage Sampling . . . . . 347--357 Chris J. Lloyd Theory and Methods Papers: On the Exact Size of Tests of Treatment Effects in Multi-Arm Clinical Trials . . . . . . . 359--369 Paul Kabaila and Dilshani Tissera Theory and Methods Papers: Confidence Intervals in Regression That Utilize Uncertain Prior Information About a Vector Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--383 Ismihan Bairamov and Mahdi Tavangar Theory and Methods Papers: More on progressively Type-II censored order statistics for multivariate observations 385--394 Hooshang Talebi and Elham Jalali Theory and Methods Papers: a series of single array $ 2^m $ factorial search designs for even $m$ . . . . . . . . . . 395--405 Margaret R. Donald and Kerrie L. Mengersen Theory and Methods Papers: Methods for Constructing Uncertainty Intervals for Queries of Bayesian Nets . . . . . . . . 407--427 Marianne H. Gillam Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate Survival Analysis and Competing Risks 429--430 Murray Jorgensen Book Review: \booktitleAlgorithmic Probability and Friends. Bayesian Prediction and Artificial Intelligence 430--431 Jakob Bergman Book Review: \booktitlePractical Multivariate Analysis, Fifth Edition . . 431--432 Olivier Salvado Book Review: \booktitleStatistical and Computational Methods in brain Image Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--433 Ian C. Marschner Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding the New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence Intervals, and Meta-Analysis . . . . . . 433--435 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 437--437
Jeffrey J. Hunter History Paper: Shayle R. Searle: Pioneer in Linear Modelling . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Aaron T. Porter and Christopher K. Wikle and Scott H. Holan Applications Papers: Small Area Estimation via Multivariate Fay--Herriot Models with Latent Spatial Dependence 15--29 Gerd Gaiselmann and Rafal Kulik and Volker Schmidt Applications Papers: Statistical Inference for Curved Fibrous Objects in $3$D --- Based on Multiple Short Observations of Multivariate Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 31--54 Jack Davis and Harsha Perera and Tim B. Swartz Applications Papers: a Simulator for Twenty20 Cricket . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--71 Lei Cao and Jian Tao and Ning-Zhong Shi and Wei Liu Theory and Methods Papers: a Stepwise Confidence Interval Procedure Under Unknown Variances Based on an Asymmetric Loss Function for Toxicological Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--98 Paul Kabaila and Gayan Dharmarathne Theory and Methods Papers: a Comparison of Bayesian and Frequentist Interval Estimators in Regression that Utilize Uncertain Prior Information . . . . . . 99--118 Marianne Menictas and Matt P. Wand Theory and Methods Papers: Variational Inference for Heteroscedastic Semiparametric Regression . . . . . . . 119--138 Yuzhi Cai and Tao Jiang Theory and Methods Papers: Estimation of Non-Crossing Quantile Regression Curves 139--162 Jun Ma Book Review: \booktitleInterval-Censored Time-to-Event Data: Methods and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164 Eric J. Beh Book Review: \booktitleApplied Categorical and Count Data Analysis . . 164--165 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Luise Patricia Lago and Robert Graham Clark Applications Papers: Imputation of Household Survey Data Using Linear Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--187 Mohammad Salehi and Mohammad Moradi and Jassim A. Al Khayat and Jennifer Brown and Adil Eltayeb Mohamed Yousif Applications Papers: Inverse Adaptive Cluster Sampling with Unequal Selection Probabilities: Case Studies on Crab Holes and Arsenic Pollution . . . . . . 189--201 Emlyn Williams and Hans-Peter Piepho Applications Papers: Optimality and Contrasts in Block Designs with Unequal Treatment Replication . . . . . . . . . 203--209 J. C. W. Rayner and D. J. Best and O. Thas Theory and Methods Papers: Extended Analysis of At Least Partially Ordered Multi-factor ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . 211--224 J. D. Godolphin and E. J. Godolphin Theory and Methods Papers: The Use of Treatment Concurrences to Assess Robustness of Binary Block Designs Against the Loss of Whole Blocks . . . . 225--239 Daniel B. Hall and Jing Shen Theory and Methods Papers: Marginal Projected Multivariate Linear Models for Clustered Angular Data . . . . . . . . . 241--257 Xinghui Wang and Shuhe Hu Theory and Methods Papers: On the Strong Consistency of $M$-Estimates in Linear Models for Negatively Superadditive Dependent Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274 Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad and David Steel Theory and Methods Papers: What Level of Statistical Model Should We Use in Small Area Estimation? . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--298 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Shih-Feng Huang and Chan-Yi Tsai Applications Papers: Hedging Barrier Options in GARCH Models with Transaction Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--324 Su Yun Kang and James McGree and Peter Baade and Kerrie Mengersen Applications Papers: a Case Study for Modelling Cancer Incidence Using Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Models . . . . 325--345 Luigi Pace and Alessandra Salvan and Nicola Sartori Theory and Methods Papers: Inference from Pseudolikelihoods with Plug-In Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361 Pasquale Sarnacchiaro and Luigi D'Ambra and Ida Camminatiello Theory and Methods Papers: Measures of Association and Visualization of Log Odds Ratio Structure for a Two Way Contingency Table . . . . . . . . . . . 363--376 Insha Ullah and Beatrix Jones Theory and Methods Papers: Regularised Manova for High-Dimensional Data . . . . 377--389 Giovanni Maria Merola Theory and Methods Papers: Least Squares Sparse Principal Component Analysis: a Backward Elimination Approach to Attain Large Loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--429 Patrick Graham Book Review: Bayesian Methods in Health Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--433 Barry Quinn Book Review: \booktitleStationary Stochastic Processes Theory and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Ian C. Marschner Invited Paper: Relative Risk Regression for Binary Outcomes: Methods and Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--462 T. S. T. Wong Applications: Statistical Analysis of Heat Waves in the State of Victoria in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--480 O. Thas and J. C. W. Rayner and J. De Neve Theory and Methods: Generalised Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit Utilising $L$-moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--499 Konstantine A. Dres and Graham Hepworth and Ray Watson Theory and Methods: Exact Confidence Intervals for Proportions Estimated by Group Testing with Different Group Sizes 501--516 Andrea Bludowsky and Joachim Kunert and John Stufken Theory and Methods: Optimal Designs for the Carryover Model with Random Interactions Between Subjects and Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--533 Filiz Karaman and Erhan Cene Theory and Methods: Generalisation of Mood's Test to Factorial Designs to Detect Heterogeneity of Variances . . . 535--544 Rui Li and Xiaoli Li and Xian Zhou Theory and Methods: Efficient Inference for Longitudinal Data Varying-coefficient Regression Models 545--570 Matthieu Vignes Book Review: \booktitleInference Principles for Biostatisticians . . . . 571--572 Jakub Stoklosa Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of Capture--Recapture Data . . . . . . . . 572--574 Tania Prvan Book Review: \booktitleEssentials of Multivariate Data Analysis . . . . . . . 574--575 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 577--577
Richard M. Huggins and Paul S. F. Yip and Jakub Stoklosa Applications: Nonparametric Estimation of the Number of Drug Users in Hong Kong Using Repeated Multiple Lists . . . . . 1--13 Aritra Sengupta and Noel Cressie and Brian H. Kahn and Richard Frey Applications: Predictive Inference for Big, Spatial, Non-Gaussian Data: MODIS Cloud Data and its Change-of-Support . . 15--45 Zifei Han and Victor De Oliveira Theory and Methods: On the Correlation Structure of Gaussian Copula Models for Geostatistical Count Data . . . . . . . 47--69 Atikur R. Khan and D. S. Poskitt Theory and Methods: Signal Identification in Singular Spectrum Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--98 Paul H. Garthwaite and Inge Koch Theory and Methods: Evaluating the Contributions of Individual Variables to a Quadratic Form . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--119 A. S. Turkmen and O. Ozturk Theory and Methods: Generalised Rank Regression Estimator with Standard Error Adjusted Lasso . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--135 Renate Meyer Book Review: \booktitleDependence Modelling with Copulas . . . . . . . . . 137--138 Kevin Wang Book Review: \booktitleUsing R for Introductory Statistics . . . . . . . . 138--139 Hisao Miyano Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondence Analysis: Theory, Practice and New Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--141 Ivy Liu Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of Categorical Data with R . . . . . . . . 141--142 Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Awards: Campbell Award . . . . . . . . . 145--148 Anonymous Awards: Pitman Medal . . . . . . . . . . 149--152 Kemmawadee Preedalikit and Ivy Liu and Yuichi Hirose and Nokuthaba Sibanda and Daniel Fernández Applications: Joint Modeling of Survival and Longitudinal Ordered Data Using a Semiparametric Approach . . . . . . . . 153--172 Fred B. Bryant and Karl G. Jöreskog Applications: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Ordinal Data Using Full-Information Adaptive Quadrature . . 173--196 Hong Zhu and Yingchao Xie and Maochao Xu Applications: Discrete Truncated Power-Law Distributions . . . . . . . . 197--209 You-Gan Wang and Yudong Zhao and Liya Fu Theory and Methods: The Buckley--James Estimator and Induced Smoothing . . . . 211--225 Weixuan Zhu and J. Miguel Marin and Fabrizio Leisen Theory and Methods: a Bootstrap Likelihood Approach to Bayesian Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--244 Florian Rohart Theory and Methods: Multiple Hypothesis Testing for Variable Selection . . . . . 245--267 Ricardo Ramírez-Aldana and Guillermina Eslava-Gómez Theory and Methods: Label- and Level-Invariant Graphical Log-Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--291 Paul Kabaila and Yining Kong Theory and Methods: Lower Bounds on Integrated Risk, Subject to Inequality Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--315 Anonymous Forthcoming Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
R. T. Sabo Applications: Providing Consulting Experiences Through Role Playing in a Graduate Statistics Course . . . . . . . 319--333 Zhen Pang and Bingqing Lin and Jiming Jiang Theory and Methods: Regularisation Parameter Selection Via Bootstrapping 335--356 Hoa Pham and Alan Branford Theory and Methods: Exploring Parameter Relations for Multi-Stage Models in Stage-Wise Constant and Time Dependent Hazard Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--376 Haocheng Li and Grace Y. Yi Theory and Methods: Missing Data Mechanisms for Analysing Longitudinal Data with Incomplete Observations in Both Responses and Covariates . . . . . 377--396 Brajendra C. Sutradhar and K. V. Vineetha Warriyar and Nan Zheng Theory and Methods: Inference in Semi-Parametric Dynamic Models for Repeated Count Data . . . . . . . . . . 397--434 Anonymous Forthcoming Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 435--435
D. Fernández and R. Arnold Applications: Model selection for mixture-based clustering for ordinal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--472 Tieming Ji and Jie Chen Applications: Statistical models for DNA copy number variation detection using read-depth data from next generation sequencing experiments . . . . . . . . . 473--491 T. Thomson and S. Hossain and M. Ghahramani Theory and Methods: Efficient estimation for time series following generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--513 L. A. Prendergast and A. L. Garnham Theory and Methods: Response and predictor folding to counter symmetric dependency in dimension reduction . . . 515--532 Joshua V. Ross Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--534 Anonymous Forthcoming Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 535--535
James Chipperfield and James J. Brown and Nicole Watson Applications: The Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset: using record linkage to create a longitudinal sample from a series of cross-sections . . . . 1--16 A. M. Elsawah Applications: a powerful and efficient algorithm for breaking the links between aliased effects in asymmetric designs 17--41 Jin Zhang Theory and Methods: Bayesian (mean) most powerful tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56 Marti J. Anderson and Daniel C. I. Walsh and K. Robert Clarke and Ray N. Gorley and Edlin Guerra-Castro Theory and Methods: Some solutions to the multivariate Behrens--Fisher problem for dissimilarity-based analyses . . . . 57--79 Po Yang and Chang-Yun Lin Theory and Methods: Optimal split-plot orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94 Matthias Killiches and Daniel Kraus and Claudia Czado Theory and Methods: Examination and visualisation of the simplifying assumption for vine copulas in three dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--117 Pavlina Rumcheva and Brett Presnell Theory and Methods: an improved test of equality of mean directions for the Langevin--von Mises--Fisher distribution 119--135 Patrick Borges and Marcelo Bourguignon and Fabio Fajardo Molinares Theory and Methods: a generalised NGINAR(1) process with inflated-parameter geometric counting series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--150 Jakub Stoklosa Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152 Anonymous Forthcoming Papers: Forthcoming Papers 153--153
S. Bersimis and P. Economou Applications: The use of length-biased distributions in statistical monitoring 155--167 A. D'Ambra and A. Crisci and L. D'Ambra Theory and Methods: Association models in the weighted log ratio analysis for rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--185 Thomas Lumley Theory and Methods: Pseudo-$ R^2 $ statistics under complex sampling . . . 187--194 A. Huang Theory and Methods: On generalised estimating equations for vector regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--213 Hongxia Wang and Yuehua Wu and Elton Chan Theory and Methods: Efficient estimation of nonparametric spatial models with general correlation structures . . . . . 215--233 Matthieu Vignes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236 Ken J. Beath Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238
Maria Kateri and Anna Gottard and Claudia Tarantola Theory and Methods: Generalised quasi-symmetry models for ordinal contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 239--253 S. Mandal and B. Torsney and M. Chowdhury Theory and Methods: Optimal designs for minimising covariances among parameter estimators in a linear model . . . . . . 255--273 Chris J. Lloyd Theory and Methods: The size accuracy of combination tests . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287 Yong He and Xinsheng Zhang and Jiadong Ji and Bin Liu Theory and Methods: Joint estimation of multiple high-dimensional Gaussian copula graphical models . . . . . . . . 289--310 Vito M. R. Muggeo Theory and Methods: Interval estimation for the breakpoint in segmented regression: a smoothed score-based approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322 Peter M. Visscher Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324 Michael E. Schuckers Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--325
C. J. Brien Invited Review: Multiphase experiments in practice: A look back . . . . . . . . 327--352 A. A. Manderson and E. Cripps and K. Murray and B. A. Turlach Statistical Computing: Monotone polynomials using BUGS and Stan . . . . 353--370 Elena Moltchanova and Daniel Gerhard and Fathimath Mohamed and Sally Gaw and Chris N. Glover Applications: On correlation analysis of many-to-many observations: an alternative to Pearson's correlation coefficient and its application to an ecotoxicological study . . . . . . . . . 371--387 Pietro Coretto and Francesco Giordano Applications: Nonparametric estimation of the dynamic range of music signals 389--412 Ross S. Bowden and Brenton R. Clarke Applications: Using multivariate time series methods to estimate location and climate change effects on temperature readings employed in electricity demand simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--431 S. M. Diffey and A. B. Smith and A. H. Welsh and B. R. Cullis Theory and Methods: a new REML (parameter expanded) EM algorithm for linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 433--448 Insha Ullah and Matthew D. M. Pawley and Adam N. H. Smith and Beatrix Jones Theory and Methods: Improving the detection of unusual observations in high-dimensional settings . . . . . . . 449--462 Thomas Suesse and John C. W. Rayner and Olivier Thas Theory and Methods: Assessing the fit of finite mixture distributions . . . . . . 463--483 J. C. W. Rayner and D. J. Best Theory and Methods: Unconditional analogues of Cochran--Mantel--Haenszel tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--494 Martin L. Hazelton and Timothy P. Bilton Theory and Methods: Polytope samplers for network tomography . . . . . . . . . 495--511 Brenton R. Clarke and Alexandra Höller and Christine H. Müller and Karuru Wamahiu Theory and Methods: Investigation of the performance of trimmed estimators of life time distributions with censoring 513--525 Yaeji Lim and Hee-Seok Oh Theory and Methods: Confidence intervals for nonparametric quantile regression: an emphasis on smoothing splines approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--543 Matthieu Vignes and Mélodie Sammarro and Anthime Schrefheere and Alex White and Stephen Marsland Book Review: \booktitleBayesian Networks: With Examples in R . . . . . . 545--546
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Michael A. Martin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Makoto Aoshima and Dan Shen and Haipeng Shen and Kazuyoshi Yata and Yi-Hui Zhou and J. S. Marron A survey of high dimension low sample size asymptotics . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--19 Ming-Yen Cheng and Sanying Feng and Gaorong Li and Heng Lian Greedy forward regression for variable screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--42 Hairui Hua and Dimitrios Bagkavos and Prakash N. Patil An $ L_1 $ analysis of a kernel-based hazard rate estimator . . . . . . . . . 43--64 Iain M. Johnstone Tail sums of Wishart and Gaussian eigenvalues beyond the bulk edge . . . . 65--74 Andy S. I. Kim and Matt P. Wand On expectation propagation for generalised, linear and mixed models . . 75--102 Todd A. Kuffner and Stephen M. S. Lee and G. A. Young Consistency of a hybrid block bootstrap for distribution and variance estimation for sample quantiles of weakly dependent sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--114 Seonmi Lee and Woncheol Jang and Byeong U. Park Kernel excess mass test for multimodality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--131 I. Samonenko and J. Robinson A new permutation test statistic for $K$-sample multivariate designs . . . . 132--139 N. Tajvidi and B. A. Turlach A general approach to generate random variates for multivariate copulae . . . 140--155
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Richard J. Boys and Holly F. Ainsworth and Colin S. Gillespie Bayesian inference for a partially observed birth-death process using data on proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--173 A. A. Manderson and K. Murray and B. A. Turlach Dynamic Bayesian forecasting of AFL match results using the Skellam distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--187 Po Yang and Jingjing Hu Optimal robust parameter designs with qualitative and quantitative factors . . 188--198 Janet D. Godolphin A note on the robustness of PBIBD(2)s against breakdown in the event of observation loss . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--208 Fernanda L. Schumacher and Victor H. Lachos and Filidor E. Vilca-Labra and Luis M. Castro Influence diagnostics for censored regression models with autoregressive errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--229 Mohammad W. Hattab and Ronald Christensen Lack of fit tests based on sums of ordered residuals for linear models . . 230--257 Yu Liu and Yong Wang A fast algorithm for univariate log-concave density estimation . . . . . 258--275 J. M. Curran Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of Statistical Algorithms With References to R Packages, By C. Weihs, O. Mersmann and U. Ligges. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. 2015. 500 pages. UK\pounds 44.99 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4398-7885-9 . . . 276--277
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Tung H. Pham and Matt P. Wand Generalised additive mixed models analysis via \pkggammSlice . . . . . . . 279--300 K. Orfanogiannaki and D. Karlis Multivariate Poisson hidden Markov models with a case study of modelling seismicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--322 Farhad Shokoohi and Mahmoud Torabi Semi-parametric small-area estimation by combining time-series and cross-sectional data methods . . . . . . 323--342 Nan Zheng and Brajendra C. Sutradhar Generalised quasi-likelihood inference in a semi-parametric binary dynamic mixed logit model . . . . . . . . . . . 343--373 Xiaodong Gong and Jiti Gao Nonparametric kernel estimation of the impact of tax policy on the demand for private health insurance in Australia 374--393 Haocheng Li and Yukun Zhang Hybrid pairwise-likelihood estimation methods for incomplete longitudinal binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--404 Ray Chambers Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in Action: A Canadian Outlook, Edited by J. F. Lawless. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press 2014 384 pages. \$185.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4822-3623-1} . . 405--405 David Bulger Book Review: \booktitleMusic Data Analysis: Foundations and Applications, Edited By C. Weihs D. Jannach I. Vatolkin and G. Rudolph. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. 2017. 675 pages. AUD\$94.99 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4987-1956-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 405--406
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Jingli Wang and Jialiang Li Semiparametric model averaging prediction: a Bayesian approach . . . . 407--422 Safaa. K. Kadhem and Paul Hewson and Irene Kaimi Using hidden Markov models to model spatial dependence in a network . . . . 423--446 Mingjuan Zhang and Cheng Zhou and Yong He and Bin Liu Data-adaptive test for high-dimensional multivariate analysis of variance problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--470 Ruwan C. Karunanayaka and Boxin Tang On the existence and constructions of orthogonal designs . . . . . . . . . . . 471--480 Subir Ghosh and Li Guo and Luyao Peng Variance component estimators OPE, NOPE and AOPE in linear mixed effects models 481--505
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Thomas W. O'Gorman Constructing narrower confidence intervals by inverting adaptive tests 1--17 Paul Kabaila and Christeen Wijethunga Confidence intervals centred on bootstrap smoothed estimators . . . . . 19--38 Arunas Petras Verbyla A note on model selection using information criteria for general linear models estimated using REML . . . . . . 39--50 Graham Hepworth Bias correction of estimated proportions using inverse binomial group testing . . 51--60 F. K. C. Hui and Samuel Müller and A. H. Welsh Testing random effects in linear mixed models: another look at the $F$-test (with discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . 61--84 Ross Doppelt and Keith O'Hara Posterior sampling in two classes of multivariate fractionally integrated models: corrigendum to Ravishanker, N. and B. K. Ray (1997) Australian Journal of Statistics \bf 39 (3), 295--311 . . . 85--87
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv N. Peyrard and M.-J. Cros and S. de Givry and A. Franc and S. Robin and R. Sabbadin and T. Schiex and M. Vignes Exact or approximate inference in graphical models: why the choice is dictated by the treewidth, and how variable elimination can be exploited 89--133 Guo-Liang Tian and Yin Liu and Man-Lai Tang Logistic regression analysis of non-randomized response data collected by the parallel model in sensitive surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--151 Tucker McElroy and Richard Penny Maximum entropy extreme-value seasonal adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--174 Clare A. McGrory and Daniel C. Ahfock and Ricardo T. Lemos Climate regime shift detection with a trans-dimensional, sequential Monte Carlo, variational Bayes method . . . . 175--188 Nicholas Gelling and Matthew R. Schofield and Richard J. Barker R package \pkgrjmcmc: reversible jump MCMC using post-processing . . . . . . . 189--212 Lauren J. Beesley and Jeremy M. G. Taylor and Roderick J. A. Little Sequential imputation for models with latent variables assuming latent ignorability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233 C. J. Brien Multiphase experiments with at least one later laboratory phase. II. Nonorthogonal designs . . . . . . . . . 234--268 Stephanie M. Downes Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270 Matthew Parry Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to Bayesian Statistics, Third Edition . . . 271--271
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Michelle L. Trevenen and Berwin A. Turlach and Peter R. Eastwood and Leon M. Straker and Kevin Murray Using hidden Markov models with raw, triaxial wrist accelerometry data to determine sleep stages . . . . . . . . . 273--298 Chaohua Dong and Jiti Gao and Bin Peng Series estimation for single-index models under constraints . . . . . . . . 299--335 Georgios Papageorgiou Bayesian density regression for discrete outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--359 Andrés Ramírez-Hassan and Manuel Correa-Giraldo Focused estimation for noisy and small data sets: a Bayesian minimum expected loss estimator approach . . . . . . . . 360--379 D. C. Wickramarachchi and B. L. Robertson and M. Reale and C. J. Price and J. A. Brown A reflected feature space for CART . . . 380--391 A. H. Welsh Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--395
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Russell Millar Rachel Fewster: Recipient of NZSA Campbell Award 2018 . . . . . . . . . . 397--400 Inge Koch and Kanta Naito and Hiroaki Tanaka Kernel naive Bayes discrimination for high-dimensional pattern recognition . . 401--428 Paul Kabaila and Rheanna Mainzer An alternative to confidence intervals constructed after a Hausman pretest in panel data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--444 Kevin Yx Wang and Garth Tarr and Jean Yh Yang and Samuel Mueller Fast and approximate exhaustive variable selection for generalised linear models with APES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--465 E. R. Williams and H. P. Piepho Error variance bias in neighbour balance and evenness of distribution designs . . 466--473 John Maindonald Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--476
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Pitman Medal 2016 and 2018 . . . . . . . 1--4 James G. Booth and Alan H. Welsh Generalised regression estimation via the bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--24 Hassan S. Bakouch and Y. Sunecher and N. Mamode Khan and V. Jowaheer A non-stationary bivariate INAR(1) process with a simple cross-dependence: Estimation with some properties . . . . 25--48 Robert Graham Clark Maximum likelihood estimation for outcome-dependent samples . . . . . . . 49--70 David Gunawan and Anastasios Panagiotelis and William Griffiths and Duangkamon Chotikapanich Bayesian weighted inference from surveys 71--94 N. Karavarsamis and G. Guillera-Arroita and R. M. Huggins and B. J. T. Morgan The score test for the two-sample occupancy model . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--115 Thomas W. Yee The VGAM package for negative binomial regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--131
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Scott R. Walter and Bruce M. Brown and William T. M. Dunsmuir Detecting changes in task length due to task-switching in the presence of repeated length-biased sampling . . . . 133--152 Tom Elliott and Thomas Lumley Modelling the travel time of transit vehicles in real-time through a GTFS-based road network using GPS vehicle locations . . . . . . . . . . . 153--167 Jeremy Forbes and Dianne Cook and Rob J. Hyndman Spatial modelling of the two-party preferred vote in Australian federal elections: 2001--2016 . . . . . . . . . 168--185 Raluca Vernic On a class of bivariate mixed Sarmanov distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--211 John M. Neuhaus and Charles E. McCulloch Robust estimation for longitudinal data under outcome-dependent visit processes 212--231 Jianhong Shi and Jie Zhang and Xiaorui Wang and Weixing Song Modal non-linear regression in the presence of Laplace measurement error 232--248 Michail Tsagris and Connie Stewart A folded model for compositional data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--277 Xinyang Wang Variable selection for first-order Poisson integer-valued autoregressive model with covariables . . . . . . . . . 278--295
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Renjie Lu and Philip L. H. Yu and Xiaohang Wang Sparse vector error correction models with application to cointegration-based trading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--321 Ramadha D. Piyadi Gamage and Wei Ning Inference for short-memory time series models based on modified empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--339 Takeshi Kurosawa and Francis K. C. Hui and A. H. Welsh and Kousuke Shinmura and Nobuoki Eshima On goodness-of-fit measures for Poisson regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 340--366 Shin-Fu Tsai Approximate two-sided tolerance intervals for normal mixture distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--382 K. G. Reddy and M. G. M. Khan \pkgstratifyR: an R Package for optimal stratification and sample allocation for univariate populations . . . . . . . . . 383--405
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii Mohammed A. Alomair and Stelios D. Georgiou and Manohar Aggarwal Projection properties of three-level screening designs . . . . . . . . . . . 407--425 Penelope Bilton and Geoff Jones and Siva Ganesh and Stephen Haslett Regression trees for poverty mapping . . 426--443 Laurentiu Catalin Hinoveanu and Fabrizio Leisen and Cristiano Villa A loss-based prior for Gaussian graphical models . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--466 Zhijian Li and Wei Lin Efficient error variance estimation in non-parametric regression . . . . . . . 467--484 S. C. Pandhare and T. V. Ramanathan The focussed information criterion for generalised linear regression models for time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--507 Debjit Sengupta and Tathagata Banerjee and Surupa Roy Estimation of Poisson mean with under-reported counts: a double sampling approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--535 Christian Aßmann and Marcel Preising Bayesian estimation and model comparison for linear dynamic panel models with missing values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--557
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Martin L. Hazelton and R. Turner A Festschrift for Adrian Baddeley . . . 1--5 Eva B. Vedel Jensen Stereological inference on mean particle shape from vertical sections . . . . . . 6--18 Dietrich Stoyan and Viktor Benes and Filip Seitl Dependent radius marks of Laguerre tessellations: a case study . . . . . . 19--32 Andreas Dyreborg Christoffersen and Jesper Mòller and Heidi Sògaard Christensen Modelling columnarity of pyramidal cells in the human cerebral cortex . . . . . . 33--54 Ignacio Cascos and Qiyu Li and Ilya Molchanov Depth and outliers for samples of sets and random sets distributions . . . . . 55--82 Peter J. Diggle Conditional intensity: a powerful tool for modelling and analysing point process data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--92 Thomas Shaw and Jesper Mòller and Rasmus Plenge Waagepetersen Globally intensity-reweighted estimators for $K$ --- and pair correlation functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--118 Achmad Choiruddin and Jean-François Coeurjolly and Rasmus Waagepetersen Information criteria for inhomogeneous spatial point processes . . . . . . . . 119--143 Ian W. Renner and David I. Warton and Francis K. C. Hui What is the effective sample size of a spatial point process? . . . . . . . . . 144--158 M. N. M. van Lieshout Infill asymptotics for adaptive kernel estimators of spatial intensity . . . . 159--181 Noel Cressie A few statistical principles for data science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--200 R. D. Gill Anna Karenina and the two envelopes problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--218
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Francis K. C. Hui and Howard D. Bondell A shared parameter mixture model for longitudinal income data with missing responses and zero rounding . . . . . . 221--240 Rob J. Hyndman and Yijun Zeng and Han Lin Shang Forecasting the old-age dependency ratio to determine a sustainable pension age 241--256 Yanlin Shi New moderation methods of higher school certificate assessments: a case study of the New South Wales practice . . . . . . 257--283 A. P. Verbyla and J. De Faveri and D. M. Deery and G. J. Rebetzke Modelling temporal genetic and spatio-temporal residual effects for high-throughput phenotyping data . . . . 284--308 Sakineh Dehghan and Mohammad Reza Faridrohani Non-parametric depth-based tests for the multivariate location problem . . . . . 309--330 Subhra Sankar Dhar and Ujjwal Das On distance based goodness of fit tests for missing data when missing occurs at random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--356 Muhammad Ejaz and Chaitanya Joshi and Stephen Joe Adversarial risk analysis for first-price sealed-bid auctions . . . . 357--376 Omer Ozturk and Konul Bayramoglu Kavlak Model-based inference using judgement post-stratified samples in finite populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--393 Yuqi Long and Xingzhong Xu Bayesian decision rules to classification problems . . . . . . . . 394--415
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Suman Rakshit and Greg McSwiggan and Gopalan Nair and Adrian Baddeley Variable selection using penalised likelihoods for point patterns on a linear network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--454 E. R. Williams and C. G. Forde and J. Imaki and K. Oelkers Experimental design in practice: The importance of blocking and treatment structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--467 Simon E. F. Spencer Accelerating adaptation in the adaptive Metropolis--Hastings random walk algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--484 Thanakorn Nitithumbundit and Jennifer S. K. Chan ECM algorithm for estimating vector ARMA model with variance gamma distribution and possible unbounded density . . . . . 485--516 Luca Maestrini and Matt P. Wand The Inverse $G$-Wishart distribution and variational message passing . . . . . . 517--541 J. Arbel and G. Kon Kam King and A. Lijoi and L. Nieto-Barajas and I. Prünster \pkgBNPdensity: Bayesian nonparametric mixture modelling in R . . . . . . . . . 542--564
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Pranjal Chandrakar and Shubhabrata Das Measuring the values of cricket players 565--578 Pengyi Liu and Guo-Liang Tian and Kam Chuen Yuen and Chi Zhang and Man-Lai Tang Proportional inverse Gaussian distribution: a new tool for analysing continuous proportional data . . . . . . 579--605 Silvia Novo and Philippe Vieu and Germán Aneiros Fast and efficient algorithms for sparse semiparametric bifunctional regression 606--638 Sarah Pirikahu and Geoffrey Jones and Martin L. Hazelton Bayesian credible intervals for population attributable risk from case-control, cohort and cross-sectional studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--657 Rong Jiang and Yexun Peng and Yufei Deng Variable selection and debiased estimation for single-index expectile model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658--673 Shuji Ando Odds-symmetry model for cumulative probabilities and decomposition of a conditional symmetry model in square contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 674--684 Wagner Barreto-Souza and Vinícius D. Mayrink and Alexandre B. Simas Bessel regression and bbreg package to analyse bounded data . . . . . . . . . . 685--706
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv David Huijser and Jesse Goodman and Brendon J. Brewer Properties of the affine-invariant ensemble sampler's `stretch move' in high dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26 Yaolan Ma and Bo Wei Efficient estimation of partially linear tail index models using B-splines . . . 27--44 Beiting Liang and Taoxuan Gao and Defa Bai and Guochang Wang Functional dimension reduction based on fuzzy partition and transformation . . . 45--66 J. C. W. Rayner and Paul Rippon and Thomas Suesse and Olivier Thas Smooth tests of goodness of fit for the distributional assumption of regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--85 Mahdi Teimouri and Saralees Nadarajah \pkgMPS: an R package for modelling shifted families of distributions . . . 86--108 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Hien Nguyen and Sharon Lee and Florence Forbes A Festschrift for Geoff McLachlan . . . 111--116 Salvatore D. Tomarchio and Salvatore Ingrassia and Volodymyr Melnykov Modelling students' career indicators via mixtures of parsimonious matrix-normal distributions . . . . . . 117--132 F. K. C. Hui and L. H. Nghiem Sufficient dimension reduction for clustered data via finite mixture modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--157 Luca Scrucca Modal clustering on PPGMMGA projection subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--170 J.-B. Durand and F. Forbes and C. D. Phan and L. Truong and H. D. Nguyen and F. Dama Bayesian non-parametric spatial prior for traffic crash risk mapping: a case study of Victoria, Australia . . . . . . 171--204 Jan Greve and Bettina Grün and Gertraud Malsiner-Walli and Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter Spying on the prior of the number of data clusters and the partition distribution in Bayesian cluster analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--229 Christian Hennig and Pietro Coretto An adequacy approach for deciding the number of clusters for OTRIMLE robust Gaussian mixture-based clustering . . . 230--254 Hien Duy Nguyen and Florence Forbes Global implicit function theorems and the online expectation-maximisation algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--281 Michael I. Stewart Detection boundary for a sparse gamma scale mixture model . . . . . . . . . . 282--296 Vivi N. Arief and Ian H. DeLacy and Thomas Payne and Kaye E. Basford Visualising the pattern of long-term genotype performance by leveraging a genomic prediction model . . . . . . . . 297--312 Huizi Zhang and Ben Swallow and Mayetri Gupta Bayesian hierarchical mixture models for detecting non-normal clusters applied to noisy genomic and environmental datasets 313--337
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Connor Smith and Boris Guennewig and Samuel Muller Robust subtractive stability measures for fast and exhaustive feature importance ranking and selection in generalised linear models . . . . . . . 339--355 Amitava Mukherjee and Hidetoshi Murakami Multivariate Kruskal--Wallis tests based on principal component score and latent source of independent component analysis 356--380 Janjira Piladaeng and S. Ejaz Ahmed and Supranee Lisawadi Penalised, post-pretest, and post-shrinkage strategies in nonlinear growth models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--405 Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos and Raydonal Ospina and Freddy Hernández-Barajas The place of probability distributions in statistical learning. A commented book review of `\booktitleDistributions for modeling location, scale, and shape using GAMLSS in R' by Rigby et al. (2021) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--412
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Daniel Gerhard and Elena Moltchanova A Richards growth model to predict fruit weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--421 Bhargab Chattopadhyay and Swarnali Banerjee Minimum cost-compression risk in principal component analysis . . . . . . 422--441 Xin Huang and Han Lin Shang and David Pitt Permutation entropy and its variants for measuring temporal dependence . . . . . 442--477 Lianyong Qian and Fukang Zhu A new minification integer-valued autoregressive process driven by explanatory variables . . . . . . . . . 478--494 Reyhane Sefidkar and Mahmoud Torabi and Amir Kavousi Small area estimation under a semi-parametric covariate measured with error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--515
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Stefano Giaimo On two conjectures about perturbations of the stochastic growth rate . . . . . 1--13 Xiaoling Mei and Bin Peng and Huanjun Zhu Variable selection in heterogeneous panel data models with cross-sectional dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--34 T. W. O'Gorman A method to reduce the width of confidence intervals by using a normal scores transformation . . . . . . . . . 35--48 Xiangjie Xue and Yong Wang A nonparametric mixture approach to density and null proportion estimation in large-scale multiple comparison problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--75
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Fangyao Li and Christopher M. Triggs and Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu On the selection of predictors by using greedy algorithms and information theoretic criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 77--100 Tanujit Chakraborty and Gauri Kamat and Ashis Kumar Chakraborty Bayesian neural tree models for nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 101--126 Lingyu He and Yanrong Yang and Bo Zhang Robust PCA for high-dimensional data based on characteristic transformation 127--151 Nikola Pocuca and Michael P. B. Gallaugher and Katharine M. Clark and Paul D. McNicholas Visual assessment of matrix-variate normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--165
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Khue-Dung Dang and Louise M. Ryan and Tugba Akkaya Hocagil and Richard J. Cook and Gale A. Richardson and Nancy L. Day and Claire D. Coles and Heather Carmichael Olson and Sandra W. Jacobson and Joseph L. Jacobson Bayesian modelling of effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on child cognition based on data from multiple cohorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--186 Jun. M. Liu Short-term forecasting with a computationally efficient nonparametric transfer function model . . . . . . . . 187--212 Roberto Di Mari and Antonio Punzo and Zsuzsa Bakk Embedding latent class regression and latent class distal outcome models into cluster-weighted latent class analysis: a detailed simulation experiment . . . . 213--233 Qin Wu and Guo-Liang Tian and Tao Li and Man-Lai Tang and Chi Zhang The multivariate component zero-inflated Poisson model for correlated count data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--261 Yi Wu and Wei Yu and Xuejun Wang Asymptotics of $M$-estimator in multivariate linear regression models for a class of random errors . . . . . . 262--285
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv D. Gunawan and William E. Griffiths and D. Chotikapanich Comparisons of distributions of Australian mental health scores . . . . 287--308 Angelika A. Pilkington and Brenton R. Clarke and Dean A. Diepeveen Exact testing for heteroscedasticity in a two-way layout in variety frost trials when incorporating a covariate . . . . . 309--326 Linda M. Haines and Res Altwegg and D. L. Borchers Exact likelihoods for $N$-mixture models with time-to-detection data . . . . . . 327--343 Mohammad W. Hattab and David Ruppert Measurement errors in semi-parametric generalised regression models . . . . . 344--363 Paul Kabaila and Ayesha Perera Model averaged tail area confidence intervals in nested linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--378 Adam Kapelner and Abba M. Krieger and David Azriel The role of pairwise matching in experimental design for an incidence outcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--393 Soumita Modak Book Review: \booktitleStatistical methods for astronomical data analysis. By A. K. Chattopadhyay and T. Chattopadhyay. New York : Springer. 2014. 349 pages. UK\pounds 49.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-4939-1506-4 . . 394--395
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Paolo Berta and Salvatore Ingrassia and Giorgio Vittadini and Daniele Spinelli Latent heterogeneity in COVID-19 hospitalisations: a cluster-weighted approach to analyse mortality . . . . . 1--20 Vance L. Martin and Jialu Shi and Yang Song and Wenying Yao Identifying changes in the distribution of income from higher-order moments with an application to Australia . . . . . . 21--47 Y. Cai A novel response model and target selection method with applications to marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--76 Zhu Wang Unified robust estimation . . . . . . . 77--102 Chi Yao and Wei Yu and Xuejun Wang Asymptotics for the conditional self-weighted estimator of GRCA() models and its statistical inference . . . . . 103--124