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Volume 1, Number 1--2, 1973Junjiro Ogawa and Sadao Ikeda On the asymptotic null distribution of the $F$-statistic for testing a partial null hypothesis in a randomized PBIB design with $m$ associate classes under the Neyman model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23 D. S. Tracy and B. C. Gupta A combinatorial method for products of generalized $h$-statistics . . . . . . . 25--33 M. S. Srivastava Evaluation of misclassification errors 35--50 Mirek Karasek A simplified statistical estimation procedure for regional econometric models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--67 J. Daniel Khazzoom An econometric model of the demand for energy in Canada. Part One: The industrial demand for gas . . . . . . . 69--107 M. Ahsanullah and A. B. M. Lutful Kabir A characterization of the Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112 G. S. Lingappaiah Prediction in exponential life testing 113--117 S. K. Sinha Distributions of order statistics and estimation of mean life when an outlier may be present . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121 M. Rahman and M. Ahsanullah A note on the expected values of powers of a matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125 A. K. Gupta and Z. Govindarajulu Some new classification rules for $c$ univariate normal populations . . . . . 139--157 G. S. Rogers and D. L. Young On the products of powers of generalized Dirichlet components with an application 159--169 R. K. Saxena and P. L. Sethi Certain properties of bivariate distributions associated with generalized hypergeometric functions . . 171--180 W. Y. Tan Multivariate Studentization and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--199 A. George A probability model for inter-birth interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--209 S. Mitra and A. Romaniuk Simulation de la fécondité au moyen d'un mod\`ele basé sur la courbe du type I de Pearson. (French) [Simulation of fertility using a model based on the Pearson curve of Type I] . . . . . . . . 211--229 J. Yam Graphical rational patterns (GRP) application to Canadian geostatistical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--246 B. B. Winter Strong uniform consistency of integrals of density estimators . . . . . . . . . 247--253 Rameshwar D. Gupta On testing latent vectors of a normal covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 255--260 Paul D. Berger On the distribution of hand patterns in bridge: Man-dealt versus computer-dealt 261--266 W. H. DuMouchel and Z. Govindarajulu and E. Rothman A note on estimating the variance of the sample mean in stratified sampling . . . 267--274
Yasunori Fujikoshi On the asymptotic non-null distributions of the $ L R $ criterion in a general manova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 M. C. Shah and P. N. Rathie Exact distribution of product of generalized $F$-variates . . . . . . . . 13--24 A. K. Basu On distinguishability of sets of distribution functions and non-parametric median problem . . . . . 25--44 K. R. Aggarwal DT and MDT designs and their applications as breeding experiments . . 61--73 Soo-Bin Bin Park On indirect least squares estimation of a simultaneous equation system . . . . . 75--82 K. J. Levy and S. C. Narula Shortest confidence intervals for the ratio of two normal variances . . . . . 83--87 D. C. Doss A note on multivariate linear exponential distributions . . . . . . . 89--94 M. Ahsanullah and A. B. M. Lutful Kabir A characterization of the power function distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98 Hedayat Yassaee Inverted Dirichlet distribution and multivariate logistic distribution . . . 99--105 N. Shklov Book Review: \booktitleA first course in probability and statistics . . . . . . . 127--128 Mitsuyo Kanazawa A non-parametric classification rule for several multivariate populations . . . . 145--156 Malay Ghosh Probabilities of moderate deviations under $m$-dependence . . . . . . . . . . 157--168 P. N. Nagambal and Derrick S. Tracy Rules for multiplication of any polykay by polykay products of weight $5$ . . . 169--180 Marcel G. Dagenais Small sample estimation of regression parameters in the three-variable linear model, with incomplete observations . . 181--195 C. Tilquin and R. Cléroux The block replacement model with inactivity periods and general cost structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--213 A. R. Laughland and K. P. K. Nair Stochastic game models of brand switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--225 Ronald L. Iman A power study of a rank transform for the two-way classification model when interaction may be present . . . . . . . 227--239 C. G. Khatri A note on characterization of some laws by the symmetrical distribution of one linear function given another . . . . . 241--247 Audrey I. Duthie On the existence and non-existence of quintic designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--259 Ch. A. Charalambides The distributions of sufficient statistics of truncated generalized logarithmic series, Poisson and negative binomial distributions . . . . . . . . . 261--275 Jagbir Singh Estimation in a simple linear model using prior beliefs . . . . . . . . . . 277--283 Anonymous Editor's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--284 N. D. Shah Book Review: \booktitleSymmetric functions in statistics . . . . . . . . 285--286
B. E. Rodden and J. P. Landolt The mean and variance of rank and exponential score product moment statistics in the non-circular case . . 1--11 A. M. Mathai Bounds for moments through a general orthogonal expansion in a pre-Hilbert space --- I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--34 D. G. Kabe Generalized MANOVA double linear hypothesis with double linear restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--44 Asha Seth Kapadia The correlated random walk in continuous time with barriers . . . . . . . . . . . 45--56 Jonathan J. Shuster and Mark C. K. Yang A distribution-free approach to quantal response assays . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70 Karen K. Yuen Power comparisons of single-sample Winsorized $T$, trimmed $T$ and Student's $T$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80 Jean-Pierre D. Chateau Contribution empirique au probl\`eme d'agrégation de fonctions autoregressives: Le cas de la politique de distribution de dividendes. (French) [Empirical contribution to the problem of aggregation of autoregressive functions: The case of dividend distribution policy] . . . . . . . . . . 81--104 P. Scobey Singular Gauss-Markov models . . . . . . 105--110 Sujit Kumar Basu and Bimal Kumar Sinha Locally best invariant and locally minimax test of independence . . . . . . 111--118 V. K. Sharma An easy method of constructing latin square designs balanced for the immediate residual and other order effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124 Bernard Colin Loi conditionnelle de la statistique d'ordre $1$ d'un échantillon: Application. (French) [Conditional distribution of statistical order $1$ of a sample: Application] . . . . . . . . . 125--132 J. Ogawa Book Review: \booktitleStatistical theory of the analysis of experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--152
Yasunori Fujikoshi Partial differential equations for hypergeometric functions $_3$F$_2$ of matrix argument . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--163 Morris L. Eaton and Michael D. Perlman Monotonicity of certain multivariate normal probabilities . . . . . . . . . . 165--173 J. C. Baskerville and D. L. Solomon Bayes two-decision procedures for two-sample problems and rank-order data 187--202 Bernard Clement Estimation bayesienne des effets dans le mod\`ele \`a effets aléatoires de classification double avec interaction. (French) [Bayesian estimation of the effects in the random-effects model with dual-classification interaction] . . . . 203--221 William J. Anderson On a model for reciprocity failure in photographic materials . . . . . . . . . 223--234 Marcel F. Neuts and Charles C. Carson Some computational problems related to multinomial trials . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248 Walter J. Wadycki Clustering of correlation matrices: a step-wise procedure . . . . . . . . . . 249--266 Ned Glick Measurements of separation among probability densities or random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276 J. K. Wani and H. P. Lo Large sample interval estimation for the logarithmic series distribution . . . . 277--284 H. T. Trivedi and V. K. Sharma On the construction of group divisible incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 285--288 J. S. Mehta and K. Raghunandanan Estimation of the mean utilizing prior information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--298 Kocherlakota Subrahmaniam and Kathleen Subrahmaniam Multivariate analysis a selected and abstracted bibliography. 1957-1972 . . . 299--300
A. M. Mathai Bounds for moments through a general orthogonal expansion in a pre-Hilbert space. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 W. Y. Tan On testing correlation between growth curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--32 R. Ponnapalli Deficiencies of minimum discrepancy estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50 Lloyd R. Kenward A new test for residual randomness in a class of dynamic autocorrelated econometric models . . . . . . . . . . . 51--64 H. Lampkin and J. Ogawa Estimation of distribution parameters in time mortality trials: an example of time mortality analysis . . . . . . . . 65--93 Allan Donner The design of a clinical trial when there are two categories of patients . . 95--108 Rupak Chakravarty and A. Dey On the construction of balanced and orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 109--117 S. M. Shah and V. R. Rathod Testing equality of several exponential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126 William J. Anderson A note on reflecting boundaries for solutions of stochastic differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--131 D. G. Kabe Inverse moments of discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141 Abraham Boyarsky A lower bound for the transition density function of a stochastic differential equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--149 Mir M. Ali An alternative proof of order statistics moment problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--153 Hermann Rohrer Book Review: \booktitleBasic concepts in information theory and S axiomatic foundations and application . . . . . . 155--156
K. C. S. Pillai Distribution of characteristic roots in multivariate analysis. Part II. Non-Null Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--62 A. M. Mathai and W. Y. Tan The non-null distribution of the likelihood ratio criterion for testing the hypothesis that the covariance matrix is diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . 63--74 J. Beaman and H. K. Cheung and J. Knetsch Obtaining efficient estimates of park use and testing for the structural adequacy of models . . . . . . . . . . . 75--92 P. A. V. B. Swamy and J. S. Mehta Robustness of Theil's mixed regression estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--109 K. R. Kadiyala and K. S. R. Murthy Estimation of regression equation with Cauchy disturbances . . . . . . . . . . 111--120 V. K. Sharma Change-over designs with complete balance for first and second residual effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132 Georges A. Becus The random Robin problem for Laplace's equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--139 Chandrakant M. Deo Delayed averages of mixing sequences . . 141--145 G. Pederzoli The non-null distribution for the problem of tests of independence . . . . 147--151
J. K. Wani and H. P. Lo Comparing confidence intervals for the logarithmic series distribution . . . . 153--158 K. P. K. Nair and A. R. Laughland and S. Srinivasan First passage game . . . . . . . . . . . 159--166 Z. Govindarajulu and A. K. Gupta Certain nonparametric classification rules and their asymptotic efficiencies 167--178 R. S. Schulman and M. A. Hamdan A probabilistic model for table tennis 179--186 Ronald L. Iman and W. J. Conover On the power of the $t$-test and some rank tests when outliers may be present 187--193 W. A. T. Archambault, Jr. and G. A. Mack and D. A. Wolfe $k$-sample rank tests using pair-specific scoring functions . . . . 195--207 A. K. Gupta and D. S. Tracy Moment inequalities for truncated multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 209--212 N. R. Mohan A note on a strong renewal theorem . . . 213--218 Boris Kohler Convergence faible sur des espaces topologiques uniformes et suites aléatoires d'éléments aléatoires. (French) [Weak convergence in topological spaces of uniform and random sequences of random elements] . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--225 L. L. Sia Optimum spacings of elementary treatment contrasts in symmetrical $2$-factor $ P A$ block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--234 M. A. Hamdan Comparison of two measures of association in two-way contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240 W. Y. Tan On the distribution of quadratic forms in normal random variables . . . . . . . 241--250 Yves Lepage Book Review: \booktitleSondage: Compilation et Corrélation. Par Adolf Diegel. Les Presses de l'Université du Québec, Montréal, Québec, 1977. xii + 162 pp., \$9.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263 Charles W. Dunnett Book Review: \booktitleThe Analysis of Cross-Classified Categorical Data. Stephen E. Fienberg. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1977. 151 pp., US \$10.95. ISBN 0-262-06063-9} . . . . . . 263--264 Douglas B. Clarkson Book Review: \booktitleMathematical Models of Sociology. Sociological Review Monograph 24. Edited by P. Krishnan. University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire, England, 1977. 229 pp., \$9.00. ISBN 0-904425-03-7} . . . . . . 264--265 Richard M. Stanley Book Review: \booktitlePocket Book of Statistical Tables. Statistics: Textbooks and Monographs Series, Volume 22. Compiled by Robert E. Odeh, Donald B. Owen, Z. W. Birnbaum, and Lloyd Fisher. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1977. x + 166 pp., US \$8.75. ISBN 0-8247-6515-X} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
V. S. Alagar The distribution of random determinants 1--9 P. S. Dwyer and N. N. Mikhail and D. S. Tracy A concise proof of a theorem on products of power sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17 C. Radhakrishna Rao Least squares theory for possibly singular models . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--23 G. M. Saha and A. D. Das An infinite class of PBIB designs . . . 25--32 C. M. Deo and S. F. Wong Champs aléatoires gaussiens . . . . . . . 33--40 T. V. Narayana and I. Richard Savage and K. M. Lal Saxena Young chains and rank orders . . . . . . 41--47 Sadanori Konishi Asymptotic expansions for the distributions of statistics based on a correlation matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56 A. H. C. Chan and M. Csörg\Ho and P. Révész Strassen type limit points for moving averages of a Wiener process . . . . . . 57--75 K. G. Janardan and D. J. Schaeffer Another characterization of the Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78 T. Srivenkataramana Change of origin and scale in ratio and difference methods of estimation in sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86 Malcolm Kern and Stanley Walter Ballot theorem and lattice path crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90 Chandrakant M. Deo On a random series in a Hilbert space 91--94 M. Hamilton and W. J. Anderson A consistent system of conditional probabilities which is not compatible with any random field . . . . . . . . . 95--101 W. Venables and A. T. James Interval estimates for variance components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111 Rasul A. Khan A note on the admissibility of Hammersley's estimator of an integer mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119 Mary E. Thompson Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of inference in survey sampling. by Claes-Magnus Cassel, Carl-Erik Särndal, Jan Håkan Wretman, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1977. xi + 192 pp., \$21.85. ISBN 0-471-02563-1} . . . . . . 133--134 Louis H. Broekhoven Book Review: \booktitleComputational Methods for Data Analysis, by John M. Chambers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1977. xi + 268 pp., \$18.40. ISBN 0-471-02772-3} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135 R. J. Mackay Book Review: \booktitleProbability and statistics: Theory and applications. by D. A. S. Fraser. Duxbury Press, North Scituate, Mass., 1976. xi + 623 pp., US \$18.95. ISBN 0-87872-099-5} . . . . . . 135--137 Laszlo Endrenyl Book Review: \booktitleStatistics. by David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger Purves. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, 1978. xv + 506 + A83 pp., US \$13.95. ISBN 0-393-09076-0. [Instructor's Manual, 135 pp. ISBN 0-393-09041-8.]} . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
D. A. Dawson Geostochastic calculus . . . . . . . . . 143--168 R. J. Tomkins Convergence properties of conditional medians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177 Luc P. Devroye The uniform convergence of the Nadaraya-Watson regression function estimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191 J. Michael Steele Invalidity of average squared error criterion in density estimation . . . . 193--200 Ashok K. Singh Testing multiple slippages . . . . . . . 201--218 Jagannath K. Wani Measuring diversity in biological populations with logarithmic abundance distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--228 Irwin Guttman and G. C. Tiao Effect of correlation on the estimation of a mean in the presence of spurious observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--247 Hira L. Koul A class of tests for testing ``new is better than used'' . . . . . . . . . . . 249--271 Robert V. Foutz and R. C. Srivastava The asymptotic distribution of the likelihood ratio when the model is incorrect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--279 Derrick S. Tracy Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science. Proceedings of an International Research Colloquium held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 10--13 May 1973. Volume I: \booktitleFoundations and Philosophy of Epistemic Applications of Probability Theory, xi + 308 pp.; Volume II: \booktitleFoundations and Philosophy of Statistical Inference, xi + 455 pp.; Volume III: \booktitleFoundations and Philosophy of Statistical Theories in the Physical Sciences, xi + 308 pp. edited by W. L. Harper, C. A. Hooker, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1976. Set: US \$105.00. ISBN 90-277-0614-X} . . . . . . . . . . 281--283 Park M. Reilly Book Review: \booktitleProbability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists by Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers. Second Edition. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1978. xii + 580 pp. US \$16.95. ISBN 0-02-424110-5} . . . . 283--284
B. G. Ong and L. L. Campbell Estimation of frequencies of sinusoids in the presence of noise . . . . . . . . 11--19 David R. Brillinger Analyzing point processes subjected to random deletions . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--27 Janice L. DuBien and William D. Warde A mathematical comparison of the members of an infinite family of agglomerative clustering algorithms . . . . . . . . . 29--38 M. Haseeb Rizvi and R. W. Shorrock A note on matrix-convexity . . . . . . . 39--41 James A. Koziol and Amanda F. Nemec On a Cramér--von Mises type statistic for testing bivariate independence . . . . . 43--52 N. Giri Locally minimax tests for multiple correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--60 G. P. Patil and M. V. Ratnaparkhi On additive and multiplicative damage models and the characterizations of linear and logarithmic exponential families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64 Harold V. Henderson and S. R. Searle $ {\rm Vec} $ and $ {\rm vech} $ operators for matrices, with some uses in Jacobians and multivariate statistics 65--81 Samaradasa Weerahandi and James V. Zidek A characterization of the general mean 83--90 R. D. Gupta and D. G. Kabe Goodness-of-fit tests of hypothesized canonical variables . . . . . . . . . . 91--96 Norman R. Draper and Agnes M. Herzberg An investigation of first-order and second-order designs for extrapolation outside a hypersphere . . . . . . . . . 97--101 Charles W. Dunnett Book Review: \booktitleA bibliography of multivariate statistical analysis, T. W. Anderson, Somesh Das Gupta, George P. H. Styan, Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., Huntington, New York, 1977. x + 642 pp. US \$28.50. ISBN 0-88275-477-7} . . . . 111--111 Gary D. Anderson Book Review: \booktitleBMDP-77, biomedical computer programs, P-series. by W. J. Dixon, series editor, and M. B. Brown editor 1977 edition. \booktitleSystems, program and statistical development: L. Engelman, J. W. Frane and R. I. Jennrich. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1977. xiii + 880 pp. C \$16.20, US \$10.50. ISBN 0-520-03569-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113 Ibrahim Ahmad and M. S. Srivastava Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate statistical inference, by Narayan C. Giri academic press, 1977. xvi + 319 pp. C \$34.20, US \$25.00. ISBN 0-12-285650-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115 D. M. Macdonald Book Review: \booktitleBranching processes, Anatole Joffe, Peter Ney. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1978. x + 322 pp. US \$34.50. ISBN 0-8247-6800-0} 115--116 George P. H. Styan Book Review: \booktitleInternational encyclopedia of statistics, William H. Kruskal, Judith M. Tanur. The free press, New York, and Collier Macmillan, London and Toronto, 1978. Volume 1, A--N, and volume 2, O--Z and index, xxi + 1350 pp. \$100.00. ISBN 0-02-917960-2. [16 pp. Prospectus available free from the publishers.]} . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117 Luis A. Santaló Book Review: \booktitleGéométrie différentielle stochastique, par Paul Malliavin Notes rédigées par Dani\`ele Dehen et Dominique Michel. Séminaire de mathématiques supérieures, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal, vol. 64. Les presses de l'université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, 1978. 144 pp. \$8.00. ISBN 0-8405-0425-X}. . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Norman R. Draper and Agnes M. Herzberg Designs to guard against outliers in the présence or absence of model bias . . . . 127--135 (1980) E. Richard Shillington Testing lack of fit in regression without replication . . . . . . . . . . 137--146 Marc Moore and Maurice Legault Sur l'estimation du risque encouru en reconstruisant une forme aléatoire. (French) [On the estimation of risk in rebuilding a random form] . . . . . . . 147--158 Luc Devroye Recursive estimation of the mode of a multivariate density . . . . . . . . . . 159--167 (1980) Allan Donner The design of a clinical trial with several patient categories . . . . . . . 169--176 J. Ranganathan and B. K. Kale Tests of hypotheses for reliability functions in two-parameter exponential models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184 (1980) T. A. Ramasubban A comparison of alternative rate estimators in some frequently used growth models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--192 Kam-Wah Wah Tsui Multiparameter estimation of discrete exponential distributions . . . . . . . 193--200 (1980) Kam-Wah Wah Tsui Estimation of Poisson means under weighted squared error loss . . . . . . 201--204 (1980) Theodor D. Sterling Statistical problems in multi-variate (etiological) surveys . . . . . . . . . 205--215 André Plante On the validation of fiducial techniques 217--226 (1980) André Plante Structured probability statements . . . 227--232 (1980) Charles W. Dunnett Book Review: \booktitleProceedings of the computer science and statistics: 12th annual symposium on the interface. Edited by Jane F. Gentleman. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 1979. xiii + 500 pp. C \$25.00, US \$22.50. (Order from Jane F. Gentleman. Department of Statistics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1.) 233--233 Mir Maswood Ali Book Review: \booktitleCharacterizations of the normal probability law, by A. M. Mathai and G. Pederzoli. Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, and Halsted Press, New York, 1977. x + 149 pp, US \$8.50, f3.50. ISBN 0-470-99322-7} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234 Charles W. Dunnett Book Review: \booktitleApplied statistics. by John Neter, William Wasserman and G. A. Whitmore. Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston, 1978. xix + 743 pp., \$23.50. ISBN 0-205-05982-1. \booktitle{Solutions Manual and Guide}, iii + 143 pp. ISBN 0-205-06038-2. \booktitle{Test Manual} by Kenneth Schneider, Randall Byers and Daniel Brick, [4] + 130 pp. ISBN 0-205-05983-X} 234--235 Charles W. Dunnett Book Review: \booktitleSelected Tables in Mathematical Statistics, Volume V. Edited by D. B. Owen and R. E. Odeh for The Institute of Mathematical Statistics. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977. viii + 263 pp. US \$16.80. ISBN 0-8218-1905-4} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235 I. Chorneyko Book Review: \booktitleA primer in probability. By Kathleen Subrahmaniam. Statistics: Textbooks and monographs, vol. 28. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1979. 344 pp. US \$12.50. ISBN 0-8247-6836-1} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory statistics. by Thomas H. Wonnacott and Ronald J. Wonnacott. third edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1977. xxii + 650 pp. US \$18.95. ISBN 0-471-95982-0} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Urs R. Maag The first honorary members of the Statistical Society of Canada . . . . . 6--6 Serge Tardif On the asymptotic distribution of a class of aligned rank order test statistics in randomized block designs 7--25 A. Van Der Merwe and J. V. Zidek Multivariate regression analysis and canonical variates . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39 A. Feuerverger and D. A. S. Fraser Categorical information and the singular linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--45 Krishna Kadiyala Some finite sample properties of generalized ridge regression estimators 47--58 M. S. Chikkagoudar and S. H. Kunchur Estimation of the mean of an exponential distribution in the presence of an outlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63 B. L. Raktoe and H. Pesotan and W. T. Federer On aliasing and generalized defining relationships of factorial arrangements 65--77 M. Evans $ \gamma $-confidence tolerance regions 79--85 David L. Hill and Roy Saunders and Purushottam W. Laud Maximum likelihood estimation for mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--93 C. J. Wild Loss functions and admissibility of normal variance estimators . . . . . . . 95--101 Chi Song Wong and Kai Sang Wong Minima and maxima in multivariate analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--113 David R. McDonald On the Poisson approximation to the multinomial distribution . . . . . . . . 115--118 E. M. Carter and M. S. Srivastava Asymptotic distribution of the latent roots of the noncentral Wishart distribution and the power of the likelihood ratio test for nonadditivity 119--134 Roger Wets Book Review: \booktitleProbl\`emes d'optimisation en calcul des probabilités, par Serge Dubuc. Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures, vol. 62. Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, Québec, 1978. 137 pp. \$8.00. ISBN 0-8405-0413-6}. . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141 B. Leo Raktoe Book Review: \booktitleOrthogonal designs: Quadratic forms and Hadamard matrices. by Anthony V. Geramita and Jennifer Seberry. Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics Series, vol. 45. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 1979. 480 pp. US \$35.00. ISBN 0-8247-6774-8} . . 141--143 Critique Par Serge Dubuc Book Review: \booktitleCha\^\ines de Markov sur les permutations, par Gérard Letac. séminaire de mathématiques supérieures, vol. 63. les presses de l'université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, 1978. 117 pp. \$8.00. ISBN 0-8405-0412-8} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143 Mourad E. H. Ismail Book Review: \booktitleThe H-function with applications in statistics and other disciplines. by A. M. Mathai and R. K. Saxena. Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, and Halsted Press, New York, 1978. xii + 192 pp. US \$9.95. ISBN 0-470-26380-6} 143--145 L. H. Broekhoven Book Review: \booktitleCompact numerical methods for computers: Linear algebra and function minimisation. by J. C. Nash. Adam Hilger Ltd., Bristol, 1979. ix + 227 pp. \pounds 12.50. ISBN 0-85274-330-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146 Charles W. Dunnett Book Review: \booktitleTables for normal tolerance limits, sampling plans, and screening. by Robert E. Odeh and D. B. Owen. Statistics: Textbooks and monographs, vol. 32. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1980. ix + 316 pp. US \$49.75. ISBN 0-8247-6944-9} . . . . . . 146--148
David V. Hinkley Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163 (1981) Carl-Erik Särndal A two-way classification of regression estimation strategies in probability sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--177 (1981) B. Gail Ivanoff The function space $ D([0, \infty)^q, E) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191 (1981) F.-W. W. Scholz Towards a unified definition of maximum likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--203 (1981) F. Sherif and Mary E. Thompson A brand share model for Canadian cigarettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--215 Gary Smith An example of ridge regression difficulties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--225 Shyam S. Sharma On Hacking's fiducial theory of inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--233 (1981) A. K. Basu On rates of convergence to infinitely divisible laws for dependent random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--247 (1981) M. S. Srivastava Effect of equicorrelation in detecting a spurious observation . . . . . . . . . . 249--251 (1981) Surendra K. Srivastava A class of estimators using auxiliary information in sample surveys . . . . . 253--254 (1981) Shashi N. Sharma Book Review: \booktitlePerspectives Canada III, edited by H. J. Adler and D. Brusegard. Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 1980. viii + 312 pp. C \$9.95. ISBN 0-660-90202-8. [Catalogue No. 11-511E, Supply and Services Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OS9.1]} . . . . . . 255--256 Ivan P. Fellegi Book Review: \booktitlePrivacy and government data banks: an internationai perspective. By David H. Flaherty. Mansell Publishing, London, 1979. 352 pp. f17.50, US. \$37.00. ISBN 0-7201-0930-2} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--258 Ernest G. Enns Book Review: \booktitleProbability and statistics. by A. M. Mathai and P. N. Rathie. The Macmillan Company of India Ltd., Bombay, 1977. xv + 406 pp. f4.95, US \$13.85, C\$20.85, Rs.48.00. ISBN 0-333-19056-4, ISBN 0-333-90115-0 . . . 258--259 Ralph G. Stanton Book Review: \booktitleLattice path combinatorics with statistical applications. by T. V. Narayana. Mathematical Expositions No. 23, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1979. xii + 106 pp. C \$15.00. ISBN 0-8020-5405-6} . . . . . . . . . . 259--259 Harry Joe Book Review: \booktitleLife Testing and Reliability Estimation. By S. K. Sinha and 6. K. Kale. Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, and Halsted Press, New York, 1980. vii + 196 pp. US \$21.20, \$4.50. ISBN 0-470-26911-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260 Jeffrey L. Callen Book Review: \booktitleStochastic dominance: an approach to decision-making under risk. edited by G. A. Whitmore and M. C. Findlay. Lexington Books (D. C. Heath and Co.), Lexington, Mass., 1978. xiv + 398 pp. C \$22.00. ISBN 0-669-01310-2} . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
Jack C. Kiefer The interplay of optimality and combinatorics in experimental design . . 1--10 F. W. Zwiers Autoregressive moving-average convolution processes on the unit circle 11--25 S. G. Ghurye and B. R. Johnson Discrete approximations to the information integral . . . . . . . . . . 27--37 Ronald A. Schaufele A class of time-reversible semi-Markov processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--56 E. Csáki and S. G. Mohanty Excursion and meander in random walk . . 57--70 Danny Dyer Structural probability bounds for the strong Pareto law . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77 Lars Holst and J. S. Rao Asymptotic spacings theory with applications to the two-sample problem 79--89 W. Y. Tan The power function and an approximation for testing variance components in the presence of interaction in two-way random effects models . . . . . . . . . 91--99 M. Csörg\Ho and Z. Rychlik Asymptotic properties of randomly indexed sequences of random variables 101--107 Alexander Basilevsky Factor analysis regression . . . . . . . 109--117 Y. P. Chaubey Testing the equality of the variances of two linear models . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127 D. G. Ferguson Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleDemand Functions and the Slutsky Matrix. By S. N. Afriat. Princeton studies in mathematical economics. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1980. xii + 269 pp. US \$16.50. ISBN 0-691-04222-5} . . 129--130 Kathleen Kocherlakota Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleAn introduction to applied probability. By Ian F. Blake. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1979. [16] + 528 pp. US \$17.10. ISBN 0-471-03210-7} . . 130--131 Anonymous Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleLinguistic variation: Models and methods. Edited by David Sankoff. Academic Press, New York, 1978. xvii + 296 pp. US \$22.50. ISBN 0-12-618850-5. Review by H. J, Warkentyne, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Victoria.} 131--133 Anonymous Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleRegression: a second course in statistics. By Thomas H. Wonnacott and Ronald J. Wonnacott. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1981. xix + 556 pp. US \$26.95, \pounds 12.10. ISBN 0-471-95974-X. Review by William J. Reed, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Victoria} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135 Roger R. Davidson Summary--Reviews/Résumés Bibliographiques: \booktitleMeasures of association for cross classifications. By Leo A. Goodman and William H. Kruskal. (With a foreword by Stephen E. Fienberg.) Springer series in statistics, vol. 1. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1979. x + 146 pp. US \$12.00. ISBN 0-387-90443-3} . . . . . . . . . . 135--136 Roger R. Davidson Summary--Reviews/Résumés Bibliographiques: \booktitleSelecta statistica canadiana, volume V: Mathematical statistics. Edited by M. Behara, C. Blyth, L. L. Campbell, M. Csörg\Ho;, D. A. Dawson, N. Giri, A. Joffe, R. G. Stanton, and R. Theodorescu. Dept. of mathematical sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1979. 150 pp. C \$50.00 (C \$40.00 for individuals, C \$20.00 for SSC members). ISBN 0-920788-04-1} . . . 136--136
Bradley Efron Nonparametric standard errors and confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 139--158 George A. Barnard Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--170 Bradley Efron Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--172 David R. Brillinger Some aspects of modern population mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--194 C. J. Wild Interval estimates for variance components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201 Agnes M. Herzberg and S. Huda A comparison of equally spaced designs with different correlation structures in one and more dimensions . . . . . . . . 203--208 B. R. Johnson The search for submarine pingos in the Beaufort Sea: an unusual application of the binomial distribution . . . . . . . 209--214 L. R. Haff Further identities for the Wishart distribution with applications in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224 Yoshikazu Takada Upper tolerance limit for the largest observation from censored samples . . . 225--228 Frederick R. Forst and Mir Masoom Ali Monte Carlo studies of some adaptive robust procedures for location . . . . . 229--235
Jean-Marie Dufour and Yves Lepage and Hanna Zeidan Nonparametric testing for time series: a bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38 James M. Wilmesmeier and F. T. Wright Convergence results for sequences of quadratic forms . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--47 Kuang-Fu Fu Cheng Jackknifing $L$-estimates . . . . . . . 49--58 Robb J. Muirhead On the distribution of the likelihood ratio test of equality of normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleTime series: Data analysis and theory. Expanded Edition. By David R. Brillinger. Holden-Day, Inc., San Francisco, 1981. xii + 540 pp. US \$28.95. ISBN 0-8162-1150-7} . . . . 63--63 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe statistical analysis of failure time data. By J. D. Kalbfleisch and R. L. Prentice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1980. xi + 321 pp. US \$31.50, C \$40.35. ISBN 0-471-05519-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--66 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLattice path counting and applications. By Sri Gopal Mohanty. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1979. xi + 185 pp. US \$24.00. ISBN 0-12-504050-4} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of categorical data: Dual scaling and its applications. By Shizuhiko Nishisato. Mathematical Expositions No. 24, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1980. xiii + 276 pp. C\$25.00. ISBN 0-8020-5489-7, ISSN 0076-5333} . . 67--69
Keaven Anderson and Milton Sobel and V. R. R. Uppuluri Quota fulfillment times . . . . . . . . 73--88 D. L. McLeish A robust alternative to the normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--102 Gregory Campbell and Myles Hollander Prediction intervals with a Dirichlet-process prior distribution . . 103--111 Kuang-Fu Fu Cheng On a Berry--Esséen theorem for a Studentized jackknife $L$-estimate . . . 113--119 Tak K. Mak Estimation in the presence of incidental parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132 Agnes M. Herzberg The design of experiments for correlated error structures: Layout and robustness 133--138 Mayer Alvo and Paul Cabilio Bayesian estimation of the difference between two proportions . . . . . . . . 139--145 Ivan Baggs Enrollment in initial courses in statistics: an exploratory study . . . . 147--153
D. Brenner and D. A. S. Fraser On the foundations: Statistical models and inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--161 D. Brenner and D. A. S. Fraser and Philip McDunnough On asymptotic normality of likelihood and conditional analysis . . . . . . . . 163--172 Mario Lefebvre Une application des méthodes séquentielles aux tests de permutations. (French) [An application of sequential methods to permutation tests] . . . . . . . . . . . 173--180 Julian Keilson and Ushio Sumita Uniform stochastic ordering and related inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--198 M. F. Egerton and P. J. Laycock An explicit formula for the risk of James-Stein estimators . . . . . . . . . 199--205 J. K. Wani and G. A. Watterson Sampling theory for species abundances in certain biological populations . . . 207--211 David R. Bellhouse The need for a Federal Lotteries Review Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--217 Louis-Paul Rivest Products of random variables and star-shaped ordering . . . . . . . . . . 219--223 Barron Brainerd and Sun Man Chang Number of occurrences in two-state Markov chains, with an application in linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--231
Anonymous Case studies in data analysis . . . . . 237--259 Douglas M. Hawkins and E. Liefde Raath An extension of Geisser's discrimination model to proportional covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270 Jean-Pierre Dion and Gilbert Labelle and Alain Latour Small-sample results for maximum-likelihood estimation in branching processes . . . . . . . . . . 271--276 Ram C. Dahiya and Irwin Guttman Shortest confidence and prediction intervals for the log-normal . . . . . . 277--291 Michael Schulzer and Moira Chan-Yeung and Felisa Tan On the possible significance of the quadratic effect of age on lung-function measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--303 George Casella and Jiunn Tzon Hwang Limit expressions for the risk of James-Stein estimators . . . . . . . . . 305--309 Michel Blais Condition suffisante pour que l'entropie différentielle soit $ < \infty $. (French) [Sufficient condition for differential entropy $ < \infty $] . . . . . . . . . . 311--313 Anonymous Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleDeterministic mathematical models in population ecology. By H. I.Freedman, The University of Alberta. Pure and Applied Mathematics: a series of monographs and textbooks, volume 57. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1980. x + 254 pp. US \$29.75. ISBN 0-8247-6653-9} 315--315 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStochastic systems for management. by Winfried K. Grassmann, University of Saskatchewan. Elsevier North Holland, Inc., New York, 1981. xii + 358 pp. US \$27.95. ISBN 0-444-00449-1} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStatistical models and methods for lifetime data. By J. F. Lawless. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982. xi + 580 pp. C \$50.95, US \$36.95. ISBN 0471-08544-8. . . . . . . 316--317
Barrett P. Eynon and Paul Switzer The variability of rainfall acidity . . 11--23 Donald A. Dawson Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24 John D. Kalbfleisch and Daniel R. Krewski and John Van Ryzin Dose-response models for time-to-response toxicity data . . . . . 25--46 V. T. Farewell Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--49 James H. Ware and Thomas A. Louis Statistical problems in environmental research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--68 David F. Bray Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70 Estela Bee Dagum Spectral properties of the concurrent and forecasting seasonal linear filters of the X-11-ARIMA method . . . . . . . . 73--90
Charles H. Kraft and Yves Lepage and Constance Van Eeden Some finite-sample-size properties of Rosenblatt density estimates . . . . . . 95--104 H. S. F. Wong Classes inférieures de suites gaussiennes asymptotiquement indépendantes. (French) [Subclasses of Gaussian asymptotically-independent sequences] 105--108 O. Brian Allen Asymptotic properties of the maximum-likelihood estimator for a class of birth-and-death processes admitting a unique stationary distribution . . . . . 109--118 J. K. Baksalary and R. Kala On equalities between BLUEs, WLSEs, and SLSEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--123 Georges Hudon Tests unilatéraux multivariés . . . . . . 125--129 V. Seshadri The inverse Gaussian distribution: Some properties and characterizations . . . . 131--136 W. J. Padgett and M. P. Johnson Some Bayesian lower bounds on reliability in the lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--147 Herbert Solomon and Michael A. Stephens An approximation to the distribution of the sample variance . . . . . . . . . . 149--154 Richard A. Johnson and James H. Haskell Sampling properties of estimators of a Weibull distribution of use in the lumber industry . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--169 Norman Shklov Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleDesign and analysis of experiments. By M. N. Das and N. C. Giri. Wiley Eastern Limited, New Delhi, 1979, and Halsted Press, New York, 1981. ix + 295 pp. US\$14.95, \$4.50. ISBN 0-85226-158-6, 0-470-26861-1 . . . . . . 171--171 R. E. Horita Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleTime sequence analysis in geophysics. Third Edition. By E. R. Kanasewich. The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, 1981. xiii + 480 pp. C\$30.00. ISBN 0-88864-074-9} 171--172 Daniel L. Solomon Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleInequalities: Theory of majorization and its applications. By Albert W. Marshall and Ingram Olkin. Volume 143 in the Mathematics in Science and Engineering Series. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1979. xx + 569 pp. ISBN 0-12-473750-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173 S. Kocherlakota Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleAn introduction to multivariate statistics. By M. S. Srivastava and C. G. Khatri. Elsevier North Holland, Inc., New York, 1979. xvi + 350 pp. US \$19.50. ISBN 0-444-00302-9} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175 Anonymous Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleStatistics: Discovering its power. By Ronald J. Wonnacott and Thomas H. Wonnacott. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1982. xviii + 378 pp. US \$22.95. ISBN 0-471-01412-5. Review by Richard D. Routledge, Simon Fraser University} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177 A. M. Mathai Summary--Reviews/Résumés Bibliographiques: \booktitleMultivariate statistical analysis. Proceedings of the research seminar at Dalhousie University, Halifax, October 5--7, 1979. Edited by R. P. Gupta, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1980. viii + 289 pp. Df1.85.00, US \$41.50. ISBN 0-444-86019-3} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177 R. Jock MacKay Summary--Reviews/Résumés Bibliographiques: \booktitleBiostatistics: 1064 Questions. By J. J. Hubert and E. M. Carter. Ken-dall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, 1980. 155 pp. C\$6.95, US \$5.70. ISBN 0-8403-2287-9 . . . . . . . 178--178
Marc Moore and Normand Laniel Reconstruction échantillonnale d'une forme convexe. (French) [Sampling reconstruction of a convex form] . . . . 181--197 Georges Monette A measure of aliasing and applications to two-level fractional factorials . . . 199--206 Serge Tardif Une démonstration élémentaire de l'indépendance entre les vecteurs des rangs et des statistiques d'ordre. (French) [A basic demonstration of independence between the vectors of ranks and order statistics] . . . . . . 207--209 Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly Some limit theorems for uniform and exponential spacings . . . . . . . . . . 211--219 H. Neudecker and Tom Wansbeek Some results on commutation matrices, with statistical applications . . . . . 221--231 Norman R. Draper and Irwin Guttman Dropping observations without affecting posterior and predictive distributions 233--237 Stefan Rinco Estimation of $ {\rm Pr}{y_p} > \max (y_1, \ldots, y_{p - 1}) $: Predictive approach in exponential case . . . . . . 239--244 B. Gail Ivanoff The multitype branching random walk. I 245--257
Alain Boulanger Uniform asymptotic linearity in a regression parameter of a process based on a rank statistic . . . . . . . . . . 265--269 Alain Boulanger Estimators of shift based on statistics of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov type . . . . . 271--284 Alain Boulanger and Constance Van Eeden Uniform asymptotic linearity of a process based on a signed rank statistic 285--292 Alain Boulanger and Constance Van Eeden Estimators of location based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov-type statistics . . . 293--303 G. A. Whitmore A regression method for censored inverse-Gaussian data . . . . . . . . . 305--315 Jagannath K. Wani and Hing Po Lo A characterization of invariant power-series abundance distributions . . 317--323 James V. Bondar Universal optimality of experimental designs: Definitions and a criterion . . 325--331 J. Clij Young Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleIntroductory engineering statistics. Third Edition. By Irwin Guttman, The Late S. S. Wilks, and J. Stuart Hunter. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1982. xi + 580 pp. US \$33.95. ISBN 0-471-07859-X. [Solutions Manual available.]} . . . . . . . . . . 333--333 Ivan P. Fellegi Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleDevelopments in dual system estimation of population size and growth. Edited by Karol J. Kr6tki. The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, 1978. xviii + 260 pp. C\$17.50, US\$14.64. ISBN 0-88864-017-X . . . . . 334--339 Donald G. Watts Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleAnalysis and adjustment of survey measurements. By Edward M. Mikhail and Gordon Grade. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1981. xii + 340 pp. US \$28.50. ISBN 0-442-25369-9. Review by Donald G. Watts, Queen's University} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--339 Anonymous Book Review/Comptes Rendus Critiques: \booktitleA sampler on sampling. By Bill Williams. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1978. xv + 254 pp. C\$37.50, US \$26.95. ISBN 0-471-03036-8. Review by Jack E. Graham, Carleton University . . 339--341 R. Jock MacKay Book Review: \booktitleThe distribution of the size of the maximum cluster of points on a line. By Norman D. Neff and Joseph I. Naus. Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics, Volume VI (W. J. Kennedy and R. E. Odeh, coeditors). American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1980. vii + 207 pp. US \$12.80. ISBN 0-8218-1906-2, ISSN 0094-8837} . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--342 R. Jock MacKay Book Review: \booktitleThe product of two normally distributed random variables. By William Q. Meeker, Jr., Larry W. Cornwell, and Leo A. Aroian. Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics, Volume VII (W. J. Kennedy and R. E. Odeh, coeditors). American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1981. vii + 256 pp. US \$12.40. ISBN 0-8218-1907-0, ISSN 0094-8837} . . 342--343
Ivan P. Fellegi New honorary member of the Statistical Society of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 Jane F. Gentleman and G. A. Whitmore Case study in data analysis, no. 2 . . . 7--10 Robert Kusiak and Jaan Roos Analysis of pulmonary function data . . 10--15 Keith J. Worsley Testing for lung damage to firefighters at the Mississauga train derailment . . 16--21 Jane F. Gentleman Section associate editors' comments . . 21--25 David A. Sprott and Román Viveros-Aguilera The interpretation of maximum-likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--38 D. J. Bartholomew Recent developments in nonlinear stochastic modelling of social processes 39--52 David R. Bellhouse A review of optimal designs in survey sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--65 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Hosny I. Hamdy On estimating the difference of location parameters of two negative exponential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
David R. Bellhouse and Agnes M. Herzberg Equally spaced design points in polynomial regression: a comparison of systematic sampling methods with the optimal design of experiments . . . . . 77--90 Harry Joe and Frank Proschan Comparison of two life distributions on the basis of their percentile residual life functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97 R. James Tomkins Martingale generalizations and preservation of martingale properties 99--106 James A. Koziol and A. John Petkau Relative efficiencies of goodness-of-fit procedures with truncated data . . . . . 107--117 M. S. Srivastava and G. C. Lee On the distribution of the correlation coefficient when sampling from a mixture of two bivariate normal densities: Robustness and the effect of outliers 119--133 André Plante A reexamination of Stein's antifiducial example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--141 Seymour Geisser Predicting Pareto and exponential observables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152 Christian Genest Pooling operators with the marginalization property . . . . . . . . 153--163 Audrey I. Duthie A note on the construction of some lattices for the hypercubic association scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--167
J. D. Kalbfleisch and J. F. Lawless Least-squares estimation of transition probabilities from aggregate data . . . 169--182 D. A. S. Fraser and P. McDunnough Further remarks on asymptotic normality of likelihood and conditional analyses 183--190 Art Owen A neighbourhood-based classifier for Landsat data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--200 David E. Matthews Some observations on semi-Markov models for partially censored data . . . . . . 201--205 David E. Matthews Efficiency considerations in the analysis of a competing-risk problem . . 207--210 Boris A. B. Kohler Un cas élémentaire d'oscillations . . . . 211--216 Madan L. Puri and Tiee-Jian Wu Asymptotic normality of the lengths of a class of nonparametric confidence intervals for a regression parameter . . 217--228 F. T. Wright The asymptotic behavior of monotone percentile regression estimates . . . . 229--236 Donald G. Watts Teaching Statistics in Canada: The Early Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--239 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240 J. K. Baksalary and R. Kala Corrigendum: ``On equalities between BLUEs, WLSEs, and SLSEs'' . . . . . . . 240
Ronald Pyke Asymptotic results for empirical and partial-sum processes: a review . . . . 241--264, 283--287 D. L. McLeish Estimation for aggregate models: the aggregate Markov chain . . . . . . . . . 265--282, 283--285 R. J. Kulperger Discussion of the papers of Professors Pyke and McLeish . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285 Ronald Pyke Response to the discussion of R. J. Kulperger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--287 Peter Guttorp and Reg Kulperger Statistical inference for some Volterra population processes in a random environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--302 Andrey Feuerverger and Philip McDunnough On statistical transform methods and their efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--317 Galen R. Shorack Empirical and rank processes of observations and residuals . . . . . . . 319--332 Guy Mélard and Roch Roy Sur un test d'égalité des autocovariances de deux séries chronologiques. (French) [On an equality test of autocovariances of two time series] . . . . . . . . . . 333--342
M. Evans and D. A. S. Fraser and G. Monette Mixtures, embedding, and ancillarity . . 1--6 Michael Schulzer and Donald A. Enarson and Moira Chan-Yeung Analyzing cross-sectional and longitudinal lung-function measurements: the effects of age . . . . . . . . . . . 7--15 D. R. Bellhouse Systematic sampling of periodic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28 Ioana Schiopu-Kratina Convergence of compensators of simple point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35 Frederic C. Genter and Vernon T. Farewell Goodness-of-link testing in ordinal regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44 Myles Hollander and Dong Ho Park and Frank Proschan Testing whether new is better than used of a specified age, with randomly censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--52 Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and Miklós Csörg\Ho Quadratic nuisance-parameter-free goodness-of-fit tests in the presence of location and scale parameters . . . . . 53--70 Erkki P. Liski and Simo Puntanen A percentile regression model with an application to error frequency in group conversation tests . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78 R. Helmers The Berry--Esséen bound for Studentized $U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--82
G. A. Whitmore and Jane F. Gentleman Iceberg paths and collision risks for fixed marine structures . . . . . . . . 83--87 Marc Moore Modelling iceberg motion: a multiple-time-series approach . . . . . 88--94 F. W. Zwiers Estimating the probability of collision between an iceberg and a fixed marine structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--105 G. \`A. Whitmore Section associate editors' comments . . 106--108 Tim Robertson and F. T. Wright One-sided comparisons for treatments with a control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122 L. Lorne Campbell Transient analysis of birth-death processes with two boundaries . . . . . 123--130 Christopher G. Small Decomposition of models whose marginal distributions are mixtures . . . . . . . 131--136 M. Evans and D. A. S. Fraser and G. Monette On regularity for statistical models . . 137--144 Peter M. Hooper Invariant estimation of functions . . . 145--154 N. Reid Curvature and linear rank statistics . . 155--165 R. Mullin Book Review: \booktitleTime warps, string edits, and macromolecules: the theory and practice of sequence comparison. Edited by D. Sankoff and J. B. Kruskal. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Advanced Book Program, Reading, Mass., Don Mills, Ontario, 1983. 300 pp. US \$31.95. ISBN 0-201-07809-0} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168 E. Thompson Book Review: \booktitleCurrent topics in survey sampling. edited by D. Krewski, R. Platek, and J. N. K. Rao. Academic Press, New York, 1981. xv + 509 pp. US \$35.00. ISBN 0-12-426280-5} . . . . . . 168--169
Anthony Desmond Stochastic models of failure in random environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--183 Eva Elvers and Carl-Erik Erik Särndal and Jan H. Wretman and Göran Örnberg Regression analysis and ratio analysis for domains: a randomization-theory approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--199 Christopher Field Approach to normality of mean and $M$-estimators of location . . . . . . . 201--210 Louis-Paul Rivest Tests based on equivariant estimators 211--216 Serge Tardif On the asymptotic efficiency of aligned-rank tests in randomized block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--232 Piet De Jong and Malcolm Greig Models and methods for pairing data . . 233--241 Bimal Kumar Sinha Unbiased estimation of the variance of the Graybill-Deal estimator of the common mean of several normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--247 Gérard Letac and Vanamamalai Seshadri On Khatri's characterization of the inverse-Gaussian distribution . . . . . 249--252 R. A. Lockhart The asymptotic distribution of the correlation coefficient in testing fit to the exponential distribution . . . . 253--256
Jane F. Gentleman and G. A. Whitmore Temporal patterns in twenty years of Canadian homicides . . . . . . . . . . . 262--266 Craig McKie Seasonality in Canadian homicides, 1961--1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--268 A. Ian McLeod and Ian B. MacNeill and Jahnabimala D. Bhattacharyya Seasonal effects in Canadian murders . . 269--275 Alice Nakamura and Masao Nakamura A search for monthly fluctuation in Canadian homicides: 1965--1980 . . . . . 275--280 Anonymous Section editors' comments . . . . . . . 281--291 Christian Genest and Mark J. Schervish Resolution of Godambe's paradox . . . . 293--297 Donald A. S. Fraser Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--300 Christain Genest and Mark J. Schervish Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--301 Serge Tardif Sur la linéarité asymptotique du premier ordre de statistiques de rang signé. (French) [On the first-order asymptotic linearity of signed rank statistics] . . 303--310 Vera R. Huse and Josef Steinebach On an improved Erd\Hos--Rényi-type law for increments of partial sums . . . . . 311--315 Günter M. T. Weiss Local rates of convergence for consistent estimators of location of translation families . . . . . . . . . . 317--324 Yoshikazu Takada Prediction Limit for Observation from the Exponential Distribution . . . . . . 325--330
Ian B. MacNeill New honorary member of the Statistical Society of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Thomas J. Diciccio Approximate conditional inference for location families . . . . . . . . . . . 5--18 E. Csáki and S. G. Mohanty Some joint distributions for conditional random walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--28 M. S. Srivastava and R. S. Katapa Comparison of estimators of interclass and intraclass correlations from familial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--42 L. R. Haff and R. W. Johnson The superharmonic condition for simultaneous estimation of means in exponential families . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 T. W. Anderson and Kai Tai Fang and Huang Hsu Maximum-likelihood estimates and likelihood-ratio criteria for multivariate elliptically contoured distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--59 Serge B. Provost The exact distribution of the ratio of a linear combination of chi-square variables over the root of a product of chi-square variables . . . . . . . . . . 61--67 Y. H. Wang Coupling methods in approximations . . . 69--74 Sorana Froda Comparison of efficient $L$- and $R$-estimators of location . . . . . . . 75--79 Makoto Maejima A remark on self-similar processes with stationary increments . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Brian D. Ripley Statistics, images, and pattern recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--102 David V. Hinkley and Carl N. Morris and Marc Moore and Art Owen and R. Chellappa Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--111 George Casella Refining binomial confidence intervals 113--129 Sándor Csörg\Ho and Lajos Horváth Confidence bands from censored samples 131--144 Christian Genest and R. Jock MacKay Copules archimédiennes et families de lois bidimensionnelles dont les marges sont données. (French) [Archimedean copulas and families of two-dimensional laws whose bounds are given] . . . . . . 145--159 D. P. Wiens and Z. Zheng Robust $M$-estimators of multivariate location and scatter in the presence of asymmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--176 Iain D. Currie and Michael A. Stephens Relations between statistics for testing exponentiality and uniformity . . . . . 177--180
Michael J. Evans and Donald A. S. Fraser and Georges Monette On principles and arguments to likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--194 J. D. Kalbfleisch Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--199 Michael J. Evans and Donald A. S. Fraser and Georges Monette Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199 Roy F. Bartlett Sampling a finite population in the presence of trend and correlation: Estimation of total $ 305$-day lactation production in cattle . . . . . . . . . . 201--210 Luc Devroye and Clark S. Penrod The strong uniform convergence of multivariate variable kernel estimates 211--219 Miklós Csörg\Ho and Lajos Horváth Weighted empirical spacings processes 221--232 A. Bose A law of large numbers for the scaled age distribution of linear birth-and-death processes . . . . . . . 233--244 Tze Fen Li and Dinesh S. Bhoj A family of admissible minimax estimators of the mean of a multivariate, normal distribution . . . 245--250 J. K. Ghosh and C. K. Mustafi A note on the residual median process 251--255 Vernon T. Farewell Mixture models in survival analysis: Are they worth the risk? . . . . . . . . . . 257--262 D. F. Andrews and R. Brant and M. E. Percy Bayesian incorporation of repeated measurements in logistic discrimination 263--266
Fassil Nebebe and T. W. F. Stroud Bayes and empirical Bayes shrinkage estimation of regression coefficients 267--280 G. M. Tallis Predictive densities and selection with genetic applications . . . . . . . . . . 281--288 Ted Chang and Cesareo Villegas On a theorem of Stein relating Bayesian and classical inferences in group models 289--296 Diane Lambert and George T. Duncan Single-parameter inference based on partial prior information . . . . . . . 297--305 Wesley Johnson and Ronald Christensen Bayesian nonparametric survival analysis for grouped data . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--314 Peter M. Hooper and Wai Kwok Yau Optimal confidence regions in GMANOVA 315--322 Larry A. Wasserman Censoring, conditionality, and likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--327 Brajendra C. Sutradhar On the characteristic function of multivariate Student $t$-distribution 329--337 Friedrich Pukelsheim Approximate theory of multiway block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--346 Jagannath K. Wani and Hing-Po Po Lo Selecting a power-series distribution for goodness of fit . . . . . . . . . . 347--353 K. Zografos and K. Ferentinos and T. Papaioannou Discrete approximations to the Csiszár, Rényi, and Fisher measures of information 355--366 Fred W. Huffer Slepian's inequality via the central limit theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--370
D. B. Rubin and T. W. F. Stroud Bayesian break-point forecasting in parallel time series, with application to university admissions . . . . . . . . 1--19 D. A. S. Fraser and H. Massam Second-order inference for generalized least squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30 Christopher G. Small Measures of centrality for multivariate and directional distributions . . . . . 31--39 Kang-Kyun Kim and Robert V. Foutz Tests for the multivariate two-sample problem based on empirical probability measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51 Bruce R. Johnson and Donald R. Truax Asymptotic properties of Bayes risk for one-sided tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--61 James Lynch and Gillian Mimmack and Frank Proschan Uniform stochastic orderings and total positivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69 Agnes M. Herzberg and P. Prescott and M. Akhtar Equi-information robust designs: Which designs are possible? . . . . . . . . . 71--76 Andrzej Kozek Limiting distributions of Kolmogorov-Lévy-type statistics under the alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85 Hél\`ene Massam Consistent directions for least-squares estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
William H. Ross The geometry of case deletion and the assessment of influence in nonlinear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--103 David R. Cox and Nancy Reid Approximations to noncentral distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--114 Rollin Brant Residual components in generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126 David Hamilton A comparison of two exact confidence regions for partially nonlinear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 127--135 Z. D. Bai and J. C. Fu On the maximum-likelihood estimator for the location parameter of a Cauchy distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--146 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Zenon Tabis Connectedness of PBIB designs . . . . . 147--150 Federico J. O'Reilly and Cesareo Villegas Conditional and predictive probability integral transforms . . . . . . . . . . 151--158 C. G. McLaren and Richard Lockhart On the asymptotic efficiency of certain correlation tests of fit . . . . . . . . 159--167 Robert J. Pavur Distribution of multivariate quadratic forms under certain covariance structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176 J. Calvin Berry Equivariant estimation of a normal mean using a normal concomitant variable for covariance adjustment . . . . . . . . . 177--183
Marc Moore Inférence statistique dans les processus stochastiques: Aperçu historique. (French) [Statistical inference in stochastic processes: historical overview] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--207 Jerald F. Lawless Negative binomial and mixed Poisson regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--225 Harry Joe An ordering of dependence for distribution of $k$-tuples, with applications to lotto games . . . . . . 227--238 A. Luong and M. E. Thompson Minimum-distance methods based on quadratic distances for transforms . . . 239--251 André Robert Dabrowski Invariance principles in probability for stable processes generated by a class of dependent sequences . . . . . . . . . . 253--267 Douglas P. Wiens Robust weighted Cramér-von Mises estimators of location, with minimax variance in $ \epsilon $-contamination neighbourhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278 J.-P. P. Imhof Heuristic approach to some laws for Brownian motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--282 Alain Latour and Roch Roy Some exact results on the sample autocovariances of a seasonal ARIMA model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291 Gordon E. Willmot On the probabilities of the log-zero-Poisson distribution . . . . . 293--297 Gregory C. Reinsel Book Review: \booktitleStatistical methods for forecasting. By Bovas Abraham and Johannes Ledolter. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1983. xv + 445 pp. US \$38.95. ISBN 0-471-86764-0} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300 George P. H. Styan Book Review: \booktitleApplied matrix algebra in the statistical sciences. By Alexander Basilevsky. Elsevier Science Publishing Co. (North-Holland), Inc., New York, 1983. xiii + 389 pp. ISBN 0-444-00756-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--302 Jordan M. Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleContiguity and the statistical invariance principle. By P. E. Greenwood and A. N. Shiryayev. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers S. A., New York, 1985. viii + 236 pp. US \$39.00. ISBN 2-88124-013-5} . . . . . . 302--304 George P. H. Styan Book Review: \booktitleTopics in applied statistics. Edited by Yogendra P. Chaubey and Tryambakeshwar D. Dwivedi. \booktitleProceedings of Statistics '81 Canada Conference held at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, April 29--May 1, 1981. Dept. of Mathematics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. ii + 808 + [7] pp. 1984, C. \$120.00} 302--304 James E. Turner Book Review: \booktitleApplied mathematical demography. Second Edition. By Nathan Keyfitz. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1985. xxi + 441 pp. ISBN 0-387-96155-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305 Christian Genest Book Review: \booktitleModern concepts and theorems of mathematical statistics. By Edward B. Manoukian. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986. xvi + 156 pp. US \$29.80, DM 58.00, ISBN 0-387-96186-0} 305--307 Jan. M. Zielinski Book Review: \booktitleStatistical estimation for stochastic processes. By K. Nanthi. Queen's Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, No. 62, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1983. vii + 269 pp. C. \$13.95 + postage. Paperbound} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307 Thomas W. F. Stroud Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction to applied multivariate statistics. By M. S. Srivastava and E. M. Carter. Elsevier Science Publishing Co. (North-Holland) Inc., New York, 1983. 394 + x pp. DM105.00, US \$34.50. ISBN 0-444-00621-4} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
G. A. Whitmore and Jane F. Gentleman Extreme-value analysis of Canadian wind speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--316 F. W. Zwiers An extreme-value analysis of wind speeds at five Canadian locations . . . . . . . 317--327 W. H. Ross A peaks-over-threshold analysis of extreme wind speeds . . . . . . . . . . 328--335 G. A. Whitmore Section editors' comments . . . . . . . 335--337 Joseph L. Gastwirth and Jane-Ling Wang Nonparametric tests in small unbalanced samples: Application in employment-discrimination cases . . . . 339--348 Román Viveros and David A. Sprott Allowance for skewness in maximum-likelihood estimation with application to the location-scale model 349--361 A. John Petkau Truncated sequential medical trials involving paired data . . . . . . . . . 363--374 D. A. S. Fraser and R. J. Gebotys Non-nested linear models: a conditional confidence approach . . . . . . . . . . 375--386 M. E. Bock and P. Diaconis and F. W. Huffer and M. D. Perlman Inequalities for linear combinations of gamma random variables . . . . . . . . . 387--395
I. P. Fellegi and M. B. Wilk Is statistics singular or plural? . . . 1--8 Marie-France Germain and Claude Julien L'application de la télédétection \`a l'estimation des superficies agricoles. (French) [The application of remote sensing in the estimation of agricultural land] . . . . . . . . . . . 9--23 J. G. Kovar and J. N. K. Rao and C.-F. J. Wu Bootstrap and other methods to measure errors in survey estimates . . . . . . . 25--45 D. A. Binder and A. Théberge Estimating the variance of ranking-ratio estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55 Philip Giles A model for generalized edit and imputation of survey data . . . . . . . 57--73 Georgia R. Roberts Use of time-series methods in the preparation of quarterly estimates of vital events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82 Bernard Lefrançois Application des séries chronologiques \`a l'étude des révisions . . . . . . . . . . 83--96 Jacques Taillon Dessaisonalisation d'un tableau avec contraintes linéaires: Application aux flux financiers canadiens. (French) [Seasonal adjustment of a table with Linear constraints: application to Canadian financial flows] . . . . . . . 97--107 Estela Bee Dagum and Guy Huot and Marietta Morry Seasonal adjustment in the eighties: Some problems and solutions . . . . . . 109--126 Georges Lema\^\itre A look at response errors in the labour force survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--141 David A. Binder and Jean-Pierre Morin Use of questions on activities of daily living to screen for disabled persons in a household survey . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156 David G. Paton Estimating the average number of loss days for acute conditions from the Canada Health Survey . . . . . . . . . . 157--162 Joanne Proulx and Ioana \cSchiopu-Kratina Classement des entreprises par groupes de taille \`a partir de données administratives. (French) [Ranking of companies by size groups from administrative data] . . . . . . . . . . 163--169 Joel Yan and Kaveri Chinnappa and Rennie Molnar and Pamela Tallon Major benefits from computer-assisted collection mapping to support the Census of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--184
R. Burnett and D. Krewski and D. L. McLeish Special section on statistical issues in acid rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 James H. Ware and Daniel O. Stram Statistical issues in epidemiologic studies of the health effects of ambient acid aerosols . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--13 D. Nhu Le and A. John Petkau The variability of rainfall acidity revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--38 Paul Switzer An analysis of hourly deposition data 39--50 Gary W. Oehlert Interval estimates for diatom-inferred lake pH histories . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60 S. Weerahandi and J. V. Zidek Bayesian nonparametric smoothers for regular processes . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74 F. T. Wright The one-way analysis of variance with ordered alternatives: a modification of Bartholomew's $ \bar {E}^2 $ Test . . . 75--85 Jerzy K. Baksalary Criteria for the equality between ordinary least squares and best linear unbiased estimators under certain linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102 Bruce R. Johnson Lightning detection in British Columbia: an example of using system operation at unknown reliability to estimate component reliability . . . . . . . . . 105--115
Estela Bee Dagum and Guy Huot and Marietta Morry A new look at an old problem: Finding temporal patterns in homicide series --- the Canadian case . . . . . . . . . . . 117--131 A. I. McLeod and I. B. MacNeill and Alice Nakamura and Masao Nakamura Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--134 Stephen E. Fienberg and Judith M. Tanur From the inside out and the outside in: Combining experimental and sampling structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--151 M. Bilodeau and M. S. Srivastava Estimation of the MSE matrix of the Stein estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159 Christian Robert An explicit formula for the risk of the positive-part James-Stein estimator . . 161--168 Martin Bilodeau On the Simultaneous Estimation of Scale Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--174 Y. L. Lio and W. J. Padgett A modified kernel quantile estimator under censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183 Robert Tibshirani and Larry A. Wasserman Sensitive parameters . . . . . . . . . . 185--192 Rita Das and Bimal K. Sinha Optimum invariant tests for random MANOVA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--200 Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly Strong approximations of quadratic sums of uniform spacings . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
V. Seshadri Exponential models, Brownian motion, and independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--221 M. M. Shoukri and I. U. H. Mian and D. S. Tracy Sampling properties of estimators of the log-logistic distribution with application to Canadian precipitation data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--236 Gina Bravo and Brenda MacGibbon Improved shrinkage estimators for the mean vector of a scale mixture of normals with unknown variance . . . . . 237--245 Van L. Parsons and Thu M. Hoang Small sample properties of isotonic estimators --- bias and mean squared error of linear combinations under normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--258 C. M. Erasmus and F. Lombard Asymptotic distributions of quadratic forms occurring in changepoint problems 259--268 Bahadur Singh and F. T. Wright Two-moment approximations to some null distributions in order-restricted inference: Unequal sample sizes . . . . 269--282 Yannis G. Yatracos A note on $ L_1 $ consistent estimation 283--292 Jeesen Chen and Jiunn T. Hwang Improved set estimators for the coefficients of a linear model when the error distribution is spherically symmetric with unknown variances . . . . 293--299 Rados\law Kala and Krzysztof K\laczy\'nski Recursive improvement of estimates in a Gauss-Markov model with linear restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--305 G. W. Bennett Consultant's Corner: Determination of anaerobic threshold . . . . . . . . . . 307--316 Philip V. Bertrand Book Review: \booktitleTheoretical epidemiology: Principles of Occurrence Research in Medicine. by Olli S. Miettinen. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1985. xxi + 359 pp. ISBN 0-471-86769-1 317--318 Jordan M. Stoyanov Book Review: \booktitleMarkov chains. by David Freedman. Springer-Verlag, New York, Heidelberg, \booktitleApproximating Countable Markov Chains, by David Freedman. Springer-Verlag, \booktitleBrownian Motion and Diffusion, by David Freedman. Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, 1983. xiv + 382 pp. ISBN 0-387-9008-0. New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1983. x + 140 pp. ISBN 0-387-90804-8. Heidelberg, Berlin, 1983. xii + 231 pp. ISBN 0-387-90805-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--320 R. J. Tomkins Book Review: \booktitleStrong approximations in probability and statistics. by M. Csörg\Ho and P. Revesz. Akademia Kiado, Budapest --- Academic Press, New York, 1981 . . . . . . . . . 320--321 V. Seshadri Book Review: \booktitleAn atlas of functions. by Jerome Spanier and Keith B. Oldham. Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, Washington, D. C., 1987. ix + 700 pp. ISBN 0-89116-573-8 . . . . . . 321--321 Anonymous Addendum to [????] . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
C. Greenwood and V. Farewell A comparison of regression models for ordinal data in an analysis of transplanted-kidney function . . . . . . 325--335 B. B. Winter and A. Földes A product-limit estimator for use with length-biased data . . . . . . . . . . . 337--355 Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly Comparing and testing order relations between percentile residual life functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--369 Jun Shao Bootstrap variance and bias estimation in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--382 George L. O'Brien and Augustine Wong An inequality for random replacement sampling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--391 Pete Daffer and Ioana Schiopu-Kratina $ L^1 $-Tightness and the law of large numbers in $ D({\bf I R}) $ . . . . . . 393--397 K. I. Abdul-Al On the rate of convergence of recursive kernel estimates of probability densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--409 D. S. Tracy and K. G. Jinadasa Patterned matrix derivatives . . . . . . 411--418 Narayan C. Giri Some robust tests of independence in symmetrical multivariate distributions 419--428
F. T. Wright and James M. Guffey Testing for a trend in exponential means: a two-moment approximation to the null distribution of the likelihood-ratio statistic . . . . . . . 9--18 Seymour Geisser Predictive discordancy tests for exponential observations . . . . . . . . 19--26 Rodney Coleman Random sections of a sphere . . . . . . 27--39 Christopher G. Small On functionals of random convex hulls 41--43 Myles Hollander and Edsel Peña Families of confidence bands for the survival function under the general random censorship model and the Koziol--Green model . . . . . . . . . . 59--74 Joseph P. Romano Do bootstrap confidence procedures behave well uniformly in $P$? . . . . . 75--80 K. Krishnamoorthy and A. K. Gupta Improved minimax estimation of a normal precision matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102 Dean M. Young and Robert Pavur and Virgil R. Marco On the effect of correlation and unequal variances in detecting a spurious observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105 Derrick S. Tracy and Kankanam G. Jinadasa Partitioned Kronecker products of matrices and applications . . . . . . . 107--120 Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--121 Robert Tibshirani and Larry A. Wasserman Errata: ``Sensitive parameters'' . . . . 121
Louis-Paul Rivest De l'unicité des estimateurs robustes en régression lorsque le param\`etre d'échelle et le param\`etre de la régression sont estimés simultanément. (French) [On the uniqueness of robust regression estimators when the scale parameter and the regression parameter are estimated simultaneously] . . . . . 141--153 Thomas J. Diciccio and Joseph P. Romano The automatic percentile method: Accurate confidence limits in parametric models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--169 C. Dean and J. F. Lawless and G. E. Willmot A mixed Poisson--inverse-Gaussian regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--181 Allan Donner and George A. Wells and Michael Eliasziw On two approximations to the $F$-distribution: Application to testing for intraclass correlation in family studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--215 S. R. Paul Test for the equality of several correlation coefficients . . . . . . . . 217--227 D. R. Cox and N. Reid On the stability of maximum-likelihood estimators of orthogonal parameters . . 229--233 Luc Devroye Consistent deconvolution in density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--239 Y. H. Wang A multivariate extension of Poisson's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--245 C. M. Deo A functional central limit theorem for the quadratic variation of a class of Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . 247--251
B. Reiser and I. Guttman Sample size choice for reliability verification in strength-stress models 253--259 Keith Knight Limit theory for autoregressive-parameter estimates in an infinite-variance random walk . . . . . 261--278 Ngai Hang Chan On the nearly nonstationary seasonal time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--284 Peter T. Kim Estimation of product moments of a stationary stochastic process with application to estimation of cumulants and cumulant spectral densities . . . . 285--299 Philippe Capéra\`a Ordres stochastiques et efficacité asymptotique des $L$-estimateurs. (French) [Stochastic orders and asymptotic efficiency of $L$-estimators] 301--310 Stavros Kourouklis On the relation between Hodges-Lehmann efficiency and Pitman efficiency . . . . 311--318 Mario Lefebvre First-passage densities of controlled Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . 319--327 Ata N. Al-Hussaini and Robert J. Elliott Markov bridges and enlarged filtrations 329--332 James H. Albert and Patricia A. Pepple A Bayesian approach to some overdispersion models . . . . . . . . . 333--344 K. R. Shah and B. K. Sinha On the choice of optimality criteria in comparing statistical designs . . . . . 345--348
Bruno Rémillard and Donald A. Dawson Laws of the iterated logarithm and large deviations for a class of diffusion processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--376 Kai Fun Yu On a problem of counting by weighing . . 377--389 Ronald Christensen Sequential sampling without recall from a Dirichlet process . . . . . . . . . . 391--397 Alain Latour and Roch Roy Distribution asymptotique des autocorrélations d'un processus saisonnier non stationnaire. (French) [Asymptotic distribution of the autocorrelations of a seasonal non-stationary process] . . . . . . . . 399--417 P. Guttorp and R. A. Lockhart On the asymptotic distributions of high-order spacings statistics . . . . . 419--426 Ming Chung Liu and Robert L. Taylor A consistent nonparametric density estimator for the deconvolution problem 427--438 Kai-Tai Tai Fang and Jia-Juang Juang Liang Inequalities for the partial sums of elliptical order statistics related to genetic selection . . . . . . . . . . . 439--446
D. A. Sprott Inferential estimation, likelihood, and linear pivotals . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 G. A. Barnard and O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and D. A. S. Fraser Discussion /Commentaries . . . . . . . . 10--15 D. A. Sprott Response to the discussion /Réplique aux commentaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15 Kevin P. Balanda and H. L. MacGillivray Kurtosis and spread . . . . . . . . . . 17--30 Fanny Ki and Kam-Wah Tsui Multiple-shrinkage estimators of means in exponential families . . . . . . . . 31--46 Douglas P. Wiens Minimax-variance $L$- and $R$-estimators of location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57 Tatsuya Kubokawa Estimating powers of the generalized variance under the Pitman closeness criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62 Mark Conaway and Carolyn Pillers and Tim Robertson and James Sconing The power of the circular cone test: a noncentral chi-bar-squared distribution 63--70 Georges Hudon Tests for the mean of a multivariate normal population . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77 Moshe Shaked and Y. L. Tong Comparison of experiments for a class of positively dependent random variables 79--86 Bruce Johnston Consultant's Corners: The case of the random telephone numbers . . . . . . . . 87--92
G. A. Whitmore and Jane F. Gentleman Beer chemistry and Canadians' beer preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--98 Jean-Pierre Carmichael and Gaéatan Daigle and Louis-Paul Rivest Analyse des préférences des Canadiens en mati\`ere de bi\`ere. (French) [Analysis of preferences of Canadians in the matter of beer] . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108 Bing Li and A. John Petkau A regression model with random effects for beer chemistry and Canadians' beer preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--121 G. A. Whitmore Section Editors' Comments . . . . . . . 121--125 Krzysztof Dzieciolowski and William H. Ross Assessing case influence on confidence intervals in nonlinear regression . . . 127--139 Xiquan Shi and C. F. J. Wu and Jiahua Chen Weak and strong representations for quantile processes from finite populations with application to simulation size in resampling inference 141--148 Michael A. Martin On using the jackknife to estimate quantile variance . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153 Andrey Feuerverger An efficiency result for the empirical characteristic function in stationary time-series models . . . . . . . . . . . 155--161 Gilles R. Ducharme and Philip Milasevic Estimating the concentration of the Langevin distribution . . . . . . . . . 163--169 Dipak K. Dey Estimation of scale parameters in mixture distributions . . . . . . . . . 171--178 François Perron Equivariant estimators of the covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182
Larry A. Wasserman Belief functions and statistical inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--196 Matthew P. Wand and William R. Schucany Gaussian-based kernels . . . . . . . . . 197--204 J. Meloche Asymptotic behaviour of the mean integrated squared error of kernel density estimators for dependent observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--211 Anne-Marie Fraisse and Jean-Pierre Raoult and Christian Robert and Madeleine Roy Une condition nécessaire d'admissibilité et ses conséquences sur les estimateurs \`a rétrécisseur de la moyenne d'un vecteur normal. (French) [A necessary condition for eligibility and its consequences for the estimators of the shrinkage of the mean of a normal vector] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220 J. H. Venter and S. J. Steel Estimating risk reduction in Stein estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--232 Harry Joe A winning strategy for lotto games? . . 233--244 Y. I. Chen and D. A. Wolfe Modifications of the Mack-Wolfe umbrella tests for a generalized Behrens-Fisher problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--253 Suojin Wang Saddlepoint approximations for nonlinear statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--264 M. A. Stephens Asymptotic calculations of functions of expected values and covariances of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--270 Oliver D. Anderson Moments of the sampled autocovariances and autocorrelations for a Gaussian white-noise process . . . . . . . . . . 271--284 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Simo Puntanen A complete solution to the problem of robustness of Grubbs's test . . . . . . 285--287
M. Viana and V. Farewell A test for diagnostic utility . . . . . 289--295 Christian Léger and Joseph P. Romano Bootstrap adaptive estimation: the trimmed-mean example . . . . . . . . . . 297--314 Philippe Capéra\`a and Christian Genest Concepts de dépendance et ordres stochastiques pour des lois bidimensionnelles. (French) [Dependence concepts and stochastic orders for two-dimensional laws] . . . . . . . . . 315--326 Jun Shao Ordinary and weighted least-squares estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--336 Arthur Cohen and Harold B. Sackrowitz Unbiased tests for some one-sided testing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--346 James H. Albert A Bayesian test for a two-way contingency table using independence priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--363 Richard Burnett and Mark Raizenne and Daniel Krewski Consultant's Corner/Le Coin Du Consultant: Acute health effects of transported air pollution: a study of children attending a residential summer camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--373 Lisa Kan and Barry Wiggs and Mark Irwin and Irene Yee Consultant's Corner/Le Coin Du Consultant: Acute respiratory health effects in asthmatic and nonasthmatic children associated with short-term exposure to air pollutants . . . . . . . 373--377 Penny Brasher and Sheilah Hogg-Johnson and Sharon-Lise Normand Consultant's Corner/Le Coin Du Consultant: Analysis of the Lake Couchiching data . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--382 Jon C. Baskerville and Larry Stitt Consultant's Corner/Le Coin Du Consultant: An analysis of associations between camper characteristics and response to the first pollution episode in the lake couchiching study . . . . . 383--388 Richard Burnett and Daniel Krewski and Jennifer Shedden Consultant's Corner/Le Coin Du Consultant: Adjusting for temporal trends in the statistical analysis of the effects of air pollution on pulmonary function in children . . . . . 389--395
Lise Manchester A technique for comparing graphical methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22 I. Gijbels and V. K. Klonias Density estimation under the Koziol-Green model of censoring by penalized likelihood methods . . . . . . 23--38 Jean-François Angers and James O. Berger Robust hierarchical Bayes estimation of exchangeable means . . . . . . . . . . . 39--56 S. Sivaganesan Sensitivity of some posterior summaries when the prior is unimodal with specified quantiles . . . . . . . . . . 57--65 Parthasarathy Bagchi and Joseph B. Kadane Laplace approximations to posterior moments and marginal distributions on circles, spheres, and cylinders . . . . 67--77 M. M. Shoukri and I. U. H. Mian and D. S. Tracy Correlated linear models for the analysis of familial correlations . . . 79--91 J. Beirlant and P. Janssen and N. Veraverbeke On the asymptotic normality of functions of uniform spacings . . . . . . . . . . 93--101 François Perron Testing independence with additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--108 D. C. Hamilton and M. L. Lesperance Consultant's corner: a consulting problem involving bivariate acceptance sampling by variables . . . . . . . . . 109--117 Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119 Anonymous Author's Revision . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Alec Charras and Constance Van Eeden Bayes and admissibility properties of estimators in truncated parameter spaces 121--134 Joseph L. Gastwirth and Wesley O. Johnson and Dana M. Reneau Bayesian analysis of screening data: Application to AIDS in blood donors . . 135--150 J. Meloche Estimation of a symmetric density . . . 151--164 P. E. Greenwood and W. Wefelmeyer Efficient estimation in a nonlinear counting-process regression model . . . 165--178 Douglas P. Wiens and K. H. Eden Wu Distributions minimizing Fisher information for scale in Kolmogorov neighbourhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--190 Heleno Bolfarine Finite-population prediction under error-in-variables superpopulation models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--207 D. McDonald On the asymptotics of randomness statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217 Nadjib Bouzar Convergence results for strict $C$-sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--227 Gérard Letac Contre-exemple au théor\`eme de P. C. Consul sur la factorisation des distributions de Poisson généralisées. (French) [Counterexample to the theorem of P. C. Consul on factoring generalized Poisson distributions] . . . . . . . . . 229--232 R. D. Routledge Consultant's Corner: Using time lags in estimating anaerobic threshold . . . . . 233--236 M. C. Jones and M. S. Handcock Consultant's Corner: Determination of anaerobic threshold: What anaerobic threshold? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--239
Jane F. Gentleman and G. A. Whitmore Estimation of the need for child care in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--249 Ellen M. Gee and James G. Mcdaniel Estimating the need for child care: the Canadian case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--265 C. A. Struthers Estimation of met and unmet child-care needs in Canada based on the family history survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--279 Anonymous Section editors' comments . . . . . . . 279--282 Mark Conaway and Carolyn Pillers and Tim Robertson and Jim Sconing A circular-cone test for testing homogeneity against a simple tree order 283--296 Richard Dykstra Asymptotic normality for chi-bar-square distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--306 Hendrik P. Lopuhaä Multivariate $ \tau $-estimators for location and scatter . . . . . . . . . . 307--321 Hung Chen and Keh-Wei Chen Selection of the splined variables and convergence rates in a partial spline model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--339
Christopher G. Small Reconstructing convex bodies from random projected images . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--347 R. J. Karunamuni and Song Yang Weak and strong uniform consistency rates of kernel density estimates for randomly censored data . . . . . . . . . 349--359 Louis Houde and Yves Lepage L'effet de l'erreur d'arrondi sur l'estimateur d'une densité par la méthode du noyau. (French) [The effect of rounding error on the density estimate by a kernel method] . . . . . . . . . . 361--369 Lanh Tat Tran On multivariate variable-kernel density estimates for time series . . . . . . . 371--387 André Plante An inclusion-consistent solution to the problem of absurd confidence statements: 1. Consistent exact confidence-interval estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--397 Bradley P. Carlin and Nicholas G. Polson Inference for nonconjugate Bayesian Models using the Gibbs sampler . . . . . 399--405 Daniel Krewski and Robert T. Smythe and Karen Y. Fung and Richard Burnett Conditional and unconditional tests with historical controls . . . . . . . . . . 407--423 J. C. Gardiner and V. Susarla Some asymptotic distribution results in time-sequential estimation of the mean exponential survival time . . . . . . . 425--436 V. Seshadri Finite mixtures of natural exponential families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--445 Mir M. Ali and Anwarul H. Joarder Distribution of the correlation coefficient for the class of bivariate elliptical models . . . . . . . . . . . 447--452 Anonymous Author's Corrections . . . . . . . . . . 453--453
Peter Armitage Some topics of current interest in clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8 Elias Masry and John A. Rice Gaussian deconvolution via differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21 Jean-J. Fortier Best linear corrector of classification estimates of proportions of objects in several unknown classes . . . . . . . . 23--33 Jean-François Angers and Mohan Delampady Hierarchical Bayesian curve fitting and smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--49 Claudia Czado and Thomas J. Santner Orthogonalizing parametric link transformation families in binary regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 51--61 H. Ferguson Asymptotic properties of a conditional maximum-likelihood estimator . . . . . . 63--75 John H. J. Einmahl and Alex J. Koning Limit theorems for a general weighted process under random censoring . . . . . 77--89 Jonathan Berkowitz Consultant's Corner/Le Coin du Consultant: Interferon in multiple sclerosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--96 C. Dean and M. L. Lesperance Interferon as a treatment for multiple sclerosis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--102 Carl J. Schwarz and Jeff A. Sloan and Linda R. Neden and John F. Brewster Multiple-sclerosis dataset . . . . . . . 102--108
O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and P. Blæsild and V. Seshadri Multivariate distributions with generalized inverse Gaussian marginals, and associated Poisson mixtures . . . . 109--120 Pierre Perron The limiting distribution of the least-squares estimator in nearly integrated seasonal models . . . . . . . 121--134 R. R. Sitter Comparing three bootstrap methods for survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--154 Jianqing Fan Deconvolution with supersmooth distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--169 Micha\l Abrahamowicz and Antonio Ciampi and James O. Ramsay Nonparametric density estimation for censored survival data: Regression-spline approach . . . . . . . 171--185 Yannis G. Yatracos On prediction and mean squared error . . 187--200 R. D. Routledge Resolving the conflict over Fisher's exact test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--209 Michael Z. F. Li and R. J. Tomkins Stability theorems for maxima of dependent sequences . . . . . . . . . . 211--219 Daniel E. Ruzzante and Roger W. Doyle Consultant's Corner/Le Coin du Consultant: Behaviour, growth, and intensity of social interaction among fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227 David C. Hamilton Analysis of fish behaviour data . . . . 228--233 Janet Raboud and Melania Pintilie The effect of environment on the growth of fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--239
Gaétan Daigle and Louis-Paul Rivest A robust biplot . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--255 Martin Bilodeau Fourier smoother and additive models . . 257--269 M. A. Tingley Small-sample intervals for regression 271--280 Qi Qing Yu A general method of finding a minimax estimator of a distribution function when no equalizer rule is available . . 281--290 Mo Suk Chow and Duncan K. H. Fong Simultaneous estimation of the Hardy-Weinberg proportions . . . . . . . 291--296 Seymour Geisser On the curtailment of sampling . . . . . 297--309 M. A. G. Viana and V. Ramakrishnan Bayesian estimates of predictive value and related parameters of a diagnostic test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--321 H. Wang and R. J. Tomkins A zero-one law for large order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--334 Zakhar Maymin and Sam Gutmann Testing retrospective hypotheses . . . . 335--345 K. R. Shah and Ashish Das Binary designs are not always the best 347--351
Lawrence D. Brown and Mo Suk Chow and Duncan K. H. Fong On the admissibility of the maximum-likelihood estimator of the binomial variance . . . . . . . . . . . 353--358 C. Radhakrishna Rao and L. C. Zhao Linear representation of $M$-estimates in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--368 Sa\"\id Nsiri and Roch Roy On the identification of ARMA echelon-form models . . . . . . . . . . 369--386 Federico J. O'Reilly and Raúl Rueda Goodness of fit for the inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--397 Minggao Gu On the Edgeworth expansion and bootstrap approximation for the Cox regression model under random censorship . . . . . 399--414 Jun Shao Consistency of least-squares estimator and its jackknife variance estimator in nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--428 Sucharita Ghosh and Frits H. Ruymgaart Applications of empirical characteristic functions in some multivariate problems 429--440 François Perron Monotonic minimax estimators of a $ 2 \times 2 $ covariance matrix . . . . . . 441--449 Michael Lavine and Mike West A Bayesian method for classification and discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--461 Christopher G. Small A counterexample to a conjecture on random shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--468 Mayer Alvo and Kadir Ertas Graphical methods for ranking data . . . 469--482 Wendy Bergerud Factors influencing root growth capacity of spruce seedlings: Case-study description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--487 Michéle Bernier-Cardou and Christian Genest Factors influencing root growth capacity of spruce seedlings: Report on a statistical analysis . . . . . . . . . . 488--501
David R. Brillinger The digital rainbow: Some history and applications of numerical spectrum analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19 V. T. Farewell and R. Viveros and D. A. Sprott Statistical consequences of an adaptive treatment allocation in a clinical trial 21--27 Tak K. Mak and Anthony Kuk A new method for estimating finite-population quantiles using auxiliary information . . . . . . . . . 29--38 Louise Martin and Raymond Leblanc and Nguyen Ky Toan Tables for the Friedman rank test . . . 39--43 T. Kubokawa and C. P. Robert and A. K. Md. E. Saleh Estimation of noncentrality parameters 45--57 Douglas P. Wiens Designs for approximately linear regression: Maximizing the minimum coverage probability of confidence ellipsoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70 Shelley B. Bull and Allan Donner A characterization of the efficiency of individualized logistic regressions . . 71--78 J. W. H. Swanepoel and C. F. De Beer A modified bootstrap estimator for the mean of an asymmetric distribution . . . 79--87 J. K. Ghosh and Rahul Mukerjee On priors that match posterior and frequentist distribution functions . . . 89--96 Gordon Hilton Fick Detecting the interaction of quantity and quality: a study of Fisher's analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--106 S. Sivaganesan and James Berger Robust Bayesian analysis of the binomial empirical Bayes problem . . . . . . . . 107--119
Andrew R. Solow and Arthur G. Gaines Mapping water quality by local scoring 123--130 P. K. Cheah and D. A. S. Fraser and N. Reid Some alternatives to Edgeworth . . . . . 131--138 Bruce G. Lindsay and Kathryn Roeder Uniqueness of estimation and identifiability in mixture models . . . 139--147 Miguel Nakamura and Víctor Pérez-Abreu Use of an empirical probability generating function for testing a Poisson model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--156 Luc D. Adjengue and Marc Moore La méthode de vraisemblance pour les processus linéaires spatiaux définis sur un treillis triangulaire. (French) [The likelihood method for linear processes spatially defined on a triangular trellis] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--179 Somnath Datta and William P. McCormick Regeneration-based bootstrap for Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--193 Fabrizio Ruggeri and Larry Wasserman Infinitesimal sensitivity of posterior distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--203 Adam Crisp and Jim Burridge A note on the uniqueness of $M$-estimators in robust regression . . 205--208 Vera R. Eastwood Some nonparametric methods for changepoint problems . . . . . . . . . . 209--222 D. J. Murdoch and A. J. Benjamin The probability of degenerate maximum-likelihood estimates with randomly truncated survival data . . . . 223--231 K. Krishnamoorthy and D. Raghavarao Untruthful answering in repeated randomized response procedures . . . . . 233--236 M. M. Ali and A. H. Joarder Author's addendum: ``Distribution of the correlation coefficient for the class of bivariate elliptical models'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 19 (1991), no. 4, 447--452; MR1166850 (93e:62141)] . . . . . . . . . 237 Anonymous Authors' Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
Antoine De Falguerolles and Sa\"\id Jmel Un crit\`ere de choix de variables en analyse en composantes principales fondé sur des mod\`eles graphiques gaussiens particuliers. (French) [A criterion for variable selection in the analysis of principal components based on particular graphical Gaussian models] . . . . . . . 239--256 Jan M. Zielinski and David B. Wolfson and Lakshmi Nilakantan and Christian Confavreux Isotonic estimation of the intensity of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process: the multiple realization setup . . . . . . . 257--268 S. Chukova and B. Dimitrov and Z. Khalil A characterization of probability distributions similar to the exponential 269--276 A. M. Mathai The residual effect of a growth-decay mechanism and the distributions of covariance structures . . . . . . . . . 277--283 David P. T. Chu Random $r$-content of an $r$-simplex from beta-type-$2$ random points . . . . 285--293 Frances P. Stewart and Ralph A. Bradley Interblock information in multidimensional block designs . . . . . 295--302 Alan E. Gelfand and Bradley P. Carlin Maximum-likelihood estimation for constrained- or missing-data models . . 303--311 D. A. S. Fraser and A. C. M. Wong Approximate Studentization with marginal and conditional inference . . . . . . . 313--320 Fred A. Spiring The reflected normal loss function . . . 321--330 Michael L. Stein and Xiaotong Shen and Patricia E. Styer Applications of a simple regression model to acid rain data . . . . . . . . 331--346
Jia Hua Chen and R. R. Sitter Edgeworth expansion and the bootstrap for stratified sampling without replacement from a finite population . . 347--357 Eric Marchand Estimation of a multivariate mean with constraints on the norm . . . . . . . . 359--366 Ian McKay A note on bias reduction in variable-kernel density estimates . . . 367--375 Jun Shao and J. N. K. Rao Jackknife inference for heteroscedastic linear regression models . . . . . . . . 377--395 Carlos Antonio León and Jean-Claude Massé La médiane simpliciale d'Oja: Existence, unicité et stabilité. (French) [The simplicial median of Oja. Existence, uniqueness, and stability] . . . . . . . 397--408 Yan Hong Wu and M. S. Srivastava Dynamic sampling plans in on-line control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--419 Jane F. Gentleman and G. A. Whitmore Estimation of the mutagenic potency of environmental chemicals using short-term bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--428 Gerarda A. Darlington Estimation of mutagenic potency and determination of sources of variability for Ames bioassay data . . . . . . . . . 428--436 Brian J. Eastwood Semi-nonparametric estimates of dose-response mutagenic potency of environmental chemicals and an assessment of inter- and intra-laboratory variation using a short-term bioassay . . . . . . . . . . 436--448 B. G. Leroux and D. Krewski Components of variation in mutagenic potency values based on the Ames salmonella test . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--459 Anonymous Section Editors' Comments . . . . . . . 459--465 Anonymous Authors' Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466 Daniel Krewski and Robert T. Smythe and Karen Y. Fung and Richard Burnett Author's addendum: ``Conditional and unconditional tests with historical controls'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 19 (1991), no. 4, 407--423; MR1166847 (93g:62034)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
André Plante An inclusion-consistent solution to the problem of absurd confidence statements: 2. Consistent nonexact-confidence-interval estimation 1--13 J. F. Lawless Adjustments for reporting delays and the prediction of occurred but not reported events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--31 T. W. F. Stroud Bayesian analysis of binary survey data 33--45 Harry Joe Multivariate extreme-value distributions with applications to environmental data 47--64 Mary L. Lesperance and John D. Kalbfleisch Mixture models for matched pairs . . . . 65--74 Broderick O. Oluyede A modified chi-square test of independence against a class of ordered alternatives in an $ r \times c $ contingency table . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87 J. O. Ramsay and N. Altman and R. Darrell Bock Variation in height acceleration in the Fels growth data . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--102 R. D. Routledge Practicing safe statistics with the mid-$p$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--110 Yiliang Zhu and Nancy Reid Information, ancillarity, and sufficiency in the presence of nuisance parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--123 V. Choulakian and R. A. Lockhart and M. A. Stephens Cramér-von Mises statistics for discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--137 J. M. Neuhaus and J. D. Kalbfleisch and W. W. Hauck Conditions for consistent estimation in mixed-effects models for binary matched-pairs data . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148 G. F. Atkinson and K. Mount A nonparametric test for Type I censored data: $r$ samples . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162 Robert Tibshirani and Larry Wasserman Some aspects of the reparametrization of statistical models . . . . . . . . . . . 163--173 Anonymous Authors' Addendums . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
David R. Brillinger Time series, point processes, and hybrids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--206 Dankmar Böhning Better approximate confidence intervals for a binomial parameter . . . . . . . . 207--218 Christopher A. Field and Douglas P. Wiens One-step $M$-estimators in the linear model, with dependent errors . . . . . . 219--231 Douglas Wiens and Julie Zhou Bounded-influence rank estimation in the linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--245 Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser and Elvezio Ronchetti Robust methods for personal-income distribution models . . . . . . . . . . 247--258 C. C. Kokonendji and V. Seshadri The Lindsay transform of natural exponential families . . . . . . . . . . 259--272 Toshiya Iwashita and Minoru Siotani Asymptotic distributions of functions of a sample covariance matrix under the elliptical distribution . . . . . . . . 273--283 Edward J. Bedrick Maximum-likelihood estimation for the removal method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--293 Belkacem Abdous and Alain Berlin\`et Correction locale de l'estimateur \`a noyau de la densité d'une loi de probabilité. (French) [Local correction of the kernel estimator of density of a probability distribution] . . . . . . . 295--308
Jan Beirlant and László Györfi and Gábor Lugosi On the asymptotic normality of the $ L_1 $- and $ L_2 $-errors in histogram density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 309--318 Shelley B. Bull and Celia M. T. Greenwood and Allan Donner Efficiency of reduced logistic regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 319--334 J. Meloche and R. H. Zamar Binary-image restoration . . . . . . . . 335--355 Agnes M. Herzberg and William N. Traves An optimal experimental design for the Haar regression model . . . . . . . . . 357--364 Patrick J. Farrell and Brenda MacGibbon and Thomas J. Tomberlin Protection against outliers in empirical Bayes estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--376 M. S. Srivastava and Yanhong Wu On-line control procedures under the random-walk model with measurement error and attribute observations . . . . . . . 377--386 Jia Hua Chen Generalized likelihood-ratio test of the number of components in finite mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--399 Lawrence J. Brunner and Albert Y. Lo Nonparametric Bayes methods for directional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--412 Anonymous Authors' addendum . . . . . . . . . . . 413--413 H. Bolfarine Addendum: ``Finite-population prediction under error-in-variables superpopulation models'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 19 (1991), no. 2, 191--207; MR1128406 (92k:62018)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
D. Krewski and R. T. Burnett and L. K. Chan Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--419 Brad McNeney and John Petkau Overdispersed Poisson regression models for studies of air pollution and human health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--440 Richard Burnett and Daniel Krewski Air pollution effects on hospital admission rates: a random effects modeling approach . . . . . . . . . . . 441--458 Paul N. Corey and Wen-Yi Lou and Irv Broder Analysis of the relationship between air pollution and asthma . . . . . . . . . . 459--470 Joel Schwartz Nonparametric smoothing in the analysis of air pollution and respiratory illness 471--487 Philip J. Brown and Nhu D. Le and James V. Zidek Multivariate spatial interpolation and exposure to air pollutants . . . . . . . 489--509 J. N. K. Rao and Mingyu Yu Small-area estimation by combining time-series and cross-sectional data . . 511--528 I. B. MacNeill and Y. Mao and L. Xie Modeling heteroscedastic age-period-cohort cancer data . . . . . 529--539
Antonio Cuevas and Juan Romo On the estimation of the influence curve 1--9 Belkacem Abdous Computationally efficient classes of higher-order kernel functions . . . . . 21--27 S. N. Rai and D. E. Matthews The analysis of incomplete data using stochastic covariates . . . . . . . . . 29--42 Marios A. G. Viana Combined Bayesian estimates for the equicorrelation coefficient . . . . . . 43--53 Marc Hallin and Madan L. Puri A multivariate Wald-Wolfowitz rank test against serial dependence . . . . . . . 55--65 Hél\`ene Massam An exact decomposition for a class of exponential dispersion models: Application to sequential testing . . . 67--84 Lai K. Chan and Guo-Ying Li Bivariate control charts for testing $ \bar {x} $ data patterns . . . . . . . . 85--99
G. R. Chapman Perturbation analysis for an orthogonal least-squares estimator . . . . . . . . 101--108 Michael LeBlanc and John Crowley Step-function covariate effects in the proportional-hazards model . . . . . . . 109--129 Hammou El Barmi and Richard Dykstra Testing for and against a set of linear inequality constraints in a multinomial setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--143 Jing Qin and Jerry Lawless Estimating equations, empirical likelihood and constraints on parameters 145--159 Pei De Shi Asymptotic behaviour of nonparametric conditional quantile estimates for time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--169 Jean Vaillancourt Asymptotics for multisample statistics 171--184 Rocky Y. K. Fan and Christopher A. Field Approximations for marginal densities of $M$-estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197 Fengchun Peng and Dipak K. Dey Bayesian analysis of outlier problems using divergence measures . . . . . . . 199--213 Kai Fun Yu A necessary and sufficient condition for the strong consistency of a family of estimators of the common odds ratio . . 215--225
V. P. Godambe Estimation of parameters in survey sampling: Optimality . . . . . . . . . . 227--243 Constance Van Eeden Minimax estimation of a lower-bounded scale parameter of a gamma distribution for scale-invariant squared-error loss 245--256 S. Kourouklis Estimation of an exponential quantile under Pitman's measure of closeness . . 257--268 Brani Vidakovic and Anirban Dasgupta Lower bounds on Bayes risks for estimating a normal variance: With applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--282 Scott M. Jordan and K. Krishnamoorthy Confidence regions for the common mean vector of several multivariate normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--297 André Robert Dabrowski and Abdelhak Zoglat Strong invariance principles for triangular arrays of weakly dependent random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--310 Fernando Camacho and Geoffrey Arron Effects of the regulators paclobutrazol and flurprimidol on the growth of terminal sprouts formed on trimmed silver maple trees . . . . . . . . . . . 312--322 Hyun Suk Lee and Bob Philips In search of the ``best'' growth inhibitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--325 Jef F. A. Sloan and Carl J. Schwarz and Linda R. Neden Dataset on silver-maple-tree growth regulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--329 C. Schwarz and N. Reid Comments on the Analyses . . . . . . . . 329--332
Richard J. Cook and Vern T. Farewell Conditional inference for subject-specific and marginal agreement: Two families of agreement measures . . . 333--344 Mayer Alvo and Paul Cabilio Rank correlation methods for missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--358 Sneh Gulati and W. J. Padgett Nonparametric function estimation from inversely sampled record-breaking data 359--368 Marianthi Markatou and Joel L. Horowitz Robust scale estimation in the error-components model using the empirical characteristic function . . . 369--381 Graciela Boente and Ricardo Fraiman Asymptotic distribution of data-driven smoothers in density and regression estimation under dependence . . . . . . 383--397 John S. J. Hsu Generalized Laplacian approximations in Bayesian inference . . . . . . . . . . . 399--410 Alan E. Gelfand and Saurabh Mukhopadhyay On nonparametric Bayesian inference for the distribution of a random sample . . 411--420 Gilles R. Ducharme Uniqueness of the least-distances estimator in regression models with multivariate response . . . . . . . . . 421--424 Rick Routledge and Min Tsao Uniform validity of saddlepoint expansion on compact sets . . . . . . . 425--431
Mikelis Bickis and Susana Bleuer and Daniel Krewski On the estimation of the proportion of positives in a sequence of screening experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Hugh Chipman Bayesian variable selection with related predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--36 Lawrence Joseph and Alain C. Vandal and David B. Wolfson Estimation in the multipath change point problem for correlated data . . . . . . 37--53 André Robert Dabrowski and Herold Dehling Estimating conditional occupation-time distributions for dependent sequences 55--65 Douglas P. Wiens Robust sequential designs for approximately linear models . . . . . . 67--79 Norbert Henze Empirical-distribution-function goodness-of-fit tests for discrete models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--93 Deanna B. Haunsperger Paradoxes in nonparametric tests . . . . 95--104 Peter Yi-Shi Shao and William E. Strawderman Improving on truncated linear estimates of exponential and gamma scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--114 Samuel Bayomog and Xavier Guyon and Cécile Hardouin and Jianfeng Yao Test de différence de contrastes et somme pondérée de khi-deux. (French) [Test of the contrast difference and weighted chi-square sum] . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--130 Yoav Benjamini and Abba M. Krieger Concepts and measures for skewness with data-analytic implications . . . . . . . 131--140
N. Reid Likelihood and higher-order approximations to tail areas: a review and annotated bibliography . . . . . . . 141--166 Jiahua Chen and J. D. Kalbfleisch Penalized minimum-distance estimates in finite mixture models . . . . . . . . . 167--175 B. C. Sutradhar and J. N. K. Rao Estimation of regression parameters in generalized linear models for cluster correlated data with measurement error 177--192 Bing Li and Ruben H. Zamar $M$-estimates of regression when the scale is unknown and the error distribution is possibly asymmetric: a minimax result . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--206 R. B. Arellano-Valle and H. Bolfarine and F. Vilca-Labra Ultrastructural elliptical models . . . 207--216 R. L. Dykstra and Hammou El Barmi and James M. Guffey and F. T. Wright Nonhomogeneous Poisson processes as overhaul models . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--228 Edit Gombay The weighted sequential likelihood ratio 229--239 Feng-Bin Sun and Jean-Yves Laramée and John S. Ramberg On Spiring's normal loss function . . . 241--249 Lee J. Bain and Gaoxiong Gan Conditional maxima and inferences for the truncated exponential distribution 251--256 Y. Wang and A. K. Gupta and T. T. Nguyen Characterization theorems for some discrete distributions based on conditional structure . . . . . . . . . 257--262 K. Viraswami and N. Reid Higher-order asymptotics under model misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--278
Deli Li On moments of the supremum of normed weighted averages . . . . . . . . . . . 279--292 André Robert Dabrowski and David McDonald An application of the Bernoulli part to local limit theorems for moving averages on stationary sequences . . . . . . . . 293--305 Paul Gustafson The effect of mixing-distribution misspecification in conjugate mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--318 Hyun Suk Lee Analysis of overdispersed paired count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--326 James H. Albert Bayesian selection of log-linear models 327--347 Paul Cabilio and Joe Masaro A simple test of symmetry about an unknown median . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--361 Gemai Chen EDF tests of goodness of fit for transform-both-sides models . . . . . . 363--372 D. N. Shah and P. A. Patel Asymptotic properties of a generalized regression-type predictor of a finite population variance in probability sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--384 Bent Jòrgensen and Sòren Lundbye-Christensen and Peter Xue-Kun Song and Li Sun State-space models for multivariate longitudinal data of mixed types . . . . 385--402
Miklós Csörg\Ho and Hao Yu Weak approximations for quantile processes of stationary sequences . . . 403--430 Karen Y. Fung and D. Krewski and R. T. Smythe A comparison of tests for trend with historical controls in carcinogen bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--454 Lise Manchester and Wade Blanchard When is a curve an outlier? An account of a tricky problem . . . . . . . . . . 455--466 Philippe C. Besse and Hervé Cardot Approximation spline de la prévision d'un processus fonctionnel autorégressif d'ordre $1$. (French) [Spline approximation of the prediction of a process of autoregressive functional order $1$] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--487 H. Wong and W. K. Li Distribution of the cross-correlations of squared residuals in ARIMA models . . 489--502 A. L. Rukhin Linear statistics in change-point estimation and their asymptotic behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--515 Ellen Maki and Philip McDunnough The role of probability generating functions for estimation in incompletely observed random walks . . . . . . . . . 517--534 Paul Gustafson Model influence functions based on mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--548 Majid Mojirsheibani and Robert Tibshirani Some results on bootstrap prediction intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--568 Constantinos Goutis and Rex F. Galbraith A parametric model for heterogeneity in paired Poisson counts . . . . . . . . . 569--581 Nicolas W. Hengartner and Oliver B. Linton Nonparametric regression estimation at design poles and zeros . . . . . . . . . 583--591
J. N. K. Rao Developments in sample survey theory: an appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 T. M. Fred Smith Social surveys and social science . . . 23--38 Anonymous Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--44 Anonymous Reply to the Discussion . . . . . . . . 44--44 F. Hu The asymptotic properties of the maximum-relevance weighted likelihood estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--59 R. R. Sitter and J. N. K. Rao Imputation for missing values and corresponding variance estimation . . . 61--73 Patrick J. Farrell and Brenda Macgibbon and Thomas J. Tomberlin Bootstrap adjustments for empirical Bayes interval estimates of small-area proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--89 D. A. S. Fraser and N. Reid and A. Wong Simple and accurate inference for the mean of the gamma model . . . . . . . . 91--99 Jianguo Sun and David E. Matthews A random-effect regression model for medical follow-up studies . . . . . . . 101--111 Philippe Capéra\`a and Ana Isabel Garralda Guillem Taux de résistance des tests de rang d'indépendance. (French) [Resistance rates of independence rank tests] . . . 113--124
X. Joan Hu and Jerald F. Lawless Pseudolikelihood estimation in a class of problems with response-related missing covariates . . . . . . . . . . . 125--142 Irwin Guttman and George D. Papandonatos A Bayesian approach to a reliability problem: Theory, analysis and interesting numerics . . . . . . . . . . 143--158 R. J. O'Hara Hines Fitting generalized linear models to retrospectively sampled clusters with categorical responses . . . . . . . . . 159--174 R. R. Sitter and I. Fainaru Optimal designs for the logit and probit models for binary data . . . . . . . . . 175--190 Boxin Tang and C. F. J. Wu A method for constructing supersaturated designs and its $ \mathcal {E} s^2 $ optimality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--201 Shu Yamada and Dennis K. J. Lin Supersaturated design including an orthogonal base . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--213 A. G. Benn and R. J. Kulperger Integrated marked Poisson processes with application to image correlation spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--231 Khalid El Himdi and Roch Roy Tests for noncorrelation of two multivariate ARMA time series . . . . . 233--256 John J. Spinelli and Michael A. Stephens Cramér-von Mises tests of fit for the Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 257--268 Thomas W. O'Gorman An adaptive test for the one-way layout 269--279
M. Gray Pay equity: the role and limitations of statistical analysis . . . . . . . . . . 281--292 Georges Monette Is there a role for statisticians in pay equity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--310 D. R. Bellhouse Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314 Fred A. Spiring Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--319 M. Gray Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322 G. Monette Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323 Jing Qin and Jianguo Sun Statistical analysis of right-censored failure-time data with partially specified hazard rates . . . . . . . . . 325--336 George D. Papandonatos and Seymour Geisser Laplace approximations for censored linear regression models . . . . . . . . 337--358 M. G. Akritas and A. F. Torbeyns Pearson-type goodness-of-fit tests for regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--374 Anne-Laure Foug\`eres Estimation de densités unimodales. (French) [Estimation of unimodal densities] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--387 Jiahua Chen and Ping Cheng On testing the number of components in finite mixture models with known relevant component distributions . . . . 389--400 Peter M. Hooper and Zhenlin Yang Confidence intervals following Box--Cox transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--416 Edit Gombay The likelihood ratio under noncontiguous alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--423 Anonymous Authors' addendum . . . . . . . . . . . 425--425 Bent Jòrgensen and Sòren Lundbye-Christensen and Peter Xue-Kun Song and Li Sun Addendum: ``State space models for multivariate longitudinal data of mixed types'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 24 (1996), no. 3, 385--402; MR1421864 (97f:62144)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Christian Genest Statistics on statistics: Measuring research productivity by journal publications between 1985 and 1995 . . . 427--443 Debajyoti Sinha Time-discrete beta-process model for interval-censored survival data . . . . 445--456 Lynn Kuo and Bani Mallick Bayesian semiparametric inference for the accelerated failure-time model . . . 457--472 Stephen G. Walker and Bani K. Mallick A note on the scale parameter of the Dirichlet process . . . . . . . . . . . 473--479 Nancy Heckman and John Rice Line transects of two-dimensional random fields: Estimation and design . . . . . 481--501 Fulvio De Santis and Fulvio Spezzaferri Alternative Bayes factors for model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--515 Gemai Chen and Richard A. Lockhart Box--Cox transformed linear models: a parameter-based asymptotic approach . . 517--529 Holger Dette $E$-optimal designs for regression models with quantitative factors --- a reasonable choice? . . . . . . . . . . . 531--543 Jeesen Chen A general lower bound of minimax risk for absolute-error loss . . . . . . . . 545--558 Yodit Seifu and N. Reid Applications of bivariate and univariate local Lyapunov exponents . . . . . . . . 559--579 Robert Tibshirani and Donald A. Redelmeier Cellular telephones and motor-vehicle collisions: Some variations on matched-pairs analysis . . . . . . . . . 581--591
Christian Genest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Gareth O. Roberts and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Markov-chain Monte Carlo: Some practical implications of theoretical results . . 5--20 Hemant Ishwaran Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--27 Neal Madras Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--29 Gareth O. Roberts and Jeffery S. Rosenthal Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--31 Helen Aslanidou and Dipak K. Dey and Debajyoti Sinha Bayesian analysis of multivariate survival data using Monte Carlo methods 33--48 Laura Ventura Higher-order approximations for Pitman estimators and for optimal compromise estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55 Richard Dykstra and Subhash Kochar and Tim Robertson Restricted tests for testing independence of time to failure and cause of failure in a competing-risks model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68 Chul Gyu Park and Chu-In Charles Lee and Tim Robertson Goodness-of-fit test for uniform stochastic ordering among several distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--81 S. R. Paul and A. S. Islam Joint estimation of the mean and dispersion parameters in the analysis of proportions: a comparison of efficiency and bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94 Y. Lee and J. A. Nelder Generalized linear models for the analysis of quality-improvement experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105 T. Rolf Turner and Murray A. Cameron and Peter J. Thomson Hidden Markov chains in generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--125 Markus Abt and William J. Welch Fisher information and maximum-likelihood estimation of covariance parameters in Gaussian stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 127--137 A. C. Davison and J. E. Stafford The score function and a comparison of various adjustments of the profile likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148 Arthur B. Yeh A bootstrap procedure in linear regression with nonstationary errors . . 149--160 K. Viraswami and N. Reid A note on the likelihood-ratio statistic under model misspecification . . . . . . 161--168 Brajendra C. Sutradhar and Zhende Qu On approximate likelihood inference in a Poisson mixed model . . . . . . . . . . 169--186 Kilani Ghoudi and Abdelhaq Khoudraji and Louis-Paul Rivest Propriétés statistiques des copules de valeurs extrêmes bidimensionnelles. (French) [Statistical properties of two-dimensional extreme value copulas] 187--197
D. J. Dupuis and C. A. Field Robust estimation of extremes . . . . . 199--215 Ömer Öztürk and Thomas P. Hettmansperger Simultaneous robust estimation of location and scale parameters: a minimum-distance approach . . . . . . . 217--229 Douglas P. Wiens and Eden K. H. Wu and Julie Zhou On the trimmed mean and minimax-variance $L$-estimation in Kolmogorov neighbourhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--238 Ana Bianco and Graciela Boente Robust kernel estimators for additive models with dependent observations . . . 239--255 Eden K. H. Wu and Julie Zhou Efficient bias-robust $M$-estimators of location in Kolmogorov normal neighbourhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--266 Nadia Bensa\"\id and Jean-Pierre Fabre Convergence de l'estimateur \`a noyau de derivées de Radon--Nikodym générales dans le cas mélangeant. (French) [Convergence of the kernel estimator of general Radon--Nikodym derivatives in the general case] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--282 Pietro Muliere and Luca Tardella Approximating distributions of random functionals of Ferguson-Dirichlet priors 283--297 C. Andy Tsao and J. T. Gene Hwang Improved confidence estimators for Fieller's confidence sets . . . . . . . 299--310 Gemai Chen The run length distributions of the $R$, $s$ and $ s^2$ control charts when $ \sigma $ is estimated . . . . . . . . . 311--322 Dongchu Sun and Malay Ghosh and Asit P. Basu Bayesian analysis for a stress-strength system under noninformative priors . . . 323--332 José R. Berrendero and Sonia Mazzi and Juan Romo and Ruben H. Zamar On the explosion rate of maximum-bias functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--351 Ajit C. Tamhane and Wei Liu and Charles W. Dunnett A generalized step-up-down multiple test procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--363 Alain Berlinet and Ali Gannoun and Eric Matzner-Lòber Normalité asymptotique d'estimateurs convergents du mode conditionnel. (French) [Asymptotic normality of convergent estimators in the conditional form] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--380 Anonymous Authors' Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381 R. J. Cook and V. T. Farewell Authors' addendum: ``Conditional inference for subject-specific and marginal agreement: two families of agreement measures'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 23 (1995), no. 4, 333--344] . . . . 381
Geoffrey Watson On the role of statistics in the palaeomagnetic proof of continental drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--392 L. Billard Some statistical opportunities in the agricultural sciences . . . . . . . . . 393--404 Noel Cressie Transect-spacing design of ice cores on the Antarctic continent . . . . . . . . 405--418 Daniel Gervini and Víctor J. Yohai Robust estimation of variance components 419--430 David R. Brillinger and Brent S. Stewart Elephant-seal movements: Modelling migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--443 Phaik Mooi Leong and Stephan Morgenthaler Mutability of DNA base pairs: a statistical approach based on linear discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--454 Deborah L. Hall and Karen Kafadar and Alvin M. Malkinson Statistical methodology for assessing homology of intronic regions of genes 455--465 Raymond J. Carroll and Laurence S. Freedman and Victor Kipnis and Li Li A new class of measurement-error models, with applications to dietary data . . . 467--477 S. D. Durham and N. Flournoy and W. Li A sequential design for maximizing the probability of a favourable response . . 479--495 Frank Hampel and Eth Zurich Is statistics too difficult? . . . . . . 497--513 Anonymous Authors' Addendums . . . . . . . . . . . 515--515
Kiros Berhane and Robert J. Tibshirani Generalized additive models for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 517--535 J. V. Zidek and N. D. Le and H. Wong and R. T. Burnett Including structural measurement errors in the nonlinear regression analysis of clustered data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--548 J. F. Lawless and M. Zhan Analysis of interval-grouped recurrent-event data using piecewise constant rate functions . . . . . . . . 549--565 Ming Gao Gu and Shaolin Li A stochastic approximation algorithm for maximum-likelihood estimation with incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--582 Jiahua Chen Penalized likelihood-ratio test for finite mixture models with multinomial observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--599 E. Susko and J. D. Kalbfleisch and J. Chen Constrained nonparametric maximum-likelihood estimation for mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--617 Qiqing Yu and Anton Schick and Linxiong Li and George Y. C. Wong Asymptotic properties of the GMLE in the case $1$ interval-censorship model with discrete inspection times . . . . . . . 619--627 Claude Bélisle Slow convergence of the Gibbs sampler 629--641 Kenny S. Crump and Daniel Krewski Estimation of the number of studies with positive trends when studies with negative trends are present . . . . . . 643--655 Marios A. G. Viana and André Rogatko and Timothy R. Rebbeck Statistical assessment of multivalued screening tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--668
Christian Genest Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Mousumi Banerjee and Michelle Capozzoli and Laura McSweeney and Debajyoti Sinha Beyond kappa: a review of interrater agreement measures . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23 L. Manchester and C. A. Field and A. McDougall Regression for overdetermined systems: a fisheries example . . . . . . . . . . . 25--39 E. Monga and S. Tardif Asymptotic optimality of a class of rank tests for replicated Latin-square designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--52 Guohua Pan and Winson Taam Distribution-free subset selection for incompletely ranked data . . . . . . . . 53--62 Gary Sneddon Smoothing in an underdetermined linear model with random explanatory variables 63--79 John R. Collins Robust $M$-estimators of scale: Minimax bias versus maximal variance . . . . . . 81--96 Dongchu Sun and Keying Ye Reference priors for a product of normal means when variances are unknown . . . . 97--103 Sonia Petrone Bayesian density estimation using Bernstein polynomials . . . . . . . . . 105--126 M. Pensky and R. S. Singh Empirical Bayes estimation of reliability characteristics for an exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136 John E. Kolassa Confidence intervals for parameters lying in a random polygon . . . . . . . 149--161 Nabendu Pal and Wooi K. Lim Second-order properties of intraclass correlation estimators for a symmetric normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 163--172 Andrew Heard and Tim Swartz Extended voting measures . . . . . . . . 173--182 Michael Baron Convergence rates of change-point estimators and tail probabilities of the first-passage-time process . . . . . . . 183--197 Célestin C. Kokonendji Le probl\`eme d'Anscombe pour les lois binomiales négatives généralisées. (French) [The Anscombe problem of generalized negative binomial distributions] . . . . 199--205 Helge Blaker A class of shrinkage estimators in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 207--220
Andrey Feuerverger and John Robinson and Augustine Wong On the relative accuracy of certain bootstrap procedures . . . . . . . . . . 225--236 Biao Zhang Bootstrapping with auxiliary information 237--249 Steven N. MacEachern and Merlise Clyde and Jun S. Liu Sequential importance sampling for nonparametric Bayes models: the next generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--267 George D. Papandonatos and Seymour Geisser Bayesian interim analysis of lifetime data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--289 Paul Damien and Stephen Walker A full Bayesian analysis of circular data using the von Mises distribution 291--298 Craig A. Cooley and Steven N. Maceachern Prior elicitation in the classification problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--313 Schultz Chan and Malay Ghosh A geometric optimality of Cox's partial likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320 Y. Lee and John A. Nelder The robustness of the quasilikelihood estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--327 Hui Chen and Joseph P. Romano An invariance principle for triangular arrays of dependent variables with application to autocovariance estimation 329--343 Kanchan Mukherjee The asymptotic behaviour of a class of $L$-estimators under long-range dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--360 Ross H. Taplin Robust $F$-tests for linear models . . . 361--371 Ping Zhang The optimal prediction of cross-sectional proportions in categorical panel-data analysis . . . . 373--382 Dan Nettleton Order-restricted hypothesis testing in a variation of the normal mixture model 383--394 K. Krishnamoorthy and Maruthy K. Pannala Confidence estimation of a normal mean vector with incomplete data . . . . . . 395--407 Marten H. Wegkamp Quasi-universal bandwidth selection for kernel density estimators . . . . . . . 409--420 Christian Genest Probability and statistics: a tale of two worlds? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--444
Peter McCullagh Quotient spaces and statistical models 447--456 Michael P. Mcdermott Generalized orthogonal contrast tests for homogeneity of ordered means . . . . 457--470 Edward J. Bedrick and Ronald Christensen The effect of nonnormality on near-replicate lack-of-fit tests . . . . 471--484 Chin-Shang Li Testing lack of fit of regression models under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . 485--496 Keith Knight Asymptotics for $ L_1 $-estimators of regression parameters under heteroscedasticityY . . . . . . . . . . 497--507 Edmund T. M. Ng and Richard J. Cook Robust inference for bivariate point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--524 Alain Berlinet and Christian Francq Estimation du comportement asymptotique des autocovariances et autocorrélations empiriques de processus multivariées. (French) [Estimation of the asymptotic behavior of autocovariances and empirical autocorrelations of multivariate processes] . . . . . . . . 525--546 Tae Young Yang and Lynn Kuo Bayesian computation for the superposition of nonhomogeneous Poisson processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--556 Chris Carolan and Richard Dykstra Asymptotic behavior of the Grenander estimator at density flat regions . . . 557--566 Michael J. Daniels A prior for the variance in hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--578 Peter Hall and Michael A. Martin and Shan Sun Monte Carlo approximation to Edgeworth expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--584 Christopher G. Small and Zejiang Yang Multiple roots of estimating functions 585--598 A. K. Gupta and T. T. Nguyen and Yining Wang On maximum likelihood estimation of the binomial parameter $n$ . . . . . . . . . 599--606 Tomasz Rychlik Error reduction in density estimation under shape restrictions . . . . . . . . 607--622 Louis-Paul Rivest Some linear model techniques for analyzing small-circle spherical data 623--638 Dan Nettleton Convergence properties of the EM algorithm in constrained parameter spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--648 Ao Yuan and Bertrand S. Clarke A minimally informative likelihood for decision analysis: Illustration and robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--665 Ömer Öztürk and Thomas P. Hettmansperger Authors' addendum to ``Simultaneous robust estimation of location and scale parameters: a minimum-distance approach'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--667 Ömer Öztürk and Thomas P. Hettmansperger Addendum to: ``Simultaneous robust estimation of location and scale parameters: a minimum-distance approach'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 26 (1998), no. 2, 217--229; MR1648490 (99f:62046)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Jerald F. Lawless La revue canadiennede statistique statistical science: Concepts, opportunities and challenges . . . . . . 671--682 Byron Schmuland Dirichlet forms: Some infinite-dimensional examples . . . . . 683--700 Joseph G. Ibrahim and Ming-Hui Chen and Steven N. MacEachern Bayesian variable selection for proportional hazards models . . . . . . 701--717 Yodit Seifu and Thomas A. Severini and Martin A. Tanner Semiparametric Bayesian inference for regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 719--734 Konstantinos Fokianos and Amy Peng and Jing Qin A generalized-moments specification test for the logistic link . . . . . . . . . 735--750 Zhide Fang and Douglas P. Wiens Robust extrapolation designs and weights for biased regression models with heteroscedastic errors . . . . . . . . . 751--770 Michael P. Jones Nonrobustness of the information test in detecting heterogeneity . . . . . . . . 771--779 Douglas P. Wiens and Julie Zhou Minimax designs for approximately linear models with $ {\rm AR}(1) $ errors . . . 781--794 Luc D. Adjengue and Marc Moore Deux méthodes d'estimation pour les param\`etres de processus moyenne mobile spatiaux. (French) [Two estimation methods for parameters of spatial median processes] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--818 Beno\^\it R. Mâsse and Young K. Truong Conditional logspline density estimation 819--832 Satish Iyengar and Paul Kvam and Harshinder Singh Fisher information in weighted distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--841 E. G. Enns and P. F. Ehlers and T. Misi A cluster problem as defined by nearest neighbours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--851 Mohammadine Belbachir Lois limités pour les statistiques d'ordre dans le cas non identiquement distribué. (French) [Limited laws for order statistics in the nonidentically distributed case] . . . . . . . . . . . 853--862 Bradley A. Hartlaub and Angela M. Dean and Douglas A. Wolfe Rank-based test procedures for interaction in the two-way layout with one observation per cell . . . . . . . . 863--874 Osvaldo Marrero L'analyse de la variation saisonni\`ere quand l'amplitude et la taille sont faibles. (French) [The analysis of seasonal variation when the amplitude and the size are low] . . . . . . . . . 875--882
Christian Genest Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Fan Zhang and Robert E. Weiss Diagnosing explainable heterogeneity of variance in random-effects models . . . 3--18 A. Kneip and X. Li and K. B. MacGibbon and J. O. Ramsay Curve registration by local regression 19--29 Mich\`ele Grenier and Christian Léger Bootstrapping regression models with BLUS residuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--43 Andreas I. Sashegyi and K. Stephen Brown and Patrick J. Farrell Estimation in an empirical Bayes model for longitudinal and cross-sectionally clustered binary data . . . . . . . . . 45--63 S. N. Rai and D. E. Matthews and D. R. Krewski Mixed-scale models for survival/sacrifice experiments . . . . . 65--80 Anthony Almudevar Exact confidence regions for species assignment based on DNA markers . . . . 81--95 Ömer Öztürk and Douglas A. Wolfe An improved ranked set two-sample Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon test . . . . . . 123--135 Sorana Froda and Constance Van Eeden A uniform saddlepoint expansion for the null-distribution of the Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney statistic . . . 137--149 Jean Averous and Jean-Luc Dortet-Bernadet LTD and RTI dependence orderings . . . . 151--157 Miguel A. Fernández and Cristina Rueda and Bonifacio Salvador Parameter estimation under orthant restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--181 Jack Terhune Case study in data analysis: Vocalization differences among three harp seal herds . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--185 Sylvia R. Esterby and others Case study in data analysis: vocalization differences among three harp seal herds . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--219 Patrice Mathieu and Anne-Marie Robert and Urs. R. Maag Analyse 1: Utilisation des vocalisations pour différencier trois hardes de phoques. (French) [Analysis 1: Using vocalizations to differentiate three herds of seals] . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--189 Keith Chan and Jaroslaw Harezlak and Robert St-Aubin and Marc Vallée Analysis 2: Seals, talk to us and we will identify you . . . . . . . . . . . 189--197 Joseph Farruggia and Peter D. M. MacDonald and Román Viveros-Aguilera Analysis 3: Who made the call? Classification based on logistic regression and trees . . . . . . . . . . 197--205 Jacques Allard and Vartan Choulakian and René LeBlanc and Stephanie J. MacNeill and Smail Mahdi Analysis 4: Discriminant analysis of seal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--212 Sylvia R. Esterby Discussion of the Analyses . . . . . . . 213--219
James O. Ramsay Differential equation models for statistical functions . . . . . . . . . 225--240 Nancy E. Heckman and James O. Ramsay Penalized regression with model-based penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--258 Debbie J. Dupuis and David C. Hamilton Regression residuals and test statistics: Assessing naive outlier deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--275 Martin Bilodeau and Pierre Duchesne Robust estimation of the SUR model . . . 277--288 Joris Pinkse Nonparametric two-step regression estimation when regressors and error are dependent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--300 Ursula U. Müller Nonparametric regression for threshold data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--310 Ronald W. Butler and Aparna V. Huzurbazar Bayesian prediction of waiting times in stochastic models . . . . . . . . . . . 311--325 Caterina Conigliani and J. Iván Castro and Anthony O'Hagan Bayesian assessment of goodness of fit against nonparametric alternatives . . . 327--342 Caterina Conigliani and Anthony O'Hagan Sensitivity of the fractional Bayes factor to prior distributions . . . . . 343--352 William J. Reed Reconstructing the history of forest fire frequency: Identifying hazard rate change points using the Bayes information criterion . . . . . . . . . 353--365 Antonio Cuevas and Manuel Febrero and Ricardo Fraiman Estimating the number of clusters . . . 367--382 Peter T. Kim and Ja-Yong Koo Directional mixture models and optimal estimation of the mixing density . . . . 383--398 Dominique Fourdrinier and Idir Ouassou Estimation of the mean of a spherically symmetric distribution with constraints on the norm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--415 Serge B. Provost and Young-Ho Cheong On the distribution of linear combinations of the components of a Dirichlet random vector . . . . . . . . 417--425 Michael D. Deb. Edwardes Implications of random cut-points theory for the Mann--Whitney and binomial tests 427--438 Martin R. Petersen and James A. Deddens Effects of omitting a covariate in Poisson models when the data are balanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--445 Konstantinos Fokianos and Amy Peng and Jing Qin Authors' addendum to: ``A generalized-moments specification test for the logistic link'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 27 (1999), no. 4, 735--750; 1767144] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--446
Feifang Hu and John D. Kalbfleisch The estimating function bootstrap . . . 449--481 Anonymous Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--495 Anonymous Rejoinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--499 Alan M. Polansky Stabilizing bootstrap-$t$ confidence intervals for small samples . . . . . . 501--516 Steven E. Stern and A. H. Welsh Likelihood inference for small variance components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--532 Francesca Dominici and Giovanni Parmigiani and Merlise Clyde Conjugate analysis of multivariate normal data with incomplete observations 533--550 Barbara Tong and Kert Viele Smooth estimates of normal mixtures . . 551--561 Dianliang Deng and Sudhir R. Paul Score tests for zero inflation in generalized linear models . . . . . . . 563--570 Jiti Gao and Thomas Yee Adaptive estimation in partially linear autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 571--586 Thomas S. Ferguson and Christian Genest and Marc Hallin Kendall's tau for serial dependence . . 587--604 Min Chen and Gemai Chen Geometric ergodicity of nonlinear autoregressive models with changing conditional variances . . . . . . . . . 605--613 Jean-Yves Dauxois Inférence par les martingales pour des processus ponctuels \`a compensateur discontinu. (French) [Inference by martingales for point processes with discontinuous compensator] . . . . . . . 615--620 Bing Li Nonparametric estimating equations based on a penalized information criterion . . 621--639 Peter Xue-Kun Song Monte Carlo Kalman filter and smoothing for multivariate discrete state space models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--652 Cheikh A. T. Diack Sur la convergence des tests de Schlee et de Yatchew. (French) [On the convergence tests of Schlee and Yatchew] 653--668
Anirban DasGupta and George Casella and Mohan Delampady and Christian Genest and Herman Rubin and William E. Strawderman Correlation in a Bayesian framework . . 675--687 Kilani Ghoudi and David Mcdonald Cramér-von Mises regression . . . . . . . 689--714 Hemant Ishwaran Univariate and multirater ordinal cumulative link regression with covariate specific cutpoints . . . . . . 715--730 Hemant Ishwaran and Constantine A. Gatsonis A general class of hierarchical ordinal regression models with applications to correlated ROC analysis . . . . . . . . 731--750 David A. Binder and Colin Babyak and Marie Brodeur and Michel Hidiroglou and Wisner Jocelyn Variance estimation for two-phase stratified sampling . . . . . . . . . . 751--764 Amparo Baíllo and Antonio Cuevas and Ana Justel Set estimation and nonparametric detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--782 Helge Blaker Confidence curves and improved exact confidence intervals for discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--798 Angeles Saavedra and Ricardo Cao On the estimation of the marginal density of a moving average process . . 799--815 Naämane La\"\ib and Elias Ould-S ïd A robust nonparametric estimation of the autoregression function under an ergodic hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--828 Alejandra Cabaña and Enrique M. Cabaña Tests of symmetry based on transformed empirical processes . . . . . . . . . . 829--839 Bob Zhong and Jiahua Chen and J. N. K. Rao Empirical likelihood inference in the presence of measurement error . . . . . 841--852 Michael R. Frey and Carolin M. Frey Tolerance-based error reduction in multi-agent bioassays . . . . . . . . . 853--874 Suzanne Hudson and Paul W. Vos Marginal information for expectation parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--886
Anonymous Editor: Report from the former editor 3--4 Malay Ghosh and Yeong-Hwa Kim The Behrens-Fisher problem revisited: a Bayes-frequentist synthesis . . . . . . 5--17 Daniel R. Eno and Keying Ye Probability matching priors for an extended statistical calibration model 19--35 Patrick E. Brown and Piet De Jong Nonparametric smoothing using state space techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50 Kert Viele Evaluating fit in functional data analysis using model embeddings . . . . 51--66 Thomas J. DiCiccio and Michael A. Martin and Steven E. Stern Simple and accurate one-sided inference from signed roots of likelihood ratios 67--76 Daniel B. Hall On the application of extended quasi-likelihood to the clustered data case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--97 Paul Kabaila and John Byrne Exact short Poisson confidence intervals 99--106 Vincent F. Melfi and Connie Page and Margarida Geraldes An adaptive randomized design with application to estimation . . . . . . . 107--116 Giseon Heo and Byron Schmuland and Douglas P. Wiens Restricted minimax robust designs for misspecified regression models . . . . . 117--128 Min Tsao and Julie Zhou On the robustness of empirical likelihood ratio confidence intervals for location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 Marc Hallin and Amal Mellouk and Khalid Rifi Projection de Hájek et polynômes de Bernstein. (French) [Hájek projection and Bernstein polynomials] . . . . . . . . . 141--154 Faouzi El Bantli and Marc Hallin Asymptotic behaviour of $M$-estimators in $ {\rm AR}(p)$ models under nonstandard conditions . . . . . . . . . 155--168 Antonio Cuevas and Manuel Febrero and Ricardo Fraiman Corrigenda: ``Estimating the number of clusters'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170 Peter T. Kim and Ja-Yong Koo Addendum: ``Directional mixture models and optimal estimation of the mixing density'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170
Isabel Cañette Blind nonparametric regression . . . . . 173--189 Giovanni M. Merola and Bovas Abraham Dimensionality reduction approach to multivariate prediction . . . . . . . . 191--200 Hanfeng Chen and Jiahua Chen The likelihood ratio test for homogeneity in finite mixture models . . 201--215 M. A. Tingley and L. McLean Detection of patterns in noisy time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--237 S.-Y. Claire Lei and Suojin Wang Diagnostic tests for bias of estimating equations in weighted regression with missing covariates . . . . . . . . . . . 239--250 Anestis Antoniadis and Jianqing Fan and Ir\`ene Gijbels A wavelet method for unfolding sphere size distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 251--268 Aad van der Vaart and Jon A. Wellner Consistency of semiparametric maximum likelihood estimators for two-phase sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--288 Changbao Wu and Randy R. Sitter Variance estimation for the finite population distribution function with complete auxiliary information . . . . . 289--307 Pedro Puig and Michael A. Stephens Goodness-of-fit tests for the hyperbolic distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--320 Paramjit S. Gill and Tim B. Swartz Statistical analyses for round robin interaction data . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--331 Fatemah Alqallaf and Paul Gustafson On cross-validation of Bayesian models 333--340
Peter M. Hooper Flexible regression modeling with adaptive logistic basis functions . . . 343--364 Mary J. Lindstrom and James O. Ramsay and Nancy E. Heckman and Hugh A. Chipman and Hong Gu Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--374 Peter M. Hooper Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--378 Edward Susko and Michael J. Bronskill and Simon J. Graham and Robert J. Tibshirani Estimation of relaxation time distributions in magnetic resonance imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394 Rhonda J. Rosychuk and Mary E. Thompson A semi-Markov model for binary longitudinal responses subject to misclassification . . . . . . . . . . . 395--404 Charmaine B. Dean and Ying Cai MacNab Modeling of rates over a hierarchical health administrative structure . . . . 405--419 Meehyung Cho and Nathaniel Schenker and Jeremy M. G. Taylor and Dongliang Zhuang Survival analysis with long-term survivors and partially observed covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--436 Mohan Delampady and Anirban DasGupta and George Casella and Herman Rubin and William E. Strawderman A new approach to default priors and robust Bayes methodology . . . . . . . . 437--450 John J. Spinelli Testing fit for the grouped exponential distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--458 Thomas W. O'Gorman Using adaptive weighted least squares to reduce the lengths of confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--471 Christophe Croux and Catherine Dehon Robust linear discriminant analysis using $S$-estimators . . . . . . . . . . 473--493 Y. H. Steve Huang and Longcheen Huwang On the polynomial structural relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--512
Masoud Asgharian and David B. Wolfson Covariates in multipath change-point problems: Modelling and consistency of the MLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--528 Nhu D. Le and Li Sun and James V. Zidek Spatial prediction and temporal backcasting for environmental fields having monotone data patterns . . . . . 529--554 Louis-Paul Rivest and Tina Lévesque Improved log-linear model estimators of abundance in capture-recapture experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--572 Edward W. Frees Omitted variables in longitudinal data models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--595 Qihua Wang and J. N. K. Rao Empirical likelihood for linear regression models under imputation for missing responses . . . . . . . . . . . 597--608 Shiva Gautam and Allan Sampson and Harshinder Singh Iso-chi-squared testing of $ 2 \times k $ ordered tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--619 Nicolas Hengartner and Marten Wegkamp Estimation and selection procedures in regression: an $ L_1 $ approach . . . . 621--632 Holger Dette and Dale Song and Weng Kee Wong Robustness properties of minimally-supported Bayesian $D$-optimal designs for heteroscedastic models . . . 633--647 Min Chen and Gemai Chen A nonparametric test of conditional autoregressive heteroscedasticity for threshold autoregressive models . . . . 649--666 Patrice Bertail and Dimitris N. Politis Extrapolation of subsampling distribution estimators: the i.i.d. and strong mixing cases . . . . . . . . . . 667--680 Helge Blaker Corrigenda: ``Confidence curves and improved exact confidence intervals for discrete distributions'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 28 (2000), no. 4, 783--798; 1 821 434] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--681
Richard A. Lockhart Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Yong You and J. N. K. Rao Small area estimation using unmatched sampling and linking models . . . . . . 3--15 Debbie J. Dupuis and Stephan Morgenthaler Robust weighted likelihood estimators with an application to bivariate extreme value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--36 Patrick Bélisle and Lawrence Joseph and David B. Wolfson and Xiaojie Zhou Bayesian estimation of cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease . . 37--54 Joseph G. Ibrahim and Ming-Hui Chen and Stuart R. Lipsitz Bayesian methods for generalized linear models with covariates missing at random 55--78 Mario Trottini and Fulvio Spezzaferri A generalized predictive criterion for model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--96 Pamela Ohman-Strickland and George Casella Approximate and estimated saddlepoint approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108 Yong B. Lim and Jerome Sacks and W. J. Studden and William J. Welch Design and analysis of computer experiments when the output is highly correlated over the input space . . . . 109--126 Boxin Tang and Fengshi Ma and Debra Ingram and Hong Wang Bounds on the maximum number of clear two-factor interactions for $ 2^{m - p} $ designs of resolution III and IV . . . 127--136 Anonymous Case study in data analysis: the genetic analysis of inflammatory bowel disease 137--145 Sylvia R. Esterby and others Case study in data analysis: the genetic analysis of inflammatory bowel disease 137--174 Jiahua Chen and John D. Kalbfleisch and Sandra Romero-Hidalgo Analysis 2: Genetic data analysis of affected sib pairs . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152 Gerarda A. Darlington and Andrew D. Paterson Analysis 3: Genetic analysis of chromosome 6 in inflammatory bowel disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--158 Nicole M. Roslin and J. C. Loredo-Osti and Celia M. T. Greenwood and Kenneth Morgan Analysis 4: Genetic analysis of the role of the HLA region in inflammatory bowel disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--167 Christopher A. Field and Bruce Smith Discussion of the evaluation of a candidate genetic locus in a genome scan of complex disease . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169
Gemai Chen and Richard A. Lockhart and Michael A. Stephens Box--Cox transformations in linear models: Large sample theory and tests of normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--209 Anonymous Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--225 Gemai Chen and Richard A. Lockhart and Michael A. Stephens Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--234 Zhenlin Yang Median estimation through a regression transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--242 Donald L. McLeish Highs and lows: Some properties of the extremes of a diffusion and applications in finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--267 Hemant Ishwaran and Mahmoud Zarepour Exact and approximate sum representations for the Dirichlet process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--283 Antonio Cuevas and Manuel Febrero and Ricardo Fraiman Linear functional regression: the case of fixed design and functional response 285--300 Alwell J. Oyet Minimax $A$- and $D$-optimal integer-valued wavelet designs for estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--316 Christopher A. Carolan The least concave majorant of the empirical distribution function . . . . 317--328 Christian Genest and Mireille Guay Worldwide research output in probability and statistics: an update . . . . . . . 329--342
Feifang Hu and James V. Zidek The weighted likelihood . . . . . . . . 347--371 Yolanda Muñoz Maldonado and Joan G. Staniswalis and Louis N. Irwin and Donna Byers A similarity analysis of curves . . . . 373--381 Edward Susko and Robert Nadon Estimation of a residual distribution with small numbers of repeated measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--400 Sanjoy Sinha and Douglas P. Wiens Minimax weights for generalised $M$-estimation in biased regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--414 Daniel B. Hall and Kenneth S. Berenhaut Score tests for heterogeneity and overdispersion in zero-inflated Poisson and binomial regression models . . . . . 415--430 Yong You and J. N. K. Rao A pseudo-empirical best linear unbiased prediction approach to small area estimation using survey weights . . . . 431--439 Christian Genest and Jean-François Quessy and Bruno Rémillard Tests of serial independence based on Kendall's process . . . . . . . . . . . 441--461 Paul Gustafson On the simultaneous effects of model misspecification and errors in variables 463--474 Yanqing Sun and Sufang Cui and Ram C. Tiwari Goodness-of-fit tests for parametric models based on biased samples . . . . . 475--490
Miklós Csörg\Ho A glimpse of the impact of Pál Erd\Hos on probability and statistics . . . . . . . 493--556 Robert Gentleman and Alain C. Vandal Nonparametric estimation of the bivariate CDF for arbitrarily censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--571 Rachel J. MacKay Estimating the order of a hidden Markov model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--589 Arthur Pewsey Testing circular symmetry . . . . . . . 591--600 Sanjoy Sinha and Douglas P. Wiens Robust sequential designs for nonlinear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--618 Chong Gu and Young-Ju Kim Penalized likelihood regression: General formulation and efficient approximation 619--628
Richard A. Lockhart Editor's report/rapport du rédacteur en chef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Sujit K. Sahu and Russell C. H. Cheng A fast distance-based approach for determining the number of components in mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22 Christophe Abraham and Gérard Biau and Beno\^\it Cadre Simple estimation of the mode of a multivariate density . . . . . . . . . . 23--34 Christian Genest and Jean-François Plante On Blest's measure of rank correlation 35--52 Jiahua Chen and Shun-Yi Chen and J. N. K. Rao Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for the mean of a population containing many zero values . . . . . . 53--68 Bhramar Mukherjee Exactly optimal sampling designs for processes with a product covariance structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--87 Taoufik Bouezmarni and Jean-Marie Rolin Consistency of the beta kernel density function estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98 Julie Zhou and Hongtu Zhu Robust estimation and design procedures for the random effects model . . . . . . 99--110
Nicole Malfait and James O. Ramsay The historical functional linear model 115--128 Sujit K. Sahu and Dipak K. Dey and Márcia D. Branco A new class of multivariate skew distributions with applications to Bayesian regression models . . . . . . . 129--150 Chunming M. Zhang Adaptive tests of regression functions via multiscale generalized likelihood ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--171 Gerda Claeskens and Bing-Yi Jing and Liang Peng and Wang Zhou Empirical likelihood confidence regions for comparison distributions and ROC curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190 Yann Guédon and Christiane Cocozza-Thivent Nonparametric estimation of renewal processes from count data . . . . . . . 191--223 Inna Perevozskaya and William F. Rosenberger and Linda M. Haines Optimal design for the proportional odds model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--235
Matilde Trevisani and Alan E. Gelfand Inequalities between expected marginal log-likelihoods, with implications for likelihood-based model complexity and comparison measures . . . . . . . . . . 239--250 Deanne L. Wright and Hal S. Stern and Noel Cressie Loss functions for estimation of extrema with an application to disease mapping 251--266 Florentina Bunea and Marten H. Wegkamp A note on penalized minimum distance estimation in nonparametric regression 267--274 Pierre Duchesne and Simon Lalancette On testing for multivariate ARCH effects in vector time series models . . . . . . 275--292 Hong-Tu Zhu and Sik-Yum Lee Local influence for generalized linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--309 Arden E. Miller The analysis of unreplicated factorial experiments from a geometric perspective 311--327 Adam W. Kolkiewicz Best monotone $M$-estimators . . . . . . 329--347 Masoud Asgharian Letter to the Editor/Lettre \`a la rédaction: Biased sampling with right censoring: a note on Sun, Cui & Tiwari (2002) [``Goodness-of-fit tests for parametric models based on biased samples'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 30 (2002), no. 3, 475--490; MR1944375] by Y. Sun, S. Cui and R. C. Tiwari] . . . . 349--350
Belkacem Abdous and Kilani Ghoudi and Bruno Rémillard Nonparametric weighted symmetry tests 357--381 Sharon L. Lohr and N. G. N. Prasad Small area estimation with auxiliary survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--396 Peilin Shi and Jane J. Ye and Julie Zhou Minimax robust designs for misspecified regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 397--414 Brajendra C. Sutradhar and R. Prabhakar Rao On quasi-likelihood inference in generalized linear mixed models with two components of dispersion . . . . . . . . 415--435 Denis Larocque An affine-invariant multivariate sign test for cluster correlated data . . . . 437--455 Zhide Fang Extrapolation designs with constraints 457--468 Giovanni Petris and Luca Tardella A geometric approach to transdimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo . . . . . . . . 469--482 Yann Guédon and Christiane Cocozza-Thivent Correction: ``Nonparametric estimation of renewal processes from count data'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 31 (2003), no. 2, 191--223; \refcno 2016227] by Y. Guédon and C. Cocozza-Thivent . . . . . . 483--483
Douglas P. Wines Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 John E. Kolassa Approximate multivariate conditional inference using the adjusted profile likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--14 Changbao Wu Combining information from multiple surveys through the empirical likelihood method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--26 Lang Wu Nonlinear mixed-effect models with nonignorably missing covariates . . . . 27--37 Brajendra C. Sutradhar and Patrick J. Farrell Analyzing multivariate longitudinal binary data: a generalized estimating equations approach . . . . . . . . . . . 39--55 Mingyao Ai and Runchu Zhang Theory of optimal blocking of nonregular factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 57--72 Fernando A. Quintana and Peter Müller Optimal sampling for repeated binary measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--84 Mary C. Meyer and Michael Woodroofe Consistent maximum likelihood estimation of a unimodal density using shape restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--100
Florentina Bunea and Marten H. Wegkamp Two-stage model selection procedures in partially linear regression . . . . . . 105--118 Ao Yuan and Bertrand Clarke Asymptotic normality of the posterior given a statistic . . . . . . . . . . . 119--137 Malay Ghosh and James V. Zidek and Tapabrata Maiti and Rick White The use of the weighted likelihood in the natural exponential families with quadratic variance . . . . . . . . . . . 139--157 Xinsheng Liu and Jinde Wang Testing the equality of multinomial populations ordered by increasing convexity under the alternative . . . . 159--168 Eva Cantoni A robust approach to longitudinal data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--180 Cristina Butucea Deconvolution of supersmooth densities with smooth noise . . . . . . . . . . . 181--192 Michael D. Perlman and Sanjay Chaudhuri The role of reversals in order-restricted inference . . . . . . . 193--198 Arthur Cohen and Harold B. Sackrowitz A discussion of some inference issues in order restricted models . . . . . . . . 199--205
Robert Gentleman Some perspectives on statistical computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--226 Ryan Gill Maximum likelihood estimation in generalized broken-line regression . . . 227--238 Stéphane Heritier and Elvezio Ronchetti Robust binary regression with continuous outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--249 Naomi S. Altman and Julio C. Villarreal Self-modelling regression for longitudinal data with time-invariant covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--268 Hubert Wong and Bertrand Clarke Improvement over Bayes prediction in small samples in the presence of model uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--283 Tim B. Swartz and Yoel Haitovsky and Albert Vexler and Tae Y. Yang Bayesian identifiability and misclassification in multinomial data 285--302 Chang Xuan Mao and Bruce G. Lindsay Estimating the number of classes in multiple populations: a geometric analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--314 Ramon Oller and Guadalupe Gómez and M. Luz Calle Interval censoring: Model characterizations for the validity of the simplified likelihood . . . . . . . 315--326 Jerald F. Lawless A note on interval-censored lifetime data and the constant-sum condition of Oller, Gómez & Calle (2004) [``Interval censoring: model characterizations for the validity of the simplified likelihood'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 32 (2004), no. 3, 315--326; \refcno 2101759] by Ramon Oller, Guadalupe Gómez, and M. Luz Calle] . . . . . . . . . . . 327--331
Jinhong You and Gemai Chen Block external bootstrap in partially linear models with nonstationary strong mixing error terms . . . . . . . . . . . 335--346 Chong Gu Model diagnostics for smoothing spline ANOVA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--358 Jinbo Chen and Norman E. Breslow Semiparametric efficient estimation for the auxiliary outcome problem with the conditional mean model . . . . . . . . . 359--372 Patrick G. Arbogast and Danyu Y. Lin Goodness-of-fit methods for matched case-control studies . . . . . . . . . . 373--386 J. Andrés Christen and Peter Müller and Kyle Wathen and Judith Wolf Bayesian randomized clinical trials: a decision-theoretic sequential design . . 387--402 Bin Nan Efficient estimation for case-cohort studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--419 Chen-Tuo Liao and Feng-Shun Chai Partially replicated two-level fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 421--438 Alexander Meister On the effect of misspecifying the error density in a deconvolution problem . . . 439--449 Yves G. Berger Variance estimation for measures of change in probability sampling . . . . . 451--467 Xianming Tan and Runchu Zhang Letter to the Editor/Lettre \`a la rédaction: Generalized likelihood-ratio test of the number of components in finite mixture models (Chen 1994, lemma 1): correction [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 22 (1994), no. 3, 387--399; MR1309322] by J. H. Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--469 Heung Wong and W. K. Li Distribution of the cross-correlations of squared residuals in ARIMA models . . 470--470 Heung Wong and W. K. Li Errata: ``Distribution of the cross-correlations of squared residuals in ARIMA models'' [Canad. J. Statist. \bf 24 (1996), no. 4, 489--502; MR1438419] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Douglas P. Wiens Editor's report/Rapport du rédacteur en chef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Grace Y. Yi and Mary E. Thompson Marginal and association regression models for longitudinal binary data with drop-outs: a likelihood-based approach 3--20 Denis Bosq Estimation suroptimale de la densité par projection. (French) [Suroptimale estimate of the density by projection] 21--37 John Braun and Thierry Duchesne and James E. Stafford Local likelihood density estimation for interval censored data . . . . . . . . . 39--60 Zhigang Zhang and Liuquan Sun and Xingqiu Zhao and Jianguo Sun Regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data with linear transformation models . . . . . . . . . 61--70 Alain C. Vandal and Robert Gentleman and Xuecheng Liu Constrained estimation and likelihood intervals for censored data . . . . . . 71--83 Jianguo Sun and Liuquan Sun Semiparametric linear transformation models for current status data . . . . . 85--96 Alexandre X. Carvalho and Martin A. Tanner Modeling nonlinear time series with local mixtures of generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--113 Mayer Alvo and Paul Cabilio General scores statistics on ranks in the analysis of unbalanced designs . . . 115--129 Sudhir R. Paul and Xing Jiang Testing the homogeneity of several two-parameter populations . . . . . . . 131--143 Anonymous Acknowledgements: Acknowledgement of referees' services. Remerciements aux membres des jurys . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145 Anonymous Forthcoming papers/Articles \`a para\^\itre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
David Haziza and J. N. K. Rao Inference for domains under imputation for missing survey data . . . . . . . . 149--161 Camelia Goga Réduction de la variance dans les sondages en présence d'information auxiliaire: Une approche non paramétrique par splines de régression. (French) [Reduction of variance in polls in the presence auxiliary information: a nonparametric approach by regression splines] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--180 María-José Lombardí and Wenceslao González-Manteiga and José-Manuel Prada-Sánchez Estimation of a finite population distribution function based on a linear model with unknown heteroscedastic errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--200 Todd MacKenzie and Michal Abrahamowicz Using categorical markers as auxiliary variables in log-rank tests and hazard ratio estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--219 Holger Dette and Linda M. Haines and Lorens A. Imhof Bayesian and maximin optimal designs for heteroscedastic regression models . . . 221--241 Jennifer Asimit and W. John Braun Third order point process intensity estimation for reaction time experiment data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--257 W. John Braun and Li-Shan Huang Kernel spline regression . . . . . . . . 259--278 Mario Francisco-Fernandez and Jean D. Opsomer Smoothing parameter selection methods for nonparametric regression with spatially correlated errors . . . . . . 279--295 Zeny Z. Feng and Jiahua Chen and Mary E. Thompson The universal validity of the possible triangle constraint for affected sib pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--310
Christian Genest Preface/Préface [International Conference on Dependence Modelling: Statistical Theory and Applications in Finance and Insurance (DeMoSTAFI), plus table of contents and photo of participants] . . 313--316 Belkacem Abdous and Anne-Laure Foug\`eres and Kilani Ghoudi Extreme behaviour for bivariate elliptical distributions . . . . . . . . 317--334 Yinshan Zhao and Harry Joe Composite likelihood estimation in multivariate data analysis . . . . . . . 335--356 Hideatsu Tsukahara Semiparametric estimation in copula models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--375 François Vandenhende and Philippe Lambert Local dependence estimation using semiparametric Archimedean copulas . . . 377--388 Xiaohong Chen and Yanqin Fan Pseudo-likelihood ratio tests for semiparametric multivariate copula model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--414 Olivier Scaillet A Kolmogorov-Smirnov type test for positive quadrant dependence . . . . . . 415--427 Roel Braekers and Noël Veraverbeke A copula-graphic estimator for the conditional survival function under dependent censoring . . . . . . . . . . 429--447 Yun-Hee Choi and David E. Matthews Accelerated life regression modelling of dependent bivariate time-to-event data 449--464 David Oakes On the preservation of copula structure under truncation . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--468 Anonymous Forthcoming papers/articles \`a para\^\itre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--469 Anonymous Volume 34 (2006): Subscription rates/Frais d'abonnement . . . . . . . . 470--470
Serge Tardif and François Bellavance and Constance Van Eeden A nonparametric procedure for the analysis of balanced crossover designs 471--488 José E. Chacón and Alberto Rodríguez-Casal On the $ L_1 $-consistency of wavelet density estimates . . . . . . . . . . . 489--496 Rohana J. Karunamuni and Tom Alberts A generalized reflection method of boundary correction in kernel density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--509 Ana M. Bianco and Marta Garcia Ben and Víctor J. Yohai Robust estimation for linear regression with asymmetric errors . . . . . . . . . 511--528 Xin Gao and Mayer Alvo A nonparametric test for interaction in two-way layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--543 Lan Wang and Xiao-Hua Zhou A fully nonparametric diagnostic test for homogeneity of variances . . . . . . 545--558 Guosheng Yin and Joseph G. Ibrahim Cure rate models: a unified approach . . 559--570 George Iliopoulos and Dimitris Karlis and Ioannis Ntzoufras Bayesian estimation in Kibble's bivariate gamma distribution . . . . . . 571--589 Dongchu Sun and Paul L. Speckman A note on nonexistence of posterior moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--601 Anonymous Volume 34 (2006): Subscription rates/Frais d'abnonnement . . . . . . . 602--602
Douglas P. Wines Editor's report . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Douglas P. Wiens Editor Reports: Rapport du rédacteur en chef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--3 Angelo J. Canty and Anthony C. Davison and David V. Hinkley and Valérie Ventura Bootstrap diagnostics and remedies . . . 5--27 Christian Léger and Brenda MacGibbon On the bootstrap in cube root asymptotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--44 Min Tsao and Changbao Wu Empirical likelihood inference for a common mean in the presence of heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 45--59 Ricardo Cao and Ingrid Van Keilegom Empirical likelihood tests for two-sample problems via nonparametric density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 61--77 Jinhong You and Gemai Chen and Yong Zhou Block empirical likelihood for longitudinal partially linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--96 Xuewen Lu and Gemai Chen and Radhey S. Singh and Peter X.-K. Song A class of partially linear single-index survival models . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--112 Michael J. Evans and Irwin Guttman and Tim Swartz Optimality and computations for relative surprise inferences . . . . . . . . . . 113--129 Abdelouahab Bibi and Antony Gautier Propriétés dans $ L^2 $ et estimation des processus purement bilinéaires et strictement superdiagonaux \`a coefficients périodiques. (French) [Properties in $ L^2 $ and estimation of purely-bilinear and strictly superdiagonal processes with periodic coefficients] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--148 Wenceslao González-Manteiga and Ana Peréz-González Goodness-of-fit tests for linear regression models with missing response data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--170 Jae Kwang Kim and Hyeonah Park Imputation using response probability 171--182
Louis-Paul Rivest and Ted Chang Regression and correlation for $ 3 \times 3 $ rotation matrices . . . . . . 187--202 Christian Boudreau and Jerald F. Lawless Survival analysis based on the proportional hazards model and survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216 Edit Gombay and Abdulkadir Hussein A class of sequential tests for two-sample composite hypotheses . . . . 217--232 Donald L. McLeish and Cyntha A. Struthers Estimation of regression parameters in missing data problems . . . . . . . . . 233--259 Sanjoy K. Sinha Robust inference in generalized linear models for longitudinal data . . . . . . 261--278 Xiaogang Wang Approximating Bayesian inference by weighted likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 279--298 Borek Puza and Terence O'Neill Interval estimation via tail functions 299--310 M. Farid Rohani and Khalil Shafie and Siamak Noorbaloochi A Bayesian signal detection procedure for scale-space random fields . . . . . 311--325 Marios A. G. Viana and Hak-Myung Lee Correlation analysis of ordered symmetrically dependent observations and their concomitants of order statistics 327--340 Kanchan Mukherjee Pseudo-likelihood estimation in ARCH models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--356 Anonymous Forthcoming papers/Articles \`a para\^\itre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--357 Anonymous Online access to The Canadian Journal of Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
Changbao Wu and J. N. K. Rao Pseudo-empirical likelihood ratio confidence intervals for complex surveys 359--375 Paul Gustafson and Shahadut Hossain and Ying C. MacNab Conservative prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--390 Jinhong You and Yong Zhou and Gemai Chen Corrected local polynomial estimation in varying-coefficient models with measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 391--410 José T. A. S. Ferreira and Mark F. J. Steel On describing multivariate skewed distributions: a directional approach 411--429 Fabienne Comte and Yves Rozenholc and Marie-Luce Taupin Penalized contrast estimator for adaptive density deconvolution . . . . . 431--452 Jonathan B. Hill Strong orthogonal decompositions and non-linear impulse response functions for infinite-variance processes . . . . 453--473 Jean-Michel Loubes and Élie Maza and Marc Lavielle and Luis Rodríguez Road trafficking description and short term travel time forecasting, with a classification method . . . . . . . . . 475--491 Anonymous Case study in data analysis: Variables related to codling moth abundance and the efficacy of the Okanagan Sterile Insect Release Program . . . . . . . . . 493--493 Bob Vernon and Howard Thistlewood and Scott Smith and Todd Kabaluk Introduction: a GIS application to improve codling moth management in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia . . 494--500 Farouk Nathoo and Laurie Ainsworth and Paramjit Gill and Charmaine B. Dean Analysis 1: Codling moth incidence in Okanagan orchards . . . . . . . . . . . 500--510 Gaétan Daigle and Thierry Duchesne and Emmanuelle Reny-Nolin and Louis-Paul Rivest Analyse 2: Étude de l'influence de la topographie et des caractéristiques des vergers sur l'efficacité du programme d'épandage d'insectes steriles pour le carpocapse de la pomme (\em Laspeyresia pomonelle). (French) [Analysis 2: Study of the influence of topography and characteristics of orchards on the effectiveness of the sterile codling moth (\em Laspeyresia pomonelle) insect spraying program] . . . . . . . . . . . 511--521 Sylvia R. Esterby and Howard Thistlewood and Bob Vernon and Scott Smith Discussion: Analysis of codling moth data from the Okanagan Sterile Insect Release Program . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--530 Anonymous Forthcoming papers/Articles \`a paraítre 531--531 Anonymous Volume 35 (2007): Subscription rates/frais d'abonnement . . . . . . . . 532--532 Anonymous Online access to The Canadian Journal of Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--533
Holger Dette and Regine Scheder Strictly monotone and smooth nonparametric regression for two or more variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--561 Damião N. Da Silva and Jean D. Opsomer A kernel smoothing method of adjusting for unit non-response in sample surveys 563--579 Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and Márcia D. Branco and Marc G. Genton A unified view on skewed distributions arising from selections . . . . . . . . 581--601 Stefanie Biedermann and Holger Dette and Andrey Pepelyshev Some robust design strategies for percentile estimation in binary response models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--622 Zhide Fang Some robust designs for polynomial regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 623--638 Debbie J. Dupuis and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser A robust prediction error criterion for Pareto modelling of upper tails . . . . 639--658 Jarrett J. Barber and Alan E. Gelfand and John A. Silander, Jr. Modelling map positional error to infer true feature location . . . . . . . . . 659--676 Douglas E. Schaubel and Jianwen Cai Multiple imputation methods for recurrent event data with missing event category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--692 José R. Berrendero and Antonio Cuevas and Francisco Vázquez-Grande Testing multivariate uniformity: the distance-to-boundary method . . . . . . 693--707 Radu Herbei and Marten H. Wegkamp Classification with reject option . . . 709--721 Anonymous Online access to the \booktitleCanadian Journal of Statistics . . . . . . . . . 731--731
Paul Gustafson Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Anonymous Report from the previous Editors . . . . 5--5 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services 7--7 Renato Assunção and Andréa Tavares and Thais Correa and Martin Kulldorff Space-time cluster identification in point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--25 Elvan Ceyhan and Carey E. Priebe and David J. Marchette A new family of random graphs for testing spatial segregation . . . . . . 27--50 Aurélie Labbe and Mary E. Thompson Multiple testing using the posterior probabilities of directional alternatives, with application to genomic studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--68 Haolan Lu and James S. Hodges and Bradley P. Carlin Measuring the complexity of generalized linear hierarchical models . . . . . . . 69--87 Aurore Delaigle Nonparametric density estimation from data with a mixture of Berkson and classical errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--104 Ozlem Ilk and Michael J. Daniels Marginalized transition random effect models for multivariate longitudinal binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--123 Richard A. Lockhart and John J. Spinelli and Michael A. Stephens Cramér-von Mises statistics for discrete distributions with unknown parameters 125--133 P. W. Fong and W. K. Li and C. W. Yau and C. S. Wong On a mixture vector autoregressive model 135--150 Jung Wook Park and Marc G. Genton and Sujit K. Ghosh Censored time series analysis with autoregressive moving average models . . 151--168 Abdessamad Saidi Consistent testing for non-correlation of two cointegrated ARMA time series . . 169--188 Anonymous Masthead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fmi--fmi
Pierre Duchesne On consistent testing for serial correlation in seasonal time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--213 Jaakko Nevalainen and Denis Larocque and Hannu Oja On the multivariate spatial median for clustered data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--231 Liqun Wang A unified approach to estimation of nonlinear mixed effects and Berkson measurement error models . . . . . . . . 233--248 Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández and Ingrid Van Keilegom and Wenceslao González-Manteiga Goodness-of-fit tests for parametric models in censored regression . . . . . 249--264 Song Xi Chen and Tzee-Ming Huang Nonparametric estimation of copula functions for dependence modelling . . . 265--282 Victor De Oliveira Objective Bayesian analysis of spatial data with measurement error . . . . . . 283--301 Gonzalo García-Donato and Dongchu Sun Objective priors for hypothesis testing in one-way random effects models . . . . 303--320 Hui Li and Guosheng Yin and Yong Zhou Local likelihood with time-varying additive hazards model . . . . . . . . . 321--337 Anonymous Forthcoming papers/articles \`a para\^\itre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338 Anonymous Complete online access to the \booktitleCanadian Journal of Statistics 339--339 Anonymous Volume 35 (2007): Subscription rates/Frais d'abonnement . . . . . . . . 340--340
David F. Andrews Robust likelihood inference for public policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--350 Zeny Z. Feng and Jiahua Chen and Mary E. Thompson Asymptotic properties of likelihood ratio test statistics in affected-sib-pair analysis . . . . . . . 351--364 Hwashin H. Shin and Glen Takahara and Duncan J. Murdoch Optimal designs for calibration of orientations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--380 Jiancheng Jiang and Haibo Zhou and Xuejun Jiang and Jianan Peng Generalized likelihood ratio tests for the structure of semiparametric additive models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--398 Runze Li and Lei Nie A new estimation procedure for a partially nonlinear model via a mixed-effects approach . . . . . . . . . 399--411 Axel Munk and Matthias Mielke and Guido Skipka and Gudrun Freitag Testing noninferiority in three-armed clinical trials based on likelihood ratio statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--431 Inkyung Jung and Martin Kulldorff Theoretical properties of tests for spatial clustering of count data . . . . 433--446 QiQi Lu and Robert B. Lund Simple linear regression with multiple level shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--458
Bent Jòrgensen and Peter X.-K. Song Stationary state space models for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 461--483 Petra B\ocircu\vzková and Thomas Lumley Longitudinal data analysis for generalized linear models with follow-up dependent on outcome-related variables 485--500 Jae Kwang Kim and Jay J. Kim Nonresponse weighting adjustment using estimated response probability . . . . . 501--514 Jinhong You and Gemai Chen On inference for a semiparametric partially linear regression model with serially correlated errors . . . . . . . 515--531 Alexander R. de Leon and K. C. Carri\`ere General mixed-data model: Extension of general location and grouped continuous models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--548 Cinzia Carota A family of power-divergence diagnostics for goodness-of-fit . . . . . . . . . . 549--561 Chiung-Yu Huang and Jing Qin and Fei Zou Empirical likelihood-based inference for genetic mixture models . . . . . . . . . 563--574 Xingwei Tong and Chao Zhu and Jianguo Sun Semiparametric regression analysis of two-sample current status data, with applications to tumorigenicity experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--584 Jesse Frey Distribution-free statistical intervals via ranked-set sampling . . . . . . . . 585--596 Heng Lian Nonlinear functional models for functional responses in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces . . . . . . . . . 597--606
Paul Gustafson Editor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Louis-Paul Rivest Capture-recapture models: Introduction 3--4 Saman Muthukumarana and Carl J. Schwarz and Tim B. Swartz Bayesian analysis of mark-recapture data with travel time-dependent survival probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--21 Olivier Gimenez Discussion: Towards a Bayesian analysis template? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28 Roger Pradel and Lory Maurin-Bernier and Olivier Gimenez and Meritxell Genovart and Rémi Choquet and Daniel Oro Estimation of sex-specific survival with uncertainty in sex assessment . . . . . 29--42 Rémi Choquet Automatic generation of multistate capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 43--57 Gilles Gauthier and Jean-Dominique Lebreton Analysis of band-recovery data in a multistate capture-recapture framework 59--73 Louis-Paul Rivest Why a time effect often has a limited impact on capture-recapture estimates in closed populations . . . . . . . . . . . 75--84 Sophie Véran and Jean-Dominique Lebreton The potential of integrated modelling in conservation biology: a case study of the black-footed albatross (\em Phoebastria nigripes) . . . . . . . . . 85--98 Kanti V. Mardia and Gareth Hughes and Charles C. Taylor and Harshinder Singh A multivariate von Mises distribution with applications to bioinformatics . . 99--109 Qing Pan and Douglas E. Schaubel Proportional hazards models based on biased samples and estimated selection probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--127 Jiahua Chen and Pengfei Li and Yuejiao Fu Testing homogeneity in a mixture of von Mises distributions with a structural parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--142 Mayer Alvo Nonparametric tests of hypotheses for umbrella alternatives . . . . . . . . . 143--156 Christophe Croux and Gentiane Haesbroeck and Kristel Joossens Logistic discrimination using robust estimators: an influence function approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--174
Haiying Chen and Elizabeth A. Stasny and Douglas A. Wolfe Ranked set sampling for ordered categorical variables . . . . . . . . . 179--191 Benjamin Kedem and Guanhua Lu and Rong Wei and Paul D. Williams Forecasting mortality rates via density ratio modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--206 Piotr Kokoszka and Inga Maslova and Jan Sojka and Lie Zhu Testing for lack of dependence in the functional linear model . . . . . . . . 207--222 Valeria Sambucini and Ludovico Piccinato Likelihood and Bayesian approaches to inference for the stationary point of a quadratic response surface . . . . . . . 223--238 Bruno Sansó and Alexandra M. Schmidt and Aline A. Nobre Bayesian spatio-temporal models based on discrete convolutions . . . . . . . . . 239--258 Lei Shi and Gemai Chen Local influence in multilevel models . . 259--275 Sanjoy K. Sinha Robust methods for generalized linear models with nonignorable missing covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--299 Zhenlin Yang and Eden Ka-Ho Wu and Anthony F. Desmond Inference for general parametric functions in Box--Cox-type transformation models . . . . . . . . . 301--319 Lan Wang Nonparametric test for checking lack of fit of the quantile regression model under random censoring . . . . . . . . . 321--336
Christopher A. Field Modeling biological data: Several vignettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--354 Marco A. R. Ferreira and Marc A. Suchard Bayesian analysis of elapsed times in continuous-time Markov chains . . . . . 355--368 Amélie Fils-Villetard and Armelle Guillou and Johan Segers Projection estimators of Pickands dependence functions . . . . . . . . . . 369--382 Simon Guillotte and François Perron A Bayesian estimator for the dependence function of a bivariate extreme-value distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--396 Jesús López-Fidalgo and Raul Martín-Martín and Douglas P. Wiens Marginally restricted sequential $D$-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . 397--410 Kerrie P. Nelson and Don Edwards On population-based measures of agreement for binary classifications . . 411--426 Lei Nie and Haitao Chu and Valeriy R. Korostyshevskiy Bias reduction for nonparametric correlation coefficients under the bivariate normal copula assumption with known detection limits . . . . . . . . . 427--442 Jean-François Plante Nonparametric adaptive likelihood weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--461 Yichuan Zhao and Hongkun Wang Empirical likelihood inference for the regression model of mean quality-adjusted lifetime with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--478
Myl\`ene Bédard and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Optimal scaling of Metropolis algorithms: Heading toward general target distributions . . . . . . . . . . 483--503 Jörn Dannemann and Hajo Holzmann Testing for two states in a hidden Markov model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--520 Christopher A. Field and Zhen Pang and Alan H. Welsh Bootstrapping data with multiple levels of variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--539 Feifang Hu and Li-Xin Zhang and Siu H. Cheung and Wai S. Chan Doubly adaptive biased coin designs with delayed responses . . . . . . . . . . . 541--559 Sai Man Simon Kwok and Wai Keung Li On diagnostic checking of the autoregressive conditional intensity model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--576 Omer Ozturk Inference in the presence of ranking error in ranked set sampling . . . . . . 577--594 Matías Salibián-Barrera and Ying Wei Weighted quantile regression with nonelliptically structured covariates 595--611 Ana-Maria Staicu and Nancy M. Reid On probability matching priors . . . . . 613--622 Robin Willink Shrinkage confidence intervals for the normal mean: Using a guess for greater efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--637
Paul Gustafson Editorial: Editor's report . . . . . . . 1--4 Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah and Ronald W. Butler Log-rank permutation tests for trend: saddlepoint $p$-values and survival rate confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 5--16 Imad Bou-Hamad and Denis Larocque and Hatem Ben-Ameur and Louise C. Mâsse and Frank Vitaro and Richard E. Tremblay Discrete-time survival trees . . . . . . 17--32 Jerry Brunner and Peter C. Austin Inflation of Type I error rate in multiple regression when independent variables are measured with error . . . 33--46 Jesse Frey An exact multinomial test for equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--59 Timothy Hanson and Wesley Johnson and Purushottam Laud Semiparametric inference for survival models with step process covariates . . 60--79 Mhamed Mesfioui and Jean-François Quessy and Marie-Hél\`ene Toupin On a new goodness-of-fit process for families of copulas . . . . . . . . . . 80--101 Xiao Wang Nonparametric estimation of the shape function in a Gamma process for degradation data . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--118 Chunming Zhang and Yuan Jiang and Zuofeng Shang New aspects of Bregman divergence in regression and classification with parametric and nonparametric estimation 119--139 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services. Remerciements aux membres des jurys . . 140--140
Tim B. Swartz and Paramjit S. Gill and Saman Muthukumarana Modelling and simulation for one-day cricket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--160 D. A. S. Fraser and A. Wong and Y. Sun Three enigmatic examples and inference from likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--181 Baojiang Chen and Grace Y. Yi and Richard J. Cook Likelihood analysis of joint marginal and conditional models for longitudinal categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--205 Vittorio Addona and Masoud Asgharian and David B. Wolfson On the incidence--prevalence relation and length-biased sampling . . . . . . . 206--218 Sanjoy K. Sinha Bootstrap tests for variance components in generalized linear mixed models . . . 219--234 Liang Peng A practical method for analysing heavy tailed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248 José E. Chacón Data-driven choice of the smoothing parametrization for kernel density estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--265 Peng Zhang and Zhenguo Qiu and Yuejiao Fu and Peter X.-K. Song Robust transformation mixed-effects models for longitudinal continuous proportional data . . . . . . . . . . . 266--281 Xu Zheng Testing heteroscedasticity in nonlinear and nonparametric regressions . . . . . 282--300 Sujit K. Sahu and Dipak K. Dey and Márcia D. Branco Erratum: ``A new class of multivariate skew distributions with applications to Bayesian regression models'' [MR2016224] 301--302
Gail Ivanoff In memory of André Robert Dabrowski . . . 305--306 Herold Dehling André Dabrowski's work on limit theorems and weak dependence . . . . . . . . . . 307--326 André Dabrowski and Jiyeon Lee and David R. McDonald Large deviations of multiclass $ M / G / 1 $ queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--346 André Dabrowski and Gail Ivanoff and Rafa\l Kulik Some notes on Poisson limits for empirical point processes . . . . . . . 347--360 Raphael Gottardo and Adrian Raftery Bayesian robust transformation and variable selection: a unified approach 361--380 Sanjoy K. Sinha and J. N. K. Rao Robust small area estimation . . . . . . 381--399 Jean-François Beaumont and Cynthia Bocci Variance estimation when donor imputation is used to fill in missing values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--416 Hongmei Zhang Designing sampling plans to capture rare objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--434 Lang Wu and Wei Liu and Juxin Liu A longitudinal study of children's aggressive behaviours based on multivariate mixed models with incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--452 Lieven Desmet and Ir\`ene Gijbels Local linear fitting and improved estimation near peaks . . . . . . . . . 453--475 Jaechoul Lee and Kyungduk Ko First-order bias correction for fractionally integrated time series . . 476--493
Juli Atherton and Benoit Charbonneau and David B. Wolfson and Lawrence Joseph and Xiaojie Zhou and Alain C. Vandal Bayesian optimal design for changepoint problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--513 Jingjing Wu and Rohana J. Karunamuni On minimum Hellinger distance estimation 514--533 Noomen Ben Ghorbal and Christian Genest and Johanna Ne\vslehová On the Ghoudi, Khoudraji, and Rivest test for extreme-value dependence . . . 534--552 Christopher R. Bilder and Thomas M. Loughin Modeling multiple-response categorical data from complex surveys . . . . . . . 553--570 Lajos Horváth and Piotr Kokoszka and Matthew Reimherr Two sample inference in functional linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--591 Jianguo Sun and Junshan Shen Efficient estimation for the proportional hazards model with competing risks and current status data 592--606 Haonan Wang and Jun Zhu Variable selection in spatial regression via penalized least squares . . . . . . 607--624 Rui Wang and Stephen W. Lagakos Inference after variable selection using restricted permutation methods . . . . . 625--644 Liqun Xi and Ray Watson and Ji-Ping Wang and Paul S. F. Yip Estimation in capture--recapture models when covariates are subject to measurement errors and missing data . . 645--658 Guosheng Yin and Hui Li Least squares estimation of varying-coefficient hazard regression with application to breast cancer dose-intensity data . . . . . . . . . . 659--674
Paul Gustafson Report from the previous editor . . . . 1--4 Jiahua Chen Notes from the New Editor . . . . . . . 5--7 Hung Hung and Chin-Tsang Chiang Estimation methods for time-dependent AUC models with survival data . . . . . 8--26 Fang Yao and Radu V. Craiu and Benjamin Reiser Nonparametric covariate adjustment for receiver operating characteristic curves 27--46 Luke Bornn and Arnaud Doucet and Raphael Gottardo An efficient computational approach for prior sensitivity analysis and cross-validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--64 Edit Gombay Change detection in linear regression with time series errors . . . . . . . . 65--79 Jean-Renaud Pycke Some tests for uniformity of circular distributions powerful against multimodal alternatives . . . . . . . . 80--96 Ori Davidov and Amir Herman Testing for order among $K$ populations: theory and examples . . . . . . . . . . 97--115 Azadeh Moghtaderi and Glen Takahara and David J. Thomson Unaliasing of aliased line component frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--135 Qingzhao Yu and Bin Li and Zhide Fang and Lu Peng An adaptive sampling scheme guided by BART --- with an application to predict processor performance . . . . . . . . . 136--152 Paul D. McNicholas and T. Brendan Murphy Model-based clustering of longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--168 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services. Remerciements aux membres des jurys . . 169--169
Brajendra Sutradhar Preface to the special issue on inferences in generalized linear longitudinal mixed models . . . . . . . 171--173 Brajendra C. Sutradhar Inferences in generalized linear longitudinal mixed models . . . . . . . 174--196 Marco Alf\`o and Antonello Maruotti Two-part regression models for longitudinal zero-inflated count data 197--216 Brajendra C. Sutradhar and Taslim S. Mallick Modified weights based generalized quasilikelihood inferences in incomplete longitudinal binary models . . . . . . . 217--231 Grace Y. Yi and Richard J. Cook and Baojiang Chen Estimating functions for evaluating treatment effects in cluster-randomized longitudinal studies in the presence of drop-out and non-compliance . . . . . . 232--255 Josue G. Martinez and Faming Liang and Lan Zhou and Raymond J. Carroll Longitudinal functional principal component modelling via stochastic approximation Monte Carlo . . . . . . . 256--270 Emily L. Kang and Noel Cressie and Tao Shi Using temporal variability to improve spatial mapping with application to satellite data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--289 Brajendra Sutradhar and Alwell J. Oyet and Veeresh G. Gadag On quasi-likelihood estimation for branching processes with immigration . . 290--313
Hongying Dai and Richard Charnigo Contaminated normal modeling with application to microarray data analysis 315--332 Xinyuan Song and Liuquan Sun and Xiaoyun Mu and Gregg E. Dinse Additive hazards regression with censoring indicators missing at random 333--351 Bo Hu and Jun Shao and Mari Palta Variability explained by covariates in linear mixed-effect models for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 352--368 Isabel Molina and J. N. K. Rao Small area estimation of poverty indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--385 Grace S. Chiu and Richard A. Lockhart Bent-cable regression with autoregressive noise . . . . . . . . . . 386--407 Haiyan Wang and Siti Tolos and Suojin Wang A distribution free test to detect general dependence between a response variable and a covariate in the presence of heteroscedastic treatment effects . . 408--433 Zhensheng Huang and Riquan Zhang Empirical likelihood for the varying-coefficient single-index model 434--452 Elisa M. Molanes-lopez and Ricardo Cao and Ingrid Van Keilegom Smoothed empirical likelihood confidence intervals for the relative distribution with left-truncated and right-censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--473 Robert Paige and Edward Allen Closed-form likelihoods for stochastic differential equation growth models . . 474--487 Terry C. K. Lee and Min Tsao and Francis W. Zwiers State-space model for proxy-based millennial reconstruction . . . . . . . 488--505 Hae-Ryoung Song and Andrew B. Lawson and Daniela Nitcheva Bayesian hierarchical models for food frequency assessment . . . . . . . . . . 506--516 Pierre Duchesne and Simon Lalancette Erratum: Authors' corrigenda/corrections des auteurs on testing for multivariate ARCH effects in vector time series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--517
Abbas Khalili New estimation and feature selection methods in mixture-of-experts models . . 519--539 Iván A. Carrillo and Jiahua Chen and Changbao Wu The pseudo-GEE approach to the analysis of longitudinal surveys . . . . . . . . 540--554 Ir\`ene Gijbels and Marek Omelka and Dominik Sznajder Positive quadrant dependence tests for copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--581 Hanfeng Chen and Jiahua Chen and Shun-Yi Chen Confidence intervals for the mean of a population containing many zero values under unequal-probability sampling . . . 582--597 Mahmoud Torabi and Jon N. K. Rao Mean squared error estimators of small area means using survey weights . . . . 598--608 Zhiqiang Tan Nonparametric likelihood and doubly robust estimating equations for marginal and nested structural models . . . . . . 609--632 Xiaogang Duan and Jing Qin and Qihua Wang Optimal estimation in surrogate outcome regression problems . . . . . . . . . . 633--646 Jesse Frey Testing for equivalence of variances using Hartley's ratio . . . . . . . . . 647--664 Yanyuan Ma and Guosheng Yin Semiparametric median residual life model and inference . . . . . . . . . . 665--679 Samiran Sinha An estimated-score approach for dealing with missing covariate data in matched case--control studies . . . . . . . . . 680--697 Mahmoud Torabi and Rhonda J. Rosychuk Spatio-temporal modelling of disease mapping of rates . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--715 Guohua Yan and William J. Welch and Ruben H. Zamar Model-based linear clustering . . . . . 716--737 Tingting Gou and Duncan Murdoch Simulation of extremes of diffusions . . 738--755
Baoying Yang and Gengsheng Qin and Jing Qin Empirical likelihood-based inferences for a low income proportion . . . . . . 1--16 Gengsheng Qin and Xiaoping Jin and Xiao-Hua Zhou Non-parametric interval estimation for the partial area under the ROC curve . . 17--33 Grace Y. Yi and Leilei Zeng and Richard J. Cook A robust pairwise likelihood method for incomplete longitudinal binary data arising in clusters . . . . . . . . . . 34--51 Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos and Petros Dellaportas and Gareth O. Roberts Likelihood-based inference for correlated diffusions . . . . . . . . . 52--72 Chi-Chung Wen and Steve Y. H. Huang and Yau-Hung Chen Cox regression for current status data with mismeasured covariates . . . . . . 73--88 Jianqiang C. Wang and Mary C. Meyer Testing the monotonicity or convexity of a function using regression splines . . 89--107 Weixing Song and Juan Du A note on testing the regression functions via nonparametric smoothing 108--125 Hirokazu Yanagihara and Ken-Ichi Kamo and Tetsuji Tonda Second-order bias-corrected AIC in multivariate normal linear models under non-normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--146 Li-Chun Zhang and Nina Hagesæther A domain outlier robust design and smooth estimation approach . . . . . . . 147--164 Steven N. MacEachern and Subharup Guha Parametric and semiparametric hypotheses in the linear model . . . . . . . . . . 165--180
Alison L. Gibbs and Kevin J. Keen and Liqun Wang Case studies in data analysis . . . . . 181--217 Xiaoqing Niu and Pengfei Li and Peng Zhang Testing homogeneity in a multivariate mixture model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--238 Aleksey Min and Claudia Czado Bayesian model selection for $D$-vine pair-copula constructions . . . . . . . 239--258 Giampiero Marra and Rosalba Radice Estimation of a semiparametric recursive bivariate probit model in the presence of endogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--279 Richard Charnigo and Cidambi Srinivasan Self-consistent estimation of mean response functions and their derivatives 280--299 Seo Young Park and Yufeng Liu Robust penalized logistic regression with truncated loss functions . . . . . 300--323 Huazhen Lin and Ling Zhou and Heng Peng and Xiao-Hua Zhou Selection and combination of biomarkers using ROC method for disease classification and prediction . . . . . 324--343 Stefan H. Steiner and Nathaniel T. Stevens and Ryan Browne and R. Jock MacKay Planning and analysis of measurement reliability studies . . . . . . . . . . 344--355 Shojaeddin Chenouri and Christopher G. Small and Thomas J. Farrar Data depth-based nonparametric scale tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--369 Minqiang Li and Liang Peng and Yongcheng Qi Reduce computation in profile empirical likelihood method . . . . . . . . . . . 370--384
Richard J. Cook and Grace Y. Yi A special issue of CJS in honour of Jack Kalbfleisch and Jerry Lawless . . . . . 385--388 Jiahua Chen and Pengfei Li Tuning the EM-test for finite mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--404 Niels Keiding Age--period--cohort analysis in the 1870s: Diagrams, stereograms, and the basic differential equation . . . . . . 405--420 Daeyoung Kim and Bruce G. Lindsay Modal simulation and visualization in finite mixture models . . . . . . . . . 421--437 Terry C. K. Lee and Leilei Zeng and Darby J. S. Thompson and C. B. Dean Comparison of imputation methods for interval censored time-to-event data in joint modelling of tree growth and mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--457 Ni Li and Do-Hwan Park and Jianguo Sun and KyungMann Kim Semiparametric transformation models for multivariate panel count data with dependent observation process . . . . . 458--474 Karen McKeown and Nicholas P. Jewell Current status observation of a three-state counting process with application to simultaneous accurate and diluted HIV test data . . . . . . . . . 475--487 John M. Neuhaus and Charles E. McCulloch The effect of misspecification of random effects distributions in clustered data settings with outcome-dependent sampling 488--497 Ross L. Prentice and Ying Huang Measurement error modeling and nutritional epidemiology association analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--509 Jing Qin and Biao Zhang Optimal estimating functions in incomplete data and length biased sampling data problems . . . . . . . . . 510--518 Alastair J. Scott and Chris J. Wild Fitting regression models with response-biased samples . . . . . . . . 519--536 Yang Yang and Vijayan N. Nair Parametric inference for time-to-failure in multi-state semi-Markov models: a comparison of marginal and process approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--555
Zhiguo Li and Bin Nan Relative risk regression for current status data in case-cohort studies . . . 557--577 Liuquan Sun and Xingqiu Zhao and Jie Zhou A class of mixed models for recurrent event data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578--590 Chong Gu and Ping Ma Nonparametric regression with cross-classified responses . . . . . . . 591--609 David R. Bickel A predictive approach to measuring the strength of statistical evidence for single and multiple comparisons . . . . 610--631 Xiaoming Wang and Keumhee C. Carriere Assessing additivity in nonparametric models --- a kernel-based method . . . . 632--655 Chenlei Leng and Cheng Yong Tang Improving variance function estimation in semiparametric longitudinal data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--670 Jihnhee Yu and Albert Vexler and Seong-Eun Kim and Alan D. Hutson Two-sample empirical likelihood ratio tests for medians in application to biomarker evaluations . . . . . . . . . 671--689 Marwan Zidan and Jung-Chao Wang and Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj Comparison of $k$ independent, zero-heavy lognormal distributions . . . 690--702 Ivan Kojadinovic and Johan Segers and Jun Yan Large-sample tests of extreme-value dependence for multivariate copulas . . 703--720 Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Was the conservative majority predictable? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--733 Hideatsu Tsukahara Erratum to ``Semiparametric estimation in copula models'' . . . . . . . . . . . 734--735
D. M. Hajducek and J. F. Lawless Duration analysis in longitudinal studies with intermittent observation times and losses to followup . . . . . . 1--21 Yongseok Park and John D. Kalbfleisch and Jeremy M. G. Taylor Constrained nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation of stochastically ordered survivor functions . . . . . . . 22--39 Binbing Yu and Ram C. Tiwari A Bayesian approach to mixture cure models with spatial frailties for population-based cancer relative survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--54 Yasaman Hosseinkashi and Shojaeddin Chenouri and Christopher G. Small and Rob Deardon A stochastic graph process for epidemic modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--67 E. C. Brechmann and C. Czado and K. Aas Truncated regular vines in high dimensions with application to financial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--85 Alexander Bauer and Claudia Czado and Thomas Klein Pair-copula constructions for non-Gaussian DAG models . . . . . . . . 86--109 Liang Peng Approximate jackknife empirical likelihood method for estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--123 Guillaume Chauvet and David Haziza Fully efficient estimation of coefficients of correlation in the presence of imputed survey data . . . . 124--149 Zilin Wang and Mary E. Thompson A resampling approach to estimate variance components of multilevel models 150--171 Huybrechts F. Bindele and Asheber Abebe Bounded influence nonlinear signed-rank regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--189 Mary C. Meyer Constrained penalized splines . . . . . 190--206
Hui Song and Yingwei Peng and Dongsheng Tu A new approach for joint modelling of longitudinal measurements and survival times with a cure fraction . . . . . . . 207--224 Georgios Papageorgiou Restricted maximum likelihood estimation of joint mean-covariance models . . . . 225--242 Karelyn A. Davis and Chul G. Park and Sanjoy K. Sinha Testing for generalized linear mixed models with cluster correlated data under linear inequality constraints . . 243--258 David Haziza and Frédéric Picard Doubly robust point and variance estimation in the presence of imputed survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--281 Jieli Ding and Yanyan Liu and David B. Peden and Steven R. Kleeberger and Haibo Zhou Regression analysis for a summed missing data problem under an outcome-dependent sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--303 Hannes Kazianka and Jürgen Pilz Objective Bayesian analysis of spatial data with uncertain nugget and range parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--327 Tingting Zhang and Jun S. Liu Nonparametric hierarchical Bayes analysis of binomial data via Bernstein polynomial priors . . . . . . . . . . . 328--344 Kei Hirose and Sadanori Konishi Variable selection via the weighted group lasso for factor analysis models 345--361 Zhibiao Zhao and Weixin Yao Sequential design for nonparametric inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--377 José R. Berrendero and Antonio Cuevas and Beatriz Pateiro-López Testing uniformity for the case of a planar unknown support . . . . . . . . . 378--395 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services. Remerciements aux membres des jurys . . 396--403
Yulia R. Gel and Bei Chen Robust Lagrange multiplier test for detecting ARCH/GARCH effect using permutation and bootstrap . . . . . . . 405--426 Florian Ketterer and Hajo Holzmann Testing for intercept-scale switch in linear autoregression . . . . . . . . . 427--446 Pierre Duchesne and Kilani Ghoudi and Bruno Rémillard On testing for independence between the innovations of several time series . . . 447--479 Ivan Kojadinovic and Jun Yan Goodness-of-fit testing based on a weighted bootstrap: a fast large-sample alternative to the parametric bootstrap 480--500 Ramon Oller and Guadalupe Gómez A generalized Fleming and Harrington's class of tests for interval-censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--516 Carlotta Ching Ting Fok and James O. Ramsay and Michal Abrahamowicz and Paul Fortin A functional marked point process model for lupus data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--529 Grace Y. Yi and Jerald F. Lawless Likelihood-based and marginal inference methods for recurrent event data with covariate measurement error . . . . . . 530--549 Hongjian Zhu and Feifang Hu Interim analysis of clinical trials based on urn models . . . . . . . . . . 550--568 Zhong Guan and Jing Qin and Biao Zhang Information borrowing methods for covariate-adjusted ROC curve . . . . . . 569--587 Jiming Jiang and Thuan Nguyen Small area estimation via heteroscedastic nested-error regression 588--603 Jae Kwang Kim and Minki Hong Imputation for statistical inference with coarse data . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--618
Changbao Wu Editorial: A special issue of CJS in honour of Mary Thompson . . . . . . . . 619--622 David Bellhouse Editorial: Mary Thompson . . . . . . . . 623--628 Erica E. M. Moodie and Bibhas Chakraborty and Michael S. Kramer $Q$-learning for estimating optimal dynamic treatment rules from observational data . . . . . . . . . . . 629--645 Mingyuan Zhang and Dylan S. Small Effect of vitamin A deficiency on respiratory infection: Causal inference for a discretely observed continuous time non-stationary Markov process . . . 646--662 Hugh Chipman and Pritam Ranjan and Weiwei Wang Sequential design for computer experiments with a flexible Bayesian additive model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--678 Sharon L. Lohr and J. Michael Brick Blending domain estimates from two victimization surveys with possible bias 679--696 Chris Skinner and Ben Mason Weighting in the regression analysis of survey data with a cross-national application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--711 Bruce G. Lindsay and Weixin Yao Fisher information matrix: a tool for dimension reduction, projection pursuit, independent component analysis, and more 712--730 N. Reid Likelihood inference in complex settings 731--744 Zilin Li and Sijian Wang and Xihong Lin Variable selection and estimation in generalized linear models with the seamless $ L_0 $ penalty . . . . . . . . 745--769 Parthasarathy Bagchi and Joseph B. Kadane Erratum: Note of correction: ``Laplace approximations to posterior moments and marginal distributions on circles, spheres, and cylinders'' . . . . . . . . 770--771
Jinhong You and Yong Zhou and Gemai Chen Statistical inference for multivariate partially linear regression models . . . 1--22 Lee Dicker and Xihong Lin Parallelism, uniqueness, and large-sample asymptotics for the Dantzig selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35 Ir\`ene Gijbels and Dominik Sznajder Positive quadrant dependence testing and constrained copula estimation . . . . . 36--64 Jean-François Quessy and Mériem Sa\"\id and Anne-Catherine Favre Multivariate Kendall's tau for change-point detection in copulas . . . 65--82 Xiaoyi Min and Dongchu Sun A matching prior based on the modified profile likelihood in a generalized Weibull stress-strength model . . . . . 83--97 Piet Groeneboom and Geurt Jongbloed and Stefanie Michael Consistency of maximum likelihood estimators in a large class of deconvolution models . . . . . . . . . . 98--110 Mariela Sued and Victor J. Yohai Robust location estimation with missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--132 Wenyu Jiang and Bingshu E. Chen Estimating prediction error in microarray classification: Modifications of the 0.632+ bootstrap when $ n < p $ 133--150 Zhiqiang Tan A cluster-sample approach for Monte Carlo integration using multiple samplers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--173 Hui Zhao and Yang Li and Jianguo Sun Analyzing panel count data with a dependent observation process and a terminal event . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--191 Zhiming Li and Tianfang Zhang and Runchu Zhang Three-level regular designs with general minimum lower-order confounding . . . . 192--210 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services. Remerciements aux membres des jurys . . 211--215
Rostyslav Maiboroda and Olena Sugakova and Alexey Doronin Generalized estimating equations for mixtures with varying concentrations . . 217--236 Lihui Zhao and X. Joan Hu Estimation with right-censored observations under a semi-Markov model 237--256 Min Tsao Extending the empirical likelihood by domain expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--274 Man-Hua Chen and Xingwei Tong and Liang Zhu A linear transformation model for multivariate interval-censored failure time data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290 Maik Schwarz and Geurt Jongbloed and Ingrid Van Keilegom On the identifiability of copulas in bivariate competing risks models . . . . 291--303 Omer Ozturk Combining multi-observer information in partially rank-ordered judgment post-stratified and ranked set samples 304--324 Dennis K. J. Lin and Julie Zhou $D$-optimal minimax fractional factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--340 Meng Qian and Yongzhao Shao A likelihood ratio test for goodness-of-fit of recessive and dominant models for case-control studies 341--352 Wei Zou and Jiahua Chen A Markov regime-switching model for crude-oil markets: Comparison of composite likelihood and full likelihood 353--367 Haixiang Zhang and Jianguo Sun and Dehui Wang Variable selection and estimation for multivariate panel count data via the seamless-$ L_0 $ penalty . . . . . . . . 368--385
Art B. Owen Self-concordance for empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--397 Binhuan Wang and Gengsheng Qin Empirical likelihood confidence regions for the evaluation of continuous-scale diagnostic tests in the presence of verification bias . . . . . . . . . . . 398--420 Wei Lin On central matrix based methods in dimension reduction . . . . . . . . . . 421--438 Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb and Belkacem Abdous and Thierry Duchesne Nonparametric estimation of the conditional survival function for bivariate failure times . . . . . . . . 439--452 Tao Wang and Lang Wu Multivariate one-sided tests for nonlinear mixed-effects models . . . . . 453--465 Luai Al Labadi and Mahmoud Zarepour A Bayesian nonparametric goodness of fit test for right censored data based on approximate samples from the beta-Stacy process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--487 Cuirong Ren and Dongchu Sun and Sujit K. Sahu Objective Bayesian analysis of spatial models with separable correlation functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--507 Emilio L. Escobar and Yves G. Berger A new replicate variance estimator for unequal probability sampling without replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--524 Hongjian Zhu and Feifang Hu and Hongyu Zhao Adaptive clinical trial designs to detect interaction between treatment and a dichotomous biomarker . . . . . . . . 525--539 Qi Zhou and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and Runchu Zhang The factor aliased effect number pattern and its application in experimental planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--555
Huazhen Lin and Jianxin Pan Nonparametric estimation of mean and covariance structures for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--574 Pu-Ying Zhao and Man-Lai Tang and Nian-Sheng Tang Robust estimation of distribution functions and quantiles with non-ignorable missing data . . . . . . . 575--595 Yeting Du and Abbas Khalili and Johanna G. Ne\vslehová and Russell J. Steele Simultaneous fixed and random effects selection in finite mixture of linear mixed-effects models . . . . . . . . . . 596--616 Christophe Chesneau and Fabienne Comte and Fabien Navarro Fast nonparametric estimation for convolutions of densities . . . . . . . 617--636 Jean-François Quessy and Tarik Bahraoui Graphical and formal statistical tools for assessing the symmetry of bivariate copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--656 Myl\`ene Bédard and Matei Mireuta On the empirical efficiency of local MCMC algorithms with pools of proposals 657--678 Maryam Daemi and Douglas P. Wiens Techniques for the construction of robust regression designs . . . . . . . 679--695 C. Devon Lin and Wilson W. Lu and Keith Rust and Randy R. Sitter Replication variance estimation in unequal probability sampling without replacement: One-stage and two-stage . . 696--716
Jianfeng Xu and Yingwei Peng Nonparametric cure rate estimation with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Huazhen Lin and Yi Li and Liang Jiang and Gang Li A semiparametric linear transformation model to estimate causal effects for survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--35 Nicoleta Serban and Pengfei Li A statistical test for mixture detection with application to component identification in multidimensional biomolecular NMR studies . . . . . . . . 36--60 Yanyan Wu and Hél\`ene Massam and Augustine Wong An accurate test for the equality of covariance matrices from decomposable graphical Gaussian models . . . . . . . 61--77 Eike Christian Brechmann Hierarchical Kendall copulas: Properties and inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--108 Haiwen Shi and Yu Cheng and Jialiang Li Assessing diagnostic accuracy improvement for survival or competing-risk censored outcomes . . . . 109--125 Jon N. K. Rao and Sanjoy K. Sinha and Laura Dumitrescu Robust small area estimation under semi-parametric mixed models . . . . . . 126--141 Zeinab Mashreghi and Christian Léger and David Haziza Bootstrap methods for imputed data from regression, ratio and hot-deck imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--167 Shin-Fu Tsai and Chen-Tuo Liao Selection of partial replication on two-level orthogonal arrays . . . . . . 168--183
Martin Bilodeau Graphical lassos for meta-elliptical distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--203 Matthew Avery and Yichao Wu and Hao Helen Zhang and Jiajia Zhang RKHS-based functional nonparametric regression for sparse and irregular longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 204--216 Lei Hua and Ying Zhang and Wanzhu Tu A spline-based semiparametric sieve likelihood method for over-dispersed panel count data . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--245 Sijia Xiang and Weixin Yao and Jingjing Wu Minimum profile Hellinger distance estimation for a semiparametric mixture model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--267 Michael A. McIsaac and Richard J. Cook Response-dependent two-phase sampling designs for biomarker studies . . . . . 268--284 Meiling Hao and Xinyuan Song and Liuquan Sun Reweighting estimators for the additive hazards model with missing covariates 285--307 Ehab Abd-Elfattah and Ronald Butler Saddlepoint approximations for rank-invariant permutation tests and confidence intervals with interval-censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 308--324 Xiaoping Shi and Nancy Reid and Yuehua Wu Approximation to the moments of ratios of cumulative sums . . . . . . . . . . . 325--336 Koji Miyawaki Estimating a treatment effect under uncertainty with application to a high-speed railway system . . . . . . . 337--358 Anonymous Editorial: Acknowledgement of referees' services. Remerciements aux membres des jurys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--363
Douglas E. Schaubel and Hui Zhang and John D. Kalbfleisch and Xu Shu Semiparametric methods for survival analysis of case-control data subject to dependent censoring . . . . . . . . . . 365--383 Hela Romdhani and Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb and Louis-Paul Rivest An exchangeable Kendall's tau for clustered data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--403 Peisong Han and Peter X.-K. Song and Lu Wang Longitudinal data analysis using the conditional empirical likelihood method 404--422 Jin-Hong Park and S. Yaser Samadi Heteroscedastic modelling via the autoregressive conditional variance subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--435 Michelle Xia and Paul Gustafson Bayesian sensitivity analyses for hidden sub-populations in weighted sampling . . 436--450 Jesse Frey and Le Wang EDF-based goodness-of-fit tests for ranked-set sampling . . . . . . . . . . 451--469 Mohammad Jafari Jozani and Alexandre Leblanc and Éric Marchand On continuous distribution functions, minimax and best invariant estimators, and integrated balanced loss functions 470--486 Yuri Goegebeur and Armelle Guillou and Michael Osmann A local moment type estimator for the extreme value index in regression with random covariates . . . . . . . . . . . 487--507
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Interdisciplinary sojourns . . . . . . . 509--524 Euloge Clovis Kenne Pagui and Alessandra Salvan and Nicola Sartori Combined composite likelihood . . . . . 525--543 Yang Ning and Kung-Yee Liang and Nancy Reid Reducing the sensitivity to nuisance parameters in pseudo-likelihood functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--562 Angel Rodolfo Baigorri and Cátia Regina Gonçalves and Paulo Angelo Alves Resende Markov chain order estimation based on the chi-square divergence . . . . . . . 563--578 Nuttanan Wichitaksorn and S. T. Boris Choy and Richard Gerlach A generalized class of skew distributions and associated robust quantile regression models . . . . . . . 579--596 Ricardo Fraiman and Ana Justel and Regina Liu and Pamela Llop Detecting trends in time series of functional data: a study of Antarctic climate change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--609 Ruzong Fan and Bin Zhu and Yuedong Wang Stochastic dynamic models and Chebyshev splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--634 Sangbum Choi and Xuelin Huang and Janice N. Cormier and Kjell A. Doksum A semiparametric inverse-Gaussian model and inference for survival data with a cured proportion . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--649 David Haziza and Christian-Olivier Nambeu and Guillaume Chauvet Doubly robust imputation procedures for finite population means in the presence of a large number of zeros . . . . . . . 650--669 Sanjoy K. Sinha and Abdus Sattar Analysis of incomplete longitudinal data with informative drop-out and outliers 670--695
Zhiqiang Tan and Changbao Wu Generalized pseudo empirical likelihood inferences for complex surveys . . . . . 1--17 Nicola Lunardon Prepivoting composite score statistics by weighted bootstrap iteration . . . . 18--41 Lei Wang and Jiahua Chen and Xiaolong Pu Resampling calibrated adjusted empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--59 Marie-Pier Côté and Christian Genest A copula-based risk aggregation model 60--81 Mahmoud Torabi and Farhad Shokoohi Non-parametric generalized linear mixed models in small area estimation . . . . 82--96 Xiaobo Ding and Xiao-Hua Zhou and Qihua Wang A partially linear single-index transformation model and its nonparametric estimation . . . . . . . . 97--117 Marco Geraci and M. C. Jones Improved transformation-based quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--132 Ximing Xu and Eva Cantoni and Joanna Mills Flemming and Chris Field Robust state space models for estimating fish stock maturities . . . . . . . . . 133--150 Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services. Remerciements aux membres des jurys . . 151--155
Vahid Partovi Nia and Anthony C. Davison A simple model-based approach to variable selection in classification and clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--175 Ryan P. Browne and Paul D. McNicholas A mixture of generalized hyperbolic distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--198 Athanassios Petralias and Petros Dellaportas Volatility prediction based on scheduled macroeconomic announcements . . . . . . 199--223 Adam Kapelner and Justin Bleich Prediction with missing data via Bayesian Additive Regression Trees . . . 224--239 Jiwei Zhao and Richard J. Cook and Changbao Wu Multiple imputation for the analysis of incomplete compound variables . . . . . 240--264 Elaheh Torkashvand and Mohammad Jafari Jozani and Mahmoud Torabi Pseudo-empirical Bayes estimation of small area means based on James--Stein estimation in linear regression models with functional measurement error . . . 265--287 Yu (Ryan) Yue and Ji Meng Loh Variable selection for inhomogeneous spatial point process models . . . . . . 288--305 Aleksandar Sujica and Ingrid Van Keilegom Estimation of location and scale functionals in nonparametric regression under copula dependent censoring . . . . 306--335
Junshu Bao and Timothy E. Hanson Bayesian nonparametric multivariate ordinal regression . . . . . . . . . . . 337--357 Qian M. Zhou and Peter X.-K. Song and Mary E. Thompson Profiling heteroscedasticity in linear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 358--377 Min Chen and Changbao Wu and Mary E. Thompson An imputation based empirical likelihood approach to pretest--posttest studies 378--402 Edit Gombay and Abdulkadir A. Hussein and Stefan H. Steiner Flexible risk-adjusted surveillance procedures for autocorrelated binary series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--419 Sangbum Choi and Xuelin Huang and Janice N. Cormier Efficient semiparametric mixture inferences on cure rate models for competing risks . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--435 Jichang Yu and Yanyan Liu and Dale P. Sandler and Haibo Zhou Statistical inference for the additive hazards model under outcome-dependent sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--453 Ying Yan and Grace Y. Yi A corrected profile likelihood method for survival data with covariate measurement error under the Cox model 454--480
Jiahua Chen The joy of proofs in statistical research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--497 Grace Y. Yi and Xianming Tan and Runze Li Variable selection and inference procedures for marginal analysis of longitudinal data with missing observations and covariate measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--518 Kin-yat Liu and Xingqiu Zhao Robust estimation for longitudinal data with informative observation times . . . 519--533 Hongjian Zhu Covariate-adjusted response adaptive designs incorporating covariates with and without treatment interactions . . . 534--553 Zhichun Zhai and Douglas P. Wiens Robust model-based stratification sampling designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--577 Sherzod M. Mirakhmedov and Sreenivasa R. Jammalamadaka and Magnus Ekström Edgeworth expansions for two-stage sampling with applications to stratified and cluster sampling . . . . . . . . . . 578--599 Efstratia Charitidou and Dimitris Fouskakis and Ioannis Ntzoufras Bayesian transformation family selection: Moving toward a transformed Gaussian universe . . . . . . . . . . . 600--623 Nadine Hussami and Robert J. Tibshirani A component lasso . . . . . . . . . . . 624--646
Anonymous Issue Information --- Editorial Board 1--1 Anonymous Issue Information --- Masthead . . . . . 2--2 Mary E. Thompson and Lilia L. Ramirez Ramirez and Vyacheslav Lyubchich and Yulia R. Gel Using the bootstrap for statistical inference on random graphs . . . . . . . 3--24 Yiwei Jiang and Zehua Chen A sequential scaled pairwise selection approach to edge detection in nonparanormal graphical models . . . . . 25--43 Esra Kürüm and John Hughes and Runze Li A semivarying joint model for longitudinal binary and continuous outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--57 Wenhua Wei and Yong Zhou Semiparametric maximum likelihood estimation for a two-sample density ratio model with right-censored data . . 58--81 Jiahua Chen and Pengfei Li and Yukun Liu Sample-size calculation for tests of homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--101 Dongliang Wang and Yichuan Zhao Jackknife empirical likelihood for comparing two Gini indices . . . . . . . 102--119 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services: Remerciements aux lecteurs critiques . . 120--124
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Anonymous Issue Information --- Ed board and Masthead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240 Pierre Duchesne and Pierre Lafaye De Micheaux and Joseph Tagne Tatsinkou Estimating the mean and its effects on Neyman smooth tests of normality for ARMA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--270 Elvezio Ronchetti and Radka Sabolová Saddlepoint tests for quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--299 Olimjon Sharipov and Johannes Tewes and Martin Wendler Sequential block bootstrap in a Hilbert space with application to change point analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--322 Yongli Sang and Xin Dang and Hailin Sang Symmetric Gini covariance and correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--342 Peng Wang and Jianhui Zhou and Annie Qu Correlation structure selection for longitudinal data with diverging cluster size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--360 Ruosha Li and Yu Cheng Flexible association modelling and prediction with semi-competing risks data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374 Xu Liu and Xinyuan Song and Shangyu Xie and Yong Zhou Variable selection for frailty transformation models with application to diabetic complications . . . . . . . 375--394 Anonymous Cover --- Volume 44, Number 3, September 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C1
Anonymous Issue Information --- Ed board and Masthead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396 Louis-Paul Rivest and François Verret and Sophie Baillargeon Unit level small area estimation with copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--415 Daniel Hernandez-Stumpfhauser and F. Jay Breidt and Jean D. Opsomer Hierarchical Bayesian small area estimation for circular data . . . . . . 416--430 Jiwen Wu and Mary C. Meyer and Jean D. Opsomer Survey estimation of domain means that respect natural orderings . . . . . . . 431--444 Yichi Zhang and Ana-Maria Staicu and Arnab Maity Testing for additivity in non-parametric regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--462 Bryan E. Shepherd and Chun Li and Qi Liu Probability-scale residuals for continuous, discrete, and censored data 463--479 Gyanendra Pokharel and Rob Deardon Gaussian process emulators for spatial individual-level models of infectious disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--501 Anonymous Cover --- Volume 44, Number 4, December 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C1
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Ana F. Best and David B. Wolfson Nested case-control study designs for left-truncated survival data . . . . . . 4--28 Yuanshan Wu and Guosheng Yin Cure rate quantile regression accommodating both finite and infinite survival times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43 Riten Mitra and Peter Müller and Yuan Ji Bayesian multiplicity control for multiple graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--61 Vilda Purutçuo\uglu and Melih A\ugraz and Ernst Wit Bernstein approximations in glasso-based estimation of biological networks . . . 62--76 Chun Yu and Weixin Yao and Kun Chen A new method for robust mixture regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--94 Luca Bagnato and Antonio Punzo and Maria G. Zoia The multivariate leptokurtic-normal distribution and its application in model-based clustering . . . . . . . . . 95--119 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services: Remerciements aux lecteurs critiques . . 120--123
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127 Stephen Reid and Jonathan Taylor and Robert Tibshirani Post-selection point and interval estimation of signal sizes in Gaussian samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--148 Xiao Xiao and Xiexin Liu and Xiaoling Lu and Xiangyu Chang and Yufeng Liu A new algorithm for computation of a regularization solution path for reinforced multicategory support vector machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--163 Subhajit Dutta and Marc G. Genton Depth-weighted robust multivariate regression with application to sparse data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--184 Yuhang Xu and Jae Kwang Kim and Yehua Li Semiparametric estimation for measurement error models with validation data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--201 Jing Ning and Chuan Hong and Liang Li and Xuelin Huang and Yu Shen Estimating treatment effects in observational studies with both prevalent and incident cohorts . . . . . 202--219 Yixin Wang and Zhefang Zhou and Xiao-Hua Zhou and Yong Zhou Nonparametric and semiparametric estimation of quantile residual lifetime for length-biased and right-censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--250
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253 William Barcella and Maria De Iorio and Gianluca Baio Review Article: A comparative review of variable selection techniques for covariate dependent Dirichlet process mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--273 Victor De Oliveira and Benjamin Kedem Bayesian analysis of a density ratio model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--289 Edward Susko Bayes factor biases for non-nested models and corrections . . . . . . . . . 290--309 Selvakkadunko Selvaratnam and Alwell J. Oyet and Yanqing Yi and Veeresh Gadag Estimation of a generalized linear mixed model for response-adaptive designs in multi-centre clinical trials . . . . . . 310--325 Jesse Frey and Yimin Zhang Testing perfect rankings in ranked-set sampling with binary data . . . . . . . 326--339 Bing-Yi Jing and Min Tsao and Wang Zhou Transforming the empirical likelihood towards better accuracy . . . . . . . . 340--352
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355 Abbas Khalili and Jiahua Chen and David A. Stephens Regularization and selection in Gaussian mixture of autoregressive models . . . . 356--374 Fernanda L. Schumacher and Victor H. Lachos and Dipak K. Dey Censored regression models with autoregressive errors: a likelihood-based perspective . . . . . . 375--392 Kosuke Morikawa and Jae Kwang Kim and Yutaka Kano Semiparametric maximum likelihood estimation with data missing not at random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--409 Tao Hu and Qingning Zhou and Jianguo Sun Regression analysis of bivariate current status data under the proportional hazards model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--424 Adriano Z. Zambom and Seonjin Kim A nonparametric hypothesis test for heteroscedasticity in multiple regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--441 Camila P. E. De Souza and Nancy E. Heckman and Fan Xu Switching nonparametric regression models for multi-curve data . . . . . . 442--460 Björn Holmquist and Peter Gustafsson A two-level directional model for dependence in circular data . . . . . . 461--478 Jae Kwang Kim and Seunghwan Park and Youngjo Lee Statistical inference using generalized linear mixed models under informative cluster sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--497
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Richard Lockhart Special issue on Big Data and the Statistical Sciences: Guest Editor's Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--9 Mary E. Thompson Dynamic data science and official statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--23 Shelley B. Bull and Irene L. Andrulis and Andrew D. Paterson Statistical challenges in high-dimensional molecular and genetic epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--40 Jonathan Taylor and Robert Tibshirani Post-selection inference for $ \ell_1$-penalized likelihood models . . 41--61 R. Dennis Cook and Liliana Forzani Big data and partial least-squares prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--78 Bing Li Linear operator-based statistical analysis: a useful paradigm for big data 79--103 Rui Nie and Douglas P. Wiens and Zhichun Zhai Minimax robust active learning for approximately specified regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--122 Chun Wang and Ming-Hui Chen and Jing Wu and Jun Yan and Yuping Zhang and Elizabeth Schifano Online updating method with new variables for big data streams . . . . . 123--146 Reihaneh Entezari and Radu V. Craiu and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Likelihood inflating sampling algorithm 147--175 Qiong Li and Xin Gao and Hél\`ene Massam Approximate Bayesian estimation in large coloured graphical Gaussian models . . . 176--203 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services: Remerciements aux lecteurs critiques . . 204--207
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 209--211 Song Cai and Jiahua Chen Empirical likelihood inference for multiple censored samples . . . . . . . 212--232 Qihua Wang and Xuan Wang Analysis of censored data under heteroscedastic transformation regression models with unknown transformation function . . . . . . . . 233--245 Ir\`ene Gijbels and Mohammed A. Ibrahim and Anneleen Verhasselt Testing the heteroscedastic error structure in quantile varying coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 246--264 Hyonho Chun and Myung Hee Lee and Sung-Ho Kim and Jihwan Oh Robust precision matrix estimation via weighted median regression with regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--278 Paul Kabaila On the minimum coverage probability of model averaged tail area confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--297 Jean-François Plante and Jean-Baptiste Débord\`es Combining ROC curves using MAMSE weighted distributions . . . . . . . . . 298--315 Yuki Kawakubo and Shonosuke Sugasawa and Tatsuya Kubokawa Conditional Akaike information under covariate shift with application to small area estimation . . . . . . . . . 316--335 Yi Zhai and Zhide Fang Locally optimal designs for binary dose-response models . . . . . . . . . . 336--354 Ibrahim Abdelrazeq and B. Gail Ivanoff and Rafal Kulik Goodness-of-fit tests for Lévy-driven Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes . . . . . 355--376
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379 Luai Al-Labadi and Michael Evans Prior-based model checking . . . . . . . 380--398 Gyuhyeong Goh and Dipak K. Dey Bayesian MAP estimation using Gaussian and diffused-gamma prior . . . . . . . . 399--415 Hui Zhao and Dayu Sun and Gang Li and Jianguo Sun Variable selection for recurrent event data with broken adaptive ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--428 Abbas Khalili and Anand N. Vidyashankar Hypothesis testing in finite mixture of regressions: Sparsity and model selection uncertainty . . . . . . . . . 429--457 Yanqing Yi and Xuan Li Response adaptive designs with asymptotic optimality . . . . . . . . . 458--469 Rui Hu Robust design for the estimation of a threshold probability . . . . . . . . . 470--481 Emily Berg and Wayne A. Fuller Benchmarked small area prediction . . . 482--500 Huybrechts F. Bindele and Akim Adekpedjou Rank-based inference with responses missing not at random . . . . . . . . . 501--528
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 529--531 Harry Joe Parsimonious graphical dependence models constructed from vines . . . . . . . . . 532--555 Hui Li and Zhiqiang Cao and Guosheng Yin Varying-association copula models for multivariate survival data . . . . . . . 556--576 Kiranmoy Chatterjee and Diganta Mukherjee A new integrated likelihood for estimating population size in dependent dual-record system . . . . . . . . . . . 577--592 Giuseppe Pandolfo and Davy Paindaveine and Giovanni C. Porzio Distance-based depths for directional data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--609 Akim Adekpedjou and Gayla R. Olbricht and Gideon K. D. Zamba Confidence bands for quantiles as a function of covariates in recurrent event models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--634 Trisha Maitra and Sourabh Bhattacharya On asymptotic inference in stochastic differential equations with time-varying covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--655 Enrico Bibbona and Giovanni Pistone and Mauro Gasparini The empirical identity process: Asymptotics and applications . . . . . . 656--672 Yu Luo and David A. Stephens and David L. Buckeridge Estimating prevalence using indirect information and Bayesian evidence synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--689 A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and Radim Navrátil and Mina Norouzirad Rank theory approach to ridge, LASSO, preliminary test and Stein-type estimators: a comparative study . . . . 690--704
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Anonymous Special issue on Collaborative Research Team projects of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute: Guest Editor's Introduction . . . . . . . . . 4--7 Elif F. Acar and Parisa Azimaee and Md. Erfanul Hoque Predictive assessment of copula models 8--26 Yihao Yin and William H. Aeberhard and Stephen J. Smith and Joanna Mills Flemming Identifiable state-space models: a case study of the Bay of Fundy sea scallop fishery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--45 Alisha Albert-Green and W. John Braun and Charmaine B. Dean and Craig Miller A hierarchical point process with application to storm cell modelling . . 46--64 Hervé Cardot and Anne De Moliner and Camelia Goga Estimation of total electricity consumption curves by sampling in a finite population when some trajectories are partially unobserved . . . . . . . . 65--89 Jianping Sun and Karim Oualkacha and Celia M. T. Greenwood and Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb Multivariate association test for rare variants controlling for cryptic and family relatedness . . . . . . . . . . . 90--107 Farouk S. Nathoo and Linglong Kong and Hongtu Zhu and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative A review of statistical methods in imaging genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--131 Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services: Remerciements aux lecteurs critiques . . 132--136
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139 Yizheng Wei and Yanyuan Ma and Tanya P. Garcia and Samiran Sinha A consistent estimator for logistic mixed effect models . . . . . . . . . . 140--156 Jianxuan Liu and Yanyuan Ma Locally efficient semiparametric estimators for a class of Poisson models with measurement error . . . . . . . . . 157--181 Chien-Lin Su and Johanna G. Neslehová and Weijing Wang Modelling hierarchical clustered censored data with the hierarchical Kendall copula . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--203 Ling Zhou and Haoqi Li and Huazhen Lin and Peter X.-K. Song Evaluating functional covariate-environment interactions in the Cox regression model . . . . . . . . 204--221 Paul Gustafson and Mohammad Ehsanul Karim When exposure is subject to nondifferential misclassification, are validation data helpful in testing for an exposure-disease association? . . . . 222--237 Pratheepa Jeganathan and Noroharivelo V. Randrianampy and Robert L. Paige and A. Alexandre Trindade An empirical saddlepoint approximation based method for smoothing survival functions under right censoring . . . . 238--261 Xiang Li and Xianzheng Huang Linear mode regression with covariate measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . 262--280 Song Cai and Yongsong Qin and J. N. K. Rao and Malgorzata Winiszewska Empirical likelihood confidence intervals under imputation for missing survey data from stratified simple random sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--301 Chenlu Shi and Boxin Tang Design selection for strong orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--314 Cristian Oliva-Aviles and Mary C. Meyer and Jean D. Opsomer Checking validity of monotone domain mean estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--331
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 333--335 Jun Liao and Guohua Zou and Yan Gao Spatial Mallows model averaging for geostatistical models . . . . . . . . . 336--351 Yanqing Sun and Li Qi and Fei Heng and Peter B. Gilbert Analysis of generalized semiparametric mixed varying-coefficients models for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 352--373 Weng Kee Wong and Julie Zhou CVX-based algorithms for constructing various optimal regression designs . . . 374--391 Diaa Al Mohamad and Michel Broniatowski A two-step proximal-point algorithm for the calculus of divergence-based estimators in finite mixture models . . 392--408 Sharon L. Lohr and Minsun K. Riddles and J. Michael Brick Goodness-of-fit tests for distributions estimated from complex survey data . . . 409--425 Mahmoud Torabi Spatial generalized linear mixed models in small area estimation . . . . . . . . 426--437 Fuyuan Li and Yanlin Tang and Huixia Judy Wang Copula-based semiparametric analysis for time series data with detection limits 438--454 Kun Chen and Ngai H. Chan and Man Wang and Chun Y. Yau On Bartlett correction of empirical likelihood for regularly spaced spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--472 Hao Luo and Gabriela V. Cohen Freue and Xin Zhao and Alexandre Bouchard-Côté and Igor Burstyn and Paul Gustafson New perspective on the benefits of the gene-environment independence in case-control studies . . . . . . . . . . 473--486 Huazhen Lin and Baoying Yang and Ling Zhou and Paul S. F. Yip and Ying-Yeh Chen and Hua Liang Global kernel estimator and test of varying-coefficient autoregressive model 487--519
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 521--523 Behdad Mostafaiy and Mohammad Reza Faridrohani and Shojaeddin Chenouri Optimal estimation in functional linear regression for sparse noise-contaminated data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--559 Alberto Contreras-Cristán and Richard A. Lockhart and Michael A. Stephens and Shaun Z. Sun On the use of priors in goodness-of-fit tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560--579 Tian Gu and Jeremy M. G. Taylor and Wenting Cheng and Bhramar Mukherjee Synthetic data method to incorporate external information into a current study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--603 Tin Lok J. Ng and Thomas B. Murphy Estimation of the intensity function of an inhomogeneous Poisson process with a change-point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--618 Andrew Mccormack and Nancy Reid and Nicola Sartori and Sri-Amirthan Theivendran A directional look at $F$-tests . . . . 619--627 Kenta Kawamura and Kanta Naito Asymptotic theory for local estimators based on Bregman divergence . . . . . . 628--652 Jing Guan and Hongjian Cheng and Kenneth A. Bollen and D. Roland Thomas and Liqun Wang Instrumental variable estimation in ordinal probit models with mismeasured predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--667 S. Yaser Samadi and Mahtab Hajebi and Rahman Farnoosh A semiparametric approach for modelling multivariate nonlinear time series . . . 668--687 Yin Song and Farouk Nathoo and Arif Babul A Potts-mixture spatiotemporal joint model for combined magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography data . . . . . . 688--711 Louis-Paul Rivest and Shogo Kato A random-effects model for clustered circular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--728 Matthew Stephenson and R. Ayesha Ali and Gerarda A. Darlington and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Doubly sparse regression incorporating graphical structure among predictors . . 729--747
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Cody Hyndman Special issue on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Finance: Guest Editor's Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7 Jean-François Bégin and Genevi\`eve Gauthier Price bias and common practice in option pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--35 Yizhou Fang and Martin Lysy and Don Mcleish Common-factor stochastic volatility modelling with observable proxy . . . . 36--61 Fuqi Chen and Rogemar Mamon and Sévérien Nkurunziza Inference for a change-point problem under an OU setting with unequal and unknown volatilities . . . . . . . . . . 62--78 Bouchra R. Nasri and Bruno N. Rémillard and Mamadou Y. Thioub Goodness-of-fit for regime-switching copula models with application to option pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--96 Renjie Wang and Cody Hyndman and Anastasis Kratsios The entropic measure transform . . . . . 97--129 Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services / Remerciements aux lecteurs critiques . . 130--134
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137 Xichen She and Changbao Wu Validity and efficiency in analyzing ordinal responses with missing observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--151 Lo-Bin Chang Partial order relations for classification comparisons . . . . . . . 152--166 Su Chen A new distribution-free $k$-sample test: Analysis of kernel density functionals 167--186 Qingyang Zhang Direct estimation of differential networks under high-dimensional nonparanormal graphical models . . . . . 187--203 Andrew Holbrook and Thomas Lumley and Daniel Gillen Estimating prediction error for complex samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--221 Tianyu Zhan and Douglas E. Schaubel Semiparametric regression methods for temporal processes subject to multiple sources of censoring . . . . . . . . . . 222--237 Sneha Jadhav and Shuangge Ma Functional measurement error in functional regression . . . . . . . . . 238--258 Heng Shu and Zhiqiang Tan Improved methods for moment restriction models with data combination and an application to two-sample instrumental variable estimation . . . . . . . . . . 259--284 Cai Li and Luo Xiao Optimal design for classification of functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--307 Yilei Wu and Yingli Qin and Mu Zhu High-dimensional covariance matrix estimation using a low-rank and diagonal decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--337
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341 Xinlei Wang and Mumu Wang and Johan Lim and Soohyun Ahn Using ranked set sampling with binary outcomes in cluster randomized designs 342--365 Seung Jun Shin and Yichao Wu and Ning Hao A backward procedure for change-point detection with applications to copy number variation detection . . . . . . . 366--385 Zhihuang Yang and Niansheng Tang Empirical likelihood for nonlinear regression models with nonignorable missing responses . . . . . . . . . . . 386--416 Shojaeddin Chenouri and Ahmad Mozaffari and Gregory Rice Robust multivariate change point analysis based on data depth . . . . . . 417--446 Leying Guan and Robert Tibshirani Post model-fitting exploration via a ``Next-Door'' analysis . . . . . . . . . 447--470 Kexin Ji and Joel A. Dubin A semiparametric stochastic mixed effects model for bivariate cyclic longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 471--498 Huiqiong Li and Han Zhang and Liang Zhu and Ni Li and Jianguo Sun Estimation of the additive hazards model with interval-censored data and missing covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--517 Lingzhe Guo and Reza Modarres Nonparametric change point detection for periodic time series . . . . . . . . . . 518--534 Jianhong Shi and Xiuqin Bai and Weixing Song Partial deconvolution estimation in nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 535--560 Asim K. Dey and Cuneyt G. Akcora and Yulia R. Gel and Murat Kantarcioglu On the role of local blockchain network features in cryptocurrency price formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--581 Taoufik Bouezmarni and Sébastien Bellegem and Yassir Rabhi Nonparametric beta kernel estimator for long and short memory time series . . . 582--595 Razieh Khodsiani and Saeid Pooladsaz Optimal balanced block designs for correlated observations . . . . . . . . 596--604
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 605--607 Lisha Guo and Yi Xiong and X. Joan Hu Estimation in the Cox cure model with covariates missing not at random, with application to disease screening/prediction . . . . . . . . . . 608--632 Hon Yiu So and Mary E. Thompson and Changbao Wu Correlated and misclassified binary observations in complex surveys . . . . 633--654 Shijia Wang and Liangliang Wang and Tim B. Swartz Inference for misclassified multinomial data with covariates . . . . . . . . . . 655--669 Jiahua Chen and Pengfei Li and Guanfu Liu Homogeneity testing under finite location-scale mixtures . . . . . . . . 670--684 Kanika Grover and Elif F. Acar and Mahmoud Torabi Copula-based predictions in small area estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--711 Chengrui Li and Ying Hung and Minge Xie A sequential split-and-conquer approach for the analysis of big dependent data in computer experiments . . . . . . . . 712--730 Michelle Xia and P. Richard Hahn and Paul Gustafson A Bayesian mixture of experts approach to covariate misclassification . . . . . 731--750 Shuo Shuo Liu and Bingshu E. Chen Continuous threshold models with two-way interactions in survival analysis . . . 751--772 André Plante A Gaussian alternative to using improper confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 773--801
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Farouk Nathoo and Linglong Kong and Grace Y. Yi Special Issue on Neuroimaging data analysis: Guest Editors' Introduction 4--9 Rongjie Liu and Hongtu Zhu and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Statistical disease mapping for heterogeneous neuroimaging studies . . . 10--34 Ben Wu and Jian Kang Discussion of ``Statistical disease mapping for heterogeneous neuroimaging studies'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--38 Matthew Pietrosanu and Bei Jiang Discussion of ``Statistical disease mapping for heterogeneous neuroimaging studies'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42 Rongjie Liu and Hongtu Zhu Rejoinder: ``Statistical disease mapping for heterogeneous neuroimaging studies'' 43--45 Ning Dai and Hakmook Kang and Galin L. Jones and Mark B. Fiecas and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative A Bayesian latent spatial model for mapping the cortical signature of progression to Alzheimer's disease . . . 46--62 Zeyi Wang and Haris I. Sair and Ciprian Crainiceanu and Martin Lindquist and Bennett A. Landman and Susan Resnick and Joshua T. Vogelstein and Brian Caffo On statistical tests of functional connectome fingerprinting . . . . . . . 63--88 Brian Hart and Stephen Malone and Mark Fiecas A grouped beta process model for multivariate resting-state EEG microstate analysis on twins . . . . . . 89--106 Shariq Mohammed and Dipak K. Dey Scalable spatio-temporal Bayesian analysis of high-dimensional electroencephalography data . . . . . . 107--128 Zhou Lan and Brian J. Reich and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay A spatial Bayesian semiparametric mixture model for positive definite matrices with applications in diffusion tensor imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--149 Xiucai Ding and Dengdeng Yu and Zhengwu Zhang and Dehan Kong Multivariate functional response low-rank regression with an application to brain imaging data . . . . . . . . . 150--181 Yanming Li and Bin Nan and Ji Zhu and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative A structured brain-wide and genome-wide association study using ADNI PET images 182--202 Damian Brzyski and Marta Karas and Beau M. Ances and Mario Dzemidzic and Joaquín Goñi and Timothy W. Randolph and Jaroslaw Harezlak Connectivity-informed adaptive regularization for generalized outcomes 203--227 Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services/Remerciements aux lecteurs critiques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--233
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237 Nicolas Grenon-Godbout and Myl\`ene Bédard On-line partitioning of the sample space in the regional adaptive algorithm . . . 238--261 Eugene D. Hahn Regression modelling with the tilted beta distribution: a Bayesian approach 262--282 Xiaoning Kang and Xinwei Deng On variable ordination of Cholesky-based estimation for a sparse covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--310 Guoying Xu and Yang Bai Estimation of nonparametric additive models with high order spatial autoregressive errors . . . . . . . . . 311--343 Menglu Che and Jerald F. Lawless and Peisong Han Empirical and conditional likelihoods for two-phase studies . . . . . . . . . 344--361 Ping Wu and Jiming Jiang Robust estimation of mean squared prediction error in small-area estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--396 Baojiang Chen and Ao Yuan and Grace Y. Yi Variable selection for proportional hazards models with high-dimensional covariates subject to measurement error 397--420 Michael A. Newton and Nicholas G. Polson and Jianeng Xu Weighted Bayesian bootstrap for scalable posterior distributions . . . . . . . . 421--437 Yiou Li and Xinwei Deng An efficient algorithm for Elastic I-optimal design of generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--470 Cyril Favre-Martinoz and David Haziza and Jean-François Beaumont Efficient nonparametric estimation for skewed distributions . . . . . . . . . . 471--496 Emily M. Casleton and Daniel J. Nordman and Mark S. Kaiser Local structure graph models with higher-order dependence . . . . . . . . 497--513 Steffen Betsch and Bruno Ebner and Bernhard Klar Minimum $ L^q $-distance estimators for non-normalized parametric models . . . . 514--548 Yi Liu and Jinfeng Xu and Gang Li Sure joint feature screening in nonparametric transformation model for right censored data . . . . . . . . . . 549--565 Francisco F. Queiroz and Artur J. Lemonte A broad class of zero-or-one inflated regression models for rates and proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--590 Juan J. Salamanca Sets that maximize probability and a related variational problem . . . . . . 591--608
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 609--611 Ling-Wan Chen and Yu Cheng and Ying Ding and Ruosha Li Quantile association regression on bivariate survival data . . . . . . . . 612--636 Yassir Rabhi and Masoud Asgharian A semiparametric regression model under biased sampling and random censoring: a local pseudo-likelihood approach . . . . 637--658 Ao Yuan and Jin Piao and Jing Ning and Jing Qin Semiparametric isotonic regression modelling and estimation for group testing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--677 Heewon Park and Rui Yamaguchi and Seiya Imoto and Satoru Miyano Automatic sparse principal component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--697 Genya Kobayashi and Taeyoung Roh and Jangwon Lee and Taeryon Choi Flexible Bayesian quantile curve fitting with shape restrictions under the Dirichlet process mixture of the generalized asymmetric Laplace distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--730 Maomao Ding and Jing Ning and Ruosha Li Evaluation of competing risks prediction models using polytomous discrimination index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--753 Yanyan Zhao and Lei Sun On set-based association tests: Insights from a regression using summary statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--770 Tapabrata Maiti and Abolfazl Safikhani and Ping-Shou Zhong On uncertainty estimation in functional linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 771--792 Hejian Sang and Jae Kwang Kim An approximate Bayesian inference on propensity score estimation under unit nonresponse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--807 Li Xing and Xuekui Zhang and Igor Burstyn and Paul Gustafson On logistic Box--Cox regression for flexibly estimating the shape and strength of exposure-disease relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808--825 Li Liu and Yanyan Liu and Feng Su and Xingqiu Zhao Variable selection and structure estimation for ultrahigh-dimensional additive hazards models . . . . . . . . 826--852 Grace Y. Yi and Ying Yan Estimation and hypothesis testing with error-contaminated survival data under possibly misspecified measurement error models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--874 Jie Hu and Yu Chen and Weiping Zhang and Xiao Guo Penalized high-dimensional $M$-quantile regression: From $ L^1$ to $ L^p$ optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--905 Fang Qian and Weiping Zhang and Yu Chen Adaptive banding covariance estimation for high-dimensional multivariate longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 906--938 Yuze Yuan and Lihua Bai and Jiancheng Jiang Functional-coefficient regression models with GARCH errors . . . . . . . . . . . 939--964 Meng Yuan and Pengfei Li and Changbao Wu Semiparametric inference of the Youden index and the optimal cut-off point under density ratio models . . . . . . . 965--986
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 987--989 Jerry Lawless Covid-19-related content in \booktitleThe Canadian Journal of Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 990--991 Sean Elliott and Christian Gouriéroux Estimated reproduction ratios in the SIR model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 992--1017 Matthew R. P. Parker and Yangming Li and Lloyd T. Elliott and Junling Ma and Laura L. E. Cowen Under-reporting of COVID-19 in the Northern Health Authority region of British Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018--1038 Yan Fan and Yukun Liu and Lixing Zhu Optimal subsampling for linear quantile regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1057 Yi Hua and Min Yang Optimal design under complete class with ancillary functions . . . . . . . . . . 1058--1074 Jun Yu and Dejian Lai Interim analysis of sequential estimation-adjusted urn models with sample size re-estimation . . . . . . . 1075--1092 Qiang Zhang and Wenliang Pan and Chengwei Li and Xueqin Wang The conditional distance autocovariance function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1114 Yongli Sang and Xin Dang and Yichuan Zhao A Jackknife empirical likelihood approach for $K$-sample Tests . . . . . 1115--1135 Di Shu and Wenqing He Perturbation-based null hypothesis tests with an application to Clayton models 1136--1151 Tongwei Zhang and Dehui Wang and Kai Yang Quasi-maximum exponential likelihood estimation for double-threshold GARCH models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152--1178 Guoqing Diao and Jing Qin New semiparametric regression method with applications in selection-biased sampling and missing data problems . . . 1179--1195 Takuma Yoshida Quantile function regression and variable selection for sparse models . . 1196--1221 Jingyi K. Tay and Jerome Friedman and Robert Tibshirani Principal component-guided sparse regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222--1257 Yi Wang and Peng Wu and Xingwei Tong and Jianguo Sun A weighted method for the exclusive hypothesis test with application to typhoon data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258--1272 Elodie Brunel and Fabienne Comte Hazard regression with noncompactly supported bases . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1297 Junhan Fang and Grace Y. Yi Imputation and likelihood methods for matrix-variate logistic regression with response misclassification . . . . . . . 1298--1316 Zhengwei Liu and Qi Li and Fukang Zhu Semiparametric integer-valued autoregressive models on $ \mathbb {Z} $ 1317--1337 Marius Stefan and Michael A. Hidiroglou Estimation of design-based mean squared error of a small area mean model-based estimator under a nested error linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338--1363 Fang Chen and Hong Wan and Hua Cai and Guang Cheng Machine learning in/for blockchain: Future and challenges . . . . . . . . . 1364--1382
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Johanna G. Neslehová Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7 Hans-Georg Müller Special issue on ``Functional and object data analysis'': Guest Editor's introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--19 Xinlian Zhang and Gauri S. Datta and Ping Ma and Wenxuan Zhong Bayesian spline smoothing with ambiguous penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--35 Hongmei Lin and Tiejun Tong and Yuedong Wang and Wenchao Xu and Riquan Zhang Direct local linear estimation for Sharpe ratio function . . . . . . . . . 36--58 Yijia Liu and Lexin Li and Xiao Wang A nonlinear sparse neural ordinary differential equation model for multiple functional processes . . . . . . . . . . 59--85 Kun Cheng and Di-Rong Chen Adaptive estimation for functional data: Using a framelet block-thresholding method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--121 Yunlong Nie and Yuping Yang and Liangliang Wang and Jiguo Cao Recovering the underlying trajectory from sparse and irregular longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--141 Rahul Ghosal and Arnab Maity Variable selection in nonparametric functional concurrent regression . . . . 142--161 Xiong Cai and Liugen Xue and Jiguo Cao and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Robust estimation and variable selection for function-on-scalar regression . . . 162--179 Suchit Mehrotra and Arnab Maity Simultaneous variable selection, clustering, and smoothing in function-on-scalar regression . . . . . 180--199 Zhiyang Zhou and Peijun Sang Continuum centroid classifier for functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--220 Jiakun Jiang and Huazhen Lin and Heng Peng and Gang-Zhi Fan and Yi Li Cluster analysis with regression of non-Gaussian functional data on covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--240 Meichen Liu and Matthew Pietrosanu and Peng Liu and Bei Jiang and Xingcai Zhou and Linglong Kong and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Reproducing kernel-based functional linear expectile regression . . . . . . 241--266 Hanbing Zhu and Yehua Li and Baisen Liu and Weixin Yao and Riquan Zhang Extreme quantile estimation for partial functional linear regression models with heavy-tailed distributions . . . . . . . 267--286 Daniel Gervini Doubly stochastic models for spatio-temporal covariation of replicated point processes . . . . . . . 287--303 Siegfried Hörmann and Piotr Kokoszka and Thomas Kuenzer Testing normality of spatially indexed functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--326 Evan Sidrow and Nancy Heckman and Sarah M. E. Fortune and Andrew W. Trites and Ian Murphy and Marie Auger-Méthé Modelling multi-scale, state-switching functional data with hidden Markov models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--356 Han Lin Shang Not all long-memory estimators are born equal: the case of nonstationary functional time series . . . . . . . . . 357--380 Tian Gu and Jeremy M. G. Taylor and Wenting Cheng and Bhramar Mukherjee Authors' corrigenda/corrections des auteurs: On synthetic data method to incorporate external information into a current study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384 Tian Gu and Jeremy M. G. Taylor and Wenting Cheng and Bhramar Mukherjee Acknowledgement of Referees' Services Remerciements aux lecteurs critiques . . 385--390
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 391--394 Grace Y. Yi and Pingbo Hu and Wenqing He Characterizing the COVID-19 dynamics with a new epidemic model: Susceptible-exposed-asymptomatic-symptomatic-active-removed 395--416 Shirin Golchi Estimating design operating characteristics in Bayesian adaptive clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--436 D. A. S. Fraser and Myl\`ene Bédard The linear Lasso: a location model approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--453 Jerzy Wieczorek and Jing Lei Model selection properties of forward selection and sequential cross-validation for high-dimensional regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--470 Yiyun Luo and Yufeng Liu and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Recovery of sums of sparse and dense signals by incorporating graphical structure among predictors . . . . . . . 471--490 Leonardo Egidi and Francesco Pauli and Nicola Torelli Avoiding prior-data conflict in regression models via mixture priors . . 491--510 Xiaowei Sun and Xinyuan Song and Liuquan Sun Additive hazard regression of event history studies with intermittently measured covariates . . . . . . . . . . 511--532 Hoora Moradian and Weichi Yao and Denis Larocque and Jeffrey S. Simonoff and Halina Frydman Dynamic estimation with random forests for discrete-time survival data . . . . 533--548 Peng Liu and Shanshan Song and Yong Zhou Semiparametric additive frailty hazard model for clustered failure time data 549--571 Moritz Berger and Matthias Schmid Assessing the calibration of subdistribution hazard models in discrete time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--591 Denis Agniel and Matthew Cefalu and Bing Han Synthetic estimation for the complier average causal effect . . . . . . . . . 592--611 Chaowen Zheng and Jingfang Huang and Ian A. Wood and Yichao Wu A modified expectation-maximization algorithm for latent Gaussian graphical model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--637 Kairat Mynbaev and Carlos Martins-Filho and Daniel J. Henderson Nonparametric estimation of unrestricted distributions and their jumps . . . . . 638--662 Mahnaz Khalafi and Ahmad Reza Soltani and Masoud Golalipour and Majid Azimmohseni and Farzad Najafiamiri On the spectral coherence between two periodically correlated processes . . . 663--680 Ali Reza Taheriyoun and Khalil Shafie The estimation of the fractal dimension of a Gaussian field via Euler characteristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--707
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 709--712 Dirk Douwes-Schultz and Shuo Sun and Alexandra M. Schmidt and Erica E. M. Moodie Extended Bayesian endemic-epidemic models to incorporate mobility data into COVID-19 forecasting . . . . . . . . . . 713--733 Liangliang Wang and Joosung Min and Renny Doig and Lloyd T. Elliott and Caroline Colijn Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence through serological uncertainty and daily incidence . . . . 734--750 Qiang Jiang and Yifan Xia and Baosheng Liang Matching distributions for survival data 751--775 Liqun Diao and Richard J. Cook Nested doubly robust estimating equations for causal analysis with an incomplete effect modifier . . . . . . . 776--794 Wei Zhong and Wei Zhou and Qingliang Fan and Yang Gao Dummy endogenous treatment effect estimation using high-dimensional instrumental variables . . . . . . . . . 795--819 Liwen Zhang and Zhoufan Zhu and Xingdong Feng and Yong He Shrinkage quantile regression for panel data with multiple structural breaks . . 820--851 Wu Wang and Zhongyi Zhu Group structure detection for a high-dimensional panel data model . . . 852--866 Jiangtao Duan and Wei Gao and Hao Qu and Hon Keung Tony Ng Subspace clustering for panel data with interactive effects . . . . . . . . . . 867--887 Omer Ozturk and Olena Kravchuk and Jennifer Brown Two-stage cluster samples with judgment post-stratification . . . . . . . . . . 888--910 Omer Ozturk and Olena Kravchuk Combining ranking information from different sources in ranked-set samples 911--927 Chunzhe Zhang and Curtis B. Storlie and Thomas C. M. Lee Sensitivity analysis in classification using Bayesian smoothing spline ANOVA probit regression . . . . . . . . . . . 928--950 Yanhong Liu and Haojie Ren and Xu Guo and Qin Zhou and Changliang Zou Cellwise outlier detection with false discovery rate control . . . . . . . . . 951--971 Jayant Jha Best approach direction for spherical random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 972--991 Bruno Ebner and Norbert Henze and David Strieder Testing normality in any dimension by Fourier methods in a multivariate Stein equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 992--1033 Guanfu Liu and Yuejiao Fu and Wenchen Liu and Rongji Mu Testing homogeneity in contaminated mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034--1046 Luai Al-Labadi and Forough Fazeli Asl and Zahra Saberi A test for independence via Bayesian nonparametric estimation of mutual information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1070 Qiang Chen and Wanzi Xu and Yuting Gong Jump-robust testing of volatility functions in continuous time models . . 1071--1095
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1100 Anonymous Introduction to the special issue on the 50th anniversary of CJS . . . . . . . . 1101--1103 Nancy Reid D. A. S. Fraser: From structural inference to asymptotics . . . . . . . . 1104--1115 Miklós Csörg\Ho and Donald A. Dawson and Bouchra R. Nasri and Bruno N. Rémillard A random walk through Canadian contributions on empirical processes and their applications in probability and statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116--1142 Arak M. Mathai and Serge B. Provost On the singular gamma, Wishart, and beta matrix-variate density functions . . . . 1143--1165 Yilin Chen and Pengfei Li and J. N. K. Rao and Changbao Wu Pseudo empirical likelihood inference for nonprobability survey samples . . . 1166--1185 Jean-François Beaumont and David Haziza Statistical inference from finite population samples: a critical review of frequentist and Bayesian approaches . . 1186--1212 Radu V. Craiu and Paul Gustafson and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Reflections on Bayesian inference and Markov chain Monte Carlo . . . . . . . . 1213--1227 Hugh Chipman and Derek Bingham Let's practice what we preach: Planning and interpreting simulation studies with design and analysis of experiments . . . 1228--1249 David Andrews and Chris Field Robust reflections . . . . . . . . . . . 1250--1253 Xiaolei Xun and Tianyu Guan and Jiguo Cao Sparse estimation of historical functional linear models with a nested group bridge approach . . . . . . . . . 1254--1269 Richard J. Cook and Jerald F. Lawless Life history analysis with multistate models: a review and some current issues 1270--1298 Erica E. M. Moodie and David A. Stephens Causal inference: Critical developments, past and future . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1320 Lin Zhang and Lei Sun Unifying genetic association tests via regression: Prospective and retrospective, parametric and nonparametric, and genotype- and allele-based tests . . . . . . . . . . . 1321--1338 Edward Susko Complex statistical modelling for phylogenetic inference . . . . . . . . . 1339--1354 Charmaine B. Dean and Abdel H. El-Shaarawi and Sylvia R. Esterby and Joanna Mills Flemming and Richard D. Routledge and Stephen W. Taylor and Douglas G. Woolford and James V. Zidek and Francis W. Zwiers Canadian contributions to environmetrics 1355--1386 Mary Thompson and Nancy Reid and Don Estep The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute 2003--2022 . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1402
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Fanrong Zhao and Nan Lin and Baoxue Zhang A new test for high-dimensional regression coefficients in partially linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--18 Koji Miyawaki and Steven N. MacEachern Economic variable selection . . . . . . 19--37 Zhimiao Cao and Xiaoning Kang and Mingqiu Wang Doubly robust weighted composite quantile regression based on SCAD-$ L_2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--76 Katherine L. Burak and Adam B. Kashlak Nonparametric confidence regions via the analytic wild bootstrap . . . . . . . . 77--94 Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla and Yanzhen Chen Graphon estimation via nearest-neighbour algorithm and two-dimensional fused-lasso denoising . . . . . . . . . 95--110 Lan Luo and Peter X.-K. Song Multivariate online regression analysis with heterogeneous streaming data . . . 111--133 Yu Luo and David A. Stephens and David L. Buckeridge Bayesian clustering for continuous-time hidden Markov models . . . . . . . . . . 134--156 Guanyu Hu and Hou-Cheng Yang and Yishu Xue and Dipak K. Dey Zero-inflated Poisson model with clustered regression coefficients: Application to heterogeneity learning of field goal attempts of professional basketball players . . . . . . . . . . . 157--172 Xiaomeng Zhang and Xinyu Zhang and Yanyuan Ma A model-averaging treatment of multiple instruments in Poisson models with errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--198 Parisa Gavanji and Wenyu Jiang and Bingshu E. Chen Penalized likelihood ratio test for a biomarker threshold effect in clinical trials based on generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--215 Yanqin Feng and K. D. Prasangika and Guoxin Zuo Regression analysis of multivariate current status data under a varying coefficients additive hazards frailty model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--234 Yanqing Sun and Fei Heng and Unkyung Lee and Peter B. Gilbert Estimation of conditional cumulative incidence functions under generalized semiparametric regression models with missing covariates, with application to analysis of biomarker correlates in vaccine trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--257 Hanan Abousaleh and Julie Zhou Minimax A-, c-, and I-optimal regression designs for models with heteroscedastic errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--274 Abba M. Krieger and David A. Azriel and Adam Kapelner Better experimental design by hybridizing binary matching with imbalance optimization . . . . . . . . . 275--292 Sixu Liu and Yaping Wang and Fasheng Sun Two-dimensional projection uniformity for space-filling designs . . . . . . . 293--311 Andreea L. Erciulescu and Jean D. Opsomer and Benjamin J. Schneider Statistical data integration using multilevel models to predict employee compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--326 Yi Wu and Wei Yu and Wenzhi Yang and Saisai Ding and Xuejun Wang On asymptotic approximation of ratio models for weakly dependent sequences 327--343 Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services / Remerciements aux membres des jurys . . 344--349
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 351--354 Peisong Han and Jeremy M. G. Taylor and Bhramar Mukherjee Integrating information from existing risk prediction models with no model details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374 Qianqian Liu and Zhouping Li Distributed estimation with empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--399 Wen Su and Guosheng Yin and Jing Zhang and Xingqiu Zhao Divide and conquer for accelerated failure time model with massive time-to-event data . . . . . . . . . . . 400--419 Li Shao and Shanshan Song and Yong Zhou Optimal subsampling for large-sample quantile regression with massive data 420--443 Nicole E. Pashley and Marie-Ab\`ele C. Bind Causal inference for multiple treatments using fractional factorial designs . . . 444--468 Cong Jiang and Michael P. Wallace and Mary E. Thompson Dynamic treatment regimes with interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--502 Christopher Manuel and Samiran Sinha and Suojin Wang Reducing bias due to misclassified exposures using instrumental variables 503--530 Maozhu Dai and Weining Shen and Hal S. Stern Nonparametric tests for treatment effect heterogeneity in observational studies 531--558 Haiqiang Ma and Chao Liu and Sheng Xu and Jin Yang Subgroup analysis for functional partial linear regression model . . . . . . . . 559--579 Haiqiang Ma and Jiming Jiang Classified generalized linear mixed model prediction incorporating pseudo-prior information . . . . . . . . 580--595 Xianru Wang and Bin Liu and Xinsheng Zhang and Yufeng Liu and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Efficient multiple change point detection for high-dimensional generalized linear models . . . . . . . 596--629 Siming Zheng and Alan T. K. Wan and Yong Zhou Missing data analysis with sufficient dimension reduction . . . . . . . . . . 630--651 Alejandro Cholaquidis and Ricardo Fraiman and Fabrice Gamboa and Leonardo Moreno Weighted lens depth: Some applications to supervised classification . . . . . . 652--673 Jonathan P. Williams and Yuying Xie and Jan Hannig The EAS approach for graphical selection consistency in vector autoregression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--703 Gilles Stupfler and Antoine Usseglio-Carleve Composite bias-reduced $ L^p $-quantile-based estimators of extreme quantiles and expectiles . . . . . . . . 704--742
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 743--746 Anonymous Special issue in honour of Nancy Reid: Guest Editors' introduction . . . . . . 747--751 Radu V. Craiu and Grace Y. Yi A conversation with Nancy Reid . . . . . 752--759 Heather S. Battey Inducement of population sparsity . . . 760--768 Peter McCullagh A tale of two variances . . . . . . . . 769--779 Soumaya Elkantassi and Ruggero Bellio and Alessandra R. Brazzale and Anthony C. Davison Improved inference for a boundary parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--799 Michelle Carey and Christian Genest and James O. Ramsay Sparse estimation within Pearson's system, with an application to financial market risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800--823 Konrad N. Urban and Heejong Bong and Josue Orellana and Robert E. Kass Oscillating neural circuits: Phase, amplitude, and the complex normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--851 Andrew McCormack and Peter D. Hoff Tests of linear hypotheses using indirect information . . . . . . . . . . 852--876 Luigi Pace and Alessandra Salvan and Nicola Sartori Confidence sequences with composite likelihoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877--896 John D. Kalbfleisch and Zhenzhen Xu Rerandomization and optimal matching . . 897--913
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 915--918 Yifan Fan and Binyan Jiang and Ting Yan and Yuan Zhang Asymptotic theory in bipartite graph models with a growing number of parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--942 Shuhao Jiao and Ron D. Frostig and Hernando Ombao Variation pattern classification of functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--958 Kai Shen and Yichao Wu Automatic structure recovery for generalized additive models . . . . . . 959--974 Shakhawat Hossain and Saumen Mandal and Le An Lac Pretest and shrinkage estimators in generalized partially linear models with application to real data . . . . . . . . 975--1003 Xifen Huang and Binghui Liu and Qin Zhou and Long Feng A high-dimensional inverse norm sign test for two-sample location problems 1004--1033 Roulin Wang and Wei Fan and Xueqin Wang A hyperbolic divergence based nonparametric test for two-sample multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 1034--1054 Qiang Chen and Yuting Gong and Xunxiao Wang Empirical-process-based specification tests for diffusion models . . . . . . . 1055--1083 Alexis Derumigny and Jean-David Fermanian and Aleksey Min Testing for equality between conditional copulas given discretized conditioning events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1084--1110 Takaaki Koike and Marius Hofert Matrix compatibility and correlation mixture representation of generalized Gini's gamma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111--1125 Yuan Sun and Xuming He From regression rank scores to robust inference for censored quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126--1149 Tong Wang and Kejun He and Wei Ma and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and Samiran Sinha Minorize-maximize algorithm for the generalized odds rate model for clustered current status data . . . . . 1150--1170 Xinyi Ge and Yingwei Peng and Dongsheng Tu A generalized single-index linear threshold model for identifying treatment-sensitive subsets based on multiple covariates and longitudinal measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171--1189 Siming Zheng and Juan Zhang and Yong Zhou Likelihood identifiability and parameter estimation with nonignorable missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190--1209 Tao Sun and Shengli Zhao General minimum lower-order confounding three-level split-plot designs when the whole plot factors are important . . . . 1210--1231
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Hengtao Zhang and Guosheng Yin and Donald B. Rubin PCA Rerandomization . . . . . . . . . . 5--25 Yuan Le and Yang Bai and Guoyou Qin Subgroup analysis of linear models with measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . 26--42 Kelly Ramsay and Shoja'eddin Chenouri Robust nonparametric hypothesis tests for differences in the covariance structure of functional data . . . . . . 43--78 Yanyan Zhao and Lei Sun A stable and adaptive polygenic signal detection method based on repeated sample splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--97 José A. Ordoñez and Marcos O. Prates and Jorge L. Bazán and Victor H. Lachos Penalized complexity priors for the skewness parameter of power links . . . 98--117 Jerónimo Basa and R. Dennis Cook and Liliana Forzani and Miguel Marcos Asymptotic distribution of one-component partial least squares regression estimators in high dimensions . . . . . 118--130 Pan Liu and Jialiang Li Segment regression model average with multiple threshold variables and multiple structural breaks . . . . . . . 131--161 Canhong Wen and Anan Chen and Xueqin Wang and Wenliang Pan and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Variable selection in additive models via hierarchical sparse penalty . . . . 162--194 Min Tsao Regression model selection via log-likelihood ratio and constrained minimum criterion . . . . . . . . . . . 195--211 Yanqin Feng and Ming Tang and Jieli Ding Method of model checking for case II interval-censored data under the additive hazards model . . . . . . . . . 212--236 Huiling Yuan and Yong Zhou and Zhiyuan Zhang and Xiangyu Cui Volatility analysis for the GARCH--Itô model with option data . . . . . . . . . 237--270 Zhuojian Chen and Zhanfeng Wang and Yuan-chin Ivan Chang Distributed sequential estimation procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--290 Jing Wang and HaiYing Wang and Shifeng Xiong Unweighted estimation based on optimal sample under measurement constraints . . 291--309 Pengnan Li and Fasheng Sun A class of space-filling designs with low-dimensional stratification and column orthogonality . . . . . . . . . . 310--326 Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees' services remerciements aux membres des jurys . . 327--331
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 333--336 Peter A. Gao and Jon Wakefield Smoothed model-assisted small area estimation of proportions . . . . . . . 337--358 Ross Maller and Sidney Resnick and Soudabeh Shemehsavar Finite sample and asymptotic distributions of a statistic for sufficient follow-up in cure models . . 359--379 Wenqing He and Grace Y. Yi and Ao Yuan Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data under Semiparametric Copula Models . . . 380--413 Weicai Pang and Yutao Liu and Xingqiu Zhao and Yong Zhou Joint modelling of quantile regression for longitudinal data with information observation times and a terminal event 414--436 Justin Fishbone and Lamine Mili New highly efficient high-breakdown estimator of multivariate scatter and location for elliptical distributions 437--460 Alex Stringer Identifiability constraints in generalized additive models . . . . . . 461--476 Dylan Spicker and Michael P. Wallace and Grace Y. Yi Nonparametric simulation extrapolation for measurement-error models . . . . . . 477--499 Qi Wang and Lichun Wang and Liqun Wang Bayesian instrumental variable estimation in linear measurement error models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--531 Sarah C. Lotspeich and Gustavo G. C. Amorim and Pamela A. Shaw and Ran Tao and Bryan E. Shepherd Optimal multiwave validation of secondary use data with outcome and exposure misclassification . . . . . . . 532--554 Baojiang Chen and Ao Yuan and Jing Qin A calibration method to stabilize estimation with missing data . . . . . . 555--576 Jiaxin Liu and Hongliang Liu and Yi Li and Huazhen Lin A combined moment equation approach for spatial autoregressive models . . . . . 577--596 Hamdi Ra\"\issi On the correlation analysis of stocks with zero returns . . . . . . . . . . . 597--617 Jinhan Xie and Xianwen Ding and Bei Jiang and Xiaodong Yan and Linglong Kong High-dimensional model averaging for quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . 618--635 Jean-François Plante and Maxime Larocque and Michel Ad\`es Objective model selection with parallel genetic algorithms using an eradication strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--654
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 655--658 Gareth O. Roberts and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Football group draw probabilities and corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--677 Michael P. B. Gallaugher and Paul D. McNicholas Clustering and semi-supervised classification for clickstream data via mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--695 Tianyu Pan and Weining Shen and Guanyu Hu Clustering spatial functional data using a geographically weighted Dirichlet process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--712 Quyen Do and Pang Du Contrast tests for groups of functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--733 Huiya Zhou and Xiaomeng Yan and Lan Zhou Robust joint modelling of sparsely observed paired functional data . . . . 734--754 Meiling Hao and Kin-yat Liu and Wen Su and Xingqiu Zhao Semiparametric estimation for the functional additive hazards model . . . 755--782 Shaojia Jin and Yanyan Liu and Guangcai Mao and Jianguo Sun and Yuanshan Wu Nonparametric estimation of a survival function in the presence of measurement errors on the failure time of interest 783--803 Katherine A. L. Valeriano and Fernanda L. Schumacher and Christian E. Galarza and Larissa A. Matos Censored autoregressive regression models with Student-$t$ innovations . . 804--828 Sixia Chen and David Haziza and Victoire Michal Efficient multiply robust imputation in the presence of influential units in surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--854 Guohua Yan and Renjun Ma Modelling occurrence and quantity of longitudinal semicontinuous data simultaneously with nonparametric unobserved heterogeneity . . . . . . . . 855--872 Yao Kang and Fukang Zhu and Dehui Wang and Shuhui Wang A zero-modified geometric INAR(1) model for analyzing count time series with multiple features . . . . . . . . . . . 873--899 Tingting Yu and Shangyuan Ye and Rui Wang High-dimensional variable selection accounting for heterogeneity in regression coefficients across multiple data sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900--923 Guanlin Zhang and Yuehua Wu and Xin Gao Bayesian Model Selection via Composite Likelihood for High-dimensional Data Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--938 Emily C. Hector Fused mean structure learning in data integration with dependence . . . . . . 939--961