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Volume 9, Number 1, 1980S. Zacks Numerical determination of the distributions of stopping variables associated with sequential procedures for detecting epochs of shift in distributions of discrete random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 W. Y. Tan Comparative studies on the estimation of linkage by Bayesian method at maximum likelihood method . . . . . . . . . . . 19--41 M. L. Hand and V. A. Sposito Using the least squares estimator in Chebyshev estimation . . . . . . . . . . 43--49 Arthur G. Holms ``Chain pooling'' model selection for two-level fixed effects factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--71 D. G. Kabe On some coverage probability maximization problems . . . . . . . . . 73--79 Samuel D. Oman Estimating a proportion when sampling from a subpopulation . . . . . . . . . . 81--101 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Eugene M. Klimko Numerical computation of bridge probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--125 K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton Evaluation of the parameters of $ s_u $ by rational fractions . . . . . . . . . 127--132 Gregory T. Schwemer and Olive Jean Dunn Posterior probability estimators in classification simulations . . . . . . . 133--140 Jeffrey B. Birch Effects of the starting value and stopping rule on robust estimates obtained by iterated weighted least squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--154 R. S. Chhikara and A. L. Feiveson Extended critical values of extreme Studentized deviate test statistics for detecting multiple outliers . . . . . . 155--166 Hans K. Ury and Michael R. Stoline and Brian T. Mitchell Further tables of the Studentized maximum modulus distribution . . . . . . 167--178 Mark J. Christensen and A. T. Bharucha-Reid Stability of the roots of random algebraic polynomials . . . . . . . . . 179--192 B. G. Quinn M28. Limiting behaviour of autocorrelation function of ARMA process as several roots of characteristic equation approach unit circle . . . . . 195--198 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
E. L. Frome and G. J. Yakatan Statistical estimation of the pharmokinetic parameters in the one compartment open model . . . . . . . . . 201--222 P. L. Brockett and A. Charnes and W. W. Cooper M.D.I. estimation via unconstrained convex programming . . . . . . . . . . . 223--234 Martin Alva Hamilton Inference about the ED50 using the trimmed Spearman--Karber procedure --- a Monte Carlo investigation . . . . . . . 235--254 Phillip E. Pfeifer and Stuart Jay Deutsch A comparison of estimation procedures for the parameters of the star model . . 255--270 Kamta Rai and V. Susarla and John Van Ryzin Shrinkage estimation in nonparametric Bayesian survival analysis: a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--298 John R. Huseby and Neil C. Schwertman and John Van Ryzin Computation of the mean vector and dispersion matrix for incomplete multivariate data . . . . . . . . . . . 301--309 N. I. Lyons M29. Closed expressions for noncentral hypergeometric probabilities . . . . . . 313--314 Arthur E. Hoerl and Robert W. Kennard M30. A note on least squares estimates 315--317 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
A. W. Davis Further tabulation of Hotelling's generalized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--336 Karen Yuen Fung and Sheikh M. Rahman The two-sample Winsorized $t$ . . . . . 337--347 M. Anthony Schork, Ph. D. and George W. Williams, Ph. D. Number of observations required for the comparison of two correlated proportions 349--357 Birch B. Jeffrey Some convergence properties of iterated reweighted least squares in the location model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--369 Stanley Lemeshow and David W. Hosmer and David Hislop The effect of non-normality on estimating the variance of the combined ratio estimate in complex surveys . . . 371--387 D. B. Owen A table of normal integrals . . . . . . 389--419 R. J. Klemm and V. A. Sposito M31. Least squares solutions over interval restrictions Least squares solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--425 James M. Davenport The CORFIS subroutine for the generation of selected level percentage points of the Pearson Type VI distribution . . . . 429--452 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Leo A. Aroian Time series in $m$-dimensions definition, problems and prospects . . . 453--465 D. A. Voss and C. A. Oprian and L. A. Aroian Moving average models-time series in $m$-dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--489 Vidya S. Taneja and Leo A. Aroian Time series in $m$ dimensions: Autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 491--513 C. Oprian and V. Taneja and D. Voss and L. A. Aroian General considerations and interrelationships between MA and AR models, time series in $m$ dimensions, the ARMA model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--532 Phillip E. Pfeifer and Stuart Jay Deutsch Independence and sphericity tests for the residuals of space-time ARMA models 533--549 Phillip E. Pfeifer and Stuart Jay Deutsch Stationarity and invertibility regions for low order STARMA models . . . . . . 551--562 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Stuart Jay Deutsch and Bruce Wayne Schmeiser Estimation of the sum of differences distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--587 J. E. Dunn and J. D. Tubbs VARSTAB: a procedure for determining homoscedastic transformations of multivariate normal populations . . . . 589--598 Alan Winterbottom Estimation for the bivariate normal correlation coefficient using asymptotic expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--609 Anita Singh On the exact distribution of the likelihood ratio criterion for testing 611--619 Pauline F. Ramig and Peter R. Nelson The probability integral for a bivariate generalization of the non-central $t$ 621--631 Gregory T. Schwemer and M. Ray Mickey A note on the linear discriminant function when group means are equal . . 633--638 Hing-kam Lam Remarks on the distribution of the sample variance in exponential sampling 639--647 Cyrus R. Mehta and Nitin R. Patel A network algorithm for the exact treatment of the $ 2 \times k $ contingency table . . . . . . . . . . . 649--664 Josef Bukac and Herman Burstein Approximations of Student's $t$ and chi-square percentage points . . . . . . 665--672 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section Algorithms section 673--673 Neil C. Sehwertman and John R. Huseby and David M. Allen Computation of the estimated parameters and Wald statistic for the generalized growth curve model . . . . . . . . . . . 675--693 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
D. B. Qwen Editorial Editorial . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv K. O. Bowman and C. A. Serbin and L. R. Shenton Explicit approximate solutions for $ S_B $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis An iterative procedure for the estimation of the parameters of stable laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28 Averill M. Law and W. David Kelton and Lloyd W. Koenig Relative width sequential confidence intervals for the mean . . . . . . . . . 29--39 Peter R. Nelson Numerical evaluation of an equicorrelated multivariate non-central $t$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50 N. C. Schwertman and D. Fridshal and J. M. Magrey On the analysis of incomplete growth curve data, a Monte Carlo study of two nonparametric procedures . . . . . . . . 51--66 Wayne F. Bialas Bounds for the error in an approximation to the distribution of continuous random vectors with bounded supports . . . . . 67--76 T. C. Baker, Jr. and R. L. Sielken, Jr. Estimation of a distribution function by extrapolating upper and lower bounds . . 77--93 Robert W. Kennard and John E. Reith M32. On the distribution of first digits 97--98 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Anonymous Editorial Editorial . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 C. G. Khatri and K. R. Shah Interval estimation of the common mean 99--107 Thomas C. Baker, Jr. and Robert L. Sielken, Jr. Estimating the distribution function of a transformed random vector . . . . . . 109--128 Barbara Broffitt and William R. Clarke and Peter A. Lachenbruch Measurement errors --- a location contamination problem in discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--141 Georg Neuhaus and Erhard Kremer Repeated chi-square testing Repeated chi-square testing . . . . . . . . . . . 143--161 D. J. Gans Use of a preliminary test in comparing two sample means . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--174 Betty Jones Whitten and A. Clifford Cohen Percentiles and other characteristics of the four-parameter generalized gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--218
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii David M. Rocke and George W. Downs Estimating the variances of robust estimators of location: influence curve, jackknife and bootstrap Robust estimators of location . . . . . . . . . 221--248 Paul R. McAllister and Ru-Ying Lee and Burt S. Holland Computation of probabilities from Jensen's bivariate F distribution . . . 249--263 Denis J. McConalogue and Ant\`onio Pacheco Numerical treatment of convolution integrals involving distributions with densities having singularities at the origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--280 Laurence A. Baxter Some remarks on numerical convolution 281--288 Van L. Parson Small sample distribution for a nonparametric test for trend . . . . . . 289--302 Jack Kleijnen Small-sample behavior of weighted least squares in experimental design applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--313 Kenneth D. Lawrence and Douglas R. Shier A comparison of least squares and least absolute deviation regression models for estimating Weibull parameters . . . . . 315--326
Abhaya Indrayan and Rustagi Jagdish S. Approximate tests of hypotheses in regression models with grouped data . . 327--341 Kenneth J. Koehler An improvement of a Monte Carlo technique using asymptotic moments with an application to the likelihood ratio statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--357 Marva Houston Moore Derivatives of the annuity function assuming Makeham--Gompertz mortality; and the $n$-ages method . . . . . . . . 359--367 M. A. Cameron Estimation of noise correlations in transfer function models . . . . . . . . 369--381 R. Nath and B. S. Duran The rank transform in the two-sample location problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--394 David M. Levine Sampling distributions of Kruskal's measure of stress for an asymmetric matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--404 Mark L. Berenson and Shulamith T. Gross Designing completely randomized experiments to detect ordered treatment effects: an empirical study . . . . . . 405--431 R. P. Bland and Shulamith T. Gross M34. On the definition of unbiasedness for estimating parameters which are random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Stanley Lemeshow and David W. Hosmer and James P. Stewart A comparison of sample size determination methods in the two group trial where the underlying disease is rare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--449 Harri Hietikko On the numerical behaviour of $ {\rm ARMA}(P, Q) $ covariance determinants for various sample sizes . . . . . . . . 451--463 F. Tom Lindstrom An algorithm for the evaluation of the incomplete gamma function and the first two partial derivatives with respect to the parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--478 G. O. Wesolowsky A new descent algorithm for the least absolute value regression problem . . . 479--491 D. J. Best and N. I. Fisher The bias of the maximum likelihood estimators of the von Mises--Fisher concentration parameters . . . . . . . . 493--502 T. D. Dwivedi and Y. P. Chaubey Moments of a ratio of two positive quadratic forms in normal variables . . 503--516 James W. Longley Modified Gram--Schmidt process vs. classical Gram--Schmidt . . . . . . . . 517--527 Anonymous Minicommunications Minicommunications 529--529 Edward E. Gbur On the Poisson index of dispersion . . . 531--535 Youn-Min Chou Additions to the table of normal integrals Minicommunications . . . . . . 537--538 Anonymous Integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--539 Anonymous K38. Corrections to the table of normal integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--541 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Wendell C. Smith and Chien-Pai Han Error rate for testing a contrast after a significant F test . . . . . . . . . . 545--556 Jan B. Dijkstra and Paul S. P. J. Werter Testing the equality of several means when the population variances are unequal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--569 Gregory A. Mack A quick and easy distribution-free test for main effects in a two-factor ANOVA 571--591 James Wildon Longley Least squares computations and the condition of the matrix . . . . . . . . 593--615 John D. Emerson Effects of censoring on the robustness of exponential-based confidence intervals for median lifetime . . . . . 617--627 R. P. Gupta and C. Singh Distributions of the ratio of two ranges of samples from nonnormal populations 629--637 John F. Wellington and Subhash C. Narula Variable selection in multiple linear regression using the minimum sum of weighted absolute errors criterion . . . 641--648 J. Arthur Greenwood A portable formulation of the alias method for random numbers with discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--655 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Robert E. Odeh Critical values of the sample product-moment correlation coefficient in the bivariate normal distribution . . 1--26 Daniel Krewski and John Kovar Low dose extrapolation under single parameter dose response models . . . . . 27--45 W. Y. Tan and R. P. Gupta On approximating the non-central Wishart distribution by central Wishart distribution a Monte Carlo study . . . . 47--64 Robert E. Odeh Tables of percentage points of the distribution of the maximum absolute value of equally correlated normal random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--87 A. H. Money and J. F. Affleck-Graves and M. L. Hart and G. D. I. Barr The linear regression model: $ L_p $ norm estimation and the choice of $p$ 89--109 Laszlo Engelman An efficient algorithm for computing covariance matrices from data with missing values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
George H. K. Wang and Wayne A. Fuller Estimators for a simultaneous equation model with lagged endogenous variables and autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . 123--142 Patricia L. Smith Hypothesis testing in B-spline regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--157 Maurry Tamarkin A simulation study of the stochastic ridge $k$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--173 K. R. Lee and C. H. Kapadia and Donald Hutcherson Statistical properties of quasi-range in small samples from a gamma density . . . 175--195 A. Clifford Cohen and Betty Jones Whitten Modified moment and maximum likelihood estimators for parameters of the three-parameter gamma distribution . . . 197--216 Anita Singh Exact distribution of Wilks' $ l_{Vc} $ criterion and its percentage points in the complex case . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--225 Anonymous Mini communication . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227 C. P. Quesenberry Clarification of priority of Fisher and Pearson and further remarks on combined tests of significance . . . . . . . . . 229--231 L. R. Dion and D. Fridshal A relationship between chi-square and $F$-critical values . . . . . . . . . . 233--235 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237 Peter R. Nelson Multivariate normal and $t$ distributions with $ \rho_{jk} = \alpha_{jk} \alpha_{jk}$ . . . . . . . . 239--248 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Pandu R. Tadikamalla and Norman L. Johnson Tables to facilitate fitting $ l_u $ distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--271 Paul C. C. Wang On the computation of a robusl version of the optimal $ c(\alpha) $ test . . . 273--284 Lennart Nordberg A procedure for determination of a good ridge parameter in linear regression . . 285--309 Ronald L. Iman and W. J. Conover A distribution-free approach to inducing rank correlation among input variables 311--334 Ronald L. Iman and James M. Davenport Rank correlation plots for use with correlated input variables . . . . . . . 335--360 Isaac Meilijson and Aaron Tenenbein and Marian R. Newborn and Uri Yechiali Number of matches and matched people in the birthday problem . . . . . . . . . . 361--370 Y. S. Sathe M42. Another test for equality of two proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
K. O. Bownan and L. R. Shenton Properties of estimators for the gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--519 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Mark E. Johnson and John S. Ramberg and Chiang Wang The Johnson translation system in Monte Carlo studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--525 Mervyn G. Marasinghe and William J. Kennedy, Jr. Direct methods for generating extreme characteristic roots of certain random matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--542 Erkki P. Liski A test of the mean square error criterion for shrinkage estimators . . . 543--562 Mark L. Berenson A study of several useful tests for ordered alternatives in the randomized block design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--581 Tom Wansbeek Another approach to inverting a covariance matrix when data are unbalanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--588 Norman S. Matloff James--Stein regression estimation in a prediction context . . . . . . . . . . . 589--601 T. H. Starks A Monte Carlo evaluation of response surface analysis based on paired-comparison data . . . . . . . . . 603--617 Rand R. Wilcox A comment on approximating the x$^2$ distribution in the equiprobable case 619--623 Ronald H. Ketellapper The relevance of large sample properties of estimators for the errors-in-variables model: a Monte Carlo study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--634 Anonymous Minicomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--635 Junji Nakano and Shigemi Tagami On the variance of the sample autocovariance function for a Gaussian once integrated first order moving average process . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--639 Ray E. Schafer Bounds on expected differences of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--644 Marcia Feingold A note on weights for combining intra- and inter-block estimates in balanced incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 645--648 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Marcel F. Neuts On the coefficient of variation of mixtures of probability distributions 649--657 W. G. Warren On the adequacy of the chi-squared approximation for the coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--666 Neil C. Schwertman A Monte Carlo study of the L$_N$ statistic for the multivariate nonparametric median and rank sum tests for two populations . . . . . . . . . . 667--676 Thomas P. Turiel and Gerald J. Hahn and William T. Tucker New simulation results for the calibration and inverse median estimation problems . . . . . . . . . . 677--713 G. J. Mclachlan On the bias and variance of some proportion estimators . . . . . . . . . 715--726 William C. Guenther Normal theory sample size formulas for some nonnormal distributions . . . . . . 727--732 Magdy Khedr and S. K. Katti On a preliminary test estimator for one of the parameters of the log-zero-Poisson distribution . . . . . 733--751 G. J. McLachlan and S. Ganesalingam Updating a discriminant function on the basis of unclassified data . . . . . . . 753--767 Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. and M. L. Deaton Comparisons of some tests for validation of stochastic simulation models . . . . 769--799 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Chien-Pai Han and John L. G. Wang Computation of noncentral $F$ distributions with even denominator degrees of freedom . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 Paula K. Roberson and Lloyd Fisher Lack of robustness in time-space disease clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--22 Trina Hosmer and David Hosmer and Lloyd Fisher A comparison of the maximum likelihood and discriminant function estimators of the coefficients of the logistic regression model for mixed continuous and discrete variables . . . . . . . . . 23--43 Michael L. Deaton and Mation R. Reynolds, Jr. and Raymond H. Myers Estimation and hypothesis testing in regression in the presence of nonhomogeneous error variances . . . . . 45--66 S. R. Searle and Harold V. Henderson Faults in a computing algorithm for reparameterizing linear models . . . . . 67--76 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section Coeditors . . . . . . 77--77 Wiliam J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms: \booktitleCommunications In Statistics --- Simulation and Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--82 Kenneth J. Berry and Paul W. Mielke, Jr. Computation of finite population parameters and approximate probability values for multi-response permutation procedures (MRPP) . . . . . . . . . . . 83--107 A. S. Hedayat and H. L. Hwang An algorithm for generating a basis of the trades on $t$-designs . . . . . . . 109--125 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Herbert Solomon and Michael A. Stephens On Neyman's statistic for testing uniformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--134 Paulette Johnson and George A. Milliken A simple procedure for testing linear hypotheses about the parameters of a nonlinear model using weighted least squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--145 R. Doornbos and J. B. Dijkstra A multi sample test for the equality of coefficients of variation in normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158 Jeffrey B. Birch On the power of robust tests in analysis of covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--182 C. David Shen and Dana Quade A randomization test for a three-period three-treatment crossover experiment . . 183--199 Dallas R. Wingo Estimating the location of the Cauchy distribution by numerical global optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--212 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section Coeditors . . . . . . 213--213 Lee Ann Josvanger and V. A. Sposito $ L_1 $ Norm estimates for the simple regression problem . . . . . . . . . . . 215--221 Paul R. McAllister A system for computing joint probabilities from Jensen's bivariate $F$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--238 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
William J. Hemmerle and Michele Boulanger Carey Some properties of generalized ridge estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--253 Jerome P. Keating and Onas L. Hensley A note on the critical values of the $F$ max-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--263 V. A. Sposito and M. L. Hand and Bradley Skarpness On the efficiency of using the sample kurtosis in selecting optimal $ l_p $ estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--272 Mari Palta The effects of a stratified analysis of censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--290 William P. Cooke Surrogate geometric programming estimates of restricted multinomial proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--305 Michael Hazilla and V. Kerry Smith A comparison of the small sample properties of nonlinear two-stage and nonlinear three-stage least squares . . 307--329 Jeffrey B. Birch and Doris A. Binkley Effects of non-normality and mild heteroscedasticity on estimators in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--354 Panagis G. Moschopoulos and Govind S. Mudholkar A likelihood-ratio-based normal approximation for the non-null distribution of the multiple correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--371 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
John H. Skillings Nonparametric approaches to testing and multiple comparisons in a one-way ANOVA 373--387 David M. Allen and David C. Jordan A computational procedure for combining data and prior information . . . . . . . 389--398 M. Mazumdar An estimator of the ratio of two variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--409 Lewis H. Shoemaker and James L. Rosenberger Moments and efficiency of the median and trimmed mean for finite populations . . 411--422 Micah Y. Chan and A. Clifford Cohen and Betty Jones Whitten The standardized inverse Gaussian distribution tables of the cumulative probability function . . . . . . . . . . 423--442 Allan Donner and John J. Koval A note on the accuracy of Fisher's approximation to the large sample variance of an intraclass correlationa 443--449 S. G. Carmer and W. T. Lin Type I error rates for divisive clustering methods for grouping means in analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 451--466 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section Coeditors . . . . . . 467--467 Douglas M. Bates and David C. Hamilton and Donald G. Watts Calculation of intrinsic and parameter-effects curvatures for nonlinear regression models . . . . . . 469--477 H. K. Iyer and K. J. Berry and P. W. Mielke Computation of finite population parameters and approximate probability values for multi-response randomized block permutation procedures (MRBP) . . 479--499 Anonymous Minicommunications . . . . . . . . . . . 501--501 Lawrence Barker On Gini's mean difference and the sample standard deviation . . . . . . . . . . . 503--505 Eric V. Slud Testing separate families of hypotheses using right-censored data . . . . . . . 507--509 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Claudio Silva and Dana Quade Estimating the asymptotic relative efficiency of weighted rankings . . . . 511--521 Lawrence I-Kuei Lin and Roy L. Sanford The robustness of the likelihood ratio test, the nonparametric sum rank test, and $F$-ratio tests when the populations are from the negative binomial family 523--539 Richard M. Fagerstrom and Duane A. Meeter A Bayesian approach to bioassay. Technical report M498 . . . . . . . . . 541--558 Andrew P. Soms Bounds for the $t$-tail area . . . . . . 559--568 K. V. Mardia and M. Kanazawa The null distribution of multivariate kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--576 Trina A. Hosmer and David W. Hosmer and Lloyd Fisher A comparison of three methods of estimating the logistic regression coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--593 N. Freed and F. Glover A mixed-integer programming approach to the clustering problem . . . . . . . . . 595--607 A. K. Ehsanes Saleh and M. Masoom Ali and Dale Umbach Simplified estimation of the parameters of exponential distribution from samples censored in the middle . . . . . . . . . 609--627 G. J. Umphrey A comment on McKay's approximation for the coefficient of variation . . . . . . 629--635 Kanto Antti and Simo Puntanen A connection between the partial correlation coefficient and the correlation coefficient of certain residuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--641 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Samprit Chatterjee and Sangit Chatterjee Estimation of misclassification probabilities by bootstrap methods By bootstrap methods . . . . . . . . . . . 645--656 Mrudulla Gnanadesikan Statistical analysis of the usage of a computer system . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--674 Henry C. Thode, Jr. and Laurel A. Smith and Stephen J. Finch Power of tests of normality for detecting scale contaminated normal samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--695 K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton Maximum likelihood estimators for the gamma distribution revisited . . . . . . 697--710 Paul K. H. Lin and Dale O. Richards and David R. Long and Matthew D. Myers and Joyce A. Taylor Tables for computing shortest confidence intervals involving the $F$-distribution 711--725 P. I. M. Schmitz and J. D. F. Habbema and J. Hermans and J. W. Raatgever Comparative performance of four discriminant analysis methods for mixtures of continuous and discrete variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--751 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
R. Douglas Martin and Daniel M. Goodfellow Small sample behavior of robust stochastic approximation and iterated weighted least squares estimates for location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--46 Micah Y. Chan and A. Clifford Cohen and Betty Jones Whitten Modified maximum likelihood and modified moment estimators for the three-parameter inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--68 Philip J. Smith A Bayesian analysis of interrelated Bernoulli processes with an application for clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . 69--84 K. Surekha and W. E. Griffiths A Monte Carlo comparison of some Bayesian and sampling theory estimators in two heteroscedastic error models . . 85--105 Genshiro Kitagawa Bayesian analysis of outliers via Akaike's predictive likelihood of a model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126 Sik-Yum Lee Multidimensional scaling models with inequality and equality constraints . . 127--140 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
G. D. A. Phillips and B. P. McCabe Jackknifing the two stage least squares estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--152 Stanley Lemeshow and Anne M. Stoddard A comparison of alternative variance estimation strategies for estimating the slope of a linear regression in sample surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--168 Naoto Niki and Sadanori Konishi Higher order asymptotic expansions for the distribution of the sample correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 169--182 M. Alle and R. Haux and M. Schumacher Rank tests and ties --- some properties of a rank test for complete block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--212 R. F. Fawcett and K. C. Salter A Monte Carlo study of the $F$ test and three tests based on ranks of treatment effects in randomized block designs . . 213--225 Sohair M. F. Higazi and C. Mitchell Dayton Comparing several experimental groups with a control in the multivariate case 227--241 W. G. Warren The power of some tests of normality against Weibull alternatives . . . . . . 243--255 John A. Gillespie Inner tolerance limits controlling tail proportions for the normal distribution 257--267 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section Coeditors . . . . . . 269--269 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms Communications in statistics,- simulation and computation 271--274 Jeffrey S. Simonoff The calculation of outlier detection statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--285 Anonymous Minicommunications . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287 Volker Abel and Rudolf Avenhaus Comments on Zacks' recent paper on one-sided cusum procedures . . . . . . . 289--292 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
H. Leon Harter and Harry J. Khamis and Richard E. Lamb Modified Kolmogorov--Smirnov tests of goodness of fit . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--323 Wen-Tao Huang and An-Bang Wang Tests for randomness of observations that involve two factors . . . . . . . . 325--336 A. S. Paulson and T. A. Delehanty Some properties of modified integrated squared error estimators for the stable laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--365 Marcel F. Neuts The abscissa of convergence of the Laplace--Stieltjes transform of a PH-distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--373 Paul A. Rubin Generating random points in a polytope 375--396 Jeffrey B. Birch and Robert V. Foutz Selected percent points for a test for the two-sample problem based on empirical probability measures . . . . . 397--405 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section Coeditors . . . . . . 407--407 K. O. Bowman Computation of the polygamma functions 409--415 Kenneth J. Berry and Paul W. Mielke Computation of exact probability values for multi-response permutation procedures (MRPP) . . . . . . . . . . . 417--432 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
D. Krewski and J. Brennan and M. Bickis The power of the Fisher permutation test in $ 2 \times k $ tables . . . . . . . . 433--448 J. H. W. Penm and R. D. Terrell Multivariate subset autoregression . . . 449--461 Tarmo Pukkila On the distributions of the differences between the estimated autocorrelations and partial autocorrelations at the same lag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--488 A. Bustos and M. Ahsanullah On the estimates of the parameters of the first order autoregressive process 489--505 T. Deutler A series expansion for the cumulants of the $ \chi $-distribution and a Cornish--Fisher-expansion for the noncentrality parameter of the noncentral $t$-distribution . . . . . . 507--513 Joseph J. Walker Improved approximations for the inverse moments of the positive binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--519 Ardavan Nozari Generalized and ordinary least squares with estimated and unequal variances . . 521--537 John F. Monahan An improved algorithm for the triples test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--553 John F. Monahan An improved algorithm for the triples test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--569 Michael G. Sklar and Ronald D. Armstrong An algorithm for discrete Chebychev curve fitting for the simple model using a dual linear programming approach . . . 555--569 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Tsushung A. Hua and M. Pourahmadi Tables of cumulative distribution functions and percentiles of the standardized stable random variables . . 571--601 Y. K. Tse Edgeworth approximations for $t$-ratios of 2SLS estimates of a dynamic model . . 603--618 Yogendra P. Chaubey On the comparison of some non-negative estimators of variance components for two models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--633 Adel M. Zaher and Robert L. Heiny A comparison of selection procedures for selecting the best normal population under heterogeneity of variance . . . . 635--654 W. Krämer Ordinary least squares estimation of the functional errors-in-variables model with trended data: some Monte Carlo evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--665 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section Coeditors . . . . . . 667--667 C. K. Bayne and J. J. Beauchamp and V. E. Kane Misclassification probabilities for second-order discriminant functions used to classify bivariate normal populations 669--682 John F. Wellington and Subhash C. Narula An algorithm for regression quantiles 683--704 Douglas M. Bates and Donald G. Watts A multi-response Gauss--Newton algorithm 705--715 Anonymous Minicommunications . . . . . . . . . . . 717--717 H. Leon Harter Asymptotic formulas for critical values of a modified Kolmogorov test statistic 719--721 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
John P. Buonaccorsi and Hariharan K. Iyer A comparison of confidence regions and designs in estimation of a ratio . . . . 723--741 Douglas R. Shier and Kenneth D. Lawrence A comparison of robust regression techniques for the estimation of Weibull parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--750 Joseph W. McKean and Ronald M. Schrader A comparison of methods for Studentizing the sample median . . . . . . . . . . . 751--773 Lon-Mu Liu Estimation of rational transfer function models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--784 E. K. Al-Hussaini and K. E. Ahmad Information matrix for a mixture of two inverse Gaussian distributions . . . . . 785--800 T. L. Bratcher and A. Hobbs and J. Paul A balanced approach to region estimation with tables for the normal model . . . . 801--821 Rodolfo De Dominicis and Raimondo Manca An algorithmic approach to non-homogeneous semi-Markov processes 823--838 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section Coeditors . . . . . . 839--839 Douglas M. Bates and Dennis A. Wolf Non-negative regression by Givens rotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--850 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
D. B. Owen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Fredrick S. Whaley and Dana Quade Optimizing the power of the two-sample multidimensional runs statistic: guidelines based on computer simulation 1--11 Erkki P. Liski Estimation from incomplete data in growth curves models . . . . . . . . . . 13--27 Julio M. Singer and Pranab K. Sen Asymptotic relative efficiency of multivariate $m$-estimators . . . . . . 29--41 H. K. Lam and Yat-fan Ho On the bounded binomial distribution and its parameter estimation . . . . . . . . 43--53 Rand R. Wilcox An extended and slightly improved table of critical values for testing $q$ linear contrasts in a repeated measures design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69 M. N. Abd-Rahman and T. M. Gerig An estimation in a linear model with response-related error . . . . . . . . . 71--83 J. P. C. Kleijnen and P. Cremers and F. Van Belle The power of weighted and ordinary least squares with estimated unequal variances in experimental design . . . . . . . . . 85--102 Shanti S. Gupta and S. Panchapakesan and Joong K. Sohn On the distribution of the Studentized maximum of equally correlated normal random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--135 E. B. Manoukian and J. A. M. Theriault Sampling from half-normal and exponential distributions and efficiency of tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--141 Rand R. Wilcox Percentage points of the product of two correlated $t$ variates . . . . . . . . 143--157 M. R. Binns and P. Y. Jui A simulation study of the nearest neighbour analysis method of Papadakis 159--172 Charles E. Mcculloch and Aimee Dechter An empirical Bayes approach to estimating the probability of correct selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--186 Hubert J. Chen and Shun-Yi Chen and Jirawan Sirichote Selecting all treatments better than a control with a binomial prior distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--221 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithms section coeditors Coeditor 223--223 Kenneth J. Berry and Paul W. Mielke Computation of exact and approximate probability values for a matched pairs permutation test . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--248 Jeffrey B. Birch and Robert V. Foutz An algorithm for computing a two-sample test based on empirical probability measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252 Stephen M. Scariano Estimating the point of intersection of two lines under correlation . . . . . . 255--261 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Robert E. Bechhofer and David M. Goldsman On the Ramey--Alam sequential procedure for selecting the multinomial event which has the largest probability . . . 263--282 Robert E. Bechhofer and David M. Goldsman Truncation of the Bechhofer--Kiefer--Sobel sequential procedure for selecting the multinomial event which has the largest probability 283--315 H. Leon Harter and Rudolf P. Wiegand A Monte Carlo of plotting positions . . 317--343 T. F. Cox and K. Jaber Testing the equality of two normal percentiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--356 Ted H. Szatrowski Missing data in the $k$-population multivariate normal patterned mean and covariance matrix testing and estimation problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--370 Alexander Basilevsky and Donald Sabourin and Derek Hum and Andy Anderson Missing data estimators in the general linear model: an evaluation of simulated data as an experimental design . . . . . 371--394 R. Wayne Oldford Bootstrapping by Monte Carlo versus approximating the estimator and bootstrapping exactly: Cost and performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--424 Ramona L. Trader and H. Fenwick Huss Prediction in the presence of imperfect inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--440 Raymond L. Horton and John B. Guerard The management of executive compensation in large, dynamic firms: A further look 441--448 Joel E. Michalek and Daniel Mihalko and Thomas J. White A Monte Carlo power study of logrank, Wilcoxon and normal scores procedures on matched and censored data . . . . . . . 449--465 V. R. R. Uppuluri and S. A. Patil The distribution of the first $j$ digits of beta related random variables . . . . 467--472 Paul A. Rubin Short-run characteristics of samples drawn by random walks . . . . . . . . . 473--490 Beverley D. Causey Exact calculations for sequential tests based on Bernoulli trials . . . . . . . 491--495 John A. Taylor and Anthony J. Jakeman Identification of a distributional model 497--508 M. C. Jones Generating inverse Wishart matrices . . 511--514 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Norman R. Draper and Agnes M. Herzberg Fourth order rotatability . . . . . . . 515--528 Ben Armstrong Measurement error in the generalised linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--544 Tormod Naes and Harald Martens Comparison of prediction methods for multicollinear data . . . . . . . . . . 545--576 Barbara J. Gosling and Martin L. Puterman Ridge estimation in regression problems with autocorrelated errors: A Monte Carlo study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--613 Edna Schechtman and Douglas A. Wolfe Multiple changepoints problem-nonparmetric procedures for estimation of the points of change . . . 615--631 True T. Nguyen A generalization of Fisher's exact test in $ p \times q $ contingency tables using more concordant relations . . . . 633--645 J. W. Odhiambo and M. S. Patel Three-stage group screening with errors in observations . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--666 P. C. Consul and M. M. Shoukri The generalized Poisson distribution when the sample mean is larger than the sample variance . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--681 Daniel L. Thornton and Dallas S. Batten A note on Almon's endpoint constraints 683--690 A. M. Nigm and M. A. Ismail Bayesian life test sampling plans for the two parameter exponential distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--707 Robert M. Norton A relationship between a family of waiting time distributions and the asymptotic residual waiting time distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--717 Lloyd W. Koenig and Averill M. Law A procedure for selecting a subset of size $m$ containing the $l$ best of $k$ independent normal populations, with applications to simulation . . . . . . . 719--734 Kazuhiro Ohtani and Toshihisa Toyoda A Monte Carlo study of the Wald, LM, and LR tests in a heteroscedastic linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--746 Sukhminder Singh and Ravindra Singh On random non-response in double sampling with difference estimator . . . 747--757 Robert J. Boik A new approximation to the distribution function of the Studentized maximum root 759--767 G. W. Cran and A. J. Bertie Minicommunication computation of moments of generalized ridge estimators . . . . 771--774 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Poduri S. R. S. Rao and Atsu Shelter Dorvlo The jackknife procedure for the probabilities of misclassification . . . 779--790 Patricia S. Costello and Douglas A. Wolfe A new nonparametric approach to the problem of agreement between two groups of judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--805 K. C. Salter and R. F. Fawcett A robust and powerful rank test of treatment effects in balanced incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--828 M. J. Silvapulle An examination of criticisms of ridge regression simulation methodology . . . 829--835 M. A. Tabatabai and W. Y. Tan Some comparative studies on testing parallelism of several straight lines under heteroscedastic variances . . . . 837--844 Peter E. Kennedy A suggestion for measuring heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 845--851 Joseph V. Terza and A. Ason Okoruwa An algorithm for the estimation of Poisson regressions involving structural change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--866 K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton The distribution of a moment estimator for a parameter of the generalized Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 867--893 Karen Yuen Fung and S. R. Paul Comparisons of outlier detection procedures in Weibull or extreme-value distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--917 Jerry G. Thursby A note on Scheffé's method of deriving confidence sets for directions and ratios of normals . . . . . . . . . . . 919--925 A. S. Paulson and T. A. Delehanty Modified weighted squared error estimation procedures with special emphasis on the stable laws . . . . . . 927--972 Keith C. Brown and K. Rao Kadiyala The estimation of missing observations in related time series data: Further results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973--981 Adnan M. Awad and Mohammed A. Shayib and Ahmad M. Dawagreh Large sample prediction intervals for future geometric mean. A comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--1006 W. Y. Tan and M. A. Tabatabai Some robust ANOVA procedures under heteroscedasticity and nonnormality . . 1007--1026 Lawrence E. Barker Range-preserving unbiased estimators in the Poisson case . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029--1030 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
C. G. Khatri and C. Radhakrishna Rao and Y. N. Sun Tables for obtaining confidence bounds for realized signal to noise ratio with an estimated discriminant function . . . 1--14 S. Loukas and C. D. Kemp The computer generation of bivariate binomial and negative binomial random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--25 Ralph A. Bradley and Dennis A. Brindley An approximate test of variance homogeneity based on Grubbs' estimators 27--34 W. Y. Tan Inferences on regression coefficients in a regression model under heteroscedasticity and robustness with respect to departure from normality . . 35--60 Jürg Hüsler and Michel Schüpbach On simple block estimators for the parameters of the extreme-value distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--76 Brian W. Woodruff and John D. Yoder and Albert H. Moore and Edward J. Dunne Modified goodness-of-fit tests for the logistic distribution with unknown location and scale parameters . . . . . 77--83 R. G. Knapp and A. J. Gross and A. B. Cantor Estimators of the ratio of means of paired survival data . . . . . . . . . . 85--100 Jyh-Cherng Shyu and Donald B. Owen One-sided tolerance intervals for the two-parameter double exponential distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--119 Atsuyuki Okabe and Yasushi Asami The probability density function of an area covered with disks whose centers are randomly distributed . . . . . . . . 121--134 S. R. Kulkarni and S. R. Paranjape An improved graphical procedure for multivariate-quality control . . . . . . 135--146 J. J. Beauchamp and D. S. Robson Transformation considerations in discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 147--179 Beverley D. Causey Expected absolute departure of chi-square from its median . . . . . . . 181--183 Saleh Amirkhalkhali and U. L. Gouranga Rao Prediction in regression with autocorrelated normal and non-normal errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--205 O. B. Allen Recovery of interblock information for incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 207--214 Alan C. Elliott and Wayne A. Woodward Analysis of an unbalanced two-way ANOVA on the microcomputer . . . . . . . . . . 215--225 Sastry G. Pantula and Wayne A. Fuller Computational algorithms for the factor model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--259 Ronald D. Armstrong and Philip O. Beck The best subset of parameters in min-max linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 263--270 H. Neudecker A generalization of a result of Trenkler and Trenkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--275 S. R. Paul and Karen Yuen Fung Critical values for Dixon type test statistics for testing outliers in Weibull or extreme value distributions 277--283 Bengt Klefsjö Comments on a simple test for new better than used in expectation1 by Borges, Proschan and Rodrigues . . . . . . . . . 285--286 Anonymous Announcement: Competitions for young statisticians from developing countries 1987 and 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Christopher Irwin and Stephen J. Finch Use of weighted least squares regression jn simulation studies . . . . . . . . . 291--300 Ricardo A. Leiva and Franklin A. Graybill Confidence intervals for variance components in the balanced two way model with interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--322 D. L. Hawkins and Chien-Pai Han Power of analysis of covariance tests under conditional specification . . . . 323--343 Munir Akhtar and Philip Prescott Response surface designs robust to missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 345--363
Jerome Klotz and Rouh-Yun Yu and K. Rai and V. Susarla and J. Van Ryzin Small sample relative performance of the spline smooth survival estimator . . . . 271--298 D. L. Hawkins and A. R. Gallant and W. Fuller A simple least squares method for estimating a change in mean . . . . . . 523--530 D. Callfas and S. G. Mohanty On non-null distribution of ranks . . . 591--608 Lewis H. Shoemaker A nonparametric method for analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--632 Daniel M. Grove Positive association in a two-way contingency table: a numerical study . . 633--648 Mervyn G. Marasinghe A note on methods for computing Tukey's and Mandel's interaction sums of squares 649--654 Nancy J. Shafer and James A. Sullivan A simulation study of a test for the equality of the coefficients of variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--695 K. O. Bowman and H. K. Lam and L. R. Shenton Series for Student's non-central $t$ under exponential sampling with comments due to H. P. Mulholland . . . . . . . . 697--708 Rand R. Wilcox Critical values for the correlated $t$-test when there are missing observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--714 J. P. C. Kleijnen and G. L. J. Kloppenburg and F. L. Meeuwsen Testing the mean of an asymmetric population: Johnson's modified $t$ test revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--732 W. Y. Tan and M. A. Tabatabai A robust procedure for comparing several means under heteroscedasticity and nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--745 Che-Ping Lee Estimation of the intensity of a Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--759 P. C. Consul On the differences of two generalized Poisson variates . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--767 Sallie Keller-McNulty and W. J. Kennedy An error-free generalized matrix inversion and linear least squares method based on bordering . . . . . . . 769--785 K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton The two-color urn model: recursions for the moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--799 R. Gonin Numerical algorithms for solving nonlinear $l$-norm estimation problems: Part I --- a first-order gradient algorithm for well-conditioned small residual problems . . . . . . . . . . . 801--813 William M. Bolstad An efficient algorithm for Harrison--Stevens forecasting using the multi-process multivariate dynamic linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--828 Robert E. Bechhofer and David M. Goldsman Truncation of the Bechhofer--Kiefer--Sobel sequential procedure for selecting the multinomial event which has the largest probability (II): extended tables and an improved procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--851 Michael E. Tarter and William Freeman and Alan Hopkins A Fortran implementation of univariate Fourier series density estimation . . . 855--870 Subhash C. Narula and H. R. Weistroffer Computation of probability and non-centrality parameter of a non-central $F$-distribution . . . . . . 871--878 Franklin Dexter A statistical measure of internal consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--886 Anonymous On a problem in two-stage sampling . . . 889--891
James A. Alvin and S. Jeyaratnam and Franklin A. Graybill Approximate confidence intervals for the three-factor mixed model . . . . . . . . 893--903 James A. Calvin and S. Jeyaratnam and Franklin A. Graybill Approximate confidence intervals for the three-factor mixed model . . . . . . . . 893--903 R. Schall and T. T. Dunne Transformation and reparametrization for best linear unbiased estimation of a linear model with arbitrary known variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--916 Rand R. Wilcox Improved simultaneous confidence intervals for linear contrasts and regression parameters . . . . . . . . . 917--932 Rand R. Wilcox and Ventura L. Charlin and Karen L. Thompson New Monte Carlo results on the robustness of the ANOVA $F$, $W$ and $F$ statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--943 M. L. Tiku and N. Balakrishnan A robust test for testing the correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 945--971 U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar and A. Subramanyam Cramer-rao type bounds for abstract parameters with consequences to real parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973--985 R. K. Jain On Gini's diversity measure . . . . . . 987--990 James J. Chen and David W. Gaylor The upper percentiles of the distribution of the logrank statistic for small numbers of tumors . . . . . . 991--1002 W. J. Padgett and L. A. Thombs Smooth nonparametric quantile estimation under censoring: simulations and bootstrap methods . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1025 Paul Embrechts and Agnes M. Herzberg and C. K. Allen An investigation of Andrews' plots to detect period and outliers in time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1051 P. Consul and M. M. Shoukri The negative integer moments of the generalized Poisson distribution . . . . 1053--1064 G. B. Schaalje and W. A. Charnetski and D. L. Johnson A comparison of estimators of the degree of insect control . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1086 Sharon M. Homan and Peter A. Lachenbruch Robust estimation of the exponential mean parameter for small samples: Complete and censored data . . . . . . . 1087--1108 J. Huston McCulloch Simple consistent estimators of stable distribution parameters . . . . . . . . 1109--1136 S. G. Meester and D. Eaves A table of predictive success probabilities for logistic regression 1137--1139 Chiaw-Hock Sim Simulation of Weibull and gamma autoregressive stationary process . . . 1141--1146 T. J. Jeon and S. J. Park Automatic model identification using vector sample autocorrelation function 1147--1161 C. Fang and P. R. Krishnaiah On asymptotic distribution of the test statistic for the mean of the non-isotropic principal component . . . 1163--1168 Christina M. L. Kelton and Marlene A. Smith Nonlinear programming solutions to the nonstationary Markov model . . . . . . . 1169--1190 Moon T. Huh Computation of percentage points . . . . 1191--1198 Robert E. Johnson A convolution algorithm for calculating coefficients of Jensen's bivariate $F$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1213 Adnan M. Awad and Mohammed A. Shayib Tail area revisited . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1234
Christy Chuang Analyzing an ordinal pharmaceutical data set with a categorical covariate using monotone-scores models . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Allie Keller-McNulty and James J. Higgins Effect of tail weight and outliers on power and Type-I error of robust permutation tests for location . . . . . 17--35 Paul van der Laan and Brand van Putten Extensive tables of exact critical values of the nomparametric two-sample Halperin test for censored samples, and comparison with the normal approximation 37--53 Jürg Hüsler On the two-sample adaptive distribution-free test . . . . . . . . . 55--68 Schuster Eugene F. and Richard C. Barker Using the bootstrap in testing symmetry versus asymmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84 Rhonda C. Magel and Doris Hertsgaard A collinearity diagnostic for nonlinear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--97 Ross S. Sparks Selecting estimators and variables in the seemingly unrelated regression model 99--127 Jyh-Cherng Shyu and D. B. Owen $B$-expectation tolerance intervals for the double exponential distribution . . 129--139 Mukul M. Mittal and Ram C. Dahiya Estimating the parameters of a doubly truncated normal distribution . . . . . 141--159 E. M. Keramidas and S. J. Devlin and R. Gnanadesikan A graphical procedure for comparing the principal components of several covariance matrices . . . . . . . . . . 161--191 Maia Berkane and P. M. Bentler Characterizing parameters of multivariate elliptical distributions 193--198 Roger B. Nelsen Discrete bivariate distributions with given marginals and correlation . . . . 199--208 Samuel S. Shapiro and Carlos W. Brain $W$-test for the Weibull distribution 209--219 Dong Hopark and V. Susarla and J. Van Ryzin Small sample study on estimators of life distributions and of mean survival times using randomly censored data . . . . . . 221--232 Walter T. Federer Fractional replication in simulation studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--237 Manel Cooray-Wijesinha and Andrew I. Khuri The sequential generation of multiresponse $D$-optimal designs when the variance-covariance matrix is not known . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--259 Douglas M. Bates and Mary J. Lindstrom and Grace Wahba and Brian S. Yandell GCVPACK --- routines for generalized cross validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--297 Pieter M. Kroorienberg and Albert Verbeek Comments on ``A generalization of Fisher's exact test in $ p \times q $ contingency tables using more concordant relations'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--306 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Russell F. Kappenman Improved distribution quantile estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320 Chinying J. Wang and Jagdish S. Rustagi A Monte Carlo study of the effect of grouping on Cox's regression model . . . 321--331 Víctor J. Yohai and Nélida E. Ferretti Tests based on weighted rankings in complete blocks: exact distribution and Monte Carlo simulation . . . . . . . . . 333--347 T. Elperin and I. Gertsbakh Maximum likelihood estimation in a Weibull regression model with Type-1 censoring: a Monte Carlo study . . . . . 349--371 P. A. Al-Baidhani and C. D. Sinclair Comparison of methods of estimation of parameters of the Weibull distribution 373--384 Barry L. Nelson A perspective on variance reduction in dynamic simulation experiments . . . . . 385--426 Michael E. Tarter and William R. Freeman A graphical procedure for distinguishing between two data analysis pitfalls . . . 427--437 William H. Fellner Sparse matrices, and the estimation of variance components by likelihood methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--463 Dale F. Kraemer and Robert F. Woolson A comparison of tests of homogeneity for sparse contingency tables . . . . . . . 465--483 Virgil R. Marco and Dean M. Young and Danny W. Turner The Euclidean distance classifier: an alternative to the linear discriminant function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--505 John P. Klein and M. L. Moeschberger Independent or dependent competing risks: does it make a difference . . . . 507--533 Guido Giani Designing selection experiments with Bernoulli populations . . . . . . . . . 535--549 Thomas B. Fomby Small sample efficiency gains from a first observation correction for Hatanaka's estimator of the lagged dependent variable-serial correlation regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--570 A. J. Baczkowski and K. V. Mardia Approximate lognormality of the sample semi-variogram under a Gaussian process 571--585
D. J. Groggel A Monte Carlo study of rank tests for block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--620 Hermanus H. Lemmer A test for the median, combining the sign and signed-rank tests . . . . . . . 621--627 Edward P. Markowski Comparing tests judged asymptotically equally efficient . . . . . . . . . . . 629--643 Adnan M. Awad and Talib H. Sarie A comparative study of tests of independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--671 Bruce Jay Collings String decomposition of full-period Tausworthe sequences . . . . . . . . . . 673--678 Merran A. Evans The twelfth order analogue of the Durbin--Watson test . . . . . . . . . . 679--688 William M. Bolstad An estimation method for the seemingly unrelated regression model with contemporaneous covariances based on an efficient recursive algorithm . . . . . 689--698 Bruce Levin Conditional likelihood analysis in stratum-matched retrospective studies with polytomous disease states . . . . . 699--718 David H. Young and Saad T. Bakir Testing exponential regression against a gamma alternative . . . . . . . . . . . 719--734 Richard D. McArthur An evaluation of sample designs for estimating a locally concentrated pollutant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--759 Yogendra P. Chaubey and Tryambakeshwar D. Dwivedi Efficiency of regression method in estimating hazard rate from grouped survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--769 Mary Ann O'Gorman and Raymond H. Myers Measures of error with outliers in regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--789 Brett A. Inder Bias in the ordinary least squares estimator in the dynamic linear regression model with autocorrelated disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--815 M. S. Patel and M. M. Manene Step-wise group screening with equal prior probabilities and no errors in observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--833 Badrig M. Kurkjian and George Q. Strong and Marvin J. Karson Reliability estimation for the exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 835--853 Kazuhiro Ohtani On the use of the Graybill--Deal estimator when two normal population means may not be common . . . . . . . . 855--870 Jerome F. Eastham and Vincent N. LaRiccia and John H. Schenemeyer Small sample properties of the maximum likelihood estimators for an alternative parameterization of the three-parameter lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . 871--884 Andrew T. A. Wood The simulation of spherical distributions in the Fisher-Bingham family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--898 Mehdi Razzaghi A superiority problem in misspecified restricted linear models . . . . . . . . 899--902 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
M. L. Tiku A robust procedure for testing an assumed value of the population correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 907--924 Bruno Betr\`o and Ryszard Zieli\'nski A Monte Carlo study of a Bayesian decision rule concerning the number of different values of a discrete random variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--938 Anonymous Within row pairwise comparisons in a two-way ANOVA design . . . . . . . . . . 939--955 Neil C. Schwertman An alternative procedure for determining analysis of variance sample size . . . . 957--967 Robert E. Odeh and Min Younchou and D. B. Owen The precision for coverages and sample size requirements for normal tolerance intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--985 Francisco J. Aranda-Ordaz Relative efficiency of the Kaplan--Meier estimator under contamination . . . . . 987--997 Michael Haber A comparison of some conditional and unconditional exact tests for $ 2 \times 2 $ contingency tables . . . . . . . . . 999--1013 G. B. Khosrovshahi and E. S. Mahmoodian A linear algebraic algorithm for reducing the support size of $t$-designs and to generate a basis for trades . . . 1015--1038 Yuchung J. Vang An approximation of multivariate normal orthant probabilities of dimension $4$ o: a contingency-table approach . . . . 1039--1049 Susan M. Sanchez Small-sample performance of a modified least-failures sampling procedure for Bernoulli subset selection . . . . . . . 1051--1065 Robert E. Bechhofer and David M. Goldsman Truncation of the Bechhofer--Kiefer--Sobel sequential procedure for selecting the normal population which has the largest mean 1067--1092 Ravindra Khattree On selection with restriction . . . . . 1093--1103 Subir Ghosh and Roberto Gomez Interpenetrating subsampling regression estimation with or without jackknifing 1105--1116 John L. Maryak On the asymptotic properties of parameter estimates in a regression model with non-normally distributed errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117--1121 E. Olusegun George and Meenakshi Sivaram A modification of the Fisher-Cornish approximation for the Student $t$ percentiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123--1132 R. Clifford Blair and Shlomo S. Sawilowsky and James J. Higgins Limitations of the rank transform statistic in tests for interactions . . 1133--1145 K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton and H. K. Lam Simulation and estimation problems associated with the $3$-parameter gamma density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1188 K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton Sums of powers of binomial coefficients 1189--1207 E. Jacquelin Dietz A comparison of robust estimators in simple linear regression . . . . . . . . 1209--1227 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Camilla A. Brooks and Rhonda R. Clark and Alula Hadgu and Arthur M. Jones The robustness of the logistic risk function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24 N. Balakrishnan and M. Y. Leung Order statistics from the Type I generalized logistic distribution . . . 25--50 N. Balakrishnan and M. Y. Leung Means, variances and covariances of order statistics BLUE's for the Type I generalized logistic . . . . . . . . . . 51--84 Sohair M. F. Higazi and C. Mitchell Dayton Tables for a multivariate extension of the Dunnett test when the control group and balanced experimental groups have different sample sizes . . . . . . . . . 85--101 Robert E. Bechhofer and David M. Goldsman Truncation of the Bechhofer--Kiefer--Sobel sequential procedure for selecting the normal population which has the largest mean (ii): $2$-factor experiments with no interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--128 Carl M.-S. Lee and Karan P. Singh On the $t$ cumulative probabilities . . 129--135 M. A. M. Ali Mousa Studying the risk of the linear empirical Bayes estimate of the binomial parameter $p$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152 L. A. Smith and R. L. Sielken, Jr. Bootstrap bounds for ``safe'' doses in the multistage cancer dose-response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--175 Ahmad Parsian On the admissibility of estimators of the zero class in Poisson populations 177--186 Heleno Bolfarine Finite population prediction under dynamic generalized linear models . . . 187--207 Jörg Lauterbach and Peter Stahlecker Approximate minimax estimation in linear regression: a simulation study . . . . . 209--227 Martin Schader and Friedrich Schmid Small sample properties of the maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters $ \mu $ and $ \sigma $ from a grouped sample of a normal population . . . . . 229--239 Thomas Kämpke On controlling variates in network simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--249 James J. Swain Control variates for Monte Carlo analysis of nonlinear statistical models. IV. Nonnormal error distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--274 Vincent C. Yen and Albert H. Moore Modified goodness-of-fit test for the Laplace distribution . . . . . . . . . . 275--281 C. Ming Wang One-sided confidence intervals for the positive linear combination of two variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--292 Brian S. Yandell Algorithms for multidimensional semiparametric GLM's . . . . . . . . . . 295--312 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
D. B. Owen The starship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--323 D. B. Owen and Huaixiang Li The starship for point estimates and confidence intervals on a mean and for percentiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--341 K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton Solutions to Johnson's S$_B$ and S$_U$ 343--348 S. B. Pope and R. Gadh Fitting noisy data using cross-validated cubic smoothing splines . . . . . . . . 349--376 David Jarjoura Smoothing hazard rates with cubic splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--392 B. Schipp and G. Trenkler and P. Stahlecker Minimax estimation with additional linear restrictions --- a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406 Josemar Rodrigues and Heleno Bolfarine and José Galvão Leite A Bayesian analysis in closed animal populations from capture recapture experiments with trap response . . . . . 407--430 G. W. Ryan and W. B. Smith and C. E. Gates Simulation study of wildlife density estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--450 W. Robert Stephenson and David Jacobson A comparison of nonparametric analysis of covariance techniques . . . . . . . . 451--461 Robert A. Campbell A comparison of parametric and nonparametric tests for detecting queue waiting time differences . . . . . . . . 463--470 S. D. Walter and L. W. Stitt Extended tables for moments of gamma distribution order statistics . . . . . 471--487 Oliver D. Anderson and Jan G. De Gooijer Sampled autocovariance and autocorrelation results for linear time processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--513 Adi Raveh and Gur Mosheiov Smoothing time-series data by nonmetric polytone curves . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--536 C. K. Chauhan A class of single replicate orthogonal designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--547 K. P. Hapuarachchi Sampling errors of analytic statistics: an empirical investigation . . . . . . . 549--567 Zhaojun Bai Numerical treatment of restricted Gauss--Markov model . . . . . . . . . . 569--579 Inge S. Helland On the structure of partial least squares regression . . . . . . . . . . . 581--607 John Mandel and Frank L. McCrackin An iterative self-weighting procedure for fitting straight lines to heteroscedastic data . . . . . . . . . . 609--635 Kao-Tai Tsai and James A. Koziol A correlation type procedure for assessing multivariate normality . . . . 637--651 J. S. Dagpunar Computer generation of random variates from the tail of $t$ and normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--661 Raj S. Chhikara and Lih-yuan Deng Conditional inference in finite population sampling under a calibration model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--681 Donald Fridshal The probability of an ordering of independent uniform random variables . . 685--687 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Ann Gould and J. F. Laeless Estimation efficiency in lifetime regression models when responses are censored or grouped . . . . . . . . . . 689--712 Wonwoo Lee and Jeffrey B. Birch Fractional principal components regression: a general approach to biased estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--727 Masuo Nomura On the almost unbiased ridge regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--743 K. O. Ott and H.-J Hoffmann Evaluation of the bias of the isotonic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--764 G. B. Khosrovshahi and E. S. Mahmoodian On BIB designs with various support sizes for $ v = 9 $ and $ k = 3 $ . . . 765--770 Heiko Becher On optimal experimental design under spatial correlation structures for square and nonsquare plot designs . . . 771--780 Charles Anderson Gamma variates of fractional shape as functionals of a homogeneous multidimensional Poisson process . . . . 781--787 H. L. MacGillivray and Kevin P. Balanda Mixtures, myths and kurtosis . . . . . . 789--802 Subhash C. Kochar and R. P. Gupta A Monte Carlo study of some asymptotically optimal tests of exponentiality against positive aging 803--811 Thomas W. O'Gorman and Robert F. Woolson and Michael P. Jones and Jon H. Lemke A Monte Carlo study of three odds ratio estimators and four tests of association in several 2x2 tables when the data are sparse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813--835 Don B. Panton A PASCAL program for simulating stable random variates . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--842 Terry E. Dielman and Roger C. Pfaffenberger Bootstrapping in least absolute value regression: an application to hypothesis testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--856 Demissie Alemayehu Bootstrapping the latent roots of certain random matrices . . . . . . . . 857--869 Baha M. D. Alkuzweny and Donald A. Anderson A simulation study of bias in estimation of variance by bootstrap linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--886 David J. Groggel and D. D. Wackerly and P. V. Rao Nonparametric estimation in one-way random effects models . . . . . . . . . 887--903 Greg Taylor and W. J. Conover A nonparametric confidence interval for slope based on Spearman's rho . . . . . 905--916 Rhonda Magel A test for the equality of $k$ medians against the simple tree alternative under right censorship . . . . . . . . . 917--925 Kerrie Mengersen and Eve Bofinger Confidence bounds and selection of the $t$ best populations . . . . . . . . . . 927--945 S. Chakraborti and M. M. Desu Generalizations of Mathisen's median test for comparing several treatments with a control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--967 Pinyuen Chen Closed inverse sampling procedure for selecting the largest multinomial cell probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--994 K. Lam An improved two-stage selection procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1006 Mohamed H. T. Limam and David R. Thomas Simultaneous tolerance intervals in the random one-way model with covariates . . 1007--1019 D. J. de Waal and D. G. Nel A procedure to select a ML-II prior in a multivariate normal case . . . . . . . . 1021--1035 Jan G. de Gooijer and Pentti Saikkonen A specification strategy for order determination in ARMA models . . . . . . 1037--1054 A. C. Kimber Testing upper and lower outlier pairs in gamma samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1072 Rong-Quan Cui and Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. -Chart with runs and variable sampling intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1093 Hong-Jie Sun A Fortran subroutine for computing normal orthant probabilities of dimensions up to nine . . . . . . . . . 1097--1111 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau and Grace Wahba Rates of convergence of some estimators for a semiparametric model . . . . . . . 1117--1133 Steven M. Snapinn and James D. Knoke Bootstrapped and smoothed classification error rate estimators . . . . . . . . . 1135--1153 Myunghee C. Paik Repeated measurement analysis for nonnormal data in small samples . . . . 1155--1171 Leo W. G. Strijbosch and Ronald J. M. M. Does Comparison of bias-reducing methods for estimating the parameter in dilution series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1190 Carl M.-S. Lee On the computation of $F$-cumulative probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191--1201 Rick L. Edgeman and Robert C. Scott and Robert J. Pavur A modified Kolmogorov--Smirnov test for the inverse Gaussian density with unknown parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1212 Masuo Nomura On exact small sample properties of the minimax generalized ridge regression estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1229 A. H. Lee and M. J. Silvapulle Ridge estimation in logistic regression 1231--1257 Ralph A. Bradley and Robert E. Odeh A generating algorithm for linear trend-free and nearly linear trend-free block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259--1280 Saeid B. Amini and Robert F. Woolson Small-sample properties of covariance-adjusted survivorship data tests for treatment effect . . . . . . . 1281--1306 John E. Angus Inferences on the lognormal mean for complete samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307--1331 Jerome Klotz An incomplete beta series with argument x(l-x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333--1337 Paul K. H. Lin The uniformly most powerful unbiased tests involving the $F$-distribution . . 1339--1358 Linda W. Jennings and Dean M. Young Extended critical values of the multivariate extreme deviate test for detecting a single spurious observation 1359--1373 Aydin Öztürk and Serdar Koruko\uglu A new test for the extreme value distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375--1393 Dennis J. Charek and Albert H. Moore and Joseph W. Coleman A comparison of estimation techniques for the three parameter Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395--1407 Norma A. Nelson and Patricia F. Moodie Robust multivariate analysis of variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409--1430 Elizabeth T. Huang and Cary T. Isaki Variance estimation using auxiliary information under a one unit per stratum sample design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431--1447 R. J. Henery Asymptotic convergence in distribution for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1452 Henry C. Thode, Jr. and Hung Kung Liu and Stephen J. Finch Large sample power of absolute moment tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1458 Benito V. Frosini Characterizations of variability measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1459--1481 W. K. Li and Y. V. Hui An algorithm for the exact likelihood of periodic autoregressive moving average models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483--1494 Adrienne W. Kemp Simple algorithms for the Poisson modal cumulative probability . . . . . . . . . 1495--1508 Stephen M. Scariano and Terry A. Watkins An algorithm for computing nonparametric estimators of change-points . . . . . . 1511--1532 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
K. O. Bowman and L. R. Shenton $ S_B $ and $ S_U $ distributions fitted by percentiles: a general criterion . . 1--13 C. G. Khatri and T. M. Pukkila and C. Radhakrishna Rao Testing intraclass correlation coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--30 Robert E. Bechhofer and David M. Goldsman and Christopher Jennison A single-stage selection procedure for multi-factor multinomial experiments with multiplicativity . . . . . . . . . 31--61 Robert E. Sechhofer and David M. Goldsman Truncation of the Bechhofer--Kiefer--Sobel sequential procedure for selecting the normal population which has the largest mean (111): supplementary truncation numbers and resulting performance characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--81 Patricia A. Pepple Approximation methods for estimating gamma means using a hierarchical exchangeable model . . . . . . . . . . . 83--98 Mei-Ling Huang and Karen Yuen Fung R-distribution and its applications . . 99--119 Sharon M. Homan A Comparison of plotting rules under L1 and L2 estimation of the Weibull scale and shape parameters in situations of small samples with possible censoring and outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--143 Larry Ammann and John Van Ness Standard and robust orthogonal regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--162 Dawn W. Blackhurst and Mark D. Schluchter Logistic regression with a partially observed covariate . . . . . . . . . . . 163--177 Victor Aguirre-Torres and A. and R. Gallant and Jorge Domínguez On choosing between two nonlinear models estimated robustly. Some Monte Carlo evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--200 Lee-Ing Tong and P. L. Cornelius Studies on the estimation of the slope parameter in the simple linear regression model with one-fold nested error structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--225 Stefan Wellek On the use of asymptotic expansion in computing the null distribution of Page's $L$-statistic . . . . . . . . . . 227--235 Rand R. Wilcox Percentage points of a weighted Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistic . . . . . 237--244 L. A. Franklin A note on the Edgeworth approximation to the distribution of Spearman's Rho with a correction to Pearson's approximation 245--252 Mei-Ling Ting Lee A moment test to identify uniformity . . 253--261 A. Adatia Moments of quasi-range from a gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--279 Min Xie On the solution of renewal-type integral equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--293 C. S. Withers The distribution and cumulants of a Studentised statistic . . . . . . . . . 295--318 I. N. Vuchkov and D. L. Damgaliev and A. N. Donev Generation of $D$-optimal designs in a finite design space . . . . . . . . . . 319--337 M. S. Srivastava and Y. M. Chan A comparison of bootstrap method and Edgeworth expansion in approximating the distribution of sample variance --- one sample and two sample cases . . . . . . 339--361 L. Baringhaus and R. Danschke and N. Henze Recent and classical tests for normality --- a comparative study . . . . . . . . 363--379 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithm section . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381 Lawrence J. Emrich and Mark F. Brady Stochastic curtailment and power calculations for long-term clinical trials via simulation . . . . . . . . . 383--395 Keith R. Eberhardt and Robert W. Mee and Charles P. Reeve Computing factors for exact two-sided tolerance limits for a normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--413 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii
Nariaki Sugiura and Hiromi Sasamoto Locally best invariant test for outliers in a gamma type distribution . . . . . . 415--427 Robert E. Odeh Simultaneous Two-Sided Prediction Intervals to Contain at Least $l$ Out of $k$ Future Means from a Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--457 Greta M. Ljung A Note on the Estimation of Missing Values in Time Series . . . . . . . . . 459--465 Ken Hung and Frank B. Alt The Effect of Misspecification in Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models on Parameter Estimation and Forecasting . . 467--479 D. L. Hawkins Some Practical Problems in Implementing a Certain Sieve Estimator of the Gaussian Mean Function . . . . . . . . . 481--500 Shyamal Das Peddada Two Non-Negative Estimators for the Model With a Common Mean . . . . . . . . 501--512 J. V. Carnahan Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the $4$-Parameter Beta Distribution . . . . 513--536 Erdogan Günel and Daniel Chilko Estimation of Parameter $n$ of the Binomial Distribution . . . . . . . . . 537--551 John D. Spurrier and Josephine Wilson and James W. Park A Generalized Distance Multi-Sample Test of Normality With Applications to Process Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--569 M. L. Tuku and N. Balakrishnan and R. S. Ambagaspittya Error Rates of a Robust Classification Procedure Based on Dichotomous and Continuous Random Variables . . . . . . 571--588 Zvi Lerman and Edna Schechtman Detecting a Change in the Correlation Coefficient in a Sequence of Bivariate Normal Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--599 Mohamed M. Bugaighis Comparative Study of BLU and ML Estimators of Location and Scale Parameters of an Extreme Value Distribution for Small Samples and Type I Censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--611 I. U. H. Mian and M. M. Shoukri and D. S. Tracy A Comparison of Significance Testing Procedures for the Intraclass Correlation from Family Data . . . . . . 613--631 Yoshinori Fujii Test for the Equality of Marginal Distributions on Positively Dependent Bivariate Survival Data . . . . . . . . 633--642 Clovis A. Peres and Subhash C. Narula An Approximate Closed Form Solution for a Quadratic Dose-Response Model . . . . 643--653 Peter A. W. Lewis and Richard L. Ressler and R. Kevin Wood Variance Reduction Using Nonlinear Controls and Transformations . . . . . . 655--672 Luis L. Firinguetti A Simulation Study of Ridge Regression Estimators with Autocorrelated Errors 673--702 J. S. Dagpunar An Easily Implemented Generalised Inverse Gaussian Generator . . . . . . . 703--710 Martin T. Wells Basu's Lemma and Goodness-of-Fit Tests 711--717 R. W. Farebrother Some Early Work on the Duality Between Points and Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--727 Derrick S. Tracy and Khushnood A. Khan Comparison of Some MRPP and Standard Rank Tests for Two Unequal Samples . . . 729--756 Saad T. Bakir Analysis of Means Using Ranks . . . . . 757--776 P. K. Tandon and M. L. Moeschberger Comparison of Nonparametric and Parametric Methods in Repeated Measures Designs --- a Simulation Study . . . . . 777--792 Abdul R. Kabib and Michael R. Harwell An empirical study of the Type I error rate and power for some selected normal-theory and nonparametric tests of the independence of two sets of variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--826 William J. Kennedy and James E. Gentle Algorithm Section Coeditors . . . . . . 827--827 M. R. Osborne Lad for Multiway Tables . . . . . . . . 829--834
J. P. De Los Reyes Optimizing Linear Functions of Random Variables having a Joint Multinomial or Multivariate Normal Distribution . . . . 835--856 Larry P. Ammann Robust Principal Components . . . . . . 857--874 Curtis N. Barton and Elliot C. Cramer Hypothesis Testing in Multivariate Linear Models with Randomly Missing Data 875--895 N. Sambamoorthi Information Theoretic Criterion Approach to Dimensionality Reduction in Multinomial Logistic Regression Models: Part II: Some Simulations . . . . . . . 897--908 Calvin S. Y. Chun and Olive Jean Dunn and Mimi C. Yu Tests on the Equality of Two Multiple Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . . . 909--928 Harald E. Krogstad Simulation of Multivariate Gaussian Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929--941 Paul Rech and Paul Schmidbauer and Jamie Eng Least Absolute Regression Revisited A Simple Labeling Method for Finding a Lar Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--955 Cu D. Ha and Subhash C. Narula Perturbation analysis for the minimum sum of absolute errors regression . . . 957--970 Anant M. Kshirsagar and Min-Chu Lin Reinforcement of Response Surface Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971--984 Ronald Bremer Numerical Study of Small Sample Variances of Estimators of Variance Components in the Two-Way Factorial Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--1009 James J. Swain and Bruce W. Schmeiser Control Variates for Monte Carlo Analysis of Nonlinear Statistical Models, I: Overview . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1036 Vijay G. Panchang and Ramesh C. Gupta On the Determination of Three-Parameter Weibull MLE's . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1057 M. F. Hutchinson A Stochastic Estimator of the Trace of the Influence Matrix for Laplacian Smoothing Splines . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1076 Lawrence M. Leemis and Li-Hsing Shih Exponential Parameter Estimation for Data Sets Containing Left and Right Censored Observations . . . . . . . . . 1077--1085 John P. Klein and Melvin L. Moeschberger The Robustness of Several Estimators of the Survivorship Function with Randomly Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1112 Edward E. Gbur and Robert A. Collins Estimation of the Moment Generating Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1134 Helmut P. Dudel and Charles E. Hall, Jr. and Siegfried H. Lehnigk Parameter Estimation Algorithms for the Hyper-Gamma Distribution Class . . . . . 1135--1153 Paul S. Horn A Prediction Interval for M Estimators 1155--1167 J. M. Prada Sánchez and X. L. Otero Cepeda The use of Smooth Bootstrap Techniques for Estimating the Error Rate of a Prediction Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1186 B. N. Pandey and H. J. Malik Estimation of the mean and the reciprocal of the mean of the inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 1187--1201 S. K. McCune and E. D. McCune Modified Edgeworth and Cornish-Fisher Expansions with Unknown Cumulants and no Singularities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1221
Peter A. Lachenbruch and Virginia F. Flack Considerations for Effective Simulation Study Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223--1240 Bryan F. J. Manly and J. C. W. Rayner Comments on a Paper by Lachenbruch and Flack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1244 Walter W. Hauck and Sharon Anderson Comment on ``Considerations for Effective Simulation Study Analyses'' 1245--1248 Anonymous Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249--1250 V. Soundararajan and V. Kuralmani Multiple Sampling Inspection Plans for Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1274 Jain Chung and Terry Obert Pittman A Simple Method for Computing the ARL of [ILM0001]-Charts with Zone Tests . . . . 1275--1293 Steven G. Rhiel An Improved Range Estimator of Sigma for Determining Sample Sizes . . . . . . . . 1295--1309 Tej Dhakar and T. H. Mattheiss Determining the Size of a Finite Population of Different Objects from a Finite Sample taken at Random with Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311--1323 Andrew P. Soms Exact Confidence Intervals, Based on the Z Statistic, for the Difference Between Two Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325--1341 Ramesh C. Gupta and S. N. U. A. Kirmani On predicting repair times in a minimal repair process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1359--1368 Ramesh C. Gupta and S. N. U. A. Kirmani On Predicting Repair Times in a Minimal Repair Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1359--1368 Udo Kamps and Heinz Weingarten Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Poisson Parameter in a Model of Equioverlapping Samples: A Simulation Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1379 Peter J. Danaher Simulating Media Exposure Distributions 1381--1392 M. Donegani Simulated Power Curves for some Location Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1400 Larry A. Lucas and Tim Robertson and F. T. Wright Approximating the Level Probabilities for a Unimodal Ordering . . . . . . . . 1401--1420 Herbert Moskowitz and Hsien-Tsang Tsai An error-bounded polynomial approximation for bivariate normal probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1437 Andrew T. A. Wood An F Approximation to the Distribution of a Linear Combination of Chi-squared Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1439--1456 Robert E. Bechhofer and David M. Goldsman Truncation of the Bechhofer--Kiefer--Sobel Sequential Procedure for Selecting the Normal Population which has the Largest Mean (III): Supplementary Truncation Numbers and Resulting Performance Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1457--1464 Mohammed A. Shayib The Procedure for Selection of Transformations from the Johnson System 1457--1464 M. M. Shoukri and P. C. Consul Bayesian Analysis of a Generalized Poisson Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1465--1480 Samir Moustafa Shaarawy Bayesian Inferences and Forecasts With Multiple Autoregressive Moving Average Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1481--1509 R. B. Holmes On Random Correlation Matrices IL The Toeplitz Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1511--1537 Denis F. Strenzwilk and Michael P. Meredith and Walter T. Federer A two dimensional ARMA model for the simulation of IR backgrounds . . . . . . 1539--1555 Robert E. Odeh Simultaneous one-sided Prediction Intervals to Contain all of $k$ Future Means from a Normal Distribution . . . . 1557--1585 Kartik R. Patel An Extension of the Normal/Independent Family for Studies of Robust Estimators 1587--1602 Bovas Abraham and A. Adatia and James Albert and Saeid B. Amini and Graig F. Ansley and N. Balakrishnan and Charles K. Bayne and Kenneth N. Berk and Kenneth J. Berry and C. Champ and John P. Chandler and Yogendra P. Chaubey and Peyton Cook and Ram C. Dahiya and Dipak Dey and A. H. Feiveson and William H. Fellner and Thomas B. Fomby and Y. Fujikoshi and D. V. Gokhale and Joel B. Greenhouse and Paul A. Games and Ramesh C. Gupta and Irwin Guttman and D. L. Hawkins and W. W. Hauck and James J. Higgins and Paul Hinz and C. T. Isaki and S. Jeyaratnam and Michael P. Jones and Robert Keener and R. M. Korwar and H. K. Lam and Kwan Lee and Huaixiang Li and B. D. Macpherson and Henrick J. Malik and B. F. J. Manly and Edward R. Mansfield and Nathan Mantel and R. D. Martin and John I. McCool and Robert Mee and H. Moors and N. Mukhopadhyay and P. B. Nagarsenker and Peter R. Nelson and M. R. Nenno and S. K. Perng and Poduri S. R. S. Rao and J. C. W. Rayner and Roch Roy and R. T. Rust and M. Anthony Schork and Noriaki Seto and L. R. Shenton and G. R. Shorack and J. J. Shuster and D. G. Simpson and Eric V. Slud and L. Strijbosch and William H. Swallow and Georgia Thompson and M. L. Tiku and Steven Vardeman and Y. Vardi and William Warde and Sanford Weisberg and Thomas K. Witt and Dennis A. Wolf and Robert A. Wolfe and W. A. Woodward and Linda J. Young Referee Recognition . . . . . . . . . . 1603--1605 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii